Great video. Very instructive.

blarman thank you for posting, fascinating.

Well I guess it's possible that they built this chamber to test other more esoteric theories and just did this little demonstration to test the "cameras". Fair enough. Good footage for HS physics classes. But if they really built this thing with public money to test the gravitational acceleration of feathers VS bowling balls in a vacuum they are idiots. Next test - spitting into the wind. I want to see that video.

That's what I thought. If a wealthy individual was doing this with his own money it's fine because it's his resource, his decision.
Giving an expensive example of something that has been scientifically proven for decades is not acceptable use of tax dollars in a bankrupted country.

Thanks to free's post, I'm walking away with two realizations:
1. Thet thar air resistance thang.
2, Doesn't NASA have something freaking better to do with our freshly printed money?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

I believe the science behind this is pretty well established and contained in most high school physics texts. A nice demonstration but the money would be better spent on a super collider.

Your tax dollars at waste.
R+D=Slavery

that was pretty fun....expensive...

Cool!