Are there any more iterations of this concept or particular experiments you'd like to see us try next? Or do you think we should end the series with this video? We made carbon fiber bats in the past, but we were never completely happy with the finished results, maybe we should revisit that? Would love to hear some of your thoughts. Also, if you missed our previous video where we absolutely obliterated many objects with this same sphere, you can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/ne-outEGdhM/v-deo.html
Absolutely! Polymer resin shell reenforce threaded or wire dipped layer and a core. Meant to be reactive but absorb the blow. That tungsten may be too hard for many materials… Problem with teaing off is the same as a pitched ball though. If it’s not half of or equal to the mass at the point of impact… your basically hitting a tungsten brick wall… if a traditional golf club doesn’t shatter on impact… it’s will rip your arm off… seriously hurt your hand and do nerve damage as well… Titanium alloy clubs with adjustable weights you can put a tungsten insert in there. Some have a composite head with a modular face plate. On top of the 200mph+ contact speed you could fashion a powered bat design too. Straight up smacking a raw tungsten ball would not be a great idea… the forces required would more likely shatter everything involved… and at horrendous velocity.
You should see if Mark Rober can make a make a machine to throw the tungsten ball and another machine to swing the tungsten bat. That would be so cool to actually see them in action.
For those wondering, there are 6 elements denser than tungsten. Plutonium which is made in nuclear reactors Neptunium which decays away very fast, half of its gone in 2 days Rhenium which is 5 times rarer than gold Platinum which is about as rare as gold Iridium is 5 times rarer than gold And osmium which is also 5 times rarer than gold So yeah I don't think anyone's beating this (I got this info from Google so may be wrong, stuffs definintly rare though)
You missed gold. I think a ball of plutonium of this size might be at critical mass meaning a ball of this size would undergo cascading nuclear reactions, and you'd end up with meltdown or a mushroom cloud depending on how quickly together it was put.
@@mossy8419 Want to hear something you MIGHT be unaware of? The longer the half life, the less dangerous it is, but the longer it sticks around. You could probably wear a depleted uranium wrist band for your entire life, and feel no ill effects from the radiation. However, it's extremely toxic and is pyrophoric, meaning it can burn when enough it's just exposed to air. But it's unlikely radiation would be a problem. It is radioactive, with a 1/2 life of 4.468 million years.
Funfact, if you wanted to put the same amount of weight in a metal sphere that was just 15% smaller, it would require the heaviest metal in the world, Osmium. If we were to recreate this smaller sphere at 9.75 lbs for the sake of comparison of this ball, at a going rate of $908,907/lbs, it would cost $8,861,849 to achieve. I would ballpark it at $10M to make 'the heaviest baseball' and it would weigh roughly 11.25 lbs.
@@theking5116 I think they did some math wrong and were trying to be funny $20/ gram comes out to $9,080/lb that’s my best guess. So it should be $2,000/g.
Soak the ball in a saturated iron oxide solution. Then cover it in very fine aluminum powder. See if hitting it with the bat will start a thermite reaction.
What's wild is that regular baseball made out of whatever material MLB decides to use that particular season (they aren't standardized, somehow) can ALSO split bats clean down the middle like that when a professional pitcher throws to a professional hitter. So if you're ever wondering about the power these guys have: they can get similar results to hitting a 9.7 lb ball, by hitting a ~5.2 oz (1/155th the weight) ball made out of a softer material
@@Astraeus.. what a needlessly snarky comment. Legault was obviously just illustrating the skill that professional baseball players have, and you have nothing better to do than making useless comments like that.
The reason the wood bat split down the middle like that is because you hit it on the wide part of the grain. Gotta hit where the grain is tight. Very cool video though guys!
I bought a 1kg cylinder of tungsten a bunch of years back and it was under $100 (Australian dollars). I see the price has gone up substantially! Edit: Wait ... the ball here 4.3kg! No wonder.
I work in a factory and we saw many metal prices jump significantly during covid. But it's like gold; prices go up and down all the time. It also makes a difference the form the metal is in, and how much. Like i bet twice the amount of tungsten is more than double the price. We see it when comparing cast stainless to forged stainless. We can make a particular item from either type, but cast is cheaper and lower quality. Also, when we compare both types but in different sizes, cast pieces increase in a much more gradual way (to a point), whereas making a piece from a larger bar starts jumping drastically in price as larger bars are required.
