Egg Target Practice at 300 mph (483 km/h)
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- After figuring out how to launch raw eggs to over 300 mph( 483km/h), I thought I'd have a little fun with the cannon and see what can withstand getting hit by a flying egg. It's surprising just how much energy they have at high speeds and the amount of damage they can do. At 300+ MPH even something as fragile as an egg could be dangerous and requires some respect for the amount of energy it has. Video shows good example of impulse
PVC AIr cannon dangers future episode: I am looking for information on safety problems that anyone has had with PVC cannons. If you have had a cannon fail for any reasons please forward the details to me at Bgoknee@comcast.net
this video is a follow up to Launching Raw eggs
• Launching raw eggs ///...
A future video will feature attempts to try and stop a 300 mph egg safely without it breaking
For anyone wondering about wasting food, the eggs were supplied and were past their sellable expiration date
.Okay so I've already received offers for it, selling the damaged computer listing was supposed to be a joke, not only is the screen destroyed but it also has raw egg and water inside the body. I don't think any amount of repairs will bring it back to life
.One last note: the high pitched sound that is heard throughout the video is due to seasonal male cicadas making a loud buzzing noise to attract a mate. A problem when trying to shoot video outdoors during the summer
"How's retirement been Bruce?"
Bruce: "Eh, pretty normal." Sends egg through 3/4" plywood at 300 mph.
THIS IS THE DREAM RETIREMENT 👌
thank you for making me laugh
yep, I shared this with a friend,,, he will have one before the weekend is over 😊
Doctor egg man
See we don't need guns, we can make our own with lots of chickens to produce ammo and food
That comparison with the hammer was insane. Good that you included it.
I never would have thought an egg could go through 3/4" plywood! I'm really interested to see if you or your students can catch the egg at that speed without breaking it. Quite an upgrade from the traditional egg drop competition!
I would have never thought, that you would have never thought...
@@SurvivalSquirrel Yeah I'm sceptical too. Maybe he means he didn't think it would be possible to have it survive the acceleration to the necessary speed.
@@kirkc9643 why should it not survive an acceleration?
If we consider that a rifle bullet travels at 6.5X this velocity and is made of lead (quite soft and very malleable) and a thin jacked from copper alloy it makes a little more sense perhaps.
Why didn't he continue upward and do 1"?
I'm extremely impressed that you can accelerate an egg that fast without breaking it.
Look at the length of that barrel. It's the opposite of throwing the egg into a bedsheet.
@@aluisiousIf that's accelerating from zero to 300mph in about half a second, that's over 27Gs. Still a hell of a lot in terms of say the human body.
I believe it's in a sabot
The sabot prevents it from bouncing off of the walls of the barrel, but does not reduce the number of G's the egg is subjected to. I've gotta believe he took a lot of cues from the "Punkin' Chunkin'" contest held out east.
@hondolane3125 think of an astronaut, the capsule protects him from G forces among other things, if you strapped him to a rocket he would disintegrate, that's what the sabot does
You gotta do a collab with the slow mo guys. Seeing an egg in super slow mo going through aluminum roofing would be really interesting....
I would recommend BHS guys. Thought on that when watching.
And various other targets. Egg vs egg would be interesting.
I was thinking Paul Harrell 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Or Demolition Ranch. 😂
@@LungsMcGeeNot the same genre. A completely unnecessary recommendation and useless fantasy.
I made a potato cannon when I was younger and I figured out how to make a sabot and showed my friends how you could do this and shoot an egg whole. It was so fun and the look on their faces was priceless. I love your videos. thank you for keeping science fun.
I'm actually amazed at the performance of the helmet!! That's definitively a life saving piece of equipment!
only comment that made me think about staying on this vid
Man I love your non click bait content, you dont do stupid countdowns or try to create some false sense of urgency, just science and testing.
Looking at the damage, I could not have anticipated what kind of shell you were firing
Eggcellent yolk 😂
Now try albumen siding
I've been shooting and reloading for 30 years and I thought I understood terminal balistics until now! Very interesting! 👍
Egg cellent video.
