Water-Only Thin Films In Space 24
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.
Embedded Videos? (Score:1)
Too bad they're just animated GIFs, though.
Re:Embedded Videos? (Score:2)
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
Already been posted in Feb 03 (Score:4, Informative)
There is some really interesting links in the comments.
zero-g beaker (Score:1)
Can I buy one from Chemglass?
Re:zero-g beaker (Score:1)
http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/general_info/25fe
Re:Not surprised (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Not surprised - MOD PARENT DOWN, STOLEN COMMENT (Score:2)
Re:Not surprised - MOD PARENT DOWN, STOLEN COMMENT (Score:1)
It's True, You don't need soap! (Score:2)
I suppose, instead of disrupting class, I was engaging in scientific experimentation, at least to NASA standards.
Re:It's True, You don't need soap! (Score:3, Interesting)
The only reason a bubble will ever stay intact is if the surface tension is even, with all bubbles on earth that are liquid. No one start on me about glass
The reason bubbles pop is due to gravity pulling the liquid down, causing a collection at the bottom in the case of light bubbles. The air stays up, the liquid wants to go down. Since liquid is liquid (liquidity!) it collects at the bottom of the bubble. So you have 3 forces contending. Gr
One word (Score:3, Informative)
Goddamn hippy astronauts. (Score:1)
'One of his paintings looked like an eagle, others like abstract art.'
Blowing bubbles, painting pretty colors on 'em?
Sounds like the first case of extraplanetary drug smuggling to me.
bad grammar (Score:1)
Obviously, Mozilla itself does not render video. That is left to plugins. That is forgivable.
Videos, however, do not render. HTML is rendered.
Furthermore, HTML does not render. A browser renders HTML.
Proper usage would be, "The HTML is rendered in Mozilla...."
Re:bad grammar (Score:2)
Re:bad grammar (Score:1)
Original post:
Furthermore, HTML does not render. A browser renders HTML.
The original poster is using the verb render in an unaccusative [www.sfu.ca] construction, which is common in English. (For example, The door opened is the unaccusative counterpart to the passive form The door was opened.) I've used render this way myself and it's perfectly grammatical to me. Of course your lect [hartford.edu] may differ from mine.