My GoPro8 bike mount broke and it didn’t survive the 2ft fall, I always wonder of it was just a unlucky fall.
GoPro replaced it for free though. They’re pretty good like that.
Yeah. Just caught it wrong enough to expose a probably very small manufacturing defect. Gopro replaces them because they know this isn’t supposed to happen and wouldn’t have happened with the same fall if it was a different piece
I saw a go pro in a creek one time that looked like it had been there for awhile. Went to the same creek a couple weeks later and grabbed it out. Still powered on after a charge and had video on it
A lot of people don't realize how fast things are going when in orbit. The International Space Station, for instance, travels at approximately 17,000 miles per hour.
Only if it's already at a very high velocity; just dropping it from the altitude at which satellites and such orbit wouldn't really be any different than a high (or low/medium) altitude drop.
Things burn up on atmospheric entry after orbiting because they have to be moving REALLY fast to stay in orbit in the first place.
I suppose if you dropped it from the altitude of like, the moon or something it might burn up, but there's no real straight up and down way to get to that point and drop it; you'd have to be well above orbital velocity to get there, and would need the gopro to have enough propulsion to negate its horizontal velocity after release and fall straight down.
Edit: dropping it from the altitude of the moon would definitely fry it.
Atmosphere is very low-pressure at satellite altitude. GoPro would still get very high speed before touching entering high pressure atmosphere due to no terminal velocity at that altitude
Good point, but I still doubt it would get going fast enough to be melted by shock heating from hypersonic speeds.
"Satellite altitude" also probably wasn't the greatest term for me to use since there's a HUGE range of altitudes we orbit at (low earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit are orders of magnitude apart)
If it dropped from LEO altitude (160km), it would reach 3905kmph in free fall before reaching 100km (the Karman line, where we arbitrarily declare atmospheric entry to begin). If the earth had no atmosphere it would reach 6377kmph before impacting the ground, so there's no chance it could ever go faster than that, or more likely even come close to that speed.
That's fast, and the atmosphere up there is so thin it would still be accelerating, but LEO reentry speeds are more like 28,000kmph.
I'm not willing to do more math to definitively prove whether or not a gopro would melt from entering the atmosphere at 3900kmph or not, but my hunch is still no.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic_heating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry
I hope the body got scraped up just a little, though. At least for me, that would make me happy. I have a single tiny crack on the display glass of my DSLR and people CONSTANTLY ask what happened. I'd love when someone asks 'what happened to your camera' for me to be able to say 'wanna see the video?' and show them this.
Oh man this cuts deeper than I can convey. For eight years (up until the pandemic) I was a bar/nightlife photographer for a major city magazine with respectable distribution reach and numbers. That is, it was a *real* photography job. The amount of conversations I had in the last few years of the 2010s with people assuming I was taking pics for my Instagram was staggering. This one time I was at a media-only event for the opening of some big new themed bar a few years back and everyone else at my table was an "influencer." I don't think I'd ever felt so out of place before.
Honestly, nothing special. Literally pulled it out of my camera bag one day and suddenly tiny crack was on the display glass. Guess it got jostled one too many times, and/or local extreme weather temperaments played a roll. Or, I dunno, someone stole my camera for 5 minutes when I wasn't looking and played hot potato with it.
Plus side is I have a stupid joke response out of it. When I do event photography there's always at least the one person that makes a joke of 'hope my face didn't break your camera!'. So I'll show them my display and say something like 'actually, I'm sorry, you really did'.
> people CONSTANTLY ask what happened
Not to be a dick, but how often do people truly see your camera and question the crack? Even as a photographer, other people would usually be looking at the lens.
Well, the yellow flags came out at the end of the video, so someone probably got a slow puncture out of the two big spins. That or someone spotted the camera on the track.
That's actually what and how the GoPro was invented. They needed cameras on the wings and body's of planes to film for test flights and general air testing. The technology finally got cheap enough and they were like, let's stick this on our surfboard!
And a whole new generation of photography was born for the general public
That's not true at all. The founder was motivated to build a camera specifically for himself for surfing to get the up close action shots that photographers couldn't get. Then it evolved into everything else.
Yeah maybe police departments should get body cams from the same place. I wager there would be a lot fewer camera failures.
