Can Gummy Bears Be Used as Rocket Fuel? | MythBusters

Is it possible to fuel a rocket using gummy bears? After an extremely challenging episode, Jamie and Adam have the answer.

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[CrazyChemistPL]

The real question is how did Adam survive poking a wild Hyneman?

[HSMiyamoto]

The long black smoke trail is my favorite part of their rocket experiment. You can tell this rocket is essentially fueled by pure carbon.

[Granite]

This makes me sad there won't be anymore mythbusters

[xXshiftitXx]

Wow they finally discovered what North Korea uses to launch their nukes

[thebeststooge]

All they did was make an overly dramatized sugar rocket.

[ronkirk]

About the same as the "rocket candy" used by the students portrayed in the movie "October Sky" to propel their rockets. Great movie if you are interested in amateur rockets.

[billygowhoop]

I would love to know what company you send your burnt, powdered gummi bears to for conversion into solid rocket fuel.

[captainsinclair]

I recently read the book “Rocket Boys, ” and all I’m seeing from this experiment is “Rocket Candy.” That stuff was used in the group’s solid fuel rockets until they hit 500 ft as their highest on that fuel. After that, they had to go to a new fuel, as they were hitting the fuel/weight limit on their Auk rockets

[thalesnemo]

As a teenager I use to make own rockets from scratch using powdered sugar . The bees in the park followed the rocket upwards too! 😃

[danielbutler]

Gummi Bears!!
Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High explosives that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears!!

[chuckd]

The whole point was to compare altitudes and then they don't even say how high the gummy one went.

[nate]

On halloween my science teacher dressed up as jamie.

[Nadia]

3:02 Adam got so excited when the announcement came lol

[RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Jack Parsons definitely deserved some props in this video, he's the one who first theorized solid fuel + oxygen is what we would need to get to space with rocket stability. He's a true pioneer of rocketry, a man ahead of his time.

[leslietaylor]

I was expecting "Three, Two, wa---" [COMMERCIAL]

[bcrich]

When the rocket went up and saw how high it went, I was struck with uncontrollable laughter! That's hilarious.

[linseywagner]

I was focused on the double rainbow it made the whole video in my opinion

[jiminslefteyebrow]

"Gummy bears are the poop of baby unicorns" -Mythbusters 2016

[chasr]

if anyone is curious, the microwave they used is a "magic chef" microwave, used to have one basically lasted for 18 years with no issues until it just stopped, i'd say, extremely reliable microwave considering it lasted that long

[fyrstikken]

so that is why they always look suspicious at me when I buy gummy bears at the gas station.