12:40 The reason you're losing bounce height is likely because the ball is approaching terminal velocity (where air resistance cancels acceleration). Once this happens, the ball won't bounce any higher no matter how high you drop it from.
Well you can tell it hasn't quite reached terminal velocity if the crater keeps getting bigger, which probably has more of an effect on the height of the bounce.
@@nodangles6983 Gryph0n is right. It's not the size of the crater that matters. At terminal velocity the hardness of the ground is the only variable in how high will the ball bounce. They could drop it on reinforced concrete and get 60 meters without a crater at all.
@@caliconfessions1075 The larger crater indicates a higher speed, which means it's coming in at a higher velocity the higher it's dropped, which means terminal velocity had not been reached. The larger the crater, the more energy its construction has taken away from the ball.
@@nodangles6983 the softer the impact site the larger the crater will be and the lower the bounce will be. Balls typically reach terminal velocity around 10 seconds or after falling about 750 feet. 1000 vs 2000 foot drops are going the same speed upon impact the size of the crater is based on the hardness of the ground, not the speed of the object because the speed from 1000 feet and 2000 feet is the same speed. It's called terminal velocity.
I think the bounce factor would have been far better and more consistent if you dropped the ball on a hard surface instead of grasses filed, which likely absorbed a fair amount of the force - particularly increasing as the high increased.
That's true, but there also needs to be some sort of hard coating applied to the ball to hold the bands together, making it into kinda a giant golf ball. If you've seen golf balls bounce, imagine one six feet in diameter... :D
@@Thunderdumpe I don't think them guys are worried about breaking the ground up. They love checking the impact crater. LOL. But if they did do it on hard surface rather than grass...I am certain they would avoid doing it in a shopping center parking lot or some ones driveway. I work with concrete everyday making railroad ties. That ball ain't even gonna chip the concrete we make. We pressure test our concrete for Amtrak. It takes a considerable amount of force to cause even a hairline fracture. I don't think a road would stand up though at all unless it was the autobahn highway in Germany or something. European highways carry more traffic and considerably heavier truck weights than U.S. roads so it was built to handle that.
@@Crusader1815 That would be awesome if they made a giant golf ball. No giant foot balls though. Those things bounce so unpredictably. That would be scary
The biggest issue in getting a higher bounce from a larger height is terminal velocity from air resistance. The closer an object gets to terminal velocity the less it will accelerate, so even if the distance to the ground is twice as large the velocity is likely significantly less than twice as large due to decreasing acceleration and plateauing velocity which is what happens when an object approaches terminal velocity.
I'd think that the efficiency of the bounce is the biggest thing. A back of the envelope calculation for the terminal velocity of a 1 ton sphere says terminal velocity is about 72 m/s, and in a vacuum the sphere dropped from 2000 feet would only reach about 108m/s. So drag does play a role, but it can't account for the sphere bouncing only 150/2000 = 7.5% of its drop height. The ball is losing most of its energy to heat as it deforms into a pancake and displaces the dirt. If they dropped a diamond ball on a diamond field (and it weighed the same somehow) I'd expect it to go much much higher, as long as it didn't shatter, despite feeling the same amount of air resistance and having the same terminal velocity
@@broski761 indeed diamonds are hard but surprisingly brittle. They may be one of the hardest minerals but their molecular structure makes them not take stress well. This is why despite their hardness they are relatively (to their hardness) easy to cut. Dimond is not unbreakable.
Its actually the amount of energy lost at impact, rendered in heat form or force direction. So terminal velocity is used but not really mentioned because its obvious that terminal velocity must be reached, so why bother mention it...
Easiest way to check this is to check the time from release to hitting the ground. Compare the time of the drop to what you'd expect in a vacuum. If there is a significant difference, air resistance is coming into play. And if the time is close to double from 1000 ft to 2000 ft, it's getting to terminal velocity pretty quickly, and going higher isn't going to change anything.
As one who works with helicopters like that (obviously maybe not this type of cargo) my guess is that the budget for this video must have been one of the highest you’ve had. Tremendous work lads, keep it up. Loved the close up shots on the equipment as well.
@@MelbourneAlan the cost to operate an AS350 for an hour is about 1600€. Say it's maybe 3 or 4 flight hours on that day. That's like 6400€. Only a rough estimate
This is childlike wonder in video form. You guys are doing the kind of things that I would've daydreamed about when I was about 10 years old, and as a 38 year old, I couldn't be happier to see those daydreams come to life (especially because, at that age, I hadn't yet developed a fear of heights!) If you aren't living your best life, no one is.
should cover one of these balls with liquid pond liner. it's like paintable rubber. so much energy is released when the bands are free to separate, and i bet if you covered it in several layers of rubber you'd get way crazier bounce.
Being an engineering student and watching Gaunson trying to explain energy displacement pains me greatly. This is some wild content, guys. Keep doing this!!!
Hahahahaha, energy displacement. Do you mean the Wave of Force Transfer, by accident? Internationally and among real engineering students also known as WOFT?
Never ceases to amaze me that a group of men have made a successful TH-cam channel and career from simply dropping all sorts of random objects from different heights and just having fun every day. Truly living the dream!
It would but study the way the fire helicopter pilots add in power, collective and pedal whilst filling up water tanks and staying in their spot. There would be a lot more craft in that.
