Our World is Droning with Excitement

September 18, 2024  •  EPISODE 231

Discover how drones work and why GPS is key to smooth, successful flights. Zoom into the world of drones and explore the fascinating technology and science that keeps them soaring through the skies.

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109 Comments

  1. Bella Ochoa

    Learning about how drones work is so interesting! Great job!

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  2. Josiah Alkire

    I love drones, they are interesting and amazing! They can do so much, and they will be even better in the future. It’s sad about Tobias drone,
    I would be very upset if I had lost my drone. Thank so much Acellus for making such a cool episode!

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  3. Boston Knight

    I love the science behind the drones you shared, I thought it was really fascinating.

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  4. Aberdeen Polomsky

    Someone should tell R51 that his hat is NOT going to make him fly!!!

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  5. piper

    who invented the first drone?

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  6. Tarren Pugh

    This is a very fun way to learn about drones.

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  7. Amber Lilly

    oopsie, I hope this counts as a comment because I forgot to watch the video the other week, and I’m trying to get the scholarship… anyways. As a kid we had a few little drones! They were fun. We had a super tiny one, too, that could fit in your palm.

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  8. Kourtlynn Kaufman

    I vote for 1! the area 51 guy is my favorite!

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  9. Kade Kaufman

    Who decided to add cameras to the drones?

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  10. Nguyen Nhat Minh

    What will future drones look like?

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  11. tul

    i love drone’s.

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  12. Griffin Kilchenstein

    Wow! Drones fascinate me so much and this video increased that fascination by like 150%!! Thanks Acellus!

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  13. maylee

    drones are so cool!!!!

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  14. Linnea Faulhaber

    are there any predicaments with future developments of drones

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  15. Joy

    Cool

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  16. Cecilia Cutshaver

    How do magnets turn electricity into power?

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  17. Cecilia Cutshaver

    How do satellites connect to things on Earth?

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  18. Isabella

    Drones are very fascinating. I find it super cool that you can do so much with them.

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  19. Paige Pendergrass

    It was so astonishing to learn about the GPS and its’ purpose.

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  20. Varvara

    It was very interesting!

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  21. Cleopatra Rohrer

    I think remote control drones are really cool!

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  22. Gabriel Chapman

    Wonder what the green drone is? Also, more of the corollas effect? Maybe spelling it wrong.

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  23. lily smith

    if all electrons have a left hand spin then its a magnet. that’s cool

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  24. Libby

    Wow! Drones are actually really cool! I think if i tried to fly one it would crash! 😂

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  25. Llondon Bates

    I love this! Thanks!

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  26. Elijah Baldwin

    Drones Are Really Cool I Would be bad at driving it though

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  27. Ruth Baldwin

    i find drones very cool and i really like drones

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  28. Kellyn Pugh

    R 51 was so funny and we had a drone too.

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  29. Raven Alejandro

    I enjoyed learning how drones fly. My grandfather has one and I have tried to fly it, which is very difficult.

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  30. Carabella Mae Davis

    I really enjoyed learning about drones.

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  31. Max McCall

    Why are there regulations on the neodymium magnets?

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  32. Taelon Dickens

    I had a drone before and now I know why it was able to get lost after going so high after this episode.

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  33. Max McCall

    how far can a drone go from the remote with out it not being able to function

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  34. NGOC DOAN

    WOW! This is so cool, funny and interesting!

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  35. Logan

    Its cool to see how drones work but do you think that in the near future drones would be the main transport or delivery?

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  36. Bradley walker

    I love how it explains everythimg

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  37. Adelia

    I didn’t know that drones have cameras to see where they are going.

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  38. Riley Daniel

    Memorization is key in learning!!

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  39. callen callen

    drones are cool i like drones

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  40. Isabella White

    I loved this video and learning about drones!

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  41. Ryan Uthlaut

    Has anyone noticed that Malachi said “I need to learn some Italian” in the episode on perpetual motion machines, and that he has a book on learning Italian on his desk in this episode?

    Just a fun thought 🙂

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  42. Vsevolod Chumachenko

    Dr. John will forever be my favorite Stem teacher! I love the Technology Spotlight that he does!

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  43. William

    Very interesting! drones are honestly rather cool.

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  44. Ethan Jennings

    What a funny episode!

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  45. Amelia

    Loved the video!! Drones are cooler then I thought.

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  46. elim

    r-51 is very fun

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  47. Grace

    So cool!! I loved learning about drones!

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  48. matthew

    how long would a drone fly in a hour

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  49. Arianna vincent

    This is great

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  50. kyree

    How was the first magnet discovered.

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  51. caysen

    that is so cool that it uses magnets

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  52. Isiah Ellis

    Why can’t we attach solar panels to drones?

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  53. tabitha wilson

    i am so excited for the next episode.it was funny too.

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  54. Gunnar Bendorf

    Drones are such cool inventions, and I enjoy hearing from experts about them! 😉

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  55. Isabella

    How do drone shows work with multiple drones?

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  56. Evey

    How do you control multiple drones at once ?

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  57. Genevieve Roman

    I think it’s so cool that if gravity were to increase even by a little bit, we wouldn’t be able to fly the way we do. It’s so interesting to think about how the gravity on our earth allows us to walk and fly.

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  58. Opal McCoy

    How much weight can a drone carry? Also, who came up with the idea of putting two propellers across from each other, going clockwise, and vis versa? I also had no idea that electrons were magnets… I feel like I should have realized that by now! Haha!