I work at a metal recycling place. If you hit tungsten against tungsten there's a good chance it'll shatter and throw heavy, crazy sharp splinters all over
Make a rig to swing the bat. That's a measurable force. Put the ball on a tee, that's a control. See how far a machine can hit the tungsten ball vs tungsten bat. Also, I like the guys idea for a golfball
When you have an uncontrollable urge to smash a bat on a metal post, knowing that it will definitely be painful, but don't want the public to think you're an absolute psycho. lol
You guys have done a great job of branching off from your original channel concept and keeping it interesting. It’s been a pleasure to watch y’all grow :)
Making hollow tungsten would cost more than making a solid sphere due to manufacturing costs and having to machine or somehow injection cast tungsten, which is probably not possible.
If it was lead on the inside, it wouldn't have weighed enough. The only thing that would be dense enough would be gold or uranium, and both of those are far more expensive.
a baseball made of Osmium will be way denser…. But it costs $5,833 per pound (in 2019) probably more right now Edit: I found a 10mm cube (1cm cubed) of osmium for $1,250. That would mean it weighs 22.5g which puts the price at $55,555.56 per kilogram which is about $25,252.53 per pound.
I definitely would have worn gloves if I was swinging at this. Helps with the vibration and definitely helps with the splinters when it inevitably breaks.
tungsten has been used in ap rounds for the main guns of tanks for a good amount of time, this is cause of it's density giving it good weight which when fired at high velocity gives good armor penetration
@@TheICFArchitect the us did use tungsten before depleted uranium, they switched cause depleted uranium rounds have better penetration and do not mushroom as badly as tungsten rounds, when going through a tanks armor the round will mushroom or deform, depleted uranium do not deform as badly as tungsten rounds
Kevlar riggers' gloves would help with the shock waves propagating down the bat. 07:50, that's an injury called "White Thumb" and people usually get it from handling power tools without decent gloves. Actually, football, soccer, baseball, tennis, and golf are all great introductions to physics; in and of themselves.
Even the legendary "Tungsten Arm" O'Doyle would ruin his elbow & shoulder ligaments with that ball. No Tommy John surgery will save a blown arm from that tungsten ball.
They all work together in the same facility, however the original guys are more in the office now with less time so kind of got handed over? Kind of pieced together from comments in some of their older vids.
I kind of want to know what would happen if you loaded this ball into a canon and fired it at the same speed a normal home-run swing clocks in at, to simulate what it would be like to try and catch this ball
Im a facilities manager in an acrylic factory, and i have some tips and tricks about that price and how long it took. You probably got sold extras off a larger batch that went out. Basically we make batches in specific numbers, customers order what they order, and we're stuck storing the extras. You had to wait till they made it 😂 we do it with small orders alot. basically the only way youre gonna get small or single item products at factory prices. My place takes those small order when most of our competitors won't even talk to small jobs. The trade off is waiting till we get around to running it. As for the ghosting after they got the money, well they were Chinese right lmao
Are there any more iterations of this concept or particular experiments you'd like to see us try next? Or do you think we should end the series with this video? We made carbon fiber bats in the past, but we were never completely happy with the finished results, maybe we should revisit that? Would love to hear some of your thoughts. Also, if you missed our previous video where we absolutely obliterated many objects with this same sphere, you can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/ne-outEGdhM/v-deo.html
Like others have said. I’d like to see you try putting the ball on a tee. Also it’d be cool if you built a super powerful swinging mechanism for it.
worlds heaviest ping pong ball :)
Google translate *tung sten* . Literally means *heavy stone* in Swedish. So that's your backstory of the name
• Tungsten phone case. Pickpocket proof.
Worlds heaviest kickball
put the ball on a tee so you can really line up a shot, also a tungsten golfball would be fun (and cheaper)
this and a spring loaded swinger so you dont have to break your wrists!
TUNGSTEN GOLFBALL!!!!
Another upvote for tungsten golf ball.
Yes Golfballs
Absolutely!
Polymer resin shell reenforce threaded or wire dipped layer and a core.
Meant to be reactive but absorb the blow. That tungsten may be too hard for many materials…
Problem with teaing off is the same as a pitched ball though.
If it’s not half of or equal to the mass at the point of impact… your basically hitting a tungsten brick wall… if a traditional golf club doesn’t shatter on impact… it’s will rip your arm off… seriously hurt your hand and do nerve damage as well…
Titanium alloy clubs with adjustable weights you can put a tungsten insert in there. Some have a composite head with a modular face plate.
On top of the 200mph+ contact speed you could fashion a powered bat design too.
Straight up smacking a raw tungsten ball would not be a great idea… the forces required would more likely shatter everything involved… and at horrendous velocity.
You should see if Mark Rober can make a make a machine to throw the tungsten ball and another machine to swing the tungsten bat. That would be so cool to actually see them in action.
DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
Took the words right out of my mouth.