@@somalianjim6050 well that but do you not see how much the ball was swaying? So dropping it off to the side could mess with stuff and if you shoot off and start to panic you could go down
just like a crane... when holding a weight u will have a counter reaction when the load is released quickly. small or large, it will happen. the reaction of the operator/pilot will depend on experience
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They've absolutely nailed the technique of showing something big in the beginning and then building up to it or building on it for the rest of the video. Never a dull moment with these guys.
When you put the bands on, there was a whole bunch aligned together, and then another series of a whole bunch alined at another angle - this caused more bands to come off when there was enough energy to do so. If each band were at its own angle, as different from the ones before and after as you can get, then you'll reduce the amount of bands which come off.
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A bit of Science with Gaunson, a bit of Rexy, a bit of merch, lots of big bounces, a naming of an item, helicopters, slow mo, tower mention and a we'll pin ya. Can't really ask for more from a HR video. Great work.
@@TheGreg6466 Hey now, he had a graph and wrote down his results in a Scientific manner. As the Mythbusters quote goes “The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down” - ballistics expert Alex Jason coined the phrase before Adam Savage said it on a 2012 MythBusters episode, Bouncing Bullet.
Just goes to show how severe a meteor impact is. That was only about 120mph on impact for a 1 tonne object and it was impressive. Imagine what being hit by something the size of a mountain would be like.
@@cryo9216 It would have bounced higher from shorter drops. Yeah of course it would have broken apart sooner...but you'd still be seeing higher bounces earlier so it would equal out. Plus you'd see some pretty incredible pancaking footage.
We have absolutely binged HR in the entirety of 2022 and honestly, might be their coolest video yet. Absolutely loved Science with Gaunson and how it was actually follow-able science. Sparked good conversation yet also absolute awe. Thanks again guys!
It would be interesting to see how the ball bounces from 2000ft onto concrete. Less energy would be absorbed by the ground for sure. Also i wonder if its possible to land it on the giant axe from that hight.
The loss of bounce was due to the energy transfer in creating the crater and the full compression of the ball caused a lot of the energy to travel horizontally instead of vertically. The loss of bands had a minor effect with their energy not returning in the form of bounce. Dropping on a more solid surface like concrete would have saved much of the energy. I bet the temperature inside the ball went up substantially too.
It really needed to be dropped on a far harder surface - ideally solid rock or reinforced concrete. The amount of KE that is absorbed by turfed/grassed soil is amazing. I did a very similar (although much smaller in scale!) project in high-school. Depending on the water-content and density of the soil it would adsorb up to 70% of the kinetic-energy, at impact, of a mass at terminal velocity. We used iron balls (3kg shot-put), 3kg solid-rubber, water-filled polymer and a few others.
i love how the appeal of this video isn't big explosions of things flying everywhere or colliding. it's just simple physics of seeing how high you can get such a massive object to bounce off solid ground. real refreshing honestly
Gaunson's calculations are a LITTLE off. When it comes to physics you want to use the metric system for all calculations. Not feet. It's simple science and math.
Norway: The only country in the western hemisphere that would allow some crazy guys to drop a 1 ton rubber ball. “What is it going to do?” “I don’t know.” “Ok, approved”
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I kept thinking the same thing! The fact that you can *hear* it whooshing down toward you is almost scary lol, like you know how devastating it will be just by the sound.
IDK if concrete is rated to take that much force in a drop like that but id love to see this again against a solid floor that the band ball cant crater into
That sound thou... "whhooooshh SMACK!" dropping from 2000 ft is wild! Can only imagine how terrifying it would be if those were 155mm projectiles flying over your head landing.
I want it to be 440kg but I don't think there's enough left. Those explosions were something else though, the bands flying everywhere was just incredible. Great job catching as much of it as you did¬
I cannot express how happy I am to see the data being collected 😅 (Next time -- please keep collecting data! -- count the crater height as part of the bouce)
A fair amount of loss in bounce height can be attributed to losses by way of heat. The faster the bands expand, the more heat gets generated. This temporarily reduces the bands' elasticity, there by delaying the return to resting state while the ball is still in contact with the ground.
Deformation costs a crapload of energy so it was to be expected that it would drop as soon as it started shedding. That's partially the reason it doesn't scale linearly already on regular bounces but those rubber bands flying off of it had a lot of energy in them that wasn't directed upwards anymore. Another reason could be terminal velocity approaching at some point making sure going higher no longer makes the ball hit harder because all off that juicy energy goes into air displacement.
thank you boys x, not in a good place in my head at the minute yet watching the antics and the energy between you three has been a tonic that nothing else has come close to.. anvils off a dam ?? ginat hammer AND a giant nail... TOP content.. manic child like energy between three good buddies... Gaunson and his.. "gaunson outlook" so so watchable.. keep it up. love the blender BTW.. will it blend ?? f*** yeah....
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. And I have to say, the farmer… has my heart. Just sounds like the conversation around here. Simple man, simple advice. Awesome.
Casually captures a UFO in the back of their video, watch from 9:12-9:20 as slow as possible and look in the sky, you'll see a black craft flying at breakneck speeds that is still easy to miss at the slowest speed available.
14:40 the sound of it cutting through the air XD this is so ridiculously cool!! A freaking rubber band ball going fast enough that you can audibly hear it crushing air aside XD.
Never a waste of time watching any of your videos ! Two helicopters, respect is due. Seriously enjoy seeing how much fun you guys have doing these things. Keep up the good work !
