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October 10, 2009 By Zog

Extreme Slow Motion Bullet Video

The above video was taken at one million frames per second, so fast that you can watch the individual cracks forming as a bullet shatters a sheet of glass. The video is much art as science; both mesmerizing and illustrative of just what a narrow realm of matter and velocity we exist in. At these velocities a bullet deforms like a lump of butter, a sheet of steel no more substantial than paper.

(Via Geekologie)

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