Did Astronaut Scott Kelly just pioneer the sport of the future?
With his year in space winding down, Kelly is making the most of his time left in microgravity by showing how conditions on the International Space Station can make for an otherworldly game of ping pong.
Using two hydrophobic paddles, which repel water like a rain coat, Kelly demonstrated in a video tweeted by the Space Station Thursday how microgravity allows for a droplet of water to become a sphere--or ping pong ball, if you will-- which can then be bounced between the paddles.
Lose your ping pong ball on @Space_Station? Just add water. https://t.co/W6uqH1esmV— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) January 21, 2016
As if life in space didn't look cool enough already.