+yung holocaust The air is not sufficient by itself. We've had a few launches where the pressure breaks the ball apart inside the launch tube. Shards of ball embed in the target, but no hole is formed. David Knierim
The air has a lot of momentum and knocks things around in the target area. The air spreads out quickly at the end of the launch tube, so isn't effective at punching holes in things (unless they were against the end of the tube perhaps).
+Tony424 Certainly with a ping pong paddle target, the ball is the active part. We've had the paddle 1.1 meters (over 3.5 feet) away from the launcher, and the ball still makes a nice hole. The air is much too spread out by that distance.
@@lolipedofin Photons do, in fact, do damage and they have 0 mass. There was a man in Russia, iirc, who accidentally stepped into a particle accelerator and received a proton going at a fraction of the speed of light to his head. It did some serious nerve and sensory damage. The smaller the particle, the more microscopic the damage, but you'll still get skin cancer from photons.
KodRaiN I'm not sure that wouldn't kill you if it hit you in the face, head, throat, chest or abdomen. There was massive deformation and tissue damage. They may have dismissed it but I'm not sure a human taking such a hit would be able too. At best they would have a very serious life threatening injure.
TheGramJam well if someone murdered a family member or friend of mine, and I caught them dexter style, killing them slowly with supersonic ping-pong balls might be the option I would choose. I'd let you guys know the results.
When people say bullet/arrow speed is more important than kinetic energy or momentum... "we shot a ping pong ball faster than sound and it didn't do sh*t"
Scott Harrison the thing is, if the 1100 psi air and the ping pong ball arent lethal enough as seen in the test, theres no way a pingpong ball alone could
Twilight053 it is my understanding from multiple industrial jobs that 200 psi of air is enough to force it's way into your blood system and cause cardiac arrest , but the injury that way inflicted to this ham would not be any fun and could very easily be fatal if not treated quickly
I dont think that theyre accounting for all the air coming out of that tube behind the ball at 300 psi, which could have contributed to the damage. The end of the barrel should have been vented to make for a more conclusive test, I think.
Right, but the ball going fast isn't what is likely causing the damage. Ever put your hand in front of an air compressor? Air moving that fast has A LOT of force, and that is what probably caused the damage. A more appropriate, albiet impractical way of testing this myth would be to accelerate the ball using something that wont leave the end of the barrel so that you know the impact was cause solely by the ball, some sort of slingshot, or rail gun I would imagine.
ManlyMcBuff I'm pretty sure that tube is a vacuum when it starts. Another video explained how that was necessary to get a ping pong ball to move that fast. So, a slingshot would not be able to propel the ball that fast, nowhere near. It would be very tricky, I think to do as you suggest. But good idea.
Screw you guys in the comments, I did the math and if you assume total energy conversion, the ping pong ball exerts an average of 128,522.212 Newtons on the flesh. That is more than most bullets can exert, so yes the ping pong ball DEFINITELY caused most of the damage.
Guys, I did math. Ping pong ball that is 2.7 grams moving at 1100mph or 1770km/h would have kinetic energy of 3700 joules. It is enough to break bones at right angle. This will definitely kill you.
"Table Tennis, one of the fastest ball sports on the planet." -Meanwhile the record speed is a mere 70mph whereas a sport like Lacrosse, records go up to 114mph
As a BBQ guy I can tell you that, no Adam, pigs don't have 4 shoulders. A pigs anatomy is very similar to a humans, believe it or not. 2 shoulder joints, 2 hip joints. 2 Boston butts, 2 hams.
No, think the initial impulse of the ping pong ball hitting might have barely broke the skin and then the tremendous air pressure forced the tiny hole wide open.
An inch and a half of damage, and they call that non-lethal? Depends on where you hit someone. Personally, I want to see what it would do to someone's skull. I'm surprised they didn't use a ballistic gel dummy, though. I think that might have given better, easier to see results, and eliminated all this argument about how much damage the air did. But really, why was this even a question? Anything moving fast enough can kill. A tiny paint fleck can chip a window in the space shuttle, so why wouldn't a much more massive ping pong ball be dangerous?
