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  • Published on Mar 15, 2026

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  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould  Month ago +1698

    My producer put neat cordial in the wine glasses. Which I think, on ballance, was a worse experience than wine would have been.
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  • @ajbaume1949
    @ajbaume1949 Month ago +2512

    “What if the glass was literally half empty?”
    -Xkcd

  • @xxPYROxxJONESxx
    @xxPYROxxJONESxx Month ago +8606

    Never realised Steve had so much game

    • @aaabbb-py5xd
      @aaabbb-py5xd Month ago +18

      He didn't. It's acting 😂

    • @Rod_Ellis
      @Rod_Ellis Month ago +376

      @aaabbb-py5xdthe woman in the video is Steve’s wife. That’s why they said he has game.

    • @jimmccloskey3601
      @jimmccloskey3601 Month ago +170

      yeah I dig the Brit rom-com vibes in parts, and added production value in general (lately?). Could be the next Bill Nye?

    • @timexyemerald6290
      @timexyemerald6290 Month ago +84

      ​@aaabbb-py5xd the fact that he he already long pulled her and married means he is indeed has game

    • @bartektrame8801
      @bartektrame8801 Month ago +12

      ​@timexyemerald6290this guy indeed has stroke amirite

  • @chthonictonic
    @chthonictonic 5 days ago +32

    Wouldn't it have just been easier to buy a mantis shrimp?

  • @xitzy
    @xitzy Month ago +2602

    1:16
    “Can I please have some water?”
    “Strict or casual?”

    • @imnoobnewtoyoutube
      @imnoobnewtoyoutube Month ago +54

      I'd like fancy please

    • @Appletank8
      @Appletank8 Month ago +121

      ​@imnoobnewtoyoutube vacuumed. hammered, not stirred.

    • @imnoobnewtoyoutube
      @imnoobnewtoyoutube Month ago +13

      ​@Appletank8how would one drink vacuumed water?
      Srsly, how?

    • @Lukeylup
      @Lukeylup Month ago +31

      ​@imnoobnewtoyoutubeVery carefully

    • @impti
      @impti Month ago +24

      @imnoobnewtoyoutube just drink the vacuum first

  • @chazhendricks4478
    @chazhendricks4478 Month ago +1073

    Hey Steve, we use cavitation bubbles during cardiac catheterization to crack calcium that blocks the coronary arteries. It's a device called a Shockwave. Would be awesome to see a video from you about them.

    • @TheMookie1590
      @TheMookie1590 Month ago

      I use an uyltra sonic cleaner to clean micro electronics. Y'all were like, what if we make an ultra sonic cleaner smaller and put it inside of you.
      kinda kinky, ngl

    • @cr10001
      @cr10001 Month ago +22

      Very clever. I think this is the first positive use of cavitation that I've heard of.

    • @MridulKaimal
      @MridulKaimal Month ago +9

      Ah the lithotripsy.

    • @koitorob
      @koitorob Month ago +9

      So.... you repeatedly hit the patient with a rubber mallet? I guess while shouting "NO NO its not abuse, we're just trying to break up the calcium blockages!"

    • @LJ-wo1wf
      @LJ-wo1wf Month ago +19

      I wonder if my wife has heard of cardiac catheterization. She’s a sonographer (currently vascular certified, studying for cardiac) and they taught about cavitation from ultrasound machines in her classes.

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Month ago +243

    Severe aortic regurgitation, leak of the valve leaving the heart, causes something called a collapsing pulse when you lift the patient’s arm. This is also known as a waterhammer pulse, after this toy. I saw someone else comment about intravascular lithotripsy too. Everything comes back to the heart.

    • @clinch4402
      @clinch4402 Month ago

      How do the epstein files relate to the heart?

    • @galandilvogler8577
      @galandilvogler8577 Month ago +17

      Rohin's still in denial that stuff exists outside the cardiovascular system.
      Don't you dare to change, ever.

    • @joewat3982
      @joewat3982 22 days ago

      solution?
      cartwheel maneuver?

    • @jlo7770
      @jlo7770 20 days ago +6

      Wow look at the big brains on this guy. I bet i know more about digging holes with a shovel then you do. Not so smart now are ya?

    • @r3cy
      @r3cy 8 days ago +1

      @jlo7770 unless you can describe your digging in latin i'm not interested.

  • @Jam_Cubing
    @Jam_Cubing Month ago +4346

    A full spectrum camera sounds like a camera I'd use to take a photo of my friend group

    • @fariesz6786
      @fariesz6786 Month ago +108

      badumm-tss ❤

    • @xanderveldmuisje
      @xanderveldmuisje Month ago +13

      ​@fariesz6786 pa dam dishoom!

    • @RedKincaid
      @RedKincaid Month ago +86

      Adding "full spectrum" to the list of silly names for my friend group 🤣

    • @TurbopropPuppy
      @TurbopropPuppy Month ago +10

      ​@RQBtv diagnoses cost money and you need to actually suspect something to seek one out, genius

    • @RedKincaid
      @RedKincaid Month ago +31

      ​@RQBtv But since it's you saying it and not him, doesn't that just mean you're diagnosing him? That's the weirdest counterintuitive accusation I've ever heard

  • @simonnading
    @simonnading Month ago +7945

    That is a heck of an opening 😂
    Editting to add a couple things: liquids in a vacuum are always neat to learn about, and I just learned how the British pronounce Xenon.
    Also, I know lights that use noble gasses have a coating to move more of the energy to the visible spectrum, so I am wondering what would happen if you gave a water hammer that coating.

