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Fun Experiment: Astronaut Wrings out Washcloth in Space, Watch What Happens
HNGN ^ | Apr 18, 2013 | HNGN Staff Reporter

Posted on 03/10/2017 4:42:24 PM PST by Daffynition

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Commander Chris Hadfield, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, took on the challenge and recorded the experiment.

Watch the video below to see what happens when you wring out a wet washcloth in space: VIDEO

1 posted on 03/10/2017 4:42:24 PM PST by Daffynition
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If you have a kid, and they see this experiment, and don't want to become an astronaut, well, I don't know...


2 posted on 03/10/2017 4:43:48 PM PST by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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We are completely broke. I question any expenditure in space.


3 posted on 03/10/2017 4:46:29 PM PST by WENDLE (The CIA is bugging your TV to listen to you without a warrant.)
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To: Daffynition

I expected shorted out circuits and bad joo joo


4 posted on 03/10/2017 4:50:57 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Daffynition

I find myself worrying about what will happen when one of those errant water droplets gets into the electrical panels that surround him.


5 posted on 03/10/2017 4:52:00 PM PST by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: Daffynition

Probably the most worth-while thing to come out of the ISS endeavor.


6 posted on 03/10/2017 4:53:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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i wonder about toilet paper in space?


7 posted on 03/10/2017 4:53:31 PM PST by beebuster2000
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To: OldSmaj

Water and circuits generally aint good

Been there done that


8 posted on 03/10/2017 4:55:01 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Daffynition

Mission 004 Teen News Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFzepWiUwU


9 posted on 03/10/2017 4:56:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: beebuster2000

One of the early astronauts let a turd get loose LOL

Mayhem ensued LOL


10 posted on 03/10/2017 4:56:45 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

That was on Apollo 10. Funny story.


11 posted on 03/10/2017 5:06:33 PM PST by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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Hey, **** happens LOL


12 posted on 03/10/2017 5:07:46 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Daffynition

That’s cool.


13 posted on 03/10/2017 5:10:32 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Daffynition

Zero gravity


14 posted on 03/10/2017 5:11:22 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Surface tension... but we already knew it from much earlier missions where astronauts played with liquid globs.


15 posted on 03/10/2017 5:13:47 PM PST by piasa
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I am always shocked at how many submariners, fighter pilots race car drivers say they would never go into space.

Sign me the eff up!

My friend used to devise these experiments for the shuttle
She had it fun and used toys tat worked on physics


16 posted on 03/10/2017 5:14:45 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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Is that where the expression “picking up a turd by the clean end” came from?


17 posted on 03/10/2017 5:15:06 PM PST by piasa
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Damn Canadians wanted to play hockey.

They had to cut the sticks down to stow in the cargo space allotted

You aint lived till you had a Nantucket Sleigh ride on a sub doing angles and dangles shooting the passageway on a wool blanket LOL

They shut all that down when some bubblehead boomer fa**ot busted his noggin on the ships inertial navigation


18 posted on 03/10/2017 5:22:19 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: piasa

I do not know LOL


19 posted on 03/10/2017 5:22:58 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Daffynition

What do free, unrestrained boobs look like in space? That’s what i want to know.


20 posted on 03/10/2017 5:26:06 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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