What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?

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    What do raindrops look like? Exactly how we drew them as kids, right? Wrong! Teardrop-shaped rain is physically impossible. This week I went inside a vertical wind tunnel to bring you the true shape of rain.
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    Dr. Scot Martin, Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry at Harvard University www.seas.harvard.edu/director...
    Terminal Velocity of Raindrops Aloft
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    The Terminal Velocity of Fall for Water Droplets in Stagnant Air
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    Single-Drop Fragmentation Determines Size Distribution of Raindrops
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  • @besmart
    @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +848

    I've always wanted to make it rain.
    Did you learn something from this video? Let me know what you thought! And also tell me how awkward I looked indoor skydiving!

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2217

    Scientist 1: I'm going to research the shapes of raindrops.
    Scientist 2: No, you can't. We have more important things to do right now.
    Scientist 1: I was going to save it for a rainy day.

  • @anastasiachristina
    @anastasiachristina 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3209

    Rain drop
    Drop top
    Tear drop shape turns into blob blob

    • @dookiepookie28_
      @dookiepookie28_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      anastasia I'm dead😂😂😂😂

    • @acapellascience
      @acapellascience 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Came to the comments to find this. Was not disappointed.

    • @bapaknyasaitama5816
      @bapaknyasaitama5816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      anastasia better joke than most of comedian I know in a short comment

    • @camlg
      @camlg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Reminds me of my slither.io name.
      BlobBlobJoe

    • @tinyrobot8165
      @tinyrobot8165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You took my jooooooke~

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +911

    Could you make a video about chromostereopsis? That effect where red and blue 2D images seems to be 3D

    • @fabiofdez
      @fabiofdez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      It basically works by letting each eye see only one of the 2 colored images (for example, through the red lens, you can only see the blue image), and since the we images are slightly different, they work like the eye: both eyes are in different points, so they'll see a very slightly different image of what you're looking at. The 3d glasses work by letting each eye see what it would see if the objects were in 3 dimensions. Therefore, the brain interprets the images as a 3d object.

    • @fluffyfoxboi4853
      @fluffyfoxboi4853 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or orange and green

    • @surnusan
      @surnusan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      thanks,
      I finally know what it's called.

    • @potaetowritesonwp
      @potaetowritesonwp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      we need a vid on that. Underrated comment

    • @christopherhaynes3083
      @christopherhaynes3083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think vox has a really good video you might be interested

  • @LxsaMSPx
    @LxsaMSPx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    Teacher: Draw a rain drop.
    Me: Draw pancake drop*
    Teacher: That’s not a rain drop!
    Me: *shows this video* Yes it is, stupid.

    • @J040PL7
      @J040PL7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      thats the moment he got fired and you got his job lol

    • @aadhyaivaturi495
      @aadhyaivaturi495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      And she gets super angry and sends you to the principal's office.

    • @themarvellouschannel3032
      @themarvellouschannel3032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@aadhyaivaturi495 did you just assume their gender?

    • @aadhyaivaturi495
      @aadhyaivaturi495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yes. Yes I did. But in this case it can also be a he.

    • @Raven_Gamingz
      @Raven_Gamingz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmao!

  • @dookiepookie28_
    @dookiepookie28_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    0:40 Why is that the most PERFECT Raindrop I've ever seen in my life??

    • @RRRR-jr1gp
      @RRRR-jr1gp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      It is wrong tho

    • @davidfoster5561
      @davidfoster5561 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Because it wasn't. Lol

    • @RockNRoll__
      @RockNRoll__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nope

    • @drizzle8159
      @drizzle8159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nisha Prabha did you even watch the vid smh

    • @dookiepookie28_
      @dookiepookie28_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vimal Singh Isn't that random?

  • @Brainstorm69
    @Brainstorm69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    I love this question. A raindrop shows us how beautifully and surprisingly complex the world around us really is. Our cognition runs on a low resolution filter of the world 24/7. But there is so much more complexity in every little bit of detail. So yeah for raindrops and it's okay to be smart to show us how low resolution our perception of the world really is.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I love this comment. Thanks!

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "Our cognition runs on a low resolution filter of the world" - I like that. That was one of the most poetic comments I've seen on TH-cam!