Stop.
0:20
To slow egg down, you could try using a series of very thin square nylon fabric sheets 10"x10" or so. Hang them by the corners to the 4 long parallel wood rods using a bit of glue and thin stripes cut from napkins. The idea is that egg will catch fabric sheets one by one, reducing it's speed and at the same time it will build up a damping layer in front of it. When egg will lose part of its energy and will have lots of fabric layers wrapped around it, you could try to catch it with a sheet you showed, or using a huge pile of hay.
I was wondering how a very long tract of bubbly-to-foamy material would perform.
Or a kind of series of frames with very loosely placed (unhitched) silk layers which the egg would accumulate over stages
Fascinating! @6:22 you can see the harmonic pulse of the air in the barrel (cylinder with one closed end). It's like a big spring.
we first saw that in the vacuum cannon when shooting ping pong balls. ruclips.net/video/nIL3HN4PQlI/видео.html
various places through the video, good shot of it around 5 minutes 10 seconds
This explains the often overlooked danger of flying debris during a hurricane or tornado.
And that hard hat explains why they don't hire chickens for construction work.
really curious about cooked egg vs raw egg performance now!
I would suggest multiple layers of fabrics of different mass, from lightest to heaviest. All fabrics should be spaced and mounted in a way to make it possible to easilly come of the mount and travel forth with the egg. Egg would keep catching more and more layers and slow down to finally end in something similat to what you showed at the begining of the video.
I had a similar idea.
Few now remember the Great Hatchery War of 1925. Casualties were so heavy on both sides, few survived to carry on the memory of that slaughter. And those few survivors were too traumatized to talk about their experiences. They had seen what deadly farm weapons could to to humans. Egg bombs, egg artillery, machine gun eggs, and the ever-present AK-00 assault egg rifles.
You could tell the veterans of that war by the look of terror in their eyes at the mere mention of breakfast.
With our forks held high, we salute and thank you for your service.
Man that was so good, truly a gifted writer and comedian. Thank you
@@tk-sd9dvMany thanks. 🤓
Three ideas for catching the egg without breaking it. The first is a sheet of paper, and then another sheet of paper, and another sheet of paper, and so on, spaced about 3 inches apart. I don't know how many it would take to slow it to a stop, but thicker sheets of paper should slow it more and each should slow it down some. The second idea is basically the same configuration, but with bubble wrap. In both cases, I'd recommend something soft for them to land on after they've been slow down enough. The third one, going to be done with trash bags or balloons or pretty much anything else that could hold reasonably large pockets of air. But again, not just one of them. Same basic idea, each one it goes through should slow it down somewhat.
I feel like you a Destin from smarter every day need to do a video. I think it would be a blast
Agreed
Didn't Destin do this? He also created a vacuum in the barrel for more speed.
Great video. This could be the best Safety Helmit ad you will ever see. Like a tornado sending a 2x4 through a tree. Simply amazing.
WOW this was fascinating, I didn't expect these results!
Great video!
One try for catching the egg would be to hang thousands sheets of tissue paper from a rigid frame, with some space between each one. It might need to be angled slightly downwards to account for the loss of momentum as the egg slows down.
Probably too much work, though.
Another way, though even more unlikely to be built, would be to create a large rail gun to accelerate a frame holding a bed sheet, and connect the trigger to the air gun such that the sheet is traveling only slightly slower than the egg!
Or as an alternate version, a second larger air gun could launch a weight attached to a cable that would pull the sheet frame along a rail.
I came here to say the same thing. Perhaps some silk toward the end that isn't under tension.
Eggsellent!! Straight into with no monologue droning intro...entertaining, well paced and narrated with no stupid computer voice.
the egg is kind of like a incendiary round but instead with hydrostatic pressure. the shell delivers the initial whack then the mass of the white and yoke blast through as if they were unimpeded.
More like a shaped charge round
You're enough to make Gallager jealous. The sledgehammer (or "Sledge-o-Matic") with the egg was pretty awesome as well as the 300 mph eggs.
this guys having the time of his life.
