@@1rstTry It's good English according to the lexico website (which is powered by the Oxford English Dictionary) nucular Pronunciation /ˈnjuːkjʊlə/ adjective Nuclear. Origin 1940s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Alteration of nuclear, representing a colloquial pronunciation.
In one of the “Fallout” games you can come across a refrigerator in the nuclear wasteland. Opening it, you find a fedora, a whip, and a human skeleton.
His cackle at 11:01 after he states Lead was used in all sorts of household products is priceless. It would be very mentally stimulating to simply sit down in the pub for an evening with this guy.
I've been out at bonfires on his property with him... It's pretty much how you'd expect. "Burn your tires at night so they can't see the black plumes of smoke hahahaha"
Very insightful. When I first saw a real grenade go off, I was actually quite surprised that it's just loud, it's not a massive detonation - it's made to clear a room, aka take out enemies waiting for you there to ambush you. It doesn't destroy the entire room and definitely wouldn't cause a massive fireball destroying an entire floor. That would be quite counter productive, because you typically operate in the same floor with your team.
People who don’t take time or have time to look into fragmentation grenades typically overlook the frag part of the name. They don’t recognize that the device is literally just a metal powder container meant to blow to bits, and the bits of the grenade are the real weapon, not the concussive initial blast.
Soldiers would not want a weapon like a movie grenade--it would be heavy and that would mean they couldn't carry as many. Soldiers like weapons that are just good enough for the job, you do not want to lug around overkill.
@@lillonerboi504 There are 2 main types of kill mechanisms employed by hand grenades. The first is fragmentation which obviously is the focus of a "frag grenade." The other is the plain explosive force and that concussive damage done to the body of nearby targets. The "pineapple" grenade mentioned in the video is a poster child frag grenade. The WW2 German Stielhandgranate meaning "stick grenade" (aka "potato masher" by GIs) relied on the explosive force rather than frag. The warhead was just packed into a thin metal casing, not a thick segmented body like the pineapple. So there are definitely many grenade designs out there which forego frag damage and rely solely on the concussive damage done by the high explosive within the grenade. "Blast lung" is a pretty wicked thing to treat, and missing limbs tend to cause blood loss in rapid fashion. 😸
fun fact. Someone actually survived BOTH nukes dropped on japan because he fell into a swimming pool both times. He died in the 90s of old age. So yeah, batman having some comic book suit and diving into the water seems plausible, if comic bookey.
Yup, especially at a low angle the energy is going to reflect off the water. The radiation won't get very far, either--what comes off the bomb doesn't turn corners and thus it's going to go through a lot of water even when you're pretty shallow. This is what was intended with the much-maligned Davy Crockett--get into a foxhole before the boom and it doesn't matter that you're within the radiation kill zone.
22:50 My housemate was a driver overseas and he has a story about driving with an EOD guy who told him to pull over to the side of the road, at which point the dude just jumps out of the vehicle onto a certain point, declares "it's a dud!" and pulls a IED out of the ground and tosses it into the back of the truck quite casually. According to him most EODs have a fairly relaxed attitude with a "you'll be dead faster then you can notice" mentality.
I love these type of videos it shows directors and producers that it's not too hard to get it accurate and it also puts a ton of knowledge to the viewers but the cherry on top I feel like the people who are asked to come on and do these it must be like their time to shine or something cause you get to show all of your knowledge and years of experience in your profession basically a win win win
Cutting both wires at the same time would possibly short them across the wire cutters, so I definitely wouldn’t do that unless you have ceramic cutters.
24:30. Yes, he told you to throw the blasting cap away. This is something you should most definitely not do. Do no throw it. Don't put it in the trash. Blasting caps have been known to blow when being crimped in the wrong spot, and there was a marine officer we were told about who tried crimping with his teeth and lost his head. So dont throw it.
@@d4slaimless you can make endothermic reactions buuut is have no ideer what limits their are to such things and i have no ideer whether that movie was realistic
@@kristiankastberg1748 it's usually done with liquid nitrogen and is technically possible but liquid nitrogen has to be kept at a certain temperature to stay liquid and carrying a refrigeration unit capable of that in combat is currently not possible.
