Could you Survive a Blast from the Worlds Biggest Vortex Cannon?

Hey guys, scientist, here and behind me is the most powerful Vortex

cannon

in the world. It fires a Vortex ring at over 350 mph and aims directly at my head, a little above because, honestly, I'm a little afraid of this thing. You're about to find out why the fire now the crazy thing is you can't see the

vortex

because it's shooting out rings of air that are invisible but you can definitely hear it, that noise is the invisible text ring just passing through the air. It sounds like an invisible fighter plane flying across a field, this thing shoots a concentrated tornado and before I shoot myself with this thing I want to do some tests, so for the first test we're going to shoot these cardboard boxes, oh my god, look. because of how powerful he is, he just smashes boxes, smashes them, when was the last time you

could

smash a box just by hitting it?

The target was a little high that time, so we'll lower the barrel and try again. fire fire fire okay come on oh my god it demolished it it went through it oh yeah it nailed it it nailed it now if you slow down a couple of interesting things happened number one you can see the shock wave from the explosion that hit the boxes before. the

vortex

ring doesn't look like much, but there's a cool editing trick: take a copy of the clip, stack it on top and then move it a few frames, then take the difference between the two clips, this highlights and amplifies the motion now. you can see the shock wave much more clearly and you can even see the vortex ring moving through the air and that's because it slightly bends the air like a lens.

Now I told you this is like a tornado, I mean look how far it threw those boxes. He picked them up and threw them about 40 tons and I don't know about you, but I did my best and I

could

only throw a box like 25 feet, so this is cool, it was so amazing. The guy tore up those boxes like they were a piece of tissue. The first shot we took actually went over the crates and hit the tree there, so this isn't just a short-range Vortex

cannon

. I mean, this thing could launch a Vortex from like half a mile away.

I walked towards the tree 500 feet away because I want to see what happens when the vortex hits it. It's terrifying being down here. Yes, I am ready. You did. That's one way to prune a tree. Now the tree is only 500 feet away and the vortex is needed. seconds to reach it if you don't reach the tree, although the Vortex goes on and on and on according to this clip. The Vortex traveled over 2000 feet, that was cool. The key to making a good Vortex rope is a short, quick burst of air using this cannon. rubber bands and the Giant Cannon uses explosions, so here we have the name of the cannon.

The vrad has equipped this thing with a 28 inch cannon on this end and this end is where the gases are filled, so right there they have some liquid oxygen that mixes with a bunch of different gases in just the right proportion to get the perfect explosive mixture that fires the Vortex ring from the end, here now you can basically think of this as a giant one-shot rocket engine because well there is a combustion chamber that converges with a diverging nozzle and fuel and oxygen injectors, so I always thought that the vortex ring was formed inside the nozzle, but in reality it is not like that when the gas leaves here, what it does is extract the air from the outside. in the current like that, so you get a short, quick burst of air and the air from outside comes and stirs up the current and forms a vortex like that.

Now I want to find out how powerful this single shot rocket engine actually is by having I shoot my childhood basketball now, if you listen closely you can hear the gas start to fill the chamber and if you look closely from this angle, nothing but the net, maybe because the basketball was in the center of the vortex ring, nothing actually hit it, so I'm going to move the stand towards the edge so that the vortex ring nails the ball of basketball. I also moved the basket a little closer to give myself better odds. Oh no, even though we hit the basketball directly, the vortex ring is still there. faster than the basketball and knock down the hoop before the ball can get there, but this cannon was not built to play basketball, it was designed to scare birds and this is perfect for scaring birds because it is so loud which is actually difficult. to convey how loud this is, I mean, when they shoot this, all the dirt jumps out of the ground, it's like a real artillery cannon firing.

The owner of the cannon also told me that they used the sound of the cannon firing as a sound effect in one of the new Star Wars movies they call it the battering ram it makes it like pulse and it shoots well that's our Canon well I guess it's time I'll be here in a minute and I'm pretty nervous. It's a good thing this comes with toilet paper. Wait, that reminds me. I promised Mark Rober that, in case he died, he would tell you about his new Crunch Labs kit, the Cheat Pack. It's basically a series of really fun programmable kits delivered directly to you.

Each kit comes with a set of instructions and a step-by-step building video that also teaches you the same kind of engineering skills Mark uses to build things like this. giant version of the kit, there are 14 and also I'm not that smart, the first kit includes a desktop turret robot with a 360° rotation and a six-shot capacity, then there is a domino L robot and other incredible creations like this cool one custom label maker and a computer controlled CNC Sand Garden Wow oh this is a nice kit. I like all laser cut wood, it just comes together. One of my favorite parts about these kits is that since they are all robots, you can hack them.

There are three levels of coding. access from a complete block to a guided tour of the tricks and full customization so you can control things like how fast it moves to writing a script for it to shoot around your body in a perfect outline or, in my case , you can use it to protect your portapotty. This is definitely the best portapotty experience I have ever had in my life. They'll also be giving away a free box when you sign up, so if you want this mini turret or any of the other cool kits they offer. Head over to Crunch labs.com/b, the backyard scientist, using that link really helps my channel, but more importantly it shows that doing this in a port-a-potty would be fun, wait, do you hear that?

We did it, oh yeah, okay. I've finally worked up the courage to take a hit from this thing, so let's do it right when you're ready? Oh I hear it fill, oh my god that was incredible, oh my god I've never felt anything like that. that before oh no oh god I'm so close to that I don't like this fire oh my god are you kidding me? What the hell? That kind of pain yeah, I don't like that I got into the crazy too, bring it, here we go, oh, I don't like that, I don't like shooting at all since I was a little kid.

I have dreamed of being hit by a giant Vortex cannon mounted on the back of a truck. this is a dream come true fire oh wa that would hit my legs that almost knocked me over oh my god okay come on hit me again do it right this is what it's like to be hit by a giant Canon Vortex oh my god you nailed me that time. I think I'm done with this video. Thanks so much for looking. Goodbye, please don't shoot me again. We're almost done for tonight, but I had one more question. Could this be Vortex?

Cannon put out a fire, let's find out oh man, that's very, very sinister, this is incredibly cool, yeah dude, that's the best way to put out a fire right there, that's the best way to put out a fire, oh man, oh yeah, one more thing. Open sauce. 2024 is almost happening again, only 2 months away and we still need exhibitors if you've never heard of Open Sauce before. It's like a science fair, except all your favorite science YouTubers are also there to cause chaos and give talks and parties. I have to close the loop, though no, not for me, oh no, oh my gosh, I'm telling you it was amazing last year, there were so many great exhibits, it's taking place in San Francisco on June 15 and 16 at the Cow Palace and if you have anything.

Great, you want to share something like a giant Vortex Cannon, head over to Open Sauce.com and apply to exhibit and you better hurry CU. I don't think applications will be open for much longer.