Scientists: “are you a solid or a liquid?” Oobleck: “depends”

“Squoze” the water right out of it lol.

"Oobleck, son. It hardens in response to physical trauma." "You can't hurt me, Jack!"

“It sqoze the water” he said, while doing “science”..

"Don't crush oobleck too hard" next time I consider placing my ooblek container into an industrial hydraulic press, I'll stop myself. thanks!

The thing about oobleck is you don’t really get why it’s cool unless you have it in your hands.

Squoze... one of my mothers favorite non-words. She also loves "het." It's the past tense of heat in her world. The casserole was "het" up when she's done it.

I remember when my little sister and I made this by accident. We spent hours playing with it before my aunt got home and started yelling at us for wasting her corn starch 😂

As a writer/editor and lover of words, I think we should certainly make “squoze” the past-tense of “squeeze”.

its actually really cool, but the coolest part is that it literally takes just 2 easily available ingredients to make: cornstarch and water

Oobleck has such a special spot in my heart. I remember on my 2nd year of high school ( 15 years ago), we had a science fair and my group was responsible for coming up with fun experiments to make and call people to our stand. I convinced my team we should do oobleck and vinegar + baking soda rockets. People attending the science fair went absolutely NUTS with oobleck. It was so fun to share it. We'd put a bit on little plastic cups and give out as samples and people would come over and over again trying to get more than one. Adults, teens and kids. And when we launched the 3 rockets we'd made (nothing fancy, just plastic bottles with a mechanism to drop the baking soda down on the vinegar so the top half of the bottle would fly), people went absolutely crazy, yelling and clapping. It was so fucking fun. One of my greatest memories of my school years. I think that was the first moment where I thought "dude, science is so fucking fun to share with people"... Guess that's why I went to college for it.

I ate oobleek once (that I made in science class out of corn starch, water and food colouring) it tasted like unboiled spaghetti

The way that everyone just innately knows how to spell squoze fascinates me.

Squoze is now the past tense of squeeze and no one can change my mind

I remember the time my whole Kingdom got covered in Oobleck

“Nanomachines, son. They harden in response to physical trauma.”

"Squoze" The English Language Teacher side of me is crying The Writer side of me is pissing themself with laughter

Scientists: Are you a solid or a liquid? Oobleck: Yes

reality: "okay, oobleck-- do you want to be a solid or a liquid?" "uhhh... um.... uhh.... wait, let me think... hmm.." "y'know what? nevermind."

“It squoze the water out of it” probably the most no sciencey thing I’ve ever heard this guy say 😂

"The slow blade pierces the shield" The force fields from Dune are just non-newtonian, anybody?

I guess you could say that it hardens in response to physical trauma

this is an anxiety inducing substance for me tbh like this is what i imagine people who are claustrophobic feel like that feeling of being trapped the harder you push and try to escape the harder it gets to get out, but if you slow down it liquifies around you. but you know that as soon as you try to move again it will trap you.

For one of the snow days in my elementary school we had to make oobleck (we just read that Dr. Seuss book) and write a paragraph about whether we think it is a solid or a liquid (we had "blizzard bags" for work at home in case of snow days). I remember being so done with everything that I debated saying it was a gas. 8 year old me was on another level

Nobody: Them:”it squozed the water right out of it”

I work in a kitchen and making slurries (mixing water and cornstarch) is a fairly normal method for making a sauce thick and gluten free. My coworker, a tad younger than me, 25, had never seen the way it behaves if you add just a little bit of water and when I showed it to him, he just sat there stirring the 'oobleck' for 10 minutes. He was very entertained lol

I always thought oobleck would be a terrifying quicksand

people: "are you a liquid or a solid?" oobleck: " _yes_ "

I remember playing with this stuff in kindergarten. We were all blown away for about 20 minutes then we started throwing it at each other.

This is what happens when elements don’t know if they want to be a liquid or a solid.

I haven't handled Oobleck since I was in preschool, but even thirty years later, I still remember how it feels and how weird the sensation is.

"Nanomachines, son." "They harden in response to physical trauma!"

Every person in the world needs to play with this stuff at least once, it's so addicting. Super easy to make, fun as hell, even for old ppl like me, and pretty easy to clean up

I just wanna run across a pool of oobleck, I’d feel so powerful

I always imagined a swimming pool filled with oobleck and a tag game where you had to run and not get trapped in the oobleck.

0:53 did you just say "squoze" as a past tense form of "squeeze" Ah, a new term that will live rent free in my vocabulary

The way he said Squoze has me shakened

Can we appreciate that he had to go through all of the pain of removing the oboes from his hands

“this is our kingdom come”

"why wont you die?" "Obleck son" -some politician perhaps

We actually used to do some experiments like this with cornstarch in school. A kid in my class made a ball of it and carried it around all day long, always kneading it so it would stay in this shape.

i LOVED playing with this stuff as a kid!

Me: "is oobleck a solid or a liquid?" Kantaji Brown Jackson: "I'm not a biologist"

"Nanomachines, son they harden in response to physically trauma"

I have seen a lot of science experiments demonstrating the properties of oobleck but nobody ever told that if you compress it too much the corn starch and water gets separated. That's the reason action lab deserves a sub.

