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Old Sep 7, 2004 | 10:17 PM
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Did you ever wonder...

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pop a water balloon in space?
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm
 
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Old Sep 7, 2004 | 10:50 PM
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That is some weird stuff... some day I'd like to go into space, just to feel what it's like with no apparent force of gravity acting on me (and feel it for longer than 25 seconds, like those guys in the planes).
 
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Old Sep 7, 2004 | 11:03 PM
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Your tax dollars at work.....
 
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 07:17 AM
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indeed tax dollars at work...i dont have a big problem with it at the moment but i would like to know why they have to know how to "develop the ability to rapidly deploy large liquid drops by rupturing an enclosing membrane."

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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 10:30 AM
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Ask Tim....
they've been in such a drought they'd like nothing else than for them to burst a few balloons over their area
 
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