Next video: a nuclear detonation in slow-mo

@Probably_tryna_sleep

8 ай бұрын

The way things are going, that might not be too hard to make happen

@resyah1472

8 ай бұрын

Bruh 💀💀💀

@MrToberton

8 ай бұрын

As the great James Hetfield once said, Sad but True

@Killllr0y

8 ай бұрын

​​@@Probably_tryna_sleepalready happened a long time ago . The government had a camera that was unbelievably fast

@wjbt3

8 ай бұрын

"igniting the atmosphere in Slow Mo"

I love how much this channel is either "Gav and Dan mucking around for the funny" or "Getting actual scientific data of a huge machine like this or the wavemaker"

@piperformerlycassette

8 ай бұрын

and there's NO in between.

@daveemerson6549

8 ай бұрын

Yup. We're either gonna laugh our asses off at Dan getting hurt, or open an entirely new branch of scientific inquiry lol

@nasonguy

8 ай бұрын

For real. All those engineers have got to be so stoked to have that amazing footage of the startup. As I understand it, the startup cycle is one of the most difficult things about a rocket to perfect. I imagine it’s also super hard to model and then subsequently gathering data to validate and constrain those models. This has got to be very helpful.

@wumbosaurus9121

8 ай бұрын

Honestly 😂 their top 5 videos are ‘mucking around in their backyard’ and “Filming the speed of light at a trillion frames per second”

@loafofbreadx

8 ай бұрын

i’m the 1000 like exactly and i’m so proud of that

I'm not sure there's a single person who *wouldn't* like to see more ultra high quality slo-mo rocket footage. That's some of the most awe-inspiring and amazing footage ever shot

@JTube571

8 ай бұрын

Flat Earther's maybe. 😅

@CohenRautenkranz

8 ай бұрын

Nobody worth listening to in any event!

@asmael666

7 ай бұрын

So you're saying you're a monk? Because you clearly don't know women.

@blakksheep736

7 ай бұрын

​@@asmael666 as a woman I'd love more test fire rocket footage.

@SuprSBG

4 ай бұрын

Me, as a massive space nerd since I was 4 might be. Although I could be wrong.

2:03 when the flame in the cloud of gas begins and is just floating there, being moved back and forth by the soundwaves, my jaw literally dropped. That has to be one of, if not THE most amazing video capture I've ever seen. Well done guys!

@zombieregime

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, watching fast moving things cause reverberations in suspended materials is crazy. Like, I used to have 12 subs in my car and that was as close to 'seeing sound' as Ive ever gotten. But in slowmo, with much louder things.....its amazing. Check out the ice falling from the feed pipe below the nozzle! The thing burns for ages before it hits the ground!

I’d love to see more rockets igniting. I absolutely love this

@---l---

8 ай бұрын

Seconded! More rockets!

@quasimoto4424

8 ай бұрын

Raptor 3 from SpaceX

@swebruh

8 ай бұрын

Agreed! Would love to see more too

@joeledwards6587

8 ай бұрын

yup yup more rockets = more betterer

@WangleLine

8 ай бұрын

Same here!!

The shockwave footage was properly insane. I'm glad Gavin has dedicated his time and life to this mode of filmmaking.

@lasagnahog7695

8 ай бұрын

Totally. The increasing frequency gives it a surreal quality.

@beans197

8 ай бұрын

It sounded like that scene from Oppenheimer

@stevestarcke

8 ай бұрын

History is being made. Here is the documentation. Kudos.

For an FX animator this is unobtanium reference footage. I love the pumping before thrust stabilize! Excellent job as always!

@trequor

8 ай бұрын

Oh do we get to see what the rock does next time?

Your sound editing during the preignition oscillations REALLY sets this out from other footage, outstanding job!

@trequor

8 ай бұрын

I mean he's been doing this for over ten years now. He's the foremost expert when it comes to evocative slomo videos.

The startup sequence at 02:15 must be some of my favorite footage ever. Seeing the orange flame cloud hover in the air while the engine ramps up gives a true sense of how fast and powerful the process really is. Wonderful footage, well done!

@CalTek

8 ай бұрын

Agree 100%. That lingering flame was so surreal IMO

@TristanVash38

8 ай бұрын

@@CalTek I expect to see this effect recreated in the future like in some Christopher Nolan film. This effect really captures some little-known neuron's attention in my brain and tickles them.

@WikiZeruel

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@FTreba

8 ай бұрын

Just compare it to how fast a bunch of atomized jet fuel burns in real time.

Watching the "floating" flame at 2:16 moving back and forth actually blew my mind. I really hope you get to film more stuff like this!

