Unrelated but could you do an episode on Supersonic Ice? Supposedly a bizarre form of water that may exist all over the universe. It's described as "a black and hot form of water" making up the bulk of icy planets.
There is a similar plant found in different parts of Asia that explodes violently when in contact with water 💦 and pop like a small cracker, this mechanism might be so when it rains the seeds will have a better chance of growing its seeds . I love this video !! :) Edit - Ruellia tuberosa
@@JD_13 only a simpleton would thing this is turbular. It doesn't take slow-motion or more than a third grade education to see how this is clearly, undeniably, lambulent flow
Turbulent, and laminar is smooth and more associative with stable flight, not object tumbling through the air. I know you might be joking, but I really wanted to give it some thought.
What I find amazing is how many different plants evolved basically this mechanism. There's some up here called jewelweed that does the same thing. It's a really pretty plant, but walking near a bush of it is weird when it's full of seed cause a whole bush will just kinda explode seeds everywhere if you bump into it. There's similar spring mechanisms in a few other plants as well I think. There's a type of tree with exploding seed pods that are really spikey if memory serves.
Yeah I've always called them a touch-me-not. But I remember loving touching them as a kid and when I finally figured out how they worked I was blown away. This video just came up on my feed and the first thing I thought of was oh it's like a touch-me-not
There's a kind of cactus called the Cholla that shoots out spikes when there is a disturbance near it. I dont know if this is the same kind of mechanism but its still pretty similar.
Yo I just found your channel yesterday and fell in love, and now I see your comment only 13 days ago on a year old video I decide to watch today? I think it is a sign to go watch more of your videos. Keep up the great work man :D
I have a lot of footage of various exploding seed pods. There are a surprising variety of mechanisms exploding seed pods use from different species. I've not seen the particular plant you filmed in this video.
We used to see one in southern California that looked like a small plump pod with black or dark brown seeds along edges that ran the length the pods. When disturbed the pods would burst with a snap. The little black seeds would fly in every direction.
As an End Stage Renal Failure patient who spends a lot of time in a Dialysis chair it's this guy and some other Podcasters that have kept my mind from atrophy. Thank you so much for doing this. Not Discovery, History or even PBS does long form exploration with the accumen and depth that you provide. Dig it man, keep it up. You're doing humanity a service. A most worthy cause.
I hope you're still doing well, or improving renal system wise, but I really just wanted to say that's a GREAT attitude to have about learning, AND, it's basically true that if you're occupying your downtime with the dialysis in this way, listening or watching informative and _interesting_ content, you are exercising your _brain_ at the same time in a very healthy way. Hope it is working out all around, and, _keep_ _coming_ _back!_
I just wanted to tell you I really appreciated the beginning of this video. The way you enthusiastically said you wanted us to learn together before excitedly sharing what we were doing. I felt like I was spending time with the dad I never had. Just wanted to say some people notice, appreciate that stuff. This was an amazing video! I learned a lot. (:
So that scene at the end of "A Bug's Life" where they launch grass stalks in the air into each other to create grass seed fireworks is actually a thing. Pixar.
They really do take their research to that level, i remember nemo they not only made them go diving, they made them go diving in australia for accuracy.
Some of the most technologically advanced systems can be made from imitating nature. What we think originally is just a simple mechanism, turns out to be a perfectly engineered machine at play.
@@mikeb1596 Because they are. If it were specifically and precisely engineered, it would be VASTLY different. Apparent complexity does not mean a greater force at play.
@@mikeb1596 yes, followed by the critical part which is the response of the natural world filtering out the changes which don't improve how well the living thing reproduces. Beautiful really, unlimited opportunities for change and a simple system that inevitably selects for the best ones without any need for a conscious designer or interferer
@@Teuwufel random mutation explains some edits in the existing genetic code. Random mutation does not explain the creation of the information processing system that allows mutation to even exist. Random mutation doesn't explain the highly specialized chemical machines that are required for the adaptive nature of the cell to even function. It is nothing more than a cop out answer
He should feel right at home among Astronomers. Quantum physicists just use random words for new phenomenons all the time. Astronomers just call things how they are.
"So how did you get separated from your parents?" Little red bug: "A random giant startled our reverse banana peel wrist slap bracelet house." Here's the footage: 07:28
Mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors from my knife. this kind of like Juan Valdez picking every coffee bean slowly by hand and twisting them off the branch. 😁
Coworker in Hawaii on honeymoon were walking from the beach to the hotel after dark. They hoped the things brushing their legs were those seeds. They remained hopeful until a passing cars headlights illuminated the cockroaches jumping when they got too close. She screamed, "They're not seeds they're cockroaches!"
As a gardener who is *constantly* too late pulling this weed and is instead just dispersing its seeds for it, I absolutely LOVED this video. "banana peel slap bracelet" is not something I expected to hear today :)
Aidan Katzenberge No where in the comment was implying or saying that his grandma was hot lmao he used really pretty which is a big difference from hot
Destin has been on a nuclear sub under the Arctic ice. He has been granted an in depth tour of a rocket factory. He has access to a giant baseball air cannon and a spinning helicopter bat machine. If he wants your grandma, he gon' get her. And I'm 95% sure that snatch blocks will be used in some way to do so.
“It’s a reverse banana-peel slap-bracelet” - A what now??? Destin: Gets a banana and a couple of snap-bracelets..... Twangggggg!!!!!! - Ohhhhhhh!!!!!!! It’s a reverse banana-peel slap-bracelet !!!!!
I work in landscaping and this is a super cool concept to me. To think there could be grass going ballistic to spread seeds is both awesome and lucrative 😂. I'm glad I watched the video all the way through, I had fun. Great work!
I couldn’t help but see what looked like the “golden ratio “ every time one of those liners curled off and slung seeds. Would be neat to see that overlaid and see if it follows. Cool video. Thanks.
