How Many Balls Can You See? - QI - Series 9 Episode 12 - BBC Two
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I love this, Alan's face after Jack says he might play around with them is priceless.
I love how Jack Dee gets competitive about Alan's witty comebacks!
"Jack's gonna put his willy in it". Brilliant.
Actually it's really used simply for floral arrangements -- particularly when you're using clear glass vases and you need the flowers to stay in place, since in simple water they wouldn't.
Utilizing these allows you to do minimalist work that looks suspended -- pretty cool.
You can buy them at any major arts & crafts store, they're about $5 per 200 or 300.
You can buy these already hydrated, or a bag of dehydrated beads. They also come in other colors like black, red, blue, etc. Yes, you can use them for floral arrangements (instead of regular water), but actually there's been a more random cracked gel version available for at least 15+ years that you can mix with topsoil for your garden--- when it rains or you water your garden, the crystals absorb the water, and as the soil dries out, the crystals release their water back into the soil.
First I didn't see it but then I looked back and saw every time there was a ball dropped in the container the one's you couldn't really see splashed up, I SHOULD'VE KNOWN!
Goldfish packaging :)
Alan said one and I already started laughing xD; There's just something in his voice I swear.
My cousin had these in her wedding reception centerpieces! They were so much fun to play with!
you are correct. we are using those at home at the moment. you put a couple of them into the flower pot and you dont need to water the plant
I have some of those hydrogel beads. They're actually only about the size of millet seeds when fully dehydrated, and they hold water for weeks on end.
Not just that, EVEN JACK DEE SMILED!!!
Alan Davis is a genius!
used to play them when I was a kid. left them in water for a few days until they became so big that they couldn't maintain perfect transparent spheres and they sort of showed cracks. Funny how small they were when dehydrated.
Kisses! XDD
They used to sell these as "pets" at my grade school then we used them as Air Freshner in High School. Growing up, we even believed that when we leave it in the water long enough, they'd give birth to new ones. They were real fun.
"Oh, no, I broke it!" Yeah, that's what I did when we studied (played with) these in my physics class.
I bought these the other day! ... They're so fascinating! xD
As a gal who works in a craft store, let me just say that these bastard things bounce all over the place if you drop them. Was trying to mix clear and black beads, figured I'd dump them into a big bowl and stir, except half of them bounced right out of the bowl and rolled all over the floor. Unsuspecting customers will open containers & try pouring them into their hands but end up dropping them everywhere, running away without telling us, customers step on them, and guess who has to clean up. :P
Jack Dee kills me!
Yes, the anatomy of large furry animals is part of our curriculum now...
we used those balls for the centre decorations at the school ball a couple of years ago - they were pink and feel sooo weird - stained my hands too! :p
FUCK!!!!! THATS AMAZING!!!!
AT 2:29 RICH HALL CAN ACTUALLY BE SEEN SMILING!!!
To be fair, this should be called "How many balls are there" not "how many balls can you see". Fry was pretty careful in not saying "can you see" because, with the nature of the show and their technicalities, the answer is only 5, since you can't see the rest unless moved.
Dear title of video
Alan's water broke
GORDON GORDON!!!!!!!
priceless wit! 😂😂😂
reminds me of "buggel" that you use as water source for crickets so they dont drown, looks like water in the tub but whne u pour it, its like diced cubes
But you can still see them! They just *look* like water
"see" is used to mean "perceive" or "recognize". For instance those stippled paintings where you're meant to 'see' an image in the mess of dots. If you don't perceive the image, you wouldn't say that you "see" it.
if you hold space bar it plays in slow motion and you can see them
How mature, five grown men playing with balls.
Again, quite interesting.
i swear alan is an older version of ben from outnumbered
I think its used for feeding plants water. Like if you bury some just underneath it, you can water the plant and these will hold the water...Something like that. But It sounds stupid now that Ive said it.
you can now get air fresheners that have those!
in my high school kids actually collect these and call them water babies because the longer you leave them in the water the bigger they get. they come in a variety of colours too!
Technically you *can* see them, you simply can't *distinguish* them from the water.
0:39 the audience.. LOL :)
@UmtiDumti they did, they are used for flower arranging
Those things are super cheap on eBay and I just got some. They have different colours as well! Apparently, if you leave them outside of a water container they will slowly release the water from themselves. People put them on the bases of plants so that if you go on a vacation you don't have to ask a friend to come and water your plants!!