I love your videos - spreading curiosity for science by showing that experiments are not only well within the reach of all of us at home, but also just plain old FUN!
My suggestion would be some sort of "bottomless" catch bin with some arrangement of panty hose inside. You can use the "legs" of the panty hose to tie to the rim. Or maybe just several layers (enough so it doesn't blow out the fabric) of panty hose stuffed inside each other and you can shoot the egg down the leg and it will decelerate the egg gradually as it the panty hose gets narrower and stretches out. I know panty hose works to some degree because I won my physics class egg drop 40 years ago with an egg suspended inside a 6" X 6" X 6" box with panty hose. In the egg drop "playoff" my teacher even went to the top of the press box for 6 more feet of height and threw (not dropped) the surviving competitors entries downward. Mine was the only one that didn't break....But I don't know if it would work on a 300 MPH egg.
Awesome video! My students built an air cannon that fired ping pong balls at 713 FPS (486 mph) at 80 PSI. The point was to see the speed that pneumatics could operate at and the dangers. We used a face shield as a target, and put a nice hole in the face shield.
A most fascinating experiment... I was mesmerized. (Didn't even know I needed this in my life). Subbed!
I love the wholesome "just tinkering around my house... -oh! I didn't see you there!" music, at the end of the video.
Please make a series. This is like Mr Rogers meets Mr Wizard's World.
You channel is a great example of quality over quantity
To catch an egg at high speed I would try a pendulum with a long (maybe 2 meter (6 foot)) arm that can freely rotate in a circle; could be vertical or horizontal rotation (horizontal might be easier to construct). At the end of the pendulum's arm I would try a net to catch the egg without breaking it. When the egg hits the net, its kinetic energy is transferred to the pendulum arm's rotational energy, which would spin around and around until that energy reaches zero.
매우 흥미로운 영상이었습니다.
날달걀이 이렇게 강할줄은 몰랐어요.
실험해 주셔서 감사합니다.😄👍
Layered Fabric Deceleration System:
Egg Container: Place the egg within a protective container or casing to prevent it from cracking upon initial contact.
Multiple Fabric Layers: Arrange several layers of soft, lightweight fabric in the egg's path. These layers should be securely anchored to a frame or support structure.
Progressive Deceleration: Each fabric layer should have a specific attachment mechanism designed to slow down the egg when it hits. This could be achieved through adhesive properties, elastic bands, or Velcro-like attachments.
Sequential Release: As the egg impacts the first fabric layer, it slows down gradually. The attachment mechanism then releases the fabric layer, allowing the egg to move on to the next.
Repeating Process: The egg continues to encounter and slow down against subsequent fabric layers until it comes to a complete stop.
Safety Frame: Ensure that the frame or structure supporting the fabric layers is stable and absorbs any remaining kinetic energy to prevent sudden stops.
Testing and Optimization: Experiment with different fabric types, attachment mechanisms, and layer configurations to find the optimal combination that allows the egg to stop safely without breaking.
This system would provide a series of controlled deceleration stages, gradually reducing the egg's speed until it comes to a stop. It's an inventive way to protect the egg during high-speed impact. Extensive testing and adjustments will be essential to fine-tune the design for optimal performance.
This was a great video and I always love your presentation style, but a discussion about why the helmet survived, when all the other seemingly stronger materials didn’t, would have been really educational and interesting.
That's a hard hat - it's a safety device for construction sites. They're designed to protect you from bricks and pipe falling from sky scrapers - they're extremely durable! For the record, something heavy drops - especially from a high height - it won't save your life, but does protect your head from a fair bit. In 35 years I've seen them crushed several times (once with a head barely slipping out in time!) but I've yet to see one pierced.
@@smgdfcmfah I get it but at the beginning of the video he mentioned deceleration and I think pointing out the fact that the helmet deforms to decrease deceleration is what helps prevent it from breaking
@@rdear Absolutely. That's why the helmet sits a good inch or more above your head, held up by the suspension (the part that actually touches your head.
