Astronauts Are So Smart They Can Generate Electricity in Space Using Lego

AstronautDon Pettithas a knack for making life on the space station seem like more fun than you could ever have on Earth . And recently he used the station ’s Lego collection for some entertainingmakeshift experimentswith unchanging electrical energy .

Using nothing more than the colorful bricks and some high - tech looking tin foil scavenged from the place , Pettit built afunctional Van der Graaf generatorcapable of generating an telling 30,000 volts . Of course , that ’s not enough current to have any serious legal injury , but it ’s certainly more than enough to shock and annoy his fellow orbital passengers . [ YouTube ]

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