Well.... the specifics of how to accomplish this have been in my head since 2017. I'm very excited to finally share it with you. I'm grateful to everyone who supports Smarter Every Day on Patreon. You make long-term planning things like this and the baseball cannon possible! Here's the link if you'd like to join our sticker team: www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Also, as promised, here's the link too the email list! www.smartereveryday.com/email-list I don't spam you. I just send out an email every time I upload. Thanks for your consideration!

@Donuts_random_stuff

10 ай бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Picture bot 🤖

@nigglewiggle4214

10 ай бұрын

"intellectual humility" is a term id never heard before. but as soon as I did I knew that if I have developed any of it, I only have your videos to thank for it.

@gnomechump-stiny7128

10 ай бұрын

AFFORDABLE particle accelerator

@Paradox1A9B2w7

10 ай бұрын

No one uses cards anymore. You scan them in and add them to your smartphone. So no one believes you like it. Surely you use those types of apps aswell for any loyalty card. And you aint got that many other card. So

@adrienorlowski3995

10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for addressing the safety in an interesting way!

When the two bullets perfectly hit each other it looks like your shot a single bullet into the worlds strongest mirror. Insane.

@lolexguy

10 ай бұрын

when an unstoppable force meets an unstoppable force. now we also need an immovable object to meet an immovable object.

@Nightstalker314

10 ай бұрын

or like having an impenetrable piece of glass seperating both.

@CrazyManuel94

10 ай бұрын

It just levitated and rethought it's place in space and time

@bobedwards8896

10 ай бұрын

I commented years ago challenging you guys (collective youtube makers) try to make an anti sniper shield using high speed cameras, or however might be possible

@donneff7356

10 ай бұрын

Now make a robot do it.

16:24 first colision between them (not perfectly hit) 18:51 perfect shot 26:36 another great shot

@bigbadaboomboom

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for that.

@ChrisMelville

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I came to the comments looking for the timestamp 👍🏻

@rs832

10 ай бұрын

21:52 perfect shot, stopping both bullets at point of impact. Truly impressive!

@codeP08

10 ай бұрын

20:24 is so awesome, too, and 20:46 as well

@gregorypeck876

10 ай бұрын

The destroyer of lengthily documentaries! We salute you 😂

A buddy of mine who used to go metal detecting for Civil War Artifacts, once dug up a perfect specimen of two mini-balls that had hit HEAD ON and fused together. The artifact itself was amazing, but even more amazing was to realize that because both bullets had hit each other perfectly, the two soldiers had LIVED!!! After that fateful shot, it was probably not a good outcome, but at least for that moment in time, they both lived to fight another day!

The fact that the sponsorship was the end of the story of this video is so great. That is such an amazing way to incorporate a sponsorship. Since I have KZread premium it tried to automatically skip it and I feel like there should be some way for KZread to make a distinction between actual content and just mindless sponsorships. If you have KZread premium rewind it to the point till before the sponsorship started and to make sure to watch it. It is so cool and you don't want to miss it.

@sparky2141

2 ай бұрын

If it weren't for this comment, I would have missed the segment cuz it skipped it for me too.... Thank Youu !!

@ole-mariusbergesen7818

Ай бұрын

I have premium and it never skips for me.

@sparky2141

Ай бұрын

@@ole-mariusbergesen7818 i think it's just a setting difference....check it out once

@himitsumonban

Ай бұрын

@@ole-mariusbergesen7818 it's not KZread premium that makes it skip, it's the SponsorBlock addon.

@turtlepoi

24 күн бұрын

"Destructive sponsership" LOL

12:47 15:00 15:47 18:40 19:50 20:30 All of these are what you came for 21:54 24:32 part of bulket sticks together 26:44 Final good shots 27:41 Video ends

@miro_theburger

10 ай бұрын

you're a life saver, thank you

@Yildirim.Bayezid

10 ай бұрын

Bro sacrificed himself for us

@miro_theburger

10 ай бұрын

@@Yildirim.Bayezid truly

@SaadKidwai

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Hate pointless filler stuff.

@schristo7338

10 ай бұрын

May god bless you for saving us time

Slow Motion of the Bullets Hitting starts at 21:54 Cheers!

@urmamafarting8101

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@doginboat

10 ай бұрын

I cant believe they made a short clip into 35 minutes... like i care that much!

@muntasirahmed5755

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for saving my time

@AlexTrest

10 ай бұрын

I'd need to waste 22 minutes before seeing 2 bullets hitting each other. I understand the research and effort, but c'mon, this is just making it boring

@labochbibeb8211

10 ай бұрын

Thanks man you’re a gentleman and a scholar

I am a traffic accident reconstructionist, so I tend to think it terms of momentum, velocity, Vectors, etc. I never dreamed you'd get a complete mutual momentum transfer, particularly with the FMJ. Absolutely incredible work, gentlemen.

I wonder if you could make two bullets hit inside a block of ballistic gel so it catches all the fragments and everything and you could see this little pause of time and see how it all expands outward, I think that'd be pretty cool if possible but maybe it wouldn't be able to catch it I'm not sure

@williambattermann5008

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the something, using ballistic gel...... It is possible the bullets hit inside a body?

@adamhelper3277

3 ай бұрын

Thats been a thing and they do it all the time

@miles6305

3 ай бұрын

@@adamhelper3277 he said two bullets... so not just one bullet into ballistic gel

@deadlikedisco4726

2 ай бұрын

That's a good idea. It would be really difficult to make the bullets collide, though. Ballistic gel changes the trajectory dramatically. I'm sure it can be done, though.

@miles6305

2 ай бұрын

@@deadlikedisco4726 yes, it would surely take plenty of attempts.

21:54 - The money shot... honestly this is a one in a million type capture. Amazing.

