What does a Gong Sound Like when Hit with a 1189mph Baseball? - Smarter Every Day 267 

The sprinkle breaking up is probably like the polo mint candy breaking (the electricity in candy video). It looks like there’s a connection

Tannerite

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.

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

That’d be a sick collaboration

Collab??

I concur

This needs to happen

Collab? Yes, please do.

it all felt forced

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.

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?

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

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..

Ignore, I replied bad apparently

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

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 RU-vid that he's just got a knack for this sort of thing", and that's why they joked he's had enough RU-vid 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"

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

no

@@Zeppec ok

Let's imagine we use a lightspeed baseball to hit a Gong to destroy earth

Nice

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

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.

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!

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 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

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)

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Thank you

thanks

These types of comment are legend, you should treat yourself NOW!

THANK YOU

Thanks Batman

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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"

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.

fr T-T

Ya things are different with cameras around and millions watching

@@natronfatumallafalla1922 some people really do live well. Don't hate. I hope the Lord gives you peace.🥺

Its not just from air blast. The ball was moving faster than its own shockwave

Funny, I was thinking the same thing

Man I keep finding you all over RU-vid

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

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!

Yeah I think Gavin and Dan over at SlowMoGuys have a mirror shattering vid that shows that pretty good.

The Matrix: surprisingly physically accurate.

The shockwave is infront of the ball, since it's supersonic. The wind from the cannon catches the objects after impact.

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.

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?

Shattering the POV illusion like shattering reality

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.

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...

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

He did talk about that. It's heat generated by the impact.

I just came here to comment to see if anyone else caught that at 5:22. I guess this was addressed?

@@moos5221 it's been mentioned in a couple of videos, but focusing in more on it would be an interesting topic too!

@@Suplyndmnd Many times in many slow motion videos (Destin did it too)

@@a-blivvy-yus yes, for sure it's very interesting and i wouldn't mind going more in depth on it. they talk more about it in the video where the ball hits the glove.

hotter than the surface of the sun many times

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 glass breaking in the mirror felt like a glass breaking in my mind.

i think that shockwave is just a compresión of the air and the condensed wather on it

@@mamamelaverga8753 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.

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.

Maybe that's what the "super super crazy" idea is: a traversable wormhole.