Balearic Slings, Friction, & Screw History (like, the actual history of screws)
Welcome to this week’s Science Goes Boom. Today we’ve got some news about parachutes, and all of the army’s good and bad ideas:
Just for fun: How about a trampoline suspended under a hot air balloon?
A short history lesson on how entrepreneurial Americans have often managed to steal scientific innovations from others. And you thought Tesla got robbed:
“Okay men: We’re going to voyage to the most inhospitable location on Earth in an untested, experimental, uncomfortable craft that only has one bathroom. Who’s with me?”
I saw an episode of MacGyver once that meshed this process with the Holy Grail (or some such scenario). I wonder who else figured this stuff out back in the day:
When bicycles go boom, and boom, and boooooom, and boooooooom!:
The science of David the giantslayer. Or, how rocks go boom:
Friction: the force that binds the universe together. Sorry, Obi-Wan:
And finally, an exploration of one of God’s most unique animal designs: the octopus.
[Note: I’ve been trying to find a good video to highlight these fascinating creatures, but inevitably the narrator always dives into evolutionary fantasy at some point, and Mark Rober is no exception. If you want to skip that section, pause at 10:19 and skip to 11:44. However, if you were to watch it with your kids, it could lead to a good conversation about the gaps in scientific “logic” and unscientific assumptions that evolutionists cling to. Or in other words, you can use it as a prime example to point out how dumb evolutionary dogma is.]
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