How Does The Space Cup Work?
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It took 50 years for NASA to find this design as no engineers had seen anything like it.
True.
That explains why engineers have so few kids.
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"the Russians used a pencil". Like John Wick to kill 3 men, ha-ha.
It took one brilliant astronaut, Don Pettit, to design this, with some scavenged Mylar sheeting and Kapton tape, while in orbit.
This cup has me feeling astronaughty
HGAHAHAHA
why naughty, though??
That joke is astro not.
😂😂
@@sirkurac3971Why naught? 😂
I came straight to the comments and they didn’t disappoint
You came, you say?
“If we wanna drink” -hard cut to him absolutely GUZZLING water-
hydro homie
why does he drink with his tongue like that😂
lmao he slams it for no reason
@@maxxeddd That's how you treat a lady.
Hes got me over here blocking this channel, so I don't EVER accidently click on something like this again!
Not the cupsy
Cupussy?
Of course, of fucking course. 😂
nuh uh 💀💀💀
Never cook again
did you really have to?
0:25 - i thought you were about to say "and thanks to gravity for sponsoring this video" :D
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- Dad
Astronaut Don Pettit invented this while aboard the ISS using some Mylar sheeting and Kapton tape. On another flight he repurposed some "spare" parts and a cordless screwdriver to create a barn door tracker, a type of camera mount that can compensate for either the Earth's rotation on land, or a space craft's orbital velocity. Using this he was the first to capture sharp images of cities lit by their own artificial light at night from orbit.
Don Pettit is scheduled to return to the ISS in September for his fourth ISS mission.
cool
Thx!
He also wrote a funny blog from the perspective of a zucchini plant that he grew on the ISS called “Diary of a Space Zucchini” and a photo book of pictures he took from space called Spaceborn
According to his Wiki that cup was the first invention in space to receive a patent
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First thing I thought of before even watching was utilizing surface tension. It felt nice to feel smart for a minute for the first time in months. Now time to go back to my factory job.
Right there with ya bro, I had the same thought and I work at a cattle feed mill.
I’m retired military “knuckle dragger” helicopter mechanic, but I did help develop some NASA ideas when I would hang out with them while I borrowed their heat treating oven for my parts! I even helped brainstorm some ideas for toileting!
You were pretty Smart. Congratulations
Most solutions are obvious once you find a problem that needs a solution.
My second favorite part about education is already knowing the answer. My favorite is learning them.
I like the idea that an orbit is just falling and missing repeatedly. We should celebrate every 6 months that we fell to the other side of the sun without getting burned up.
We did celebrate it, its just we celebrated it when we more or less come back to where we started, its called new year🎉
@@raymondcahyadi3094 Or a birthday!
@@raymondcahyadi3094 and every 4 years we celebrate making multiple cycles without becoming too crispy, by adding a whole entire day to the calendar.
@@jerrylim6722 Well not *every* four years. 3 out of every 4 centuries we skip the leap for the last year of the century. (1900 wasn't a leap year, and 2100 won't be a leap year.) We just happen to live in that one out of every four centuries where there was no century skip of the leap year.
I would say, an orbit is just falling without the body you are orbiting around getting in your way. When you throw an object on the surface of the Earth, the object eventually intersects the Earth and prevents it from falling any further. If there was no atmosphere and you could throw the object fast enough, it would go around the Earth and hit you on the back at the same speed you threw it (Rest In Peace). Falling/Orbiting objects mostly just keep going around the body that it is falling towards, as opposed to heading towards the centre of the body. It's actually very difficult to get anything to fall straight into the Sun to get burned up, because you would need to slow the object down a lot before it can fall towards the Sun such that it intersects the surface of the Sun. This takes a lot of fuel.
As those space cups are defying gravity, they are planning a cosmic tea party without us.
We want a Cup of liber -tea
Now what would the flat earthers say about this?
@@manowand helldivers reference maybe?
in space, what gravity is there to defy?
@@thedeliveryboy1123 wait yeah you right
I love that at the beginning, the video unironically explains to you how to drink from a cup 😄
If you think about it, it's very hard to do.
You need to tilt the cup until it's too close to you nose, then tilt your head... while getting some liquid in your month, stop breathing, switch to your stomac, swallow, and start again.
There is a lot of thing that we do automatically without realizing how we do it.
Like walking, opening a door, drinking... Try making animations of thoses things, I'm sure you will have to do the movement at some point to "remember" how it's done.
@@pierrotA If you don't think about it, its very easy to do.
