Remove “in a simple tournament with science” and that comment is a *looot* worse

Sh4dow funnier though

Albert Shapiro

Lol

*cough cough* alternate title *cough cough*

I came here to learn, not to feel

Why can't I "thumbs up" more than once?

i usually don't like comments like this but this was genuinely sad

Wholesome

Are derbys still popuAlr

holy smokes, should have put a spoiler and tint the windows. Would look nice.

My pine would derby gave out trophies for design as well.

I had a buddy whos dad was a wood worker by trade, his dad used two template bodies and made a perfect scale Lamborghini Diablo, even had holographic paint.

@@quattobeast oh, Lamboh should have been a killer :)

@@carsonproctor6037 same

yes!

Yeah Slay Queen!! So Brave You and your boys and no father in the house it's all so brave, so fun, so great Slay queen slay

@@Ellesdy1 say slay one more time

@Zachary and instead of taking a skilled subject they take computers

@@pambotts7334 Ey respect the computers :D It takes a lot of skill

@Pam Botts Programming takes skill. I’d like to see you code anything without any prior experience.

@@pambotts7334 whats wrong with computers?

Correction: mark is the uncle who prepares for this to become the coolest uncle

We are having a race in S.T.E.A.M. and My whole class knows I have a secret but I won't tell anyone! I am taking as many notes from this video, and the other videos Mark put in the description, as I can. Also, my sister's car won for her grade so, I am taking some ideas from that car as well. I am also going to make it have the best paint job in the grade so that just in case I don't win for speed, I will still have a chance for design. I love science and art so this is the best project ever for me!

@@morganc1695 Tell us how it all went down :)

@@Tayfaan It hasn'r happened yet

@@morganc1695 I know, I meant I wanted to know when it happened lol

@@Tayfaan oh ok lol

I placed 3rd with my own design and car when I was in 3rd grade..went to the next level..it wasnt states or anything not sure what it was..didnt even place. was coold to say I got 3rd since lots of cars were built by the dads

I handbuilt mine too, with my dad only there to teach me and keep me supervised. All my cars had a natural wood finish, no paint. 2nd, 2nd, 1st, respectively :)

Hobo Chicken 😂😂😂😂 this has been the best comment hahahahaha

I want to see the railroad track dom vs brian in the fast and the furious scene remade but with dom driving a doorstop

Hobo Chicken now imagine being beaten with a doorstop.

I love this comment.

I mean, it literally is a door stop... :'D

lol

"Former NASA engineer bullies middle school kids' dads in pinewood derby."

The pinewood derby is in Cub Scouts, not Boy Scouts, so it would be Elementary school kids.

@@vylet4807 I bet you're a riot to hang out with.

@@SnazzyZubloidsActually, I'm basically the nerd of 7th grade, everyone calls me a nerd, and I consider myself a nerd.

I’m working with my daughter on her’s for powder puff. Not only must it go fast, it has to look like a prehistoric horse wearing a Girl Scout vest. And open to disclose yummy cookies.

My son’s middle school did CO2 cars and the science teacher had been unbeaten for 12 years. No graphite was allowed, so we just polished with a drill as shown. Our cars had axel holes drilled all the way through the body and so we also smoothed the inside of the hole with the smoothed axels. Anyway, he ( ok, we) beat the teacher for the first time. Lots of fun!

Texas Swift - derbies

Do golf ball dimples

Oh hell yeah Xd

Bunnies are actually faster than hot rod flames

I thought it was lightning bolts and comets! XD

James Burk 800 horsepower per fireball

I’m the 500th like

AerialAtom same

More like useful 30 years ago for me, pre-UKposts and internet, so I was screwed either way! Al though my Dad did have an engineering degree, it was chemical engineering, so not so helpful for pinewood derby. We did use graphite back then thou.

Lol

30 years ago for me.

