Building Objects With Water

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @01:28AM from the shaky-foundations dept.

kjeldor writes "According to this NASA article, an experiment conducted on water in space shows that a metal loop dipped into water can sustain a thin membrane of water (just like soap bubbles) in diameters up to 4 or 5 inches without breaking. This surface can be moved around, painted on, etc. without breaking. Apparently, with the absence of gravity's pull to break the intermolecular forces, water has the ability to hold together into a membrane in an unconventional manner. This may lead to some interesting future projects."

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Anyone remember polywater? by auferstehung · 2003-02-26 02:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

It is ironic that water in space exhibits properties similiar to what was speculated to derive from the delusional Soviet discovery of polywater in the late 60's. See here and here.

I wonder if there were any Russians scientists on board the ISS who said, "I told you so, comrade, I told you so."

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