    • @mysticcocoa8886
      @mysticcocoa8886 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wow a poetic scientist

    • @Brainstorm69
      @Brainstorm69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TommoCarroll Thanks for your nice comment. I honestly just wrote what I was thinking at that moment. I'm very grateful it resonates with you.

    • @Brainstorm69
      @Brainstorm69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mysticcocoa8886 Thank you Cherry for that compliment. I wish my paper reviewers would agree with you.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +553

    This version of 'The Shape Of Water' was way more instructive.

    • @Sophia_knows
      @Sophia_knows 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      how did you even get subs with out content!?

    • @sidrashabbir2721
      @sidrashabbir2721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No doubt in that

    • @sawwil936
      @sawwil936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sophia_knows they somehow sub to his playlist I think

    • @goawayplease6456
      @goawayplease6456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Magic

    • @Zigeuninja
      @Zigeuninja 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Sophia_knows ask Justin Y.

  • @shttnmoney9434
    @shttnmoney9434 5 ปีที่แล้ว +722

    I thought rain drops were lines...

    • @Katouuu
      @Katouuu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Motion blur

    • @anaksamanananggal3940
      @anaksamanananggal3940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I seen it on anime

    • @wolfsiejk
      @wolfsiejk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      I always knew they where not teardrop shaped (also i took a pic of them) but my man i think u have been playing minecraft too much

    • @eetuthereindeer6671
      @eetuthereindeer6671 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I also thought that they were lines. Like in minecraft. It kind of makes sense because then they would have the least air recistance so i still don't understand why they are vertically flat... that gives it so much air resistance that it doesn't make sense that they stay in that shape

    • @Raven_Gamingz
      @Raven_Gamingz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

  • @SciencewithKatie
    @SciencewithKatie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +945

    “Blob shaped” such scientific 😛

    • @imaddino2085
      @imaddino2085 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Science with Katie *_CLICHÉ YOU'RE EVERYWHERE REPLY_*

    • @Kalleosini
      @Kalleosini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      the man has a Ph.D. anything he say is scientific.

    • @micachimera
      @micachimera 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Still has nothing on "squircle"

    • @shouldb.studying4670
      @shouldb.studying4670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Dimetri Drossos globular

    • @chronikhiles
      @chronikhiles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "Such scientific"

  • @BlueGlow26
    @BlueGlow26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Off topic but, am I the only one thinking how he could draw the raindrop so nicely in one stroke? 😅😅😅

  • @dookiepookie28_
    @dookiepookie28_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    0:50 I WANT THAT SHIRT.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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    • @MimOzanTamamogullar
      @MimOzanTamamogullar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@besmart that's too much for me.

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get some t-shirt transfers at Walmart and put whatever you want on a shirt.

  • @Kenxclout
    @Kenxclout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +985

    When does it rain money?
    When there is "change" in the weather. 🤪🤪🤪

    • @dookiepookie28_
      @dookiepookie28_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} Duh😩

    • @27siddarth
      @27siddarth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Claps*

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      haha! I hope I'm never out and about when it starts to rain "change" - those coins would kill...literally!

    • @halodavid8
      @halodavid8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TommoCarroll how bout $1 bills

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mr. Turtle I’m an English lad, as you can tell by the ol’ accent, so we just have nasty painful coins!!! 😅

  • @gjk-arts5855
    @gjk-arts5855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Teacher:draw a raindrop
    Me: draws a hamburger bun
    Teacher:no it’s like this
    Me:HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A RAINDROP

  • @Kodico
    @Kodico 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    5:18
    **after ruining my childhood* *
    Him: Hopefully I didn’t ruin your childhood

  • @gabrieltorres6633
    @gabrieltorres6633 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    2:25 what the hell wrong with your neck?

  • @AdiCatuna
    @AdiCatuna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    But are tear drops tear drop shaped?

    • @peacewillow
      @peacewillow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      alas, only as they slowly leave the eye..... 💧
      like when they drip from the faucet. 😢

    • @Zakimals
      @Zakimals 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @RockNRoll__
      @RockNRoll__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      in a split second

  • @docrussojr
    @docrussojr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Two types of people in this world: Rain drops....
    Keep falling on my head...
    *Or*
    Drop tops...

