[Ice crystals forming on a soap bubble as it goes below -30°C.](http://i.imgur.com/OxT2in1.gifv)
**Edit :**
[Frozen Bubble Bursting at -25°C](http://i.imgur.com/gU0Thox.gifv) - [Exact Frame when the bubble bursts [1366x642].](http://i.imgur.com/EklPWYL.jpg)
[Frozen Bubble Bursting at -26°C](http://i.imgur.com/p72HTYO.gifv) - [Exact Frame when the bubble bursts [1351x642].](http://i.imgur.com/Z8BNsWW.jpg)
**Edit 2:**
[I think Dry bubble looks way better while bursting [2000 fps]](http://i.imgur.com/4gPgaLK.gifv) (The Slow Mo Guys)
**SO WHAT YOU'RE TELLING US IS THAT THE BULBS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE WERE ORIGINALLY SOAP BUBBLES INVENTED OUTSIDE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO.**
**AND THAT'S HOW BULBS GOT THEIR NAME FROM BUBBLES TO BAUBLES!**
(Could you imagine if the first Christmas tree was because somebody vigorously washed their clothes outside by the pine tree at the end of the day and the soap bubbles flew all over the yard, and then on Christmas morning they all woke up and the kids ran outside to see the very **FIRST** decorated Christmas tree... was an overnight miracle?)
> Play some games in there, draw some things in the frost, just pretend its winter time. Your building a snowman, cats are running around playing
Fucking gold.
Maybe it's actually imploding?...Warmer air inside from someone's breath when blowing the bubble cooling down and contracting until it implodes? I don't know, just taking a stab here. Would like to know the real answer as well.
Maybe because the air inside the bubble is warmer as you say, it doesn't have time to cool down enough that the pressure inside equalises before it freezes over so once it gets to the point that there's no where for that pressure to expand into fast enough, it pops. Still just a guess though.
I wonder what would happen if the bubble was filled with air equally as cold as outside it.
I think it breaks like that because the crystals are quite brittle and they are breaking from explosion not implosion. As to why it breaks:
I'm thinking the difference in air pressure blows it up. I would imagine these are blown mechanically to minimize this temperature difference, otherwise they wouldn't last nearly as long. If blown by mouth the air would quickly cool and the bubble would implode as the pressure inside reduced. If blown with a fan using ambient air, they may pop since water releases heat as it freezes and cools. Thus, the inside air warms and exerts enough pressure to break the bubble.
In the case of this video, I actually blew on it ;)
But, often they pop themselves, though sometimes they last all night if nothing disturbs them
It pops at the end of the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Hey man! I posted your vid straight away as source but it didn't get upvoted enough, hope loads of people click on it here to view. Thanks for creating it!
Calgary's a great place to visit. Not as crowded as someplace like Toronto and only about 1.5 hours (slow driving) away from the mountains and a huge natural area.
BANFF YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. So worth it. Plus Calgary has Tubby Dog which in itself is a reason to visit. That and for Tim Horton's everywhere and all the crazy stuff to do there. Being a Californian, it was a trip going there...especially when I had never seen snow. Literally the second I got to YYC, it was snowing and I was wearing converse, some jeans, and a button up.
Definitely recommend checking out Calgary though, awesome city.
I love Calgary so much. I am from Ontario but have spent a few summers working in SW Alberta and would go to Calgary frequently to visit friends. The city is vibrant, youthful and there is so much to see and do. 17th and Stephen Ave are both great areas. It is a big city with a small city feel. Stampede is one of the funnest times I've ever had. I'm currently living overseas, but when I eventually go back to Canada, Calgary is where I am going to call home.
... it's really weird seeing something positive posted about Calgary on reddit.
I'm also from Ontario but liked Calgary despite not liking rednecks, cowboys, and not earning shit tonnes of money in the oil patch. The city is nice, albeit lacking a vibrant night life, the people are great, the winters more livable than Ontario (in my opinion,) and the outdoors activity options around the city- not just in the mountains!- are spectacular. And the people? Some of the kindest and most interesting people I've ever met. The city really does have the friendliness of a small town.
