Mythbusters weren't wrong, they just don't have the mass to do do damage haha, but it's insane people still throw them thinking it might. I'm excited to see him test it though. It could be like bullet drop, where if it goes straight up it's non lethal but any angle it keeps ballistic trajectory. Mythbusters definitely weren't infallible, as legendary as they are they had a lot of flawed experiments and conclusions haha. Should get Adam to come on the channel honestly, he went on Corridor.
Honestly best advertising ive ever seen, no long ass tangent about their website just a "yeah they sent me this desk, it broke my drill bits and survived a coin that went straight through plywood" so now i have to buy one
hey m8, im finishing a phd in chem, and i gotta say, this was the closest to actual research-grade investigation you have ever done. you designed a hypothesis, performed background work, reported/published findings in a narrative that flows. stupendous shit m80.
Some people are confused about things in the video that i didn't explain very well. 1. Me throwing the coin had nothing to do with anything. I just wanted to know how fast I could throw a coin and also if it was possible to keep it on the skinny edge. 2. I wasn't suggesting that you need to throw the coin off the empire state building to reach a fast enough speed to kill someone. Just that by dropping it with a spinning motion would keep it on the skinny edge allowing it to reach a much faster terminal velocity. 3. The terminal velocity I calculated was actually slower than ones that people in the comments have estimated using physics programs. Some of the estimates were around 300 kmph. The point of the pig test was to show what a coin traveling at 230kmph (slower than the terminal velocity) would do to you. Turn you into a piggy bank 4. Also the point of the dam test was to show that the spin would at least keep the coin on the skinny edge for 45 meters. 5. How you going?
And 5 seconds BEFORE that, he said he needed a device specifically to launch a small projectile at fast speeds, pretty much the definition of a gun. We should have known he was going to spend half the video reinventing what he said he didn't want to build.
(turns out US is 70%)As an Australian, i'd like to inform you that we beat the US fluffy-fatty rate. 66% of us are overweight and about 90% of us live in cities.
@@gabbonoo according to nih.gov 30.7% of Americans are overweight and 42.4% are obese or severely obese, for a total of 73.1% that are overweight or worse But, if you're really that desperate for your country to be fatter then I'll stop commenting and you can win by default
well its a really fat slingshot since it uses the elastic of the string rather than the elastic of what the string is fixed to. but yeah he should have just had the foot thing that goes on the front of crossbows
@@mua7d1that one felt a bit in poor taste but i guess they're aware of the horrid things going on and besides i'm not the one to decide what's offensive
Him actually showing how durable and strong that standing table is impressed me more than any normal ad read ever could. It almost seems like it could make a suitable workbench and not just a pretty thing to have your PC on
I love the realization you get at a certain point in almost every idat video of just “oh yeah, that random little thing he just cobbled together and is firing in his garage could kill a person effortlessly, that’s neat”
So I calculated an estimate using wolfram alpha. Fall distance: 377m (1237 ft) Drag coefficient: 0.431711746 (best one I found) Projected surface area: 87.52 mm^2 (spinning dodecagon with thickness) Fluid density (air): 1225 g/m^3 Weight: 15.55 g (like half a bullet) The result was 67 m/s (241 km/h, 150 mi/h) for the speed of the empire state building (visiting area) and 82 m/s (295 km/h, 183mi/h) for the terminal velocity which are very dangerous indeed (deep tissue injury, bone fractuce) You would also keep the coin stably spinning for at least 11 seconds.
It would be a challenge to keep it spinning around z axis only for 11 seconds considering wind. It would need to have a hole and be much bigger to have the same mass 🤔
I agree washers would probably spin more stably because more of the mass is further from the center, but I also think the hole would increase drag substantially. You could probably get the best results by using a washer but taping over the holes
Probably becoming less realistic now as physical currency is becoming less popular. Also, "rifle" is probably an inaccurate name for a coin gun as "rifle" refers to a barrel with helical pattern of grooves; any feasible method of shooting a coin that i can imagine would not involve such a barrel. You may be able to form a crude bullet/slug by hammering a stack of coins together and fire them from a shotgun. I guess some type of coil gun or rail gun could be made to fire coins, the exact composition and shape of the coins would probably be important.
Well... I think this one is kinda tame compared to the death darts dropped by a drone, or the spinning top of death. Or even the trap book that got taken down because youtube didnt like it.
The reason it took the drone so long to descend is because the downward facing sensors were blocked by the coin contraption, so the drone kept thinking there was something below it, and was descending at "landing speed"
And it should be possible to disable that sensor somewhere in the settings (at least possible in my mavic pro, mini has a different app now) Just don't forget to enable it again later, or you risk slamming your drone into the ground at its max descend speed
@@Ididathingyou should've gotten an American to help you. We're all trained as small children how to do a drone strike, and you don't get your citizenship officially until you end a Syrian child's citizenship.
The reason why you were seemingly throwing coins at 172km/h is because of perspective. The cameras FOV is a cone starting from the camera, meaning the farther from the camera something is the more distance it can travel before it goes out of frame. This means that when looking at the coin passing in front of the markings, it can go from covering one marking to covering the next marking going less distance than there is between the two markings. This can be counteracted by moving the camera further away and cropping in, decreasing the slope of the cone relative to the surface vector of the marking board, as the cone shape is now closer to a cylinder than before.
You are kind of on the right track but not quite. First of all: don’t think cone, think pyramid. Second: What you are describing is called parallax. The parallax effect is definitely a factor but I think you are overestimating it. One additional issue here is that even with so many fps, in an individual frame the coin is very blurry. This makes it hard to make out its exact position. I expect this to contribute a lot to the error. That combined with the parallax effect might significantly affect the result. There is also lens distortion. However, that is mostly a concern when pure pixel distances are used. In this instance the painted bars werde used which of course are equally affected by lens distortion therefore eliminating it as a factor in theory.
@woalk This cars are built to slow down impact from other cars by allowing itself to crumble better absorbing the impact essentially making up intentional weak spots. But unless modified its not made to protect against high speed projectials
i love how the premice of the video is just "yeah mythbuster did it but if it was me i'd be actually YEETING these coins with actual murderous intent" absolutely beautifull
The problem with accelerating an object to terminal velocity with anything other than gravity is that it accelerates far too quickly, the forces acting on the coin have much longer to make it unstable in flight when falling and makes it more and more likely to start fluttering... slowing it to be relatively harmless. You'd be better to use a shape that is relatively stable like a ball bearing if you really were a homocidal tourist.
As silly as it might sound, the type of content that this channel produces has a 100% hit ratio for reinvigorating my passion for physics and engineering.
Oh absolutely. These have me in the more to go to work the next day like, "I'll just build a shitty robot to fix X problem." ...Except I haven't programmed anything since I was a teenager.
The one thing he still needs to test are side winds. I suspect that during the fall from the Empire State, that side gusts would hit the coin and send it off-face. The counter to this is a really strong spin, but I don't think you can pull that off with enough inertia - mostly because the coin doesn't have enough relative mass. So, I still think there is a real possibility that a spun, heavy coin would not kill someone if you dropped it. Also worth noting that the original myth is a penny, which I think even with these ideal conditions wouldn't kill anyone. Superb video as always.
