A local gas bottling company had a problem one day about 20 yrs ago. Canisters were launching like missiles over a highway. It went on for HOURS. Cars, houses, billboards damaged. We were watching fomr a 15th floor office, 2 miles away. "Geez, what a bad day ..."
@@geraldthompson4633 I wasn't referring to an event in Dallas ... many large cities have a gas bottler (or several), I assume there have been similar events in many of them. The point of mentioning that disaster--which i guess wasn't explicit enough--was, having seen that firestorn, I wouldn't be shooting at a gas bottle, even if you showed me it was full of marshmallow creme!
Yup! Have you tried video game healthcare? You just pick up a first aid kit, and you go from the brink of death to feeling much better--just like that!
In middle school my science teacher got us to separate and capture hydrogen gas. We put zinc in an acid, possibly hydrochloric, and captured the hydrogen in a balloon on top of the beaker. We then taped the balloon to one yard stick and the teacher held that. I got to operate another yard stick with matches taped to it. I barely brought the matches to the balloon and it was similar to the Hindenberg burning up.
@@KirkHermaryWhen zinc hits hydrochloric acid, the hydrogen and zinc swap, leaving hydrogen and zinc chloride, a salt. HCl is never pure, so there's plenty of water to buffer the reaction.
@totally_not_a_bot it was middle school science class in about 1996. I can't remember what exactly we mixed together. However bringing the match and balloon close together was very impressive, massive fireball.
Unlikely all things considered. I'd be more worried about a cylinder taking a glancing shot and having enough juice to rocket back towards the firing line.
A coworker I knew operated a plasma cutting machine sometimes cooled with LOX. He used to smoke near it. I told him it was dangerous, that the LOX could explode. He said, "No, it can't. You need fuel. LOX is an accelerant." I said, "Exactly." There's no fuel here, either, and look what happened. Explosion. Checkmate, Mike.
Gonna be the unbearable guy to take the joke literally for a second. When oxygen ignites, doesn't it turn to carbon dioxide... or something? Idk obviously I have no clue what I'm talking about. I'm not a science magician.
@@0for30 The flames you saw there was the oxygen burning the metal of the cylinder as a fuel. Assuming the cylinder is steel, the oxygen that burnt would have turned to iron oxide (rust)
This was already a thing in halo 2 and 3 if I recall correctly. If you shot the caps off they would act like sporadic missiles and kill you if you got in the path. Back when game devs focused on the little things.
@@ethereal_synapseit gets really hectic in custom games that make those tanks respawn pretty fast. I once got an “infinite” chain of explosions. Well it want infinite but it lasted for half the round so like 4 minutes.
@@RuanvR due to its speed 5.56 better at penetration but 7.62 more heavier have much more momentum to break concrete blocks. it's usually not penetrate so deep at the armor. more so transfers all its momentum to bones. how lethal is depends on situations
If there's a fire in a building where these are stored, the fire department calls in a sniper who'll shoot these with an armor piercing round, causing a small hole where the gas will leave the container. The hole isn't big enough to cause it to fly away. Just a safe "pffft" until it is empty, rather than risking it to explode.
@@adomede Nah the rounded shape sent the bullets elsewhere Ricochet happens when you hit something flat that is square with the gun Watch the 50. cal ricochet (10+ years old) That shit is scary
Oxygen itself does not burn. It causes other things to burn. When the bullet penetrates the tank, the intense heat causes the steel to burn in a similar manner to an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.
@@flamingspinach- i think oxygen pressure in a welding tank is 2000 pounds per square inch. Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch of pressure and is why you hear a hissing sound when opening a can of coffee.
Darwin Award - Frag Farm. You bet you life upon the safety margin built into the tank? - What if there were manufacturing defects, voids or stress cracks the tank they could frag - Ive seen it happen. Not behind cover, and not far enough away. Shrapnel is real.
@@joshuaortiz2031the gun in the jaws movie is the same gun/caliber in the video, the only bullshit is that the bullet can still penetrate after a few feet of water
@@pit345 thats why I called bullshit rifles don't penetrate water that well I knew that as a kid even before i got into shooting when I saw that myth busters episode. Between that and the oxygen tank being a lot sturdier then we thought I'd say he would have never made that lucky shot unless he waited till the sharks mouth wasn't submerged.
High school shop teacher had a couple of young idiots goof off in welding class. An oxygen tank got knocked over, and the valve broke. Apparently, the tank flew across the room and shot THROUGH the cinderblock wall like a cannonball. The teacher insisted on not repairing the hole so that he could use it as an object lesson. Great teacher.
@skipads5141 After so many years I don't remember the details of the story. I believe that the incident occurred when a student and his partner were swapping to a new tank
Cutaway to what was in a mosque in a certain refugee in Lebanon: Those who will wonder, at least more than 50 of those oxygen tanks exploded in a mosque in burj al achamali long before.
It might actually be safer to shoot oxygen than an inert gas. Reason being how quickly the tank depressurizes compared to the outta control missle that the inert gas is for a longer period of time.
@@tim4cn759 that instinctive duck of fear as you look towards the loud sound and try to figure out what just blew and how to shut it off without killing yourself on accident, a true classic
Explain how they could have done this in a more safe way? Cause those oxygen tanks can go through multiple walls before stopping. That happened at high school I went to years ago.
