(futurtisic digital typing)
- I'm Colin Furze, inventor, former plumber,
and all-around builder of things.
Now, over the years I've put together
some pretty crazy machines
and broken a few world records along the way.
But now I've decided to take a break from building stuff
for myself and I'm using my creative influence
to go out and make things happen for other people.
Well, boys? - Hey!
Way up!
And these builds are pretty epic.
So to help me out, I've brought in my hand-picked team
of builders for some much-needed assistance.
And this time we'll be helping out
a brother and sister whose dream is to go into space.
- Everything he does is to the extreme.
I am terrified.
- Start the countdown.
This is Furze World Wonders!
(cheering)
Why are we doing this first thing in the morning?
Ruining a day.
This is more for the program really.
If I'm honest with you.
I could tell you what's going to happen,
I'm going to feel sick.
So, you know, we don't need to do this, really.
Now, going into space is not easy.
Astronauts have to go through some serious training
by understanding what high G force feels like.
So they have to get put in these spinning machines
which get faster and faster and faster
so they can feel the crushing forces of gravity.
Now I haven't gotten in their machines,
they won't let me in theirs, so I've got this.
Eh?
I mean, it's expensive, but you can hire it by the day.
Alright, Jay, take me up before I change my mind,
because I don't think I'm going to like this.
I don't like getting spun around.
In fact, I hate it.
The Furze Space Program has been initiated.
Wha-ha-ha-ha!
Oh, this is weird, oh my god!
Oh!
So, why am I doing this?
Well, it's to see if I'd be any good in space,
and I know I won't be.
Oh!
I feel sick now.
Oh, I can taste my breakfast again!
Oh, ah, ah,
it's slowing down a bit.
I feel a bit yuck.
Okay, I'm clearly not cut out for space travel.
No astronaut's going to want me sitting next to him,
boffing on their ascent to space.
So if I ever build a rocket, I'm not getting in it.
But it doesn't matter because I'm taking a break
from building stuff for myself
and I'm using my creative influence to go out there
and make things happen for other people.
And I found this pair,
whose dream is to be the first brother and sister in space.
Why?
- Hi, Colin, I'm Keeley,
and my brother Aidan and I love space.
We've loved space ever since we were really little.
But we also love you.
Ever since we first saw you and your inventions,
we fell in love.
I have to say, my favorite is the hover bike.
Our ultimate dream is to be
the first brother and sister duo in space.
If you're ever planning on making anything
heading to the moon and you need some volunteers to test it,
my brother and I would be down to help.
- Aidan and Keeley really want to go to space.
I've contacted various space organizations.
None of them have got back to me.
I could stick 'em in a rocket and send them up there myself.
That's probably going to get me in trouble.
Now, they're inside this theater giving a demonstration
and talk on space and I do have an idea,
so I think I'm going to surprise them.
- So today we're doing a cool experiment
called elephant toothpaste.
It's going to look a little bit like a super rocket launch.
- Yeah.
- Who wants to see that?
(cheering)
First, we need to pull out our hydrogen peroxide.
- What we need next is dish soap, like we have at home,
but I'm pretty sure you guys don't do dishes.
No? No.
STEM stands for-- - Science.
- Technology. - Engineering.
- And math.
- So what we're going to be doing is
mixing this water with this potassium.
Myself and Keeley started STEM Kids Rock
so that we could inspire the next generation of leaders in
the fields of science, technology,
engineering and math.
So now we're ready for our final step.
- So Aidan's my big brother
and we've always been really, really close.
In the sixth grade I was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Aidan was always there next to me saying,
"Don't worry, Keeley."
He believed in me.
I don't even know where I'd be right now,
I wouldn't have gotten into
the advanced classes in high school,
I wouldn't be able to get these great marks if it wasn't for
him helping me out and he's just, he's awesome.
- She is incredible.
She's definitely my best friend.
- Three, two, one. - And we're really--
- Obsessed. - Really obsessed.
- With space.
- Blast off!
(Audience reaction, cheers)
- What's going on here? - Oh man, it's Colin Furze!
- Hello! - This is pretty cool.
How are we doing?
Yeah, I'll shake your hand. Sorry to interrupt, everybody.
As you can imagine,
Aidan and Keeley would really like to go to space.
They love space and everything about it.
So would you like them to get enrolled
in the Furze Space Program?
- [All] Yeah! (cheering)
- Because you're going off to university soon, aren't you?
- Yes.
