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  • Cryogel Z, another "version" of Aerogel is already being used to insulate homes

  • ooh fun fact...the people in livermore has created 2 new elements

  • @bputra13

    During the Cold War, it was one of the top 5 places Russia wanted to nuke. Pretty big feat for such a boring town, if I do say so myself.

  • @bputra13 You can't create an element? Doesn't it have to be pre-existing? I'm guessing (if this is even true) that they merely discovered the elements.

  • Wow I just saw something on this on natgeo, it looks so cool!

  • Fucking love kqed

  • FUCKING COMIC SANNNNSSSS

  • Alex Gash though.

  • I saw a bigger one in Washington DC. It's so cool!

  • Science rocks.

  • I now want an aerogel boiling flask. Its uselessness would greatly amuse me

  • @neonflames1999 ohmagawd yuu mean windows

  • Would it be possible to make solid hydrogen though using a similar method?

  • @tech851 United nuclear has 100 CC for like 5.50Us ,But that might not weigh that much.

  • Is anyone here leaning back.

  • But will it blend?

  • where can i buy some.

    like 1-5 grams

  • @tech851 hahaa... 1-5 grams? That's a lot of aerogel considering how light it is.

  • see through homes... every stalkers dream

  • How dose it taste?

  • I wish it were way cheaper. Why is it so extremely expensive?

  • Heh, I was surprised at how many likes my comment got.

  • Alex GASH. LOL

  • dear Santa...

    

  • This material was used to coat the Haunebu crafts.

  • wiki said it cud carry 2k more then its weight not 4k..

  • @iTzMartinReturns wiki also seds we got into ww2 in 1939 so !!

    

  • bob lazar brought me here :P

  • 1:35 is that a serpent in there?

  • he can't be an actual scientist.  He uses comic sans...

  • That stuff is so expensive, a couple thousand per ounce

  • @MrMuffin769 yeah but at that density, an ounce would be at least the size of a bed or something ridiculous sounding like that, the stuffs almost as light as air

  • I want to eat it.

  • eu quero Nelma

  • Mithril.

  • God! Why the surface area is always the football field?

  • @alchenist A football field should become an official unit of measure

  • I just think it's really beautiful.

  • hello, i come from BRAIN CANDY

  • How hard is it to make this stuff? I mean, if you're just removing liquids the a trip through an oven should be the main process to make it? Or am I completely wrong? I'm probably wrong. :D

    So, really, how hard is it to make this stuff?

  • space crafts pffft we don't have a program for that anymore

  • This title made me think of Coe`s Quest.

  • I want to eat it.

  • @nightfoz Good news. It is totally edible. (im serious)

  • It's actually an octopus.

  • Microlattice is now the lightest.

  • @cannedshoes Yet, isn't Microlattice man made? if it's true then aerogel would be the lightest natural material

  • @Gizmo101010101 Aerogel is made by removing all liquid from silica gel, leaving it's molecular structure intact. Isn't that considered man made.

  • @cannedshoes i know. but you have to admit that aerogel is quite the interesting material

  • @blackmagi849 Yeah, it definitely is amazing.

  • Not lighter than a micro lattice!!

  • that was so cool

  • It's not the lightest anymore.

  • eeeeeeeeew comic sans!!

  • wait, not all scientists wear lab coats? omgwtfhax!?

  • it should be put into firefighter's outfits and maybe windows to stop excess heat from coming in during the summer :O

  • Aether!

  • so if i made a house out of this stuff would the movie UP be possible? O.o

  • lightest solid known to man , but what is it liquidating and vaporizing temperatures i wonder?.....

  • @iamLI3 Did you watch the whole video?

  • @GalacticEarthling yes , and it doesn't say......

  • Everything in science is compared to football fields, science only happens on EPIC scales.

  • i dont understand why he wore that purple glove because at 1:19 he touched the aerogel with his bare hand so obviously the glove did nothing... :/

  • Bouncy gell from portal?

  • screw nasa! i want this to play with!

  • Can you buy this anywhere?

  • anyone see this in a book?

  • Did anyone else get here from cracked?

  • Spacecrap... LOL

  • You can see my experience with aerogel When you write aerogel 10 commandements on google you take the first

  • You can see my experience with aerogel

  • seen it -_-

  • could you imagine going back like 200 years with just a handful of the tech we have today.

    you would be killed so fast for being some sort of witch you don't even know.

  • you can buy a small piece for 35.00$ online!!

  • If its going to be used as an insolator then im probably going to rip apart my house....

  • ...But did you see the gorilla?

  • I don't I have a house made out of this yet?

  • I want like 10 crates 

  • I want 10 grams of this for Christmas!

  • Hmm...Reminds me of the Aether...MOD.

  • can i eat it?

  • this guy isn't a great actor... he hesitates alot. great vid tho :P

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  • The music at the beginning sounds like something from Super Mario Sunshine...

  • SKIP

  • wait did he say hes name was Alex Gash...?

