This is legit. It can and does work this way. The problem is that his "houses" are less structurally sound than a garden shed and the vortex dissipates into the air much to quickly to really be effective at long range. However, if the distance were halved, I presume the cannon could do a dangerous amount of damage, especially towards animals or people.
i love how excited the presenter is. he's not acting, that is genuine enjoyment. i think they should have tried a brick house with cement as well, and see if anything would happen to that.
+Khy Zer yea, but the point is to show that the device has enough force to push a few bricks... which is a lot if you think is just a machine that moves air
Everything you people see are toys. I think even a typical civilian could take this model and deduce how to make it better, and more practical. (I know I give you people too much credit)
The only part of the brick house that was actually knocked down was the top, the weakest part of the structure (note this at 2:12). Notice also that the vortex only shook the bottom and sides of the brick "house"-- it was either not strong enough to knock it all down, or it was concentrated in the wrong area. Nonetheless, considering the speed and force of the blast, I don't doubt that it could do some damage to the side of my house. Not much, but enough to piss me off.
Heh, it's pretty impressive that they can make a blast of air that strong for that distance with such a relatively small device. Even if the bricks aren't cemented together, it takes a reasonable force to knock them over. Especially considering they were just using air from such a long distance.
@@MatMabee out of a straw, no. But just consider that air really does have force behind it. A .50 BMG has sucked the eyes out of a deer's head from a missed shot a foot away from its head. It's not just nothin.
@@THESLlCK You're saying a massive compression of air capable of exerting pounds of force from a hundred feet away isn't impressive solely because more forceful compression exists elsewhere. That's what you're saying? Well in that case you're gay solely because there are people straighter than you, and that 50 cal negative pressure isn't even compression because thermobaric and nuclear bombs exist.
Really neatly done! Though I imagine that the Vortex Cannon wouldn't have been able to knock down the bricks if the brick house had four walls and a complete roof like the straw and stick houses did. Fairly easy to knock over just a wall that isn't otherwise anchored by anything.
BabakoSen he pushed over bricks with just gas/air from quite a distance, its not about it being powerful in an overall sense but its powerful in the fact just purely gas/air pushed over bricks from far away. cannons with cannonballs exist and have for a very long time and are much more practical, this is simply just a cool demonstration.
@anaikahas I Don't think so. Theoretically, it is a ring at first, as it moves, it pushes the air around in every direction, so a layer of fast air is in the middle of the ring. But it will probably be much harmless, as it is just a "side effect" of the ring itself.
@Da Bishop They already did in the 1990's. medium.com/war-is-boring/the-pentagon-planned-to-turn-grenade-launchers-into-nonlethal-air-cannons-c1dd2d43560
+LabTech Well technically, if you hit water traveling at 120mph+ it feels like your are hitting cement. so, I'm guessing that vapor travelling at 200mph+ would feel like a solid projectile.
kittin267 When I said it was like a potato gun, I didn't say that wouldn't make it powerful. You could kill a man with a potato gun, if you really cared enough to try.
+LabTech people is not even trying to understand your comment xD. for them the explanation: a potato gun is a chamber that holds an explosion that expands the air with enought force to shoot a potato with enough power to break a lamp made of brass. this cannon is a device that has a chamber that holds an explosion that pushes the air with enough force to.... blast whathever it finds in the path... the pistol is the exact same system. with the difference that each bullet comes with his own chamber
You basically built a one-shot rocket motor. The nozzle accelerates the gas flow to supersonic speed and the shock wave it produces travel through air until the wall. A simple 50Pa delta-P wave can destroy an entire wall (because of its surface), so nothing really impressive there. Although very interesting :)
It's a man made gust of wind that can be aimed like a gun and is powerful enough to knock down a pile of bricks at 100 paces. It may not knock down a house, but I sure as Hell wouldn't want to be in front of it when it goes off.
Took me way too long to realise this is essentially just shooting a slice of explosion out of a gun. Using combustion to smack stuff with a pressure-wave of expanding gasses; that’s all high-explosives do. The vortex ring just helps your slice of wave stay compact and fly straight.
