Ear nose and throat surgeon here , the first shot you landed to the neck is quite possibly a lethal blow . I would expect significant blunt laryngo tracheal injury . The “patient” could easily die shortly massive swelling (edema) and bleeding into the airway and patient would in essence suffocate shortly after the injury . Not to mention the strong possibility of damage to the spinal column based on the slow mo footage . Absolutely terrifying what a simple stone may do
the coolest part of this video is Mike showing his failures. Not only it shows the whole thinking process, but also show to everyone that making mistakes is part of the process
I think the reason the spears were doing little damage and breaking easily is because they were basically extra long carbon fiber target shooting arrows. The spears they used in the past were wood and they were also way heavier and thicker as well as probably sharper.
yeah, definitly. And ancient people would use bigger, broad headed spears that would cut more than actually pierce. Usingg a torso dummy would have shown that a bbit better, but still wouldn't have the same effect as an ancient atlatl.
Similar issue with the sling, a lead sling bullet is going to give much more impressive results than a stone because it's much denser and thus concentrates the impact force in a smaller area. I've actually seen someone else test them on a ballistics gel head and they didn't just smash the face, they went about halfway through the head.
Not sure if they were sharper, but the warhead, the missle shaft, and the thrower were all probably a bit heavier. P.S. I'm pretty sure that when you throw a spear it should be called a javelin :).
0:46 most slingers who fought in armies were actually shepherds by profession as the sling was a common tool used by them to runoff animals to come back, other people developed their slingshot skills by hunting bird or smaller animals, the romans and persians were one of very few that had slingers who were professional soldiers and who's only job was to hit enemy soldiers with it.
You don't have to actually hit the animal. They seem to have a sense for the danger even with a near miss. I had a German shepherd bite me on my paper route. I was not going to have any more of that, so I brought my slingshot with me. (Not David's sling, but the kind with rubber bands.) The first time he approached me, I took the slingshot, loaded it with a penny, shot at him, but missed. He immediately ran away. Every time he approached me after that, I only had to show him the slingshot and he would run away. It surprised me the first time. I just removed it from my bag and before I could find a penny to load it, he was gone. After that, I would just wave it at him.
im honestly more suprised that people are shocked a smaller expert in a ranged weapon beat a large fighter at a distance.... like, yeah, theyre a professional flingin rocks at someones skull
Biblically, it never says the goliath died from the sling just that he fell... Then David picked up Goliath's own sword and beheaded him.😮 Edit: Keep reading, because I was wrong in this comment.
As a kid with nothing but seeing pictures and maybe used in a movie scene, I made one and it is surprisingly easy to get the hang of. Sure several hundred if not thousands of iterations but seriously very intuitive. Be way away from anything in any direction, trust me.
Slingshots could crush bones and skulls even with a helmet on. Don't forget a lot of armies had experts using them. If you practice daily, you will hit the target.
Also keep in mind that you wouldnt just get attacked by one guy hurling single rocks. You would have whole groups of slingers unleash a flurry of rocks, possibly at quite long ranges (given that rocks are still very much lethal when launched in an arc, as "indirect fire"). So unless you have a large sturdy shield with you, you are gonna have a crap day.
too bad those games are unplayable on modern machines......and the updated editions have super bugs like where mouse clicks stops working and such....meeh was it win xp era? have quad 3ghz computer just standing in a wardrobe, might install xp black edition on it and try my original cd's
@@Belnick6666 as someone with 350 hours on Rome Total War on Steam, idk what you're on about, game works fine. Can dip to 20 fps if you have too many units but in general it runs fine. The remaster is pretty sweet too, the only thing I don't like is the UI.
Alexander hid 500-800 slingers, Greek peltast, that jogged on the outside of his companion cavalry at the battle of Gaugamela . Being mirrored by the Persian cavalry, when Alexander saw the gap in the Persian line and went for the charge, the Persians tried to counter only for the slingers to unleash a barrage on them which was quite devastating. Horses and men don't like being hit by hundreds of rocks and it created chaos among the Persian cavalry which gave Alexander a clear shot to Darius, who was so terrified that he ran for over 50 miles, leaving his entire family to be captured by the Greeks. Those slings were no joke and the people that used them were deadly accurate.
@@fdsgdxfgddfgdfgdfg3814 i never considered it this way! based on body proportions (i think Goliath could have very well been ~8-9 feet tall, Robert Ladlow is the tallest person photographed at 8'11), Goliath's head was also a huge target.
@travisolander4749it wouldn’t cut through it idiot because the thing is probably metal and if it isn’t metal then make one that is metal/steel so it isn’t cut
I came upon an obsidian deposit on a trip to Guatemala about 15 years ago, and being a geologist and rock lover, availed myself of its awesomeness (I gave away most of the pieces I collected, but kept a few choice samples for my rock collection). After I got back in my car and drove on, I noticed that I was bleeding from several extremely fine cuts that I did not even feel. So yeah, it's sharp.
I was reading an article in National Geographic many years ago - can't remember what the article was about but one thing that stuck in my mind was the statement that some surgeons will use obsidian scalpels for extremely fine surgery because the sharpness does less trauma to delicate tissues than even the sharpest steel.
@@TubeRadiosRule whilst obsidian blades are extremely sharp, using them for surgery is rather problematic. They get dull super fast cause they break down into extremely small and sharp fragments that would be left in the wound, which you don't really want to happen in such delicate tissues. You can buy such scalpels, but they are usually just an experimental substitute for diamond scalpels.
@@No.Good.Nickname I have often wondered how our ancient ancestors used obsidian axes to butcher animals without ingesting tiny sharp fragments of the obsidian that broke off on bone and such.
