Ep. 491: Adventures in Zero Gravity - Curt Liljedahl

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In his 28-year career as a physics teacher in McAllen, TX, Curt has done two separate zero gravity experiments totaling 30 minutes of floating in air. The first time was with NASA scientists testing the software to control Robonaut in a zero-G environment. The second was sponsored by Northrup Grumman, a defense contractor, to spark interest in science in students. As far as adventure goes, it doesn't get any more unique than this!

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0:00.0	When the plane comes out of its parabola, which I probably need to explain that, all of a sudden,
0:05.1	now you go from weighing zero to weighing twice your body weight. So like me, I weigh about 200.
0:11.5	All of a sudden, for about 30 seconds, I weigh 400 pounds. And that does weird things to your stomach.
0:21.4	This is the Adventure Sports podcast podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners
0:27.2	from around the world of adventure sports.
0:29.8	Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your
0:33.9	couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation
0:38.1	and inspiration you need to chase that next adventure. The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you
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1:04.1	So Mondays take up 15% of your life. Don't spend your whole life not looking forward to 15 percent of it. I hope your
1:13.4	Monday is not stereotypical. I hope you have a great Monday. And I hope this show helps that out a little
1:20.0	bit because that is a huge shot. That's one seventh of our life. And frankly, I don't look forward to it all
1:26.7	the time. Sorry, my dog's walking in the background,
1:29.6	and he and my other dog are crawling in a very small kennel together. That's not going to work,
1:36.0	Eric. Anyway, you could probably tell from the title, today's episode is really unique. It is with Kurt Liljadol, and he, this is definitely outside of what we usually talk about,
1:53.1	but it just sounded like a really cool story.
1:55.9	He's had some experiences with zero gravity when he was a physics teacher during his career. And he had two separate
2:03.4	experiences where he was able for quite a long time to go hang out with NASA and do zero
2:11.0	gravity experiments and just really amazing experiences.
2:18.0	So we've never talked about that.
2:20.4	And one thing we always strive for on the show is to talk about sports we don't
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