By Chris Gayomali
The cramped micro - gravitative confines of the International Space Station are great if you ’re the form of person wholoves gamey foodor wantsa longer lifespan . But the ISS is also rich examination ground for all sorts of unknown and compelling experimentation . In the telecasting below , part of a alive tape recording for mellow schoolhouse students watching from Nova Scotia , Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrates what it ’s like to wrench out a soaking - crocked washcloth when the familiar dimension of soberness are removed from the equation .
You ca n’t just dip a towel in a sink or bucket to get it wet ; the weewee atom would just float up into the line . ( Think of the I.S.S. as in a never-ending state of loose fall — that ’s why everything fly around . ) So , after simultaneously hoodwink a water supply bag , washcloth , and mike , Hadfield exhibit the class what happens when he clenches his fingers and forcibly squeeze H2O out of a cloth . The outcome is hypnotizing .
" The water squeezes out of the cloth , then because of the airfoil tensity of the pee , it runs along the control surface of the cloth and up into my hand , " he tell . " It ’s almost as if you had Jell - O on your handwriting . "
Hadfield ’s towel - wringing experiment is just the previous program from the I.S.S. Previously , he showed us why shedding tears in extinct quad might not be such a dear theme after all :
golden for the the gang aboard the quad station , taking a sponge bathtub is just one of two showering selection : The other and avowedly more fun - sound method acting involvesusing a nozzle to spraythemselves before using a vacuum hose to suck all the piddle droplets off their bodies . ( ViaNPR )
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