00:00There's a myth that if you fire ping pong ball fast enough, it can kill you like a bullet.
00:04To test it, they built an air cannon powered by vacuum pressure,
00:07but during the first trials, the ball just hovered near the barrel, refusing to fire.
00:11No speed, no launch, no myth.
00:13Until they discovered vacuum pressure chambers, one tweak, and everything changed.
00:18They reworked the design, sealed the system, and when they fired again, boom.
00:22The ball exploded out of the barrel at 779 miles per hour, faster than the speed of sound.
00:27But they weren't done, they scaled everything up, 150 foot PVC barrel,
00:32a pressure chamber loaded with 500 PSI,
00:35the result, 1100 miles per hour, faster than a jet from a plastic ball.
00:40Now what happens when that hits flesh?
00:42They brought in a slab of pork, human muscles simulated.
00:46One fire, the ball ripped a hole clean through it like it was nothing.
00:49Next, a ping pong paddle, hard, dense, designed to take hits.
00:53One shot, it punched a perfect hole straight through.
00:55No splinters, no bounce, just destruction.
00:58So yes, the myth is real.
01:00At 1100 miles per hour, a ping pong ball becomes a bullet.
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