– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Hey guys!

Hey there, Squid!

How's it going?

TGS: Mmmph.

I’m kinda cranky right now.

Jessi: Oh no.

No one wants that.

What’s bothering you?

TGS: Cruise ships.

Jessi: Cruise ships?

TGS: Yeah, cruise ships.

You know, those giant boats that you people sail around in.

There’s been one floating above me all day, and I can’t get any sleep!

I mean, it’s huge!

And noisy!

It’s like a floating city!

So, instead of sleeping, I’ve just been bobbing awake, staring at it, and wondering.

How does a giant ship like that float on the water?

I mean, heavy things sink in water, right?

Like when someone up there tosses a rock into the ocean -- which happens, you know -- it

sinks.

So why does that heavy ship get to float?

Jessi: The reason a big, heavy ship like that can float has to do with its shape.

Whether an object sinks or floats to begin with has a lot to do with something called

displacement.

Displacement is when an object displaces, or pushes aside, water.

So, like, when you drop an ice cube into an already-full glass of water, some water spills

out.

TGS: That’s displacement?

Jessi: That’s right -- the amount of water that spills out is actually equal to the amount

of space the ice cube takes up!

Or think about when you take a bath.

TGS: Hold up.

Wait.

What’s a bath?

Jessi: Well, up here, we like to clean ourselves up by soaking in a tub full of nice warm,

soapy water.

TGS: That sounds gross!

Do that mean that humans just walk around all day getting dirty?

If you spent all of your time in the water like me, you’d never get dirty in the first

place.

Jessi: Well, not everyone’s the same, right?

I know some of the people watching here know what a bath is.

TGS: Mmmrph, okay.

Jessi: So, say you fill the bathtub up -- all the way to the top.

And then you climb in.

Now there’s water on the floor.

Lots of water.

The amount of water equal to the amount of space that you took up!

Now, one of the secrets to an object being able to float, is that it has to displace

enough water so that the water it pushes aside weighs as much as it does.

Alright, so, say you’re in the tub and you want to do an experiment.

You can bring in a small bowl, and some rocks from your rock collection.

If you put the bowl in the water, it’ll float.

Because the bottom of the bowl is displacing some water.

And the amount of water that it’s pushing aside weighs the same as the bowl.

Now, drop a little rock in there.

Add another, and another.

The bowl is getting heavier, so it’s sinking a little bit each time.

But even though the bowl is heavier, it’s also displacing more water -- so the amount

of water that it’s pushing aside still weighs the same as the bowl.

TGS: So what does that mean for the cruise ship?

Why doesn't it sink?

Jessi: Well, ships are designed to displace as much water as possible.

They’re realllly wide, and their bottoms tend stretch down really far, so they push

aside a lot of water.

Plus, a ship has lots of empty space inside it -- a lot of it is hollow -- which helps

to keep it light, compared to the huge amount of water that it’s displacing.

And voila... it floats.

TGS: OK, OK.

So that giant, noisy party over my head right now is displacing enough water that it can

float.

Well, you people may be noisy, but the fact that you figured out how to build giant metal

things that float… that’s pretty clever, I’ll give you that.

Jessi: Yeah, and I don't know about you, but some of my favorite things tend to clever

and noisy.

Thanks for joining Squid and me, learning about displacement.

See you next time!

TGS: Bon voyage!

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
cranky ˈkræŋki A2	adjective - irritable or annoyed
bothering ˈbɑːðərɪŋ A2	verb - to cause trouble or annoyance
cruise kruːz A2	noun - a voyage on a ship for pleasure
float floʊt A1	verb - to rest on the surface of a liquid
displacement dɪsˈpleɪsmənt B2	noun - the act of moving something from its place
sink sɪŋk A1	verb - to go down below the surface of a liquid
shape ʃeɪp A1	noun - the external form of an object
object ˈɒbʤɛkt A2	noun - a material thing that can be seen and touched
soaking soʊkɪŋ A2	verb - to become thoroughly wet by immersing in liquid
experiment ɪkˈsperɪmənt B1	noun - a test or trial to discover something
hollow ˈhɒləʊ A2	adjective - having a hole or empty space inside
voila vwala B1	interjection - used to express satisfaction or to present something
clever ˈklɛvər A2	adjective - intelligent or quick-witted
noisy ˈnɔɪzi A2	adjective - making a lot of noise
wondering ˈwʌndərɪŋ A2	verb - to think about something curiously