The Mizzone brothers (ages: 8, 12, & 13) are making YouTube history after releasing this amazing video:
Check out their YouTube channel for more great videos.
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The benefit of receiving something frozen via postal delivery? Good (great!) food AND a generous amount of dry ice in the package!
Yesterday we received such a delivery and after putting the perishables in the freezer I instantly knew what should be done with the remaining dry ice – EXPERIMENTATION!
It is such a joy to watch the excitement of our 5-year-old daughter when we do experiments. I am once-again indebted to Steve Spangler for encouraging us along the way – even before he personally encouraged us! (His book is still on sale here.)
If you don’t have the benefit of receiving dry ice in the mail, you can also (apparently) pick it up at your local grocer for a cost.
Have YOU done anything cool with dry ice before? We’d love to know about it (we still have a pound or two left over – and it’s melting!) – leave a comment letting us know what else we can try!
We bought our awesome safety glasses from stevespanglerscience.com
The requirements to win the $250,000 prize:
Hover for 1-minute
Reach a height of 3-meters (10 feet)
Remain in a 10-meter box from lift off
The pilot for the test flight will be University of Maryland grad student, Judy Wexler. With a female pilot, if the team successfully flies their helicopter, they will also receive the world record for the first human-powered helicopter piloted by a female!
The aircraft itself is HUGE – nearly 1/3 the size of a football field and yet engineered to weight about 100-pounds. The video quotes a finish-weight of nearly 140lbs, but they have managed to decrease it to around 100!
I will be following this story to see how their maiden voyage turns out. The first full flight attempt will be TOMORROW, May 11th, and they are planning to live-stream the event here starting at 9AM EDT.
Here is a well-produced video explaining the project and their goal in wining the Sikorsky Prize:
What is mind blowing about this whole thing is that the team of engineers have ONLY been working on this project for 2-years. More information on the project, the team, and the details of the initial flight can be found here.
Wow. The Cube Project is an initiative of Dr Mike Page at the University of Hertfordshire who set out to build a compact home, no bigger than 3x3x3 meters (about 10x10x10 feet) on the inside, in which one person could live a comfortable, modern existence with a minimum impact on the environment.
I love stuff like this – the idea of building a fully-functional (and noted, quite small) home with the smallest of footprint (both size and eco-wise) is fascinating to me. I think it’s because I loved the idea of building my own tree house that I could one day live in.
Check out the tour video of The Cube Project:
More information about the project from their official website.
If you can watch this video only once you will have achieved something I didn’t think was possible.