I just watched Basically Homeless make a beautiful invisible gaming PC with an expensive desk, then immediately watched Ididathing destroy the same desk with a 50c coin crossbow. What a time to be alive.
The reason you may have had trouble getting the done down: Mavic Minis have sensors on the bottom. The magazine almost certainly wouldve triggered the sensors, causing the drone to think it was perpetually right above the ground. As they're programmed to fly up to about 1m above the ground it just kept flying up (as seen in the video) until it hit the legal altitude limit and ran out of charge, falling slowly back down to the "ground" which it thought it was directly above.
You could make a handheld rod with a slot for the coin to go in. When you swing the rod, the centrifugal force will make the coin roll up the rod and get launched out the end. This will make it go fast while also making it spin. It is sort of like a lacrosse stick.
@@Ididathing Oh all that effort for a worthless video you dont know about the up and side drafts! it wont stay in that position! SORRY! you should research better before wasting your time! OH BTW what state you in that might be an illegal weapon you created and showed online! whats your next video proving a falling bullet will kill people by shooting point blank into a head? 🤦♂🤣
There was no spoilers, you showed the building side, the trials and errors, with hilarious adult humour and final results. This was perfect. Thank you for the entertainment.
I absolutely knew what would happen to the chronograph the second he started punching through the gate. The speed of that thought to reality was certainly very quick!
@@Ididathingactual engineer here, the only thing I noticed was in the ad you were marketing high tolerances as a good thing when you ment tight tolerance but other than that the pig head testing and all is a pretty familiar work thing
This is the first video in YEARS, I haven’t immediately skipped through the sponsor portion. Absolutely, phenomenally done. I’ll be getting myself a FlexiSpot, as soon as I can reasonably afford one.
@user-yl7mr3ck5lwhat u mean "keep"? he didnt debunk anything here, he actually points out that with the same coin under the same conditions he got the same numbers as Adam Savage. The Mythbusters tested free falling American pennies, IDAT used Aussie 50 cent coins thrown with spin (which you couldn't do up the Empire State Building cos they have barriers to prevent it)
@user-yl7mr3ck5l This doesn't debunk it at all though. The myth that was busted was dropping a penny off the empire state building. This video appears to not be about either pennies or dropping things so is completely irrelevant to the myth, though very entertaining.
@@nephatrine Actually, I think you'll find that the majority, if not all, of Mythbuster's experiments are severely lacking and don't account for a myriad of variables. It's still a decent show, and relatively informative, but it's hardly the be all, end all of scientific mythbusting. It was all very surface level, they had limited time to do things and a limited budget. The main thing was to make an entertaining show. I wouldn't take most, if any of it, as irrefutable scientifically proven fact however. (In fact, I wouldn't do that with many actually scientifically proven facts, in the first place. There's very little which turns out to be actually irrefutable. We learn, we grow, we learn more.) Also, this video is entirely about dropping pennies. And as stupid yet entertaining as IDAT always is. Though hardly a "debunk" video, lol.
@@nephatrine Well one huge problem with the penny drop from the empire state building is if dropped from anyplace the general public has access to from any height there or above it will always land on a ledge. The lowest ledge is not very high up meaning it will basically always catch a thrown or dropped penny or other coin. You could throw it way out sure but even then you wont manage to hit any given target. As far as the myth busters go a insane amount of their stuff was debunked and shown to be false. Effectively once the internet was in basically every home the show lost popularity and ratings flat lined as people would see something on the show then go and look up the physics facts or other facts related and just stopped tuning in
I am a mythbusters fan and enjoy these kinda things. Mythbusters also ran into the updraft on the building. Heavy coins with spin was something I’m not sure they even tried. Great replication of the myth and excellent results.
Its less the weight, more that the apparatus blocked the sensor on the bottom which the Mini uses to detect obstacles. That's why you had issues lowering the drone - it tried to avoid the "Ground".
You have a real gift for humor my friend, This is a fantastic channel to watch if you're having a bad day, it's almost like I have to watch your videos twice each because you'll make me laugh so hard I'll have to keep going back and rewatching parts lol. 6:00 I was so clenched the entire time you were pulling that back I thought it was gonna snap back and take off your head lmao!
Imagining your sponsor exec/important business person being told in an email "you need to watch his video and see what he did to our desk during the ad read!" gives me great joy. I mean I'm sure they knew what you were going to do but imagining that they did not is way more fun.
I was gonna say how it's a wonder that the Australian government hasn't put him on a list yet, but he probably is on ALL the lists... it's just that he'd be an even bigger threat if they do anything so they just hoping one of his projects kill him without their effort.
I really feel like the drop from the Empire State Building would be long enough to lose the spin and make the coin start gliding on its flat face anyway. Maybe this specific coin is still heavy enough to pack a punch, but probably not go straight through a human skull.
It’s the same concept as of shooting a bullet with a gun. Even if you shoot a gun, the bullet will eventually slow down due to air friction and become non lethal.
@@xirenzhang9126 to spin it really, really fast you'd basically have to build a Coingun and be firing it downwards from the Building, which starts to drift out of falling and also is definitely no longer an accident. something like those Foam Disc launchers, or Airsoft/Paintball guns. some very fast squash rollers.
This man is living proof that pain compliance is not a reliable form of self defense. He clearly experiences human discomfort at a much lower level than most, and could almost certainly continue to attack you as you taze him directly in the balls.
@@riftleeNah mate, this goes beyond being an Aussie, this is bogan pain responses. A bogan roughly translates to American Redneck, you know the guys who will break a leg, but because they're too drunk will just duct tape their leg and continue till the alcohol wears off. That's closer to what idat is.
Now I want to know how the Australian 50 cent coin stands up compared to the US half dollar or the original dollar coin. Those things are huge, but kind of hard to find nowadays. They're both completely circular though, so no odd angles.
The Australian fifty-cent coin (15.55 g) is heavier than the US half dollar (11.340 g) but way lighter than the old silver dollars (26.73 g) or Eisenhower dollars (22.68 g).
@@falsnamae3511 220 lbs is survivable. Not always, but people fall on their head trying to do a handstand, and that's (for some people) about 220 lbs coming down on your head from a hand's-width or so drop. I mean, it's *able* to kill you, for sure, and you said "could" so you're not wrong... I'm mostly replying because it occurred to me that there are adults that weigh 220 lbs and can thump their head with their body weight behind it and survive. Also, Matthias Steiner dropped 432 pounds on his head and neck when he slipped while competing in weightlifting during the 2012 Olympics. He walked off afterwards -- to a hospital for imaging. I'd imagine he managed to at least slow it with his arms, but it is still impressive (don't look it up if you're squeamish). So therefore we need to test large Canadian coins on large Germans.
The speed calculation at the beginning may have been wrong because it didn't consider parallax. Parallax is when things closer appear to move faster than things further away. This is the same thing that means you can move your finger a few centimetres in front of your eye and it appear to move past the moon. Trigonometry or something.
