Alka-Seltzer added to sheat of water in microgravity

[MrFaneh]

would take centuriessssss to get to another planet (good one, mars is shit), if you go now, you great-great-great-great-grands­ons might enjoy it

[maxinpains]

this is funny to see i could imagined the result but it's nice to see it happning right infront of eyes

[Neilsaccount55555]

this is sooo cool

[agentkungeh]

the guys under me have to stop having there little intellectual cockfight

[monekyjumble]

lol sheat

[violetmatthers]

These can be VERY helpful and useful and if you are too thick to even understand that? then you need to return to elementary school! This arsto- at least made use of his off time ,and personally it was great!

[jmanchickabow]

billions and billions of dollars later we learn how to take bubbles out of water in space... saaaweeet i think it was well worth it, you?

[Hoglund]

Billions of dollars spent on the Internet just so you could whine... I think it was well worth it, you?

[jmanchickabow]

touché my friend. haha

[andycandyxoxo]

burrrnnnnnn!

[ThirdSon13]

These were done in his personal time. Each astronaut has personal time to do what he or she wants. Part of keeping their 'sanity' up there. Otherwise, their time is somewhat completely planned to optimize their presence on orbit.

[jmanchickabow]

i get that... haha it was a joke... i am ALL for the space program!

[brianmanp]

laugh now, but this experiment could be a crucial step in long-term space travel, or new technologies

[BruCandKaT]

seriously i find this not that bad, very interesting indeed.

[Coltons350z]

trying puting alka seltzer and soda in your mouth at the same time..DONT SWALLOW. see how long you can last before everything explodes of your mouth :D

[wormbaby79]

No do swallow its alot of fun. I like to use Rootbeer. The gas gomes out one end or the other and both are funny. (seriously it's not going to actually hurt you. Worst case scenario is a quick reversal of fortune followed by a bellyache!)

[JayGeePee1]

Alka-Seltzer is Great Stuff!

[MaXG65]

Well worth the money... We can introduce this to the liberals food supply and they will explode like zits all across the country!

[aiaw23]

who told you to hate liberals?

ever taken alka seltzer?

did it explode you?

[MaXG65]

No body! I learneded that all by me onesy...

Yes.

No. But then I'm not a liberal...

LMAo!

[fuzzywzhe]

This video cost taxpayers several million dollars.

It was THIS important to know.

[JammyTom]

Get the fuck away.  Go tell that to your redneck ape friends

[fuzzywzhe]

> Get the fuck away. Go tell that to your

> redneck ape friends

My friends a bunch of engineers in Silicon Valley.

This stupid waste of money could have been done on the vomit comet for 1/1000th of the cost, OR it simply could have been done with a computer simulation model.

We're sending people to space, in a deadly environment to see how alka seltzer tablets react to water.

Wow. That's a lot better than coating Death Valley with Stirling Energy dishes or something dumb like that...

[wizard13335]

A computer model? Seriously? Why don't we just do all experiments with a computer model? Apparently there's no reason not to. And do you *honestly* think that the shuttle was launched specifically for this experiment? Because if you do, I urge you to see a doctor and find out whether your common sense is working.

[fuzzywzhe]

> A computer model? Seriously? Why don't we

> just do all experiments with a computer

> model? Apparently there's no reason not to.

Do you know how much it costs to launch ONE POUNT of any material into space?

$5000

[curexcult]

you do realize that the vomit comet can only maintain a near 0'g state for about 1 minute. anything longer then that and the plane would not be able to pull out of the dive in time and it would smack into the earth. 1 minute is not a long enough time to perform experiments. and computer models cant show us everything and are not always acurate. remember a computer is only as smart as the human who programs it. so if the person knows nothing about it the computer dosnt know anything about it too

[fuzzywzhe]

> remember a computer is only as smart as the

> human who programs it.

If they physics is correct, it produces the correct results.

I mean, I'm sorry if I see it as obviously and incredibly stupid to be launching anybody into space to see an alka seltzer tablet fizzle in water.

All the space program is today is people screwing around with "gee, that's neat!"

[curexcult]

you cant honestly belive they launch people into space for experiments like this do you? in the past several years the only times they have been launched on the shuttle is to do repairs to hubble or the ISS or something else that needs repair. they give them these small experiments for 2 reasons. 1. they do serve a purpose in learning how this react in zero G which we dont know how everything will react even with our knowledge of physics and 2. to keep the people from complete boredom.

[fuzzywzhe]

> you cant honestly belive they launch people > into space for experiments like this do > you? in the past several years the only > times they have been launched on the > shuttle is to do repairs to hubble or the > ISS or something else that needs repair. > they give them these small experiments for > 2 reasons. It's political bullshit. Everything that can be done in LEO with a human being can be done better AND CHEAPER with a remotely controlled robot. It is POINTLESS to send people to space

[curexcult]

how does NASA and sending people to space have anything to do with politics?

oh well arguing with you is pointless. *insert stupid online fighting joke equaling being retarded here*

[fuzzywzhe]

> how does NASA and sending people to space

> have anything to do with politics?