@nfnworldpeace1992

8 ай бұрын

almost looked like a galaxy!

@SpaceMissile

8 ай бұрын

those cool moments where reality looks like science fiction. I just came off of some "CGI artists react" videos, and this looks like some of the stuff they watch. _...but it's real._ incredible.

@sphaniy

8 ай бұрын

And the audio.. as if the engine started breathing

@CrazyStranger11

8 ай бұрын

@@sphaniy The audio is manufactured for viewing experience, but yeah it sounds pretty cool.

The ignition is wildly different in slow-mo to what we perceive in real time and that blob of flame hovering in limbo was mesmerizing. We 100% need to see more of this please!

@RideAcrossTheRiver

3 ай бұрын

Watch a Shuttle launch in slow-mo.

2:19 is absolutely mesmerizing to watch as the pulses affect the flame. Great job capturing this!

@Q1745

8 ай бұрын

@@learn-with-barbie7933 no, let me thank you now for your spam which will be reported in about 5 seconds.

This may actually be the coolest footage I've ever seen. This is mind blowing. Seeing the rocket pulse to life is actually the craziest thing ever.

@simonlausee1755

8 ай бұрын

You should also check out the Apollo launchpad slowmo camera footage, those f1 engines are amazing to watch

@rnedisc

8 ай бұрын

I think this after almost every video Gav and Dan do but the rocket ramping up here is on another level.

Can we appreciate how good this video is? No sensationalization, just a short and informative video with amazing footage.

@NateClark-tj8yn

8 ай бұрын

7360 brkshire way every sat Sunday or sneak video. Each other

@bryangoodwin6579

8 ай бұрын

BOT!!!

@DrathVader

8 ай бұрын

That one of the things I appreciate the most about this channel. 12 years and the format never changed, it's still the same 2 blokes messing around with high speed cameras. No fluff, no trying to stretch the video artificially.

Footage like this can provide invaluable data to people like those at Firefly. Really stunning to see the engine in action!

Excellent footage! So glad you did the voice-over indicating exactly what was happening. Very impressive engine.

I'm a massive fan of Firefly and Serenity and clearly so are the people in charge of this. Using Firefly and Reaver made me happy

@AndrewGillard

8 ай бұрын

The previous CEO, Tom Markusic, certainly seems to be a fan, judging by Everyday Astronaut's interview+tour video in which Tom quotes/references at least one episode :) (It might have been _Lost in Space,_ but I watched that interview a while ago...) I've no idea about the current CEO, nor anyone else at the company, but I imagine a lot of them are fans as well ;)

@statementleaver8095

8 ай бұрын

I understand why the previous CEO left......Too primitive! War is it's only application (O2 Dependent)

@afjeep2004

6 ай бұрын

Came here looking for this. I'm a huge fan as well. I got excited when I heard the company name and when he said Reaver I let out a surprised chuckle. Haha, I even rewound the video a bit to make sure I heard it right.

The pulsing at start-up is a good example of why starting a rocket engine is so hard, it is very easy to end up in feedback loops that result in the engine either exploding or the flame dying out.

@Ergzay

8 ай бұрын

Yeah the pulsing at start-up is actually evidence that they haven't really finished tuning the engine at this point yet (at the time it was filmed). It means there's still combustion instability.

@fighteer1

8 ай бұрын

@@ErgzayI’m not completely sure that’s true. Reaver uses the tap-off cycle, meaning a portion of the exhaust from the main combustion chamber is diverted to power the turbine that drives the pumps. Starting up the engine would involve a series of transients, not a linear increase in power. Reavers have flown several times now so they no longer count as developmental, but I’m sure there’s still room for improvement.

@sfurules

8 ай бұрын

It's the most interesting part to me!

@dougaltolan3017

8 ай бұрын

​@@fighteer1could it be that the turbine isn't up to speed, and the pulsing is just the pockets of fuel between the blades?

@fighteer1

8 ай бұрын

@@dougaltolan3017 I have no intimate knowledge of how this engine works; I’m speaking from general knowledge. But that’s not a totally inaccurate way to think about it. Imagine the engine pushing the pump, which pushes the engine, which pushes the pump, ad infinitum. Since the forces aren’t delivered instantly, there must be a disequilibrium until the engine stabilizes.

What I can’t get over is that this is at 2,000 frames a second and the flames still looks like what we see on live broadcasts of these launches. It just blew my mind. PLEASE do more of these! Would love to see how a solid rocket motor starts and other liquid rocket motors ramp up to full power. Like those Apollo and space shuttle engineering cameras showed!

