Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps (richannel.org)

Well, that's pretty damned cool.

Slow-mo exploding things for the win. Also this is a super good, interesting explanation of nothing I never would have cared about before.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170303072943/http://richannel.... has the original article. It points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs.

(thanks stephen_g! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36135194)