@@kristiankastberg1748 endothermic reactions wouldn't be as violent. Because the lower the temperature the slower the reaction. So in process of decreasing the temperature reaction would slow itself. There are some fun experiments when you can freeze thin layer of water. However I never seen or head about experiments where temperature would drop extremely low and as fast. Now as suggested in other comment liquid nitrogen might be possible, but it wouldn't look like this and you would need LARGER amount than shown.
3:45 I know this was said in jest and its not as if anyone is ever going to need this information (hopefully) But absolutely do NOT cut both wires at the same time! If using metal snips then cutting 2 wires simultaneously may briefly complete the circuit.
If there's a second round of videos, please show him the Fifth Element's ticking bomb scene and Leon the Professional's grenade explosion! I know one is SiFi but it would be cool to hear his input!
Or it's built waterproof. I don't remember the movie but wasn't that pretty deep? It might be easier to build it to be flooded with **fresh** water or some other fluid (I'm thinking of the non-conductive stuff sometimes used for water-cooled PCs--works like water but if it leaks it won't fry your machine.)
Note about windshield wipers in Iraq. It can rain substantially in the winter in Iraq. And hurt locker I always thought was one the best directed, yet most inaccurate portrayals of that war.
Cinematically it is quite nicely shot. It really does give that desert warzone atmosphere very intensely. But everything the characters do is ridiculous.
@@Sparkplugcrazytalk or the scene where he realizes he's surrounded by daisy chained bombs and he yanks them out of the ground (they probably weigh 50+ lbs) by the impossibly strong connecting wire.
I was living in Orlando when they filmed that Leathal Weapon scene - they had implosion parties around the building (the old Orlando City Hall) and everything - it was wild.
We learned how to build simple bombs (bells instead of explosives) in Criminal Forensics. I placed mine in a paper bag. No one could diffuse it (of course there were no x-rays) because to handle it, I had incorporated a switch that had to be kept closed if you moved it or cut into the bag.
this is directed at the explosives expert but there were at least 12 that i could count of those exposed c4 blocks in that car for the lethal weapon 3 one and c4 is high yield so if those boxes were also full then that's more then enough to level that building. granted since it isn't distributed on the support beams like it would be during demolitions its likely that it would cause serious damage to the building likely cause massive instability but wouldn't quite destroy everything quite how it does in the movie.
FYI whoever did the captions for this unfortunately didn't know the difference between defuse and diffuse. You defuse a bomb, as in de + fuse, making it inert. You diffuse potpourri. Diffuse means to spread out. The caption writer repeatedly misused diffuse when they should have used defuse in every instance.
is cutting both wires really a good idea? the clippers is steel, so conductive so the moment you cut both you will have copper steel copper and have completed the circuit wouldnt that trigger it? and like you said, it needs to be a circle so any of the wires would have interrupted it, atleast if there are only 2 the advice seems odd to me
@@thanatoast4389 if what your cutting is the break in the connection that closes when the timer runs out, you cutting both wires simultaneously, connecting the two wires with the steel of your cutter would complete the loop that wasnt completed before it would only be a complete loop for a moment until the wires are cut and disconnected, but electricity doesnt need long
The description about the hand grenade is a bit off.. There are 2 types of hand grenades (not hand bombs - such as the old WWII German stick grenade): Offensive vs Defensive grenades. The type shown is an Offensive grenade which is smaller than the Defensive grenade. Defensive grenades often have a lining of steel balls inside besides the larger amount of explosives. Where an Offensive grenade takes out a living room (hide behind a couch, and you have a much better chance of surviving), the Defensive grenade will lift the roof tiles (and they'll fall back in place) - on a Scandinavian brick house :D - there's a great video of it here, somewhere.
Depending on how that digital countdown clock worked, cutting a wire could change the capacitance of the timing circuit and change its speed substantially. Why the builder would leave such a wire just hanging out there is another question, but the effect isn't impossible. Would be great to see a movie where it goes the other way and the clock slows down so they think it's stopped, but really they've just bought a little more time.
Source Code. The bomb goes off the first time because there more than phone detonator. It’s not quite what you said but as close as you will get on Hollywood. EDIT: How the film continues is the question
06:35. I hate to be that guy but if you take the power away as suggested by removing that cable, it doesn't necessarily stop something working. Having a relay energised to make something safe will cause that something to be unsafe when power is cut.
