Because it took like 2 seconds of reverse image searching to find a bunch of copycat videos of the same concept/set up with a cybertruck in the background.
It's crazy how many people fall for shit like this. On the second time I've watched it, it was obvious that it's fake. And then you notice the cyber truck and it's even more obvious
I definitely still think it's fake, but hard disagree on that the hammer would bounce up slower. I've done this exact type of experiment a bunch of times with different objects and yoga balls absolutely launch objects.
For starters, hammers are weighted. That could mean it's a heavier or lighter weight hammer. This one doesn't look particularly big for a drilling hammer or mini sledge.
Then you have to account for amount the ball depresses when it hits the pavement. As it depresses from the weight of the ball it will simultaneously punch out on the opposite end as the air inside shifts.
Finally you also have to account for the air pressure inside the ball itself. The more it's inflated, the less something is going to sink into it when it's dropped on it.
I don't currently have a yoga ball or I'd go give it a shot my self just to try it. I'm pretty confident that you could achieve this same result with the right parameters.
A sledge that size would probably be at least 10lb, my intuitive sense of physics having used hammers and played with yoga balls tells me that this looks off, in addition to the obviously staged nature of it all.
I think you are heavily over estimating the weight of that hammer. It looks like it's no more than a 64oz hammer. A 10lb sledge would be a demolition sledge and have a 4ft handle.
That might be where your sense of the physics is off and this particular case.
Could be. But, does that mean you think that this is real? If it's not real, then we know that the hammer is not heavy, which means that the physics we see here don't represent what an actually heavy hammer would do.
Getting a hammer that size to the face with that amount of (very deadly) force would be way more intense than his reaction suggests. If this actually happened the guy would not have been able to react at all after the impact.
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u/RoidnedVG 13d ago edited 13d ago
This guy has made multiple fake videos like this. The cybertruck is to bait engagement. And based on the comments here, it works.