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Would be so epic to see how many gongs/windows/doors/everything else stops that baseball!! We'll happily fly to the US and help setup (and clean up) a zillion windows haha
Target suggestion: bags of various flammable powders with a road flare nearby. For big fireballs the powder of choice is powdered calf milk replacement. Corn starch, non dairy creamer, and airfloat charcoal are also fun effects. Could be a fun video about the dangers of industrial dust explosions.
@@cherylm2C6671 Lampblack is a different thing. More complex chemical makeup than charcoal. Airfloat is just charcoal that has been ball milled to a very fine powder.
I think it's awesome you involve your kids when possible (and safe) and particularly include the public praise for thier role in these incredible videos. It's days like that he'll take with him the rest of his life. You always do a great job carrying the human story and those are the moments that shine
7:20 The spider silk has hydrophilic parts in the protein, the dew forms centered on them, but if it's not a wetted part, it's not easily wetted. It's probably an evolutionary thing that helped spiders get water without risking drowning. Surface tension is a big issue when you're that small, the surface tension of the water is higher than the force you can exert to pull yourself out, so if one part gets wetted, you're going to get stuck, many araneomorphs get their air through spiracles, rather than book lungs, so even if they do get out of a puddle, they're going to drown, or at least be a lot slower. Not having to go to the ground for water also means they're less likely to get stepped on or hunted by ground predators, at least when they're in their webs, birds usually stay clear of them. I have observed the same silk wetting phenonmenon with my mygalomorph spiders, both tarantulaes and funnelwebs, but to a lesser extent. though the tarantula's web seems to have something soluble in it, which acts as a surfactant, allowing the water to basically turn into a bubble and cover the gap between the web, I've seen her drink from it. She's a desert tarantula, so maybe something to do with stopping moisture from leaving her burrow, or efficient collection of dew? She still has a water dish and she will drink from that if I haven't misted her cage in a while. But it's a really cool phenomenon, I'd like to check how other webs react, but I can only get native Australian spiders here. TL;DR it's just that only certain points on the silk strand are easily wetted, all the dew that forms flows to those points, if they oversaturate, they drop off.
Really fascinating stuff, like something out of dune...but are you sure your on the right video? And if you aren't what exactly is the right video? you've got me curious
@@TheLogicalCow Correction to your correction, There is a spider web in this video that Destin was asking about, and the answer provided by the OP is a pretty in depth one 😉
It's an aerial drone making a quick corrective adjustment, just like it was designed to. Seeing it done to surf the blast wave of a comically enormous gun, while the target fares far worse, just gives it a bit of oomph.
In the slow motion it's clear when hitting the gong and the baseball ruptures through. It's the pressure wave behind the ball from the cannon that actually flipped over the gong and frame. Pretty amazing!
Hey Destin, great video as ever! The reason each sprinkle split appart because the compressive impulse imparted to it, travels through the sprinkle. When the compressive impulse wave reaches the edge of the sprinkle that is not in contact with another that it can transfer energy to, it is reflected internally as a tensile wave. These waves propergate and are reflected in-turn as compressive waves. This process repeats until the energy is dissipated. Due to the shape of the object, the patterns of reflective waves become very complex. Where two or more waves cross paths, the amplitude is cumulative. When the amplitute of tensile waves are greater than the tensile strength of the material, a fracture will occur. The waves continue to reflect and ocilate between compressive and tensile waves within the remaining pieces and they may fracture too. The mechanics of reflecting compressive/tensile waves can be observed in a Newton's Craddle. It is the same reason that when a projectile hits a brittle material, material spalls out the back side of the material. The British navy used to classify the power of a cannon by shooting a cannon ball at the end of a log and counting how many times the log fractured. It would be amazing if you could do this with your baseball cannon! Kind Regards Dom
It always blows my mind how everything in nature follows these rules. I'm used to this behavior in electrical circuits but it sounds like it's the same math used to describe mechanical forces.
Destin, I can't figure out why but that mirror shot gave me goosebumps. You absolutely nailed this video! After your last video where you talked about making the content that makes you happy and shows off your passion for the things you do and share, it really shows here. Keep it up, you're a fantastic creator!
Read your comment before the scene and was confused. Also have goosebumps now. We get goosebumps because this man is making HISTORY. We are just witnesses. 💜 That was a true piece of art.
It would be an absolute gobsmack to see that in a film as a metaphor of realisation, when you break the illusion, the mirror. Had those goosebumps too, btw
I agree. I was really surprised when the baseball came into direct view just before striking the mirror, and it looked like two baseballs colliding! That was the best part of the whole video.
I love how with the mirror shot looks like you're about to get drilled in the face by a baseball, when suddenly another baseball comes out of nowhere to intercept it and saves you.
The real ball coming into frame as we're watching the reflection come straight at us is one of the most surreal and mind-bending things I've seen. Awesome work, guys.
That's an awesome way to spend time with your son . The air cannon is awesome. The mirror scene with the baseball meeting itself in the mirror was cool. Heck everything was awesome. Thanks. Watching from Hammond Louisiana.
All childhood insecurities came back watching Destin tell his son really good job. The first “good job” felt like it was there to say good job helping the team. But then he pauses, circles back to look him in the eye and say it one more time to communicate something deeper as a father. Great job winning even in the little moments.
@@hopegold883 agreed, that whole thumbnail thing made me really uncomfortable too. like the whole video already had weird vibes with that awkward father son Dynamic, but them laughing at his suggestion felt wrong... Idk, destins son seems like a cool kid but personally I'd prefer videos without him because the whole dynamic between the two doesn't fit the tone of the video.
@@catdisc5304 weren't they laughing because of how right he was?? I totally took it to mean it as "wow this kid watches so much UA-cam that he's just got a knack for this sort of thing", and that's why they joked he's had enough UA-cam for one day! I think it was all done in good faith, personally.
Did you somehow not see the visible flash of light at impact!? I cant bilieve you didnt talk about how a supersonic baseball produces light when it hits sprinkles.. lol
that's what i was thinking too! i played it in .25x speed and said to myself "if they didn't talk about this small spark of light on impact, it'll be a let down."
Destin, my favorite part of this is watching you be a thoughtful and encouraging father. The way you include your son, and make sure to take moments to genuinely express to him that he did a good job is heartwarming and reminds me to keep being the best I can be as a father. Thank you for including those candid moments. I've always admired your approach to parenting. It's been an inspiration and a reminder of what it all is for.
They need to modify the barrel so it closes off once the projectile is clear, then redirects the barrel/tank gas someplace else. It would stop the "wind" destruction of the target area by eliminating the "hurricane" .
this is due to inertia. the ball wasnt in contact with the disc long enough to pull it with it. so it broke the disc before pulling it. you can try this expiriment at home. hang up a brand new roll of toilet paper against the wall. now the roll is heavy and it has resistance because of the wall. now when you pull on a piece of paper, the roll just rolls out. but if you pull it really really rapidly, it just breaks off, and the roll never gets to turn.
There's this awesome effect at 19:39 where the reflection seems to stop moving but the real ball continues smashing through. I know it's an illusion because of the viewing angles but it still looks surreal. Super cool.
Um.... That's not entirely an illusion. It's ordinary geometry and proportion. (for those interested follow me, and I'll spare the "hard math") We can resolve this "graphically" or visually modeling what we're watching... The mirror is considerably larger than the baseball AND it's stationary. I know it's obvious, but it's important to be said anyway... The Baseball is moving TOWARD the mirror... which is why (as Destin said) there'd be no motion blur effect when they used the reflection in the mirror to film the shot... If you were actually standing at the mirror's position, the ball at the cannon would "look" small, because it's far away. This doesn't matter whether we have "distance triangulation" (binocular vision) or not... That's why the baseball in the reflection appears to be moving... As it gets much closer from the 30+ feet away... that's enough travel for it to cover more and more of the "field of view" in the mirror... Around 19:39 or so, it's still getting larger, but the camera is at such an angle and distance with the mirror that the distance to the ball doesn't proportionally change so much... and for a few instants, it's still "growing" but at such small increments as to appear to slow to a stop in the reflection... This is how many "range finders" actually work... What we can't really judge (mostly because we have so little practice at it in these conditions) is how far the ball moves for the apparent "growth" in the reflection's size over time... It's do-able, but it'll take a large HD screen and a LOT of difficult math... Any illusion would be making our brains assume something that's just not true, and we KNOW the reflection is only going to move a very small amount but grow in size as the ball is optimally travelling direction at it's own reflection in the mirror... There's just a point of diminished effect on that movement and growth... so more geometry than actual illusion... I'm sure someone "smarter than me" could sit down and tabulate everything in "long hand"... IF they were interested. I saw the same effect, but expected it... BUT then I've used mirrors and similar devices when test-firing so I could watch before there were cheap digital cameras to shoot in HD and record anything... Among the first rules you learn "the hard way" in playing with cannons is that you don't want to test fire a cannon while you stand around it watching the fuse burn "IRL"... You want to be behind something large, solid, and VERY heavy... so get a periscope or a mirror you can use to "see around corners"... ;o)
7:14 could it be because the individual drops don't have enough mass for gravity to overcome surface tension? (Oh yeah, the baseball stuff is cool too.)
