heathen! it’s a pika! they’re not mice (rodents), they’re lagomorphs (bunnies). they live on top of mountains, because they’re from back in the ice age, and only mountain tops have the appropriate climate anymore.
they don’t hibernate in the winter, so they spend the summer gathering flowers and hay they dry their crops in the sun and then store them in underground burrows to eat all winter.
they also hop around and shout “meep meep meep” at you
A pika? wait, as in…? Are you fuckers telling me that Pikachu was a god damn RABBIT this entire time!?!?!?!?!?
Actually, probably!
I can’t speak to the intentions of the original creator but there are several species of Pika (Pronounced ‘Pike-ah’ jsyk) the one pictured above is the American Pika, native to my elevated back yard of the Colorado Rockies.
The Northern Pika (Ochotona hyperborea) is native to Northern Asia and has a swath of it’s range in the mountains of Northern Japan, where it has been nicknamed The Japanese Guinea Pig, which is about as taxonomically incorrect as calling it a mouse- they’re closest to rabbits.
Another fun fact: Pika call to each other (really, yell at each other to STAY OUTTA MY YARD) with a high-pitched call that…
…Really does sound like it’s saying “Pi! Pi!” doesn’t it?
The substance the teacher uses in the video is liquid methane. But methane has a really low boiling point. Like, about −160 °C low. So once it touches the comparatively hot floor, the Leidenfrost effect comes into play, and it slides across the floor. The issue is though, methane is colorless, so you can’t normally see it. Thankfully (in this demonstration), methane is also very flammable, so he sets it on fire before dumping it onto the floor so you can see it as it moves.
Definitely a cooler demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect than dropping a little water in a hot pan.
Or hotter, if you like puns.
THANKS FOR EXPLANATION SCIENTIFIC SIDE OF TUMBLR
My mama said I can’t be in yo class no more
how the heck did he get past health and safety to do this
the American public school system has no concept of health or safety
