Viral Video: Poor Peter



You think this video is about the explosive properties of nitrogen gas bubbles. 

It's actually about the current state of Peter's marriage. 

Emerson famously said "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." Emerson didn't say anything about garage experiments and Peter's wife, who is probably right, by the way. But great scientists never simply do what they are told to do. Fight the good fight, Peter. 

 --Straight Guy

3 comments:

Molly Louise said...

As a science person who used liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in a stand mixer today, I have to agree. Fight the good fight, Peter. Fight the good fight.

straight in upstate said...

Well, there was a child near by - not that Peter was endangering him/ her.

Reminds me of the party in college when there was a huge BANG and two guys ran out of the bathroom. The host said, "Lynn...what were you doing?" Lynn, a chemistry major, mumbled sheepishly, "Throwing sodium in a sink full of water."

www.DiatribesAndOvations.com said...

I want to party with these guys.