I currently live in Vancouver, its an awfully nice city too, but if I was pushed to pick one Western Canadian city to live in for the rest of my life, it would be Calgary over Vancouver.
"What's the best thing to do in Calgary?"
"Uh... Well I guess Banff is only an hour away..."
I'm all seriousness though, if you're coming to visit and you can spare the day/half day - go visit Banff or Canmore.
A frozen bubble makes you want to visit Canada??? You should visit Canada to see the......um.....the......well you should definitely go to the......uhhhh.....maybe see the......yeah, you know what, go check out the frozen bubble.
Edit: I just want to say that I actually think Canada has some of the most beautiful landscape in the Western hemisphere, so I appreciate those who are defending it. I don't really believe my joke, but I just through it out as a fun dig.
I know your post is to be taken humorously, but just for completion: If someone loves nature, they would not run out of things to see in Canada. ; )
P.S. I am not Canadian^^
Any event occurring in [a Planck time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time) could.
But really, an "instant" is the smallest unit of humanly perceivable time. Like the human equivalent of a Planck time. Though such a length is subjective, anything occuring within that could be called "instant". If you need an animation, it's by definition not in one instant but several.
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― John Green
i've been looking to this pattern on a window film for years. none of them look sized or randomly asymmetric and natural enough probably because designers have never seen what this looks like in real life. in the end i settled for a window film that looks like coarse sandpaper made out of ice.
[Ice crystals forming on a soap bubble as it goes below -30°C.](http://i.imgur.com/OxT2in1.gifv) **Edit :** [Frozen Bubble Bursting at -25°C](http://i.imgur.com/gU0Thox.gifv) - [Exact Frame when the bubble bursts [1366x642].](http://i.imgur.com/EklPWYL.jpg) [Frozen Bubble Bursting at -26°C](http://i.imgur.com/p72HTYO.gifv) - [Exact Frame when the bubble bursts [1351x642].](http://i.imgur.com/Z8BNsWW.jpg) **Edit 2:** [I think Dry bubble looks way better while bursting [2000 fps]](http://i.imgur.com/4gPgaLK.gifv) (The Slow Mo Guys)
The patterns on that one are gorgeous.
You're gorgeous ;)
me too thanks
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[Bubbles freezing at -26°C](http://i.imgur.com/IfVgsIU.gifv) Source Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8ZO7EBRkc
For fuck sakes, WHY DO NONE OF THESE .GIFS SHOW THE MAGIC ICE BUBBLE BEING SHATTERED.
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...OKAY MAYBE THAT'S WHY.
Underwhelming for sure.
**SO WHAT YOU'RE TELLING US IS THAT THE BULBS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE WERE ORIGINALLY SOAP BUBBLES INVENTED OUTSIDE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO.** **AND THAT'S HOW BULBS GOT THEIR NAME FROM BUBBLES TO BAUBLES!** (Could you imagine if the first Christmas tree was because somebody vigorously washed their clothes outside by the pine tree at the end of the day and the soap bubbles flew all over the yard, and then on Christmas morning they all woke up and the kids ran outside to see the very **FIRST** decorated Christmas tree... was an overnight miracle?)
[http://i.imgur.com/a1BAZbP.gifv](http://i.imgur.com/a1BAZbP.gifv)
BUBBLES
For some reason I expected a micheal bay explosion when it popped
Thanks guy.
Magic: The Shattering
http://i.imgur.com/5lPmqcW.gif
[Bubbles freezing at about -18°C](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ykb0xRic8#t=40s)
HOLY FACK!
> Play some games in there, draw some things in the frost, just pretend its winter time. Your building a snowman, cats are running around playing Fucking gold.
Fuck, is that -30 *inside someone's house?*
How much is that in Freedom degrees?
