Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Steve Spangler on the Ellen Show - YouTube

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18 comments:

dylan said...

Wow, once again Steve Spangler has made me laugh. This video was funny and educational like the last one also. I thought the pickle lighting up because of the salt, and because of itself being the bridge for it to light up. The microscopic sponges was very cool also. For it to absorb all the water and turn into snow/fake snow...maybe.

Ben said...

That was crazy. I had no idea that a pickle could be a conductor, you can make snow with microscopic sponges, invisible ink works when carbon dioxide touches it and that liquid nitrogen and hot water could make such a big booooooom! I rate the science experiment an A++

Dylan said...

The liquid oxygen and hot water made even a bigger explosion than the balloons with oxygen and hydrogen. It was very cool to watch and i give this video an A+++!!!!

Gracie C. said...

Wow! Steve Spangler really know how to make science super cool! I think that the pickle experiment was not explained enough, but I bet you couldn't eat the pickle after the electrons have gone through unless you wanted your face to fall off. The experiment with the Insta-Snow was very cool. My friend Sophia says that she cut open a diaper and poured water on it. The same powder was there. I thought that the experiment with the invisible ink was extremely cool. They sprayed her lab coat with the ink, and then with the carbon dioxide. It made it go away. They used a fire extinguisher to get the carbon dioxide onto her lab coat. I thought that the coolest was the one with the liquid nitrogen.

Anonymous said...

Sophia said,
OMG. This was so coo. Steve Spangler really can some random science facts into something TV worthy. I think that the pickle experiment was really cool, but as Gracie said needed to be explained more. It was so cool that a pickle could light up a lightbulb. I wonder if it works with anything else besides a pickle. I was also wondering why the pickle. Is it because a pickle is poached in vinger. I also wondered why Steve or Ellen would not touch the pickle. WIll it give you a electric shock. For the second experiment, I kew all about it. I actually tested it when I was little. I cut open diaper and porred the powder into a bowl and added water. I puffed up really big. It was so cool. The third experiment was cool. I do not think that it was rela ink though. If it was it would have leaked through the side that Ellen put the ink on. I think that it was some sort of coloring or a really mild dye. Maybe it was like on of those think that you spray on one color and it changes to another color. Anyway the last experiment was the best. I like the part when Steve poured that hot water in and he stepped back as it blew up. I wonder if the blow is strong enough to lift an object. Maybe if scientists found a way for the plast to life a human. Humans might be able to fly! Well, at least for a few seconds.



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Weston said...

Again, not much scientific content here. Yeah, great, chemical reactions and clouds. They didn't go into depth. If they did, I could probably talk for a while here. I don't particularly find this video as good as the other one, but it was still pretty good.

Stanford said...

I thought it was pretty amazing. I thought they said a lot about the experiment. I still don't find this video as good as the other one, but it was still good. I thought the pickle trick could have been explained more, but the tricks about the snow and the liquid hydrogen one were explained and amazing.

Emilynne☯ said...

Wow. Just wow. That was so hilarious, but I learned a lot too. I never knew that pickles could be a conductor. I also really liked the last experiment. The liquid nitrogen was amazing. I can't believe it made a cloud that big! Also, about the pickle experiment. Steve Spangler made a comment, which I couldn't hear, but I think he said something about saltwater. Maybe the pickle conducts because it is salty? As to why they didn't touch it, I am sure the pickle would have given you an electric shock. I really liked this video, but I would have liked it more if they explained it a bit more. I give this video an A++!

Sabina☆❀❄❤ said...

Wow. Steve Spangler has the BEST experiments ever. That's an understatement. I learned a lot from that video, too. I didn't know that pickles could be a "bridge" (more like conductor). I assume that it did that because it is salty. I would of liked it if Steve Spangler explained the pickle experiment a bit more. I didn't really understand the second experiment though. Why did the ink they sprayed on the lab coat disappear? Was there any reaction involved? My favorite was the third experiment. I really liked how they used the liquid nitrogen to make a gigantic cloud. Overall, I really liked this video and will give it an A++++++.

Izzy☆☺☮✌♥✎ said...

Another awesome Steve Spangler science experiment! Like other people said, I didn't know something so simple as a pickle could be a conductor. But, if you really think about it, you can see why. I think it is because of the acid.
The snow thing was okay, only because they have the same exact thing at the Grove during winter time. But, I still thought it was cool because he explained how it worked.
The last thing, probably the coolest, was the cloud experiment(s). I've always wondered what it would be like to be in a really thick cloud where you could touch it, like that one, but, we are pretty much in a cloud every day of the colder season when you are at a high elevation.
Overall, this was really cool. I would love more experiments.

Chris said...

This is cool. I didn't think that a pickle could conduct electricity. It is amazing that something as simple as this tiny little green pickle can conduct something as complicated as electricity. The second experiment was great, but how does it disappear? Are there any specific chemicals in it that make it disappear. If so, I'd buy them. They would be extremely helpful. Demand would be high. They could probably create a big market for it. As for the last experiment, whew! LIQUID NITROGEN?!?!?!??!? That is soooo coooooooool. I observed that it looked a lot like dry ice. I liked how it whooshed up into a big cloud. I think this would be great to try at school. I also wonder if it is toxic. If not, I think a really fun experiment would be to dump the cloud off of a building. I want to see how big the range would be and if wind has anything to do with it.

Jonah said...


I thought that this was a cool video. We have done this in class before. When we do Halloween science, we have done the liquid nitrogen in water. It was really fun. It was even cooler when the guy in the video did it with a very large amount of nitrogen and water. The explosion was huge. The reaction that is created when there is so much of each material is amazing. I wish that the guy in the video would have explained how the reaction worked.With most of the experiments in the video, I wish the guy had explained more about how they worked. Even though he did not give much information, it was fun to see the experiments. I did not quite understand how the powder that turned into snow worked. We have also done that experiment in science. I really did not understand how the acid in the ink made it go away when it was blown on. All in all it was an informative good video, but I hope that in science the experiments will be explained.

Kallie said...

This was a really cool video. The pickle experiment was amazing, how the salt from the pickle could transfer electrons. I hope the pickle is safe to eat after the electrons have gone through it, because the pickle was put back into the jar and the jar was shaken. I thought it was also really cool how the snow was made. I wonder if that snow is good enough to make a snowman out of. I didn't find the disappearing ink experiment as interesting, but I didn't know that it disappeared because the carbon dioxide touched it. I really liked the cloud-making, too. I think it is really interesting that a cloud can be made with 2 things. Overall, I would rate this a 9/10 (10 being the best).

Oscar Garay said...

This was awesome. Steven Spangler was really funny. He explained the video thouroghly so it made sense. The liquid nitrogen experiment was the best. The invisible ink was true. Some people actually have seen it like me. I give the video a A+ good Job ellen.

Mila said...

this was so cool i loved how the pickle was like a strobe light! A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.(etc)

Alyssa said...

Wow! Like other people have said, the pickle experiment was really cool because it was a conductor. I would like to know more about why that is, but Steve Spangler said it was something abut the salt and how that helps. I wonder if it is related to a lemon being a conductor and that it serves the same purpose because they are both conductors. The invisible ink trick was pretty cool too, but I still don't know what the ink was made of and whether the same outcome happens for all types of ink. I like this video.

Rachel said...

This video was pretty cool. It showed you a bunch of cool experiments. It is cool to see Steve on the Ellen show. We have seen him in science class a few times. He is very funny and has a VERY unique personality. I agree, I don't understand what the invisible ink was made of. Overall, I give this article an A. Good job Ellen and Steve.