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Apr 17 2013
1:56 am

Astronaut’s video from the Space Station shows how shedding tears in zero gravity really DOES hurt

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield continued his series of fascinating videos detailing how much different ordinary life is in zero gravity with a new tutorial explaining what happens when you cry in space.

An Internet sensation, Hadfield’s stunning daily pictures of Earth from orbit regularly go viral online, as have his videos explaining everything from how to brush your teeth in zero gravity to nail clipping to washing your hands.

Hadfield posted his latest video after tweeting that crying in space hurt.’Your eyes make tears but they stick as a liquid ball,’ he wrote. ‘In fact, they sting a bit. So — space tears don’t shed.’

To illustrate what he meant, Hadfield got a bottle of water and turned on his camera.

‘I can’t cry on command, But I’m going to take some drinking water and put it in my eye as if I was crying and see what happens,’ Hadfield said as he introduced the new video.Hadfield then squirted some fluid into his eye, which stayed there just as he predicted.

‘You see it just forms a ball on my eye,’ he said. ‘So if you keep crying you just end up with a bigger and bigger ball of water in your eye, until eventually it crosses across your nose and gets into your other eye, or evaporates, or maybe spreads over your cheek, or you grab a towel and dry it out.’As Hadfield shook his head from side to side, the blob of water clung to him.

‘Your eyes will definitely cry in space,’ he said. ‘But the big difference is tears don’t fall. So grab a hankie.’

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield took the helm of the International Space Station on Wednesday March 13th, marking only the second time in the outpost’s 12-year history that command has been turned over to someone who is not American or Russian.

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Apr 4 2013
10:29 pm

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WASTES *new print*

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Mar 4 2013
11:50 am

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Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

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Mar 3 2013
10:25 pm