HOT CHILLI CURES
Tory is trying to hit the cactus-shaped pinata and Carry is standing aside when Brant comes. Brant asks what is going on. BOOM! The pinata breaks! Green Chilli Peppers are spread out on the table. Our audience asked us this question: Is there a cure for hot chilli mouths? I have an experiment w can do to answer this question. Both of you(Tory and Brant) have to be the victims. So after we eat the pepper past, do we eat something to cool it down, asks Tory. Yes, the cures are milk, water, toothpaste, beer and petroleum jelly. Petroleum Jelly? Is there a such thing? asks Tory. Brant hates chilli food, so he goes to a man called Dave Dewitts to learn about his enemy. Dave says that the tongue has a receptor part called capsaicin(I don't know the correct spelling). The capsaicin and chemical eactions start having a pain. That's why you feel your tongue is on fire. Then Brant asks Dave a question: Can you die from ating something too hot? Dave says yes; it would be from suffocation. Carry, Brant and Tory get ready for the chilli peppers. Carry, Brant and Tory sit down. Carry takes out a bowl of jalapeno peppers paste, 2 glasses of milk, a notebook and all the other Hot Chilli Cures. Tory and Brant eat a half-spoon of the paste and then swallow it. After 30 seconds, they drank milk. They told what they thought of how the cure workrd in numbers 1 to 10. They did that with 5 other cures. The best cure, as they thought in the beggining as a hypothesis, was milk.
Carry, when she was cutting the jalapenos, used blue gloves. That is one of the lab safety rules: WEAR GLOVES ON. Carry did break a rule. When she was mixing the peppers, she didn't have goggles on. The episode didn't exactly use science, but they did use some lab equipment.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Extra Credit MythBusters: Hot Chilli Cures
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Extra Credit MythBusters: Shooting Fish in the Barrel
SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL
Adam and David did an experiment called Shooting Fish in a Barrel. First they discuss on how to do it. Then, they go to the fish market and buy 3 types of fish: small fish, mdium fish and large fish. They decide that they should experiment with the medium fish. Adam makes a blast chamber for the experiment and also gets ready a few barrels. Adam fills a barrel with water and the medium fish they bought. David gets his 9mm gun. Then, he shoots. That bullet that David shoots into the water makes a hole in the barrel. When they check the fish, they see no cuts. Adam thinks that the barrel needs some more work. So, he adds some white paint. He also cuts 2 squares out and put in some pieces of glasses. Adam cut those squares so David can see if the fish got shot or not. Adam and David go to a shooting rink for the experiment. They set up the blast chamber, the barrel and the fish. Everything is ready and David shoots. BOOM! The fish got shot right below the eye. The other fish didn't get hurt. David was thinking that it can't be only the bullet that can hurt , the shock waves of the bullet would also effect the fish. Adam want s to see that is true and goes to a person who works in the aquarium. He says that is possible. Again, Adam and David experiment again except all the "bait" fish are hooked onto a stick. David used his long gun to shoot this fish. He shoots with such force that water splashes on everybody there. Guess what? Only 1 or 2 fish got shot, but the rest were effected by shock waves. Adam and David got astonished! The next day, David blindfolded Adam and took him somewhere. Then, Adam took off his blindfold and saw David go into another car. Suddenly, David came out of the car's sliding roof with a MEGA long gun. Adam had asked what are you doing. David said that he was going to shoot that barrel(he pointed to the barrel) and the long fish inside. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! David had shot the fish soooo badly that only its skeleton was left. After that, David and Adam thought that it is really easy to shoot fish ina barrel.
David broke a major rule. That is: WEAR YOUR GOGGLES! David was lucky, because he did stand a little far away from the shooting. Both of them followed a lab safety rule. That is: DO NOT KEEP YOUR MOUTH OPEN. Adam had done a little research on shock wave effects. Researching is part of the Scientific Method. Adam and David had Animal Science involved in their experiment. You would need a science background for a career in special effects, because special effects has a lot to do with science.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
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