Two high school students posed the question "what would happen if you wring out a wet waschcloth in space" and an astronaut aboard the International Space Station conducted the experiment which resulted in a rather beautiful moment in space.
The experiment, called "Wring It Out" was designed by two 10th-graders in Nova Scotia. Kendra Lamke and Meredith Hatfield won a contest sponsored by the Canada Space Agency to come up with an experiment for an astronaut to perform in micro-gravity.
According to the two students, they hypothesized that water from a wrung-out washcloth would not drip off but rather would remain on the cloth.
Commander Chris Hadfield, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, took on the challenge and recorded the experiment.
Watch the video below to see what happens when you wring out a wet washcloth in space:
And as you can see in the video above, the students were correct in assuming the water would remain on the cloth. The water does squeeze out of the cloth, but surface tension causes it to make a kind of water bubble that encircles the cloth and Hadfield's hands.
According to Hadfield, he describe the water as feeling like a gel or Jell-O.
wringing a washcloth in space
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That's funny, I just watched this video over on Kelli Taylors (Messy Mondays) blog, and I log on here and Bookworm has posted the same video 
It's a very cool video.
It's a very cool video.
After I watched it I checked out the channel, they have a lot of cool videos!
The government has invested a ton of money in space and this is what they're doing. Sweet.
what does this even mean. >_<Hadassah wrote:The government has invested a ton of money in space and this is what they're doing. Sweet.
Fallacy of false continuum. // bookworm
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It just reminded me of a discussion we were having about space in my science and technology policy class. I feel like space has just cost a lot more than it has given back to society, but governments continue to invest in it.Jelly wrote:what does this even mean. >_<Hadassah wrote:The government has invested a ton of money in space and this is what they're doing. Sweet.
The sweet is because it was cool it was like jello.
I thought this was very interesting. 
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I thought it was cool 
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