Most laypeople think of material strength as a single variable. In engineering, there are a plethora of different measurements used to gauge the strength of a material. Plastics are relatively weak in ultimate strength, but they're extremely strong when it comes to withstanding flex and distortion. Plastic's flex allows it to spread the energy of an impact over a greater distance (like a bungee cord), lessening the peak force experienced by the plastic at any given moment in time. The lesser ability of metal to flex means the kinetic energy of an impact has to be absorbed over a shorter distance (like hitting concrete). Meaning the peak force is higher; enough to tear the metal in aluminum's case.
I appreciate this video because a few years ago some kids driving by in a car shouted to get me to turn around and they threw three eggs at me. Two hit my open trunk and one whizzed right past my ear. If it had hit my eye it most certainly would have done a lot of permanent damage to it.
Can you skip an egg off water.
Wish I was in school again, especially with teachers like you Bruce!
Regards from Switzerland, Robert
You should ask The Slow Mo Guys to do a colab on this one, it had been so nice to see what is happening with the egg in super slow-motion and also see how you all look when hitting the board as hare as you can with a hammer :D
9:20 "Beeee careful, this guy is eggstremely dangerous!" 🐝🥚
Wow I'm really impressed by that safety helmet. I did not think it was going to stop the egg.
2 things that Amazed me.
1. How the egg is able to withstand such amount of sudden acceleration with liquid inside and Hard cover outside.
2. The frequency of wings of the bee which appears to be fast even in slow motion.
This has to be one of the most interesting and astonishing clips I have seen in a long time! It's an amazing demonstration of the laws of Physics, and actually provides insight into ballistics, collision theories and energy dispersion etc - very novel.
Enjoyed it. The egg literally has more energy than a falling hailstone (of certain size, of course).
I wonder what a 300 mph egg would do to ballistics gel.
Bro's yard gotta be stickier than the bar floor lmao. Phenomenal content mate!
We have several night creatures that are happy for me to continue
@@YeanyScience ahaha, I bet! Well, as an honorary "night creature" myself I am in complete agreement with them. Even if my reasons involve less tasty snacks and more enjoyment of backyard science videos.
Customer: "Yes, I'd like an order of 'Eggs Yeany' please. Oh, and an orange juice."
Waiter: "Very good sir. Your eggs will be up in about .0004 seconds after I leave. Here, wear this hardhat..."
I'm amazed at how well he can sight in this thing, those shots are pretty on point.
it's not easy, after where I think I have it, I then go to the target and look back at the cannon, if I can see all the way down the barrel I have it about right. I'm thinking of adding a laser point to help
In Korea, there is a proverb that goes, “Hit a rock with an egg.” It's a metaphor for a futile act that is obvious even without looking at the result, but the proverb "A super-fast egg can smash a rock" also seems necessary.
"Bull's eyes with chicken eggs, fresh from the barrel sir!"
Decelerating the egg with liquids should work, although plain water might be too dense so a foam would likely be needed.
A couple metres of dense shaving foam then a metre of water might do it, using some sort of gutter with cling-film on the ends would save on the volume needed.
Worth a try with just water though, hitting pointy end first it might just survive!
Foams can often be mixed with gels and stay stable, could be a good way to adjust density (also check out aircrete).
Bruce: "Freeze, I've got an egg aimed right at your head!"
Intruder: "Ha, I ain't afraid of no egg"
Egg: 🥚🚀☠
To catch the egg: Step 1) Fire it directly upwards. By the time it comes down, it will only be moving at terminal velocity (much less than your MV here). Step 2) Employ one of those centerfielders from the first part of the video. Step 3) Use a 5gal bucket full of "plucking foam" cubes. Use the lowest density you can find. Good luck!
Now that is time well spent, testing an egg canon! I bet no one thought it would punch a whole in 3/4” plywood. The soda bottles were also spectacular!
