Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity

[zombie2093]

thats how god did it with a giant alka-seltzer

[jimboli12345]

multiplying bacteria?

[maximilianlindner]

honestly, how cool is this!?

[dogshot0410]

Blah blah blah make it fizz!

[TheRaizen33]

was that an Alka-Seltzer add placement? lol

[fredguy2]

it looks like an alien evolving

[SailorBarsoom]

That's cool. Now bake bread, without a pan! I'm guessing that other than being (roughly) spherical, it'll be just like bread baked on Earth.

Angel food cake? Homebrew beer or wine?

[nameofthepen]

This vid proves "The Wadsworth Constant". Still good, though.

[ifedthehorse]

FUCKING HURRY UP AND START THE EXPERIMENT... Jesus.

[Kadda67]

bobble bobbles bobble bobbles

[AgentRikuOfficial]

The next experiment they need to do:

Diet Coke + Mentos + Space = ?

[TheRaisedThumb]

Science talk: "A big bubble with a whole bunch of little bubbles swarming around."

XDDDDDDDDDD

[SUSSTURUCU]

alka seltzer morning relief is forever

[TheDeadeye1996]

RASENGAN!!!!!!

[wlmason73]

Don Pettit: Let's see what happens now when this effervescent tablet is added to the sphere of liquid

[BOOM]

Mission Control: Don? Don?! Donnnnnn?!

[PersonaRandomNumbers]

2:03 "What we're seeing here is the salvation to zero-gravity heartburn." Love it!

[supramotor]

FAKE AND GAY

[mra]

@supramotor xkcd.com/481/

[slkr99]

woooooooooahhhhhhhhhh mind blown

[jaquan123ism]

Kool like koolade I like koolade I want koolade give me koolade now! Or else

[budsblognz]

try it with detergent man

[intelX1000]

lol they try to sound all smart but there really editing out the excessive laughs. wait did he just say he had 2 wrong ideas? "they could turn into plasma or shoot lasers and make a super heroes."

[Rahpido]

haha im laughing at the comments lol

Its like when you show a 2 year old a soap bubble.

[wildgene24]

Look like Jupiter. is there some kind of connection between this experiment and maybe how Gas giants form.

[chestikov2011]

@wildgene24 Jupiter did cross my mind while watching this . The scientist said he had no idea what would happen when conducting this experiment . Why ? When the first bubble formed a doughnut shape similar to a plug hole , blackhole or whatever , wouldn't that be expected even in very low gravity ? The whole cosmos rotates , sub atomic particles orbit around a nuclei . My head rotates when i overdo it on the vodka ! lol interesting but stupid ☭

[herokight]

1:45 LOOKS LIKE AN ALIEN...

[Hamodyxxx0]

@herokight xD

[H057IL3]

I'm in the mood for some fizzy candy P:

[aceattack52]

were you in space when you narrarated this?

[diesel54x]

3:17 HAPPY FACE

[jamesthemagicalcat]

SOO FUCKING COOOL

[Achap95]

water bubbles would make drinking water more fun

[TheApetureScience]

if i had a pound for every time he says bubble :D

[Kevinism18]

That happens to my tummy whenever my teacher wants me to recite. xD

[hololop]

1:58 is a doughnut

[gjergj11]

question!!!can it be possible with a normal bubble soap????

[DamnoMan]

1:55 Its an Eyeball!

[r3ap3rrr]

he should have punched it.

[N1kkon]

My favorite part was when the alka-seltzer was in the water..

[Ffiti2]

The first minute was completely unnecessary.

[cen0322]

What is microgravity?

[antimatterXXXIII]

@cen0322 It's a fancy and completely unnecessary term for weightlessness. I'm not sure who is responsible but he should be caned.

[FrozenIceCweam]

@antimatterXXXIII I think it comes from that you are in space, and not affected greatly by gravity, but their is micro about of gravity.