@@donaldcope4982 This is true, although that is it's capture web which should be mostly, if not entirely of sticky silk. Their feet/claws under microscopic view provides details as to how this works. I'm pretty sure they use non sticky mostly for travel. I always thought their sticky silk was created via a gland discretion so it could alternate and assumed their webs were created in patches, and they stepped between the sticky spots but this isn't true. (At least stepping between the sticky spots, I'm not sure how they create the two different silks).
I don't think it is surface tension. Perhaps I am drawing the wrong parallels here, but I imagine this must be the same effect which keeps small droplets sticking on windshields etc. If you have REALLY clean glass, water wets the surface uniformely. Surface contaminations are required to make it form beads. tl:dr I think tension plays a role but the true secret lies in some funky surface effects going on with thar spider silk Proposed experiment: leave a few ultra-thin nylon strands outdoors to see if the effect is replicated
It would be interesting to see the shots with a wind break. The ball could go through a hole in a large wind block and diffuse the air discharged from the cannon. It would help prevent the air force from disturbing the objects after collision. I imagine the gong would have not moved much at all from the energy of the ball alone. Glass wouldn't be scattered as far. It looks like the air blast destroys everything. Great video.
I came to the comments to make this suggestion. I assumed perhaps a 5x5foot square plate, mounted at a 45 degree angle to the flight path, perhaps 2 feet down-range from the muzzle. A 1.1-baseball-size hole in the middle to not impede the flight-path, but deflect the big destructive puff of wind.
I think you need a muzzle brake on the end of the cannon to redirect the excess gasses so it doesn't interfere with what the baseball does to the target. I'm unsure what effect it will have on the velocity of the ball, but its something to think about.
I agree. Although, creating a redirect that could be triggered within a millisecond or so after the baseball leaves the cannon and withstand those pressures, might be somewhat of a challenge. Wait...just who are we talking about here? This might be just up their alley!
Ooooo...that would be cool. That last show with the mirror - you can see some of that with the red filaments or something flying in little figure 8's or something.
Same, like when he complimented his aim on the mirror shot he made sure to look him in the eye and repeat it so he knew it was a real compliment and not just a flippant remark. One of the hidden treasures of this channel is watching Destin be an amazing father and watching his kids grow in to incredible humans because of it
I love the shot at 8:25. The context of having the drone in the high speed shot, with rotors moving at a leisurely pace compared to the baseball, makes the technical achievement of this cannon all the more mind-blowing.
I’d like to suggest firing this through a smoke screen (like one produced by a fog machine), on a night with a new moon, with a leveling laser beam cutting through the plane of motion. This would be a really interesting way of capturing the air currents around the ball much like a PIV experimental setup.
The wind after firing messes with things too much. If you had a ramp like wind deverter with a hole cut in it for the ball to go through, would it work? Think of how cool it would have been if the gong was just left standing there...
I was thinking about a wind deflector that snapped into place after the ball went by, but timing would be incredibly difficult. A deflector plate a few feet from the end of the cannon would allow the air blast to spread out and only a small portion of it would go through the hole. Great idea!
@@MichaelSteeves Easier to move a smaller flap, so starting with the large ramp with baseball-sized hole is a good strategy. If the ramp alone is inadequate, a flap for the hole can be added. Due to the narrow timing window I think this flap might have to be actuated by a powder charge, which makes it rather dangerous. Mechanically, it could be either a slider or a hinged flap, but I think the slider will be unreliable: too much force concentrated in the braking area. Actually, I bet you could make a self-closing flap. By offsetting the hinge point to be much further from the flap edge, and not in-line with the plane of the flap itself, it could safely balance in the open position just below the path of the projectile and be carried up and over into position by the very blast of air that it is designed to divert. Making it much larger than the hole would be possible and would provide a lot of surface area to catch the blast.
MAJOR "The Matrix" vibes with that last shot. It puts into perspective how advanced the Wachowski's cinematography, effects and creativity were back then. Incredible shots, Destin and crew!
Slow MO guys did a very good video that put that into great perspective. Having something at a slower velocity really shows the rippling and fracturing of the mirror that is visual in the movie.
The ball would split and the sword would likely survive(with damage) as long as it was properly made. They have at least one video where people shoot a 50 BMG at a sword and it takes multiple hits before the sword breaks.
10:29 the shockwave is akin to a point detonation. You can see the shockwave in the noisy image because you’ve created an ad hoc Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) system. I’ve worked with this before at work at AEDC. Impressive! I love this video. It’s right up my alley! Impressive Ludwieg tube setup you have! This is my first video on this channel I’ve watched and it’s great!!
@@shrike6243 Superheating the surface upon contact enough that it catches fire briefly. Same principle as slapping a chicken hard enough to cook it; if you can impart enough kinetic energy onto an object, some portion of that energy will be dissipated as heat. More energy = more heat, and extreme energy = extreme heat. This is also why re-entry events for spacecraft are so hot. Extremely high-speed impacts with gas molecules trillions of times per second will generate a lot of heat due to the rapid change in pressure at that boundary layer. That shockwave pressure change can raise the temperature of an air volume by well over 1000°C in an infinitesimally small amount of time (think picoseconds). Edit: For those curious, the shockwave heating is so dominant in the case of re-entry (vs. the convective heating from air friction) because it scales with velocity to the 8th power (!!!), whereas convective heat transfer scales with velocity cubed. Cool stuff!
The same impact detination fire happens witht the silly putty so my guess would be the paint/ treatment of the base ball surface is providing the flamable fuel and igniting at the highest presure ie moment of contact.
@@Smithelwerb I suppose as the sprinkles fragment and the pinkish white dust is sugar.....an idea for another target is a powdered sugar to see if we can ignite it!
My (almost) 3 year old has been sick a lot lately and whenever the TV is on, all he wants to watch are your baseball cannon videos. Thank you for creating content that demonstrates physics in a unique way.
i wish i could laugh at that, but my biological mutation defectated uponj birth prevents me from feeling any kind of congnitive driven emotion. a good clown is always the childrens hospitols favorite... god bless. good cheer. stay hopeful. live, love... laught #.soul
Hi. Got some scientific Watch-Suggests for me? I am always on the search for more. Of course i can also give them, as i now, thanks to my asking around, know many good channel.
Dustin: Have you considered adding a muzzle break or something to divert the air so it doesn't blow around the stuff down range so much? EDIT: Apparently there is some rumor going around that his actual name is 'Destin'. This is likely based on the fact that he says it at the start of every video. Is this enough proof to be sure? Probably not, but I'll consider the possibility.
Well, Destin did actually include that. If you watch the design video, there are so many things that you never consider when you're on the bleeding edge of what is possible with air. And besides, they're getting data, they're getting slow mo. The aftermath wind is a useless data point and doesn't affect the experiment whatsoever.
I actually kind of like the visual of the ball just zipping through stuff, then a great gust of wind just blows all the stuff away. but if they were doing actual science with the impacts, I can see that blowing everything away would be kinda counterproductive
And it would complicate plugging the muzzle for vacuum……..when the plug (tape) doesn’t fail. I gotta admit, the blast that took out the gong and stand was violent.
The designers of the drone would be pleased, I think, to see how quickly it recovers after being hit by the blast of air from the cannon. Might that shock wave observed radiating from the hundreds-and-thousands (AKA 'sprinkles') jar have been made of some physical thing? If there were some dust on the outside of the jar, might that have shot away from the jar before the plastic of the jar deformed to the point of rupture?
Two suggestions: 1. "Tracer" baseball round (Glow in the dark paint?) 2. Spray loads of water to make the air humid to try and cause the ball to have a mach shock cone
Destin, you NEED to make a short film of all this testing! This is academy award level stuff!!! As an engineer you might not understand, but the ART of what you are doing is amazing.
I was watching it during the shots. You could see when the air hit the drone and knocked it on its side, only for it to correct itself instantly. That drone has some amazing engineering behind it.
Was it really affected by it? At first i thought that too, but the strong tilt up (8:08) looks more like a deliberate braking maneuver to make it stop very fast. On 18:43 it was flying pretty close too, but showed no such maneuver. With such a strong wind coming from the back and actually hitting the drone (which i don't think is happening), the drone would accelerate very fast forward, regardless of any maneuvers the controller or flight computer would do.
