Rollercoaster Design, Lobsters, & Texas Traffic
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom, where history and science and good (or bad) ideas collide. First up, we’ll explore a brief history of things that go boom:
The science of getting people to pay you to wait in lines for hours, and then making them throw up:
Not sure this is the best Mad Max apocalypse vehicle, but it would probably work great as a taxi cab over desert roads:
For the low-low price of $38, you too can own a pet who will clean your fish tank:
Annnnd this is why I live in Alaska. The roads are wide, they aren’t congested, and they’re on the surface of the planet:
When sequencing and science collide, you get some really cool card tricks. It’s not magic, just math and dexterity:
Inside a kangaroo’s pouch: “It’s like a five-star hotel with room service and an Uber, all in one.”
Forging the world’s most time consuming, over-engineered belt buckle:
And finally, how does Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fit into the mix of fastest movie cars? Mater and Herbie the Love Bug have surprisingly good showings. But I’ll take Gone in 60 Second’s ‘67 Shelby GT, thank you very much:
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If you’re thinking about next year’s school curriculum, we’ve got a boom-ish history option that might be right up your alley: Lexington to Mosul: A Complete Study in U.S. Military History.
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