Posted on 03/10/2017 4:42:24 PM PST by Daffynition
Two high school students posed the question "what would happen if you wring out a wet waschcloth in space" and an astronaut aboard the International Space Station conducted the experiment which resulted in a rather beautiful moment in space.
The experiment, called "Wring It Out" was designed by two 10th-graders in Nova Scotia. Kendra Lamke and Meredith Hatfield won a contest sponsored by the Canada Space Agency to come up with an experiment for an astronaut to perform in micro-gravity.
According to the two students, they hypothesized that water from a wrung-out washcloth would not drip off but rather would remain on the cloth.
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Seriously, I wish I could go where no man has gone before, or few men, but they tell me I’m all used up now
May I make an exception?
My cousin who was a USAF pilot,Silver Star; 100 bombing missions over ‘Nam; wanted to join NASA astronaut program. He was brilliant. Selected to fly a super-secret aircraft from Florida to Cali, when it inexplicably exploded over the Gulf.
He had applied for astronaut school, and his accept notice, came in the mail, the day of his memorial service at Arlington.
So he, an exception, wanted very much to join NASA; he was a very daring sort, liked living on the edge.
Jes sayin’. He was one of a kind. :)
I believe the point of this article was that HS students were invited to submit to the Canada Space Agency to come up with an experiment for an astronaut to perform in micro-gravity.
The kids stated their hypothesis. The Canadian astronaut performed their experiment.
I think that is way cool. It has to have had a positive force in their careers as students.
Where would our civilization be without velcro and space ice cream, ArterioVision?
Didn’t you drink *Tang* as a kid, and think you were NASA material? :)
RIP, and noogies!
Seriously God Bless his service
Apparently these 2 sophomore girls are pretty sharp
Thank you. I wish I could go ...how much is a ticket?
OMG!!! TANG!! lets print more money!!
Thankfully he wasn’t just one of a kind.
The people who do this are a special breed
and we thank god for them and him.
Nothing really
Oh Man that is so funny. Bureaucrats doing “make work”
[You're no fun.]
It would have been more steamy if they has done it outside in the vacuum of space.
Water doesn’t conduct electricity
Impure water does. Pure distilled water, fine. Add a little salt from skin...
Had to go out last night...wasn't able to get back on your post until now.
Anyhoo...water must be deionized in order for it not to conduct electricity.
As in distilled...usually, although some reverse osmosis can also deionize.
He said, if I recall correctly, that he was going to put some drinking water on the cloth, and if it was water intended for human consumption under ISS circumstances, chances are it was not deionized...since it would taste like crap.
Well, not necessarily like crap, but it would be bland and probably not very enjoyable for the period of time it would have to consumed.
So, just the act of pouring it on the cloth and it having touch his bare skin would "contaminate" it to the point of making it conductable...for want of a better word.
I did notice (actually my g/son pointed it out) that there is a guy hovering in the background, out of sight, with a bigger towel, presumably to catch and soak up those errant drops.
I wouldn't expect a catastrophe, but it's something that could cause a problem...and one that I'm sure they looked into very closely before they did the experiment.
After all, what happens to those errant drops of sweat they sometimes work up while working in the ISS?
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