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Witness the ultimate Egg Adventure as an egg is dropped from space in this thrilling experiment! Watch as we push the boundaries of science and engineering to see if the egg can survive the extreme conditions of re-entry and landing. This exciting space experience will keep you on the edge of your seat, combining scientific curiosity with high-flying fun. Don't miss this unique and captivating experiment!
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Witness the ultimate Egg Adventure as an egg is dropped from space in this thrilling experiment! Watch as we push the boundaries of science and engineering to see if the egg can survive the extreme conditions of re-entry and landing. This exciting space experience will keep you on the edge of your seat, combining scientific curiosity with high-flying fun. Don't miss this unique and captivating experiment!
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00:00This is space, and this is an egg moments before I attempted the world's highest egg drop.
00:05Now in an egg drop competition, in case you never had the chance to do it yourself in school,
00:09the goal is to build a contraption that can protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from the tallest height possible.
00:14So my original plan was to drop an egg in a contraption I built from the world's tallest building.
00:19But humans are always building taller buildings, so if I really wanted to future-proof this record,
00:24I realized I would need to go all the way to the top and straight to outer space.
00:28And when I started on this journey three years ago, I knew if I could draw my experience of landing stuff on other planets,
00:34I would be guaranteed the record.
00:35But what I didn't know is this would be the most physically, financially, and mentally draining video I would ever attempt.
00:42But first, let me just explain what I was thinking.
00:44The plan was to clamp an egg to the front of a rocket, then attach that rocket to a weather balloon and take it up to space.
00:50Once there, the weather balloon would release it, and just by using gravity only,
00:54the rocket would eventually accelerate past Mach 1, breaking the speed of sound,
00:58and then it would autonomously adjust the four fins on the back to steer itself to the target location,
01:03and then at 300 feet above the ground, it would release the egg, which would freefall onto a mattress that we'd placed on the ground.
01:09And that all seemed pretty straightforward.
01:11So like any good engineers would, we broke the problem down into smaller steps,
01:15starting first with calculating the terminal velocity of an egg.
01:19And by terminal velocity, I mean that any object, including humans,
01:22have a maximum speed at which they fall once the force of Earth pulling you towards it
01:27balances with the pushback force from bumping into more and more air molecules as you start to fall faster.
01:32For humans, that max speed is about 120 miles per hour,
01:35and after doing some simple math for an egg, it tops out at 75 miles per hour.
01:39So to make sure the egg wouldn't break if we dropped it onto a mattress at its terminal velocity, we ran our first test.
01:45And since we couldn't find a tall enough building whose lawyers would agree to let us hurl an egg off the side and onto a mattress,
01:50we had to improvise a bit.
01:56Eighty-three.
01:57Yes!
01:58Check the egg!
01:59No cracks.
02:00So our mattress will protect an egg even if it's traveling faster than its terminal velocity.
02:06That's a good start.
02:08The next step in our DIY space program was to head back to my friends in the small farming town of Gridley, California,
02:14which is the place where he broke the Elephant Juice Base world record,
02:16where the plan was to set out a target mattress for the egg to land on in the middle of a field,
02:20with a little bit of margin built in just in case.
02:23All right, so we've got the smoke charge back here, so that as we're like coming down from the sky, we want to be able to pick it out.
02:29This is the computer. Here's the fins.
02:31This, by the way, is Joe, and he has a fascinating channel called BPS Space.
02:35And what makes him especially cool is he didn't go to school for any kind of engineering degree.
02:40He's all self-taught and recently even landed a launched rocket SpaceX-style after seven years of trying.
02:46Joe was in charge of tracking and guiding the rocket to the mattress using these movable tail fins,
02:51whereas I was in charge of the payload.
02:52In other words, how we would keep the egg from freezing on the way up in a little oven with heaters,
02:56which would break away before we dropped, along with the mechanisms to release the egg itself.
03:00Release the egg!
03:02And the purpose of this first trip to Gridley was a flight characterization test.
