Chris Hadfield and some incredibly floating Canadian space food

In this Let's Talk Science event with students from Airdrie, Alberta, Chris Hadfield describes how a person's sense of taste changes in weightlessness. He then shares a collection of Canadian food brought to the Station on board SpaceX's Dragon. Maple syrup in a tube, anyone? Credit: CSA/NASA

For more info on eating in space: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronau...

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[Arcane Arrow]

You got that from Vsauce, lol.

[chasecolin22]

its gonna suck when he gets home from space and he keeps dropping things in midair

[karatekid22]

It's also possible that they have a basic knowledge of how gravity works in space and on the International Space Station.

[MrMooseheadbeer]

It costs 10,000$ per pound to fly something into space.

... just saying.

[ublade82]

A giraffe's blood pressure is so high (in order to pump oxygenated blood all the way to its head) that if it didn't have a regulation system for its blood pressure, the vessels in its head would explode if it bent over to drink some water. If you do a HANDSTAND you will feel easily the blood in your head.

[Luc Flidru]

It is. Floating objects is concept so surreal our mind refuses to accept it. That makes it more awesome.

[Amanboy123]

I have a question about that body fights gravity.

When i am not standing gravity doesnt affect my blood. When I am lying my body doesnt squeeze blood in my head... or does it?

Why then in space?

[Stamkos60]

No timbits? at least send a timbit up.

[Maude Humanly]

I like how the zero gravity holds the micro for him

[Jo Tant]

He should bring mad weights there and bench like 1000 lbs

[RMoribayashi]

This was his third time in space so yeah, he was a pro by then. But humans adapt quickly. You get used to things staying close to where you put them, and expect things to float away from the air flow and the residual drift when you let go of something casually. After watching astronauts/cosmonauts in the shuttle, MIR and the ISS over the years, I would give anything to spend a few months in space. Who wouldn't?

[Darkrift666]

how long has that dude been in space? look at him space juggling that food like a pro, give someone else a turn lol