The GPS on the drone is trying to maintain the position it should have, given the throttle and pitch position. So, yes, it would be braking....HARD....after being blown forward.
14:39 I love the delay between the ball ripping through the gong, and the stand flying away from the cannon's exhaust (not to mention the power of that exhaust)
Makes me wonder what other kinds of projectiles can be fired from the baseball cannon...maybe some kind of dart? Or you could use the baseball as a sabot and load something tough into its center (like a steel ball bearing or chunk of tungsten)! That'd be pretty cool, especially if you could fire a hardened projectile through a tougher target (like AR500). Great video Destin, always a pleasure!
10:25 -- RE: The Shockwave which shows with Noisy footage; I did notice on the footage involving the Silly Putty that the baseball, being supersonic, has some turbulent airflow clinging behind it, which probably means there's a pressure region in front of it as well. Perhaps that's what's causing the shockwave when it reaches the container; in effect, its being reflected a couple of milliseconds before the baseball smashes into the container.
Yeah and that container flexes fast even in slow motion as soon as that spark ignites from the pressure front I think that's all the energy transferred right there And the ball is just following through. Lots of laughs Because it's certainly not the ball liquefying every single sprinkle we know that. Pretty neat all the energy was transferred without even touching the object that air pressure front did it. That spark is hotter than the surface of the sun just like the mantis shrimp underwater. They have been known to break aquariums just by snapping their claw and it makes a bubble underwater that creates light because it breaks the sound barrier just like this.
Hey Destin do you notice the spark on the point of impact, it would be interesting to see if the voltage of enegry transfer goes up with the velocity of the ball ?
I love how there is a point when the reflection of the ball stops just as the actual ball comes in to shot. Feels a little dream like, and with the ripples on the mirror, just a little matrix.
That silly putty shot must have been pretty frustrating. There is nothing like needing to do a take before it gets too dark only to hit a bunch of problems in set-up. Great job in getting it done!
14:30 The ball moved SO fast through the gong it didn't even wiggle the ropes it was attached too! That is some serious energy transfer. Only afterwards did the air blast from the cannon knock everything around.
I love how he constantly positively reaffirms his son's contributions to their experiment, just displays how a future scientist is being groomed. Great content, even greater parenting.
The mirror shot was mind boggling, wasn't able to wrap my mind around it immediately had to watch it quite a few times. These guys are truly amazing. Great video Destin and team✌.
@@gabrielgp000 if my understanding is correct its from the amount of friction being placed on the object at the time of impact. Its actually a very small surface with a lot of kinetic energy to be transferred. think of a space ship reentering orbit but only for a 1000th of a second.
It's from the breakdown of air. the electrons collide with the positive ions in the air it makes an access of energy that bursts. It's the air and electricity
I absolutely loved when the mirror rippled, looked like something out of the Matrix!! I was kinda surprised you never said anything about the flash right when the ball impacted the sprinkles. Can’t wait to see what you shoot next.
I had seen the sparks too and was thinking the same as everyone else. Why not make an entire video dedicated to the flash, it may be simple but 'I' don't know why it happens. Ya know what I mean? Pretty cool
quick note about gongs: typically gongs are "warmed up" before playing, usually you want to try and lightly tap the gong at least a few times before before playing it, as striking the instrument cold has a bit of delay to the sound (big metal plate takes a while for vibrations to travel through them). this seemed to be a smaller one, though really any cymbal that big is usually warmed up before playing. i don't know as much with the physics technicalities (i just play instruments lol), though i'm curious to see if the gong would have had a different physical/aural response to the ball if it had already been vibrating before impact. i've heard from a lot of other musicians/clinicians that going in cold on larger gongs/tam-tams before playing loud impacts can also cause them to crack, though i've also heard some people say this is complete bogus. anyways, cool video as always!
Fellow percussionist here with an anecdote! When I was an exchange student in Texas and in the drumline, my friend was taught how to play the gong and was told to "warm it up". He took the piece of cloth usually there to dampen the gong and literally rubbed the thing like a genie's lamp to generate heat lol omg... That still cracks me up today! We all laughed our butts of (even though we didn't know any better) and the teacher showed us how it's done.
I have a hard time believing warming up the gong would change the sound from a 1189mph baseball seeing how it *barely* changes the sound from a typical mallet.
I love this channel! I just found u guys yesterday. I love engineering and testing stuff n figuring out things we don’t typically think about. More than outside the box
FYI, to properly sound a gong, you should first 'prime' it, by lightly tapping it to get it vibrating slightly. Then when you strike it hard, it's not starting from a flat surface, but one that's already vibrating. At least, that is, for orchestral sound production. If you're just going to blow a supersonic hole in it, it doesn't matter what it's doing before it gets hit.
As a percussionist this DOES make me wonder what would have happened if the gong were first warmed up by a reiterating felt mallet before firing the cannon. If it were vibrating before impact, would that have a different result?
What if the gong was repositioned at a Very slight angle so the ball barely caresses it as it goes by? Would that decrease the energy transfer enough to get a proper sound? Or would it just try and rip the gong in half?
In the slo-mo, just as the baseball reaches the mirror, the reflected ball seems to pause as the actual ball comes into frame pre-impact. Quite amazing. Good job.
I was thinking of some preliminary designs for one during the gong section. Though since it's a scientific tool first I suspect they'll leave it as-is for now
@@yanosaur A hinged clamp would allow it to be bolted on with quick removal and allow a mounted rubber gasket that would make the plastic have an easier seal. Any Muzzle break would change the forces based on it's design, so that would have to be a later version to limit the factors that were changed between shots.
8:25 compared to the speed of the rotars on the drone, it really gives a good idea of how much faster that ball is moving. I'd estimate it took about a turn and a half to 2 full rotations of the rotary blade for the ball to go from exiting the barrel to hitting the target.
I appreciate seeing the safety aspect of your testing. It's not something that gets shown very often by anyone and I love that you have taken the time to let us into that part of your filming.
Silly question: Is there any data that specifies how hot the flash caused by the baseball striking the target is? Would that be hot enough to ignite a liquid fuel like Gasoline? If so, would it also work with other fuels that have a higher flash point such as Ethanol and Diesel?
By far the best channel on UA-cam in my opinion. I'm having a really rough time right now, and your uploads genuinely make me smile and help me manage. God bless you Destin.
Nearly every impact i see, a small white flash is created at the impact point, and it makes sense too, i believe its an atmospheric discharge , the object to be vaporized is an obvious ground, and the basebase goes from a grounded negative charge to a pisitive charge created the moment it oeaves the cannon due to positive charged air molecules piling up in front and an exchange takes place during flight, aircraft in flight experience a similar exchange after lifting off the runway ... educated guess backed by common knowledge and physics degree, still, just a proposition, watch ultra slow motion images of a projectol fired from a cannon or rifle, this phenom exist there also
The fact that the drone was able to even maintain relatively the same position when the shockwave hit it is amazing. The sensors and programming that go into those things are so cool.
So awesome seeing you and your son doing this sort of stuff together. I had a similar experience with my dad at his work at it was honestly amazing. I’m glad you’re able to get to spend time with them. Hope his arm feels better!
I'd love to see a vertical ball flight, as long as you're safe when it comes back down, height would be interesting with drone watching it come past or come toward it if high enough.
Something I'd love to see: The slime made me think about how cool it would look if you could pour a wall of water out of a container and shoot through it since water is like concrete when impacted at high speeds. Also LAMINAR FLOW
@SmarterEveryDay i love the relationship between you and your kids and i think it would be amazing if you make a video , a long one, and teach us how to be better parents. thanks in advance
19:33 This matters, especially the second one. Show the people around you and particularly your kids, that they are your sole focus, when you say something to them. It carries just that much more weight. Even if you are not there as often as you would hope, be there 100% when your are. It means the world!
there are two things on youtube that really, REALLY make me happy these days. It‘s whenever collin goes on digging the tunnel and when you hit stuff with that cannon. there‘s other good stuff as well, but this is like back in the days, when you had to wait one week to watch the next episode of a great show or series. Well done again. Thanks
I love the 4 or so accent changes depending on what Destin is doing, lol. Talking to us, talking to the guys, talking to us around the guys, and talking to his son. It's hilarious xD
@smartereveryday. Hey there. You know, it’s a baseball right? I wonder if it is possible for you to impart a spin to the ball as it exits the cannon to see if you can throw a supersonic curve. I suggest a tiny bit of adhesive inside the mouth of the cannon, maybe an inch wide (on one side only) to slow that side of the ball making it spin. The best hitters can hit the heater, only the very best can hit a supersonic curve:-) PS how much did the ball slow down after hitting the gong? PPS How about a mechanical bat to hit a supersonic fast ball? PPPS How did you clean up the pieces of the broken mirror?
