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"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.
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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
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.
when an unstoppable force meets an unstoppable force. now we also need an immovable object to meet an immovable object.
or like having an impenetrable piece of glass seperating both.
It just levitated and rethought it's place in space and time
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
Now make a robot do it.
16:24 first colision between them (not perfectly hit) 18:51 perfect shot 26:36 another great shot
Thank you for that.
Thank you! I came to the comments looking for the timestamp 👍🏻
21:52 perfect shot, stopping both bullets at point of impact. Truly impressive!
20:24 is so awesome, too, and 20:46 as well
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 KZhead premium it tried to automatically skip it and I feel like there should be some way for KZhead to make a distinction between actual content and just mindless sponsorships. If you have KZhead 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.
If it weren't for this comment, I would have missed the segment cuz it skipped it for me too.... Thank Youu !!
I have premium and it never skips for me.
@@ole-mariusbergesen7818 i think it's just a setting difference....check it out once
@@ole-mariusbergesen7818 it's not KZhead premium that makes it skip, it's the SponsorBlock addon.
"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
you're a life saver, thank you
Bro sacrificed himself for us
@@Yildirim.Bayezid truly
Thank you. Hate pointless filler stuff.
May god bless you for saving us time
21:54 - The money shot... honestly this is a one in a million type capture. Amazing.
Came to the comments specifically for this, thanks mate
Ads playing im searching comments. His teaser hits. This comment made perfect climax.
Destin took from a one in a million shot to a one in ten shot.
Thank you
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24:40 - I love that you puzzled the delaminated metal scraps back together!
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
I was thinking the something, using ballistic gel...... It is possible the bullets hit inside a body?
Thats been a thing and they do it all the time
@@adamhelper3277 he said two bullets... so not just one bullet into ballistic gel
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.
@@deadlikedisco4726 yes, it would surely take plenty of attempts.
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.
@@inoxx1151 idk but I know I wasn’t expecting two identical pieces to just be frozen there
Thank you for time stamping
thanks on the stamp
22:00
Yeah! It looked so... unnatural!
26:32 You're welcome!
well... "thanks", but it's actually 21:55... :P
make this pinned!
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!
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.
19:00 19:57 20:28 Bullet Hitting Bullet. 21:57 best one
Thanks for saving time.
Thank you
@@EmSki45 imagine not watching the whole video XD
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
Looked like a creation moment. Glad you put the time stamp
Thank you for this comment, saved me a bunch of time
Mvp
@@2ScoopsPlz Watch the whole video. It's worth it. It's how you get smarter every day.
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
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...❤
Slow Motion of the Bullets Hitting starts at 21:54 Cheers!
Thank you
I cant believe they made a short clip into 35 minutes... like i care that much!
Thanks for saving my time
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
Thanks man you’re a gentleman and a scholar
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.
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.
Only thing missing is environmental safety. All that lead going into the ground
…whence it came.
@@nussiskate3 where do you suppose it came from to begin with?
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!
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!
22:00 is the most incredible slow motion footage i've ever seen and that is not an exaggeration
Thanks for that timestamp
I knew that there would be one hero for a timestamp
Thank you brother
thanks bro
Thank you, godspeed! o7
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.
Exactly this!!! I was looking for this comment.
that being said, if trying to recreate what battlefield example then they are doing so. Your example wouldn’t be historically accurate.
GREAT POINT. Were the civil war rifles smoothbore?
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
@@smartereveryday Most were rifles so not smoothbore.
As a BSME and a "gun nut" who reloads .45 LC (and other calibers) I was smashing the thumbs up icon wishing I could give 1000 thumbs up. Great job Destin.
Great planning, safety precautions and execution but excellent enthusiasm!
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!
Thanks for the timestamp 👌
I noticed the same thing... like the world of physics just got hacked when they just froze suspended in air like that.
Your a freaking lifesaver for the time stamp! Nobody wants to sit through a freaking 35 min video just to see 10 seconds 😒
bro is a legend
I came here to say the same exact thing!!!
The collision at 20:31 is so perfect that words cannot describe it. Great job. For science!
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Thank you 🍻
@@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.
Thank you so annoying lookin through long video for 5 sec clip
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Congratulations to Allan involved. Super nice video! Thank you!
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?
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!
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.
@@502deth didn't even notice 35 minutes
Came close to skipping forward, but.... as you say its always watching the whole thing, glad I did.
100%
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...
