@@launchpendingNo loss, just a self opening bag😂 Also part of the expansion is due to heat, gasses expand as the bags heat up in the direct sunlight.
“These are crisps, crisps are from potato, potato’s are starchy vegetables, starchy vegetables contains a good amount of carbohydrate, carbohydrates are carbs and carbs have essential nutrients, therefore, you shall buy me these mother”
This reminds me of this one time I was in Tibet and all the chip bags at the grocery store were all super puffy kinda like the green chips in this video. I figured at the time it was a way for companies to sell you more air (and the bag was, in fact, at least 70% air), but now I think the chip bags may have just expanded because of the atmosphere. Tibet is very mountanous and we had to have been more than a couple hundred feet above sea level.
As a bit of an explanation. At sea level (0 m, 0 ft), the air pressure is usually defined as 1 atm (101.3 kPa or 14.69 psi), and this is usually the pressure the bags are inflated to. The first locale visited is Death Valley, which sits at 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. In this area, the air pressure is a tiny bit higher, at 1.01 atm (102.3 kPa or 14.84 psi). As such, the bags look somewhat deflated because the air inside (which is at 1 atm) is being compressed by the slightly denser air outside. (Side note: very fitting to have Takis in the hottest spot on Earth). The cammer then drives up to a spot in Inyo National Forest that stands at 3,292 m (10,800 ft) above sea level. In this spot, the air pressure is considerably lower, at 0.68 atm (68.88 kPa or 9.99 psi). In such environments, the air in chip bags pushes against the chip bags themselves, causing them to look bloated. This means that if you're driving at elevation with a bag of chips in the passenger seat, there's the possibility of it exploding when you go over a mountain pass, which means an embarrassing cleanup session for you.
Right on! I have the footage for the vlog version for my students, inc. pressure readings at both - but have had too much going on to finish recording/editing. Not a UA-camr - just a college prof trying to make things more interesting. This is a great explanation in the meantime!
Crush a water bottle at Badwater Basin and cap it off tight. Then make the same drive up and see how much the bottle inflates back into shape. Might have to try a few differently crushed bottles. Smashed, half crushed and intact. The inverse would be neat as well! Open an empty bottle up top and watch it crush itself on the way back down! Loved the Video! Surprised the green bag didnt make a mess!
😂 I searched for something like this to show in my classes so many times - thinking somebody must have done it before - but not much luck, just decided to do it myself! Very surprised at the variability between bags!
@@crookedcontours I wonder what the relationship between the ease of opening a bag and its expansion over this trip would be. I'd imagine something like sun chips or hardbite bags would expand a lot more/hold pressure because of how difficult to open and well sealed they are.
Buddy of mine and I went on a road trip for the first time last year and we were mesmerized watching the seal on a can of Pringles inflate and deflate as we drove. Unfortunately we weren't thinking and opened a thermos oy coffee at the wrong elevation and it sprayed everywhere
I am glad to see this before I do anything related to high altitude trips! I am already imagining how my snacks would have exploded on the floor and taking hours to clean every crumb and chip dust particle in the car 😅
Always try to do SI units first - but default to feet sometimes in speaking for clarity for my students. It was 4-5 hrs, but I cut out about 2 in the middle where it goes up and down over a couple passes that are lower than the first one!
For anyone wondering: The air we breathe is a compressible gas, when it is inside the bag at the beginning, there is a little over 1 atmosphere of pressure being exerted (by the weight of ALL the air in the atmosphere above the bag) to the outside of the bag, compressing the air within the bag. The lower your altitude, the more pressure that will be exerted on the outside of the bag and as you increase your altitude, the pressure exerted on the outside of the bag decreases (as there is now less air weighing down on the bag from above) allowing the air within the bag to decompress and expand... This same property of physics is what is also responsible for SCUBA divers getting the bends (as nitrogen decompresses in the bloodstream) and/or Lung Overexpansion Syndrome (as gasses inside the lungs decompress) when they surface too quickly from deep dives...
I used to work on a specific brand of copy machines that used bags with connecting nozzles that contained the toner. Sometimes, my job took me to the I70 corridor east in Vail/Avon and Aspen. Even though I don't work on copy machines anymore, it still gives me nightmares of customers calling and complaining they couldn't get toner in their machines.
