Viral Visual: Kate Upton in Zero Gravity

The winners over at Sports Illustrated came up with the ridiculous idea to take Kate Upton on a parabolic flight.

Because… science?

Maybe to test out a theory about floating globes?

Here she is upside down:

And sideways:

And backwards:

And if that wasn’t gratuitous enough, there’s even a video:

Which, of course, the interwebz has already GIF’d:

We’re not gonna lie, Kate’s a stunner, but we think SI would have really stunned with a shoot like this featuring a fuller-figured model or maybe even just a normal person off the street. How’s that for provocative and pushing boundaries?

WE SAID THIS: Check out Hadeer Hameed’s article on “Questioning the Plus Size“.