SmarterEveryDay - 2020-09-06
⚾ https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday ⚾ Get a Rocket City Trash Pandas shirt at http://shoptrashpandas.com/ ! Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED Behind the Scenes Video of how we built it: https://youtu.be/E60G3ba4TUA ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ I have been wanting to build this thing as long as I understood the physics of how it all works. A super big thanks to David Linderman, Jeremy Fielding, Trent, and David Woodall (the welder). I realize most people who support Smarter Every Day don't do it for "transactional" reasons, (ie, I'll support Smarter Every Day to get stuff). I also realized that there is often a mental hurdle that must be crossed before support on Patreon starts. My thought is that I'd really like to give folks a baseball, and it might provide enough momentum to get over that initial hurdle. I signed the first shipment of baseballs I received, but I only have so many of those. There's no implication that my signature is worth anything.... it's just kind of what you do with baseballs... it's a tradition. After a certain number, it will transition to unsigned baseballs. I've got enough signed baseballs to over all existing Patrons, and many more, but I will wait a month or so to see how many I need to get, then I'll order the second batch. I like to support jobs and pay people for what they're good at. The machinists and welders who made the parts in this video for example. The whole intent here is to diversify away from solely being ad sponsored so I don't have to answer to anyone but myself and Patrons with respect to the types of content I choose to make. Thank you for understanding what I'm doing here, and even if you decide not to kick in at https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday , I'm super grateful you took the time to watch this video! Thank you very much, Destin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION When I was younger, my favorite baseball players were Cal Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Ryan Nolan Ryan's fastball has been beat, but when adjusted for radar gun placement it may still be the fastest pitch ever: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/04/22/fastball-pitching-documentary-mlb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeremy Fielding's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_SLthyNX_ivd-dmsFgmJVg Tweet Ideas to me at: http://twitter.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day SubReddit https://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery https://www.ashellinthepit.com/ http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ If you feel like this video was worth your time and added value to your life, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to pitch a few dollars Smarter Every Day by becoming a Patron. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin
WHAT A BANGER!!! 1) I’m humbled you named the cannon after me 2) I’m stealing “What hath we wrought” as a catchphrase 3) I just signed up for your Patreon to get one of those balls!
Science stupid like cows
Science poisoning the world is the moon has no magnetic field,
Science doesn't know, Every second the moon ' s core attracts the Earth ' s core 1200 tons of electricity causing tides on Earth.
Explain
Properties of negative electricity ( electron -- ) and properties of positive electricity ( positron + ) is rotates very fast, after 4, 6 billion years of creating the moon ' s core, so the core of the moon rotates very fast like a super big electric turbine that generates super huge electrical energy, it is this enormous electrical energy that drives the moon rotates.
South pole the moon push out space 1460 tons of electricity per second.
Every second the moon ' s core pushes into the Earth ' s core 1200 tons of electricity.
North pole the moon suck in 1460 tons of electricity Every second.
The moon ' s magnetic field is emitted flying in circles returning to its original position after 10 seconds causing tides on Earth
@Thạnh Phạm Source?
hello
Not surprised you're here.
@Friedrich M. Beachy Yea, i think they did the golf ball vacuum cannon
This video convinced me to go back to university, to get a degree in engineering, it’s a difficult degree and it’s pretty easy to become resentful and lose sight of my end goal, whenever that happens I go back to this video and watch it to remind myself no matter how difficult the topic is, I will one day be able to shoot a baseball past 1000 mph.
Edit: many thanks to everybody wishing me luck, first year done and I got 78% in my maths modules
dude that's nice
I think that's the only reason to get an engineering degree
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@Coincidence Theorist DVD’s gas
“As an experimental weapons tester”
Wait, what?!
Maybe he's been working for a military weapons producer?
(Just kidding)
@Butters Da Baller except on Sundays
@Wilms Not to be rude but the weapons tester and devout Christian part doesn't sound that diverse. Pretty on brand:)
@Sirris I mean I really dont see anything wrong with him being christian, and its not common to be a weapon’s tester
"Sir our position has been compromised." "by what?" "crowd funded baseball artillery.... "
You know you're on a 'Smarter Every Day' set when the instruction "orthogonal to the gun" is fully understood and barely noticed by all on-site.
I caught that too. nice! didn't he say "to the trailer"? gotta go to work, check that 4 us please cu!
It’s the first time I’ve ever even heard of the word 😂 I’m gonna look up the definition and wait for the perfect moment in my life where I need to instruct a friend to place something “orthogonally” to something else
This dude takes physics experiments to a whole new level, learning physics and science never felt so good, cheers mate
Well, seeing as you have a really accurate baseball canon, is there really any need to mail the baseballs?