AerialAtom yea, I could have used this 48 years ago! My car was disqualified anyway since it weighed slightly more than allowed! Curses!

lmao dqed the second u pick it up and yeet it lmao

@@frederikchristiansen8121 karen alert

@@frederikchristiansen8121 karen alert

SP D that isn’t a Karen u incel

Ha

Character development.

same

Do you think he is bullying kids? This is a great informative video, the fact you see it as bullying is embarrassing, I prefer this stuff over his new stuff, mark and science is awesome, watching to catch a predator/true crime stuff is just eh

@@imnotsmartbutimdumb this is a joke based on his pinewood derby video

@@imnotsmartbutimdumb it’s a joke.

Congrats

So second loser? haha kidding. Congrats!

next near do what i did you make a wedge and drill two level holes through it start big at the start of the whole and when it is nearly straight through it is smaller using the air movment to go into those hole the air has to go through the smaller holes at the back it gose fast

Gg rm?

You mean Your Car?

Well the physical build process may have been 45 minutes, but a lot of research was conducted first. We should count the time he spent researching what to do as well as the time spent doing it. I'm sure the 12-hour builders did research too, but they probably spent a lot of time on aesthetics, and on optimizing factors that didn't contribute as much to the car's success.

He deserved to be flexing that ex-Nasa engineer title 😅

BOIZ

Would he have done so well against it before slamming into it with his rocket car?

@@josephgarvey2153 I was thinking the same thing! That hit could have easily thrown the other car out of alignment. We also don't know if the Pack is running on the same rules as what he built his car by.

I could help you on that one. Signed, Last Place finisher. LOL

Daniel Greenwood make it light, with a draggy body shape

Do this but in reverse.

r/madlads

Do this but only following the information on the thumbnail, I got the “most economically friendly” award by doing that

How would it be a cheese block imagine being beat by a square of American cheese

@@nonotagain Imagine being beaten by those things that hold the door closed at the bottom (the wedges)

@@blackbed5108 A doorstop?

@@nonotagain a cheese door stop

imagine being beatin by nothing

"crowd of ankles", is that an original expression you came up with? i love it!

I made a jdm car and then it started doing skids

How many ankles did it break. If you know what I mean.

A crowd of ankles is a better target than a normal crowd, because there are twice as many of them (if we're talking typical humans)

@@joshuachan6918 and had a bunch of stickers and a big wooden wing

one second off

FamilyBand CNMT what do you mean no that’s the reel big oof no? Ok.

Why is James crying?

Nope 15:59 so your one second too much

You must be fun at parties

make sure it's a yellow paintjob cause that adds 150bhp in ANY car

Vault Dweller *Face palm*

Ordan Oath do you even irony bro?

Vault Dweller *Face palm TIMES TWO!!!*

***** Hot pink master-race bro. Get on mah level.

It’s just sad for the kids who built their own car and your father was building for you

@@eliaskjrbo8142 Well, most 8yos haven't taken physics yet and are in it for the fun. Dads usually have way more competitive spirit, too.

@@eliaskjrbo8142 the kids will grow up and build their kids car, and the cycle repeats

@@Crusader1815 when i did it i was 13 and i did it myself and studied for it. Guess what i destroyed the competition! 😂

@@eliaskjrbo8142 because you were the only one in the competition

I think more than 99% of people didn't notice this.

+EpicMeh Everything about this comment is perfect. xD

+EpicMeh sponsor decals +5hp each

+EpicMeh Sanic decals add 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hp

+EpicMeh THE COLOR RED GOES FASTER!!

Sponsored tires +15 hp each

How do you sleep at night?

@Adon LovE and the doorstop behind his door so that no one can come in and disturb him

@@castraatmoko5444 lol

Sebastian-Benedict Flore only thing you stole was the top comment...

@@gonzalez6073 On a slightly inclined mattress with bent legs and center of mass concentrated at my head while staying close to the rail.