Parallax is not intrinsically about speed. It affects an observers ability to accurately determine the speed of two objects at different distances. It also affects the ability to read a stationary analogue gauge l.
he also didn't consider that framerate isn't necessarily the same as shutter speed, you can be shooting at 250 FPS and 1/500 shutter speed, that'd mean the shutter is only open for half a frame for every frame (1/500th of a second every frame), thus, whatever it appears to have travelled in one frame, is actually half of what it travelled during the frame-time
Actually he made a mistake as in his calculation his coin traveled 172 kmph while the fastest baseball pitch was 170 kmph (106 mph), and we know it's much easier to accelerate a small compact and aerodynamic metal object than a big soft baseball
I literally saw one of the videos they sponsored recently and they asked who to sponsor next, i said to give I Did A Thing a shout because he's a crazy Aussie that works with dangerous/sharp stuff and he never wears shoes. They did it!! So happy you got a free desk. Maybe keep those tootsies safer. Or just break down tbe desk and use the legs for something else, later down the road. Cheers!!
5:30 It’s okay, tiny Human. He didn’t really mean it. It’s just a bit for his video. Keep practicing, keep studying and even if you never make it to the Sydney Opera House, you can become a fine musician indeed.
For anyone who cares but doesn't want to do the math. A coin dropped off the empire state building would hit the ground with a speed of about 86.3m/s or 310kph or 193 miles per hour. I ignored air resistance for this.
The flexispot is nice looking but inside the legs there is a weak spot, a plastic part on which all the weight rests. Mine failed. That being said, they immediately shipped me a new one after a semi frustrating video proving that it didn’t work. So they do stand behind their products.
The craziest part of these videos is watching his (I assume) nieces and nephews grow up. They went from "drinking beer" as infants to playing the piano. Crazy
This reminds me of the falling bullet thing where a bullet shot straight up will tumble on the way down and not be lethal but if its shot at anything other that perfectly straight up it can maintain its ballistic trajectory and remain lethal. I actually suspect the updrafts at the empire state building are sufficient to knock the coin out of a stable spin and cause it to tumble and lose speed long before it would hit the ground.
Yeah that’s a interesting point about the bullets, I knew that but totally forgot. Although I think even near straight up still causes a tumble most often. For the coins I’m figuring it’s damn near guaranteed to fall out of equilibrium, the updrafts definitely hurt but just the extreme distance also gives it way more opportunities to go bad. So that basically means shorter buildings are probably more deadly which is a lil wild
The biggest thing you should test: How far would a spun coin fall before it begins to flutter? I doubt it makes it all the way to the ground from the Empire State Building, before wind/air pushes it enough to cause issues
Yeah i really wanted to find a building or cliff to throw it off. Unfortunately no building would let me do it and all the 200 meter+ cliffs had like a day hike to the bottom.
@@Ididathingno chance in hell will a coin stay on its edge the entire way down the empire building without rotating. All this did was “prove” that a fast coin could potentially be lethal… That said, it was still entertaining.
Not only that but they just said falling coins and tested that. Meaning no spin. In order to say they are wrong you’d have to follow the same parameters as them and get a different result. Title should be called “falling coins can kill you if altered” lol
I feel like even if you give the coin spin and throw it really hard from the top of the empire state building, the air drag will both slow the the coin's velocity and rotation. Until it starts tumbling again and slow down until it reaches the terminal velocity that the mythbusters determined
This is indeed the most likely outcome. However, that doesn't make nearly as fun a video so we can suspend the disbelief for a bit to enjoy his chaos for sure.
@@heckin_dinosaw That would take a ton of spin and at that point you're not dropping the coin you're launching it which doesn't prove the Mythbusters wrong
This is exactly it. While i commend the work he did in trying to prove his theory, he didnt just make some claims and not test, in reality this video is just a clickbait title for sponsorship and views when it comes down to it. To start off, the mythbusters werent wrong, their myth was specifically about pennies so using coins other than pennies already discounts you from being able to say they were wrong. Two, unless you have a machine to spin the coins, a human spinning it by hand is not going to be able to impart that much spin to keep it super stable. For comparison bullets with rifling can spin over 100,000 rpms. coins also have 2 big flat faces, so unless you give it incredible spin, and drop it perfectly perpendicular to the ground, you will have a ton of air resistance hitting on of those surfaces which will slow it down quickly and bring it to the tumble state much quicker. Also, the sponsor section is good for the most part, but the drill bit section was like watching a Billy Mays commercial, hes just mashing the drill bits into steel without giving them time to remove material, ive broken several bits on drill presses by pulling down to hard and not letting the drill actually do its job.
@@jeffreysell109well yes HOWEVER you completely disregarded the entire video beginning where he literally said "but they never accounted for those types of coins they surely would kill a person" meaning he made a different type of experiment to find out if a different type of coin will indeed do it while still doing the exact same experiment just with one small change
I did a thing and styropyro are the two channels that I am worried might just stop uploading. You guys are always ramping up the danger factor and putting yourselves in (potentially) deadly situations. True 'Do not try this at home' content. Still, Im glad that atleast you both are well educated on your fields and you guys know what is actually dangerous and what is just dangerous on camera (Not accounting for editing to make it look worse.) Please stay safe m8 and keep making people like me worry.
i like your 3d printed device for dropping coins. i would add a silicone bottom to the chute in which the coins roll out of for the next design. Also a bit longer chute. that way they have time to roll faster and, with the silicone, have no choice but to start spinning once released from the mechanism. Loved the video man. Keep up the great work!
Thanks mate. I was also thinking off adding a little wind turbine on the end that spins from the downforce of the drone rotors and then spins the coin. But it was too much effort
@@Ididathing hey that sounds very interesting. Wow I didn't think of that. Do it, no shoe man! I bet it'd make another epic video. That's a great idea.
i really like the tennis inspired grunts and anime form combination 10/10. ...and also the tiny pianist. some people say tiny pianists are no good because they cant reach the keys. But honestly i think its all in how you use a tiny pianist. chuck him a little stepladder and you're golden.
8:02 im sure my mum told you this but for everyone else, here's a reminder to never use the constrictor knot on body parts! it's called that for a reason. stay safe and have fun
My MATLAB simulation estimates that the 50 cent piece would reach around 310 kph before hitting the ground if it fell the entire time on its side from the empire state building and still wouldn't hit terminal velocity. Glad to see I wasn't wrong lol.
Today's revelation: our standing desk not only aids in efficiency and health but also serves as a lifesaver (especially for your head)!
Give Americans desks to wear around as protection for their heads from falling coins
make a flexispot helmet to protect people from falling coins
Thank you for giving him a new bulletproof wall to hide behind
The more you know
Is there an aus site? Or is it america and canada only ?
I like how ididathing videos always start with a scientific approach but just end with some life-threatening test that’s thrown together last minute
“the first thing I did was grab a bunch of 50 cent coins and go into my garage and throw them at the wall”
@@jessehunter362 That IS scientific though lmao
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Bots are evolving! xD now theres 3 of em 1 saying to not click the link and other saying WOW xDDDD
@GarciaCavett how did he get a link in comments isn't that removed from RUclips
Not only did this video prove that falling coins could be lethal, we also saw the creation of the world's most realistic piggy bank
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The scariest part about this man is that he is actually absolutely mad, yet he sounds so sane.
literally average Aussies
Mythbusters weren't wrong, they just don't have the mass to do do damage haha, but it's insane people still throw them thinking it might. I'm excited to see him test it though. It could be like bullet drop, where if it goes straight up it's non lethal but any angle it keeps ballistic trajectory.