Kinetic energy at its best. The ground is absorbing a big chunk of that energy. I’d like to see that bouncing out of a think re-enforced concrete slab.
I did the math, the earth has slight changed its orbital path. It's so slight that it will reduce sea level increase back down to levels that are predetermined no matter what!
This video was incredible, boys! Beautiful work by the whole crew, and Wofty had a stellar debut! With a bit of repair and some rest, I reckon he could go even higher next time! For my commtest entry (and how good is the return of the commtest?!) I'll guess that with all those bands lost, Wofty now weighs something like... 647kg! A little bit more than half the size remaining!
Awesome video guys! I'd estimate the weight of the rubber band ball to be 724kg/1596.15lbs. Also the sound it made when it was flying through the air/hitting the ground was terrifying but magnificent at the same time!
I loved how the Size of the Ball meant there was almost a Forced Perspective because of how far away the Lads had to be for Safety. Like when It Bounced, it just looks kind of Normal, like it's not Bouncing really high (the aforementioned Forced perspective) but in reality Is Probably an insane height to see something so Big reach.
Wow! I felt the highs and lows, concerns, setbacks and achievements, amongst all that awesomeness. I don't think I ever truly appreciated the logistics, set-up and incredibly skilled people involved who make your videos happen. You could really see everybody was committed to not only making the day's event as 'impactful' as possible but to understanding the best way to capture and translate that experience to us. Just incredible boys! God bless ya'
Put the camera ON THE BALL! Same with throwing a dinosaur off a dam wall ... video camera ON THE DINOSAUR so we get a dinosaur's-eye view. That's not quite a bird's-eye view, but then didn't birds evolve from dinosaurs?
Wasn't the dinosaur riding a bicycle when it went off the dam wall? I demand a video from the bicycle! I want to see the dinosaur's-eye-view of the trip downwards. GoPro on the dinosaur!
I used to work in a stock room/loading dock and we used to get huge rubber bands they would use to hold together pallets of products. They didn't work well at all but they were fun to play with. We mostly just used them to lock people in the bathroom. They were significantly bigger than the ones used here though.
I stock at a grocery store and all of our pallets held together with layers and layers of plastic wrap. Works great but we generate a metric ton of trash.
Nature created humans because it wanted rubber and plastic added to its ecosystem but couldn't make them on its own. Now it's our job to mass produce and distribute rubber and plastic throughout the world.
I was part of the Ripleys Believe it or not production where we dropped the worlds largest rubber band ball. The chase helicopter crashed before we got the ball dropped in Kingman Arizona. The results we got were a bit different since we started from a pretty good height. At some point the compression of the ball is enough that it makes heat and also the outer layers of the ball sluff off. I had a melted clump of the ball as a souivineer for years.
I respect to everyone who were involved in this, Seriously the best piece that I' ve ever seen on TH-cam, HATS OFF TO WELL ALL ! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!! 💖❤😒😊💖
out of all TH-cam videos it happened to be this one.. at 5:00 minutes of this video I received a message from my uncle that my grandpa passed away. I wanted to comment this for a long time but I never had the courage because I'm afraid everyone would just ignore it... this TH-cam video means a lot to me because all of my memories that I'm with my grandpa come rushing to my mind... I want to share this because this video holds an extreme experience for me.
That is not the real HR team, they won’t reply to a comment saying you won something. Most likely it’s a scammer going to ask you to pay a “fee” to receive your prize
The pure enthusiasm of truly delayed gratification. Pure joy from these chaps! The time and effort put into producing a 1 ton rubber band ball, the renting of the helicopter.... incredible production all things considered. This is an incredibly fun looking experiment.
An old anecdote was like -Here's regular bomb site - it may cause hundreds of casualties. Here's a nuclear bomb site - number of casualties can go to thousands. And here's the rubber bomb site, number of casualties is unknown. -Why? -It's still bouncing..
Guessing 1800lbs at the end of the vid. Pretty amazing to see how high it bounces. Would be cool if you could have also calculated speed at impact vs. Speed after it hits the ground.
I'm pretty impressed that you got ans AS350 to pick up 2200 pounds to begin with... There was no way they were going to hit the target from 2000 feet though. Definitely outside OGE hover, so he had to maintain airspeed to stay flying. Still impressive!
A ton is a huge weight for a chopper to lift. Wonder if it made the chopper swerve. A possible safety hazard. They probably did not tell the pilot the weight of it. "Just pick up this ball". 😆
@@Better_Call_Raul huge weight for that chopper lol. Our A-Stars had load cells on the hook, so we always knew the weight. But you can also tell the weight by the amount of torque you need to pull out of a hover when lifting the load, so either way the pilot knew.
@@Better_Call_Raul the first thing the pilot would have asked is how much does it weigh...then he needs to figure out how much "lift" he needs to cut back on as he released the ball
Inspirational. It would be 😮 to measure the seismic activity and waves in the ground at each different height. And how far down in the earth the impact can be felt.
My guess is wofty is 447kg
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I guessed 446
@@howridiculous so close
@@howridiculous can i get some chicken for dinner?
i was gonna guess 448...
In a year or two, we are going to get a video titled "GIANT Tungsten Rod DROP From SPACE! World Record Explosion?"
"We made Rods From God in real life! Guess how many megatons the explosion was?!"
"First one to guess it right..."
"We’ll pin ya!"
World record extinction speedrun
“We Just Slingshot a nuke into an asteroid”!
