You can't help but smile.
REUTERS/Zero-Gravity Corp.
[British physicist Stephen Hawking is assisted as he floats during a ZERO-G flight aboard a modified Boeing 727 after taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, April 26, 2007.]
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It's a beautiful thing.....
Posted by: leslie | April 27, 2007 at 12:17 PM
He floats. I do a Happy Dance! Wheeeeeee!
Posted by: Tata | April 27, 2007 at 12:21 PM
A dive operation I know of specializes in offering diving for wheel-chair bound folks. Being freed from the chair "flying" underwater is similarly liberating to what Dr Hawkins is experiencing in that amazing photo, watertiger.
Posted by: noblejoanie | April 27, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Thank god almighty, free at last.
Posted by: Ruth | April 27, 2007 at 12:28 PM
yes it is a beautiful thing. that picture makes me like when i see one of flg' maddy shots.
happy little camper.
Posted by: Mestizo | April 27, 2007 at 12:29 PM
How wonderful, blissful that experience must have been for him. It makes me happy just seeing his grin.
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Posted by: Sparkle Plenty | April 27, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Transcendental.
Posted by: Mr.Murder | April 27, 2007 at 12:43 PM
And yet even if he's weightless, he can't really move, can he? I mean, I thought he didn't have control of his muscles? Though even if he can move a little, that must feel like a huge change.
Posted by: QuixoticPJ | April 27, 2007 at 12:52 PM
How heartwarming. LOVE IT.
Posted by: Margie in Austin, Texas | April 27, 2007 at 12:54 PM
He may still not be able to move his muscles, but he is seeing things from a completely new perspective, so to speak.
Posted by: Brooklyn Girl | April 27, 2007 at 12:55 PM
Not completely new, however. He was fully ambulatory until his mid 20s.
Posted by: | April 27, 2007 at 01:01 PM
Not completely new, however. He was fully ambulatory until his mid 20s.
Posted by: Diogenes | April 27, 2007 at 01:01 PM
His smile says it all...beautiful. Thank you.
Posted by: karen | April 27, 2007 at 01:28 PM
WT What a wonderful picture, so much happiness is heartbreaking.
Posted by: JeffinBerlin | April 27, 2007 at 02:09 PM
he may not be able to move, but he doesn't feel weighted. that is a big thing. fucking gravity.
Posted by: pansypoo | April 27, 2007 at 02:40 PM
His mind has been as free as his body in this photo.
Great man, great picture.
Posted by: Rene ala Carte | April 27, 2007 at 09:55 PM
I have to admit - every time I look at this picture, I get kind of teary.
Posted by: watertiger | April 28, 2007 at 09:58 AM
I understand he wants to visit the ISS, I wonder if his health would allow for the stresses of a launch.
Posted by: Jesus X. Crutch | April 28, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Hugh Hefner looks like he's on his last legs . . .
OK, OK----I take it back.
Jeeeze! Physicist protective bunch.
Posted by: JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde | April 28, 2007 at 09:18 PM