    • @SquintyGears
      @SquintyGears Month ago +11

      And ending 😂
      For the light a more modern way of doing that is with quantum dots. But they have to be tuned (in size) for the specific wanted frequency in and out.

    • @davidioanhedges
      @davidioanhedges Month ago +17

      You mean correctly.... 😉

    • @simonnading
      @simonnading Month ago +18

      ​@davidioanhedgeshey, I'm not about to judge someone's dialect. But I was raised that vowel-consonant-vowel meant you used the long pronunciation for the first vowel. Not that the rule is followed all the time, of course.

    • @clippedwings225
      @clippedwings225 Month ago +7

      I kind of assumed liquid couldn't exist in vacuum at all, until I read Artemis by Andy Weir which talks about welding on the moon and how there was liquid metal droplets.

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 Month ago +76

      Simply dissolving a small quantity of highly UV florescent coumarin or rhodamine into the liquid is the way to go here. Someone attempting this should try for a fluorophore with an emission wavelength that matches the green peak photopsin molecule sensitivity of the eye.
      I have wanted to see something like this done as a portable demonstration of energy focusing phenomena for many years now.

  • @aeonturnip2
    @aeonturnip2 Month ago +62

    Cavitation bubbles are a cause of boat propellor deterioration - gradually eating away at the edge of the propellor as the bubbles form and collapse violently.

    • @S.S.Deddrift
      @S.S.Deddrift Month ago +4

      That's pretty crazy! I've got close to 10,000 passes in our 2500 hp drag boat, and even our oldest props are less that 1/10,000 of an inch out of spec! I bet a container ships props are what yer talkin about though!

    • @supertornadogun1690
      @supertornadogun1690 5 days ago

      ​@S.S.Deddriftyeah all depends on how low the pressure gets behind the propeller

  • @VindictiveBathToaster
    @VindictiveBathToaster Month ago +1104

    3:50 As a plumber, we know that water doesn't compress and when you turn a faucet off, there's a sudden shock of the moving water coming to a stop. This water hammer effect can have the same effect on copper water pipes as an actual hammer over time, causing the pipe to fatigue and eventually break, causing an expensive accident that can flood and destroy a house. To prevent this, when installing the pipes in the house, at a few locations such as a bathroom or kitchen get a little extra pipe. A T-junction is installed and a 1-foot (30cm) piece of capped pipe left sticking straight up. Since it's capped, air is trapped inside and gravity keeps the water below it, even when under pressure. This creates a kind of shock absorber, like on your car. When the water valve is suddenly closed, this little shock absorber gives the water someplace to go and since air does compress, it serves to slow the water down allowing it to come to a more gradual stop instead of coming to a sudden stop with no place to go, slamming into the fittings and pipe walls, eventually weakening and breaking them. The industry calls them Water Hammer Arresters and they can be purchased to screw into existing plumbing, but when building a new home, we simply install them using a normal piece of copper pipe the rest of the water supply pipes are made of. It's very important that if you hear that bang when you trun off a faicet in your home, you should consult a plumber to install one or two water hammer arresters to protect your pipes from costly damage.

  • @DjBlacid
    @DjBlacid Month ago +79

    steve getting more unhinged while also getting more into the nitty gritty is the best evolution of this channel that i already loved

  • @wdhehao
    @wdhehao Month ago +11

    5:28 LOL

  • @A-Aron191
    @A-Aron191 Month ago +222

    I would give the casual water hammer to people and gaslight them into thinking their technique was bad while I shake the strict water

  • @cliffwroberts
    @cliffwroberts Month ago +107

    Crazy it was a Steve Mould video that finally cracked the mystery of what was in Marcellus' briefcase.

  • @andreasbpunkt
    @andreasbpunkt Month ago +16

    Has anyone seen the "Obere Wasserschlosskammer" video ? It shows a giant chamber (the size of a cathedral) built to prevent catastrophic water hammer in large hydroelectric power plants by giving massive volumes of rushing water a safe place to surge upward and dissipate dangerous pressure spikes. In English, it's commonly called a surge chamber or surge tank. It´s absolutely terrifying.

    • @ShikamaruXT
      @ShikamaruXT 29 days ago +1

      Yes. Was probably shown to me as I watched some other videos from dams.
      The chamber, I was told, actually reduces the total water pressure, because the pipes back in the day where not strong enough for the full pressure. Kinda sounds weird...but if you think about it, it makes some sense, as they could only build dams in certain areas, and the pipes will have to become as long as the terrain needs them to be.

  • @SirValiantIII
    @SirValiantIII Month ago +354

    4:38 so that’s why smacking your beer bottle on top of someone else’s can foam their beer, or break their bottle? Cavitation!

    • @flyignpig
      @flyignpig Month ago +81

      Yes. Mark Rober made a video on this years ago. Interestingly a bottle filled with carbonated liquids do not break, because the vacuum instantly gets filled with the CO2 gas from the liquid and slows down the water as it comes crashing. That gas then rises up through the drink, creating the foam.

    • @SirValiantIII
      @SirValiantIII Month ago +20

      @flyignpig ahh. Not a big mark Rober fan personally but he does seem like a sharp dude

    • @Jonathan_Doe_
      @Jonathan_Doe_ Month ago +7

      I’ve never witnessed one break, but me and my buddies used to do that to each other all the time. You have to down the beer or it goes everywhere.