Oh yeah, like Archeologists can identify medieval longbow men because their arm bones literally thickened themselves due to the constant strain of drawing the string
I follow Aztec etc history/archeology, who widely used obsidian for tools/weapons (including Atlatl & slings, see below): To get the hyper-sharp edge obsidian is known for, you can't just knap it like you did here, even if you were an expert knapper. The way to get the absolute sharpest obsidian blades is via the prismatic blade method, where you gradually knap a "core" piece of obsidian to process it into the right shape, to then be able to flake off evenly shaped blades which each have single continuous edge. Those blades are what have the 2-3 molecule wide, insanely sharp edges: The actual starting "core" piece is a waste product. Traditional knapping, what you're doing here, is taking your starting piece and flaking pieces off to shape the piece you started with into a blade (rather then the starting piece being a means to an end), but it won't have a single even edge since each bit you flake off is creating microscopic breaks and peaks or valleys between each fracture. Knapping obsidian like that can still produce a deadly sharp blade, but as sharp as the prismatic method. The prismatic blade production method wasn't a static practice either, there were innovations in obsidian working and prismatic blade production with how the core is struck even only a few centuries prior to Spanish contact in the postclassic period, by which point the region has already been heavily urbanized with city-states and empires for thousands of years and already had a robust obsidian industry. Those innovations in blade production may have actually been what allowed Macuahuitl ("swords" with a wooden core/shaft with obsidian blades lining the edges) to pop up in the form the Aztec used them, since it could produce consistently evenly sized and shaped blades, wheras before that the types of weapons used in Mesoamerican warfare didn't tend to have evenly lined edges like that. That's not to say the Mesoamericans didn't also do normal knapping: That was done to produce knives, arrowheads, etc, as well as ceremonial "eccentric" obsidian or flint blades which were knapped into shapes like faces, serpents, etc, but the prismatic method is what you want for the sharpest edge possible. Ultimately though my area of interest isn't in lithics and tool production so I can't get into this in too much depth beyond what I already said above. Next, as I said, Atlatl and slings were commonly used in Mesoamerica. That slings were used shouldn't be too surprising, as you said the Greeks, Romans, etc used them even alongside bows, but Atlatl were essentially entirely replaced by bows in Eurasia by the time organized city based state societies become a thing. in Mesoamerica (as well as in the Andes down in South America, where the Inca, Nazca, Moche etc were) atlatl continued to be used alongside bows as projectile weapons even as you had organized city-states and empires. Atlatl actually were more associated with civilized, refined warfare and royal power by many groups in Central Mexico (including various city-states etc we call "Aztec" today), due to it's association with civilizations like Teotihuacan and the Toltec (the Toltec may or may not actually exist, it's kinda complicated, but the point is that later Mesosmerican civilizations revered them as a mytho-historical predecessor civilization) , wheras bows were often seen as a more primitive hunting tool, though many city-states and armies still used bows too to an extent, especially outside of Central Mexico. In general, I think people unappreciate the diversity of Mesoamerican weaponry: People know about Macuahuitl,. but even it had a good deal of variation in size, shape, blade shape and arrangement, etc; plus there were other forms of bladed or spiked clubs or swords, maces with spherical or flanged heads, various other clubs and batons; polearms ranging from normal spears to things like halbreds or glaives, very long pikes, weird serrated or multiform polearms; axes and what I guess you could call warpicks, thrown javelins, emplaced stone throwers, siege towers, etc. Most of these were stone or wood, but these would often still be finely crafted and intentionally designed weapons which could have gemstone or gold, silver etc inlays and accenting and fine sculpted or engraved details, and some did actually use copper or bronze blades or striking portions, though most examples of that seem to be ceremonial or for domestic craft use rather then in warfare (but there is some evidence suggesting use in war as well, even if not commonly). Armor as well: A lot of depictions show Mesoamerican soldiers as basically half-naked barbarians wearing Jaguar pelts and big headdresses, or just a loincloth. Certainly, lower ranking soldiers might just have a loincloth or tunics, but there were actual forms of armor as well: padded cloth vests or tunics, like Eurasian gambeson, was the base of much of this, and for the Aztec at least, high ranking soldiers would have also worn warsuits or tunics made of thick cloth and covered in a mosaic of tens of thousands of iridesecent feathers over the gambeson, with the different colors of feathers forming a mosaic image of specific patterns or designs. The "Jaguar" suit people often imagine was most often actually this form of warsuit with the feathers making the jaguar spot pattern, though allegedly commoners who achieved the right to wear that warsuit design had to make do with warsuits made from Jaguar pelt rather then feather mosaic, but this would still be a full body suit, like a fine fur piece of clothing, not a cavemen style hide. There were also shields and helmets (made of either bamboo or wood, perhaps with cloth padding, and then sometimes feather mosaic or pelt coverings and gemstones/gold accents or inlays), apparently some golden or silver "mail" jackets/tunics (though probably more as status/ceremonial pieces then true functional metal armor) and other civilizations had other forms of armor.
I grew up hearing the story of David and Goliath countless times but I've never seen a proper video of a sling in action until this and I have to say I'm quite impressed! That thing packs one heck of a punch!
The shepherds sling is a waaaay more powerful weapon than most people realize. Bows were favored because they did better against metal armor. Slings actually hit harder than all but the best bows, but it's a blunt damage where as an arrow is a piercing damage. It's like trying to cut down a tree with a sledge hammer vs an axe. The hammer actually has more force behind it, but the axe cuts where the hammer smashes. Slings were used in Europe until around the 15th century but fell out of use as armor got better.
- I grew up in Palo Alto, CA, and obsidian is sometimes used as a lawn replacement or decoration here. When I was in high school, being an idiot, I once picked up and handled a piece for a block or two before discarding it. The piece wasn't particularly anything, just an oblong pretty faceted stone, but after another block or two: bloody hand from dozens of super fine cuts. So, like others in the comments have noted, sometimes obsidian can be dangerously frighteningly sharp.
@@swiftmatic Ha... when I was like 17 I went to pick something up I dropped, and there was an old window that had been sitting by the wall for ages that I never payed much attention to; picked up my trash, threw it away, and then noticed my middle finger knuckle was split open... and then my body realized and the blood came. Getting your knuckle sliced is a pain to let heal up considering I never bother with stiches. Now just a dent and a lesson learned. The only other time I had the unfortunate luck of dealing with plate glass was accidentally running over some at night on my bike... instantly shredded tires miles away from home. :(
As a slinger, it’s wild to me that they aren’t in the Olympics. A weapon that predates the bow should be in the Olympics I think. Plus they’re very Impressive weapons. A man called iron goober on UA-cam showed him throwing a 4 ounce ball 65 mph and then throwing the same ball with a sling 98 mph. I don’t have a speed recorder so I can’t say anything on speed, but I have thrown a golf ball around 300 meters with a sling.
My mum was an archaeologist, I remember going to an exhibition with her when I was young and saw an ancient Egyptian maybe Sudanese skull which had a rock embedded in the orbital socket from a sling weapon. You think the power of one sling is deadly, imagine a whole unit, its almost like line combat
Maybe its partially a miracle, since being very very veeeerrryyy accurate with a sling can be hard tho, even the best of the best sometimes miss their target, or maybe just hit a body part instead of the head, if David missed or hit something else to anger the Goliath, he be sprinting to David and chop down his head
@@robocatssj3theofficialGoliath was tall, but he wasn’t that tall. The Bible describes his height as “6 cubits and a span,” which is about 9 feet and 9 inches tall.
