Can Gummy Bears Be Used as Rocket Fuel? | MythBusters
Вставка
- Опубліковано 11 лип 2016
- Is it possible to fuel a rocket using gummy bears? After an extremely challenging episode, Jamie and Adam have the answer.
Subscribe to Discovery:
bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery
Watch full episodes!
www.discoverygo.com
www.hulu.com/mythbusters
bit.ly/MythBustersFullEpisodes
Join us on Facebook:
/ mythbusters
/ discovery
Follow on Twitter:
/ mythbusters
/ discovery - Наука та технологія
The real question is how did Adam survive poking a wild Hyneman?
Yes
I'll poke your Hyneman
Public Service Announcements PSA's I think you mean hymen
Samuel Schurman ... it was a pun
He technically survived, but Mythbusters died. Too soon? ;-)
This makes me sad there won't be anymore mythbusters
wdym this was uploaded yesterday
+Savage Ranx the show ended
When yesterday
Savage Ranx it ended March 5th 2016
It's a shame that there will be no more episodes. But I guess they had to end the show sometime. There's only so many myths out there to cover before they start repeating themselves.
What bothered me though, is how they handled the series finale. The episode didn't even cover any myths. All they did was blow up their stuff. What they should have done is the biggest myth ever done on the show. Now that would have been the way to send it off.
Wow they finally discovered what North Korea uses to launch their nukes
i don't think they have gummy bears
They have unicorns so naturally they have gummy bears
Josh Love little fat boy Kim keeps eating all the rocket fuel.
XD
Jokan Xu all they are made of is gelatin and thats made from animal bones and cartilage
The long black smoke trail is my favorite part of their rocket experiment. You can tell this rocket is essentially fueled by pure carbon.
About the same as the "rocket candy" used by the students portrayed in the movie "October Sky" to propel their rockets. Great movie if you are interested in amateur rockets.
Agreed. Great movie. The scene near the end where the town has come to see the "little rocket" go up and it is way way more than they expected, is awesome.ua-cam.com/video/8ZezvNWgi4M/v-deo.html Interesting, too, that the only one who actually went on to work in the aerospace industry was Jake Gyllenhaal's character, who was the son of the miner, not one of the original "nerds".
Dude thank you so much. I've been trying to remember the name of that movie for the past like 10 years. Watched it when I was really young
@@carterdickinson5804 Please though... read Homer's book too. If only for the real skinny on his mom and dad, and how she NEVER threatened to leave him. The line about living under a tree was actually in response to him asking how they'd make a living if he left the mines like she was begging him too when he started getting sick. She said it like "I don't care about that, I'd live under a tree if it means I can be with you." But in this movie, they changed it to him saying "Oh yeah, where you gonna go?" and she says "I'll live under a tree to get away from you."
If you're interested in the book, you can find it under the same name but it's original title was Rocket Boys. Great read.
@@orionred2489 That's incredibly sad that they changed it.
All they did was make an overly dramatized sugar rocket.
That's exactly what I was gonna comment!
Is that bad or good?
@@Zzakaria_ Sugar rockets are simple home diy rockets often used in model rockets and such. Technically the mythbusters here could have answered the question of can gummy bears be used as rocket fuel as "yes thats kinda already a thing." But instead they acted as though it was a pioneering feat.
WeirdGuyGames Well, you could say that about many of the myths they do, but TV is TV
@@weirdguygames4294 As they have said about many myths. That just wouldn't make good TV. A lot of the myths can be busted by doing math but no-one would watch 40 min of maths.
I would love to know what company you send your burnt, powdered gummi bears to for conversion into solid rocket fuel.
I recently read the book “Rocket Boys,” and all I’m seeing from this experiment is “Rocket Candy.” That stuff was used in the group’s solid fuel rockets until they hit 500 ft as their highest on that fuel. After that, they had to go to a new fuel, as they were hitting the fuel/weight limit on their Auk rockets
As a teenager I use to make own rockets from scratch using powdered sugar . The bees in the park followed the rocket upwards too! 😃
I fly boomerangs and there are several species of fly that will chase the boomerangs REEEEEALLY efficiency! One species I identified is St Marks fly..... They follow really fast boomerangs from inches away and even keep pace with the spinning and that's mental! I'd love to know why they do that.....
