Life In Space: Science Is Fun Onboard ISS

[rajas16ful]

awesome video !!!!

[GOapeshit14]

ouch, i banged my head! hope i dont look stupid now

[elchavodelocio]

Where is your god now?

[missionagainstterro1]

Internet is very fast in outer space :)

[ilovetogofast88]

Science is awesome and exciting, even if it's your worst subject (along with math)

[RasAhmose]

Cool vid, thanks. <3

[mattgarcia1]

hydrogen? 

[cheesehead1704]

that is aswome :)

[Spongebobfanaticify]

That was sooooo cool :)

[ZOD4]

Per... kululer.

[Zachmman1997]

I think it would be cool to go into the space station it must be cool to float around like that

[MasterHypnose]

Boring Science on Earth is made fun in Space :P

[colorado5a2]

Try to have sex in space... first "pump" and your girl floats far away!

[lordpoee]

Wow, I did not know that water reacted like that in micro gravity. I am over thirty years old and it goes to show, you learning something new everyday. I knew of course that water became a sphere is the absence or presence of reduced gravity, I just did not realize it reacted to a static charge.

[MasterHypnose]

@lordpoee

- there is always something left to be learned... no one knows everything, so you can never run out of eureka moments in your lifetime... unless you're an idiot who cares nothing about learning new information and prefers to stay ignorant... you know the kind of people I'm referring to :P

[lordpoee]

Wow, I did not know that water reacted like that in micro gravity. I am over thirty years old and it goes to show, you learning something new everyday.

[Raafi1234]

I should have got better grades :(

[p4ch1nk0tv]

I will rub it really good.

[SteveMackMagicMan]

"lol dont mess with SPACE DEMENTIA kids" loool this guys bin out der 2 long

[Ares310788]

science is fun untill you encounter a teacher that makes you hate it !

[liketheuniverse11]

Great job!!! You guys are just wonderful!!! God bless you!!! God bless NASA!!! I love your videos! I wish I could go up there some day!!!

[Grey13Human]

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

[INTENTIONPEACE2]

@Grey13Human U SOUND LIKE A CHRISTIAN LOL

[safarsafar1234]

i wish i could go there!!!

[Dre18nc]

hahahah, I will rub it really good.

[kakaokuh]

"I'll rub it really good!"

[rekkapower]

I will be the fist human to smoke ganja in space, and with no gravity to pull you down, high is an understatement. LOL.

[goreziad]

That was very interesting. Nice chap. I would proably get sick there in weightlessness.

[Gintable]

@goreziad

Actually, it isn't the weightlessness that makes you sick. It is when you return to Earth that you really have your trouble adjusting.

[BeAFreeThinker]

He said it best 'Science is fun'

[draakbraak]

leer engels, frank

[brkur]

I noticed he said that he had to be careful when making that bubble of water because of all the electricity onboard. But then at the end ... with the bubble still hanging there he does a space flip right next to the bubble with his arms out ... Now wouldnt that have been a blooper to see on film ... he does the experiment and knocks the bubble all over at the end and the whole thing powers down ... safety first ... i wish i was him ...

[jebus6kryst]

That was so cool!

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Well said... These videos are so dam cool... I'm gonna collect them in a playlist me thinks...

[lazyperfectionist1]

What would look really cool would be if the water bubble in this case were injected with food coloring.

[coil311]

Thanks for the great video!

[soma115]

do some more! do some more!

[odin92681]

Look at all those laptops... I wonder if they have an xbox360 on board ! ! !

[DyfnalltDH]

did he bang his head at the end? lolol

[normskis69]

That guy was cool

[danben72]

Science is really fun! Money well spend but make it more accessible for young kids in school please!

[amandarandom89]

hehe, you can work for ESA for years and years and still not lose the Dutch accent ;)

Nice experiment though.

[barakuda1111]

that was great. I enjoyed it. Hope to see more :)

[bushputz]

Now just how cool would it be to wake up in the morning, float out of bed, look out the window and see the Earth far below?

I can't believe people get paid to do this - I would give up a year's salary and my left nut to be up there for a day...

[Transcentity]

What I wouldn't do to be up in space one day :)

Great demonstration

[OriMeissa]

Good video Dr De Winne. Thanks BoS!

[TimCubUAkbar]

Science is awesome. Science in space is awesomer. Best0fScience is the awesomest.

[devil238]

Looks at this obviously evil scientist, trying to disprove God! Damn happy evil scientist D<

Only kidding of course, laughed out loud when he hit his head on taht bar though.

[AcanLord]

science for the win

[Swidhelm]

That substance to start with that you refer to I'm assuming, is organic molecules, like protiens? If so, there have been many experiments that show how organic molecules can form out of inorganic molecules. That is the bases of life as we know it. But we do not know how life itself started.

[teru382]

No living things can be created without any living tissues.

How life started?

The Earth is definitely not a "ROCK".

NASA is only an observatory of the Earth to those who know the TRUTH.

Teru Wong

[TheArarr]

Sterilized beach sand placed in a hermetically sealed container can generate life when certain wave frequencies are beamed at it using unharmful lasers

[mattie690]

Expand please....