I could watch you refine this kind of footage for a whole year

I truly hope the team at Firefly was as giddy as we were seeing this AMAZING footage. Simply surreal.

@dreed100

8 ай бұрын

Hope they invite him again

@DoahnKea_Tuber

8 ай бұрын

Was thinking the same thing!

@soupsoup6813

7 ай бұрын

I would expect that getting to see this sort of detail is guinely helpful for them turn the numbers and measurements into understanding

I can think of a certain Scott Manley who would probably love to do a deeper dive on this footage. Very cool to see it this slow and this up close.

@jasonrubik

8 ай бұрын

And also "Everyday Astronaut"

@cleverusername9369

8 ай бұрын

​@@jasonrubikand also Destin at Smarter Every Day

@mutantgeralt

8 ай бұрын

​@@jasonrubikno way Tim doesn't do talking pieces for short contents.

@mutantgeralt

8 ай бұрын

​@@cleverusername9369space is not his area of expertise but a colab is surely possible

@stevewright5560

8 ай бұрын

or Daniel Jubb of Bloodhound project

The sound and the visuals of the rocket powering up was utterly mesmerising. Phenomenal editing and video.

I’m a aerospace nerd so this vid is automatically gonna be one of my favorites

@jackielinde7568

8 ай бұрын

Were you blown away by the sheer power of the engine? Did the footage lift your spirits? Does stuff like this power your aspirations?

@balthazar259

8 ай бұрын

I was about to comment the exact same thing, aeronautics and aerospace enjoyer here and this is magnificent to brhold

@papagrounds

8 ай бұрын

This is some NSFW material right here!

@jiujitsumonkey1

8 ай бұрын

@@jackielinde7568 god dammit barb

@Like_Ike

8 ай бұрын

​@@jackielinde7568Not to boost your ego, but that comment left me gassed. You really shot to the moon with that one.😂😂😂

this is phenomenal

@milire2668

8 ай бұрын

*phenomanal

@Galerak1

8 ай бұрын

@@milire2668 I love it when an 'errorist attack goes wrong. The correct spelling is 'phenomenal', NOT 'phenomanal' 😁

@off_grid_javelin

8 ай бұрын

@@Galerak1 you got duped hard bud

@milire2668

8 ай бұрын

@@off_grid_javelin :D

@FLPhotoCatcher

8 ай бұрын

So where did the packing peanuts come from? They are suspiciously good at showing the speed difference.

2:11 to 2:37 is absolutely incredible 😮

This. Was. So. Freaking. SICK. Definitely one of the top slomos you guys have done. This was genuinely mind blowing to watch. More please!

The flames and shockwaves along with Gav's phenomenal sound design made me audbibly "WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Absolutely brilliant. How does Gav keep putting out banger after banger. Excellent video once again, guys.

Hopefully you’ll get the chance to film a methane powered rocket engine in the future! The exhaust is purple-ish and translucent rather than a really bright yellow, so you’d really get a good view of the Mach diamonds throughout the burn.

Firefly, Reaver Engine? My favourite show still getting love with the references. Love this.

@lespearson3801

4 ай бұрын

I was wondering if anyone else caught those references.

The shockwaves rippling the fire at 2:16 looks so badass. I wish more movies used that effect.

@AngryRockMan

8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if studios had no idea this even happens when a rocket engine starts up. It's nearly impossible to see it without using a high speed camera like this.

I honestly think that this is one of the coolest things you've ever filmed, seeing those shockwaves and the diamonds was so awesome.

That shockwave after the major thrust was so mesmerizing to watch.

ABSOLUTELY, CATEGORICALLY, YES!!! to more Rocket themed videos!!! Please

As an aerospace engineer that’s been following this channel for years, this video made me super happy. I’d love to see more rocket videos. Maybe check out a local amateur rocketry event in Texas?

It is amazing that the fire was moving so slow it looked like real time when Gaving played it back, then Gav sped the footage up slightly and it looked like real time footage played at double/tripple speed, rather than super-slow-mo flames that were just moving way too fast.

@TheInsultInvestor

8 ай бұрын

tldr

@pat2rome

8 ай бұрын

​@@TheInsultInvestormaybe you should invest in an attention span

@bluedragon_rl

8 ай бұрын

@@TheInsultInvestor It's only 50 words lol

@5peciesunkn0wn

8 ай бұрын

@@TheInsultInvestortldr: ur 2 lazi

HOLY S*IT!!! You keep pushing the envelope, I love how your channel is not getting old, actually it keeps getting better and we keep seeing stuff we never imagined we would ever see. I am watching a lot of youtube but your channel will always hold a special place in my heart, seeing so many amazing real things for the first time, all of them with equisite photography, it's just hard to beat.