OK so 18:43, the long kiss goodnight... (I am a Soldier) most grenades are programmed to denotate between 3 and 4 seconds.... They'd have been toast at Sam L. Jacksons first word. Second, if it was a phosphorus grenade, not only would they have been burned before jumping out of the window, they would have continued to burn all the way down through flesh and bone until they hit the water. Military tech is brutal.
Is there an ISO for wire colors? Movies push the color deal really hard. Just change the circuit colors when building . Not that I know anything, because I don't.
If the countdown timer's interval relies on an RLC circuit partially comprised of the impedance of the individual components, starting to cut out things could change the RLC's time constant and cause the timer to run at a different speed.
Dear Paul, agree with you, but please add this circuit possibility to your menu: in the 2 wire trigger system, besides "sending voltage/current* through the pair, they might _also_ be grounding something at the other end (a relay coil with one end connected to a battery for example) , in this case cutting both wires at the same time wold short them together through clipper blades, and actually trigger the bomb. Cutting them one at a time would be safer.
If the clippers short the wires no current can reach the cap. A bomb could be built such that shorting the wires triggered a separate detonator but other than that a short won't matter.
I was watching this out of the corner of my eye and thought the guy was holding an old time wood pipe and with his voice I really believed it was a pipe and for those way too young a pipe wasn’t always glass and used for Marijuana but was packed with tobacco and sometimes was ordained with detailed wood carving.
You didn't ask him about the baby bomb in the Rock? You didn't ask him if he'd ever had to jam his heart with a gigantic syringe "...are you fu****ing nuts?!?!"
If you are within the blast envelope ( overpressure zone).. It’s all up for you. I worked with 2 stage hyperbaric explosives that utilized aluminum dust and a flammable compound that atomized and ignited milliseconds post initiation. Bad news stuff… it should have been banned for use in warfare period.
I deliver fuel and my trailer can hold 9500 gallons of gas diesel jet fuel or ethanol those are the products we carry. I have been told if I can’t get over a mile a way quickly trying to extinguish the flame is better. Also my trailer is more dangerous empty compared to full. Gas the liquid isn’t flammable but the fumes it emits are and that’s why it is misted into injectors instead of as the term goes flooded. So I am curious if my trailer empty did catch a brake fire what the best method would be. I have always thought climbing on top opening each compartment would help prevent explosions and create more of an upward super short flame thrower that might blast open a little. Each compartment on top of the truck is about 1 ft wide and my company has 4 to 5 compartments per trailer. The largest compartment on 4 compartment trailer is 4,000 gallons the 5 compartment is 2,500 gallon compartment.
I remember learning how to make an explosive using kitchen products. I did it once in my backyard and decided not to pass the information on to anyone else. Safer that way
As a kid in the 50's, I remember seeing a film of the fake town and people being destroyed by the nuclear blast. Was too young to realize those people were dummies. Thought it was real and it scared the p***s out of me.
Abyss: The weapon he try to defuse is a MERV, which is designed to travel outside stratosphere for some time, so if there is any chance by material compression/temperature dropdown/pressure change harming the system, it would fail. So i didn't think this archietecture of the weapon is realistic in the first place. But then again, noone of the crew ever had to handle a MERV, and the SEALS in the movie not necessarily had the correct orders to defuse it anyway, as this wasen't planed, so there would have been no chance at all to defuse it (but by fancy aliens come around and do space magic).
Depends on how good the systems to prevent misuse are and how good the engineers are at defeating those systems. The actual detonator won't care that it hasn't gone through re-entry, it's simply a matter of sending the right current down the right wires at **exactly** the right timing.
The short answer is that the bigger and more visible the "fireball", the _weaker_ the explosion and less likely it is to kill you. Obvious exceptions being nukes and fuel-air bombs, but otherwise this is the general rule of thumb with all conventional explosives/bombs/ordnance. Almost no movies get this right; as with so much the general public is ignorant about. The "rule of cool" has conditioned people to think giant visible ball of yellow fire = massively powerful explosion. No. Anyone who knows the rudiments of explosives will tell you it's the (basically invisible) shockwave that does the main damage and most of the killing; and the vast majority of conventional explosives of highest power and potential lethality are the least impressive visually.
