Along with new characters and tracks, classic courses have been given physics-mocking makeovers, adding anti-gravity, underwater and hang-gliding sections, your kart floating like a time-travelling DeLorean or sprouting a miniature propeller or parachute, while you look out for shortcuts in the game's convoluted courses.
As part of his extensive training, Major Peake had to live for a week in an underground cave in Sardinia and spend 12 days performing complex "zero-gravity" tasks underwater off the coast of Florida.
Research focusing on load-carrying in partial gravity also by underwater immersion confirmed that energy expenditure and stride rates dropped while the forward lean exhibited by subjects increased dramatically with diminishing gravity levels (Wickman and Luna, 1996).
The techniques that have been used so far to simulate partial gravity include ballasted underwater immersion, parabolic flights, over-head suspension, off-loading pulley systems, and tilted bed rest studies (Louisy et al., 1994; Newman, 2000).
Detailed numerical simulation and analysis of a typical concrete gravity dam subjected to underwater explosion are presented in this study.
The sound waves in question are more properly known as acoustic gravity waves (AGWs): vast underwater waves that travel at the speed of sound and are generated naturally by earthquakes and other geological events.
But satellite data can't reveal features smaller than about 12 kilometers across, and local variations in the density of the ocean floor can produce gravity anomalies mimicking those produced by seamounts (underwater volcanoes).
West Brom have a new, state-of-the-art training centre housing a hydrotherapy pool with underwater cameras and an anti-gravity treadmill.
This ballpoint will write in extreme weather conditions (read: British), underwater, upside down and in zero gravity, making it a long-time favourite among Nasa astronauts (so we're told).
Major Tim Peake, from Salisbury, was accepted into the European Space Agency (Esa) in 2009 at the age of 37. Since then he has undergone astronaut basic training, practised spacewalking, experienced zero gravity flights and spent 12 days in an underwater lab.
By learning to breathe underwater, man has achieved his age-old ambition of defying gravity..