They should've put a bit more distance between the ball and the pig. The ball came out of the tube at mach 1 and almost instantly hit the pig. Why not a few meters away? My guess is that the ping pong ball would lose energy incredibly fast, since there's very little in terms of inertia and mass to keep it going against the air resistance.
It was the ping pong ball. Kinetic energy goes with the square of the velocity. K.E.=(1/2)mass•velocity^2. (1/2)(0.0027kg Mass of the ping pong ball)•(495.8meters per second(1100mph))^2= 331.8 Joules of energy.
Now think about how the International Space Station with those flimsy panels has been orbiting the Earth at 17,000 mph for 18 years....now think about all the garbage that's supposed to be up there flying around....now think about how ridiculously unlikely that at any given time the ISS wouldn't be completely destroyed by a single strike of anything as small and dense as a ping pong ball.....17,000 mph
The ISS is actually in a very safe orbit from significant debris strikes. It's low enough in the atmosphere that it needs constant course correction to maintain altitude, the debris that would be orbiting at that altitude wouldn't have the luxury of RCS thrusters, and would quickly fall down to burn up within a matter of days or weeks. The only significant threats to the ISS, are VERY high altitude debris with highly eccentric orbits and perigees near the ISS's orbital altitude. These bits and pieces are going quite slow while near apogee, but accelerate to MUCH higher speeds as they swoop through the lower altitudes. If one of these were unfortunate enough to hit perigee at the precise moment that the ISS was occupying that exact same point in space, That's when the ISS would risk being damaged.
that weird moment when..... 1. you stumble upon an intelligent comment thread on youtube 2. someone disproves any chance of satellite s in orbit 3. someone smarter proves satellite s are possible and ingenious 4. I give up on life
+Niki F Thanks, I take any and every presented opportunity to foster interest and excitement in space and all the amazing facts and rules that only seem to exist way up there.
There was way more force than the ping pong ball at 1100, the air canon added much more force. Also it should have been shot at a distance across a table width and impact at the final rate, 1100 minus what's lost to air resistance.
Looks like the ball broke in little pieces upon impact. What if they made an enforced ball-shaped structure out of carbon nano tubes? Perhaps a more rigid object like that would allow for more energy to transfer into the porky.
+Magistro So a gun then? The pressure being emitted by a reaction from the gun powder, and the reinforced pingpong being a metal bullet? The smallest common bullet being the 22. regardless if hollow or what not will kill you. Anything bigger is over kill. Of course that depends on where it hits. I mean if this pingpong ball hit the head, I think it could be fatal. But I am not a medical expert. I just thought these guys are assuming the pingpong ball hit else where from heart or head.
It wasn't the air. Remember that Space Shuttle Columbia crashed because of damage that foam at a high speed did. FOAM. If foam going at 670-922km/h can damage a shuttle then surely a hard plastic ball can also damage.
Over 400 comments it’s likely that someone said this already. That is NOT a pork shoulder. That is the rear leg. Shoulders only come from the front. He also called it a “butt”. Also incorrect. It’s a little confusing, but in pork, “butt” aka Boston Butt” is from the shoulder. It is incorrect to refer to the rear leg as butt. The rear leg is either called “leg” or “fresh ham” And if it’s smoked then you just call it ham. You never use the word butt when referring to the rear leg of a pig. I think he got some terms confused when he said there’s four shoulders. He probably meant to say there’s four butts. Still a mistake but I understand how he could do that since the front shoulders are called butts. There’s no doubt the piece of pork in the video is not a (Boston) Butt.
Bullets are heavy compared to the air in the barrel, so vacuum would make little difference. The mass of the air sitting in this launch tube would be just over 3 times the mass of the ping pong ball, so vacuum helps a lot.
Much of the damage from say, a 5.56mm round is hydraulic. The blood rushing from the area blowing the capillaries. The way the meat moved after the ball hit looks like there could be some damage that way. I wouldn't know how to test that.