Mythbusters definitely weren't infallible, as legendary as they are they had a lot of flawed experiments and conclusions haha. Should get Adam to come on the channel honestly, he went on Corridor.
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@thetransradicalLike NileGreen? 😆😆😝
Honestly best advertising ive ever seen, no long ass tangent about their website just a "yeah they sent me this desk, it broke my drill bits and survived a coin that went straight through plywood" so now i have to buy one
hey m8, im finishing a phd in chem, and i gotta say, this was the closest to actual research-grade investigation you have ever done. you designed a hypothesis, performed background work, reported/published findings in a narrative that flows. stupendous shit m80.
Thanks mate
@@Ididathingyou read your comments what a legend
He probably laughs his ass off at all the people approving his insane videos, I'm here for it too@@DoggoDoggie
@@Ididathingnext is to test the effectiveness of silly string pepper spray 🎉🎉🎉
@@Log3333 silly string napalm!! i heard from an undisclosed source that silly string is highly flammable
Some people are confused about things in the video that i didn't explain very well.
1. Me throwing the coin had nothing to do with anything. I just wanted to know how fast I could throw a coin and also if it was possible to keep it on the skinny edge.
2. I wasn't suggesting that you need to throw the coin off the empire state building to reach a fast enough speed to kill someone. Just that by dropping it with a spinning motion would keep it on the skinny edge allowing it to reach a much faster terminal velocity.
3. The terminal velocity I calculated was actually slower than ones that people in the comments have estimated using physics programs. Some of the estimates were around 300 kmph.
The point of the pig test was to show what a coin traveling at 230kmph (slower than the terminal velocity) would do to you. Turn you into a piggy bank
4. Also the point of the dam test was to show that the spin would at least keep the coin on the skinny edge for 45 meters.
5. How you going?
Goop. make a pellet gun that is as powerful as a 22 by using petroleum
I would love to but you cant get pellet guns here@@thebathroombandit
I’m going well mate how are you. Sydney weather been a bit all over the place ay…
wats ur workout plan? Lemme get on dat?!..
I just chuck lots of coins at my wall@@nolanbarker8913
I love that he said he didn't wanna make a gun, but then proceeds to use a spear gun 5 seconds later
That's not a gun. It's a fast fishing rod.
@@flowerpower8722 a really good fishing rod.
And 5 seconds BEFORE that, he said he needed a device specifically to launch a small projectile at fast speeds, pretty much the definition of a gun. We should have known he was going to spend half the video reinventing what he said he didn't want to build.
@@ryanthompson3737 what he ended up making was basically a homemade crossbow, which technically isn't a gun.
It's because he has a tiny penist (pianist)
10:51 “I got a pig head. Which is similar in weight and size to most Americans heads.” peak comedy
As an American THANK YOU 😂😂😂 it was so funny
(turns out US is 70%)As an Australian, i'd like to inform you that we beat the US fluffy-fatty rate.
66% of us are overweight and about 90% of us live in cities.
@@gabbonoo that’s impressive as an American I️ can confirm that’s impressive
@@gabbonoo it's about 74% for the US so you've still got some catching up to do.
@@gabbonoo according to nih.gov 30.7% of Americans are overweight and 42.4% are obese or severely obese, for a total of 73.1% that are overweight or worse
But, if you're really that desperate for your country to be fatter then I'll stop commenting and you can win by default
I love how he basically made a crossbow, but took no inspiration from how crossbows are drawn back and struggled to pull it back every time
was literally thinking this
Re-inventing the wheel...
@@GenJuhrumaking a wheel using only a wheel
well its a really fat slingshot since it uses the elastic of the string rather than the elastic of what the string is fixed to. but yeah he should have just had the foot thing that goes on the front of crossbows
“The worlds cheapest terrorist attack” got me 💀
"I feel like am a Palestinian" 💀
@@mua7d1that one felt a bit in poor taste but i guess they're aware of the horrid things going on
and besides i'm not the one to decide what's offensive
@@Rev_Erser If you can't joke about politicians unanimously cheering the genocide of a random country, what can you joke about?
@@Rev_Erserthey then made a 9/11 joke, it’s jokes bruh chill.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116muslims usally don't like when jokes about them😂
Him actually showing how durable and strong that standing table is impressed me more than any normal ad read ever could. It almost seems like it could make a suitable workbench and not just a pretty thing to have your PC on
I love the realization you get at a certain point in almost every idat video of just “oh yeah, that random little thing he just cobbled together and is firing in his garage could kill a person effortlessly, that’s neat”
yeah, like, it's just wood, rubber and a coin and it goes straight through a pig's skull
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Mythbusters weren't wrong. They forgot the concept of continental drift, which helped make Australian animals and coins more deadly.
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Mythbusters have been wrong on several occasions to be honest. Ofcourse a fucking coin dropping down can kill you, its a metal object.
@@nanaa9074ive clicked it whats wrong
@@格好つけるIt's a spam bot, clicking the link promots whatever is linked in the algorithm
"I wanna avoid making a gun"
*MAKES A CROSSBOW*
i mean its not a gun
Still ultrakill kill just show this guy ultrakill kill and have him make the weapons
immediately talks about his spear guns.
@@theycallmetheslime Well, a lot of governments consider crossbows as firearms.
Whoever made the animation at the start DESERVES a raise
@RushLightInvader made the animation. It says so in the description.
@@jochenweidler8645 oh thanks
So I calculated an estimate using wolfram alpha.
Fall distance: 377m (1237 ft)
Drag coefficient: 0.431711746 (best one I found)
Projected surface area: 87.52 mm^2 (spinning dodecagon with thickness)
Fluid density (air): 1225 g/m^3
Weight: 15.55 g (like half a bullet)
The result was 67 m/s (241 km/h, 150 mi/h) for the speed of the empire state building (visiting area) and
82 m/s (295 km/h, 183mi/h) for the terminal velocity
which are very dangerous indeed (deep tissue injury, bone fractuce)
You would also keep the coin stably spinning for at least 11 seconds.
Thats awesome. I shot the pig head at around 230 kmph so 240kmph could definitely be deadly!!! I need to use programs like this
It would be a challenge to keep it spinning around z axis only for 11 seconds considering wind. It would need to have a hole and be much bigger to have the same mass 🤔
I agree washers would probably spin more stably because more of the mass is further from the center, but I also think the hole would increase drag substantially. You could probably get the best results by using a washer but taping over the holes
The entire point was a penny though, where has 15.55g come from exactly?
@@wyterabitt2149 In the beggining of the video, he mentions the 50 cent australian coin, which is heavier than a penny, is what he uses for his test.
