Remember when Bart Simpson used a string of megaphones to blow out all of Homer’s beers? The Backyard Scientist has always wondered what would happen if you lined up 10 megaphones in a row and yelled into them. Here, he puts that idea to the test. He reports, “That literal feedback loop was crazy loud!”
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What happens when you pump 20,000 joules into a watermelon? Two words. Pink Mist. After trying to blow up a watermelon with a smaller capacitor, TheBackyardScientist invited two of his friends over with four capacitors rated at 20kv and 25uf each. The capacitors came from a lab that used to them to simulate the effects of lightning on materials, so this is basically like what would happen if a lightning bolt struck a watermelon!
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