- (laughs) Oh!
(electricity crackling)
For my science project today,
I am going to have five microwaves,
and in every one of these cups
there is a certain amount of BBs.
And there is 1,000, 500, 100,
10, and one.
So we are going to test and see if the amount of metal
makes it so the microwave gets destroyed faster or slower.
So to make this as scientific as possible,
we have bought five brand new microwaves
of the same make and model.
- [Dan] Alright, so Lincoln, what do you think
the difference is gonna be between the one
that has one BB in it and the one that has 1,000 BBs?
What's your initial thought before we actually test it?
- So I think that if there is one metal BB
inside of the microwave, I think that it's going to take
slower to catch on fire or do something
that's harming the microwave or have some kind of reaction,
faster than the one with 1,000.
- [Dan] Okay, Lincoln, so do you recommend
that other people try this?
It sounds kinda dangerous.
And we have safety precautions, a fire extinguisher
just in case anything goes wrong.
- [Receptionist] Oh, oh, my God!
- Fire!
- Oh, fire, oh, my goodness!
What's the procedure?
- Yeah, let's see what happens
when we put metal in the microwave.
So the first amount of metal
that we're going to put in is one.
So let's start off small and go bigger.
There's just one metal BB in there.
No metal BBs in there, aw! - Oh, no.
- Yeah, that one escaped.
So we set the timer for 10 minutes
and we are going to see how long it goes.
So are you ready?
Here we go, three, two, one.
(microwave hums)
(somber music)
Maybe we used the wrong kind of metal.
One BB is not doing anything.
Let's progressively get bigger.
Yeah, nothing's happening over here.
- Can we hold on just a minute?
I can smell something.
Alright, stopped it at eight minutes exactly.
Let's open this one up.
(upbeat music)
10 metal BBs.
- [Dan] Okay, do you think 10 metal BBs
are gonna do anything?
- (sighs) No.
- [Dan] After the first one, no.
(both laughing)
- Three, two, one.
Alright.
(upbeat music)
Alright!
Don't really, it says it's deflated,
and it's galvanized steel air gun shot,
I don't know. - I would think
steel would work.
- Yeah, I don't understand.
- [Dan] Let's just skip to the 1,000.
- Yeah, 1,000, that's a lot.
It took a very long time to count.
Five, four, three, two.
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] How's it going over there, bud?
Science experiment's not going so well, huh?
- Uh-uh, we have to get actual metal.
- Alright, so Lincoln's going to need to do some research
to find out why the steel balls
are not interacting with the microwave.
Maybe you guys know, you can let us know in the comments.
Alright, well, that was fun.
(both laughing)
I think we need to change it up a little bit here.
- Yeah. - Let's do one,
let's do number of spoons
or silverware or something.
One spoon, two spoon, three spoon,
four spoon, five spoon.
- Yeah, let's try it.
- These BBs do not do anything,
and it took forever for him to count.
Alright, put 'em in.
(upbeat music)
Put 'em in, how many are in?
- [Lincoln] We got five.
- [Dan] Five metal spoons.
- Three, two, one.
(upbeat music)
(laughs) Oh, I saw purple, I saw blue light.
I saw light, I promise you, I saw a light.
It was blue, I'm serious, watch.
- [Dan] Oh, I see it, I see it.
- [Lincoln] Look, there it is!
(dramatic music)
- [Dan] Okay, so we got five in there.
(electricity crackles)
- Oh! - Oh!
- [Lincoln] What was that, what was that?
(dramatic music)
Oh (laughs), it's like little beams of electricity
flowing in between them.
- [Dan] So not quite what you expected?
- (laughs) No, I didn't, well, sure,
little tiny-- - You get the tiny--
- There was little tiny electricity
going through the spoons (laughs).
Thought it was gonna be bigger.
- I think this experiment
is turning less into a scientific experiment
and more into let's blow something up.
- No, it's not. - And that's not
what we're here for.
- It's not doing what we expected.
- Well, that's what science is all about.
You make a hypothesis, you test it,
and you see what happens,
and this didn't meet our hypothesis.
- Let's try-- - That's a good thing.
Maybe microwaves these days--
- Can we try different one with a bigger spoon?
Like one big spoon? - There's five spoons
in there. - So we kinda need
to go to tinfoil.
- [Dan] Okay, put it in, don't start it.
Same thing for all of them.
(microwave beeping) - Alright.
Yeah, made sure the first one, the first one is tiny.
Look at this ball of tinfoil (laughs).
- [Dan] Okay.
- Five, four, three, two, one.
(dramatic music)
Oh, oh, no! - We killed the breaker!
- No (laughs).
- [Dan] Too much power.
We got one little spark and the whole thing went down.
- So what I thought as my hypothesis was actually incorrect.
But that's why we do scientific experiments,
to see if it will do the way
that you think it will or if it won't.
Just because our microwaves did not have any flames
or get destroyed in any way, it doesn't mean
that you should go and put metal in your own microwave.
It is very dangerous.
(metal clanging)
(dramatic music)
- [Dan] Alright, Lincoln, you put everything in there.
Is this what you expected to happen?
- No.
- [Dan] Blue lightning, the strange smell.
(electricity pops) (Dan and Lincoln yell)
Pretty much-- - Awesome.
So it's been going for six minutes.
We've just seen some blue lightning.
It's been a great fireworks show at the end.
- Wait, wait, wait,
is this a second science experiment with blue lightning?
(dramatic music)
Alright, so there's Lincoln's science experiment.
This is, I would say, the most dangerous science experiment
that I will allow him to do.
Luckily-- (metal clattering)
Oh. (dramatic music)
Is it making noise now?
Alright, we have a giant pile of brand new microwaves.
I think we're gonna go onto the local classifieds
and give these ones, that we didn't ruin, away for free.
It's still alive, it's still doing the blue lightning.
- Yup.
- Yeah, there's a random Sunday night science experiment.
Now Lincoln gets to go and write it all up,
and write what he found and learned.
(metal thudding) - Whoa!