Investing at 70k views, I'm sure it'll come back around on my feed again when it's eight years old and has millions of views Thank you for letting us all stare at a few bags of chips travel 3km vertically, what a great journey.
That actually raises the question for me, if goods produced at sea level is shipped to places like albuquerque or even higher elevation, are some bags inflated in the store shelves or do the industry take this into account or does it leak eventually normalizing it.
I was wondering this too! I think they make these decisions for other reasons - like the Ruffles, maybe they wanted to cram more in a shipping container so deflated it a bit? And the kettle chips - maybe a bit of pressure keeps them extra crispy? Good question!
As someone who lives at almost 9,000ft elevation, I have to say that the bags don't deflate with time, in school we used to stab the bloated bags (like the green on)with pens to make them burst loudly.😂
Did this once with Pringles on an airplane, didn’t expand too much due to the metal tube, but despite the cabin pressurization it still inflated a bit at the paper bit at the opening.
I worked at a grocery store at about 2,400m (8,000 feet). Every single crate of chips had at least one bag that had popped. Going over the 10,200 ft pass, my boss said there were some popping in the car. She had bought some in Denver to try for our store. You should see what happens in the opposite direction. When we moved from 2400m to 300m, anything that was sealed at high altitude was crushed at 300m!
Haha! I believe it! Had no idea people would be so into this - but now I’m definitely thinking about doing the reverse. I sealed the big Crystal Geyser bottle from 10800ft back to like 5000ft and it was already pretty crushed. Next year!
Weirdly makes me appreciate the effort that went into ensuring the bags have just enough air in them to keep the chips safe while also not risking explosion since they have to basically go all over America and other countries
A long time ago (2008) I bought a soda in New Mexico and didn't get around to opening it until I was near the highest point in I80 in Wyoming and it didn't errupt, it just kinda lazily fizzed up and over the brim.
I love to get that 'POP' from a bag at altitude. This is so cool! I love science! It sucks though when you forget about your shower products in your luggage.
You got lucky. I bought a small bag of chips in Iowa and they exploded at 10,408ft on I-70 in Colorado on the east side of the continental divide. Was quite a loud bang but I was ready for it.
I'm really surprised that nothing exploded, and in fact two bags didn't expand that much at all. I've had bags explode going just from Phoenix to Flagstaff.
I need to go to bed. I just watched a packet of chips take a road trip with its friends...
😂😂😂
thats the most adorable way to put it, hope you had a nice rest good sir.
I can't believe they didn't invite Pringles or some English Crisps.
@@Michael-j4l3dor lays and miss vickies
I was about to come type this
My doritoes exploded in the rental during that same drive
sorry for your loss
@@launchpendingNo loss, just a self opening bag😂
Also part of the expansion is due to heat, gasses expand as the bags heat up in the direct sunlight.
@@SilvaDreamsI think a doritos bag unexpectedly opening in a rental car, potentially spilling everywhere, could absolutely be counted as a loss
That's how we'll explain the mess to the people at the rental company.
Oh God not the rental...
I fully expected this video to have been uploaded 10+ years ago and have millions of views, but it's surprisingly recent.
let me ask them
have you ever wondered what was like in 10 years ago?
thought the same until i checked the views and upload date
Yeah this is like old UA-cam stuff. I love it
because atmospheric pressure didn't exist 10+ years ago
3:39 me explaining to my mom why I need potato chips from the supermarket
LOL
“These are crisps, crisps are from potato, potato’s are starchy vegetables, starchy vegetables contains a good amount of carbohydrate, carbohydrates are carbs and carbs have essential nutrients, therefore, you shall buy me these mother”
@@evexoceon-british detected-
Funniest youtube comment i've read in a while
@@evexoceon The bacon in me talks the same language as you, my brother. We shall consume the potato like irish guys.
I’m impressed he drove that long without the bags sliding at all.
Duct taped them on the bottom - I was prepared, haha!
I’m impressed he drove that long without eating them.
@@sed8181 duct taped 🤐
We all expected that green one to explode. We wanted it to.
Me too brothers
Absolutely...
