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On this episode of Mythbusters, it's enough to drive you around the bend.

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Our new host gets a hazing, then a blazing as we turn up the heat on the exploding toilet

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myth.

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He's still holding the sinker.

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The clothing gets kinky in the quest to answer an age-old weather mystery and staring down

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the barrel.

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Adam and Jamie take aim at the myth of the magic bullet.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Am I missing an eyebrow?

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Adam Savage.

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I always enjoyed seeing Adam in pain.

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Oh!

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Jamie wants a big boom.

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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You're kind of sexy.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They're a well-cruel world.

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They put them to the test.

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Now apparently somebody dumped some combustibles down a toilet, you know, bug spray, gasoline.

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There's a number of different variations on this myth.

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At which point her husband comes into the bathroom, sits down, has a cigarette, puts

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the cigarette out between his legs into the toilet, and it explodes, burning his sensitive

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parts.

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Good.

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That sounds like a perfect job for the blast chamber.

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It should be easy for the Mythbusters to get this one in the can.

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All they have to do is buy a toilet, dump a range of combustible materials into it,

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drop in a lit cigarette, and watch the fireworks.

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With your years of experience of exploding toilets and combustible gases, what do you

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think the hard part of this experiment is going to be?

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I'm trying to think of various ways that we can actually make that toilet blow up.

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And, you know, maybe the gasoline or maybe the bug spray will do it, but if not, you

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know, there are other things that we can put in there.

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Like a grand finale?

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Yeah.

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One way or another, we're going to blow up that damn toilet.

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Okay, good.

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First step, down to the local junkyard, on the lookout for a toilet.

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Now, you'd imagine that most toilets are pretty much the same, but Jamie's being fussy.

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Well, there's less water in the...

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This one's too shallow.

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The explosive we're going to put in here is heavier than air, so it's going to rest in

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the... rest in the bowl, deeper the bowl, the more explosive force we get, the better

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the result.

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I don't think it really matters.

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You know, one toilet's probably as good as the other.

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This one doesn't have a top.

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Forty bucks later, Adam and Jamie have their toilet.

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Folkloreist Heather Joseph Witham has seen enough exploding toilet stories to fill a

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small outhouse.

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This narrative has been around at least since the 1930s, at which point it appeared in news

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clippings and newspapers.

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The early form of the story was probably some sort of rural gag.

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You have the wife of the house going and cleaning out the outhouse with some kind of

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kerosene or oil or other kind of volatile fluid, at which point the grandpa goes out

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and sits down and lights his pipe, and he gets blown right off the outhouse seat.

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And as he's lying there amidst the rubble, he says, it must have been something I ate.

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The bottom line is Jamie plans to be sitting on the toilet when it goes up, so he'll need

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more than his trusty beret.

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He's measuring himself for a purpose-built protective suit made from football equipment

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and impact-resistant foam padding.

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Ow!

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If that toilet's supposed to launch me across the room, then, you know, it'd be kind of nice to have this.

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I'll integrate into the suit as much as I can.

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But, you know, this...

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It'll be like this.

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Go ahead and shoot me.

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It's not long, though, before Jamie changes his mind about taking one for the team.

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After all this armor and your big costume, you don't want to sit on the toilet anymore.

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Why not?

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Well, that foam, you know, that impact foam burned kind of like napalm.

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And after a lot of thought about it, I'm more concerned about getting torched than I am about

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getting blown across the room.

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I had a suspicion you might wuss out on this armor thing, so I've actually been making some calls

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and I might have a very, very acceptable plan B.

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Dang, we got it.

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Oh, what a touch.

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In this box right here is the new star of Mythbusters.

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Oh, look at that.

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It's all I need is another dummy around this place.

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Weighing in at 180 pounds, this Series 2 crash test dummy retired in 1998

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after making quite an impact in his chosen profession.

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Oh, this is pretty cool.

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What part of the body is this?

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That would be the... goes into the torso.

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Oh, that's stomach. Okay.

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Wow. Oh, that's beautiful.

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This is like a giant-sized GI Joe.

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But if it's the quiet life he's after, he's a bigger dummy than he looks.

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He's not going to upstage us. We'll just kick him back into submission.

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All he needs now is a name.

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I think we should call him Buster.

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Buster sounds pretty good to me.

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It's kind of manly, a little pretty descriptive.

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It doesn't have any ears.

