Comments by "Victoria Eads" (@victoriaeads6126) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. Yes. A vernacular way to put this is that the tail is where the stresses are greatest. Unless the glass is properly annealed, trying to melt the tail will have the same effect as shooting the drop with a bullet.
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  2. Ya know, I used to have a tank with a group of female Betta fish! They mostly get along well. You just need to make sure they have hiding spaces...and like mean girls in fancy dresses at prom, you need to make sure that you don't have any that are the same color as the most dominant female. She WILL bite a girl for wearing the same dress.
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  3. This is the way.
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  4. It has to do with the internal stresses in the glass created by cooling it so quickly. Unless glass is annealed, or cooled slowly at specific temperatures for specific periods, it retains stress. If you even lightly tap stressed glass at the correct point, it will shatter. This glass is weakest at the thin spots, thus, the tail. When the tail is disrupted, the piece shatters instantly. Glass is amazing.
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  5. I've had Coober Pedy on my bucket list since I first heard about it, probably as a high school student. It's not just about pretty earrings, these are amazing, beautiful stones. They are SO beautiful that diamond merchants realized they could easily become more popular than diamonds, so they invented a myth that opals are bad luck. Their formation is fascinating and nothing else is really like the beauty of opals. If they weren't so fragile I would have one in my wedding ring. My husband, who had the ring designed for me, had a gorgeous Sri Lankan blue moon stone set into it instead.
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  6. I've been a happy visitor to many a Hot Glass Studio, and those folks are really professional and talented. That shop is run beautifully. If I am ever in that area, I will definitely make the effort to visit!
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  7. About the resin: all resin yellows over time. That wasn't a result of any choices you made. I love this video, though.
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  8. @Defensive Wounds Americans usually call it Eggplant, and if you're an artist or nerd, know the color as Aubergine. I didn't, however, know that Australians also called it eggplant, so cheers!
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  9. I must admit, after seeing how spoiled and happy your kitty was in your videos, I knew I would want to live in your tank 😂🐠🐡🦀
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  10. If there was a way to truly isolate the drop without vibration through the whole, perhaps this could work. Unfortunately, that's pretty much impossible. Similarly, even if you managed to melt off the tail without exploding the drop (extremely unlikely), the stresses within the drop would mean that without the tail, it would be considerably more fragile.
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  11. Crikey, though, you feeling up kangaroos is, uh, rather invasive.
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  12. This is a very interesting idea. I don't know whether you could ever convince the powers that be to try melting glass in the ISS, but THAT WOULD BE SO COOL... hot....I mean, there's science to be had. No, really, I think that would be a fascinating materials science experiment. If only I had sway with NASA, I'd tell them your idea. DESTIN??
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  13. Oooohhhhhh, cool idea! I'm pretty sure the result would be the same, but hey, maybe not! DESTIN! PLEASE??!
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  14. The pain is cumulative. Not nearly as rough as childbirth, though.
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  15. I've seen this applied in a few different ways. I sincerely hope that this guy is benefiting from this in all the ways. People like him should be essentially left to their own devices so that they can, like, figure out cold fusion.
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  16. YOU SHOULD SCULPT THIS! ERMAGERSH, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!!!
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  17. So, can borosilicate glass form a Prince Rupert's drop? If yes, how would it differ, if at all, from a soda lime glass Prince Rupert's drop?
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  18. This could be titled "Glass is Fascinating" Truth.
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  19. Why does that not count????!!!???? IT COUNTS!!!! I get it, this is going to be another rabbit hole like the Prince Rupert's Drop, but....that counts.
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  20. 5:45 Glass is amazing. High purity glass is even more amazing.
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  21. Mmmmmmm murmuration.....
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  22. Awhile back I took my kids to the Air & Space Museum on the National Mall. We live in Northern Virginia, so they've been to both that one and Udvar-Hazy several times. THAT time, though, was the first time I'd seen the new moon kiosk. It has the Slice Of Moon Rock, obviously. The amazing new addition, though, was that ABOVE the moon rock, there was a picture FROM THE MOON showing THAT PRECISE ROCK. Andrea Mosie, I can't imagine that happening without your input. It was mind blowing for adult me. My kids nearly exploded. MISSION: ACHIEVED. That was also the day when my lovely nerd children made a young docent's day by knowing what Friendship 7 was and being captivated by a YouTube video he showed them about the amazing thermal properties of the ceramic used for the tiles on the Space Shuttle. It was a good day.
