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Zero G Waterballoon Popping =)

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:08 am
by Koshaw

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:27 pm
by Lone_Wolf
That's cool! A good waste of time link :) Is this what NASA spends all our money on? J/K. It's still cool.

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:32 pm
by Hamster
So...this is what our tax dollars go to? :|

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:57 pm
by Scott Gardener
(scuse me--wrong topic; I'm cutting and pasting this where it needs to go.)

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:01 pm
by Lupin
NASA wrote:The tests were conducted in part to develop the ability to rapidly deploy large liquid drops by rupturing an enclosing membrane
I wonder what they were doing that requres large liquid drops. And what would happen if they did this in actual space, with the vacuum freezing temps and all.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:39 am
by Koshaw
Dunno heh...well we are essentially big sacks of water (cells) maybe doing this tells scientists what happens and how cells rupture in Zero G? No clue but it sure is neat looking ^^

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:32 am
by Hearth
I see...

Funny. I think that those astronauts have far too much time in their hands...

:cyborg3:

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:25 pm
by Terastas
Lone_Wolf wrote:That's cool! A good waste of time link :) Is this what NASA spends all our money on? J/K. It's still cool.
Probably just something to keep the astronauts entertained and to give us something to smirk at while their working on their more hush-hush projects like maintenance for government satellites and such. It's not like water balloons are that hard to transport or make -- any 3rd-grader could tell you that.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:28 pm
by Lupin
Terastas wrote:Probably just something to keep the astronauts entertained and to give us something to smirk at while their working on their more hush-hush projects like maintenance for government satellites and such. It's not like water balloons are that hard to transport or make -- any 3rd-grader could tell you that.
That wasn't done in space though. It was done in a large jet plane