Balloonium Experimento 2

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License: Creative Commons Attribution Balloonium Experimento 2 reverse inertia
Views: 573
10 Jun, 2011

Duration: 01:47
Team: reverse inertia
Region: South

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Categories:
Award Nominees , Demonstration , Explanation , Investigation , Physics , Secondary

So you’ve got a *giant* balloon, what are you going to do with it? Wallop people with it, in the name of physics. Obviously.

Director's Notes:

We set out to proove that air has mass. About 9 or 10 people made the film; the giant balloon was bought on eBay.

Nominee: Best Demonstration, 2011

SciCast Notes:

Utter genius.

It’s a universal rule of comedy that hitting people with balloons is funny. So walloping them in the face with a monstrously huge balloon? Hilarious. And all the funnier because the film plays it completely deadpan until the physics is covered.

This is exactly what I was hoping for when I started SciCast. Love it.

— Jonathan

[the film is a sequel, of sorts, to Balloonium Experimento, SciCast Awards 2010 Nominee and well worth a look if you haven’t seen it.]

2 comments:

Pete wrote, on 17 June, 2011:

Great idea for a video, and well made too

Donna wrote, on 5 July, 2011:

Loved it! These students are stars!!