Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT - Smarter Every Day 287

Well.... the specifics of how to accomplish this have been in my head since 2017. I'm very excited to finally share it with you. I'm grateful to everyone who supports Smarter Every Day on Patreon. You make long-term planning things like this and the baseball cannon possible! Here's the link if you'd like to join our sticker team: www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Also, as promised, here's the link too the email list! www.smartereveryday.com/email-list I don't spam you. I just send out an email every time I upload. Thanks for your consideration!

When the two bullets perfectly hit each other it looks like your shot a single bullet into the worlds strongest mirror. Insane.

16:24 first colision between them (not perfectly hit) 18:51 perfect shot 26:36 another great shot

A buddy of mine who used to go metal detecting for Civil War Artifacts, once dug up a perfect specimen of two mini-balls that had hit HEAD ON and fused together. The artifact itself was amazing, but even more amazing was to realize that because both bullets had hit each other perfectly, the two soldiers had LIVED!!! After that fateful shot, it was probably not a good outcome, but at least for that moment in time, they both lived to fight another day!

The fact that the sponsorship was the end of the story of this video is so great. That is such an amazing way to incorporate a sponsorship. Since I have YouTube premium it tried to automatically skip it and I feel like there should be some way for YouTube to make a distinction between actual content and just mindless sponsorships. If you have YouTube premium rewind it to the point till before the sponsorship started and to make sure to watch it. It is so cool and you don't want to miss it.

12:47 15:00 15:47 18:40 19:50 20:30 All of these are what you came for 21:54 24:32 part of bulket sticks together 26:44 Final good shots 27:41 Video ends

21:54 - The money shot... honestly this is a one in a million type capture. Amazing.

Destin, as the safety specialist at work, I would be absolutely thrilled to see a video of some of the planning and safety procedures before during and after one of these experiments!

I wonder if you could make two bullets hit inside a block of ballistic gel so it catches all the fragments and everything and you could see this little pause of time and see how it all expands outward, I think that'd be pretty cool if possible but maybe it wouldn't be able to catch it I'm not sure

Seeing those two bullets frozen in time in the middle of the air at 21:39 (22:00) was so amazing... It's literally forces cancelling each others out perfectly. I'm so blown away by this.

I notice that both your barrels have right hand twist, so when they are facing each other, the bullets are spinning in opposite directions. If you had one barrel with a left hand twist, both bullets would spin in the same direction. With the rotational energy cancelled out, it seems that it would be much easier for the bullets to fuse on impact.

Amazing content on all of your videos, and you are really breaking out the big guns with Mr. Fielding. The thing that makes you two great is your ability to not only teach people how to do things, you teach us how to think. Thank You!

I am a traffic accident reconstructionist, so I tend to think it terms of momentum, velocity, Vectors, etc. I never dreamed you'd get a complete mutual momentum transfer, particularly with the FMJ. Absolutely incredible work, gentlemen.

22:00 is the most incredible slow motion footage i've ever seen and that is not an exaggeration

I work in OT&E and the safety procedure evaluation towards the beginning was an unexpected but absolutely crucial component of your process. Really incredible work Destin.

you would think there would be some consistency in this! Thank you very day every day Steve!

Really enjoyed watching this, great job!! My mind however just cannot dismiss the thought that two young soldiers managed to do this using a couple rifles braced against their shoulders without any rests, without thousands of hours of preparation and planning, just raised their rifles and shot two bullets that perfectly met each other in the air melting into each other, and by the way saving two lives simultaneously! Oh the glorious synchronicity of it all! Did they survive the war? Are their descendants out there in the world living among us because of this one happening?

The shot at 21:55 is arguably one of the coolest things that's ever been produced on the internet. I know you said you weren't trying to win the internet but that shot is in contention for it. I really appreciate you bringing all of us with you on this journey, Destin

Slow Motion of the Bullets Hitting starts at 21:54 Cheers!

This video has to be hands down one of the most well explain shown video, i have ever seen in a while...❤