See Through Suppressor in Super Slow Motion (110,000 fps) - Smarter Every Day 177
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you have to give props to Gordon for that incredible incredible sounddesign.
dang man I agree 100% it was so good!
Gordon is an incredible artist. His work can be found here: ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/
thx
Can you explain to me what sound design is?
The sound stood out the most to me. At first i thought you had an awesome microphone that recorded it and was able to stretch it out and speed it up to get appropriate tones. Is that possible?
2:25
*Bullet:* Goes away
*Suppressor:* NO WAIT COME BACK!
The bullet was offended by what the suppressor said
😂😂😂
Fren, wait for me!
Now he got 2 bullets xD
Thunder noise (it makes)
The glass exploding off the suppressor should be an intro to a game like COD or Battlefield
Jacob Cole Lol!
Jacob Cole it really does
6:00
Dude, i hope that this is gonna be a thing. Also the sound is EPİC
That's not glass, tho.
2:20 this has got to be the most efficient way to switch from a suppressor to a muzzle break
When you wanna change your load out but you realised its real life.
It’s also a solid projectile grenade launcher
I thought the same
US army etc. Does this when their suppressors get stuck from carbon in the threads. They shoot them off lol.
@MJay 624 I wanted to clarify this comment before someone tries it with the wrong can. This is only for the Surefire cans. They are made to be fired off of the gun if they are carbon locked. 👍
this video is awesome
Subscribe
man you agian
Of course
Wow! Very cool. I never would have guessed ANY of them would have held up to the pressures! Great video Destin!
Could a slug go through a custom silencer ?
figured I'd find you around here
Hey Jeff! :D
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I know it's not the real sound, but I have to give major props to whoever did your sound engineering for the slow-mo. It sounds really cool.
I always forget they don't record sound, and that's the hallmark of great sound design
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@@argmusic5797uh i think we need a ambulance, someone is having a stroke.
2:46 walking on dirt
6:17 defeating the enderdragon
Lol
@@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2 hi you alive
@@Jankowskimanno yes
kek
@@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2 hi you alive
2:46 It sounds like you're breaking Minecraft dirt
Omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg😂
Do you realise that they make the noises not with computer generation right?
bruh 😂
Omg🤣🤣
2:30 double bullet system
AN?
Lol
I said the same thing two minutes ago
So underrated lol 😂
These high speed, see through videos are amazingly interesting to actually see whats hapening as hot gas moves though things. Knowing the theory is very different to actually SEEING it. Thanks for these!
High speed cameras are such a fantastic analytical tool! I would love to see a Smarter Every Day episode describing the science and technology associated with high speed cameras. I'm sure Destin would do a great job with the topic.
It's not that much different than a normal camera, but Gavin did a couple on either The Slow Mo Guys main channel or maybe the second channel.
You could say suppressors are baffling.
Z M what you did there... I see it
And convoluted.
It shouldn't be legal to talk about suppressors, only whisper.
Well played.
I had to suppress a chuckle at that.
6:12 , is that not the most satisfying sound ever
One of the best sound editing in RUclips
crunchy
sounds like me eating potato chips at 3AM
@@kata5398 💀💀💀
@@ConanObrien22 how is that editing isnt the sound real?
Its interesting to see how what I learned in solid mechanics is applicable to the experiments performed in this video, especially helping to identify weak points of the suppressor!
Love these videos Destin, thanks!
6:00 the start of a cod trailer be like
I like your pfp
originality 100
LOL
😂😂😂😂🤣
6:17
WHEN YOU KILL THE ENDER DRAGON....
ProxydoxP L omg
Wtf that’s so accurate
You are the CEO of underrated
i just commented that and i see this
Wow yes!!!
6:17 hear that with a headset!!!
Yeah I I had my open back headphones on put on my over the ear closed back . Then did the L-DAC vs APTX
@@rgarc514 what
“Hshhhhhhhh krkkkkkkkkkkkkk”
Sounds like minecraft ender dragon when it dies
Thx
I enjoyed this episode so much. It's funny how someone can show you something you've always wanted to see but didn't know yet. lol
You've always had a quality channel man. Always interesting, and always delivering! Thank you for the content.
That was a fascinating point where you said engineers purposefully weaken one part of a design so they can see how strong other parts of the design are. Loved it!
Bruce A. Ulrich That bit reminded me of something I'd heard a while ago that it's easy to make a bridge that won't break but engineering is about making a bridge that will only just not break.
