This seems like an inefficient way of landing considering how much it costs to take shit into space. I guess if you're going to the moon or an asteroid where there is no atmosphere it's the only way, but not for rockets putting things in earth orbit or space station resupply.

>> ^chingalera:

>> ^Quboid:
This is exactly why the internet is such a wonderful thing. How else would we ever get to see things like this?

Public Swimming pool
In your bathtub with goggles
International Space Station
A friend's fish tank
In you mate's Guinness when they're not looking
Lot's of places to see eggies in agua mon~


Yeah, but I'm not going to do any of these. I'd never in a million years even think about this, never mind do any tests. Yet here I am, a few clicks and I've seen it all.

>> ^Quboid:

This is exactly why the internet is such a wonderful thing. How else would we ever get to see things like this?


Public Swimming pool
In your bathtub with goggles
International Space Station
A friend's fish tank
In you mate's Guinness when they're not looking

Lot's of places to see eggies in agua mon~

>> ^shagen454:

that's not a pot hole that's a an inverted speed bump!


That's no pothole, it's a space station!

>> ^critical_d:

Odd how the scientific community seems to have more enthusiasm for exploring the oceans of Titan than our own. I read somewhere that the technological aspects of a dive like Cameron performed are as complex as a moon landing. I guess the thinking was that if something went wrong seven miles below then you are just as screwed as if you were in the Frau Mora Highlands. If the ultimate goal is to setup a colony on Mars or our own Moon, then we should practice in our own backyard first.


Not to mention his submersible has to hold back 1100 atmospheres of force, and out in orbit, the space station only has to hold in 1 atmosphere of force.

And a wire-frame space station? How about some asteroids for good measure?
>> ^Zawash:

Recovery thingy deploys @3:26, and breaks off @5:00.
Needs more Blue Danube.

For the love of god! It's 9.8 m/s^2. SQUARED!!! Do you understand what that means!!?!? For us to *feel* the gravity of Earth WITH Einstein's (or Newton's) gravitational effects it must ACCELERATE up continually per second, per second... This would not only mean that another force is responsible for Earth's movement, but since very soon after we started having gravity we would have to increase to light-speed or we stop feeling that "gravity" effect (our inertia is "caught up" if you will and we will be floating). It would mean that that force pushing us is the most powerful force in the Universe and we can't detect it even though it's strapped to our backs.

Don't get this confused with other ways to create gravitational effects or acceleration fields at 9.8 m/s^2, like centrifugal force (rotating space stations) or gravity...

"I'm Don Pettit and I'm on the international space station... ARE YOU??"

>> ^deathcow:

>awwww christ this is bad.
dude that solid 80s rock groove at 1 minute in could destroy a giant space station


Made of tinsel.

>awwww christ this is bad.

dude that solid 80s rock groove at 1 minute in could destroy a giant space station

Absolutely stunning, but you know what would be really cool? If we could have live 24/7 High Definition video streaming from the International Space Station.

http://videosift.com/video/Urthecast-Video-24-7-HD-video-live-from-the-Space-Station

Thanks!!
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This is magnificent. *promote

>> ^MrMark4000:

That's no wolf, it's a space station!


IT'S A TRAP!

That's no wolf, it's a space station!

If only i had a rag tag group of insane super humans to teach me to sing like that.
I guess living 400 years in the future on a space station orbiting an alien planet as a genetically enhanced beautiful woman with a great singing voice would help as well.