@💋 Sweety Hotgirl • Vlogs I vote turbulent. Simply because as the liner curls out the size gets smaller which pushes less air than the first, however you have the variable of speed as well. The smaller area of the liner is likely moving slightly faster. Would be a cool experiment either way.
If anyone wants to learn more about this plant, it's most likely a plant in the cardamine genus. Commonly referred to as bittercress, it is actually in the mustard/cabbage family and is a close cousin to watercress. So it is actually not a grass at all, but a type of edible herb. They are also very agressive and hard to get rid of. I've just recently harvested some to grow myself to serve as an occasional treat for my lizard and as an easily available microgreen source should I feel like having a salad. It feels like a plant I probably wont kill easily 😅
Hudson: Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?" Gorman: All we know is that there’s still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved. H: Excuse me, sir, a what?" G: A xenomorph. Hicks: It's a bughunt.
the "magnetic worms" video in of itself wasn't that interesting, but seeing the raw process of Destin seeing something and wanting to investigate made it a cool video. not everything starts as a fully developed story, sometimes you see something that piques your curiosity and you run with it, and Destin does a great job at that
Live in Oklahoma, and if you haven’t killed these with weed killer by late March, they a popping everywhere if you touch them! They were growing everywhere but finally have them under control!
@@publiclyshamed5383 I was late this year with pre emergent so I hit them with almost double dose weed killer, but some still survived. I have too much fescue in a forested addition so the torch may cause more harm? Great idea....and I have a torch!
@@whuzzzup this is relatable on a whole different level. My advice: marry as soon as possible bro. Be a nice, humble person and find yourself a nice, humble woman and enjoy the lawful fun of married people. Ps: But don't do it from the backdoor, as this is disgusting and unlawful, not even animals would do that.
If you look closely you'll notice most of the pods don't 'pop'.. because the pods ripen at different intervals so as to produce a seed sowing 'period'. Were all the seeds to be released in one go, they would be less likely to find the perfect germination site as a more prolonged release.. so no, the plant has not been waiting for this moment, its simply a mechanical action that has encouraged a natural process along a little
I "discovered" these exploding seeds in my garden a while back, and this year I was taking macro pictures of some small white flowers, only to notice a strange brown stalk emerging from the centre of some of the flowers. Turns out the seed pod grows upwards leaving the petals behind, often for a long time, creating these weird flowers-with-antenna. As they matured and grew little bumps I realized they were indeed the "catapult seeds" as I called them, so I set out to trying and get a slow motion macro shot of them. I waited and waited, prodding the little patch once in a while to check if they were ready to fire, until I forgot and eventually remembered too late. Grass had been cut, too, so no more seeds :( I enjoyed this video because it is exactly what I wanted to see! It's also reassuring to know that, being so extremely fast, I would have probably wasted time with my camera's 480 frames per second slow motion!
I remember when I was a kid my friends and I would look for these plants that had these dark looking pods that would explode when exposed to moisture and we would collect handfuls of it to throw in water to watch it explode and sometimes it would explode in our hands because of the sweat. Some kids would put it in their mouth and let it explode inside their mouths. It’s amazing to see how these plants evolve in creative ways.
It's so cool you did a video on this. My wife and I had our first encounter with these things a couple years ago and we thought it was a bunch of bugs jumping around as we walked through the grass around our new house. Upon closer inspection, we discovered it was this very same plant. We had a fun time poking them to see them spring to life and fling their seeds around. Some observations we made were that they only seem to "pop" when they were dry and not so much when they were green. So I came to think that the drying process would cause tension as the "flingy bits" shrank while other parts of the plant remained their usual size and once disturbed enough would cause the weak connections to break which would release the tension. So happy to see your slow motion capture so I can get a better look at exactly what's going on. Thank you for making this video.
The moment when Destin sees it. "It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!!" I love that moment of joy in discovering something that blows my little pea brain.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Destin intentionally delves into the scientific method to figure out something when he can just look it up? This is a true scientist!
How did I miss this one. This one has to be my favorite of your endeavors. There’s two weeks of follow up lessons I could teach my kids on this video alone. Angular momentum, agriculture, chaos theory, and downright silliness with the banana slap bracelet. Thanks!
Personally, I fined it more enjoyable. Thinking of how the sounds where made, what they used to make them, and what audio finagling they did to make it sound cool.
yep, literally can't resist now I'm gonna call it before watching though, I think it's tiny springs or coils or something... edit: kind of the exact opposite of what I thought XD
@@zwenkwiel816 no you were pretty close actually. If those reverse banana peel snap bracelets are under tension, they are quite similar to a spring, even if they don't have that corkscrew shape.
@@alexlawson4173 well yeah but I was imagining more like a rolled up spring or coil that would extend when it is set off but this is like the opposite since it contracts and rolls up. tension kind of goes the other way than I imagined
SmarterEveryDay is one of those example of how truly fun it is to learn about the world around us. Not in a classroom, not through tests and books. But through speaking, visuals, video, and talking to experts. Love the knowledge you give us.
@@michaeld519 google is in court for censoring many different people from appearing on their searches. Both for google search and youtube itself. Tulsa gabbard is one of those people.
@@manofspeedster957 Gotcha. That thing where conservatives were suing because Google was blocking conspiracy theories, right? I thought you were implying that Destin wasn't trustworthy. I gotcha, now.
@@michaeld519 they blocked a lot of things, right and left. And they are protected under law as a platform, and are instead acting as a publisher. So that's where they are getting hit. Destin is just doing what he needs to continue making great content, he may not even be aware of this, so I dont hold him accountable haha hes good, google isnt
That's the scientific term 😂 Honestly I can't believe something so obscure and yet also uncontestably accurate popped into his head so immediately after seeing it. Film that one in slowmo lol!