[rgzdev]

WTF I don't think abiogenesis can work in such limited conditions.

[TheArarr]

You dont think, but you also dont know. Please do some research then get back to me. You could say it is basic science (not mainstream, mind you). Or you could say it's god. But it works, and it has been proven and tested time and time again.

[beriukay]

Please divulge type of wave and exact frequency so that science can test it and absorb it into the stream of main.

[HeliosStation]

Cite your sources, please. Research papers, etc. You say it has been proven and tested time and time again, so you shouldn't have any trouble providing relevant source material. A quick Google on your terms (beach sand, hermetically sealed, lasers) didn't turn up anything obvious.

Considering the implications of such a find, it would be hailed as one of the greatest discoveries of human history, if it were actually true.

[TheArarr]

Again, as many have requested, i will be providing research papers once i can get them in a proper format.

The problem with many 'great finds' is that the richest people in the world buy the patents, ideas, intellectual properties etc, and destroy them.

Like what happened to Nikola Tesla's Free Energy, and the Electric Car. Its sad to say that the rich will stay rich at our expense.

[brianblackberry]

I challenge you to show evidence of that experiment. Surely there are research papers on it somewhere, unless you know, its complete bull.

[TheArarr]

Thats a good challenge my friend!

I dont much mind if you think its bull.. I'll be finding those papers for you though!

[Swidhelm]

So no life can be created without life? Life has always been hear? No beginning? To what truth do you refer? You are right, earth isn't a rock. It is comprised of many kinds of rock, comprised of many kinds of minerals and other elements, chemically rich which has allowed life to take hold. The earth itself is not a life form.

[RasAhmose]

@Swidhelm Actually it is.

[teru382]

Life in Space. Kinda funny, scientists. Don't you understand? The universe is a living entity holding living tissues (i.e. the Earth - planets). You look around, but you failed to find any symptoms of lives because the universe is too large. The natural mechanism (rules of lives) include "Birth (reproduction)", "Growth (evolution) and "Death (total extinction as every one of us do)". A living entity holding all these stuffs, and they are conscious because of "physical existence".

Teru Wong

[phosoxrad]

well teru wong, you don't seem to understand basic science. stop spewing your nonsense and get an education instead. your grammar is terrible.

[teru382]

What are you thinking of? I am asking you about the time. Scientists, now you know that planets are living objects. Life cycle is a natural process cannot be broken. Ironic, factual, natural. From when, science needs "terms" to define. Do you believe that lives are creation by mysterious power? Creations are by birth. Everything as natural as any of us. Lives is the only principle in our universe. I know why you have this "funny" experiment on YouTube, but scientists cannot ignore me any more.

[teru382]

You mentioned water. Water can be created through substances. You found "dark matter/ substances" up there. What do you think? Can you convert "dark" energy into necesscities for our lives?

I'm Teru Wong from Hong Kong, CHINA. And I'm responsible for every single words on web.

"Space migration WILL NEVER work since LIVE are lives in different levels." You cannot save a planet which already "Dead". Natural process of lives are RULES that cannot be violated.

Anyway, you have a funny tour.

[teru382]

Kinda funny, dude. You know one thing? Death is a process cannot be reversed. Like ones cannot turn the clock back. Organisms on a planet "belongs" to the planet itself. Space station like a coffin in laboratory (or it is a laboratory itself). Exchanges of substance can work through science. Such a process carried out in your "body" naturally. Space migration is an imagination. How to substain gernations of human up there even you have 'sexual desires" on space. Or you make babies in tubes. Teru

[Deioth]

Bbyyyyyeeeee.... *THUNK* XD

[Eric3575]

Man i want to go to space so badly! XD

[sirnicholson]

i guess we cant blame the astronauts.

[oggleman]

science is fun everywhere!

[SuperFlyNB]

Going to teach that one to my daughter. Thanks

[jfosterdyess]

Damn it! I was hoping to see him drink the water ball.

[erixmix]

haha, same here

[christo930]

Damn it!! I want the space colonies I was promised! Why can't I be working on the moon right now? We have been promised this stuff for decades. I want my moon apartment, damn it.

That was neat, but I was waiting for him to end the experiment by drinking the bubble.

Did anyone else notice how the bubble was acting as a lens and distorting what was behind it? The effect was great, it was like a perfectly clear lens.

[theeyeisblind]

lo, no mac's in space, hopefully thats noy XP haha!!!

[pe3er]

Love it.. i just have a question how does sex feel like in space where we dont weight anything?

[TheFartoholic]

hmmm... that'd be so cool

[pe3er]

i think that i why dispirit the risk of meteorite rain that people what to live on the moon..

[Eric3575]

lol i don't think they have sex in space......yet

[chopin65]

I wonder how long the astronauts are up there on average.

[andrewmanford]

i think it's sometimes even months...pretty cool

[Cronites]

For station crew members it is typically 6 months.

Short 1-2 week trips for assembly and supply missions from the Space Shuttle are frequent.

[Rakly3]

Ik moet je wel over een ding gelijk geven, en dat is dat het in zijn situatie belangrijker is om te weten waarover je praat dan accentloos te praten.

