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  • Hey it's me Destin welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So I am in the middle of the California

  • desert and the sun is setting, and it's beautiful, so I'll just let you

  • see that while I set this video up for you. So a guy named

  • Jeff, he's taofledermaus on YouTube, which is German for bat, which is

  • flying mammal. Anyway, he asked me if I would participate in an international

  • high speed video collaboration in an effort to promote a lot of smaller

  • channels that study things with high speed video cameras, which I love

  • so, of course I'm gonna do that. So what the common theme was was

  • destroying snack foods, because we could all get our hands on snack foods and we all like to

  • destroy things so it was an easy one. My thought going in was, oh great

  • I can just have fun with high speed video and I don't have to worry about trying to educate or learn something,

  • but I was wrong because I learned something. So here's what I'm gonna do.

  • I'm gonna show you the video that me and Trevor my neighbour made, just goofing off

  • trying to destroy snack foods and then all of a sudden, bam, I learned something.

  • So I hope you learn it with me. Ahh, well I'll just let you watch. Check this out.

  • (Destin) If you grew up in the south, you know what a Zebco 33 is.

  • Alright, so doughnut.. High speed camera..

  • Ooh! Sprinkles!

  • And, a bow.

  • (Trevor) I'll get it sitting perfectly.

  • (Destin) By the way we also have another camera here,

  • on the bow. (Trevor) Ready to rock.

  • Arrgh.. We've decided we're gonna shoot the side of a sprinkle doughnut

  • if Trevor would quit eating the doughnuts.

  • Mountain Dew.

  • (Trevor) Here's Dew in your eye.

  • (Destin) It did a helicopter thing.

  • So what do you think we should call this video? (Trevor) Well this one's gonna be mountain spew.

  • [gunshot]

  • [slowed down gunshot]

  • Don't worry. I don't waste food.

  • Little bit of lead in it though.

  • OK so now's the part where I learn something.

  • Right before I fired this P22 pistol at this doughnut, this

  • fly started buzzing around the doughnut, and I decided you know it'd be cool if I waited

  • until he was at the correct depth of field and I would fire and let the blast wave

  • propogate over his wings and see how he handles it in his flight, and he handled it

  • quite well. So what he did is the blast wave came over his wings and

  • it tucked and rolled him just a little bit but instead of trying to compensate he just

  • stops, and he waits, and when he waits he's letting

  • his centre of gravity overcome the flow of air over his centre of pressure

  • and then he paddles to the side just a little bit and once he does that

  • he regains control authority and then he just takes back off.

  • And all this happens in an instant. It was marvellous, it was pretty amazing.

  • So anyway, watch the footage, and after you see the footage, I will put the link

  • to the playlist for the high speed collaboration video so you can see

  • things that are pretty cool like, I don't know, how to shoot a slingshot with one hand.

  • Anyway, enjoy this video. I learned something.

  • [gunshot]

  • [slowed down gunshot]

  • [slowed down gunshot]

  • [music]

  • [ Captions by Andrew Jackson ]

  • Captioning in different languages welcome. Please contact Destin if you can help.

Hey it's me Destin welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So I am in the middle of the California

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