Again when it was launched in 2016, we shared OK Go’s video for “Upside Down & Inside Out,” which was filmed in zero gravity.
It made fairly a splash on the time as a result of it’s an unbelievable video. WIRED described the video as exhibiting the band “floating whereas ripping aside piñatas, exploding paint-filled balloons and usually wreaking havoc.” WIRED additionally explains a number of the physics and coaching concerned:
Parabolic flight is a strategy to induce weightlessness with out leaving Earth; because the airplane flies in waves, ascending at an angle of 45 levels as much as 32,000 toes then nosediving 1000’s of toes, the passengers inside are capable of expertise temporary moments in zero G. Every descent gave the band 27 seconds of weightlessness that have been repeated over eight waves in every flight. This is identical flight method used on NASA’s “vomit comet” to coach astronauts.
OK Go additionally skilled hypergravity — near 1.8 instances that felt on earth — because the airplane accelerated to the highest of the parabolic curve. You may see the impact of hypergravity at 3:07 within the video, because the floating balls hit the ground with a pointy bump. In every descent the band skilled microgravity equal to one-millionth of the gravity felt on Earth.
OK Go educated with the Russian federal area company Roscosmos for 3 weeks earlier than the ultimate take of the video. Over that interval they took 21 parabolic flights, totting up two hours and quarter-hour of weightlessness in complete.
Yesterday, the band posted an up to date video on their social media, this time with explanations of what is going on on sprinkled all through, “Pop-Up Video”-style. On their Fb web page, they clarify:
Damian handed out, Andy had a panic assault, and it could take the fingers and toes of three of the 4 band members to depend what number of cases of vomit occurred. Nonetheless, we persevered. Upside Down Inside Out’s zero gravity music video was one in all our most daring thus far, so we sprinkled some enjoyable info all through it to allow you to in on some secrets and techniques. P.S. anybody discover Tim’s beard journal the primary time round?
Go watch it, it is even higher seven years later!