Comments on: A light bending exercise… in space!

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:07:55 +0000

Someone please answer it: Why isn’t the water droplet perfectly spherical? Why did it elongate? It should form a surface with the least surface area, right?

By: It gets better ...

It gets better ... — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:30:20 +0000

The image is actually flipped twice more as you look at it – once by the lens of your eye, so that an upside-dowm version hits your optic nerve, then your brain flips it the right way up again. It’s why very small kids have difficulty reaching for stuff – their brains haven’t learnt to flip the image it receives yet.

By: Comment s’amuser en apesanteur ?

Comment s’amuser en apesanteur ? — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:14:07 +0000

[...] Il est amusant de suivre la vie de l’astronaute André Kuipers sur son flickr, surtout lors qu’il fait des expériences avec de l’eau. Vous ne serez pas étonné de voir le visage de l’astronaute à l’envers dans la bulle d’eau. Mais alors, pourquoi son visage est-il à l’endroit dans la bulle d’air ? La réponse est par ici. [...]

By: PEP ARMENGOL

PEP ARMENGOL — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:05:10 +0000

Nice article, but:

The spoon picture what shows is the lens effect of a round glass: inside the water the spoon looks larger but not bent.

The picture should be taken on a square receptacle or with the spoon just in the center.

Thanks for the bubble article.

By: Photo of a Bubble Inside A Drop of Water Aboard the International Space Station

Photo of a Bubble Inside A Drop of Water Aboard the International Space Station — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:42:22 +0000

[...] via Bad Astronomy [...]

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Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:32:00 +0000

[...] a full explanation, check out this blog post on Discover [...]

By: Image du jour : Des réfractions dans l’espace « La poubelle du WEB

Image du jour : Des réfractions dans l’espace « La poubelle du WEB — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:10:35 +0000

[...] Image du jour : Des réfractions dans l’espace août 3rd, 2012 @ 07:10 › Eboueur en chef var addthis_product = 'wpp-262'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}Photographie par André Kuipers. Plus d’infos (en anglais) sur ce site. [...]

By: Picture of the Day: Refractions in Space

Picture of the Day: Refractions in Space — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:30:44 +0000

[...] it, that is why we see the image flipped an additional time.For a full explanation, check out this blog post on Discover Magazine.André Kuipers is an ESA astronaut and the second Dutch person to ever fly in [...]

By: Starrtoons

Starrtoons — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:26:23 +0000

If I was in the astronomy business I’d be looking like crazy for a substance that can remain flexible, liquid (maybe that’s redundant), and transparent in vacuum — with the longterm goal of floating a giant blob of it somewhere out there in orbit.

It would be a lens of unparalleled flexibility, and you could just let it float there and monitor the tiny visible distortions created in its transmission of light, as cosmic radiation or other “space wind” deforms the blob.

Neat idea, eh?

By: Timothy from Boulder

Timothy from Boulder — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:54:33 +0000

@32 Meg. Click on the link in my post #25.