It was done 60 years ago. This isn't new.
@@bigguy7353 so?
@@bigguy7353 and? Doesn't cahnge the fact that that it's cool to watch and its in color on better recording equipment.
@@bigguy7353 did your mom 60 years ago
@@bigguy7353 The footage from 60 years ago isn't as good as this footage tho...
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
I'm impressed with the amount of detailed work you guys did in advance. That is a lot of detailed work!
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.
Thanks 🙇🏾
Thanks for your service. It was really annoying of him to cut the collision out at the start
thank you
That's what I call perfection
@@waldolemmerbecause you’re supposed to watch the entire video 😂
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!
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.
Where in Nebraska?
@@DasGanon It is in the middle of the U.S.A
@@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
@@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!
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?
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.
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!!!
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!
Ok chat GPT.
Terrific comment, love the detailed info.
Thank you ❤
Awesome!
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.
The same phenomenon was captured on super high speed film 60 years ago, just fyi.
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
@@bigguy7353 gimme link
@@bigguy7353 with what? do you have a link? thanks
I really didn't think i was going to watch this entire video but man you kept me intrigued...great job, fantastic video.
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!
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.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, bullet fired v bullet dropped came to mind first.
I heard his whole explanation of the problems on Adams voice...
what high speed shot did you see ten years ago
@peterheinzo515 look up high-speed shots from mythbusters, and you'll know they are really good
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 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!
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.
Seriously.
@@michu3536 same
Time got disrupted
My hero dude 🎉
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.
One of the most interesting videos I have seen
Nice
Nice to see you again
Good 👍
Nice
I like this dude’s content so much more than Adam Savage because Adam Savage raped his sister.
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.
yep
@@snowflake_46 shush bro u have no life
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.
@@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.
@@yzzcat7824 common sense is not common at all these days.
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!!
I didn't stay around to watch the whole 35 minutes, but jumped forward to the exact moment. Well done to make this!
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.
Thanks man
This is how our ideal physics conditions are meant to play out in highschool...
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.
Well they really didn't stop, just slowed down enough for us to perceive it as stopping. Ok ok they stopped.
Thank you for this bookmark
amazing video, i love destin's excitment and daves dry combacks lol
Miss your *"subscribers milestone fireworks"* videos. Would love if you do another one for good ol' times!
Look forward to your next tunnel video Colin!
Ahh colin, you are the most amaing person in England, we all know you
You know you made a good video when Mr Furze comments
CGI
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.
Dance of the bullets - Beautiful and Deadly
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.
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…
This was awesome! I’ve always wanted to see this!
Scott! When's the collab with Destin?
Same!
Collab with Smarter Every Day! The KenFolk will love it!
Me too
Definitely would want to see a collaboration between Kentucky ballistics and smarter everyday.
Brilliant. Thourgherly absorbing. Thank you.
Great job to all involved! And to your education and work ethic!!
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.
شكرا لك وفرت لي وقت ❤
@@MohPlusIt's insane how good google translation has become recently. Now I can read arabic texts, pretty awesome.
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
Troof. One of the best things about Primitive Technology's (otherwise un-narrated) videos.
Yes!! I was just about to comment that, it’s so impressive just how detailed they are!
It’s great for us hard of hearing folks.
-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.
Wow that is bloody amazing.
Stopping/pausing in mid-air, that was amazing!
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
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."
They needed to have almost the exact same velocity and weight!!
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.
yeah its underrated. better than fusing them IMO.
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!
Many jaws have dropped around the world with that one.
My jaw stayed in place perfectly fine but it was def an interesting watch
It is beautiful. It is like Particle and Anti-Particle collision and resulting in all sizes of energy...
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.
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.
That made me smile :D
lol
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.
At 5:20 he is pointing the gun directly at the camera man. Not good
@@TomVanWae It's a camera mounted on a tripod. EDIT: You can even see him set it up just 10 seconds earlier 5:10
@@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.
Um, I'm really surprised you didn't speak about this: The reason the Civil War bullets fused was because they were undoubtedly farther away from each other, but more importantly, they used black powder, which has a much slower burn and lower velocity than the gunpowder used today in cartridges. Good job! Thanks for showing everything involved.
I think the issue is the fact that the bullets are spinning in opposite directions. The war shot fusion bullets were from muskets without rifled barrels, so not spinning. Now if the opposing barrels are rifled, they would need to be rifled opposite...one clockwise, the other counter clockwise to have them spinning the same way when they meet. If they are both rifled clockwise, and shot from opposing sides, then they spin in opposing directions in relation to each other.
