Inventioneering

November 26, 2025  •  EPISODE 288

What does it really take to bring ideas to life? In this episode, Dr. Roger Billings takes us deeper into the world of inventioneering—the dynamic mix of creativity, engineering, and problem-solving that turns imagination into real-world inventions. He shows how inventioneering isn’t limited to tech or science—it can be applied to any creative or practical project. If you’ve ever had a spark of inspiration, this episode will help you learn how to shape it into something meaningful and impactful.

About DrB

Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


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  1. Elisabeth

    Happy Thanksgiving, I love watching this every week

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  2. Onya

    The first batteries that Tobias showed look like soda cans 🤣

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  3. Owen

    Science live is always interesting to watch and learn from

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  4. Ka’iwaanaimaka

    I loved this video R15 is so funny

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    I like the new Comment System!

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  6. Ruby

    there are so many new cool inventions and it’s so awesome to see how the world adapts to the modern age technology. happy thanksgiving! 🍁

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  7. Angel

    happy thanksgiving acellus family

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  8. Kirsten

    Happy Thanksgiving! I think learning about radio waves is fun!
    Jarbles in your head is pretty funny and sure makes me laugh! Thank you for everything.

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    Happy Thanksgiving! Very thankful for these videos.

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  10. Paul

    Happy Thanksgiving! Another interesting and informative live, per usual!!!

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    Hello from illinois

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    happy Thanksgiving!! I am so thankful for all of the knowledge I have gained through acellus and these weekly videos.

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    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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  14. Sofia

    I think r-51 really talks funny. It’s interesting to learn about plane noses and batteries.

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  15. Anna

    I feel like I’ve been wasting time trying to perfect and make things other would like rather than embrace my own creativity

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    Science live is always so intriguing and interesting!

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    Every thing I learn in science lives fascinates me so much!

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  18. Koral

    Some members of my extended family actually flew on the Concorde before it went out of service.

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  19. Bianca

    I am grateful for the opportunities that Acellus Academy gives students, such as the Science Fair and various school-related activities. Homeschooling has allowed me to expand my education beyond textbooks and into real world applications.

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  20. Drake

    Happy Thanksgiving from California!

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  21. Allison

    I liked to see work they are doing on changing the sonic boom into a sonic thud. I would love to work for NASA one day.

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  22. Hailey

    I really enjoyed learning about the invention of the batteries this week. Every week my knowledge grows with inventions.

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  23. Syndel

    Inventioneering is great! And really cool. It’s like you’re making something new, but not! LOL.

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  24. Allie

    Happy Thanksgiving! So glad to have acellus!

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  25. Mya

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 🦃

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  26. Justice

    I think R51 is funny!!

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    We love Science Lives! Thank you

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  29. Branson

    Enjoyed learning about the jets. Happy Thanksgiving.

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    Hi from TX!! I love Science live

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    Happy Thanksgiving! I’m grateful to be able to do Acellus!

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    Hi from TX, I love Science live episodes!!!

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  33. Jathan

    R51 is too funny hahaha

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  34. Selena

    I learnt how sometimes plane noses can be different instead of pointy and straight.

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  35. Ian

    Happy Thanksgiving, Acellus! I’m thankful I get to learn through this program.

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  36. Gwynnate

    R-51 is very funny indeed!

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  37. James

    Happy Thanksgiving yall have a great day

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  38. Parker

    Batteries are so interesting and I am so thank full for acellus and how much it has helped me.

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  39. Uriel

    Greetings from Missouri! It is interesting to know that Benjamin Franklin named the battery based on artillery. It’s amazing that NASA created a supersonic jet.

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  40. Addison

    happy Thanksgiving yall love siecnce live 💗

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  41. Punika

    Happy Thanksgiving, Acellus and thank you we love acellus

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  42. Elise

    It would be really cool to be in the Space Force.

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  43. Darwyn

    Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for this wonderful school, it as taught me so much and this is one of the many things I am thankful for!

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  44. Emerson

    I have tried the Write A Book and enjoyed it.

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  45. Ezekiel

    Happy Thanksgiving, Acellus! I am extremely grateful to attend such a fantastic school and be able to watch these interesting episodes each week!

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  46. Elias

    I love learning new things when I watch these videos

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  47. Amina

    Happy Thanksgiving to y’all from Maryland!

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  48. K`me

    Another entertaining science live, hope everyone is having a good week! 🙂

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  49. Maci

    tonights live was very interesting. r51 is so funny. i hope next weeks live is similar!

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  50. Sofia

    I love R51’s part each time! I am thankful for the Acellus program!

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  51. Harley

    This is so interesting. Happy Thanksgiving. I like getting to know things that we may use in our everyday life.

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  52. Ciara

    HIIIIII FROM OHIO!!!!!!!!!!😄 AND HAPPY TURKEY DAY YA’LL 🦃🍗

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  53. Matthew

    Happy thanksgiving, thankful for Acellus!

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  54. Sage

    Thank you for Science Live, its always so interesting! Thank you, Acellus!