@Weeb Knight worth it?
@Jack Clancy 6, BOOM "your baseball is on route"
@Anhfjd Zbxjxisk pretty sure anywhere in continental US. would be suborbital, or, "ballistic" he hit.s escape V you won't get your ball, ha, I'm goin to attitc to grab my glove JIC! what if breaks E's windscreen? they got space insurance right?
loll
LMAOOOOO
Hey, I would love to see how fast you can get a baseball to spin? Can you do a video on the what the spin rate does to a baseball? A lot of pitchers are almost gluing their fingers to the ball to increase the rpm substantial enough to change the game?
OK so it's like the 3rd time through watching this video and it still gives me tingles. Having binged through your awesome podcast no dumb questions, please please please introduce the mad batter to the Canon!! The combined sound would be beyond words!
I love the Physics, Mathematics, and the Engineering needed behind such a big project. Nice! I never saw a baseball tear apart or even break a sound barrier before.
As a big baseball fan, and also a nerd to people in my profession I love this channel. We use the Venturi effect a lot with a piece of equipment we use without knowing much about it. The carburetor video was amazing
Utterly incredible!
Imagine destin,alec,mark,slow mo guy,demolitionranch colab... That will make a incredible video ever. And cool weapon too.
Time for a collaboration.... Is it possible to forge something supersonic speeds? 🤔 Could a hot billet be shot? What would that look like?
@SmarterEveryDay what's the cost of that bitching cannon?
@Alex LMAOOOO
@SmarterEveryDay
This is crazy stuff! I love seeing all the science behind it all. I’d be pretty shaky too after letting off a cannon like that. 😆
Easily one of my favorites videos to date. Keep up the awesome work.
I just wanted to say thank you for the really exceptional closed captioning on this video. I’ve been watching videos with my kiddo and she loves CC so we’ve had it on and you did a really good job on this one!
As always...spectacular! I discovered your channel about a month ago and have been glued to it ever since. What for me sets them apart from other similar channels is well...you. Your presentation and your enthusiasm is decidedly unique. Keep doing what you do Destin, it's great.
One thing I thought you would have commented on but didn't was the fact that the covers on the balls were starting to rip off before they hit the barrier. I know you don't have the time to comment on every aspect of all the things happening, or these would last for hours. But if you pay attention to the shots right before the ball collides with the wall you'll see that they look like the cover is being unstitched, which I find amazing. Never would have thought that the air speed could have such a destructive force! Again, another super job.
Congrats! I really like that you mentioned the laval nozzle since without it super sonic speeds wouldn’t be possible.
Does he talk more about it in the BTS video? Because here it's on the paper design documents (where I think he calls it the "Venturi") but it's not in the SolidWorks walkthrough. It seems extremely important.
@F You Kung Flu r/iamverysmart being smart gets you no where in this world unless you can learn to be humble and respectful to others.
@Hitmarker sounds like you need to go back to school as well. I was just suggesting that its an old methodology of testing the laval nozzle. No need to show your ignorance.
@F You Kung Flu that’s not a de Laval nozzle though, that’s simply constricting flow to accelerate it. To accelerate flow past supersonic, you need to expand back out the flow, hence the de Laval nozzle
@Phillip Anderson same!
i love seeing makers/engineers collaborating together to make something this awesome
The perfect, fattest knuckle ball ever—absolutely no rotation—with no movement because you obliterated wind resistance. Be tough for a hitter to get around on it anyway. A sequel to this amazing feat would be to build a mechanical hitter that could hit it (with a wooden bat, of course).
I love the pure joy when the math confirmed the speed.
Some how you need to combine this with one of the insane baseball bats. That could cause an insane amount of distance
You guys are absolutely amazing.
You guys should get together and build a rail gun
If only they were using their time and energy for something productive though
@Yautja Prime Making even 1 kid want to do something good with their life it's a win. It's crazy that the people that go out their way to make high quality videos that will be viewed for free get people like you leaving ridiculous comments.
@Code_ Red Knowing time could be better spent is ridiculous? Wow... You're worried about one kid, I'm worried about the entire planet. Try using your time to improve the world. I simple pointed out the truth. Didn't mean to offend you.
@Yautja Prime if you don't learn that not everything you do needs to be productive, your life is gonna be unfun. And anyways, it was very productive for them. They promoted their patreon by offering baseballs, got a lot of views and money from those views, and they achieved more in the few months they were working on this than you have probably achieved in years.
I have an experiment I would love to see. What is the velocity of a 98mph Major League pitch when it reaches the plate? With the differences in how pitch velocity is measured (pitchers hand(now) to home plate(past)), how do pitch velocities today compare to those 15 years ago?