Imagine what its like to be an animal that predominantly eats green vegetation, like grass, and while trying to have a meal, these little seed pods are exploding all over the place right in your face and eye balls.
Yep, as soon as I saw that my spidey-sense went off. Please please please don't sell out. We know YT is owned by Google. That doesn't mean we have to just willingly go along with all their NWO agenda
@Cryforequanimity What point are you trying to make? How do you know whether the poster watched the whole video and what difference would that make. Google suppresses anything that opposes its political position and boosts information that supports its political leanings regardless of the facts. I would tell you to google it but that wouldn't do anything. Try to get google to connect you to any topic of any kind that opposes the MSM.
@Cryforequanimity Google has been in the spotlight for misinformation itself by Congress. Google blamed Wikipedia for Google not showing accurate information.
Oh no... the scariest is one that releases teeny tiny thistle-like seeds that coat your tennis shoe and work their way inside... making it impossible to walk, and making it necessary to sit down and remove the worst offenders so you can at least walk. And, of course, this becomes necessary while you are still within the area where they are growing, so they also stick to the buttocks of your jeans.
I deal with these nearly every Spring in the PNW on my lawn. You have to pull these weeds early in the season to prevent them from maturing in size and before the pods have seeds. It is too late come April-May in which the only way is to carefully with gloves on to wrap your hand around the pods in a grip to pull it root and all out. Gripping prevents or lessons the amount of yellow seeds from flying every where. Especially right in the face. They are easy to pull out though but I also have to carefully lay them in a bin or bucket laying flat to keep the pods from rupturing due to sudden movements/brushing. Then I would carefully rub off any stuck seeds off of my gloves into the bin. Doing the steps of course prevents the next Spring from being more workload of weeding. I had in the past where these weeds exploded in number all over the lawn because I didn't act early.
Destin, there’s so much value in celebrating awe-inspiring discovery. One of the reasons I love your channel is because we often get to learn alongside you, instead of you repeating a list of facts you learned off-camera ❤️❤️
You missed the big question: "How does a seed pod get that much potential energy capable of being released instantly, and what is the trigger mechanism?"
The shape was set while the pod was green and flexible; as it dried, the sides shrank and hardened increasing the tension until the slightest disturbance caused the split of the pod and the transformation of potential into kinetic energy.
@@hernanbares8672 the theory is based in what enhances reproduction. So, it’s likely that a plant that spread it’s seeds a little more was able to be more dominate and cover an area quicker than a plant that dropped it’s seeds close. So, over time things favored plants that spread seeds so you end up with ones that have the pods under tension to where they’ll pop and fling the seeds farther away.
I don't think anyone else could make a 12 minute video about grass and keep me interested the whole time. I love that you point out the intentional design behind something so small and insignificant as a grass seed pod! Thank for doing what you do!!
You didn't explore the actual trigger mechanism though. I was hoping to see how they sense the vibration and trigger. Destin, there is more to explore here. second video?
@@MrMoney316-r2x its probably that those slap bracelet/pods are just barely attached to the stalk in the middle such that any external force will cause it to detach and start to curl due to the structural makeup of those pods.
@@MrMoney316-r2x they get tensioned as they mature/disecate until reaching the breaking point. Any touch, vibration etc will break the ones that are at their limit. plants dont have brains, A sunflower will point to the sun because the sun heats the plant fibers exposed to the sun light torsioning it and keeping it oriented to the sun without needing a brain, a compass or a GPS connection.
Has to do with it drying. The peels flying off the pods are attached by a membrane that dries quicker than the main peel itself. As parts of the pods dries at different rates, it builds tension (since drying shrinks the cells). When a mechanical trigger breaks the thin membrane (or if the membrane weakens enough over time), it releases all that potential energy
I spend hours pulling these weeds in my garden before they get to the popping stage. Almost makes me cry watching him freely distribute them like a kid blowing on a dandelion.
You can spend all day destroying strong plants just to watch weak plants struggle to survive, or you can call the strong plants your garden and sit back and relax as they do all the work for you. "Weed" is a relative term.
Shoutout to grandmas and everyone who supports on Patreon at www.patreon.com/smartereveryday !
So we are at least as good as pretty Grandma's??? Sweet!!
@@InvadersDie Not sure what your comment tells me about Destin, and …
Unrelated but could you do an episode on Supersonic Ice? Supposedly a bizarre form of water that may exist all over the universe. It's described as "a black and hot form of water" making up the bulk of icy planets.
hey destin, what is that software used to calculate speed of seeds?
There is a similar plant found in different parts of Asia that explodes violently when in contact with water 💦 and pop like a small cracker, this mechanism might be so when it rains the seeds will have a better chance of growing its seeds . I love this video !! :)
Edit - Ruellia tuberosa
Love the progression of using slow mo to find out how to film the slow mo. I feel like this is what high speed is all about. ❤️
I agree :D
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Hi Man.. Good to see you here too..
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I just love the idea of a guy filming grass with a high speed camera.
I love the idea of someone spending months designing and building an unpickable lock only for it to be picked with a pocket knife.
Oooh Richard that’s low man
Like the old saying of about as much fun as watching the grass grow, but with actually interesting information.
Yeah, but ur vids are good af
@@sepez madlad
Now would you say that the airflow generated by flinging those seeds off was turbulent? or laminar?
Lambulent flow for sure
GOT EM
Uh oh. This might get controversial but I think turbinar.
@@JD_13 only a simpleton would thing this is turbular. It doesn't take slow-motion or more than a third grade education to see how this is clearly, undeniably, lambulent flow
Turbulent, and laminar is smooth and more associative with stable flight, not object tumbling through the air.
I know you might be joking, but I really wanted to give it some thought.
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!"