Omg I have an Apache handmade Atlatl! I was taught to throw it by a Cherokee woman and it's my favorite weapon I own. I love that you featured it here! A tip when throwing it is to aim with your non throwing hand. Wherever the middle finger of your non throwing hand points is where the spear will go.
I was literally just reading the story of David and Goliath in my Bible study a week ago and thinking, "I wonder if Mike would test that out...". One thing I didn't know until recently was the size of the stones used in old slings. Cartoon recreations of the David and Goliath story always show David grabbing what essentially look like skipping stones from a river. The stones ancient warriors actually used were more like tennis balls in size, made mostly of limestone, and naturally rounded.
A tip for the sling, river rocks work way better. You want them to be smooth and slightly larger than a golf ball, as too big and you throw off the timing of the spin while being smooth helps them release from the sling and fly straighter
I think maybe the spear wasn't meant for headshots, it was meant to penetrate deep into the body and pierce organs. i mean honestly it would be foolish to aim for the head at those ranges but if you chucked it in a way that's meant to hit the entire body, there's a good chance you're going to hit something crucial.
The world's oldest weapon is fists. The world's best oldest weapon is tricking your buddy Trog to go look for mushrooms when there's a ticked off T-Rex roaming the mushroom patch.
I would say crude clubs, charcoal spears and stones are older than fists as weapons. Could you imagine seeing a protohuman throwing a proper hammerfist or punch? I think it would have been comical to see.
@@KaiserOfPrussia0910nice prank i remember sending my homie grg to kill t-rex eggs because they were “invading” but i was lying so i got to see him run from a t-rex
I've been hunting with primitive weapons since I was a kid. I can assure you that everything from slings, throw sticks, atlatls, and pretty much anything you can throw is deadly. Add metal to the mix or just some napped obsidian/stone/glass, and they become extremely effective. Also wanted to add that blow guns are something you might find interesting and extremely easy to use.
+1 on the blowpipes, they are heaps good fun. so simple that probably not worth a youtube video. I would suggest a piece of U or V channel aluminium cabletied to a 1m, 13mm PVC reticulation riser with a 13-25mm F-F as the mouthpeice. the darts can be quickly and easily made from electrical tape rolled into a cone and a small flat top nail. we used to play darts with one, about 3x the distance of a regular dartboard. new players were sceptical, but it was incredibly intuitive, and so very accurate. highly recommended for anyone with 10 bucks and an afternoon and a few mates. the size of the nail determines power, so go for small ones if your in a rental apartment. if you have good lung control and some decent safe space, you'll be exploding soda cans in no time
I agree that a sling can indeed be a powerful weapon. Having said that, when you are ready to release the sling, your enemy will have emptied a full magazine into your body.
Adored this video, those demonstrations were so cool! For the spear thrower, could it be that the spears weren't the right ones? I'm a hobbyist fan of prehistoric periods, I've visited all the caves I could in france, and even did some training events with specialists there who teach people how to knap flint, use a spear thrower, or light fire like our ancestors did. And one thing I recall is that the spears were not hollow, were in wood so definitely heavier than what you used, and had a sort of detachable head? The head would detach and stay IN the target while the spear body bounced off but didn't break. The sling was awesome, and I'm impressed by how quickly you managed to hit the target! Knapping is an art form, when I did my training event I recall the teacher would knap so fast, make it look so easy, but then he explained how it required a lot, looot of knowledge, to look at the stone and see the grain of it, and the direction of the grain, to know where and how hard to strike. Our ancestors actually did it by preparing a knapping "side", exposing a flat area, that would allow easier knapping after. It's normal that you didn't manage just watching videos, hitting at random. But it was still fun to see XD
Fun facts, a skilled slinger when suddenly come to a melee with no time to reach the sword or dagger, the slinger would use the sling as improvised whip. It really hurts on unarmoured flesh.
centripetal he said, correctly. Centrifugal is the force away from the center of the circle, centripetal is the force towards the centre of the circle. He is right since the centripetal force is the force that is creating the enormous momentum for the sling, coming from his muscles
@ExponentMars Its not the same if it would be the same people that can throw a ball or stone would not have to learn slinging which often takes a lot of time.
There are still people in the Balearic Islands who regularly shot slings as a sport. Some of them have amazing aim, and there's probably also some who practice for impact force. Would be interesting to see them have their speed measured.
The INCAS used it as one of their main weapons and they were very good at it. In fact, in Incan descending countries, they are still widely used today.
Most people believe that the Aztecs used spear throwers as war weapons. They were actually used for hunting, a more common use for atlatl. The thing is that when they encountered Spanish soldiers, who wore a thick jacket called gambeson meant to withstand arrows and other projectiles, they began using throwers because of the extra power.
The sling and the atlatl are two skills I have always wanted to develop for in case of a zombie outbreak. Bet you they would make me very popular with the ladies when they compare me with all the "We ran out of ammo, wuaaaa!" guys 😃
That last 64m throw is just slightly shorter than the longest pass in US football (NFL) history. Can you imagine throwing a big piece of leather that distance with just your arm and having it land in the hands of a fast-moving receiver?
Regarding the sling, the projectiles would have been smooth to improve aerodynamics and thus reducing the loss of kinetic energy and increasing damage on target.
Sling projectiles were fairly wide in range. Smooth round rocks were used in a pinch, but the most common were actually backed pottery balls followed by lead balls for those who could afford them. Historians have also found writing on sling stones, remarks that effectively amount to jokes like, 'your doom' or 'here's a gift.'
...David didn't kill Goliath with the rock thrown from the sling. He knocked him out (or down), and ran over and used Goliaths own sword to cut off his head. 1st Samuel 17 (it's a good read). I would say though, Pretty SWEET video. You have a knack for picking up random weapons and being VERY good at them quickly! Keep it up!
The text says that the rock sunk into his skull so I presume a wound similar that depicted in the test; left a contusion or possibly stuck half-in or something. That head was a great trophy.
I am from China. When I was very young, I watched a movie called "Escape to Athena" around 1990. In the movie, a bald actor Telly Savalas used this hand-held catapult to hit the German soldiers on the tower at the end of the counterattack. I was very surprised by the power of this weapon, because China's traditional long-range weapons are bows and arrows, crossbows and slingshots. Thanks to this video, I fully understand the principle of this weapon. I also want to make one or buy one to try.
Slingers were the ranged backbone for various armies around the world, even for the Inca. Also.. they are super over powered in Total War Rome 2 ahahha
Whether or not David killed Goliath with a sling or made him unconscious is a matter of debate. Goliath getting his head cut off after he hit the ground with his own sword by David finished the job.
Mike is the one unemployed friend on a Tuesday morning doing experiments at home, while you're at your miserable job contemplating if you're gonna be able to pay the bills and live normally next month.