[p34cekeeper]

@antimatterXXXIII

In its orbit, there is still a gravitational influence from the earth, which accelerates your mass towards the Earth's barycenter, creating a force (F = ma). Since this force is known as 'weight', and gravity is an element of the environment, it is correct to use the term 'micro-gravity' or 'freefall'.

True (pedantic) weightlessness would require you to be at a significant distance from any massive body (according to the inverse square and attenuation factors I think).

[demonfrog1776]

gay

[treq2112]

Am i the only one found this interesting?

[baccus61]

@treq2112 Nope.



[darthnozo]

3:34 Jupiter!

[whirl10]

@awesomedav NO moron, the reason this country is in massive debt is because of 2 TRILLION dollar "stimulus" bills that were passed that went to line the pockets of the people or "execs who put us in that position in the first place. To put it into perspective, The deficit was increased by almost 25% with the wave of bamas magic pen.

[Glitchmaster1504]

Nice vid! That's so cool! @2:46 it looks like an eyeball

[MrMotocross23]

Alka Seltzer Alka Seltzer Alka Seltzer Plus!

[tarrasque420]

Hey if the human body is 75% water would that mean your entire body would turn into one big blob if you stay in zero g too long?

[hubertandclyde]

@tarrasque420 Of course! That is what happens to all of the astronauts who stay in space for months!

[awesomedav]

Ridiculous waste of money.

[cecilx22]

@awesomedav a) I'm sure this was the only experiment they did on the mission /s b) You have no idea of what science is about. Your short sightedness and lack of wonder and curiosity illustrates all that is wrong with this country.

[awesomedav]

@cecilx22 My idea of science doesn't involve millions upon millions of dollars to make a low gravity environment where scientists get to make water bubble around with alka seltzer. You're the reason our country is in such debt lol...

[cecilx22]

@awesomedav So, no CERN to create speeds nearly the speed of light? No Manhattan project to investigate extreme circumstances involving radioactive isotopes? This kind of work is absolutely CRITICAL to the advancement of science. This experiment has given us invaluable information about the nature of fluid dynamics. Do you have any idea how valuable and important that information could be? And, the cost of this experiment, compared to the deficit is laughable. The cost of NASA for that mater.

[dopestories]

@cecilx22 you fail

[awesomedav]

@cecilx22 The fact that you would rather play around with water and alka seltzer than take care of a person starving on the streets or dying from medical problems because they can't afford the basic necessities is astonishing to me. If anything the government needs to start cutting these programs and programs to go to the moon again... we've been to the moon too many times already, why do we need to go to look at the same rocks again?

[bphutchins]

@awesomedav is it necessary to come to American websites and go to videos about Americans or featuring anything American and then lambast Americans? Christ, get your own websites to troll on, we're sick of it.

[awesomedav]

@bphutchins I am American... lol

[Qwertybobz3]

looks like something i would hock up

[Gearz86]

effervescent antacid tablet, effervescent antacid tablet, effervescent antacid tablet. Jeez

[BeautyinDiatoms]

There should have been some ominous music when the seltzer was approaching the sphere... and then a nice crescendo as it dissolved!

:P

[drewmandan]

I, for one, welcome our bubbly overlords.

[canaanyarden]

1:57 that is a close-up of someone staring in the dark

[angelsnk28]

wow, a face

[ichbinhornig10]

nomnomnom antacid tablet

[ThefirstDrInsane2U]

ahh no were not gonna watch it a 2nd time through the wire hope because there is better shit to watch on you to you dorks

[225USAboy]

Vote this comment up if you think a swimming pool in space would be the coolest thing ever........

[suroj]

'NASA' Sponsored by 'Alka-Seltzer'

[monimstarfox]

Space station:1000000000000000 dollars

Astronaut: 100000000 dollars

Alka Seltzer: 5 dollars

Water bubble: .5 cents

Feeling like a kid again when you see it bubble: Priceless

[Satan820]

should have done it with mentos and coke! thats what we wanna see in space a giant 2 meter ball of coke and 10 pounds of mentos dropped inside xD

[austinboboston1]

try chalk dust

[austinboboston1]

try chalk

[wumpusthis]

Is there a video of this with a better frame rate?

