3 Times Scientists Did Weird Experiments With Rubber Ducks

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Someone show this video to Arthur Weasley

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Now Harry, you must know all about Muggles. Tell me, what exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

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Spending all of that time at sea would make the rubber hard and brittle, causing the ducks to quack.

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This was good.

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I lol'd. I think the brittleness happens because of UV radiation from the sun though.

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That's just quackers

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I knew a scientist, the guy turned out to be a real quack!

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James Veitch is my go-to man for Rubber Ducks experiments.

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I was going to look if anyone else had done a comment about them, because we MUST talk about those ducks

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Freya was so mad.

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We need to talk about the ducks

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Hank: "When you think of rubber ducks, you probably think of bubble baths, those huge adorable sculptures [...]" Me: "Nope, I actually think of debugging. Weird, right" Hank: "or debugging, if you're into programming" Me: "..." Well played, good sir, well played.

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Yndostrui I had the same experience.

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3:19 That must be driving them absolutely bonkers not knowing where a single ducky ended up at!

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I do workout experiments with giant Osmium ducks

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Gavin is it possible for anything to lift something that swole?

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Muscle Hank dude, your obviously joking. You use blackhole ducks.

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Praise the mighty Rubber Ducks! For science of course.

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What do you know, this is *_exactly_* the function of a rubber duck!

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Rubber ducky, you're the one. You make science oh so fun~

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What do rubber duck scientists love to eat every morning? Quakers!

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Um quackers?

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I’m awfully tempted to tag James Veitch on this video... 😂

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Do it. Just do it.

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same here

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♪rubber ducky, you're the one...♪

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Yes! Any sane person, when told to think of something associated with rubber ducks, thinks of only one thing: Ernie

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Rubber ducky you’re the one. You make science so much fun.

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When I think about Rubber Ducks, I think about Ernie! Rubber duckie you're the one You make bath time lots of fun Rubber duckie I'm awfully fond of you

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_"scientists found out that the most cosmoaerodynamic shape a hyperspace-jumping space ship is oddly enough a rubber ducky. Further studies are needed to know why"_

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"So tell me, what is the proper function of a rubber duck?" -Arthur Weasley

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Still not as good as James Veitch's rubber duck experiment.

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Ha! I remember that. Not my first choice in a roommate. :)

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I don’t know what’s more amazing, the fact that rubber ducks have been used in serious scientific research or the fact that so many comments are related to one throwaway line in a Harry Potter movie from more than ten years ago

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I once used a bunch of rubber ducks to evade the police

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You have 0 imagination. Please stop.

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-End of the Line flashbacks- BONUS DUCKS!

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Well, Mr. Weasley definitely needs to watch this video xD

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At last, we have a satisfactory answer for Arthur Weasley.

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Rubber ducky, you're the one, You make bath time so much fun

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At what time do rubber ducks wake up? They wake up at the quack of dawn. ^_^ I need love.

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mementorequiem it's a ritual for me at this point! At least we are watching good educational content.

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Glad to see I wasn't the only one to immediately think of Arthur Weasley!!

[@micahphilson]

Sitting Duck Theory. A theory my brothers and I came up with skiing one time. There were 3 large hot tubs at this club nearby, and we wondered if, due to the American social introversion of wanting a ton of personal space, we could take up an entire one with just 5 or 6 people (they were large!). And... yeah, it was too easy! The other two were completely full before anyone ventured to join us, and then we all just collapsed into like 1/3 of the tub, and soon ours filled up too like normal!

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So yeah, no actual rubber ducks, but those are where it gets its name, because we would just sit there doing nothing like sitting rubber duckies.

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so is that the function of a rubber duck?

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shout out to Adelaide Australia :D

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MTimtam + (from a Perthite)

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3:08 Letting the days go by Let the water hold me down Letting the day go by Water flowing under... ice

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Oh gosh, the rubber ducky debugging had me smiling like a kid~

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We learned about Ebbesmeyer in class in grade 8 and it became such a meme because even though what he did was amazing, it sounded funny to everyone. The fact that it became a meme helped me remember the study much better though

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When I think of a Rubber Duck I think of Ze Frank... and the "bye bye song", or doing scavenger hunts to find posters...

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And THAT, my friends, is precisely the function of a rubber duck.

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programming rubberducking for the win. I often tell other developers that I make for a good rubber duck.

