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A television show, based on 'Junkyard Wars', where competing teams of chemists have to produce a substance using only available materials. Both teams would have fully stocked labs and access to any equipment that they might need.
The twist is that their supply of chemicals would consist of fairly
ordinary items, as opposed to pure chemicals. The supply closet might consist of:
a box of laundry detergent
a 2lb bag of sugar
a box of art chalk
a CO2 fire extinguisher
a 50 cents in pennies
a 10lb bag of peat moss
etc.
The goal would be to produce the required amount of the target substance, whatever it might be:
red paint
gunpowder
epoxy
I'll grant that the audience probably wouldn't be large, but *I* would watch it.
Junkyard Wars (US)
http://www.junkyard-wars.com/
[jutta, Jan 12 2002]
Scrapheap Challenge (UK)
http://www.scrapheap-challenge.com/
[jutta, Jan 12 2002]
MacGyver
http://www.rdanders...cgyver/macgyver.htm
Half-Baked (it wasn't a game show) [LeBain, Jan 19 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Put 'em all together and you get a croissant |
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we call it scrapheap challenge and it seems to be that all the necessary bits are deposited in the yard to be found. I think you need to give your contestants the same start. a little cache of semtex. Afro on hand for advice etc. croissant specialist audience tho. (thanks g.) |
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"Cemtex"? Substitute "Semtex", and the more ruthless team could win by default. |
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As much as I would like to see this idea updated into the "Junkyard Wars" competition format, getting people to see how high school chemistry and physics could be usefully applied in real-life (ok, awkwardly dramatized) situations was pretty much the concept behind the original "MacGuyver" series with Richard Dean Anderson. I'm not entirely ashamed to say I will still watch the re-runs from time to time. |
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Darn...was hoping for 10-molar HCl on tap (as a high school chem student would)... |
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UnaBubba could use it as training videos for blowing up buildings. |
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Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis? |
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Like the idea, but the trick to this is how to make it work on TV. There's not much excitement to much of chemistry without blowing up things, changing colors spontaneously, or perhaps drinking the results... the govt. would never go for a broadcasted how-to on building junk bombs, and I don't think drinking the concoctions would go over well with the show's insurance. |
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Like when Kirk made a cannon from scratch on STAR TREK? |
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