@Can_O_Peas

10 ай бұрын

Came to the comments specifically for this, thanks mate

@patrlabu

10 ай бұрын

Ads playing im searching comments. His teaser hits. This comment made perfect climax.

@davidjasinski6633

10 ай бұрын

Destin took from a one in a million shot to a one in ten shot.

@maxogle7749

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@777arksMa77_RGM

10 ай бұрын

69 like

I notice that both your barrels have right hand twist, so when they are facing each other, the bullets are spinning in opposite directions. If you had one barrel with a left hand twist, both bullets would spin in the same direction. With the rotational energy cancelled out, it seems that it would be much easier for the bullets to fuse on impact.

@SimpleGhost

10 ай бұрын

Exactly this!!! I was looking for this comment.

@TheBenchPressMan

10 ай бұрын

that being said, if trying to recreate what battlefield example then they are doing so. Your example wouldn’t be historically accurate.

@smartereveryday

10 ай бұрын

GREAT POINT. Were the civil war rifles smoothbore?

@Dragon2k13

10 ай бұрын

I think part way through the war they adopted rifled firearms. While smoothbore might make the shot possible, trying to get the bullets to collide in the first place would be much harder

@wraithrgrs5620

10 ай бұрын

@@smartereveryday Most were rifles so not smoothbore.

Amazing content on all of your videos, and you are really breaking out the big guns with Mr. Fielding. The thing that makes you two great is your ability to not only teach people how to do things, you teach us how to think. Thank You!

Destin, as the safety specialist at work, I would be absolutely thrilled to see a video of some of the planning and safety procedures before during and after one of these experiments!

Seeing those two bullets frozen in time in the middle of the air at 21:39 (22:00) was so amazing... It's literally forces cancelling each others out perfectly. I'm so blown away by this.

@pocketrocket6494

10 ай бұрын

@@inoxx1151 idk but I know I wasn’t expecting two identical pieces to just be frozen there

@spaghettiman9649

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for time stamping

@pno

10 ай бұрын

thanks on the stamp

@TheRenegadeMage

10 ай бұрын

22:00

@joelherrey

10 ай бұрын

Yeah! It looked so... unnatural!

22:00 is the most incredible slow motion footage i've ever seen and that is not an exaggeration

@stoneycooper9758

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for that timestamp

@pwest9257

10 ай бұрын

I knew that there would be one hero for a timestamp

@thomasmazumder964

10 ай бұрын

Thank you brother

@ddola9664

10 ай бұрын

thanks bro

@plague5356

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, godspeed! o7

you would think there would be some consistency in this! Thank you very day every day Steve!

This video has to be hands down one of the most well explain shown video, i have ever seen in a while...❤

The shot at 21:55 is arguably one of the coolest things that's ever been produced on the internet. I know you said you weren't trying to win the internet but that shot is in contention for it. I really appreciate you bringing all of us with you on this journey, Destin

@PunditKING

10 ай бұрын

Looked like a creation moment. Glad you put the time stamp

@2ScoopsPlz

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this comment, saved me a bunch of time

@gpness

10 ай бұрын

Mvp

@scottgriz

10 ай бұрын

@@2ScoopsPlz Watch the whole video. It's worth it. It's how you get smarter every day.

@danielk301

10 ай бұрын

I imagine this happening in a western-style duel. Both duellists shooting exactly at the same time and then wondering why apparently nothing happens :D

I work in OT&E and the safety procedure evaluation towards the beginning was an unexpected but absolutely crucial component of your process. Really incredible work Destin.

@lunaticbz3594

10 ай бұрын

Yeah from the intro I was thinking how I would attempt this, and the details they went into with the safety planning demonstrated well why I shouldn't try this at home.

@nussiskate3

10 ай бұрын

Only thing missing is environmental safety. All that lead going into the ground

@edr3667

10 ай бұрын

⁠…whence it came.

@michaelprice8810

6 ай бұрын

@@nussiskate3 where do you suppose it came from to begin with?

Every shot was amazing! It is magnificent to watch something so fast to hit in slow motion and see how it behaves. Such a cool video. Thank you!

I'm impressed with the amount of detailed work you guys did in advance. That is a lot of detailed work!

That perfect collision where they just froze in the middle might be the single greatest piece of slow motion footage I have ever seen in my life... It was so still it didn't even look real, that was absolutely amazing... The one at the end with the aluminum wallet was pretty cool too...

@bigguy7353

10 ай бұрын

It was done 60 years ago. This isn't new.

@vibaj16

10 ай бұрын

@@bigguy7353 so?

@justinmcgough3958

10 ай бұрын

@@bigguy7353 and? Doesn't cahnge the fact that that it's cool to watch and its in color on better recording equipment.

@Annihilator_5024

10 ай бұрын

@@bigguy7353 did your mom 60 years ago

@mariusjenkins7294

10 ай бұрын

@@bigguy7353 The footage from 60 years ago isn't as good as this footage tho...

amazing video, i love destin's excitment and daves dry combacks lol

@TheInfinityMaster1

10 ай бұрын

Miss your *"subscribers milestone fireworks"* videos. Would love if you do another one for good ol' times!

@genericname458

10 ай бұрын

Look forward to your next tunnel video Colin!

@Me-fz5vq

10 ай бұрын

Ahh colin, you are the most amaing person in England, we all know you

@zdrogovanylemur5611

10 ай бұрын

You know you made a good video when Mr Furze comments

@koubenakombi3066

10 ай бұрын

CGI

Really enjoyed watching this, great job!! My mind however just cannot dismiss the thought that two young soldiers managed to do this using a couple rifles braced against their shoulders without any rests, without thousands of hours of preparation and planning, just raised their rifles and shot two bullets that perfectly met each other in the air melting into each other, and by the way saving two lives simultaneously! Oh the glorious synchronicity of it all! Did they survive the war? Are their descendants out there in the world living among us because of this one happening?

