Smart Nonsense goes beneath ice rinks and Antarctic ice

Five new explainers span frozen surfaces, particle collisions and a flying iron cap that has reached roughly 740,000 views.

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The FASTEST object we’ve sent to space..

Smart Nonsense has been looking under familiar surfaces: beneath an ice rink, down a nuclear-test shaft and into Antarctic ice. Henry Belcaster's five-upload week gives the channel's question-everything approach a distinctly chilly corner to explore.

"The Crazy Science BENEATH Ice Rinks.." arrived alongside "This freezes EVERYTHING it touches..", while Friday's "This Telescope Is BURIED Under Antarctic Ice.." extended the frozen theme. That last upload is already among the channel's most active videos, together with the older "The ant death spiral EXPLAINED..".

The week's biggest new audience, though, gathered around "The FASTEST object we've sent to space..", now at roughly 740,000 views. Its animation follows underground nuclear testing from a vaporized concrete plug to an iron cap propelled up a shaft. The presenter describes the cap as reaching space; viewers are debating whether it could have survived the atmosphere at all. That distinction matters: an extraordinary launch speed does not by itself establish a successful trip into space.

Across the channel, daily viewing is modestly above its usual level, while the subscriber count finished the week unchanged. Among nearby science channels, Hank Green and NileBlue collected larger weekly audiences; Smart Nonsense had a bigger week for views than Steve Mould or PBS Space Time.

For all the attention on the flying cap, the Antarctic telescope supplies a fresh version of this channel's favorite question: why put a familiar piece of technology somewhere so unexpected?

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The videos drawing views on Smart Nonsense right now

The Crazy Science BENEATH Ice Rinks..56,736 views · 2026-10-28 This freezes EVERYTHING it touches..49,796 views · 2026-10-29 This thing SMASHES particles together..35,107 views · 2026-10-26 This Telescope Is BURIED Under Antarctic Ice..10,939 views · 2026-10-30 The ant death spiral EXPLAINED..632,049 views

The numbers

Here is how Smart Nonsense's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Hank Green

4,903,650

NileBlue

4,116,406

Smart Nonsense

2,648,993

PBS Eons

1,532,918

Physics Girl

1,442,980

PBS Space Time

1,306,794

Steve Mould

1,222,270

Technology Connections

1,139,441

MinuteEarth

1,007,786

subscribers

3,530,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,744,186,462

views per day

495,489

typical day: 436,150

first-day views of each video posted this week

The FASTEST object we’ve sent to space..

305,805

The Crazy Science BENEATH Ice Rinks..

46,553

This freezes EVERYTHING it touches..

45,413

This thing SMASHES particles together..

20,875

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Steve Mould

3,620,000

NileBlue

3,620,000

Physics Girl

3,550,000

PBS Space Time

3,540,000

Smart Nonsense

3,530,000

MinuteEarth

3,340,000

Technology Connections

3,220,000

PBS Eons

3,220,000

Hank Green

3,200,000

As of October 31, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.