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[ST1DinOH]

ok stupid question, but always makes for interesting discussion...

lets say you are in space, zero gravity, and you make jello...well it's obvious that once the jello cools you'd have a sphere of jello...

but what if you put fruit in it?

will the fruit bits stay on the surface, will they congregate in the center of the jello sphere creating a "core" of fruity goodness, or will the fruit remain evenly distributed throughout the jello?

for this question we'll say the jello is regular strawberry jello, and the fruit is sliced bannanas.

ready.....DEBATE

[Dohregard]

A) how would you make the jell-o a perfect sphere in space?


if you were in actual space the water would instantly freeze.


C) if you put fruit in it than it would suck, cuz fruit filled Jell-o is FTL.

[ST1DinOH]

A) how would you make the jell-o a perfect sphere in space?
if you were in actual space the water would instantly freeze.
C) if you put fruit in it than it would suck, cuz fruit filled Jell-o is FTL.

A: all liquid tends to form a sphere in zero gravity...mainly due to surface tension and gravity.

B: i should clarify that the ability to boil the water, mix the jello, and then cool it, would also be quite tricky in deep space, i figured you'd catch the assumption that this would be aboard some sort of space craft not influeced by any nearby gravitational forces...hence the sphere of jello

C: fruit in jello is great, so are marshmallows and nuts...where's your sense of adventure?

people who only eat plain (non fruit) jello tend to only have missionary style sex...you gotta go doggy style once in a whiel to keep things interesting.

[way2lazy2care]

ok stupid question, but always makes for interesting discussion...

lets say you are in space, zero gravity, and you make jello...well it's obvious that once the jello cools you'd have a sphere of jello...

but what if you put fruit in it?

will the fruit bits stay on the surface, will they congregate in the center of the jello sphere creating a "core" of fruity goodness, or will the fruit remain evenly distributed throughout the jello?

for this question we'll say the jello is regular strawberry jello, and the fruit is sliced bannanas.

ready.....DEBATE

the stuff would stick to the outside because of surface tension (depending on how hard u threw the fruit at it). if you threw it too hard, you'd get all sorts of little jello balls everywhere (assuming u didn't get jello all over the walls)

to conclude: it would be on the outside, or you would make a mess.

[ST1DinOH]

the stuff would stick to the outside because of surface tension (depending on how hard u threw the fruit at it). if you threw it too hard, you'd get all sorts of little jello balls everywhere (assuming u didn't get jello all over the walls)

to conclude: it would be on the outside, or you would make a mess.

ok...more question refining...because i forgot this part....

whiel you are boiling the jelloyou stir the fruit into it...

the point of the question is to determine weather or not the fruit in the jello will have it's own gravitational pull on the other pieces of fruit...enough that the fruit will congeal in the center of the liquid jello, or will the fruit float to the edges of the sphere...or will the gravity not be enough to have any effect on the pieces of fruit and therefore the fruit will be evenly mixed throughout?

so yeah the fruit is in the liquid jello before it's poured from the pot.

[Myth]

ok...more question refining...because i forgot this part....

whiel you are boiling the jelloyou stir the fruit into it...

the point of the question is to determine weather or not the fruit in the jello will have it's own gravitational pull on the other pieces of fruit...enough that the fruit will congeal in the center of the liquid jello, or will the fruit float to the edges of the sphere...or will the gravity not be enough to have any effect on the pieces of fruit and therefore the fruit will be evenly mixed throughout?

so yeah the fruit is in the liquid jello before it's poured from the pot.

Everything has its own gravitational pull... but seriously... i doubt the gravitational pull of the fruit will be great enough to pull eachother in towards the center.

[ST1DinOH]

Everything has its own gravitational pull... but seriously... i doubt the gravitational pull of the fruit will be great enough to pull eachother in towards the center.

[devils advocacy]well then again we are in zero gravity here...so even the smallest ammounts of gravity will have some effect...and the individual pieces of fruit should attract each other...

so does it depend on the size of the fruit...because larger pieces of fruit would have more pull because they are bigger...and can any piece of fruit have enough gravitational pull to overcome the slowly solidifying jello's viscosity???[/devils advocacy]

[Myth]

i doubt the gravity pull of a fruit, or even a man would have ANY effect imho. Gravity is the weakest of the... what was it the 6 or 7 different forces in existance? the gravity pull that we have is soooooooo small it can be negligable. i dont think itll do much.

[Thendens]

I'm pretty sure I understand the quesiton completely, and I'm too tired to come up with some fucking goofy answer on purpose, but since I am this tired it might turn out goofy anyway, so we may get the best of both worlds. The world in which I remain lazy and you guys get a laugh at my goofy answer, K here it goes...

Assuming htere are no outside forces reacting with the jell-o mix while it is cooling, and also assuming the temperature of the environment is roughly fridge temp. The jell-o would form a sphere as was originally mentioned, but the mass isn't great enough for the fruit to pull on each other and create a fruit cored jello mini-planet. Which brings up another interesting debate, what if the earth was made of fruit jello. So, all in all the fruit would be dispersed randomly through out the jell-o sphere.

[devils advocacy]well then again we are in zero gravity here...so even the smallest ammounts of gravity will have some effect...and the individual pieces of fruit should attract each other...

so does it depend on the size of the fruit...because larger pieces of fruit would have more pull because they are bigger...and can any piece of fruit have enough gravitational pull to overcome the slowly solidifying jello's viscosity???[/devils advocacy]

No... [/answer devils advocacy]

[way2lazy2care]

now... jello im not sure about since it gets very dense relatively quickly... if u had a water globe in space with fruit in it, I think the fruit would go to the outside depending on the fruit. I'm not sure about this, but I think most fruits are less dense/massive than water so it wud have less gravitational pull and the water would pull itself to the middle i think...

this would take a really really really really really long time btw... edit...

[Dohregard]

A: all liquid tends to form a sphere in zero gravity...mainly due to surface tension and gravity.

B: i should clarify that the ability to boil the water, mix the jello, and then cool it, would also be quite tricky in deep space, i figured you'd catch the assumption that this would be aboard some sort of space craft not influeced by any nearby gravitational forces...hence the sphere of jello

C: fruit in jello is great, so are marshmallows and nuts...where's your sense of adventure?

people who only eat plain (non fruit) jello tend to only have missionary style sex...you gotta go doggy style once in a whiel to keep things interesting.

A: i didn't know that... sweets!

B: their is no assumptions in debate! (just like crying in baseball)

C:its just like nuts in brownies, it may taste good on occasions, but its just not right!

and i wouldn't compare my taste for flavored gellationized water based snacks with my preferences in sexual intercourse.

[DHC]

experimental evidence or it didnt happen...



...i swear that made sense to me a second ago

[ST1DinOH]

experimental evidence or it didnt happen...
...i swear that made sense to me a second ago

lol

i personaly think we should pettition nasa to somehow conduct this experiment in space.

something tells me however that allowing a freefloating sphere of boiling sugary fruitfilled goodness in a multi billion dollar space station would be frowned upon.

[Dohregard]

lol

i personaly think we should pettition nasa to somehow conduct this experiment in space.

something tells me however that allowing a freefloating sphere of boiling sugary fruitfilled goodness in a multi billion dollar space station would be frowned upon.

I would like to see my tax dollars go towards such innovative and groundbreaking research tbh. If these questions go unanswered, who knows what crazy jell-o based theologies might pop up.