Love the engineering that went into this! The fact that so much thought went into replicating what happened in real life speaks to the massive improbability of it happening at all. I imagine each of the soldiers would have been astounded that neither got hit after quite literally shooting the barrel of their gun directly down the barrel of the other. I wonder if the temperature of the bullets at contact have anything to do with it. I can imagine the two soldiers who fired at each other may have been firing a lot already by the time they engaged each other. Perhaps their barrels were already hot, adding some heat to the rounds before they were fired, and maybe that helped them fuse together easier?

When you shot those 2 together at 22:02 and they just froze in the air on the high speed, my jaw literally hung open for the duration of the shot. One of the most stunning pieces of film I've seen in a long time. Congratulations for capturing that after all the effort you put in. It's truly amazing!

@Natalie-vv9jl

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the timestamp 👌

@BitchuteBetterThanYoutube

10 ай бұрын

I noticed the same thing... like the world of physics just got hacked when they just froze suspended in air like that.

@17736tja

10 ай бұрын

Your a freaking lifesaver for the time stamp! Nobody wants to sit through a freaking 35 min video just to see 10 seconds 😒

@isaamvibez8913

10 ай бұрын

bro is a legend

@minimarso1337

10 ай бұрын

I came here to say the same exact thing!!!

What a great video and narrative! As an 80 year old physicist with a lifelong interest in ballistics, I have a couple of comments; The muzzle loading rifles of civil war era used a much different rifling twist than modern ammunition. The use of hollow base or "mini Ball" bullets rammed down a bore require a much different idea for stabilization. The lead composition is very, very soft so that the hollow base can expand to fit the bore tightly and engage the rifling without causing so much loading drag. Many of the muskets used in civil war time were smooth bore, without any rifling. Stabilizing the bullets in a smooth bore required a round ball , or in later years a Mini Ball with a hollow base or skirt. Modern air rifles also achieve stabilization partly through the skirt stabilization. If you compute the total energy of a bullet, it is not just "1/2 mv squared" of linear energy, but has a rather large rotational energy due to the rifling twist. In a head on collision, this rotational energy is in opposition for the two bullets, To achieve true linear energy transfer, you would either have to have the two bullets rotating in opposite vector direction, or not rotating at all. For reference, a 45 colt is commonly rifled at a 1 turn every 16 inches, wheras the muzzle loading rifles ranged from smooth bore (no twist) to 1 turn every 5 to 10 feet. My suggestion is to change the rifling to very long twist, in opposition, and use a pure lead bullet if you really want to see a fused bullet. The other factor is velocity. Black powder muskets had a typical velocity of 900 to 1000 feet per second, with a low ballistic coefficient, so they would slow down rapidly. If there were something like 400 yards between the opposing battle lines, the bullets would have been traveling less than half the muzzle velocity at center path collision. You might try to fire a pure lead bullet at a steel plate and determine the amount of deformation of that bullet then take half the linear energy backed out to velocity as a starting point for your powder charge and velocity starting point. Modern large bore pneumatic or air rifles might be an easier and more controllable medium to base your configuration on. Again i want to emphasize what a marvelous presentation you have made!!!

@nolanwunderlich167

10 ай бұрын

This is awesome info. Lots of different factors that have to end up absolutely perfect. It is possible! Who knew I'd be getting an education on youtube comments!

@willmarttinen

10 ай бұрын

Ok chat GPT.

@testfire3000

10 ай бұрын

Terrific comment, love the detailed info.

@chrisjwiley

10 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤

@bigmoose1961

10 ай бұрын

Awesome!

The distance between the ogee(the spot on the projectile that touches the lands) and the Lands( the very beginning of the rifling) effects the accuracy greatly.

This is the first video of yours that I have watched, and I absolutely loved it! I wish you had fully played out your hypotheses about metal composition and speed, though, to see if you could actually replicate the fusion.

If you're ever passing through Nebraska, stop by the Edgerton museum (for those who don't know, Doc Edgerton played a key role in developing the camera tech which made it possible to photograph bullets in flight). Congrats on getting two bullets to hit, though. Even Doc Edgerton didn't figure that one out!

@smartereveryday

10 ай бұрын

When I completed my Master's Degree, Doctor Robert Frederick from UAH handed me an autographed book from Edgerton. One of the most thoughtful gifts I've ever received. Edgerton inspired me.

@DasGanon

10 ай бұрын

Where in Nebraska?

@TalonJustice

10 ай бұрын

@@DasGanon It is in the middle of the U.S.A

@DasGanon

10 ай бұрын

@@TalonJustice The worst part of this "hur hur hur I'm technically correct" answer is that it's not, the geographic center of the US is in Kansas. :V

@micahphilson

10 ай бұрын

@@DasGanon It's in Aurora, just off I-80 between York and Grand Island. Forgot I went there as a kid, it's actually a really neat little museum!

Hey destin just dropping some love. Thanks for your videos, your exitement upon creating them, and also, the great music! Keep up the great learning experiences!

Great planning, safety precautions and execution but excellent enthusiasm!

The collision at 20:31 is so perfect that words cannot describe it. Great job. For science!

@ianmangham4570

4 ай бұрын

👍

@shitpostmalone5341

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 🍻

@greatawakeningforall

4 ай бұрын

@@shitpostmalone5341 the hit at 22:20 is like 1 in a billion I'd say. The perfect transfer of equal kinetic energy head to head (perfectly colliding in a balanced manner with equal kinetic energy and exactly in a straight line) indeed produces phase cancelation. It is mind boggling to see this with guns. It's like balancing very powerful magnets ontop of each-other without locking them together, or balancing a camel on a🕯on a needle on a stainless steel ball bearing 🤔 on.... a match... on a fire 🔥... like, it's so hard that you'll always just burn the stuff on accident and make the camel angry unnecessarily. 😠 Ballanced forces produce stillness and static pressure fields.

