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2001 A Space Odyssey - Straw Drawback
The scene where the shuttle craft is heading to the Moon with Floyd aboard shows the crew opening the dinner food with straws to suck the fluid into the mouth. At that point the crew who is eating, draws back on the fluid and the fluid then falls back thru the straw into the container. I believe in space where there is no gravity, that fluid shold have stayed even in the straw and not fall back...
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Contributed By: Anonymous on 12-02-1999 and Reviewed By: Webmaster
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Hack Ace writes:
Not a slip-up. The containers would be sealed around the straw to prevent liquid from leaking out. As the package of liquid would be consumed a partial vacuum would be created as the food is sucked out. When the straw is released, the vacuum would draw the food back in. When I was a kid I we enjoyed doing something similar with our school milk cartons. We'd poke a small hole in the carton with a pencil JUST big enough to force our straw in. We'd then blow into the container to cause the milk to spray out when we stopped blowing. We would also suck on the straw until we couldn't draw any more milk out. When we'd stop sucking, the milk stuck in the straw would be drawn back into the container.
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Hatbert writes:
This was not a sli-up. IF you have not realized it yet MOVIES ARE NOT MADE IN SPACE. Of corse there was gravity because there is gravity on earth and they did not do the thing with the plane falling fast toward the ground because that is very complicated and can only have about 30 seconds for each shot.
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wentball writes:
No gravity in space? Not quite mabye low gravity on the moon. Mabye falling allows people and objects to float in space. But there is definetly gravity in space. How do you explain the earth orbiting the sun?
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sblac2 writes:
The sun has mass. Anything with mass has gravity. Space has no mass (therefore, no gravity). I do, however agree with the vacuum theory.
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Mars Guo writes:
Hatbert I don't think you understand the concept of this site. As for the guy with the Milk Cartons, Kudos! That was cool! ^_^
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Servo writes:
Actually, if you took science in 8th grade you'd know that there is gravity in space, just very little. That's why it's called micro-gravity.
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Tdemurray writes:
About gravity, straws, fluid, etc. Keep in mind that the shuttle is in orbit about the moon, not flying like a plane which requires lift to compensate for the pull of gravity. Since it is in orbit, all items, including the astronauts, would experience weightlessness. They are all falling together around the moon. Therefore, regardless of the issue with the fluid, the astronauts who were not seatbelted should exhibit weightlessness, ie., float around. This changes when the shuttle uses thrusters to break (inertia takes over) and as it experiences a control descent, the astronauts would feel the difference between the moon's pull and the descent vectors.
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RonJLow writes:
Aaagh! This is not about gravity. It's about acceleration. All the orbiting objects are in free fall. However, the container the straw is in could easily have a latent shape to which it reverts when suction is removed. The pressure in the cabin pushes the contents back down the straw. Didn't they shoot some of this film in a vomit-comet?
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isaac616 writes:
Give these people a break for God's sake!
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BuckyKatt writes:
Hatbert have you seen Apollo 13 I'll give you one guess as to how they filmed the space scenes. That's right they did film it in the airplane that goes up and down. I strongly agree with the other guy who said you have no understanding for what this site is for, and the milk carton trick sounds cool I'll have to try it sometime.
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Ro@cH writes:
Some basic remarks: mass=gravity. my pen attracts the sun. the sun attracts my pen. only the distance between them is so big,that it is countered by earth's gravity. cause my pen and earth are closer to each other. the space ship seen in 2001 was moving in space. probably not close enough to earth,or any other planet to let the food in the straw be pulled down by the gravity from that planet(the moon is no planet,it's a moon. yet it has gravity,this would not be strong enough to let the food in the straw drop so fast.) so,as a conclusion,the food was pulled in by the vacuum in the container. and yes,there is gravity in space. but there are also points in space that are in gravitational equilibrium. the gravities from different planets and other masses,influence an object,but when these forces all pull with a same strength and in an opposite direction,the result is 0.like two people pulling the ends of a rope,the planets pull an object(if that helps you imagine)
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[email protected] writes:
The shuttle is not in orbit around the moon. It's just flying (on rocket power, as there is no air, and no, you wouldn't see any flames with certain fuels) at several thousand feet over the surface. Just like when you're flying in a plane, the gravity would be the same, so on the moon, the liquid would fall slower, but it'd still slip back down the straw.
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