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Water-Only Thin Films In Space

Posted by timothy on from the renaissance-man dept.

If you've ever waved a bubble wand (or mixed some of your own with detergent, glycerine and water), you might be surprized to find that in space, it's much less complicated to form a film of liquid: all you need is water. The embedded videos are nifty, and render nicely in Mozilla.

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  1. Already been posted in Feb 03 by mTor · · Score: 4, Informative
    Check the following link: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/2 6/1328254&mode=nested&tid=134

    There is some really interesting links in the comments.

  2. Re:Not surprised by SoCalChris · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm astonished that this is the sort of thing trained astronauts are doing out there on their expensive vacations.

    If you had read the article, you would have known that this wasn't one of NASA's experiments. He did this in his free time on a Saturday morning, all on his own.

  3. One word by tsa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dupe

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