Star Tours Motion Discrepancy

[HarajukuBoy]

So I rode Star Tours last weekend. I usually don't go on it anymore because it's lost it's glory. Anyways, has anyone ever noticed when your Starspeeder dives, that you should be feeling a weightless feeling, but you actually feel pulled into the dive by gravity. I never noticed it before. I know motion simulators are limited in their capabilities, but isn't there a way to experience that dive the way it physically would feel?

[Gemini Cricket]

(Light speed is just the cabin tilting backwards.)

[Monorail Man]

(Light speed is just the cabin tilting backwards.)

With a slight shaking motion.

[HarajukuBoy]

But I'm not talking about light speed. I'm actually talking about when you dive into the trench towards the end.

[innonut99]

But I'm not talking about light speed. I'm actually talking about when you dive into the trench towards the end.

I don't think that "weightless" was one of the concepts of ST. It is quite impossible physically to be weightless with a mechanical arm. The starspeeder actually tilts forward when you go into a dive so it should feel like gravity is pulling you... I do not know how you could be weightless with the design of this attraction.

NASA uses water and HUGE fans to create a weightless feeling on earth. Even in Apollo 13 they used an airplane to create a weightless feeling for about 30 secs... The starspeeders at DL have NO capabilities to make you weightless...

sorry...

[ModHatter]

Yeah, back when the ride was still fairly new and more interesting, that was one of my favorite parts, getting in the last seat in the last row and letting my legs dangle during the "dive." But yeah, it wasn't a particularly convincing illusion even then, it was just fun to dangle.

Now... not so much.

[Uncle Remus]

ya it wouldnt work unless they dropped your space shuttle from a plane or put it into our orbit. So until they figure out someway to bend physics your going to get stuck with being pulled down the machincal arm, even if we didnt have gravity, if we were buckled into the shuttle we would still feel the same.

[MiceMan]

ya it wouldnt work unless they dropped your space shuttle from a plane or put it into our orbit. So until they figure out someway to bend physics your going to get stuck with being pulled down the machincal arm, even if we didnt have gravity, if we were buckled into the shuttle we would still feel the same.

But ... if we wern't buckled in ........ :devil: :devil: :devil:

[Club 33]

I, and I can imagine a few others have too, have seen what the StarSpeeders look like on the outside while they do their thing, and its really not terribly amazing. Of course, to give credit where credit is due, the ride is kind of like the movies, the effects and stuff were awesome back then but since newer technologies have been created. Just to bring up something on/off topic here, what about Mission: SPACE? That system looks like this:

[innonut99]

But ... if we wern't buckled in ........ :devil: :devil: :devil:

Hehe... you kill me man... hehe