Welcome back to another year of Science Goes Boom, and what better way to ring in the new year than by shooting multiple cylinders filled with various flammable gases?
Parent’s note: There is a use of the term holy ***p at 14:52 timestamp.
Gourmet salt from seawater using only the tools of nature. Also, a short history on the global war against salt that is actually, you know, good for you:
And while we’re looking at traditional methods that trump modern methods:
Seems odd that it’s sooooo complex and “too expensive” to go to the moon now when it was no problem almost 50 years ago. Here are a few unsatisfying explanations for that quandary:
Note: This video is actually over at the 16:39 timestamp. Everything after that is a commercial.
Ever wonder what happens when you pop a balloon full of honey, or alcohol, or candy sprinkles, or…?
The theoretical physics of artificial gravity, and what sci-fi writers get right and wrong about it:
How exactly do they know the Earth has a gooey center?
All about cat tails, and even a little about tailless cats, and even the world record for the longest tail:
And finally…take a brilliant engineer, a few jackhammers, and some guys willing to work 8 hours a day, dangling over a 500-foot cliff, for fifty cents a day, and what do you get? A tourist destination:
Note: They briefly mention the hidden, uncompleted vault behind Mt. Rushmore, which we covered in a previous Science Goes Boom.
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