@user-uz7ft5fv8r

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so annoying lookin through long video for 5 sec clip

@monkeyinyowalls

4 ай бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH

One of the most interesting videos I have seen

@TimePass-xj9kw

10 ай бұрын

Nice

@Poke_Gaming13

10 ай бұрын

Nice to see you again

@MohsinKhan19154

10 ай бұрын

Good 👍

@NasirKhan-bh2mg

10 ай бұрын

Nice

@christopherknowles

10 ай бұрын

I like this dude’s content so much more than Adam Savage because Adam Savage raped his sister.

I really didn't think i was going to watch this entire video but man you kept me intrigued...great job, fantastic video.

I’m so happy with the end result of everything you did to show us how 2 bullets crash against each other, I’m saving this video for later watch again

Those bullets stopping mid air is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and definitely the most awesome demonstration of conservation of momentum I've ever seen. Wow.

@bigguy7353

10 ай бұрын

The same phenomenon was captured on super high speed film 60 years ago, just fyi.

@Imperiused

10 ай бұрын

The way it just seemed to freeze in midair made my jaw drop and exclaim "it stopped!" like I didn't just see Destin's same reaction just a few seconds earlier XD

@cheesypumpernickel5568

10 ай бұрын

​@@bigguy7353 gimme link

@raidermaxx2324

10 ай бұрын

@@bigguy7353 with what? do you have a link? thanks

This was awesome! I’ve always wanted to see this!

@PyTyDERT

10 ай бұрын

Scott! When's the collab with Destin?

@DarthPraennox

10 ай бұрын

Same!

@tmutant

10 ай бұрын

Collab with Smarter Every Day! The KenFolk will love it!

@CherryBlossomOhka

10 ай бұрын

Me too

@ianellithorpe5918

10 ай бұрын

Definitely would want to see a collaboration between Kentucky ballistics and smarter everyday.

Congratulations to Allan involved. Super nice video! Thank you!

I didn't stay around to watch the whole 35 minutes, but jumped forward to the exact moment. Well done to make this!

The fact that you didn't just stop after the first time because it "worked" and you had viral footage and just kept doing it over and over to pin down all the variables and learn exactly what was going on is what puts this project on such a high level not to mention the many many hours of prep and planning that went into this. Really love what you do, your passion and excitement shine through and build upon the work you clearly take seriously, thank you.

@EarlHayward

10 ай бұрын

Your comment is basically what I wanted to say… As a former Naval Officer (Suitland), they were not only diligent in their work, they refined their test for precision (while being as safe as possible…

Any other channel doing these kinds of videos, I normally just skip right to the money shot. But something about your editing style, the pacing, the information you share, the process of designing and building your experiments, it really is enthralling. Gotta watch the whole video!

@502deth

10 ай бұрын

same. i thought "35 minutes? thats too much, im not watching all of it." but then once i started, i just kept watching every second, and was like "its over already??" at the end.

@ralanham76

10 ай бұрын

​@@502deth didn't even notice 35 minutes

@thecaretaker812

10 ай бұрын

Came close to skipping forward, but.... as you say its always watching the whole thing, glad I did.

@vincenium

10 ай бұрын

100%

Considering how hard this is to recreate, it is literally miraculous that these civil war bullets not only melted together perfectly, but that they ever lined up in the first place..then, to add to the miracle, some guy like me with a metal detector found it 150 years later!!

This should be shown in every physics, Dynamics, engineering class. That perfect stop shot is amazing. (Start around 21:30) Us fellow engineers are loving this stuff.

@ajcg956

10 ай бұрын

Thanks man

@-_deploy_-

10 ай бұрын

This is how our ideal physics conditions are meant to play out in highschool...

@evil001987

10 ай бұрын

I love how he has a section about safety and to do everything step by step. Sure, it's a simple test, and every single threat is small on its own, but there are a lot of small potential things that can go wrong. So he does a checklist, so nobody misses anything. They made their own protocols to follow. Compare that to the handling of the ocean gate submersible. He cared more about the safety in this test than they did for ocean gate. And we have ocean gate ceo bragging about how they didn't need to use safety protocols.

@DevRel1

10 ай бұрын

Well they really didn't stop, just slowed down enough for us to perceive it as stopping. Ok ok they stopped.

@bluemercure

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this bookmark

Regarding the straight lead bullets, it may be worth trying to remove the oxide layer. When the original fusion occurred in the civil war the bullets may have been freshly cast and easier to fuse at lower temperatures. I see this akin to soldering PCBAs where older solder is resistant to melt initially from oxides and a touch of new solder/flux enables it to melt much easier.

@mycosys

10 ай бұрын

I think the temperature and shape are the keys - the black powder burns a lot slower and the minie ball is hollow at the back. This means a LOT more time in the long barrel and a lot more surface area to heat. The bullets would have been VASTLY hotter. It also means very little mass at the back of the bullet to continue pushing them together after the initial impact.

@josephgauthier5018

10 ай бұрын

Was thinking the same thing. I bet polishing and then stripping off any polishing compound with solvents would help significantly

@christianellegaard7120

10 ай бұрын

Get the lead a pure as possible. And then anneal the bullets after casting them. That will make the bullets as soft and malleable as possible. Or maybe use gold.

@Sembazuru

10 ай бұрын

Maybe paint a little bit of liquid flux on the tips of both bullets. The heat of impact might be enough to activate the dried flux on impact.

@Funnyboy2402

10 ай бұрын

I think you have a to small amount of led for them to fuse together. Bullets today is made to fly as fare and fast as possible. Thinkg they couldn do so much in the old days. So some more soft lead and a bit larger amount of it and you can do it.

Great job to all involved! And to your education and work ethic!!

Brilliant. Thourgherly absorbing. Thank you.