You got that right
i not expected I watched the chips travel, music made this journey
Same here
This has the energy of a 10 year old Tom Scott video. I love it
we all missed him didn't we
Or Smarter Every Day - the music even feels like it'd fit
@@y__h what
@@Axcyantol he stopped making vids
see you all in 10 years when this randomly gets recommend to millions of people
Hello
Yep
Sounds good
*Billions
Sure
I didn't know you could leave Death Valley and immediately drive to over 2 miles above sea level. I gotta make this trip at least once in my lifetime
You can see the lowest point in California from the Highest point in California.
one of the many things that make me sad about how much the people here ruin it, its such a cool place otherwise
I'd be concerned about the bends.
@@henrydickerson9776honestly same
@@static_boltWhat ways are they ruining it, in your experience? (Genuinely want to know your perspective and experience, I'm from Oregon)
Longest I've ever stared at a bag of chips and not eaten them
I will recommend this video to anyone who’s learning about atmospheric pressure.
And then show them the exact opposite by showing the video of opening a shaken can of Coke at the bottom of the ocean.
This video was recommended to me by the algorithm. The comment is to make sure it blows up.
Yes, yes, like a bag of chips taken to 10,800 ft in elevation
It does
@@nathanoher4865BOOM
Rare algorithm pull, I'm gonna keep watching neat videos like this to hack the algorithm.
@@StupidmetalheadThe real question I have... Is there a SCP-[unknown] behind this Algorithmic push!? 😂
This reminds me of this one time I was in Tibet and all the chip bags at the grocery store were all super puffy kinda like the green chips in this video. I figured at the time it was a way for companies to sell you more air (and the bag was, in fact, at least 70% air), but now I think the chip bags may have just expanded because of the atmosphere. Tibet is very mountanous and we had to have been more than a couple hundred feet above sea level.
Same bro, although i wasnt in tibet but sichuan near tibet
@@badiskool9159 noice
Even in Denver at only a mile up we get some bags that are inflated that much. I love getting them because my chips never are broken😊
As a bit of an explanation.
At sea level (0 m, 0 ft), the air pressure is usually defined as 1 atm (101.3 kPa or 14.69 psi), and this is usually the pressure the bags are inflated to.
The first locale visited is Death Valley, which sits at 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. In this area, the air pressure is a tiny bit higher, at 1.01 atm (102.3 kPa or 14.84 psi). As such, the bags look somewhat deflated because the air inside (which is at 1 atm) is being compressed by the slightly denser air outside. (Side note: very fitting to have Takis in the hottest spot on Earth).
The cammer then drives up to a spot in Inyo National Forest that stands at 3,292 m (10,800 ft) above sea level. In this spot, the air pressure is considerably lower, at 0.68 atm (68.88 kPa or 9.99 psi). In such environments, the air in chip bags pushes against the chip bags themselves, causing them to look bloated. This means that if you're driving at elevation with a bag of chips in the passenger seat, there's the possibility of it exploding when you go over a mountain pass, which means an embarrassing cleanup session for you.
Right on! I have the footage for the vlog version for my students, inc. pressure readings at both - but have had too much going on to finish recording/editing. Not a UA-camr - just a college prof trying to make things more interesting. This is a great explanation in the meantime!
The green bag seemed to expand more than the other bags, is this an indication of that green bag having a better airtight seal 🙏
Crush a water bottle at Badwater Basin and cap it off tight. Then make the same drive up and see how much the bottle inflates back into shape. Might have to try a few differently crushed bottles. Smashed, half crushed and intact. The inverse would be neat as well! Open an empty bottle up top and watch it crush itself on the way back down! Loved the Video! Surprised the green bag didnt make a mess!
This is the type of video that would have 5 million views within 7 years
Me: why am I watching this? Also me: someone needed to make this video. Also: Ruffles and Takies need to step their bag seal game.
😂 I searched for something like this to show in my classes so many times - thinking somebody must have done it before - but not much luck, just decided to do it myself! Very surprised at the variability between bags!
@@crookedcontours Yeah, that was a big difference.
@@crookedcontours I wonder what the relationship between the ease of opening a bag and its expansion over this trip would be. I'd imagine something like sun chips or hardbite bags would expand a lot more/hold pressure because of how difficult to open and well sealed they are.
Average science teacher on an average sunday morning
you know those chips are gonna be stale as hell when you open the bag
I have a feeling this video will go viral. Totally worth the drive, thanks for sharing!
I allready thought it went viral until a saw the views - 1368
I love the calm music
I believe it’s an interpolation of I want you by Tom waits, I was wondering why I was humming the whole tune before hearing it
I really love the wide open road, so serene
Why does this give me the feels of an old UA-cam video? (It’s quite relaxing btw :D)
I did not know I needed this video in my life. Cool stuff!
