Verbazend

Technology and engineering, animated.

Short films about the craziest machines and megaprojects on Earth, and the physics that makes them possible.

The films

Seventy seconds.
One astonishing machine.

Every film starts with a real question and ends with a real answer, and every number in it is checked against its source.

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China's Three Gorges Dam holds so much water that it made every day on Earth a little longer.

1:10

The machine that prints your phone's chip blasts 50,000 drops of molten tin every second.

1:10

A machine in France will run ten times hotter than the core of the Sun, metres from magnets almost as cold as deep space.

Try it

Fusion needs its fuel ten times hotter than the core of the Sun. Drag the slider and bring the plasma to life.

Plasma temperature 15,000,000 °C

The Sun's coreITER

As hot as the Sun's core. Not nearly enough.

Verbazend means astonishing

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How much longer every day got when one dam filled its lake, by NASA's calculation.

This Dam Slowed the Earth

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Drops of molten tin hit by a laser inside the machine that prints your phone's chip.

Only One Company Can Build This

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The heat ITER's plasma is built for: ten times the core of the Sun.

The Hottest Place in the Solar System

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Switches on a phone chip the size of your fingernail.

Only One Company Can Build This