The whole point was to compare altitudes and then they don't even say how high the gummy one went.
so you would watch the episode (probably)
You noticed this ws only 3 minutes of the 45 minute show!? Here's you're sign!
Yeah well this is a clip of an episode
@@stevenlerner75 nah, i'll just look it up instead of paying to see the full thing or scrubbing the internet to try to find it for free
@@CarmenFiala So did you find the answer then?
Gummi Bears!!
Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High explosives that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears!!
BEST COMMENT EVER 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was focused on the double rainbow it made the whole video in my opinion
was beautiful
Linsey Wagner I saw triple
yeah
L
Yeah 😂
Jack Parsons definitely deserved some props in this video, he's the one who first theorized solid fuel + oxygen is what we would need to get to space with rocket stability. He's a true pioneer of rocketry, a man ahead of his time.
He was also an occultist who learned under Aleister Crowley and also has a connection with L Ron Hubbard
@@CountDVB You're talking about things that don't pertain to his achievements and contributions to space flight for the human race, if anything the mentioned connections to famous people are testimony to his Great Work.
@@CountDVBOk so he was a weird guy and probably did weird sex stuff, who cares?
@@coolguyjki I’m saying that it adds a new level of fascination.
@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr I was just thinking it was cool that America had a rocket scientist wizard
3:02 Adam got so excited when the announcement came lol
if anyone is curious, the microwave they used is a "magic chef" microwave, used to have one basically lasted for 18 years with no issues until it just stopped, i'd say, extremely reliable microwave considering it lasted that long
mostly door switch brakes, its a $.50 part.
thanks
When the rocket went up and saw how high it went, I was struck with uncontrollable laughter! That's hilarious.
I was expecting "Three, Two, wa---" [COMMERCIAL]
On halloween my science teacher dressed up as jamie.
George Luz rlly
George Luz Awesome.
science teachers are the best
He's a legend.
I know a chemistry professor who did a demonstration of this with 2 gummy bears in a tube and a cork. It worked. The cork almost hit my dad in the face.
I've never seen a rocket before with such black smoke. That's some imperfect combustion right there, but if it works it works.
Look up fastjacks we use them all the time for our rockets. They are fast and put out nice thick black smoke.
"Gummy bears are the poop of baby unicorns" -Mythbusters 2016
so that is why they always look suspicious at me when I buy gummy bears at the gas station.
I miss my favorite show and the only one that I even turned my TV on for...........................................
You're romanian?
Look up The Modern Rogue it's very similar
top gear
"Powered gummy bears" also known as sugar.
Technically caramel because it's burnt sugar.
You can actually use me as a rocket fuel too as long as I'm well oxidized.
Lol
1:48 Only on Mythbusters can someone hold up a bag containing a rocket motor labeled "Poo," and maintain a straight face.
travelsonic oh bother.
"Trust me, I'm an engineer"
I once saw a video in which somebody put a gummy bear into some volatile chemical (nitric acid, maybe?) And it had a violent reaction.
"it´s been one of the most technical challenging experiments in mythbusters history" ... turning gummy bears into powder, to give it someone else who makes the rocket fuel out of it ... okay
Martin Rom uhh sure. because of course that’s the only steps they need to take in order to launch a rocket.
Doesn't make it any less technical. Fucking hell dumb fucks are dumb fucks.
There's also a lot more to this episode that is not shown in this four minute clip. Mythbusters episodes are usually what, 40 minutes? In which they test two maybe three myths an episode? Idk its been a long time since I watched it.
This is a tiny portion of the episode.
Technically they are no longer gummy bears.
I made these at my school (small ones of course) and it was so much fun!
Great video but the rocket wasn't powered by Gummy Bears. It was powered by the gelatin in the Gummy Bears but, crucially, Gummy Bears also contain a lot of water, which Adam boiled out in the microwave. It would have gone a lot more slowly and wouldn't have got far off the ground if they had used Gummy bears out the packet.