I’d love to see the baseball drive a massive steel spike (nail-like) into solid wood (ie: large section of tree), like a Mach+ speed nail gun! Keep doing what you do!
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The sprinkle breaking up is probably like the polo mint candy breaking (the electricity in candy video). It looks like there’s a connection
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What would happen if baseball hit a bigger ball like a basket ball? 🤔
Don't be surprised if the EPA designates this field as a toxic waste site.
Seeing How Ridiculous making a giant baseball bat helicopter, i wonder how far the baseball would fly shooting it with supersonic speed.
Now I’m trying to imagine how many gongs it would take to stop it…
Depends how many c-stands it hits while trying to answer the question
Not gonna lie, I wonder too, I’m just thinking the limit is the baseball disintegrating, rather than stopping.
DEMO RANCH x SMARTER EVERYDAY VID!?
I bet 12 Gongs would stop a supersonic baseball...
INTERESTING
Would be so epic to see how many gongs/windows/doors/everything else stops that baseball!! We'll happily fly to the US and help setup (and clean up) a zillion windows haha
That’d be a sick collaboration
Collab??
I concur
This needs to happen
Collab? Yes, please do.
Target suggestion: bags of various flammable powders with a road flare nearby. For big fireballs the powder of choice is powdered calf milk replacement. Corn starch, non dairy creamer, and airfloat charcoal are also fun effects. Could be a fun video about the dangers of industrial dust explosions.
Thanks for the warning! ?airfloat charcoal as in lampblack?
@@cherylm2C6671 Lampblack is a different thing. More complex chemical makeup than charcoal. Airfloat is just charcoal that has been ball milled to a very fine powder.
Destin, this please.
The NightHawk has spoken. Make it so!
I think he did a video on dust explosions and the dangers of dust explosions. I'd definitely watch a new one if he made it though.
I think it's awesome you involve your kids when possible (and safe) and particularly include the public praise for thier role in these incredible videos. It's days like that he'll take with him the rest of his life. You always do a great job carrying the human story and those are the moments that shine
it all felt forced
"my childhood love of baseball, and my studies of aerodynamics, and my work as a developmental weapons tester."
Well that escalated quickly.
Worldwide baseball anyone? The pitcher is on the other side of the world.
I want to hear more about his work history!
Nice
Hey i know this is random but, do you all realize that small explosion/spark. When the ball hit the target?
Also what makes it explode/spark?
7:20 The spider silk has hydrophilic parts in the protein, the dew forms centered on them, but if it's not a wetted part, it's not easily wetted. It's probably an evolutionary thing that helped spiders get water without risking drowning. Surface tension is a big issue when you're that small, the surface tension of the water is higher than the force you can exert to pull yourself out, so if one part gets wetted, you're going to get stuck, many araneomorphs get their air through spiracles, rather than book lungs, so even if they do get out of a puddle, they're going to drown, or at least be a lot slower. Not having to go to the ground for water also means they're less likely to get stepped on or hunted by ground predators, at least when they're in their webs, birds usually stay clear of them.
I have observed the same silk wetting phenonmenon with my mygalomorph spiders, both tarantulaes and funnelwebs, but to a lesser extent. though the tarantula's web seems to have something soluble in it, which acts as a surfactant, allowing the water to basically turn into a bubble and cover the gap between the web, I've seen her drink from it. She's a desert tarantula, so maybe something to do with stopping moisture from leaving her burrow, or efficient collection of dew? She still has a water dish and she will drink from that if I haven't misted her cage in a while. But it's a really cool phenomenon, I'd like to check how other webs react, but I can only get native Australian spiders here.
TL;DR it's just that only certain points on the silk strand are easily wetted, all the dew that forms flows to those points, if they oversaturate, they drop off.
Really fascinating stuff, like something out of dune...but are you sure your on the right video? And if you aren't what exactly is the right video? you've got me curious
@@ggrimmett94 did you watch this video? Theres a spider web in this video.
@@TheLogicalCow Correction to your correction,
There is a spider web in this video that Destin was asking about, and the answer provided by the OP is a pretty in depth one
😉
@@TheLogicalCow where? I must have gotten distracted at that part... but at 7:20 they are shooting sprinkles
Nvr mind it was real quick at 7:13
8:05 Let's just take a moment to appreciate the flight control algorithms on that drone. Stayed in the air like a champ despite the air blast.
And the camera gyro keeping it super straight
@@dennyrulos4847 You can't even see the shake from the first person shot!
It's an aerial drone making a quick corrective adjustment, just like it was designed to. Seeing it done to surf the blast wave of a comically enormous gun, while the target fares far worse, just gives it a bit of oomph.
its not that difficult. Drones are built like that
In the slow motion it's clear when hitting the gong and the baseball ruptures through. It's the pressure wave behind the ball from the cannon that actually flipped over the gong and frame.
Pretty amazing!
Hey Destin, great video as ever! The reason each sprinkle split appart because the compressive impulse imparted to it, travels through the sprinkle. When the compressive impulse wave reaches the edge of the sprinkle that is not in contact with another that it can transfer energy to, it is reflected internally as a tensile wave. These waves propergate and are reflected in-turn as compressive waves. This process repeats until the energy is dissipated. Due to the shape of the object, the patterns of reflective waves become very complex. Where two or more waves cross paths, the amplitude is cumulative. When the amplitute of tensile waves are greater than the tensile strength of the material, a fracture will occur. The waves continue to reflect and ocilate between compressive and tensile waves within the remaining pieces and they may fracture too. The mechanics of reflecting compressive/tensile waves can be observed in a Newton's Craddle. It is the same reason that when a projectile hits a brittle material, material spalls out the back side of the material. The British navy used to classify the power of a cannon by shooting a cannon ball at the end of a log and counting how many times the log fractured. It would be amazing if you could do this with your baseball cannon!
Kind Regards
Dom
It always blows my mind how everything in nature follows these rules. I'm used to this behavior in electrical circuits but it sounds like it's the same math used to describe mechanical forces.
yes
So cool!
As someone who didn't have an active father in his life, I really appreciate you taking your son along and teaching him. He's a lucky kid.
Destin, I can't figure out why but that mirror shot gave me goosebumps. You absolutely nailed this video! After your last video where you talked about making the content that makes you happy and shows off your passion for the things you do and share, it really shows here. Keep it up, you're a fantastic creator!
Read your comment before the scene and was confused. Also have goosebumps now. We get goosebumps because this man is making HISTORY. We are just witnesses. 💜 That was a true piece of art.
It would be an absolute gobsmack to see that in a film as a metaphor of realisation, when you break the illusion, the mirror. Had those goosebumps too, btw
Ditto on the goosebumps
I agree. I was really surprised when the baseball came into direct view just before striking the mirror, and it looked like two baseballs colliding! That was the best part of the whole video.
The music was chosen to manipulate your emotions
Fully commit to that sprinkle at 9:12.... Had me in stitches! Excellent video mate, I could sit a watch your videos all day on repeat. Thank you!
I love how with the mirror shot looks like you're about to get drilled in the face by a baseball, when suddenly another baseball comes out of nowhere to intercept it and saves you.
The baseball collides with an anti-baseball and shatters the portal to the mirror universe.
@@danieljensen2626 Positron meets electron.
@McFlickers hilarious 🤣
yes.. when you need to actually retell your self that you are only watching a looking glass..
The real ball coming into frame as we're watching the reflection come straight at us is one of the most surreal and mind-bending things I've seen. Awesome work, guys.
Yeah, it looked like as if a superheroball hits the ball which was shot directly at us mid air to save us from being hit.
Could be used in a Bond-Intro
I'd like to think in the far future, a 3D object punching into the 4D would look eerily similar.
I just wish it was in focus for the impact lol
It looks like two are colliding but it’s only one. It’s crazy!
That's an awesome way to spend time with your son .
The air cannon is awesome.
The mirror scene with the baseball meeting itself in the mirror was cool. Heck everything was awesome.
Thanks. Watching from Hammond Louisiana.
I, for one, am very impressed with the drone stability as it flies through the shock wave.
I fly race quads and can’t really feel the wind at all even gusting to 80kmh. TBH it’s not surprising as it’s literally what they are intended to do
@@bend7668 these do catch a lot more air with their big plastic parts, but they are also PID'd at the factory so it makes sense ahah
All childhood insecurities came back watching Destin tell his son really good job. The first “good job” felt like it was there to say good job helping the team. But then he pauses, circles back to look him in the eye and say it one more time to communicate something deeper as a father. Great job winning even in the little moments.
