Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round
October 27, 2017 11:26 AM   Subscribe

 
Is it casual Friday in ISS?
posted by Harpocrates at 11:48 AM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


Is there something you have to do to get a video to play in Instagram? I hit the > in the middle but the video doesn't play.
posted by octothorpe at 12:03 PM on October 27, 2017


I feel like that's cheeating.
posted by edheil at 12:12 PM on October 27, 2017


Neat-o! Here's a link to the same video (including accompanying music) on YouTube, if the Instagram option didn't work.
posted by stillmoving at 12:54 PM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


Whenever someone grabs the spinning spinner (at 0:15, 0:19, 0:27 and 0:31) the actual instant when angular momentum is transferred to the astronaut is edited out. Why? The jump makes it look fakey.
posted by Rash at 2:30 PM on October 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


Whenever someone grabs the spinning spinner (at 0:15, 0:19, 0:27 and 0:31) the actual instant when angular momentum is transferred to the astronaut is edited out. Why? The jump makes it look fakey.

I think it is fake. My husband (physicist) says the angular momentum would be much less than what appears to be the case with the subsequent astronaut spin. He says they would move almost imperceptibly slowly. So they are faking it. Which is sad.
posted by lollusc at 10:18 PM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


(Angular momentum is roughly proportional to the rotation rate, its mass, and how wide it is. Because a human is wider and much heavier, the momentum has to be a lot less when it is transferred. And mass is inertial mass, not gravitational mass, so the weightless environment is irrelevant.)
posted by lollusc at 10:20 PM on October 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


Oh, they were trying to make it seem like the fidget spinner was transferring angular momentum when it was grabbed? Didn't even realize they were trying to fake something; the guy who spun his colleague up is right there in the shot.

Also, what's with the awful UI? Can't change the volume? It's soooo looouuud! Had to lower my entire browser volume in the mixer. That's how you get tinnitus!
posted by I-Write-Essays at 8:43 AM on October 28, 2017


Oh, I enjoyed the hell out of this.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:37 AM on October 28, 2017


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