The fireball is safer to use on a movie set as a special effect, a real detonation would be a visual let down, if the film could even be completed after wiping out the production crew....
"If you want it to go boom, I'm your man."
Greatest introduction I've ever heard. 10/10
I'm sorry GQ but how could you do an explosion expert breakdown and not show him a Michael Bay movie explosion just sayin 🤷♂️
Maybe he doesn't like Bay movies. Notice he only talks about his favorite films. Each to his own
@@mmyers6441 I was just kidding anyways
@@ethanholgate2512 i know 🙃
@@mmyers6441 You have your very good own point Sir/Ma'am
@@ronaldlee7566 its siiiir lol
I really love how he explains everything. Factual & educational, with a very entertaining way of telling it
I like how he explains the realism but has an understanding of how Hollywood needs to visualize things.
this guy is fun to listen to
sounds a lot like Brian Cox
Except he, as a bomb expert, pronounces nuclear wrong 😑
@@1rstTry He pronounced it correctly
@@essexboy95 you sure about that? It’s pronounced like it’s spelled, nuclear. Not Nuke-you-ler
@@1rstTry It's good English according to the lexico website (which is powered by the Oxford English Dictionary)
nucular
Pronunciation /ˈnjuːkjʊlə/
adjective
Nuclear.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Alteration of nuclear, representing a colloquial pronunciation.
Ended up here randomly, stayed for the whole thing. His accent sounds so classy and dignified. Loved watching him explain things.
He had me on the first "if you wanna go boom, I'm your man" 🤣
Sounds like a pick up line to impress a lady.
@@danielaramburo7648 I wouldn’t want to be picked up by a person threatening me with -good times- explosives
@@Lucaz99 if he says it in a sensual way, he wants to pleasure you. If he has a serious voice tone….. run away really fast.
@@danielaramburo7648 "Annnnnd Boom goes the dynamite." - this guy after sexuals probably
and lost me at "nukular"
In one of the “Fallout” games you can come across a refrigerator in the nuclear wasteland. Opening it, you find a fedora, a whip, and a human skeleton.
Indiana Jones reference
Pineapple grenade fragmentation was less predictable than initially believed. The new ones actually fragment as designed.
His cackle at 11:01 after he states Lead was used in all sorts of household products is priceless.
It would be very mentally stimulating to simply sit down in the pub for an evening with this guy.
I've been out at bonfires on his property with him... It's pretty much how you'd expect.
"Burn your tires at night so they can't see the black plumes of smoke hahahaha"
Very insightful. When I first saw a real grenade go off, I was actually quite surprised that it's just loud, it's not a massive detonation - it's made to clear a room, aka take out enemies waiting for you there to ambush you. It doesn't destroy the entire room and definitely wouldn't cause a massive fireball destroying an entire floor. That would be quite counter productive, because you typically operate in the same floor with your team.
What grenade type was it?
Yup! No flames galore!
Royal Life Guards (Denmark) 3 tours in the '00s
People who don’t take time or have time to look into fragmentation grenades typically overlook the frag part of the name. They don’t recognize that the device is literally just a metal powder container meant to blow to bits, and the bits of the grenade are the real weapon, not the concussive initial blast.
Soldiers would not want a weapon like a movie grenade--it would be heavy and that would mean they couldn't carry as many. Soldiers like weapons that are just good enough for the job, you do not want to lug around overkill.
@@LorenPechtel not to mention a stray bullet that hit a movie grenade would be enough to blow up your entire platoon
@@lillonerboi504 There are 2 main types of kill mechanisms employed by hand grenades. The first is fragmentation which obviously is the focus of a "frag grenade." The other is the plain explosive force and that concussive damage done to the body of nearby targets. The "pineapple" grenade mentioned in the video is a poster child frag grenade. The WW2 German Stielhandgranate meaning "stick grenade" (aka "potato masher" by GIs) relied on the explosive force rather than frag. The warhead was just packed into a thin metal casing, not a thick segmented body like the pineapple. So there are definitely many grenade designs out there which forego frag damage and rely solely on the concussive damage done by the high explosive within the grenade. "Blast lung" is a pretty wicked thing to treat, and missing limbs tend to cause blood loss in rapid fashion. 😸
Dr. Worsey was my teacher in college. It was a class on fireworks.