I like the idea of a post apocalyptic character that uses a "Coin Rifle" as his primary weapon. Going from place to place looking for "Ammo"
Probably becoming less realistic now as physical currency is becoming less popular. Also, "rifle" is probably an inaccurate name for a coin gun as "rifle" refers to a barrel with helical pattern of grooves; any feasible method of shooting a coin that i can imagine would not involve such a barrel. You may be able to form a crude bullet/slug by hammering a stack of coins together and fire them from a shotgun. I guess some type of coil gun or rail gun could be made to fire coins, the exact composition and shape of the coins would probably be important.
"only my railgun" intensifies.
that is just fallout lol
resident evil quarter shotgun?
@@IDCSAO terraria coin gun?
this guy is becoming more dangerous every video and i'm here for it
@Lovemeew48without clicking on that i can assure you that is not part 2
@@auroraveon I'm getting 1 man 1 jar vibes from this
@Lovemeew48silence
nah its just animals...
@@themelancholyofgay3543
Well... I think this one is kinda tame compared to the death darts dropped by a drone, or the spinning top of death. Or even the trap book that got taken down because youtube didnt like it.
"I'm gonna try not to make a gun in this video"
Proceeds to make what looks suspiciously like a gun.
Does not......
@@XuroX. actually yes.
The reason it took the drone so long to descend is because the downward facing sensors were blocked by the coin contraption, so the drone kept thinking there was something below it, and was descending at "landing speed"
And it should be possible to disable that sensor somewhere in the settings (at least possible in my mavic pro, mini has a different app now)
Just don't forget to enable it again later, or you risk slamming your drone into the ground at its max descend speed
I swear i had obstacle avoidance turned off but hearing from others i should have put it in payload mode
@@Ididathingyou should've gotten an American to help you. We're all trained as small children how to do a drone strike, and you don't get your citizenship officially until you end a Syrian child's citizenship.
@@Ididathing Ah im not sure then, ive done a similar thing where ive attached items to drop, and had the exact issue with the sensors.
@@collinbeal how do you end their Citizenship? Illegal immigration and forging documents?
The reason why you were seemingly throwing coins at 172km/h is because of perspective. The cameras FOV is a cone starting from the camera, meaning the farther from the camera something is the more distance it can travel before it goes out of frame. This means that when looking at the coin passing in front of the markings, it can go from covering one marking to covering the next marking going less distance than there is between the two markings. This can be counteracted by moving the camera further away and cropping in, decreasing the slope of the cone relative to the surface vector of the marking board, as the cone shape is now closer to a cylinder than before.
Can you Explain this in Easy language
@@fara-sarait do the slope so perspective look weird
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You are kind of on the right track but not quite. First of all: don’t think cone, think pyramid. Second: What you are describing is called parallax. The parallax effect is definitely a factor but I think you are overestimating it. One additional issue here is that even with so many fps, in an individual frame the coin is very blurry. This makes it hard to make out its exact position. I expect this to contribute a lot to the error. That combined with the parallax effect might significantly affect the result. There is also lens distortion. However, that is mostly a concern when pure pixel distances are used. In this instance the painted bars werde used which of course are equally affected by lens distortion therefore eliminating it as a factor in theory.
Another adding factor to the error is the distance between the coin and the scale: the higher it is, the bigger the error
The fact you had more confidence in the desk shielding you instead of your car is insanely hilarious.
Tbf the top of your car is usually some pretty thin sheet metal, some cork and fabric
Most cars are not designed to stop projectiles. They are designed to give way to absorb heavy impacts.
@woalk This cars are built to slow down impact from other cars by allowing itself to crumble better absorbing the impact essentially making up intentional weak spots.
But unless modified its not made to protect against high speed projectials
@@woalkCompared to desks that are designed to stop projectiles
@@kernelpanic2887well they are designed to be made of wood and tough as fuck if they are of good quality.
6:30 I like the little detail that he went from safety glasses to a full face shield out of fear xD
i love how the premice of the video is just "yeah mythbuster did it but if it was me i'd be actually YEETING these coins with actual murderous intent"
absolutely beautifull
YEETING with spin*
Alex sure knows how to do sponsor segments right. One of very few who can make me watch an ad and not instinctively be annoyed :)
True, few people/youtubers can do it right, Alex is one of them.
Sponsors should be very appreciative of people like him.
Internet Historian is great too
Internet Comment Etiquette is another goodie
Daniel Thrasher is great about it too
Can you guys give some more? I’m taking notes 😅
The problem with accelerating an object to terminal velocity with anything other than gravity is that it accelerates far too quickly, the forces acting on the coin have much longer to make it unstable in flight when falling and makes it more and more likely to start fluttering... slowing it to be relatively harmless. You'd be better to use a shape that is relatively stable like a ball bearing if you really were a homocidal tourist.
I appreciate the suggestion for alternative murder weapons you included at the end
I could calculate actual terminal velocity, but I'm too lazy.
@@Ociloc Im here to please
i'll keep that in mind just in case
Use a sharpened pencil or pen
"The Mythbusters were wrong"
Proceeds to make a spear gun specifically designed to launch coins at 1/5 the speed of sound.
As silly as it might sound, the type of content that this channel produces has a 100% hit ratio for reinvigorating my passion for physics and engineering.
This channel also makes you realize how simple it is to make a deadly long-range weapon
Oh absolutely. These have me in the more to go to work the next day like, "I'll just build a shitty robot to fix X problem." ...Except I haven't programmed anything since I was a teenager.
Good for you dude
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Now if only they had something similar for med students
been watching for ages and it's kind of wholesome watching your little sibling grow up with your channel lmao
Wholesome but also scary
@@Ididathing DUDE PHONE SWITCH BLADE!! You got your phone in your hand already,
I didn't even realize that he was the same person as the kid back then, holy shit
I thought it was a little nephew? 😂
All this time.
now teach him the difference between the twin towers and the empire state building and humanity might just have a chance.
You really made this "will a falling coin kill someone" as a front to making another deadly ranged weapon didn't you
Oi oi oi, what's all this then.
No, he intuitively realized that if he was the one dropping coins of a building, they'd be lethal
built different
he built a coin throwing crossbow. thats what it is.
The one thing he still needs to test are side winds. I suspect that during the fall from the Empire State, that side gusts would hit the coin and send it off-face. The counter to this is a really strong spin, but I don't think you can pull that off with enough inertia - mostly because the coin doesn't have enough relative mass. So, I still think there is a real possibility that a spun, heavy coin would not kill someone if you dropped it.
Also worth noting that the original myth is a penny, which I think even with these ideal conditions wouldn't kill anyone.
Superb video as always.
I just watched Basically Homeless make a beautiful invisible gaming PC with an expensive desk, then immediately watched Ididathing destroy the same desk with a 50c coin crossbow.
What a time to be alive.
Looks like the algorithm’s trying to sell you that expensive desk.
@@JaguarBST it's doing a damn good job, this is the best and most convincing advertisement I've ever seen
lmao
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The reason you may have had trouble getting the done down: Mavic Minis have sensors on the bottom. The magazine almost certainly wouldve triggered the sensors, causing the drone to think it was perpetually right above the ground. As they're programmed to fly up to about 1m above the ground it just kept flying up (as seen in the video) until it hit the legal altitude limit and ran out of charge, falling slowly back down to the "ground" which it thought it was directly above.