Even though the ping pong ball doesn't have enough speed to be lethal by itself, if somebody gets hit in the head by a ping pong ball going 1100 mph it could give that person a concussion. The ping pong ball might not be fast enough to kill somebody instantly like a gunshot to the head, but it could still give somebody a concussion and if that person doesn't get medical attention right away, he or she could die in five to ten minutes. Now I know there's going to be this one guy who's like, "The ping pong ball didn't kill the person, the concussion did." Well, how did that person get a concussion to begin with? He or she got hit in the head by a ping pong ball traveling at a world record of 1100 mph giving them a concussion thus killing them.
Uh... they didn't try it without the ping pong ball...
+yung holocaust
The air is not sufficient by itself. We've had a few launches where the pressure breaks the ball apart inside the launch tube. Shards of ball embed in the target, but no hole is formed.
David Knierim
Probably did. They don't show everything.
The air from the cannon really did most of the damage, like separating the skin from the flesh. The ping pong ball only gave it a cut.
exactly!
my thoughts exactly
so what if the tube were poked without a ping pong ball?
Will L 21 they need to drill a muzzle break at the end of the barrel
Will L 21 agreed
'Tis only a flesh wound.
+wakaka2waka what's that from?
+Domino the Dominator the princess bride
Dakota Tahran Oh. Was thinking of something else.
Monty Python.
not if you got hit in the gut
I can't believe he said "lethally penetrate the butt" :'D :'D :'D
Well, they are based in San Francisco...
Would have loved too see them try this with something like a golfball xD
Watch Dustin's vid. On smarter everyday. It's beautiful and scary.
I'd say from the high speed at the end more damage was caused by the trailing air pressure than the ping pong ball itself.
From what I can see it is the air that cause most of the damage not the ball itself.
The air has a lot of momentum and knocks things around in the target area. The air spreads out quickly at the end of the launch tube, so isn't effective at punching holes in things (unless they were against the end of the tube perhaps).
+King Wacky Yea, but the ball likely penetrated the skin allowing air to flow in and rip the dead shit out of that thing.
+Tony424
Certainly with a ping pong paddle target, the ball is the active part. We've had the paddle 1.1 meters (over 3.5 feet) away from the launcher, and the ball still makes a nice hole. The air is much too spread out by that distance.
Yup. 200 psi from an air compressor can break human skin.
I'd like to see this shot without the ping pong ball, and see how much damage the air actually did
Kids in Africa could've eaten that ping-pong ball.
Until that pork wasted it. #PigsArePigs
Kids in Africa could have eaten the whole set including the pressure tank.
What is this, the Langoliers?
But we're just going to keep recycling the same lame old joke.
Parkourior HAHAHA
I've always loved Jamie's little laugh every time something silly happens. Heh he he heh
Remember, it's mass x velocity^2.
So anything going fast enough could do some damage, as long as any mass is present.
An electron could go at speed of light but deal negligible damage with the mass it has.
@@lolipedofin Photons do, in fact, do damage and they have 0 mass.
There was a man in Russia, iirc, who accidentally stepped into a particle accelerator and received a proton going at a fraction of the speed of light to his head. It did some serious nerve and sensory damage.
The smaller the particle, the more microscopic the damage, but you'll still get skin cancer from photons.
"that is not deadly hit"
Internal bleeding: Am I joke to you?
The added white noise is a nice touch.
I like how he acted like he was going to hold the thing from the back if something went wrong XD
I'm pretty sure that would kill someone if it hit them in the throat.
KodRaiN I'm not sure that wouldn't kill you if it hit you in the face, head, throat, chest or abdomen. There was massive deformation and tissue damage. They may have dismissed it but I'm not sure a human taking such a hit would be able too. At best they would have a very serious life threatening injure.
Dwight E Howell How the fuck and why the fuck would someone do this in the first place? Whose bright idea was it?
TheGramJam well if someone murdered a family member or friend of mine, and I caught them dexter style, killing them slowly with supersonic ping-pong balls might be the option I would choose. I'd let you guys know the results.
KodRaiN
Whoa there, but I guess that's justifiable. But the judge won't be on your side on that.
who said anyone would find out? kind of hard to get evidence when the corpse is cut up and dissolved in acid.
