Welcome to Man vs. Science,
the show where we find awesome science projects on the Internet
and then try to recreate them without a hint of scientific knowledge.
You don't know anything about science, do you?
Um, not a hint. No.
This is Kevin from Vsauce2 helping us do a little scientific exploration.
I saw your video a couple months ago, the edible water bottles.
Yeah, there was an episode of Mind Blow,
which is a show that focuses on future technology,
and edible water bottles was one of those.
They were designed by some students in the UK.
Water bottle pollution is a huge problem,
so in order to solve that they thought,
Why don't we make them edible?
Fifty billion water bottles you [beep] use every year.
Also, on top of your episode, Jamie and Eden
suggested this pin in the Man vs. Pin comments,
so it's just all coming together. >> Synergistic.
Synergism? >> That sounds bad. Yeah.
Another thing that sounds bad is calcium lactate along with sodium alginate.
These two things we found on the old Internet.
You can pick them up as well.
Step one, 1 gram of sodium alginate.
Unfortunately, we don't have anything to measure a gram,
so we're going to have to figure that out
by just putting some lines here on the table.
Sodium alginate is my favorite alginate of the alginates.
Really? >> Yeah, it's a good one.
Very scientific here. Like I said, not a hint of scientific knowledge.
There's a hint of something. I'm now quite sure what.
Looks like a Popeye pipe. [Popeye laugh]
Whoa.
So we just put this into one cup of water.
That's about right. Okay.
And then I'm going to ask you
to take the Blend-O-Matic. >> Wow.
[Use hand blender until dissolved]
Whoa! >> It says until you think it's blended.
I think it's blended. >> I think it's blended.
You've got to wait a few minutes, I think 10 minutes
for all the bubbles to come up, and then you move on to the next step.
Now we've got another bowl, four cups of water,
and we're going to add five grams of calcium lactate.
Five grams, here we go again.
This is going to be a [beep] nightmare.
Just measured this out correctly.
We've got five grams of calcium lactate here that we're going to add to the bowl.
You're good at stirring. Why don't you just—
With the Popeye pipe? >> Yeah. I can't even see anything with these.
I don't even think we need these.
We're just playing with water.
The next step here is we just take the sodium alginate?
No, calcium lactate. Oh man, I mixed them up.
This is where everything goes horribly wrong.
I'm taking the calcium lactate here,
with a spoon,
getting a little bit in there.
A deep spoon. >> A deep spoon.
And then I'm putting it here.
[Carefully "plop" sodium aginate into calcium lactate bath]
And it looks like absolutely nothing happened.
Wait, that's not the only step.
We've got to do that a couple times, and then it says to stir.
Are those little scoops supposed to be
those little water bottles? >> I think so.
Don't crowd the bath, they said. Don't crowd the bath.
Holy [beep]. >> Wow!
Wow. >> That is crazy.
This is pretty awesome.
Look at that. >> Bam.
Edible water bottle.
You want to taste them? Cheers.
Cheers to edible water bottles.
Mm.
Oh, that didn't taste like
what I was expecting it to taste like at all.
No, that's [beep] gross.
Kind of foul.
So we have to eat this. >> We have to eat it.
Or it defeats the purpose of an edible water bottle. >> Yeah.
Oh, god. >> It's really—
That's like a placenta.
It's an unpleasant texture. >> Oh, god.
Oh my goodness.
It's somewhere between pasta and puke.
Yeah. >> Uh.
It actually worked remarkably well.
I can't even believe that that worked.
No more water bottles for me.
Oh, Jesus. >> Nice. Your water broke.
I think that concludes our first inaugural episode
of Man vs. Science.
I want to thank Kevin here from Vsauce2
for getting goopy and science-y with me.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
It was awesome seeing a mind-blowing creation come to life.
I know, right? >> Yeah.
Be sure to check out Vsauce2, more mind-blowing [beep],
and if you see something science-y out there
be sure to leave it in the comments below,
and we'll test it out right here on the show. Till next time.