    • @SgtLion
      @SgtLion Month ago +31

      @flyignpig I mean, take "will not break" with a pinch of salt, you can absolutely water hammer a carbonated drink to sploding. But they're harder to break anyway.

    • @Liquidmoonshadow
      @Liquidmoonshadow Month ago +2

      Ah, flashbacks to my drinking days... lol (not an alcoholic, but I loved fizzing peoples beers when they were being jerks!)

  • @garrettmancuso4417
    @garrettmancuso4417 Month ago +89

    Oh man, you're going to start my sonoluminescence obsession again.

  • @Dsbarrynl
    @Dsbarrynl Month ago +3

    2:15 thanks for clapping I'd almost forgot how that sounded 😂

  • @ogechiiiii
    @ogechiiiii Month ago +686

    this was an INSANE start to the video, massive props steve this was literal gold

    • @AnEntityBrowsingYT
      @AnEntityBrowsingYT Month ago +24

      One might say he's done a Steve Gould

    • @jimmyzhao2673
      @jimmyzhao2673 Month ago +10

      The things Steve does for science.

    • @rachelbrionesbriones8042
      @rachelbrionesbriones8042 Month ago +2

      litterally insane, misoginally exposing his wife playing the fool , more than once

    • @ogechiiiii
      @ogechiiiii Month ago +5

      @rachelbrionesbriones8042 I can't tell if you're being light-hearted, but the same thought had crossed my mind when I posted my comment. In the end I decided that his (I presume) wife must have been happy to play the role, unless he forced her to do it. While yes, you could argue that this portrayal further feeds the misogynistic "dumb woman sidekick to successful man" trope, I highly doubt that they were intentionally doing it. So I just chalked it up as a happy couple having some fun while filming. I realize I'm not adding anything substantial to the discussion here, but I wanted to acknowledge the direction you're coming from.

    • @rachelbrionesbriones8042
      @rachelbrionesbriones8042 Month ago +1

      @ogechiiiii not at all light hearted, and you said it with all the letters which I didn t dare

  • @hashbrown777
    @hashbrown777 Month ago +77

    2:00 these shots are gorgeous

    • @Tamuily
      @Tamuily Month ago +1

      And if you look closely, you can see a resemblance to fire.

  • @RaubeR666
    @RaubeR666 Month ago +4

    0:20 Saw this from Thunderf00t 9 years ago: "High speed camera reveals water-vacuum shockwave"

  • @andypeters3011
    @andypeters3011 Month ago +312

    My instinct as a glassblower of many years is that it isn't the weight of the atmosphere breaking out the beer bottle and not the vacuum sealed tube, but the shape. The bottle is very imperfectly blown with thick and thin sides -- and it comes to a fairly crisp corner at the bottom which can be a site for stress to exert itself and start a crack/fissure. Additionally, the bottom of the bottle is concave (or from the inside, convex) which means that all of that force is hitting an arch and the base of that arch isn't well supported (except for by the thin glass at the edge) so that dome further drives forces to and exploits the weak areas in the glass.
    Conversely, the tube is blown to have an almost perfect hemispherical tip and that part-sphere is very good at distributing forces evenly and not focusing stress at any point. If you're interested in exploring this further feel free to reach out and I might be able to make some test vessels. (or contact your freindly neighborhood glassblower).

    • @Mephistahpheles
      @Mephistahpheles Month ago +11

      Both seem like reasonable explanations (yours and his).
      However, I wonder if the tube shape is actually concentrating the energy into a point, rather than distributing it around the base.
      What would happen to a sealed beer or open test tube?
      Might either be used to amplify the sound and/or light?

    • @michaelcherokee8906
      @michaelcherokee8906 Month ago +19

      Nowadays I think a "friendly neighborhood glassblower" might just be rarer than a friendly neighborhood superhero.

    • @CaseyRevoir
      @CaseyRevoir Month ago +11

      The cavitation bubble's collapse is so powerful it is the cause of the bottle break. BYU Splash Lab filmed a bottle breaking cavitation in great detail in a video called "catastrophic cracking courtesy of quiescent cavitation"
      Cavitation bubbles are a fun rabbit hole.

    • @Opharg
      @Opharg Month ago +4

      It is the weight of the atmosphere pushing the water into the vacuum of the cavitation bubble. Obviously you could design the bottle in a way that it'd withstand a light mallet tap, but that'd just mean you need a bigger mallet.

    • @pinaz993
      @pinaz993 Month ago +5

      As someone who has never even blown sugar, let alone glass, this still made perfect sense, from a materials and physics standpoint.

  • @debug8377
    @debug8377 Month ago +144

    0:35 me if i were to be recorded 50 years ago on eastmancolor film:

    • @Oil-is-here
      @Oil-is-here Month ago +2

      Oh god

    • @mattymerr701
      @mattymerr701 Month ago +2

      I was looking for the film comments lol

    • @Mister_Brown
      @Mister_Brown Month ago +4

      nah there's too much color info left, i bet you could grade that into a usable picture, unlike my print of jaws

    • @debug8377
      @debug8377 Month ago +1

      ​​@Mister_Brown you should try it anyway, they already got some improperly-stored eastmancolor 3 strip cinerama titles restored, so it might be possible

    • @DavidCowie2022
      @DavidCowie2022 Month ago +4

      That's a funny way of spelling Agfacolour.

  • @yourguard4
    @yourguard4 Month ago +5

    Btw: "Bremsstrahlung" is german, and basically means "radiation by deceleration".

