Snow Choppers, Pop Rocks, & Fun With Defibrillators

Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. Today we’ll begin with a scenic flight tour of Alaskan glaciers and the science of moraines.

Note: I watched this at 2x speed and hardly noticed that it was sped up since small planes fly so slow.

Challenge a bunch of car guys to make experimental vehicles, and then play with them for a week in the snow, and this is what you get:

The impressive engineering of modern sports arenas, in which my preconception about what they do with the ice is sadly burst:

[Parents Note: Everything after the 11:30 timestamp is a lame ad for Nebula. Skip.]

I’m not sure why you’d want to make your own Pop Rocks but this is how you do it. I recommend fast forwarding from 13:00 to 20:00 to avoid a lot of technical arguments about how fast to spin the centrifuge:

How you’d fare running on each planet…as far as they can guess, anyway:

In a ball on the ground there once lived some Dutch. Not a nasty, dirty, wet ball smelling of gym, nor a dusty ball covered in dried mud. It was a Dutch ball house, and that means comfort. For the Tolkien fans. If you know, you know:

If you can’t afford a ball house, try a simple one from a kit. Here are the basics of house construction in just over thirty minutes:

And finally, which defibrillator is more efficient in breaking things—the Ebay special, or The Backyard Scientist’s homemade one?

“Now we’re gonna shock worms out of the ground. They made something like this in the ‘80s but it ended up killing like 30 people and you can’t buy it anymore.”

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