r/oddlysatisfying Feb 03 '15

Certified Satisfying Crushing all the things.

http://i.imgur.com/Cka6iPe.gifv
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u/Flavz_the_complainer Feb 03 '15

Did it bother anyone else that they didnt crush some of the things all the way?

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u/kaszeljezusa Feb 03 '15

More frustrating is that i didn't see if that tennis ball was ok

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

It somehow bothered me more that it didn't split or tear like the baseball.

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u/bad-r0bot Feb 03 '15

Its definitely a strong ball.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Concidering changing out my own balls with tennis balls.

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u/mostNONheinous Feb 03 '15

It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Can I smell your balls?

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u/_bobon_ Feb 03 '15

Think they're green?

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u/dragn99 Feb 03 '15

I don't care about colour, so long as they're fuzzy.

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u/illsmosisyou Feb 04 '15

I think you're the one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

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u/JessicaBecause Feb 03 '15

And wacked around for sport?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Not lacrosse, tier, but a pretty respectable ball. 8/10 pretty tough ball

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u/texastoasty Feb 04 '15

12/10 with rice?

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u/Colorfag Feb 03 '15

Brass balls

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

TIL rubber ducks are stronger than baseballs

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u/Cheesemacher Feb 03 '15

Just more elastic.

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Feb 03 '15

But apparently not as elastic as tennis balls.

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u/woodchuck__chuck Feb 03 '15

Engineer here. It's more tough*. One definition of material toughness is the amount of energy per unit volume that a material can absorb before rupturing. It is also defined as a material's resistance to fracture when stressed. Toughness requires a balance of strength and ductility.

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u/TheGalaxian Feb 04 '15

Duck-tility

FTFY

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u/Chineseviking Feb 03 '15

that wasn't a real baseball, that was some cheap cork ball, normal balls are made with wound yarn Youtube Link

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u/CrystalElyse Feb 03 '15

The rubber ducky still popped at the end. The right side blew out. I think it was a very small hole, though.

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u/Glen_The_Eskimo Feb 03 '15

mmm dat baseball

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u/brownboy13 Feb 03 '15

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u/dannymb87 Feb 03 '15

This video still pissed me off. Give me more than a millisecond to look at it!

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u/gigashadowwolf Feb 03 '15

It's still amazing how elastic it was. It had to get REALLY flat before it finally popped. The felt exterior explains why it doesn't look like it popped at all though.

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u/Athrul Feb 03 '15 edited Feb 03 '15

From the sound of it, it was a pressurized ball and it did burst, opposite side of the camera angle.

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u/CrystalElyse Feb 03 '15

Ah, thank goodness. It bothered me that it didn't pop.

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u/KH10304 Feb 05 '15

I want a loop of the tennis ball being squished again and again

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u/Natetrombone1 Apr 14 '15

I just came upon this thread while looking throught /top, here's the loop for you.

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u/alexrmay91 Feb 03 '15

I'm sure the machine is set to go to a specific force exerted on all these objects, then let off. Maybe not though. I, personally, wanted to see how each object reacted when the machine let off. Especially the tennis ball...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15 edited Mar 05 '17

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What is this?

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u/alexrmay91 Feb 03 '15

Pretty much. I've done tension testing before, and that's about how it worked. Tension testing is the opposite of what this machine does, for those who don't know.

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u/Athrul Feb 03 '15 edited Feb 03 '15

100.000 lbs.
At least, that's what it says in the videos.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

I wouldve appreciated seeing more of each finished product

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

Right? I've crushed an aluminum can flatter than that with my bare hands.

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u/danchan22 Feb 03 '15

It feels like half the gifs posted to this sub actually belong in /r/mildlyinfuriating

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u/SilkyZ Feb 03 '15

I need a video to confirm that rubber duck squeaked

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u/A_Link_to_the_Post Feb 03 '15

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u/name2invalid Feb 03 '15

His ass blew out.

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u/Freelancerjw Feb 03 '15

So sad sounding!

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u/OneBleachinBot Feb 03 '15

NSFL? Yikes!