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Didn't watch yet, but liked and clicked instantly cause Rubber Duck science!

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4:55 smooooth transition

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So, in 1000 years when some scientist finds all those rubber ducks, what will they think about the ancient people who lived there? That these ducks were a valuable part of our society, so valuable we had to bury them in ice?

[@FelipeKana1]

That was fun!

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As Jamie Hyneman once said: Quack, Damn You!!!

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Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy.

[@JaceCavacini]

Thank you for using the correct term, “Algorithms”, instead of the constantly abused term “AI”.

[@sallydark]

This reminded me of my home town. Once a year we had duck races. I'm from moose creek it has a creek winding and running all the way through it, once a year up to 200 ducks were bought for a fundraiser and put up stream they were then released simutaniously and a net and grabbers waited at the end of the creek to catch them all and name the winners. It was always fun and my family often bought a few ducks a year, also I was a grabber for a few years.

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No mention of James Veitch's rubber duck social experiment: How many ducks before roommate Freya gets mad?

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The ducks and GPS were never seen again? Does that make it the Flying Duckman?

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The ducks, rather than living a complacent tub life, lived the wild life of their feathered ancestors, adrift on the waves, learning the skills needed to live independently. Only the strongest survive.

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I hope the labels on NASA ducks are durable. It'd be amazing if one of them turns into a Rosetta Stone for some future archeologists.

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I knew having a rubber duck collection was good for something xD guess it's time to start an experiment :P

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I thought "great Pacific garbage patch" was a nickname for Australia :p

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Rubber duckie, you're the one. You make science oh so fun! But seriously, does this mean that there are now rubber duckies floating in the trash islands?

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I sing "rubber ducky, you're the one!", whenever I throw one at a person in Hitman...

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I'd be interested to see a video about rare diseases having just been diagnosed with one xD

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So that's what muggles do with rubber duck!

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So interesting!!!

[@Shamazya]

Really wish that instead of dashed lines for those infographs about the Subpolar and Subtropical Gyres it had been ducks of the same size. The kind of detail you could miss if you weren't paying attention, but noticeable if you are.

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Someone needs to send this video to Mr. Weasley.

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I have a rubber duck on my desk; he wears my glasses when I don't need them; he looks cuter with them on than I do.

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"Tell me, what exactly is the function of a rubber duck"

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Rubber ducky, you’re the one. You make bath time lots of fun Rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you…

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Duck I'm early.

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My first date was to see one of those giant rubber duck art installations

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Great video!

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And that, Mr.Weasley, is the function of a rubber duck.

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NASA: Its duck hunting season.

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I immediately thought of James Veitch.

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So THATS the function of a rubber duck!

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I drew the duck blue because I never saw a blue duck, and I wanted to see a blue duck. ... That's quacktastic!

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+1 I’m from Radelaide! 👍🏻

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BONUS DUCKS!

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Love from Alaska 😉

[@Ngamotu83]

Terrific. Scientists polluting the oceans with 90 rubber ducks.

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

So, what you're telling me, is that there are $1000 worth of lost ducks out there? Better get quackin'! Begs the question, why didn't NASA pop a small GPS tracking and a long-lasting source of energy into the duck and have them send out positioning data (to the best of their abilities; stuck in ice may prove difficult for that!), maybe once a day?

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"not a single member of this duck expedition or the GPS probe dispatched along with them was ever seen again"

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you still owe Carl Bengimen an apology. I will never forget.

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James veitch would like this video i think

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"You're probably thinking about bubble baths, or ..." Nope, what first comes to mind is- "...or debugging, if you're into programming." Never mind then, didn't expect you to mention that.

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And that Mr. Weasley, is the function of a rubber duck.

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I think of The Amazing Randy's unsinkable rubber ducks

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When I think of rubber ducks, I think about James Veich.

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We need to talk about the ducks

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that's so weird !

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The problem in Australia is : Staying awake while keep on counting the birds.

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i cant stop thinking about arthur weaslys question... What is the purpose of rubber ducks?

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When I think of rubber ducks I think of James Veitch

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Are you kidding me? $100 to jump into a glacier to never be found again? I'd do it for an iced tea.

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Did you know? that rubber ducks have a censor inside them that they can tell when the water is too hot for a child.

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What is …the function of a rubber duck?