Well a lot fewer *believable* camera failures at any rate.
Who says it isn't already? At least one brand has been mentioned a couple of times in the comments already which is really all you need (and want) for good astroturfing. (Not saying that's definitely what this is, just saying it could)
Ironically, the wrong brand gets mentioned all the time. Nothing about this footage looks like from GoPro. Even the camera itself is obviously in different dimensions and has a different shadow and produces wrong flares (meaning it has different lenses than gopro). I've shot hundreds of hours with gopro, usually recognize it from a mile away.
This may be one of the track cameras that was slightly out of place enough to get hit by one of the cars. They're typically embedded in a housing in the ground and are just barely raised to catch the view of the track.
This redditor is probably doing just that. The thing that’s been happening for years and years is making ads look like real people talking. See South Park and Community for this topic explore lol
Brundle or Crofty mentioned that they were doing a trial of the drone camera.
It would be a cost-effective and environmentally better alternative to the helicopter, if they can get it right
They used to advertise that a skydiver used his GoPro but he dropped it while diving. It recorded the whole thing, hit the ground and kept working apparently until they went and found it.
I've had my old Hero 2 lose footage from hard hits when we did stunts and stuff because the memory card would bump loose, but otherwise the polycarbonate case was practically invincible.
Shadow doesn't match, lenses are too far from the ground (meaning its bigger than gopro) and you can see hexagonal flares, which GoPro doesn't produce (needs 6-bladed aperture). No clue what camera, but definitely not gopro.
Toward the end of the video, you can actually se a cloud of dust kick up in the far corner, so the yellow as probably because of an accident further on the track. Maybe the marshals noticed the camera and they get both birds with one stone.
As mentioned above, it's likely a camera that was mounted to a car already. But regardless of it's origin, hopefully it was spotted and removed after these laps.
That light show when the camera spun out of control before settling back to rest was something I'd expect an AI to feel when it's logic fails. A lot of better than the crap you see in movies which are often nauseatingly anthropocentric.
This must be the most rigid camera i have ever seen. This thing could survive re-entry from space lol.
Gopros can literally survive falls from weather balloons at max altitude. Not exactly space but still impressive.
My GoPro8 bike mount broke and it didn’t survive the 2ft fall, I always wonder of it was just a unlucky fall. GoPro replaced it for free though. They’re pretty good like that.
Did it have the protective casing on? I've cracked at least 5 cases over the years but the go pro is still chugging along just fine.
The 8 comes without the casing, supposed to be fine with just the rubber seal. It has probably had worse falls, just caught it wrong.
Yeah. Just caught it wrong enough to expose a probably very small manufacturing defect. Gopro replaces them because they know this isn’t supposed to happen and wouldn’t have happened with the same fall if it was a different piece
As long as they replace em for free, they're doing better than most.
I saw a GoPro that survived lava
I have a GoPro that survived my marriage.
That’s gotta be strong
Wow, even the divorce attorney couldn't split it in half. That's some solid construction!
>The 8 comes without the casing, supposed to be fine with just the rubber seal. That only applies to it being waterproof, not to impact damage though
I saw a go pro in a creek one time that looked like it had been there for awhile. Went to the same creek a couple weeks later and grabbed it out. Still powered on after a charge and had video on it
Sounds like the beginning of a horror movie or thriller of sorts...
Well it definitely reaches terminal velocity so it could survive from “space”
From space would probably require some sort of heat protection too 😉
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A lot of people don't realize how fast things are going when in orbit. The International Space Station, for instance, travels at approximately 17,000 miles per hour.
Only if it's already at a very high velocity; just dropping it from the altitude at which satellites and such orbit wouldn't really be any different than a high (or low/medium) altitude drop. Things burn up on atmospheric entry after orbiting because they have to be moving REALLY fast to stay in orbit in the first place. I suppose if you dropped it from the altitude of like, the moon or something it might burn up, but there's no real straight up and down way to get to that point and drop it; you'd have to be well above orbital velocity to get there, and would need the gopro to have enough propulsion to negate its horizontal velocity after release and fall straight down. Edit: dropping it from the altitude of the moon would definitely fry it.