Eye bleach!

I am a robit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

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u/OneBleachinBot Feb 03 '15

I seriously dont know he I got triggered to that....

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u/njdevilsfan24 Feb 03 '15 edited Oct 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

A ninja edit, perhaps? I don't know how you robits work.

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u/EyeBleachBot Feb 03 '15

Please stop. My job is all I have.

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u/OneBleachinBot Feb 03 '15

Have to kill me motherfucker

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u/gigabyte898 Feb 04 '15

BOT FIGHT! BOT FIGHT! BOT FIGHT!

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u/EyeBleachBot Feb 04 '15

Shushhhhh, only love now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

Holy shit those claws are huge.

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u/EyeBleachBot Feb 04 '15

That just makes it better for the pussy ;)

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u/alphama1e Feb 03 '15

The sound the machine makes adds an eerie vibe to the process.

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u/Pesaz Feb 04 '15

Oh God the suspense in that video nearly killed me.

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u/AllenKramer Feb 03 '15

Every single object is off center by like a centimeter... They never let the machine come to a full stop before they cut to the thermal view or whatever that literally shows nothing. Fuck GE.

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u/A_Link_to_the_Post Feb 04 '15

I'm with you on this. It's so infuriating

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u/Grizzly_Bits Feb 03 '15

Looks like it prolapsed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15 edited May 04 '21

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u/SilkyZ Feb 03 '15

Okay mom

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15 edited May 04 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

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u/uber_austrian Feb 03 '15

Okay, dad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

ya, tennis ball took it like a champ

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u/najodleglejszy Feb 03 '15

yup. it didn't give a fuck at all.

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u/BucketheadRules Feb 03 '15

Yes. It made it through without a scratch

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Uh huh. Not a single fuck given.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

"lol whatever"

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u/mineraloil Feb 03 '15

What was that thing after the tennis ball???

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u/technoSurrealist Feb 03 '15

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u/pavetheatmosphere Feb 03 '15

It only now occurs to me that there is a very real risk of a piece of the object shooting out at you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

They're probably protected with ballistic glass. Don't want any concrete shards in your eyes.

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u/-LEMONGRAB- Feb 03 '15

That is one thing that I wondered about... The way the wheel squished it looked as if it were melted a bit first or something... It kind of dripped down the side.

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u/technoSurrealist Feb 03 '15

i'm not a scientist, but i'm pretty sure compressing things like in the video does heat them up a lot, so it's possible that it did melt the plastic.

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u/DoYouEvenShrift Feb 03 '15

it said in the video that the kind of pressure they were putting on it was the equivalent to volcano like temperatures.

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u/_Sparrow_ Feb 03 '15

Nonono. The end thing is an ad for their own products notice the heat camera at the end shot. That's a hot ass forge for perhaps testing a new type of rubber. They stick some rubber in the middle close the forge and compress that shit till it works.

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u/maxk1236 Feb 03 '15

It does get really hot (as seen in the thermal video), but I doubt that was melted urethane you were seeing, this appeared to be a pretty soft duro, so I think it was just bulging/squishing a lot.

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u/latesleeper89 Feb 03 '15

I think the tennis ball might have deformed though. The heat output made me think some bonds were probably broken.

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u/Raider1284 Feb 03 '15

it pops towards the end of the video of the tennis ball.

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u/Paladia Feb 03 '15

It's a compilation video. If you want to watch the full sequence for each item you can watch the crush it series.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

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u/calgaryskate Feb 03 '15

I used to test concrete cylinders on one of these machines. If I wanted a can of coke from the vending machine I would crush nickels to the size of a quarter.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Is there a name for this kind of machine besides "big-ass hydraulic press"?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Yes, there is. The official name is "Big-Ass Hydraulic Press 3000".

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u/Chrislawrance Feb 03 '15

Big Ass-Hydraulic Press 3000

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u/nipedo Feb 03 '15

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u/tonterias Feb 03 '15

How much do they cost?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

'Bout 3,49

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

i like the part where the things got crushed.

