<![CDATA[Gizmodo: zero gravity]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: zero gravity]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/zerogravity http://gizmodo.com/tag/zerogravity <![CDATA[Couple Says "I Do" In Zero Gravity, Leads Subsequently More Boring Life Together]]> It's not hard to spend $16,000 (or much, much more) on a wedding. So you might as well get a zero gravity flight out of the deal.

New Yorkers Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor tied the knot on Zero Gravity Corp's G-Force One, a padded Boeing 727-200 flown with parabolic zero-g-inducing maneuvers.

The bride had to tie her hair down so that it didn't float. The groom wired his tux tails so that they wouldn't develop a mind of their own.

As you might expect, the ceremony was actually quite awkward since it consisted of a multiple microgravity first-timers donning formal gowns. At one point, a member of the bridal party's ring floated off, confusing the bride and groom as to just what to do with a third wedding band.

And then there was the magic of the first kiss:

"The physics of the first kiss were off. I could feel where I was going, I knew where I needed to be, but it was hard to reconcile the differences," he told reporters.

"Noah knocked into my nose and I thought it would bleed," Finnegan said.

Beautiful. Read the full story over at Reuters. [Reuters via Bornrich]

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<![CDATA[Exclusive Clip: Futurama's Creators In Zero Gravity For Fun and Profit!]]> This exclusive extra off the last of four Futurama movies shows Matt Groening and David X. Cohen bouncing around in simulated zero-G like a meatspace Bender and Fry.

Are you excited for the for the movie? All signs point to it being great, and I'm going to (hopefully) be seeing a screening of it tonight in LA. Will report back afterwards! [Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder on Blu-ray]

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<![CDATA[Zero Grav Wedding Dress]]>

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency is sponsoring a Space Couture Design Contest and as part of the publicity, the chairperson of the jury designed a wedding dress meant to look good on Earth (left, in photo) and in zero gravity (right, in photo).

Apparently the key to being pretty in space is flounces? Battlestar Galactica never told us this!

Wedding dress for use in space [Seihin-World]

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