Imagine sitting on your back porch enjoying a drink and then suddenly your neighbor sounds off the world's loudest gong with an egg going almost mach 0.5
Insurance clerk: It says here, your laptop was damaged by an egg?
Claimant: YES
Insurance clerk: Travelling at 300 miles an hour?
Claimant: YES
😄
THE most interesting video I've saw on RUclips in years.
Waitress: How would you like your eggs?
Me: Scrambled with cheese. Hot sauce & DemoRanch on the side.
To catch an egg- suspend a cordura sling pouch (target) from a tree on slip-off key rings mounted on finish nails. The pouch would be suspended from way high up in the tree on 1/4” bungee cord. Upon impact the lightweight pouch accelerates and is released from the tree. The egg stretches out the bungee and also begins to swing upon a long arc from the base of the tree. At some point, maybe 30’ from the anchor and 30’ high the egg would come to a stop and fall down. That’s where it gets interesting- it might be nice to have a piece of 50lb monofilament attached to the pouch or even chute cord that is anchored downrange even further and tied to a lightweight weight, hoisted high in a tree. When the pouch is released and begins to decelerate the egg- the opposite weight would fall toward the ground and hopefully arrest the energy contained in the eleongated bungee cords upon arresting the energy contained in the speeding egg.
I’ve used a similar concept in tree work to arrest flying loads without the bungee- and it works really well. Maybe it would work with a 300mph egg? Great video, I imagine you’re a career educator, and if so, your students were/are fortunate to have you as their teacher!
As the former owner of a pneumatic potato cannon, I too was surprised by the power they have!
*@Bruce Yeany* 8:56 To catch the egg, you probably need some multi-stage material, and a very deep catching area.
The problem is that the egg needs to slow down slowly enough, and almost anything, even the softest feathers will break it at that speed.
Maybe some structure like:
dense smoke? --> foam --> loose cotton/wool? --> maybe aerogels --> maybe some liquids by now --> eventually something "solid" like cloth, for it too finally land in without breaking.
I whole heartedly agree that you should do a collaboration with the Slo-Mo-Guys or Smarter every day, but I’d very much like to see you try hard boiled eggs next time as well.
Great Video !
I would love to, I've tried contacting both of them a few times, never heard back from them.
This would make a great murder mystery for Sherlock Holmes. Man gets killed and all thats left is breakfast.
Bruce's yard is totally an insect attractant now... dozens of raw eggs turned to mist, chunks of watermelon, litres of soda... lol
In order to catch an egg unbroken at 300 mph you need a baseball glove just ahead of it travelling at 299 mph. Easy peasy. 😂
“Could send an egg through a barn door, two if one of em’s open”
Now THIS is what youtube was made for! Easily got my thumbs up!
This was so much better than all the other vacuum cannons on RUclips ...
Sick dude
and a lot tougher
I would have NEVER bet that a raw egg could go through 3/4" plywood! Imagine being the unfortunate fool who was killed by a raw egg when he inadvertently stepped in,front of this air canno! Yike! 😮 Fascinating! As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
Mr. Yeany you are a great inspiration for young people, they learn from you to think about all kinds of things.
Hopefully your health is still good!
thank you, I am fine
It's the middle of the night and RUclips gave me you as a suggestion. I've never been here before but I got to tell you that was a pretty awesome video.
I have this crazy feeling you only have your eggs SCRAMBLED! Impressive Demonstration...
That was an eggceptional video. 🤣
I never imagined that a raw egg would be able to easily rip through a 1/4" , 1/2" and 3/4" piece of plywood.
What amazes me is how you can accelerate an Egg to 300mph in a 9ft barrel w/ only a piece of foam behind it. That looks like EPP foam (expanded polypropylene, milk carton plastic), or "pool noodle" foam. I've made "spud guns" powered by butane and gotten over 500 fps (using a ballistics chronograph and a small nail in the spud") and they are illegal in many states, just for that reason. We actually used the spud guns for shooting down beater Radio Control Airplanes which was nearly impossible.
the sabots are cut from rigid foam polystyrene, they were formed by heating a steel ball and then pushing itdown into the foam to melt it, worked really well
Impressive demonstration of kinetic energy at 300 MPH. For your information, passengers typically fly over 460 MPH in jets.