The saying is: “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.” Which is indeed trying to make the point that engineers find ways to optimize and get the same results but with minimal resources.
Another well known saying is: "The glass is not half full or half empty, it's twice as large as it needs to be" which also kind of implies the same point about engineers trying to optimize something for its intended purpose.
"When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart."
-William Gibson
+vincentpol
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
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im really loving the replies this comment is getting
""When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart." -William Gibson"
Pretty sure people who design bridges spend more time studying the ones that fall down than the ones that stand. :p
01:57 The suppressor reads like "MORE"
Ajith Kumar K Never knew that I needed to see that, until; I did see it!!! FRIGGIN' AWSOME!!!!
I saw Monroe
That's a cool view
Cool observation dude
*MORE!*
I think the acrylic exploding is possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen and all my 43 years.
Man, this still holds up as one of the COOLEST high-speed captures OF ALL TIME! Love your content and dedication to quality.
Beautiful. For once something in one of your videos works exactly as I imagined it did. That's pretty rare. It's maybe better to be surprised and learn something, but every once in a while I appreciate a little eye candy and a confirmation on one or two things I think I already know.
Edit: Actually I did just notice something I did not expect. The highest pressure at the muzzle seems to happen a short time after the bullet has come and gone. That is interesting. Or perhaps an alternate explanation: it takes some time for the gasses leaving the barrel to inflate the suppressor to the pressure at which it fails. Either way, very interesting.
You should try a DIY suppressor.
to me it looks like the front was simply stronger, and could survive the pressure wave. When the gasses sprung back to the end without much metal in the way of the glass it failed.
The pressure wave bounces back from the front to the back, then the stress from that collision of the pressure wave at the muzzle breaks the acrylic.
IMO, the gasses escaping through the threads damaged the acrylic. From there, the structural failure propagated, leading to total failure.
pierrecurie exactly, but I think that happens after the rebound of the pressure wave, explaining the time lag
2:18 you're welcome
You're*
@@supermarioxt1133
“you are welcome”
@@MarkAlexisDrilon no u
@James K
understandable
@@MarkAlexisDrilon That's actually what it is though
This was awesome . Thank you for all the efforts included in this video .
Thanks to all parties involved! This was a great video to show my son who has a million questions about everything. Really cool to see the burning gas contained and swirling around the baffles inside the suppressor. Heh! It beats watching a computer animation in a visceral way!
We need a SmarterEveryDay + Slow Mo Guys + DemolitionRanch collaboration.
SSniper14 PB I've wanted to see a smarter everyday + demo ranch collab for a while. I hope more people like your comment so Destin sees it.
AVE Narrating,
SloDemoEveryday!
Kevin Hosea smarter every day and demo ranch would be really awesome
whatiwant YES! I love AVE
Well done... I always look forward to your videos.
zollotech a
zollotech I got more likes than a verified channel!
zollotech II
Spectacular !
Enjoyed every segment of this post !
Thanks !!
That was everything I hoped it would be and then some what an amazing video not just educational but visually stimulating! Definitely got my subscription keep up the great work
Destin, Thank you for showing this off. Absolutely incredible. Getting people more educated on firearms and suppressors is an amazing thing.
proven false green cow but nice try
The physics are interesting, and Smarter Every Day is great, but we have to keep in mind that guns are tools made for killing things, and suppressors make it easier to use that tool.
Getting people excited about using guns is not an amazing thing. They are a tool that has their appropriate place, not something to use as a fetish.
Koert DuBois Yes, guns kill things... like the person breaking into your home. Yes, suppressors make it easier to use... like not destroying your hearing when defending your home.
I find it really weird that people have got so caught up on this killing aspect of firearms (no, I'm serious). It's not like firearms are the only things that kill, nor are they the most lethal things that kill. It depends solely on what or whom is being killed and who is doing the killing.
Education was the 'amazing thing' that was being referenced, and that's the barrier to all things.
Hold on a sec'. Guns don't just "kill things" like it's some kind of accidental side effect; they are a tool specifically designed to kill things. And that's okay, so long as they're handled and respected like any other kind of destructive tool.
I can fully appreciate those who are into elegant, efficient tools and the technology behind them. What's weird is when people act like the killing ability of guns is no different than the killing ability of a jackhammer.