Except the kid was right about the thumbnail. And they didn’t use it.
@@hopegold883 agreed, that whole thumbnail thing made me really uncomfortable too. like the whole video already had weird vibes with that awkward father son Dynamic, but them laughing at his suggestion felt wrong...
Idk, destins son seems like a cool kid but personally I'd prefer videos without him because the whole dynamic between the two doesn't fit the tone of the video.
@@catdisc5304 weren't they laughing because of how right he was?? I totally took it to mean it as "wow this kid watches so much UA-cam that he's just got a knack for this sort of thing", and that's why they joked he's had enough UA-cam for one day! I think it was all done in good faith, personally.
@@boiboi7717 I just think that they were laughing at the fact that his first thought was "thumbnail"
Laughed so hard at “that’s the thumbnail” 😂 Amazing, amazing work Destin and team! Can’t get enough of this series - truly fascinating.
"Oh, you think you are a youtuber. You merely adopted youtube; I was born in it, moulded by it."
Did you somehow not see the visible flash of light at impact!? I cant bilieve you didnt talk about how a supersonic baseball produces light when it hits sprinkles.. lol
that's what i was thinking too! i played it in .25x speed and said to myself "if they didn't talk about this small spark of light on impact, it'll be a let down."
That flash is a static electricity discharge. The baseball gets electrically charged with friction with the cannon or the air.
they talked about it in the previous video
he already talked about that
I saw the light and they didn’t mention it. I guess they didn’t see it?
Destin, my favorite part of this is watching you be a thoughtful and encouraging father. The way you include your son, and make sure to take moments to genuinely express to him that he did a good job is heartwarming and reminds me to keep being the best I can be as a father.
Thank you for including those candid moments. I've always admired your approach to parenting. It's been an inspiration and a reminder of what it all is for.
This comment confirms that my dad always showed me encouragement even when I didn't notice...
I'm going to go call him now.
Yes that really made my day
I couldn't agree more. He seems like such a genuinely decent person. Wish either of my fathers had been.
I love how the gong doesn't even move until the air pressure from the cannon hits it.
OMG
It got me thinking how intense that pressure is… it picked up that gong and chucked it like it was paper.
They need to modify the barrel so it closes off once the projectile is clear, then redirects the barrel/tank gas someplace else. It would stop the "wind" destruction of the target area by eliminating the "hurricane" .
this is due to inertia. the ball wasnt in contact with the disc long enough to pull it with it. so it broke the disc before pulling it.
you can try this expiriment at home. hang up a brand new roll of toilet paper against the wall. now the roll is heavy and it has resistance because of the wall. now when you pull on a piece of paper, the roll just rolls out. but if you pull it really really rapidly, it just breaks off, and the roll never gets to turn.
Same with the mirror. Looked like the shattered pieces would just fall straight down.
There's this awesome effect at 19:39 where the reflection seems to stop moving but the real ball continues smashing through. I know it's an illusion because of the viewing angles but it still looks surreal. Super cool.
Almost like a freeze frame, and it allowed the bow shock to be visible just before the actual strike.
It made me double take because I didn't quite process it right the first time 😅
I really wish the focus had included the mirror.
I agree. It was a moment where I'm like "Is this a glitch in the Matrix?" How is one moving and one holding stationary? That was crazy.
Um.... That's not entirely an illusion. It's ordinary geometry and proportion.
(for those interested follow me, and I'll spare the "hard math")
We can resolve this "graphically" or visually modeling what we're watching... The mirror is considerably larger than the baseball AND it's stationary. I know it's obvious, but it's important to be said anyway... The Baseball is moving TOWARD the mirror... which is why (as Destin said) there'd be no motion blur effect when they used the reflection in the mirror to film the shot...
If you were actually standing at the mirror's position, the ball at the cannon would "look" small, because it's far away. This doesn't matter whether we have "distance triangulation" (binocular vision) or not... That's why the baseball in the reflection appears to be moving... As it gets much closer from the 30+ feet away... that's enough travel for it to cover more and more of the "field of view" in the mirror...
Around 19:39 or so, it's still getting larger, but the camera is at such an angle and distance with the mirror that the distance to the ball doesn't proportionally change so much... and for a few instants, it's still "growing" but at such small increments as to appear to slow to a stop in the reflection... This is how many "range finders" actually work...
What we can't really judge (mostly because we have so little practice at it in these conditions) is how far the ball moves for the apparent "growth" in the reflection's size over time... It's do-able, but it'll take a large HD screen and a LOT of difficult math...
Any illusion would be making our brains assume something that's just not true, and we KNOW the reflection is only going to move a very small amount but grow in size as the ball is optimally travelling direction at it's own reflection in the mirror... There's just a point of diminished effect on that movement and growth... so more geometry than actual illusion...
I'm sure someone "smarter than me" could sit down and tabulate everything in "long hand"... IF they were interested. I saw the same effect, but expected it... BUT then I've used mirrors and similar devices when test-firing so I could watch before there were cheap digital cameras to shoot in HD and record anything... Among the first rules you learn "the hard way" in playing with cannons is that you don't want to test fire a cannon while you stand around it watching the fuse burn "IRL"... You want to be behind something large, solid, and VERY heavy... so get a periscope or a mirror you can use to "see around corners"... ;o)
12:45 that's real Alabama if anything pop sounded like a gun 😂😂
that last test was so good
no
@@Zeppec ok
Let's imagine we use a lightspeed baseball to hit a Gong to destroy earth
Nice
3:55 Sounds like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gauss rifle! What a neat sound!
Funny, I was thinking the same thing
Man I keep finding you all over UA-cam
Wow another ytber I'm subscribed to.. wanna see some more a-10 flights homie good content
Oh hey Drewski 😃
Heyyy drew love your milsim :v
7:14 could it be because the individual drops don't have enough mass for gravity to overcome surface tension? (Oh yeah, the baseball stuff is cool too.)
Coupled with whatever adhesive is provided by the webs natural ability to capture insects perhaps?
@@petekaiser8856 Spiders spin 2 type of silk, sticky and non-sticky. That is how they themselves don't get stuck.
@@donaldcope4982 does the adhesive affect water surface tensions? Which kind are we seeing in the video?
@@donaldcope4982 This is true, although that is it's capture web which should be mostly, if not entirely of sticky silk. Their feet/claws under microscopic view provides details as to how this works. I'm pretty sure they use non sticky mostly for travel.
I always thought their sticky silk was created via a gland discretion so it could alternate and assumed their webs were created in patches, and they stepped between the sticky spots but this isn't true. (At least stepping between the sticky spots, I'm not sure how they create the two different silks).
I don't think it is surface tension. Perhaps I am drawing the wrong parallels here, but I imagine this must be the same effect which keeps small droplets sticking on windshields etc. If you have REALLY clean glass, water wets the surface uniformely. Surface contaminations are required to make it form beads.
tl:dr I think tension plays a role but the true secret lies in some funky surface effects going on with thar spider silk
Proposed experiment: leave a few ultra-thin nylon strands outdoors to see if the effect is replicated
High speed footage never gets old!!!awesome work!!
The shot with the mirrors literally ran chills down my spine. One of the coolest slow-mo shots I've ever seen!
It would be interesting to see the shots with a wind break. The ball could go through a hole in a large wind block and diffuse the air discharged from the cannon. It would help prevent the air force from disturbing the objects after collision. I imagine the gong would have not moved much at all from the energy of the ball alone. Glass wouldn't be scattered as far. It looks like the air blast destroys everything. Great video.
This is a great idea.
Like a silencer
@@DanielDuhon Or a compensator like the ones you see on firearms.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
I came to the comments to make this suggestion. I assumed perhaps a 5x5foot square plate, mounted at a 45 degree angle to the flight path, perhaps 2 feet down-range from the muzzle. A 1.1-baseball-size hole in the middle to not impede the flight-path, but deflect the big destructive puff of wind.
I think you need a muzzle brake on the end of the cannon to redirect the excess gasses so it doesn't interfere with what the baseball does to the target. I'm unsure what effect it will have on the velocity of the ball, but its something to think about.
G'day,
That isn't going to be effective..., because the Projectile arrives at the Target well before the tendrils of cold Vapour get there.
;-p
Cido !
@Teqchnoblade
G'day,
Pharoah enuf then... (!).
Stay safe,
;-p
Ciao !
I think that'll work great for the projectile but the high velocity gas may hit the camera setups on the sides
That would have made the gong shot even better. To see it still standing and vibrating with a hole in it...
I agree. Although, creating a redirect that could be triggered within a millisecond or so after the baseball leaves the cannon and withstand those pressures, might be somewhat of a challenge. Wait...just who are we talking about here? This might be just up their alley!