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  55. Abigail

    Happy Thanksgiving! SO thankful to learn about fun and intresting things this year during my first year with Acellus.

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  56. David

    We heard a sonic boom when we saw Space X launch a rocket when we were down at Cocoa Beach once, it was really cool.

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  57. Angelique

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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  58. Titus

    Science Live is awesome!

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  59. Seven

    R51 is too funny

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  60. Jaxson

    hello from texas. Happy Thanksgiving!!

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  61. Nattalie

    Happy Thanksgiving! One of the things I’m grateful for this year is being able to watch science live.

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  62. Izabel

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!! I hope your having a great day. Please don’t let other people bad comments let your good spirit fly away. Be kind to everyone around you. I’m watching from Montana!😁🥰

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  63. Deniya

    I like r51 he makes the live lessons even more fun to watch

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  64. Asher

    Happy Thanksgiving! I love homeschool with Acellus!

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  65. Allyson

    Hi and Happy Thanksgiving from Texas!!

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  66. Dechlan

    How did the laden jar work by useiing water because in my mind it would need a spark and by completeing the circuit you would need copper and an conducter but if there is a conducter how would you move the electricity.

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  67. Thien

    lol aliens

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  68. Lyric

    I enjoy watching the Science live

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  69. Ainsley

    I enjoyed watching this one!! I hope to find out more in the future

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  70. Asmitha

    It was interesting to learn about the origin of the battery!

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  71. Makis

    Hello, from Maine.

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  72. Amonti

    I like the history of batteries because it eventually led to us having cell phone batteries and other batteries

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  73. Charlie

    Another great Science Live!

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  74. Noah

    Great show!! Thanks!!

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  75. Kaily

    I really loved this live this week!!!

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  76. Jackson

    this was so awesome, learned a lot.

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  77. Khaleo

    i realy love roger billings

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  78. Colton

    Scienve live is so fun!! and also, Happy Thanksgiving!

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  79. Jordan

    What everyday problem could be improved or solved using inventioneering?

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  80. Isiah

    Happy Thanksgiving R51!

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  81. Katjia

    Science Live is so interesting!

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  82. Christiana

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  83. Kennedy

    Science live has helped me learn so much! Thankful for that video

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  84. Zoey

    Hello this is Zoey Jenkins from NC! I really enjoyed todays talk about the everyday usage of batteries and communication through dots and dashes. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

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  85. London

    I would love to go back in time to create and invent things with Benjamin Franklin

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  86. Nicole

    Happy thanksgiving everyone!

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  87. Anari

    Acellus is wonderful when you want to learn something new about normal things made today and the history behind it all!

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  88. Grace

    That was fun. HAPPY THANKSGIVEING YALL.

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  89. Chelsey

    Happy Thanksgiving!!

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  90. Samuel

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  91. Tayven

    I always enjoy how interesting the science lives are! Happy Thanksgiving also!

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  92. Kielan

    How many inventions have you been involved in?

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  93. Dominic

    Happy Thanksgiving. I love brainstorming new ideas that can be an invention of some kind, some day. Thank you for the video.

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  94. Ellen

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  95. Naomi

    happy thanksgiving Acellus

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  96. Ethan

    Happy thanksgiving everyone!!!!

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  97. Mason

    Hey am from Tennessee and I think R51 is a funny guy and makes you have a good laugh

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  98. Eva

    Is there a hypothesis on when they will be finished with the plane invention?
    it kinda reminds me of the planes in the Jetsons.
    – happy thanksgiving

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  99. Elisha

    Happy Thanksgiving! Speaking of thanks, I am very thankful for all the love and hard work that is put into making this video.

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  100. Emilio

    How does a jet go up 12,000 feet?

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  101. Elisa

    Currently watching from Costa Rica!

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  102. Leonidus

    I always look forward for these weekly science lives. They always give such insight into stuff we dont talk about on a daily basis.

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  103. Joelle

    Happy Thanksgiving from Rhode Island!

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  104. Emily

    Great to learn about origin of inventions. Thank you!

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  105. Connor

    I like the fact that some jets can go faster than the speed of sound

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  106. Malaki

    I love learning new things through science live. Happy Thanksgiving !

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  107. Jeremy

    I love these lives!

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  108. Amabella

    Thankful for Acellus

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  109. Carlos

    How good is hydrogen for a power source?

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  110. Mia

    I love Acellus so much!!!

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  111. Jordan

    It’s a good thing batteries were created or a lot of other inventions would not exist.

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  112. Gary

    I think that how batteries were invented and how they advanced throughout history. I also enjoyed learning about how Nasa is trying to advance they supersonic planes of jets and make them better.

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  113. Avneet

    So Roger Billings coined the word inventioneering?

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  114. Kamilah

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I am thankful for Acellus program!

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  115. Natalia

    I am thankful for Acellus for teaching me! Happy Thanksgiving!

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  116. Christopher

    r 51 is so goofy

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  117. Johnathon

    AIRPLAAAAAAAAAAAAANESSSSS!!!!!

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  118. Ivy

    I live Acellus happy thanksgiving!