@kendog0013

8 ай бұрын

If slowmoguys are in my sub feed, theyre instantly first pick of the day for sure!!!

Texas always has been a hot spot for much technology and innovation, but in the past 5 or 10 years, it has skyrocketed. Incredible things happening all over texas.

firefly as a name for a rocket engine company is just great.

God I love these educational videos so much. Learning neat facts while watching them in beautifully photographed cinema is just... so good. Gav is really a talented and brilliant guy.

I really hope other industries will let you guys film. This is the sort of stuff I LOVE to see and makes me want to learn more.

Yes please more rocket footage 🙏🙏🙏

I mean, when Slow-Mo guys / Cosmic Perspective collab? The two together would be a complete phenomenon!

I love the pulsing on the startup, I've never seen that so clearly before!

I love the slow mo of large scale things like this!

*This is not PC Animation. This is Real Life & Art Style Masterpiece+*

WE DEFINITELY WANT MORE ROCKET THEMED VIDEOS

This footage is amazing! Surprised other KZread channels or even SpaceX hasn't done this yet!

@clayel1

8 ай бұрын

I’m sure they’ve done it, just not made it public. Slow motion video is great for detecting errors

@darkmann12

8 ай бұрын

Launcher does this

@CrackerSmith

8 ай бұрын

A collab with SpaceX would be awesome!

@EGK20

8 ай бұрын

nasa have slow mo video of their booster rocket test

@ThatOpalGuy

8 ай бұрын

yeah, spacex can suck it. streaming launches only on the x-crement platform. I no longer subscribe to that channel

Made Day into Night. Insane 😲

@Redact63Lluks

8 ай бұрын

It would have looked even better after the start cycle if they made the background literally black, probably could have tripled the recording speed.

@jwalster9412

8 ай бұрын

Made day Into night, but still brighter than the sun. That's insanity.

Crazy Cool! I am the Apollo Generation. We started our lives watching Apollo igniting that Saturn V with Armstrong Collins and Aldrin. That "primed the pump" for endless fascination.

Yes. More. That audio when the rocket is burning is SICK. Taking it to the music lab.

Wow when the green burst comes out and then the shock wave!! Incredible footage!!

As a massive space nerd I would LOVE to see more of this content. I am currently in college, possibly pursuing a career in astrophysics or spacecraft design and this is the kind of thing I love to see.

Wow, this is stunning! The repeating shockwaves was simply mesmerizing.

Huge respect for posting a 4.5 minute to-the-point video when ~the algorithm~ favors longer content. I like longer videos too, but sometimes 4.5 minutes is just right. Props!

Aerospace engineering is one of the coolest fields someone can explore and it's relatively new. The power of rockets is awe inspiring, and is the only technology capable of sending people/things into orbit. Being able to see it in slow motion is breathtaking. Great job SlowMo Guys!

Very cool! That resonance during the startup transient was awesome to see (if not a little scary)! Love seeing the TEA-TEB shot leading into the full propellent mixture in slow motion. Also, the tap-off cycle is "simple" and elegant, but it's a challenging cycle to start since the propellent flow is directly coupled to the pressure in the thrust chamber. In other words, the flow downstream is what creates the flow upstream in the first place. So the resonance leading to those waves at the beginning is most likely due to the time it takes the valves on the tap-off to move in order to modulate pressure into the pumps along with the fact the pressure is constantly changing. I would be very curious to see the same footage shot in five years when Firefly have optimized the Reever even more.

The fire being pushed by the shockwave was amazing

The start-up transient when igniting a rocket engine is insaaaaane!

Yess!!! More rocket stuff please!! ❤❤

More of this if you can. Brilliant!

This is the best footage of the moment of ignition I've ever seen.

more rocket related content? Obviously!!!! And that sound design.... mmmmm perfection!

I genuinely believe that this is one of the prettiest slow-motion shots I've ever seen

Great job. I'm so glad you were given access to this event. Quite a jump from exploding CDs with a Dyson motor in the back yard. Keep it up.

You really could be a BBC broadcaster, rather, the whole shebang. You and Dan rock!

The start up was incredible to see. More rockets, please!

This was awesome, Gav. Thanks to Firefly for the access. Would love to see a smaller scale model rocket engine (maybe with a parachute deploy stage!) for comparison. A-D size model engines are available in hobby shops. Even bigger ones too, but I know A through D have parachute stages. Not sure about E and up. They probably do too, come to think about it. Cheers!