And what's really weird is when people get in the habit of idolizing guns to a degree that they would never idolize a jackhammer or a chainsaw. That's when it would be handy to have a few psychologists around, to figure out why some people are so fascinated by the power to kill.
Koert DuBois You're the one that first said "kill things". I'm quite happy to say that guns are designed to end life. That's their purpose.
The big difference between a gun and most other things that can kill is range... guns kill at a distance. Otherwise I don't care if it's a toothpick; killing is killing, no matter what is used in the act.
I wouldn't use the word 'idolize', but I first got interested in guns simply because of the mechanism. There's plenty of machinery that is fascinating and guns are no different. You act as though guns are a magic off switch for people, but people do survive being shot. Rather similar to a modified nail gun really.
I recall someone saying that you don't need advanced engineering to build a bridge that stays up. You need advanced engineering to build a bridge that JUST BARELY stays up -- hence, destructive testing. :-)
Hold on, I need to tell that to my Structural Engineer friend, so that she may laugh and then weep.
It's true. I'm in engineering school and I've heard it many times. Engineers are paid to make it as cheap as possible while making it reach a certain factor of safety. Anything more is extra material and work which is $$.
Do you they only do that to cut costs?
so very true. I mean I want a bridge that 100% stands up, but I get it.
Yep. Every bridge you've ever been on and will ever be on is not technically 100% safe. Just built to be "good enough".
This was Epic! The designs are also so beautiful. What stood out to me the most besdies that was the sound design!
Yoooo I love these slow mo especially when that one broke it looked cool !
That spiral suppressor was really pretty and cool.
That cracking sound of the glass sounds so cool 6:16
Added in post. The high-speed camera only captures video.
All the slow-mo sounds are made by this guy: ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/
LunexX_ 210 k
My foot makes the same sound when I accidently hit the counter with my little toe
Sounds like an bone breaker in mortal Kombat lol
This is easily the best video on RUclips. I’ve watched probably 10 times over the years
I have a suppressor on my Rifle and it is awesome to see the shock, flame and gas pattern as it occurs and matures. Always wondered the sequence of events behind the operation of these.
1:52 Looks like the supressor says "MORE" O_o
Ram Laska omg man
Ikr!!!😶
This was absolutely magical. I have always wanted to see what's going on inside suppressors, and this was beyond my imagination.
aSinisterKiid especially at 6:10
This was AWSOME ! ! Please Show More ! ! Props to all involved ! Wish I could afford a couple Suppressors myself ..
love your channel , never a dull topic . merry xmas
6:16 : crack opening a hot one with the boys
Cracking open*
A cold one*
Xeonex i give up with people sometimes
ha crack opening a hot one
you have to give props to Gordon for that incredible incredible sounddesign.
2am.. Sleep or SmarterEveryDay?
Welp, I've got the rest of my life to sleep.
3am here xD gn man
BaRKy not even kidding the video I watched before this one was your archipelagos map showcase lmao
same
Good thinking buddy
Where do you live, where I am it's only 9:30 PM
So cool in slow mo! Love it man keep up the good work!
6:17 LITERALLY NUT
Hey u donk it's 6:19 not 6:17
@@lP_PROXY it's 6:17
actually 6:18
6:18 when your balls got kicked
Chilli Shaus
*minutes
I swear if destin had a Netflix series. I would binge it
Sweet idea
I predict it's going to happen!!!
Repeal the need for tax stamps.
This thing is super very dangerous, but for 200 bucks we will let you own it.
Why?
@@paleo704It makes firearms safer with hearing risk.
It looks like it might get repealed!
An excellent video. Real people and genuine kindness. Down to Earth. It puts the viewer at ease. I'll but a suppressor from them.
4:08 Honestly the most beautiful one in here, in my opinion.
looks like a galaxy
The way the gas just revolved endlessly until it disappears is just... beautiful
6:18 that is so satisfying i could watch that over and over again
Very cool video!! Stunning slow-mo shots.
As 35+ year R&D machinist/fabricator, I've been blessed to work along side some great engineers. I've worked at Primex technologies which was bought out by General Dynamics. We made some awesome medium caliber munitions as well as carpet bombs. We also made the depleted Uranium tank killer ammo.
As a mechanical engineering student and firearms enthusiast, I have got to say I am incredibly thankful and amazed at this and your other firearm related videos. Thank you so much for making this. This is precisely what I want to do with my career and this fuels my passion to drive on!