@@MastemaJack definitely should not be standing in a field unprotected while shooting something that can randomly fly towards you or ricochet your shot back at you lmao have we not learned the lesson with steel targets yet
@BlackWACat those tanks can go through multiple walls of concrete blocks. I'd rather be able to shoot at least the distance they were at, personally I would have been further back, and be able to see where the tank is moving. Then I can move in a different direction.
.308 always gets it done! got a Armalite AR-10 my favorite gun...but hunt deer with the 700 BDL 30.06 still my favorite cartridge military should have stuck with it.
this is something foreigners, especially europeans, will never understand. this man is as american as anything. you dont even have to speak english to be an american.
I shot one in the desert with a 300 rum. It was one of the smaller canisters for medical use but I think it was thinner steal or it was under more presure. The exit point was bigger and morpressure. Ignited. It was something to behold.
@@stevenclloydits simply an oxidation reaction, a redox (reduction oxidation) reaction like thermite happens if the oxygen comes from a component that gets reduced, like iron oxide in thermite.
@@genodedemon5109it’s just an aluminum and steel alloy. The curvature of the oxygen tank is what really plays into it’s deflection of intermediate rounds. In other words, if you were to cut into it and pry it flat, the metal lose much of its integrity towards gunfire
Did this back in 2022 and the tank we set up 80 yards away from us, came back. It's really, really fun to do but just really expensive. 9/10. would recommend to check off the bucket list
@@richardlamm4826 Although it might be negligible risk is never 0 though I understand that the chance would ne much higher with multiple obstacles around. But it can happen, someone I know had his wife dying to a ricochet of her own shot in the woods... Firearms are not toys or tools to make juicy videos.
@@hadson2460Every single thing in life from writing notes with a pencil, to going to sleep, to driving a car has a risk. Because you anecdotally, know somebody who Suffered an injury 1/10 the likelihood of winning the lottery doesn't change anything. Live by probability, not possibility. There is an exception to every rule. You can't say, don't have a kid because I know a kid who has 12 fingers,12 toes, and 3 heart valves.
@@hadson2460People die from guns every single day. So what? Your story is as meaningless as saying “my friend’s wife died from shooting in the woods”. Like “my friend died from driving a car”. Ok so what? You need more details to give any real meaning to the story. “My drunk friend fell asleep and died from driving off a cliff on a mountainous road.” That actually tells you something. So what was the wife shooting? Gun, round, target, and distance are all necessary variables to know if we can learn anything and if we should care about the story. Walking up and shooting steel headshots at 2 yards with a 45 and dying from a ricochet through the eye is a big “yeah of course no shit”. Claiming someone died from a ricochet at 100 yards is a completely different story. These guys were way to far away to sustain any significant injury from a ricochet. The chance of them even getting touched was slim to none. In the event some scrap made it to them it would be nearly powerless. Plus they were wearing eye protection so they were going to be fine. Be safe but also be realistic.
@@codetech5598Yes, it was a SCUBA tank, not an industrial O2 cylinder. And it was probably thinner-walled, which is why the marine biologist got so pissed when the sherrif accidentally knocked them over.
Had an o2 tank land close to a mile away in a house (unsure why the bottom weld failed in the tank but only assuming that the torch was left on it dropped next to the O2 tank and heated it up, was a bang and a small hole in the roof and a lot of dust)
I remember some 10 years back when some place on the outskirts of Gothenburg had a big fire. I think it was a car workshop or something like that, they had a bunch of big gas bottles like these stored outside the building, not sure if oxygen or what, but police had to close off the highway and area around the place and setup some 100-200 metres away with snipers/marksmen to shoot the tops off of the bottles so they'd blow out kind of like this rather than explode.
Thx for the excitement! Did you went back and pickup the tank on the right after the one on the right went off? The shell on the left tank could have been compromised and it’s dangerous to walk near.
I once found an old medical oxygen tank in an ambulance in a junk yard. My dad and I decided to shoot it so we went to an old pit mine and shot it with a 45-70 and it was definitely the coolest thing I've ever seen. It flew probably 100 yards into the air and let out a huge fireball. It was so hot that it not only melted a golf ball sized hole where the bullet hit, but melted a softball sized hole on the back. I cut that part out and have it on display in my living room and a bunch had melted on the inside too Edit: I posted a reel for those who asked
My old man served in the Army over in Korea . He was a specialist with the M14 . He says all the time “ There’s the .308 , an then there’s everything else …” 😂
@@musoui.308 is vastly more powerful than 9mm. .308 is a full power rifle round. You might mean .380 & not .308. .380 is just a 9mm with 2mm less case length .380 ACP is the smaller handgun round. .308 Winchester is essentially 7.62 NATO Rifle ammo.
@@amortalbeingthey should be behind some protection, it's common sense 😂. A ricochet could hit them or the tank could come flying back at them and kill them easily.
@@amortalbeing In the off chance that it fell and launched towards them it would be like a pinata of limbs, and pink mist. They wouldn't have time to make any meaningful evasive reaction either. Oxygen tanks are crazy dangerous.