@@SafetyLucas Yes, it's the problem in space... You cannot rely on the genetic memory and the years of training.
Everything is hard and need to be learned again.
Obviously you do not remember, but for years you were unable to drink in a glass, walk, etc.
You learn how to drink from plastics cup with small inclined opening, like everyone else.
It's the meaning of my message: it *is* hard to drink from a cup, you just learn how to do it for years... And you do not know exactly how you do it, you just repeat what you learn from thoses years of training without thinking it.
For someone that learn very young how to cook, program, or whatever, it feel easy... Do not mean it is.
Teach a robot with a mouth and hands to do it.
And not a minute too soon, I was about to die of thirst!
The description of the ISS being in constant freefall reminded me of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; flying being the art (or rather, knack) of throwing oneself at the ground and missing. Basically, what the ISS is doing. 😂😂
My wife has a cup exactly like this one
LOL
Where do you think they got these from?
And you can do more than drink from it.
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"i think i have seen that shape somewhere 🤔" - little timmy
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I know that it looks funny, but it's honestly incredibile how sometimes the best solution to a problem is so "simple". Human ingenuity at its finest.
The stole the design from nature 🤣
2 astronauts 1 space cup
The water climbs up the crack 💀💀
Also a problem after drinking water in space
Crevice
Imagine having diarrhea in space.
Not me violating the cup every time I take a sip💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
At the start of the mission there is a disclaimer stating that every sip you take is consensual
Underrated joke right there
Thnx
I like that you find really thoughtful ways to demonstrate phenomena. Very creative.
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Whats the matter
"Only the remorse etched onto ones mind, can make one emerge from their pupa."
Special shape you say.
gotta love how everyone is thinking the same thing
That's one of the thing that's probably hardcoded in our genes.
There's something wrong with you if you're not thinking of it.
@@deadbeats4894 i guess theres something wrong with me...
@@deadbeats4894damn
@@deadbeats4894 took me a long time to discard such thoughts. twas worth it
Such a simple and elegant solution! Beautiful ❤️😍
I like the look of that cup very much.
Coincidentally.. I think that shape might be very useful for retrieving used liquids from certain body lines and crevices.
"we should be able to see the water climb up the crack " 😂😂😂 well..that cracked me up
Thats.. Just simply brilliant!
My guess before watching is that there's some clever trick involving surface tension, where the tendency of a liquid to minimize surface area is used to hold liquid in the cup in most orientations and to encourage it to flow out when tipped in the right way. Fluid mechanics has all sorts of cool stuff to it that most people never even think about!
Everything reminds me of her. 😢
LOL
Put her out of your mind, Frank.
It's okay little buddy
Its because he says crack isnt it
@@PetarKaserno its shape of the cup 😂
Water be tasting a little funky with this cup 😋
What impresses me is how they can toss the cup to each other, with a spin, and not have the liquid splash out. It's impressive what surface tension can do without gravity opposing it.
It amazes me how you always find something interesting to show
A little bit off topic here, but I love the Dr Pepper shirt!
Back on topic, that is really awesome to know about that cup and how it works.. I only knew kind of how it worked because I've been watching this channel for a very very long time and I truly enjoy the information I learned from it.
Thank you for taking the time to film, edit, and post these videos.
Back to the Dr. Pepper: Can they have carbonated drinks in space? I wonder what would happen if they tried to drink a Dr. Pepper?
I love science!
no u
@The Action Lab thanks for the information
When you dropped the cup, the water went up and out because of the inertia of the liquid, not because of capillary effect. Same reason water may spill out of a glass if move it sideways too fast.
If it was unaffected by capillary action, it would've flown out in a much larger surface area, like a normal cup dropping
The point was that it went out the pointy part, not the blobby part.
The water and the cup are accelerating at the same rate. If the drop doesn't impart any rotation, the water and cup would experience the exact same inertial reference. Try it with a regular cup it just falls together until it stops or changes direction.
The drop here isn't perfect so more water flows up than should have, however, it still illustrates the concept. As the other post said, it flows out of the pointy bit, and not the bloby but.
I'm calling her as we speak
2:58 That isn't orbit....it's just falling with style!!!
This a fun science channel, really digging it thx!
That’s why there should be spinning space stations. Bcos if they spin, and your not directly on the axis that it spins on, you feel gravity. Like in a carousel you feel sideways gravity
This is shown in a lot of sci fi movies. Yes, it would work. I think the limitation is just cost and complexity. It would need to be rather strong, structurally. I'm sure something like that will be built eventually.