A collab between Waterjet Channel, Mark Rober and The Slow Mo Guys
The machine controlling the bat would break
God have mercy on anyone who gets struck by that ball
For those wondering, there are 6 elements denser than tungsten.
Plutonium which is made in nuclear reactors
Neptunium which decays away very fast, half of its gone in 2 days
Rhenium which is 5 times rarer than gold
Platinum which is about as rare as gold
Iridium is 5 times rarer than gold
And osmium which is also 5 times rarer than gold
So yeah I don't think anyone's beating this
(I got this info from Google so may be wrong, stuffs definintly rare though)
You missed gold.
I think a ball of plutonium of this size might be at critical mass meaning a ball of this size would undergo cascading nuclear reactions, and you'd end up with meltdown or a mushroom cloud depending on how quickly together it was put.
gold isnt rare
Also some aren’t isotopic which mean they can’t be used in contact with oxygen
The longest lived isotope of neptunium, 237Np, has a half life of roughly 2.144 *million* years
@@mossy8419 Want to hear something you MIGHT be unaware of?
The longer the half life, the less dangerous it is, but the longer it sticks around.
You could probably wear a depleted uranium wrist band for your entire life, and feel no ill effects from the radiation.
However, it's extremely toxic and is pyrophoric, meaning it can burn when enough it's just exposed to air.
But it's unlikely radiation would be a problem. It is radioactive, with a 1/2 life of 4.468 million years.
Funfact, if you wanted to put the same amount of weight in a metal sphere that was just 15% smaller, it would require the heaviest metal in the world, Osmium. If we were to recreate this smaller sphere at 9.75 lbs for the sake of comparison of this ball, at a going rate of $908,907/lbs, it would cost $8,861,849 to achieve. I would ballpark it at $10M to make 'the heaviest baseball' and it would weigh roughly 11.25 lbs.
osmium isn't $908,907/lb. it's more like $20 per gram
@@cvspvridk where you found that but I’m seeing around 1200 euros a gram.
I was literally gonna ask why he didn't use osmium. Now I know 😅
@@xostler he knows a guy
@@theking5116 I think they did some math wrong and were trying to be funny
$20/ gram comes out to $9,080/lb that’s my best guess.
So it should be $2,000/g.
The weight never fully impressed me until I saw those grown men absolutely struggling to pick it up with 2 fingers. That’s wild haha, great video!
The sound it made on the floor gave me a good idea
Soak the ball in a saturated iron oxide solution. Then cover it in very fine aluminum powder. See if hitting it with the bat will start a thermite reaction.
What's wild is that regular baseball made out of whatever material MLB decides to use that particular season (they aren't standardized, somehow) can ALSO split bats clean down the middle like that when a professional pitcher throws to a professional hitter. So if you're ever wondering about the power these guys have: they can get similar results to hitting a 9.7 lb ball, by hitting a ~5.2 oz (1/155th the weight) ball made out of a softer material
Congratulations, you just discovered that acceleration affects force.....too bad Newton beat you to it like 500 years ago.
@@Astraeus.. what a needlessly snarky comment. Legault was obviously just illustrating the skill that professional baseball players have, and you have nothing better to do than making useless comments like that.
@@pixelmaster98 a beautiful ratio to that persons sad comment
You should load the ball into a pitching machine and create the ball park’s deadliest weapon.
Put it in the cannon Destin from Smarter every day made to break the sound barrier with a baseball
@@MrWarbadger or get them to drop it from a helicopter onto a car or something
well if the velocity is proportional to kinetic energy squared the tungsten ball would be like 900x slower
@@incription could still posibly kill. and would be neat to see how fast it goes
Make sure to mix a bunch of normal baseballs in the hopper with it
Surprise superball, fun for everyone!
The fact it split down the middle means that was a perfect bat
Damn
I think they're designed to break that way. If it broke horizontally, a piece could fly off and hit someone.
Does that apply to ding dongs? Asking for a friend
Can someone chop up the part where they’re struggling to pick it up with two fingers and repost captioned “3 guys act like a normal baseball is heavy”
That recoil tho... my wrists hurt just watching this 😂😂😂
i agree
you should go to a baseball store and see the reaction of people that don't know the type of stuff you do.
The reason the wood bat split down the middle like that is because you hit it on the wide part of the grain. Gotta hit where the grain is tight. Very cool video though guys!
Not that it makes a difference to a ball of tungsten
@@Freedomcustom It absolutely makes a difference. Wood is a LOT easier to split with the grain rather than across it.
@@Astraeus.. Against a ball of Tungsten it really makes no difference
I bought a 1kg cylinder of tungsten a bunch of years back and it was under $100 (Australian dollars). I see the price has gone up substantially! Edit: Wait ... the ball here 4.3kg! No wonder.