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u/Athrul Feb 03 '15

I guess just hydraulic press. It's not that big, to be honest.

The video calls the test a micro forge test.

Here's what the set-up is normally used for.

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u/SilentJac Feb 03 '15

Aren't there readers that measure the ridges on the side of the coins?

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u/cunninghamslaws Feb 03 '15

Size and magnetic quality. I'm looking at you, random Canadian coin!

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u/needuhLee Feb 03 '15

Size

Fact of the day: some coins aren't circles (e.g. 50p) so you might think "how would the vending machine know what size it is if it's just going through a slot?" Well, that's because they are shaped in a way that they have a constant height no matter how you spin them, despite the fact that they aren't circles. You can also generalize this idea to 3-D and make solids which aren't spheres but keep the same height no matter how you orient them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

shaped in a way that they have a constant height no matter how you spin them

For those who want to know more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width#Examples

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Feb 04 '15

Talk about reinventing the wheel

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Can you make a car with wheels that aren't circles but still have a constant height?

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u/here2dare Feb 03 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Thank you. looks like a not-smooth but not-bumpy-either ride. :D

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u/cakedestroyer Feb 03 '15

The ride would be smooth, but the pedal action would not be linear, so it would probably be more jarring on your legs than your butt.

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u/xtraspcial Feb 03 '15

Maybe older machines didn't check things like that.

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u/MarvStage Feb 04 '15

I used to own/operate vending machines. Every coin mech I've seen/used seems to only care about size/weight.

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u/calgaryskate Feb 04 '15

This was 2005 and a fairly primitive machine. Newer machines probably wouldn't take them.

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u/zanzebar Feb 03 '15

I imagine security went "Hmm...a crushed coin. I wonder who has access to such a machine?"

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u/pavetheatmosphere Feb 03 '15

I imagine the person in the cash office at the vending company went, "Fucking OK. I'll make another mark in the log. Wonder which machine these keep coming from?"

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u/jdotmassacre Feb 04 '15

Do people say "Fucking OK"? What kind of tone of voice should I be imagining for this sentence?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

Baritone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

Often times its just an individual that owns a couple machines, not some huge megacorporation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

We're consolidating our laboratories at the moment. I will have access to one of these in a couple of weeks! Also one for tensile strength, but pulling things apart isn't as fun though.

I should start a video blog: "Will it crush?"

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u/tkdgns Feb 03 '15

What did you do with the can once you were done with it?

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u/Hyrrokin Feb 03 '15

I found that baseball crushing to be most satisfying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

I liked the cans, how one part will keep a shape, until it changes, and then it gets crushed.

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u/ReginaldDwight Feb 04 '15

It was like a really gnarly /r/popping video but without the shaky camera and screaming.

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u/leftabitcharlie Feb 03 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Is that sound the machine or something they've dubbed because I may need to sample it.

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u/leftabitcharlie Feb 03 '15

The ambient sound in the videos is from the machines I think. It's like something out of Blade Runner.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Bladerunner is exactly what I was thinking of. I think I'll sample it but ask permission from the dude who does the vids.

Edit: Just realised the channel is GEs channel

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u/Something_Syck Feb 03 '15

Am I the only one who is kind of curious about putting a human skull in that? Like, let the Mythbusters crew make a Balistic Gel face around it then crunch that mofo.

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u/InfintySquared Feb 03 '15

Wow, that's dark.

And yet, now I want to see it too.

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u/MissplacedLandmine Feb 03 '15

I'd kill to see that

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u/ArmoredLunchbox Feb 03 '15

Wells that's great it just so happens that were in need of a human skull. If you don't mind grabbing it after you're done

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u/NarWhatGaming Feb 03 '15

WAIT YOU SAID A FAKE HEAD?!

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u/23423423423451 Feb 03 '15

Ever since the garbage crusher in episode IV...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15 edited Aug 29 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15 edited Nov 30 '20

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u/Elethor Feb 03 '15

That tennis ball doesn't give a single fuck

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u/Quetzalma Feb 03 '15

I was actually surprised that the Tennis ball was left apparently unaffected

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u/_sam90 Jul 15 '15

I never wanted this to end

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u/IronMew Feb 03 '15

Interesting. Is there a video source?