[thizzlewwe]

1:56 looks like an eye ball

[marblewonder]

It's like Earth at 3:30 but when the guy pops the bubble at 3:50, it turns into a gas planet like Jupiter.

Maybe that'll happen to Earth one day 

[BIPICY]

They do crap like this but can't fix my dad's back?

[Linnehan13]

@BIPICY What? Last time I checked, astronauts and rocket scientists aren't doctors or chiropractors.

[oXFalconXo]

wow, that is very interesting

[HandbagKnowledge]

Chuck Norris says "This is so weak, I can reproduce a gazillion tomes for bubbles"

[Snuffomatica]

Cool - do a few 100 more simultaneously and overload the CO2 scrubbers.

[b4sshunt3rgg]

fucking bubbles

[portland1987]

Bubbles!

[sapher2020]

Fucking waste of money!!!! Titties bouncing around in zero gravity would have been much better!!!!

[vclxrr]

When you compare this zero-G behavior to how it works on Earth, it really makes me want to say one thing: Holy $#!t, gravity is SERIOUS business!

[notesone12]

man you dum you can see what this is do this on the moon co2 in a tent now add plants and what do that give off ? now think i know is hard to see for you. but in time with this moss to plants to trees to man liveing on the moon open your eyes

[jbetenbender]

@notesone12 Well it's not quit that simple; now I know I'm no expert but allow me to give my own ignorant opinion. It would be rather difficult to keep a human healthy when living on the moon due to a large lack of gravity & electromagnetism; It's a bit presumptuous but I assume they play a role with biological mechanisms. Whatever u grow off the CO2 wld liekly have to be supported by a decent solar panel/s for a light (w/UV); algae wld probably b the best bet.

[jbetenbender]

@jbetenbender Point being it's likely possible, but definitely not efficient nor feasible for a small civilization.

[LemonLimeLaughter]

looks like a big glob of freefalling spit

[myskateboard16]

i wanna have a room completely filled with water in space. equivalent to a pool. I could play SO HARD

[Luxifer5]

@myskateboard16 you would honestly have a hard time not drowning since the water would be everywhere

[Joymani]

@myskateboard16 You could drown so hard

[Zibathy]

@Joymani My thoughts exactly!

[Marq4270]

@myskateboard16 why ? you can just swim in air :D

[bob65986524787]

@myskateboard16

Dude! A water room in space with a whole crate of alka-selzer: SPACE JACCUZZI CO2-ATTACK!

[MichaelJE2]

@myskateboard16 would you be able to swim? I'd think you'd float to the nearest surface too quickly because of buoyancy.

[myskateboard16]

@MichaelJE2 isn't buoyancy caused by gravity...

[blackjack117200]

@myskateboard16 And drown....

[jamesthemagicalcat]

@myskateboard16 and drown SO FAST!! lol

[jamesthemagicalcat]

@myskateboard16 and drown SO FAST!! lol

[540deltron]

i wonder what that would feel like

[uexp4]

3:18 looks a like a happy face! :)

[8fl0z]

looks ike someone nutted in space.

[BBT1099]

honestly i thought it would expand. but i did see some of the pressure being released. by bubbles poping out. play it again.

[mjkobb]

Don Pettit is my hero.

[Xxblink7]

worth all of our tax money

[jbetenbender]

@Xxblink7 For total spending in 2006 .92%/$24 billion of the budget was spent on General Science, Space and Technology. In 2009 0.58% or 6.9 billion of discretionary spending went toward the NSF out of 1.21 trillion. General science, space, and technology took up 0.9% of total share/2.7 trillion for 2009. So there's not much of the money going toward science. Personally I find it appalling that science the number drive for innovation and efficiency only gets 1% of the budget.