- And you're worried that he's going to go off
and your whole I-want-to- go-to-space-together thing
is going to disappear.
- This might be our last summer together doing this.
So, we've got to end it with a bang.
- Well I think that's what we should do.
I've got a great idea that's going to
give you world recognition in rocketeering.
- And that would be awesome.
- But it's not going to happen in here
because it's too small. So, let's go.
Aidan and Keeley are an amazing couple of kids.
Bringing science to the next generation is awesome.
In fact, Aidan's passion has brought him
face to face with many famous figures.
And Keeley has been just as eager
to flex her scientific muscle.
I think these two are destined to be
the first brother and sister duo in space.
To give these two the full space experience,
we'll start by making a huge lunar habitat,
complete with an airlock, a weightless simulator,
and a mission control centre.
That's where we can launch the massive water rocket that
I hope will put them in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Countdown commence!
(light rock music)
To get these builds done, I've gathered up some help.
Team Furze is busy transforming an empty field
into a high-tech lunar hab and launch pad.
First thing to go up is a 20-foot geodesic dome
complete with airlock system.
While they work on that,
I've got to figure out how we're going to set a new
Guinness World Record title
for the largest water rocket ever made.
Okay, so we need to build a rocket
which is all about the engines.
How does a rocket engine work?
Well, you get a canister, fill it with fuel,
light the fuel, fuel expands,
loads of hot gases exit this area,
pushing the canister forwards.
Now, the fuel is not actually the thing that we need
to concentrate on, it's the expanding gases.
I can make this shoot into the air
without igniting anything.
How?
With liquid nitrogen!
Yes, now liquid nitrogen is super cold.
If you are liquid nitrogen, everything is roasting hot.
It doesn't matter what you put on, it just wants to boil,
and turn back into a gas, therefore expanding.
So if we get some water, pour it in,
then we're going to pour a bit of liquid nitrogen,
it's evaporating up already.
Right, so if I now pour this in here,
oh yes, look at this, fantastic.
Right, I'd say we've got enough in there.
Three, two, one.
Gone.
Fantastic.
Gas is expanding, rocket goes up.
Now, then, we want to set a Guinness World Record
for the largest water rocket.
And they stipulate that it has to be powered by
water and air, so we can't use nitrogen.
But, like we said,
the canisters are great but they need to be bigger.
The current record is over twelve feet high.
So we need a system of sticking them together and maybe,
you know, use a few more than one.
So, you go and clean your lens and I'll get on with it.
So let's give this a go by cutting and gluing,
five two-liter bottles together.
Oh, beautiful.
Then add a hose connector which will be part of our
launch release mechanism,
and hope it's all strong enough to hold the pressure we need
to pack into this thing.
And there we are.
Now, I'm going to leave that to cure,
and while that's happening,
I've got another little experiment to show you.
Now when I first got this challenge,
immediately I thought,
we've got to stick kids on a rocket.
But parents weren't quite as enthusiastic.
But that doesn't mean it's not a good idea.
So what we've got here, we've got Stunt Furze
and he is riding a metal pressure vessel.
Our pressure vessel is much beefier
than our plastic bottles,
which means it can hold more water
and air pressure than we can jam into our rocket engine.
But it's also heavier.
So even though we've got 200 PSI of pressure in there,
it would never launch into the air.
But it should provide a pretty good ride down the track.
Ho there.
Ha ha ha ha!
Three, two, one, go, Stunt Furze!
Ha ha ha!
Oh, Stunt Furze had a hell of a ride, didn't he?
Broke his wheels off.
Nice one, buddy, oh look, your helmet's come off.
Stick that back on.
There we are, then.
That's what water pressure can do.
I think we should go and have a look,
see how my glue's curing.
There we are, five bottles cured.
Put a bit of tape around the seams as well
to add a bit of extra strength.
Now let's give it a test.
Let's put this on here, click that in like that.
And then if we come over here to the air line,
and we're going to turn this up.
If we stick about 80 PSI in it, that should do.
80. Now, then, let's give it a test fire.
Grab this.
Three, two, one, boom!
Yes!
Winner! There we are.
So I say now, let's get loads of them,
band them together, make a huge version,
and hopefully break a Guinness World Record.
That worked a treat!
And don't I know it?
(upbeat rock music)
Now this little entrance to our hab,
this is going to be our airlock.
So you'd come in, you'd shut the door,
you make sure this door's shut.