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  119. Cade

    I loved this episode!

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  120. Noah

    Happy thanksgiving! I am very thankful to be able to do an online program like Acellus. What did R-51 eat for thanksgiving?

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  121. Cody

    This was very interesting and entertaining, Happy Thanksgiving!

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  122. Desirah

    I love Science Live!!!

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  123. Lana

    If I worked for Disney my inventioneering could become imagineering! That would be a fun job since I love Disney movies and science.

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  124. Alaya

    I love how we are the origin of batteries today I would like to learn is more Morse code and like a Morse code class

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  125. Jadelyn

    Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for Acellus!

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  126. Aiden

    thank you dr. Billings!

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  127. Helen

    Thanks as always guys! I really love watching SL with my sister – hope I can invent something someday!

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  128. Justin

    It was a really interesting video; it motivated me to keep studying and helped me realize that education can help me achieve great things in the future.

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  129. Blake

    I really like this video and I like how it was brought out of the new changes to science live and how we can see the other comments. It’s really cool to be able to see other kids and the questions they ask and I think it’d be a good idea to make science live credit credits a thing

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  130. Jayla

    The X-59 jet and the Leyden jar are awesome and amazing. This is an excellent science live video. I love learning and watching science live.

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  131. Brayden

    Happy Turkey Day!!!

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  132. Leica

    Supersonic travel again would be amazing!
    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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  133. Madison

    It is very interesting to see the origin of how things have evolved over the years. It is crazy how things have changed so much and they will continue to change over the years and generations to come.

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  134. Addiso

    Hi Addison from Guam 🇬🇺, have R 51 ever invented something? .

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  135. Grayson

    Watching from Ohio. I love Acellus!!!

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  136. Natasha

    R51 has to get rid of those aliens

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  137. Emma

    How much fuel would the X-59 burn in one flight going at the speed of sound?

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  138. Isabella

    Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for acellus.

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  139. Riley

    Thankful for Acellus!

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  140. Tom

    Hi from Illinois. I really love Acellus! Learned a lot today.

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  141. Kynzie

    I think inventors play an important role in our society. A lot of them become engineers.

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  142. Karly

    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. I think that’s an important invention.

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  143. Naiyah

    It is interesting to learn about the origin of items

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  144. Lillionna

    R-51 is my favorite part of Science live🧪

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  145. Christina

    Greetings to my favorite educational application, Acellus. Since the plane’s nose or beak is unbelievably long that pilots wouldn’t able to see anything outside the window during landing, inventors upgraded or adjusted the beak design downwards, styling eagle’s beak. Now may I question why they did not include a parachute for the plane to prevent it from rapidly falling to the ground when the plane got damaged?

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  146. Kina

    Today’s episode was really interesting. Happy Thanksgiving to all of Acellus students and staff!

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  147. Bentley

    This was a great science live!

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  148. Zhoe

    Im so thankful for Acellus!

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  149. Hailey

    So thankful for acellus! Happy thanksgiving!

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  150. Evalyn

    Love it! So happy for acellus

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  151. Jayden

    Happy Thanksgiving! I hope R51 teaches us the science of cooking a turkey today.

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  152. Elias

    I never knew there were battery variants beyond double and triple A.

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  153. Dulce

    I love Acellus!

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  154. Barott

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I Ioved science live today

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  155. Eliza

    The ufo part was super funny 😂

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  156. Ava

    science live is so fun learning new things

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  157. Aubree

    my favorite part of the week!

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  158. Ethan

    I love watching Science Live, happy Thanksgiving everyone !!

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  159. Alma

    Thank you for this weeks live! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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  160. Maverick

    I can’t wait to hear more about the X-59!

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  161. Elijah

    Happy thanksgiving

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  162. Alexander

    I’m grateful to have Acellus!

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  163. Milo

    This is so cool to create a robot. I would love to do one someday.

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  164. Kaytie

    This year I’m so grateful for Acellus!!

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  165. Griffin

    I really enjoy Dr. John and Tobias’ lectures each week. They are such great speakers and keep my attention.

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  166. Mckenzie

    Science Live is so interesting. Learning about the orgins of batteries was intresting.

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  167. Amelia

    I love Roger Billing’s sense of humor. Each and every one of the speakers are so inspiring.

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  168. Taylor

    Hello from Georgia. Thank you for the information!

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  169. Emilia

    I love R51 everytime, without exception! 🙂

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  170. Elayna

    Happy thanksgiving to the Acullus crew! I can say for certain your one of the many things I’m grateful for!!

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  171. Paw

    Another day of learning new things from Acellus!!

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  172. Dilan

    Now I will never forget to do an SOS (Dit Dit Dit Daa Daa Daa Dit Dit Dit)

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  173. Iliyana

    I really find Morse code interesting and I think it’s a really cool way to communicate and I’d love to learn it

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  174. Rhett

    I probably would have turned the oven upside down as well

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  175. Aj

    I really enjoyed this science live! I enjoyed learning about how the battery was first made, and I look forward to seeing how other everyday objects were invented in the past. Thank you acellus!

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