This brought back so many memories from mythbusters. Those are the best high speed shots I've seen in ten years. Absolutely fantastic job from start to finish.

@monkeyhands5053

10 ай бұрын

I was thinking exactly the same thing, bullet fired v bullet dropped came to mind first.

@aronnemcsik

10 ай бұрын

I heard his whole explanation of the problems on Adams voice...

@peterheinzo515

10 ай бұрын

what high speed shot did you see ten years ago

@aronnemcsik

10 ай бұрын

@peterheinzo515 look up high-speed shots from mythbusters, and you'll know they are really good

@dillonlamb8588

10 ай бұрын

Haha definitely thought i was listening to Adam a couple times. Its more like what shot didn't I see ten years ago. Mythbusters did almost everything you could imagine on high speed camera.

I don't think I've ever gotten to say something was literally jaw dropping, but those bullets stopped in mid air was totally jaw dropping. Fantastic shot, and fantastic work!

@whitehorsept

10 ай бұрын

Many jaws have dropped around the world with that one.

@cafeconleche444

10 ай бұрын

My jaw stayed in place perfectly fine but it was def an interesting watch

The Union and Confederate soldiers who did it on their first try without even trying: 🗿🗿

This was so cool. Thank you for making this happen

Just wanna say how wonderful the subtitles are. Not only correctly subtitling but also adding information for tone or silences. It's always a pleasure to see them be as high-quality as they are here

@Vindsvelle

9 ай бұрын

Troof. One of the best things about Primitive Technology's (otherwise un-narrated) videos.

@firefly4645

8 ай бұрын

Yes!! I was just about to comment that, it’s so impressive just how detailed they are!

@noahwaters7701

8 ай бұрын

It’s great for us hard of hearing folks.

@OnideusMadHatter

7 ай бұрын

-piggyback- Move them closer together. They get more velocity/faster they move out the barrel. Just put two barrels right up into each other and clamp them together, then fire both at the same time.

I cannot express the moment I had/felt when watching the bullet stop at the 22:00 mark. Thank you so much for making this content. It's truly inspiring and I appreciate every second of it!

@subliteral1380

10 ай бұрын

I'm also struggling to understand what I felt in that moment. It was as though time stopped, and I think I felt like I was witnessing a literal miracle.

@calebalcime9090

10 ай бұрын

Seriously.

@JavenarchX

10 ай бұрын

​@@michu3536 same

@JavenarchX

10 ай бұрын

Time got disrupted

@TheBuri00

10 ай бұрын

My hero dude 🎉

Well thought out guys Thx

This is a cool video. Much appreciated for the time and hard work put in.

Because of seeing all those safety procedures, this video is so educational. Normally you tend to make shortcuts and just skip them, but they are important.

@ForecieYT

10 ай бұрын

yep

@user-ru1lm4tn1i

10 ай бұрын

@@snowflake_46 shush bro u have no life

@shinobuoshino5066

10 ай бұрын

It's pretty odd to me that they actually ignored safety by loading the guns in position where potential misfire (gun firing unexpectedly) could shoot through the open hole... Like yeah, noone should stand on the opposite side when it's being loaded, but that doesn't mean the shield should be off.

@yzzcat7824

10 ай бұрын

@@shinobuoshino5066 It's actually safer, if the firearm discharged while the shield was in place, the fragments would ricochet endangering the person loading/unloading the firearm.

@hytekrednekbama4400

10 ай бұрын

@@yzzcat7824 common sense is not common at all these days.

Its always fun to listen to your amazing analysis ! Thank you It would have looked visually more pleasing if the two bullets were painted in Red and Blue, and as the 2 lead merges we could see some interesting pattern and confluence of those 2 lead

The alignment of the flight paths is so amazing. I can’t believe the view. The explosion was a bit of a surprise since I was expecting glancing shots and I know what not. The. The several shots like two ships passing in the late afternoon. All the footage is exciting to watch for anyone interested in flight paths and contact, marksmanship, reloading used brass for accuracy, even barrel fouling. So many things that we consider when we want to make accurate shots repeatable. Oh, yeah, seeing the shock wave ripple through the bullet as they impact was one of the coolest things Calculate the joules expended. Now scale it up to larger objects like the idea of asteroid interception or when the smaller moon struck the earth ejecting our moon. This leads to so many thoughts.

I mean, the hit around 22:19 is ... probably one of the most amazing things I've seen on YT. Bonkers how something so destructive can turn into something that beautiful. Stunning. Destin and team, you win.

@imeaniguess.6963

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙇🏾

@waldolemmer

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your service. It was really annoying of him to cut the collision out at the start

@strikye7

10 ай бұрын

thank you

@sanpedroatv

10 ай бұрын

That's what I call perfection

@dakotareid1566

10 ай бұрын

@@waldolemmerbecause you’re supposed to watch the entire video 😂

The Safety procedures is great to see. We often get a lot of "don't try this at home" which is valid, but modelling good, conscientious development of safety procedures is something i don't think we get enough of. especially because it can go a long way to demonstrate why it's not something that can be tried at home.

@TomVanWae

10 ай бұрын

At 5:20 he is pointing the gun directly at the camera man. Not good

@pitl

10 ай бұрын

@@TomVanWae It's a camera mounted on a tripod. EDIT: You can even see him set it up just 10 seconds earlier 5:10

@Chasmodius

10 ай бұрын

​@@TomVanWaeit's also unloaded, which he KNOWS for a fact, because he's holding the cartridge. Yes, you should always treat a firearm as if it's loaded, but not to an unreasonable degree, especially once you've personally verified that it is clear. And yeah, don't get in the habit of flagging people nearby, even with a verified unloaded firearm, but a camera isn't a person.

