SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues and… wait… do you feel it… the walls they’re... closing in around you! Crushing you!
...were you scared? Well, if you were Hank you probably would have been because his fear is enclosed spaces! How is that related to science? Good question!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Fire Extinguisher
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/tuot-ncf041819.php
Water-Filled Suit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552417301335
Air Purifier
[Fact Off]
Noc the beluga whale
http://cell.com/current-biology/supplemental/S0960-9822%2812%2901009-3
https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/NIWC-Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspx
Normal beluga: https://dosits.org/resources/resource-categories/feature-sounds/beluga/
Noc sound: https://www.nature.com/news/the-whale-that-talked-1.11635
Dark flies
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/14/fifty-seven-years-of-darkness/#.XaY74udKgW_
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-evolution-dark-fly.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160204111403.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimates of plant rooms
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-many-plants-would-you-need-to-generate-oxygen-for-y-5955071
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917906305.Bt.r.html
Photorespiration
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/155/1/56
Biosphere 2
http://biosphere2.org/visit/about-biosphere2/fast-facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/9/722/5055575?searchresult=1
[Butt One More Thing]
Apollo 10 floating poop