I work in a factory and we saw many metal prices jump significantly during covid. But it's like gold; prices go up and down all the time.
It also makes a difference the form the metal is in, and how much. Like i bet twice the amount of tungsten is more than double the price.
We see it when comparing cast stainless to forged stainless. We can make a particular item from either type, but cast is cheaper and lower quality. Also, when we compare both types but in different sizes, cast pieces increase in a much more gradual way (to a point), whereas making a piece from a larger bar starts jumping drastically in price as larger bars are required.
I work at a metal recycling place. If you hit tungsten against tungsten there's a good chance it'll shatter and throw heavy, crazy sharp splinters all over
This in Destin's cannon...
The ball would stay still and the cannon would get launched backwards lol
and fired at Shane's bat...
@@andrerenault Swinged by the mad batter machine...
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out."
Time to get in touch with the SmarterEveryday guys and their supersonic baseball cannon
Make a rig to swing the bat. That's a measurable force. Put the ball on a tee, that's a control. See how far a machine can hit the tungsten ball vs tungsten bat.
Also, I like the guys idea for a golfball
Yeah well I'm gonna make one out of depleted uranium! 😂
"I got a furry bottom"
"Yeah, I've got a furry bottom" is an excellent quote
Love the multiple camera angles. Well done!!
Set it up on a straight up and down tether and then swing, that way you can gauge where you’re likely to hit.
When you have an uncontrollable urge to smash a bat on a metal post, knowing that it will definitely be painful, but don't want the public to think you're an absolute psycho. lol
at some point he needs to make a 99.99 purity osmium baseball
8:57 That's just like in Tom & Jerry "Bowling Alley Cat" when Jerry used a bowling pin to send a bowling ball back at Tom and it split in half.
6:53 Wasn't expecting pesäpallo.
Only Tungsten Arm O'Doyle can handle it
3:04 - "The perfect maxi-pad doesn't exis...."
Where did the guy go who licks everything?
Licked something he shouldn't have...
He died
Really?
@@TheJacobgardner probably
Lol
Watching you all try to lift it in the raw reactions bit was so goddamn wholesome.
Who want yo hold the tugsten ball 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
*** Neutron star ***
Hold my drink
1:05 WHAT THE FU-
Bing chilling
this ball in Destin's (smarter every day) baseball cannon...
Next: depleted uranium baseball
Yess 😂
spring loaded tungsten bat:🗿
tungsten ball:😁
the fielders:😱😱
next step is a sphere of *Osmium*
First time watching this channel in like 3 years. Missed yall
Just wait until I make a neutron star baseball ⚾
You guys have done a great job of branching off from your original channel concept and keeping it interesting. It’s been a pleasure to watch y’all grow :)
I'm shocked it was actually tungsten, and not just steel, or a hollowed out tungsten sphere with lead in the middle.
Making hollow tungsten would cost more than making a solid sphere due to manufacturing costs and having to machine or somehow injection cast tungsten, which is probably not possible.
If it was lead on the inside, it wouldn't have weighed enough. The only thing that would be dense enough would be gold or uranium, and both of those are far more expensive.
@@pkobalt I think he was alluding that he expected the chinese factory to skimp on material
Would not want to be swinging bad that hits that thing
imagine hitting it w a aluminum bat, it would ring ur hands like a doorbell
It would shatter every bone in your wrists 😭😭😭
I love how he hits that ball with a full swing and the ball just barely even moves.
I think gloves might be a safe investment swinging those bats😂
This definitely needs a co-op with Stuffmadehere's powder actuated bat.
Shoot that thing would destroy itself it was hard enough with a normal baseball
....I was thinking smartereveryday's baseball cannon.
@@InsanePigeonthat’s literally just a 10 pound cannon
Your presentation style has gotten way better since you took over the channel, keep it up!
from
'i got a furry bottom" to " hmmm... minecraft villager" had me rolling
Eric Sim be like, "video doesn't stop till I hit a homerun with this ball."
the intensity of it's density
Momentum versus energy, the energy is just not transfered efficiently from the bat to the ball unless the bat is heavier.
The channel that made the bat-gun-thing should collab to see if it works with this thing
Finally another good video idea
a baseball made of Osmium will be way denser…. But it costs $5,833 per pound (in 2019) probably more right now
Edit:
I found a 10mm cube (1cm cubed) of osmium for $1,250. That would mean it weighs 22.5g which puts the price at $55,555.56 per kilogram which is about $25,252.53 per pound.
wait so one decimeter cubed would weigh 22kg or...?
