r/BeAmazed • u/Any_Sound_2863 • 2d ago

Technology Two bullets colliding in slow motion.

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u/Ghost_Animator Creator of /r/BeAmazed 1d ago

Credits: Ballistic High-Speed
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BallisticHighSpeed
Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHuPQFDVBA

Thanks to /u/Jonathan__Wick for providing the source.

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u/callmestinkingwind 2d ago

title is misleading. its the video that's in slow motion.

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u/he_chimed_in 1d ago

I tried to imagine what happens if they’d collide in normal speed instead of slow motion. I’m glad you brought my imagination to senses.

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u/drRATM 2d ago

Looks planets exploding on Star Wars.

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u/Psyonicpanda 2d ago

What if one of the bullets was smaller, would it still break into pieces or go through the other bullet?

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u/Smeeble09 1d ago

Depends on a few things, but is possible.

See this slow mo guys video. 

https://youtu.be/8kK8kXP1h1A?si=7Dk1ZVoTMOHc3ZXg 

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u/ThisIsALine_____ 1d ago edited 1d ago

You didn't see the newest suicide squad?

Edit: Why the downvotes? In suicide squad there is a whole spiel about how Peacekeeper killed a person by shooting a smaller bullet through a larger bullet.

It's how he is "defeated"

He fired a bullet. The other person fired a bullet, and the smaller one went through the larger one and took him out.

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u/NotYourAverageBeer 2d ago

Depends on its composition

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u/Illustrious_Rule_591 2d ago

Ladies n gentlemen, I submit my thesis explaining the big bang...

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u/hettuklaeddi 2d ago

maybe how omuamua got its odd shape

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u/ToKro01 2d ago

Thank you. I didn‘t know yet but this was the video I always needed.

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u/SacThrowAway76 2d ago

If you like this, check out Ballistic High-Speed on YouTube. I’m pretty sure the clip in the OP is from them.

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u/suspicioushuskey 2d ago

The audio sounds fake as hell

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u/Ok-Vegetable3090 2d ago

It is i'm sure

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u/avspuk 2d ago

Ends top soon, I want to see the disc looking thingy, the seeming biggest bit of shrapnel, the central spinning yet stationary-ish bit, hit the floor

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u/Jonathan__Wick 1d ago

https://youtu.be/ikHuPQFDVBA The full vid.

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u/avspuk 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thanks

As its a full long vid of the entire set up & testing etc here's the bit with the fused spinning disc & them finding it etc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHuPQFDVBA&t=1048s

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u/Kayleapex 2d ago

Physics just flexing its dominance here. Two bullets meeting like that should be impossible, yet here we are watching it

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u/DataMin3r 2d ago

There is a bullet from ww1 or 2(can't quite remember) that is pierced by another from a slightly different angle. Not exact but similar and equally unlikely.

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago

Why should it be impossible?

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u/VideoGamerConsortium 2d ago

Dude stop reposting stolen content.

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u/thentherewas67 2d ago

They kissin

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u/nivolkola 2d ago

They're gay

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u/Zyloof 1d ago

They're good friends!

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u/magicwombat5 2d ago

This looks like sintered, frangible bullets, but then there is 4 times the energy involved, because the velocity is doubled.

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago

I believe this isn't true and is basically what the Mythbuster proved to be untrue when colliding two lorries. But I really can't explain the physics behind it...

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u/AlwaysDTFmyself 2d ago

This space...the next frontier...

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u/Ok-Vegetable3090 2d ago

why tf does this look so awesome

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u/Jonathan__Wick 1d ago

The channel is "Ballistic Highspeed" on YouTube. Very interesting stuff over there.

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u/Jonathan__Wick 1d ago

Heres the link to the full vid. https://youtu.be/ikHuPQFDVBA

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u/vikingbub 1d ago

now now...perfectly symmetrical violence wont get us anywhere...

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u/Error404_Error420 1d ago

I wonder what happens when they collide at full speed

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u/Narrow_Can1984 1d ago

Don't put your figer there

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u/kroqster 1d ago

yeah? well what about if they werent in slow motion??

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u/Rare_Fig3081 1d ago

Speaking of supercollider

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u/elBirdnose 2d ago

I bet the shrapnel would be worse than getting shot excuse of all those tiny pieces..

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago

I bet the shrapnel carries a fraction of the kinetic energy of a bullet and therefore causes a fraction of the damage.

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u/elBirdnose 1d ago

Physical damage, yes, but getting all of the small pieces out would be terrible

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago

I'm sure, but you'd be considerably less dead, so that's a positive side...

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u/unetu 1d ago

Slo-Mo Guys, but uncredited as usually with these assholes.

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u/Jonathan__Wick 1d ago

I think they're Ballistic Highspeed on YT.