2:35 I literally have broken humor, I frickin lost it when he dropped the striker and in 3:23 when the bottle with the putty fell
Hands down, that mirror shot was the BEST thing I've seen you shoot on this channel. Absolutely mindbendingly good!
Have you thought about setting up a fog machine as well to see the fluid dynamics?
Ooooo...that would be cool. That last show with the mirror - you can see some of that with the red filaments or something flying in little figure 8's or something.
I want to see this now.
It's not really possible. The fog or smoke actually hides more than it reveals.
Now THAT'S a cool idea
Smart
I love so much how he appreciates and simultaneously inspires his son with his affirmations.
Same, like when he complimented his aim on the mirror shot he made sure to look him in the eye and repeat it so he knew it was a real compliment and not just a flippant remark. One of the hidden treasures of this channel is watching Destin be an amazing father and watching his kids grow in to incredible humans because of it
Yeah. That's exactly what stood out to me. He's a great dad.
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Ya things are different with cameras around and millions watching
@@NatronFatumallafalla some people really do live well. Don't hate. I hope the Lord gives you peace.🥺
Someone needs to write a "Gong struck by air cannon fired baseball" part into a symphony.
It's basically the 2021 version of the Mahler Hammer.
What's my favorite percussionist doing here? Love your vids man, keep it up.
Tchaikovsky would be proud
True
Replace the cannons in 1812 overture with this gong contraption!
Sounds like a great collab idea for the two of you👀
I love the shot at 8:25. The context of having the drone in the high speed shot, with rotors moving at a leisurely pace compared to the baseball, makes the technical achievement of this cannon all the more mind-blowing.
I’d like to suggest firing this through a smoke screen (like one produced by a fog machine), on a night with a new moon, with a leveling laser beam cutting through the plane of motion. This would be a really interesting way of capturing the air currents around the ball much like a PIV experimental setup.
Underrated comment
Now THAT is an idea
Unfortunately high speed cameras work really poorly in low light condition
But I guess the focus would be on the laser beam
@@TheSailingRobin I bet Destin could get his hands on some extremely powerful lasers that would make it easier
perhaps a bit of a schlierin setup?
13:41 The umbrella has me in stitches!!!
The wind after firing messes with things too much. If you had a ramp like wind deverter with a hole cut in it for the ball to go through, would it work? Think of how cool it would have been if the gong was just left standing there...
I was thinking about a wind deflector that snapped into place after the ball went by, but timing would be incredibly difficult. A deflector plate a few feet from the end of the cannon would allow the air blast to spread out and only a small portion of it would go through the hole. Great idea!
@@MichaelSteeves that was my exact thought! Timing would be too hard.
Very clever, Dustin. I like the cut of your jib.
@@MichaelSteeves Easier to move a smaller flap, so starting with the large ramp with baseball-sized hole is a good strategy. If the ramp alone is inadequate, a flap for the hole can be added. Due to the narrow timing window I think this flap might have to be actuated by a powder charge, which makes it rather dangerous. Mechanically, it could be either a slider or a hinged flap, but I think the slider will be unreliable: too much force concentrated in the braking area.
Actually, I bet you could make a self-closing flap. By offsetting the hinge point to be much further from the flap edge, and not in-line with the plane of the flap itself, it could safely balance in the open position just below the path of the projectile and be carried up and over into position by the very blast of air that it is designed to divert. Making it much larger than the hole would be possible and would provide a lot of surface area to catch the blast.
suppressor, it needs a suppressor
Absolutely love that mirror shot. Can't even imagine how hard it is to take care of the aftermath tho. Anyway, good job. Seriously good job.
Shattering the POV illusion like shattering reality
MAJOR "The Matrix" vibes with that last shot. It puts into perspective how advanced the Wachowski's cinematography, effects and creativity were back then. Incredible shots, Destin and crew!
Slow MO guys did a very good video that put that into great perspective. Having something at a slower velocity really shows the rippling and fracturing of the mirror that is visual in the movie.
Me remembers that mirror scene in pilot episode of "The Twilight Zone"
UA-cam has made me a BIG fan of high speed footage as art and this is the best I've seen. The mirror shot is a masterpiece.
Thank you Destin for giving us the chance to experience things that we would never be able to do. !!
Thank you Patrons for making it happen!
@@smartereveryday Thank-you for doing it 😘
@@smartereveryday i’m just curious did you by any chance happen to see fire when it hit the targets?
Have you shot one at the edge of a very sharp thin sword yet, to see if the ball splits, or the sword breaks?
Sword or the (shield) question persists...
This is a good idea.
The ball would split and the sword would likely survive(with damage) as long as it was properly made. They have at least one video where people shoot a 50 BMG at a sword and it takes multiple hits before the sword breaks.
Didn't the mythbusters do something like this?
10:29 the shockwave is akin to a point detonation. You can see the shockwave in the noisy image because you’ve created an ad hoc Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) system. I’ve worked with this before at work at AEDC. Impressive! I love this video. It’s right up my alley! Impressive Ludwieg tube setup you have! This is my first video on this channel I’ve watched and it’s great!!
What's causing the flash of light you can see at the point of impact reflected in the handle?
@@shrike6243 Superheating the surface upon contact enough that it catches fire briefly. Same principle as slapping a chicken hard enough to cook it; if you can impart enough kinetic energy onto an object, some portion of that energy will be dissipated as heat. More energy = more heat, and extreme energy = extreme heat.
This is also why re-entry events for spacecraft are so hot. Extremely high-speed impacts with gas molecules trillions of times per second will generate a lot of heat due to the rapid change in pressure at that boundary layer. That shockwave pressure change can raise the temperature of an air volume by well over 1000°C in an infinitesimally small amount of time (think picoseconds).
Edit: For those curious, the shockwave heating is so dominant in the case of re-entry (vs. the convective heating from air friction) because it scales with velocity to the 8th power (!!!), whereas convective heat transfer scales with velocity cubed. Cool stuff!
@@Smithelwerb Oooh, very cool, (or hot!) thank you for the explanation :D
The same impact detination fire happens witht the silly putty so my guess would be the paint/ treatment of the base ball surface is providing the flamable fuel and igniting at the highest presure ie moment of contact.
@@Smithelwerb I suppose as the sprinkles fragment and the pinkish white dust is sugar.....an idea for another target is a powdered sugar to see if we can ignite it!
When Dustin said "WAS THAT US?" at 12:44 i started laughing so hard. lol LIKE YEAH MAN. lmao
My (almost) 3 year old has been sick a lot lately and whenever the TV is on, all he wants to watch are your baseball cannon videos. Thank you for creating content that demonstrates physics in a unique way.
Hope he gets better ! 🙏
i wish i could laugh at that, but my biological mutation defectated uponj birth prevents me from feeling any kind of congnitive driven emotion. a good clown is always the childrens hospitols favorite... god bless. good cheer. stay hopeful. live, love... laught #.soul
@@noir66146 I legit can't tell if you're joking
This is what it all about
Hi.
Got some scientific Watch-Suggests for me?
I am always on the search for more.
Of course i can also give them, as i now, thanks to my asking around, know many good channel.
Dustin:
Have you considered adding a muzzle break or something to divert the air so it doesn't blow around the stuff down range so much?
EDIT: Apparently there is some rumor going around that his actual name is 'Destin'. This is likely based on the fact that he says it at the start of every video. Is this enough proof to be sure? Probably not, but I'll consider the possibility.
Well, Destin did actually include that. If you watch the design video, there are so many things that you never consider when you're on the bleeding edge of what is possible with air. And besides, they're getting data, they're getting slow mo. The aftermath wind is a useless data point and doesn't affect the experiment whatsoever.
I was thinking the same.
I actually kind of like the visual of the ball just zipping through stuff, then a great gust of wind just blows all the stuff away.
but if they were doing actual science with the impacts, I can see that blowing everything away would be kinda counterproductive
And it would complicate plugging the muzzle for vacuum……..when the plug (tape) doesn’t fail.
I gotta admit, the blast that took out the gong and stand was violent.
Yeah, I was thinking the same, like the arrowhead break from a 50 cal.
The designers of the drone would be pleased, I think, to see how quickly it recovers after being hit by the blast of air from the cannon. Might that shock wave observed radiating from the hundreds-and-thousands (AKA 'sprinkles') jar have been made of some physical thing? If there were some dust on the outside of the jar, might that have shot away from the jar before the plastic of the jar deformed to the point of rupture?
i think that shockwave is just a compresión of the air and the condensed wather on it
@@Aldolorido8753 It is just a compression of air. Because it has different density it bends the light differently, hence you can see it.