Fun fact, its not actually melting, the metal is burning, normally the atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen to let steel burn but the pure oxygen from the tank allows it to burn.
WhAT kind of sh!T is that?!?.... The Steal isn't melting..but it's burning?? ..Well What's the difference? Doesn't steel usually do a bit of melting..when it's 'burning'? But the last part .." Normally the atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen to let steel burn?? "When would the atmosphere be having enough the ole O2 saved up to do a bit of steel melting"? .err my bad ..Burning??"
Exactly. And people often think oxygen burns. It doesn't. Oxygen is an oxidizer. The burning stuff here is the metal not the oxygen itself. Do this with a balloon filled with pure oxygen and probably nothing happens after it pops. Try the same with a 50/50 oxygen hydrogen mixture and it's a completely different story.
Melting the steel and blow it away, like a acetylen oxy torch. You heat up the steel with the flame, then open the oxy valve to cut through. That's pretty much what i see here
@@jacktheaviator4938 Well, I read your comment and expected you to be wrong, that C + O2 => CO2 would be an endothermic reaction (takes heat to do), but that is actually still a exothermic reaction. But still the far greater exothermic reaction that happens in an oxy-fuel cut is the reduction of the Iron into Iron Oxide, that reaction releases way more energy than the Carbon.
whats crazy is those tanks are heavy.. like it would take a strong man to throw it over his head. just shows you the energy release is madness. watch them ricochets ha. like the videos man
@@robtaylor6806 you'd probably want the weight tho. Otherwise you'd be knocking yourself out on recoil. That's what I meant but yes I get what you are saying. My favorite fun is the m1 garand. I was lucky enough to shoot one and because of the weight it hardly kicked . Such a beautiful iconic firearm.
I’ve been retired for quite a while now, but I used to work at a power plant somewhere along the Mississippi River. We made a launcher with a pipe just big enough for the O2 cylinders to fit in with a piece at bottom welded on so just the valve was exposed. We could adjust the angles of the pipe for different elevation. This contraption was six stories which would’ve been around maybe twelve to fifteen normal stories high. It faced towards the river and depending on the river level it could be all water or marsh. When we would get bored we would drop a cylinder in and take a long handle maul and pop the valve off and off she went. We’d pick targets floating down the river and surprisingly we were fairly accurate. It’s no telling the number of cylinders we shot. I miss those hard days at work.
As a welder, and a serviceman; I’m more afraid of Oxygen tanks than bullets.
Imagine if that thing took off at them
Yes!!!
Propane too!
@@vangu2918propane is somewhat safer because you *expect* it to try and kill you.
As a nurse, when he said we’re going to shoot some O2 tanks. My first thought was “What the hell are you thinking?”
The science channel keeping it real.
The sparks you see with the 50 bmg round is the melted steel
My favorite scientists.
Well said ! Bravo 🎉
Hahahahaha
Frrr 😂
Title: don't shoot oxygen tanks
Content: shooting oxygen tanks
They did so we don't have to do it.
@@pocketsfullofdynamite Yes, sometimes even 2 days can go past without me needing to just shoot oxygen tanks.
@@pocketsfullofdynamiteif you need a demonstration of something someone with common sense knows not to do is a big problem
@@doughboy4681 Well if you see closely the world is upside down.
that's why you don't shoot oxygen cylinders
A local gas bottling company had a problem one day about 20 yrs ago. Canisters were launching like missiles over a highway. It went on for HOURS. Cars, houses, billboards damaged. We were watching fomr a 15th floor office, 2 miles away. "Geez, what a bad day ..."
Yes, it was LP/ liquefied petroleum/ propane gas
.. check the facts.
@@hotrodray6802 Never said it wasn't. ...Check the facts?
Crazy to think 20 years ago was 2004
That was in Dallas, or at least we had that happen here near downtown…
@@geraldthompson4633 I wasn't referring to an event in Dallas ... many large cities have a gas bottler (or several), I assume there have been similar events in many of them. The point of mentioning that disaster--which i guess wasn't explicit enough--was, having seen that firestorn, I wouldn't be shooting at a gas bottle, even if you showed me it was full of marshmallow creme!
Damn, those tanks are more resilient than I thought.
They're made of steel. Most bullets are copper jacket over lead core.
Gotta be if you want to keep all that pressure in and not out.
Call of duty lied to us
the amount of focus on the saftey around these that ive sat through, seeing this gives me the peace of mind no lecture did.
More resielent than any gamer thought
Meanwhile in video games: if you punch it, it explodes
Is that how they killt JAWS but it was just a divers tank with compressed air right?
Yup! Have you tried video game healthcare? You just pick up a first aid kit, and you go from the brink of death to feeling much better--just like that!
Reminds me of just cause video games
Duke approves
Gta teach😂
Best part of CZcams... Watching science experiments, my physics high school teacher would not permit
In middle school my science teacher got us to separate and capture hydrogen gas. We put zinc in an acid, possibly hydrochloric, and captured the hydrogen in a balloon on top of the beaker. We then taped the balloon to one yard stick and the teacher held that. I got to operate another yard stick with matches taped to it. I barely brought the matches to the balloon and it was similar to the Hindenberg burning up.
