[intro music] welcome to the beyond the press channel! i watched a cool video from backyard scientist where he had this, uh, was it "ring of death"? yeah, "ring of death", where lighters each were cooking the next one, and the idea was to see which one is going to explode first, and the guy did it in his living room. props for that! but we tried to do a bit similar thing, and a bit larger and take it out of the living room, so i can show our idea. so, here is the set-up! we have these gas torches, and the flame when it's running is about this long, so these are all nicely cooking each other, and since they are made out of steel and not plastic and they are much larger, the explosions should be quite spectacular.
the idea of the game is to predict which is going to explode first, so pick one. [anni:] uhhh...this is my choice. [lauri:] this is going to explode first? [anni:] yeah. [lauri:] i think the opposite one, and this is mine. [anni:] okay. [lauri:] yeah, so yours is the...which is on top of this wood, and mine is opposite of that. and...since the idea is so great, and i am so hyped up about this whole thing, i decided to use enough cameras to get every bit of action in film
so we have gopro hero 4 black recording 120 fps. then we have flir 1 thermal camera, some lights... uhh...my new chronos 1.4 slow-motion camera, of course my main camera, and sony rx-100 for slow-mo also, and we are going to be behind that safety glass, so... let's faaking see! [gas hissing] [clang] [hissing intensifies] [loud hissing stops]
so the "ring of death" thing doesn't work with the gas torches. we tried this once more again, but the, like, torches themselves flied out of the bottles. the bottles are stretching when the pressure is building up, and also the torches tend to shut down for some reason when you are trying to explode them. i think the liquid is starting to pour out nozzle instead of the gas, and that shuts it down, but we try something else! yeah, it seems that the, uhh... like, these bur-..burr-...burner things, these are...they are flying away when the pressure builds up inside of the bottle, so this funny game isn't working very well. so i think we have to just explode one of those bottles for fun, so i make new setup for that one, and this game is better with lighters, so the backyard scientist was right. [chuckles] but we are going to make some kind of
explosions still. [quiet hissing] [metal quietly popping] [popping speeds up] [popping quickly] [bang, echoes] [distant laughing] [lauri:] we did it! [metal popping]
[bang!] [liquid splattering] [loud heavy metal music playing] and on that one there is gas on the bottom, so it should be quite cold. yeah, you can see here it is...i think if i go closer it is, but you can clearly see that it's colder than some other places. so there is now liquid gas on that, uhh...exploded can, and it's burning, and i am going to throw snow-ball against it, so then it will spill and burn even more. [splash, hissing] [exclaims in finnish]
[fire crackling] [steps approach] [slow motion explosion sound] [slow motion exclamation in finnish] [torches hissing] [explosion, screams, echoes] [lauri:] so here was the test site, and... ...there is the missing can! so the cans really do explode by heating, but the problem is that there is so much gas inside, i think you
can see it nicely on the slow-mo, there is just gas and no oxygen in this area, so i think we have to do this again, [anni:] noo. [lauri:] and we have to put lot of fires on a bit larger area to get ignition, and i am also getting a better thermal camera probably. that flir one is...it's quite good, but it could be a bit better. and, yeah... i think that is all for today. [anni:] thank you for watching, [lauri:] and have a nice day!
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