Another problem I see with this (I may be wrong) in order to spin fast enough to make artificial gravity, you would have to spin the station extremely fast, which could cause motion sickness unless the station was really really big (again I know literally nothing about this, this is my educated guess on the subject)
@@Sup_Aqualine369No motion sickness, because you wouldn't feel "motion", you'd just feel gravity. As long as the station was big enough and you were far enough away from the spin axis.
Not plausible enough to even build it bruh
@@daphenomenalz4100 Why is it not plausible, "bruh"? My understanding is that it's totally plausible, just not pragmatic.
Amazing the solutions to impossible problems that can be found in mother nature.
Looks like a collaboration b/w distinguished gigolos, astronaut Vladimir Sukmeov, and Kunta Kuntlicker.. 👏 bravo!
This is so cool, had to see if there were versions of this available to the public and now I’m so sad there there used to be but now they no longer make the one designed for every day use
Always love your videos! Thanks for always providing such fun interesting content! :)
They should have used this shape in The Expanse series, since it is centered around space travel and is very accurate scientifically.
But lots of The Expanse has artificial gravity, through constant thrust.
@@Yggdrasil42 yep. Not always though. that is why the belters are very tall and cannot breath or even stand upright on Earth's surface. Gravity through thrust mostly, because it is better than artificial gravity through centrifugal force. In the latter case one got pronounced Coriolis which is very annoying as it makes the trajectories of thrown or dropped objects behave very unintuitively.
Such cups still would be useful, for instance, when the ship drifts or on small asteroids.
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Great demo!!!!! Very cool. thank you.
Amazing. Now I want to know more about that toilet.
The shape tells the truth even if they can't
It's one of those magical shapes, there's a reason we find it in nature, just like the Golden Ratio.
The ISS toilet costs $19 million on earth. I can’t imagine they have a store that selling them in space.
this toilet smells of corruption to me
@@eafadeev Idk but sure is pricey
well why dont they set up a walmart on the moon? save space on rockets to get supplies to wherever nasa needs
@@eafadeev no, it smells of shit
@@eafadeev It's obvious that the toilet doesn't cost $19 million. The research and development of this toilet does.
Thanks for telling us about the listening app. That seems like a great idea. Also I loved your video.
Astronaut inventor of this cup, Donald Pettit, is an Eagle Scout from Oregon. I recently taught my Cub Scout Den about him and this cup.
Why am i like this
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@@-aid4084 please explain im so fucking confused
@@whathefuckisthishandle you'll learn in due time, young one...
@@whathefuckisthishandle everyone knows it looks like a cl*tirous*
@@whathefuckisthishandle just woke up so my brain was asleep
1:12 Imagine a toilet that costs one-third the price of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lol
Imagine a toilet that costs more than : The Statue of liberty, 700 premium homes, and a Bugatti ......💀⚰️
fascinating! well done
Great invention! Pretty versatile as well...
This episode made me grateful I don't have to poop in zero-G
who clicked on the thumbnail just because of the cup?
I know i did 😏
1:23 FINALLY... I managed to see the ISS toilet 😂
... now it only remains to see the Crew Dragon toilet!
So cool, thank you!
He knows what we thinking😂
How do you fill the cup in space? If there's no gravity, you can't just pour liquid into it. Which pretty much brings you back to bags with straws.
At 0:26
Step 1: Push the beverage from bag.
Step 2: Move it around with table tennis racquet.
Step 3: Get it in the cup.
Step 4: Enjoy your zero G beverage.
:)
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Hey Action Lab... i was wondering.. lately i've been into the whole survival and bushcraft scene.. and as a person with a physics interest, i was wondering if you could shed some light on Mylar... its properties.. and how to use it properly.. i see many people who keep a spaceblanket in their packs... cars, etc.. and don't know how to use them right... many expect them to reflect heat back through their sleeping gear.. using them on the outside of their sleeping bags or under them... but doesnt' mylar reflect IR light...not radiant heat.. or does a warm blanket give off IR light... what would be the most effective way to utilize Mylar to stay warm... cheers... love the vids.. you cover some very interesting phenomenon ... loved the one you painted the car in the blackest black paint... Kudos
0:17 Who tf sticks their tounge out into the cup when they drink? 😂
The overengineered cupusy
before i watch the video, my guess is since there's no gravity to hold the water in the cup normally, this cup does surface tension shenanigans to keep water in, and uses adherence/coherence to help the water roll up the crack
You could demonstrate the effect without zero gravity by using two immiscible liquids of the same density for example oil and a water alcohol mixture. Submerse the cup containing the liquid with higher surface tension in the other liquid to get the same effect as zero gravity.
