A man picked up a plastic water bottle and filled it to the rim with water. He put a ketchup sachet in it and closed it up.The man approached a woman and said, “If you can solve how this works, I’ll give you a dollar.”The man said “down” and the sachet of ketchup suddenly went […]
After a long day of work, I was relieved. I had been working since 4pm in a circuitry lab, on the next big project. I observed the sun just starting to descend as I started to walk out to my car. All of a sudden, however, I had an urge to sneeze furiously! If it’s
Evil Tribbles may look cute, but they can really make a loud noise when they ROAR!!!A 1-foot tall Green Evil Tribble can register 10 GSU (Galactic Sound Units) on a sound-measuring device that is 5 feet away. Yellow Evil Tribbles are twice as loud, and Red Tribbles… THREE times as loud as their yellow counterparts!So
Welcome to the very first episode of Space Adventures! Viewers, this is a science fiction show like none other. Each week, we will air a new episode. Each week, there will be an event during the show that defies all known Science, and each week, we will award a prize to the first 25 viewers
In Mrs. Farstaff’s Science class, they are holding a contest. She has a glass bottle, and a little bronze ball, the size of which is the exact same as the hole in the bottle. Mrs. Farstaff is giving the student, who can put the ball in the bottle without breaking the glass or destroying the
Mr. Ode had just bought a new factory to start producing hydrogen gas for his alternatively fuelled vehicles. For safety reasons, there could be no flammable materials in the factory, just steel and concrete. Nothing was even painted. He then hired a company to instal a state-of-the-art fire protection system. They had installed hundreds of
I am a chemical symbol for an element.This element was discovered in 1824.I am a Spanish word without the accent.Reverse me so that I may become a form of a common verb.What symbol am I? AnswerSi. (silicon)Silicon was discovered in 1824.“Si” with an accent means “yes” in Spanish.Reverse it to become “is”, which is a
In a high school science class, Jimmy was given 50 millilitres of water and 50 millilitres of ethanol. His task was to mix them together and then run an experiment on the mixture. When the teacher came to check on him, however, Jimmy’s mixture only contained 94 millilitres. The teacher accused him of drinking some
One day, Bob and Hannah were sitting out on their deck, sipping on some drinks. Bob ran into the house, got an empty two-litre bottle from the freezer and a quarter, and returned to the deck.“I bet you money that this quarter will move with nobody touching it.”Hannah thought this was a sure win; however,
Mr. Jones filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for. He claimed that the company he worked for was drugging him to make him a better worker. He claimed that the coffee the company provided contained a drug called Trimethylxanthine. Trimethylxanthine is an addictive drug that increases alertness, improves concentration, and gives you a
Lost in the woods, you come upon a mysterious stranger who hands you two large spheres made of two kinds of opaque marble. The spheres look the same, are the same size and have the same weight and apparent density; however, one is solid and the other hollow. The hollow sphere contains a tiny map
After Sam Rottenegger’s failed attempt in the teaser “What Happened” to egg his least favourite band, he came up with another plan. This time he would use rotten eggs, and get in and out of the concert quickly. He took 6 eggs from his fridge and put them in a box in his closet for
Zona, the nutty professor, gathered the class one day for an experiment. Zona began, “I have in my hands a rock and a piece of wood. I am going to place them in this beaker of mysterious liquid, and you may observe what happens.” Surprisingly, the rock floated and the wood sank! He turned to
You are enjoying your breakfast after having put some salt on your scrambled eggs when your nerdy brother presents you with an ice cube floating in a glass of water and a short length of string. He challenges you to remove the ice cube from the glass using the string without tying any knots. What
NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why? AnswerBirds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow. Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down.