Just in case you ever need to have emergency surgery while traveling at zero-gravity- a team of French surgeons are planning a trial run. They'll board an Airbus 300 Zero-G which will dive in and out of weightlessness while they remove a cyst from a patient's arm. What kind of man volunteers to undergo and operation without the benefit of gravity, on a plane diving up and down like a roller coaster? Well a bungee jumper of course.




While my husband (a pilot) would probably love to take his plane to Zero-G- I'd have serious second thoughts about volunteering to be that patient. Here are a few of the disturbing- but interesting facts:

-the surgeons will be strapped to the walls of the plane for the three-hour operation
-without gravity, things could float around (like blood, and scalpels!)
-precise surgical movements would be tricky without gravity (every see an astronaut try to catch an M & M?)
-their last and only surgery in space was on a rat's tail

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