Gav and Dan go to Montana to meet up with Brett and Scott from @howridiculous. A collaboration 12 years in the making between 4 people who don't live in Montana!
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Massive shoutout to @BealsScience for the cannon work.
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400 MPH Bowling Ball with How Ridiculous - The Slow Mo Guys
Now imagine being on a battlefield during the Napoleonic wars and having whole batteries of cannons firing high speed iron balls at you as you walk forward. This was a very good demonstration of why cannons make a mess of infantry formations.
Even with all the awfulness enabled by more modern weapons there is something particularly gruesome about a cannonball
I'd be interested to see them try a bunch of ball bearings like a scatter shot cannon. Basically big ass shotgun!
@@TalesOfWarThat's called grapeshot, and was a thing.
Yeah some Canister shot would be cool@@TalesOfWar
Remember Wolverine getting a cannonball to the chest? Man I felt that one.
Great to hang with you lads, so much fun. Let’s go again in 2024!
Can’t wait for part 2!!
One of my favorite collabs, let’s not take another 12 years to do it again fellas :)
2034*
You know, Gav joked but, the idea of a second channel called HowSensible, where you talk more in depth about the process of planning and carrying out these crazy stunts could be neat.
Hell yeah Aussie favourites
I am just really happy that the slo mo guys are still pulling big numbers!
probably one of the only channels youtube hasn't silently killed
Half-Life is awesome .
@@botezsimp5808 hell yeah!
you are not released yet, you cann't anwer :o
At 4:05 you've got the best representation of what an "investigative journalism" award looks like
The CIA Award for Excellency in Journalism:
There's Brett's knowledge of the human body, Gavs tech precision and Dan's explosive expertise. And Scott.
Scott brought the snacks.
To be fair there was a little bit of science with Gaunson 😂
@@rafaeljoublanc129 Scott is deffo scientific, proven time and again, however not really "trained".
And then you got poor Derek who's not even in the video at all.
@@KimMcCumberScott brought the teeth.
“Okay so hear me out, two Aussies and two Brits walk into a massive open field with a bowling ball canon” 😂
In Montana!🤣
Mindblowing 🤯
God, *N o .*
two aussies and two brits walk into a bar and everyone suddenly wears safety protection
@@marcjones8531 Won't you meet me in Montana
The banter between the boys has been great every video with you all colabing. Love these cross over vids. Hope for many more.
It really puts into perspective of what canons through history did to people. It’s awesome and terrifying all at once.
Alakablam.
idk why but i still wonder if that was realistic :D
@@mercetajsSeeing is believing and in this case seeing it may not be the best thing in the world it's much more gruesome 😂
i was just thinking that myself. what scene it would have been for a group of men and literally having a dude explode next to you... and then getting absolutely maimed by pieces of skull....
Yes, and terrifying and awesome were a perspective based on which side of the cannon you were standing.
Don't you just hate it when your having a drink with your friends and someone just throws a 20pound bowling bowl at 400mph at your head
*396 It looks like 20 tho when you're drunk. Probably
*9.07kg @ 643.68kph*
im sayin
Yea I know! and yet you were only able to get a 7 -10 split!
Yeah, that's a real "oh no, not again" moment every time.
Frame by frame at 4:23 you can see a flash when the bowling ball impacts the head!! I love that phenomenon
probably some static charge accumulated on the bowling ball while leaving the canon
You obliterated like 15k worth of ballistic dummies and are worried about the table 😂 love you guys
That moment Dan is perplexed by what he got in his hands is priceless ahahahahah
how did it get there? i'm so confused.
@@moos5221I'm pretty sure it was filled with the green blood
@@moos5221They're in the middle of a field in Montana. There's nothing else to do there. Probably a large party nearby or some sort of banjo concert.
@moos5221 they use them to keep the blood in the right spots
@@kanegasiI think you missed the part where they were inside the skulls. It's to contain the green blood.
Seeing the flash of fire as the ball hit the first head in the line was mindblowing. We need more collabs between these two channels
mind blown? yeah they sure were blown
Pure Napoleonic realism level here!! Those battles were gruesome and yet so legendary! Now I have a better understanding of the ordeal Marshall Lannes had to face when he saw a good friend of his being literally decapitated by a cannonball, only to follow a similar fate when another cannonball ricocheted and destroyed his leg, eventually killing him after a sad, agonizing death...What a man!! No wonder why the Emperor himself cried profusely the death of one his best friends/ Marshalls, but also one of the best military geniuses of all time!! RIP, brave Marshall Lannes!!
The four of you should do ALL of your videos together. Brilliant and hillarity all around.
Been waiting for this collab for many, many years. It did not disappoint. I always thought the Slow Mo guys and How Ridiculous would get on splendidly. Best friends forever!!!!