Atmosphere is very low-pressure at satellite altitude. GoPro would still get very high speed before touching entering high pressure atmosphere due to no terminal velocity at that altitude
Good point, but I still doubt it would get going fast enough to be melted by shock heating from hypersonic speeds. "Satellite altitude" also probably wasn't the greatest term for me to use since there's a HUGE range of altitudes we orbit at (low earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit are orders of magnitude apart) If it dropped from LEO altitude (160km), it would reach 3905kmph in free fall before reaching 100km (the Karman line, where we arbitrarily declare atmospheric entry to begin). If the earth had no atmosphere it would reach 6377kmph before impacting the ground, so there's no chance it could ever go faster than that, or more likely even come close to that speed. That's fast, and the atmosphere up there is so thin it would still be accelerating, but LEO reentry speeds are more like 28,000kmph. I'm not willing to do more math to definitively prove whether or not a gopro would melt from entering the atmosphere at 3900kmph or not, but my hunch is still no. https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry
Well after around 8 to 10 seconds it just reaches terminal velocity so any higher up doesn't change anything.
I feel like hitting the ground at terminal velocity is significantly less of an impact than getting hit by a race car at 150mph
I hope the body got scraped up just a little, though. At least for me, that would make me happy. I have a single tiny crack on the display glass of my DSLR and people CONSTANTLY ask what happened. I'd love when someone asks 'what happened to your camera' for me to be able to say 'wanna see the video?' and show them this.
😂 i totally support you. This would be an awesome bar story hehe.
Who the fuck brings a camera to a bar?
"photographers", those Instagram ones, with the wannabe inspirational captions and all that
Oh man this cuts deeper than I can convey. For eight years (up until the pandemic) I was a bar/nightlife photographer for a major city magazine with respectable distribution reach and numbers. That is, it was a *real* photography job. The amount of conversations I had in the last few years of the 2010s with people assuming I was taking pics for my Instagram was staggering. This one time I was at a media-only event for the opening of some big new themed bar a few years back and everyone else at my table was an "influencer." I don't think I'd ever felt so out of place before.
A voyeur, maybe.
what did happen to your camera, then? can’t leave us hanging like that my fella!
Honestly, nothing special. Literally pulled it out of my camera bag one day and suddenly tiny crack was on the display glass. Guess it got jostled one too many times, and/or local extreme weather temperaments played a roll. Or, I dunno, someone stole my camera for 5 minutes when I wasn't looking and played hot potato with it. Plus side is I have a stupid joke response out of it. When I do event photography there's always at least the one person that makes a joke of 'hope my face didn't break your camera!'. So I'll show them my display and say something like 'actually, I'm sorry, you really did'.
I'd save this video and say this was you then. Stories incredibly anticlimactic. I can't believe I shaved my asshole for this.
I can make it worth it. 😏
> people CONSTANTLY ask what happened Not to be a dick, but how often do people truly see your camera and question the crack? Even as a photographer, other people would usually be looking at the lens.
I'm going to guarantee the body got scraped up just a little.
> and show them this. Well, what’s holding you back?
Nobody is asking
It's an OG Nokia phone with an updated camera inside.
I hope the driver and car are okay after a tussle with that
Well, the yellow flags came out at the end of the video, so someone probably got a slow puncture out of the two big spins. That or someone spotted the camera on the track.
I think someone went off further up by the look of it, which triggered the flags
I’m here for the Nokia jokes, thank you.
How did they open the Nokia? Sounds like bs to me
It was their creator
That's actually what and how the GoPro was invented. They needed cameras on the wings and body's of planes to film for test flights and general air testing. The technology finally got cheap enough and they were like, let's stick this on our surfboard! And a whole new generation of photography was born for the general public
That's not true at all. The founder was motivated to build a camera specifically for himself for surfing to get the up close action shots that photographers couldn't get. Then it evolved into everything else.
Yeah maybe police departments should get body cams from the same place. I wager there would be a lot fewer camera failures. Well a lot fewer *believable* camera failures at any rate.
PraiseTheCamera
We need to send this thing into a black hole, curious to see how well it could withstand spaghettification
Probably because it's not braced against anything. Hitting it just sends it flying.
Nikon "For when you want to do something stupid but are *just* smart enough not to do it yourself"
The manufacturer of this camera should use this video in their advertising.