[DaDaWgLLS]

Looks like so much fun!

[Rakly3]

I share my nationality with the guy in the vid (who just became capt. of the ISS) and i'm ashamed for is bad English and heavy accent. We don't all sound like that! :)

[anglaismoyen]

Is bad English?

;)

[Rakly3]

* 'His bad english". I missed 1 key while typing :)

I actually even was aware of the typo before you posted your message. But at the same time I didn't want to remove my message so it wouldn't seem like I was avoiding "AcceptNoBullshit's" reply.

[anglaismoyen]

I was only messing. I winked ;) It just seemed ironic, 'tis all.

[isylvan]

Most awesome job on the planet. No, wait!

[folypers]

haha nice one!

[thepigofhappiness]

I wonder whether the food and water that floats through the cabin prior to reaching their mouth continued to float in their mouths... does anyone know whether it makes eating and drinking difficult? just a thought i had

[vincenmt]

are those laptops running xp

[tehinfidel]

Science is fun anywhere! But, very likely more fun on orbit. :-)

[szlamx]

And my hard earned tax money goes to finance THIS?!? :(

[jwil2570]

@ szlamx,

The national budget for 2007 totals about $2.784 trillion. At $16.143 billion, spending on NASA accounts for 0.58% of this.

For every $1 the federal government spends on NASA, it spends $98 on social programs.

The notion that we should solve our problems on Earth before we go into space is revealed as a blatant non sequitur.

The Russian Federal Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and NASA, are all involved.

[szlamx]

@jwil2570

You are missing the point here. It is not the percentage that is the problem, but the mere fact that the money just comes flying their way without any guarantee of success on part of NASA. We cannot verify that science results are valid (chow can we), but the mere fact that they have been unable to produce any new space access technology for the past decade speaks for itself. Let private companies build space shuttles or whatever and give NASA some money to buy the ticket.

[MasterHypnose]

@jwil2570

- what needs to be done, is a 'UN' type thing except for space...

or rather, all countries that want a say in global space program can contribute funding...

So that instead of seperate space programs, the whole world can work on one big one.

[jwil2570]

Also @ szlamx,

Those that know the actual numbers are just as angry about the money NASA receives. However, it's due to lack of. I would double the funding if given the power.

[szlamx]

And you would also double the bloat. Haven't you heard it? One government employee creates another government employee in 1.5 years.

[jwil2570]

@szlamx,

With the shuttle days coming to an end, NASA expects it's number of employees to go down 80 percent by 2011. This drastic cut in mental resource, will put NASA down to roughly 2,300 employees at Cape Canaveral.

The federal government employs roughly 2.8 million individuals. About 2% of the entire U.S. workforce.

The percentage of government employees to remain at NASA is <0.00083%.

CITI bank and GM are private industries. Oh wait. . . .

[TheDocnsane]

@szlamx Better than army, or not?

[Cellsplitter]

the water tap experiment work with a fine toothed comb aswell. ^^

[Paxmax]

there is no end to all fun you can have in micro gravity!

[cmbears17]

that is so cool, i wonder what it would be like to have sex in space, and i am sure i am not the only guy to think that ;)

[Candros89]

@cmbears17 of course... you are not the only one xD

it must be great.

they could make a science experiment: 3 girls and 3 men in the same space station for 6 month and see how fun science is...

i hope they don't think about sending monkeys for that one xD

[DanRossBarrett]

@cmbears17 Messy!

[MulleMeckMusic]

@cmbears17 The Mile High Club ?

[AustralianPyro]

@cmbears17

.... the astronomical unit high club, perhaps?

[cmbears17]

@AustralianPyro I want to join the astronomical unit high club ;)

[IzmirMr]

@cmbears17 sex is haram for muslim i hate sex dont say that word

[HeartStrikerz]

@cmbears17 I made a joke about that today :D

[cmbears17]

@HeartStrikerz awesome :D

[SpicyHam]

nice, i wanna be in space

[srh1502]

antigravity win :D

[darkdestiny0002]

ZOMFG AWESOME!

[greatwood]

lol he hit his head at the end, good job space dude =P

[Slyfox38]

Very interesting

[DanJC989]

look how low is muscle mass is. I wonder whether he is just small or if thats wasting from lack of use.

[niiidar]

It's because the muscles gets almost no excercise in space. They are not needed to stay upright.

[DanJC989]

Yeah I know, i just said that, but, for all we know, he might just be a tiny guy and only been on ISS for 2 weeks lol

[Willy105]

The simplest things become awesome in space.

[dalkordigo]

Yea. Maybe next time they'll make a freefloat campfire. ;)

[HomoCyborgZombie]

That's just amazing!

I'd like to see food colouring go into the water bubble too :D

[DeletedDelusion]

Great stuff.

[defect530]

im jealous =(

[rippemies]

Cool as a really cool thing. Like space.

[RustyCyler]

That was neat :)

[NathanWubs]

I did not know this, thanks for the video.

[JustaEropeanGuy]

SOOOOOO AWESOME!

[baklapharm]

good