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The next step, Jamie has to build a remote-controlled hand to drop the cigarette.

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That's probably the best thing.

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Okay.

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Adam and Jamie have also had to build their very own blast chamber.

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It's made from a bulletproof material called Lexen,

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the same substance used in aircraft windows.

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Hopefully, it will survive its maiden voyage.

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On its first outing, the blast chamber is doubling as the world's most public bathroom.

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Like an hourglass, the sands of time.

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Moving inexorably towards toilet explosion.

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Inside, a high-speed camera has its BDI trained on the bowl.

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It's running at a thousand frames per second, 40 times faster than the average camcorder.

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The more frames exposed, the slower the picture.

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Normal camera, high-speed camera.

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Perfectly.

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That ought to work.

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That ought to work.

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The temperature inside the chamber is already climbing.

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The hotter it is, the easier it should be to ignite the fuel.

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While the chamber should easily contain any explosion,

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the mythbusters have called for backup just in case.

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Have you never heard this myth before?

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No, actually I haven't heard this one.

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Found a few people on the toilet, but never because of a toilet explosion.

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Falling off the toilet.

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Falling off the toilet.

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Never actually exploding.

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The local fire marshals on hand to oversee proceedings.

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We've designed this with polycarbonate that won't shatter, go anywhere.

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It's securely bolted as well as made in two separate halves.

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If there is any kind of general explosion in there, it'll just open like a flower.

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So there's nothing holding it together, in other words?

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No.

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The first product you're going to test?

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We've got it.

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We have an order.

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You start with your cleanest.

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You'll have your best progression.

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Is there that much of a difference between, you know, like a coal or an ember dropping into a propellant and an actual lit flame?

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It depends on how much surface area you have on that coal.

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So it will, a coal can light like a cigarette butt?

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Yeah, smoldering.

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Yes.

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Combustible number one.

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Mythbusters hairspray.

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It's what I used to keep my do in line.

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How much of this stuff am I supposed to put in there?

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The myth said that the can of propellant got stuck open, so not knowing what to do with it, she emptied it out in the toilet.

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So I put a whole bunch in there.

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Oh yeah?

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You know, when you start to get dizzy, it's probably time to leave.

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Okay.

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A sensor measures the level of flammable vapor inside the chamber.

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It would seem we have some combustible gases in here.

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We're loaded and ready for ignition.

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Come on, say something cool.

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Release mechanism dropping by.

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That's it.

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Okay, three, two, one, go.

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Nothing.

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Not exactly hair-raising stuff.

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Well, time to move on to the next test.

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Bug spray.

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All right.

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Well.

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Oh.

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Aw.

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This is powerful porcelain.

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It seems the smoldering tip of the cigarette is not producing enough heat to reach the flashpoint of the hydrocarbons.

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I mean, we're totally duplicating the circumstances of the myth.

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Lit cigarette, bug spray.

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It's not like anyone tried to reach an ideal air-fuel mixture.

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Bug spray and hairspray aren't the most flammable things in the world.

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And also, you know, it's a cigarette with a coal on it.

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It's, it's, it'd be better to have a nice open flame to it.

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It's time to move outside the confines of the myth and see if a naked flame can spark some life.

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More bug spray.

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If it doesn't do it on this one, I don't think it's happening.

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We still got a few more things to try, though, so be patient.

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All right.

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All right.

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This time, Jamie's giving it both barrels, the sensors squealing.

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Here it goes.

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There.

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Go.

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Did it go in the toilet?

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It did.

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And there was actually a little poof in the toilet.

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Well, hardly fourth of July.

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Poof.

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We have poof.

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Testing one, two, three.

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Time for butane to step up to the plate.

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Did it go in?

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It went right in.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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I'm going to try it.

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Did it go in?

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It went right in.

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Nothing happened.

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All right.

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Match.

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Lighting.

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Let's go.

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There was a poof.

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Finally.

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That is not enough to blast somebody off the seat.

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You don't think so?

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No.

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I don't think so either.

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The mythbusters are struggling to make the exploding toilet myth anything more than a

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flash in the pan.

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But this isn't the first time someone has put this story to the test.

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Dr. Robert Slay first heard about the exploding toilet myth in the mid-70s.

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Intrigued, he conducted his own mythbusting experiment.

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I myself, in Texas, in investigating this with a large watermelon and a full can of

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spray, was only able to singe the bottom of the watermelon, not to have it leave the toilet.