Amazing!! Very thorough job. You can negate the slumping powder in the longer cartridge by putting some dacron stuffing in front of the powder. A small amount gets consumed in the firing. If you can find hollow base wadcutters they are usually very soft because like Minie Ball, they expand to fit the barrel tightly. And I'm SURE somebody in Alabama does bullet casting.

I never thought I would watch this video all the way upto the end. But, wow. I experienced sheer joy seeing you so happy at acheiving every next milestone in this process. It was beautiful. I could feel your happiness.

The image that I have always found incredible is that of the two rifle bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli. One hit the other at 90 degrees: if the probability of two bullets hitting each other face to face is infinitesimal, hitting each other with perpendicular trajectories is really bordering on nothing. PS: maybe the next project for SmarterEveryDay?

@lastmanstanding5423

10 ай бұрын

I had to find that pic once I saw your comment. I can't post links because youtube is run by the guys Orwell warned us about. So google "Reddit Two collided bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-1916" to find the pic. But then I saw it wasn't actually real. Google: "lead stories Fact Check: Viral Image Does NOT Show Two Bullets That 'Collided' During Battle Of Gallipoli"

@007rockford

10 ай бұрын

first I thought he is taking about that bullet scene only...

@mxmdabeast6047

10 ай бұрын

I haven't seen any analysis on it but everytime I saw a photo of those bullets, I assumed it was far more likely one bullet hit a clip/box of bullets and got stuck in one. But, considering the timing involved, I do think you're right about the odds of two bullets hitting with perpendicular paths being extremely low. Though, I think the odds of them fusing would be increased, as far less momentum will be transferred (assuming lower is better).

@trentsheath7324

10 ай бұрын

If you look closely at that picture. One bullet had rifling marks, the other does not, indicating that one was never shot. Still pretty cool non the less.

@BrickTamlandOfficial

10 ай бұрын

it would be easier to try and hit two arrows perpendicular.

Not sure if you thought about it, but the rotation due to rifling causes the 2 bullets to spin in opposite directions. Maybe the old bullets didn't have rifling, or rifling wasn't standardized and they both ended up spinning the same direction. This would be much more conducive to bonding.

@magnumpolmatier8184

10 ай бұрын

They had rifling back then, but it wasn’t omnipresent. I don’t know if it was consistent. Good observation

@alexanderlohr3917

10 ай бұрын

This. Great observation!

@jonathansmith6050

10 ай бұрын

Especially in the early civil war both sides did still issue some smoothbore (non-rifled) muskets, which would have been firing large spherical balls; for example the .69 caliber Springfield Model 1842, which saw service in the war, fired a solid lead ball of .675 inch diameter; weighing about 30 grams. Or about twice as much lead as the bullets Destin was using. More lead, without opposing rotations, might be enough to make them fuse, especially if it was also a slower collision than Destin's (and given how quickly smoothbore balls lose velocity compared to spin stabilized bullets it might well be a slower collision than even low powder close-range firing can provide).

@bobdunchad4464

10 ай бұрын

^^^this. I came to the comments to post this. See if you can get a mirror identical barrel with a left hand twist, or two smooth bores.

@EarlHayward

10 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention the speed of the projectiles… In my opinion, that is why some of the shots just essentially exploded… That is, the force of the projectiles was relevant to the experiment… Edit: At around 26:00 they made adjustments to the powder, thus the speed, to address exactly what I was speaking about… These guys are amazing! While I understand physics, machine a lot of my own parts, and design controls using various systems (ESP32, RP2040) I am don’t think I could recreate what they did without a team like they had!

Loved your colliding bullet video. A roommate and I were at his home while in college in the mid 1960 s shooting apples out of a tree with over a mile of open field behind it on a solid overcast day with a 22 rimfire rifle and I could see the bullet as it was going up. Of course in those days my eyes were like telescopes and microscopes.

Thank you for do this experiment, when I was 11 year old, so I was thought about this experiment finally after 9 years I got answer.✌️👍

Could you try and catch the bullets in a medium just as they meet. You could try to use a slab of ballistic gel that you can cut down to vary the length, therefore controlling how much the bullets slow down before impact. It could have an added bonus of catching the fragments mid explosion like what you did with the prince ruperts drops.

@aserta

10 ай бұрын

BG does affect the path of the bullet. That's adding yet another level of complication on top of the existing ones. Not the right way.

@WitherShield

10 ай бұрын

@@aserta Very true! although from other videos I've seen bullets don't seem to deviate from their course too much, especially since the gel won't need to be too thick just a couple of centimetres - enough to just slow the bullets, not stop them.

@MicahScottPnD

10 ай бұрын

I'm thinking of the fusion of the bullets that caused this project, is it possible they collided in a medium of some sort? A wooden wall, a tree, something like that? The fusion in the wallet suggests that quite loudly to me. I KNOW someone knows more than I do on this matter. Is it known where/how the original fused bullets were found?

@SyntheticFuture

10 ай бұрын

@@MicahScottPnD pretty sure they used softer (more pure?) led back in the day and those muzzle loaders shot a lot slower than modern guns (they didn't have the tolerances to have a good seal and the black powder wwas pretty course and unrefined.). Add to that some distance and you'd have two pretty slow soft things that could merge. The odds of that happening are insanely small though... Your theory is also a possibility but I would expect them to still be stuck inside that medium if that happened.

@AnthonyZenrick

10 ай бұрын

I want to see them hit a block of epoxy that's about 95% cured... I want to see the shockwave captured.

"Get smart people in your life who love you enough to smile and tell you you're wrong." Great comment! Great video! Thanks, Destin. You do a great job of educating in an engaging and delightful way.

@andoletube

10 ай бұрын

That's much harder to accomplish than Destin makes it sound.

All the safety procedures were just as interesting almost. Great vid

It is beautiful. It is like Particle and Anti-Particle collision and resulting in all sizes of energy...

Really appreciate how you name the people involved and describe how they contributed to making this crazy thing happen!