*Destin's wheezing laugh*
This needs to be a shirt
That quote is amazing
4:58
* Those are really tiny grass seeds, so even a breeze could set them off, crazy! Never heard of those slap bracelets. *
So good. Also really revealing his age
Ahh... of course. The reverse banana-peel slap bracelet. Classic
Heyyyyyy wats up
Hello fellow nerds
You say that almost like "Maxwell Smart" would. Excellent! (bill and ted reference)
@@jum5238 yep
Textbook🤔
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!"
I've never heard a more confusing, yet strangely accurate description.
@@tahunuva4254 hmm...wth
@@busimagen Congrats, you made it weirder 👍
The laugh though! 🤣😂😂
I couldn’t breathe after hearing that lmao
I laughed pretty hard at that one, the way he said it like he was discovering electricity. I love his enthusiasm for discovery.
What I find amazing is how many different plants evolved basically this mechanism. There's some up here called jewelweed that does the same thing. It's a really pretty plant, but walking near a bush of it is weird when it's full of seed cause a whole bush will just kinda explode seeds everywhere if you bump into it. There's similar spring mechanisms in a few other plants as well I think. There's a type of tree with exploding seed pods that are really spikey if memory serves.
Yeah I've always called them a touch-me-not. But I remember loving touching them as a kid and when I finally figured out how they worked I was blown away. This video just came up on my feed and the first thing I thought of was oh it's like a touch-me-not
There's a kind of cactus called the Cholla that shoots out spikes when there is a disturbance near it. I dont know if this is the same kind of mechanism but its still pretty similar.
Yo I just found your channel yesterday and fell in love, and now I see your comment only 13 days ago on a year old video I decide to watch today? I think it is a sign to go watch more of your videos. Keep up the great work man :D
7:29 those 2 little bugs 😭😭😭💀
Also bird of paradise have peapod shaped pods that twist under tension, split in half and fling the seeds out sometimes 30 feet or so away.
I have a lot of footage of various exploding seed pods. There are a surprising variety of mechanisms exploding seed pods use from different species. I've not seen the particular plant you filmed in this video.
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This is just arabidopsis :) The most popular plant in all plant research
Have you seen artillery fungus?
We used to see one in southern California that looked like a small plump pod with black or dark brown seeds along edges that ran the length the pods. When disturbed the pods would burst with a snap. The little black seeds would fly in every direction.
Capsella bursa-pastoris, or Shepard's purse is the most common in my area
"A reverse banana peel slap bracelet" is extremely faithful as a description.
This needs to be the official description of that natural phenomenon...
Exactly the comment I was locking for ahahahah
I busted out laughing as soon as he said it , it created the perfect visual .
@@dont2604 stop
@@dont2604 okay.
Meanwhile all those weeds in the yard: "Business is BOOMIN"
StONks
better than a depressing monoculture lawn
As an End Stage Renal Failure patient who spends a lot of time in a Dialysis chair it's this guy and some other Podcasters that have kept my mind from atrophy. Thank you so much for doing this. Not Discovery, History or even PBS does long form exploration with the accumen and depth that you provide. Dig it man, keep it up. You're doing humanity a service. A most worthy cause.
Hope you are doing well 🙏
Hey, please take care🙂
God bless you
I hope you're still doing well, or improving renal system wise, but I really just wanted to say that's a GREAT attitude to have about learning, AND, it's basically true that if you're occupying your downtime with the dialysis in this way, listening or watching informative and _interesting_ content, you are exercising your _brain_ at the same time in a very healthy way. Hope it is working out all around, and, _keep_ _coming_ _back!_
Who would have thought watching exploding weed seeds would be satisfying.
If I smoke exploding weed seeds would it be like inhaling a live frag grenade?
Probably everybody
I honestly thought it was actual weed and not weeds
Sounds like a sadistic way to kill a pot grower.
@@connorcolquhou5845 or a pop rock joint
"They smell like a really pretty grandma" is definitely the most wholesome endorsement I've heard this year.
He says thing like that and normaly moves on, that is the best part of it :D All thumbs up, man and as usual the like button too.
Benjamin Franklin agrees.
How does a ugly Grandma smell like?
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet" is a close second
@@cemafor1006 I can hardly believe how quickly he came up with that one!
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet" has got to be the most nonsensical completely perfectly descriptive description ever.
I am honored yet somewhat ashamed to be your 69th like
I just wanted to tell you I really appreciated the beginning of this video. The way you enthusiastically said you wanted us to learn together before excitedly sharing what we were doing. I felt like I was spending time with the dad I never had. Just wanted to say some people notice, appreciate that stuff. This was an amazing video! I learned a lot. (:
Destin's infectious enthusiasm for even the most seemingly mundane things is the best part of his videos
I can't agree more =)
"understand I am going to say things that are wrong" your humility is an excellent example for many to learn.
'Refining your hypotheses'! Hail the Scientific Method!
What are the wrong things he said? Everything seems more or less ok to me
So that scene at the end of "A Bug's Life" where they launch grass stalks in the air into each other to create grass seed fireworks is actually a thing. Pixar.
They're just the best.
Came here to find this lol this rocks
They really do take their research to that level, i remember nemo they not only made them go diving, they made them go diving in australia for accuracy.
I knew I remembered this from somewhere! lol
@@Seriouslydave That's awesome
Some of the most technologically advanced systems can be made from imitating nature. What we think originally is just a simple mechanism, turns out to be a perfectly engineered machine at play.
Yet people still insist random mutation and unguided processes are responsible for these engineering feats
@@mikeb1596 Because they are. If it were specifically and precisely engineered, it would be VASTLY different. Apparent complexity does not mean a greater force at play.