Then you repressurize or depressurize,
just as if you were in a real lunar hab.
And to make it seem more realistic,
we've got these two C02 firing things here.
So if I push this.
(laughing)
How brilliant's that?
It's like we're actually on the moon.
Should I do it again?
Of course I'm going to do it again.
(laughing)
That's good, isn't it? That's good.
Oh, Aidan and Keeley are going to love that.
It's quite loud.
Team Furze has assembled the rocket
that we hope sets a new Guinness World Records title.
To do that we've made it stand over twelve feet tall
and it's more than a foot in diameter.
Using only water and air pressure, it needs to fly
16 feet higher than its own nose to break the record.
Now hand me, oh, look at that.
Now, while we get it set for launch,
I've sent Aidan and Keeley
for some actual astronaut training.
If they want to go to space,
they'll need to get used to being weightless.
So, I've sent them off to a place
where they can experience that.
And it looks like it should be quite the ride.
- We've never felt the sensation of weightlessness before.
I am slightly terrified but super, super excited.
- Alright, it's going to be like normal flight.
Lean back and hips forward.
- Okay, okay.
The lift-off was a little bit shaky
but once I got the movement of things and the flow,
this totally brought out the kid in me.
I was having so, so much fun.
Just feel like a new person at this point,
like you're a superhero.
You feel all the power on your chest firing you up.
It's like we were realizing our dream of finally
getting into space together as a brother/sister duo.
- Colin was completely right. - He was spot on.
- This is awesome.
Really trippy and great adrenaline rush.
You've got to think of life like you think of flying here.
If you put your head down, you're going to go down
and you're not going to move and succeed.
But if you put your head up, you put your head up
and look forward, you're going to do great.
- A very good point.
- So Aidan and Keeley are going to be here shortly.
The last job we've got to do is get these rockets sorted.
So we've got this little board which sits over here,
and this pushes the collars down all at once.
It is a rather simple system.
Yeah, see?
Push that down, look.
It releases all the hose bottle connectors.
Whoosh, off they go.
This rocket has 19 engines that all need to be
released at the same time.
Look at that.
Simple is best.
So this little pulley system
will manage that job quite nicely.
Now, we just need to lock it into place
and add the finishing touches.
All in all, this beast uses 95 bottles for the engines.
Have we got that on straight?
And another 190 to fill up the rest of the rocket.
So we've got the STEM Kids Rock logo on there.
All good?
I do believe that looks like a rocket.
And hopefully we can set a Guinness World Records title
for the largest water rocket.
Yes!
Now, like any rocket launch,
there's bound to be some issues on the launch pad.
It is leaking but it's quite small.
And we are no exception.
So of the nineteen bottles we've got one of them,
this one here, look, you can see all the bubbles coming out,
it's not sealing properly.
One of those engine connectors isn't clicking
into the collar but a little tug should do the trick.
- [Man] Ooh, that might have done it.
- So this rocket motor here we think has got,
like shoved itself up into the bunch of rockets.
So when we slap it onto the board, that one wasn't
connecting in properly and therefore leaking.
So we've pulled it out.
Hopefully we haven't pulled all the others out and messed
all them up, and it clicks in and they all don't leak.
Not totally solved.
It's still leaking, but not as badly.
And I don't think that's going to cause any major problem.
It's fine.
I used to be a plumber, that's not a leak.
Ha ha ha!
- This is going to be incredible
to see what Colin's created.
Everything he does is to the extreme.
- Colin's broken so many world records.
Probably more than I can even count.
And if Aidan and I become Guinness World Record
record-holders with Colin, it would just be amazing.
- Keep looking at me, keep looking at me.
Keep looking at me.
- We're looking at you.
- And... Ta Dah!!
(cheering)
- Amazing!
- Good?
Your space experience starts here.
- [Keeley] It's amazing.
- So, giant water rocket, lunar hab.
Everything you expected?
- Fantastic. - It's amazing.
- So shall we go inside?
- Yes. - Yes, please.
- Right, we come in.
Now this is like the airlock chamber.
You shut the door.
Wha-ha ha ha ha! (laughing)
How cool is that? - That was crazy!
Bam, just like that, C02 came flying in.
- We're getting blown with these cryo-jets
and all this awesome C02 everywhere
and I honestly got really, really scared.
- [Colin] In you go.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
- [Keeley] It's awesome.
- So, this area over here, this is the control centre,
'cause when we do the water rocket launch and everything,
this is where you're going to be.
