Steve Spangler's Blog » walk on water and Ellen Show and steve spangler http://www.stevespangler.com Making Science Education Fun Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:17:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en © alyssa@stevespangler.com () alyssa@stevespangler.com() 1440 Making Science Education Fun alyssa@stevespangler.com No no http://www.stevespangler.com/stevespangler/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Steve Spangler's Blog http://www.stevespangler.com 144 144 Cornstarch Walk on Water Stunt - Get a Cement Truck http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/in-the-news/step-2-get-a-cement-truck/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/in-the-news/step-2-get-a-cement-truck/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:35:36 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/02/14/step-2-get-a-cement-truck/ Mixing 2,500 pounds of cornstarch with the kitchen mixer just didn’t work, so we had to find a cement truck… and a very cool cement truck mixing guy. Oh, and you also need three people who know exactly what the cornstarch mixer should feel like when it’s perfectly mixed. Jeff, Carly and Renee served as [...]]]>
oobleck cement truck

Mixing 2,500 pounds of cornstarch with the kitchen mixer just didn’t work, so we had to find a cement truck… and a very cool cement truck mixing guy. Oh, and you also need three people who know exactly what the cornstarch mixer should feel like when it’s perfectly mixed. Jeff, Carly and Renee served as the mixologists while I called the producer at the Ellen Show to let him know that we were ready to roll to the studio.

cornstarch mixologists

Watch the Cornstarch Water Walk Video

]]> http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/in-the-news/step-2-get-a-cement-truck/feed/ Cornstarch Walk on Water - Get a Really Big Bathtub http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/in-the-news/step-3-get-a-really-big-bathtub/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/in-the-news/step-3-get-a-really-big-bathtub/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:26:17 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/02/14/step-3-get-a-really-big-bathtub/ The final step is to drive the cement truck filled with 2,500 pounds of cornstarch and 250 gallons of water to the back lot at the Ellen Show and pour the goo into a giant bathtub - 7 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It’s also a good idea to have your [...]]]>
cornstarch tub
The final step is to drive the cement truck filled with 2,500 pounds of cornstarch and 250 gallons of water to the back lot at the Ellen Show and pour the goo into a giant bathtub - 7 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It’s also a good idea to have your oobleck mixing experts change their clothes and spend the next 4 hours mixing the goo by hand to ensure the perfect consistency right before the tub gets moved on stage. How do you move a tub that weighs about 6,000 pounds? Using a forklift, of course.
cornstarch walk on water

It’s also a good idea to find someone in the audience who you’ve never met and trust that you won’t let them sink into a pit of cornstarch goo. Watch the Cornstarch Water Walk Video View more photos at The Science Behind the Goo - Photos from the Ellen Show

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