Yh I just comented that…
Can confirm as I own the mini 1 and 2, and have performed similar antics before...They get grumpy about objects attached to their underside.
@GarciaCavett Did we ask lil nigga?
@GarciaCavett bruh you really got me good
@GarciaCavett are we really still doing this
You did what everyone else in youtube is too afraid to do. Bringing back pig carcasses as human analog in deadly experiments. Thank you for this gift.
It's not a human analog. That's just an edible piggy bank.
He put it there so casually that I genuinely doubted it was real lmao
those dummies are expensive as fuck. and heads are not as big of a food waste as slicing a whole carcass in half
Let's make it happen!! Fuck ballistic gel
He did not just say "i feel like a Palestinian" 💀💀💀
Just for that, i will un follow his channel from now on
F*ck him i dont care
Palestinian life matters b*tch
Free Gaza _ free Palestine
Glad i wasn't the only one who caught that😂
My ass came down here so fast when I heard that 😂😂😂
@@nightmareblocks😂😂😂 he was wilding 😂😂😂
THIS was the comment I was looking for 💀
You could make a handheld rod with a slot for the coin to go in. When you swing the rod, the centrifugal force will make the coin roll up the rod and get launched out the end. This will make it go fast while also making it spin. It is sort of like a lacrosse stick.
decent idea
Yeah I considered that but thought aiming would be very hard
@@Ididathing so have it hold a bunch of coins that get released in a sequence, accuracy through volume
one time i did that with some wet toilet paper and it hit my dad right in the eye and then he beat me
@@Ididathing Oh all that effort for a worthless video you dont know about the up and side drafts! it wont stay in that position! SORRY! you should research better before wasting your time! OH BTW what state you in that might be an illegal weapon you created and showed online!
whats your next video proving a falling bullet will kill people by shooting point blank into a head? 🤦♂🤣
There was no spoilers, you showed the building side, the trials and errors, with hilarious adult humour and final results. This was perfect. Thank you for the entertainment.
There was even a very clear and direct call to action!
Ididathing is amazing, true entertaining content.
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I like how his fingernails have learnt to stop growing to protect themselves.
they look like dead anyway at this point lol.
No offence but I think its not normal.
@mggt4684 yeah they are like a cm away from the ends of his fingers
Dude makes amazing videos but fuck me that is so gross.
It looks like he chews them
@@SimpleJack-zs7ko Username checks out.
Wind exists. I've been on the Empire State Building and it was windy af up there. A coin wouldn't be able to stay vertical with that wind.
They also used a coin 10x heavier than a penny. I don't know what's the weight of a quarter but I know it's not the 10x the weight of a penny.
The amount of power hiding in that garage is terrifying.
I absolutely knew what would happen to the chronograph the second he started punching through the gate. The speed of that thought to reality was certainly very quick!
No idea how it didnt break
@@IdidathingLuck?
@@Ididathing Your punch was so fast it couldn't realize it's been hit
@@Ididathingozzie spider magick?
i like how it takes a few videos to realize that he's actually a good engineer not just a random dude doing crazy contraptions with no experience
Bit of A, bit of B. He is a good engineer, but also a random nutter doing crazy contraptions....
Ahaha I'm not sure about that
😭
@@Ididathingactual engineer here, the only thing I noticed was in the ad you were marketing high tolerances as a good thing when you ment tight tolerance but other than that the pig head testing and all is a pretty familiar work thing
He's better than some actual engeneers. many engineers never actually make anything. I think.
This is the first video in YEARS, I haven’t immediately skipped through the sponsor portion. Absolutely, phenomenally done. I’ll be getting myself a FlexiSpot, as soon as I can reasonably afford one.
Mythbusting Mythbusters seems like a fun series, although I fear it maybe a short run series.
@user-yl7mr3ck5lwhat u mean "keep"? he didnt debunk anything here, he actually points out that with the same coin under the same conditions he got the same numbers as Adam Savage. The Mythbusters tested free falling American pennies, IDAT used Aussie 50 cent coins thrown with spin (which you couldn't do up the Empire State Building cos they have barriers to prevent it)
@user-yl7mr3ck5l This doesn't debunk it at all though. The myth that was busted was dropping a penny off the empire state building. This video appears to not be about either pennies or dropping things so is completely irrelevant to the myth, though very entertaining.
@@nephatrine Actually, I think you'll find that the majority, if not all, of Mythbuster's experiments are severely lacking and don't account for a myriad of variables. It's still a decent show, and relatively informative, but it's hardly the be all, end all of scientific mythbusting. It was all very surface level, they had limited time to do things and a limited budget. The main thing was to make an entertaining show. I wouldn't take most, if any of it, as irrefutable scientifically proven fact however. (In fact, I wouldn't do that with many actually scientifically proven facts, in the first place. There's very little which turns out to be actually irrefutable. We learn, we grow, we learn more.)
Also, this video is entirely about dropping pennies. And as stupid yet entertaining as IDAT always is. Though hardly a "debunk" video, lol.
@@anomonyousmythbusters frequently take liberties to make it more plausible.
@@nephatrine Well one huge problem with the penny drop from the empire state building is if dropped from anyplace the general public has access to from any height there or above it will always land on a ledge. The lowest ledge is not very high up meaning it will basically always catch a thrown or dropped penny or other coin. You could throw it way out sure but even then you wont manage to hit any given target.
As far as the myth busters go a insane amount of their stuff was debunked and shown to be false. Effectively once the internet was in basically every home the show lost popularity and ratings flat lined as people would see something on the show then go and look up the physics facts or other facts related and just stopped tuning in
Flexispot knew who they were dealing with when they sent over the desk lmao
Lol I read this just as I got to him shooting the desk
Best add read integration in a video
I appreciate him going through the process of flipping the video upside down for us here in America.
He flipped it right side up.
They are already upside down.
A round Earth joke, no body believes in the magic ball anymore.
@@danielwarpaint1963 you DARE insult my crystal ball?
Popular misconception; RUclips actually handles this automatically based on your location
Now someone just tell him there's no such thing as a "New Yorkan" :)
I would love for Adam to see this and hear his reaction. Dude is a joy to listen to. He would love this video.
I feel like “I’m going to try to not make a gun” is this man’s mantra.
i hate when i’m making breakfast and accidentaly make a gun :/
Yeah I mean he's not American
I am a mythbusters fan and enjoy these kinda things. Mythbusters also ran into the updraft on the building. Heavy coins with spin was something I’m not sure they even tried. Great replication of the myth and excellent results.
Its less the weight, more that the apparatus blocked the sensor on the bottom which the Mini uses to detect obstacles. That's why you had issues lowering the drone - it tried to avoid the "Ground".
You have a real gift for humor my friend, This is a fantastic channel to watch if you're having a bad day, it's almost like I have to watch your videos twice each because you'll make me laugh so hard I'll have to keep going back and rewatching parts lol.
6:00 I was so clenched the entire time you were pulling that back I thought it was gonna snap back and take off your head lmao!
Imagining your sponsor exec/important business person being told in an email "you need to watch his video and see what he did to our desk during the ad read!" gives me great joy. I mean I'm sure they knew what you were going to do but imagining that they did not is way more fun.
