Outrageous Acts of Science

2013
4.9
71 reviews
TV-14
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Season 4 episodes (10)

1 Fact or Fiction
6/20/15
Are these incredible web clips fakes or not? Our team of scientists spots the hoaxes. Featuring skiing in Hawaii, a wingsuit pilot towed by a car, a close encounter with a great white shark, vertical driving, and the most amazing handgun trick shot ever.
2 Speed Freaks
6/27/15
We're going faster, further, and weirder than ever before! Featuring a man who drives his car 1,000 feet over water, a shrimp with the fastest punch in the animal kingdom, bionic boots, and a car that jumps over a plane.
3 Home Hacks
7/4/15
The best backyard geniuses online! Featuring motorcycle chariot racing in Florida, a man who gives his friends a lift with his homemade Iron Man-style exoskeleton, a plane that flies without wings, and a 9-foot-high robotic insect.
4 No Limits
7/11/15
We're pushing the boundaries of science to places it's never been before. Featuring an incredible world record truck jump, the world's fastest electric motorcycle, a 90-year-old gymnast, and a skydiver and wingsuit pilot who create a human flying carpet.
5 Win or Fail
7/18/15
We're hunting for the internet's biggest wins and fails. Featuring an out-of-control skydiver, an alarming wasabi prank, a one-wheeled revolution in motoring, and the longest car jump ever attempted. But which are destined for disaster?
6 Demolition Derby
7/25/15
We take epic destruction and turn it into cutting-edge science. Featuring a man with a finger that can bash through coconuts, a car destroyed by a hose, a virtually indestructible Batman suit, and a 30-foot hand that can crush cars.
7 Superhuman
8/1/15
We're assembling a crack team of real-life superhumans: a home engineer who can walk on the ceiling, a knife nunchuck master, a diminutive arm-wrestler taking on a bodybuilder, and a man who can run a loop-the-loop.
8 Forces of Nature
8/8/15
Nature and science go head-to-head as we countdown the Internet's best videos. Featuring an amazing shark rescue, blood-sucking leeches, and a man who takes to the air armed only with a lawn chair, helium balloons -- and his shotgun.
9 Insane Inventions
8/15/15
The Internet's strangest inventions. Featuring a color-changing car, the world's fastest hot tub, an amateur rocket that reaches space, a flying car, and a stunt machine that's part skateboard and part tank!
10 Weird Science
8/22/15
Science is getting stranger and stranger -- and it's all being caught on camera. Featuring a ghost ship, a memory master, a bear that walks like a human, and a man who can walk a tightrope up hill.

About this show

No longer limited to conventional laboratories, science is taking to the streets as amateur scientists around the world conduct extraordinary experiments and post their exploits online. Scientists are trying to improve on those experiments, competing with other backyard scientists to go bigger, bolder and better.

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4.9
71 reviews
PFHS Physics
January 26, 2018
When I let my students have a study hall to catch up or after exams, this is perfect to put on. They love the funny videos and I love the science.
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Janée M Williams
July 26, 2015
My children love this show. It's something we can watch together as a family. Educational too.
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Jeremy Zutlas
May 3, 2014
Incredibly entertaining stunts in the name of science for your entertainment!
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