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The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream
SpaceAdmiral writes "An experiment on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been analyzing your ice cream sundae. Or, rather, it looked at the phenomenon of 'shear thinning,' which explains why whipped cream comes out of the can like a liquid, but sits atop your sundae like a solid. The experiment actually involved shear thinning of xenon, a substance used in ion rocket engines, but whipped cream tastes better." I'm not sure it was cost effective to fly Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass into low earth orbit either, but hey, it's NASA — who am I to judge?
2 astronauts, 1 cup...
Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream - someone is showing their age. Me too I guess.
Oh sure... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/HA_WhippedCream.jpg
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Just because the effect can be seen in food doesn't mean it shouldn't be studied.
...with only a fraction of a percent of the national budget NASA is making groundbreaking (not being sarcastic) research; Imagine the leaps and bounds they would make with late 1960's percentages. I personally can't wait to see some of the applications of the research still being done at the fund-starved NASA.
> The experiment actually involved shear thinning of xenon, a substance used in ion rocket engines, but whipped cream tastes better.
let's stay objective and keep personal opinions out of this
........Bring you Neil Armstrong's Whipped Creamed Wives.
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Notice the poster's name. It's the usual NIMP / Lemonparty / multiple pop-up / dancing windows attack. It may spawn other programs or install malware, but I'm not running Windows so I can't tell.
Who noticed the summary is discussing Space shuttle columbia in the present tense? This seems pretty tactless
For those of you young 'uns missing it, the Herb Alpert reference is to the cover of the album Whipped Cream and Other Delights.
I personally prefer Clam Dip.
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so just because you suffer a reaction if you eat something, no-one else in the world is allowed to mention it? Who made you king of the internet
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> ...whipped cream comes out of the can...
That's "dessert topping" (it may also be a floor wax). Whipped cream does not come in a can.
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Why would there be almost no lactose in cream? There is still plenty of water in cream, which is what the lactose is dissolved in, up to 50% less than milk perhaps ... but 50% less doesn't equate to almost none IMO.
Unless you want to use sour cream in your ice cream I don't see how it could have almost no lactose.
Sweet!
Geeze, you must be new here... is this the first "you insensitive clod" joke you've seen?
If your "whipped cream" comes out of a can, that's your first mistake right there.
Everybody's a libertarian 'till their neighbour's becomes a crack house.
To properly study the physics of whipped cream in zero G, I need the Swedish woman's volleyball team as... assistants.
A taxpayer...
Orbis terrarum est non altus satis
...but due to a translation error, the Volleyball team was replaced by the Russian Womens weightlifting team.
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In today's world isn't being intolerant considered worse than being insensitive?
2. There were so many delays in getting that cover done, that the model got pregnant. No big deal had they simply gone and done the shoot. But by the time they took the picture she was well into her 5th or 6th month. The more you look at it, the more you'll notice it.
3. It's a fucking awesome record. For those born after 1970 or so, this is how you act like a middle class WASP of the 1960s:
Make some martinis, on a sunny sunday afternoon, turn on a golf game on the TV set, turn off the sound and stack up the Herb Alpert records on your Garrard or Dual turntable as you drink your martini. Talk about your broker, or what the neighbours have done to their backyard. Yell at the kids to get off the lawn.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Or you might want to consider that the actual analysis in the experiment wasn't done until the data reached the ground, and is still ongoing...
You want fun, go home and buy a monkey!
The real-cream ones are just fine - they're a bit lighter than the stuff I make at home with a pressure-can and whippets, and of course they're both lighter than the more traditional schlag my mom makes with a Mixmaster.
Cream from the grocery store can also be real or adulterated - if I go to Safeway, the ingredients in the "whipping cream" include the carageenan and various glycerides and maybe some preservatives, and the "fancier" "whipping cream" also has sweetener (I forget if it's sugar or (even worse) corn syrup) and probably vanillan. If I go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's, the ingredients in the "whipping cream" are "cream", and at most it's ultrapasteurized.
Bill Stewart
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If this experiment was on Columbia, why is the image called "Challenger_drive.jpg"?
Challenger was many years earlier...