Sometimes you just gotta do it anyways 🤗
@@KirkHermaryWhen zinc hits hydrochloric acid, the hydrogen and zinc swap, leaving hydrogen and zinc chloride, a salt. HCl is never pure, so there's plenty of water to buffer the reaction.
@totally_not_a_bot it was middle school science class in about 1996. I can't remember what exactly we mixed together. However bringing the match and balloon close together was very impressive, massive fireball.
this is why aliens won't talk to us
That's pretty funny, probably true lol...
Cuando se les terminen las balas voy a bajar.
True. 😑
You're thinking of twitter.
Yep. This is why I no longer use oxygen tanks as my body armor.
hahahaaa
Uh oh, I better stop using mine as an athletic cup....
He’s never gonna get his deposit back when he goes to exchange the tanks
The irony is that they worked just fine against 5.56…
I USE BURNT PANCAKES MYSELF..
Deadly ricochet joins the chat
Unlikely all things considered.
I'd be more worried about a cylinder taking a glancing shot and having enough juice to rocket back towards the firing line.
Right? So many things could go wrong in this video but they got lucky.
@@bodesmcbodeson686 if hit at the right angle, otherwise it will just spin, think of it as a rocket 🚀
@@bodesmcbodeson686 unlikely but still a possibility especially with my luck
It's round the bullet would ricochet off to the side
A coworker I knew operated a plasma cutting machine sometimes cooled with LOX. He used to smoke near it. I told him it was dangerous, that the LOX could explode. He said, "No, it can't. You need fuel. LOX is an accelerant." I said, "Exactly." There's no fuel here, either, and look what happened. Explosion. Checkmate, Mike.
Dont shoot oxygen tanks
“Proceeds to shoot oxygen tanks 😎”
Alternate title: Kind man gives oxygen back to the planet using guns
Planet : "can we return this for some nitrogen? "
Highly likely said by woke people
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Gonna be the unbearable guy to take the joke literally for a second. When oxygen ignites, doesn't it turn to carbon dioxide... or something? Idk obviously I have no clue what I'm talking about. I'm not a science magician.
@@0for30
The flames you saw there was the oxygen burning the metal of the cylinder as a fuel. Assuming the cylinder is steel, the oxygen that burnt would have turned to iron oxide (rust)
Video game developers take notes.
This was already a thing in halo 2 and 3 if I recall correctly. If you shot the caps off they would act like sporadic missiles and kill you if you got in the path. Back when game devs focused on the little things.
Halo Bungie was really something else for the time.
Infinity ward already know
@@ethereal_synapse they were the best
@@ethereal_synapseit gets really hectic in custom games that make those tanks respawn pretty fast.
I once got an “infinite” chain of explosions.
Well it want infinite but it lasted for half the round so like 4 minutes.
🤦♂️ "7.62 nothings happening" "let's go to 5.56"
5.56 nato has more kinetic energy
@@dvrm7995 sure. But a heavier 7. 62 can travel slower and hit just as hard as a faster smaller 5.56
5.56 steel core is harder to stop than 7.62x39 just look up body armor ratings and you'll have your answers
@@DominiDiscord how can you know the 5.56 is a steel core? He didn't specify. 7.62x39 steel core will outperform 5.56x45 steel core.
@@RuanvR due to its speed 5.56 better at penetration but 7.62 more heavier have much more momentum to break concrete blocks. it's usually not penetrate so deep at the armor. more so transfers all its momentum to bones. how lethal is depends on situations
If there's a fire in a building where these are stored, the fire department calls in a sniper who'll shoot these with an armor piercing round, causing a small hole where the gas will leave the container. The hole isn't big enough to cause it to fly away.
Just a safe "pffft" until it is empty, rather than risking it to explode.
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Look at it bouncing off the the gas cans earlier…it could’ve easily ricochet
@@NickM_FirstofHisNamegirls. Multiple orgasms🤣
Exactly 💯
@@adomede Nah the rounded shape sent the bullets elsewhere
Ricochet happens when you hit something flat that is square with the gun
Watch the 50. cal ricochet (10+ years old)
That shit is scary
Oxygen itself does not burn. It causes other things to burn. When the bullet penetrates the tank, the intense heat causes the steel to burn in a similar manner to an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.
That's exactly right. Plus I always like to point out that air is 21 percent oxygen, just to help people put it in perspective
Now that you mention it, the round hole looks perfectly cut out round as if you used an acetylene/oxygen torch to cut It.
thanks, I was wondering what was actually burning there
@@flamingspinach- i think oxygen pressure in a welding tank is 2000 pounds per square inch. Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch of pressure and is why you hear a hissing sound when opening a can of coffee.
Hmm so you're saying the oxygen is burning.
Stray bullets are a bigger threat.
Darwin Award - Frag Farm. You bet you life upon the safety margin built into the tank? - What if there were manufacturing defects, voids or stress cracks the tank they could frag - Ive seen it happen. Not behind cover, and not far enough away. Shrapnel is real.
oxygen tank in movie: "Im so weak"
oxygen tank in real life: AK is just a little damage
no wonder why they're called tanks
True
So the first Jaws movie was bullshit
@@joshuaortiz2031the gun in the jaws movie is the same gun/caliber in the video, the only bullshit is that the bullet can still penetrate after a few feet of water
@@pit345 thats why I called bullshit rifles don't penetrate water that well I knew that as a kid even before i got into shooting when I saw that myth busters episode. Between that and the oxygen tank being a lot sturdier then we thought I'd say he would have never made that lucky shot unless he waited till the sharks mouth wasn't submerged.
