How do you top building the world's largest ice dome? Well, if you're the Eindhoven University of Technology, you build a 40-meter (131-ft)-high model of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica ... and ...

Steel was in short supply during the height of World War II, and there was nothing to be done but invent a replacement. One proposal was called Pykrete, a mixture of ice and sawdust that melted ...

Stories of Nazi super weapons have persisted since World War II, and although these are mostly fiction, they can make it seem like only the Axis had wild ideas. Not so! Winston Churchill once gave the ...

Winston Churchill had a project to produce a 2.2 million ton pykrete (ice and wood pulp) aircraft carrier that would have been 1200 meters long and 180 meters wide. This would have made it 3.5 times ...

I tried to improve pykrete for months, then tossed it off a building. I spent three months of my life trying to figure out pykrete—basically ice with wood pulp mixed in—how it works and how I could ...

Project Habakkuk was a wartime proposal to build an enormous aircraft carrier from “pykrete,” an ice-and-wood-pulp composite pitched as strong, slow to melt, and difficult to sink. The transcript ...

Jem has set himself another challenge - and this time it requires your help. Difficulty: low Find a suitable material and make your pykrete bars. Time/effort: The bars should be frozen for at least ...

What’s nearly as strong as concrete, but floats on water? Pykrete! Pykrete is made up of 86% frozen water and 14% wood pulp (such as sawdust or paper). It’s easy to make, durable and strong. That’s ...

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