This is fucking hilarious. Kids are just sponges for this sort of thing. I've got an 18 month old boy and he's not quite talking yet but I'm having to really watch what I say so he doesn't pick anything up. I'm not great at it though...

As for Lucky760: Windscreen yes, but they are in a safari park, not on the road. I'd sit my little boy on my lap like that too in a safari park. I'm not going to pay a small fortune to take him in and then not see anything!

erm, the idea is old and used many years ago at El Buli. I've made several micowave sponges. See e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwzjOSmMpo

The 'innovation' is making it a pre-packaged squirty cream product

People that give a fuck about the true direction of the planet who like to blabber-on ad-naseum about which news corp is their favorite and which one is full of morons, and if you like them well then you must be a moron, or (insert meaningless label here) are the most gullible, the most extremely out-of-touch with what's truly going on. They have let their minds become a sponge for distraction and illusion by the very machine that rapes the planet of human and natural resources for personal gain and consolidation of power.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste on feeding the very machine that enslaves us all.

As a simple example of just how secondary oil would be as a universal commodity you need only to look at who controls the access. If we'd gone the direction of the Bucky Fullers and Teslas that pop-into the grid in every epoch, and shared collectively in a similar mind and vision, people who pick winners and losers would be non-existent or self-aware, and the real criminals on the planet posing as so-called leaders would be raving in asylums or extinct by now.

Why won't the planet use nuclear energy correctly and righteously for example...SAFE power from the atomic components that make up the experiential world?? Because assholes and criminals run the show. Period.

Same with oil. Same with slavery through economic monopoly, same with the mind-control apparatus that force-feeds the gullible their world views based on their insidious, contrived models.

There are way better drugs out there than politics kids......Use your fucking brains?!

The pink goop was in hamburgers. The allegations on the McNuggets was that they are primarily made of chicken skin. This video admits they add skin but doesn't say how much. They also turn delicious looking whole chicken breast meat into a sponge like form which they "mold" into shapes. My take away is that this was done primarily for show and chicken McNuggets are primarily made from chicken skin. Yum Yum

From Reddit:
"This can be explained through the principles of cohesion and adhesion. Water has strong cohesion to itself and strong adhesion to the sponge. Mercury has strong cohesion to itself but weak adhesion to the sponge.

Cohesion arises from attraction between something and itself. Cohesion is strong in water due to the large amount of hydrogen bonding between water molecules, causing water to stick to itself. Cohesion is strong in liquid mercury due to something called metallic bonding between metal cations and delocalized electrons in the liquid metallic liquid, causing the mercury to stick to itself.

Adhesion arises from attraction between something and something else. Since water molecules are polar, they can hydrogen bond with the polyurethane sponge. Mercury's metallic bonding, however, does not interact with the non-metallic sponge. Mercury will, however, adsorb to other metals such as gold or silver and form an amalgam.

Basic mercury clean up kits usually contain metal sulfides, which can react with the metal, disrupting metallic bonding, and permitting other forms of intermolecular forces to facilitate clean up."

Ok, so here is a very good point.
Because of strength and density, squeezing the air out of the sponge, while submerged under the mercury..., where is that air supposed to go?

Displacement. for the mercury to fill the sponge, the air must be pushed out and displace mercury while submerged, Can air, displace the Mercury in this instance? that's another interesting factor here.

Surface tension sounds plausible, but with the pressure of squeezing the sponge, I would think that tension would break even a little.

Adhesion. Water is polar, its why you get surface tension and I think that's why it sticks to most surfaces. Mercury adheres to itself pretty good but for different reasons. You'll notice it runs off surfaces in a similar way water runs of a hydrophobic surface - it doesn't streak because it doesn't stick.

Now, perhaps if it were an aluminium sponge...

I suggest that it's most importantly to do with the surface tension of mercury. When the mercury covers any of the sponge's holes it forms a new little surface where the strong surface tension matters. You can tell this by looking at any transparent container of mercury such as old barometers and such. The meniscus bends down at the edge rather than the equivalent container of water where it bends up a little. If you pour out a bunch of mercury on a flat surface it will spread out so it's about half a centimeter deep iirc, i used to play a bit with some as a kid. (sometimes in a vac chamber, but not always!)

Here's a thought though. Unfortunately he had parts of the sponge poking out (possibly because of the limits of his container/supply of mercury) and so air could refill the holes in the sponge and allow it to retake its preferred shape. But if it was entirely submerged in the mercury and squeezed, which would be stronger? The springiness of the sponge to want to return to its shape sucking mercury in, or the surface tension of the mercury and the sponge just stays squashed. And i know that packing material is more springy than a bath sponge (or a natural sponge).

stunt sponge after the cut.

I have often said that the sailors of the future will sail on sponge ships upon seas of mercury.

OK, so Why?

Why won't it enter the sponge? why won't the liquid enter the negative spaces in the sponge?

I do know there are some materials that don't absorb water - I have some dish towels (bought at the dollar store) that won't absorb water, absolutely useless. But I think that's different as I doubt they would absorb anything.

So why not Mercury? it's definitely more dense than water. Are the molecules larger than the H2O Molecule? I don't think it is, and even if it was, surly they are not larger than the holes in the sponge.

I'd like to see this tried with different types of sponges.

It'd be nice if he used a real sponge (like one you'd use to wash a car with), rather than a piece of packing material.

well it looks like the video title includes the reaction (NH4)2Cr2O7 + Hg(SCN)2

so

Mercury (II) thiocyanate and Ammonium dichromate


make some Tannerite instead... its legal to posses the components because we're at war with terrorists or something...

The oxidizer is a mixture of 85% 200-mesh ammonium nitrate and 0–15% ammonium perchlorate...the catalyst is a mixture of 90% 600-mesh dark flake aluminium powder, 5% 325-mesh titanium sponge and 5% 200-mesh zirconium hydroxide... ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder work too.

thanks to Amazon.com and Google.com, you too can blow up many things.

From a yt commenter;

"it's the type used, it's not set or hardened yet, they put the layer down then add water, it sucks it up like a sponge, then you let it sit to harden and cure"

All a child needs to be able to learn and discern are fundamentals of critical thinking in the form of basic/complex problem solving in the immediate world around him/her, and the basics squared.

By basics squared we mean the 3R's and about four foreign languages and maybe some musical training, kids can sponge that up and more in the proper environment. You need to thrown in practical tool-making with the daily training, and maybe some martial arts fundamentals.By the time they are seven (age of reason), you'll have MENSA material on your hands, and the makings of a real piece of work.

If you are into history and want to use it as a platform, leave any teaching of religions to the basics and leave the god-as-a-backdrop out of your curriculum. Your kid can make his own choices about the great unknown later, yer preparing a Renaissance child for a steam-punked future that's moving faster than any parent has the capacity to digest, anyhow...Your take on God will only complicate matters.