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Meet the high schooler who sent an electric charge through a pickle and got a$270,000 full ride scholarship to a top US university for it

What have you done with your life, /sci/?

>> No.9594225
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9594225

>>9594184
>electric charge through a pickle
That's the Pickle Rick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZp8sY06Qoc

>> No.9594461

>>9594184
>sent an electric charge through a pickle
found the Electrodynamics 101 "F"-student

>> No.9594466

>>9594184
Once when I was a kid I cut a wire with a plug off an old appliance and stripped the end then hooked it up to two nails put it a plastic container of saltwater. Then I plugged it in.
I was a stupid kid, and I'm still stupid. I guess I isn't a meme.

>> No.9594479

>>9594466
So what happened? Did the water boil? Did it arc? Did you get electrocuted? t. bainlet

>> No.9594483

>>9594479
It arced like crazy and melted halfway through the container.
I was trying to do hydrolysis and/or mass produce iron oxide for thermite
I did get a lot of iron oxide in the water so it kind of a success but I quit the project after that.

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>>9594184
>$270 000 scholarship for sending an electric current through a fucking pickle
What a fucking joke

>> No.9594554

Can anyone post a link to an article about this? Reverse image search didn't show me anything.

>> No.9594813

>>9594184
Science turns superhero as it battles to save the planet and preserve the human race. In California, physicist Jim
Al-Khalili sees how the power of the world's largest laser could create a fuel to answer all our needs.
Science as superhero? They can't turn up the propaganda any more: the volume is already on
maximum. But the analogy is empty, since these superhero scientists can't even do basic math
anymore, much less save the planet.

>> No.9594814

>>9594184
>Meet the high schooler who sent an electric charge through a pickle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aab8VjzuXyM

>> No.9594825

>>9594184
And let me guess, everyone clapped as well? They were awarded 3 grand at most.

>> No.9594843

>>9594225
cringe

>> No.9594985

>>9594554
https://student.societyforscience.org/coalition-plasma-science-cps-1

>> No.9595188

>>9594985
Thank you, sir

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>>9594184 >>9594225
Did they get these pickle rick tattoos?

>> No.9596284

>>9594184
The guy who prepared this got the scholarship:
The Effects of Electrical Discharge Plasma Treatment on Cellular Growth and Wound Healing
>You prepare a paper about plasma treatment and wound healing, while the germans win with a glowing pickle.