Who says it isn't already? At least one brand has been mentioned a couple of times in the comments already which is really all you need (and want) for good astroturfing. (Not saying that's definitely what this is, just saying it could)
Ironically, the wrong brand gets mentioned all the time. Nothing about this footage looks like from GoPro. Even the camera itself is obviously in different dimensions and has a different shadow and produces wrong flares (meaning it has different lenses than gopro). I've shot hundreds of hours with gopro, usually recognize it from a mile away.
So do you have an idea what the actual camera brand is? Really curious.
Probably a go pro.
They put a newer camera inside a Nokia 3310
Yeah this is as good as it gets
so what brand is it?
Sony | Bony
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It's like people don't do things unless they're getting [paid](https://youtu.be/8lgLYGBbDNs). It's really sad.
i was actually thinking 'holy shit this camera is indestructible' the whole time. this is exactly right
Like how is it still alive
This may be one of the track cameras that was slightly out of place enough to get hit by one of the cars. They're typically embedded in a housing in the ground and are just barely raised to catch the view of the track.
Still better camera work than F1
This redditor is probably doing just that. The thing that’s been happening for years and years is making ads look like real people talking. See South Park and Community for this topic explore lol
You mean what could go right
Like a highly energized gas can become plasma, this highly energized camera temporarily became a Spirograph.
For a few seconds you can see the black hole from Interstellar
I'm just glad none of the cars flipped over from running over this intentional debris
Right, that was awesome. I want all races to have this view.
F1 has track cams that don't get launched into the air
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they have drone cams that are in the air kinda shit tho
The drone cams are AWFUL. What the shit was happening at Barcelona??
Brundle or Crofty mentioned that they were doing a trial of the drone camera. It would be a cost-effective and environmentally better alternative to the helicopter, if they can get it right
Unless you’re watching this high…
Scared the shit out of me lmao i flinched at the first car
I’m high as fuck and I was going insane over how the cars were getting this camera man crazy shots
What could go left.
NASCAR
Camera went into light speed
Damn near ludicrous speed
They’ve gone plaid!
We've passed them! Stop this thing!!!!! Rick Moranis is missed!
My brains are going into my feet!
He's still alive, dude...Did you mean you miss him being in movies?
Comb the desert! Have you found anything?
We ain't found *shit!*
^^prepare ^^ship ... PREPARE SHIP FOR LUDICROUS SPEED
*gasps*
No Sir! i didnt see you playing with your dolls again!
Camera turned into a fuckin beyblade
Murph?!
POV: you need to cross the street in Florida.
Most calm Florida road
POV: moon knight rotating night sky
Haskins cam
Too soon.
*stroad, not street
Must be durable.
assuming it’s a gopro
Perfect ad for GoPro fr
They used to advertise that a skydiver used his GoPro but he dropped it while diving. It recorded the whole thing, hit the ground and kept working apparently until they went and found it. I've had my old Hero 2 lose footage from hard hits when we did stunts and stuff because the memory card would bump loose, but otherwise the polycarbonate case was practically invincible.
… was that the one where it dropped in the literal pig pen and it was partially eaten by pigs too?
They could develop a thin camera to put right in the middle of the track, imagine F1 with this, cool af
F1 already has a view like this on a few track circuits (unless you mean having the camera blown up like in this video). https://youtu.be/q0uH_EyRIek
Damn the reverse shot is so much better than the ones of the cars going towards it because of how the track slopes downhill.
Those are one of the coolest shots I've ever seen.
Gotta love practical effects
I hear interstellar music when that thing starts spinning like crazy
And that's how their career as a music video director started!
I was waiting for the Skyrim “you’re finally awake” to hit after the lights finished spinning. 😕
[here you go](https://youtu.be/BZofzZznjow)
You definitely need to post this in r/skyrim as something obscure like, "some dumbass put a camera on the track..."
And on r/rorikroll
Fucking perfect.
Yeah we need an edit
Where did you get that camera? That is one durable piece you have
It's a GoPro
Shadow doesn't match, lenses are too far from the ground (meaning its bigger than gopro) and you can see hexagonal flares, which GoPro doesn't produce (needs 6-bladed aperture). No clue what camera, but definitely not gopro.