03:07Basically, before we spent all the time and money taking the balloon all the way up to space,
03:11we were here just to do a low-altitude test at 10,000 feet just to prove to ourselves we could steer the rocket using the fins.
03:17We're setting all sorts of world records out here.
03:19World's largest mattress, fastest egg, tallest egg drop.
03:23What could possibly go wrong besides like 4,000 things?
03:28And so with everything more or less in place and ready to go, all we needed now was an official egg,
03:33which thankfully Gridley has in abundance.
03:36Hi! I'm sorry.
03:38This is terrifying.
03:41Okay, okay, okay.
03:43No, no, no!
03:45Hey, hey.
03:50Precious egg.
03:51In the history of our universe,
03:53this is the first chicken that's ever laid an egg that will go faster than the speed of sound.
03:59Supersonic. Mach 1.
04:01Thank you. I'm sorry, I'm leaving.
04:03Congratulations.
04:05The next morning, we got up at 4 a.m., when the winds would be the most calm,
04:08to run through all our final pre-launch preparations.
04:11Loading up our lovely egg.
04:13Including the last-minute decision to add a metallic streamer to the back of the rocket to make it easier to visually track.
04:18We've got redundancy all over the place here.
04:20We've got redundant leads, redundant igniters.
04:22Mark has two servos on the fairing.
04:24No dumb failures.
04:26And that's exactly when we had our first dumb failure.
04:29Ah!
04:31The GPS is mad.
04:33We've got to scrub the launch.
04:35We were just walking back, I gave the eggs all bloop, and it pooped it out.
04:38And scrubbing the launch meant we unfortunately had to release all the helium out of the balloon.
04:43Which is an opportunity I'm not going to let just pass on by.
04:46Hello. Wow! That's so cool!
04:49And back at home base, we ran some tests that confirmed our hypothesis
04:52that since the GPS unit was right at the back of the rocket,
04:55the last-minute addition of the metallic streamer was interfering with the GPS signal.
05:01And that messed up the rocket's math in calculating its speed,
05:03so it thought it was time to release the egg.
05:05So early the next morning, we were back at it with a few modifications,
05:09the most important being swapping the metallic tracking streamer with one made from plastic.
05:13Good news is there's hardly any wind today.
05:16Bad news is it's about 20 degrees colder,
05:18which means our mattresses are kind of frozen.
05:21Nevertheless, we pushed forward.
05:23Don't trip, Mark!
05:25As I very carefully delivered the rocket to the new balloon launch site.
05:29Send it! Send it, baby! Blue, send it!
05:40It's happening! Should we see it?
05:42Oh, yeah, yeah! I see it! I see it! I see it!
05:50Oh, there it is!
05:52And while the whole thing looked really cool,
05:54So we, uh, might be in trouble.
05:57We quickly realized the balloon was rising at a slower rate than we anticipated.
06:01We're already south and we're only halfway up.
06:03Which totally threw off the predicted trajectory.
06:06And so after a few more minutes, we decided to manually drop the rocket.
06:09Because we were already way too far off course for the rocket to make up the lateral distance to the mattress,
06:14using just the fins and gravity.
06:163, 2, 1, clicked.
06:22Oh, boy. That's not good.
06:24And that's when we encountered the second problem of the day,
06:27as the fins actively forced the rocket into an uncontrolled death spiral.
06:31Altitude is 1,400, coming down fast!
06:42Well, it landed somewhere.
06:43Check the mattress just in case!
06:45And since we had the GPS coordinates of the rocket, we headed out to track it down.
06:49The real question is, what's the status of the egg?
06:52Mark, I think I might have some bad news for you.
06:54At which point we stumbled on an entire field of sitting birds,
06:57which is another opportunity I'm not gonna let just pass on by.
07:04That's a zoo, dude!
07:05Is that a zoo?
07:07There's no egg.
07:08The egg did release. The fact that this is out means the egg did come out, so that's good.