@@mikeb1596 yes, followed by the critical part which is the response of the natural world filtering out the changes which don't improve how well the living thing reproduces. Beautiful really, unlimited opportunities for change and a simple system that inevitably selects for the best ones without any need for a conscious designer or interferer
@@mikeb1596 Because it is random mutation. Weaker and less efficient specimens were not that successful at reproduction, and we got what we have now.
@@Teuwufel random mutation explains some edits in the existing genetic code. Random mutation does not explain the creation of the information processing system that allows mutation to even exist.
Random mutation doesn't explain the highly specialized chemical machines that are required for the adaptive nature of the cell to even function. It is nothing more than a cop out answer
"it's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet"
i've never seen a more scientifically correct statement
He should feel right at home among Astronomers.
Quantum physicists just use random words for new phenomenons all the time. Astronomers just call things how they are.
i thought it Was more like "reverse cucumber peel slap bracelet" but i get the banana peel is more intuitive.
More susprising how fast he came up with it...
It's the same reason he's an engineer. He's trained himself to break up complex things into a bunch of simpler things he can intuit really quickly
And funny sounding
"It's a reverse, banana peel, slap bracelet."
Don't try that move yourself unless you've got some gymnastics training.
He jumped, did a backflip, and explained the exploding seed.
You also have to do the figure skater thing.
"Mechanically disturbed", thank you Destin for being a person who never intends to emotionally disturb the local flora. Truly a wholesome being.
Hes triggering the grass
@End Censorship! It was a joke. Chill.
@End Censorship! chillll
@@matthewsaints350 it was not a fun joke ma bruddah
❝Mechanically disturbed❞ Dibbs on the band name!
I can't get over how good the foley is on the slow motion. Well done.
"So how did you get separated from your parents?"
Little red bug: "A random giant startled our reverse banana peel wrist slap bracelet house."
Here's the footage: 07:28
lol
"me too little guy"
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Little Red bug: "and that flew me off like 1000 bug miles"
"Ah. Me, I got distracted by a lamp."
"I want you to resist fast forwarding to the slow motion"
I feel attacked
Destin's Wife: "It's time to mow the lawn"
Destin: 7 hours and 1 slow mo camera later "I'm mowing the lawn I swear!"
Lol
Mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors from my knife. this kind of like Juan Valdez picking every coffee bean slowly by hand and twisting them off the branch. 😁
😂
you telling me not to skip forward to the slow mo encouraged me to skip to the slo mo.
I have this stuff on the side of my house. I always thought it was bugs jumping at me lol
Same, few day ago. Like 100 stuff hit my leg, i was like wtf
Yoo had the same thing happen too,
Same
@@mrbane2000 noo way Same hahah 😂😂😂
Coworker in Hawaii on honeymoon were walking from the beach to the hotel after dark. They hoped the things brushing their legs were those seeds.
They remained hopeful until a passing cars headlights illuminated the cockroaches jumping when they got too close. She screamed, "They're not seeds they're cockroaches!"
Aphid: seems like a cool place to chill
Also aphid: engage after burner
Aphid: I'll try spinning, that's a good trick.
@@moonrazk Now THIS is pod racing!
So god dam true
I was wondering if they are lice. Aphids, eh?
Also Aphid: ...To boldly go where no bug has gone before...
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!"
Destin is such a dork, and I love it.
I was looking for this comment, that made my day XD
It is!
It makes sense!
As a gardener who is *constantly* too late pulling this weed and is instead just dispersing its seeds for it, I absolutely LOVED this video. "banana peel slap bracelet" is not something I expected to hear today :)
I love how it went from “I can’t get this to focus” to “gorgeous slowmo shots” so quickly
Well, that might be just the editing? For all we know, he might have spend days fumbling before he got good.
@ Well at the end he said he was there for 7 hours filming the grass and this video is no where near that long....
"Mom, why is there a man out there filming grass?"
Oh, that's Destin, he probably found something neat and you'll see it in a bit.
"... and he smokes a lot of dope. He's just different."
Hi-speed camera watching the grass grow.
he has found the laminar grass and now filming it
Knowing how the slow-mo sound effects are made makes this hilarious
Yeah he ruined it
@@MyfriendthinkheOJ How?
@@DrVolz he made a video on how slow mo sound effects are made and revealed the sounds of slow mo footage are made up
The closed captions are hilarious
"Distant popcorn popping"
4:55 "Reverse banana peel slap bracelet" made my scientific day x100 better
I hope Destin’s friend likes those weeds because his backyard is now COVERED with those seeds lol
“They smell like a really pretty grandma.”
Stay away from my grandmother.
ok
You saying your grandma is hot?
Aidan Katzenberge No where in the comment was implying or saying that his grandma was hot lmao he used really pretty which is a big difference from hot
@@justdoit7471 r/whooosh
Destin has been on a nuclear sub under the Arctic ice. He has been granted an in depth tour of a rocket factory. He has access to a giant baseball air cannon and a spinning helicopter bat machine. If he wants your grandma, he gon' get her. And I'm 95% sure that snatch blocks will be used in some way to do so.
“It’s a reverse banana-peel slap-bracelet”
- A what now???
Destin: Gets a banana and a couple of snap-bracelets..... Twangggggg!!!!!!
- Ohhhhhhh!!!!!!! It’s a reverse banana-peel slap-bracelet !!!!!
I swear, this was my brain 100% while he said that...
Surprised Destin owns two slap bracelets.
Yes, Destin. The ripe seed pods are under tension. ~ Everyone who saw these weeds when we were kids. 😆
I burst out laughing when he said that.
Classic
I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited at slow mo shots of weeds spreading their seeds. This is amazing!
Loved this video! Nature is insane 🤯
Lol why is there one like on this comment
nature works on so many levels...it's insane.
How are you not verified
As if someone intelligently designed and created the plant grow and to spread it's own seed !
