Tom’s Throwback Thursday — How to Make a Rocket
Hello stay-at-home scientists! This week on Throwback Thursday, it’s not rocket science. Well, actually it is! Here’s something that sounds pretty impressive but you can totally have a go at yourself… How to Make a Rocket.🔥🚀🌌
Rockets are great. Rockets are also weird and terrifying. There is something about watching a 1,000,000kg tower of metal and explosion lift itself straight up into the air that makes me a little bit nervous. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that we’re only really getting away with it because physics hasn’t been paying attention for the last 60 years and scientists are really in for a telling off when it finds out what we’ve been up to.
In any case, rockets are becoming bigger, safer, and more amazing than ever. It seems to me that it is only a matter of time before space travel of some kind is available to everyone. (After all, look at what we used think about telephones)
I chose this video this week because:
- Fire and explosions is classic science communication. We might not actually learn anything from them but they’re pretty cool. 🔥 😎 💥
- I love how much goes wrong in this video. And these were the takes that made it in!
- A few years ago, I had this idea that empty film canisters were going to be hard to get hold of and that I should stock up on them in case I ever wanted to make pop rockets. Turns out people still use cameras and you can buy the empty canisters pretty easily (or you might have some lying around). Now, whenever I tidy up, I find a couple hidden around the house and decide that they are definitely, 100% worth keeping hold of for some reason. I still haven’t made pop rockets.
Anyway. Enough about me. Enjoy the video. 😄