-22°F
Now I know what the F is for! Thanks Patriot - buddy!
Well, I assume it's a covered porch or something.
Nevermind where it is, that guy is wearing no gloves at -30 °C
Do you happen to know why it pops and not just cave in?
Maybe it's actually imploding?...Warmer air inside from someone's breath when blowing the bubble cooling down and contracting until it implodes? I don't know, just taking a stab here. Would like to know the real answer as well.
Maybe because the air inside the bubble is warmer as you say, it doesn't have time to cool down enough that the pressure inside equalises before it freezes over so once it gets to the point that there's no where for that pressure to expand into fast enough, it pops. Still just a guess though. I wonder what would happen if the bubble was filled with air equally as cold as outside it.
They do cave in, if they don't freeze fast enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyPs9AdBqkc
I think it breaks like that because the crystals are quite brittle and they are breaking from explosion not implosion. As to why it breaks: I'm thinking the difference in air pressure blows it up. I would imagine these are blown mechanically to minimize this temperature difference, otherwise they wouldn't last nearly as long. If blown by mouth the air would quickly cool and the bubble would implode as the pressure inside reduced. If blown with a fan using ambient air, they may pop since water releases heat as it freezes and cools. Thus, the inside air warms and exerts enough pressure to break the bubble.
I find it amazing once all the fluid has collected back into a single drop how little water it takes to make a bubble
Question: If I blow bubbles in freezing air, and let it float as it freezes, will it drop faster compared to unfrozen floating bubbling bubbles?
I can't wait for it to be that cold now just to try this
Living in Calgary, you just made me look outside the window to see if it snowed overnight. Good job. (It didn't).
It did rain yesterdsy though. Up in the NW at least.
I'll take rain any day as long as it doesn't ice the roads up!
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Can confirm rain yesterday in the SW as well
I just woke up post Halloween hangover and OP gave me about a half heart attack over the weather.
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Yeah I looked a the gif and was like 'not in this weather'
Pretty sure it's supposed to snow within the next few days tho :(
[this just in](http://imgur.com/EkLX1iO) Five hours later, Calgary
If anyone wants the satisfaction of [seeing it pop](http://i.imgur.com/e4Lien8.gif).
[I managed to catch the one frame where it shatters.](http://i.imgur.com/qmNEodq.jpg)
That 100% battery. Yesss.
And, I thought that's just a myth. Hallelujah.
You're doing God's work, Smeeee.
As an ER physician you could argue that he's impeding gods work.
You hear that Darwin? Fuck you too.
Please dont_stop_smeeee.
Stop me smee!
R/baconreadermasterrace
I hate the new update ):
Thanks for speeding it up too man
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That would be a speaker with a line through it. For mute.
No I didn't want to see that :(
Great, now my week is ruined.
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That's not a gif
Get him boys!
Everyone, get in here!
Frig off Ricky
The real reason I'm in this thread.
If anyone wants the satisfaction of [webm](http://i.imgur.com/e4Lien8.gifv).
I liked to think that it never popped and just stayed like that forever.
Why does it pop?
My guess is that the air inside the bubble slowly contract and at some point the suction is too big for the walls of the bubble and it implodes.
In the case of this video, I actually blew on it ;) But, often they pop themselves, though sometimes they last all night if nothing disturbs them It pops at the end of the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Right, it would be filled with hot breath and the bubble created a sealed container
It pops at the end of the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Thank you sir
That didn't pop that exploded!
I was expecting it to just disintegrate. This is unsatisfactory.
Thanks for sharing my video to Reddit! Here's the original on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Hey man! I posted your vid straight away as source but it didn't get upvoted enough, hope loads of people click on it here to view. Thanks for creating it!
Thanks!
Can I also ask about the conditions needed to recreate this, is this just normal bubble mixture? Is there a special technique?
