Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Slow Mo Guys" channel.

  1. Go look at some of the Manhattan Project x-ray high speed films of the implosion. Same basic thing, smaller distances and far more than one charge, but really educational as to what's happening when shockwaves meet and metals in different phases combine at high speed.
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  2. Tempered glass is designed to fracture into small, non-sharp chunks. It's the same basic type of glass used in automotive passenger windows and rear windscreen.
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  3. You don't want to have me visit and plug in a hundred caps to the outlets...
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  4. Now, try that same experiment to see wobble in a vacuum chamber and see how the wobble isn't as severe. Now, find some old laserdiscs and do the same thing. Thicker, more massive, stronger and those have killed technicians working on them after the tech removed the cover and guard assembly.
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  5. Rubberstar Galactica...
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  6. Now, just think, shaped charge facing shaped charge, in a sphere of shaped charges, propelling not copper, but plutonium and focusing that based upon high speed x-ray movie camera data on actual film. Aka, what the Manhattan Project did. The metal seriously gets moving when it's around basketball size, hit the polonium core at around golf ball size, then things got loud. The shaped charge not being loud, it was a party popper in comparison. And why such things had to be precisely directed, precisely timed and everything in a small a space as possible.
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