Tungsten dart. They'll have to spend 2 weeks digging down into the Earth where it will be
12:40 The reason you're losing bounce height is likely because the ball is approaching terminal velocity (where air resistance cancels acceleration).
Once this happens, the ball won't bounce any higher no matter how high you drop it from.
Yea I think so
Well you can tell it hasn't quite reached terminal velocity if the crater keeps getting bigger, which probably has more of an effect on the height of the bounce.
@@nodangles6983 Gryph0n is right. It's not the size of the crater that matters. At terminal velocity the hardness of the ground is the only variable in how high will the ball bounce. They could drop it on reinforced concrete and get 60 meters without a crater at all.
@@caliconfessions1075 The larger crater indicates a higher speed, which means it's coming in at a higher velocity the higher it's dropped, which means terminal velocity had not been reached. The larger the crater, the more energy its construction has taken away from the ball.
@@nodangles6983 the softer the impact site the larger the crater will be and the lower the bounce will be. Balls typically reach terminal velocity around 10 seconds or after falling about 750 feet.
1000 vs 2000 foot drops are going the same speed upon impact the size of the crater is based on the hardness of the ground, not the speed of the object because the speed from 1000 feet and 2000 feet is the same speed. It's called terminal velocity.
Archaeologists 2000 years later:
"These craters are such a mystery"
These craters were reason behind extinction of humans
@@b2dmore3078 yeah, aliens will be confused👽
@@docy5974 who were these mysterious figures behind all this😭😀😀😂
@@b2dmore3078 😂😂
Was just thinking something similar lol, gunna have someone confused at least XD
Referring to the Statue of Liberty as "Torch Dude in New York" is the best thing that's happened to me, today. Good on ya'.
I think the bounce factor would have been far better and more consistent if you dropped the ball on a hard surface instead of grasses filed, which likely absorbed a fair amount of the force - particularly increasing as the high increased.
I was just gonna say this but you nailed it. Good freaking job Rob.
True, but you would need to be pretty sure of your hard surface, that kinda impact could easily break up a concrete road or parking lot
That's true, but there also needs to be some sort of hard coating applied to the ball to hold the bands together, making it into kinda a giant golf ball. If you've seen golf balls bounce, imagine one six feet in diameter... :D
@@Thunderdumpe I don't think them guys are worried about breaking the ground up. They love checking the impact crater. LOL. But if they did do it on hard surface rather than grass...I am certain they would avoid doing it in a shopping center parking lot or some ones driveway. I work with concrete everyday making railroad ties. That ball ain't even gonna chip the concrete we make. We pressure test our concrete for Amtrak. It takes a considerable amount of force to cause even a hairline fracture. I don't think a road would stand up though at all unless it was the autobahn highway in Germany or something. European highways carry more traffic and considerably heavier truck weights than U.S. roads so it was built to handle that.
@@Crusader1815 That would be awesome if they made a giant golf ball. No giant foot balls though. Those things bounce so unpredictably. That would be scary
The biggest issue in getting a higher bounce from a larger height is terminal velocity from air resistance. The closer an object gets to terminal velocity the less it will accelerate, so even if the distance to the ground is twice as large the velocity is likely significantly less than twice as large due to decreasing acceleration and plateauing velocity which is what happens when an object approaches terminal velocity.
I'd think that the efficiency of the bounce is the biggest thing. A back of the envelope calculation for the terminal velocity of a 1 ton sphere says terminal velocity is about 72 m/s, and in a vacuum the sphere dropped from 2000 feet would only reach about 108m/s. So drag does play a role, but it can't account for the sphere bouncing only 150/2000 = 7.5% of its drop height. The ball is losing most of its energy to heat as it deforms into a pancake and displaces the dirt. If they dropped a diamond ball on a diamond field (and it weighed the same somehow) I'd expect it to go much much higher, as long as it didn't shatter, despite feeling the same amount of air resistance and having the same terminal velocity
The diamond ball would shatter no matter what from that high up
@@broski761 indeed diamonds are hard but surprisingly brittle. They may be one of the hardest minerals but their molecular structure makes them not take stress well. This is why despite their hardness they are relatively (to their hardness) easy to cut.
Dimond is not unbreakable.
Its actually the amount of energy lost at impact, rendered in heat form or force direction. So terminal velocity is used but not really mentioned because its obvious that terminal velocity must be reached, so why bother mention it...
Easiest way to check this is to check the time from release to hitting the ground. Compare the time of the drop to what you'd expect in a vacuum. If there is a significant difference, air resistance is coming into play. And if the time is close to double from 1000 ft to 2000 ft, it's getting to terminal velocity pretty quickly, and going higher isn't going to change anything.
As one who works with helicopters like that (obviously maybe not this type of cargo) my guess is that the budget for this video must have been one of the highest you’ve had. Tremendous work lads, keep it up. Loved the close up shots on the equipment as well.
Seriously. Surprised they didn't get a sponsor
how much is a chopper for a day
@@MelbourneAlan it’s per hour
@@MelbourneAlan the cost to operate an AS350 for an hour is about 1600€. Say it's maybe 3 or 4 flight hours on that day. That's like 6400€. Only a rough estimate
That said, there are other helicopters out there, but to lift that much it's probably the best one for the job at that price.
Scott holding up Bretts arm while waiting for the drop was a hoot. Science with Gaunson is always welcomed. 😊
It would be funny if someone made a documentary about these mysterious craters and how they may have been formed.
