Just Stop Your Crying

You want to know what's funny? Free falling, like I am right now; scared witless in a metal (okay, mostly metal) box next to a sun no human has seen befrore, not this close... actually, it's not that funny. What was my point? 

Oh yeah. Skydiving. 

In the context of general relativity, where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature, a body in free fall has no force acting on it. But if you're wearing a parachute, once you reach terminal velocity, it kind of feels like your body is... cushioned. Supported. 

I glare at Tau Ceti. 

Must be nice.