{"id":175932,"date":"2020-10-20T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/20\/reading-the-tea-leaves\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T23:53:00","slug":"reading-the-tea-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/20\/reading-the-tea-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Tea Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=54262\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 300%; font-variant: small-caps;\">In Space!!!!<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that there has been a tiny air leak in the International Space Station for months that they have been unable to identify, and they finally found it using loose tea leaves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The International Space Station has been leaking an unusual amount of air since September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>At first crew members held off on troubleshooting the issue, since the leak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-narrows-source-of-leak-on-space-station-2-areas-2020-9\">wasn&#8217;t major<\/a>. But in August the leak rate increased, prompting astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the orbiting laboratory to try to locate its source in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>Roscosmos, Russia&#8217;s space agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/science\/1212465#:~:text=Russian%20cosmonauts%20trace%20air%20leak%20aboard%20orbital%20outpost%20with%20tea%20bag,-The%20tea%20bag%27s&amp;text=MOSCOW%2C%20October%2015.&amp;text=As%20Russia%27s%20State%20Space%20Corporation,the%20crew%27s%20life%20and%20health.\">announced on Thursday<\/a> that crew members had finally pinpointed the leak after devising an unusual test: They let tea leaves guide their search.<\/p>\n<p>The cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin released a few leaves from a tea bag in the transfer chamber of the Zvezda Service Module, the section of the station&#8217;s Russian segment that houses a kitchen, sleeping quarters, and bathroom. Then the crew members sealed the chamber by closing its hatches and monitored the tea leaves on cameras as they floated in microgravity. <\/p>\n<p>The leaves slowly floated toward a scratch in the wall near the module&#8217;s communication equipment \u2014 evidence that it was a crack through which air was escaping.<\/p>\n<p>The crew has since patched the leak using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vesti.ru\/article\/2474302?utm_source=yxnews&amp;utm_medium=mobile\">Kapton tape<\/a>, Roscosmos <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roscosmos\/status\/1318116197016227840\">said on Monday<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold the power of tea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Space!!!! It appears that there has been a tiny air leak in the International Space Station for months that they have been unable to identify, and they finally found it using loose tea leaves: The International Space Station has been leaking an unusual amount of air since September 2019. At first crew members held &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[476,419,382,421],"class_list":["post-175932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-food","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}