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Astronauts put GoPro into a floating ball of water

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Actual title:

    Space Station Astronauts Grow
    a Water Bubble in Space

And for some reason I don't fully understand you've linked to a time stamp right at the end, rather than to the video itself. Was there a reason for that? It's not too late - you can delete this and resubmit with a better title and link to the non-time-stamped URL.

I agree that this should point to the whole video, no to the last secconsds.

I prefer a variation of the submitted title:

"Space Station astronauts put GoPro camera into a floating ball of water in space"

The interesting part is that they put a camera there.

A slightly unrelated question about English usage: How do you call this rounded floating thing? It's a water bubble or a water drop?

I would not call it a "bubble" - to me that implies air surrounded by water. I would call it a "drop" or a "blob". However, as I've learned to my cost in another thread, not everyone agrees with me about the usage of language. Since it's got water in it, and it's big and round, some people will call it a "bubble."

It's interesting to see the small air bubbles inside the giant water drop.

[Spoiler alert: The bubbles don't rise to the surface and disappear because there is no [apparent] gravity!]

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