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Saturday Morning Science:
Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity onboard the International Space Station.

(March 22, 2003) --- Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit performs a series of microgravity experiments with water spheres and effervescent antacid tablets. In the second of four videos, Pettit inserts a tablet into a 50-millimeter sphere and observes the fizzy results.

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  • @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.

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  • thats how god did it with a giant alka-seltzer

  • multiplying bacteria?

  • @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.

  • honestly, how cool is this!?

  • Blah blah blah make it fizz!

  • was that an Alka-Seltzer add placement? lol

  • it looks like an alien evolving

  • @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.

  • 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?

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

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