07:13But despite that silver lining, the movable fins seemed to be actually forcing the rocket into that tailspin,
07:19which was surprising, because Joe had definitely run through a lot of analysis and testing before coming here.
07:24So after conducting a thorough review of the footage and firmware,
07:27he was able to locate and fix a single rogue negative sign in the code
07:31that seemed to be causing all the control issues.
07:34Which meant we were ready to give this one final try.
07:37We had run out of spare parts and spare weather balloons,
07:40so regardless of outcome, this would be the final attempt.
07:44If we couldn't land the egg on a mattress from 10,000 feet up,
07:47we wouldn't have any hope of pulling it off coming all the way down from space.
07:51Phenomenal!
07:52That's nerdy space talk for everything is exactly as expected.
07:56I'm standing in the middle of the world's largest mattress
08:00where hopefully the egg will be landing in like 45 minutes.
08:05Otherwise we're pivoting at my new video's world's largest mattress.
08:09So I'm arming the rocket right now.
08:12The last step.
08:14Alright, old girl, you're in for a ride.
08:163, 2, 1, let her ride, baby!
08:24Looking good so far, we're at 500 meters.
08:26Now in order for the balloon to hit the target mattress,
08:28for each launch we'd started from different spots around Gridley.
08:32Which raises an interesting question maybe you've wondered yourself.
08:35How do big balloons like hot air balloons steer themselves?
08:38Or I guess even just know where they're going to land?
08:41And the answer is,
08:42computers know the wind direction and speed at every height as you go up.
08:46So on a given day, if these are the predicted wind directions and speeds,
08:49we would need to launch here to be directly above the mattress
08:52when we got to 10,000 feet.
08:54But how we know all this information is the fascinating part.
08:57Because every day it's someone's job to launch two balloons like this
09:00into the sky at noon and midnight London time.
09:04But this is done in over a thousand locations all around the world
09:08at those same two exact moments.
09:10And these balloons all have something called a radiosonde attached to them
09:13that measures things like altitude, pressure, temperature, and wind
09:16and then they transmit the information back to the ground stations
09:19which gets fed into supercomputers
09:21and that's the reason weather and wind predictions can be so accurate.
09:25So 2,000 of these massive weather balloons go up every day
09:28and then eventually pop and just land somewhere.
09:31And since they're transmitting a signal,
09:33some folks make a hobby out of just trying to track them down.
09:36How close are we to the drop point?
09:39Balloon release.
09:41And this time we were releasing right in the target drop zone
09:44which was good news on one hand
09:46but it raised some new challenges on the other.
09:48Where is it?
09:51Graviture!
09:56400.
09:57Graviture!
10:04Altitude 98 meters.
10:09I think we're down.
10:11Everyone okay?
10:13That was exhilarating.
10:15So we were much closer this time
10:17and we even managed to steer the rocket in the right direction just slightly.
10:20We found it.
10:24Egg?
10:25No egg.
10:26No egg?
10:27Wait a minute.
10:28It's the egg!
10:30Did it crack?
10:32I mean it's not not cracked.
10:34So after three failed attempts,
10:36we still seemed pretty far off from where we needed to be
10:38which meant it was time for the ultimate phone-a-friend
10:40with my buddy Adam Stelzner
10:42who you might recognize as this guy
10:44from when we landed Curiosity on Mars.
10:48He has a PhD from Caltech
10:50and he's also the chief engineer for Perseverance
10:52and Mars Sample Return.
10:54And so after explaining to Adam what we were trying to do
10:56he immediately spotted a fatal flaw
10:58in our brilliant plan.
11:00And you're doing terminal guidance
11:02to something about the size of a house.
11:04How are you going to do that?
11:06I mean I know how you physically do that
11:08how do you not get busted by the FAA?
11:10In other words, we were basically attempting
11:12to make a precision-guided missile.
11:14Dude, there are thousands of people who have done this before
11:16and they are sworn by federal law
11:18not to say a single f***ing word to you.
