That's a fak, Jak!... Apollo Ice Crystals

That's a fak, Jak!... Apollo Ice Crystals

"One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,
because as the stuff comes out (in space) and as it hits the
exit nozzle, it instantly flashes into 10 million little ice crystals,
which go out almost in a hemisphere, because, you know,
you're exiting into essentially a perfect vacuum, and so the
stuff goes in every direction, and radially out from the
spacecraft at relatively high velocity. It's surprising, and it's
an incredible stream . . . a spray of sparklers almost. It's
really a spectacular sight."
-- Russell Schweickart, Apollo astronaut.

happy days and
starry starry nights

--
A secret of the Universe,
So please don't breathe a word of this,
Selene (the Moon) will smile perverse
Whene'er she sees true lovers kiss--
Breathe not a single word of this.

Indelibly yours,
Paine http://www.savethechildren.org/
http://www.painellsworth.net