The Joys of water
Thanks to the ever enlightening nexus of webcrawlers that is Slashdot, I've come across some amazing videos.
Remember playing with water-balloons as a kid (or even an adult)? If you watch closely as it explodes you can make out a ball of water, which quickly breaks apart (hopefully because of collision with a friend).
Well, NASA scientists, in their ever love of finding excuses to study interesting things, have decided to reminisce of their childhoods and explore water balloons, this time in Zero G.
Links:
Water balloons in Free Fall:
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Video 2
Video 3
Water balloons in normal gravity:
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Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
I love the way that the water stays glooped together. Its very surreal. Kind of makes you imagine creating larger and larger balls of water. (Can you imagine a spherical swimming pool?) Final Fantasy fans will hopefully get the Blitzball Reference.
But what if you add more water? What would a real water world be like? Nothing but water? (No rocky core). Voyager touched on the idea in Thirty Days (pic). Naturally they missed the opportunity to explore a wonderful idea.
Anyway. Some fun food for thought :-)
posted by AnonymousCanine @ 7/23/2005 02:13:00 PM
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