Hope Springs Internal

There's a company offering a "simulation of space flight." For several thousand dollars you can experience a few minutes of weightless. All they do, really, is take you up in a big windowless cargo plane and go into a dive while you float around and bump into other people and get thoroughly nauseous. It reminds me of a ride I went on once at Magic Mountain where they spin you around in a big cylinder-like thing best described as a barrel standing on end. Once it goes fast enough they drop the bottom out and you're pinned to the wall helpless. After I got off I lost my lunch. At least it cost a lot less than a phoney ride into orbit.