    • @tonyzed6831
      @tonyzed6831 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
      Nothin' seems to fit

    • @prnsxsa
      @prnsxsa 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm both, but also all three.

    • @TubaDragoness
      @TubaDragoness 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      what about the “...on roses, and whiskers on kittens” people?

  • @davey_rulez7301
    @davey_rulez7301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I went to iFly in Dallas once and got to see where they put water in the tube and make the fans suspend them in the air, it was awesome

  • @strategicintervention
    @strategicintervention 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:00 Mr Stark I don't feel so good

  • @TommoCarroll
    @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    The real question is _what do you call dangerous levels of precipitation?_
    ...A rain of terror... 🌧

    • @keriezy
      @keriezy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ouch.... that hurt to laugh at.

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      keriezy the best ones always do my friend ;)

    • @nathanderweise_
      @nathanderweise_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Robespierre would like to know your location.

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      nathanderweise
      He can know my location, but he'll never get my velocity!

    • @Master_Therion
      @Master_Therion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter!!
      I love your username, I literately LOL'd at it ^_^
      Also, nice Heisenberg reference.

  • @EPSTomcat11
    @EPSTomcat11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You can also notice these shapes when it hails

  • @dishasanimations1281
    @dishasanimations1281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You take so much efforts for each of these videos. I wait for them every week. You are a true creator, not just a youtuber.

  • @naydd9459
    @naydd9459 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    0:39 Can we appreciate how perfect he drew that raindrop, people?

  • @admiralcat3809
    @admiralcat3809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Flat earth: "Water cannot form a sphere on itself!!!"
    Droplet: "Hold my beer..."

    • @cactuslactus6007
      @cactuslactus6007 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      turns into a blob not sphere *lol but yeah flat earthers are stupid*

    • @oneskydog4401
      @oneskydog4401 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mega Big drop 7900 miles in diameter with big rock inside floating through space.

    • @anaksamanananggal3940
      @anaksamanananggal3940 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cactuslactus6007 yes. They keep making earth-chan angry

    • @nope69q
      @nope69q 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Flat earther: hold my pancake droplet

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +346

    I swear everything we were taught in school turns out to be wrong. What even is the point of school🤔

    • @1boobtube
      @1boobtube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Sebastian Elytron, the point of school is to teach you how to figure things out and not learn by rote.

    • @eyekosaeder5387
      @eyekosaeder5387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      To assimilate you to the needs of Illuminati Borg Government. 😜😂

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Shur'tugal Vodr haha...shhhh....don't tell them the secret, you'll blow our cover!

    • @therealyoda2483
      @therealyoda2483 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      I don't ever remember being told that raindrops look like that. Anyways, almost all of my teachers have told me school isn't meant to teach you everything you know, it's to teach you how to learn everything you will know

    • @roller1815
      @roller1815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eyekosaeder5387 OY VEY

  • @MrAlsfan5
    @MrAlsfan5 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is now one of my favourite TH-cam sites. I'm 71 and this site makes learning fun.

  • @Dani0x1B
    @Dani0x1B 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have a very distinct memory about pancake-shaped drops splitting. They weren't really raindrops: I was on Iguazú Falls on top of a waterfall, and as drops of water went down, you could see from up there how some of them, too big to remain spheres, essentially formed a ring and then multiple smaller drops, all in a split second. My mind was blown when you showed the exact same thing here (except seen from the side).

  • @amizer
    @amizer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Poor elephant :(

  • @XSunacX
    @XSunacX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    0:37: WRONG! If i was asked to draw a raindrop i'd just make a dot because i'm lazy af, but a dot is just a microscopic blob, which means i'd be right😁

    • @Dawn-Shade
      @Dawn-Shade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I will draw strokes, because motion blur

    • @dasflieger3103
      @dasflieger3103 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice flag! Res, zelo lepa

    • @cherubblu
      @cherubblu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i’d draw a realistic one
      i mean like shading

  • @so2be
    @so2be 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really love the pace of this Video.

  • @keshavb3128
    @keshavb3128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a very interesting video, learning about raindrops. Keep making those amazing videos!

  • @AyaanFarasanims
    @AyaanFarasanims 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    1:51
    Mickey mouse hand, out side the car

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spot!

