August 5, 2019

Bagged Water in Space Has Weird Bubbling Behavior



I'll admit to being a sucker for just about any 'in space' video.

Here we see - and the space.com article explains - air bubbles not separating from the water surrounding them in a plastic bag 'in space'.

It looks impossible but makes absolute sense because it's not the IMFs that separate water from air on Earth's surface but rather the pull of gravity. Gravity pulls more strongly on the more dense water, so the water goes down and pulls together to 'push' the air upward.

No gravity, no pull...no buoyancy...no separation.

How cool is that?

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