This WILL go viral
Cool video, but I think you accidentally left the time lapse on at 3:39
Maybe not
props to the guy for speaking so fast and to learning how to talk like sounding like a guitar,
That middle bag is the story of me at dinner time fr
Buddy of mine and I went on a road trip for the first time last year and we were mesmerized watching the seal on a can of Pringles inflate and deflate as we drove. Unfortunately we weren't thinking and opened a thermos oy coffee at the wrong elevation and it sprayed everywhere
I am glad to see this before I do anything related to high altitude trips! I am already imagining how my snacks would have exploded on the floor and taking hours to clean every crumb and chip dust particle in the car 😅
2:18 that's thicc bag of jalapeno chips, dayum!
I like that the feet is displayed in parenthesis.
By the way, how long did it take you to drive from start to finish?
Always try to do SI units first - but default to feet sometimes in speaking for clarity for my students. It was 4-5 hrs, but I cut out about 2 in the middle where it goes up and down over a couple passes that are lower than the first one!
3 AM youtube video recommendations never disappoint
For anyone wondering:
The air we breathe is a compressible gas, when it is inside the bag at the beginning, there is a little over 1 atmosphere of pressure being exerted (by the weight of ALL the air in the atmosphere above the bag) to the outside of the bag, compressing the air within the bag.
The lower your altitude, the more pressure that will be exerted on the outside of the bag and as you increase your altitude, the pressure exerted on the outside of the bag decreases (as there is now less air weighing down on the bag from above) allowing the air within the bag to decompress and expand...
This same property of physics is what is also responsible for SCUBA divers getting the bends (as nitrogen decompresses in the bloodstream) and/or Lung Overexpansion Syndrome (as gasses inside the lungs decompress) when they surface too quickly from deep dives...
I used to work on a specific brand of copy machines that used bags with connecting nozzles that contained the toner. Sometimes, my job took me to the I70 corridor east in Vail/Avon and Aspen. Even though I don't work on copy machines anymore, it still gives me nightmares of customers calling and complaining they couldn't get toner in their machines.
Haha I just realize dthis video has 600 views. Totally expected this to be a viral thing with the chill vibes and educational nature of it
same thing i just realised
Finally, some quality content.
UA-cam needs to recommend more videos like this. Like the good old days.
This was awesome
Also you gotta repost the video slowing down your commentary at the end! I wanna know what happened to those Takis
Ya - will do, gotta spend a bit more time editing a full version
Slide along the progress bar once your at the end, it's really cool.
That green packet was a paid actor
Investing at 70k views, I'm sure it'll come back around on my feed again when it's eight years old and has millions of views
Thank you for letting us all stare at a few bags of chips travel 3km vertically, what a great journey.
I bet this video will get recommend again 5 years later😂
What a great video. It never occurred to me that this was a thing that would happen to chip bags.
OG UA-cam content, love it ❤❤❤
It's at 8.9k views right now and it's really the type of video that will have like 2 millions views in a few years
UA-cam is healing
This is the ultimate attention span test. How long did you watch it without in 2x or skipping?
thank you for showing the different locations. It was very fun to see the difference between each point!
Very good demonstration of air pressure!
Why does this feel wholesome 2:54
That actually raises the question for me, if goods produced at sea level is shipped to places like albuquerque or even higher elevation, are some bags inflated in the store shelves or do the industry take this into account or does it leak eventually normalizing it.
I was wondering this too! I think they make these decisions for other reasons - like the Ruffles, maybe they wanted to cram more in a shipping container so deflated it a bit? And the kettle chips - maybe a bit of pressure keeps them extra crispy? Good question!
As someone who lives at almost 9,000ft elevation, I have to say that the bags don't deflate with time, in school we used to stab the bloated bags (like the green on)with pens to make them burst loudly.😂
Did this once with Pringles on an airplane, didn’t expand too much due to the metal tube, but despite the cabin pressurization it still inflated a bit at the paper bit at the opening.
Took almost half the video to reach the elevation I've always lived at. I have a rough time going below 1,500 m / 5,000 ft. 😛
3:50 I can't believe the green one didn't explode. (I put the timestamp at the end of the video as to not give spoilers to anyone.
amazing demonstration!
