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Remember That Cool Video of Water ‘Contorting’ in Mid Air? This One Is Better

Mar. 14, 2013 1:10pm Liz Klimas

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen water flowing in unnatural ways, but that doesn’t make it any less fascinating.

The YouTube channel brusspup previously showed us a trick that suspends, bends and even makes it look like water is flowing upward against gravity. Now Brusspup ups its game in this latest demonstration.

It’s the same idea — but better.

Sound Vibration Causes Water Stream to Bend in Viral Video

(Image: YouTube/brusspup screenshot)

Brusspup explained on YouTube that it uses more water and has better lighting, which results in even better footage. The video posted Monday has more than 1.6 million views so far.

“This is a really fun project and when you first see the results, chances are your jaw will drop,” brusspup wrote.

(Image: YouTube/brusspup screenshot)

See trick for yourself:

Here’s how it’s done:

Run the rubber hose down past the speaker so that the hose touches the speaker. Leave about 1 or 2 inches of the hose hanging past the bottom of the speaker. Secure the hose to the speaker with tape or whatever works best for you. The goal is to make sure the hose is touching the actual speaker so that when the speaker produces sound (vibrates) it will vibrate the hose.

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Run an audio cable from your computer to the speaker. Set your tone generating software to 24hz and hit play.

But this isn’t all. The trick cannot be seen with the naked eye, unless you’re using a strobe light. A camera set to shoot 24 frames per second though will pick it up.

“The higher the shutter speed the better the results. But also keep in the mind that the higher your shutter speed, the more light you need,” brusspup wrote.

As brusspup has demonstrated before, if you want the water to appear as if it were running backwards, set the frequency to 23hz or 25hz for it to look like it’s going forward in slow motion.

Watch brusspup’s original demonstration of the trick:

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(H/T: Gizmodo)

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starman57
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 1:33am
It’s simply the strobe effect of 24 frames/second film or video in play here. The same thing effectively happens in the movies where wagon wheels or propellers appear to stop motion or run in reverse.

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jvrat
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:30am
Fooled again by curios trait duh –only to find lame old nothing again

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jvrat
Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:25am
a circus use to charge a dime for this crap

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GuruMeditation
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:42am
Would make for a cool decorative fountain in the flower garden out front.

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- busterpuddles
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:11am
  Now THAT’S a great idea. Then have your stoner friends come over and pay admission to watch it.
  
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- Silvertruth
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:56pm
  Doesn’t work like that in real time. You need the camera speed to make it look like that.
  
  You would just see a wiggling hose and the effect of the water as it’s being wiggled. Every kid that has access to a water hose does that trick at some point.
  
  It’s the camera shutter speed that makes it appear to ‘hang’, go forward or reverse.
  
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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:53pm
  I highly recommend reading Masaru Emoto’s book “The Hidden Messages in Water.” This book will blow your mind. He was the first to capture on film the effects of water crystals forming in different patterns based on words spoken, your thoughts, music, and even written words. The amazing thing is he discovered water has memory! So cool! I would also highly recommend as a companion to this the works of David Van Koevering who is an expert on Quantum Physics (and famous inventor) and the man who discovered that matter actually has memory and records everything that happens around it. Many of these new discoveries points us back to many of the miracles in the Bible. Elisha at the riverbank for example. God is amazing. Science is FINALLY catching up.
  
  http://en.esoguru.com/dr-masaru-emoto-hidden-messages-of-water
  
  http://davidvankoevering.com/index.html
  
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- starman57
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 1:56am
  You can make this work in real-time in relatively low light and a strobe light operating at 23, 24, 25 hz etc….not so much in bright sunshine outdoors.
  
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Joyzee
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:50am
Damn Hippies

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- Gumbercules
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:33pm
  Don’t show this video to Cody Lundin, he’ll cry over all of the wasted water. . .
  
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vtxphantom
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:05am
Sure would be a nightmare for a drunk that wanted a drink.