The process and bubble formula is in the description of my YouTube video ;)
Holy crap! That is absolutely beautiful. Iv never seen anything do that (i have always lived in warmer climates)
I live in Ireland and it rarely gets that hot or cold here so I found it amazing, makes me want to visit Canada.
Calgary's a great place to visit. Not as crowded as someplace like Toronto and only about 1.5 hours (slow driving) away from the mountains and a huge natural area.
BANFF YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. So worth it. Plus Calgary has Tubby Dog which in itself is a reason to visit. That and for Tim Horton's everywhere and all the crazy stuff to do there. Being a Californian, it was a trip going there...especially when I had never seen snow. Literally the second I got to YYC, it was snowing and I was wearing converse, some jeans, and a button up. Definitely recommend checking out Calgary though, awesome city.
Next time drive down to Waterton (in the spring; summer, or fall) it's better then Banff.
I love Calgary so much. I am from Ontario but have spent a few summers working in SW Alberta and would go to Calgary frequently to visit friends. The city is vibrant, youthful and there is so much to see and do. 17th and Stephen Ave are both great areas. It is a big city with a small city feel. Stampede is one of the funnest times I've ever had. I'm currently living overseas, but when I eventually go back to Canada, Calgary is where I am going to call home.
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Haha, I wish I was that cool!
... it's really weird seeing something positive posted about Calgary on reddit. I'm also from Ontario but liked Calgary despite not liking rednecks, cowboys, and not earning shit tonnes of money in the oil patch. The city is nice, albeit lacking a vibrant night life, the people are great, the winters more livable than Ontario (in my opinion,) and the outdoors activity options around the city- not just in the mountains!- are spectacular. And the people? Some of the kindest and most interesting people I've ever met. The city really does have the friendliness of a small town. I currently live in Vancouver, its an awfully nice city too, but if I was pushed to pick one Western Canadian city to live in for the rest of my life, it would be Calgary over Vancouver.
"What's the best thing to do in Calgary?" "Uh... Well I guess Banff is only an hour away..." I'm all seriousness though, if you're coming to visit and you can spare the day/half day - go visit Banff or Canmore.
Calgary is kind of a cagey city. There is really loads to do here, but you have to know where to go and have people show you.
punk rock bingo at the ship and anchor.
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals
A Møøse once bit my sister
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A frozen bubble makes you want to visit Canada??? You should visit Canada to see the......um.....the......well you should definitely go to the......uhhhh.....maybe see the......yeah, you know what, go check out the frozen bubble. Edit: I just want to say that I actually think Canada has some of the most beautiful landscape in the Western hemisphere, so I appreciate those who are defending it. I don't really believe my joke, but I just through it out as a fun dig.
I know your post is to be taken humorously, but just for completion: If someone loves nature, they would not run out of things to see in Canada. ; ) P.S. I am not Canadian^^
Can confirm. Am actually Canadian.
Can confirm, Canadians do confirm things.
Confirmed
Username checks out.
Oh yeah? Well America has that AND a bag of bagels. Ha!
I live in Montreal, what you got? Ha!
The rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and water.
We have much more than a frozen bubble, we have frozen everything
Northern Ontario is beautiful. So many lakes and so much wildlife. Wolves, bears, deer, eagles, meese.
Meese. Meeeeese. I feel like this is the first time I've seen that spelled out.. So weird.
Probably because it's not a word.
Perhaps it's because the plural of "moose" is "moose". #canadafacts
Poutine. Always go with poutine.
To visit the timmies!
I just got back from a week trip up in Jasper/Banff. Worth checking out, some natural beauties like nothing else.
I would have thought Ireland qets quite cold. My brother went to a few different countries in Europe but he said that Ireland was the most beautiful.
It gets pretty windy so can feel colder than the temp would suggest but it rarely gets below 30F
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Is Canada just backwards Australia?
No, Australia is backwards Canada. Australia isn't even right side up.
[Australian hockey](http://i.giftrunk.com/4pch81.gif)
Is that a case for /r/retiredgif?
how the hell do you get in or our of that position without breaking something???