That egg-celerates fast! A very egg-citing video. You did a egg-cellent job.
Things you find on RUclips at 2 am. That was awesome
This is how RUclips used to be! Love it! Miss the old days!
Bruce's wife : Dear, did you see the carton of eggs that I have just bought from Walmart ?
-enemy tank ahead Load Armor piercing!
-kinetic or chemical round?
-egg
-may their souls rest in peace
"Sir, we just made a new cannon."
"It's ecological as well."
If someone decides to start using such a weapon as a tool of warfare, some soldiers will end up coming home shell shocked, and those who get hit with such a cannon may get their innards all scrambled.
Eggcept, I would argue that such a cannon is more eggological than ecological.
Chickens are currently being fed normal food products like corn and soybeans, produced by conventional agricultural methods, which is responsible for a not insignificant quantity of the total CO2 emissions of humanity. It is possible to eventually eliminate such emissions through the use of chicken feed production by methanotrophic bacteria and renewable electricity derived methane, but it is not currently being done.
In the meantime, I think a more ecologically minded cannon would be designed to fire a water ice projectile using compressed air, where the energy for the production of the compressed air (and the ice, if not produced naturally during winter) is produced by renewable solar energy.
Idea for slowing down the egg:
Spraying a really dense rain of tiny droplets with several garden hoses. I guess that every hit with a water droplet would reduce the eggs velocity, until it is slow enough to be cought by other means.
Absolute old fashioned quality youtube right here
Thank you 👍 Very impressive. We can now imagine the energy contained in a Bugatti Chiron that goes at 480km/h and what may happen if an egg is thrown out the window… 😂
Excellent and interesting video. And I especially appreciate your editing, giving the information without excessive jibber jabber.
The unbelievable destructive power of hen grenades.
love the play on words, thanks for the laugh
1/2” plywood was the standard for lethality back in the day. If a projectile passed through, it was lethal. So now I need a 300mph egg-slinging potato cannon for home defense!🤣
you get one shot and good luck trying to aim a 14 foot long cannon
4:35 It slices, it dices! Hitting an egg with a sledge hammer and then hitting a watermelon with an egg, I bet Gallagher wishes he thought of this. :)
Also the egg-shaped hole in the computer screen was priceless. The only better result would have been if it was Wile E Coyote shaped.
So cool Sir, love this! Hey how about a cushion sabot for the egg? Something which will aid in the “shock” of the acceleration rate? 😊
This is amazing!!
I never thought an egg would go through ANY thickness of plywood.
That could really hurt someone! OK, if you're out of 45 ammo, try eggs.
Please tell me your a middle school or high school teacher. We need people like you teaching our kids in a fun way that keeps them engaged with learning.
I taught middle school physical science for 41 years, retired a few years ago but still substitute occasionally
A 2 liter of orange soda!?! Gasp! Blasphemy!
Love this video!
I know, should have put a kiddie pool underneath it to catch the liquid
Who needs slow mo guys. This more than good. Plus no music..yess
"Honey! Take a break from your video. We're having watermelon and orange soda for lun... Forget it."
This is my new favorite channel.
This gives me original RUclips vibes. Love it
That is amazing! I haven't enjoyed a video this much in a long time. For catching the egg without breaking try a large air bag for stunt men to jump off buildings onto.
This Finally solves the age old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
When enemies see an egg go through their comrades chest, they run like chickens!
Dude, you may have found a new safety standard for hard hats! But hey, look what a piece of foam insulation did to the space shuttle.
"Commander Scott, can't one of us leave this tank to fetch some eggs to go with our tea..."
Unfortunately, he never could finish his sentence, as at that very moment, a T64 fired an armour piercing egg shell (APES) and penetrated the Challenger 2's hull, destroying the tea maker, and scalding the crew to death with the released water and tea additives were at over 100'C.
Best use of an Apple computer.