Horsepower Experiments, Nukes, and Two Ways To Catch A Whale
Bouncy balls bounce in surprisingly predictable and annoying ways. Here’s why:
Ever wonder how primitive hunters brought down the world’s largest creatures? Me too, and here are two methods contrasted. Method 1: Thirty guys in boats in Southeast Asia:
And Method 2: Four Native Alaskans in a little canoe saying, “Hold my beer tea”:
What’s going on in the sun, and on the sun, and around the sun? Lots of stuff:
The biggest science bomba that’s ever been bomba’d. Meet the Tsar:
How beautiful is the world’s largest flower? Well, it’s a parasitic plant that stinks like death and only lives on the ground of dank rainforests in Indonesia. But it’s pretty, I guess:
How much horsepower does a horse pull? More than one, but it takes a few dozen engineers, mathematicians, and car guys to figure it out.
[Note: The narrator uses the term “freakin” at the 03:54 timestamp.]
And finally, how about we radically transform airplane designs and see if we can get them to do non-airplane things?
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