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One guy sounds like Jerry Seinfield!Exiting stuff!
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aliens will be 'confirmed' when they find traces of rubber in the craters
Anyone who's sane would never even think of something like this, it's about a meter wide a child could dig more than that.😂😂
This is childlike wonder in video form. You guys are doing the kind of things that I would've daydreamed about when I was about 10 years old, and as a 38 year old, I couldn't be happier to see those daydreams come to life (especially because, at that age, I hadn't yet developed a fear of heights!) If you aren't living your best life, no one is.
That was beautiful
Congrats on the heart from them. :]
They're literally me and my brothers throwing things off of rooftopes, mountains and whatnot (ourselves included...)
Didn't someone notice that how strong is that helicopter 💀
Took the comment right out of my mind bro!
I feel this just means we need Part 2, but on harder ground.
Yes, I think it will bounce higher if it falls on concrete
Yup, a rebuild with a nice tight stretchy cover on a structural concrete slab. Of course it's the scale issues that will be most interesting...
@FATEd Pondera good point...hmm...maybe an abandoned air strip perhaps? Something like Wisley Airfield
And drop from 6,000 feet. Or whatever the aircraft maximum altitude is
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should cover one of these balls with liquid pond liner. it's like paintable rubber. so much energy is released when the bands are free to separate, and i bet if you covered it in several layers of rubber you'd get way crazier bounce.
Being an engineering student and watching Gaunson trying to explain energy displacement pains me greatly.
This is some wild content, guys. Keep doing this!!!
Hahahahaha, energy displacement. Do you mean the Wave of Force Transfer, by accident? Internationally and among real engineering students also known as WOFT?
Ha ha, heat go brrrrrr
I love "Science with Gaunson" as an engineer lol
I'm a big fan of the "Science with Gaunson" segments....
Don’t worry future engineer, you’ll forget everything you learned in a couple years, just like the rest of us
Love to see this done on concrete, maybe an abandoned runway or something?
Stick a layer of truck-bed coating on what's left & go again (Bands need more talc for lube & a bigger 'Pof!' : )
I just had this thought before I saw this comment, concrete should make it bounce higher
YES!!!
I was trying to think of a place, and you've got the best idea.
@@ireallyreallyhategoogle this looks like a weapon used for war lol ima guess 350 pounds
@@ripebanana8169 what?
I recorded the sound of the drop at 14:45 and slowed it down by 50%. It sounds like a missile!
Great stuff, guys. Greetings from America! 🫡
that is what it sounds like when big things meeting air resistance lol. i much prefer it to a missile though.
Why didn't they drop it on concrete: Typical Aussies!
it sounded horrible but awesome _xD
gave me wash flashbacks i didn't know i had
Never ceases to amaze me that a group of men have made a successful TH-cam channel and career from simply dropping all sorts of random objects from different heights and just having fun every day. Truly living the dream!
It makes me lose hope in humanity.
I was hoping they would just go straight to a mile high and let it rip right off the bat.
Loudly
@@trorisk why?
@@trorisk hmm..... weird.... considering tik tok exists.... this doesn't even come remotely close.
The drop pilot deserves some recognition for his work. I’m sure dropping that much weight at once had to play hob with controlling the helicopter.
It would but study the way the fire helicopter pilots add in power, collective and pedal whilst filling up water tanks and staying in their spot. There would be a lot more craft in that.
no bc the ball will be directly under the centre of mass so it wont sway the helicpoter
@@somalianjim6050 well that but do you not see how much the ball was swaying? So dropping it off to the side could mess with stuff and if you shoot off and start to panic you could go down
just like a crane... when holding a weight u will have a counter reaction when the load is released quickly. small or large, it will happen. the reaction of the operator/pilot will depend on experience
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Don’t snooze on the COMMTEST return everyone 😮
Guess how heavy the ball is by the end! We’ll pin yaaaaaa if you’re the 1st to get it 📌
687 lb
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I’ll save you time. It bounces straight back into the helicopter, killing everyone on board.
Right. They miscalculated the downward force imparted on the ball by the spinning blades, causing it to bounce higher than the helicopter itself!😆
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Here, let me save you some time...
11:07 First Drop
14:35 Second Drop
15:50 Third Drop
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First drop was at :32. Were you looking at the clock on your wall????? LOL!
Thanks for saving 17 minutes of my life
@@chuxmix65 Ya, but it was incredibly lame compared to the others. Thus didnt deem it worthwhile.
@@BreadApologist right. 👌
The fact you guys take it off, explain the concept AND drop the ball within the first minute earns my respect, like, and sub 👏👏👏
yes. god bless these crazy buggers!
They've absolutely nailed the technique of showing something big in the beginning and then building up to it or building on it for the rest of the video.
Never a dull moment with these guys.
They did it at 2:28 like that’s not a good amount of time to me
Right, it's definitely better than 20 minutes of blabbering build up for 1 minute of the action.
When you put the bands on, there was a whole bunch aligned together, and then another series of a whole bunch alined at another angle - this caused more bands to come off when there was enough energy to do so. If each band were at its own angle, as different from the ones before and after as you can get, then you'll reduce the amount of bands which come off.
The helicopter shots really emphasize how high that ball is way better than the ground shots.
Agree
Repent to Jesus Christ “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
James 5:16 NIV
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Umm, no, the helicopter shots exaggerate how high the ball is because camera lenses don't work like human eyes.
