Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT - Smarter Every Day 287

Well.... the specifics of how to accomplish this have been in my head since 2017. I'm very excited to finally share it with you. I'm grateful to everyone who supports Smarter Every Day on Patreon. You make long-term planning things like this and the baseball cannon possible! Here's the link if you'd like to join our sticker team: www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Also, as promised, here's the link too the email list! www.smartereveryday.com/email-list I don't spam you. I just send out an email every time I upload. Thanks for your consideration!

When the two bullets perfectly hit each other it looks like your shot a single bullet into the worlds strongest mirror. Insane.

16:24 first colision between them (not perfectly hit) 18:51 perfect shot 26:36 another great shot

The fact that the sponsorship was the end of the story of this video is so great. That is such an amazing way to incorporate a sponsorship. Since I have YouTube premium it tried to automatically skip it and I feel like there should be some way for YouTube to make a distinction between actual content and just mindless sponsorships. If you have YouTube premium rewind it to the point till before the sponsorship started and to make sure to watch it. It is so cool and you don't want to miss it.

watching this episode for a second time after 11 months of airing. still one of the coolest episodes!

21:54 - The money shot... honestly this is a one in a million type capture. Amazing.

Seeing those two bullets frozen in time in the middle of the air at 21:39 (22:00) was so amazing... It's literally forces cancelling each others out perfectly. I'm so blown away by this.

the smithsonian fused bullets were Minie Balls, which probably weighed at least 550 grains each. They did not have any metal jackets, but were pure lead. In addition, the muzzle velocity was relatively slow because of the weight of the bullet. Add the distance each muzzle was separated from the other, and

Really enjoyed watching this, great job!! My mind however just cannot dismiss the thought that two young soldiers managed to do this using a couple rifles braced against their shoulders without any rests, without thousands of hours of preparation and planning, just raised their rifles and shot two bullets that perfectly met each other in the air melting into each other, and by the way saving two lives simultaneously! Oh the glorious synchronicity of it all! Did they survive the war? Are their descendants out there in the world living among us because of this one happening?

The shot at 21:55 is arguably one of the coolest things that's ever been produced on the internet. I know you said you weren't trying to win the internet but that shot is in contention for it. I really appreciate you bringing all of us with you on this journey, Destin

I work in OT&E and the safety procedure evaluation towards the beginning was an unexpected but absolutely crucial component of your process. Really incredible work Destin.

Just absolutely amazing work guys ! Being not only a firearms enthusiast for decades but also a law enforcement firearms instructor with my own academy I never imagined something like this happening. Kudos to ALL involved. Keep on keeping on !!

kinda sick that the sponsorship actually made the video better in a way. Also idk if he's done this now or thought about it, but Im pretty sure the bullets just need to be spherical and denser if he wants them to fuse.

22:00 is the most incredible slow motion footage i've ever seen and that is not an exaggeration

12:47 15:00 15:47 18:40 19:50 20:30 All of these are what you came for 21:54 24:32 part of bulket sticks together 26:44 Final good shots 27:41 Video ends

Every shot was amazing! It is magnificent to watch something so fast to hit in slow motion and see how it behaves. Such a cool video. Thank you!

This video has to be hands down one of the most well explain shown video, i have ever seen in a while...❤

I notice that both your barrels have right hand twist, so when they are facing each other, the bullets are spinning in opposite directions. If you had one barrel with a left hand twist, both bullets would spin in the same direction. With the rotational energy cancelled out, it seems that it would be much easier for the bullets to fuse on impact.

That perfect collision where they just froze in the middle might be the single greatest piece of slow motion footage I have ever seen in my life... It was so still it didn't even look real, that was absolutely amazing... The one at the end with the aluminum wallet was pretty cool too...

I’m so happy with the end result of everything you did to show us how 2 bullets crash against each other, I’m saving this video for later watch again