Yes, more rocket engines in slooooow motion, please! 😊

idk guys i think this might be his magnum opus this is what youtube should be for, just complete unwarranted perfection on every individual count, what a video

My jaw actually dropped when I saw it initially igniting, that was so damn cool. I actually went back and watched it again!

I believe this is hands down the is the most epic thing you have ever slow-mo filmed. More and higher frame rate videos of them would be awesome.

This was absolutely incredible Gav. I love these videos you guys do with big corporations to see the really special underlying nature of extreme engineering

Hats off to the incredible sound design as well!

I think that we can all undeniably and shamelessly agree that this, this was indeed lit.

That was insane! Just gives you an insight of how powerful rockets really are!

Amazing footage! I'm really curious to see what the footage would look like if you guys had another shot, or multiple shots; are you guys going to do more collaborations with Firefly? Or potentially the SpaceX Raptor 2 in McGregor? They perform multiple tests a day, and regularly horizontal tests like these.

To all the FX artists that love to make rocket engine stuff, this is gold

I am willing to bet this footage alone just created more than 10 future Rocket scientists. In the future there will be a point where they are asked "So, what made you want to become a rocket scientist?" and they will say, "Well I saw this video on the internet from the Slow Mo Guys about a rocket doing a test fire and thought, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen."

There's just something mesmorizing about watching and hearing such powerful events. I'd absolutely love to see more footage like this!

Nice that the big broadcasters are approaching you with this sort of large scale stuff. There's lots of curious back yard slow mo yet to be filmed I'm sure, but this is really cool.

@VegetaLF7

8 ай бұрын

Right? For a channel that started with popping balloons to pay for a plane ticket to the US, it's amazing how far SMG has come over the years to the point they're getting attention like this. First sign for me at just how successful they had become was when one of their videos inspired the look of an explosion in a Star Wars film (the firing a gun underwater video was used as a reference for how the coaxium train explosion looked in Solo)

The initial ignition and shockwaves made me feel things I don't think I've ever felt before

I would absolutely like to see more rocket videos in the future your dulcet tones over this beautiful footage is something beautiful.

Incredible footage! The initial flames in the smoke and the mach diamonds look so cool!!!

This kind of informative content is some of my absolute favorite not just on this channel but on KZread in its entirety. It's also fun to see Gav go back and forth between goofing off in some videos and being an absolute pro like in this one.

You just have to love rocket and jet engines. These powerhouses never lack to impress. It's a show you'll never forget if once experienced in person. The heat, the shock waves hitting you and shaking your whole body, the noise, the smell of burnt kerosene, the sheer power. Incomparable.

Firefly is a super exciting company and this footage was incredible!

Incredible!!! Would love to see this again even slower, the speed of the flames is a crazy still, truly beautiful and terrifying.

That was an incredible video - I'd love to see more "natural" forces in slow-mo. Stuff like this rocket test is the reason I love you guys so much

The Slow Mo Guys & BBC Click! Awesome!

I can tell you, after working on jet engines made in the 50’s to now being next to one during light off is an amazing experience. Everything around it shakes like absolute hell, it’s extremely loud, even with soundproof headsets on and ear plugs in it is at a near deafening volume. You can also just feel a solid wave just slam against you.

This stuff is super interesting. Crazy footage!

Awesome footage! I’ve been to a test firing at that facility as well! A few years ago, my wife and I were personally invited to a live engine test by Tom Markusic, one of the founders of Firefly (due to my Science Shows in Texas and my affiliation with the aerospace industry). In fact, we live about 20 minutes from there. We were only a few hundred feet from the engine, probably in the same viewing shelter you watched from. It was a beautiful, chest-rattling experience! BTW- The cows in the nearby pastures don’t even run anymore. They just keep chewing.

I think slow mo has to be the best medium for overpowered displays of physics.

I will happily watch as many rocket ignitions as you care to film!

This was amazing and awesome. Yes, more please!!!!!. Your videos are science in action.

Absolutely more space related videos!!! This would be a great subject area for you all to explore, and you are very well positioned to do it an educational manner.

That’s pretty nifty that something 80x slowed down still looks as if it was sped up to a point of a timelapse 🤯

I actually watched the program this was filmed for, "Click", the BBC's tech news segment. A great little collab!

Best slowmo to date! The way engine startup was captured blew my mind. Not even SpaceX has something this bad ass!

@mineland66

8 ай бұрын

If you don't have any idea about rockets please don't comment

@soberguy0

8 ай бұрын

@@mineland66 not sure what that has to do with a comment in regards to spaceX not having an equal slow motion shot like this has to do with whatever it is you are talking about. If you don't know how to interact with humans, maybe dont comment at all... In no way was that a assumption of my level of knowledge of rockets.