Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100217:23:46:00
Let me start off by saying that one of the nice things about where we physically are right now is that we remove the effects of gravity, so we are able to do experiments that involve the effect of gravity basically on earth as we look at what happens with the absence of it. for instance, when you do combustion studies and flames drop in a teardrop fashion on earth, but we can't do that here, because the air doesn't know where up is, there is no convection, so the flames burn purely in a ball. in a similar sense when we do cellular research for cancer research for instance. on earth, the cells ...
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