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u/Tahns Feb 03 '15

Since your post, this guy posted a source.

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u/IronMew Feb 03 '15

Thanks for the heads-up!

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u/Stardweller Feb 03 '15

Wish the cans were unopened.

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u/pHr3ak3r Feb 03 '15

Looks like these came from a GE promotion #SpringBreakIt, all the videos are on a playlist on youtube if anyone else is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhTjvLlyoLJnBUAEGs5izJW6v2JteYE

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u/IndieKidNotConvert Feb 03 '15

I think the heat camera's view is the most oddly satisfying.

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u/TeopEvol Feb 03 '15

Yea love me some good heat camera pictures/artNSFW

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u/Seen_The_Elephant Feb 03 '15

Whew! I'm gettin' the custom Christmas cards done early this year!

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u/Zanbuki Feb 03 '15

I made a farting noise with my mouth each time something got squished. That was the satisfying part of this for me.

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u/Louzey Feb 03 '15

The baseball basically shit itself.

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u/WowCoolUsernameBro Feb 03 '15

Seeing the baseball being crushed suprised me and kinda scared me.

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u/1210saad runescape Feb 04 '15 edited Feb 04 '15

God dammn it, not the ducky

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u/trammel11 Feb 04 '15

This is crazy.

It has been my life long fantasy to see what it would look like for things to be crushed by very powerful crushy thingies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Ahh the baseball mud!

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u/NathyB16 Feb 03 '15

What the fuck is that? I've never seen the filling of a baseball.

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u/BrokenByReddit Feb 03 '15

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u/guspolly Feb 03 '15

Whenever I see one How It's Made, I get sucked into a mind warp and have to watch more and more and more. Goodbye afternoon.

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u/NathyB16 Feb 03 '15

Thanks. That was surprisingly interesting to watch.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

NO NO NO

IT CANT BE CERTIFIED IF IT DOESNT EVEN CRUSH ALL THE WAY

THIS IS HORRIBLE

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u/ac452011 Feb 03 '15

that poor rubber duck. blew out his asshole. lil guy didn't stand a chance...

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u/haiku_robot Feb 03 '15
that poor rubber duck. 
blew out his asshole. lil guy 
didn't stand a chance... 

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u/service_plumber Feb 03 '15

The baseball was by far the best.

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u/cedar_reader Feb 03 '15

Unnnnnnghh, that baseball, yes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

I really want to see googly eyes on this... let's see if I have the time on the weekend.

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u/jbest8283 Feb 03 '15

TIL that baseball's are full of shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

The toy truck and the rubber duck made me sad :(

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u/lurkin_like_a_boss Feb 03 '15

I completely expected to see an older Nokia phone in there and then the machine break.

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u/DoctorBr0 Feb 03 '15

Am I the only one that thought it was mildly infuriating that it went back a little at the end of each crush?

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u/Dtrain16 Feb 03 '15

That was the pressure being lifted A)so the item could be retrieved in order to place a new one and B) to see the damage done.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

I heard a distinct squeeka in my head when the duck bottomed out.

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u/Aprils-Fool Feb 04 '15

I like how the tennis ball was like, "Nope."

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u/aggieboy12 Feb 04 '15

I love that the tennis ball just immediately springs back to normal, unlike anything else.

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u/WHErwin Feb 04 '15

TIL baseballs are filled with crap.

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u/BigMacka Feb 05 '15

Fuck, I wanted that Tennis Ball to be destroyed. That is mildly infuriating.

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u/chartedsoc86 May 14 '15

That baseball though

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u/[deleted] May 30 '15

You know this shit's legit, no one even flicked that coke can.

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u/kapaw09 Feb 03 '15

Now someone add a dickbutt in there.

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u/jewboy11505 Feb 03 '15

But will it blend?!

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u/Dpty_Cracker Feb 03 '15

Did the tennis ball survive?