Battle Drones, Clay, and Puny Volcanoes
Welcome back to another round of Science Goes Boom. Today we’ll look at food preservation that tamed the West. Pemmican: the granddaddy of all beef jerky.
Clay is dirt and dirt makes clay? Mind blown:
Come meet the deserts and volcanoes that other deserts and volcanoes make fun of. Puny deserts:
Ever wonder what makes a something a “high explosive” instead of just a regular explosive? Well, even if you don’t, who cares? This guy is blowing stuff up:
I’ll bet my drone can beat up your drone:
Three generations of Gatling guns. ‘Merica:
In which Mark Rober rips off not only Veritasium but two episodes of Smarter Every Day. Still fun experiments though:
And finally, we take a look at the Voyager spacecrafts and see what they’ve been up to since the 1970s:
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