OSHA: treat all high pressure container with care and due respect.
This guy:
No one cares
@@Nemicron001 i do
@@Genesongx then don’t shoot a oxygen tank. Really simple
Good thing it’s not a workplace and OSHA has no authority to be buzzkills 😎
Oooohh das a gooed hit..derrr
This is really fascinating! We used to use those at work in the hospital!!
Next time you feel save, comfortable and confident - remember that they walk among us.
they?
@@WhuDhat Oxygen tanks. They walk among us and are way harder to defeat than depicted in video games.
High school shop teacher had a couple of young idiots goof off in welding class. An oxygen tank got knocked over, and the valve broke. Apparently, the tank flew across the room and shot THROUGH the cinderblock wall like a cannonball. The teacher insisted on not repairing the hole so that he could use it as an object lesson. Great teacher.
My shop teacher used his missing pinky as an object lesson. 😂😂
Did he also teach that the experienced adult in charge should've had the tank secure?
@@mattiemathis9549 I had a shop teacher named Mr. Payne. He was missing several fingers. Power tools
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I’ll take ‘Things That Did Not Happen’ for $100, Alex.
@skipads5141 After so many years I don't remember the details of the story. I believe that the incident occurred when a student and his partner were swapping to a new tank
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"Dont shoot oxygen tanks"...proceeds to shoot oxygen tanks.
The last one was damn sick my man!
It flys away like a can on the canshootingrange
You definitely don't want to catch a ricochet bouncing off that tank
You sure about that? 🤔
Wait, 180⁰ ricochet... naw.
@@favoritemustard3542 that's the video, I found it - 180° ricochet
Or Maybe Any @ ALL on Anything, Smart Guy💩
You most definitely dont want to catch the tank.
That's all I was thinking about
As a hospital employee being around O2 tanks I’ve always wanted to see and do this thank you ❤
Yes, but with more eye protection.
But not at a hospital.
You're not the joker are you?
@@Fighting_Fatigue_117 why not ?😁
Your curiousity deserves to be treated fairly.
Those intrusive thoughts eh? 😂
Cutaway to what was in a mosque in a certain refugee in Lebanon:
Those who will wonder, at least more than 50 of those oxygen tanks exploded in a mosque in burj al achamali long before.
This video was actually pretty comforting, I feel safer around those tanks now
Puts Darwin Award back on the shelf.
"Not today, but soon."
Good thing Is they didn't get hurt
No Darwin award. Edwin award.
Not soon enough
Cmon they were at a safe-ish distance
Lolllllllll lol 😆 😂 🤣 😅
Shooter devs take note. Stop making everything in the building explode everytime someone grazes a tank with a .22
on cod zombies WW2, you can explode a gas canister with a mellee
@@nick335onlinehaha thats hilarious. I forgot all about that.
@@entheogenocide I still play cos WW2 zombies because I like the Easter egg challenges, so I knew that right away
no the explosions look too cool to give up
Far cry 2 nailed this mechanic in 2008
It might actually be safer to shoot oxygen than an inert gas. Reason being how quickly the tank depressurizes compared to the outta control missle that the inert gas is for a longer period of time.
Well... Advice title backfired. You told me not to do it while doing it yourself and now I'm shopping for tanks...
It’s all fun and games until an oxygen tank passes through you.
Well it depends... On what the tank decides... Flying , digging, or shrapnel, either way the survival rate would be really low. 🤣🤣🤣
That would be fun to watch
I got that reference rip to his wife
There far enough away
Ah come on, it hurts for less than a second.
As someone who works around high pressure air most of their work day, the first ping activated my fight or flight response
Doesn't it though? 😳
😂👍🇺🇲
Yup that first clink is a hit the deck moment
@@tim4cn759 that instinctive duck of fear as you look towards the loud sound and try to figure out what just blew and how to shut it off without killing yourself on accident, a true classic
I had like Vietnam flash backs with that ping 😅😅 saw one drop right on the regulator
My guy bout to fight a high pressure air tank
Your reaction...genuine!❤
5.56 Nato AP M995 is designed to penetrate 12mm of steel at 100 meters
Meanwhile movies: blows tank with a pellet.
😂😂
Also makes a mile wide fireball
That’s exactly why 21 jump street made fun of it lol nothing would explode except the chicken truck.
Movie grenade: *explosion the size of tsar bomba
A plastic pellet at that
Your extreme lack of safety makes for the greatest science channel ever. Never stop learning.
Explain how they could have done this in a more safe way? Cause those oxygen tanks can go through multiple walls before stopping. That happened at high school I went to years ago.
@@MastemaJack Could've shot from behind their car
Maybe standing behind a shield while ricocheting rounds.
@@MastemaJack definitely should not be standing in a field unprotected while shooting something that can randomly fly towards you or ricochet your shot back at you lmao
have we not learned the lesson with steel targets yet
@BlackWACat those tanks can go through multiple walls of concrete blocks. I'd rather be able to shoot at least the distance they were at, personally I would have been further back, and be able to see where the tank is moving. Then I can move in a different direction.