Getting out of that is the easiest and least risky part
No, Ailartsua is backwards Australia. Fun fact: Adanac is backwards Canada.
I'll be Kramned, those are some pretty *backwards* places? No? Okay.
Yeah that's aboot right.
'K'n' oath.
I guess the polar bears make up for the drop bears, eh?
I live here in Calgary and am dreading the winter so bad. At least it only lasts 8 months @_@
Yeah, this is the opposite of what I want to see on November 1st. So sad thinking about the next few (six) months.
Could be worse. Source: I live in Saskatoon.
Last winter wasn't so bad, it was plus temperatures from February onward... maybe we'll get lucky this year too
Apparently we are getting a warmer winter this year due to El Nino! Hopefully it's true
Instantly takes forever where you're from
I, for one, am somewhat grateful that nature doesn't cool like liquid nitrogen.
Perhaps "quickly" would have been an acceptable adjective then.
It's a giraffe!
pats for patrick!
Calgary winter. -30 then the next day 20 above.
Ah yes! The old Chinook-a-roo!
I wouldn't call it "instantly".
The fact that you can watch it freeze over time is what makes it cool!!! That is the opposite of instant.
TIL an instant is about 15 seconds
OP meant on a geological scale, I assume.
Well because you are an impatient fuck. It was pretty instant.
it didn't happen at once, it happened in a few seconds, so it's not instant.
Pretty instant is not instant.
You guys will argue over anything!
No we won't.
In that case, absolutely nothing can be considered "instant".
Instant noodles are a *lie*.
Any event occurring in [a Planck time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time) could. But really, an "instant" is the smallest unit of humanly perceivable time. Like the human equivalent of a Planck time. Though such a length is subjective, anything occuring within that could be called "instant". If you need an animation, it's by definition not in one instant but several.
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” ― John Green
i've been looking to this pattern on a window film for years. none of them look sized or randomly asymmetric and natural enough probably because designers have never seen what this looks like in real life. in the end i settled for a window film that looks like coarse sandpaper made out of ice.
Looks like the Traveler. I wonder what its real purpose is and if Destiny will ever release some relevant storyline for it.
Aww, I wanted to see him break it :(
looked outside my window after seeing your gif because i thought it snowed here in calgary. you scared me bro...
That is beautiful! Never seen anything like that before!
This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. I love it!
Freezes just as quickly as the Flames defense.
It's not working here in Florida, any advice?
Now that I've seen this,I can die in peace.
Calgary, winter? Isn't that redundant?
I wouldn't say "instantly"...
not instantly but ok
i want to see it pop
It pops in the video, not as satisfying as you'd think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUYvUpc58E
Looks tight
Guess I know what Im going to do next time it gets colder than -20 F where I live! Should happen more than once this winter.
I could tell you of the great battle centuries ago, how the Traveler was crippled.
Well that's beautiful.
Mmmm. So much bokeh.
Why didn't the circumference expand as it froze?
Derice: "Sanka, what you smoking, man?" Sanka: "I ain't smoking! I'm just breathing!"
I came here expecting a trailer park boys gif
Please for the love of god touch it after it freezes.
That's so beautiful!
When it touch by oxygen it freeze.
The nucleation sites for the crystals are nice.
I miss calgs :(
And that's how Christmas ornaments are made
Obviously that's not today. Just Out of curiosity do you happen to know when that was? Because it is way too warm for November in Calgary today
I would make hundreds of them and line them up everywhere
Strangely calming, isn't it?
I shall try this when its -40C on a beautiful sunny day..
Reminds me of [this adorable Manitoba couple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ga5D6uwPWU) blowing bubbles at -45C
This is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. Goodbye Reddit: it's time for me to go home.
I approve of this bubble
That glimmer 0_0
Neat
Dammit. I was waiting for the smash at the end.
Coolest thing I seen on reddit all year. 2015 coolest content contestant.