    • @ShirinRose
      @ShirinRose 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Except Mickey normally has 4 fingers, not 5.

    • @AyaanFarasanims
      @AyaanFarasanims 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShirinRose
      Oh yea

    • @VelcR0Straps
      @VelcR0Straps 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bendy hand also

    • @dump6302
      @dump6302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats not mickey

  • @RustyJoe723
    @RustyJoe723 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jokes on you, that’s no raindrop, that is a fine tear drop my friend

  • @AabTablet
    @AabTablet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my god! This video really helped me a lot! I was doing a class project and we needed to know information like this, and I watched this video and it helped me a lot! Thanks so much! You deserve a sub! :D

  • @backpacker3421
    @backpacker3421 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've done indoor skydiving. So much fun.

  • @theturbogenics7040
    @theturbogenics7040 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:14 when she hits you with that " I'm 15"

  • @humblesoldier5474
    @humblesoldier5474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Then what about those giant rain drops that hit like a hail of bullets made out of water?

    • @formalthread479-minecraft5
      @formalthread479-minecraft5 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They might be the 3-5mm droplets forming closer to the ground.

    • @sk8rdman
      @sk8rdman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      FormalThread479-Minecraft
      I also expect that lateral winds can get them going faster than terminal velocity.
      Anything going fast enough can sting when it its you.

    • @tricksor6589
      @tricksor6589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or maybe thats actually just hail.

  • @maniossation4191
    @maniossation4191 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the fact that this channel answers questions i never asked but i want the answer for

  • @davegoldspink5354
    @davegoldspink5354 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really love your videos Joe there in 2021 in Australia they’ve really helped me get through our last 18weeks of constant lockdown. Thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @Halo3ninja28
    @Halo3ninja28 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think most of us knew this already but just never thought about it seriously. There are lots of slow mo videos of rain on TV and the internet.

  • @mohammedaman6315
    @mohammedaman6315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Bruce Lee - 'You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, ...

  • @Johny40Se7en
    @Johny40Se7en 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Indoor skydiving looks like wicked fun, you look like a massive kid in there =P
    Cool stuff. I saw a slow mo video of a drop of water and the way it kind of spins around on itself is beautiful and how different temperatures at certain altitudes have rain turn into either snow or hail.

  • @rklauco
    @rklauco 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic episode! Thanks.

  • @shivaykumar5441
    @shivaykumar5441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    *CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE SMARTER THAN BEFORE* ☺☺☺

  • @Mia-wz2he
    @Mia-wz2he 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    2:25 oh my what the heck happened to his neck that's creepy XD

  • @blaircox1589
    @blaircox1589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A few times over my ~40 years, I've experienced rain that was big. Like really big. Perhaps hail that quickly melted? Drops that bunched together? Of the few times I can recall this happening, it seemed like these big drops were spread further appart. It wasn't like a hard rain that comes in an almost wall. It's big drops, further appart. It's pretty neat really.

  • @Cammi_Rosalie
    @Cammi_Rosalie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Back in the late 80's, in south central Kansas, I remember a TV station explaining this on the news. Since we only had four stations where we lived, and three had local news (the fourth was KPTS - 8, a PBS station) it was either KSNW -3, KAKE -10, or KWCH -12. I can't remember which one.

  • @danielholland123456
    @danielholland123456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:43 He should’ve let you hit that glass 😂

  • @imadudin2489
    @imadudin2489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5:20 XD
    this is why the rain is not damaging our roof.

  • @shikshaasharma958
    @shikshaasharma958 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:18 wow, i loved the molecules of a waterdroplet holding each otehrs hands wow so cute.

  • @annieantony609
    @annieantony609 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clear and interesting explanation

  • @paarthgoyyal8461
    @paarthgoyyal8461 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Now the question is "are teardrops the same shape that we have been drawing since childhood?"

  • @Casey_Jones
    @Casey_Jones 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You didn't ruin my childhood since that was in the past and it can't be altered!

  • @dogdog4386
    @dogdog4386 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you I really enjoy your content. You have a wonderful speaking voice.