I would have liked to have seen a powdered sugar rocket as a comparison.
2:15
"It's been one of the most technically challenging experiments in Mythbusters history."
How? lol
maybe trying to change the microwave time was harder than it looked?
because they had to build a fucking rocket
Rocket science is hard
@@nopushbutton it's a literal sugar rocket, i've made and launched dozens of those, you can buy them in kits.
I haven't watched Mythbusters in years, and this is the first video I see when I search them
Cool, now I can go through with my plans for Saturday.
Did this really surprise anyone? I mean, it's just a sugar rocket with food dye and artificial flavoring added
AEguy Productions you have no childhood
its just a sugar rocket.. you dont need a license to mix it
johnny llooddte yeah but they are stupid as fuck and would fuck it up if they tried, I'm glad they did not do it. Just like how they fucked up both hydrogen generators they have made.
I'm surprised if you said "gummy bears make a good rocket fuel". But nobody is saying that. "Gummy bears melted down to just sugar then ground up and mixed with more chemicals makes an ok fuel" is what is suppose to be said.
other chemicals? Just an oxidizer and binding agents
man i love and miss this show so much!
At the UN:
"How did you manage to create a functional missile with gummy bears?"
"نعم"
A microwave and some balls.
Reminds me of an old science show where the unit of energy used was the JDU: jelly donut unit (and the presenter would throw them in a barbecue to burn).
Like the movie, October Sky. They used a sugar to slow the reaction because it burned slower. But the energy is there. I just doesn't explode.
One small step for gummy bears, a giant leap for mankind.
Yah. Have you ever eaten Haribo gummy bears? Damn near launches you off the can.
and its an even better video because of that dim rainbow that adds a nice effect in the backround!
2:52 love how they used rainbow colour gummy and the rainbow is behind them on firing
pyro8818ak47 ohhhhhhhhhhh, ahah...double rainbow!!
There's just something fun about hearing Jamie say "Gummy Bears" …
Diesel owners *heavy breathing*
Have you seen that black smoke? It's not the most efficient propellent.
The rainbows in the background of the launch make this an awesome clip
I remember watching this years ago, and i stopped watching a while ago, when our tv broke and we just decided not to watch tv cus its unhealthy, and i didnt even realise that grant passed away-
Oh my goodness! This is so NOSTALGIC!
You can make a lot of things burn well if you add a lot of potassium nitrate to it
UA-cam 4 years later: TIME TO SHINE BROTHA
Sugar is a rough a explosive and when pressurized could definitely fuel a rocket and make a bomb(mixed with sodium nitrate).
Best entertaining science show ever. Greetings from Poland :)
Oh come on! Taste test the Gummy Bears Rocket Fuel. Sounds like the next Halloween Candy.
So, to what height did the sugar propel the rocket compared to normal rocket fuels? From the look of the black smoke it didn’t seem to be burning cleanly, which suggests less efficiency, and less height.
Love how there's a rainbow too :) Lucky sign ;)
love you guys
That moment when Jamie can bust a myth but not a nut
L
And just how would you know?
He didn't even bust the myth here, my ignorant swine.
“Mom, they said on the Discovery Channel that gummy bears are actually poop from baby unicorns.”
I wonder how well the ammonium perchlorate would do with only the rubber binder, as I think that rubber acts as a fuel too.
Thats one small step for gummy bears! One giant leap for gummykind!
It's pretty much a sugar rocket that you can make with potassium nitrate
Filip laskovski you need a special license, or just watch King of Random.
@@ryanamberger you don't need a license for sugar rockets.
This reminds me of October sky
THAT WAS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS
you the best thing about this video is the fact that there is a rainbow in the background while there about to launch a gummy rocket
At 3:01, you guys can see a double rainbow, one in the center and the second in the right corner, just barely visible.
This is- wonderful
They might not get along but they sure love a good rocket. XD
3:29 omg its a double ranbow
3:02 too
That is pretty cool!!