  • @skeptibleiyam1093
    @skeptibleiyam1093 Month ago +163

    "I did not know you had a full spectrum camera, can I have a go?" Comedy call-back gold.

    • @VENOMYT5
      @VENOMYT5 Month ago +1

      You mean high speed camera.

    • @VENOMYT5
      @VENOMYT5 Month ago

      5:24 listen

    • @BingolaFacts
      @BingolaFacts Month ago +12

      @VENOMYT5 No he didn’t 12:46

    • @VENOMYT5
      @VENOMYT5 Month ago +4

      ​@BingolaFacts 😂
      Oops, I might have missed it when she said that 😅

  • @Michelino_M5
    @Michelino_M5 Month ago +1461

    00:15 That was fucking amazing man thank you so much for the laugh

    • @TheDillyum
      @TheDillyum Month ago +60

      "The glass needs to be a special shape-" LMFAO

    • @FredDouglass-q8k
      @FredDouglass-q8k Month ago +29

      That was surprisingly good. Unexpected, funny, pretty well acted even, and they didn't draw it out like most would

    • @FredDouglass-q8k
      @FredDouglass-q8k Month ago +13

      12:50 Ok I was wrong they drew it out

    • @TheNebulon
      @TheNebulon Month ago

      "with nothing inside" her: 🙄

    • @SimonBrisbane
      @SimonBrisbane Month ago

      Fucking? Odd adjective to use

  • @gudadada
    @gudadada Month ago +1

    This is really well made for a video about playing with water.

  • @phizicks
    @phizicks Month ago +30

    7:04 almost looks like the surface of the sun

  • @xtalviper
    @xtalviper Month ago +38

    12:30 You remind me of my cat when he's doing the baps

  • @pault6533
    @pault6533 22 days ago +1

    Dip the tip in phosphor paint to convert the flash of light to visible spectrum.

  • @aboveaveragecat44
    @aboveaveragecat44 Month ago +42

    I’m a big fan of how whimsical this episode of science is

  • @alexisthompson376
    @alexisthompson376 Month ago +77

    5:25 best use of slow mo cameras are watching dumb/weird things in slow motion, so thank you

    • @TooSlowTube
      @TooSlowTube Month ago +2

      12:45 and using a full spectrum camera is better for revealing how hot the subject actually is.

    • @treesoup4456
      @treesoup4456 Month ago +7

      can't wait for the public park bench apology for this nostalgic memory of that image from that video just like Tom Scott.

  • @EyalTal-NotUdyr
    @EyalTal-NotUdyr Month ago

    A detailed video of the bottle "trick" done by Physics Girl fyi
    ruclips.net/video/jbgvQNhFDTo/video.html

  • @luizzeroxis
    @luizzeroxis Month ago +245

    5:28 This image. From this video.

  • @steve_blake
    @steve_blake Month ago +103

    Never thought much of water hammer until a professor at my uni told me about when he worked on building a hydroelectic system. Apparently while testing the control system, his assistant caused the valve to slam shut and the controller stopped working. He said after the initial thump they could hear the pressure wave travelling back up the pipe to the reservoir. They realised they had mere moments to get the valve open before the wave returned for the second impact, which could have been enough to damage the valve or even blow it off much like the bottom of the bottle in the video ...only with an entire reservoir of water following it!

    • @LexanPanda
      @LexanPanda Month ago +11

      Scary! Brings to mind old movies in which someone would have to race a lit fuse.

    • @tedarcher9120
      @tedarcher9120 Month ago +20

      Speed of sound in water is several kilometers per second, must have been a really long pipe

    • @steve_blake
      @steve_blake Month ago +24

      @tedarcher9120 Yes, as I understand it they had piped the water down to the town from the reservoir up in the mountains. Even so, he did say it was a matter of seconds to avert disaster

    • @timcorso6337
      @timcorso6337 Month ago +8

      Usually a hydro system has a surge tower/tank to allow the energy to dissipate safely, and prevent this from happening.

    • @1gorSouz4
      @1gorSouz4 Month ago +1

      I don't understand... The pressure wave would get to the reservoir and bounce back? The reservoir was completely sealed?

  • @suprguy
    @suprguy Month ago

    can you please show how it behaves when you shake it instead of just hammering in one stroke

  • @DeputatKaktus
    @DeputatKaktus Month ago +71

    You also learn a lot about cavitation in the fire service. Cavitation is the natural enemy of a pump operator. Get too little inlet pressure while trying to maintain outlet pressure (aka trying to shoot out more water out the nozzle than the pump is getting from the water source), and your pump starts sounding like you poured a sack of gravel in there. Or a handful of bolts rattling around inside the pump housing. Very much not good for the pump when this happens over a period of time, as it damages the pump wheel. You get pitting on the outer edges that when it gets really bad (because you weren't paying attention) look like some metal eating rodent had a go at the pump wheel and helped itself to some chunks of it. Very expensive repair, requires at least a partial teardown and some people might not be terribly pleased with you because the entire fire engine is out of service because of that.

    • @ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg
      @ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg Month ago +15

      My pressure hose yard cleaner does the same thing. But less heroically.

    • @plumf01
      @plumf01 Month ago +4

      @ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg love your username 😆

    • @michaelheuer8123
      @michaelheuer8123 Month ago

      Aye! I just commented about water hammer too. Good to see ya leatherhead

    • @takeohtyme
      @takeohtyme Month ago +5

      My crew once had our pump start going dry only to get hit with a flood. It cause our head to slam and jam up on us.
      We were running from an irrigation ditch and when they opened the gate upstream for us the water went from 3ft to almost 8ft almost immediately. The pressure surge sounded like the whole pump exploded.

