Okay so I'm rewatching The Great (Hulu/Prime) because season 3 came put at some point beyond my sight, and I've just reached episode 7 of the first season.
This episode shows Peter The Not Quite Adequate showing a newfound interest I'm science, and as he is more than a bit of an idiot he goes about it in an... unorthodox fashion.
At about the midpoint he fires a frog out of a pistol at Arkady (who is slightly less than fully enthused) but beforehand says "Can anything be shot from a gun?"
A basic but undoubtedly curious question, which is followed by a live experiment (emphasis on 'live')
"And if it lives, have we invented a new form of travel?"
To us nowadays this is a ridiculous thing as much as it may have been to his audience.
However... this, is fucking ROCKET SCIENCE.
He discovered to himself gravity earlier, and the function of a parachute which slows descent. A force which acts against the constant force all we on earth experience.
Did he wonder then, about the force behind the shot of a gun? How it propels an object forward for a time despite the force of gravity?
This is such an inane thing, and yet again I say this is fucking ROCKETRY.
Literally rocket science.
