Who doesn’t love exploding melons? It’s a universal pleasure. Just ask Gallagher! But it turns out they can be educational, too! Spontaneous fruit eruptions can prove valuable as examples of potential energy, assuming you keep adding rubber bands around their rinds. 

The video above was sent to us by Sarah Reid, director of the Redwood Discovery Museum in Eureka. She also sent along the following message by way of explanation:

On Saturday, June 18th, the Discovery Museum’s Young Inventors program will be demonstrating the difference between potential and kinetic energy by exploding a watermelon using rubber bands. The Young Inventors meet the third Saturday of every month at the Redwood Discovery Museum from 10:30 until noon and is included with the cost of Museum Entry.