    • @DeputatKaktus
      @DeputatKaktus Month ago +4

      @takeohtymeOuch... Made me wince just imagining it.

  • @BBROPHOTO
    @BBROPHOTO Month ago +33

    12:10 - I'm an astrophotographer and nearly all commercially currently available astronomy cameras have this range too. Whilst their quantum efficiency peaks at differing wavelengths depending on the sensor, nearly all of them come without UV/IR block filters in place now. The reason being, these extra wavelengths are useful for IR pass imaging for capturing details on planets and lunar surface detail. UV imaging is superb on planets like Venus too. Unfortunately though, stars give off IR and UV light which nearly all telescopes cannot actually focus, which results in out of focus UV and IR light leading to 'bloated' stars that look out of focus. So when doing deep sky imaging, a UV/IR block filter (or window) is needed.

  • @MEDIOCRATES_222
    @MEDIOCRATES_222 Month ago

    NGL, there's something extremely satisfying both visually and audibly between that slow-motion shot of the water slamming inside the hammer and the sound of it clapping.

  • @William_1347
    @William_1347 Month ago +20

    10:56 if you look at the background of this illustration, you can see a bunch of the previous paths of previous particles. He’s fading the background by a certain percentage every frame, but because of rounding, the colors stop fading at a certain brightness. (At least that’s why I think it happens.)

  • @aashishkulkarni5858
    @aashishkulkarni5858 Month ago +1353

    Steve is now dabbling in comedy 😂😂
    Edit: To everyone thinking I'm a recent viewer in the comments, I have been watching Steve for well over 3 years now, but he's always been nuanced about the comedy. Never have I seen him try to be comic this blatantly 😝

    • @Blankult
      @Blankult Month ago +103

      He has been in over a decade

    • @RaphaelWiggum
      @RaphaelWiggum Month ago +26

      Now?

    • @anachronisticon
      @anachronisticon Month ago +79

      He's been quietly hilarious for years.

    • @Baamthe25th
      @Baamthe25th Month ago +22

      He's been well past dabbling for years

    • @gfabasic32
      @gfabasic32 Month ago +11

      Even his name is funny. I always crack up when I hear the name 'Steve'!

  • @awesomepsume
    @awesomepsume Month ago

    What I find interesting is that the vacuum in slow motion looks eerily similar to a fire as it dissipates.

  • @st.haborym
    @st.haborym Month ago +8

    When he mentioned flashes of light it reminded me of that thing called a mantis shrimp.

  • @gasparsigma
    @gasparsigma Month ago +180

    12:50 the first one was funny but this was absolutely hilarious 😂

  • @saullotzof
    @saullotzof 27 days ago

    Same principle in this start-up? getting energy from our oceans?
    ruclips.net/video/Q7Pmgq2JKbI/video.html

  • @user-cz9jf1ec8s
    @user-cz9jf1ec8s Month ago +23

    5:36 here’s where he starts saying “bottom of a bottle” a bunch of times.
    You’re welcome.

  • @xXxVanyaPro1941xXx
    @xXxVanyaPro1941xXx Month ago +52

    5:29 Well, now you’ll have to make an apology video about this moment from this video!

    • @janLipija
      @janLipija Month ago +1

      don’t forget the phone number

    • @BartiX-on4wn
      @BartiX-on4wn Month ago +1

      apology?

    • @xXxVanyaPro1941xXx
      @xXxVanyaPro1941xXx Month ago +1

      @BartiX-on4wn Yeah

    • @Fs3i
      @Fs3i Month ago +9

      Yeah, this picture, from this video, well - it was disturbing.
      Terrible, terrible. They should set up a hotline you can call if you’ve been affected from this face from this video.
      It’s the right thing to do.
      (i came to the comments, hoping that some one remembered. Thank you!)

    • @jcdenton4534
      @jcdenton4534 Month ago +1

      No elaboration? Nice.

  • @jenshub
    @jenshub Month ago

    love how it went from vacuums to camera optics

  • @pacdunn
    @pacdunn Month ago +41

    The footage in 3:18, how do you do that lighting setup where the water refracts nicely on darkness with none of the lights visible? two lights on each side?

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 Month ago +7

      Idk. Commenting to get notifications of the answer as well.

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 Month ago +3

      Nah wait I think it's just one light up?

    • @Mikustan39
      @Mikustan39 Month ago +2

      I would also like to know!

    • @TheThrustProject
      @TheThrustProject Month ago +1

      i would guess a dark background, a bit away from the subject you want to film. The lights just illuminate the subject, and with the correct exposure, the background will be pitch black

    • @chrisharvey1091
      @chrisharvey1091 Month ago +1

      That's a really good question. I'd like to know that too

  • @Hakabas01
    @Hakabas01 Month ago +7

    0:10 can't let her down like that

  • @EmyajNosdrahcirEniacSovereign

    I notice that the special camera picks up the particles I see by the naked eye for what looks like dancing atom particles, or the white and black static on a crt screen without channel signal.

  • @Hollowknightbee
    @Hollowknightbee Month ago +6

    Isn’t this the principle of how pistol shrimps work?

  • @AndrewAhlfield
    @AndrewAhlfield Month ago +7

    6:00, what about using an aluminum bottle?