When people say bullet/arrow speed is more important than kinetic energy or momentum... "we shot a ping pong ball faster than sound and it didn't do sh*t"
at that range 1100 psi worth of air could have maybe done a lot of damage???
Scott Harrison the thing is, if the 1100 psi air and the ping pong ball arent lethal enough as seen in the test, theres no way a pingpong ball alone could
Twilight053 it is my understanding from multiple industrial jobs that 200 psi of air is enough to force it's way into your blood system and cause cardiac arrest , but the injury that way inflicted to this ham would not be any fun and could very easily be fatal if not treated quickly
Over 1000 miler per hour...
"I thought the ball wouldn't do that much damage" -Adam
I think you forgot that 80 mph is fast.
Ping pong ball: *Moving at 1100+ Mph*
Bloodhound SSC: *intense sweating*
You've basically done a miniature version of the flying tile experiment from the Columbia shuttle disaster. 😲
I dont think that theyre accounting for all the air coming out of that tube behind the ball at 300 psi, which could have contributed to the damage. The end of the barrel should have been vented to make for a more conclusive test, I think.
+ManlyMcBuff , But that's what's making the ball go that fast.
Right, but the ball going fast isn't what is likely causing the damage. Ever put your hand in front of an air compressor? Air moving that fast has A LOT of force, and that is what probably caused the damage.
A more appropriate, albiet impractical way of testing this myth would be to accelerate the ball using something that wont leave the end of the barrel so that you know the impact was cause solely by the ball, some sort of slingshot, or rail gun I would imagine.
ManlyMcBuff I'm pretty sure that tube is a vacuum when it starts. Another video explained how that was necessary to get a ping pong ball to move that fast. So, a slingshot would not be able to propel the ball that fast, nowhere near. It would be very tricky, I think to do as you suggest. But good idea.
ManlyMcBuff I think you're right it was mainly the air that did the damage
Oh well I wanted too see the Ball travel by itself :P
This is one of these episodes that make it seem like Jamie and Adam are completely incompetent
A Fricking ping pong ball broke the sound barrier🤯
It's obvious the force of wind coming from the cannon was what caused 90% of the damage.
Screw you guys in the comments, I did the math and if you assume total energy conversion, the ping pong ball exerts an average of 128,522.212 Newtons on the flesh. That is more than most bullets can exert, so yes the ping pong ball DEFINITELY caused most of the damage.
Police: what you got in your hangar?
Me: Just a long tube that can project a pingpong ball faster than the speed of sound.
the compressed air caused more damage than the actual ping pong ball
watch the slow motion people, the lethal ball does all the damage first then the air blows into the hole.
it would also cause organ failure too!
silentquad yea but could the air by itself do the same damage?
silentquad wtf?
I miss this show..
The question we all want to know, will the ball penetrate the butt?
Next, get the world current ping pong champion to stand in front of the gun and hit the ball. "Can you hit a ball that fast?"
i think the air did 50% of the damage, so you need to move the canon back at east 1 meter
Guys, I did math. Ping pong ball that is 2.7 grams moving at 1100mph or 1770km/h would have kinetic energy of 3700 joules. It is enough to break bones at right angle. This will definitely kill you.
"Table Tennis, one of the fastest ball sports on the planet."
-Meanwhile the record speed is a mere 70mph whereas a sport like Lacrosse, records go up to 114mph
Jai Alai sez hi.
As a BBQ guy I can tell you that, no Adam, pigs don't have 4 shoulders. A pigs anatomy is very similar to a humans, believe it or not. 2 shoulder joints, 2 hip joints. 2 Boston butts, 2 hams.
No, think the initial impulse of the ping pong ball hitting might have barely broke the skin and then the tremendous air pressure forced the tiny hole wide open.
An inch and a half of damage, and they call that non-lethal? Depends on where you hit someone. Personally, I want to see what it would do to someone's skull. I'm surprised they didn't use a ballistic gel dummy, though. I think that might have given better, easier to see results, and eliminated all this argument about how much damage the air did.