I think the heat in the initial shockwave and contact was enough to ignite the sugar powders
@@snoopdogg9061 I wondered that too, because in the frame where the ball impacts there seems to be an orange flash.
The mirror shot is perfect for a Christopher Nolan movie. Your channel is amazing. Best regards from Mexico.
Two suggestions:
1. "Tracer" baseball round (Glow in the dark paint?)
2. Spray loads of water to make the air humid to try and cause the ball to have a mach shock cone
How will a tracer work without ignition from the propellant
I did a flasher firework glued to a golfball out of a potato cannon as a kid.... Super cool.
@@humblenoob7631 I say tracer with air quotes. A glow in the dark painted baseball at night would do the trick perfectly
@@thomasbarlow4223 That sounds rad! Imagine pointing the Supersonic Baseball Cannon at 45° and launching a glowing baseball as far as it can go
@@echovictordcsworld retroreflective paint and a spotlight
Destin, you NEED to make a short film of all this testing! This is academy award level stuff!!! As an engineer you might not understand, but the ART of what you are doing is amazing.
This is definitely high enough quality that it could be one of those things that plays in a projector in an art museum that everyone walks past.
The encouragement, and involvement that you're showing your son is top notch. Great job dad.
Destin, I'm most curious about the flash or spark at 5:24. Is it static charge from being shot at such velocity, or is it something else?
It's present with the sprinkle impact as well.
I'm intrigued about how the drone was affected by the flow of air by the cannon. That was super cool.
Very similar to jet wash from a plane...or Wake turbulence..
I was watching it during the shots. You could see when the air hit the drone and knocked it on its side, only for it to correct itself instantly. That drone has some amazing engineering behind it.
Was it really affected by it? At first i thought that too, but the strong tilt up (8:08) looks more like a deliberate braking maneuver to make it stop very fast.
On 18:43 it was flying pretty close too, but showed no such maneuver.
With such a strong wind coming from the back and actually hitting the drone (which i don't think is happening), the drone would accelerate very fast forward, regardless of any maneuvers the controller or flight computer would do.
The GPS on the drone is trying to maintain the position it should have, given the throttle and pitch position. So, yes, it would be braking....HARD....after being blown forward.
@@jdub6153 burble while skydiving...
14:39 I love the delay between the ball ripping through the gong, and the stand flying away from the cannon's exhaust (not to mention the power of that exhaust)
The shockwave is infront of the ball, since it's supersonic. The wind from the cannon catches the objects after impact.
Makes me wonder what other kinds of projectiles can be fired from the baseball cannon...maybe some kind of dart? Or you could use the baseball as a sabot and load something tough into its center (like a steel ball bearing or chunk of tungsten)! That'd be pretty cool, especially if you could fire a hardened projectile through a tougher target (like AR500). Great video Destin, always a pleasure!
harden steel ball hearing
Or an aluminium ball
Awesome thinking going on here. I was thinking a billiard ball and then eventually a machined metal sphere with more mass.
Armor piercing fin stabilizer discarding sabot rounds!
A filled water bottle?
10:25 -- RE: The Shockwave which shows with Noisy footage; I did notice on the footage involving the Silly Putty that the baseball, being supersonic, has some turbulent airflow clinging behind it, which probably means there's a pressure region in front of it as well. Perhaps that's what's causing the shockwave when it reaches the container; in effect, its being reflected a couple of milliseconds before the baseball smashes into the container.
Yeah and that container flexes fast even in slow motion as soon as that spark ignites from the pressure front I think that's all the energy transferred right there And the ball is just following through. Lots of laughs Because it's certainly not the ball liquefying every single sprinkle we know that. Pretty neat all the energy was transferred without even touching the object that air pressure front did it. That spark is hotter than the surface of the sun just like the mantis shrimp underwater. They have been known to break aquariums just by snapping their claw and it makes a bubble underwater that creates light because it breaks the sound barrier just like this.
Hey Destin do you notice the spark on the point of impact, it would be interesting to see if the voltage of enegry transfer goes up with the velocity of the ball ?
It's not an electric spark, it's a flash of heat generated because the friction is so high on impact. Think rocket reentering atmosphere in movies.
Saw that spark too, right at the spot where Destin showed the shockwave, crazy stuff!!
5:24 - 5:25
I think it's like the candy meets hammer
This happen just as one of the planes of 911 hit world trade center...mmmm...
I love how there is a point when the reflection of the ball stops just as the actual ball comes in to shot. Feels a little dream like, and with the ripples on the mirror, just a little matrix.
Kinda looks like another ball comes in to smash reality
I want to take a minute and appreciate the sound guy you have working on this, putting in these sounds for the slow motion. Really excellent work!
My question is this: Have they ever considered viewing this in thermal? I saw a couple flashes of light on contact.
True, underrated work!
Mirror shot was AWESOME 👍🏽👍🏽 BRILLIANT PLAN !!!
That silly putty shot must have been pretty frustrating. There is nothing like needing to do a take before it gets too dark only to hit a bunch of problems in set-up. Great job in getting it done!
14:30 The ball moved SO fast through the gong it didn't even wiggle the ropes it was attached too! That is some serious energy transfer.
Only afterwards did the air blast from the cannon knock everything around.
Its not just from air blast. The ball was moving faster than its own shockwave
I love how he constantly positively reaffirms his son's contributions to their experiment, just displays how a future scientist is being groomed. Great content, even greater parenting.
I really hope he isn’t a criminal
Absolutely agree with your comment about the positivity, I couldn't stop thinking that during this episode.
@@GardenGuy1942 whatchu mean by that
@@GardenGuy1942 not that kind of groomed
thats the worst word you couldve chosen for this comment
Best thing I've ever seen on UA-cam!
The mirror shot was mind boggling, wasn't able to wrap my mind around it immediately had to watch it quite a few times. These guys are truly amazing. Great video Destin and team✌.
The glass breaking in the mirror felt like a glass breaking in my mind.
10:16, I'm still shocked by the spark that's seen at every impact. So cool!
5:24 as well!
Came for that too… wish he explained that
@@gabrielgp000 The compressed air the ball pushes against the target heats up and then just ignites.
@@Mrpepito1989 nice catch didnot c that 1
@@gabrielgp000 if my understanding is correct its from the amount of friction being placed on the object at the time of impact. Its actually a very small surface with a lot of kinetic energy to be transferred. think of a space ship reentering orbit but only for a 1000th of a second.
It’s nice to see the sparks on impact, even on the silly putty. So much energy focused in a single point…
Soo cool I seen that to and was like how tf
what causes them?
It's from the breakdown of air. the electrons collide with the positive ions in the air it makes an access of energy that bursts. It's the air and electricity
@@XENOEFFECT it's like a mini detonation of.. electricity
@@jedfra9172 Not quite. They are talking about triboluminescence specifically
The way you interact with your son reminds me a lot of my dad from when I was a kid. Awesome video
Lovely seeing your son involved and the positive feedback and praise you’re giving him for doing a good job.
Oh, the kid is his son? Great dad for sure! 👍
I absolutely loved when the mirror rippled, looked like something out of the Matrix!! I was kinda surprised you never said anything about the flash right when the ball impacted the sprinkles. Can’t wait to see what you shoot next.
Yea me too. It seems they didn't notice it!
He did mention it in earlier videos.
@@TehButterflyEffect oh. Haven't seen those other videos.
Yep had to search responses to look for anyone mentioning the flash.... that is interesting.
I found two flashes in this video, one at 5:24 and another on 10:07 fyi.
10:10 talking about a shockwave. I’m impressed that it carried enough energy that it sparked against the plastic on impact. That’s so cool!
I thought that too, it 'flashed' when it both the sprinkles, and the silly putty (container?)
I'm surprised the flash wasn't mentioned. It was pretty cool.
@@scottcates iirc they mentioned it in one of the last videos on the supersonic baseball canon
I had seen the sparks too and was thinking the same as everyone else. Why not make an entire video dedicated to the flash, it may be simple but 'I' don't know why it happens. Ya know what I mean? Pretty cool
It's carbohydrates sparking
Thanks for uploading this in 4k 60
This really needs a thermal camera setup with it. Would be fun to see how various materials react.
Yeah, can see a spark when it impacts the container of sprinkles
19:40 is so amazing, looks like the ball is stop in time and hits by its own future self.
Maybe that's what the "super super crazy" idea is: a traversable wormhole.
quick note about gongs: typically gongs are "warmed up" before playing, usually you want to try and lightly tap the gong at least a few times before before playing it, as striking the instrument cold has a bit of delay to the sound (big metal plate takes a while for vibrations to travel through them). this seemed to be a smaller one, though really any cymbal that big is usually warmed up before playing.
i don't know as much with the physics technicalities (i just play instruments lol), though i'm curious to see if the gong would have had a different physical/aural response to the ball if it had already been vibrating before impact. i've heard from a lot of other musicians/clinicians that going in cold on larger gongs/tam-tams before playing loud impacts can also cause them to crack, though i've also heard some people say this is complete bogus.
anyways, cool video as always!