It doesn't actually melt the steel like you think. The extreme heat allows the O2 to instantly oxidize the steel. It's super fast rusting.
This was important and necessary research. Good job.
As the proud owner of a .308 win this brought a tear to my eye.
same🥲
Yes indeed!!!!😌
Yes sir 😢
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.308 always gets it done! got a Armalite AR-10 my favorite gun...but hunt deer with the 700 BDL 30.06 still my favorite cartridge military should have stuck with it.
This guy is the most American non American ever lol. Love it
I think he's a american citizen
He's from New Mexico 😂
@@christianyork5385 Arizona
this is something foreigners, especially europeans, will never understand.
this man is as american as anything.
you dont even have to speak english to be an american.
Why
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Darn you having all the fun!
I'm moving to the States!🎉
I shot one in the desert with a 300 rum. It was one of the smaller canisters for medical use but I think it was thinner steal or it was under more presure. The exit point was bigger and morpressure. Ignited. It was something to behold.
I’m a life insurance salesman and i approve this experiment…
I can see why
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Don’t life insurance companies have more to gain from keeping people alive?
@@Nediac800life insurance don’t cover self elimination.
@@tavuong666 agreed
-Dont shoot oxygen tanks
-preceeds to shoot oxygen tanks
Nothing beats a good example
Proof of contradiction 🤌
Yeah, unfortunately there's no law against morons having a weapon.
For science.
-Now I want to shoot an oxygen tank
This video is a lie
Real Life: *shoots rifle round, DONG*
Video Game: *lightly touches it, KABOOM! bye-bye health points.*
This is very useful for when my enemy hides behind an oxygen tank. Thank you. 🙏
What do you call a bullet proof Irish man? Rick O'Sheah!
He must friends with the invisible Irishman. Cam O'Flauge
Dad ?
Dad what are you doing on CZcams again !!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Oxygen itself doesn't burn. However the burning steel from the round penetrating it was quickly enhanced by the oxygen feeding the molten steel embers
was about to say the same thing. it is steel "burning" or more scientifically a redox reaction.
Edit: I was wrong calling it redox 🤦♂️
@@stevenclloydits simply an oxidation reaction, a redox (reduction oxidation) reaction like thermite happens if the oxygen comes from a component that gets reduced, like iron oxide in thermite.
@knusprigepommes7877 Oh, you are right, my mistake.
@@stevenclloyd im sorry for being petty lol
he should have used raufoss incendiary
Missed opportunity on sending it skyward
Q: Where'd you get those high-powered guns?
A: ... Walmart
New armor unlocked: oxygen (lv.3 armor.)
You could probably make really heavy armor with the tanks considering what it took to pennate it.
@@genodedemon5109what would be the use for it??
@@ASFArtixto stop bullets lmao
@@genodedemon5109it’s just an aluminum and steel alloy. The curvature of the oxygen tank is what really plays into it’s deflection of intermediate rounds. In other words, if you were to cut into it and pry it flat, the metal lose much of its integrity towards gunfire
Add sand and it basically stops anything
Finally!! A question that has haunted me since childhood has finally been answered. Chief Brody used a .308 to blow up Jaws.
He used an M-1 garand in 30-06
@@Edinboron fysa the actual bullet diameter for the 30-06 is .308"
@@whyomgwhywtf What? They are two different rounds. Ammo that fits in the M1garand is not usable in the M14.
@@Edinboron hes talking about bullet diameter. 30.06 and 308 both have a bullet diameter of .308".
@@verteup That's great but no one would call the M1 Garand a 308.
Did this back in 2022 and the tank we set up 80 yards away from us, came back. It's really, really fun to do but just really expensive. 9/10. would recommend to check off the bucket list
Video: “Don’t shoot oxygen tanks”
Me: “Shoot oxygen tanks”
Dude the last Oxygen tank did some martial arts move before it died.
Is there a better way to go out than that? 😂
@@Ze_Moose Probably not
friggin demon slayer lol
In today's episode of: How to get yourself killed.
Pretty dangerous
Yup, those canister should’ve been anchored with a chain a steel braided cable. Lucky the bottle did not turned into missile heading straight to them
The cylinders weren’t full to start with. One was completely empty, the others had a bit in.
@@XavierAncarno unlucky, you mean.
I'm thinking more along the lines of ricocheting. You can hear those rounds whizzing by them. Scary as hell.
It’s very dangerous to do this because the ricochet bullets can kill you.
The cylinders are cylindrical in shape. The chances of the bullet ricocheting directly back at the shooter is negligible.
@@richardlamm4826 Although it might be negligible risk is never 0 though I understand that the chance would ne much higher with multiple obstacles around.
But it can happen, someone I know had his wife dying to a ricochet of her own shot in the woods... Firearms are not toys or tools to make juicy videos.
This ain't a movie.
@@hadson2460Every single thing in life from writing notes with a pencil, to going to sleep, to driving a car has a risk. Because you anecdotally, know somebody who Suffered an injury 1/10 the likelihood of winning the lottery doesn't
change anything. Live by probability, not possibility. There is an exception to every rule. You can't say, don't have a kid because I know a kid who has 12 fingers,12 toes, and 3 heart valves.