  • @Stargate1J
    @Stargate1J Month ago

    this was a roller coaster of learning in this video... not only the water hammer but also learned about my mistake maker, full spectrum cameras.. love it

  • @AndyRRR0791
    @AndyRRR0791 Month ago +30

    Bremsstrahlung radiation is like saying radiation radiation.

    • @v0ldy54
      @v0ldy54 Month ago +6

      Matcha Tea

    • @mistercohaagen
      @mistercohaagen Month ago +6

      Using "actual facts" as an "added bonus" to bring us out of the "black darkness" of ignorance with a "burning passion" to enlighten. Aka, pleonasms.

    • @AndyRRR0791
      @AndyRRR0791 Month ago +2

      @mistercohaagen Nice! Thanks for additionally augmenting my vocab.

    • @mistercohaagen
      @mistercohaagen Month ago +1

      @AndyRRR0791 hehe "additionally augmenting".

    • @KanalMcLP
      @KanalMcLP Month ago +1

      no its like saying breaking radiation radiation

  • @jbalazer
    @jbalazer Month ago +40

    4:58 Why would atmospheric pressure explain the bottle breaking? The atmosphere is pushing up on the bottom of the bottle with the same pressure as down on the water.

    • @webx135
      @webx135 Month ago +14

      It isn't how it's pushing on the bottle side. It's how it's pushing on the water side.
      The air pressure behind the water means it builds up more momentum before hitting the glass. The whole time the water is traversing, the air pressure is accelerating it, then all that energy is released in a short jolt at deceleration. So if the water is accelerating to the bottom of the bottle for 500uS, but then it decelerates at 50nS at collision, it would release the energy in 1/10,000th the time, so the additional effect of the air pressure would be roughly 10,000 times greater.
      The 1x air pressure on the other side of the glass is inconsequential by comparison.
      This is an additional meaning behind water "hammer", because that's how hammers work. You apply a small force over a longer time (swinging the hammer), and then all that energy is released at once when it rapidly decelerates (hitting the nail). So it multiplies the force greatly.

    • @Voxelowo
      @Voxelowo Month ago +13

      The air pressure pushes the two parts back together
      In an instant, all of that relative velocity is converted directly into energy, breaking the bottle
      Then the water and glass shards just fall down

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 Month ago +2

      1 atm is the pressure of 10 m of water so even if you have a factor for dynamic amplification (the water is stopping which requires more force) it's still a big contributor. another factor is that the vacuum tube is under compression from the atmosphere, so it can better resist the tensile effort of the liquid.

    • @Welgeldiguniekalias
      @Welgeldiguniekalias Month ago

      He must have said that wrong to solicit comments, right? Air pressure is applying compression to the sealed phial, since there is a vacuum inside, and not the bottle, which is open to the atmosphere.

    • @fariesz6786
      @fariesz6786 Month ago +12

      the point is probably more that the phial _doesn't_ break precisely because it is supported by the atmosphere from below _without_ an equal amount of atmospheric pressure crashing down on it.

  • @Baton793
    @Baton793 23 days ago +1

    I wonder if the flash of light is related to the flash you get when smashing sugar cubes with a hammer, like in SciFun's video on the subject

  • @snik2pl
    @snik2pl Month ago +6

    12:32 I think it also helps to have a global shutter camera. In rolling shutter you can have flash when sensor is not "watching"

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 Month ago +5

    5:25
    Considering the previous skit scenes in the video, I was 100% sure it could cut to Steve being slapped in slow motion.

  • @notrackscntfndme6156
    @notrackscntfndme6156 Month ago +3

    😊 Yeah I've broken the bottom out of a sobe bottle hitting the top... 😂😂
    ❤❤

  • @D4no00
    @D4no00 Month ago +5

    Kid: Dad, I want to do a kiwico project.
    Dad: We have kiwico projects at home.
    Kiwico projects at home: listening to a water pipe whistling in the attic.

  • @Gameboygenius
    @Gameboygenius Month ago +7

    You know what I'd be interested in seeing? The slomo shots, but through a polarizing filter. I bet you'd see some interesting gradients in the water, showing the density distribution.
    This might be done using a polarized light source - use a LCD monitor (no OLED) showing a white image as a polarized light source behind the shot. Then put a polarizing filter on the camera.

  • @IterumIterumAllOverAgain

    This has to be the smoothest, most consistent, entertaining, and info dense video yet. Top notch

  • @pokojnitozo2360
    @pokojnitozo2360 Month ago +6

    2:44 you wanted to say one that has also air in it?

  • @AustinAudiS6
    @AustinAudiS6 Month ago +9

    5:13 used to do that as a party trick.. didn't know thats why it worked. I thought it was the slight rappid air pressure increase from slapping the top.

    • @UncleGus007
      @UncleGus007 Month ago

      I also used to do this as a "party trick" 🥴

  • @SailakshmiSubramanian12345

    this reminds me of shaped charges

  • @daniellambert6207
    @daniellambert6207 Month ago +7

    Is it just me, or 0:03 major The Good Place vibes of Chidi neglecting his dates?

  • @SkinsFirstGeneration
    @SkinsFirstGeneration Month ago +470

    Intro was funny af ❤

    • @TheDeepDiveLLC
      @TheDeepDiveLLC Month ago +9

      I do not share the same feelings as you do in that intro

    • @gmansplit
      @gmansplit Month ago +16

      @TheDeepDiveLLC What's it like to be wrong?