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CulperGang
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:25pm
ANDTHEN THERE IS THIS:

Clinton time is a decade away. Carter time is much older. Why would they beat a dead horse? It’s similar to the recent attack on Roman Catholic with decades old sex abusing cases. There is a purpose behind it. Did other presidents of US have committed similar negligence? Why Clinton and Carter were picked up? It抯 because they are in same party with current president – Obama. To make it easy for people to believe Demo-controlled government is negligent in security. These events are used to justify a coming nuclear terror attack. The two news within a week is not a coincidence. It opens a passage of nuclear attack when the low end gate (operation) of air force and the high end gate (command) of President are both opening.

These bombing attack news and nuclear negligence news were all released at a time around 10/27.

652. Another plot of nuclear attack (11/11/2010)

I allege Feds planned a nuclear attack on US in later October. If you remember, there was an attempt of similar attack on August 30, 2007 when a B-52 carried 6 loaded nuclear missile flied over US continent.
On August 28, 2007, media reported that Bush accepted the resignation of Attorney General Gonzales. His top adviser – Karl Rove also left his post on August 30. The news told us that the rat always is the first to learn the ship would sink. And this time, we got:

Quote, ”

EXODUS OF JEWISH ADVISORS FROM OBAMA WHITE HOUSE:
by arminius33 ? Mon Oct 11, 2010

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- burdenedsoul
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:34am
  Wow man why so serious? This seems like a very odd topic to get all political/religious about. I think anyone with brain already knows how bad things are but everyone needs a break from all that crap once in a while. Sit back and enjoy the coolness of the water and stop trying to spoil it for everyone. Then ask yourself what it is that is really wrong with this country… If you were to ask I me I would respond that it has lost it’s heart and it’s little things like this that help us to remember what life is all about:)
  
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Okieracing
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:14pm
Very Very Cool! But I am surprised that the EPA or local water police does not give him a fine for waisting water. :P

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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:49pm
  Did you know that in some states, it is illegal to collect rain water (from the sky) as the state considers that THEIR water? http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html
  
  This is the insanity that big government instigates. Sorry, that isn’t what this article is about. Cool effects on the water!
  
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- MarvinMr
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:48pm
  Obama would like that to be so…
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:05pm
  Wolfgang: I had actually read a story similar to that last year and was in complete shock. Colorado is a complete dump of liberalism. I can’t believe the people of that state are so damn dumb to let the state claim rainwater belongs to the state and no one fights them. They deserve whatever happens to them. Idiots!
  
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Chuck Stein
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:27pm
Very nice. Very nice, indeed.

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bogeydead6
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:59pm
Something the DOD or Darpa could weaponize to effect the human blood stream perhaps.

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Small World
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:20pm
Love it!

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yehudis-b
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:13pm
This is just a mini version of the fountain at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZRISwKyg8

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- notsurewhatshappeninghere
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:24pm
  A little different, but very cool video! Thanks.
  
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theninthplanet
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:10pm
When you don’t record above the Nyquist rate, aliasing occurs. You won’t understand until you take a digital signals processing class, either way it just looks cool.

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- Nabuquduriuzhur
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:30pm
  Our physics teacher in high school used a strobotac with a water faucet to demonstrate.
  
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cougar3429
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:56pm
pretty amazing. Science is freakin sweet.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:23pm
About as interesting as a similar experiment on The Big Bang Theory. I think that was water mixed with corn starch on an active speaker. Whoop, whoop! Looks like what stoners watch before hitting the Dorito aisle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSb8H5C1F0

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DZ-015
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:14pm
Is this similar to the illusion that our economy can continue to run just fine on money created out of thin air?

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- Shasta.Red.Banks
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Yes, and its similar to the illusion that the country will be just fine with a president that hates it and who is in the process of deliberately destroying it.
  
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- notsurewhatshappeninghere
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Both very well said. Nothing more to say…
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:38am
  it’s a strand of Obama DNA
  
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