- Hello, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
Welcome to "The Super Slow Show."
Bit of a late evening video here,
- Yeah, there's a reason for that, though. - Yeah.
Something I've never wanted to touch
as part of what we do,
because it's very dangerous. I don't know enough about it.
Sharks.
Right, it's not gonna be sharks.
Got a huge Tesla coil right there.
( music playing )
- Electricity. - Yeah.
Kills you, moves a third of the speed of light.
- You don't see it coming. - Burns you, stops your heart.
It's just ridiculous, so I didn't really want to touch it.
Well, thankfully, we've got a...
electricity expert amongst us.
This is Dr. Megavolt.
So what powers this machine?
Yeah, what can you tell us about it?
How do you gather enough electricity to power this?
There's a big generator that is taking 240 volts AC
from the mains, steps it up to about 15,000 volts.
And that 15,000 volts comes through those cables
and into the machine, and it gets stepped up to a million volts.
( gasps ) Oh, damn.
- A million volts? - Nice round number, though, isn't it?
Dan: Yeah, yeah.
How did you settle on a million?
Not million and one, just a million, right?
So, uh, you gonna show us some things that you can do,
and we'll see if we can get it in super slow motion.
Yeah, I've been doing this for 20 years,
and I think, as far as I know, I'm the first person
to wear a metal suit and get next to a big Tesla coil.
We're gonna do something that we don't usually do,
is open the shutter angle wide open
so each zap lasts for longer
in its, you know, individual image exposure,
and we're only gonna be at like 768 frames a second.
It's all about the multiple zaps,
as opposed to the actual travel of electricity,
which we'll never see using these cameras.
- Electricity's so fast, that it's just-- - It's damn fast.
Yeah. It's not gonna happen.
( machine humming )
So if any of us were just to stand there right now...
- ... we would die. - A bit.
A bit.
- ( machine whirring louder ) - Dan: It's scary as it's charging up.
Yeah, it really is.
( loud zapping )
( guys laughing )
Whoa!
( laughter )
Just like, ( imitates zapping )
- Dan:
Literally looks like powers in a video game.
Yeah, it's very "BioShock"-esque.
- It's like a Big Daddy with plasmids. - It really is.
Dan:
you can see the air sort of like--
is that heat waves that's coming out of it?
Dr. Megavolt:
Gav:
Dan:
- Gav:
-
( loud zapping )
Oh, it's on fire! Oh!
Oh, wow!
Oh, my God!
Dragonfly's like, "What the hell?
What's going on?"
( loud zapping )
Oh, tried to fly--
- Did he get hit? - No.
There it is.
Wow, like, I really love the staples.
You can see the individual staples,
And then the embers just come out of there.
Dr. Megavolt:
We picked up a piece of wood that was used in a scenery,
a piece of scenery on stage,
and it had some staples in it
from where the canvas had been stapled in.
Put it in there and it just went poom!
- Dan:
You know in a videogame when you enchant a weapon,
with, like, a flame thing,
and an electricity one, right?
That's what it looks like.
You guys know a lot about videogames.
Do you live in your mom's basement and listen to Rush?
Look, all right, we can't all live in an underground lair.
Jeez!
Dr. Megavolt:
because it's neat how the discharges
dance around on the surface of the sphere.
Gav:
- It's really cool. - Yeah, it is, because--
He got the dragonfly!
Oh, it's the dragonfly! We got the dragonfly!
- Dan:
It looks like a giant dragonfly, though,
-
That's probably a mutant dragonfly now.
Dan:
I was scared for the dragonfly, was gonna get electrocuted.
Yeah. I think you were secretly hoping
- it would fly into it. - I was hoping it would, yeah.
( loud zapping )
Oh ho! Look at that sight!
Gav: That's amazing!
So we made a special request.
We made a request for him to smash
the fluorescent bulbs together, just to see what happens.
( loud zapping )
Sick, but good.
Like, that's ridiculous.
- Gav: That's neat, look at that. - That's ridiculous.
There's just so much going on.
That is such a feast for the eyes.
( music playing )
Dan:
I would be gone.
Dan:
-
Dan:
Gav:
I'd rather face a shark, I think, than that.
So gratuitously, we just wanted to see
what would happen if you smashed it
while it was just glowing red.
We wondered what would happen.
Gav: There it is.
( music playing )
Mr. Megavolt:
- Dan:
We tend to agree.
Well, thanks a lot, Dr. Megavolt,
for coming in and showing us your skills.
And thank you, at home, for watching this episode
of "The Super Slow Show." We'll see you soon.
( music playing )
Well, Dan, it's begun.
How often do we usually upload?
- Once every three weeks? - If that.
I'd say once a month, maybe?
Why don't we try 16 a month?
- So 16 times as much work? - Pretty much.
Seems reasonable.
Make sure you subscribe if you don't want to miss it.
- That is a lot of work. - That's a lot of work.