    • @goldenegg1063
      @goldenegg1063 Month ago +6

      Im currently having a shit 💩👍🏻

    • @UltimatePowa
      @UltimatePowa Month ago +5

      @TheDeepDiveLLC
      It was a benign funny joke.
      Usually the joke is done the other way around, and done so often, it's a bit cliche and predictable.
      This is the same joke, but inverted, thus it's funny to people because it's unexpected, as humor is the unexpected, but relatable. _(In a crude simplification thereof)_
      Just because you take offense doesn't mean it's not funny, infact, it makes it even more funny-er.

    • @caughdog
      @caughdog Month ago +3

      ​@goldenegg1063hell yeah 👍

  • @marknhopgood
    @marknhopgood 23 days ago +1

    Stay curious, Steve. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @JacobGilbert-jc4ft
    @JacobGilbert-jc4ft Month ago +4

    I remember my first time in a rather tall hotel (~40 stories). I was on the bottom floor, and the faucet had very sensitive controls and *very* good water pressure. The bathroom, being as echoic as it was, had horrible water hammer. At times, I could *feel* the sound wave produced, and it was next to impossible to use the sink without it cavitating

  • @benbookworm
    @benbookworm Month ago +10

    2:31 cavitation bubbles are super captivating. They can even mess with Lines on Maps.

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Month ago

      Captivating Cavitation is my band. If I ever create one

    • @personzorz
      @personzorz Month ago +2

      That's a crossover I didn't expect.

    • @DaniZeros
      @DaniZeros Month ago +2

      This is too obscure of a reference. Captivating indeed. Super captivating, even! 😂

  • @oleksandrivanchenko3299
    @oleksandrivanchenko3299 12 days ago +1

    You should replace the glass for full spectrum camera with a quartz glass, would allow to get even bigger part of the spectrum

  • @endawmyke
    @endawmyke Month ago +26

    7:44 bouncing yaris "Why's this dealer" coded

  • @manyirons
    @manyirons Month ago +48

    9:53 Ask yourself, do you really want to catch phosphoric acid and broken glass with your bare hand?

    • @simonspacek3670
      @simonspacek3670 Month ago +1

      What can possibly go wrong? :D

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 Month ago

      This questions are purely situational. It depends on what is beneath the acid and glass, or the current ph of my bare hand, how much there is, etc.
      I'm reminded of the researcher that dropped their rod in a uranium doughnut (not certain i remember the details well), pulled it out but already terminally irradiated but saved lives by doing it instantly.
      Sometimes reaching into a reactor bare handed is a sound decision.
      In most cases I don't catch glass usually recommend letting it fall. In some cases you can't use gloves for specific chemistry ingredients that ignite them.

  • @nosparklingheart
    @nosparklingheart Month ago

    big fan of the skits u nailed the tough balance of entertaining but not too long to be distracting

  • @Isaac-boone
    @Isaac-boone Month ago +7

    14:30 Okay, great. But tell me more about "vortex shedding"!

    • @ShirinRose
      @ShirinRose Month ago +2

      ruclips.net/user/shortsqVeKGZ0Xq84

  • @jblspeakersandmore277
    @jblspeakersandmore277 Month ago +16

    Why not get an aluminum or metal bottle so the water is force out the hole instead the fragile glass?

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb Month ago +1

      because you can't see inside

    • @jblspeakersandmore277
      @jblspeakersandmore277 Month ago

      @oldcowbbhe said sum about making a rocket with it but idk what rocket engines you know that are made of glass 😂😂😂 the objective is to be power efficient not see through (edit) like he said the weight of the atmosphere is over the neck of that bottle💀💀

  • @HI88-main
    @HI88-main Month ago +1

    12:36 does he look like a serial killer anyone? 😂

  • @giorgiobarchiesi5003
    @giorgiobarchiesi5003 Month ago +5

    3:20 Steve is dripping water onto a hair dryer? 😱

  • @PixelatedError
    @PixelatedError Month ago +6

    9:43 why cant you anymore?

  • @Ardeact
    @Ardeact Month ago

    never thought i'd see full spectrum photography here

  • @MelodicBicycle1867
    @MelodicBicycle1867 Month ago +159

    10:00 violently shaking a vial of phosphoric acid under vacuum in pitch dark? I hope there were precautions taken.

    • @NineteenHand
      @NineteenHand Month ago +58

      Engage safely squints!

    • @HagobSaldadianSmeik
      @HagobSaldadianSmeik Month ago +21

      Phosphoric acid is not a strong acid and also a food additive, so it is relatively safe. Just don't get it in your eyes.

    • @SioxerNikita
      @SioxerNikita Month ago +4

      Remember to wear Goggles when doing Citric Acid or Coca Cola

    • @LiborTinka
      @LiborTinka Month ago +4

      I believe there's a reason for why the researcher friend used phosphoric instead of say sulfuric acid - it's almost as dense as sulfuric, it is way more viscous than sulfuric and way less acidic (pKa1 = 2.14 vs pKa = -2.8, that's over 10 000 times less acidic) and most importantly it is not so aggressively dehydrating like sulfuric.

    • @The_Miles_Edgeworth
      @The_Miles_Edgeworth Month ago +9

      They all died after filming it's very tragic

  • @alfredwayne7002
    @alfredwayne7002 Month ago

    I got a similar effect some years ago, when i fumbled with with jars and pressure cookers. I always liked to play a bit with thoose, before opening them.

  • @stapuft
    @stapuft Month ago +41

    "you cant buy this"
    Shows that you infact CAN buy it.