Yeah when people talk about David and Goliath they forget what a slingshot was capable of. David was not the underdog in that scenario, he was sent in with that eras version of a shotgun blast.
In college I watched a video of an indigenous man making an arrow head using obsidian and the teacher told me that he had spent months with them and learned how to do it. He tried it at his home WITHOUT the protective mat (which was a very course leather like material) and he had cut his hands and legs pretty badly from the shards that cracked off. The samples the teacher brought to the class were ungodly sharp. I was flinching watching you do that without a mat. Good for you for attempting it though. it is a cool skill.
Hey mike, can you make a video on handwriting improvement like I learned to write cursive fast and beautifully? As you have already learned to write with your non-dominant hand, you can also learn this. Please make a video on this if you like my suggestion.
In the book "Valley of the Horses" (Jean M. Auel), one man invents a spear thrower based on inspiration from a woman very adept with the sling. This is the second book in the series, first being "Cave of the Clan Bear". Lots of information about the era of these weapons in the book series. I recommend checking them out. And I just love seing the dynamics of these weapons, thank you for this video!
That was the sound of the alarm for the firefighters' lunchtime. In Portugal this sound is usually heard when we are near to a fire station at the luchtime
Well to answer the starting question: Yes, because guns are designed to hit vital spots. It's like saying "Can my cleaver cut harder than this scalpel?" *proceeds to hit a slab of raw meat*
ya it's the bullet's penetration that makes it so deadly. Having slightly less energy in a much more concentrated point is going to cause more damage. Still extremely deadly tho
I feel like David is often thought of as some meek farm boy like kid who just had some rocks and a sling, but slingers during that era (presuming like the iron age), were some of the most skilled and deadly warriors on the battlefield. A simple rock, before archers, was one of the best ranged weapons available.
As a young boy in the 1960s I made a sling from a bible illustration on David and Goliath. As I round up and let go the rock flew half a block and took out a window down the street so much for my sling adventure.
Ear nose and throat surgeon here , the first shot you landed to the neck is quite possibly a lethal blow . I would expect significant blunt laryngo tracheal injury . The “patient” could easily die shortly massive swelling (edema) and bleeding into the airway and patient would in essence suffocate shortly after the injury . Not to mention the strong possibility of damage to the spinal column based on the slow mo footage .
Absolutely terrifying what a simple stone may do
U sound experienced. I understood nothing
@Justmemes2010 Basically, a big rock going like 50-70Mph to the throat is a bad day
@@VirtuousWanderer very simply put lol😂
Thats what I commented a minute ago but in a less professional way😂
@@VirtuousWanderer fair
the coolest part of this video is Mike showing his failures. Not only it shows the whole thinking process, but also show to everyone that making mistakes is part of the process
Any kind of learning experience is basically "the art of running out of ways to do it wrong".
@@andersjjensenreal
3 words "Trial and error" I love it
I think the reason the spears were doing little damage and breaking easily is because they were basically extra long carbon fiber target shooting arrows. The spears they used in the past were wood and they were also way heavier and thicker as well as probably sharper.
Yeah the weapon was good not the weak ass stick
yeah, definitly. And ancient people would use bigger, broad headed spears that would cut more than actually pierce. Usingg a torso dummy would have shown that a bbit better, but still wouldn't have the same effect as an ancient atlatl.
Yeah, I'd want to see him make and throw a spear made out of wood
Similar issue with the sling, a lead sling bullet is going to give much more impressive results than a stone because it's much denser and thus concentrates the impact force in a smaller area. I've actually seen someone else test them on a ballistics gel head and they didn't just smash the face, they went about halfway through the head.
Not sure if they were sharper, but the warhead, the missle shaft, and the thrower were all probably a bit heavier. P.S. I'm pretty sure that when you throw a spear it should be called a javelin :).
From archeology classes, the reason obsidian can be so much sharper is because when properly split/flaked, the edge goes down to one molecule thick.
0:46 most slingers who fought in armies were actually shepherds by profession as the sling was a common tool used by them to runoff animals to come back, other people developed their slingshot skills by hunting bird or smaller animals, the romans and persians were one of very few that had slingers who were professional soldiers and who's only job was to hit enemy soldiers with it.
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You don't have to actually hit the animal. They seem to have a sense for the danger even with a near miss. I had a German shepherd bite me on my paper route. I was not going to have any more of that, so I brought my slingshot with me. (Not David's sling, but the kind with rubber bands.) The first time he approached me, I took the slingshot, loaded it with a penny, shot at him, but missed. He immediately ran away. Every time he approached me after that, I only had to show him the slingshot and he would run away. It surprised me the first time. I just removed it from my bag and before I could find a penny to load it, he was gone. After that, I would just wave it at him.
@@LonelyTropicalFish yes i think thats pretty obvious that you dont actually hit them with the tool used in war to kill people lol
David and Goliath is often laughed at, but it is a viable weapon. Many tribes have already showcased that.
im honestly more suprised that people are shocked a smaller expert in a ranged weapon beat a large fighter at a distance.... like, yeah, theyre a professional flingin rocks at someones skull
David use that kind of thing to scaring away predators from sheeps.
Biblically, it never says the goliath died from the sling just that he fell... Then David picked up Goliath's own sword and beheaded him.😮
Edit: Keep reading, because I was wrong in this comment.
As a kid with nothing but seeing pictures and maybe used in a movie scene, I made one and it is surprisingly easy to get the hang of. Sure several hundred if not thousands of iterations but seriously very intuitive. Be way away from anything in any direction, trust me.
I never laughed at the story of David and Goliath.
But Noah's ark; that shit's hilarious. Imagine how long it took the sloths to get to South America.
Slingshots could crush bones and skulls even with a helmet on. Don't forget a lot of armies had experts using them. If you practice daily, you will hit the target.
Also keep in mind that you wouldnt just get attacked by one guy hurling single rocks. You would have whole groups of slingers unleash a flurry of rocks, possibly at quite long ranges (given that rocks are still very much lethal when launched in an arc, as "indirect fire"). So unless you have a large sturdy shield with you, you are gonna have a crap day.
Playing Rome Total War taught me you don't fuck with slingers, especially the ones from Rhodes
best comment, best game
@@TOBI-W4N-KENOBI true
too bad those games are unplayable on modern machines......and the updated editions have super bugs like where mouse clicks stops working and such....meeh
was it win xp era? have quad 3ghz computer just standing in a wardrobe, might install xp black edition on it and try my original cd's
@@Belnick6666 as someone with 350 hours on Rome Total War on Steam, idk what you're on about, game works fine. Can dip to 20 fps if you have too many units but in general it runs fine. The remaster is pretty sweet too, the only thing I don't like is the UI.
