I seem to have fallen down one of those internet rabbit holes that periodically appear. I have no idea what chain of links I followed that took me to this video of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield making a peanut butter sandwich in space (I know I did arrive via his in-space performance of Bowie’s Space Oddity, which is also fascinating), but it’s absolutely fascinating. Quite aside from the fact that watching someone just floating around in zero gravity never gets old, it’s the cool stuff which is obvious if you think about it, like the way you can’t just put food down and expect it to stay there. I thought at first that all the spinning of objects in mid-air was showing off, but on reflection, it’s a practical way of using their momentum to keep them in basically the same place…
(and then, of course, you have the honey with velcro on the lid so that you don’t *have* to keep it spinning constantly.)
Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Maybe you will, too.
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