Bruh how are you guys not verified
I wanna see how many weeds grow in his backyard after this experiment
You mean his basement, right? 😀
Trueee
Same 😁
Native bio-diversity bro
what do you think happens when he mows? lol
"It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!"
LOL Someone put that on a mug or shirt!
Or a slap bracelet!
It has to be a brand new sentence never before said by any human being
That was the most accurate descriptive I have ever heard and seen
I honestly just blurted out in laughter at that sentence
I work in landscaping and this is a super cool concept to me. To think there could be grass going ballistic to spread seeds is both awesome and lucrative 😂. I'm glad I watched the video all the way through, I had fun. Great work!
"...eventually find out the mechanism for ejecting the seed..."
-Destin
wtfff lmao
Bystander: “Hey Destin, what’d you do this weekend?”
D: “I watched the grass grow!”
B: (sarcastic) “ooo, sounds exciting.”
D: “YOU HAVE NO IDEA.”
He watched the grass *sow*, not grow. :)
I couldn’t help but see what looked like the “golden ratio “ every time one of those liners curled off and slung seeds. Would be neat to see that overlaid and see if it follows. Cool video. Thanks.
There is a Numberphile video about seeds and golden ratio :)
Gyro Zeppeli would approve
@💋 Sweety Hotgirl • Vlogs I vote turbulent. Simply because as the liner curls out the size gets smaller which pushes less air than the first, however you have the variable of speed as well. The smaller area of the liner is likely moving slightly faster. Would be a cool experiment either way.
If anyone wants to learn more about this plant, it's most likely a plant in the cardamine genus. Commonly referred to as bittercress, it is actually in the mustard/cabbage family and is a close cousin to watercress. So it is actually not a grass at all, but a type of edible herb. They are also very agressive and hard to get rid of. I've just recently harvested some to grow myself to serve as an occasional treat for my lizard and as an easily available microgreen source should I feel like having a salad. It feels like a plant I probably wont kill easily 😅
The shots of your hand moving through the grass in slow-mo is so beautiful! Love it! (I'm not skipping right to the slow-mo, I promise)
You do awesome work!
Tru that
“It’s a reverse banana peel slap bracelet.”
Destin Sandlin 2021
"Hey dad, what is that strange man doing in our backyard?"
"Oh son, he is just playing with our grass."
we've got some nice pfp right there ;-)
*It's Science at it's peak!*
I like that Destin made a video about intentionally not using a search engine and it got sponsored by Google.
"Morphomechanical innovation" is a fancy way for scientists to say: being shaped a funny way helps it do a fancy thing.
Is a cool phrase... wonder how long I'll need to sit on that til I get to use it in a conversation
Hudson: Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?"
Gorman: All we know is that there’s still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
H: Excuse me, sir, a what?"
G: A xenomorph.
Hicks:
It's a bughunt.
I didnt liked ur conment...bcoz i wanted it to have 69 likes
I love how Destin shows us the *process* of his learning. That's by far the most critical part!
the "magnetic worms" video in of itself wasn't that interesting, but seeing the raw process of Destin seeing something and wanting to investigate made it a cool video. not everything starts as a fully developed story, sometimes you see something that piques your curiosity and you run with it, and Destin does a great job at that
Wow this was a fascinating one, I never knew those things even existed! "So much wonder and beauty all around us" 🙏
nature is wonderful
Live in Oklahoma, and if you haven’t killed these with weed killer by late March, they a popping everywhere if you touch them! They were growing everywhere but finally have them under control!
@lantie, in Ohio we kill ‘em with fire. No joke. Propane blow torch for the win.
@@publiclyshamed5383 I was late this year with pre emergent so I hit them with almost double dose weed killer, but some still survived. I have too much fescue in a forested addition so the torch may cause more harm? Great idea....and I have a torch!
God really puts some amazing stuff in the world for us to appreciate a little
I went to school until I was 30. I miss being a student. You make cool science videos, but never take your teacher’s hat off. I love it.
Him: *touches the plant*
Plant: I've grown and waited my entire life for this moment.
@serdy ximi lol. I always wondered as a kid. Do you mean small seeds or the sharp ones that look like part of grain?
“Touch me and watch me explode with your touch.” Hahahahaha... these grass would work as a great analogy in flirtatious poetry. * ideas brewing * 😏
Her: Touches me
Me: Waking up, because it could have only been a dream
@@whuzzzup this is relatable on a whole different level.
My advice: marry as soon as possible bro. Be a nice, humble person and find yourself a nice, humble woman and enjoy the lawful fun of married people.
Ps: But don't do it from the backdoor, as this is disgusting and unlawful, not even animals would do that.
If you look closely you'll notice most of the pods don't 'pop'.. because the pods ripen at different intervals so as to produce a seed sowing 'period'. Were all the seeds to be released in one go, they would be less likely to find the perfect germination site as a more prolonged release.. so no, the plant has not been waiting for this moment, its simply a mechanical action that has encouraged a natural process along a little
I "discovered" these exploding seeds in my garden a while back, and this year I was taking macro pictures of some small white flowers, only to notice a strange brown stalk emerging from the centre of some of the flowers.
Turns out the seed pod grows upwards leaving the petals behind, often for a long time, creating these weird flowers-with-antenna.
As they matured and grew little bumps I realized they were indeed the "catapult seeds" as I called them, so I set out to trying and get a slow motion macro shot of them.
I waited and waited, prodding the little patch once in a while to check if they were ready to fire, until I forgot and eventually remembered too late. Grass had been cut, too, so no more seeds :(
I enjoyed this video because it is exactly what I wanted to see! It's also reassuring to know that, being so extremely fast, I would have probably wasted time with my camera's 480 frames per second slow motion!
"My heart is beating fast because of grass seeds." Says the man who got excited over magnetic worms.
Never change Destin.
Who wouldn't get excited over magnetic worms lol
4:54
"its a reverse banana peel slap bracelet"
**w H EE E E Z ZEE**
This is one of those gems that induces a pure and well-deserved "Woah, that's awesome." Some dang cool grass
4:55 “It’s a reverse banana peal slap bracelet!”
man i love the guy!
Nothing more real and pure than Destin playing around in his his backyard with a $125k camera ❤️
I remember when I was a kid my friends and I would look for these plants that had these dark looking pods that would explode when exposed to moisture and we would collect handfuls of it to throw in water to watch it explode and sometimes it would explode in our hands because of the sweat. Some kids would put it in their mouth and let it explode inside their mouths. It’s amazing to see how these plants evolve in creative ways.
I love Destin's genuine excitement about what most people consider mundane things. It's infectious.
“It’s a reverse Banana peel snap bracelet” is a hilariously accurate description
It's so cool you did a video on this. My wife and I had our first encounter with these things a couple years ago and we thought it was a bunch of bugs jumping around as we walked through the grass around our new house. Upon closer inspection, we discovered it was this very same plant. We had a fun time poking them to see them spring to life and fling their seeds around.
Some observations we made were that they only seem to "pop" when they were dry and not so much when they were green. So I came to think that the drying process would cause tension as the "flingy bits" shrank while other parts of the plant remained their usual size and once disturbed enough would cause the weak connections to break which would release the tension.
So happy to see your slow motion capture so I can get a better look at exactly what's going on. Thank you for making this video.
The moment when Destin sees it. "It's a reverse banana peel slap bracelet!!" I love that moment of joy in discovering something that blows my little pea brain.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Destin intentionally delves into the scientific method to figure out something when he can just look it up? This is a true scientist!
No fun in looking it up!
How did I miss this one. This one has to be my favorite of your endeavors. There’s two weeks of follow up lessons I could teach my kids on this video alone. Angular momentum, agriculture, chaos theory, and downright silliness with the banana slap bracelet. Thanks!
I can't enjoy slow mo sounds any more since learning that they are artificial 🙉
Same
Same! it will never be the same
what
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
moin Marco
Personally, I fined it more enjoyable. Thinking of how the sounds where made, what they used to make them, and what audio finagling they did to make it sound cool.
Destin: "Resist the temptation to fast forward to the slowmo"
Me: *Was not tempted until that moment*
yep, literally can't resist now
I'm gonna call it before watching though, I think it's tiny springs or coils or something...
edit: kind of the exact opposite of what I thought XD
@@zwenkwiel816 no you were pretty close actually. If those reverse banana peel snap bracelets are under tension, they are quite similar to a spring, even if they don't have that corkscrew shape.
@@alexlawson4173 well yeah but I was imagining more like a rolled up spring or coil that would extend when it is set off but this is like the opposite since it contracts and rolls up. tension kind of goes the other way than I imagined
-stranger: "Hey what's your band name?"
-me: "Reverse Banana Peel Slap Bracelet"
-stranger: ....
-me: ....
I feel that's more of an album title than a band name.
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I feel this could be the next Rob Zombie album name.
SmarterEveryDay is one of those example of how truly fun it is to learn about the world around us. Not in a classroom, not through tests and books. But through speaking, visuals, video, and talking to experts. Love the knowledge you give us.
the irony of searching for credible sources with google is immense here
How so?
@@michaeld519 google is in court for censoring many different people from appearing on their searches. Both for google search and youtube itself. Tulsa gabbard is one of those people.
@@manofspeedster957 Gotcha. That thing where conservatives were suing because Google was blocking conspiracy theories, right? I thought you were implying that Destin wasn't trustworthy. I gotcha, now.
@@michaeld519 they blocked a lot of things, right and left. And they are protected under law as a platform, and are instead acting as a publisher. So that's where they are getting hit. Destin is just doing what he needs to continue making great content, he may not even be aware of this, so I dont hold him accountable haha hes good, google isnt
@@manofspeedster957 I see. I appreciate the explanation.
“It’s a reverse banana peel slap bracelet”
Hmm.. how accurate 🧐
That's the scientific term 😂
Honestly I can't believe something so obscure and yet also uncontestably accurate popped into his head so immediately after seeing it. Film that one in slowmo lol!
@@Exayevie exactly 😂😂😂 wonderbrain
Destin is gonna regret this episode once his entire backyard is full of these things lol
That's how they got there in the 1st place
It was his friends backyard.
@@ElkStirrinTheHoney surely some of them stuck to his clothes and will fall in his backyard
More fun
Much like owning a boat, the best reverse banana peel slap bracelet is someone else’s reverse banana peel slap bracelet!
Imagine what its like to be an animal that predominantly eats green vegetation, like grass, and while trying to have a meal, these little seed pods are exploding all over the place right in your face and eye balls.
One thing I really like about this channel is you never know what Destin’s gonna cover in the next video.
It’s the scientific terms that make me love this channel
“It’s a reverse banana peel slap bracelet”
You’ve gotta get the jargon right if you’re going to be taken seriously as a scientist!
None of those quoted words are inherently scientific
@@skrimper Lol...woosh!
"Combating misinformation" and "sponsored by Google" is the most hilarious combos ever
Yep, as soon as I saw that my spidey-sense went off. Please please please don't sell out. We know YT is owned by Google. That doesn't mean we have to just willingly go along with all their NWO agenda
Why do they even need sponsor deals? Their name is literally a different name for 'search' nowadays.
@Cryforequanimity What point are you trying to make? How do you know whether the poster watched the whole video and what difference would that make. Google suppresses anything that opposes its political position and boosts information that supports its political leanings regardless of the facts. I would tell you to google it but that wouldn't do anything. Try to get google to connect you to any topic of any kind that opposes the MSM.
Irony of ironies.
