Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity

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Saturday Morning Science:
Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity onboard the International Space Station.

(April 26, 2003) -- In his final episode of Saturday Morning Science, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization. Pettit floats several portable compact disc players in microgravity that are spinning and not spinning.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 8, 2006 at 8:43 am
Author: benwl

Length: 00:05:08
Rating: 4.83
Views: 95853

Tags: zerog zero gravity microgravity gyro gyroscopic stabilized gyroscope space ISS station Saturday Morning Science

Video Comments:
SenseiTG (November 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm)
chaoutzu - the effect is not based on gravity, but on momentum in this case angular momentum - ei the fact that it takes energy to change the direction in which a mass is travelling - hence a spinning disk stabilizes itself because it requires energy to tilt off-axis because it's entire mass is travelling along a fixed plane. i find it strange that a man of science would find it "amazing" to see a cd-player behave like this when nothing else could possibly be expected...
HanZie82 (November 18, 2008 at 11:01 am)
I think the CD players are not on the same speed. If it was calibrated and equal that would be a good 3rd hand (in space that is).
guitarmaster3294 (November 16, 2008 at 6:09 am)
is he in a spaceship?
futahroid (November 16, 2008 at 9:58 pm)
No, he is not in a spaceship, he is in a hyper-dimensional-multitudinal-dimensional-cafe/(food-intra-dimensinal-Yum-Cha-court)

Read Benwl's posting comments.

Also read every one elses comments.

But for Gods sake dont read the video's title."Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity"

Hmm, Where would you find microgravity???
kennyball (November 8, 2008 at 10:35 am)
What about an ipod with a hard drive?
EvilRabbiMAn (November 6, 2008 at 6:56 am)
space pimp
Chaoutzu (November 4, 2008 at 5:12 pm)
What i didn't understand is I thought 'gyroscopes' worked off of gravity.. is there just enough gravity in that environment to provide that force?
Zachary1080p (November 5, 2008 at 11:38 pm)
Inertial force is what makes gyroscopes work, not gravity.
Chaoutzu (November 9, 2008 at 7:39 am)
Yes, but inertia also works off gravity right?
Zachary1080p (November 9, 2008 at 4:48 pm)
umm 2 different forces :)