OMG. This is embarrassing. You know how the word "fic" is a completely normal, ordinary word in English? Of course you know. Well. In German, it's not. "Fick" in German is the translation for the word "fuck/to fuck". Which means that if you start talking about kidfic, fanfic, deathfic or futurefic in German, you come across as this really creepy, paedophilic and necrophile person with these strange, creepy hobbies.

It can lead to really embarrassing situations.

This afternoon, I experienced the phenomenon of "pulling G's". Having read about it in countless SGA fics, I was understandably excited.

This afternoon, I went on a very short fifteen-minutes flight over a small city (Innsbruck) in the Alps with the boyfriend of a friend, who flies for a hobby. We were flying in this teeny tiny 4-person plane. And when he made this turn you have to do before the landing approach, he didn't do it the standard way, but he went into a very tight turn and tilted the plane so it was in a 90-degree-angle to the ground. That's when the G-pulling happened. According to the friend's BF, we were pulling 4 G's (I can't get enough of saying this). Because I'm a geek, I made a drawing that illustrates the physics of this phenomenon.

( Drawing and Physics )

The friend's BF told me that in aerobatics, the pilots do maneuvers up to 7 G's (Air Force people go even higher - no idea how high, but they do have those suits, after all). He also promised me to take me on another trip and do a 0 G maneuver, which leaves you essentially weightless. Ever since I heard about these maneuvers in my physics class in school, I wanted to try that.

In other news, I only found out that the Austrian Autobahn is terribly, terribly boring to drive. It has a speed limit of 80 mph, but mostly, it's restricted further to 62 mph. I almost fell asleep behind the wheel. And I was really glad when I'd crossed the border into Germany and could step on the gas pedal a little ;).