Sounds like a blast
@@keenanlarsen1639it really was a blast. Can confirm.
fun fact. Someone actually survived BOTH nukes dropped on japan because he fell into a swimming pool both times. He died in the 90s of old age. So yeah, batman having some comic book suit and diving into the water seems plausible, if comic bookey.
Yup, especially at a low angle the energy is going to reflect off the water. The radiation won't get very far, either--what comes off the bomb doesn't turn corners and thus it's going to go through a lot of water even when you're pretty shallow. This is what was intended with the much-maligned Davy Crockett--get into a foxhole before the boom and it doesn't matter that you're within the radiation kill zone.
@@LorenPechtel Still a prime example of military intelligence, the Crockett.
22:50 My housemate was a driver overseas and he has a story about driving with an EOD guy who told him to pull over to the side of the road, at which point the dude just jumps out of the vehicle onto a certain point, declares "it's a dud!" and pulls a IED out of the ground and tosses it into the back of the truck quite casually. According to him most EODs have a fairly relaxed attitude with a "you'll be dead faster then you can notice" mentality.
That pretty much sums up what my instructor used to say at the schoolhouse "if you make a mistake your not going to be there to see it"
I like this guy! Not too serious, and actually let's the viewer have fun with the video for a change!!
“If you want things to go boom, I’m your guy” I love him🥺❤️
Lol so savvy and confident. You can tell when somebody is truly an expert by the way they talk about the topic, and he is clearly an expert
The look he gave me when he said “sucks them off their foundations” 😳
I love these type of videos it shows directors and producers that it's not too hard to get it accurate and it also puts a ton of knowledge to the viewers but the cherry on top I feel like the people who are asked to come on and do these it must be like their time to shine or something cause you get to show all of your knowledge and years of experience in your profession basically a win win win
Cutting both wires at the same time would possibly short them across the wire cutters, so I definitely wouldn’t do that unless you have ceramic cutters.
or two cutters
Full send
24:30. Yes, he told you to throw the blasting cap away. This is something you should most definitely not do. Do no throw it. Don't put it in the trash. Blasting caps have been known to blow when being crimped in the wrong spot, and there was a marine officer we were told about who tried crimping with his teeth and lost his head. So dont throw it.
i'll be sure to remember that next time I'm handling a blasting cap!😆😁
It's a shame he completely missed that the spray on foam froze and broke everything while he was describing explosive foam.
Indeed, in a movie there was entirely different mechanism. And rather unrealistic at that.
@@d4slaimless you can make endothermic reactions buuut is have no ideer what limits their are to such things and i have no ideer whether that movie was realistic
@@kristiankastberg1748 it's usually done with liquid nitrogen and is technically possible but liquid nitrogen has to be kept at a certain temperature to stay liquid and carrying a refrigeration unit capable of that in combat is currently not possible.
@@kristiankastberg1748 endothermic reactions wouldn't be as violent. Because the lower the temperature the slower the reaction. So in process of decreasing the temperature reaction would slow itself. There are some fun experiments when you can freeze thin layer of water. However I never seen or head about experiments where temperature would drop extremely low and as fast.
Now as suggested in other comment liquid nitrogen might be possible, but it wouldn't look like this and you would need LARGER amount than shown.
3:45 I know this was said in jest and its not as if anyone is ever going to need this information (hopefully)
But absolutely do NOT cut both wires at the same time!
If using metal snips then cutting 2 wires simultaneously may briefly complete the circuit.
If there's a second round of videos, please show him the Fifth Element's ticking bomb scene and Leon the Professional's grenade explosion!
I know one is SiFi but it would be cool to hear his input!
I've put aside watching "The Hurt Locker" for many years, after this video, I don't think I can anymore
Same
I'm thinking the same thing for The Long Kiss Goodnight
Hurt Locker is a great movie.
Id done the same thing, just not AS many years..It wasn't bad, its a movie, they hollywooded it a bit.