You're going to be, you know,
overlooking it on the screens, all your buttons,
getting all the information coming through.
So you're like, you know, you're completely over it.
- The hab is so beautiful.
I couldn't get over how gorgeous the whole module was
and how well built it was.
It really had everything for us.
- This is kind of like the science experiment zone.
- The little lab. - Beautiful.
- [Colin] And then over here.
- Of course we need our garden.
- There's two ways you can look at this.
You could be growing your own food
or you could do an experiment.
- How about both?
- I wish the lunar hab was my regular home.
- I'm going to give you that moon vibe.
We're going to get you strapped up
and you can kind of have a bounce around.
- That is amazing.
- It was like we are realizing our dreams,
just thinking that I am on the moon or on Mars.
- Oh!
- I love it, it's awesome.
Not that easy, is it?
- Oh.
- Yeah, Aidan, he wasn't quite able to flip all the way.
So it just made me a notch better than him.
So, just saying.
- Right, here's the plan for us to set
a Guinness World Record, we need to measure this thing
and then it will qualify for a Guinness World Record.
So, you've got a tape measure?
- I do.
- We're going to measure it, aren't we?
- We are.
Today, Aidan, Keeley and Colin are attempting the
Guinness World Records title for the largest water rocket.
The current record measures 11 feet, one inches in length.
So we've got 13 feet, three inches, yeah.
- [Aidan] 13 feet, three inches.
- And one foot, three inches in diameter.
- [Colin] One foot five and a half.
- One foot, five and a half, yeah.
And it has to launch higher than 16 feet, four inches.
So in length and in diameter
you've exceeded the current record.
Now we just need to have a successful launch.
- So, you two are going to go inside.
You're flight director.
Now you're going to know what's going on because we've got
a camera which is filming it,
and also we've got an altimeter, which is in the cone,
so you can see how high it goes.
You're launch control, so you're out here with me.
So when she gives her command, we launch it.
- So I'm in charge?
- Yes.
So if you go in the hab, we'll get ready out here,
we'll wait for your command, and boom!
So if we get down here, and basically what's happening,
this board is going to pull down on 19 hose-bottle
connectors and whoosh, our rocket's going to go off.
- Doesn't get better than this.
- No.
No, you're right near the action.
- Okay, Aidan, what's the status?
- We've got the water in,
we just need to charge it with air.
- Okay.
- I'd say it's a tense time down here,
I mean we are literally a meter away
from a pressurized water rocket.
We're like, yeah, don't blow up.
- Aidan, what's the status on the rocket?
- Connected the air.
Ohhh....bubbling up.
- I can see the bubbles. - Bubbles of anticipation.
- [Aidan] We're at 40, we're going to 85.
- Copy that.
- Keeley, we're getting close to 80.
- If it goes off now I'm soaked.
I am proper soaked.
- [Aidan] Ready for countdown.
- Something's leaking.
- We're launching in...10.
- [All] Nine, eight,
seven, six.
- Five, four,
three...
(water gushing)
(groans)
Whoa.
(upbeat music) (laughing)
- Yes!
(laughing)
What did I just say?
I said something then, didn't I?
(laughing)
- You're drenched.
(laughing)
- Something's clearly failed.
But there we are.
- I guess it went past the right pressure
and it just went off right in their face.
(water gushing)
- It doesn't take much detective work
to see where this had failed.
An engine has blown up here, which has obviously set it off,
a bit like dominoes, really.
So this one's gone bad and, are you wet?
- Yes, I am.
- You are not as wet as me. - Not to that degree.
- And of course, 'cause I was leaning over it,
I got the full blast of it.
But we need to know if it went high enough
that we got an actual world record.
(water gushing)
- The minimum that the rocket had to lift off today
was 16 feet and four inches, and it hit 75 feet,
so in all ways
you have broken the Guinness World Records title.
- There we go.
- Congratulations.
- Feels good, doesn't it? Feels good.
- We're really grateful to Colin because without him we
wouldn't have been able to do all these incredible things.
We broke a world record, we went indoor skydiving.
- [Keeley] Bungee cords.
- Bungee cords, best experience ever.
- [Colin] You know, we actually fixed the rocket,
tried another launch.
And it almost took out the entire crew.
So this Furze World Wonder was a double success.
We've got Aidan and Keeley in the
Guinness Book of World Records
and I managed not to kill the director and sound man.
See you next time!
(rock music)
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