There is also a really old game, called Master of Magic, where one race (hobbits I think) has sling thrower units, and they're totally OP.
Alexander hid 500-800 slingers, Greek peltast, that jogged on the outside of his companion cavalry at the battle of Gaugamela . Being mirrored by the Persian cavalry, when Alexander saw the gap in the Persian line and went for the charge, the Persians tried to counter only for the slingers to unleash a barrage on them which was quite devastating. Horses and men don't like being hit by hundreds of rocks and it created chaos among the Persian cavalry which gave Alexander a clear shot to Darius, who was so terrified that he ran for over 50 miles, leaving his entire family to be captured by the Greeks.
Those slings were no joke and the people that used them were deadly accurate.
A peltast is a light infantry man with javelins not slings
Some armies used cast lead ammo with phrases on it like "Tolle Quod"
David was renowned to be talented, and likely trained often with the sling. Extremely lethal weapon in the right hands (like a lot of things).
Basically Goliath was the underdog, not David. God + ancient gun +skill = ez David W.
@@fdsgdxfgddfgdfgdfg3814 i never considered it this way! based on body proportions (i think Goliath could have very well been ~8-9 feet tall, Robert Ladlow is the tallest person photographed at 8'11), Goliath's head was also a huge target.
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The projectile and camera alignment is just perfect.
As a professional sharpener and someone very familiar with the Bess test. You are doing the cuts FAR TO FAST to get true results.
@travisolander4749 I love seeing someone so into something!
@travisolander4749 what did you use as reference to measure sharpness?
@travisolander4749it wouldn’t cut through it idiot because the thing is probably metal and if it isn’t metal then make one that is metal/steel so it isn’t cut
What else you expect from Integza's cousin? 😂
is he really integzas cousin?@@patrickw9520
Obsidian can be flaked ridiculously sharp, to the point that once you feel you touched it you have already been cut.
I came upon an obsidian deposit on a trip to Guatemala about 15 years ago, and being a geologist and rock lover, availed myself of its awesomeness (I gave away most of the pieces I collected, but kept a few choice samples for my rock collection). After I got back in my car and drove on, I noticed that I was bleeding from several extremely fine cuts that I did not even feel. So yeah, it's sharp.
I was reading an article in National Geographic many years ago - can't remember what the article was about but one thing that stuck in my mind was the statement that some surgeons will use obsidian scalpels for extremely fine surgery because the sharpness does less trauma to delicate tissues than even the sharpest steel.
@@TubeRadiosRule whilst obsidian blades are extremely sharp, using them for surgery is rather problematic. They get dull super fast cause they break down into extremely small and sharp fragments that would be left in the wound, which you don't really want to happen in such delicate tissues. You can buy such scalpels, but they are usually just an experimental substitute for diamond scalpels.
I always remember it was about the sharpness of the material but of course its delicate so it’s not as effective as steel.
@@No.Good.Nickname I have often wondered how our ancient ancestors used obsidian axes to butcher animals without ingesting tiny sharp fragments of the obsidian that broke off on bone and such.
A shepherd boy like David would have lots of time to perfect his sling technique. Also, wolves would try to get his sheep so he had targets.
You might think the sling is weak but the people who used these trained their entire life and probably 3 times stronger than modern day people.
Oh yeah, like Archeologists can identify medieval longbow men because their arm bones literally thickened themselves due to the constant strain of drawing the string
I follow Aztec etc history/archeology, who widely used obsidian for tools/weapons (including Atlatl & slings, see below): To get the hyper-sharp edge obsidian is known for, you can't just knap it like you did here, even if you were an expert knapper. The way to get the absolute sharpest obsidian blades is via the prismatic blade method, where you gradually knap a "core" piece of obsidian to process it into the right shape, to then be able to flake off evenly shaped blades which each have single continuous edge. Those blades are what have the 2-3 molecule wide, insanely sharp edges: The actual starting "core" piece is a waste product. Traditional knapping, what you're doing here, is taking your starting piece and flaking pieces off to shape the piece you started with into a blade (rather then the starting piece being a means to an end), but it won't have a single even edge since each bit you flake off is creating microscopic breaks and peaks or valleys between each fracture. Knapping obsidian like that can still produce a deadly sharp blade, but as sharp as the prismatic method.
The prismatic blade production method wasn't a static practice either, there were innovations in obsidian working and prismatic blade production with how the core is struck even only a few centuries prior to Spanish contact in the postclassic period, by which point the region has already been heavily urbanized with city-states and empires for thousands of years and already had a robust obsidian industry. Those innovations in blade production may have actually been what allowed Macuahuitl ("swords" with a wooden core/shaft with obsidian blades lining the edges) to pop up in the form the Aztec used them, since it could produce consistently evenly sized and shaped blades, wheras before that the types of weapons used in Mesoamerican warfare didn't tend to have evenly lined edges like that.
That's not to say the Mesoamericans didn't also do normal knapping: That was done to produce knives, arrowheads, etc, as well as ceremonial "eccentric" obsidian or flint blades which were knapped into shapes like faces, serpents, etc, but the prismatic method is what you want for the sharpest edge possible. Ultimately though my area of interest isn't in lithics and tool production so I can't get into this in too much depth beyond what I already said above.
Next, as I said, Atlatl and slings were commonly used in Mesoamerica. That slings were used shouldn't be too surprising, as you said the Greeks, Romans, etc used them even alongside bows, but Atlatl were essentially entirely replaced by bows in Eurasia by the time organized city based state societies become a thing. in Mesoamerica (as well as in the Andes down in South America, where the Inca, Nazca, Moche etc were) atlatl continued to be used alongside bows as projectile weapons even as you had organized city-states and empires. Atlatl actually were more associated with civilized, refined warfare and royal power by many groups in Central Mexico (including various city-states etc we call "Aztec" today), due to it's association with civilizations like Teotihuacan and the Toltec (the Toltec may or may not actually exist, it's kinda complicated, but the point is that later Mesosmerican civilizations revered them as a mytho-historical predecessor civilization) , wheras bows were often seen as a more primitive hunting tool, though many city-states and armies still used bows too to an extent, especially outside of Central Mexico.
In general, I think people unappreciate the diversity of Mesoamerican weaponry: People know about Macuahuitl,. but even it had a good deal of variation in size, shape, blade shape and arrangement, etc; plus there were other forms of bladed or spiked clubs or swords, maces with spherical or flanged heads, various other clubs and batons; polearms ranging from normal spears to things like halbreds or glaives, very long pikes, weird serrated or multiform polearms; axes and what I guess you could call warpicks, thrown javelins, emplaced stone throwers, siege towers, etc. Most of these were stone or wood, but these would often still be finely crafted and intentionally designed weapons which could have gemstone or gold, silver etc inlays and accenting and fine sculpted or engraved details, and some did actually use copper or bronze blades or striking portions, though most examples of that seem to be ceremonial or for domestic craft use rather then in warfare (but there is some evidence suggesting use in war as well, even if not commonly).