11:20And to be fair,
11:22he raised a good point.
11:24The people who could help us actually can't
11:26and even if we figured it out ourselves
11:28the ethics of just slapping that how-to video up on YouTube
11:30are questionable at best.
11:32And so after a fruitful discussion with Adam
11:34But we release at about the height
11:36and then we do a lobbing
11:38the thing you start to worry about is heating
11:40you might want to start with a two-stage thing
11:42we decided to pivot
11:44and instead of a precision-guided egg landing
11:46on a mattress in a small town
11:48we would set our sights on a much more general egg landing target
11:50by heading out to the desert.
11:52But as part of the pivot, we completely scrapped our old design
11:54and spent a couple months designing
11:56and building a new system
11:58that borrowed heavily from the Curiosity landing
12:00because we figured if it could safely put a rover on Mars
12:02it could safely land an egg on Earth.
12:04So we would still go to space on a weather balloon
12:06but this time the rocket would have fins that didn't move
12:08and it would be three times as long
12:10and four times as heavy
12:12to guarantee we would get the egg to supersonic speeds
12:14on the way down.
12:16Then just like NASA separates the cruise stage
12:18in the upper atmosphere
12:20and then uses aerobraking to dissipate a bunch of the energy and speed
12:22we would separate from the back half of the rocket
12:24about halfway down
12:26after we'd already broken the sound barrier
12:28and because this is now weighed much less
12:31it would naturally aerobrake
12:33and reduce its speed to the new lowered terminal velocity.
12:35Then on Mars, the next step
12:37is the parachute deploy
12:39followed by the heat shield separation
12:41and we would follow in kind by launching our own parachute
12:43and then release our own nose cone
12:45which would then expose our set
12:47of cushioning airbags
12:49as you can see here
12:51which we borrowed from the Spirit and Opportunity landings.
12:53It was intentionally ambitious
12:55and extremely complicated
12:57but after a couple months of complete redesigning
12:59and building
13:01we found ourselves in the desert
13:03feeling cautiously optimistic
13:05and that was due in part to our lucky orange parachute
13:07because when I left NASA
13:09my friends gave me this rectangular piece of nylon
13:11and for scale, that's the exact same rectangle here
13:13that's part of the parachute
13:15the Curiosity rover used to land
13:17so that piece of parachute
13:19is actually one of the 80 rectangles you see here
13:21as they were running the final tests
13:23in the world's largest wind tunnel
13:25and so it only felt fitting
13:27with a little bit of cutting and a little sewing
13:29it had nobly repurposed itself
13:31for the new mission
13:33so as the sun went down, back at the hotel
13:35we worked late into the night
13:37on final preparations
13:39this was an idea and a passion project
13:41three years in the making
13:43and it took a staggering amount of work
13:45even to get us to this point
13:47we had thought and prepared
13:49for so many things that could go wrong
13:51and while I was feeling optimistic
13:53I knew at the end of the day
13:55we could definitely determine our fate
13:57so early the next morning
13:59the crew in charge of the balloon
14:01got to the launch site to start filling it up
14:03and this balloon looks a little different than the others
14:05because it's a zero pressure weather balloon
14:07the advantage these have over a typical weather balloon
14:09is they can go higher up into space
14:11carry more weight
14:13and they're open on the bottom
14:15which means they equalize to the pressure
14:17and it's impossible for them to pop
14:19so when you want it to come down
14:21you send a signal that will pull down on a string
14:23and it opens like a zipper and self-destructs
14:25the downside is they're incredibly lightweight
14:27and so thin and delicate
