No insects like bees, ants, etc.?

Ants: https://videosift.com/video/Ants-In-Space-Work-Hard-To-Move-In-Microgravity and more in my http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/read/read.html.

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As I was watching this, the footage started to look familiar... it's a re-cut version of @Zifnab's post with new commentary.

I personally think the new commentary is enough to save it from being a dupe.

LEA EXPERIENCING MICROGRAVITY has been added as a related post - related requested by Payback on that post.

There was an exercise wheel for humans on Skylab, too. But it worked a little differently in a microgravity environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_p7LiyOUx0&t=23

Gravity still exists, and exerts exactly the same force on you independent of whether you are standing on solid ground or falling, and whether you are falling inside an elevator or in empty space. The difference is the opposite force exerted on you by the ground vs no opposite force (except the tiny force exerted by air if you're freefalling in the open air). It is this opposite force you 'feel', while acceleration due to gravity without any opposing force feels like floating.
So a man in a free-falling elevator in an atmosphere WOULD feel a tiny bit of gravity, because the outside air would slow the elevator to less than terminal velocity, so it would slow down slightly, unlike the mans descent, making him fall/float to the floor of the elevator eventually and then feel a microgravity exactly equal to the force exerted by the air.

Thanks. Submitted (you should have done it!): http://videosift.com/video/Ants-In-Space-Work-Hard-To-Move-In-Microgravity

>> ^ant:
space
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>> ^ant:
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>> ^siftbot:

Adding video to channels (Spacy) - requested by ant.
See, kids? The task in front of you may seem insurmountable, but you're never beaten until you quit.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Please continue with the awesome science videos.
I love this stuff.


Too bad I am running out of ideas.. need to hit YT and browse..

>> ^Mcboinkens:
You realize that list had no content, right? It was a list of items with no details. Anything can add a new topic to it since you don't need any actual research. When's the last time you heard about a breakthrough because of the ISS? That was my point. I support the ISS, but to tear into a budget because it is "useless" can definitely be applied to NASA as well.
Reviewing the list, it pretty much just covered anything possible "under microgravity conditions". How practical is that? Are we really planning on going to other planets at the moment? We can't even go back to the moon, and that's what my whole point was. Shift funds to what is the most useful. I would much rather have an upgraded Hubble or even new version of the hubble. Studying how viruses work in space isn't particularly useful when we have no reason to be in space to begin with, and so on.
EDIT: so that it doesn't seem like I am talking out of my butt, take a look at one of their "accomplishment" powerpoints: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168741main_AIAA_2007_ISSProgress.pdf
It's pretty easy to see that it's mostly fluff, and I realize that its an old document, but it was the top result and I was lazy. It talks a lot about what they WANT to do, or what they did, but nothing really came of it.

WTF are you talking about a list with no content? Did you even read ANY of the 720 reference linked in the wiki? And do you realize scientific discoveries take time? Oh you know, we're just running a lab IN SPACE. Let's give it a few years after it's finished assembling before we let our ridiculously shortsighted negativity take over, ok?

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Boiling point lowers as pressure decreases. So at sea level the boiling point of water is around about 100˚C, but at the top of Mount Everest it's more like 70˚C. There's no real value for the boiling point of water in a vacuum, because it would be a gas at any temperature.

Edit: Actually, you can get solid water at very cold temperatures in space, but as you heat it up the water would transition straight from solid to gas, so it has a sublimation point instead.

The microgravity experiment was probably done in a shuttle or the ISS, which are pressurised to about the same as sea level so that it's comfortable for the astronauts.

'"Hey, it's an important question to have answered "How do cats handle zero G?" Well, we now know the answer - poorly.'

I disagree - the cat was adapting much better than an unprepared human being would. Keep in mind that cats have instinctive reactions to position themselves when in freefall (which was probably why they tried it out). It only trips up when it gets caught in its own safety tether. If they'd been able to get the cat into orbit, I could easily see it figuring out how to move around competently - and with greater agility than a human being could manage.

Not that I'd want the job of catching the cat if it were loose in the ISS.

"There is no "Zero G" here, it is strictly a frefall."

There is no "zero g" anywhere. There is only freefall (AKA "microgravity").

That dog was falling to Earth as fast as if you'd have kicked him out of the plane. Lucky canine, how many do you know that get to experience 0g for that long? The dog seemed like he would adapt to the environment.

NASA has a couple of huge tall tubes they pull a vacuuum on and then drop things in to create microgravity environments for testing. 18 feet across and 330 feet tall vacuum jars! They get microgravity for 5 seconds.

Heh. Well... thanks for the link to the video. I hadn't seen it for some while. And it certainly is very visually captivating.

Here's a link with this and some other microgravity experiments performed by some NASA scientists:
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm