Slow-Motion Watermelon Explosion Will Burst Your Brain

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By Laura Vitto2014-01-22 02:30:00 UTC

There's something mindlessly simple and endlessly entertaining about watching something — anything — filmed in slow motion.

So when YouTube stars The Slow Mo Guys released video of a watermelon explosion, shot at 2,500 frames per second, we couldn't help but pay attention.

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For this clip, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy use a firework to blow up a small watermelon they had originally used for this failed video experiment.

Here's the explosion in real-time:

Video: YouTube, The Slow Mo Guys

And here's the explosion slowed down:

Video: YouTube, The Slow Mo Guys

The results are loud, messy and totally satisfying.

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Topics: FOV, Slow Motion, Videos, viral video, Watercooler, YouTube

Video: YouTube, The Slow Mo Guys