I Struck a Match With a Bullet (380,117 Frames Per Second Slow Mo) - Smarter Every Day 294

[00:00] Goggle up because science is about to happen. Way back before, Smarter Every Day was Smarter Every Day, Just a couple of guys having fun.

[00:12] A long time ago, we made this video and it's still on smarter everyday. But it doesn't have a smarter everyday episode number. We figured out how to strike a match with a bullet.

[00:25] Yeah!!!! YES!!! That was such a big deal. Do you remember that?

[00:37] So things have changed since then. Like, for example, this is a phantom v 20 511.

[00:50] I really want to see a bullet fly by here I think that would be amazing. Number one, you can't get strike anywhere

[01:04] We did it with red strike anywhere matches. [D] So I got these at an antique store and see, they don't work.

[01:16] I tried to find some other ones on eBay called Ohio Blue tip matches. But the green tip, the diamond brand strikingware matches. It's made by diamond.

[01:32] this is because of Department of transportation regulations. Now you can see on the end of a strike anywhere match, there's a little white dab If I figure it out, I'll put the names on the screen here.

[01:49] in and just nick the top of the match to light it off. Do you remember, John? Last time? [J] We used subsonic bullets, I think we use the short rifle bullets instead of the 22 long rifle.

[02:04] [D] We've got this little holder that we made on the CNC mill over there. And this is what it looks like when we made that it was really funny.

[02:20] [J] I don't think we've used this rifle in ten years. [D] This was our left and right. [J] Yep. [D] Yeah, we're missing a pin.

[02:33] You know what would work well there? A drill bit. It's time. I've got our specified diameter pins here.

[02:46] [D] I would tell you what to do, but you know, the beautiful thing about working He just knows what to do. And he's a doer. And he's lining it in on the matches so that we can aim the gun perfectly.

[03:03] You'll notice that there's flickering because of this fluorescent light. I'm very excited they sent this to me.

[03:15] Thank you, John. So we're going to get the shot framed, I'm so excited. [J] I'm pumped

[03:29] [D] I think they are. [J] All right, we're hot. You ready? [D] Three, two, one, fire.

[03:45] [J] Clear. [J] We're clear.

[03:57] [D] All right, so we're too far to the left and too low, I would say. [D] I think we need a calibrated bump, is what I think. Watch it. Tell me. [J] You good.

[04:11] [D] Should I just do that? [J] Go for it. [D] Three, two, one, fire. I forgot to put my left earplug in. [Destin and John both laugh]

[04:26] Okay.

[04:39] [D] So the fire was there, but then it immediately gets put out. [J] Right.

[04:55] [J] What do you think about this, Leaving our stand where it sits and then adjusting the match. out of the way and then you can pull them up as you need them.

[05:10] [D] My theory is that the blast from the rifle is putting out the fire. and strip the smoke, or at least divert the smoke.

[05:24] all that blast doesn't go directly at the match. This little cardboard smoke stripper Three, two, one, fire. Yes!!

[05:43] We've got fire. All right, let's look at the slow mo. [J] It worked. [D] Did you feel that?

[05:55] [J] That ignited the fire in me. [Both laughing]

[06:24] all the air pressure from the rifle stopped here. It's a bunch of soot and smoke. [D] So the first shots, we had the four matches spread out like this.

[06:38] We have a macro lens and we want to get a much tighter shot. So what do you think we should do? should cram all the matches down here on one side.

[06:52] And we should try to engage just fewer matches so we can get a tighter shot. And we just raised up these matches You would think that would work, right?

[07:06] Test number five in three, two, one, fire. [Destin laughing] Okay, this will be shot six in three, two, one, fire.

[07:24] Three, two, one, fire. One, fire. Go.

[07:39] What? blow the matches away because we were firing too low and sometimes we were When we finally did make fire, we had a completely different problem.

[07:55] Shot 14. [J] Got it! The question is, did it light the second one and the second one, light the first.