Are you serious?

The entire space race was politics. What did we send a man to the moon for? To get a few rocks?

The most amazing thing the human species has done was to go to the moon, and it was all done for the wrong reasons. You need to talk to your mother and father about Sputnik.

[curexcult]

im not talking about 40 years ago im talking about right now. how does it have anything to do with politics right now with sending people up to space? plz do tell.

[fuzzywzhe]

> im not talking about 40 years ago im talking

> about right now. how does it have anything to

> do with politics right now with sending

> people up to space? plz do tell.

NASA is a 40 years old fossil that is kept around simply because NOTHING in government is ever retired.

That's how.

NASA is a relic today. It serves precious little purpose, even when it comes to true blue old fashioned research.

[curexcult]

ok well when one day in the far future when people are living in space because of over population on earth or global disaster or which ever comes first i guess the ISS will have been for nothing and will have served no purpose.

[fuzzywzhe]

> ok well when one day in the far future when

> people are living in space because of over

> population on earth or global disaster or

> which ever comes first i guess the ISS will

> have been for nothing and will have served no

> purpose.

Do you know ANY physics? Calculate the required energy for breakaway orbit of 6 billion people weighing 100 lbs each.

You screw up this environment here, you're going to die. We all will. It's just that freaking simple.

[curexcult]

oh yea im sure all 6 billion people will leave the earth at one time. plz will you use common sense. cuz im almost certain theres no way even in the far future will 6 billion people ever fit into a single space craft and take off of the planet. and no one ever said that all 6 billion peope would leave the earth but one day it will be certain that people will no longer just be living on earth and such things like the ISS are needed to figure out how to create colonys in space or other planets

[fuzzywzhe]

> oh yea im sure all 6 billion people will

> leave the earth at one time. plz will you use

> common sense.

OK, 1 leaves PER SECOND.

Then it will only take 190 YEARS to evacuate the planet.

The energy requirement is astronomical just to get into geosynchronous orbit.

The theoretical minimum to put 100 lbs into geostationary orbit is 213,305,422 joules or 202,174 BTUs - and that's if we had teleportation and 100% efficiency.

All this is "my country's dick is bigger than yours" - thats it.

[curexcult]

wow you lack common sense completly dont you? you got alot of book smarts no one is debating that (or you just know how to use google) but some common sense says that if the earth was going to be hit from a giant asteroid in lets say 200 years or so, and by then i think colonys should be possible, lets face it most of the world will die but those that are lucky enough to be evacuated will. and the knowedge gained from the ISS will save some of man kind with the info gained on living in space.

[fuzzywzhe]

> wow you lack common sense completly dont

> you? you got alot of book smarts no one is

> debating that (or you just know how to use

> google) but some common sense says that if

> the earth was going to be hit from a giant

> asteroid in lets say 200 years or so, and

> by then i think colonys should be possible,

Common sense says hit it with a hydrogen bomb to change it's trajectory.

I'm an electrical engineer, not a star trek nerd, who doesn't know anything about science.

[wormbaby79]

Plz don't feed the trolls. You are not going to change Mr. Black helicopters mind. But I agree with you, even if all we have to show for our 1% of 1% of the budget are these videos its still a great R.O.I.

[aerowenn]

@curexcult The ISS is primarily for microgravity research... not exploring colonization of space. It's low Earth orbit and requires boosting to counter small atmospheric drag... a "colonization" large enough would experience even more drag, and require more "babysitting", not worth it.

[SuperSasquatch24]

too cool. =]

[RoxasXIII677]

Wow. The alk seltzer reacted to the sheet of water just like it would with normal water.

[thorargent]

This tells me a lot about how foaming agents (that might be used for space construction) may act. Also, think foamed metals, for use in ultra-strong, low-mass construction materials. A thin sheet metal shell filled with foamed aluminum or steeel would be fantastic for building large scale habitats.

Another thing I see is that rotating a fuel or water tank allows you to draw off bubbles from the center easily, something that has been known for a while but not actually seen.

[Thejournalist2007]

very cool...thanks for the vid. I'm imagining a bowling ball sized water sphere, some seltzer tabs, dye...hit that with a light source. You see where I'm going with this? Disco ISS baby!

"cel-e-brate good times! come on woo! hoo!

......eh hem, sorry it's late can't sleep getting silly.

[PimpMyAfterLife]

lol

[109278123]

the bubbelsphear.. ahhaha

[109278123]

bubbels!!!! :):D

[JephN]

very interesting!

[nadirsekman]

hey i was here .p