It’s Brett and Scott’s reaction to Dan’s bigs words for me 🤣 Classic How Ridiculous 😂
Came here to say this lol
That they both noticed it and commented on it at the same time. The exact same thought went through both their heads before either one of them had the opportunity to know whether the other one was gonna bring it up or not.
"Oooh nice word"
Slow mo guys and their bantering are like wine. They get better and better with time. I see the time approaching where no actual slowmo content is needed anymore and I'm satisfied with seeing them joking around in front of the camera.
fortunately funny people get funnier with age!
top gear syndrome
That‘s called Behind the Scenes... :)
@@armiferafatum2459”I remember when this was a car show”
Like Waldorf and Statler.
One of the greatest and most wanted collabs I'd say. So happy to see intense slow motion with the ridiculous nature of breaking things, match made in heaven. What I was not expecting was the absolute brutality of seeing a bowling ball smash a skull into shards, I'm getting a headache just watching it smash them.
I was amazed with how perfectly you got that straight. At the same time, That was truly terrifying!
Happy too see Dan sitting this one out as a test dummy😂
Honestly, seems like a cop out if you ask me 😂😂
Dan polishing his balls made my day.
All those failed clones, though.
@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5If the Slow-Mo Guys could film Jesus walking on water at 100,000 frames per second I’d repent in a heartbeat.
Well Dan 47 wasn't so wise. It's good to see that Dan 48 opted for the dummy heads instead.
Gav: "Is everyone ready for what is potentially the most questionable thing we've filmed?" Dan's exposed junk in that balloon video: "Am I a joke to you?"
Lol
Dan;s package isnt questionable, its pure art
What video is that
Can't have that
@@borek92The wind tunnel from I believe Planet Slow Mo.
I just want to say, I'm french and I used you guys' videos to learn english a while back. So thank you all
Always great fun to see dem boyz of How Ridiculous!
So for those wondering: 400 mph is ~180 m/s. That's roughly how quickly a cannonball would be traveling mid-flight in the 18th and 19th centuries. The destruction is a good match for some period accounts too: There's a story of two French captains who hated each other. At the battle of Vellinghausen, a cannonball decapitated one man, and a piece of the skull put out the other captain's eye. So seeing all those pieces scattered so far, just gives a sense of the destruction a cannonball can do.
guess there's a reason guns are sometimes called hand cannons
That's because they are@@vinsanity40k. Cannons came first, then muskets, and so on.
@@anonymousapproximation8549 correct me if i'm wrong but i think the word "handcannon" appeared later. i know at some points, cannons were called guns, and that's why when rifles like the arquebus or the musket came around, they picked the name "gun" up and as they became more proeminent in warfare, Cannons lost their "Gun" name i believe handcannons appeared later as a term to refer to particularily powerful pistols
@@arrosoir4544 I feel like "handcannon" _would_ be the primitive term for a gun. After all, it basically a cannon, in your hand...
@@anonymousapproximation8549 oh yes it would make sense, but what i'm saying is that i'm pretty sure the term gun actually came before rifles to refer to cannon.
The double upload from both channels just shows how committed they are to this video that we’ve been waiting years for!
Nah
Slo-mo guys have such good senses of humor. 10/10 wit.
Lets just appreciate how over the years, Dan has gotten in better shape. Seriously good job
So good to see such a bunch of wholesome, fun-loving characters together... making heads explode.
😂😂😂😂
Well done, you win! 😂😂
If you donate your body to science, this is what they do with it.
It’s so wild how different the energy is here between how HR acts on their channel and this one, it’s like night and day but so good to see. Great chemistry too. Hope you guys can do more together
That seems to happen with guests. I wonder if they are just being respectful or nervous. Or maybe they dont feel the need to display so much energy since it's not thier channel
That's the magic of editing.
HR's videos would actually be tolerable to watch if they were edited similarly
@@Herlgaragreed
@@Herlgar I tried to watch the matching video on HR's channel. Emphasis on *tried*. The editing is atrocious.
FINALLY!!! 😃😃 The two channels I’ve been wanting to collab for years!!!!
Love the fact that we’re all so old that Gavin Free is going gray.
That was somehow considerably more brutal than I thought it would be
ikr? the way the skull split in two and parts of it were actually launched in front of the ball just shows the amount of kinetic energy that transferred on that one. the way the flesh appears to liquify under the intense pressure of the bowling ball. marvelous. good stuff to study if you want to be a filmmaker. Just make the dummy as realistic as possible and get the cannon a bit further away and film it for your movie, practical effects are the greatest thing when it comes to organic looking stuff. cgi is overrated.
@@tommaparI agree but CGI is definitely underrated
Makes you sort of relieved they didn't opt for the red insides
@@tommaparyeah but why didn’t the bowling ball not even break a little skulls aren’t that fragile
Gav, that editing for the repeat impacts w/ the speed dropping rapidly at 9:10 was SO GOOD.