Nice Video btw. What hit my mind while whatching this brilliant video was, how far away has the target to be to not destroy the ball and what is the maximum range? A home run is guaranteed anyways :D
I love this stuff.
Some 20 odd years ago, we in the PCP Targetry sport, in Britain, had a lot of discussions as to whether a PCP (Pre Charged Pneumatic) rifle could project a pellet faster than Mach 1.
Even the engineers from some of the top manufacturers did not know for sure.
Folk from different specialisations would expound upon their theories.
It was already known that a spring powered air rifle could do it.
Some physicists claimed that because air could not move or respond faster than the speed of sound that the projectie pushed by it could not exceed Mach 1.
But did it Need to ?
The important thing was the transmission of energy to the back of the projectile.
Waves vs Mass (of the transmission medium) movement.
The energy was in the pressure waves.
It was all fascinating stuff.
Eventually, verifiable experiments were conducted and Yes, a pellet or slug Could exceed Mach 1 when projected from a PCP air rifle.
Comparable to the instant (near c) transmission of electrical energy despite the slow movement of the electrons in a conductor.
It wasn't even an important factor for Targetry as we were all using sub-sonic sub12ftlb rifles anyway.
Because the Law in Britain and the stability of skirted diabolo pellets becomes lost above Mach 1.
But we HAD to know.
Holy! I LOVE THIS!!
It's like Mythbusters but for the cool science kids with more scientific details 💙
The ball looked like water splashing on a table. That was so Awesome!
fast things behave like fluids
Chwit enough forze, ewertything becomez a liquid, da?
@Scooter McAwesomeness Lol! That's what I thought too. Looks like someone threw a blog of pudding on the floor!
Me too! I was liquified. So amazing that for a brief time a baseball looked like water.
WHY ISN'T THERE MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE AMOUNT DIFFERENT LIQUIDS BEING CREATED !!!!!!
I am showing this video to my middle school class! They and I love it! We had a few questions, how much did the project cost?! Did anything break while you built it?
It's got to be a great moment when you consider your passions in a Venn Diagram and obviously in the center is one of the most awesome things ever created. And then you go and do it.
that is flipping insane, I'm on deck to take a swing at it!
I am interested to see how much a difference it makes to use different types of gasses with different molecular weights
Are some people gonna get the disintegrated baseballs in the mail? Would be cool!
bruh
Yes please, it will lower the cost of shipping (envelope and stamps will do)
The cannon is the mail delivery system. Just put in your order and hold out your glove. BAMM!
“Some assembly required”
I would like to make one correction on this otherwise amazing video, the reason the speed of sound is “higher” in nitrogen is because of the specifics of sound itself, as sound is a vibration through the atoms of an object. The baseball, thus, went the same speed it would have otherwise.
18:50
Wait if the ball's going faster than the speed of sound, then how do we hear the sound of the ball hitting the steel immediately in the slo-mo video? Wouldn't the sound wave travel towards the camera slower than the ball was traveling towards the steel?
This is so high tech!! I wasn't expecting the steel to be manufacturered at such high quality!!! Looks like an atom splitter almost . At least half of one!! Haha So cool!!
Ever thought about adding rifling to the barrel to see how much you can make the ball curve?
This guy has the best patreon pitch I've heard yet.
@Max El You must be fun at parties.
@lumpy gas in a vacuum GTFO with that nonsense. Gravity isn't even incorporated.
Clever
@Carson Hunt I met Destin in person in an airport. I’m sure he was super busy but took the time to say hi and exchange pleasantries. So her certainly interacts with his fans.
Best I've ever heard
As an engineer with his own obsessions, I wholly support this endeavor
20:08 if you look really carefully you can see the shockwave bouncing off the steel right before the baseball hits 🤓😯
(Look to the upper right of the baseball. You'll see the shadow of the shock cone passing above :D)
So many thoughts are stimulated by this video, for which, my sincere thanks. The first was: If, instead of shooting a baseball, could you shoot a golf ball in a sabot? If it has less mass then maybe it could go even faster? Or are you already right up against the speed of sound in compressed nitrogen?
At 19:01, the ball from cannon looks pretty much like a knuckle ball, meaning no spin on ball.
In baseball knuckle ball is known for unpredictable movement.
Yet here, Destin(?) says the ball from cannon shows good consistence on target.
Can anyone explain?
Thanks in advance!
This was AWESOME. Thrilled to have worked with you guys on this! For those of you just finding out about our team...welcome to Trash Panda Nation.
I love Raccoons
You guys have in my opinion one of the coolest team names I've ever seen. The fact that Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy is a trash panda adds to the coolness.
