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Greetings, Science Maximites! I am Phil McCordick, and this is Science Max Experiments at Large. Today, we're going to be experimenting with the balloon-powered car. Here's how it works. It all has to do with Newton's Third Law. Newton's Third Law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Uh, we don't, we don't have to do this now. We can, this is all for later. We can build the cars Let's go over here. So how do you build a balloon-powered car? Well, I suggest you be Science Maximites, because there's any number of ways you can build a balloon-powered car. You do not have to follow my design. You should come up with one of your own. It may even be better than the one I built. But I will give you some tips, though, that make it a lot easier. First of all, you need something to stick your balloon on that has an opening on it. I used a turkey baster for this car. Just pop the top off, and remember to tell an adult that you're using the turkey baster. And then you stick the balloon on there, and it allows you to attach something to the car, and it also makes it easier to blow up the balloon. You can use any number of things, even just any kind of tube that you find lying around. It helps you attach the balloon to the car, and it helps you blow up the balloon way easier. The other thing you should think about when you make your balloon-powered car is how you're going to make the wheels roll. Once you've decided on the base of the car, you could use anything, even just a piece of cardboard like this, you can do your wheels in two ways. The first way is to attach the wheels to the axle. This is how I made the axle of this car. I used a shish kebab skewer, and I stuck it inside a straw, just like that. And then I attached the lids to the shish kebab skewer. So the lids and the shish kebab skewer are attached, and they rotate in the straw. That's one way to make the wheels turn. The other way is to tape down the axle, or whatever you're going to use, and have the wheels spin around on the axle. Two great ways to make your wheels turn, and it really kind of depends on the wheels you're using. You can make your own design, and keep refining it, and making it better, and faster, or do what I like to do, and make a whole bunch of different cars. So we've got this one. This one I made out of paper plates, and this is a snorkel. Awesome! This one is the rock car, because there's a rock on it. I've got a dragster model. It's a long broom handle, and it might not work that well, but who knows? And this is my favorite design. It's made out of waffles, and an ice cube tray. This is why I make a whole bunch of different cars, because I can race them! Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, at the Science Maxadrome! It's the balloon-powered car winner-take-all drag race of Awesome! First up, the Eliminator! For later than never, it's the Procrastinator! Crushing the competition, it's the Terminator! Feel the chills of the Refrigerator! And last but not least, the, um, Regurgitator! Well, when you build your balloon-powered cars, you can figure out what worked, or what didn't work, and try modifying your designs to make them work even better. My name is Phil, and I take your everyday science experiments and do them big. This is Science Max Experiments at Large! Science Max!