Who is Brian? Ralphylad

@@chadliampearcy It's your Brain

It's 3am on Christmas day and I'm still up on here

SAME

I am personally offended by the mistake Edit:oh wait

grandpa's are all kinds of awesome

Michael Jolley heartwarming man ;)

Didn't have my grandpa around at the time in the late 70s, but a little old man I would visit in a wheelchair up the street helped me cut my block down into something that looked like a car before I started sanding it. Good memories.

Isn't that the true reason for these races?

@@keithkooistra3670 yes

Lance Stroll?

What dad😳

In the same Boat Bro.

but i dont have a dad

I built my car then again i am 14

zBKhJr He is another Bill Nye, but not a replacement.

litteraly the only reason im here

Mark Robber the NASA Guy

Mark Robber the NASA Guy

+Evi1M4chine No, his "girls" are the cars he made all by himself in his garage. He named them Betty and Veronica

+Zemeda Zonne i think he's talking about his real girls

+Dustin Dilworth Didn't know that girls were boys. How progressive of you.

+Turk Sandwich Girls can't race pinewood cars? Not sure that's progressive... Sounds like a dad spending time with his daughters.

Phillip Carr Well considering it is the "Boy Scouts" I don't know that dad spending time with daughter needs to apply. There is something called "Girl Scouts."

Same

+Brave Cat The reason is knowledge.

+Brave Cat Learning physics

+Brave Cat You're learning, nothing to be ashamed of.

im now sad those races arent really known here in germany... would be great back then:)

lool

lol

L0L

Lol

Lol

me too

Me too

same

probably because youre boring, not productive, and a loser with nothing better to do.

stevie6868 same 😂😂😂 ok not even in America there isn't any Boy Scouts where I'm from

***** I really enjoyed it! Feel free to make more longer videos :)

I have no idea how n why i came here.. but i did actually watch the whole vid even if i had no fking idea abt the railroad cars or whtever

- ̗̀new ̖́-Truly Atomic We don't even do pinewood derby in the UK and I watched the whole thing.. How did I even get here?

- ̗̀new ̖́-Truly Atomic I was just about to write the same thing... :D

Adam Same in Australia, its a very interesting topic on how stuff works and why.

+mtothem1337 omg door wedge should totally use it

+mtothem1337 Hilarious comment lol

+I BallisticRaptor I actually did quite well with one that was just basically a brick.

Make a Hollow door wedge it is tons lighter.

Brandon Leonhard lighter doesn't mean faster look at the Chinook. Heavier = more potential energy which will be converted to speed

TNSH Guy Because science is what makes the world go round. It's what makes just about every celestial body go round in fact.

cause it's the internet. watch the random things.

TNSH Guy because you clicked the video

science brought you here

because it's cool

Xaiano A dad with integrity wouldn't build the car for his son. But who cares about integrity these days, or, better yet, who cares about teaching their kids integrity?

A dad with integrity wouldn't build the car for his son. But who cares about integrity these days, or, better yet, who cares about teaching their kids integrity?

My dad always gave me a hacksaw and made me do it myself. My first car was fantastic looking and we made it look like a spaceship and it took me forever to build. In the years that followed, I got lazier and ended up eventually just cutting a 45 degree angle in the nose and drawing some flames on it in sharpie. I actually did pretty okay that year.

My father had me draw the shape I needed for the car, and he cut the rough shape. Why? I wasn't allowed to use the saw. It was modeled after the old gremlin my Dad had and got rid of a few years before. I then used my jack knife to carve it how I wanted the rest of it, sanded it. I use model paint to color it. Then in the end I drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom near back, melted some old sinkers in. We used graphite, sure he helped with melting and some of the drilling. but I did a large portion of it. it didn't win, it didn't get last place. Overall a bonding experience.

A dad with integrity would teach the son why his "precision engineered" car wins. And allow his son to do most of the work under his guidance. My dad did that, and because of his teaching i got a hobby, interest in physics, and basic tooling skills which i later refined and now use in my profession (woodwork)

Edit 2: Ex Nasa engineer BODIES kids at car racing competition

EDIT#3: children beat ex-nasa scientist to death with toy cars

EDIT: ROCKET MAN USES PROPULSION TO ANNIHILATE THE LOCAL CUB SCOUT TROOPS ROLLER DERBY

Edit: Edit

David Hamlin yes

David Hamlin word

True story!

paint flames flaming in which direction?

