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Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
737,639
These are the asteroids to worry about
537,369
World's Lightest Solid!
413,911
Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam
401,990
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
329,534
Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
285,520
I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!
270,494
World's Roundest Object!
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Anti-Gravity Wheel?
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Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
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Veritasium A great, brand-new video on a surprisingly deep mystery! Created by one of Veritasium’s first hires, Emily Zhang, who went independent in 2024 but still helps us out with Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt46... (2 months ago)
 
 
Channel Comments
matthewjones9065 (4 years ago)
It takes a lot of balls to do something like this
joshgibson9732 (6 years ago)
"...not that I've ever driven through peanut butter."
CHRISGuelar (1 year ago)
0:54 With no context is literally the people in 1800s
spectre2575 (6 years ago (edited))
Bromate. How can such a friendly sounding chemical be so deadly?
PostMoveClarity (5 years ago)
I wanna start my own reservoir but I don't have the balls to do that.
PrimeSuperboy (5 years ago)
The dude that explained how all of this worked had such an infectious energy. He absolutely was waiting a long time to talk to someone about shade balls and couldn't contain his excitement.
AlienFromUranus (4 months ago)
0:52 i know you're looking for this part. Don't lie.
David-ld3ts (2 years ago)
We got to 100M baby!!!!
crowdkillwe3441 (5 years ago)
"It's very rare to see 96 million of anything"
lukefilkins9671 (6 years ago)
We all know their real purpose... to stop Mr. Incredible.
BaconBacon (9 months ago)
This guy could explain the entire universe and I would be locked in the whole time, he is so sweet
dyhrbergdk9541 (6 years ago)
2:17
sockgremlin17 (6 years ago (edited))
"Why are they black?"
OneLegendo (5 years ago)
“It’s very rare to see 96 million of anything.”
TetraSodium13134 (10 months ago)
5:50 THAT POOR BIRD
Mullet-ZubazPants (6 years ago)
3:28 "bromide becomes bromate, and bromates are carcinogenic" ... when bros become foes, you start throwing shade balls
MyWORDisntGospel (6 years ago)
Those birds literally got blackballed
seasonalserotonin2559 (4 years ago)
I love how pumped the guy was while explaining the shade balls. Man loves his job.
devm-k2c (11 months ago)
This is also the worlds largest example of what a hexagonal grain structure looks like in metals.