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Awesome Destruction

Drone Blender

Drone Blender

We recently saw a couple of motorized knives used to automate kitchen tasks. It turns out that a drone is a much kitchen appliance, doing double duty as a 4-bladed blender and a food processor, as demonstrated by Speed Motion in glorious slow-mo.

Tow Rope Drifting

Tow Rope Drifting

From the “don’t try this at home” file, watch what happens when this car is tethered to the rear of a moving vehicle, while its occupants swerve recklessly across the road. Fortunately, the car they’re torturing is Russia’s abysmal Lada Samara.

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How to Erase a CD-ROM

How to Erase a CD-ROM

While you probably have moved on from storing your data on CD- and DVD-ROMs, chances are you still have some lying around with sensitive files on them. Photonic Induction is here to show you the proper way to permanently wipe all the data from your discs.

What’s Inside a Shot Put Ball?

What’s Inside a Shot Put Ball?

YouTube channel What’s Inside? specializes in cutting things in half to see what delicious fillings live inside the hard candy shells of everyday objects. Their mission to cut open an 8-pound shot put ball hits a few speed bumps along the way, but they won’t be deterred.

5k iMac vs 90mm Cannon

5k iMac vs 90mm Cannon

It pained us to watch the wanton destruction of expensive hardware, but FullMag’s epic slow-motion footage of the cannon firing at this pricey iMac made us feel better – just a little. Though next time, send us the new computer, and we’ll send you an old one to blow up.

Red Hot Ball vs. Nokia 3310

Red Hot Ball vs. Nokia 3310

The red hot nickel ball encroaches into Will It Blend? territory. Can the literally hot new thing take on the legendary 3310 and its mythical indestructibility? Let’s just say this is like when Apollo Creed took on Ivan Drago.

Coke vs. Molten Lead

Coke vs. Molten Lead

While messing around with a new gas burner, YouTuber TaoFledermaus poured a can of Coca-Cola into a pool of molten lead. While highly dangerous, the end result was surprisingly cool. It looks sort of like the T-1000 from Terminator 2.

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Red Hot Ball vs. Hockey Puck

Red Hot Ball vs. Hockey Puck

YouTuber carsandwater’s red hot nickel ball has demolished pretty much anything that was offered to it. Until now. Its kryptonite? A hockey puck, which is made from a seemingly indestructible disc of vulcanized rubber.

How to Exit the Garage

How to Exit the Garage

91-year-old Walter Thomas has some mischievous blood flowing through his veins. One of his bucket list items was to back his car through his garage door. When a relative planned to demolish their garage, his wish came true.

Slow-Mo Fire Slap (and More)

Slow-Mo Fire Slap (and More)

The guys from Kuma Films got the opportunity to play with BeyondSlowMotion’s Phantom camera for a day. Bask in the warm glow of fire and the shattering of innocent objects in this short compilation of what they captured.

Red Hot Ball vs. Jawbreaker

Red Hot Ball vs. Jawbreaker

YouTuber carsandwater is obsessed with placing a red hot nickel ball on top of other objects. The reaction between the searing hot sphere and the sugary jaw breaker is particularly vigorous, as the candy spews its molten sugar like hot lava.

Shattering a CD in Slow-Mo

Shattering a CD in Slow-Mo

While compact discs are designed to be spun at high speeds, they will catastrophically fail somewhere around 23,000 RPM. The Slow Mo Guys managed to capture the destruction that occurs at an eye-popping 170,000 fps.

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13 Guilty Kids

13 Guilty Kids

Kids will be kids, but if our rugrats did the kind of destruction these troublemakers caused, we might just have to put them up for adoption – except maybe the one who put the stickers on the baby, because that’s just funny.

5,000 Match Chain Reaction

5,000 Match Chain Reaction

There’s just something immensely satisfying about watching 5,000 matches go up in flames. YouTuber David Hill says he took over 10 hours to painstakingly glue together his creation, only to destroy it in about 10 seconds.

Metal-Melting Solar Death Ray

Metal-Melting Solar Death Ray

Kevin and Grant from the Science Channel’s show What Could Possibly Go Wrong harness the power of the sun, using the fresnel lens from an old rear-projection TV to focus a dangerously hot beam that can melt metals.

Get Wrecked

Get Wrecked

(NSFW: Language) A variety of “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” moments from people who pushed the limits of physical objects. While the destruction is occasionally due to poor build quality, mostly it’s the result of stupidity.

Giant Gummi Bear vs. Shotgun

Giant Gummi Bear vs. Shotgun

Carsandwater took one of those giant-size gummi bears and shot it with a 12-gauge shotgun. Then he froze it with liquid nitrogen and tried again. Why? Internet. We think Mythbusters should start using these instead of ballistic gel dummies.

GE: Everyday Object Destruction

GE: Everyday Object Destruction

Last Spring, General Electric released a series of videos showing household objects being put through the ringer with their Micro Erosion, Micro Forge and Drop Weight testing rigs. Here’s a supercut of the destruction for your enjoyment.

Death of a Chairlift

Death of a Chairlift

If you’re afraid of riding the ski lift, skip this video, which shows what could happen when a chairlift fails catastrophically and rolls back. Fortunately, the intentional destruction of this lift would lead to improved safety standards in today’s lifts.

GE Destroys Stuff

GE Destroys Stuff

To show off the strength of machines which use their advanced materials, GE tortured a variety of objects – melting, shattering, crushing and bending them beyond recognition. We’re not sure if they got their point across, but it’s fun to watch.

Slow-Mo Eggstruction

Slow-Mo Eggstruction

DudePerfect’s new series Bro-Mo is all about guys recording the wanton destruction of stuff in slow-motion. In this episode, they smash, crash and explode hundreds of eggs. Let’s hope they made some omelettes afterwards.

Handheld Laser Cutter

Handheld Laser Cutter

A laser pointer times 10,000, this incredibly powerful 5 Kilowatt device by TWI can be used for making quick work of metal demolition and decommissioning work. Now if we can just get one with a backpack power supply…

Flammable Household Items

Flammable Household Items

Buzzfeed Yellow catalogs nine everyday items which will flare up big time when exposed to an open flame. Man, those ping pong balls and non-dairy creamer are pure evil. It goes without saying – do not try any of this at home.

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