{"id":1237814,"date":"2025-03-07T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237814"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:02:30","slug":"a-watermelon-rocket-powered-skateboard-in-slow-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237814","title":{"rendered":"A Watermelon Rocket-Powered Skateboard In Slow Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This is a video documenting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theslowmoguys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slow Mo Guys <\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borninspace.com\/?s=slow+mo+guys\">previously<\/a>) Gav and Dan\u2019s quest <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/rocket-watermelon-skateboard-sparklers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to build a watermelon rocket-powered skateboard<\/a>. It consists of a watermelon zip-tied to a skateboard with its butt stuffed with sparklers. It does move, but when Dan tries to ride it the board\u2019s MPS (miles per sparkler) leaves something to be desired. Namely, everything. So, if you were wondering if melon-rockets were going to be the engines of the future, the answer is a definitive \u2018Absolutely\u2019, and you\u2019d invest in a watermelon farm now if you were smart.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzKH-mrp75g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a video documenting Slow Mo Guys (previously) Gav and Dan\u2019s quest to build a watermelon rocket-powered skateboard. It consists of a watermelon zip-tied to a skateboard with its butt stuffed with sparklers. It does move, but when Dan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekologie","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}