I have been wanting to build this thing as long as I understood the physics of how it all works. A super big thanks to David , Jeremy Fielding, Trent, and David. I realize most people who support Smarter Every Day don't do it for "transactional" reasons, (ie, supporting Smarter Every Day to get stuff). People usually support because they understand what I'm trying to do here and are of good will. I also realized that there is often a mental hurdle that must be crossed before support on Patreon starts. My thought is that I'd really like to give folks a baseball, and it might provide enough momentum to get over that initial hurdle. I signed the first shipment of baseballs I received, but I only have so many of those. There's no implication that my signature is worth anything.... it's just kind of what you do with baseballs... it's a tradition. After a certain number, it will transition to unsigned baseballs. I've got enough signed baseballs to over all existing Patrons, and many more, but I will wait a month or so to see how many I need to get, then I'll order the second batch. I like to support jobs and pay people for what they're good at and hopefully this will enable more of this. The machinists and welders who made the parts in this video for example. The whole intent here is to diversify away from solely being ad sponsored so I don't have to answer to anyone but myself and Patrons with respect to the types of content I choose to make. Thank you for understanding what I'm doing here, and even if you decide not to kick in at https://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday , I'm super grateful you took the time to watch this video! Thank you very much, Destin

That is the longest comment I have ever seen

I think you should fire some baseballs at a double slit in the metal plate...... With a back witness plate & see what it says.

Actually, seeing the extra hardworking people in the video made me wonder approximately how much of your own money do you spend making your videos? I’ve seen those videos where the only extra helping hands were those of your children lol, but in an episode like this, machining all of these parts must have cost a pretty penny. I know how charitable you are, and maybe some people do this stuff with you for free, but I’m curious exactly how much it all costs. Really love your channel and I hope you never run out of questions to answer. ;)

Hi destin, My name is Thiago, I’m a big fan of yours here in Brazil 🇧🇷 I love your content and became a patreon for 5-6 months now but never actually received my baseball, it wold hold a lot of sentimental value for me, because was your channel that made me learn English just to watch your videos and understand all that was said.

at 16:46 was that a cavitation bubble? in air?

9:20 the ginger cat at the top! Hahah cat be catting about

So now let's see 1000psi!

Okay it’s super cool, but now all us engineers want to know why the vacuum is suddenly lost when you reach a certain pressure? Surely troubleshooting was done to determine why this is happening, and if it can be corrected?

Destin built a tank air cannon Ohhh goddd

Ok, I know it's been a while since you worked on this but I have a question, if you launched it into the sky would it reach escape velocity?

destin kinda looks like johnathan torrens from trailer park boys

mike trout could hit that

Science is very cool!

You need to make a version with a rifled barrel now

19:58 is why you’re here. You’re Welcome.

I like his content

But the camera is on an angle for the second post so technically it's going even faster

My nickname for it is the baseball basher

that picatinny rail though :'D

Destin be like: This is NUTS

Please, for the love of god and all that is holy: use SI, because i do believe your audience is international. I have no f*ing clue what mph, feet, .... is.

Or maybe you should get super compressed air

Cat on the box

8:49 turn on the subtitles xD

that haricut...

Maybe the third rift that bounced back in the shadow was the compressed air waves traveling at Mach 1 from the baseball collision with the barrier

Wonderful production quality, which makes watching the engineering all the more enjoyable. Great work all round!

Can we just talk about how that looked like throwing an egg at a wall?

Destin: talking about aerodynamics A random team: can we go on our field to play yet?

How to win WW III: Watch this video

Wow!..... The baseball colliding with that metal plate looked like a raw egg hitting the pavement after being dropped off the Sears Tower!.....

..... My favorite part of the video is @ 20.42....."However, back in the day I had a crazy idea and I was able to convince my wife" ...... (Destin laughs, revealing the mad scientist within)..... LOL

"grown men giggling" the captions LMAO

Smarter everyday and still measures in feet ... :P

How is this even legal?

Saturday nights with the boys

"Orthogonal to the gun!!"😂

My bois setup tho

I love the mullet kicking in

Dude. combine this with the machine you guys used to hit the longest home run and see what that would do. New video idea. Shoutout plz if you do this. That would be awesome

Here in Australia that would be classed as a proscribed weapon and get you a hefty fine, if not gaol time.

now thats a lot of damage

Anybody else notice the cat sitting on top of 8 feet of baseballs at 9:09?

Macbok pro with the windows 10 toolbar lol

They created a railgun

You talk too much

9:10 your cat climbed the boxes

Compressing the air so hard with the sheer speed that it behaves like a liquid. Day-um!

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Science rules and I love watching smart people having fun with it.

A M S P E E D

It go big boom

You were on the Friday mystery dodg!

so thats what smashed my window

Hey if you were to coat the ball in Vaseline or any other petroleum based lubricant it would diesel ignite and give you more bang as well.

Nitrogen is a liquid transferring into a gas just like C02 and the reason air rifles don’t use C02 is because it moves slower than air and the best gas to use to propel an object is helium. You end up with a 30 to 40% velocity increase compared to air.

Hey check out PCP air rifle compressors they are only $200.00 to $600.00 on eBay and they build up to 6000 PSI

Your gonna need a switched valve on your pressure dump reservoir or you’ll build less vacuum on the ball

Baseball canon!? It looks like a tank to me

Imagine going thru your everyday life when a baseball DEMOLISHES YOUR WALLS just cuz some dudes thought: neat. Baseball go WHOOOSH

OK I think we know whats coming... 1000 MPH baseball cannon PLUS the 250 MPH bat.... guaranteed destruction of something makes good content.. or we launch baseballs to the moon. Either way, I'm watching that...

Wait what that a cat on the boxes???

Awesome video, and good thoughts as well as at the end of the video

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I want a wallpaper collection of the 10 frames of impact, please destin!

I would really like to know roughly how much this cannon costs. I estimate it in the 50.000$ range (without vacuum pump, gas bottles, highspeed camera :D). How far am I off?

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light speed baceball cannon

He should shoot it at a tree and see if it destroys it

imagine sitting in a tank and being hit by a 1.36 mach baseball

Miltary : invest time

Tank budget cuts be like

Why does it look like he has a suppressor on the end of it

you made me want to beat your record

So you built a tank

@9:19 yeah, just shoot a ball to the netherlands with that insane beast...

Let’s see if mike trout can hit this one

This guy is underated

9:20 cat

Whats the science on that haircut

Can we talk about the fact that they just shot a super sonic baseball out in the middle of anywhere who tf knows like that coulda clapped some guy walk-in lmao

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I would take this 450 feet dead center

Wow that's the same effect you have if you hit homerun in videogame.

Try this with a baseball size iron ball. If this works, sell this to the U.S. Army😁

That ball hit my windshield

Any young, up and coming pitchers with Mach 1 arms?

SUPER SONIC BASEBALL CANNON VS THE MAD BATTER

Amazing contraption

8:51 the subtitles, man HAHAHA

This cannon looks like the word Mercia not American Mercia

I support them now can I still get a ball

should collab with the guys at HowRidiculous to attempt to see what the baseball can and can't go through

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TL:DR: 3 people make a baseball artillery cannon

1:15 what about laminar flow?

1050mph is 1689km/h for the metric countries. Gotta go fast amirite?

Shoot the baseball at the mad batter with the rounds

9:21 Cat up on the boxes

Anyone else wondering where that 300psi test ball landed? Lmaooo

The crack sound you hear is the ball going supersonic.