If you opened a new bottle of coke in space..

[James Deuce]

Lol! "Fighting Gravity" Lol!!!

All you have gentleman, is a bottle rocket.

It's bottled at one atmospheric pressure to start with. As soon as you turn the cap enough to release that pressure, you are going to end up spinning at some godawful velocity, and probably a complex series of vectors as well, because it will immediately spray out through the path of least resistance before you get the cap fully off.

Assuming you could direct and meter the flow, you could use it for propulsion.

All this assumes that you can keep it warm enough to stay liquid. The bubbles will just end being CO2 trapped in a frozen H20/C8H10O4 solution. It's -273C in the shade out there folks.

[WINJA]

so the bottle would be cracked then cause frozen bottles of coke crack

[James Deuce]

If it was glass it would probably explode violently. If it was plastic it depends whether or not the plastic reaches the minimum temperature that it can remain plastic at before the solution inside freezes solid.

If it was a can it would get as close to spherical as it could.

[mini_me]

mmmmmmm still don't buy it..

there's no gravity to fight which way they're going, so they could go any direction. But then the bubbles would need to be forced in that direction. But if there's no force, then what's going to make them move?

rather than that bubbles fighting against think of the coke displaceing the position that the bubbles are in pushing them up...so if thats the case then no gravity mean the coke wont force its way down - so the bubbles won't go anywere in particular...
that hurt my head
chris

[Magua]

It's -273C in the shade out there folks.

I think not, that's technically impossible. According to my lecturer atleast.

[sexy beast]

trick question
answer: NASA doesnt allow coke in space. only Nasa approved food and drinks....

[James Deuce]

I think not, that's technically impossible. According to my lecturer atleast.

He's right of course, but O degrees Kelvin is the coldest it can ever get. Sue me.

There's a huge range of field, gas, particle, and wave interactions that raise the temperature of a local cubic metre of space, but you are welcome to calculate the temperature of the night side of the Earth at apogee over the equator.

I wouldn't know where to begin.

[James Deuce]

trick question
answer: NASA doesnt allow coke in space. only Nasa approved food and drinks....

Tang and Muesli bars. Yay.

[Karma]

trick question
answer: NASA doesnt allow coke in space. only Nasa approved food and drinks....

give it a year...

"welcome to moon mcdonalds... you want fries with that coke?"

[Winston001]

[LEFT]Lol! "Fighting Gravity" Lol!!!

All you have gentleman, is a bottle rocket.

It's bottled at one atmospheric pressure to start with. As soon as you turn the cap enough to release that pressure, you are going to end up spinning at some godawful velocity, and probably a complex series of vectors as well, because it will immediately spray out through the path of least resistance before you get the cap fully off.

Assuming you could direct and meter the flow, you could use it for propulsion.

Agreed. Good fun.

It's -273C in the shade out there folks.

Err....no. The cosmic background radiation is about 2.7K which is -270.7C. But hey - who's counting.

[James Deuce]

Geez you're a nerd Winston 0K is actually -273.15C, so you're a touch off. Oh yeah, we're not counting.

[Winston001]

My bad. I feel such a bottom-feeding lowlife now Jim.




But I really enjoyed your question. Tell me - what is a Russian Thistle more commonly known as?

[Indiana_Jones]

Herpes?

-Indy

[Winston001]

LOL thats good. Gotta remember that.

[FzerozeroT]

The bubbles would go to the surface (slowly) in any direction beause of gravity, EVERY bit of mass has gravity (to atomic scale), the universe is ghey like that.