Ahh yes less drop it on a road near house and people
A bit of Science with Gaunson, a bit of Rexy, a bit of merch, lots of big bounces, a naming of an item, helicopters, slow mo, tower mention and a we'll pin ya. Can't really ask for more from a HR video. Great work.
"Science with Gaunson" that's like a contradiction, Gaunson is scientific like a flat earth video. lol.
@@TheGreg6466 Hey now, he had a graph and wrote down his results in a Scientific manner. As the Mythbusters quote goes “The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down” - ballistics expert Alex Jason coined the phrase before Adam Savage said it on a 2012 MythBusters episode, Bouncing Bullet.
Only thing missing is “get the bell on”
@@ClAddict and a bit of rock paper scissors to decide who goes up in the chopper
@@ClAddict And a Fart 🤣
It's always a joy getting to see how much fun y'all get to have doing this stuff.
What would HR be without Michael & Jack?
Not *_nearly_* as ridiculous. Kudos unsung heroes!
Oh wow. You guys, after a quick Google, have made the biggest bounce! The record WAS about 95 feet, or just less than 30 meters. Congrats!
Just goes to show how severe a meteor impact is. That was only about 120mph on impact for a 1 tonne object and it was impressive. Imagine what being hit by something the size of a mountain would be like.
I just came to comment similar and then saw this mate. A meteor impact must be severely extreme
*Wombat screams*
not even a mountain, just a one ton object going at meteor speeds would be devastating to a small city block
Would've been cool to try in on a harder surface as well.
Yup. The sod ground is absorbing a LOT of the kinetic energy ... a concrete airport runway would be dramatic!
Yep. Find a big, abandoned parking lot somewhere and try again. I bet you get at least 50% higher bounce.
It broke apart even on the soft ground. On a concrete or paved surface, the entire ball would have simply shattered to pieces and not bounced at all.
@@rickmorse9884 especially with planes landing and taking off....
@@cryo9216 It would have bounced higher from shorter drops. Yeah of course it would have broken apart sooner...but you'd still be seeing higher bounces earlier so it would equal out. Plus you'd see some pretty incredible pancaking footage.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this chaps. Laughed a lot . Great fun . Thanks to everyone.
2:06 Golden opportunity missed to say 'Rex marks the spot'.
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2O seconds in and you’re already showing footage of the helicopter picking the ball into the air. No BS filler, love it!
Agreed, I was afraid it would be one of those videos where they talk bs for 20 minutes and then do the thing in the last 30 seconds of the video.
We have absolutely binged HR in the entirety of 2022 and honestly, might be their coolest video yet. Absolutely loved Science with Gaunson and how it was actually follow-able science. Sparked good conversation yet also absolute awe. Thanks again guys!
The sound of the ball traveling through the air in its descent must be amazing to be heard in person.
It would be interesting to see how the ball bounces from 2000ft onto concrete. Less energy would be absorbed by the ground for sure. Also i wonder if its possible to land it on the giant axe from that hight.
It would just shatter in to a million bits. My guess would be 0 bounce, but the explosion would be pretty cool regardless
The loss of bounce was due to the energy transfer in creating the crater and the full compression of the ball caused a lot of the energy to travel horizontally instead of vertically. The loss of bands had a minor effect with their energy not returning in the form of bounce. Dropping on a more solid surface like concrete would have saved much of the energy. I bet the temperature inside the ball went up substantially too.
Yeah imagine bouncing this from concrete, it would hit the helicopter back :D JK
Good on ya, Michael. Your efforts have been super worth it!
1/2 a ton
This is pretty awesome, salute to the team that put the rubber band ball together and you too for bringing this to us
It really needed to be dropped on a far harder surface - ideally solid rock or reinforced concrete. The amount of KE that is absorbed by turfed/grassed soil is amazing. I did a very similar (although much smaller in scale!) project in high-school. Depending on the water-content and density of the soil it would adsorb up to 70% of the kinetic-energy, at impact, of a mass at terminal velocity. We used iron balls (3kg shot-put), 3kg solid-rubber, water-filled polymer and a few others.
Yes agree and might even crack the concrete.. 👍
i love how the appeal of this video isn't big explosions of things flying everywhere or colliding.
it's just simple physics of seeing how high you can get such a massive object to bounce off solid ground.
real refreshing honestly
Gaunson's calculations are a LITTLE off. When it comes to physics you want to use the metric system for all calculations. Not feet. It's simple science and math.
I also loved the sound it made. Like a meteor sailing towards the ground.
Ian Lee- the difference between the rubber band ball and a meteor is that rubber band balls are actually real.
11:18 getting distracted by a butterfly 😂
Norway: The only country in the western hemisphere that would allow some crazy guys to drop a 1 ton rubber ball. “What is it going to do?” “I don’t know.” “Ok, approved”
Shout out to Michael, the pilots, editors and background people. You guys have a great crew!!
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That field was surely impossible to clean properly
Hearing the scream of the ball as it’s coming down at speed is impressive by itself.
I kept thinking the same thing! The fact that you can *hear* it whooshing down toward you is almost scary lol, like you know how devastating it will be just by the sound.
@@destryshafer2764 sounds like a whole ass missile
It sounds like a jet, or at least a fast car.