Armor as well: A lot of depictions show Mesoamerican soldiers as basically half-naked barbarians wearing Jaguar pelts and big headdresses, or just a loincloth. Certainly, lower ranking soldiers might just have a loincloth or tunics, but there were actual forms of armor as well: padded cloth vests or tunics, like Eurasian gambeson, was the base of much of this, and for the Aztec at least, high ranking soldiers would have also worn warsuits or tunics made of thick cloth and covered in a mosaic of tens of thousands of iridesecent feathers over the gambeson, with the different colors of feathers forming a mosaic image of specific patterns or designs. The "Jaguar" suit people often imagine was most often actually this form of warsuit with the feathers making the jaguar spot pattern, though allegedly commoners who achieved the right to wear that warsuit design had to make do with warsuits made from Jaguar pelt rather then feather mosaic, but this would still be a full body suit, like a fine fur piece of clothing, not a cavemen style hide. There were also shields and helmets (made of either bamboo or wood, perhaps with cloth padding, and then sometimes feather mosaic or pelt coverings and gemstones/gold accents or inlays), apparently some golden or silver "mail" jackets/tunics (though probably more as status/ceremonial pieces then true functional metal armor) and other civilizations had other forms of armor.
📝 this is legit so interesting to read thank you for sharing your knowledge
Bro....
thanks for the history lesson
This is fascinating, would you have any sort of resources to shoutout if I wanted to look at some of this?
The hell kind o comment is this
I grew up hearing the story of David and Goliath countless times but I've never seen a proper video of a sling in action until this and I have to say I'm quite impressed! That thing packs one heck of a punch!
The shepherds sling is a waaaay more powerful weapon than most people realize. Bows were favored because they did better against metal armor. Slings actually hit harder than all but the best bows, but it's a blunt damage where as an arrow is a piercing damage. It's like trying to cut down a tree with a sledge hammer vs an axe. The hammer actually has more force behind it, but the axe cuts where the hammer smashes. Slings were used in Europe until around the 15th century but fell out of use as armor got better.
I have a shepherd sling
No joke
The rock and sling did not kill Goliath
King David had mad aim! ✨🎯✨
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I grew up in Palo Alto, CA, and obsidian is sometimes used as a lawn replacement or decoration here. When I was in high school, being an idiot, I once picked up and handled a piece for a block or two before discarding it. The piece wasn't particularly anything, just an oblong pretty faceted stone, but after another block or two: bloody hand from dozens of super fine cuts.
So, like others in the comments have noted, sometimes obsidian can be dangerously frighteningly sharp.
I never saw that around houses there!
Obsidian flakes (and plate glass) have the sharpest edge of any material. Before lasers, obsidian scalpels were used for eye surgery.
@@swiftmatic Ha... when I was like 17 I went to pick something up I dropped, and there was an old window that had been sitting by the wall for ages that I never payed much attention to; picked up my trash, threw it away, and then noticed my middle finger knuckle was split open... and then my body realized and the blood came. Getting your knuckle sliced is a pain to let heal up considering I never bother with stiches. Now just a dent and a lesson learned. The only other time I had the unfortunate luck of dealing with plate glass was accidentally running over some at night on my bike... instantly shredded tires miles away from home. :(
slings should be an Olympic sport.
All fun and games till one of em hits the audience
As a slinger, it’s wild to me that they aren’t in the Olympics. A weapon that predates the bow should be in the Olympics I think. Plus they’re very Impressive weapons. A man called iron goober on UA-cam showed him throwing a 4 ounce ball 65 mph and then throwing the same ball with a sling 98 mph. I don’t have a speed recorder so I can’t say anything on speed, but I have thrown a golf ball around 300 meters with a sling.
A good idea. And surely a cool sport more amazing than curling.
Very true @@HandsomeYoungSir
@@HandsomeYoungSir once a spear thrower throwed a spear that pierced through another athlete
My mum was an archaeologist, I remember going to an exhibition with her when I was young and saw an ancient Egyptian maybe Sudanese skull which had a rock embedded in the orbital socket from a sling weapon. You think the power of one sling is deadly, imagine a whole unit, its almost like line combat
My religious parents always said that the story of David and Goliath is a miracle, I guess they never seen how devastating a slinger can be
And there are guys who throw more than twice as fast as Mike. Wouldn't be surprised if a stone flying at 80m/s went through the skull.
That’s because it penetrates his bronze helmet
Maybe its partially a miracle, since being very very veeeerrryyy accurate with a sling can be hard tho, even the best of the best sometimes miss their target, or maybe just hit a body part instead of the head, if David missed or hit something else to anger the Goliath, he be sprinting to David and chop down his head
considering he's 40 feet tall i'd say hitting a killing shot first try is a miracle, at least considering how tough he'd have to be.
@@robocatssj3theofficialGoliath was tall, but he wasn’t that tall. The Bible describes his height as “6 cubits and a span,” which is about 9 feet and 9 inches tall.
Omg I have an Apache handmade Atlatl! I was taught to throw it by a Cherokee woman and it's my favorite weapon I own. I love that you featured it here!
A tip when throwing it is to aim with your non throwing hand. Wherever the middle finger of your non throwing hand points is where the spear will go.
Now , we can see that it was not a "miracle" when David beated Goliath...the slinger is deadly.
3:50 that watermelon looks extremely delicious
I was literally just reading the story of David and Goliath in my Bible study a week ago and thinking, "I wonder if Mike would test that out...".
One thing I didn't know until recently was the size of the stones used in old slings. Cartoon recreations of the David and Goliath story always show David grabbing what essentially look like skipping stones from a river. The stones ancient warriors actually used were more like tennis balls in size, made mostly of limestone, and naturally rounded.
The nuke siren really said DAMMMN
probably just firefighter alarm or siren test 😀
A tip for the sling, river rocks work way better. You want them to be smooth and slightly larger than a golf ball, as too big and you throw off the timing of the spin while being smooth helps them release from the sling and fly straighter
Like aerodynamics?
Gosh. David had the exact same idea going to the river to get 5 smooth stones.
I think maybe the spear wasn't meant for headshots, it was meant to penetrate deep into the body and pierce organs. i mean honestly it would be foolish to aim for the head at those ranges but if you chucked it in a way that's meant to hit the entire body, there's a good chance you're going to hit something crucial.