Dude. Watching your video made me love America some more 😆. Cool stuff
Very interesting! I never would have thought of that in a million years.
I was expecting the green crisp bag to explode lol
From now, I will remember story about adventure of a man and his three chip bags
I worked at a grocery store at about 2,400m (8,000 feet). Every single crate of chips had at least one bag that had popped. Going over the 10,200 ft pass, my boss said there were some popping in the car. She had bought some in Denver to try for our store.
You should see what happens in the opposite direction. When we moved from 2400m to 300m, anything that was sealed at high altitude was crushed at 300m!
Haha! I believe it!
Had no idea people would be so into this - but now I’m definitely thinking about doing the reverse. I sealed the big Crystal Geyser bottle from 10800ft back to like 5000ft and it was already pretty crushed. Next year!
Fun fact: the cabin pressure on a plane is same as at 1,8-2,5km altitude
The music is “Green Green Garden” 😭
You can't fool me, that's obviously Cum on Feel the Noize
why am I watching this video at 13:00 pm on tuesday.
Damn, I need to get a job man.
this video is going to be recommended in 15 years
This is so much fun to do with empty water bottles. I had one on me at the Denver airport, and when I got to Chicago it was emaciated
I thought it said "explosion" and was in suspense the whole time. Excellent bag quality.
they can, in fact, explode because of that
This kind of videos is what UA-cam was made for.
Weirdly makes me appreciate the effort that went into ensuring the bags have just enough air in them to keep the chips safe while also not risking explosion since they have to basically go all over America and other countries
Funny to get videos like this in your recommendations, check the description, find out it's for the college you go to.
I kind of felt like the vibe of this video being like 7 years old but well it,s just 10 days old.
A long time ago (2008) I bought a soda in New Mexico and didn't get around to opening it until I was near the highest point in I80 in Wyoming and it didn't errupt, it just kinda lazily fizzed up and over the brim.
great timelapse!
Will you upload the part with the explanation so we can hear it?
Working on it - busy week for other work and didn't expect this to takeoff!
@@crookedcontours Awesome!
I love to get that 'POP' from a bag at altitude. This is so cool! I love science! It sucks though when you forget about your shower products in your luggage.
Deviant art be like:
I can’t wait to watch this again in 10 years. Maybe by then I’ll have made this drive myself!
This video will be a classic in 2029 for sure
This will be one of those videos that will get only after 10 years millions of views.
Gently taps green bag midway through the adventure
"you"re gonna be okay, lil' bro..."
probably gonna get millions of views throughout the next years
This is one of those videos that appear recommended after several years.
Damn. Uploaded 2 years ago. Time passes quick.
Imagine this is a joint paid ad for Ruffles, Kettle Brand, and Takis
I wish I got paid for this ;)
The jalapeno one is fighting for it's life lol
I was just about to hop in my truck with a bag of chips and drive for six hours up a mountain.
Guess I’ll just eat the bag of chips instead.
How did the green one not explode at this point
You got lucky. I bought a small bag of chips in Iowa and they exploded at 10,408ft on I-70 in Colorado on the east side of the continental divide. Was quite a loud bang but I was ready for it.
The Green Bag said, “You won't like me when I'm angry.”
and now the return journey - empty bottle at the top, cap it. watch it collapse on the drive back down?
Hope to do that from even higher next summer!
now that's a pillow if i've seen one
I'm really surprised that nothing exploded, and in fact two bags didn't expand that much at all. I've had bags explode going just from Phoenix to Flagstaff.
Yeah, I shoulda rigged one of them to pop ;)
Is the music a southern version of the Happy happy happy!! song?
Had this happen to a bag of cape cod chips that I brought to Denver, it was so puffed up.
I wonder if companies take this into account and fill the bag with less gas if the bags are going to high elevation.
That moment when you justify the hiss for altitude change, then get botulism.
Kidding ofc! Fun video!!
Im really stoned and really tripped out right now watching air fill up a sealed bag😮😮😮😮far out ✌
Badwater Basin to Patriach Grove?
Yt algorithm gonna cook with this one in 10 years
The same thing happens to your tires, so don't overfill when driving up to high altitude.
Were those kettle chips packed in a hyperbaric chamber or something?
I said almost the same thing during the actual commentary I recorded, lol
I'm commenting before future people see this on their homepage. Greetings from 2024