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The Zero G Coffee Cup

Posted October 19, 2010 4:43 PM

From Space.com:

Astronaut Don Pettit invents a zero gravity cup to drink coffee, and anything else, in weightlessness.

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10/19/2010 5:30 PM

Sort of a limited market for such a thing, I would guess.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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10/19/2010 8:10 PM

Maybe limited for now, but ...:

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10/19/2010 10:50 PM

Now that's an interesting demonstration of the properties of liquid in zero-g. Surface tension is more pronounced in the absence of gravity. Makes sense.

How cool to observe these phenomena first-hand! What a cool laboratory!

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10/19/2010 11:08 PM

another reason to drink coffee on earth.. thanks

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10/20/2010 8:33 AM

Now...... how to take a normal dump in space without a special class.
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