RC maestro Joe Smith was just 17 when he put on this extraordinary gravity-taunting, ground-skimming display in Ohio last summer.
His insane skillz. let him show you them.
Tag Archives: gravity
ISS astronaut Don Pettit demostrates zero gravity yo-yo tricks he’s been working on during downtime in orbit. He gets to name the tricks ‘because I’m in space and I can’.
Fair enough, Don.
As the slow motion sequences in this Veritaserum video show, when a fully extended slinky suspended from above is dropped, the bottom coils hang motionless in the air – seemingly defying gravity – until the rest of the falling Slinky catches up.
(a) Is this the work of Beelzebub and his horny minions?
(b) Are the top and bottom of the Slinky accelerating towards its center of mass as the center of mass accelerates downward?
(c) Are you hearing this song in your head right now?
THE SCIENCE: Modeling a falling Slinky (Wired)
Up on the International Space Station, astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates the weird behaviour of antibubbles (droplets of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas – the opposite of ordinary gas bubbles).
Part of his ongoing series of physics experiments in collaboration with Physics Central.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yVhTyPaaLQ
Here’s Toronto based artist Amy Shackleton – at 800x speed – doing what she does best: spinning canvasses, painting – not with brushes – but with squeeze bottles and gravity. This diptych is called “Terraced City.”
