I don’t know why I thought he was introducing himself in the beginning saying “I am Maydoff Adams”. But then he said “and so are you and so is this table.” lol

I wonder how many attempts it took to set up 19 mousetraps with 2 ping pong balls each, while stretching over a glass tank?

Thanks Deane. Thanks, Rob. Thank you for uploading all these wonderful old segments. Like so many Australians my age (late 40s), The Curiosity Show was an important part of my youth. I was very impressed with this segment when I saw it on television as a boy, and have described the experiment to different people many, many times over the years. It's a brilliant experiment; such a profoundly simple way to demonstrate the compounding effect of a fission reaction and just how much energy is released so rapidly. I'm so happy to have got to see this segment again.

4:00 The sarcasm in his face is so unreal that it's funny! 😂

We need shows like this again

This science experiment is a very good example of a chain reaction.

I was thinking that the control rods in a nuclear reactor could be presented as sticky rods (covered by some glue, double sided tape). Some of the flying "neutrons" can be caught, hence slowing down the reaction.

Sure, there are times and people that would love to have all the elaborate details and workings, but you making it so simple to understand is totally awesome. There's been times in the past that I have been into something, but no matter how hard I try I can't manage to fully understand. Some of the time of I had these videos you make would have saved months or years of wondering or reading and asking and sometimes still not being able to understand like I want to. You guys are awesome

I originally thought those were chickens. When I saw the mouse trap I thought something awful was going to happen.

I'm a former nuclear operator for the US Navy. I've never seen such a simple way to explain how fission works. I might try to explain it to my nephew using this trick. Really neat-o!

I remember Dean Hutton coming to our school, and doing this experiment as part of his science show. He also showed a video where they did this experiment with a whole room of mouse traps. I believe it was a clip from an episode of Hey Hey It's Saturday.

That "WOW" is a meme worthy.

Like so many others here, I grew up watching the curiosity show. Do they even make show like this anymore. This is a fond bit of nostalgia for people around 45+. I miss those days.

Well I’m glad you asked… (that phrase is cemented in my childhood memories)

Next time you think of nuclear energy , think of mousetraps. Deane your a legend

What a wonderful way to explain nuclear fission reaction . That is a gem of an analogy

Superb !! I bow my head to the guy's imagination in using the mousetrap analogy to explain the Nuclear Chain Reaction, and the flawless execution of the idea.

No mice were harmed during the making of this video.

The show was also on German TV. Nothing comparable today!

the sheer bravery of putting his finger that close to a set mousetrap you could say he had *balls*

Watching him flirt with those mousetraps caused a chain reaction in me leading to high anxiety.

The countdown as heard from American ears: "Tein, Noine, Oight, Seyvan, Seex, Foive, Foa, Thrayee, Tow, Wunn, Zero". Love these old science videos! Simple experiments to explain complex concepts. The target is for kids, but they don't dumb down the information or speak in a patronizing so many kids shows do now.

Gee, thanks that was a nice simple and easy to digest method explaining the principle behind nuclear energy. It's such a shame it can be so disastrous if not managed properly. Oh and how many times did you catch your fingers setting the aquarium up? ;-)

But that looks like a mousetrap? Why yes it is. :-D

So now I could make a home made nuclear bomb, I am off to buy a thousand mouse traps and 2000 ping pong balls. Do your last prayers.....

I once saw film of a setup like that aquarium, but with some ridiculous number of mousetraps in a good sized room -- hundreds of traps. The whole room went in less than three seconds. Now multiply the speed of the reaction by a billion or more, and shrink each mousetrap by a factor of a billion trillion, and you're around somewhere close to a real chain reaction in a bomb core.

Wow doing this experiment requires some balls

"Look at that, balls flying everywhere"

We're all just protons, newtons, electrons that rest on a Sunday. Work on a Monday and one day we'll be singing the old tune zippity zoo da, zippity day... I couldn't help to think of that Cat Empire song. I used to listen to them in high school despite being American.

4:00 When ur dad tells u something you already know but u need money

So since this episode we’ve discovered that electron paths are more of a fog than the orbital paths that we were taught. So to break it down, suppose for this example that the nucleus you are studying is the size of an average Volkswagen Bug and is located in Kansas. The electron could be in Vegas one second only to pop up In Baltimore the next second. No idea why tho.

This man tackles a complex topic with such elegance that even a child could grasp it.