And with a bit of calculation, you can see that a sixth head would have got much less damage because there wasn't much kinetic energy left.
that's a regular thing on the channel, get used to it 😎
So happy this collab came to be! Love watching both of your channels!
LETS GOOOOO!! I’ve been wanting them to collab for so SO LONNGGGG
The bowling ball polish was on point tbh, well done dan!
Jesus himself couldn't have done it better!
Imposter!! 😮
8 year olds Dude....
@@korganrocks3995 common footages showing how much respect Christians have to their god:
Strange to see Brett and Scott so chill, without their own brand of energy and made up Aussie-slang etc that they act up on their own channel
no such thing as "made up" aussie slang, its slang, and funny enough, we use it them alot
They probably just took it down a notch and let the slow mo guys take the lead
They're vastly better and more enjoyable this way than they are on their own channel.
@earthknight60 19 million subscribers would disagree
nah a lot of people would agree but we kinda just have to take it since they appeal to the kids more.@@cable7152
absolutely mind-blowing stuff
Love Gav and Dan - been a fan and watching for years! Brett and Scott, have watched them for years now also. Slo Mo Guys and How Ridiculous are "must-watch" every time a video drops. Great to see you all Legends together (we're missing one - where's the Legend, Derek?) Great video, and a great crew and group as always.
What i liked about this was how real the reactions seemed. Howridiculous is usually very over selling the reactions. Seeing them in a more natual environment was nice. You watch their video they did, and they are much louder on their channel.
Can't stand their channel. Constantly yelling, and all they do is drop stuff
Dan and Gav are professionals. Howridiculous are kids screwing around.
@@scottbilger9294 lol what? theyre both professionals, in fact they have the same job, theyre both youtubers, and in that arena HR dwarfs TSMG so claiming theyre just "kids screwing around" is pretty dumb. Personally I prefer the way the slow mo guys go about it but How Ridiculous is plenty valid in its own right and they seem like nice guys who got along well with Gav and Dan
They got so uncomfortable when Dan pulled off that piece of rubber 😂
So happy with the wealth of content we're getting from Slow Mo Guys these times, after the awful COVID period
And also because he's not in let's plays or much of anything to do with said gaming company
agreed, during that time I thought something happened between gav and dan, but glad to see they have been back ever since then
@@mrdino6391 why is that? did something happen between them?
@@edn6671 not to my knowledge but I think I remember hearing gavin was only really going to appearing in videos as a guest I think don't quote me on that
K 🤡
Incredible! Also humbling!
2 of my favorite you tubers together...this is awsome
I can't believe it didn't happen sooner, this colab was inevitable
Not knowing these people... Running into some Aussies and Brits in the middle of nowhere in Montana would be the wildest experience
This was an amazing collaboration! Love both of your channels!
I've been waiting for this collab for ages
8:24 there's something deeply satisfying knowing that each of those skulls are unique.
The Aussie and Brittish Humour is simply Unmatched!!! What a great video lads 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺🇬🇧
Not really The British accent is just way too annoying. What's wrong with them swallowing words!
@@tullo5564don’t watch their videos then lol
For a moment there I thought you wrote Unattached... yes, these guys are very unattached when it comes to sanity!
Glory to USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 false English speakers
@@tullo5564 Swallowing words is what makes us infinitely smarter than Americans..
Randomly remembered this channel, love you guys
These have been the best colabs!
8:14 Remember kids, that for a few hundred years battlefields regularly saw solid shot cannons firing into line formations of riflemen.
It's just ridiculous, how different Stanford and Gaunson are in a video, like this... In their videos, they are jumping all over the place, laughing, screaming, but now, they are just standing there and walking around, saying stuff... Priceless! 😅
fantastic collab defo need more slowmo/how ridiculous vids so good
Wow. Just, wow.
That was pretty horrifying...and educational. Makes you think really hard about the life of the old wooden ship sailors and the naval battles, and what the effects were of those broadsides.
There are surviving ships and skeletons that show that splinters were the real killers on ships hit with cannon. There is even plate armour that shows impact from cannonballs, and demonstrates why armoured knights didn't persist for long once gunpowder was introduced.
Yeah, but the ones that sweep the decks would be brutal. I know splinters killed most that were inside the ships. @@baldieman64
Just like it was shrapnel from the rocks in the walls and splinters from fences/trees during the Civil and Revolutionary war that killed most who took cover behind things. @@baldieman64
Yeah I didn't even think of the fact that these things were used to rip through entire ships. People didn't stand a chance back then
I have always though for years that this would be a great collaboration. So glad it finally happened.
Positively mind-blowing in the most literal sense.
