explosions

  • Blowing Up Fruits And Vegetables In Slow Motion Is Good Clean Fun

    Blowing Up Fruits And Vegetables In Slow Motion Is Good Clean Fun

    Casey Chan

    Video: Some fruits and vegetables blow up better than others. A pineapple? Looks fantastic because it sends shards everywhere. An onion? Hell yeah, the unravelling of layers is awesome. A cucumber explosion? Just OK because it gets blown to bits too quickly. Lemons are a little disappointing, too, because you’d expect a better shockwave reaction…

  • This Huge Rock Explosion Looks More Like A Crazy Ocean Wave

    This Huge Rock Explosion Looks More Like A Crazy Ocean Wave

    Casey Chan

    Video: When you blow up a quarry that’s 20m high with 68 tonnes of explosives, you turn the rock wall into a tsunami wave that sends nearly 363,000 tonnes of rocks flying everywhere. The blast of the Bremanger Quarry in Norway looks great because it was carefully planned, with explosives planted in 454 blast holes…

  • Watch Glass Explode In Spectacular Slow Motion

    Watch Glass Explode In Spectacular Slow Motion

    Casey Chan

    Video: Glass can explode, and seeing it happen in slow motion is damn incredible. The Slow Mo Guys pointed the Phantom V2511 high-speed camera at a Pyrex glass measuring cup that was heated with a torch and then doused in cold water to capture the exploding glass (something about the sudden temperature change isn’t good…