History of a Lost Supermaterial & How To Make It (Starlite Part 2)

I'm surprised netflix hasn't made a movie about this yet

try forming rigid copper cast molds with copper citrate and heat gun, and copper citrate making by copper with hydrogen peroxide (or copper oxide directly) in citric acid water. yep rigid copper paint and hardened by heat gun blast. possible other metal citrates decomposition, like tungsten (below copper in the reactivity series, should eject the citrate part when heated).

I was in charge of an astronauts son once for a summer camp and one day he showed up with some real Starlite and was like "hold this" and then whipped out a blowtorch. It was wild stuff. He told us the story and explained how he got his hands on a sample as a gift when he was an active astronaut. *He then pulled out a modern tile to show how far we'd come.

wonder how flexible it is, could this make a fireproof boot tread? thatd be wild

Pray for this man NASA is coming to get his ass after dropping this 💀

Can the sugar and whatever, be from cotton candy?

A dingo ate my heat shield.

What would happen if you put thermite on it? A video about that would be very interesting

I remember people using micro balloons over ten years ago in the RC airplane club.

بوتقه صهر رخيصه
الدقيق خبز 40 جرام
نشأ الذرة 20 غرام
سكر 20 غرام
الصودا الخبز 20 غرام

الدقيق خبز يجمع جميع المكونات المتبقية

النشأ الذرة يسمح من الالتصاق ويسمح للمعجون بالحفاظ على شكله بشكل

سكر ينتج رغوة الكربون ويذوب معا مواد ويصبح المرونة والتشحيم بين المواد الكيميائية الأخرى

الصودا الخبز عند تسخين يطلق ثاني أكسيد الكربون والماء يؤدي إلى تضخيم فقاعات الكربون

'lack of'

We are making a very serious mistake for lack William George Armstrong's Hydroelectric-Generator

YEAHH BOI

i got scared by the spanish dub XD Great video, greetings from Chile

What did you say at the end? I was too busy with the parrot. Smart little thing.

I remember this from Tomorrow's World - BBC One TV in UK. Every so often I have been reminded of it in the 30+ years since it aired. Fascinating story...

Ah geez
Using the bird to keep ppl around during the sponsor segment
This man knows how it's done

Fantastic and fascinating video! Thank you for making it, I learned a lot!

Ngl if you want to assault me for no reason I’m not having a conversation a board is flying right at you or a binding is going right up your a**

This was super. Can it be used to insulate just heat from electric heating coil of few hundred C?

So I'm guessing this would work for making heat resistant material to make a DIY backyard forge with.

Isn't pure carbon a good heat conductor? I'm confident I've read about graphite and other pure carbon compounds having interesting thermal properties.

I’m curious about why your are clicking some kind of remote control.

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What is he clicking in his hand, and why?

That's it. Subscribing!
Found your short on this. Watched the full video. Saw the bird. Convinced!!

Kp2 tiene audio en español

And it works great

Protect your space shuttle's orbital reentry with these 4 every day household ingredients!

The best defense against fire ants

This so-called secrets that NASA and the government are hiding only make our entire world weaker than it should be at this point. Thank your government for standing in your way every step of the way. Family secret? I don't think so.

Have you tried Baby Powder, TiO2, the trick is finding the binder that is unaffected by heat. Most likely 100% Silicon Caulking. Heat the Baby Powder to 500 degrees F to activate the Oxygen in the TiO2, then add the Silicon Caulk. That would be a good place to start. Since like Ti Si can bind with Oxygen as well, the Si & Ti could use the heat from the flame to just keep bouncing back and forth changing places with each other binding to the Oxygens. This would use the energy up so it does not make it to the other side. Very similar to the Water based Foams being used these days.

Question, if I line my entire car interior with this would it keep the heat out excluding the windows?

Yes, less all paint our walls with PETN lol

starlite upgraded magnetron laser microwave kiln?

How long does it last without heat

I love that we have to go to such extremes to figure out the most basic shit that was invented forever ago because some ignorant asshat thought he could own the world off of 1 thing and took that ONE cool thing to his useless ass grave for literally no reason because STILL no one is willing to fund such backwards ass ignorance.
Sorry. As a semi scientist who actually cares about science as a whole and not just selling it off like a piece of shit over petty ass nonsense the inventor of starlight violently angers me.

So wait can I use this stuff to make a bronze foundry furnace? Cast iron? Fire bricks are expensive and these seem modular and form fitting..

Does borax release harmful gases when burned?

I’d love to see a DIY metal foundry made with this stuff as the insulation!

Sick stuff. I just wonder how well the insulation works for regular temperatures. Is it feasable to insulate my house with this homemade starlite formula? It seems much cheaper than buying insulation products, but Im not sure if the insulation is "based" on the high heat. Is the "dough" insulating already or is it only insulating immense temperatures? Or do I need to "foam" it up with high heat, before its insulating? Halp^^

I feel like whenever someone discovers something in their basement, or home lab, or kitchen, using fairly common ingredients or derivatives of common well-known ingredients, it's almost always something people have known about for years. People have been doing chemistry for thousands of years - we just hadn't formally catalogued enough information about chemistry and chemicals to call is a science until several hundred years ago. Before chemistry there was natural philosophy, before natural philosophy there was alchemy, before alchemy there was witchcraft and sorcery, and before that, I guess it was probably just called "living".

Even if it wasn't "chemistry" yet, professional tradespeople were referring to all kinds of chemicals in the recipes and traditions we still know of. In school they focus so much on what was different throughout history, that we rarely stop to think about how similar a lot of the periods were to our own. Even going back as far as medieval times, if you could teleport a well educated person from a city to a modern city in the same region, once they got over the shock of seeing all the new technologies, they would probably more or less understand what was going on.

If they went into a bathroom and watched people going in and our for a minute, I think they'd quickly understand that the dispensers have soap. They'd probably surmise that it's something like the chunks of fat and lye people once used, except a liquid, and perfumed. They'd probably be more confused about who they're supposed to pay to use the facilities and enjoy the amenities than about what exactly people are doing. And if the medieval person were a tradesperson, and watched this video, everything would probably still make sense to them. In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if this had been discovered before, maybe even thousands of years ago, thousands of times over, without any of us knowing it. Because historically, a lot of ingredients in this were fairly common.

If I recall from history classes, a lot of the time, undesirable industries shared space nearby each other. Tanners, bakers, millers, and other dusty/dirty/stinky trades were all grouped together outside towns, often in large part because they all required space near water and also needed to be somewhere that wouldn't cause people to complain. Limited real estate basically. All those ingredients would be available in such a spot, in a very close vicinity to each other, and these ingredients would all be stored in close proximity to a tradesperson who works over a fire for a living. The only reason we see such rapid advancement today is that when someone has an idea or discovers something useful, instead of just telling a few friends and forgetting about it, there's a real chance someone will post their discovery in a place where someone will actually benefit from it.

If some baker's kid was mixing weird combinations of ingredients in some kind of experiment, and figured out that he can make a cool foam, that would get him in trouble in the middle ages. A priest might see it, accuse the kid of spreading "hell mold" or something, and suddenly the potential of his idea is snuffed out as the church burns him for witchcraft. Today, that kid would record his experiment on tiktok and it would go viral.

Just mixed up a batch for fun, can't wait to see what it can do!

MREs that double as body armor against flame throwers!

and when the fire finally subdues you can snack on your crispy flooring...

This is extremely handy and useful now especially in Canada!
Thank you for this life-saving material!

This makes me wonder if it would make a good forge liner.

What if you tried 10g borax and 10g baking soda?

Could you make wall insulation out of those tiles?