[peptobismol9]

He sounds like Caboose. Hehehe

[illbeurluckycharmz]

how did u make the water sphere thingy??

[PointBlank65]

@illbeurluckycharmz DAMN REALLY  read the title, you go the the nearest micro gravity region (we call it SPACE)

[obrian93]

$12,000,000,000 well spent.

[snelpiller]

@obrian93 haha worth it!

[TheCoDKaos]

@obrian93

lol...



[muzeus]

@obrian93 You are a fucking idiot. You obviously know nothing about what NASA does or anything about there budget; so you should just not talk.

[xanyleon]

@muzeus Looked like he was just cracking a light-hearted joke to me :)

[scrap1005]

@obrian93, but at 3:21 and 4:30 they discovered "faces" that appeared in it!! lol

[GordinflasMarraneo]

@obrian93

12,000,000,000 tons of demagogy well performed.

[jbetenbender]

@obrian93 Lmao silliness, your just bonkers; it didn't cost $12 billion one of the most expensive scientific experiments ever was the LHC which was $10 billion. The mission they went on was probably a few million, and this one dollar experiment was probably a side line; Alka-Seltzer and water doesn't cost much.

[bwd81977]

@obrian93 I know. Kinda like the Iraq war.

[FALCO64125]

@obrian93 Sarcasm noted. It is true that 5 astronauts were launched into space solely for this experiment. Your critique of NASA spending is duly noted.

[BassAssasin13]

@obrian93 lmfao. omg that was soooooo funny

[eb352mm]

@obrian93 NASA is just a way of employing jobless scientists at the taxpayers expense, america needs a sustainable economy not the parasitical one that runs an underpaid,overworked working class into the ground. not too mention how much money is drained off by schools which condition instead of educating

[falstocat]

@eb352mm Don't be so harsh towards the astronauts. They risk their lives up there for the sake of pure science, satisfying their nation's curiosity with wonders wrought through bravery. Do you know how dangerous it is to be up there: how easily these men's bodies wither in microgravity, how they're being bombarded with microradiation, how psychologically distressing it can be to deal with just a few other people in a metal object hurtling through space?

[Leftunloved]

@obrian93 This isn't all they do, and with the world falling apart the way it is, this could help us live in space if it is ever required.

[EnterARandomNameHere]

@obrian93 More like $0.05 (the cost of one Alka-Seltzer tablet)—excluding the cost of water—well spent, since this was just to pass time. Unlike what some people think, these little experiments were not their purpose of going to space. Imagine spending months, if not years, in space without doing things like this to pass time, but only eating, drinking, and sleeping. You would probably go crazy! Plus, it adds to their knowledge, which could benefit them in the future somehow.

[webbugt]

@EnterARandomNameHere

Quite true, the problem of how the first matter clumped together in space was solved by an astronaut who put salt or some powder in a bag of water while in orbit and filmed the result. He only realised what he's done when he showed that to a scientist back on the surface.

[ryanmerkle5]

@EnterARandomNameHere what about the money spent on shipping both the alka-seltzer and water up to space? including the food that was used to provide the astronaut with energy used during this film. oh and how about the energy to record this... not just 5 cents... but thats just my 2 cents.

[WallZZZZZ]

@obrian93 The pursuit of understanding through the process of scientific experimentation is invaluable. I would rather we spend billions on experiments like this than even one cent on producing war.

[theevilmeister]

Yea we get it, your smart. >_>

[JarrydGothix]

It looks like it's angry.

[pimppimpdoodlydoo]

crazy. looks like fun.

[GhostOfACPast]

I love science and space is the future.

[thelazygamer]

coke and mentos next...do it

[sketchone]

Ahh...Houston? We have a problem.

[boonecruse]

thats how planets are made but really small??