I just bought a shirt. Awesome name
With people like this guy promoting you, you might become the Flash Pandas 🐼
Love you guys. Glad to have this man as one of our fellow Huntsville youtuber
18:59 That is the fastest knuckleball I have even seen in my life
You're welcome
Yeah, about 970 mph faster than my knuckleball
Hey dustin, just thought that since you like aerodynamics so much, you may like to learn about the way that the air travels around race cars such as formula 1 cars. Its extremely complicated but also interesting to learn about.
That building process is beautiful. So many smiles =)
Given that we know all the variables, how high would the baseball travel if fired perpendicular to the ground (with or without air drag) ? please show your work :)
Interesting way to actuate a piston valve. Pretty awesome. I think you could have got the velocity of the valve up quite a bit with a more standard design and lighter piston since that rod has a whole lot of heft to it. Cool to see though. I've thought about adding an extra vacuum reservoir but never tried it.
What is up with all the youtubers on this vid
Did you work at NASA?
@Easy Kimpin lmao
@Easy Kimpin You're thinking of Mark Rober, not Destin from SmarterEveryDay (the guy who made the video you just watched).
The piston isn't really acting as a piston, but is as a valve to allow the compressed air (nitrogen) into the partial vacuum. It looks like its moving < 0.75" to vent the compressed N to the baseball. Pretty cool "pressure assist" design to open the valve!
Unfortunately I have only just heard of your channel today so I feel almost guilty that I was not able to be subscribed sooner. But after watching this video as the first one I’ve seen from your channel. Gotta say I’m thoroughly impressed and definitely subscribed.
Thanks for doing this experiment!!!! HAHA yeah 🤣 😆... I'm a big fan of this kind of thinking 😄... SOOOO now.. find an area that is flat to see how far it can travel under different elevations.... AND HOW HIGH UP the baseball can go.... paint with some glowing material to follow the flight....haha 😄 🤣!! OK 👌..... 👌. This has me going crazy with all the possibilities 🤣 😜.... WELL DONE MEN OF SCIENCE!!!! WELL DONE 👏 ✔ 👍 👌 😀.
Can you try it with a steel ball? That would be awesome, I hope the cannon can cope with this?
SmarterEveryDay - 2020-09-06
I have been wanting to build this thing as long as I understood the physics of how it all works. A super big thanks to David , Jeremy Fielding, Trent, and David.
I realize most people who support Smarter Every Day don't do it for "transactional" reasons, (ie, supporting Smarter Every Day to get stuff). People usually support because they understand what I'm trying to do here and are of good will. I also realized that there is often a mental hurdle that must be crossed before support on Patreon starts. My thought is that I'd really like to give folks a baseball, and it might provide enough momentum to get over that initial hurdle. I signed the first shipment of baseballs I received, but I only have so many of those. There's no implication that my signature is worth anything.... it's just kind of what you do with baseballs... it's a tradition. After a certain number, it will transition to unsigned baseballs. I've got enough signed baseballs to over all existing Patrons, and many more, but I will wait a month or so to see how many I need to get, then I'll order the second batch. I like to support jobs and pay people for what they're good at and hopefully this will enable more of this. The machinists and welders who made the parts in this video for example. The whole intent here is to diversify away from solely being ad sponsored so I don't have to answer to anyone but myself and Patrons with respect to the types of content I choose to make. Thank you for understanding what I'm doing here, and even if you decide not to kick in at https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday , I'm super grateful you took the time to watch this video!
Thank you very much,
Destin
Metal Gear - 2021-09-12
You even used Schlieren Optics to Record such. That’s just ridiculously impressive going even further beyond y’all initial plans.
ᚢᛁᚫᛁᚾᚷ - 2021-09-22
Can you shoot something so hard that it breaks down in to atoms? I tried to google it when i saw that baseball turn into strings but i couldn't find the answer
Minh Doan - 2021-10-01
U just mad a suppressor at the barrel
Thạnh Phạm - 2021-10-02
Science stupid like cows
Science poisoning the world is the universe has no center, if the universe has no center the universe will collapse
Explain
The Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall is center of the universe
Properties of electrons -- and properties of positrons + is spins very fast , after more than 46, 5 billion years of creating the core of the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall, so the core of the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall rotates very fast like a super big electric turbine that generates super huge electrical energy,
South pole the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall push out space 2400 billions billions tons of electricity per second.
North pole the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall suck in 2400 billions billions tons of electricity Every second.
The magnetic field of Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall is emitted flying in circles returning to its original position after 93 billions years, so pushes the universe rotate around the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall in order
Zeke Polaris - 2021-10-07
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