I believe that does count. Even though there's no concrete, there's still the added on weight of all the bricks lying on top of each other. Take the weight of a brick, multiply it by the number of bricks on that stack. And that's how much weight the cortex cannon pushed. In one blast. We'll work on going through concrete later. All science is taking little steps to something amazing.
No not really, if you if you make a wall of bricks that are only stacked your wont be pushing the the collective weight youll simply be pushing one. Itll even make it easier because you wont have to move the wall but instead only tip it over. Tipping something that has no support whatsoever generally doesn't take much force. Thats why nothing is built like that.
I don't think you can taper the barrel without causing problems with the vortex's creation but the length of the barrel definitely will have an effect on the vortex intensity and velocity.
The brick one wasn't even a full structure, it was just one wall and the bricks weren't even held in place with mortar or anything, they were just neatly stacked. A good stiff wind would have achieved the same results.
Notice in the demonstration how they suddenly switched to a single wall of stacked bricks vs. the three or four-sided construction used on prior tests? So it knocked down a single wall of non-cemented bricks that were merely stacked on each other. Although this device is impressive, they presented rather skewed results. A few years ago I bought a simple air-cannon toy at a theme park. It works very well and can *throw* a ring or air quite a distance away to unsuspecting people or other objects
this cannon seems weak if it's too far range, since it can't even completely destroy the brick wall, but i think it would probably be dangerous at close range
@11Firat58 You have to remember pig carpentry isn't as advanced as that of humans. I mean they could barely even build a windmill, which ended up falling after the first storm anyway since the walls were too thin....
Good thing it was not a windy day, both targets would have blown away:-)
Omg no comments
@@soulsbourne At least it goes what it should, if you can make it better, It would be great.
OMG it has blown that incredible solid hay reinforced bastion away and that on an incredible distance!
Omg no comments
This shit actually sucks to be honest
@@damncat2793 he has more subs than you, ever wonder why he never responded?
@@MagklJellyBeanPastelLucidDream never asked to respond
"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll...screw it, where's my vortex cannon?"
That's not a house of bricks but alright, whatever you say
dude it's a ring of air. not a nuke
And a tornado is a spout of air, whats your point?
I said what I said get the fuck over it or shut the fuck up
what a kid
Why is it, people on youtube think they can say anything they want, and other people don't have the right to respond with whatever they want? lol
I like how he jumps and shouts after each successful blast.
That's my favorite also! I see you found this 8 years ago. Haha I just now found it. Hope all has been well since 8 years ago.
I didn't think the British ever get excited. Very unseemly.
😁🙂🙃
@@brianb8060 over acting nonsense.
@@dullaf4099 nightmarishly
wait until he turns 6
This is legit. It can and does work this way. The problem is that his "houses" are less structurally sound than a garden shed and the vortex dissipates into the air much to quickly to really be effective at long range. However, if the distance were halved, I presume the cannon could do a dangerous amount of damage, especially towards animals or people.
Do not let fluffy in front
i love how excited the presenter is. he's not acting, that is genuine enjoyment. i think they should have tried a brick house with cement as well, and see if anything would happen to that.
I'm damn glad wolves can't do that.
They didn't even believe enough in their own vortex to properly mortar the bricks together. That's just sad.
I dare you to stand in front of it.
MorsCertaMoraIncerta
I'm not criticizing the vortex cannon, I'm criticizing BBC for not believing in it enough.
Regardless, that is power unexpected from a cannon that shoots air.
Really? I expected more. But then I guess I'm just a sucker for experimental weaponry.
Its more than likely that they calculated shooting air at cemented brick, would do absolutely nothing and thus make for some really shit television.
FUS RO DAHHH
YES!!!!
Lmao
Alex Lubbers you made my day XD
Nuz aan sul, fent alok, fod fin vul dovah nok, ....
Yes
If the bricks were cemented together like an actual brick house...it wouldnt have worked..
