Water Spheres in Space

[lukep]

Some of the young'uns on here will have seen this shit in their science classes at school, but having graduated high school in the late '80s I totally missed the boat on this one... Very cool shit done with Water spheres on the ISS:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHLwla2WiI]Waves in a Large Free Sphere of Water - YouTube[/ame]

 

[jonas33h]

definitely definitely cool, yeah, that was definitely cool

 

[wayn3]

Thats awesome.

Other things you might find cool:

Water Drop on carbon nanotubes:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MFrM-ubvA]Water Droplet Bouncing on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array - YouTube[/ame]

Non Newtonian Fluids:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU]Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker Cone - YouTube[/ame]

Superfluid Helium:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmvlIdNXxjM&feature=related]Superfluid helium - YouTube[/ame]

You can probably find a cooler video for that.

Ferrofluids:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvar-4M6VA]Synchronized Ferrofluid Sculptures - YouTube[/ame]