Flamethrower Comparisons, Space Junk, and Piranhas *chomp chomp*
Welcome to Science Goes Boom Still Shopping For Christmas Edition, meaning you’ll find some things in here to ask your parents for for Christmas. Let’s begin with the ingredients to make thermite. Don’t try this at home, do it at someone else’s house:
Sorry, you probably can’t buy claymore mines. Let’s see how they work, though:
Piranhas can strip an entire chicken down to the bone in a few minutes. I guess God knew there would be a lot of cleanup needed in the Amazon:
It takes a lot of engineering and science to safely store and transport men and nuclear weapons underwater. Here’s how they do it:
Okay fine, you can’t buy claymore mines, but you caaaaan buy flamethrowers:
Who owns space? By outdated treaty, nobody really. But Elon Musk is probably working on it. [Note: These guys have some dumb anti-Russian bias. Too bad about that. The Russians are amazing when it comes to space stuff.]
A unique view into the incredible mechanics of a grandfather clock:
How about some aquatic speed Olympics:
And finally, by popular demand (meaning, my kid wanted it), how bowling alleys work:
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