I still wanna know what fire looks like in zero gravity.

Not until now....

Jank
in fact, it's simulated low-gravity.

It's free-fall. "zero-gravity" and "low-gravity" imply that the effects of gravity cease.

Okay, for you language-nitpickers: "Freely falling" is equivalent to being in an "inertial frame," except for the presence of tidal forces. For sufficently small objects, like this balloon, tidal forces are negligable. So "zero gravity" is a fine thing to say.

Now go outside and play.

I need to lay off of the internet. I read that as "pooping a water balloon".

My tax dollars at work?

Wondering about sex in zero-G, would it be easy or not?

You can get a grant for *anything*.

this guy would be proud..



beakman rules!

I pooped a hammer.

Jank: In fact, it's simulated low-gravity.

It's real microgravity (which is generated from everything falling in the same direction at the same time, so there's no relative velocity) but only of a limited duration (around 30 seconds). This isn't the "vomit comet", either. The KC-135 was retired. This is a DC-9.

DayBreakBoys17: I still wanna know what fire looks like in zero gravity.

Glad you asked. Flame research in space has been done as recently as January '03 - the final space shuttle mission planned for science work.

A Flameball Named Kelly

Space shuttle based microgravity smoldering combustion experiments

Basically, they look like blue spheres.

When do we see the zero gravity porn?

DayBreakBoys17 I still wanna know what fire looks like in zero gravity.

So did I, until I learned how stuff works (pops). NASA did a test on this a few years back (after they were done curing cancer). I'm sure somebody else here can find it.

Now what we need to do is see what a balloon filled with gasoline looks like when "popped" with a match!

NASA is into water sports?

An ejaculation in zero-G would make the walls awfully messy if she doesn't like to swallow.

Coolest post today for sure!

Kudos submitter!

there is no such thing as zero gravity... VERY low, maybe, but as long as you have mass, you'll have gravity albeit a teeny tiny amount.

A few things to add:

The preferred term is reduced gravity, for the reason that relative acceleration levels aboard this aircraft are on the order of 0.02g. These transient relative accelerations are due to things like turbulence, pilot input as he/she traces out the parabolic flight path and airframe/engine vibration.

I know this because I have worked at NASA for the past few years and had the good fortune to fly on the KC-135 many times. A significant portion of my work has been analyzing the quality of the acceleration environment using accelerometer data and interpreting how this affects our data. It is not unusual to have parabolas which are of low quality (i.e. large amplitude oscillatory relative acceleration), although this almost always stays below 0.1g for the duration of the parabola. If anyone is interested, I can post a link to a conference paper that I co-authored on this very subject.

Additionally, 0.02g may sound large compared to microgravity (10^-6 g) but it is nearly imperceptible without accelerometers.

Finally, while this project is of dubious scientific value, most of the research done on this aircraft is much more worthwhile.

/It is called the "Vomit Comet" for a reason.

http://www.hfml.ru.nl/levitation-movies.html

Real levitation is so much cooler than 'reduced gravity'.

Ever wonder what popping a water balloon in zero-gravity looks like?


Only all the farking time!

Handsome Rob: If anyone is interested, I can post a link to a conference paper that I co-authored on this very subject.

Go ahead. WUSTL has access to gobs of online journals so link away.

Fortunately, I've had the chance to experience Zero gravity thanks to Continental airlines flying a commuter plane through a thunder storm.

Watching everyone's drinks snake their way up to the ceiling is something I'll never forget.

It would be sweet if they got the balloon water blob floating then got it to boil. I wonder what would happen.

...and how many hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars are being spent here so to idiots can play with water in near zero G?

Beakman and Bill Nye should team up with McGuyver and cure us some cancer.

farfigneugan: Beakman and Bill Nye should team up with McGuyver

holy crap... thats an amazing idea for a show

Splatto: ...and how many hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars are being spent here so to idiots can play with water in near zero G?

Slightly less than the expenditure for one medium sized US city for welfare, so the real idiots can sit around and do absolutely nothing.

Buran: Go ahead. WUSTL has access to gobs of online journals so link away.

Here it is (pdf).

Neat.

I sure wish it didn't cost 5 trillion dollars for that info.

YouPeopleAreCrazy

Splatto: ...and how many hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars are being spent here so to idiots can play with water in near zero G?

Slightly less than the expenditure for one medium sized US city for welfare, so the real idiots can sit around and do absolutely nothing.

sit around... doing nothing... and... get... paid...
Idiots? Nay, good sir. It's genius!

OMFG! It actually floats!
LMAO! I just pushed it into Bills face!
WTF! I can stick a straw in it and drink it!

Is my paycheck ready?... Over.

I don't know why, but I am glad that I am not the only one who thought of porn while watching that.

Man, I thought this would be the ONE thread where nobody complained.

I will never underestimate the negative power of fark again.

I work for NASA.

I actually contribute 30k per year to the cause.

/Weird, they keep asking for more
//More weird, they spend it blowing up water balloons.

Pooin' or peein' could be interesting. Especially if you've got the chorro.

Ok men...

DROP YOUR CHUTES!

(obscure, except to me :)
(cue Ride of the Valkyries music)

im gonna go back in time and invent a time machine and go kick Handsome Rob's butt like i did to those kids in middle school...then travel forward in time and ask if he wants his meal supersized like i probably will be doing in the future

farfigneugan

Do I know you?