The ice Meisters still do what they do as they've always done. What's helped them a bit is the ability to purify water. They have tried different machines to create curling ice, but nothing has managed to create it as uniformly as a human walking up and down the ice with effectively a shower head. And that's because the machines can't listen to the ice. Like they are artists, those ice makers.
What makes ice slippery? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly uncover the complex physics of ice and cool facts we’re still learning about it with physicist and author, Laurie Winkless.
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