Prince Rupert's Drops
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- I don't know who this guy is, but he seems to be aiming heavily for a "Alton Brown of science" vibe.
- "Prince Rupert's Drops are unusual glass objects made by dripping molten glass into water. The exterior is very compressed while the interior is under great tension. You can hammer on the head of a drop and it won't break but if you barely wiggle the tail, the whole thing explosively shatters. It's particularly amazing in super-slow motion." I don't know about all that, I just want to know why he appears to be holding some fuzzy testicles:
(Seriously, this is pretty fucking cool.)
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- I don't know who this guy is, but he seems to be aiming heavily for a "Alton Brown of science" vibe.
- "Prince Rupert's Drops are unusual glass objects made by dripping molten glass into water. The exterior is very compressed while the interior is under great tension. You can hammer on the head of a drop and it won't break but if you barely wiggle the tail, the whole thing explosively shatters. It's particularly amazing in super-slow motion." I don't know about all that, I just want to know why he appears to be holding some fuzzy testicles:
Click to view(Seriously, this is pretty fucking cool.)
via boingboing
Free association: The Kaye Effect