Internet has corrupted me😂.
How come?
I almost never forget that almost all of our water systems rely on gravity, that's a big part of why I so heavily advocate developing & using "spin gravity" for space missions.
CORRECTION:
I would avoid saying "no/zero gravity" in context of the ISS, as the ISS still feels 89% of Earth's gravity, and 89% of 9.81 is more than 0. The correct term to use is 0G, they are effectively feeling weightless because there is no atmosphere to slow their spacecraft so they move (fall around the earth) at the same speed it does. They are only weightless in the frame of refference of the ISS itself.
Not having gravity doesn't cause "no down or up." You can still have your usual head position assigned as the up location, making your usual feet location as the down one, especially if there's still a recognizable ceiling and floor arrangement.
[1:23] "$19 Million"
*I thought I was ready for the amount.* But was out by about 18 million bucks.
@@Josf-xz3hw "You are a millionaire?"
Hell no. And I don't get to outer space from my bathroom.
I figured NASA could easily spend a million bucks on a toilet. But 19 million?! How much would you have guessed a space toilet would cost?
@@Blackmark52 Because it's a unique toilet. NASA engineers have spent most likely months or years to develop this system. That's why it's so damn expensive. The price would drop sharply if this toilet were mass-produced.
@@huckleberryfinn6578 "The price would drop sharply if this toilet were mass-produced."
Ya think?
(But by the time you need a toilet for space travel your RV will probably cost a trillion in today's dollars -- so maybe not.)
@@Blackmark52 Imagine the implications if there were a clog.... an overflow.... a reversal of pressure.... a leak.... a crack.... a disconnect. You do NOT want that happening in Space. It's not like they can just roll the windows down and chuck all the mess outside. That would be very problematic. So yeah, it doesn't actually surprise me that $19 million was spent on toilet development. You know that our Defense Budget is $850 BILLION per year, right?
Surely not $19 million per toilet. I'm guessing the original toilet cost $19 million to design and build.
Either it wasn't made by NASA, and the licensing fees are ridiculous, or 19 million covers the r&d
The opening has a very "interesting" shape.
Great video as always!😂👍
I have to watch this later.
That shape looks familiar 😏
... Like a gravy boat 🫠
So now we can do bungee jumps and hydrate all at once! NOICE
Wasn't this developed alongside a special Italian espresso machine, so astronauts could drink fresh coffee in space? I seem to remember a mention of 3d printing new mugs to go with that.
I think the ISS is just meant for such ridiculous things. 😂😅
I’m just here for the cup comments
I have to ask because when drinking, one of the main forces that help drinking is atmospheric pressure. Gravity helps with the direction of the flow but not the ability to drink. Does that make sense?
HR Giger would love this cup😂 reminds me of his art😅
3:19 Gyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttt!!!!!!!!
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0:37 hot
3:09 is SOOO satisfying
We have all seen Chemist Tracy Caldwell on the Nasa channel a few years ago hosting with Don Pettit. The Space Cup is the Pettit cup. Named after astronaut Don Pettit who invented the cup. Tracy is best known gazing through the newly installed cupola.
Cuppusy
Looks like a hybrid of a cuo and a gravy boat
It is an intriguing classical shape
The best shape for surface tension :D
SO COOL!
I've was thinking about water holding mechanisms for zero G factory's. This cup is a great idea. I wonder how you can stop water loss from splashing in sudden immersion in a larger 1000 L volume of water
These are going to be all sci-fi from now on you’re going to be able to date what year this cup was invented and when writer star added it in their sci-fi very cool cup would’ve never thought of it but never going to forget it.
I was hoping for you to pull out some kind of gravity chamber.
fantastic video, very scientific and addressing a fundamental need those who are in orbit and in deep space (in future) 😇
Quick correction. The force of gravity doesn't drop to zero in freefall, it's the normal force which drops to zero. Free fall is defined as a state of acceleration in which the only notable force is weight (gravity).
What "normal force"?
@@johnsmithe4656like the ground pushing up on you
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What i love a straw! Space capri suns every day? Sign me up
Now I want to know where to get the STL for the space cup.
could you provide the STL for this cup? I want some spacecups to use on earth and have something to talk about when ppl come over lol