14:29you have to be really careful and touch it with gloves
14:31and they were about an hour into filling it
14:33with the four massive tanks of helium we had on hand
14:35when we made a gut-wrenching discovery
14:43hey dude
14:45I got bad news
14:47we have to scrub
14:49start taking the helium out of the balloon
14:53launch scrubbed
14:57they had some issues
14:59that I guess they can't resolve by today
15:01so we're sucking out the helium
15:03from the balloon
15:05and trying for another day
15:13what are you talking about
15:15are you serious
15:17now for context
15:19Joe was in charge of this part of the rocket
15:22and I and my team were in charge of all of this
15:24and while we each tested our individual systems
15:26ad nauseum
15:28it wasn't until that morning
15:30that we were able to test the integration
15:32of the two systems together
15:34and when we did
15:36it became immediately clear to me
15:38I had made a critical oversight
15:40so tension compression
15:42this is great
15:44it's holding on to that thing fantastically
15:46the problem is this is so long and heavy
15:48as soon as it wiggles
15:50but this happening
15:52at mach 2
15:54that's not going to work out
15:56there's no other balloons
15:58in the world
16:00of this size that we can get access to
16:02this is the only one for like another month
16:04we're trying to save this one
16:06so we can hopefully reuse it
16:08but any slight little damage
16:10you touch it in the wrong spot
16:12and now that's an imperfection
16:14that may actually be a failure point
16:16for a future mission
16:18the integration of two independent systems
16:20is such a classic failure point
16:22in engineering
16:24I was crushed I had missed this
16:26and financial concerns aside
16:28I felt like I had just let everyone down
16:30not just my team
16:32and the rest of the crew helping out
16:34but all the other folks
16:36some of whom drove 6 hours
16:38to come out and watch as well
16:40but that's the thing with failures
16:42they can sting like crazy
16:44but it's really just a process
16:46and one more way not to do a thing
16:48and so even as I sat there
16:50feeling pretty bad like any good engineer
16:52I was already coming up with a list
16:54of all the things we were going to fix
16:56to get back out here
16:58and try this dang thing one more time
17:00and this principle of resiliency
17:02is something I think can be learned
17:04in fact I believe this so much
17:06I started a toy company called Crunch Labs
17:08with the express goal of helping kids
17:10think like an engineer
17:12so with the billbox not only do you get a super fun toy
17:14but you do it alongside me
17:16while I teach you all the juicy physics
17:18of how it works
17:20we're right there in the trenches
17:22building and succeeding together
17:24so the principles really sink in
17:26so if you're a kid and you're looking for something
17:28to put at the top of your Christmas wishlist
17:30or you want to gift it to someone else
17:32so you can be the household hero
17:34just head to crunchlabs.com
17:36or use the link in the video description
17:38now as far as my plan to bounce back
17:40from my own failure
17:43we did a few things in our favor for the final launch
17:45first of all we fixed the connection point
17:47with more of a sheath design that could handle the bending moment
17:49and then at the right altitude
17:51it would autonomously separate the two halves
17:53with a black powder charge
17:55second we ran some vacuum and temperature tests
17:57on a raw egg
17:59there's no air pressure and it's really really cold in space
18:01so if you don't do something to protect the egg
18:03for the two hours it takes the balloon to get up to space
18:05it will freeze and crack the egg every time
18:07so we tested some heaters
18:09in our egg chamber
18:11to keep the egg warm enough
18:13third we built redundancy into our system
18:15when NASA sends something to Mars
18:17they can't go there to fix it
