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	Host David Pogue had his fair share of comic mishaps on the set of NOVA's "Hunting the Elements." Watch as David generally wreaks havoc on some of the most high-tech labs in the country, and makes even the most serious scientists laugh in the process.
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<div class="rich-text">Watch David Pogue's hilarious out-takes from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements."</div>

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 Posted: March 29, 2012



 SCIENTIST 1:
 
 So we've just done our little test in the tank there. And what we're going to do now.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 That was just for the blooper reel. We like to get some material.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Commence the glass-breaking test. I wasn't ready.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Luke, I'm your father.



 SCIENTIST 2:
 
 Yeah, I'm your father. I know, I know.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 I understand that this is where the disease mono first evolved.



 SCIENTIST 3:
 
 It did indeed. Settled into the lymph nodes of a woman named Monisha.



 SCIENTIST 1:
 
 I'm gonna flip it upside down and put it in a state of tonic immobility. You just let her go.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Fly, be free! Oh, great she's stuck that way.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Why is it that our lungs are not exploding out of our chest?



 SCIENTIST 2:
 
 Because what you're breathing is N2 and O2. Not NO3, because that will kill you.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 So that would be, would be.



 SCIENTIST 4:
 
 That will kill you David. You would die. You wouldn't be able to talk anymore.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 What are you suggesting?



 SCIENTIST 4:
 
 So we set up all the mousetraps here and we put ping-pong balls on each one of those mousetraps. It simulates a nuclear chain reaction.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 And that's a nuclear chain reaction, folks.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Suppose I were to ask you a question, what would your answer be?



 SCIENTIST 5:
 
 My question, my answer would be entirely dependent on the question.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Well, see that's the problem with scientists.



 SCIENTIST 5:
 
 Well, that's the problem with conversation.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 I just finished a book today. 900 pages and just about dead.



 SCIENTIST 6:
 
 Why don't you get that package up by the table here, then we can talk about that one.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 He played a trick on me.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Should I worry that my gloves are on fire?



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 Can I go back to writing technology reviews?



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 You're a guy.



 SCIENTIST 2:
 
 Oh really?



 SCIENTIST 2:
 
 I don't want to hear about your parents.



 SCIENTIST 2:
 
 That way, dumb ***



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 You're calling this glass?



 SCIENTIST 7:
 
 That is glass.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 This is, this is plastic dude. I can make a paper airplane out of this.



 SCIENTIST 7:
 
 Au contraire. It is not at all, it is glass. So there are, there are limits.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 I don't think that was supposed to happen.



 SCIENTIST 8:
 
 We just bought this.



 DAVID POGUE:
 
 We have a little problem. The funnel fell in the fake pee and splashed me.
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