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How to make hot air bubbles

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:09 pm Fri, Feb 20, 2009

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Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed.com made a contraption that launches hot soap suds into the cold air. The Quest to Create Hot Air Soap Bubbles

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Technologically

Um I don’t know how this is a how to because it doesn’t show how to do anything.
Anonymous

this, for some reason, fills me with joy.
I have to try it
Anonymous

Wonderful video. When I was young,R4 ds,
R4i. I liked blowing bubbles just with some soap or washing powder in the water. It’s OK, funny and interesting.
rasz

I like how the Video player tells me at the end it couldnt find the Ad I requested :)
daev

You folks are lucky. I got an ad that couldn’t be stopped. How can I break my shit in a fashion to match the awesome brokenness of yours?
Sethum

I dislike how the video player can’t find the ad and then prevents me from replaying that brief snippet of joy.