    This was very interesting and very very educational. Thank you!

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  59. James Hines

    This is very interesting to me because I’m going into drone piloting for the military .

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  60. Luna Selene Benard

    My big brother and my dad both got drones at Celebrity Circle, Myrtle Beach.

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  61. Carter

    Can playing video games or simulator games make you better with piloting drones?

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  62. Brady

    You can do so many things with drones, they have so many purposes, I love that about drones.

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  63. Cole Nelson

    My sister has a drone with a camera on it and I love to fly it.

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  64. Aprilseamon

    that was cool I love the way that you added drones in it to make it more intreging

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  65. Aden Neumyer

    This is so cool.

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  66. Angelina

    drones are so cool!

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  67. Anderson C. Freischlag

    My dad has a drone for his construction company and he films the progress.
    He has let me fly it a few times.

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  68. Muhaimin Khattak

    drones are amazing nice live

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  69. Josiah Alkire

    I got a tiny drone that you can fly in the house for my 12th birthday two years ago. But on my first flight the drone went in the kitchen, hit the wall and
    fell in my sink full of water! Lets just say its flying days were over! 😑 (I bought a new one)

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  70. Josiah Alkire

    I just now noticed that Ryan was right, Malachi does have a book about learning Italian on his desk. I also like Malachi’s message LOL!

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  71. Ava Cleveland

    I Like drones

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  72. Emma

    Yeah one time I saw a drone i was very happy 🤗

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  73. Jean A.

    If a drone was able to support a solar panel, do you believe that we can use drones to collect our solar power for small appliances like a microwave, and other small electrical appliances?
    Just an interesting thought.🤔

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  74. Ava Cleveland

    So cool

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  75. Noah Henson

    I want a drone for Christmas

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  76. Nathan Burney

    OMG ONE OF THOSE ARE THE SAME DRONE I HAVE AT HOME MINE IS THE WHITE LED LIGHTS ONE

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  77. Minerva

    so Cool! i love learning about drones!

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  78. Meadow McMahon

    wow, that is so cool!!

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  79. Ethan todd

    I wish I could go on the Acellus show

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  80. Kaden

    My friend Garret has a drone business its cool He just bought this drone that is as big as me. It has thermal vision and night vision and can fly as high as commercial airplanes, He said he was gonna use it for the police to do a night watch in Branson west. Drones are pretty cool though, oh yeah He also has this one that you have to use a VR camera and joystick, its really fun. Drones are definitely the future! Its also crazy to think they said drones would be a 42 billion dollar business next year.

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  81. Kaden

    I still can’t believe R-51 is alive, all his experiments have gone either over the table or just didn’t work. Lets just hope his next one doesn’t blow up his laboratory.

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  82. Tiffany Harris

    I love the idea that you can make drones with cameras .so cool 😎

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  83. Ava Cleveland

    Drones are so much fun but I Like science too

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  84. Callan Hiner

    I enjoyed learning about drones.

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  85. Caiden Hiner

    I loved learning more about drones. I have one that I don’t play with much.

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  86. Lincoln Buchkowski

    DR.B IS my favorite

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  87. Rylan Myers

    My mom has photographer friends that use drones for their photography businesses

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  88. Asher Germany

    I love drones drones are cool and awsome

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  89. Blaze

    I love drones they are cool

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  90. Lego kid

    Nice stuff man. Speaking of drones I can make my drone carry a Lego car 🚗, like in the military helicopters can carry military vehicles. So cool 😎 right.

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  91. Aurora Rivera

    It’s cool to see how drones are now being used for different things apart from taking videos.

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  92. Tino Salazar

    I love playing with drones.

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  93. Kyle Saley

    My drones always get stuck in trees.

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  94. Brooke Saley

    Drones are very helpful with lots of diff Jobs.

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  95. anna

    nice i love drones

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  96. emma

    I love learning about drones their cool :>

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  97. Michael Tymofy II

    I love drones!

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  98. Campbell Dean

    could someone build a drone as big as a car that can run on gas?

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  99. Lela Eisele

    Drones are super cool! I used to have one, but it broke…

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  100. Becker Eisele

    that was cool

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  101. Lily Allen

    drones are incredible, i love how humans use their knowledge to create amazing things like drones!!

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  102. riley daniel

    r-51 seems so cool!

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  103. barrett pirtle

    I use drones when I have trouble finding my deer that I can’t track. Only when we can’t find them we will break out the drones.

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  104. Trevor Fishack

    Ny grand dad told me that Our Military has drones to hunt people down. Which I believe would save the lives of thousands of people if ever we were in a war situation.

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  105. Emily

    Drones are so cool I want to get one with the camera this was so interesting

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  106. Ronnie Horner

    Really cool science live I love tuning into them.

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  107. Ariana Mauldin

    This video was wonderful! Drones are so fascinating. I wonder what they will look like in the future and if they will be able to carry more weight in the future.

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  108. Jada R.

    As a 10th grade student taking the Business Math course, I found that lesson 9, which was teaching me about Federal Income Taxes, was a difficult subject for me. I was tempted to give up, guess, ask for help, etc, but instead, and persevered through. This video helped me, and provided insight into my problem, and I ended up passing with a wonderful grade.

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  109. Addison toth

    I vote for Eric 1#

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