I love their love for unique words, I think it's something more people should appreciate
We have waited so long for this collab. Haven't watched How Ridiculous since they stopped doing the tower stuff as much, but this was awesome. We even got some "Science With Gaunson"! "That's right...we do have bones" 😂🤣
I thought those might be the tower guys! The bowling ball should have tipped me off, now that I think about it...
@@korganrocks3995 Totally, in fact, as Gav says when he and Dan go to Perth that should be the collab video down there. Some old school Tower bowling ball videos down under with the Slow Mo Guys
I still watch them fairly regularly but I do miss the tower stuff. I'm not sure they're allowed to film there anymore. But on the other had at one point the tower stuff was almost all they did and it was bound to get stale after a while so I respect the diversification of their content
that's a real shame if they can't film there any longer. Totally agree though, coming up with ideas for that must really have been hard after a while. Having said that though, I have a bunch more ideas they could do with that so I'm sure we'll see them at that/a tower again eventually. They could surely build their own tower at this point though. With a lift, @howridiculous ! 🤣
Fascinatingly gross! As an avid reader of Alexander Kent's nautical history novels, this brings home the gruesome reality of the damage that canon-fire does. Men were killed or injured by flying bones from other victims! Great video and excellent to see these two dynamic duos together 👍😄
This is mind blowing!
Naturally, to get the most out of an Aussie/Brit collab, you've got to do it on US soil. Brilliant.
This is an an entertaining but also interesting look into canon physics. Makes you really appreciate soldiers that actually went up against canons, considering it could shred half a dozen men in formation instantly.
At least back in those days if a canonball hit you, you had a high probability of instant death, unless of course it takes an arm or a leg. Otherwise, any head or body shot is instant death and you die never knowing you were even hit...
Cannonballs are weak. I have three words for you. Gustav railway gun.
I always worry about chemistry when it comes to collabs but the banter was thoroughly top notch all round 👌
English and Aussies together always provide top bants.
Finish 'em! FLAWLESS VICTORY!
This is easy the coolest slow mo video i ever seen. Truly amazing!
The Windows sounds were brilliant. 7:48 This part had me all LOL!
Always cool to watch these Slo Mo episodes. How about two bowling balls colliding with each other??
The Slow Mo Guys, This is so fun! I'm happy I found your channel!
this collab made my day
The crossover we have all needed.
To see the gel look so viscous when its usually so tough, jesus the force behind that ball
The crossover I always wanted! ❤
Peak comedy and amazing content omggggg ❤❤❤
Seeing the bones of one skull destroy the next even before the bowling ball arrived was fascinating and very humbling.
So much more enjoyable to see Brett and Scott react naturally in this video! Great collab
Oh my, unreal collab
“It’s like a mortal combat finisher”. Spot on!
That was beautiful and horrifying in equal measure. Great job by both teams 🤣
Been waiting for this collab for years and it was so much better than my expectations!!! I would love a revisit.
The collab I never knew I needed
Damn, that was freakin awesome!! Well played boys
I must say, the music that starts with the slow Mo video is the best part. Seriously, the music adds something I can't explain but I absolutely love it.
This collab is great 😂
This is as painless as it can get
Slow mo guys are like the Myth Busters but without the science and with all the explosions. Love it
I wonder what an elevator's wind pressures are like in normal operation both up and down, and then Falling(IE: during a test or demolition). that could add in, some new science to the community and help both the safety in normal and demo. of the building.
3:27 6 months had me lol
I’m a little embarrassed by how much I enjoy watching these.
We waited so long for this collab I even forgot we wanted it so badly 🌚
I LOVE when you show the speed as the collision happens and it slows down, always such a cool detail
How good! This is how it's done. Twice the video. Twice the entertainment! THANK YOU! 👊👍
Imagine how many more troops an iron canonball might travel through before stopping. Imagine the terrain surrounding the cannons has been groomed to exactly match the ballistic path of the cannon balls. Balls deep.
Been waiting for this one
Slo Mo Guys and How Ridiculous -- an excellent collaboration. Thanks very much. We now want MORE.
Forget who has the most followers, collab with ballistic high speed!
Agreed!! They are gonna be massive in the next few years
All three
Great shot from the side of the 5 heads when you showed us the speed of the bowling ball dropping per hit, clever and it’s like info I didn’t know I wanted
I am reminded of the opening scenes of Gettysburg movie. This was another great collaboration!!!
You are thinking of Glory, but yes, after watching this, you realize how accurate it was.
Just... Wow! That escalated quickly. That was fascinating and deeply disturbing at the same time. And, I'm almost as impressed with that column of fire coming out of the end of that cannon as I am by the level of precision and carnage on display. Great video, as usual, fellas. Really well done. Firggin' hilarious, too. This one went right up to 11! All the stars!💥💫👍