All the dislikes are from Goliath and his burner accounts
Lolll
Whoever dislikes this guy's video, sak mai Harry kokkkkk
Goliath is already dead😂
Wait til he gets bored of ancient weapons and just starts playing with lasers and guns lol
Future weapons lol
Wait is he american
I think he said he was italian
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@@SamiKhan-lr8vdhe is an Italian indeed
he already made a supersonic nerf gun lol
Mike casually creating 5star grade military weapons and testing them on watermelons
a spear is not a military grade weapon
matter of fact none of the weapons in here were military grade weapons
@@aoro4803Liking your own comments when being a buzzkill. Good job.
@@aoro4803 this was military grade up for a couple million years
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The world's oldest weapon is fists.
The world's best oldest weapon is tricking your buddy Trog to go look for mushrooms when there's a ticked off T-Rex roaming the mushroom patch.
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Bro, I remember sending my pal Ug over to the other cave with some raw meat tied around his body. He didn’t see the sabre tooth coming 🗿🗿🗿
I would say crude clubs, charcoal spears and stones are older than fists as weapons. Could you imagine seeing a protohuman throwing a proper hammerfist or punch? I think it would have been comical to see.
@@KaiserOfPrussia0910nice prank i remember sending my homie grg to kill t-rex eggs because they were “invading” but i was lying so i got to see him run from a t-rex
i remember my tribemate grog.. he went out hunting and died to a raptor, rip grog 74,997,976 BCE 🪦
7:13 Recreation of what happened to Goliath
6:38 I like the calming background noise whenever he explains things
I've been hunting with primitive weapons since I was a kid. I can assure you that everything from slings, throw sticks, atlatls, and pretty much anything you can throw is deadly. Add metal to the mix or just some napped obsidian/stone/glass, and they become extremely effective. Also wanted to add that blow guns are something you might find interesting and extremely easy to use.
+1 on the blowpipes, they are heaps good fun. so simple that probably not worth a youtube video. I would suggest a piece of U or V channel aluminium cabletied to a 1m, 13mm PVC reticulation riser with a 13-25mm F-F as the mouthpeice. the darts can be quickly and easily made from electrical tape rolled into a cone and a small flat top nail. we used to play darts with one, about 3x the distance of a regular dartboard. new players were sceptical, but it was incredibly intuitive, and so very accurate. highly recommended for anyone with 10 bucks and an afternoon and a few mates. the size of the nail determines power, so go for small ones if your in a rental apartment. if you have good lung control and some decent safe space, you'll be exploding soda cans in no time
I agree that a sling can indeed be a powerful weapon. Having said that, when you are ready to release the sling, your enemy will have emptied a full magazine into your body.
If you were to use it for modern applications, it'd be for stuff like firebombs, I assume
Adored this video, those demonstrations were so cool!
For the spear thrower, could it be that the spears weren't the right ones? I'm a hobbyist fan of prehistoric periods, I've visited all the caves I could in france, and even did some training events with specialists there who teach people how to knap flint, use a spear thrower, or light fire like our ancestors did. And one thing I recall is that the spears were not hollow, were in wood so definitely heavier than what you used, and had a sort of detachable head? The head would detach and stay IN the target while the spear body bounced off but didn't break.
The sling was awesome, and I'm impressed by how quickly you managed to hit the target!
Knapping is an art form, when I did my training event I recall the teacher would knap so fast, make it look so easy, but then he explained how it required a lot, looot of knowledge, to look at the stone and see the grain of it, and the direction of the grain, to know where and how hard to strike. Our ancestors actually did it by preparing a knapping "side", exposing a flat area, that would allow easier knapping after. It's normal that you didn't manage just watching videos, hitting at random. But it was still fun to see XD
For obsidian you want to use pressure flaking instead of striking to get the best edge out of it.
video starts at 5:56
Thanks
I get hypnotized anytime I sharpen a knofe or a tool. I feel like it just activates our inner caveman.
Fun facts, a skilled slinger when suddenly come to a melee with no time to reach the sword or dagger, the slinger would use the sling as improvised whip.
It really hurts on unarmoured flesh.
Even armored, that's not gonna be a fun hit to take. Especially to the head.
1:25 Right out of a cartoon movie😂😂😂😂
Old school centrifugal force weapons are amazing!
And scary!😰
centripetal he said, correctly. Centrifugal is the force away from the center of the circle, centripetal is the force towards the centre of the circle. He is right since the centripetal force is the force that is creating the enormous momentum for the sling, coming from his muscles
@@tommy-g5k I see...
The sling experiment REALLY makes me want to see a professional MLB pitcher use a sling, just to see how fast they can get a rock going.
Pitcher skills not necessarily would transfer to slinging skills
@@szponiasty4652 it's really the exact same throwing motion
@ExponentMars Its not the same if it would be the same people that can throw a ball or stone would not have to learn slinging which often takes a lot of time.
There are still people in the Balearic Islands who regularly shot slings as a sport. Some of them have amazing aim, and there's probably also some who practice for impact force. Would be interesting to see them have their speed measured.
That Sling And Stone Is Precisely How David Killed Goliath And Became The King Of His Army.
Just Like Putting A Bullet Through Dey Skull.
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This guy takes those random "man thoughts" we all have and makes videos out of them. 10/10.
I asked my teacher to play this video as it's to do with forces and energy and she did 😂🎉❤❤ keep it up
Goliath's head be like: 3:42
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*squelch*
The INCAS used it as one of their main weapons and they were very good at it. In fact, in Incan descending countries, they are still widely used today.
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7:32 FATALITY. MIKE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY.
Most people believe that the Aztecs used spear throwers as war weapons. They were actually used for hunting, a more common use for atlatl. The thing is that when they encountered Spanish soldiers, who wore a thick jacket called gambeson meant to withstand arrows and other projectiles, they began using throwers because of the extra power.
My friend was an expert with the sling. His technique was just like cracking a whip. It was amazing what he could do with that simple weapon.
This basically just goes back to one of my favorite lessons in physics...."Anything- and I do mean ANYTHING, if flung fast enough, will kill you."
Yes it needs to either be very heavy or very fast and it will kill you
With bullets, it's not the M that gets you. It's the V squared.
@@LonelyTropicalFish Like without the mass (Unless speed is truly absurd) it won't do fatal damage
12:22 Bro thinks we never played Minecraft 💀💀💀
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@@SaysAnX says the one with a literal meme for profile picture
The sling and the atlatl are two skills I have always wanted to develop for in case of a zombie outbreak. Bet you they would make me very popular with the ladies when they compare me with all the "We ran out of ammo, wuaaaa!" guys 😃
Finally i see someone calling it an atlatl
@@Lordofhogs 😎👍
That last 64m throw is just slightly shorter than the longest pass in US football (NFL) history. Can you imagine throwing a big piece of leather that distance with just your arm and having it land in the hands of a fast-moving receiver?
