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So you are Head of e-commerce at HP, impressive, however, you should be a bit more careful about sharing your personal information online... Btw your daughter looks really cute, congrats! :)

I bought some areogel on ebay 10 years ago, or so. really fun stuff to play with, although boy is it fragile. I always likened the texture to microscopic styrofoam... it even makes the same squeeky noise when you rub it. Now I understand why!

Rob Alinder

I’d probably delete this off here if I was you, I wouldn’t want my address posted online, he’s going to send them to people from their address which is on their profile, make sure it’s in there!

Wow. The video on shadeballs was really counter intuitive. Looking forward to receiving one.

So cool! I wanted to know what the density felt like. I wanted to see you squeeze it. Would the slightest breeze whisk it away? How big a piece can be made? How fragile is it? Could you make something out of it that is extremely durable in addition to all it's other wonderfully beneficial properties? The quick flash of the NASA sign at the end felt odd.

Nomubiku

I have some pieces of aerogel at home. Very cool stuff. :-)

Miles

With that cover shot, I thought it was going to be about sleep or something like that. That was an interesting video. You should talk about some of it's strange uses, like trapping comet dust.

Tim Ternstrom

- I wanna try that chocolate - ~~gross~~

Very good. Two suggestions. 1) Jumping back and forth from the bunny to the process of making aerogel with CO2 was a bit confusing. At least for me. 2) I was left with a question. Aerogel is made removing the liquid from the "jelly". But how is a jelly made? Except in a kitchen, of course.

Overall great! Clear, understandable, and fascinating. I'm curious how durable the finished aerogel is, and how it feels. You describe the silicon-based material (before liquid CO2 treatment) as quite fragile, but how does that compare to the aerogel? I see it's packed on bubble wrap, but it seems sturdy on the ring stand. How variable can it be? There's a brief mention of different materials that can potentially form jellies, but how many of those can be transformed into aerogels, or is there only one unique formula? Also interested in applications - and related to that, costs or limitations of producing it at scale. Thanks, very interesting!

Andrew Newhouse

Very interesting! Suggest you spend a bit more time on the concept of super-critical liquid and the autoclave. Would be interesting if there are methods for producing this at scale and/or on-site. Also, in many places contrast is too low—hope you can fix that in post. Thanks!!

For those viewers who haven't heard of Forward-Looking InfraRed, you may wish to define "FLIR" when you use it. Since you don't want to insert a discontinuity to your narrative, I guess the text "FLIR = Forward-Looking InfraRed" would appear on the screen as you are introducing the camera to the viewers (or vice versa…).

Mordecai Glicksman

I loved the video but I found the ending a bit abrupt. Perhaps a tiny outtro telling us where to go for more info about aerogels? Will this be a series perhaps?

wolph