(10cmx10cmx10cm)
I definitely would have worn gloves if I was swinging at this. Helps with the vibration and definitely helps with the splinters when it inevitably breaks.
You need to get with Smarter Every Day on this. This kind of thing is right up his alley, and he has all kinds of crazy resources and contacts.
Reducing labor costs=slave labor
"The final stitch goes through the center of the ball"
Yeah, new challenge; try to drive a needle through a 9" sphere of elemental tungsten
bat just went 'mmm. no thanks'
Knowing that pitchers can already break batter's bats with REGULAR baseballs... imagine a pitcher throwing the tungstenball with same force
Playing baseball with a shot-put, excellent idea
You finally achieved that scene in Tom and Jerry.
If Destin doesn’t get to shoot this from his baseball cannon, then my mom said we can’t be friends
Not only is this the worlds heaviest baseball but it is the worlds most morally suspect baseball as well! Haha
“I’ve got a furry bottom”
Subscription material if I’ve ever heard it in my life
Alright now you need a tungsten bat to hit the tungsten ball with.
*insert how this tungsten cube cured my mortality*
When I saw y'all doing your math in freedum units I died a little inside... SI for life!
tungsten has been used in ap rounds for the main guns of tanks for a good amount of time, this is cause of it's density giving it good weight which when fired at high velocity gives good armor penetration
Tungsten is not used in AP rounds by the US military. Because tungsten it isn't as dense as depleted uranium and it tends to shatter upon being hit
@@TheICFArchitect the us did use tungsten before depleted uranium, they switched cause depleted uranium rounds have better penetration and do not mushroom as badly as tungsten rounds, when going through a tanks armor the round will mushroom or deform, depleted uranium do not deform as badly as tungsten rounds
Them's some expensive rounds, if this is true.
I bet Smarter Every Day and Jeremy Fielding could build something to swing the tungsten bat.
I'd love to see Eric Sim still nuke this
Hold on. Let me turn a star into a baseball so I can claim that record. Beat that!
Where the heck are the other guys
The medieval urge to slam someone with a tungsten ball.
Kevlar riggers' gloves would help with the shock waves propagating down the bat.
07:50, that's an injury called "White Thumb" and people usually get it from handling power tools without decent gloves.
Actually, football, soccer, baseball, tennis, and golf are all great introductions to physics; in and of themselves.
Bats break on regular balls… so I’m not so sure “ball that can break a bat” is much of a challenge
I wonder how much the Chinese labor actually costs.
Tungsten golf balls would be a good prank 😂😂
"Go long!"
~sentences moments before disaster...
Wow the camera angles are a big improvement!
When you're done with the tungsten sphere, you should send it to How Ridiculous. Maybe even do a collab.
It is funny to see the bat just stop mid air when it meets the tungsten ball 😂
Even the legendary "Tungsten Arm" O'Doyle would ruin his elbow & shoulder ligaments with that ball.
No Tommy John surgery will save a blown arm from that tungsten ball.
It's insane that no matter what you hit it with the ball went like 2 feet
You guy's are doing a good job, but, what is up with the original guys ? Did they leave ? Asking for a friend 🤔
They all work together in the same facility, however the original guys are more in the office now with less time so kind of got handed over? Kind of pieced together from comments in some of their older vids.
They started a new business.
they made there own youtube channel, "cars and stuff" but don't bother it's been inactive for months.
They left the company like a year ago
Great video, love you guys!
Now thats a beast ball . Need ti fire it at an ar600 plate .
That underside camera just had a near death experience
did the old crew leave the channel?
Set up a baseball game with the guy from "Stuff Made Here". Your ball, his bat.
Welp time to buy a baseball-sized sphere of osmium
This is how I imagine Goku's gravity training
3400 C melting point? Piece of cake!
the fun about tungsten is that is is not only heavy, but also nearly indestructible...
I kind of want to know what would happen if you loaded this ball into a canon and fired it at the same speed a normal home-run swing clocks in at, to simulate what it would be like to try and catch this ball
That, sir, would be a pretty effective anti-tank weapon.
"no one, but i dont want oyu getting any ideas"
nile red:
This is the type of ball bugs bunny would pitch to daffy.
Im a facilities manager in an acrylic factory, and i have some tips and tricks about that price and how long it took.
You probably got sold extras off a larger batch that went out. Basically we make batches in specific numbers, customers order what they order, and we're stuck storing the extras. You had to wait till they made it 😂 we do it with small orders alot.
basically the only way youre gonna get small or single item products at factory prices. My place takes those small order when most of our competitors won't even talk to small jobs. The trade off is waiting till we get around to running it.
As for the ghosting after they got the money, well they were Chinese right lmao