@@hadson2460People die from guns every single day. So what? Your story is as meaningless as saying “my friend’s wife died from shooting in the woods”. Like “my friend died from driving a car”. Ok so what? You need more details to give any real meaning to the story.
“My drunk friend fell asleep and died from driving off a cliff on a mountainous road.” That actually tells you something.
So what was the wife shooting? Gun, round, target, and distance are all necessary variables to know if we can learn anything and if we should care about the story. Walking up and shooting steel headshots at 2 yards with a 45 and dying from a ricochet through the eye is a big “yeah of course no shit”. Claiming someone died from a ricochet at 100 yards is a completely different story.
These guys were way to far away to sustain any significant injury from a ricochet. The chance of them even getting touched was slim to none. In the event some scrap made it to them it would be nearly powerless. Plus they were wearing eye protection so they were going to be fine.
Be safe but also be realistic.
Idk whats more impressive. Hitting the tank no scope/red dot or finding the projectile within the rock/gravel
And that's why a bingo hall is one of the most inconspicuously dangerous places to be
🤔 Hmm also would be a horrific place for a fire to start
LMFAO!!
took a second lol
☕️ americans
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Turns out the movie jaws lied.
Nyah, not exactly lies just a Hollywood exageration... 😅
The Jaws guy shot the valve, not the side of tank, from what I remember.
@@codetech5598Yes, it was a SCUBA tank, not an industrial O2 cylinder. And it was probably thinner-walled, which is why the marine biologist got so pissed when the sherrif accidentally knocked them over.
Well, didn't he shoot it with a Garand? It would go through.
"Smile, you sonofabitch!!!"
Jaws been real quiet since this was uploaded
Had an o2 tank land close to a mile away in a house (unsure why the bottom weld failed in the tank but only assuming that the torch was left on it dropped next to the O2 tank and heated it up, was a bang and a small hole in the roof and a lot of dust)
grandma: where's my spare oxygen tank?
Meanwhile:
That's not medical grade oxygen.
@@user-dh6bj2me5pyou must be fun at parties
@@user-dh6bj2me5p Who cares, I'd huff that shit
@@user-dh6bj2me5pdefinitely welding grade O2
correction: "Gassspp"
"if that don't work, use more gun"
-tf2 engineer
😂😂😂
That thing turning into a rocket after that .50 reminded me of just cause 2 😂
I remember some 10 years back when some place on the outskirts of Gothenburg had a big fire. I think it was a car workshop or something like that, they had a bunch of big gas bottles like these stored outside the building, not sure if oxygen or what, but police had to close off the highway and area around the place and setup some 100-200 metres away with snipers/marksmen to shoot the tops off of the bottles so they'd blow out kind of like this rather than explode.
He was really sure what 2.5 inches looked like 💀
😂 his girlfriend too
Round! ☠️
How can he not😂
Best GunTubers ever!!
he fakes some of his stuff though.
FPS Russia was the goat guntuber
@@m_b4only OGs remember fpsrussia
Fpsrussia*
What about demo?
So satisfying. This is A.S.M.R. for me watching someone else do it instead of me.
Thx for the excitement! Did you went back and pickup the tank on the right after the one on the right went off? The shell on the left tank could have been compromised and it’s dangerous to walk near.
I once found an old medical oxygen tank in an ambulance in a junk yard. My dad and I decided to shoot it so we went to an old pit mine and shot it with a 45-70 and it was definitely the coolest thing I've ever seen. It flew probably 100 yards into the air and let out a huge fireball. It was so hot that it not only melted a golf ball sized hole where the bullet hit, but melted a softball sized hole on the back. I cut that part out and have it on display in my living room and a bunch had melted on the inside too
Edit: I posted a reel for those who asked
Amazing trophy 🏆
You have a cool father
Have it gold plated.
Make a video and post
Pics or it never happened…
That 7.62 ping off that o2 tank was fantastic
And then he went down to 5.56, like that was gonna penetrate.
@@tyrionp7433 Smaller diameter, but much higher velocity does penetrate better in certain situations.
@@LBCAndrew So size does not really matter then:)
@@Descension. correct! It’s the high speed that does the trick 😄🎉
@@LBCAndrew
Most definitely round was not designed to be fired at these canisters
Exploding oxygen tanks should compete in gymnastics.
Waddya mean, DON'T shoot oxygen tanks?! That looks fun as hell!
Thank you for releasing oxygen into the air. 😂
😊
🎉
it has combusted into carbon dioxide
oxygen rights
The oxygen was burned up lol
My old man served in the Army over in Korea . He was a specialist with the M14 . He says all the time “ There’s the .308 , an then there’s everything else …” 😂
Imagine killing those asian midgets with the M14, I was born in the wrong century
A .308 is smaller than a 9mm, but has a higher grain count I think.
@@musoui.308 is vastly more powerful than 9mm.
.308 is a full power rifle round.
You might mean .380 & not .308.
.380 is just a 9mm with 2mm less case length
.380 ACP is the smaller handgun round.
.308 Winchester is essentially 7.62 NATO Rifle ammo.