+Khy Zer yea, but the point is to show that the device has enough force to push a few bricks... which is a lot if you think is just a machine that moves air
+Khy Zer Well if you increase the force that the bricks could take, then one could simply increase the power of the cannon.
The shot was also a little high.
Everything you people see are toys. I think even a typical civilian could take this model and deduce how to make it better, and more practical. (I know I give you people too much credit)
Just get more air and power it will blow your cute ass apart :P
1:20 has to be my favourite part.
That was brilliant all the way up to when he tried to blow down 'UNCEMENTED' bricks, and then was amazed when it did.
Tv reporter when the machine made to use air to push heavy objects pushes heavy objects
oh was the tale about a pig with a house made of bricks AND mortar, funny... i dont remember him mentioning the mortar
How about actually sticking the bricks together with mortar like, you know, they're supposed to be?
His name is Dovakhin! Dragon born!
2:18 "EEEEEEHEEEEEEYYYY!!!"
The only part of the brick house that was actually knocked down was the top, the weakest part of the structure (note this at 2:12). Notice also that the vortex only shook the bottom and sides of the brick "house"-- it was either not strong enough to knock it all down, or it was concentrated in the wrong area. Nonetheless, considering the speed and force of the blast, I don't doubt that it could do some damage to the side of my house. Not much, but enough to piss me off.
Don't stand near the windows
It's pretty impressive though. I mean, it is just air. Sure it's never going to replace conventional weapons, but it's fascinating to see.
Heh, it's pretty impressive that they can make a blast of air that strong for that distance with such a relatively small device. Even if the bricks aren't cemented together, it takes a reasonable force to knock them over. Especially considering they were just using air from such a long distance.
not at all. you can push bricks like that over with your finger
@@THESLlCK Sure, but I don't see anyone blowing really hard and knocking things down from 20 yards
@@MatMabee out of a straw, no. But just consider that air really does have force behind it. A .50 BMG has sucked the eyes out of a deer's head from a missed shot a foot away from its head. It's not just nothin.
@@THESLlCK You're saying a massive compression of air capable of exerting pounds of force from a hundred feet away isn't impressive solely because more forceful compression exists elsewhere. That's what you're saying? Well in that case you're gay solely because there are people straighter than you, and that 50 cal negative pressure isn't even compression because thermobaric and nuclear bombs exist.
Really neatly done! Though I imagine that the Vortex Cannon wouldn't have been able to knock down the bricks if the brick house had four walls and a complete roof like the straw and stick houses did. Fairly easy to knock over just a wall that isn't otherwise anchored by anything.
more of this please. send this show over to America!
1:07 is the best bit
posh santa
Ciaran55 OHOHO
that's not a house of bricks it a wall of bricks
TRUMP ALERT
it's a stack of bricks, it's not even cemented
First time its been fired was around 1940 and it was able to kill a dog......poor animal.
Didn't even need a vortex ring to break his ear muffs @ 2:22 LOL ;)
That’s what they call a thunder gun
If you don't use mortar, a kindergartner could push your brick wall over.
BabakoSen So?
Brad Butler So this cannon isn't nearly as powerful as it's made out to be.
BabakoSen he pushed over bricks with just gas/air from quite a distance, its not about it being powerful in an overall sense but its powerful in the fact just purely gas/air pushed over bricks from far away.
cannons with cannonballs exist and have for a very long time and are much more practical, this is simply just a cool demonstration.
I was going to comment the same thing.
can a kindergartner push it over by blowing on it from like 200 feet away?
Bro I can do that with my vape
Joe Mamma Can it blow a house ?
@@aleephh8022 hahahhaa im dying lol 😂😂😂
2:18 what kind of cheer was that XD
@anaikahas
I Don't think so.
Theoretically, it is a ring at first, as it moves, it pushes the air around in every direction, so a layer of fast air is in the middle of the ring. But it will probably be much harmless, as it is just a "side effect" of the ring itself.
Great experiment! I enjoy how excited he was! Thanks
0:35 = FUS-RO-DA
1:19=FUS-RO-DA
2:16 =FUS-RO-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
when they perfect this it will be use for riot crowds smh
one could mistake your comment as advocating chaotic destruction and theft of property, injury and loss of life
@@evernorev-6615 One could mistake your comment for advocating Stalin-style crushing of dissent.
