Stephen Hawking looses some weight with a flight on Zero Gravity
Posted by austin under Conference
Peter Diamandis who among his many pursuits was the founder of the X-Prize Foundation just took the stage at TED 2008 and spoke about how he helped organize a weightless experience flight on his Zero Gravity adventures for Stephen Hawking.
It was an incredible short story about how Stephen loved the experience and although they were originally only going to do one parabolic flight to ensure his safety then ended up doing more then seven parabolic flights.
I had missed the news of this, but CBS wrote about his experience & sponsors last year.
Here are some pictures I took of Stephen enjoying weightlessness from Peter’s presentation. Very cool.
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February 29th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
very cool
If anyone deserves to experience the physics of zero gravity, it’s Hawking himself 
Austin, are you presenting @ TED?
Aydin.