Fellow percussionist here with an anecdote! When I was an exchange student in Texas and in the drumline, my friend was taught how to play the gong and was told to "warm it up". He took the piece of cloth usually there to dampen the gong and literally rubbed the thing like a genie's lamp to generate heat lol omg... That still cracks me up today! We all laughed our butts of (even though we didn't know any better) and the teacher showed us how it's done.
@@Dhoing not so far off as we used to do it; we would just drag the mallet along the back of the gong for a few measures before hitting it
I have a hard time believing warming up the gong would change the sound from a 1189mph baseball seeing how it *barely* changes the sound from a typical mallet.
This is some really good advice for performing the inevitable overture that will feature a gong being hit by a supersonic baseball.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 brb, boutta be mahler 2; just shoot mach 1.5 baseballs at things instead of hitting them with hammers
I love this channel! I just found u guys yesterday. I love engineering and testing stuff n figuring out things we don’t typically think about. More than outside the box
Ignore, I replied bad apparently
FYI, to properly sound a gong, you should first 'prime' it, by lightly tapping it to get it vibrating slightly. Then when you strike it hard, it's not starting from a flat surface, but one that's already vibrating.
At least, that is, for orchestral sound production. If you're just going to blow a supersonic hole in it, it doesn't matter what it's doing before it gets hit.
As a percussionist this DOES make me wonder what would have happened if the gong were first warmed up by a reiterating felt mallet before firing the cannon. If it were vibrating before impact, would that have a different result?
I'm expecting the energy of the shot to be too high for a vibrating gong to do anything different
It's always fun to find the musicians in the comments. Hi folks!
What if the gong was repositioned at a Very slight angle so the ball barely caresses it as it goes by?
Would that decrease the energy transfer enough to get a proper sound? Or would it just try and rip the gong in half?
Then you didn't need to bother telling us
In the slo-mo, just as the baseball reaches the mirror, the reflected ball seems to pause as the actual ball comes into frame pre-impact. Quite amazing. Good job.
ㄴㅇㄴ I was reminded of 2 lovers @ the beach/airport...
Running @ each other - but which one stops 1st (& why)?
You could make a muzzle brake to disperse all the excess gases so everything you shoot doesn't get blown over each time.
I was thinking of some preliminary designs for one during the gong section. Though since it's a scientific tool first I suspect they'll leave it as-is for now
They also put a plastic film over the muzzle in order to pull vacuum in the barrel. Kinda hard to do that when there's a muzzle device in the way.
@@yanosaur they could make the muzzle brake be bolted on after they put the plastic on for the vacuum seal
@@yanosaur A hinged clamp would allow it to be bolted on with quick removal and allow a mounted rubber gasket that would make the plastic have an easier seal.
Any Muzzle break would change the forces based on it's design, so that would have to be a later version to limit the factors that were changed between shots.
@@nehpets216 Rubber gasket, would also protect the tape from the edge of meatal.
Gong: "I'm not going to acknowledge that happened."
Wood support afterward: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
8:25 compared to the speed of the rotars on the drone, it really gives a good idea of how much faster that ball is moving. I'd estimate it took about a turn and a half to 2 full rotations of the rotary blade for the ball to go from exiting the barrel to hitting the target.
Blades that are normally close to invisible to the human eye - IIRC, on the Mavic they're doing about 7000 rpm.
I appreciate seeing the safety aspect of your testing. It's not something that gets shown very often by anyone and I love that you have taken the time to let us into that part of your filming.
idk looks like lots of glass on grass
Silly question: Is there any data that specifies how hot the flash caused by the baseball striking the target is? Would that be hot enough to ignite a liquid fuel like Gasoline? If so, would it also work with other fuels that have a higher flash point such as Ethanol and Diesel?
I also saw that spark and no one is talking about it.
Yeah - why is no one talking about the flash! It's so cool and deserves an explanation for sure!
@@StaticMusic I think there was talk about the spark in the first or second video in the series
Spark could be electrostatic discharge from the baseball as it builds up a charge from wind resistance.
seemed there was a flash on sprinkles jar as well.
Incredible work on that shot of the baseball hitting the mirror!
By far the best channel on UA-cam in my opinion.
I'm having a really rough time right now, and your uploads genuinely make me smile and help me manage.
God bless you Destin.
10:24 there is also a small flash when the baseball hits the container, to accompany the shockwave.
Yes, there is. I also picked it up.
I've noticed it when hitting the silly putty. I' curious if ist's some kind of sonoluminescence and also if it releases x-rays
When the planes hit in 911 same thing.
@@Nolen_der_Marco I was wondering if the atomized sugar could become and explosive fuel.
There's definitely a flash of light
Nearly every impact i see, a small white flash is created at the impact point, and it makes sense too, i believe its an atmospheric discharge , the object to be vaporized is an obvious ground, and the basebase goes from a grounded negative charge to a pisitive charge created the moment it oeaves the cannon due to positive charged air molecules piling up in front and an exchange takes place during flight, aircraft in flight experience a similar exchange after lifting off the runway ... educated guess backed by common knowledge and physics degree, still, just a proposition, watch ultra slow motion images of a projectol fired from a cannon or rifle, this phenom exist there also
The fact that the drone was able to even maintain relatively the same position when the shockwave hit it is amazing. The sensors and programming that go into those things are so cool.
Agreed, seeing how it compensates for the blast is really cool, it might even be an interesting subject for a standalone video.
@@spacepxl It wasnt compensating, the pilot just pulled back to slow down :)
Was it me, or was there a flash on the sprinkles shot? Right before the shockwave, I saw a flash when the baseball hit the container
This is the second video I have watch that is yours, and OH--MY--GAWD! 😂
So awesome seeing you and your son doing this sort of stuff together. I had a similar experience with my dad at his work at it was honestly amazing. I’m glad you’re able to get to spend time with them. Hope his arm feels better!
19:33 When he says well done to his son is one of the most wholesome things I've seen on this channel. Great job everyone involved!
I'd love to see a vertical ball flight, as long as you're safe when it comes back down, height would be interesting with drone watching it come past or come toward it if high enough.
Gotta clear that with faa first probably same way you'd have to do it for enthusiast rockets
I just immediately assumed his "doing something crazy" was launching a baseball into space.
Something I'd love to see: The slime made me think about how cool it would look if you could pour a wall of water out of a container and shoot through it since water is like concrete when impacted at high speeds. Also LAMINAR FLOW
@SmarterEveryDay i love the relationship between you and your kids and i think it would be amazing if you make a video , a long one, and teach us how to be better parents. thanks in advance
19:33 This matters, especially the second one. Show the people around you and particularly your kids, that they are your sole focus, when you say something to them.
It carries just that much more weight. Even if you are not there as often as you would hope, be there 100% when your are. It means the world!
there are two things on youtube that really, REALLY make me happy these days.
It‘s whenever collin goes on digging the tunnel and when you hit stuff with that cannon.
there‘s other good stuff as well, but this is like back in the days, when you had to wait one week to watch the next episode of a great show or series.
Well done again. Thanks
Can t wait for The Tunnel to be finished!!! What video, in the same spirit of these two, would you recommend watching? Thank you from France
Just... keep Colin away from that cannon. Safety tie or not, it'd be a horribly bad idea.
I love the 4 or so accent changes depending on what Destin is doing, lol.
Talking to us, talking to the guys, talking to us around the guys, and talking to his son.
It's hilarious xD
@smartereveryday. Hey there. You know, it’s a baseball right? I wonder if it is possible for you to impart a spin to the ball as it exits the cannon to see if you can throw a supersonic curve. I suggest a tiny bit of adhesive inside the mouth of the cannon, maybe an inch wide (on one side only) to slow that side of the ball making it spin. The best hitters can hit the heater, only the very best can hit a supersonic curve:-)
PS how much did the ball slow down after hitting the gong?
PPS How about a mechanical bat to hit a supersonic fast ball?
PPPS How did you clean up the pieces of the broken mirror?
I’d love to see the baseball drive a massive steel spike (nail-like) into solid wood (ie: large section of tree), like a Mach+ speed nail gun!
Keep doing what you do!
THAT WOULD BE SO COOL
To ensure a good fit, they’d probably need a discarding sabot. That’d be fun to watch in slow motion
@@saltyppancakes717 Amazingly impractical method of driving nails.
I LOVE IT!