NASA Vacuum Chamber: Exploding Marshmallow

This was a demonstration of what would happen to a marshmallow in the vacuum of space, and was done at an open house held at the NASA Glenn Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

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• vacuum
• marshmallow
• explosion

[DrLsw]

i wanted to go to that sunday :(

wat all else was there?

[Dnmonkeyman]

There were four main parts in the tour. The first was at the Engineering Building, where you could see vacuum demonstrations. The second part was at the B Control building, where you could watch the launch of Discovery live from a control room. The third part was at the B-2 Facility, where you could look down into the chamber that NASA tests rocket engines in. The fourth part of the tour was at the Space Power Facility, where you could visit the dome NASA uses to test spacebound hardware.

[Guyya93]

that didnt explode....

[lipton4]

When the marshmallows are placed in the bell jar and the vacum is turned on the vacum sucks all the air out from the bell jar, and the air pockets in the marshmallow expand making the marshmallow to expand twice or triple the size from its original size, once the vacum is turned off and air is released back into the bell jar the air pockets in the marshmallow pop leading the marshmallow to shrinked in size since the marshmallows have no more air pockets!

[Appleslizer6]

Geez

[tnguyen318]

"Vacuum" needs to be clearly defined. It's still lacking clarity and depth of meaning. 

[randomhottea]

this is your brain on drugs.

[DarkMew1337]

Is it just me or is that freak gro- never mind...

[Adramelk]

way too much background noise to hear what the dude was saying

[yoshie257]

that was epic

[gamerz654]

They should have vacums in shops and place the marshmellows in there so that when they put them in they look big and people buy them for more money.

[jhype86]

that was anticlimactic, imagine doing that all day for bored kids

[dragonkurt1]

Explode:

1. Get bigger

2. Blown up