3:00 but when he unscrewed it, there were no bubbles of air, so it was flooded already. Double the fail I guess :P
Or it's built waterproof. I don't remember the movie but wasn't that pretty deep? It might be easier to build it to be flooded with **fresh** water or some other fluid (I'm thinking of the non-conductive stuff sometimes used for water-cooled PCs--works like water but if it leaks it won't fry your machine.)
Note about windshield wipers in Iraq. It can rain substantially in the winter in Iraq. And hurt locker I always thought was one the best directed, yet most inaccurate portrayals of that war.
Cinematically it is quite nicely shot. It really does give that desert warzone atmosphere very intensely. But everything the characters do is ridiculous.
Yep the sniper scene is one of the most egregious attacks on logic I've ever seen in a movie lol
@@Sparkplugcrazytalk or the scene where he realizes he's surrounded by daisy chained bombs and he yanks them out of the ground (they probably weigh 50+ lbs) by the impossibly strong connecting wire.
Interesting expert, good on camera. Would watch more explosives break downs.
This dude is awesome. I could hear him talk about explosives all day long.
0:29 Oh, boy. Imagine that you're trying to disarm a bomb on a speeding bus and it's Harry Dunne guiding you through the process.
And Lloyd Christmas instead of Neo.
That was awesome. Dr Worsey is a fascinating and engaging man to watch talk about his craft.
Agreed. He's brilliant. I've had 4-5 classes by him, and he's exactly like this in class, but amplified.
“If you want it to go boom, I’m your man.” What a line! All I could think of is Seamus Finnegan in Harry Potter and Maggie Smith saying, “BOOM!”
Another issue with the first Hurt Locker segment is that the blast is mostly vertical rather than horizontal.
Have you ever noticed that nobody in movies ever gets percussion blast injuries.
This was awesome! I wish they would have touched on Die Hard with a Vengeance though, that whole movie was centered around bomb threats
I was living in Orlando when they filmed that Leathal Weapon scene - they had implosion parties around the building (the old Orlando City Hall) and everything - it was wild.
We learned how to build simple bombs (bells instead of explosives) in Criminal Forensics. I placed mine in a paper bag. No one could diffuse it (of course there were no x-rays) because to handle it, I had incorporated a switch that had to be kept closed if you moved it or cut into the bag.
He's so snarky. Immensely enjoyable.
If they do a followup, the slow-mo Swordfish scene is worth a breakdown.
Dude is a storyteller 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
this is directed at the explosives expert but there were at least 12 that i could count of those exposed c4 blocks in that car for the lethal weapon 3 one and c4 is high yield so if those boxes were also full then that's more then enough to level that building. granted since it isn't distributed on the support beams like it would be during demolitions its likely that it would cause serious damage to the building likely cause massive instability but wouldn't quite destroy everything quite how it does in the movie.
Don't care, you are a furry
3:58 talks about explosive foam when the foam in the clip isn't explosive, it freezes...
Well he has to he isn't a cryogenics expert.
@@Keyecomposer Yes, I know, that's why they shouldn't have chosen that clip for him to review...
I dunno but I think maybe it creates a chemical reaction that burns through the metal & that's pretty much his area of expertise?
FYI whoever did the captions for this unfortunately didn't know the difference between defuse and diffuse. You defuse a bomb, as in de + fuse, making it inert. You diffuse potpourri. Diffuse means to spread out. The caption writer repeatedly misused diffuse when they should have used defuse in every instance.
is cutting both wires really a good idea?
the clippers is steel, so conductive
so the moment you cut both you will have copper steel copper and have completed the circuit
wouldnt that trigger it?
and like you said, it needs to be a circle so any of the wires would have interrupted it, atleast if there are only 2
the advice seems odd to me
How though? The wires still get cut. If the circuit was complete between the two wires, the explosion would have already happened.
@@thanatoast4389 if what your cutting is the break in the connection that closes when the timer runs out, you cutting both wires simultaneously, connecting the two wires with the steel of your cutter would complete the loop that wasnt completed before
it would only be a complete loop for a moment until the wires are cut and disconnected, but electricity doesnt need long
26:19 "there's really not that much explosive there, I think you could outrun it" *entire planet evaporates*
This guy is great at kid’s birthday parties!!
The description about the hand grenade is a bit off..
There are 2 types of hand grenades (not hand bombs - such as the old WWII German stick grenade):
Offensive vs Defensive grenades.
