I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist... I believe we went to the moon, and I also believe the international space station smells like farts.

But I ran across this and thought it was interesting.


Back story... China has a space station named Tiangong. They apparently held a class for Chinese students, the first one ever hosted in space, from the space station. Which... I think may not be correct, because if I'm not mistaken, we've held a few live-streams from space to classrooms well before that.

Anyway, I realize this is old, it's from 2013, but here's the English version of the Chinese article explaining it:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2112099295/

But then I found this...




Now, I've never been in space, but what little I've learned about water and space, is that the water will take the path of least resistance, and since there really isn't any, it builds upon the meniscus and will spread out all over the glass, both inside and out, and likely even spread out all over the table to the extent that it can, while still being attached.

I realize this would be an elaborate hoax, but I also know that in the case of NASA, we build exact duplicates of everything we launch into space. There's two reasons for this... one is for training purposes, and the other is for troubleshooting. The concept goes... it's a lot easier to trouble-shoot your mother-in-law's printer over the phone, if you have the exact replica of her system and printer in front of you.

So, my guess... China with their usual propaganda, probably just had some astronauts sitting in the replica, and taught class there... I don't know...

Thoughts?

[This message has been edited by 82-T/A [At Work] (edited 06-29-2022).]