I think this time I went over the video title 5 times without noticing it exactly
. In my status i wasnt prepared for gummy bears as rocket fuel hahaga!! As I was going through the suggested feed on yt.
WONDERFUL!
Suggar and Potasiumnitrate as oxidiser make a great rocket fuel^^
Awesome and amazing experience 🌹👍✋🌟
That's insane.
Does anyone know how high it went? I am very curious to see how efficient it was.
can jet fuel melt steel beams
No
Wax Mop why I've done nothing to you
can jet fuel melt dank memes
No it cannot melt steel beams, however, the beams don't need to melt in order to lose their structural integrity. They just need to be very hot/exposed to fire.
no
Legend has it that starships raptor engines will run on gummy bears, leaving behind a tasty smoke trail 😋
@ 3:22 you can see a double rainbow behind Jamie and Adam.
So how high did they go?
And waiting for that drone shot made it worth while.
I think Discovery should release all the episodes of Mythbusters that have not yet made it onto DVDs/Blue Ray. There are so many that are missing: Car Drop, Ultimate Mythbuster, Boarding a Plane, Mythbuster vs Jaws, for just a few. Just give us all the episodes, for pity's sake!
Imagine eating a whole packet of it on a Taco Tuesday.
0:44 you don't need a special license to do it, just the equipment and knowledge of how to do it
here in 2022, RIP Mythbusters
I bet the boys at nasa had to rewrite the drawing boards to see if they could replace rocket fuel w gummis
Cheap rocket fuel made from the waste and debris created on a space station might indeed be a useful fuel.
In the 'British Secret projects' series of books, about for example, the MUSTARD re-useable spacecraft designed in Britain, there is an aside about serious work done to turn waste products into useful fuel while in space.
So that's turning human wastes, paper, other carbonaceous wastes with a binder and chemical oxidiser into a solid / jelly-like fuel.
It was found the equipment, materials needed and so on would be more weighty and expensive than the saving in transporting fuel.
Wastes are still brought back to Earth today.
And to give the gummys a bit extra burn, can soak them over night in rum or whisky so they soak it up then melt them and grind them..
Please test the "Eco cooler" ^^
"one of the most technically challenges"
you put gummy bears in a microwave.
I've used that same food processor to grind up POUNDS of weed.
Everybody notices the rainbow back there that's so ironic for a gummy bear powered rocket
Yes
But isn't it how every candle burns from the inside, but differently because the reaction is much slower.
whatever kid told u to use gummy bears as fuel is probably a rocket scientist now!!
Oooo looks like a supercell at 2:24
3:22 DOUBLE RAINBOW wow!!!
People in the comments think they're clever with "it's just a sugar rocket" but there's a lot more in gummy bears than sugar and most of it doesn't burn as well. There's gelatin, artificial flavoring, food dye, etc.
Oh yeah, and also the fact that gummy bears don't use real sugar, but high fructose corn syrup, a non-flammable substance.
This means that it IS still a valid, solid question if Gummy Bears could be used as fuel. By presenting the sugar rocket, you haven't shown that it's already been done, as much as that you have no clue what a Gummy Bear *actually is*.
Also, people talking about how it wasn't a challenge are equally confusing, because this is TV. They can, and will, cut out anything boring to a viewer. Oftentimes, this means a lot of minor technical problems are cut out. After all, there is a good reason that "rocket science" (I put it in quotations because "rocket science" could refer to a lot of different things, but it's common usage usually refers to aerospace engineering, so that's how I'm using it here) has a reputation for being ridiculously difficult. It's nothing compared to nuclear physics or quantum mechanics, but it's still REALLY damn hard.
And they cut even more out of these videos, both for length and so that you have incentive to watch the show.
So yeah, there were probably PLENTY of technical problems that you don't see because you are watching a 4 minute UA-cam video of a 45 minute TV episode, one small part of which was a bunch of makers testing a dumb rocket, rather than a 6 hour documentary on that single rocket's development.
this is nice
They could just mix the gummy bear powder with KNO3 and make rocket candy.
I guess anything that has a reaction to heat canvbe used as thrust as long as it's propelled uniformly through the exhaust port.
Farts?