Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber
NASA's space power facility is used to test the conditions of space while still on Earth by sucking many many tons of air out of the whole facility. Remember that feather-and-bowling ball trick from middle school? It actually works here.
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2. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago
#1. This experiment works better with two 'different' objects.
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6. BrahmaBull commented 9 years ago
Not who i thought it would be
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7. gpullen commented 9 years ago
Here's the full episode: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0276q28/human-universe-4-a-place-in-space-and-time
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+16 1. sux2bu commented 9 years ago
one makes the bigger splat.