The type shown is an Offensive grenade which is smaller than the Defensive grenade. Defensive grenades often have a lining of steel balls inside besides the larger amount of explosives.
Where an Offensive grenade takes out a living room (hide behind a couch, and you have a much better chance of surviving), the Defensive grenade will lift the roof tiles (and they'll fall back in place) - on a Scandinavian brick house :D - there's a great video of it here, somewhere.
4:43 But the foam does not go BOEM ... the 2 compounds make the metal side brittle so it acts more like an asid ?
Depending on how that digital countdown clock worked, cutting a wire could change the capacitance of the timing circuit and change its speed substantially. Why the builder would leave such a wire just hanging out there is another question, but the effect isn't impossible.
Would be great to see a movie where it goes the other way and the clock slows down so they think it's stopped, but really they've just bought a little more time.
Source Code. The bomb goes off the first time because there more than phone detonator. It’s not quite what you said but as close as you will get on Hollywood.
EDIT: How the film continues is the question
or just a fake clock.
You know you’re old-school when you say “speeding bullets “
If I were going to make an IED (and I'm Not, for the record) I would make all the wires the same colour.
Not all colors hold the same voltage
I did explosive in the Army years ago. An explosion is a bright blink and it's over. This guy is right.
06:35. I hate to be that guy but if you take the power away as suggested by removing that cable, it doesn't necessarily stop something working.
Having a relay energised to make something safe will cause that something to be unsafe when power is cut.
Great commentary on the clips!
Absolutely love how this guy explains things lol "crispy" lol Tysm
Hurt Locker guy had a bit of metal go through his head at orbital velocity, something like 8 km/sec or up to 30 km/sec
When I was a teen in the 70s I loved building bigger and bigger explosive devices.
I guess I should have pursued a career in it.
OK so 18:43, the long kiss goodnight... (I am a Soldier) most grenades are programmed to denotate between 3 and 4 seconds.... They'd have been toast at Sam L. Jacksons first word. Second, if it was a phosphorus grenade, not only would they have been burned before jumping out of the window, they would have continued to burn all the way down through flesh and bone until they hit the water. Military tech is brutal.
Hes like a math teacher who knows how to blow things up, very cool
Is there an ISO for wire colors?
Movies push the color deal really hard.
Just change the circuit colors when building . Not that I know anything, because I don't.
@15:02 this part got to me. Me oh my ☺😏 what does it do again exactly?
This videos needs to be have at least 10 mil views to be fair! Good job!
He sounds like a really cool and fun guy
I love this guy!! There have been a lot of great people in this series. But I think this guy, the mortician and the MMA guy have been my favorites.
This guy must be incredible at his job, you never hear of bombs going off in Australia.
When he mentioned relocating a bomb, the first thing to pop into my head was a *very* different Batman scene. 🤣
I love his voice and am terrified by what he would do “ better at “
Definitely someone I want on my side!
If the countdown timer's interval relies on an RLC circuit partially comprised of the impedance of the individual components, starting to cut out things could change the RLC's time constant and cause the timer to run at a different speed.
20:15 They show a phosphorus-grenade in the movie Munich.
Dear Paul, agree with you, but please add this circuit possibility to your menu: in the 2 wire trigger system, besides "sending voltage/current* through the pair, they might _also_ be grounding something at the other end (a relay coil with one end connected to a battery for example) , in this case cutting both wires at the same time wold short them together through clipper blades, and actually trigger the bomb. Cutting them one at a time would be safer.
If the clippers short the wires no current can reach the cap. A bomb could be built such that shorting the wires triggered a separate detonator but other than that a short won't matter.
Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb
I saw Lethal Weapon and thought they were going to talk about the toilet bomb.
I've always thought that the crystal skull nuke got unfair amounts of hate, so it's nice to see it being fairly critiqued here,
What about the The Dark Knight hospital explosion scene?
18:50 never saw the movie but just watching that clip I thought there was a gas leak where that grenade went off.
I love how the bomb wires have RadioShack speaker wire terminals
I was watching this out of the corner of my eye and thought the guy was holding an old time wood pipe and with his voice I really believed it was a pipe and for those way too young a pipe wasn’t always glass and used for Marijuana but was packed with tobacco and sometimes was ordained with detailed wood carving.
