Feathers, Rifle Comparisons, & Testing Animal Stings
Welcome to back to Science Goes Boom. This week let’s get the ball rolling with a little discussion on Pluto, and why it IS a planet. Go ahead and fight me:
I’ve got a black ship and I want it painted red… (get it?)…yeah, okay, my wife didn’t, either:
God bless the idiots who field-test these things:
A tale of two rifles, and the reasons why you probably need both:
Space shuttles in the past:
…and now:
Why do some places seem to defy gravity? Pretty sure there must be a reason for it all, but it’s not in this video. Still, it’s pretty cool:
And now for a little snippet on a design feature that every aeronautical engineer envies…feathers:
And finally, here’s a more detailed explanation of the hows and whys of feathers. Destin, please don’t break that bird:
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