[LittleFox1976]

When astronauts get bored..... they make up experiments. FUN! I think I'll watch them all.

[colomblanco]

I had to watch the whole video to make sure it was really that stupid.

[KingKamor2]

Fuckin bubbles. How do they work?

[Mathview]

Wow! Two large CO2 bubbles form by bubble + bubble = big bubble combination. .... Then the two dominant bubbles separate on either side of a wall of small (primordial?) bubbles. The initial tablet breaks the spherical symmetry of the water ball, introducing a separation of water on either side of the tablet. Maybe that's related to the shape of the final state. A wall of small bubbles with large bubbles on either side of the wall. What do you think??

[Thatoneguyfrom808]

Smiley face at 3:03 hahaha

[imxlnt2]

wow, do you realy want THAT in your stomache?

[libertadfilms]

loos like jupiter

[xzerodeathx]

Wait how did they make the sphere of water because I want to try this in my house XD looks like a bubble at first I wonder if it will work with a bubble?!

[barf245]

@xzerodeathx this is done in outer space

[BunnyDonuts]

omg Sauron's eye at 1:54!!

[kynphlee2002]

IT'S A PLANET!!!!!! CAPTAIN PLANET!!!!!!!

[rabidbigdog]

Mesmerising; science for children, not religion!

[AlmaHtf]

This is so cool!!!! :))

[Plastrader]

@exsecrare

It's nice to see that the money is spent on something worthwhile isn't it?

[TenoreRobusto1347]

@Plastrader Hey, these guys have to do something on their downtime. Plus, doing entertaining experiments like this is good publicity for NASA with the people back home.

Think about it; when is the last time we really ACCOMPLISHED something in space. The Mercury and Gemini programs were getting us acclimated to space, but the Apollo program took us to the moon. The shuttle program hasn't done anything that... visionary. We were headed to Mars, but that seems to have been canned for now...

[Plastrader]

@TenoreRobusto1347

Relax man, you're right, its great publicity and TBH I don't feel that the experiments they are doing(research) is so much for us lesser creature to look at, or understand.

[takenflame]

reminds me of the clouds of gas that circle around on jupiter

[FREENAMEFTW]

HAHAHAHA

(I cant capitalise this enough) GET A GIRLFRIEND

[opaz79]

downright anti semitic

[massive4r7]

It probably never gets boring up there.

[stophthecomputerwiz]

I love science :D

[agentsarahjane]

cool!

[lisaw1215]

Amazing. Glad to see my tax dollars at work.

[ChallengeVHS]

@lisaw1215 lol you realize what a small percentage of your "tax dollars" go into funding space programs, right? The billionaires and millionaires' taxes are the only sums of money that can fund this shit...get off your high horse.

[Televersity]

...yawn...

[WuTangThang]

This cost 2.6 million dollars.

[jursamaj]

@WuTangThang

No, since they were going up anyway to do a lot of other things. Had they not done this, the mission would still have cost as much.

[IamMohawk]

@WuTangThang Dont you love it? This is our tax dollars hard at work but we cant feed our hungry, house our homeless,Ny were I live is in the shitter but we can play with alka seltzer in space? What is wrong with this country?

[shiz777]

@IamMohawk Every single piece of technology you use today is an accumulation of of data derived from millions upon millions of defined and specific experiments conducted over several millenia, of which many faced opposition from people just like you as being not very 'practical'.

[IamMohawk]

@shiz777 Hey thank you very much, I hope you have enough time to respond to the other 529,000 people that commented the same way I did on this total waste of money that I worked hard for my entire life. Peace

[shiz777]

@IamMohawk Just because a few people share your views does not mean they are logical or correct. Why don't you just go back to watching Nascar on your tv set or something, both of which are a product of countless experiments and if given the chance would be deemed useless by the same '529,000' people you mention.

@shiz777 I would not ever watch Nascar! Maybe you should have just made a comment for all to see instead of trying to show me how much of