Story 1 begins: Why is ice slippery?

2:15what event are you going to trial for? Yeah, I think the event that um I compete in is the full send. >> The full send. >> The full send event, which is um you're at the top with your skis and then you just French fry the whole way down. No pizzing, >> no pizza. >> You just French fry and then you end up getting dragged out on one of those ski patrol um sleds. [laughter] Yeah. Who can do that the fastest with the least amount of actual injury? [laughter] I compete in it all the time. It's It's great. Mammoth knows all about it. [laughter] This is so good. So, we're going to go ahead and get started with our physics story of the day. >> Yeah. >> And the physics story is starting out

2:56with this idea of ice being slippery. Why is ice >> slippery? Um, it turns out it's apparently not such a simple problem. And scientists have apparently been working on this >> for 200 years, but we still don't have a foolproof answer. >> Yeah. So, let's kind of talk because there's so many events in the Winter Olympics that deal with >> ice. >> Yeah. And they're all dependent on this central physical fact, right, >> that ice is slippery. Yes. >> Right. And it's been a 200-year-old question. >> It's pretty incredible the slipperiness of ice versus the friction on other solids. Right. This is a great example that we saw in Minnesota. Our um local

3:36Gustapo agents named ICE slipped on ice. This is not this is not a political statement because this is not a political show. We are not a political show. I just think it's funny that ice slipped on ice. Okay. I just think that's funny. I don't think that's weird to bring up in a in a science podcast. Um >> or we're talking about the slipperiness of ice. >> Yeah, we're we're talking about the slippery slope of ice. But I'm talking about the physics. I'm not talking about [laughter] the um extrajudicial powers of our federal police. No, no, no, no, no. I am talking about the physics. So, don't you dare come after me in the comments. Actually, please do. I want to