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Now, time for science!

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Fill a regular water bottle rocket with glutinous
mint sauce.

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Pump it up to a ridiculously high pressure
and release as normal.

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What happens?

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Does it A - go much higher, as the greater
mass gives greater thrust?

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Or B - go much lower, as the slower speed
of ejection gives it less thrust?

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The answer:

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C. It destabilises, showering everyone around
in mint sauce.

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The additional mass gives it plenty of thrust

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but the slower ejection means it's top-heavy

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it tilts a tiny bit one way, the sauce inside
slides the same way,

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and that tilt is amplified until the bottle
tips all the way over

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and ploughs into the ground.

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That, ladies and gentlemen, is science.

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