13:00 Using a mouse pad as "protection" while hammering down extremely sharp obsidian; Big brain
11:04 nether portal time 😂
Regarding the sling, the projectiles would have been smooth to improve aerodynamics and thus reducing the loss of kinetic energy and increasing damage on target.
Sling projectiles were fairly wide in range. Smooth round rocks were used in a pinch, but the most common were actually backed pottery balls followed by lead balls for those who could afford them. Historians have also found writing on sling stones, remarks that effectively amount to jokes like, 'your doom' or 'here's a gift.'
@stephanginther9051 manufactured ammo! Thanks for sharing.
David peace upon him became a king at young age by deafening an arrogant ruler challenging him to a duo! He used this exact weapon to beat him
If you wanna play a game where you get to use a sling, Plague Tale 1 and 2 are pretty good. The story takes place in the early 1400's.
Did you use real human bones in the ballistics gel head?! That's quite an investment when there are much cheaper legitimate substitutions.
...David didn't kill Goliath with the rock thrown from the sling. He knocked him out (or down), and ran over and used Goliaths own sword to cut off his head. 1st Samuel 17 (it's a good read).
I would say though, Pretty SWEET video. You have a knack for picking up random weapons and being VERY good at them quickly! Keep it up!
The text says that the rock sunk into his skull so I presume a wound similar that depicted in the test; left a contusion or possibly stuck half-in or something. That head was a great trophy.
Pretty sure it was a fatal wound but yeah he did cut Goliaths head off with his own sword…
9:04 no mike it's wrong , u must throw both of them at 45 degrees for maximum distance
1:30 had me laughing 😂😂😂 lol
Discksular practice
I mean I would also cower seeing as aincent slings are capable of causing rockslides if use correctky
I am from China. When I was very young, I watched a movie called "Escape to Athena" around 1990. In the movie, a bald actor Telly Savalas used this hand-held catapult to hit the German soldiers on the tower at the end of the counterattack. I was very surprised by the power of this weapon, because China's traditional long-range weapons are bows and arrows, crossbows and slingshots. Thanks to this video, I fully understand the principle of this weapon. I also want to make one or buy one to try.
Slingers were the ranged backbone for various armies around the world, even for the Inca. Also.. they are super over powered in Total War Rome 2 ahahha
“ your average unemployed friend on a Tuesday morning” 😂
Big obsidian rocks into small obsidian rocks is literally the birth humans using tools lol. I couldnt stop laughing for some reason
Goliath been real quiet since this dropped.
Whether or not David killed Goliath with a sling or made him unconscious is a matter of debate. Goliath getting his head cut off after he hit the ground with his own sword by David finished the job.
Slingers practiced for years to achieve that level of lethality, being able to hit small targets far away.
Mike 3 years ago: Learning parkour
Mike now: Making lethal weapons.
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Mike is the one unemployed friend on a Tuesday morning doing experiments at home, while you're at your miserable job contemplating if you're gonna be able to pay the bills and live normally next month.
the spear thrower tool is called an "atlatl" was surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video
Yeah when people talk about David and Goliath they forget what a slingshot was capable of. David was not the underdog in that scenario, he was sent in with that eras version of a shotgun blast.
Safety glasses!!!
9:57 bro what happened lol
Tornado sirens
Tornado sirens they
Go off monthly in USA
4:05, I think the local farms have a couple giants (windmills, you may not get the joke).
Reference to david and goliath but not a very funny joke if you don't mind 😂
Oh i am laughing so it s a good joke now ! 😂
If I got it right, it's a Don Quijote reference. In that case it's fire man, what an outstanding book
@@Monoruso350"En un lugar de la mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme".
The Witcher 3?
Its actualy Skyrim 🎉
In college I watched a video of an indigenous man making an arrow head using obsidian and the teacher told me that he had spent months with them and learned how to do it. He tried it at his home WITHOUT the protective mat (which was a very course leather like material) and he had cut his hands and legs pretty badly from the shards that cracked off. The samples the teacher brought to the class were ungodly sharp. I was flinching watching you do that without a mat. Good for you for attempting it though. it is a cool skill.
I got into this chanel while trying to learn how to juggle 2years ago but this is way cooler
Love your vids mike❤❤
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The skill of knapping flint,glass, or obsidian can be difficult to those unpracticed.
Hey mike, can you make a video on handwriting improvement like I learned to write cursive fast and beautifully?
As you have already learned to write with your non-dominant hand, you can also learn this.
Please make a video on this if you like my suggestion.
I'm really impressed seeing the speed of the projectile from the sling.
In the book "Valley of the Horses" (Jean M. Auel), one man invents a spear thrower based on inspiration from a woman very adept with the sling. This is the second book in the series, first being "Cave of the Clan Bear". Lots of information about the era of these weapons in the book series. I recommend checking them out. And I just love seing the dynamics of these weapons, thank you for this video!
9:26 what a job to have
7:26 my guy became david
9:57 somebody explain what was the alarm abt pls
Propably a test. Where i live its something like every first monday of a month the alarm systems are tested.
Yeah sounded like a tornado warning tho
That was the sound of the alarm for the firefighters' lunchtime. In Portugal this sound is usually heard when we are near to a fire station at the luchtime
Ok thx
@@boy1015 it might have been a tornado test, they do them at noon on the first friday of the month where I live
I really like your humor.
That means a lot, because I'm German and mostly don't recognize it😂
Have a nice day
7:08 when that kid doesn't get of the old man's yard
Well to answer the starting question: Yes, because guns are designed to hit vital spots. It's like saying "Can my cleaver cut harder than this scalpel?" *proceeds to hit a slab of raw meat*
ya it's the bullet's penetration that makes it so deadly. Having slightly less energy in a much more concentrated point is going to cause more damage. Still extremely deadly tho
I have been waiting for this video since the ancient weapons video
saw this Video with zero views and I was like "omg am I the first one??" the comment section in respond: "hell nah" 🗿
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I feel like David is often thought of as some meek farm boy like kid who just had some rocks and a sling, but slingers during that era (presuming like the iron age), were some of the most skilled and deadly warriors on the battlefield. A simple rock, before archers, was one of the best ranged weapons available.
As a young boy in the 1960s I made a sling from a bible illustration on David and Goliath. As I round up and let go the rock flew half a block and took out a window down the street so much for my sling adventure.