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  23. 20:35 witnessing pure wonder and joy being experienced by someone is an amazing gift. What a moment, and what an image you've captured!!
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  24. Gonna be honest. I really like this channel. When you use guns on this channel, generally it's for an actual reason, typically a scientific one. However. I'm wary of any use of guns that isn't as a very specific tool. I live in Northern Virginia. Just last week we saw a situation that could have been even worse. Guns. It's A Very Touchy Subject...from a person who lives near NRA HQ.
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  25. The beautiful world of the Foley Artist 😀💜
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  26. Ok, we went to Tennessee and watched the eclipse at Smoky Mountain National Park. It was our big family vacation, and it was MIND BLOWING! You managed to find the one way that eclipse could be even better 😂 Awesome! 💜💜💜
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  27. Andrea Mosie, you are SO COOL! You are such an awesome role model (and, frankly, you nerd out over moon rocks. You are CLEARLY in the best possible place you could be) 😍😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜
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  28. @ 4:00 so weird, yet so accurate. Essentially, the drop is kind of laminated....but with an Achilles heel.
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  29. Starlings form murmurations during migration. They roost without nests during that time. In summer, though, the adults will nest and raise one or two rounds of nestlings. During that season they will often nest near other starlings, but in much smaller colonies than the migration murmuration. We had a family nest in the corner of our roof last summer. The funniest part of that was our peafowl. One of our young peacocks was very curious about the nest, and he would occasionally poke his head into the area where they were nesting. Momma starling DID NOT APPROVE 😂 Watching a little starling tell off a peacock easily 100xs her size, and watching him sheepishly back off, was PRICELESS!💜💜💜😂
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  30. This would be amazing to experiment with using molten glass 😻💜
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  31. Destin in a rocket factory=Kid in a candy factory😂😂💜
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  32. When we were at Smoky Mtn Nat. Park for the eclipse, we were fortunate enough to have brought a big enough piece of solar filter material (the solar lens film) to set up our telescope. We quickly realized that we could get pictures of the eclipse on our phones by lining up the lens carefully. Most if not all of the other telescope setups were either professional of academic setups. We were just there. Soon after that, someone nearby asked if they could get a picture on THEIR phone. Obviously we said sure! After that, I think we helped at least half a dozen or more people get some great images. It made the whole experience even better! My husband got a Corona image that I've suggested multiple times he try entering into a photography contest.
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  33. It has little to do with the string. Even if the drop was in free fall, the stresses within the glass would produce the same effect.
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  34. Yes, this is fascinating. I've always had very sensitive ears, and I've (thankfully) always respected my ears. Directional hearing is amazing. My family lives in a rural area outside Washington, DC, but on flight paths for several major airports and at least one or two Air Force bases. Above my house is fairly clear sky. It's really fun to close my eyes and rotate my head to narrow the search for high altitude aircraft. It works like a charm.
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  35. 20:35 witnessing pure wonder and joy being experienced by someone is an amazing gift. What a moment, and what an image you've captured!!
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  36. Is this species specific? Can it be observed in other places? I'd love to see a more in-depth followup to this....of course, now I'm gonna search and see if you already did one....
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  37. Not gonna lie, my tablet screen couldn't resolve the third set of text well enough to read. It had trouble with the second set, but I was able to decipher it with a little patience.
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  38. Mind. Completely. Blown. 😲💖💜😻😍
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  39. If you shine the lasers through a medium such as ice or frosted glass, you might have an effect that's easier to observe. The speed of light is, after all, only constant in a vacuum...
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  40. I'm frankly fangirling over Keith, the Royal Society Librarian. Sir, you're very cool.
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  41. I would happily sign a legally binding NDA and submit to a complete background check if it meant that I'd get the chance to tour that factory.
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  42. Glass is amazing. When I was 9 years old, my parents took us to the Corning Museum of Glass in Elmia, New York. I was DONE. I've been utterly fascinated by glass and by extension material science ever since. So, obviously, I have degrees in Linguistics and culture. (Shrug) I'm weird.
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  43. Elmira, NY. SIGH. Autocorrect.
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  44. NASA 💜💜💜💜💜! I can't wait-every time NASA completes a project, or even a stage of a project, it's just SO EXCITING!!!!!🌠👩‍🚀🌍🌎🌏🚀🛰🌕🌚
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