- Hello, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
Welcome to the "Super Slow Show."
Gav, you ever seen in the movies
when people deflect bullets away from themselves?
Yeah. Mad skills.
I wonder-- oh, yeah. Mad skills.
- Ninja skills. - Yeah.
I wonder if it's actually possible.
I mean, obviously, for a human to do that would be ridiculous.
But if someone somehow managed to hit the bullet with a blade,
- would it split the bullet? - I think it would.
Because when you find a bullet that's been fired,
it's always crumpled as though it was very soft on impact.
That's just from just the sheer speed.
So I think, if you fired a bullet at a blade,
I think it would cut through like butter.
Well, luckily, we've got a pistol
that's pointed directly at an ax.
All right.
So let's find out, shall we?
( theme music playing )
Dan, what's this?
Well, because I've got a gammy hand and I'm actually not
that good at firing a bullet in the exact same place
every time, we've got a remote server here
which has got a Springfield 1911 rigged up inside it
which fires a 45-caliber round
straight down the range
in exactly the same space every time.
I feel like it's always a good idea to remove the human element.
Especially when we're the human element.
Yeah. I'd be sat there for hours just like, come on.
Under this bag is a Phantom V2511.
We're gonna start at 28,000 frames a second.
Hopefully, that's fast enough.
Our usual cameras would just see a couple of blurred frames.
So this is the one to use.
Yeah.
The reason we're going for 45-caliber rounds,
it's nice and fat.
So when it hits our ax here,
hopefully we can see as much detail as possible.
And, finally, we have a lovely colorful balloon wall
to let us know if we split the bullet or not.
If two balloons pop, probably did.
Wonder if it's gonna go in exactly the same space every time.
Who knows? Why don't we find out?
Let's.
Ready to split?
- Yes. - Yeah?
Sorry. I can't hear you very well. Got earplugs in.
It's true.
- You ready? Right. - Yeah.
Three, two, one, fire!
Well, it popped two balloons.
Popped three balloons.
Three?
Wait.
So, huh?
Well, I'll tell you what. Let's just watch the footage.
Instead of being like, "What happened?"
- Gav:
Gav:
Dan:
Hang on.
Dead on in the middle. Oh, no, it's not...ooh!
Ooh!
Wait.
Look at the wibbleman in the...
The wibbleman in the ax!
That ax is solid as well. It's not flexible.
Gav:
- Dan:
Time to escalate, Daniel.
Yeah?
So we've successfully separated a bullet.
Now we've got an ax that's sole purpose
could only be to split a bullet into four pieces.
Cause I can't imagine what else this is used for.
Can you buy it like that?
No.
No, you can't.
This is a custom built bullet quadrupler.
All right. We've also moved the camera back behind the gun
to get a more even spread in the frame.
Cheeky bit of POV.
Yeah. Bullet POV.
Hmm.
All right, here's our four-bladed ax.
We gotta hit it right in the middle so it's extra precise.
The other one could have hit anywhere on that one line.
This has to hit directly in the center.
So good luck us.
This is why I wasn't doing it with my gammy hand.
You ready?
Yep.
Three, two, one, fire!
Whoa.
How many balloons did we pop there?
I count six.
Uh, yeah, quite a few.
Whoa, yeah!
Just exactly it!
It turns it to shrapnel.
You see the eight pieces coming out from this angle as well.
You see how the material separates the lead
from the copper into four, into eight.
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Dan:
-
I love it.
I love this camera. I love this ax.
That was dead on.
You doing Irish?
Sorry.
How satisfying was that when it split perfectly?
It's the kind of footage where you look at,
and you just go, "Ah".
- Emoji. - It's true.
I actually found one of the pieces of bullet
that was split.
It like curled and split up and went into the ground.
Yeah, it doesn't really resemble its original form.
It could just be a piece of metal I found on the floor, to be honest.
Yeah.
I believe you, though.
It's crazy how it goes from, you know, 950 foot per second
into an ax perfectly into four pieces.
It's pretty cool, isn't it?
So cool.
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Why do they put the button on this side?
It could easily have just been just there.
But it's on this side of me.
It's like somewhere around here.
Yeah, it's right there.