Thats what the UK ping pong team needs to beat the chinese :p

Remember kids, as the nice man says, don't try this at home.

Going out on the streets with it would appear to have his approval though

I'll admit that after 2 mins I did shout ' get on with it, poindexter!' but it was a pretty neat experiment.

For his next vid I'd suggest more charisma, more cool action and less blather.

I was like that with chemistry 'n stuff at school ....... "yeah, yeah, yeah, ok, ok Can we light it now!?"

Exactly!

And toward the end of the lesson when my experiment had failed badly it was,

Teach: What are the steps, Rune?
Rune: Materials, method, results and conclusions, sir
Teach: Method, Rune, method! You weren't paying attention, boy!


Fuckin' school.

I spent many years attempting to compensate for that teaching flaw by conducting my own field experiments.
If I were an Afghani I suppose authorities would now call them IED's.

hugorune wrote:
It was 'apparatus' when I went to school, not 'materials', and we had to insert 'diagram' between apparatus & method, coz we were cleverer than later kids.

I once spent an entire science lesson twisting a thick strip of perspex backwards & forwards, so that it eventually snapped in the middle. It wasn't the experiment, I just did it because the teacher kept referring to it as unbreakable. He was mistaken.

Oh yes, and the boys always made a point of farting in the science labs, so that teachers would think it was a gas leak & send us outside.

feather wrote:
Terrorism would be nothing without science. I'm surprised it's still taught.

Gilly wrote:
Genius!

Did you ever pull the bunsun burner tube off the gas tap whilst it was still lit?

hugorune wrote:
Not personally, though I saw many harrowing things transpire in those labs.

Gilly wrote:

and who would have thought that all these years later they would gravitate towards a messageboard on the internet and still spend hours bending shit all directions trying to break it.
Sometimes, including each other!

Some things never change.

There's no greater feeling than that of being a 'knowitall' teenager who is constantly shown that perhaps they don't know it all than confounding a teacher with the most simple/obvious of questions.

feather wrote:
I was expecting some errr Thai pingpong tricks

Brilliant

"do not, I repeat, DO NOT, try this at home"