  • @curtisamos1615
    @curtisamos1615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your channel is awesome 👌at explaining simple things

  • @agent2814
    @agent2814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Same with the heart. It don't looks like this ❤ it looks more like a potato🥔

  • @nightwolf2661
    @nightwolf2661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Channel name : "Its okay to be smart"
    Me : Its fun to be smart !

  • @KwakWack
    @KwakWack 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a very very interesting video, thank you Joe and team

  • @makencheese000
    @makencheese000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just wanted to say that I love your videos, they make learning fun and exciting and also, my friend got me a Kiwi Co. Tinker Crate and it's one of the best gifts I've received. :)

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *_Speak to the water spirits!_*

  • @audrey4506
    @audrey4506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hank is my fave host I say we see more of him

  • @thejman3489
    @thejman3489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The only thing I see wrong with this is that the rain drop is not moving. In order for that shape of the rain drop to appear, some of the water would have to fall behind the main drop(the drop would have to be moving). In a wind tunnel the air pushes the drop at a certain speed but also at a certain height. If you speed the fan up or slow it down the drops would go higher or lower but more or less sustain the same height relative to all the other drops. If all the drops want to be at the same height then it makes sense for it to spread out into a pancake shape or stick together in a ball shape but you would not get the tear drop shape because you eliminated the factor that potentially created it: movement(or free falling at terminal velocity).
    I suggest putting a high speed camera outside while it is raining to really see what they look like. Or conduct an experiment where you drop water from a high place and record it as it falls.

  • @tristangladis7637
    @tristangladis7637 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You make learning actually fun and I actually want to learn

  • @WholesomeLad
    @WholesomeLad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think they look like drop tops

    • @besmart
      @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Trunks popped?

    • @daini2793
      @daini2793 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, of course

    • @Kenxclout
      @Kenxclout 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's Okay To Be Smart what you know about that 😂😂😂😂

  • @Goldenheart_345
    @Goldenheart_345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You're incorrect. If you told me to draw a raindrop, I'd draw a hyper-realistic, fully-rendered image of a raindrop falling through the sky.

  • @itsjust_shirel4875
    @itsjust_shirel4875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I LOVE your channel name *its ok to be smart* dang

  • @henrylawsky7172
    @henrylawsky7172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I came here because I wondered why water was spherical when it’s on the ground, and why it didn’t just depart into millions of molecules. Thanks for giving me the answer!

  • @randomtopics6268
    @randomtopics6268 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I thought rain was lines

  • @ShaneEuston
    @ShaneEuston 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So Lil Wayne's tattoo makes no sense.

  • @elChirrinChirriondelDiablo
    @elChirrinChirriondelDiablo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's like to ask someone to draw a star, they'll probably draw a pentagram but instead should draw a circle/sphere.

  • @ladywoofwoof
    @ladywoofwoof 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this! thanks

  • @tzungtzingtzeng1358
    @tzungtzingtzeng1358 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So it doesnt look like 💧💧💧???

    • @Jermain-cz4bh
      @Jermain-cz4bh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      no it looks like 🍔🍔🍔

    • @AwesomeYena
      @AwesomeYena 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also o, or 🥞

  • @TheLegoJungle
    @TheLegoJungle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You sound different. Like you have new teeth.

    • @tamircohen1512
      @tamircohen1512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why would you think that the reason someone sounds different is because they got new teeth? Out of all the other, more normal reasons someone sounds different than they do normally. Like seriously man. Who goes out and spontaneously gets new teeth?

    • @ShiftyPokemon
      @ShiftyPokemon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How do you get new teeth at all? Like a new FULL set of teeth any way, cause mine aren't looking to white right now. Also do the shape of the teeth make a difference to the sound of your voice?🤔🤔

    • @margotkafka9762
      @margotkafka9762 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe he's wearing those invisible braces

    • @stegosaurus6654
      @stegosaurus6654 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      he got a new neck maybe

  • @frognik79
    @frognik79 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love when videos tell me I'm wrong when I was right.

  • @1109336
    @1109336 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did ifly before when I was in Houston so much fun. But great vid

  • @yoshtg
    @yoshtg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    stop using imperial units. pls use the metric units

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Learn to convert

    • @acerockman3520
      @acerockman3520 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      eclipse no

    • @TheP3NGU1N
      @TheP3NGU1N 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      they are a american based broadcast
      their demographic are young americans
      young americans are taught imperial
      till that changes.. doubt they will either
      they should however always include both

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea thats exactly right. We dont really care who it may inconvenience, thats not our problem. Its a you problem.

