A viral claim alleged that a glass of water shown in a video from a Chinese spaceflight proves that space is fake. It doesn’t.
showed the taikonauts did identify the liquid in the glass as water. But science explains evidence why the water behaved just as it should have. As some social media users in the comments noted, the explanation comes down to one concept: surface tension.is"the property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force, due to the cohesive nature of its molecules," according to the United States Geological Survey.
As for the glass itself, it was affixed to the table. In its own fact-check of the same claim, the China-based Global Times
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