Swans, Opal Mining, & Russian Fireworks

Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. Today we visit one of the world’s most famous dive spots: the Deep Blue Hole. They couldn’t think of a better name than that?

The science of the Gravitron, minus the throwing up part:

All about swans:

Forging two metals together sounds easier than it is, apparently:

Cold War-era hardware versus modern Russian fireworks:

Red shrimp, blue shrimp, yellow shrimp, green shrimp…wait, there are green shrimp?

How they make the ammunition for bowling ball cannons:

Since we can’t visit C.S. Lewis’ land of Bism and taste the edible opals, Destin takes us to Coober Pedy, Australia and mines some standard ones:

When compressed air goes boom:

And finally, just for fun, this is more math than science but it’s also a safer way to wow your friends than blowing stuff up with diesel fuel:

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