@Da Bishop They already did in the 1990's. medium.com/war-is-boring/the-pentagon-planned-to-turn-grenade-launchers-into-nonlethal-air-cannons-c1dd2d43560
Blahaha
I hope this doesn’t happen it seems more likely every day
@Vilelinhaaa
Dr Zippermeyer...Whirlwind Cannon.
Stolen by CoD programmers :p
i live near a Table top Mountain, I can NOT tell you, how happy his makes me
-Just claps as he wipes away the tears of laughter- And that preemptively ended a very dumb conversation. You sir deserve many medals.
2:19 - That's how I feel after finally beating a level of Angry Birds!
Bad wolf inc. would like to offer you a job
Bad Wolf?
*has Doctor Who flashbacks*
2:18 PC gamers' reaction to GTA V PC version
this is like minilla smoke breath 🤣
If it's strong enough to knock over an outhouse, you're all set for Halloween.
Ratchet & Clank: Up your Reality.
Anyone else think by the end of the video, "……. Eh….. LAME." ?
on the video no, but, on your comment.....
*applies cold water to burned area* ... *then proceeds to write "Eidrian111" in the deathnote inside my head* - live long and prosper, douche.
yay someone appreciates it :)
nope, I just started accel world and restarted kenichi and shaman king, I'm pretty filled up on my list of episodes to catch up on
Will Soto Hitler :)
So, basically a big potato gun, without the potato.
***** I don't think you've ever built a potato gun. I have, and this gun is simply a bigger version of it, except it uses no solid projectile.
+LabTech Well technically, if you hit water traveling at 120mph+ it feels like your are hitting cement. so, I'm guessing that vapor travelling at 200mph+ would feel like a solid projectile.
kittin267 When I said it was like a potato gun, I didn't say that wouldn't make it powerful. You could kill a man with a potato gun, if you really cared enough to try.
You could kill a man with this cannon here
+LabTech people is not even trying to understand your comment xD. for them the explanation: a potato gun is a chamber that holds an explosion that expands the air with enought force to shoot a potato with enough power to break a lamp made of brass. this cannon is a device that has a chamber that holds an explosion that pushes the air with enough force to.... blast whathever it finds in the path... the pistol is the exact same system. with the difference that each bullet comes with his own chamber
Bro that was dope! Love his reaction! Exactly mine
Thats not a house of bricks , thats just a loose heap of bricks specifically made to fall at the slightest force. but the cannon is still impressive.
What about a human
Wimpiest "houses" I've ever seen. Ever seen a tornado rip through a trailer park? That's what a vortex can REALLY do.
0:37 1st: OOOOOOOOHH YESSSS
1:20 2nd: WUUAA... HHYYEEESSSS
2:18 3th: WWUUEEEEHHEEEEEEYYYY
A grown adult being so happy that they jump for joy! 😅
Is it possible to use such for propelling a plane. An explosion that’ll create both a fwd thrust & a zone of low pressure in front of the plane?
Biscuit got a little TOO excited
You basically built a one-shot rocket motor. The nozzle accelerates the gas flow to supersonic speed and the shock wave it produces travel through air until the wall. A simple 50Pa delta-P wave can destroy an entire wall (because of its surface), so nothing really impressive there. Although very interesting :)
he broke the earmuffs out of excitement over a ring of air. The piece came off on the last one hahaha
It's a man made gust of wind that can be aimed like a gun and is powerful enough to knock down a pile of bricks at 100 paces. It may not knock down a house, but I sure as Hell wouldn't want to be in front of it when it goes off.
Took me way too long to realise this is essentially just shooting a slice of explosion out of a gun.
Using combustion to smack stuff with a pressure-wave of expanding gasses; that’s all high-explosives do. The vortex ring just helps your slice of wave stay compact and fly straight.
thanks for reminding me for that,i literally screamed FUS RO DAH when the cannon shot
"You're out of bullets."
