Dragonflies, Exploding Apples, and Field Goal Kicking Robots

Welcome to Science Goes Boom. We’ll see if we can get some boom going later on, but first, a little discussion about engines designed to blow themselves up:

It’s curious how fossilized dragonflies that are supposedly 350 million years old are indistinguishable from modern dragonflies. Just sayin’:

When I first moved to Alaska, I was told that there are million ways to die in the wilderness. Here are several of them:

[Note: This video is 32 minutes long but from the 3:00 to around the 8:00 timestamps it’s mainly just him hiking through snow. Might want to hit that fast forward button a few times]

When levitating apples go boom:

The tallest of them all-est:

How come high school woodshop class never did stuff like this? Forget the lame-o projects, let’s make some bows, man:

The longest field goal now is actually by the Raven’s Justin Tucker, but oh well:

If you don’t know any hippies, you might want to invite some over to dinner. They know all sorts of cool stuff, like the process for turning plastic into diesel fuel:

You can also do it with tires:

And finally, a grand finale of booms to end your week:

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