But really, why was this even a question? Anything moving fast enough can kill. A tiny paint fleck can chip a window in the space shuttle, so why wouldn't a much more massive ping pong ball be dangerous?
They should've put a bit more distance between the ball and the pig. The ball came out of the tube at mach 1 and almost instantly hit the pig. Why not a few meters away? My guess is that the ping pong ball would lose energy incredibly fast, since there's very little in terms of inertia and mass to keep it going against the air resistance.
Potential energy is real energy! (0:50)
I wish i spent as much as much time reading books as i did rolling joints.
I think the air from the 300psi cannon help the wound get huge.
Ping pong ball would slow down rapidly with air resistance so that kinda shot would have to be point blank.
Cool... Now try it using a golf ball.
It should have been farther away. Same distance on a table from edge to edge. That was to close
I have been using the wrong table tennis equipment to spank butts. Thanks mythbusters!
It was the ping pong ball. Kinetic energy goes with the square of the velocity. K.E.=(1/2)mass•velocity^2. (1/2)(0.0027kg Mass of the ping pong ball)•(495.8meters per second(1100mph))^2= 331.8 Joules of energy.
They should have tryed the cannon without the ball and just air :)
the air pressure did more than the ball itself.
I came here to watch a really fast ping pong ball. I stayed to watch the mythbusters slam pork ass.
Please build a semilar cannon for golf balls.
I think the air pressure did most the damage.
that ball hit with 236 foot pounds of energy!
Now think about how the International Space Station with those flimsy panels has been orbiting the Earth at 17,000 mph for 18 years....now think about all the garbage that's supposed to be up there flying around....now think about how ridiculously unlikely that at any given time the ISS wouldn't be completely destroyed by a single strike of anything as small and dense as a ping pong ball.....17,000 mph
The ISS is actually in a very safe orbit from significant debris strikes. It's low enough in the atmosphere that it needs constant course correction to maintain altitude, the debris that would be orbiting at that altitude wouldn't have the luxury of RCS thrusters, and would quickly fall down to burn up within a matter of days or weeks.
The only significant threats to the ISS, are VERY high altitude debris with highly eccentric orbits and perigees near the ISS's orbital altitude. These bits and pieces are going quite slow while near apogee, but accelerate to MUCH higher speeds as they swoop through the lower altitudes. If one of these were unfortunate enough to hit perigee at the precise moment that the ISS was occupying that exact same point in space, That's when the ISS would risk being damaged.
that weird moment when.....
1. you stumble upon an intelligent comment thread on youtube
2. someone disproves any chance of satellite s in orbit
3. someone smarter proves satellite s are possible and ingenious
4. I give up on life
+Niki F Thanks, I take any and every presented opportunity to foster interest and excitement in space and all the amazing facts and rules that only seem to exist way up there.
+Brad Gefroh
Is 17000 mph accurate?
+Crystal May pretty much, it's 17,150 MPH, so close enough.
If you’ve ever played sting pong you know how much damage a ping pong ball can do
There was way more force than the ping pong ball at 1100, the air canon added much more force. Also it should have been shot at a distance across a table width and impact at the final rate, 1100 minus what's lost to air resistance.
Mach 1.1 - was there a sonic boom there?
That was just the air, not the ping pong, even a child would know how to set up this test fairly.
Looks like the ball broke in little pieces upon impact. What if they made an enforced ball-shaped structure out of carbon nano tubes? Perhaps a more rigid object like that would allow for more energy to transfer into the porky.
+Magistro So a gun then? The pressure being emitted by a reaction from the gun powder, and the reinforced pingpong being a metal bullet?
The smallest common bullet being the 22. regardless if hollow or what not will kill you.
Anything bigger is over kill.
Of course that depends on where it hits. I mean if this pingpong ball hit the head, I think it could be fatal. But I am not a medical expert. I just thought these guys are assuming the pingpong ball hit else where from heart or head.
+Magistro enough carbon nano tubes would take years to make
Next up: hypersonic ping pong ball
Imagine something that could rapidfire pingpong balls that fast.
