Microplastics, Everest, and Wall-E Style Farm Robots
Welcome to Science Goes Boom. Let’s start with a history lesson about things that used to make other things go boom:
My eight-year-old saw a WWII book on the counter and noticed the aircraft on the cover.
"Are those A-10s?" he asked. (He's way into A-10s.)
"Nope," I said, "those are the A-10’s granddaddy. The A-10 is the Thunderbolt II, those are P-47 Thunderbolts, the OG tank killer."
Let the booming continue with some rocket science:
[Parents, note a single use of the word “crap” at the 04:05 timestamp.]
How about a theoretical discussion of drag among fictional Star Wars ships?
I’ve said it many times: Why anyone would ever want to climb above 10,000 feet is beyond me. I’d like to keep my nose and fingers, thank you very much:
Fun fact: We absorb about a credit card’s worth of plastic into our bodies every week. Yay microplastic! Oh, wait:
“Precision agriculture” using AI and fully-automoted farm robots to replace those pesky humans. What could go wrong?
[Note: She touches on some controversies about industrial farming and world population growth. It’s a good primer to start conversations about those topics.]
In a related note: Here are some of the human jobs those robots may one day replace:
Who knew cute little glow worms were thuggish?
And finally, how about a little fun with molten aluminum?
[Note: Molten aluminum only glows orange in the crucible, not while it’s pouring in the air. Just sayin’.]
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