Break a Record with Homemade Marshmallow Catapults

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Try these experiments at home and break a record. ♪��

Blow your mind without blowing up your mom's kitchen. ♪��

Hello, I'm Professor Orbeck. This is my lab assistant, Sweet Pepper Klobek

and this is the Guinness World Records title for the most marshmallows caught in the mouth

with a homemade catapult in one minute. First off, you'll need to make your homemade catapult

out of common household items, such as colored pencils, spoons, gnolly sticks or popsicle sticks

sticky tape, bottle caps, rubber bands, even binder clips. You'll want to put them together somehow

likely with a glue gun, and most importantly, you'll need the marshmallows

Now, you can only use certain size marshmallows. They cannot be any bigger than one inch

or two and a half centimeters in size, but you can use any commercially available marshmallows

that are within that size. Now that you've gathered everything, it's time to assemble your homemade catapult

I want you to keep in mind the fact that you're going to have to fire a marshmallow at least two meters in order to get this record

So think about that when you design it. We've got a plan, and we're going to start right now

Make sure you have a clean work surface. And now it's time for the guidelines

To begin your attempt, use a countdown, and then on the word go, begin firing your marshmallows

Now remember, you can only fire one marshmallow at a time, and once your partner catches the marshmallows in their mouth

they don't actually have to eat them. In order for this to count as a Guinness World Records title

you must remember to be at least two meters away from your partner

Now for the stuff. ♪ Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh

What you did was take the stored spring energy and transfer it into kinetic energy for the marshmallow

The further back you pull this, the more potential energy you store in the spring

and the more kinetic energy is released by the marshmallow. ��