They would have been extremely happy with his imaginative effort. I was impressed. It got me talking myself into thinking I actually want one.
"i was unable to destroy it" is the best endorsement a sponsor could ask for
I was gonna say how it's a wonder that the Australian government hasn't put him on a list yet, but he probably is on ALL the lists... it's just that he'd be an even bigger threat if they do anything so they just hoping one of his projects kill him without their effort.
Well, yeah, he might be dangerous but mostly just to himself. He also just seems like an open book.
Oh, he’s 100% on a list, with Friendly Jordies if nothing else.
i mean he did get in trouble for a few projects like his tampon gun so hes definitely on at least one
@@talanross9696Wait, explain??
Prison could not contain this man, he would simply use his razor whip to escape
I love the unhinged chaos of this channel as much as i love that he pretends everything is totally normal 😂😂😂
me : mom i want want a piggy bank
mom : we have a piggy bank at home
the piggy bank at home : 11:37
LMAO NO WAY
He never ceases to amaze me with his own ways to showcase the sponsor's products
I really feel like the drop from the Empire State Building would be long enough to lose the spin and make the coin start gliding on its flat face anyway. Maybe this specific coin is still heavy enough to pack a punch, but probably not go straight through a human skull.
So what you're saying is that we need to find a building at just the right height so that the spin is lost right after it hits the ground?
just spin it faster or something
It’s the same concept as of shooting a bullet with a gun. Even if you shoot a gun, the bullet will eventually slow down due to air friction and become non lethal.
@@xirenzhang9126
to spin it really, really fast you'd basically have to build a Coingun and be firing it downwards from the Building, which starts to drift out of falling and also is definitely no longer an accident.
something like those Foam Disc launchers, or Airsoft/Paintball guns. some very fast squash rollers.
@@ecard0 Absolutely. It's a bit counter-intuitive, but true.
This man is living proof that pain compliance is not a reliable form of self defense. He clearly experiences human discomfort at a much lower level than most, and could almost certainly continue to attack you as you taze him directly in the balls.
He is Australian after all
@@riftleeNah mate, this goes beyond being an Aussie, this is bogan pain responses. A bogan roughly translates to American Redneck, you know the guys who will break a leg, but because they're too drunk will just duct tape their leg and continue till the alcohol wears off. That's closer to what idat is.
Now I want to know how the Australian 50 cent coin stands up compared to the US half dollar or the original dollar coin. Those things are huge, but kind of hard to find nowadays. They're both completely circular though, so no odd angles.
The Australian fifty-cent coin (15.55 g) is heavier than the US half dollar (11.340 g) but way lighter than the old silver dollars (26.73 g) or Eisenhower dollars (22.68 g).
@@falsnamae3511 220 lbs is survivable. Not always, but people fall on their head trying to do a handstand, and that's (for some people) about 220 lbs coming down on your head from a hand's-width or so drop. I mean, it's *able* to kill you, for sure, and you said "could" so you're not wrong... I'm mostly replying because it occurred to me that there are adults that weigh 220 lbs and can thump their head with their body weight behind it and survive.
Also, Matthias Steiner dropped 432 pounds on his head and neck when he slipped while competing in weightlifting during the 2012 Olympics. He walked off afterwards -- to a hospital for imaging. I'd imagine he managed to at least slow it with his arms, but it is still impressive (don't look it up if you're squeamish). So therefore we need to test large Canadian coins on large Germans.
@@falsnamae3511 And then there's the 1 tonne Gold Kangaroo - plenty heavy enough to crush you without needed a drop height
And then theres my massive steel balls. That can kill with a single tbag
The *real* pondering would be about the USD gold dollar coin. Which weigh in at 1.672 *grams* ...
The speed calculation at the beginning may have been wrong because it didn't consider parallax. Parallax is when things closer appear to move faster than things further away. This is the same thing that means you can move your finger a few centimetres in front of your eye and it appear to move past the moon. Trigonometry or something.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
Parallax is not intrinsically about speed. It affects an observers ability to accurately determine the speed of two objects at different distances. It also affects the ability to read a stationary analogue gauge l.
He could do some silly math to find the actual distance it traveled… but a chronograph is “easier”
he also didn't consider that framerate isn't necessarily the same as shutter speed, you can be shooting at 250 FPS and 1/500 shutter speed, that'd mean the shutter is only open for half a frame for every frame (1/500th of a second every frame), thus, whatever it appears to have travelled in one frame, is actually half of what it travelled during the frame-time
Actually he made a mistake as in his calculation his coin traveled 172 kmph while the fastest baseball pitch was 170 kmph (106 mph), and we know it's much easier to accelerate a small compact and aerodynamic metal object than a big soft baseball
Aleksa needs to unionize and stop IDAT's tyranny 😂
My man got so fixated on making this happen that he reinvented the crossbow
I literally saw one of the videos they sponsored recently and they asked who to sponsor next, i said to give I Did A Thing a shout because he's a crazy Aussie that works with dangerous/sharp stuff and he never wears shoes. They did it!! So happy you got a free desk. Maybe keep those tootsies safer. Or just break down tbe desk and use the legs for something else, later down the road. Cheers!!
I love how you say your not gonna build a gun then also almost immediately proceed to build a crossbow for coins
a crossbow isnt a gun
I couldn't stop laughing when he punched the chronograph off the table 🤣
It felt like a impulse buy anyway.
The video may have allowed it to be categorized as a business expense.
Everything is a business expense@@elio7610
Gotta love the „we confirmed it can go through bone, time to stand beneath it.“ mentality
I really like the positive encouragement for the young pianist.
That's how Aussies encourage eachother. "You suck" It's an act of love.
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5:30 It’s okay, tiny Human. He didn’t really mean it. It’s just a bit for his video. Keep practicing, keep studying and even if you never make it to the Sydney Opera House, you can become a fine musician indeed.
Are you being serious or is this some weird joke that I don’t get?
@@majesticeagle5461sarcasm my friend
@@ritual_9968 okay :)
@@majesticeagle5461I think they are just being nice 😮
@@Stephanie2-1-1-3 I can’t help but notice your pfp☠️
10:50
Bro 💀
It’s true tho
For anyone who cares but doesn't want to do the math. A coin dropped off the empire state building would hit the ground with a speed of about 86.3m/s or 310kph or 193 miles per hour. I ignored air resistance for this.
"I feel like a palestinian" is wild
Yeah I heard that I was a bit baffled by the stupidity of the camera guy
It's the sad truth poor Palestinian are getting murdered by isreal
@@nightwarrior5516israel*
That was on poor taste, wasn't it?
That aint funny bro they are getting murdered
The flexispot is nice looking but inside the legs there is a weak spot, a plastic part on which all the weight rests. Mine failed. That being said, they immediately shipped me a new one after a semi frustrating video proving that it didn’t work. So they do stand behind their products.
They stand behind their product lmao
Pretty sure they stood on their product too.
@@RamoArtwitty advertisement!
@@RamoArt stand under*
Listening to safety third discuss the ethics of using a pig carcass and then watching was too perfect
The craziest part of these videos is watching his (I assume) nieces and nephews grow up. They went from "drinking beer" as infants to playing the piano. Crazy
I don't know what i am more impressed by. His ingenuity, his thighs or that he used Mendelssohn as background music.
