Season 2
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Jake tests cinematic scenarios, risking his life to uncover the truth behind movie magic, blending thrills with surprising science.
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Cocky Science Aviator Jake Roper (that's me!) feels the NEED FOR SPEED as he struggles to overcome his arrogance and work as a team to take down the enemy while also flying head on into the deceptively complex concepts behind the physics of flight. Jake will be pushed to the limit while investigating what happens to the human body when subjected to extreme G-forces, intense acrobatic maneuvers, and breaking the sound barrier...without an airplane?
Explores whether or not a human body could withstand the force of a T-Rex's bite (it couldn't), as well as how accurate the depictions in the movie were, and whether dinosaurs could survive in Earth's current atmosphere (probably not).
Jake explains the science of sound.
A run-in with a Dark Wizard bent on world domination leaves Jake defenseless and stripped of magical powers. Enlisting the help of his wizard friends, Jake must regain some semblance of what he lost using science to create an invisibility cloak via radiant energy, overcome the forces of gravity to fly with magnetic energy, and to create a wand through electrical energy - all before confronting the Dark Wizard once more in the hopes of defeating them once and for all.
Jake finds himself in a mall in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Which turns out to be a great place to learn about viruses - what are they, how do they affect you, how do you stop them...and can they give you zombie super strength (i.e. ripping off some limbs with your bare zombie hands)?
Jake Roper explores the magic and science of cinema, combing unscripted scientific experiments with narrative storytelling.