That’s actually really smart
im guessing its to hold the plants up with an apparently invisible force...
when the larger balls are dropped in you can see the smaller ones when the water moves.
Only Alan Davies could break water.
I saw the smaller balls but I thought it was the shape water was doing when having the bigger balls entering it
And they return to high-school insults....Thanks to Allen :)
They are for slow release of liquids including water, fertilizer and perfumes.
my first thought: can you eat them?
Manufacture of what?
Nulono I've seen them used in freshers that you just place in windowsills and on cabinets and such, similar to the reed diffuser air freshers.
I believe they're used in the manufacture of contact lenses.
So that's how Latimer did it!
why am i watching this small clip when i should be watching all of it on iplayer??
Dude chill, it's all a game!
Best comment ever - a new trick to use on other videos.
12 People Feel Gorgeous.
"funny when he put it in there you couldnt see it"
LoL ruan!
JUST TELL ME WHAT THEY'RE USED FOR!
can something have the same refractive index as air? not glass obviously
Алан как настоящий русский из анекдотов. Один шарик он потерял, второй сломал:)
@xVoltage21 have you seen the first 5 seconds?
I'm pretty sure he says how many balls there are.
@xVoltage21 Not so sure that would be accurate. If the question was how many balls can you detect, then sure, you're right. But you can still see stuff, without being aware of it. If the balls hadnt been there, the water would be much lower. So you see them, you just arent aware. Since we're being picky and all. :)
So true!!!!
Fuckin INVISIBLE!!!
That's how Clumsy Carp did it, lo those many years ago.
isn't it the surface tension that is greatly enlarged, so actually what you're holding are just balls of water? or am I wrong here?
I knew him from Blackadder.
Make a submarine out of it
these are sooooo cheap in nepal, costs about 10rs (thats less than ten hundredth of a pound) and you can find them in shapes of animals and cute little toy. They are small in the beginning but swells upto 10,20 times i would think..
Obviously there are no balls, it's a mirage.
Stephan Fry TRIES to continue and then everybody else keep talking
Rlly? No one knew that
Stop playing with your balls Alan!
It's called series I, not series 9.
Technically yes but as I is the 9th letter it makes this series 9.
Yes, but seeing as this is the show's company, you'd think they'd have a little more respect for what the producers want to label each series.
***** From an administrative standpoint however, it makes more sense to label the show with numbers for organisational purposes. Does it really matter though? I very much doubt the producers care.
The producers of a show like QI have to care about very strange things, or they wouldn't be able to do a show like QI
you can see them without holding the space bar...just look with your eyes :L
I keep getting "Watch Now" recommendations on these for Eurovision 2017. That's incredibly insulting to QI *and* me.
HOW DO I KNOW STEPHEN FRY??? i just wikipedia-ed him and none of the things i found were why i knew his face. fuck.
u can make them easy just get the air freshoner and just put them in water 4 a day
:}
Were can u buy these
I can only see 3 * 2 = 6 balls!
Epic, sub/thumb/faved you :) MORE VIDEOS!!
Nappies/diapers :)
@xVoltage21 Het zegt ook BBC2 maar volgens mij is dit youtube =P
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
lol it's pretty obvious you do!
Depends on how many guys I'm with.
My total is zero...
bubble tea
The question was totally misleading as were most of the questions on QI when Fry was the host. There was only 5 glass balls because as Fry himself explained the small balls were a different material.
they were still balls -- which is what he asked
@hobo59 The trolls will feast on your soul soon! :O
whats it for?
How would know how many there are? A pointless question as we weren't even given the actual answer.
i thought there was 5 :I
the title is wildly misleading.
its not theeeeeere
A bit like one direction?............
Uu
Submarines? We don't really detect them by sight. We "listen" to them. Some smart guests there were.. :)
+Yi Jiun
1. Radar and Sonar are used for long-term sightings, we can still see submarines if they are close to us without them.
2. "Some smart guests *they* were"
ps, sonar wont work on it you idiot
Ethan Bassadone
I'm not an idiot.
Clearly you are, since you dont know that this material and the surrounding water ressanates at the same frequency, therefore it will be invisible to sonar asswell
Ethan Bassadone
An idiot would have known the material and still made the wrong decision.
I didn't know the material, it doesn't make me an idiot.
You called me an idiot without knowing who I am, what does that make you? A genius? No.
The question was "How many balls can you see" Alan was correct he, as could I see 5 balls. Stupid, stupid question. These balls are often used in room perfumes
No, the way it was worded on the show was "How many are in there". Rewatch it.