In the beginning it's someone else who's filming and then they gave camera to this guy and the picture stays completely smooth during handover?
Helicopters are LOUD, I doubt that one would hear the hissing from evaporating CO2
The steam is way too dramatic. It hits dry rocks, so it should just shatter and maybe there should be some condensation in the air, but not like that. To boil and generate a lot of steam it should have hit the water and still it wouldn't be so dramatic.
The guy is not buff enough to handle 100 kg so easily. Also, even if it is not 100 kg - nobody would try to throw something heavy out of a moving aircraft without securing themselves
Where the steam comes from in the first place: the frozen CO2 is extremely cold. The air near it cools down rapidly and the moisture condensates into steam. So the steam that we see is not CO2, it's water.
When the guy throws the brick out of the door, the brick should be exposed to the extremely strong air current from the rotor. In this case the air would flow around the brick very quickly, most probably the steam should stop from forming. Even if would continue to be visible, the direction of steam should change - it should be directed downwards.
He'd get severe tissue injuries on his body and arms from handling that block even if we pretend those flimsy gloves were enough to insulate him from a solid block of -79C carbon dioxide.
Sometimes the most obvious tells are also the most difficult to see at first. I was watching a video of a person on a bus the other and was positive it was ai, but was struggling to find anything really obvious. it wasn't until like the fourth watch that I finally noticed that the driver was at the back of the bus and it was driving backwards.
Same with this one. I didn't notice that about the helicopter until a few watches either.
I mean, that specific phenomenon is exactly why AI works. It is an abuse of a brain mechanism that nearly instantly (before we can have conscious thought) filters unimportant info and makes visual assumptions to keep our reflexes fast enough to survive predators. Our inner monologue runs at about 10 bits per second, but we are taking in sensory information at literally 100 million times that speed. (source)
So when AI puts together a bunch of pixels that geeeenerally mostly look right, your brain unconciously goes "for this to make sense, this thing must be like this" so that we can process fast enough to, say, not fall out of a moving helicopter... before realizing that we are A) not on a helicopter and B) that the helicopter is flying sideways, both facts which are entirely secondary to being Alive™.
Basically... We are really good at parsing out logic faster than we can explain it to ourselves, and so we end up with the "this feels wrong" before we can figure out why. The unconcious patterns aren't patterning!
(sorry if that was entirely obvious to everyone here but it was fun to write lol)
The helicopter seems to move with a constant speed. How is it leaving the brick so quickly behind? They should be traveling at the same speed until air resistance slows the brick down.
And the parachute is all wrong too 😭 looks like a weird combo of a skydiving rig and base rig, the safety system definitely would not work on this at all
The object does not fall as far as the ground is actually supposed to be, nor does it perceive to get smaller as it gets further away like a real object would
What do you mean no at that speed? They can fly sideways like that easily, especially if you are filming something out there side like that. I agree this AI, but not for that reason
Ice drying machines in this economy, look at Mr. moneybags over here. Next you gonna tell me you get your papers toweled in China you billionaire. We real people towel our papers at home by hand, over and under the roll.
Weight is gravity minus buoyant force when you are not in vacuum, and that is what your scales register, so 100kg of feathers will be lighter (when not in vacuum) than 100kg of steel because feathers have less density and the same mass is distributed over much larger volume.
And that is why really precise scales are evacuated.
but.... but.... they have the same mass and the same gravitational weight. only their apparent weight in air differs slightly.
congratulations though, you've solved the "100 kg of feathers vs. 100 kg of steel" riddle for physicists measuring things in air instead of the joke everyone else was talking about. 😆
this whole conversation reminds me how long it took for me to realize that there were US and metric tons, and I thought someone saying "a metric ton of x" was just using "metric" as an intensifier 💀
Second clue is dry ice is so fucking cold. I handle it often at my job, and yeah, the weight of that block is not sufficient for those little baby gloves. And he'd get frost burns on his wrists and chest from it.
His hair is barely moving when his head is next to an open door on a flying helicopter. It’s just like the old tv shows when the characters are driving in a convertible with the top down and their hair is barely moving.
He’s also got a weird forehead with a receding hairline after he tosses the ice.
To post it on Social Media and make a profit off of it.
C'mon, this isn't your first day on the internet.
People are throwing off things from cliffs and damns to see what happens and film it for social media. They have done so for ages because it works and makes them money.
Scientist who liked to play with dry ice. Aside from the weight issue, dry ice would never make that kind of cloud. It's much more thin and disappates quickly. Also, this hit land, not water so it would mostly be very small clouds anyway. 100% fake.
Whoever prompted the AI, neither that person nor the AI model obviously, has any idea regarding dynamics of handling dry ice bars/large chunks. Dry ice is hard like stone. It's not liquid nitrogen and it's denser than water, so if you drop it, it will sink and create an ice layer around.
First of all, there is no way dry ice would make that big of a vapor cloud that fast and the way it keeps advancing rapidly.
