Awesome The Slow Mo Guys

The Slow Mo Guys have shot more than their share of bullets through things. But we don’t think we’ll ever tire of seeing their amazing super-slow-motion videos. This time, they fired a massive 30.06 bullet into 50 panes of glass and captured some incredible images of the shockwaves produced along the way. That mirror POV footage was wild.

When outies become innies in the elevator in Severance, they go through a trippy transformation process. Gav from The Slow Mo Guys shows us how its possible to replicate the visual effect using a motion control rig and a motorized zoom lens. It’s basically a modified version of the dolly zoom that’s been used to create unsettling visuals since Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Most videos from The Slow-Mo Guys involve some kind of destruction. This one is a bit more tame. With the help of some super-crisp macro and microscope lenses from Laowa, Gav captured incredibly detailed images of an Omega Speedmaster watch movement in super slow-motion. It’s also a good opportunity to learn how he dials in his camera gear.

The Slow Mo Guys wrapped up their latest visit with Kentucky Ballistics by firing golf balls and metal projectiles from a massive punt gun. After taking some shots at an armored tank, they moved on to a more relatable victim – a human analog skeleton inside of gooey ballistics gel. The 82,000 fps slow-motion footage is both amazing and gruesome.

Gav and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys met up with Brett and Scott from How Ridiculous to see what kind of damage a bowling ball cannon can do. Their subject: ballistic gel heads filled with fake skulls. For something a little less gruesome, enjoy some bowling balls vs. trampolines.

The Slow Mo Guys have been spending time with Kentucky Ballistics, because he’s got lots of things that go BOOM. In this video, they tested the one weapon in Scott’s arsenal that even he dreads shooting. The 950JDJ FAT MAC is the world’s largest sporting rifle. It fires a huge 20mm diameter bullet, kicks out a massive muzzle flash, and has insane recoil.

More than eight years ago, The Backyard Scientist conducted an experiment to see what would happen when molten salt is poured into an aquarium. The results were quite explosive. Now, The Slow Mo Guys have revisited the classic experiment and revealed much greater detail in the explosions thanks to newer, more sophisticated high-speed camera tech.

The Slow Mo Guys were joined by Scott from Kentucky Ballistics to test how destructive a .577 Tyrannosaur rifle cartridge is by firing it at close range into thick blocks of ballistic gel. It’s amazing (and terrifying) to see how the bullets deform the gel and the destructive forces at work. No wonder they say these things can stop an elephant.

We don’t recommend trying this at home, but if you pop a compact disc into a microwave oven and turn it on, it’ll put on a brief but spectacular light show. The Slow Mo Guys rigged up a macro probe lens and their high-speed cameras to capture the miniature electrical storm in amazing detail. Then they scrambled some eggs.

If you spin a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc fast enough, it will eventually shatter and send shrapnel flying. Laserdiscs were made similarly, only bigger, so they also catastrophically fail at high speeds. The Slow Mo Guys pointed their high-speed camera at the carnage to give us a detailed look at how the discs come apart.

The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan, stopped by the Colorado School of Mines to observe what happens when you fire two identically shaped charges into each other. Their high-speed cameras captured the 15,000 MPH collision in slow motion for us to enjoy. It was really tough to keep the exposure from blowing out because of the intensity of the fireball.

When The Slow Mo Guys and How Ridiculous got together, they didn’t just crush some heads. After all, if you’ve got a cannon that fires bowling balls at 500 MPH, you want to destroy all the things. With the help of the cannon’s maker, BealsScience, they tested the strength of bulletproof glass and polycarbonate along with a fiberglass-lined safety door.

If you’ve ever handled gold leaf, you know how fragile the thin metal sheets are. The Slow Mo Guys used this to their advantage by placing gold leaf inside a jar, removing all the air, and then letting air back in to make it shatter into tiny particles. Naturally, they captured the explosive decompression with a high-speed camera at 80,000 fps.

More than a decade ago, a grainy black-and-white video turned up of a bullet hitting steel at 1 million FPS. The Slow-Mo Guys were inspired to replicate the experiment using a modern Phantom TMX 7510 camera. While Gav and Dan’s footage is “only” 800,000 FPS, they did capture full-color shots at 400,000 FPS. The explosions looks like tiny fireworks.

Popcorn: there aren’t any other foods we can think of which must explode to be enjoyed. This high-speed footage from The Slow Mo Guys is almost as tasty as a bucket of the buttery stuff is. They used a dangerous-looking popcorn pressure cooker to get a bunch of kernels to pop simultaneously, then fired up some puffed rice.

If you set off an explosion next to a bullet, would the shockwaves affect its path? That’s the question that The Slow Mo Guys and the Colorado School of Mines sought to answer in this fascinating experiment. It took several tries to get the timing right between the explosion and the passing bullet, but it gave them an excuse for more explosions.