400 MPH Bowling Ball to the Dome with @howridiculous - The Slow Mo Guys
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Published 2023-11-16
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Give this one a miss if you're slightly squeamish.
Massive shoutout to @BealsScience for the cannon work.
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400 MPH Bowling Ball with How Ridiculous - The Slow Mo Guys
All Comments (21)
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Great to hang with you lads, so much fun. Let’s go again in 2024!
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Now imagine being on a battlefield during the Napoleonic wars and having whole batteries of cannons firing high speed iron balls at you as you walk forward. This was a very good demonstration of why cannons make a mess of infantry formations.
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I am just really happy that the slo mo guys are still pulling big numbers!
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You obliterated like 15k worth of ballistic dummies and are worried about the table 😂 love you guys
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“Okay so hear me out, two Aussies and two Brits walk into a massive open field with a bowling ball canon” 😂
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IN THA FACE!!!
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The banter between the boys has been great every video with you all colabing. Love these cross over vids. Hope for many more.
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There's Brett's knowledge of the human body, Gavs tech precision and Dan's explosive expertise. And Scott.
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It really puts into perspective of what canons through history did to people. It’s awesome and terrifying all at once.
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At 4:05 you've got the best representation of what an "investigative journalism" award looks like
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One of the greatest and most wanted collabs I'd say. So happy to see intense slow motion with the ridiculous nature of breaking things, match made in heaven. What I was not expecting was the absolute brutality of seeing a bowling ball smash a skull into shards, I'm getting a headache just watching it smash them.
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Seeing the flash of fire as the ball hit the first head in the line was mindblowing. We need more collabs between these two channels
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So for those wondering: 400 mph is ~180 m/s. That's roughly how quickly a cannonball would be traveling mid-flight in the 18th and 19th centuries. The destruction is a good match for some period accounts too: There's a story of two French captains who hated each other. At the battle of Vellinghausen, a cannonball decapitated one man, and a piece of the skull put out the other captain's eye. So seeing all those pieces scattered so far, just gives a sense of the destruction a cannonball can do.
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Pure Napoleonic realism level here!! Those battles were gruesome and yet so legendary! Now I have a better understanding of the ordeal Marshall Lannes had to face when he saw a good friend of his being literally decapitated by a cannonball, only to follow a similar fate when another cannonball ricocheted and destroyed his leg, eventually killing him after a sad, agonizing death...What a man!! No wonder why the Emperor himself cried profusely the death of one his best friends/ Marshalls, but also one of the best military geniuses of all time!! RIP, brave Marshall Lannes!!
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The four of you should do ALL of your videos together. Brilliant and hillarity all around.
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Been waiting for this collab for many, many years. It did not disappoint. I always thought the Slow Mo guys and How Ridiculous would get on splendidly. Best friends forever!!!!
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It’s Brett and Scott’s reaction to Dan’s bigs words for me 🤣 Classic How Ridiculous 😂
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Happy too see Dan sitting this one out as a test dummy😂
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Frame by frame at 4:23 you can see a flash when the bowling ball impacts the head!! I love that phenomenon
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I was amazed with how perfectly you got that straight. At the same time, That was truly terrifying!