NICEFINENEWROBOT backwards obviously, otherwise they would Slow the car down :D

THEY CAN'T CHANGE GRAPHITE!

SHOE IS SHOE

P40Gaming SHOE IS SHOE

P40Gaming it’s a meme

Have you ever drank Bailey's out of an old shoe?

But you do have access to this and are able to show your teachers! "Hey I was looking in to this and he explained it in a way that is quite nice and simple" If he/she asks why then you are honest "Well, I find your way of explaining quite hard to follow some times" This is nothing bad, nor says it is bad. They're people in the learning process and believe me the best feedback comes from the client.

@@hiba756 yay same bud

I love the way he dose that

them colored blocks

Same here.. he has a gift

Dude it was 2014 not the 1960s we had access to decent cameras 😅

@@jobo9534 I think the guy means the content is quality, not the video itself.

UKposts was better in 2014

@@roarshack1591 And that's a fact

doesnt beat vsauce

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

e ? ??????

@@userwastaken3069 eeee

He wouldn’t say that but yeah

Yep

ThePloyMaker's Evil Plans l

he forgot the brembo brakes as well

ThePloyMaker's Evil Plans also red cars go faster so paint it red, I have estimated that this makes it 3.57 times faster and had my theory confirmed by 3 physicists that studied at Harvard.

Red goes faster.

Double that if it's red.

I built my first Pinewood Derby car in 1965.

I work in a lumber mill and have been getting ideas looking at our scrap pile. Maybe a walnut or oak derby car.

That’s cool thanks for the tidbit

​@@krisaskew5801 start a local walnut derby league 🤣

Henry Ford used engine crates as beds for the pickup trucks they made. Very smart. I really enjoyed watching these videos. You all have really raised the bar to win or even compete. Thanks!

cybertruck*

@@sorcerer6373 No the cybertruck has different dimensions and has a truck bed in the back. These aren't pine wood derby trucks.

Chris Anderson I haven’t see anything about a cyber car. Only the cyber truck

yeh lol

SAME IDEA

Congrats

👏👏 good job

woooow xD

our races all 4 wheels needed to touch and no wheel mods besides removing injection mold seams

So basically it's a competition between the scouts dad's xD

It's not even a thing in my country (England)

Is no thing in country I be (Brasil)

@@tornadotaylor8956 lol I live in England too

Marry a woman and have some boys. It's the dads who do it anyhow.

Thanks for screwing it up, Girl Scouts...

The colored blocks especially were a nice touch.

😂 your such a nice person

Who ever has the most green blocks wins!! now let’s count them, can you count with me? Let’s see uno dos tres🤣🤣

i understand it, but don't have all the tools he used. I'm a female trying to build this car with no tools for my son. My son's going to be devastated.

@@BrendaMLKovacs aight

I bet that ended well.

c6-5 burns to long, try just using the 1st stage from a 2 stage c class motor. forgot what they were called (haven't had a rocket in 15 years) but I know the only burn for less than a second

c6-5 burns to long, try just using the 1st stage from a 2 stage c class motor. forgot what they were called (haven't had a rocket in 15 years) but I know the only burn for less than a second

c6-5 burns to long, try just using the 1st stage from a 2 stage c class motor. forgot what they were called (haven't had a rocket in 15 years) but I know the only burn for less than a second

Joshua Leniger I want it to burn FOREVER so I beat the SH** out of the competition!

+Rpp Wing And speed holes.