Those craters were pretty impressive for a fairly soft ball, I'd love to see what an atlas stone or Bruce could do from that height
Makes me understand the whole concept of meteors being scary if a rubber ball falling from that high craters that big
@@Rex-sy8ye REXY
Mom always said, “don’t play ball in the house”. 😂
IDK if concrete is rated to take that much force in a drop like that but id love to see this again against a solid floor that the band ball cant crater into
That sound thou... "whhooooshh SMACK!" dropping from 2000 ft is wild!
Can only imagine how terrifying it would be if those were 155mm projectiles flying over your head landing.
I want it to be 440kg but I don't think there's enough left. Those explosions were something else though, the bands flying everywhere was just incredible. Great job catching as much of it as you did¬
5:09 "Well its taller than torch dude in NY." Sounds like every American talking about other places in the world. lol
12:30 joules were “lost” due to *plastic deformation* of the ground.
But good work!
I cannot express how happy I am to see the data being collected 😅 (Next time -- please keep collecting data! -- count the crater height as part of the bouce)
As a data analyst I loved the graphing.
So, I saw the thumb nail and immediately my brain pooped out. This is incredible
Same bro fr
A fair amount of loss in bounce height can be attributed to losses by way of heat. The faster the bands expand, the more heat gets generated. This temporarily reduces the bands' elasticity, there by delaying the return to resting state while the ball is still in contact with the ground.
Deformation costs a crapload of energy so it was to be expected that it would drop as soon as it started shedding. That's partially the reason it doesn't scale linearly already on regular bounces but those rubber bands flying off of it had a lot of energy in them that wasn't directed upwards anymore. Another reason could be terminal velocity approaching at some point making sure going higher no longer makes the ball hit harder because all off that juicy energy goes into air displacement.
2:56 pov: your the "I" in pixar and about to get killed by the lamp
Pause the video at 13:39…. We may have to be a little more careful with that arm up
Fr
That pose💀
thank you boys x, not in a good place in my head at the minute yet watching the antics and the energy between you three has been a tonic that nothing else has come close to.. anvils off a dam ?? ginat hammer AND a giant nail... TOP content.. manic child like energy between three good buddies... Gaunson and his.. "gaunson outlook" so so watchable.. keep it up. love the blender BTW.. will it blend ?? f*** yeah....
hope your'e doing better mate
No way you guys cleaned up your mess entirely!!!
16:09 damn, the sound of that incoming rubber band ball is terrifying!
Sounds like a jet
I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. And I have to say, the farmer… has my heart. Just sounds like the conversation around here. Simple man, simple advice. Awesome.
Casually captures a UFO in the back of their video, watch from 9:12-9:20 as slow as possible and look in the sky, you'll see a black craft flying at breakneck speeds that is still easy to miss at the slowest speed available.
14:40 the sound of it cutting through the air XD this is so ridiculously cool!! A freaking rubber band ball going fast enough that you can audibly hear it crushing air aside XD.
Watching the slow mo playback was fascinating! Good job guys.
Awesome vid, more dense landing surface might make bounce results more impressive.
Thanks to HR for all the fun they provided over the years.
Never a waste of time watching any of your videos ! Two helicopters, respect is due. Seriously enjoy seeing how much fun you guys have doing these things. Keep up the good work !
That was fun. I hope you picked up all the debris from the field.
Im sure they got the big stuff, but i'm curious about the Smaller pieces, the little 1x1 square pieces he picked up..
Kinetic energy at its best. The ground is absorbing a big chunk of that energy. I’d like to see that bouncing out of a think re-enforced concrete slab.
I was thinking the same thing, kinda disappointing they wasted the ball on grass.
Typed the same thing now I see this 🤣
@@DPWian I agree, they should've done it on an abandoned airfield or something like that. Well, maybe the ball would simply explode
I did the math, the earth has slight changed its orbital path. It's so slight that it will reduce sea level increase back down to levels that are predetermined no matter what!
This video was incredible, boys! Beautiful work by the whole crew, and Wofty had a stellar debut! With a bit of repair and some rest, I reckon he could go even higher next time!
For my commtest entry (and how good is the return of the commtest?!) I'll guess that with all those bands lost, Wofty now weighs something like...
647kg! A little bit more than half the size remaining!
They should rebuild him then linex him.
@No One It was 1000kg, or roughly 2200lbs. :>
1426 lbs (pounds for all us americans)
Awesome video guys! I'd estimate the weight of the rubber band ball to be 724kg/1596.15lbs. Also the sound it made when it was flying through the air/hitting the ground was terrifying but magnificent at the same time!
I didn't even see your comment when I guessed 725kg! I reckon we're close😎
Lol, I said 723kgs before checking to see the comments. That's bloody hilarious.
haha, that's funny how close our guesses are, I put in 713.8kg!!
I loved how the Size of the Ball meant there was almost a Forced Perspective because of how far away the Lads had to be for Safety.
Like when It Bounced, it just looks kind of Normal, like it's not Bouncing really high (the aforementioned Forced perspective) but in reality Is Probably an insane height to see something so Big reach.
Wow! I felt the highs and lows, concerns, setbacks and achievements, amongst all that awesomeness.
I don't think I ever truly appreciated the logistics, set-up and incredibly skilled people involved who make your videos happen. You could really see everybody was committed to not only making the day's event as 'impactful' as possible but to understanding the best way to capture and translate that experience to us. Just incredible boys! God bless ya'
Among ys
Put the camera ON THE BALL! Same with throwing a dinosaur off a dam wall ... video camera ON THE DINOSAUR so we get a dinosaur's-eye view.
