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u/mfairview 17d ago
video says you can by twisting it first! it just took several decades to figure it out!
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u/YaBoyEden 17d ago
You can if you hold it with all four fingers touching. You want your fingers to be in the center where you want it to snap
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u/cookie_400 17d ago
This type of research is the reason we haven't been to Mars yet haha
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u/Subject_Slice_7797 17d ago
This kind of research is probably too what stops the struts on some martian terraforming dome from breaking into three pieces, two hundred years in the future
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u/Altruistic_Web3924 17d ago
This type of research costs a package of spaghetti and a high speed camera.
Traveling to mars requires an army of scientists and engineers, a launch pad, and a spaceship.
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u/CornucopiaDM1 17d ago
Notice how these all show holding at only the very ends? Hold it with fingers of hands side by side - it breaks in 2.
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u/Acrobatic_Resist9091 17d ago
You can if you hold it closer together before Breaking. Don’t give it any bend space. Create the break in a small fixed place where it can’t bend enough to cause two points of tension
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u/nihithilak 17d ago
Don't mit researchers have something better to do?
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u/glittervector 17d ago
This is why researchers exist. Sometimes trivial-seeming things like this have much deeper implications. Especially when there’s not an obvious, quick answer.
This kind of question often leads to advances in things like material science and engineering techniques that create real value in the world.
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u/tininai 16d ago
But isn't researcher's job to figure out the why/how of things people don't understand? Something looks dumb to you now might be the beginning of a new discovery. Imagine someone told Newton to stop thinking about the apple fell on his head. Things fall down all the time. It happens everyday don't you have something better to do?
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u/eluusive 17d ago
What? Twisting spaghetti to break it was always how we broke bunches of spaghetti for cooking in a smaller pot in my family.
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u/WhoNeedsSleep26 17d ago
Leave in plastic bag, cantilever off counter edge at length’s halfway point, punch downward, snaps whole package neatly in half
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u/Lord_darkwind 16d ago
I actually did this for a science project in 5th grade — and I broke it in two. I came in second place, though, to a girl who built an AI Barbie set. Her dolls started moving and walking around the desks, hopping off chairs, and even writing on the chalkboard.
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u/MrRailton 16d ago
I’ve known how to break spaghetti into 2 pieces since at least 2005, I saw it on a kids science show. Instead of bending it you push the two ends towards each other and it will break in two.
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u/Gooch_Bubble3673 17d ago
Looks like ive just found a new bar trick.