I like this guy does he have his own channel?
Doc Worsey has EOD written all over him. Calm and sober, but with a little gallows humor sprinkled in.
You didn't ask him about the baby bomb in the Rock? You didn't ask him if he'd ever had to jam his heart with a gigantic syringe "...are you fu****ing nuts?!?!"
that grenade in the long kiss hahaha. ridiculous
Homer: "Its pronounced 'nucular'...."
All i could thing of whenever he said it! 😂
If you are within the blast envelope ( overpressure zone)..
It’s all up for you.
I worked with 2 stage hyperbaric explosives that utilized aluminum dust and a flammable compound that atomized and ignited milliseconds post initiation.
Bad news stuff… it should have been banned for use in warfare period.
Haha love this guy's delivery!!!
The grandpa I always wanted😊
I deliver fuel and my trailer can hold 9500 gallons of gas diesel jet fuel or ethanol those are the products we carry. I have been told if I can’t get over a mile a way quickly trying to extinguish the flame is better. Also my trailer is more dangerous empty compared to full. Gas the liquid isn’t flammable but the fumes it emits are and that’s why it is misted into injectors instead of as the term goes flooded. So I am curious if my trailer empty did catch a brake fire what the best method would be. I have always thought climbing on top opening each compartment would help prevent explosions and create more of an upward super short flame thrower that might blast open a little. Each compartment on top of the truck is about 1 ft wide and my company has 4 to 5 compartments per trailer. The largest compartment on 4 compartment trailer is 4,000 gallons the 5 compartment is 2,500 gallon compartment.
How did The Manhattan Project (1986), Terminator 2 (1991), and Die Hard (1988) not make the cut?
I learned 2 things watching this. 1). Boom = bad. 2). Look for the basement!
I remember learning how to make an explosive using kitchen products. I did it once in my backyard and decided not to pass the information on to anyone else. Safer that way
have you seen the guys shooting tanerite.
I was hoping he would review the mcgyver 2 booms on a cruise ship.
Whoever was doing the subtitles, they kept putting "diffuse" instead of "defuse", which, those are some VERY different things.
the wire color thing was always so stupid to me
even as a child i was like "well ill just use my own colors"
"If you're ever in this situation I recommend cutting both wires at the same time."🤔💣💩🤣
I'm a building about to be demolished and get to star in an action movie: This guy. I deserve my close up with full makeup.
As a kid in the 50's, I remember seeing a film of the fake town and people being destroyed by the nuclear blast. Was too young to realize those people were dummies. Thought it was real and it scared the p***s out of me.
Abyss: The weapon he try to defuse is a MERV, which is designed to travel outside stratosphere for some time, so if there is any chance by material compression/temperature dropdown/pressure change harming the system, it would fail. So i didn't think this archietecture of the weapon is realistic in the first place. But then again, noone of the crew ever had to handle a MERV, and the SEALS in the movie not necessarily had the correct orders to defuse it anyway, as this wasen't planed, so there would have been no chance at all to defuse it (but by fancy aliens come around and do space magic).
Depends on how good the systems to prevent misuse are and how good the engineers are at defeating those systems. The actual detonator won't care that it hasn't gone through re-entry, it's simply a matter of sending the right current down the right wires at **exactly** the right timing.
And the lack of red underwater makes distiguishing colours difficult
The short answer is that the bigger and more visible the "fireball", the _weaker_ the explosion and less likely it is to kill you. Obvious exceptions being nukes and fuel-air bombs, but otherwise this is the general rule of thumb with all conventional explosives/bombs/ordnance. Almost no movies get this right; as with so much the general public is ignorant about. The "rule of cool" has conditioned people to think giant visible ball of yellow fire = massively powerful explosion. No. Anyone who knows the rudiments of explosives will tell you it's the (basically invisible) shockwave that does the main damage and most of the killing; and the vast majority of conventional explosives of highest power and potential lethality are the least impressive visually.
The fireball is safer to use on a movie set as a special effect, a real detonation would be a visual let down, if the film could even be completed after wiping out the production crew....
"Cool guys don't look at explosions."
They turn around and they walk away
They make explosions look cool.