It wasn't the air. Remember that Space Shuttle Columbia crashed because of damage that foam at a high speed did. FOAM. If foam going at 670-922km/h can damage a shuttle then surely a hard plastic ball can also damage.
The ball was a regulation pingpong ball which are hollow with a very thin shell of plastic.
For how close the tubing it would have killed them because all the air in the blood system it would blow up the heart
If it were further back then they could give an accurate representation
Holy crap that ball was FAST, the speed of sound is only 760-765 mph.
:)
What's up with impulse that would be absorbed by ping pong table?
Nice
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thinking this ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND :3 in sorry
About the are air that came with the ping pong ball?
Over 400 comments it’s likely that someone said this already. That is NOT a pork shoulder. That is the rear leg. Shoulders only come from the front. He also called it a “butt”. Also incorrect. It’s a little confusing, but in pork, “butt” aka Boston Butt” is from the shoulder. It is incorrect to refer to the rear leg as butt. The rear leg is either called “leg” or “fresh ham” And if it’s smoked then you just call it ham. You never use the word butt when referring to the rear leg of a pig. I think he got some terms confused when he said there’s four shoulders. He probably meant to say there’s four butts. Still a mistake but I understand how he could do that since the front shoulders are called butts. There’s no doubt the piece of pork in the video is not a (Boston) Butt.
i wish this was an actual world record
christ...... that's like a sniper rifle
You need to do a vacuum so it would not have any air resistance
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took a ping pong ball to the knee.
Should have done one with a golf ball
If that is non lethal than you should go put your temple to it, Adam. lol
That setup could absolutely be fatal
Well in space dust traveling at 45,000 mph can puncture space suits so it seems to reason that a ping pong ball will puncture flesh...
try vacuuming the barrel of a bolt action sniper riffle and then see your name in the Guinness book of world record
Bullets are heavy compared to the air in the barrel, so vacuum would make little difference. The mass of the air sitting in this launch tube would be just over 3 times the mass of the ping pong ball, so vacuum helps a lot.
Luckily there are no 1100mph traveling ping pong balls over he.. * *Struck by ping pong ball* *
Not to mention the damage that was done to the ping pong ball.
So they're wondering if a ping pong ball will penetrate a butt.
It would most likely kill because like hollow point bullets, it would break up in the body a cause internal bleeding.
That’ll put your eye out!
Instead of using compressed air. I'd say upgrade to black powder.
I think the force of the air did more damage than the ball, try it again with another method of propulsion
Much of the damage from say, a 5.56mm round is hydraulic. The blood rushing from the area blowing the capillaries. The way the meat moved after the ball hit looks like there could be some damage that way. I wouldn't know how to test that.
the air blast would make the wound WITHOUT the ping pong ball
Try running them into each other like fusion
everyone's got a problem with the ball vs. air damage, but... is that pingpong ball really travelling at 1100mph? mach 1.4
Even though the ping pong ball doesn't have enough speed to be lethal by itself, if somebody gets hit in the head by a ping pong ball going 1100 mph it could give that person a concussion. The ping pong ball might not be fast enough to kill somebody instantly like a gunshot to the head, but it could still give somebody a concussion and if that person doesn't get medical attention right away, he or she could die in five to ten minutes. Now I know there's going to be this one guy who's like, "The ping pong ball didn't kill the person, the concussion did." Well, how did that person get a concussion to begin with? He or she got hit in the head by a ping pong ball traveling at a world record of 1100 mph giving them a concussion thus killing them.
Now imagine that hitting you in the throat / neck area. Ouch.
the ammount of air pushed against the shoulder though would force its way into the blood and cause cardiac arrest.
Um, looked lethal to me. But was the air
looks like the air blast did all the damage
the damage was caused by the compressed air not the ball .
"Pentitrate with lethal force."
Again, Mythbusters. Have a control. Do this without the ping pong ball. How hard is that to think up.
But was it the blast of air that opened the pork up or the ball?
It was the air pushing a plastic shard that caused it to penetrate.