We have got a workout for you. Yeah, it seems so. This guy is pretty tiny. He is pretty tiny, but he has got one of the most awesome weapons in all of the animal kingdom. This is the pistol shrimp and I wanna to say to it: “Fire!”
So I understand this little guy is one of the holy grail of slow-mo. Absolutely! I can’t wait to see it myself. You might have noticed that he has got a big claw on one side, down on the right hand side. He can shut that at about 100 kms an hour, which is effectively fast enough to rip water apart. That’s insane! It is insane. So when it does that, it cracks this cavitation bubble, where the water should be. This kind of little bubble of air, if you like. And then with the same pressure inside, the water crushes back down. It kicks out serious amount of power, serious amount of heat and even light as well. Very cool. Very cool, but. Hey! That was pretty quick! Okay, how quick roughly? I think we need to crank the frame rate pretty much high, then we gotta go. Okay, let’s up the ante then. Alright so this is our slightly improv…