- I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm
about to enter the burn zone with a hot spring. Here we go. Argh! (yelling) (panting) (yelling) (animal growling) (jungle music) Over the course of my career, I have done some arguably crazy things like being bitten
intentionally by an alligator. (yelling) or happily submitting my self to a sting from the Japanese Giant Hornet. (yelling) All of my brushes with intense pain have been done in the name
of science and education. So today's experiment loosely falls into those exact same categories. As an extreme educator, this is also the point where I tell you never attempt to recreate the
following science experiment. Thermopolis, Wyoming is without question one of the greatest locations the brave wilderness team
and I have ever visited. It's a quaint little town and with a population of
around three thousand people, it has an unforgettable charm. They are famous for many things including the world-renowned
Wyoming Dinosaur Center, where aspiring paleontologists
can actually spend a day looking for fossils. Then you have Dairyland which proudly boasts being
the birthplace of pickle pops. Yep, this is where I set the world record for eating ten of these salty
treats in thirty minutes. (gagging sound) As if dinosaurs and pickle
pops weren't enough, Thermopolis also has a very
catchy nickname, The Hot City, which is rightfully
earned as they stake claim to the world's largest mineral hot spring. Before we get hands-on
with the hot springs for this brilliant experiment, first it's important that we understand the science behind these
bubbling pools of beauty. These hot springs originate
in the Owl Creek Mountains, where surface water like
rain and melting snow seep down through layers of porous rock. As the water flows deeper into the earth, it's heated by a geothermal gradient. When the heated water
reaches fractured rocks within the Thermopolis anticline, it's channeled back up to the surface and voila, you have hot springs. But are these hot springs hot enough to make me breakfast? We are just a few feet from
the main source of Big Spring, which is the largest mineral spring in the entire United States. Now, this water... Oh yeah! Woo! Yeah, that is definitely hot. What we're gonna to try to do today is find out whether or not a
hot spring can boil an egg. What I've done in advance
is prepare a couple of eggs. So you see this here? That is an egg in cheesecloth
tied to a shoestring. Now we're going to try this experiment in three different time intervals. Five minutes, fifteen minutes, and thirty minutes. This water stays at a consistent
127 degrees Fahrenheit. The actual boiling temperature of water is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. To make hard-boiled eggs,
you usually need to put a fresh egg inside of boiling water and keep it there for ten minutes. So you may be saying to yourself well, the math doesn't exactly add up. If you have to have boiling
water to make hard-boiled eggs, how's this experiment going to work? Basically what we're gonna do is keep the eggs in there longer than it would take to normally boil an egg and see what happens. Boiling eggs in the hot
springs is completely fitting because the entire area already
smells like rotten eggs. That's not because thousands of people have tried this experiment before me but instead as a result of gas
bubbles rising to the surface that contain hydrogen sulfide. H2S is a colorless, poisonous, flammable, and corrosive chemical compound which has the distinct
stench of rotten eggs. Talk about some delicious science. All right, it has
officially been five minutes which means it's time
to pull the first egg and gently slice open the cheesecloth. Wow, it's really hot. Okay, there it is. (tapping) Ah. Nope. Definitely not. Oh wow, it's hot, it's really hot, but it is definitely not hard-boiled. Not gonna be eating that one. I'm gonna actually just dump
this off to the side here. We'll wait for another ten minutes for egg number two to
maybe finish cooking. Hey Garrity, what time is it? I think it's been, it's
been ten minutes or so. Oh yeah, actually it's
been eleven minutes. Okay, we've gotta check the second egg. Oh yeah, that is a hot egg right there. (tapping) Aw, the shell is really soft but it is definitely not hard-boiled. Hold on, let me crack it open. Oh, it's hot. Way more gelatinous though. Look at that. Considerably thicker than the last egg. I can actually hold the
entire thing in my palm. Okay, we're making some progress here. That is definitely starting to cook. Long before I had the idea to boil eggs, and even before the arrival
of fur traders in the West, Native Americans
discovered the hot springs and referred to them as medicine waters. It was believed that these springs had incredible healing powers which had the ability to cure everything from disease to gunshot wounds. Fast forward to the modern
advancements in science, and today we know that
the water in these springs has nearly six times the
total dissolved solids found in drinking water, basically classifying these springs as a supercharged vitamin pill. Our first two eggs weren't exactly edible but with any luck our third
egg is going to be the charm. Ah, that is a hot egg right there. It's just about my breakfast time so I'm really hoping
that this egg is cooked so I can actually eat it. Here we go. There it is. An egg that has cooked for
thirty minutes in a hot spring. Is it hard-boiled? I think there's a good chance. All right, here we go. One, two, (tapping) Oh! No, not fully cooked even after thirty minutes. (groans) Do you guys like your eggs extra runny? Oh no! It did not cook! Well, I guess that proves it. 127 degree Fahrenheit
water is not capable, even after thirty minutes,
of boiling an egg. Now I'm gonna get some
of this yolk off of me. Ugh, oh smells horrible. Gross! Warning. Never attempt to recreate
the following experiment as hot water can cause serious burns, trauma, and medical bills. Okay, this is it. The moment you have all been waiting for. Am I capable of keeping my hands in the scalding water of
this natural hot spring? Now keep in mind, this is
127 degrees Fahrenheit. Your hottest hot tub is
probably around 104 degrees. So am I gonna be able to keep my hands in it for sixty seconds? Not likely. Thirty seconds? Maybe. Fifteen seconds? I think that's probably pretty fair. So when you guys are ready, I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to enter the
burn zone with a hot spring. Here we go. One, (panting) two, three. (groaning) Oh wow, it gets hotter the deeper you go. (yelling) (panting) (yelling) Oh my gosh! (panting) (yelling) No! That is crazy hot! Holy cow! Phew! Wow! Unbelievable how hot that water is! Oh my gosh. I thought I might be able
to last sixty seconds but as soon as your fingers
go down through the surface and get closer to the bottom, the water gets hotter
and hotter and hotter, and I can actually feel
the blood inside my fingers as if it was starting to boil. That was crazy. My hands are tingling right now from the intensity of that heat. I'd definitely say the
take away from this episode is that first of all, this water is not hot enough to boil eggs. Even after thirty minutes,
our science experiment failed. And when it comes down
to the ridiculous nature of actually placing my
hands into the hot springs, I know that was entertaining but guys it is all about safety. These hot springs are incredibly hot. If you were to fall into this water or just place your hands
into there for too long, you could face a serious burn situation. I'm Coyote Peterson. Be brave, stay wild. We'll see you on the next adventure. If you get the chance to
visit Hot Springs State Park, make sure that you stick
to the designated trails, and definitely admire
it's bubbling hot springs from a safe distance. Hey Coyote Pack, if you thought challenging the hot springs was hilarious, make sure to go back and watch the episode where I set a new world record by eating ten delicious pickle pops. And don't forget, subscribe
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