Backyard Science - Insane Party Tricks

i'm steve Spangler from steve Spangler Science and the Spangler effect and we're excited to do this collaboration with Grant Thompson king of random now when Grant called we're huge fans he called and he said would you do something in the backyard what would spice up a party what would take a boring summer party and make it kind of fun of course some science would do that the key here is to find some things that are around you and let one demonstration lead to the next leads to the next with your big finale this is gonna be fun you can't overlook the obvious you know where I'm going all right no one's gonna need this trashcan this becomes the perfect table cause you're going to need that bottle of Diet Coke I know you've seen it a million times so let's see if we can have a little twist to something like this first of all there's a lot of people to go and find the diet coke they say why do you use diet coke well of course because it's not sticky right there's no sugar inside gives us a huge great eruption great carbon dioxide inside and the classic version of course uses Mentos and some way to be able to drop them then we use this little test tube because we're a little geeky that way but you could take just a roll of paper make a little tube drop it down I'll show you the classic right so this goes here you would be amazed how many people haven't seen this before you show it to them they've never seen it before it they've been living under a rock and now watch what happens when you drop down inside like this again it's not the carbonation coming from the Mentos this is this is just releasing the carbon dioxide gas because the little pits there on the outside 3 2 1 that's beautiful see you love that and life of any party but see now they don't have anymore diet soda to drink which is no problem at all because the host has got something else and you'll grab something else but let's say that you didn't want to do it this way you didn't want to waste it let's say maybe you wanted to use that eruption to be able to serve people some soda well a little trip to the hardware store a couple things in your bag and now you've got something cool to show them take a look at this what you see it was a trip to the hardware store and we've been through this a lot right I just painted it to make it look cool but there's nothing more than PVC so it's PVC pipe right here got a hook in and we've got it sealed at the end right there and sealed at the end right there so now the whole idea is this becomes a soda dispenser so in do that we've got to work ourselves backwards and so here is what we're gonna do start brand new bottle of Diet Coke now this is old at all if it's been sitting in your garage at all don't use it it's not gonna give you a great eruption people ask you well will the brand name better than the generic I'm just telling you if if like I'm filming something or doing a presentation or a show I always use the brand name it seems to give me the best results but try it it's a different experiment in and of itself now the object here is I want the Mentos to fall down but I really want everything sealed so that's where we came up with this little device right here take a look at it see it's a little tube I just fit some pieces together here this is actually a little connector that goes right here so let me push this down and that's perfect got it so now I can't load the Mentos in here otherwise that's gonna they're gonna fall down and and erupt immediately so that's where this comes into play here we actually came up with this as a different way to be able to drop it so here I have the nut and I have a neodymium magnet so let's see if I can drop this in here and pull this down perfect see how it's held in place there I think that's gonna be pretty good so now we should be able to drop the Mentos down here like this see how it stays right there perfect now we're gonna load these up so this goes in here here here perfect so now if you pull the magnet now the Mentos will fall along with that nut and all the carbonation of course pushes out all the soda we want this now to go on top right here like this so we twist this in place perfect looking good so now if I pull this theoretically it should shoot up this way and now cascade down that's where you get six of your friends so here we go they are gonna love this here's this up here and here you ready so when it comes time to serve the carbonated beverage you know what's gonna happen ready three two one drop perfect see these two people were on a diet anyway they didn't need nearly as much as this one and these people got a lot I'll let you figure that out later but that's a great way to serve six sodas but maybe you wanted to go higher maybe you wanted to go like thirty feet that's we're gonna use the geyser to a little toy we invented where it drops the Mentos but more importantly it drops it and because it's funneled up a little bit we can a little venturi effect and it shoots it out this hole here gives us kind of a mist in the air if you really want to get people wet this is what you use alright so again brand new bottle of Diet Coke if it explodes accidentally remember it's not gonna be sticky so that's one of the reasons why we use that diet perfect and now we're set see how this locks in place now we're ready to go so this goes on top