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Uploaded by on Mar 2, 2011

The Tea Bag Rocket is really an adaptation of a classic science demonstration called the Ditto Paper Rocket. If you're old enough to have experienced Ditto paper, you'll recall the bluish-purple ink and that unforgettable smell of freshly printed copies. (Come to find out... both the Ditto machine solvent and the ink were highly toxic, but no one seemed to care back then.) Each piece of Ditto paper had a sheet of tissue paper that separated the two-part form, and it was this discarded piece of paper that teachers and kids used to make Ditto paper "rockets." Since Ditto paper is a thing of the past, science enthusiasts have found a simple replacement - a tea bag.

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  • seriously, i subscribed just because of that fun-science tv show, not to see easy to explain vids that i saw already, put some better vids or you'll lose a subscriber

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    That will have all of Steve's appearances on TV including the news show.

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  • @Gabbos because filming a flame on white is much more difficult!

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  • a string tied to it?......:/

  • i have seen the commercial version of this except called flying wish paper

  • or u could go on vat19 and buy the magical flying wish paper

  • how to light a paper on fire.. SO COOL!!!!

  • hehehehehe

  • great vid you have here

  • Cool. But it was a little waste of the tea...

  • ih done tis straight away :D

  • Woah... a different song 0.0

  • @durdyll the heat inside the tube causes it to rise so yes

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