All of the above!
This reminds me of the falling bullet thing where a bullet shot straight up will tumble on the way down and not be lethal but if its shot at anything other that perfectly straight up it can maintain its ballistic trajectory and remain lethal. I actually suspect the updrafts at the empire state building are sufficient to knock the coin out of a stable spin and cause it to tumble and lose speed long before it would hit the ground.
Yeah that’s a interesting point about the bullets, I knew that but totally forgot. Although I think even near straight up still causes a tumble most often. For the coins I’m figuring it’s damn near guaranteed to fall out of equilibrium, the updrafts definitely hurt but just the extreme distance also gives it way more opportunities to go bad. So that basically means shorter buildings are probably more deadly which is a lil wild
But the wind tunnel
@@xxx7917Was only about 1 meter you clown
_"Mom, can I have Mythbusters?"_
_"No, little ankle biter, we have Mythbusters at home."_
*Mythbusters at home:*
"I'll try not to make a gun this time"
makes a speargun instead
The biggest thing you should test: How far would a spun coin fall before it begins to flutter? I doubt it makes it all the way to the ground from the Empire State Building, before wind/air pushes it enough to cause issues
Yeah i really wanted to find a building or cliff to throw it off. Unfortunately no building would let me do it and all the 200 meter+ cliffs had like a day hike to the bottom.
@@Ididathing Do a collab with How Ridiculous.
@@Ididathingno chance in hell will a coin stay on its edge the entire way down the empire building without rotating. All this did was “prove” that a fast coin could potentially be lethal…
That said, it was still entertaining.
@Ididathing how dare they impede science?!
@@Ididathing you should make a launcher that's like a frisbee launcher so you can make sure the coin is spinning not just staying on its flat edge
"the mythbusters were wrong in saying that you can't kill someone with a falling penny"
"We will be using a coin that is 10x heavier than a penny"
Not only that but they just said falling coins and tested that. Meaning no spin. In order to say they are wrong you’d have to follow the same parameters as them and get a different result. Title should be called “falling coins can kill you if altered” lol
I love that he reminds us that he has a family every once in a while
I was slightly curious about this. Did he adopt?
@@justcamahe doesn’t have any kids those are his siblings and cousins
@@ringer1324 ohhhh
14:11 "I feel like a Palestinian" lmao
You are literally the only person who I can listen to talking about an ad 😂 Your content is too good!
true, I didn't even think to skip it 😮
Internet Comment Etiquette With Erik. Go watch his ad breaks
I was gonna say the same. I usually skip ads but i was giggling.
I appreciate you converting from "meters per second" to "school shooters per cheeseburger."
Haha
As opposed to kangaroos per digeridoo? Or borscht per vodka? Cartels per quincenera? You’re almost as clever as the joke you repeated word for word.
someones kid got shot@@Jackson-bm9mo
I feel like even if you give the coin spin and throw it really hard from the top of the empire state building, the air drag will both slow the the coin's velocity and rotation. Until it starts tumbling again and slow down until it reaches the terminal velocity that the mythbusters determined
If you get enough spin on the coin though it should remain stable for long enough to hit the ground
This is indeed the most likely outcome. However, that doesn't make nearly as fun a video so we can suspend the disbelief for a bit to enjoy his chaos for sure.
@@heckin_dinosaw That would take a ton of spin and at that point you're not dropping the coin you're launching it which doesn't prove the Mythbusters wrong
This is exactly it. While i commend the work he did in trying to prove his theory, he didnt just make some claims and not test, in reality this video is just a clickbait title for sponsorship and views when it comes down to it.
To start off, the mythbusters werent wrong, their myth was specifically about pennies so using coins other than pennies already discounts you from being able to say they were wrong. Two, unless you have a machine to spin the coins, a human spinning it by hand is not going to be able to impart that much spin to keep it super stable. For comparison bullets with rifling can spin over 100,000 rpms. coins also have 2 big flat faces, so unless you give it incredible spin, and drop it perfectly perpendicular to the ground, you will have a ton of air resistance hitting on of those surfaces which will slow it down quickly and bring it to the tumble state much quicker.
Also, the sponsor section is good for the most part, but the drill bit section was like watching a Billy Mays commercial, hes just mashing the drill bits into steel without giving them time to remove material, ive broken several bits on drill presses by pulling down to hard and not letting the drill actually do its job.
@@jeffreysell109well yes HOWEVER you completely disregarded the entire video beginning where he literally said "but they never accounted for those types of coins they surely would kill a person" meaning he made a different type of experiment to find out if a different type of coin will indeed do it while still doing the exact same experiment just with one small change
“Oh thats the twin towers” 😂😂 absolutely wild joke from your mate there
I did a thing and styropyro are the two channels that I am worried might just stop uploading. You guys are always ramping up the danger factor and putting yourselves in (potentially) deadly situations. True 'Do not try this at home' content. Still, Im glad that atleast you both are well educated on your fields and you guys know what is actually dangerous and what is just dangerous on camera (Not accounting for editing to make it look worse.)
Please stay safe m8 and keep making people like me worry.
2:14 I haven't laughed so hard at a youtube video in weeks.
I laughed pretty hard here too 😂
i like your 3d printed device for dropping coins. i would add a silicone bottom to the chute in which the coins roll out of for the next design. Also a bit longer chute. that way they have time to roll faster and, with the silicone, have no choice but to start spinning once released from the mechanism. Loved the video man. Keep up the great work!
he would probably need a bigger drone too if hes adding more weight to it
A thin strip of grip tape or sandpaper might be an easy fix as well.
Thanks mate. I was also thinking off adding a little wind turbine on the end that spins from the downforce of the drone rotors and then spins the coin. But it was too much effort
@@Ididathing hey that sounds very interesting. Wow I didn't think of that. Do it, no shoe man! I bet it'd make another epic video. That's a great idea.
the background music sounds like I'm creeping through a british manor house, looking for clues as to who the killer is.
i really like the tennis inspired grunts and anime form combination 10/10.
...and also the tiny pianist. some people say tiny pianists are no good because they cant reach the keys. But honestly i think its all in how you use a tiny pianist. chuck him a little stepladder and you're golden.
Glad my mom was able to help with the knot tying! She has been trying a lot of new stuff since turning 60.
No bro 😭
We all know, you dont have to tell us.
Lol
8:02 im sure my mum told you this but for everyone else, here's a reminder to never use the constrictor knot on body parts! it's called that for a reason. stay safe and have fun
Pretty sure he meant he learned how to tie "rubbers" together
The thumbnail has aneurysm fart energy
"I feel like I'm Palestinian" bro had NO right to say that 💀💀💀💀💀
Way too soon
I have to appreciate the art behind how casually "I learned something from ur mum last night" was worked in.
My MATLAB simulation estimates that the 50 cent piece would reach around 310 kph before hitting the ground if it fell the entire time on its side from the empire state building and still wouldn't hit terminal velocity. Glad to see I wasn't wrong lol.
That's awesome. I should have looked this up before making the video
"I don't want to make a gun in this video", procedes effectively make a gun