Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet?

Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by jkingsman on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:28PM (#34020689)

Awesome video -- pretty low on fluff compared to how bad YT can get these days, which is a pleasant surprise.

I totally understand the physics and reality of sound/light/etc. traveling different speeds in different mediums, but it's always such a wild thought to me. It tickles my brain in such a delightful way.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by permo-w on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:31PM (#34021500)

given that (in physics) sound is vibration, I think a clearer way of phrasing it is that glass cracks at the speed at which a vibration can travel through it. glass is much denser than air, so the particles can knock into each other more easily, meaning that the speed of sound (or vibration) in glass is a lot faster

(this isn’t aimed at explaining it to you, just to write out my thoughts, as I found their explanation a little odd)

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by cwillu on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:05PM (#34021832)

They made it to that explanation in the video eventually.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by permo-w on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:40PM (#34022206)

fair enough. I didn’t quite make it to the end

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by version_five on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:45PM (#34021658)

For anyone who doesn't want to watch an 8 minute video, the glass / bullet race is at 2:40.

Maybe it's low fluff relative to other YouTube videos, for me it could have been a 5 second GIF without any real loss.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by photoGrant on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:11PM (#34021904)

Some want education. Some want entertainment. Some want some wrapped in some.

Sometimes.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by into_infinity on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:31PM (#34022126)

This is less about "customer demand" and more about having to meet minimum video length for mid-clip monetization slots. Strictly an artifact of how YouTube works.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by photoGrant on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:41PM (#34023802)

I didn't know, I pay the Premium to hide that stuff. Regardless, given the effort and lengths they went to, I'm happy to see them do so in a manner that funds their ability to do more.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by WhackyIdeas on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:13AM (#34027889)

YouTube know what they are doing… irritate the hell out of you until you buy Premium.

I once had YouTube on in the background and an advert which was an hour long popped up - but I was focused on something else and away from the screen and the tv remote.

The advert? A video of someone pointing a camera outside of a window during the night and onto a dark street (no sounds other than rustling from the person holding the camera). An hour long of it.

Skip.

It was soon after this I paid up.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by RobotCaleb on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:14AM (#34035896)

You ... rewarded this behavior instead of installing ublock origin and never seeing another YouTube ad?

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by wruza on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:19PM (#34023138)

I’ve seen some doing 10 second previews of action parts and then proceed to setup and education. Too bad platforms encourage them to make you watch a couple of minutes of things that you may not be interested in at the time.

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Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? by yunohn on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:59AM (#34027782)

It’s interesting that people complain about vapid reels/TikTok, while also hating on medium-length educational content.

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