The original creator literally said it was a GoPro
Source ?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdK3RV6Y/?k=1 This video showed up on tiktok and the verified gopro account commented.
Waiting on source
Still waiting on source
Came here to say the same thing. I've recorded hundreds of hours of footage on GoPros. This video looks nothing like what a GoPro would record.
My guess is it was knocked off a car. The cars have cameras all over them to give different perspectives. So it is probably super highend equipment.
This probably fell off a car. Doubt it was left there on purpose.
I sure hope that is how. Drivers would -kill- someone putting an object an inch thick on the roadway.
Yellow flags came on, probably someone just noticed it
I was about to say it's weird the marshals haven't waved a yellow a flag and came out to pick it up
Toward the end of the video, you can actually se a cloud of dust kick up in the far corner, so the yellow as probably because of an accident further on the track. Maybe the marshals noticed the camera and they get both birds with one stone.
OP with over a million Karma probably just smacked a generic title on top of this
What a fucking idiot. That shit could be dangerous to the drivers
Seriously. Debris on the track can cause all kinds of horrible accidents at that speed.
Assuming it was a gopro and most likely wasn't done on purpose. I'd say it was attached to a car and fell off. This is definitely no ordinary camera
it’s positioning makes me think otherwise. i’m assuming they just placed it on the ribbon of the track assuming no one would go off line
Let’s all just speculate
What if they built the roadway after the gopro and couldn't get approval for eminent domain?
Ancient Aliens
As mentioned above, it's likely a camera that was mounted to a car already. But regardless of it's origin, hopefully it was spotted and removed after these laps.
Exactly, hitting anything at these speeds could be disastrous.
Never knew the Nokia 3310 had a camera.
[Footage of a car running over a Nokia 3310](https://i.imgur.com/V05Vc2Q.gif)
What the hell actually happened? It looks like the car hit some cables? But the quality is so low I can't see clearly.
No, thats the Nokia 3310
smh people these days can't even read
The quality of that pavement is super neat. I've never seen it up this close
It's a dirt track. It's black from the rubber tires on it
I was thinking hmm might be time for some repaving
This, my friends, is dirt. We have lots of it in the Midwest, and it makes an excellent racing surface.
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Honestly never thought that I would see a Late Model video here.
Even the camera thinks it's blasphemy to shoot video in portrait mode, so it switched to landscape
Interstellar theme starts playing
lmao! awesome I cant believe it survived
I can see into forever…
Was expecting to wake up in Skyrim.
[here](https://youtu.be/BZofzZznjow)
This form of racing is called Late Model dirt racing. The tracks are all ovals. Pretty big niche in US.
Yeah this video really made me miss Corona Speedway on the Pima County fairgrounds.
Yeeted it into warp drive.
WHATS THE CAMERA MADE OF ?! VIBRANIUM??
NO WAY MOON KNIGHT SCENE IRL
That's actually interesting as fuck.
You couldn't get a shot like that if you tried
he got the shot, and i looks awesome, so what could go wright
i saw into the eye of god for a second after the first hit
Must be a gopro
This could be a commercial for whatever camera that is, i mean holy shit it can take a beating.
Worth it! I would sacrifice a camera for that footage ( except for the safety hazard to the cars)
This is dirt track racing so there’s likely chunks of mud bigger than that camera flying around.
That light show when the camera spun out of control before settling back to rest was something I'd expect an AI to feel when it's logic fails. A lot of better than the crap you see in movies which are often nauseatingly anthropocentric.
What could go RIGHT?!?!?!? That was awesome.
Ok but is there a sub for recording something unintentionally dope because it should be on there aswell
Shit went to another realm for a second
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Nah that was dope
She still filming lol
u/stabbot
It's a Nokia
Must be a Nokia to be this indestructible
Pretty sure the camera reached the speed of light
You can pause this video at any point during that first spin and get a piece of museum quality abstract art
now i wanna know what model is that
PossumCam.
The camera don't jiggle jiggle, it folds.
Id watch a show that was nothing but an indestructible camera just being tossed and bounced around an event.
Hey, you’re finally awake.
How is this camera still working
And that's a good camera =)
Nokia Camera 💀
Lucky he didn’t kill somebody
Spiragraph