Skipping Stones and Mailing Postcards- Smarter Every Day 88 | Summary and Q&A

TL;DR

Learn the secrets to skipping stones and join the postcard collection project.

Key Insights

• 🔺 The art of skipping stones relies on four important variables: velocity, angle of attack, angle of impact, and rotational velocity.
• 🫵 Destin has a postcard collection project where viewers can send him postcards to cover an entire room in his house.
• 🌍 Postcards have been received from places all over the world, including Spain, the Netherlands, and California.
• 🫵 Viewers are encouraged to continue sending postcards to help complete the room-covering project.
• 📽️ The postcard collection project is featured on Destin's second channel, Funner Every Day.
• 👨‍🎤 The importance of a wide and flat rock shape for successful skipping is highlighted.
• 🔺 Angle of attack and angle of impact play crucial roles in the skip, with a twenty-degree angle being optimal.

Transcript

Hey it's me Destin welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So if you think about it, for thousands of years people have verbally skipped along or passed down through generations the art of skipping stones, and today it's my turn to do the same. So when you throw it, you hold it on the side like this, and then when you throw it you spin it. You remember ... Read More

Questions & Answers

Q: What are the four variables for successful stone skipping?

The four variables are velocity, angle of attack, angle of impact, and rotational velocity. Keeping the rock fast, at a twenty-degree angle to the water's surface, with a low angle of impact, and spinning it as fast as possible are the key factors for a successful skip.

Q: How can viewers participate in the postcard collection project?

Viewers can send postcards to Destin's address, which is provided in the video description. The postcards will be added to his collection and used to cover an entire room in his house.

Q: How can viewers follow the progress of the postcard project?

Viewers can check out the second channel, Funner Every Day, where Destin will provide updates and information on the postcard project.

Q: Why does Destin want more postcards?

Destin wants more postcards to cover the entire room he is adding onto his house. He encourages viewers to send in postcards to help complete the project.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• Destin explains the four key variables for successful stone skipping: velocity, angle of attack, angle of impact, and rotational velocity.

• Destin showcases his postcard collection project and shares the postcards he has received from viewers around the world.

• Viewers are encouraged to send more postcards to help cover an entire room in Destin's house.