A 27-second video clip of an astronaut opening a can of mixed nuts shouldn't rack up over two million views on YouTube in a week; but when said astronaut does it in the weightless environment of the International Space Station, you've got something that's more mesmerizing than anything seen during the Super Bowl commercial breaks.
Just watch how those nuts twirl suspended in their own orbits. Geeky cool!
The video was shot by Chris Hadfield, the current commander of the ISS and in the week it has been posted, it has gotten the attention of CBS and others, proving that those Pistachios people may not have needed to hire Psy…
…okay, that commercial was pretty awesome too.
If you've not seen it, watch both below.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.