  • that is so confusing yet cool

  • how the fuck did i end up here, i started to watch how balloons are made

  • what a great dumbness it takes for someone to dislike this video !!

  • but will it blend?

  • @supernulia lol

  • heck yeah VSAUCE FTW

  • Does that means floating rocks dosent ecxist ?

  • a real football field or what americans call a football field?

  • who says Science is boring after watching this

  • it's still a solid.

  • im a stampede :D

  • but can it cut things ?

  • Sun Rooms made of aerogel! The UV would be hard pressed to find it's way through, and cold, bugs, heat, wind; almost everything would stop in place, but you can see through it!!

  • @NarlepoaxIII I think we already have something like that. It's called glass.

  • but can you eat it!?

  • is he an actual scientist? 

  • @kizbo With a name like Gash, I sure hope not.

  • just wanted to say, vsauce!

  • what if we made a room out of that :D

    is it possible anyway? :D

  • High Definition. But in 360p.

    Sorry. I forgot what it feels like being in 2008 ;P

  • will it blend?

  • cool

  • Anyone else ever used a Dunlop Aerogel?

  • I feel like im on a field trip, if you aint in the vsauce playlist, you didnt come on the bus with us.

  • I'm gonna build a car out of that, paint it, and lift it and feel like a badass.

  • @MinecraftingPlatypus So how are you gonna drive it in a storm when it's so light?

  • @MiKaiiEL He just wants to pick it up...

  • But will it blend??

  • @sparkster7744 that is the question.

  • views before  army... 10,425

    view after army... 1,410,354

  • @famousspotter I watched this video last year, it was just passing 1000000. Also i'm surprised that most people don't know this. I'm using aerogel in my sci oly event this year.

  • They need to add this to minecraft!

  • Epic bouncy ball??? lol

  • Did you see the Dick Tits on the Gorrila behind the Octopus?

  • i know what ghosts are made of..giggity

  • i love how it says high definition ind the beginning but it's only 360p lol

  • 1:25 look at that guys hand, he's freaking out!

  • Insert Dick Tits Comment

  • Minecraft Aerogel mod... your house will never burn again

  • Dick Tits!!!!

  • but will it blend?

  • Aether!

  • aether.

  • dicktits?

    

  • can an octopus match it's color and texture?

  • @Enriquegg

    Nope...but Chuck Testa can

  • @Enriquegg bah bah bah

  • I WANT TO PLAY WITH IT!

  • when i hear "aeroGEL" and being the least dense object ever, i was kind of this of like... sylicone but MUCH lighter, and i was hoping it was gonna be squishy and be like squishing a cloud. i was very wrong xD oh well, i still wanna touch it! o.o

  • Will It blend??

  • omg! does anyone know where i can buy this?! :O

  • am i the only one that thought it was CGI?!?!?

  • But can it blend?

  • im expecting the solid to be able to float in mid air..

  • @sarahlouisehaycox No...that's how you make glass in real life....heating sand...

    Were you like Lady Gaga? Born that way? Or did your mental retardation develop later in life?

  • 1:38

    His glasses are rather crooked.

    Maybe he adjusted them because he couldn't see the octopus...

  • i almost got this for my bday once

    that and gallium

  • Can I buy this?!

  • I subbed, for science!

  • but will it blend?

  • OOHHHH so that's why u make glass from sand in minecraft...

  • VSAUCE STAMPEDE COMING THROUGH!!! Don't mind us :)

  • @ironman5881 *joins stampede*

  • @ironman5881 Isn' it like walking across a campus with the teacher n learning different things? :D so much better than a school!

  • @ironman5881 WEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

  • Minecraft Aether?

  • Genius, true genius, using it as windows. x_x

  • 1:55 lol not anymore.....

  • this is chucknorris`s hair gel

  • what good is it for insulation in a home when a little wind breaks it .__.

  • The Aether in Minecraft!

  • i perfer billy nye

  • I have a urge to eat it!!

  • Yeah... if you want insulation to cost about 1 million dollars... I think I would stick with my insulation. It is cheap and will do the job.

  • sdf

    

  • VSAUCE ARMY PASSING THOUGH WE COME IN PEACE :)

  • @belieberchick101 it was funny the first time...

  • i saw this on funnyjunk like 6 months ago

  • i touched that stuff about 6 years ago at the JPL expo thingy. it was crazy as hell.

  • Portal 2 ?

  • 1:00 I don't have any idea how big is a football field!

  • @LaggyLuke 120 yards long x 53 1/2 yards wide (with end zones) or 360x160 feet. :)

  • @boket5u Thanks for trying to help but I'm from Finland and we use meters and I have no idea about yards and feet :S So I googled the size of the football field :D

  • @LaggyLuke höhömoi :D

  • @LaggyLuke Ahhhh!! you're welcome, I should've known you were overseas!!!

  • @boket5u Well that's the main reason I don't know how large is a football field :D