I like how his accent gets thicker when he's talking about guns.
yeah it did get thicker as the video went on LOL
all of our types get heavily accented when we talk about guns
He probably has a sensitivity to accents. We all subconsciously change the way we speak when we talk to different people. It's how we help ourselves feel familiar and fit in.
StrobeFireStudios it’s just the south. If I talk to someone with a stronger southern accent then me my accent gets stronger
His IQ drops too.
Hi Destin! I love your channel and all your guests. I know i'm many years too late on this video to be relevant but please let your guests be as excited as you are!
Anyone can design a bridge that stands; only an engineer can design a bridge that just barely stands. I love that saying, and it really drives home the idea of learning weak spots, fixing them, and not blindly overbuilding (without learning or understanding).
2:30 when she says she wants kids
Lmao
Yeet
Wtf
Well, that's how I got the first one, anyway. Fired a shot through some weak material :)
🤣
2:32 "I need to go, my people need me!"
No no its ...
*My Planet needs me*
I can’t believe I’m barley seeing this video now! Best video on RUclips! I see a comment that’s says now we need a see through gun which is exactly what is needed
This is the first video I saw from your channel. As soon as I saw the content you created, I immediately pressed the SUBSCRIBE & LIKE button.
WHAT A GREAT CHANNEL. KEEP SPIRIT. I LOVE THE CONTENT YOU CREATE 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I own a couple suppressors. After seeing this video, I think my next will be a Soteria.
I love how the first one didn't really "break", but just rocket man'd off the threads
My guess is all the threads are intact. The pressure build-up just temporarily increased the diameter of the tube, disengaging the threads. It slid out
Been watching the channel for years but somehow missed this one up until now... Thank you YT algorithm because this was amazing!
I wouldn't be surprised if this video led to better technology in modern suppressors. Awesome!
1:53 For a second I read "amore" on the suppressor.
Yeah lol
I read it “Ore”... *glass ore i guess?*
That's Amore!
The sound design was so good!
I already saw this amazing video 5-ish years ago, but had to see it again since it popped up in the recommendations.
This entire video is just artwork and ASMR through and through.
Things breaking in slowmo look neat
Especially with explosions.
It sucks for Form-1 guys that the tube is the serial numbered part. $200 a pop! If only that Hearing Protection Act thing can just get some traction and be passed. Take Suppressors off the NFA list!
Those guys are making the suppressors, they have a license to do so, they don't have to pay the tax to make them, only to transfer them. I can even make a suppressor myself, but since I'm not licensed to do it, I have to pay the tax for it before I can make it.
It's an expensive license to get. Although it is the only way they could do this. Since the Form-1 is $200 a pop, it is pretty much impossible to experiment with designs without getting the manufacturing license. What's especially annoying is how a noise pollution control device (or any part thereof) can be legally defined as a firearm.
Doesn't have to be the tube, in the case of a monocore design like that, you can easily serial the core, Just stamp your mfg/serial/etc in the core at the base (where it threads into the muzzle). 1/16" tall letters, at least .003" deep. Can be difficult on small cans.
That I did not know. I've always heard the tube specified.
ATF Published a guidance letter in 2016 suggesting the tube, however that was considered the part "least likedly to be damaged or replaced" In the case of a mono-core suppressor, the core is the "least likely to be replaced" especially when the tube is made of plastic and is prone to exploding. You may need to get a marking variance, but I don't think the ATF would be resistant under these circumstances. The marking variance should be asked for before either the form 1 or form 2 are submitted.
Love it, thanks guy.
Coming from the UK, you guys don't know how lucky you are, or maybe you do.
Loved the video. In Hawaii, no suppressors allowed. To much mis-information about them. So that being said, I would love to see a Db meter for each shot. Take a measurement with no suppressor as a baseline, then show the various readings on the various shots with the different calibers and suppressors. Hopefully more people in states where suppressors are not allowed will learn the truth about how they work and why we all (50 states) should be allowed to use them.
I have never understood why they think suppressors are bad. I have also never understood why automatic guns are bad. Pisses me off.
check out Pew Science
Honestly, they should be integral parts of all weapons. Piriod.
Silencers are bad in the way that invisible poison snakes would be bad.
6.24 sound recording is just pure magic man, very beautiful,superb video as always. Great work bro.
The sound was made after the recording
It blows my mind! Those sounds are created by a sound engineer! Those are not the sound recorded.
I was gonna go to bed, but then I had to watch this.