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dont watch american made videos lmao

  • @ritwikghosh5833
    @ritwikghosh5833 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    please make a video why our genital area is not same as the rest skin colour

    • @mylesanimates
      @mylesanimates 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine is...

    • @rattman3975
      @rattman3975 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think that's normal dude

    • @doctor_whoey3857
      @doctor_whoey3857 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      R u ok m8?

    • @softmilk9447
      @softmilk9447 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You either
      1) Have a diesease or rash
      or
      2) You have a tan

  • @griefandghewar
    @griefandghewar 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    YOU GUYS ARE MARVELOUS.

  • @guilhem3739
    @guilhem3739 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like these water molecules skydiving and holding their hands at 2:09

  • @just-a-silly-goofy-guy
    @just-a-silly-goofy-guy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    They look like my tears after my dad made it in prison

    • @nickde6339
      @nickde6339 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Xd...

    • @ShiftyPokemon
      @ShiftyPokemon 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow all these celeb scandals. 😨😨😨

  • @solartheterrariancreeper7674
    @solartheterrariancreeper7674 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Me ok crap vid again life noggin viewers watch this instantly clicks play

  • @marcochimio
    @marcochimio ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. This ties in very well with the folks who make spherical lead shot by dropping molten lead from a tower into a pool of cool water.

  • @norma8686
    @norma8686 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That indoor skydiving looks really fun. I want to do that!

  • @RawestKut
    @RawestKut 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for showing me this😀

  • @adamemac
    @adamemac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the so serious facial expression while you were in there, Doc. Haha

  • @cade8986
    @cade8986 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The reason I haven’t done indoor skydiving is because of how the guy in there never leaves people alone

  • @christam133
    @christam133 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I love indoor sky diving!!!!!!

  • @shemshem9998
    @shemshem9998 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    another reason why you might think of them like this is due to your camera, when your camera (and your eye to an extent) sees a raindrop it looks like a huge streek because the shutter speed (how long it takes for your camera to take a photo, and for how long the lens is open), because in that time between when the shutter opens and closes it will have traveld a significant distence, and that looks like a streek. this is why when i do cgi (and so do some pros) i actualy make rain drops realy streched out tear drop shapes, because that is how a camera would see it.

  • @LanaABA
    @LanaABA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That "Stay curious" though ahah

  • @dorathedestroyer770
    @dorathedestroyer770 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:00 when you've been falling in a videogame for so long your character starts glitching

  • @Shrew-22O1
    @Shrew-22O1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Never thought I would be so amazed by a raindrop. 👀

  • @onionfaye
    @onionfaye 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stunt people: (flinging everywhere naturally)
    Joe: *muffled seagull noises*

  • @SheshadriMondal
    @SheshadriMondal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Welcome to another episode of "where quarantine got me"

    • @zeahnah5020
      @zeahnah5020 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      when TH-cam recommend the video to you

  • @valiroime
    @valiroime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The wind tunnel scenes reminded me of the scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie and his grandfather partake of the Fizzy Lifting Drinks and float upwards where the fan blades await their ultimate doom before belching and slowly returning to earth.

  • @adaptable1553
    @adaptable1553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a kid I thought they would be like spear shapes because the air going around it was squishing it's sides inwards as it travelled past, not once did I ever take the tear drop shape seriously, but now I don't even know if they're spear shapes anymore because you're telling me they're actually beanbag that's not yet been sat on shaped!

  • @TegukiSix
    @TegukiSix 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't know about raindrops ripping themselves apart in mid-air! Now that I've realised it, it seems obvious that that would happen as they collect and get bigger, but it's still so awesome to see it happen!

  • @OrenNoah
    @OrenNoah 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE the Dr. Strangelove visual reference. Well done!

  • @sundae4033
    @sundae4033 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I went to that place before. It’s super fun.

  • @Umarurin
    @Umarurin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish I could go back to kindergarden, draw this shape, and when the teacher tells me off I explain this then tell the 32 year old they were just corrected by a 5 year old on physics.