"Indeed."
BANG
This is what started the CrazyX kind of Utubers
Sleeping cat + Vortex cannon = Cruel hilarity
I believe that does count. Even though there's no concrete, there's still the added on weight of all the bricks lying on top of each other. Take the weight of a brick, multiply it by the number of bricks on that stack. And that's how much weight the cortex cannon pushed. In one blast. We'll work on going through concrete later. All science is taking little steps to something amazing.
No not really, if you if you make a wall of bricks that are only stacked your wont be pushing the the collective weight youll simply be pushing one. Itll even make it easier because you wont have to move the wall but instead only tip it over. Tipping something that has no support whatsoever generally doesn't take much force. Thats why nothing is built like that.
the thousand sunny gaon cannon:
Nice Wilson cloud there. Looks like the sound emitters in David Lynch's Dune movie weren't completely fictional.
Holy Squat, that's impossible. How is this possible? Amazing!!!
Where do I get one of these??? WOW
I think hail cannons are quite similar to these, or if you want you can see my own on my channel, maybe i can inspire you to create one yourself?
Just a word of caution if you get the mix just right it will turn the metal into shrapnel!!
Big Bad Wolf(pulls up to the brick house with the vortex cannon): Hey Piggies!!! Round Two!!!
Everyone talking about how it only blew over sticks and hay
Nobody talking about that it’s an air cannon and how cool it is
I don't think you can taper the barrel without causing problems with the vortex's creation but the length of the barrel definitely will have an effect on the vortex intensity and velocity.
well it seemed like it was a smoke ring but the pressure and speed didn't give the air enough time to join in with the rest of the air .
I wonder who kept having to clean all the mud off his hearing protection
start @ 0:30
lol bless him he got so excited at the end
The brick one wasn't even a full structure, it was just one wall and the bricks weren't even held in place with mortar or anything, they were just neatly stacked. A good stiff wind would have achieved the same results.
it looks so animated.....awsome!
Thundergun innit!! 😂 😂
Very beautiful device
the reactions are beautiful
those bricks could have been set on the edge so they would start to fall if a fly flies on it. Not to mention little breeze from a vortex gun.
Add voice to skull technology and radar that can see through walls. Thanks for the video
I wonder if extending the barrel and having it taper to a small point would increase the power and velocity exiting the gun?
his celebrations are the best part
He gets a little more excited than i expected.
Notice in the demonstration how they suddenly switched to a single wall of stacked bricks vs. the three or four-sided construction used on prior tests?
So it knocked down a single wall of non-cemented bricks that were merely stacked on each other. Although this device is impressive, they presented rather skewed results.
A few years ago I bought a simple air-cannon toy at a theme park. It works very well and can *throw* a ring or air quite a distance away to unsuspecting people or other objects
This dude so happy he knocked over a small stack of bricks
I'm building a slightly miniaturized one (bazooka-sized maybe?) out of PVC and plywood. I may put up a vid of it when I'm done.
But if you increase the speed and the intensity of that cannon it can knock down a solid wall! And a visisble vortex plasma hit
this cannon seems weak if it's too far range, since it can't even completely destroy the brick wall, but i think it would probably be dangerous at close range
Now I know what to give the Big Bad Wolf for Christmas
who else is here looking for the irl thundergun
I love how excited he gets haha
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your vortex cannon might kill me!
Damn, look how happy that guy gets.
2:21 he rips the headphones so hard from his head that they brake. He did that in the other tests too, and just threw them down on the ground, lol.
So how much force does this thing apply to it's target? Could it knock a person off their feet?
@TeknoXIII He already referred to that in the video.
Hadoooou-ken!!!
Now i will know what to do when i cant blow all my candles on my birthday cake
@11Firat58 You have to remember pig carpentry isn't as advanced as that of humans. I mean they could barely even build a windmill, which ended up falling after the first storm anyway since the walls were too thin....
But can it be possible used as an rocket engine? There is the circular detonation engine
is it posible to make it shoot like automatic gun ?