[08:14] You know what I mean? [J] Yeah.

[08:27] So on that shot a match, lit an adjacent match. See if you can figure it out. Three, two, one, fire.

[08:40] All right. But this was also the moment where we started to understand this requires

[08:57] When we line in the matches with the laser beam, we have to be with within the radius But if you look at the image on the side You can see that these matches are not collinear.

[09:11] Have you ever been trying to do something and you're like, well, I did my best. And somebody else, in my case, physics says, well, your best isn't good enough. We just kind of automatically go

[09:25] for the bare minimum required to get by to accomplish the task. we can just go all the way and we can get it right. We thought we were getting it right, and we clearly weren't.

[09:38] on the flight path of the laser, and the matches weren't collinear enough. We eventually called it a night And when we came in in the morning, we agreed that the barrel was wobbling

[09:54] Our solution to this was to get a vise and we rested the barrel of the gun on that block to eliminate any vibration. view to one match and increase the frame rate.

[10:10] and we could slowly raise the matches up into the line of fire. We have a height indicator, and we're going to control the height of the match.

[10:27] When you add a new column to your spreadsheet, the match is 42.55 mm high. All right, see what we got.

[10:46] Okay, so that's 42.55 mm high on the match. 43 mm? [J] We Can do 43.

[10:59] Three, two, one, fire. Dude, man, that's crazy. [D] 43.43 mm

[11:15] Fire!! All right. Yeah. Okay. Here we go.

[11:36] shot possible, so we changed out the background colors After we took this shot, so we made the adjustments, and then we started really honing in on everything.

[11:50] And you can actually see the gunpowder We captured this video at 180,000 frames per second.

[12:12] So we finally dialed it in, and we got the shot at 180,000 frames per second. This next shot, 380,000 frames per second. of the picture here, you'll see the frame rate.

[12:26] around, and we got some really interesting shots. Check this out.

[13:20] And as beautiful as all these videos are, I think my favorite frame is this. It's a very tight shot of a bullet striking a match. I think this shot is awesome.

[13:34] Can we shoot a match out of the rifle? [D] We can. [D] Yeah. Let's see.

[13:49] [D] We give it one go. [J] One go, sounds good to me. Our one and only attempt at lighting a match with a match. [D] It's free, and it's rad.

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[16:31] [J] All right, we're ready. Oh, wait wait wait Fire.

[16:46] [J] Are you kidding?!? [D] Shut up!! There's no way. [J] I've Gotta see that. Got to see that. [D] There's no way this happened.

[17:04] [J] {Exclaiming in Redneck Jubilation} THERE'S THE MATCH!! What is happening?!?!

[17:25] all the way through, that is wild. [Destin laughing] dude!!

[17:39] [J] That's incredible. I forgot how to engineer. carrying a match,

[17:52] a match This match is just like "Hey Man" [D] All right, so this is going to actually, the side view is going to get the.

[18:07] [J] That is crazy! I never would have thought that the match would have been followed by the bullet. So I thought about how to end this video, and I guess I'll say it like this.

[18:20] The fact that we were lighting matches with bullets, that doesn't really matter. It's the fact that we were doing it together that does matter. and you're kind of on the fence whether to call them and tell them, like, hey,

[18:34] Do it like, invest in the friendship, because that's how friendships work. I know this kind of sounds dumb, but I want to thank you for hanging out with me in the garage all these years.

[18:50] I don't know you, you don't know me, but we're enjoying the same stuff together. so I'm grateful that you want to just goof off in the garage with me. goof off in the garage, there's an email list.

[19:05] an email next time it's time for us to goof off in the garage together. I have a list of things I found in the slow motion while editing this. If you want to check that out, I'll put it all in a video on the second channel.

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[19:35] Three, two, one, fire. Yes. [Both laughing]

[19:49] I tried to hit there and I hit there. [J] I broke my own hand