• Several thousand pounds of black powder in slow motion
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwgbZmYb92M[/media]
Holy shit, that mirage-ish effect was just from the heat, wasn't it? Awesome? Yes. :science:
Holy shit.
Woahh, that shockwave looks awesome.
Holy shit that's how I want to die.
I always thought those heatwave-like mirage effects were just in movies like the Matrix for cinematic quality.
[url=http://xs.to/share-598E_4BC3F92D.html][img]http://xs.to/image-598E_4BC3F92D.jpg[/img][/url] Holy shit it looks like my dick oh wait...
[QUOTE=Nilus;21320871][url=http://xs.to/share-598E_4BC3F92D.html][img]http://xs.to/image-598E_4BC3F92D.jpg[/img][/url] Holy shit it looks like my dick oh wait...[/QUOTE] You know those words at the end of the Video? Now's the time for you to do it.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;21320670]Holy shit, that mirage-ish effect was just from the heat, wasn't it? Awesome? Yes. :science:[/QUOTE] Yeah, I think it compresses the air around the explosion, so it becomes more dense, thus affecting the refraction of light. I'm not sure though.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;21321992]Yeah, I think it compresses the air around the explosion, so it becomes more dense, thus affecting the refraction of light. I'm not sure though.[/QUOTE] Exactly. A visible shockwave like that occurs from the air getting rapidly compressed by the explosion. When light shines through the denser air it gets bent, causing the refraction that you see.
"When there is nothing else left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire." Thanks for the tip video, be right back.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipk8u3uhf4[/media]
This is taken from a BBC program
It's from Richard Hammonds Invisible World. I recommend watching the whole series.
A bit late, was posted a few months ago.
[QUOTE=Jallen;21332842]I recommend watching the whole series.[/QUOTE] Watched most of it, most interesting thing I've watched for ages.
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