like this and now we can just sit here ready and waiting for you to drop it alright this is in place now when you pull you just gotta stand back ready three two one a little pull nice that's not a mess right that doesn't get everything all around you wet doesn't it of course it does and that's exactly what you want but here's something very cool about this watch this you can actually reuse the Mentos so if I turn this upside down and I dump out all of the soda look at how I'm reclaiming the Mentos I can actually take those Mentos that I used before after squeezing all of this out like this we dump it all out and look at this they're even better pits on the outside this time than before so now I simply grab this twist it off here and I can use it on the next bottle and that's exactly what we're gonna do so we're gonna use these sitting over here like this let's drop these right here because we live in the States and because 4th of July is a big deal look at this red white and blue so this goes on top like this so now we're gonna use them again but this time we're gonna get a three shot you just got to move out of the way so you pull them and then you move out of the way you ready ready all right here we go three two one and pull pull and pull nice that's a fastest way in the world to waste three bottles of soda a couple rolls of mentos and to have plenty of oohs and aahs at the barbecue I'm a mess the next rule is a very important rule of backyard science never do it at your own home do it at a friend's home because you're gonna make some modifications to their stuff right so you got a trash can but on the bottom here get ourselves a hole so you simply cut out the hole here I don't know you figure it out and on this side this is a shower curtain now this is the classic red trashcan smoke ring launcher I've used for years and years and years onstage in under the television but for a backyard you can actually use a tarp if you wanted to a blue tarp bottom line is you just need to have this membrane here so that when you hit it you get a blast of air that comes out and I'm using a bungee right here to be able to hold it in place last thing you're gonna need is smoke and normally I'd use a smoke machine but here at a backyard right so you don't to use a smoke machine that's why you're gonna use of course a smoke bomb now if you just put the smoke bomb on the pavement it's probably gonna discolor the pavement and the guests are gonna love it but the host is gonna hate you so that's why I have this old paint can and the pink in has holes in it like this so now I can drop this down inside here either put a little on top or in this particular case I'm just gonna let it smoke put this over it immediately ready so here we go this is on like this on fire here's our smoke nice and now this is over the top perfect here's our smoke inside so you feel the trashcan with smoke does that look great it's perfect so now when you blow the smoke out here we get a great example of Bernoulli's principle right fast-moving air creates this area of low pressure you get these beautiful smoke rings watch through this no go ahead right to you right to you these great BAM they're gorgeous so you these beautiful smoke rings look at this you're gonna smoke the neighbors out they're gonna love it and you left the host with a perfect little parting gift honestly they're not gonna mind well if you're gonna go to this much trouble you might as well really do something great and get some liquid nitrogen now I don't know go to the liquid nitrogen store get yourself some liquid nitrogen my job's not to tell you where to get it to teach you how to do it and then climb up on your friend's water feature so they're not gonna mind honestly it's not a big deal no they spend a little bit of money for this but don't worry about it this neighbor doesn't even know we're in her backyard right now now you just stand up here like this you take liquid nitrogen it's 320 degrees below zero you give the plants a little shot like this see what backyard party isn't perfect without a little liquid nitrogen cloud honestly it's a good idea well those are the things I'd suggest you do at your next backyard party but if you're coming to my party I would do this for you you can't do this at home I'd do this for you say take that extra bottle that we had from the mentos geyser I'd put a little bit of liquid nitrogen right there in the bottom don't try this at home then I'd come over here to this bucket that you see look at the water that's right there I'm gonna cap this off and then I'm going to put this trashcan over the top so this gets capped off here like this and now you're just gonna stand back because if you stand back and you watch it's growing and it's getting bigger and bigger and that bottle is getting bigger and bigger and bigger until finally the pressure can't stand it anymore that's awesome to do in the backyard not not at your backyard my backyard and if you came to my house ah I wouldn't even take you to my backyard I take you to neighbor's backyard cuz I'm not gonna ruin my stuff hey if you got a great idea for our backyard science trick that you'd like to do just put it on a comment below we'd love to see it sorry

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Id: 0k8b9Jtj4F4

Length: 11min 19sec (679 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 01 2014