18:19so it just has to work
18:21and for that reason a lot of critical systems have backups
18:23even the part of my own hardware
18:25in Curiosity that accepted a dirt sample
18:27from the arm into the belly of the rover
18:29had two doors that opened to the exact same place
18:31in case one of the doors
18:33ever stopped working
18:35in our case redundancy meant
18:37making a two foot wide custom beach ball
18:39the second egg surrounded in packing materials
18:41with a 20 foot streamer on the back
18:43we would just drop like a rock
18:45it would be dead simple
18:47no parachutes to deploy
18:49no autonomous timing sequences
18:51and no fancy mechanisms
18:53this would be our redundant yet I would argue kind of boring
18:55second chance opportunity
18:57to land a safe egg
18:59and fourth and finally we went to a local crane yard
19:01to test both our solutions
19:03at their respective terminal velocities
19:05starting first with the beach ball
19:07oh baby
19:09she's alive
19:11and after that
19:13we tested the final landing configuration
19:15of the rock
19:17oh yeah
19:19oh yeah
19:21by the way the actual rover parachute held perfectly
19:23and so after all that
19:25we made this six hour trek back
19:27to the desert for what I was really
19:29really hoping would be the last time
19:31hey guys
19:33after four failed attempts we had learned so much
19:35which left me feeling cautiously optimistic
19:37and right out of the gate
19:39we got two bits of really good news
19:41the first relates to that super delicate
19:43zero pressure balloon we had to reuse
19:45from the last launch because there was no
19:47possible way to get a replacement
19:49just barely touching the balloon leaves it stressed
19:51and creates a weak point for it to tear
19:53so I was obsessively checking the
19:55fish scale reading that would give us the verdict
19:57the force reading is
19:5937.6 kilograms
20:01a buoyancy force pulling this up
20:04importantly
20:06it's not changing
20:08if it were changing and going down
20:10that means we would have a leak
20:12but it's holding steady at 37.6
20:14and the second piece of good news
20:16is my buddy and warm blooded good luck charm
20:18Al Chen had arrived
20:20you might recognize Al as the other guy here
20:22with Adam and he's the one who actually said this
20:24touchdown confirmed
20:26we're safe on Mars
20:28if we were successful
20:30he'd be the one to make the official call
20:32after all the requisite last minute preparations
20:34and three long years
20:36it was finally time for liftoff
20:38ready
20:403, 2, 1
20:52and everything
20:54was looking good
20:56the balloon ascent rate was just what we predicted
20:58and that meant we for sure didn't have a leak
21:00and things were finally breaking our way
21:02is that how it's supposed to look?
21:04and it takes about 2 hours
21:06to get all the way up to space
21:08whoa
21:10so once the balloon hit 30,000 feet
21:12we decided to hop in the car so we could drive
21:14over to the predicted landing spot
21:16about 45 minutes away
21:18so far it's all systems nominal
21:20balloon's in the air, it's ascending
21:22at the right rate, we've passed some
21:24critical threshold points
21:26and we're still in the game
21:285th time is the charm as they say
21:30and we eventually started outrunning the balloon
21:32in the car so we pulled over for a bit
21:34as we reached an important altitude
21:36milestone of 100,000 feet
21:38I would say over 100
21:40over 100
21:42that's 19 miles up and 2.5 times
21:44higher than a typical commercial plane
21:46flies, and because the balloon expands
21:48so large as it rises, we realized
21:50we could actually even spot it from
21:52the ground, which was awesome
21:54I know, I see it, yeah
21:56dude, that's totally it
21:58what wasn't awesome was when moments
22:00later Joe, while looking through the binoculars
22:02made this gut-wrenching
22:04observation
22:06it looked really big and then it looked really small
22:08you saw it small?
