Remember this little feature? Of course you do. I get on here, blow my own scientifically-laced trumpet, and then you tell me how much more fun I would have made your science class if I was your teacher. We all laugh, I get a swollen head (not that one...unless YOU'RE making the comment...you know who you are...), and then we move on to bigger and better things: namely, for you, life. For me? Booze.
Anyway, remember that fantastic little featurette I brought you a while ago where some cat filled a bottle with liquid nitrogen and then shoved that mother up into a watermelon? Comedy quickly ensued? Surely you remember it! If not, here's the link for a refresher course.
Caught up? Better? Let's go.
So long, watermelon; we barely knew ye. Except that there are thousands of your brethren lying in fields all over the country, just waiting to have all sorts of disturbing escapades involving detonations and swiftly expanding pockets of gas. Or perhaps other fates await you. We shall see, won't we?
That brings us to this week's episode--as if these things have been episodic...you can't go several years between installments and keep it a series, right? What the hell kind of person would do that?
Point taken.
I stumbled upon this video yesterday and, well, I'll admit...I have no idea what's going on here. What is their motivation? I can't read or understand Japanese, but my main guess is that their motivation is that they are "guys" and the watermelon was just sitting there begging to be wrapped in rubber bands. And, oh, the results are magnificent.
Oh, thank you, internet. Only here could I see a watermelon wrapped in rubber bands give a money shot to a bunch of bored--yet creative--kids. Awesome. It's kind of like the watermelon, accepting its fate, decided to exact one last bit of revenge on the way out. I hear that stuff burns--even coming from a watermelon!
There's not much science-y going on here. The combined pressure of the 500 rubber bands wanting to get back to their non-stretched forms was greater than what the cellulose of the watermelon's rind could withstand. With the inelastic fruit rind quickly collapsing, all that pulp on the inside needs to go somewhere. And go it does! Boom. Fruit salad for everyone!
2 comments:
I think one of the things read, "The interns fuck up the break room."
You're right! This does have a certain "we stole this from the work refrigerator someone's going to be so pissed" feel to it.
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