I must admit to being shocked 20 years ago or so when going to a pub and seeing all the little pub tables covered in various states of pint glass levels -- and baby bottles. Baby bottles next to beer covered tables. She has a point -- her friend got to go to the pub! For her daddy's party!

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@ant probably shouldn't watch this. With the kid with the magnifying glass and all

Funny, I've often used magnifying glasses to light bong hits.

I hope that glass was though foresight rather than a learning from a previous less fortunate employee.
It's like throwing water in a chip pan.

About as close to death as anyone would ever want to be! He was lucky to have the protective glass, I wonder if any of it hit him (?)

I guess he thought it was glass.

Damnit, I literally just finished a bottle of wine before sitting down to watch this.

Good thing it works with whiskey too. It does look really cool.

There is still the danger of getting caught staring intently at a glass of whiskey for minutes on end though. I don't think "but it's for science!" would cut it.

too bad the glass wasn't china

The falling sand never falls on him, just in front of the glass. Meanwhile he exits from the back and waits for the assistant to walk behind the box and switches places with him. Nice effect.

Don't push it sunshine. I have a gurney about your size.

And a magnifying glass.

Great! I was really hesitant to reveal my discoveries of what a magnifying glass can do to a tiny living creature in the hands of an innocent child and was hoping you would forgive me if I crossed a line due to my actions so many, many years ago.

I burned a few ants as a child with a magnifying glass. I stopped because I simply couldn't stand the smell.

Diatoms, and other phytoplankton, are incredibly sensitive to ocean PH and CO2 levels. This can be another feedback loop already in action.
As fewer diatoms photosynthesize, more CO2 goes unused, raising the concentration, lowering the numbers and health of phytoplankton, allowing more CO2 to go unused, raising the concentration, .....
Every molecule of CO2 added to ocean systems removes one molecule of carbonate, which is necessary for the uptake of iron among other processes. By 2100, surface carbonate is expected to decrease by up to 50%. That may well be below the levels diatoms can tolerate.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/key-biological-mechanism-disrupted-ocean-acidification

If phytoplankton goes, so does the food web. They are the base. If the ocean food web collapses, eventually the bacteria that eat dead sea life will create huge clouds of hydrogen sulfide that cover the land, poisoning any still living organisms there. This has happened before, but on a much longer timescale, with near life ending results for earth.

Hydrogen Sulfide, Not Carbon Dioxide, May Have Caused Largest Mass Extinction. ... "During the end-Permian extinction 95 percent of all species (and >98% of all biomass) on Earth became extinct, compared to only 75 percent during the KT when the dinosaurs disappeared,"

A better title might be "diatoms, the tiny glass shards that support all life on earth, are struggling".