@GetGotOnGetGotted

10 ай бұрын

I like your content

@darkshadowsx5949

10 ай бұрын

most people dont care.

@Mario_27742

10 ай бұрын

@@darkshadowsx5949 Yeah but he does!

@GetGotOnGetGotted

10 ай бұрын

@@darkshadowsx5949 yea but we all do but you and plus we didn’t ask +ratio + l bozo + durk better + this is you 🤓

@Mario_27742

10 ай бұрын

@@darkshadowsx5949🤓

My dad doesn't talk much. So when he sits straight up and yells "WOW" when the bullets perfectly hit each other and froze, you know something truly amazing just happened. Awesome job Destin & team. Keep up the good work! Love all your videos.

@mirkosaor

10 ай бұрын

That made me smile :D

@ForecieYT

10 ай бұрын

lol

Just amazing, good work guys, the bullet fusion counts in my book...

Amazing Guys and thankyou so much. Great experiment.

19:00 19:57 20:28 Bullet Hitting Bullet. 21:57 best one

@EmSki45

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for saving time.

@salim_707

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@istahke4071

10 ай бұрын

@@EmSki45 imagine not watching the whole video XD

The shot at 22:00 is probably one of the moments in physics history where you can see something so rare that it looks as if it belongs in a Matrix movie.

@MohPlus

10 ай бұрын

شكرا لك وفرت لي وقت ❤

@devanov3103

10 ай бұрын

​@@MohPlusIt's insane how good google translation has become recently. Now I can read arabic texts, pretty awesome.

It would be interesting to see how much ballistic gel could capture in an experiment like this. I'd love to see you do this with old mini-ball and black-powder as well. Great Channel, btw.

As a weldor who have taken extra classes in metallurgy I think that they might be using like "cast lead" to make bullets. Fusing cast metal is harder because there are added more carbon and junk in there, to save on steel and make it easy to pour. That lead seems to act way different from the lead I used to shoot back in the days, and the friction from that impact is definitely enough to make it past the melting point of pure lead at 327.5 °C (621.5 °F). I saw in one of Jonathan Ferguson videos that old muskets fire with a lower muzzle velocity than most modern pistols, so I would guess that with the low gunpowder bullets you guys made, that this should be in the ballpark, however I think factors like shape of the round and distance could be factors as well. I would advice you guys to contact the manufacturer of the rounds you used and ask them about the lead they use to see if there are any factors there you could adress with little effort ;) Cool video, awesome stuff

I love how humble Destin is when he's describing the video and his accomplishments. I also enjoy how he always takes the time to explain everything fully and simply. Truly appreciate everything that he does and can't wait to see where this goes next.

@ebrorson

10 ай бұрын

​@@markdoyle9642What?

@myles5868

10 ай бұрын

@@markdoyle9642 Huh? What do you mean 😅

@ebrorson

10 ай бұрын

@@markdoyle9642 What does your claimed profession have to do with your idiotic comments? 1) Neither Rober nor Destin idolize guns. 2) School shootings do not kill kids, deranged lunatics kill kids. 3) Deranged lunatics also use knives, cars, fists, bats, etc. to kill others. Do you also comment on videos of knife sharpening, car reviews, MLB highlights, etc.?

@myles5868

10 ай бұрын

@@markdoyle9642 How have mark and destin idolized guns.

@shable1436

10 ай бұрын

@@markdoyle9642 saying Rober idolizes guns, then explaining a tennis ball launcher as equal to an actual gun is lunacy, next you will want to ban baseball pitching machines because they can cause head injuries to kids, any projectile object doesn't equate to guns, and school shootings could be stopped if stringent metal detectors installed, along with search of bags, like entering courthouses, instead of trying to ban guns at this point.

Interesting to see this. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out and share it.

@skeetorkiftwon

10 ай бұрын

He needs to take some time to figure out declining EROEI.

@bishopoftroy

10 ай бұрын

Americans and their gun fetish.

incredible work guys!!

Wow that is bloody amazing.

Destin, have you thought about contacting a material specialist to figure out the conditions needed to get the bullets to mushroom and fuse instead of crystalizing and shattering?

@SeanBZA

10 ай бұрын

Need old lead, no alloying additives like antimony and calcium, all added to make the lead a harder alloy. Old lead has a lot of silver in it, along with zinc, which makes for a soft alloy that will readily bond with cold welding.

@ElboxD

10 ай бұрын

@@SeanBZA that's so cool! Any source I can learn more about this?

@turtlelore2

10 ай бұрын

@@SeanBZA In addition the older bullets will definitely be going slower

@JohnGalt-vr3lx

10 ай бұрын

Much softer lead would be a much better choice.

@gamingclipz7309

10 ай бұрын

No you just need old bullets…. The new bullets are made with a different type of alloy you don’t need a specialist to figure that out…

Have you considerd reversing the rifling on one gun so the bulits are rotationally speed matched on impact?

@theblunderbussbrothers9547

10 ай бұрын

Was going to say this. There's quite a lot of rotational kinetic energy in exactly opposite directions-that lead is gonna splatter!

@nopenope8418

10 ай бұрын

That or use smoothbore barrels, modern tolerances would make them accurate enough at that range for consistant results.

Im not sure what else you do or what your channel has on it but im subscribing for this video alone. Awesome stuff, not mention the presentation.

I love this channel!!! Never EVER a dull moment.

It’s amazing to think that those soldiers were probably shooting at each other at the EXACT same time, and likely saved each other’s lives! I’ve always wanted to re-create this phenomenon, thanks for doing it!!

@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798

10 ай бұрын

Except..... There probably was a follow up shot...

@jak199527

10 ай бұрын

I find it more interesting that because the loads for each shot would be inconsistent, they didn't shoot at the exact same time, but at just the right time for it to happen. Like doing two things at the same time is cool, but having the exact right amount of delay is cooler.