"It hardens in response to physical trauma" Me too, oobleck. Me too...

Creeping oobleck is the most awesome thing ever. You put oobleck into a subwoofer and pump different sound vibration through it and it does some crazzzzyyy stuff. Super fun and trippy.

"It's a liquid" "No it's a solid a solid!" *"a lolsquid!!!!"* edit: *look ma! I made it! :D*

"What is it?" "It's just a balloon stretched over a cup."

I finally understand Professor Oobleck's character

I’m convinced this is the secret ingredient in a cat. Since they too are both a solid and a liquid.

"How viscous are you?" "Indeed."

😂😂 I’ve been saying “squoze” and “squozen” for years Bc it sounds more fun to me. This is validation I never knew I wanted or needed😂🤣

Looked like melted mint ice cream at first glance

obelick is like smacking a door instead of pushing it

"it squose the water right out of it!" My favorite sentence from Action Lab so far.

Oobleck is non-newtonian because the starch molecules initially entangle when a stress is applied, sticking together like a solid, then slowly untangle and relax back to liquid state. The kicker is every liquid is non-newtonian on the right time scale. Liquid molecules are weakly attracted/stuck to each other and can't instantly break that attraction when a stress is applied, so they momentarily behave like a solid until the attraction is broken and the molecules can freely move. That's why water is momentarily as hard as concrete when hit from a high enough height. The surface tension comes from water molecules weakly attracted to each other, and if hit quickly enough the tension won't break in time and the water will briefly feel like a solid before relaxing back to liquid state.

People: Its Oobleck Legends: This is my kingdom come..this is my kingdom come

this thing blew my mind when i was a kid. i didn’t even know it was popular or called “oobleck.” i was just really into science and did all these different experiments and created oobleck

I actually made this in school, my 4th grade teacher was the best she even let us have a paper ball tournament Edit: alright this was during inside recess ok?

scientists: "so are you a solid, or a liquid?" oobleck: *yes.*

This unintentionally unlocked a memory I have of someone asking me what I’d do if rocks were actually soft when nobody was looking at them and only got hard when people looked at them.

"Oobleck!" "That's not Oobleck anymore..."

"squoze" my linguist heart is happy

wow this "oobleck" would make for great armor

The childhood memory’s. The smell. The feeling. I remember it all like I played with it yesterday.

Scientists: "are you a solid or liquid?" Oobleck: "You know, it varies with my mood...."

Action Lab: "Look at this stuff" Me: Isnt it neat, Wouldnt you think my collection's complete

I feel like every childhood you do oobleck at least once at home and then a few years later you do it in science class at school

Thanks for the heads-up! I’d hate to accidentally ruin my supply of oobleck with my hydraulic press.

I made this stuff 30 years ago when I was a kid. It was fun to play with for about 2min. I'd probably get more entertainment from it now.

For anyone who’s wondering how to make it, you need cornstarch and water. Dye is optional. Also it can dry out and just get stiff

scientists : "are you solid or liquid?" oobleck : " *powder.* "

scientists: "are you a solid or a liquid?" Oobleck: "both."

Fun thing to do with oobleck: let a bunch run off your finger then shove your finger downward so it *SOLIDIFIES* and stops your finger moving for a good half second. Had to edit cuz y’all weird

I didn’t know there actually was a past form of squeeze

Why was someone moaning in the background of the hydraulic press shot 😭

"This is my kingdom come"

That could be a cool joke to demonstrate to people: first show them when you slowly move your fingers through the fluid. Then you say you will smash your hand on it as hard as you can. Then they think you are crazy and that the room(and you and them) will be splashed down by the fluid. Their surprisement(and relief) when this does not happen would be worth to see!

Teacher: “Now class write down what this is; liquid or solid?” Literally Every student: neither but also both

you broke it. you broke the oobleck.

Oobleck is your secret villain backstory huh

Imagine dumping like 10 gallons of that into an industrial size mixer. Been watching the pure havoc insue

I've seen an clip from either a mythbusters or "what could possibly go wrong" episode and in it, they showed if oobleck can stop a bullet, surprisingly it kinda worked 😂

This is some of the best oobleck I’ve ever seen

Imagine belly flopping into a pool of oobleck 💐🪦💐

"This is my kingdom-"

"are you a liquid" "yesnt"

“Are you a solid or liquid?” “Perhaps”

Any Karl Pilkington fans in this audience would have heard the word "squozed"

I used to make Ooblek when I was like 6 and the smell makes me so nostalgic. I think it’s actually the best part. 😂

"Which ice cream flavor u want?" Me: oobleck

As the Bill Nye intro once said, "Science Rules!"

"Are you a liquid or a solid?" Oobleck: Yes.

Me: he said "It squozed the water right out" Also me: wait.. why didn't squozed get spell checked?

“5 little monkeys jumping on the bed, one feel off and bump his head. Mama call the doctor and doctor said, no more little monkeys jumping on da bed!”

and guys, that was the birth of venom 2.0

Umm cornstarch and water= Oobleck (Mix 2 cups of cornstarch to 1 cup of water into a bowl)

The oobleck really said “I’m genderfluid” 💀

“Squoze” added to vocabulary