@Cryforequanimity Google has been in the spotlight for misinformation itself by Congress. Google blamed Wikipedia for Google not showing accurate information.
I'm 49, and your videos really remind me of the PBS stuff I watched as a kid. 3-2-1 Contact was one. You made me feel young again. Thank you!
These are the "scariest" weed when you're wearing shorts in the garden! Always think I'm getting attacked.
Oh no... the scariest is one that releases teeny tiny thistle-like seeds that coat your tennis shoe and work their way inside... making it impossible to walk, and making it necessary to sit down and remove the worst offenders so you can at least walk. And, of course, this becomes necessary while you are still within the area where they are growing, so they also stick to the buttocks of your jeans.
@@laurendoe168 chiggers! Noooo!
@@skrimper THAT'S the name that had escaped me.
Attack of the weed seeds. Terrifying.
@@skrimper - What? Chiggers are insects, not plants.
This guy made the "go touch grass" have a whole different meaning.
I'm a professional landscaper and I never realized this existed. My life will never be the same
I deal with these nearly every Spring in the PNW on my lawn. You have to pull these weeds early in the season to prevent them from maturing in size and before the pods have seeds. It is too late come April-May in which the only way is to carefully with gloves on to wrap your hand around the pods in a grip to pull it root and all out. Gripping prevents or lessons the amount of yellow seeds from flying every where. Especially right in the face. They are easy to pull out though but I also have to carefully lay them in a bin or bucket laying flat to keep the pods from rupturing due to sudden movements/brushing. Then I would carefully rub off any stuck seeds off of my gloves into the bin. Doing the steps of course prevents the next Spring from being more workload of weeding. I had in the past where these weeds exploded in number all over the lawn because I didn't act early.
@@BagoPorkRinds Hey my friend I have to agree with you. Them WEEDS are REAL pain.
I have been a long time fan of SED and I am amazed that one slow-mo camera started all this. Now I am fascinated by grass seed hahahaha
“A reverse banana peel slap bracelet” followed by that genuine wheeze and laugh just shows he really loves doing this for him and for us ❤️
Yup. I think I found my new ringtone!
Destin, there’s so much value in celebrating awe-inspiring discovery. One of the reasons I love your channel is because we often get to learn alongside you, instead of you repeating a list of facts you learned off-camera ❤️❤️
You missed the big question:
"How does a seed pod get that much potential energy capable of being released instantly, and what is the trigger mechanism?"
next video, knowing him.....
The shape was set while the pod was green and flexible; as it dried, the sides shrank and hardened increasing the tension until the slightest disturbance caused the split of the pod and the transformation of potential into kinetic energy.
@@jasonquick1674 Now I want to know how the F**** These plants evolved to do something soo amazing and physically advanced :0
@@hernanbares8672 the theory is based in what enhances reproduction. So, it’s likely that a plant that spread it’s seeds a little more was able to be more dominate and cover an area quicker than a plant that dropped it’s seeds close. So, over time things favored plants that spread seeds so you end up with ones that have the pods under tension to where they’ll pop and fling the seeds farther away.
@@hernanbares8672 maybe they were made to be like this and didn't even need to evolve
I don't think anyone else could make a 12 minute video about grass and keep me interested the whole time. I love that you point out the intentional design behind something so small and insignificant as a grass seed pod! Thank for doing what you do!!
This is awesome content you're making
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Hand: *moves through grass*
Grass: So anyway, I started blasting
“Its a reverse banana peel slap bracelet”
smarter every day: 2021
Dual bolt collider.
6:57 is a great shot!! "Reverse banana peel slap bracelet" is a PERFECT discription
You didn't explore the actual trigger mechanism though. I was hoping to see how they sense the vibration and trigger. Destin, there is more to explore here. second video?
I second this comment, great video non the less but left wondering what/how they are triggered. Maybe just maybe they have a brain in their roots.
@@MrMoney316-r2x its probably that those slap bracelet/pods are just barely attached to the stalk in the middle such that any external force will cause it to detach and start to curl due to the structural makeup of those pods.
California poppy seed pods only pop when they are dry.
@@MrMoney316-r2x they get tensioned as they mature/disecate until reaching the breaking point.
Any touch, vibration etc will break the ones that are at their limit.
plants dont have brains, A sunflower will point to the sun because the sun heats the plant fibers exposed to the sun light torsioning it and keeping it oriented to the sun without needing a brain, a compass or a GPS connection.
Has to do with it drying. The peels flying off the pods are attached by a membrane that dries quicker than the main peel itself. As parts of the pods dries at different rates, it builds tension (since drying shrinks the cells). When a mechanical trigger breaks the thin membrane (or if the membrane weakens enough over time), it releases all that potential energy
Nature: **Gives legs to move**
Also nature: *Reverse banana peel slap band seed
Y E E T E R*
A case of intelligent design
Nature's smart, and you know you could be smart too?
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I spend hours pulling these weeds in my garden before they get to the popping stage. Almost makes me cry watching him freely distribute them like a kid blowing on a dandelion.
I hate these sooo much, they are so hard to get rid of. I think even the smallest root left in the ground will start a new plant.
Just let them be.
You can spend all day destroying strong plants just to watch weak plants struggle to survive, or you can call the strong plants your garden and sit back and relax as they do all the work for you. "Weed" is a relative term.
Thank you for making this! So cool to see how unique something so small and overlooked can be!
"Yeeting seeds is a pastime activity" -- Serj Tankian (System of a Down - Toxicity)
The toxicity of our seeedy
@Addict you wanted to
Destin: “Grass is amazing!”
Stoners: “yeah man, that’s what I’ve been tryin’ to tell ya!”
That poor 🐜
@@joannemarc9121 like you!!
This one is actually a mustard plant, not a grass, but to Destin’s credit it can be difficult to tell when they’re not flowering