    • @wbeaty
      @wbeaty Month ago +3

      They're VERY VERY easy to make with a plumbing torch, but you do need a vacuum pump.
      I was making these as xmas gifts, back around 1988. My boro tubing was only 7mm wide. But they work fine.

    • @samuelmellars7855
      @samuelmellars7855 Month ago +3

      ​@wbeaty I wonder if (being careful) you could dodge the need for a vacuum pump by using boiling water. Displace the air with steam/water vapour, then seal the pipe and it makes its own vacuum as it cools down

    • @wbeaty
      @wbeaty Month ago +1

      @samuelmellars7855 You'd have to first roiling- boil the water for a few minutes. But even that doesn't drive off enough dissolved gas. In that case you won't see cavitation at zero force ...but it does happen if the top of the tube is gently whacked with one finger. If even a tiny bit of gas is present, the tube behaves quite differently.
      Instead, completely degas the water for over ten minutes with a vac pump (and plenty of shaking, to stir gassy water to the surface.) Then, in the completed ampuole the water falls back and forth, going "clank" each time. The longer you vac-degas the water, the better it works.

  • @LukaPaja
    @LukaPaja Month ago +61

    @2:44 that also has *air in it

    • @simonize82
      @simonize82 Month ago +6

      Came here to read this 🤭

    • @zooning-6843
      @zooning-6843 Month ago +3

      @simonize82 same

    • @Atreide5
      @Atreide5 Month ago +2

      And micro plastic.

    • @ShadowManceri
      @ShadowManceri Month ago +2

      Technically it also has water in it with the air. The vacuum one doesn't also have water in it because it only has water. It's weird expression for sure, not wrong, just weird.

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki Month ago

      @Atreide5 and some germs (long dead by now)

  • @stephan5279
    @stephan5279 Month ago +2

    Im now asking myself, if this also would work with a tripple point cell, as there ist also just water in a vacuum...

    • @cogoid
      @cogoid Month ago

      It does work exactly like that with the triple point cell, because it is just ultrapure water in vacuum.
      And if you crack the bottom of the thermometer well, the air rushes in, pushes water up, and as it slams into the top of the cell, it shatters the whole thing quite spectacularly -- with water and shards of glass raining from the ceiling. Not something that one necessarily expects from just some water in a simple glass contraption.

  • @__Ben
    @__Ben Month ago +188

    5:29 I'm getting flashbacks to _this image_ from _this video_ from the park bench

  • @KernelLeak
    @KernelLeak Month ago +13

    10:29 Epic trunk shot!

    • @sarkedev
      @sarkedev Month ago +2

      Pulp Fiction esque

    • @bernds6587
      @bernds6587 Month ago

      The briefacase itself - is a reference to Marcellus Wallace briefcase.

  • @nora-nv3fd
    @nora-nv3fd Month ago +1

    im glad you made such a good hook for this video so i would end up sticking around for the beautiful little shots of speakers with water vibrating in them

  • @TheSamuelCish
    @TheSamuelCish Month ago +9

    12:29 out of context is one of the funniest things ive seen

    • @TracksWithDax
      @TracksWithDax Month ago

      ikr, the way he's holding his head and just hammering away, it's just hysterical

  • @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple-g9p

    What if the inside of the tube with the Xenon got coated in phosphor like a fluorescent lamp? Then it would be visible by the naked eye (and probably amplified)

    • @zam1am
      @zam1am Month ago +3

      It's been a few decades so I had to look it up. A fluorescent dye might do the trick as fluorescence shifts the emission frequence towards lower frequencies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_shift).

  • @AssetBurned
    @AssetBurned Month ago

    So what happens if you have the slushing version but instead of air you add xenon?

  • @karlkastor
    @karlkastor Month ago +7

    5:28 Reminds me of that clip from that video

    • @thehaprust6312
      @thehaprust6312 Month ago +1

      Better get a park bench, we are going to need an apology video.

    • @karlkastor
      @karlkastor Month ago +1

      @thehaprust6312 omg I love that you got this obscure reference

  • @imadeabioweapon
    @imadeabioweapon Month ago +197

    Lol funny intro

  • @brololler
    @brololler Month ago +1

    Let the mantis shrimp have a go in punching the lights out

  • @drachenjungenichts950

    8:56 What the hell was that noise.

  • @lordkampi
    @lordkampi Month ago +341

    I'm 100% surr thats how dates with steve are😂
    "So how was your da..."
    "DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT..."

    • @vera_1904
      @vera_1904 Month ago +13

      that’s how most of my dates go lmao, if they can’t vibe with a bit of infodumping we wouldn’t work out anyway lmao.

    • @schÖenebuddy_shownbuddy
      @schÖenebuddy_shownbuddy Month ago +3

      ""Surr""

    • @kevin_heslip
      @kevin_heslip Month ago +1

      @schÖenebuddy_shownbuddy that’s what I’m sayin

    • @adrianbik3366
      @adrianbik3366 Month ago +7

      That was me on a date earlier today haha (it went great, maybe even because of this)

    • @vera_1904
      @vera_1904 Month ago +6

      @adrianbik3366 it’s a great tactic, let them know what they’re getting into lmao.

  • @travisscavoni369
    @travisscavoni369 Month ago

    5:28 reminded me of Matt and Tom's Park Bench apology video of that face in that image in that video.

  • @unheilbargut
    @unheilbargut Month ago +7

    The flash of light is the same you can see with the pistol shrimp, correct? (Hoping you are not showing that example later… 😅) 11:18