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In Space No One Can Hear You Fizz

This is an amazing video of an Alka-Seltzer added to a water drop in microgravity.

I just saw this video from 2003 of an experiment by Science Officer Don Pettit on NASA’s Expedition Six of the International Space Station (ISS). I am presuming that this was not the sole experiment for the mission, but the people at Alka-Seltzer must have been bubbling over with excitement.

I was waiting for a few seconds later to hear the commander ask “has anyone seen my Alka-Seltzer tablet?”

8 thoughts on “In Space No One Can Hear You Fizz”

  3. WoW! Jupiter anyone?

    +++++

    frankdawg: “I kept expecting the gas build up to overcome the surface tension of the water drop & ‘shatter’ it to bits…”

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    Early on little blobs of the mass were being expelled it appears.

  5. I kept expecting the gas build up to overcome the surface tension of the water drop & ‘shatter’ it to bits. Maybe if I had paid better attention in physics class I’d know why that didn’t happen. Spiffy video though, thanks prof.

  6. Oh wow. The side view made me think of God, slipping the elements of life(the tablet) into the bubble of (time and space). The side view starts at about the 2:20 mark.

    Colliding, collapsing, swallowing up little bubbles, reforming, creating a little universe. Swirling galaxies.

  7. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWeSXAXwQE&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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