Lol

+Paul Metcalf and the color red

monster energy sticker

And being red

skylarscaling nice

Awesome, Congratulations!!!!!

so you didn't use any of your own brain. cool story

@@theastuteangler9642 Of course he did... he used his brain for 'research' which included watching this brilliant video!

aNELeOnwuka If he didn’t use his brain then the other dads must have negative intelligence lol

***** Excellent video on the basic physics concepts needed to have a successful pinewood derby car. My son has raced in our RA (Royal Ambassador) race at our church for 4 years and I have helped him work on his car (and yes he does a vast majority of the work [with my supervision and teaching about concepts in physics]) using most of the concepts in this video. Our church buys kits so we have a precut shape already made for us when we get the kit. But my son sands his car, finds the balance point (Center of Mass), drills the axle holes, sands and polishes his nails, polishes the wheel bore, drills the holes to add weights, paints his car, and puts on the graphite. I help hold or act as his "assistant" when he needs another hand. I help put putty in the holes when we add weights (because it is messy and my son gets a skin rash from the wood putty) and I help push the axles into the holes while he holds the gap measurer (he is not strong enough to insert them by himself). So I would estimate he does 80+% of the work himself, but with assistance and supervision from me for proper technique and safety purposes. Each year as he gets older, more experienced, and physically coordinated he needs less and less of my help. I already understood most of the concepts needed to build a fast car through my education, but researched ideas/concepts as we prepared each year. We aren't allowed to run on 3 wheels, so we have never attempted that technique. He has won every year and our goal has become to run faster each year by trying a new technique or perfecting one we already are using. The only thing we haven't tried is rail-riding and we plan on adding this technique to his car this year. Here is what aggravates me about all the whiners and complainers: They almost all insist that (because he consistently wins) my son has no input into building the car. These are the same dads and mom who spend no time with their kids, slap a car together the night before the race with no thought about the car (because they have their lazy butts on the couch watching TV for hours on end), and could care less about spending quality time together with their kids. My son and I talk a good bit about the construction of his car, but the truth is we spend more time talking about life (God, the value of reaping the reward of hard work, his fears, aspirations, friends at school, his favorite class, movies, baseball, and even girls). The time we spend together during the building of his car is fantastic father-son time. The bonding and fellowship is why dads should invest time, thought, and effort into helping their kids build a car (winning is an added benefit and a by-product of a dad "being there" for his kid). The sad thing is every year I offer to have several weekend workshops where all the dads/sons can get together and we (me and my son) will help them with their cars. Sadly, not one has ever shown up for help. I have even had a few of my sons friends over to help them in bits and pieces work on their cars and yet not seen a single dad show up. How sad is that? These are the same dads (and some moms) that make accusations of the car being totally built by me or worse yet, that we are somehow cheating to win. So again thank you for this great video. Dads and moms; spend time with your child building his/her car. Use the ideas and techniques in this video to make it fast. You may not win, but at least it will be competitive. You and your child will learn something about science, math, and physics. And miracle of all miracles, you might learn something about your child that you didn't know before by spending extra time with him or her.

+Lee Borcik Wow

I raise mine up on stilts that way gravity has to work harder and pull it down the track.....😃

I made a cop car Pine wood derby car and I put all that weight in the front.... Lost all the races but got best design!

I put half in front half in back and won 👌

@@hunterhendrickson4764 amature. I got best design AND I got best speed. Every year.

@@NightyFall amateur*

We had spark plug trophies and the slowest got n upsidedown spark plug

Our pack had something like that to. I won. I uhhhh. I uh glued the axles and wheels. So. The wheels didn’t turn. And a few other things.

Take off the wheels and make it a sled

Don't make the wheels turn and make it slide across the track but put soap on the "wheels" so it at least crosses the flag

I'll just put minecraft slowness potion on a working car then LOL

rest in peace he does

Sorry for your loss ;(

bro same here only I took first early 70's because of his knowledge & GRAPHITE !!!! we were the only one to use it..... Also a NASA \ Space \ MIC elec. engineer he passed in '99

Rest In Peace

@@cameltube-vk7el Lot more recent in the 00s my dad did the same. I forget what kind of weight we used though.