I would like to see infrared footage of this to see the heat generation and dissipation of the collision. Very cool stuff guys, keep it up.
All the safety procedures were just as interesting almost. Great vid
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 audibly "Wow!"ed at 22:02. Getting to see how physics works through slow motion is awe inspiring. Thank you for your incredible work in getting this footage and sharing it with us!
thanks for the timestamp
It was like time stopped for that tiny part of the universe where those bullets met.
If you watched Mythbusters, they did the conservation of momentum trick where the truck moves one way while a ball is shot in the opposite direction at an equal but opposite velocity to the truck, and managed to get a shot where the ball literally did not move horizontally at all before dropping vertically. This is literally on the same level of physics demonstration awesomeness.
thank you for not having to watch that whole 20 minutes
Energy in that shot is insane.
Destin, the equal momentum transfer shot was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for making such interesting content!
Just amazing, good work guys, the bullet fusion counts in my book...
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
"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.
That's much harder to accomplish than Destin makes it sound.
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.
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.
Was thinking the same thing. I bet polishing and then stripping off any polishing compound with solvents would help significantly
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:05 "Let's give it a shot" - good one ;)
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.
@@markdoyle9642What?
@@markdoyle9642 Huh? What do you mean 😅
@@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.?
@@markdoyle9642 How have mark and destin idolized guns.
@@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.
This was so cool. Thank you for making this happen
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 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.
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. 👏👏👏👏👏
There is, or was, some 40 odd years ago a WW1 British Army rifle in the Imperial War Museum on London, England which had had a bullet enter the barrel and fuse with the bullet fired by the rifle in the bore. Alongside the gun was an X Ray photograph showing the barrel with the bullets clearly visible. Loved the experiment and the thought that went into it. It did occur to me through the yid that, perhaps, setting a bullet on a plate in front of one gun and firing the other at it, you may effectively double the distance of the travel and halving the velocity, rather like the distance travelled by the original bullets. It may even be possible to increase the effective distance travelled because the variables are reduced,
For someone who doesn't like guns, I love guns. This video is great because it shows interest & safety. Whenever I watch a movie, I end up screaming "muzzle control!" at my screen, but this here is so good. Communicating "clear" & having the safety in place is really important to me.
When the two bullets hit and froze in the air, I immediately got chills. This is incredible! Love your videos! Thank you for all the amazing content!
That was a Loony Toon moment. It didn’t know what hit em
They actually defeated gravity for a ms, that's crazy
@@karlbee7836 I was thinking the mass was shifting from forward motion into a spin motion so that's probably why?
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Extremely difficult to achieve. So many variables to overcome, from gun precision to mass of bullet.
ok so that's a great video, but my biggest takeaway is Destin's genuine & passionate excitement glowing throughout the entire video. this is just plain fun to watch
Just discovered this channel. I love it.
You did Missile Flight test on the Javelin Missile system?? That is awesome! I am an Electro Optical Ordnance Repairer in the Marine Corps and have been doing it for 10years. I personally would love to see a video of you talking and explaining all the Missile flight experiences you have had!
Well..... Classified, hah
@@ryanj610 *cool official voice* "thats classified" lmao
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.
Definitely using that term in the future.
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?
20:46 is so good, and I like how it was sort of like a liquid a bit before looking more solid.
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.
They had rifling back then, but it wasn’t omnipresent. I don’t know if it was consistent. Good observation
This. Great observation!
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).
^^^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.
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!
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?
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"
first I thought he is taking about that bullet scene only...
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).
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.
it would be easier to try and hit two arrows perpendicular.
This is a cool video. Much appreciated for the time and hard work put in.
The fact that millions of bullets were fired to achieve this back in the day both saddens and amazes me
The safety design stuff for this was nice to see, I'd honestly like a breakdown of everything that goes into a project like this to make sure there aren't any surprises.
Man, the sound production is excellent. Really adds to the slow-motion shots in particular.
Yeah, it is quite a craft to create/simulate sound to fit with existing video It is really more an art form
@@gewuerzgurkeev "Rad cello playing, making you feel things" in the subtitles really got me :)
Personally I get more excited about pretzels and bier put together, but I do accept that the pull-off of such a challenge was monumental for these guys and definitely interesting.