Rice, Vietnam Dogfighting & Making Race Cars (sort of)

Welcome back to Science Goes Boom, where we discuss why the Space Force was created, and what the Chinese may have been mining on the dark side of the moon for the past two years:

The science of making a perfectly good BMW accelerate (and brake) a few tenths of a second faster. In racing though, that’s pretty important:

And now for a street race where a little extra weight is apparently a good thing:

How does an F4 Phantom with no gun take down a Mig 21 that’s superior in almost every way? By enlisting the help of a WWII Double Ace…and some creative trickery:

I’ve always wondered how rice is grown:

We’ve already discussed Battleship and Risk, now it’s time for Science Goes Gaming part 3…Monopoly:

I don’t know which is cooler: Cutting carrots with playing cards, or blasting off six revolver rounds in just over one second:

Here’s how an awesome piano tuner cleaned a public piano with virtually no tools (and at no charge) while waiting for his flight. Who says Gen Z is lazy?

And finally, a series of time trials demonstrating the science of…well…they’re really just breaking stuff. Happy weekend!

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