Hi guys welcome to Beals Science I'm Craig Beals. Now there is a perfectly
logical explanation as to why I'm being tased in this video and it all has to do
with science. You see, it all started several months ago when Jake Roper from
Vsauce gave me a call said hey Craig you want to be in one of my videos? Yeah,
of course! Count me in! Little did I know I'd find myself being shocked by a police
taser! But this is what it's led to - I mean all in the name of science! Jake's
got this amazing series on YouTube called Could You Survive the Movies and
this is where things got really exciting for me. I got to go down to Universal
Studios and go to the set of Back to the Future to help film the series "Could you
Survive the Movies - Back to the Future". I mean, I had a star wagon with my name on
it! That doesn't just happen! These things
are sweet! There was a makeup crew! There was a DeLorean! There were extras!
It was incredible. And the story goes like this, if you don't remember the
movie, there's a clock tower - it's up there - a lightning bolt hits a clock tower,
the electricity flows down the wire and, in the movie, Doc has to slam two plugs
together to get the electricity to flow through the wire and hit the DeLorean
and go back to the future. That's me trying to reenact that - poorly,
I know. I'll stick with my day job of being a teacher. During a break from the
filming I decided it was time for Jake to feel a little bit of what I thought I
would experience with the Taser. This antique device is part of an old
telephone system. It produces electricity as you spin a copper coil inside magnets
and it sends electrons down the line and if you happen to be holding on...it hurts!
But this is only like 30 volts. That pales in comparison to what I'm
going try to subject myself to with the high voltage taser in lieu of what you've inspired with this video.
I just want to say, this was Craig's decision! Tomorrow's the big day. Tomorrow's the day that I get shot to show
the effects of high voltage. The reason I'm nervous is that we keep a lot of these
around the backyard - well this thing straight freaks me out and just so you
know it pales in comparison to the voltage of this if you've ever
experienced one of these, it's not really the pain, it's the shock of the shock!
It's like the the fact that your mind is telling you this is not
something that you should be doing because it's electricity and it's stupid!
And yet, here we go!
Yaahhh! Did you hear that?
*screams in shock*
That's two Double-A batteries! That's not this! That's not what's gonna happen tomorrow.
You know you gotta try things to really understand them. I'll never really know
if I just rely on special effects. As sadistic as it might sound I'm actually
quite excited for this to happen! Now don't get me wrong, I'm freaking out!
I am worried I may go potty in my pants when this thing shoots into my back
tomorrow. But, at the same time, I'm willing to make that sacrifice because
you know what, if I don't, who will? We've reached the moment where we're
gonna answer the question what happens when you get electrocuted! This is about
the only way we can safely do this, although I don't know really how safe it
actually is going to be! So we can't prolong it any longer. I've been
anticipating this for a couple of months since Jake Roper made me slam together
the electrical posts to see if I could survive Back to the Future and now I'm
gonna find out on my own if I can survive Back to the Future. Let's do this!
*dramatic music plays*
*electrical clicking sound*
*groaning*
Crazy! I'm still alive! I'm still alive! I'm prettier but I see stars
I'm fairly confident I hit my head and there's a lot going on right now in my body just a
stupid idea. Damn you, Jake Roper. All I could think was,
those prongs are gonna be embedded so far into my back! Is it in is it stuck in
there? OK, I feel a lot better now then I did like...how long ago was that? *About a minute and a half* That was the longest minute and a half of my life.
As if the electrocution isn't bad enough, the darts that come out of that gun are barbed like a fish hook!
Yeah that's why you don't run from the cops! Let that be a lesson...
That's what it feels like to have high voltage running through your body.
This starts off as 50,000 volts. But, I didn't get hit with 50,000 because
it's supposed to taper down to about 1200 volts. But a defibrillator, that they put
on your heart, is like 500 volts. Of course it's a different, it's a different
thing. One of the things I'm really interested in finding out today is if we
can pick anything up on the infrared camera. So we got the thermal camera set
up back here and what I'd love to be able to see is that current passing
through my back, through my skin as it reaches the positive and negative poles.
I don't know if we'll get anything but I have a feeling we'll see that the wires
come out and other than that, as far as we know, it's never been done! Which is
why we have to do it, right! All in the name of science!
Cuz if we don't do, it who's gonna? And while you can see some heat, some blood
pooling up in my back, it isn't at all what I expected. You see the problem is
this gun pulses 19 times a second, it's not a steady current flowing through my
body. So it didn't heat up like we'd hope but it was still pretty awesome! Now here
you can see some of the blood pooling at that one in my shoulder blade - yeah it
was a terrible idea from the beginning. But you know what? We learned a lot and
we now know that we're not gonna run from the police because to do so and to
be shot by one of these is absolutely horrifying! So for the last time let me
let me explain to you - do not try this at home! Do not play with one of these at
home! These things are nasty and you're just gonna get hurt! You know
I've got a lot of people to thank especially Jake Roper and Vsauce. Check
out the link to his video down in the description and YouTube for letting me
come out to LA and film on the Universal backlot with Back to the Future! Talk
about an incredible experience! And FLIR, the makers of these incredible thermal
cameras. You know they're the ones that connected Jake and I a long time ago and
really made this collaboration possible. And everybody else that helps out with
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