@andrewbledsoe131

10 ай бұрын

It's very likely they didn't save each other's life. They likely shot each other on the follow up shot or by someone else

@darkerdaemon7794

10 ай бұрын

​@@lukesfxwhen you have hundreds of dudes standing in an open field facing off in a firing line, you'll get this happening eventually for sure. The crazy part is they were able to find the lead balls after it happened.

@blitzzbob5643

10 ай бұрын

Yeah except on a civil war battlefield soldiers were usually ordered to fire in volleys. With large units of men trading volleys this probably happened more than a few times. It may have stopped those particular bullets but I doubt it kept them out of danger for long.

22:03 the way they came to an absolute dead freeze for a moment is absolutely insane… possible since they have almost exactly the same energy… wow it’s like the middle pauses while the rest is still in play

@0v_x0

10 ай бұрын

It straight up looks CGI. I'm not saying it was at all, it's just so uncanny to see it actually happen that it feels "off."

@skie6282

10 ай бұрын

They needed to have almost the exact same velocity and weight!!

@CrimFerret

10 ай бұрын

That's what physics says should happen, but they actually did it, on video. Equal energy from opposite directions and the main pieces just froze in place with zero velocity. That moment is totally poster worthy.

@kliersheed

10 ай бұрын

yeah its underrated. better than fusing them IMO.

I know I am very late to this video, but have you considered using airguns to fire the projectiles? Being able to fine-tune the velocity by changing pressure might be easier than handloading, and the generally lower velocities might mean the fusion is more likely. This footage is amazing to watch

Stopping/pausing in mid-air, that was amazing!

I immediately love the term "intellectual humility". I usually think of it as being dispassionate about knowledge, but I think your term describes it better.

@JeremyFry

10 ай бұрын

Definitely using that term in the future.

This deserves an award. Science, cinematography, creativity… it’s so fun watching someone do something really well, and from the engineering to the safety, really seems like no corner was cut, and that is very commendable. 👏👏👏👏👏

just an idea, in times of the civil war not all longarms where actual rifles. it's probably the spinn of the bullets that hinder the fusion, while one bullet turns clockwise, the other turns counterclockwise, have you ever testet it with a "smothbore" (not nativ to english so i'm not sure if it's the correct word) like a musket has had it?

this is incredible.... I can't think of anything better to say

Between the frames of 22:00 and 22:03 right before the bullets meet, the forward momentum force causes a dent on the round. You can see it slowly forming right as they get close to each other.

@BigDongEmperor

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for helping me not have to watch a 35 minute long video just to see it

@cooshoty

9 ай бұрын

That's insane

@LordVader1094

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the timestamp, I don't need half an hour of buildup for that

@MrAdopado

9 ай бұрын

The "forward momentum force"? It's a shadow that changes as the light angle changes.

@angelzaidtrejojimenez5582

9 ай бұрын

I think is just a reflexion

I love that you have the forethought to film yourself doing things like reviewing the footage for the first time. Your giddy laughs when something impossible happens bring me immense joy and is half the reason I love watching your stuff. You're very smart, Destin! David also cracks me up.. "so is that the tip?" when it's quite obviously the tip lol. Most humble person ever. Protect him at all costs.

Great video, as you were discussing the issues, I would have my thoughts and then you would say the thing I was thinking, in that original bullets you saw in the museum, those were probably fired from 100 yards apart. Their velocity was most likely a lot slower then your test. Just a thought!

24:40 - I love that you puzzled the delaminated metal scraps back together!

Sometimes I see the 30+ minute video length and doubt I’ll make it through, but then the next thing I know it’s over and I want more, every time. Great stuff Destin!

@ARCANEmateCLAN

10 ай бұрын

Didn't even realise it was that long, felt like 10 minutes.

@jerrymcrie

10 ай бұрын

exactly... what??? it is over? hey... was 30 min... lol.

@Fantastic_Stranger

10 ай бұрын

Same, I expected to skip through like 90% of the video but I watched the whole way through.

@andersthons

10 ай бұрын

i need 3 hour vids!!!!!

@michaelkawasaki4764

10 ай бұрын

Yes!

Modern cast lead projectiles typically have antimony in them, which increases the "hardness" of the bullet (this makes for a better hunting bullet). You can make 100% lead projectiles using a bullet casting tool, check with some of your reloading buddies and find out who is rolling their own (so to speak). They can probably easily hook you up.

@tde1964

10 ай бұрын

Pure lead bullets will require to clean the barrel after each shot as they will fill the rifling and lead to inconsistent ballistics. I also wonder if the bullets would fuse better with a bigger caliber. Last but not least, the offset of the barrels is making the fusing more difficult, but the only option to protect the guns would be for each one to shoot through the hole of a rotating disk. It’s quite difficult to synch, but a good challenge for perfectionists!

@spvillano

10 ай бұрын

@@tde1964 you can avoid them shooting each other by a longer flight distance, allowing drop to handle the matter for you, but also increasing the precision of the build to allow much greater precision in adjusting the aim to cover the greater range. That said, one wouldn't have to clean the barrel after each shot, but they'd need much more frequent cleaning. One can offset the higher velocity and fouling issue by using a slightly larger bore. Lower friction and cutting by the rifling, gas leakage lowering pressure and hence, velocity, downside is lower accuracy. Chroming the barrel also would lower fouling.

@ComicalCowboy1911

10 ай бұрын

This exactly! Need 100 percent lead bullets for any chance of fusion. And if velocities are low enough, leading in the barrel won’t be an issue.

@georgegordonbrown9522

10 ай бұрын

What is the "hardness"?

@LeNomEstYves

10 ай бұрын

​@@georgegordonbrown9522Think of it like the "brittleness" during impact. Softer bullets would be less brittle so less prone to shattering.