Thursday, April 18, 2013

What Happens...

If you wring out a sopping-wet washcloth in zero gravity?  Watch:


On one level, this is a fascinating experiment and a great demonstration of one effect of gravity's absence.

On another level, it's a little sad that NASA has to resort to things like this in its efforts to justify the ISS.  It would be ever so much easier to justify if the ISS was producing exciting, useful, or surprising science results, instead of parlor tricks...

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