.308 is all I use
@@pewpew9193with a name like Pew Pew you better know your stuff lol
Some people shouldn’t be allowed near any firearm
What Happened To Grandma.?
"Dont Ask"
There was an unnerving amount of luck relied on in this video 😳
Why?
Haha in most of their videos! 😂
@@amortalbeingthey should be behind some protection, it's common sense 😂. A ricochet could hit them or the tank could come flying back at them and kill them easily.
@@amortalbeingduuurrr
@@amortalbeing In the off chance that it fell and launched towards them it would be like a pinata of limbs, and pink mist. They wouldn't have time to make any meaningful evasive reaction either. Oxygen tanks are crazy dangerous.
Fun fact, its not actually melting, the metal is burning, normally the atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen to let steel burn but the pure oxygen from the tank allows it to burn.
WhAT kind of sh!T is that?!?.... The Steal isn't melting..but it's burning?? ..Well What's the difference? Doesn't steel usually do a bit of melting..when it's 'burning'? But the last part .." Normally the atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen to let steel burn?? "When would the atmosphere be having enough the ole O2 saved up to do a bit of steel melting"? .err my bad ..Burning??"
And then does the cooling from the expanding gases put it out, or what?
@@mrkazman No the oxygen runs out stopping the reaction, it can't continue burning without the extra oxygen from the tank
@@mrkazmanwell after it been oxygenized it won't burn, right?😅
Exactly. And people often think oxygen burns. It doesn't. Oxygen is an oxidizer. The burning stuff here is the metal not the oxygen itself. Do this with a balloon filled with pure oxygen and probably nothing happens after it pops. Try the same with a 50/50 oxygen hydrogen mixture and it's a completely different story.
New exhaust replacement love it
Meanwhile I'm bitching about paying 35 bucks to swap my measly little tank out lmao
The EMT in me is more frustrated about the tanks free standing than them actually getting shot at
Not melting the steel. It's actually burning as fuel with the oxygen as oxidizer.
Melting the steel and blow it away, like a acetylen oxy torch. You heat up the steel with the flame, then open the oxy valve to cut through. That's pretty much what i see here
Actually, it is burning the carbon out of the steel, and blasting it out of the way, same as a oxy-fuel torch
Actually, it's the bullet penetrating the steel tank, causing the oxygen to vent from the opening since it is at a higher pressure than atmosphere.
@@logicplague2077 and blowing away the red hot steel during that process, right?
@@jacktheaviator4938 Well, I read your comment and expected you to be wrong, that C + O2 => CO2 would be an endothermic reaction (takes heat to do), but that is actually still a exothermic reaction. But still the far greater exothermic reaction that happens in an oxy-fuel cut is the reduction of the Iron into Iron Oxide, that reaction releases way more energy than the Carbon.
The tank learned that last move from Jackie Chan.
Love the velocity ❤
whats crazy is those tanks are heavy.. like it would take a strong man to throw it over his head. just shows you the energy release is madness. watch them ricochets ha. like the videos man
They are heavy but not that heavy.
@@robtaylor6806 you'd probably want the weight tho. Otherwise you'd be knocking yourself out on recoil. That's what I meant but yes I get what you are saying. My favorite fun is the m1 garand. I was lucky enough to shoot one and because of the weight it hardly kicked . Such a beautiful iconic firearm.
Well there is like 500sq ft of oxygen in about 5sq ft of tank
Makes rockets seem even more impressive
@@foxxy46213 500 square feet? Lmao what?? Do you mean cubic feet perhaps?
my guy really found a lead round in a pile of gravel
It was probably glowing red hot and they waited until it cooled down before picking it up?
Yeah bro...true...I totally believe he found it😮
A standard 50 BMG round has a hardened steel penetrating core, that's what he found.
He was wearing gloves, wouldn't have mattered when he picked it up.
Yes, it did not penetrate. In fact the escaping pressure neutralized its forward momentum as to be expected.
The bane of all sharks
i have seen an actual oxygen tank flying like that from bad handling, and it's scary because that thing carry a large momentum
I’ve been retired for quite a while now, but I used to work at a power plant somewhere along the Mississippi River. We made a launcher with a pipe just big enough for the O2 cylinders to fit in with a piece at bottom welded on so just the valve was exposed. We could adjust the angles of the pipe for different elevation. This contraption was six stories which would’ve been around maybe twelve to fifteen normal stories high. It faced towards the river and depending on the river level it could be all water or marsh. When we would get bored we would drop a cylinder in and take a long handle maul and pop the valve off and off she went. We’d pick targets floating down the river and surprisingly we were fairly accurate. It’s no telling the number of cylinders we shot. I miss those hard days at work.
😂 the boss must have loved it lol
I so wanted to say so you mean your stories are much taller than everyone else's get it get it😂 like Tall Tales LMFAO
Why wasn't I invited?😂
Hah! Best anecdote I have read today!
Shit talker
I swear that last tank was doing a 'Death From Above' jedi move
😂😂
Don't try it
Oh yeah huh. I remember that move from I think jedi academy... Played that way too much
Palpatine did it on those Jedi “masters” who came to arrest him. RIP Kit Fisto 😢
Either tank could have Killed the guy
what a moron
That's not science, that's ART!
You did an excellent job on this video! It is super interesting!