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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7077713" data-attributes="member: 29398">The sphere may be weightless but what's inside it is not: as what's inside it can walk (or hamster) normally that tells me gravity works in there as usual and thus the person inside will fall, and drag the sphere down.The terminal velocity might be less due to the sphere's wind resistance, is the only benefit I can see...unless wind resistance doesn't apply due to the no-kinetic-energy-transfer rules, meaning terminal velocity will be infinite (!) as the person falling - protected by the sphere - is offering up no wind resistance either.There's a scene in (the first Avengers?) where Thor is inside a capsule falling from the sky; the capsule is tumbling as it falls and Thor's getting pasted as he rattles around inside, he then has to bail out before the whole thing hits the ground.  That's how I envision a falling sphere working, except you can't bail out.Lan-"splat"-efan</blockquote>