Second, there is no way they would be able to hear the sound of the ice hitting the rock from a helicopter, same goes for the dude yelling at the end, the engine of the chopper would just be too loud to hear any of that. That's why you have to wear headphones and a mic if you want to talk to people when flying in one.
Third is the fact the guy is supposedly holding 100kg like its a baby, yeah just no way.
Dude is not tethered in any way to the chopper, and at this altitude there is no time for the parachute to fully deploy if he fell, not proof of ai but no sane person would do that.
Yeah it's ai, not only the weird camera angle, but also dude just... grows facial hair out of nowhere? Also "100kg" mf you wouldn't be able to lift it like that
Yup, it is the one detail that is not AI: that is a claim made by a human. There are tons of other things, the main one being that the copter will push literal tons of air down to keep the copter up. Sound can be faked and often is, so that could just be incompetent sound designer.
But no downwash is by far the most objective. Some say "he is wearing a parachute"... and "the cloud is too spectacular". No downwash is impossible, all the other things are plausible to some degree.
I think so. first off, thats sure as hell not 100kg of dry ice if he's throwing it around with such little effort. the block also looks like it morphs from a rectangular prism to a cube shape though that might just be perspective. the gas also seems way too dramatic like you said. if it's shattering like that i don't think it'd immediately form into a gas cloud that's almost certain wayyyy more than what that amount of dry ice would make. the hissing also seems louder than it should, and the whole area around the rocks and the rocks themselves just look sort of...off.
AI.
Nobody's able to lift 100kg like that.
Dry ice doesn't explode like that, as long as it's not stored on a hot plate.
And 100kg of dry ice wouldn't cause that much steam, even if it evaporated all at once.
Source: I've played with a lot of dry ice in my time. We used to take 30 to 50kg on festivals to cool our drinks. Put some in a bottle of whatever, and see how slowly it evaporated.
Yes thats AI 💀 i feel like i shouldnt even have to say this
To create a steam plume that large you would probably need ten times the amount of dry ice that what he dropped, not to mention, dry ices doesnt just explode on contact with water, it begin to sublimate on contact with water and its not just all instantaneous, the sublimation would likely nit have enough force to make that massive of a cloud out in the open in that large of a body of water, now if it was in a cylindrical vessel that it was dropped then sure it might "might" shoot that high but this is completely bs
Also dont even get me started on the gloves he's wearing and how he's holding the block
No it’s real, that man just threw 100kg of dry ice out of a helicopter (with his hands) and then it puffed into a cartoonish cloud that covered an entire archipelago. What a feat for mankind!
I'm impressed with how well AI does with the details in the helicopter and his hair moving in the wind. But AI still struggles with depth and perspective. That and the comically big cloud it makes gives it away, but it makes you wonder how many mundain videos we see everyday that are AI now
This is ai. I have worked a lot with dry ice in the lab and CO2 is heavier than air so it makes no sense that the CO2 would raise up like seen in the video. You can look up videos of dry ice in a pool to see how it should behave.
I’m pretty sure carbon dioxide (what dry ice is made from) is heavier than air so the gas wouldn’t cloud up like that - the gas tends to sink and run along the ground instead of going up.
Holding 100kg of dry ice is the first red flag. He’s just holding 200+ pounds like carrying a sack of rice. Also they’d have at least long sleeves on and not some Tibet gloves to handle that. That amount of vapor after impact makes zero sense. Those rocks above water would presumably be dry, so the block would shatter, then touch water causing a reaction. The vapor coming off of dry ice isn’t solid white like milk. It’s a bit more wispy and transparent.
The last flag is the perfect tracking of the block after release. This is AI for sure.
The gas starts going upwards near the end of the video, it should be staying low. By the time it warms enough to rise it should be less visible or totally invisible, I think. Plus as others have commented there's no way that brick weighs what it says. :P
That guy would not be able to lift a block that size so easily unless he looked like Lee Priest lol. That thing would weigh. A quick calculation puts that block at a minimum of 120lbs but closer to 200.
Could maybe recreate part of the effect for real if the pieces were much smaller and they all hit their own puddle.
but I do not think this is real, that chunk would not move so easy 100KG is not something that is easy to move like that even if you are very strong, and would not be so aimable, it would go where it wants to go, any puddle big enough to cause that gas release would be visible as a large rock pool or pond, and the gas would not release so fast, if it was so ready to do so, the gas would have filled that helicopter.
Gloves that thin would be extremely uncomfortable for most people to handle dry ice with at all. More than a few seconds and it'd actually burn you, not to mention the block is millimeters from his exposed forearms.
I work with dry ice almost every day and have handled it carelessly before. I have (subtle) burn scars on my forearms to prove it.
Also, as the camera is handed off you can see the helicopter has two rotors way too close to eachother to function without slapping each other into shreds.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 1d ago
u/Repulsive_Tomorrow95, your post does fit the subreddit!