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Watch Flowers Dipped In Liquid Nitrogen Get Smashed In Slow Motion
If you’re a human, you’ve probably always been fascinated with liquid nitrogen. The freezing temperature. The sweet smoking effect. Hell, even the container that held liquid nitrogen was cool. And if you combine liquid nitrogen with slow motion, things get even better. Watch flowers and fruit get dipped into liquid nitrogen and then smashed into smithereens in slow motion.
This Slow-Mo Test Tube Explosion Barks Like A Guard Dog Of Fire
It’s one thing when a dog barks, it’s another one entirely when a giant pipe full of fire does it. And it’s even better in slow motion.
Slo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High-Speed Cameras Were Invented
The odds of capturing a lightning bolt on a high-speed camera in the wild are probably pretty similar to getting hit yourself — slim to nil. So to vastly improve their chances, the slo-mo team at BBC Earth Productions visited the Morgan-Botti Lightning Lab in England, where the electrifying bolts are produced every day.
Charcoal’s Way More Fun In Liquid Oxygen Than It Is In Your Grill
All the cool kids know that playing with fire is totally awesome, but there’s only so much you can accomplish with the tools available to your everyday pyromaniac. Scientists can have a bit more fun, and this slow-motion video of liquid oxygen tossing around a chunk of flaming charcoal is a great chance to live vicariously.
What Would You Do Inside A Slow-Motion Video Booth?
Here’s a fun party idea: get a bunch of people together with 11 kegs and one slow-motion video booth and see what happens. That’s pretty much what these guys did. They hooked up a Phantom Miro camera and let people go nuts with whatever they wanted to do at 1500FPS.
Surface Tension Drops In Slo-Mo: A Ballet More Graceful Than Swan Lake
Ballet is considered one of man’s most graceful artistic endeavours, but Mother Nature can still easily one-up us through the right lens. In this case, that lens happens to be pointed at the complex interactions between a falling water drop and a pool of water, capturing their intricate dance at 2500fps.
Watch A Scorpion Sting A Guy In Painful Slow Motion
The beauty of slow motion is that it lets you see and analyse every detail of anything in a much more digestible package. Explosions become a dance, athletic achievements become more thoughtful, life becomes even more interesting and idiotic behaviour gets more hilarious. Watching a guy get stung by a scorpion in slow motion? Yeah, that’s hilarious.
Slo-Mo Footage Reveals How Pigeons Make That Clapping Sound At Takeoff
They’re one of the most annoying things about living in a big city, but pigeons — aka the rats of the sky — have developed a pretty clever defence mechanism designed to scare off attackers: a loud and repeated clapping noise that you probably hear when you scare an annoying pigeon into fleeing.
YouTube Lets You Create Slow-Motion Videos Now
YouTube has added a feature that lets you make any video into a slow-mo video. Because everything is more awesome in slow-mo, obviously.
Incredible Slo-Mo Footage Of The Pistol Shrimp’s Devastating Attack
Most clawed crustaceans use their pincers like a pair of deadly scissors, either for defence or tearing apart their prey. But the Pistol Shrimp has developed a far more devastating use for it.
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