22:10yeah, it seemed to be smaller
22:12but it's just weird that it would just completely disappear
22:14which was followed by a devastating
22:16call from the balloon tracking team
22:18it dropped within the last 2 minutes
22:20yeah
22:22that's 30,000 feet over the last however, so it's just popped
22:25but these don't pop, there's zero pressure
22:27and that's true, they don't pop
22:29but unbeknownst to us
22:31while we were looking at it from the ground
22:33the rocket and beach ball had been spinning around and around
22:35relative to the balloon for about
22:3710 minutes, this meant the cord
22:39that attaches to the string that self-destructs
22:41the balloon was getting wrapped around
22:43tighter and tighter until it was so tight
22:45it pulled down on the balloon string
22:47that is designed to essentially
22:49unzip and destroy itself
22:51and so before we even had the chance to release
22:53the rocket and beach ball from the balloon
22:55it all started coming down in one big
22:57tangled heap at 150 miles per hour
22:59which is way faster
23:01than the eggs could survive
23:03let's start driving
23:05and as we drove over, all I could think
23:07about was how our fate would rest solely
23:09in the hands of the redundant systems
23:11we'd put in place
23:13we think it's probably
23:15about 2 miles up that way
23:17this was our Apollo
23:1913 moment, if our payload could
23:21autonomously jettison itself from the tangled
23:23rocket balloon mess at 20,000 feet
23:25then it would be able to deploy our lucky
23:27orange parachute and land the eggs
23:29safely on its airbags
23:31and as we parked, we knew what was done
23:33was done, there was nothing left to do
23:35but go on a hunt to find the wreckage
23:37and reveal our fate
23:39I see something orange
23:41that looks like a rover parachute
23:43okay
23:45we've got a thing
23:47and seeing the payload all by
23:49itself was a huge deal
23:51because it meant it had actually
23:53autonomously ejected itself from the mangled
23:55weather balloon mess at 20,000 feet
23:57and later when we checked the footage
23:59this is exactly what it confirmed
24:01and while that was incredible news
24:03I knew by this point not to get
24:05my hopes up
24:07so let's look through the window, a little bit of dirt
24:09you see, good, definitely touchdown
24:11touchdown confirmed, whether or not we're safe
24:13on earth, it's TVD right?
24:15let's check it out to be sure
24:17touchdown confirmed, we're safe on earth
24:19we're safe on earth!
24:21that is a hot egg
24:23it was in space
24:25and now it's on earth
24:27and it's not broken
24:29after that we tracked down the beach ball
24:31which as far as I was concerned
24:33was just extra credit at this point
24:35this is the backup, the simple solution
24:37the true engineer solution here
24:39oh my god
24:41oh my god
24:43oh my god
24:45oh my god
24:47touchdown confirmed
24:49look at that, we're safe on earth
24:51we are safe on earth!
24:53two for two baby, two for two!
24:55and as we walked away
24:57with two uncracked eggs in hand
24:59I was reminded that in life
25:01things rarely unfold how we think they will
25:03but by learning from your failures
25:05coupled with a bit of tenacity, us humans
25:07can accomplish a feat as incredible
25:09as the world's smartest Martian robot
25:11or as ridiculous
25:13as the world's tallest egg drop
25:15you know what would be cool?
25:17because like, I hope you learned something
25:19by watching this video
25:21but how much more would you have learned
25:23if you were out there in the desert with me
25:25helping to troubleshoot and put the rocket together
25:27well I got great news for you
25:29because I got the next best thing
25:31and it's called the Crunch Labs
25:33Build Box
25:35it's a toy that gets delivered right to your doorstep every month
25:37and then we build it together while I teach you
25:39all the juicy physics that make it work
25:41so you're basically unlocking your own personal
25:43Mark Rober video every month
25:45where you learn a new engineering principle
25:47that will have you not just building like an engineer
25:49but more importantly, thinking like an engineer
25:51so you develop that resilience
25:53and those problem solving skills
25:55and by the way
25:57don't go sleeping on just how cool
25:59the toys we'll be building together actually are
26:01like this
26:03insanely accurate rapid fire
26:05disc launcher, or this linkage
26:07powered drawing machine, or this
26:09iceberg style catapult launcher that will leave you
26:11feeling like you just landed your own dang egg
26:13from space
26:15and I should mention that Crunch Labs is a real place
26:17it's where we design all these boxes
26:19and it's got a tennis ball cannon
26:21and the world's longest hot wheels track
26:23and a foam pit, and a bunch of other cool inventions
26:25and each month when you open your box
26:27that comes in the mail, you have a chance to find
26:29the platinum ticket, and if your box
26:31has it, that means you and your family
26:33get to come out and visit me and my team for a day
26:35and we'll build some cool stuff together
26:37so if you want to embark on this year long journey
26:39with me, and make a sad Christmas tree
26:41like this, a happy Christmas tree
26:43just go to crunchlabs.com
26:45or use the link in the video description
26:47where we're giving away two months free
26:49as a holiday special
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