That's not quite a bird's-eye view, but then didn't birds evolve from dinosaurs?
Wasn't the dinosaur riding a bicycle when it went off the dam wall? I demand a video from the bicycle! I want to see the dinosaur's-eye-view of the trip downwards. GoPro on the dinosaur!
As The Beatles said, "I'm so high, I really really REALLY don't think I can get any higher!"
@@yasmindivan9727 मैं कोशिश कर सकता हूँ
Im liking the science behind dropping a huge ball at a hill, and then being surprised that it rolls when it lands 😁
This was super incredible! The craters that ball left in the ground were just, amazing! Let's go 44 club!
The "Torch Dude" ... is actually a Dudette!
Love this video!!! Would love to see this at a big concrete area like an airport or something too!! See how big the bounce is there too!
That would be epic! Would like to see that forsure!
Destroyed concrete m8
Redo at the salt flats ?
I used to work in a stock room/loading dock and we used to get huge rubber bands they would use to hold together pallets of products. They didn't work well at all but they were fun to play with. We mostly just used them to lock people in the bathroom. They were significantly bigger than the ones used here though.
I stock at a grocery store and all of our pallets held together with layers and layers of plastic wrap. Works great but we generate a metric ton of trash.
Did you collect the rubber bands or left them in the field?
What a stupid question
They probably paid someone to police the field of rubber bands.
Nature created humans because it wanted rubber and plastic added to its ecosystem but couldn't make them on its own. Now it's our job to mass produce and distribute rubber and plastic throughout the world.
I was part of the Ripleys Believe it or not production where we dropped the worlds largest rubber band ball. The chase helicopter crashed before we got the ball dropped in Kingman Arizona. The results we got were a bit different since we started from a pretty good height. At some point the compression of the ball is enough that it makes heat and also the outer layers of the ball sluff off. I had a melted clump of the ball as a souivineer for years.
I respect to everyone who were involved in this, Seriously the best piece that I' ve ever seen on TH-cam, HATS OFF TO WELL ALL ! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!! 💖❤😒😊💖
Here before lots of likes
damn
Remember when MrBeast said he couldnt upload the video of driving a car into a walk because of a blurry shot, thata basically what happened at 17:07
Ah yes, mr beast killing a wingless fly
14:43 it sounds like a Rocket
out of all TH-cam videos it happened to be this one.. at 5:00 minutes of this video I received a message from my uncle that my grandpa passed away.
I wanted to comment this for a long time but I never had the courage because I'm afraid everyone would just ignore it...
this TH-cam video means a lot to me because all of my memories that I'm with my grandpa come rushing to my mind...
I want to share this because this video holds an extreme experience for me.
The amount of time, effort, and budget you guys put into being silly is commendable.
Thank you for the brilliant entertainment!
That is not the real HR team, they won’t reply to a comment saying you won something. Most likely it’s a scammer going to ask you to pay a “fee” to receive your prize
@@terrysamuelsson8839 Yeah, I've come across several of those. Thank you for the warning! :D
Brilliant would be not dropping it on soft earth so that energy transfers into a crater.
The pure enthusiasm of truly delayed gratification. Pure joy from these chaps!
The time and effort put into producing a 1 ton rubber band ball, the renting of the helicopter.... incredible production all things considered. This is an incredibly fun looking experiment.
For those who don't want to wait for what happens. The ball bounces
I hope you use biodegradable rubber
An old anecdote was like
-Here's regular bomb site - it may cause hundreds of casualties. Here's a nuclear bomb site - number of casualties can go to thousands. And here's the rubber bomb site, number of casualties is unknown.
-Why?
-It's still bouncing..
Guessing 1800lbs at the end of the vid. Pretty amazing to see how high it bounces. Would be cool if you could have also calculated speed at impact vs. Speed after it hits the ground.
I'm pretty impressed that you got ans AS350 to pick up 2200 pounds to begin with... There was no way they were going to hit the target from 2000 feet though. Definitely outside OGE hover, so he had to maintain airspeed to stay flying. Still impressive!
A ton is a huge weight for a chopper to lift. Wonder if it made the chopper swerve. A possible safety hazard. They probably did not tell the pilot the weight of it. "Just pick up this ball". 😆
@@Better_Call_Raul huge weight for that chopper lol. Our A-Stars had load cells on the hook, so we always knew the weight. But you can also tell the weight by the amount of torque you need to pull out of a hover when lifting the load, so either way the pilot knew.
@@Better_Call_Raul the first thing the pilot would have asked is how much does it weigh...then he needs to figure out how much "lift" he needs to cut back on as he released the ball
you guys should show us cleaning video too as i would be pissed about cleaning the bands :D
They probably didn't xD
@@dahohi my gues too ahahaha
Inspirational. It would be 😮 to measure the seismic activity and waves in the ground at each different height. And how far down in the earth the impact can be felt.
I'd love to see a video of the clean-up!
Awesome! I love these drop-an-oversized-crazy-object-from-a-great-height videos!
You guys are awesome, lots of fun, creativity, and energy.
Finally, a new video that isn't just "how many of these can we break" challenges! I'm excited.
Got very samey lately. I’m not interested in watching them just waste stuff. Get back to the tower.
This channel has come so far, and it keeps blowing my mind what stunts can be done.