Videos like this are the reason why YT is awesome!
The breaking of the suppressor was the best part of the video - such a beautiful breakage.
2:25 man imagine that being a movie intro.
The P-Hub yes
Epic . Thank you 🙏 for putting all the hard work in .
Woo I love it! I'm learning engineering stuff! It was so rad
This is so satisfying and educational😀🔥❤️
Amazing. Enlightening. Brilliant. Fascinating. One of the very best slow motion videos I’ve ever seen, and I came away having actually learned quite a bit. Thank you and thanks to my southern neighbors.
This was super cool!!!! Not only do I get to see cool slo-mo shots and the insides of suppressors but I also get to learn just a little bit of engineering stuff too. Win Win in my book.
Awesome video and just got my 2 hello fresh package!!!!
I’d love to see you do a review of the Dooxi solvent filter. They seem to be machined with a degree of care and work quiet well.
6:15 ASMR
Best sound ever at 6:17
Ikr
TheCRusingGamer almost like asmr
Ooohhhhh myyyy gggooooooood
It's like the sound on the PS2 when it boots
Same here. Fantastic sound that would be put to good use for those ASMR videos.
Amazing. I loved this. The only possible way it could have been better is if there had been a K-Cup design as well, just because I'd love to see all the differences. But I *really* loved I think it was the 3rd or 4th one, where at the end you can see the last bit of flame sort of "sloshing" back and forth at the end of the can. Wonderful video. :D
Yea K would've been cool
Thank you for this excellent presentation!
Destin is the best teacher ive ever had :)
Paul 5 agreed. I love his explanations of the science behind things
Not until he treats his religious beliefs with the same scientific questioning. That's a video that would be worth a sub and title of 'best teacher'. Until then he's just a fun educator living a contradiction he's too scared to bridge with the same logic and passion for inquiry.
How sad, no wonder americas failed
slinkytreekreeper. I have a passion for science and inquiry, and I am a Christian like Destin. I have literally sought out scientific arguments that used natural science to try and disprove God, the use of faith, and why I should stop believing, but none of them work. It was too easy for me to explain something, and counter the argument with better information. I don't like getting into the details on the internet, because those debates almost never go anywhere. And text communication is terribly inneficient for true human-to-human mutual understanding. But if you believe in science; the pursuit of knowledge. Then you should open your mind, stop assuming you have the answer, and start learning more. Think you know Destin is living a contradiction? Have a really in-depth talk with other highly intelligent science-loving Christians, so you can do something truly scientific and expand your understanding beyond your preconceptions of what you think you know.
Yeah? Tell me what you learned with this video.
6:05 when scarllet witch breaks the mind stone but thanos reverse the time
Best SED video yet!
Wow. That was soooo freakin cool. That was the coolest thing I've seen in a while !
Great video, great subject! I just wanted to mention I agree that the axial force is what physically pushes the suppressor off of the end of the barrel (r2^2 - r1^2) * Pi, and it is difficult to know for sure without analyzing the failed component, but there is only a tiny cross sectional area in the axial direction, the vast majority is exposed to radially oriented pressure. The pressure is applying radial pressure and expanded the acrylic radially to a point where either the threads completely disengaged the metal barrel threads, or partially disengaged until the thread engagement area was small enough to shear the remaining contact thread tips.
Thank u math leprechaun
yup, that's why you don't use plastic for firearm suppressor bodies. You have to figure out what the blast chamber pressure will be, and design it from there.
Best youtube video of 2017!
The acrylic tube launching itself off the suppressor after the shot just has top tier slap-stick comedy qualities.
Whoa... this is one of the coolest things I've seen. Can't believe I missed it until today.
Do you think it would be possible to use the slow motion camera to look down the barrel of the firearm with lights to see the bullet spin with the rifling? It would be very cool to see!!
They could sacrifice a mirror so that you could look directly down the length of the barrel! Everyone like so Destin sees this!
I have seen a video like that, but it was made decades ago, pretty low quality and not that slo-mo. It would be great to see it done with a modern camera.
leo drake , Actually, thats a GREATidea! A mirror set up w bright light down the bore & a marked bullett. Would blow the mirror away but the REFLECTED footage would ROCK!
The main problem with the mirror would be the additional distance. I don't know how they would be able to make light and at the same time focus in the inner barrel.
Hoch134 use a beamsplitter to place the camera and the lightsource in the same virtual location.