Comments for "Astronaut Pops a Water Balloon in Space" Video at VideoSift.com

By iaui

iaui (http://www.videosift.com/member/iaui) — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:29:01 -0700

That is NOT in space. It's in a 0-g simulation aeroplane. You can see the 'change' in gravity exhibited by the glob of water as the plane adjusts its course. In actual space (where gravity is weak) there would be no such 'shift'... well... to be honest a shift like that would occur during an acceleration. I know this is not in 'space' though, because it was shown probably four years ago in a series of experiments performed by scientists in a low-gravity simulator.

That doesn't mean that it still isn't cool as all hell.

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By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:56:11 -0700

That does make sense, i have always wondered what sort of an idiot would pop a water balloon in a space station... seems that a lot of sensitive equipment could get fried. The cargo bay of a 747 would be a much better place. Thanks for the info.

By iaui

iaui (http://www.videosift.com/member/iaui) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:05:14 -0700

Heh. Well... thanks for the link to the video. I hadn't seen it for some while. And it certainly is very visually captivating.

Here's a link with this and some other microgravity experiments performed by some NASA scientists:
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm

By deadfox

deadfox (http://www.videosift.com/member/deadfox) — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:05:21 -0700

cool vid- VOMIT COMET!