So a nuke is just like any other firecracker. Thanks for clarifying.

The devilishly classic Bohr model of the atom.

Eureka Eureka .......🏃⚡ I have found a 💎 in my feed today. Old is gold "Curiosity show"

I realize that this could be commented on basically any Curiosity Show video, but this is such a cool way of representing this idea!

A great demonstration in understanding chain reactions. I admit that science is not my strong point. However, when it was asked how many balls were needed to set off the 19 mouse traps and release 38 balls, I immediately thought that one ball would be sufficient. That seemed like a logical answer to me. After all, it is a cumulative effect. Glad to know that I was right.

Four people blinked.

Why isn’t this show still on TV? There should be a channel playing every episode back to back 24 hrs a day. Top Gear and other pointless uninteresting shows are on all the time.

03:59 wwwooowwww

Nicely done. It's a good segue into explaining what critical mass is too!

I don't think you need to be observant to see the aquarium with ping-pong balls in it

I understand nuclear energy but this demonstration made me think of the reaction in a whole different way always loved demonstrations

And conveniently, Australia has an infinite supply of mice.

Aussie educational TV: "G'day kidlets, let's make a nuke! Greg, chuck us the ping-pong balls wouldjamate?"

This one sensible clip contains more meaningful content than whole TicTok crap.

Simple neat on to point . that voice is nostalgic

One soundtrack of my adolescence. Love this show

what is this alternate universe where dean doesn't have a mustache.

4:00 Why is this not a meme yet?

ping pong balls.... its all in the ping pong balls

As someone who: -Has never even been to Australia -Is far too young to be from the era this show was produced -Too old to be in the target demographic for this content Why am I being recommended this? Why do I keep watching it?

longest 10 seconds of my life

Someone should do the same demonstration, but with a lot more mousetraps.

I remember seeing this on your ‘Christian parables’ VHS! It was the final one on the video and always a spectacular finale! Watched that VHS countless times… me and my sister recreated some of your experiments too, with the Bible verses! Glad to find you again after all these years! Turns out you were on TV!

My favorite science joke: I don't trust atoms because they make up everything.

I just randomly come back to this video and put 4:00 on a loop for 2 seconds

I really wish you guys could have filmed that on a high-speed camera and then played it back in slow motion :-).

That was the fabulous thing I've ever seen in my whole cursed life and I wish it was even longer than 5:04.

Do you think they put the mouse traps in the box, or put the box around the mouse traps?

Anyone else think it was baby chickens in the tank in the thumbnail?

I’m glad it’s the 21st century and we countdown from 3 now

that's a good way to explain

waiting for nolan to show this process in Oppenheimer

Best channel on KZfaq.

what a legend who thought about mouse traps, while witnessed nuclear explosion

Ah yes, the ol' cheese trigger.

this looks like a video from an rng

Mouse trapping taken to a whole new level

So next time you hear a mousetrap go off, think of the hundreds of thousands of screaming civilians that died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I clenched a little when he placed the pair of balls in the trap

Best channel i found boy better than most of channel today

What a presentation ...

"Wouldn't that be fun?" Sure, oh, whoops, that little mousetrap is a nuclear bomb.

So well put and well explained

I love this show!

The anxiety he gave me from messing with the trap

I saw this science experiment being performed before on "Mr. Wizard's World" and it was just as amusing as the science experiment I am watching now.

When Tv was worth watching.

His woooow is actually depressing.

Bro counted to 0

Never really understood atomic weapons until now

This is how the lottery numbers should be drawn.

such a great explanation

Hi KZfaq algorithm, nice to see you again.

A simple, fun, and excellent demonstration that anyone can understand. Educating is a skill, and the presenters of the Curiosity Show were genii at this.

That must have sucked to set up. How much time, how many broken fingers, how many swear words were used in the making of this video

I wish those folk over in Chernobyl had watched this

youtube algorithms have spoken

FF: 03:55. Slo mo 04:15

Super visual display 👍🏻🇬🇧 WOW

Whos watching at 2 am

I thought those were newly hatch chicks

Isnt an atomic bomb fusion and atomic reactors fission?

We'll have a countdown *From 10..*

Anyone else noticed how atoms look like our sun with the planets orbiting..

The noise he made @ 2:56 “whrrblrrbrbrlblr”

If teacher is like this student would crack neet/ iit even without studying 11 and 12.

This demonstration was famously created by Heinz Haber

Awesome video