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Dr. Slay says these stories are invaluable in a field where every day is a matter of

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life and death.

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I think they're therapeutic in the sense that it relieves stress.

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We know that humor, used appropriately, particularly in tense work situations, tends to make people

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perform better.

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As you may well know, there are studies that show that people are more creative.

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They think of better solutions when they're working in what they call a fun environment

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or a place where there can be humor.

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Undeterred, Adam and Jamie head back to detonate this toilet.

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The myth is looking kind of unlikely at the moment, although gasoline is the big one.

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What do you think?

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Does that work?

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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Surely dropping a cigarette into a pool of gasoline will produce some type of reaction.

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Let's get a wet towel ready in case the extinguisher fails.

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Silly housewife pouring gasoline down the toilet.

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Are you ready?

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I'm ready.

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Lighting cigarette.

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Okay, I'm going to drop it.

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Three, two, one, go.

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Nada.

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But the pool of liquid simply put the cigarette out.

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Try again, this time using the naked flame of the match.

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Lit, go.

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Okay, so you'd get a shock and a blackened backside, but it's still not the explosive

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force mentioned in the myth.

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So do you think that was enough to blow you off the toilet?

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No way.

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No way.

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It wasn't really like a constant blast.

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I mean, it didn't, you know, I didn't see the chamber move very much at all.

258
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Finally, the moment the mythbusters have been sweating on, it's time for Solution X, gunpowder.

259
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We have this black powder that, like, there's a, actually almost a full can of this.

260
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Do you think you could let us put it in the toilet and set it off?

261
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Sure, go ahead.

262
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Try a cap full in a metal container and see what we get out of it.

263
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Now this looks more like it.

264
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The turkey basters.

265
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Um, oh, that's beautiful.

266
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So I made a nice woof, actually.

267
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Yeah, it did make a very nice woof.

268
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I saw a movie like this once.

269
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Get him, Lynn.

270
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Time for our new host to make his mythbusters debut.

271
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The fire marshal seems to be getting a little nervous.

272
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How much?

273
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I put it all in there.

274
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That's too much.

275
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Half of it.

276
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That's a hell of a lot.

277
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Should give you one hell of an effect.

278
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Okay, lighting the match.

279
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It left, didn't it?

280
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Uh-oh.

281
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I thought it went out.

282
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No, it didn't.

283
00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,400
Well, there is no match on the tinfoil.

284
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Strangely, exactly what was explained as a possibility has occurred.

285
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Well, what do we think?

286
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Time five minutes or something and then going?

287
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Reasonable.

288
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609.

289
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Sit tight, Buster.

290
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Your moment of glory has been slightly delayed.

291
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Chamber is sealed.

292
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Are we good to go?

293
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Yep.

294
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Ready?

295
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Go.

296
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Well, I tell you what, you know that.

297
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That was great.

298
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It didn't even move him.

299
00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:17,400
No, he didn't even move.

300
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It did blow his pants up, though.

301
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He's still holding the cigarette.

302
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That was fun.

303
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Congratulations.

304
00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:33,400
Not even half a tin of gunpowder could unseat our new star.

305
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If anything, it just enhanced his smoldering good looks.

306
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There you go.

307
00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,400
Yeah, I've had dudes just like this, too.

308
00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,400
Another myth busted.

309
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Jamie and Adam are flush with success.

310
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This is perfect amount of carnage.

311
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I'd say this, you know, there's no way that you can put any combustible into a toilet

312
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that would move you.

313
00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,400
And what about their new co-star?

314
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I think you work fantastically.

315
00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,400
In fact, we were able to set fire to his clothes and he doesn't seem any worse for wear.

316
00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,400
I mean, he smells a little bit, but I think he did fantastically.

317
00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,400
What's this?

318
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Adam and Jamie browsing in a sex shop?

319
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Your arms are totally inside of it.

320
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What sort of depraved myth busting challenge could possibly call for such kinky clothing?

321
00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,400
The myth that you stay drier if you run in the rain.

322
00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,400
Basically, it's a bit of practical advice.

323
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Run if it's raining and you won't get as wet as if you're walking.

324
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,400
Seems to make sense to me.

325
00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,400
Common sense?

326
00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,400
Since when have the myth busters let that get in the way of a challenge?

327
00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,400
The idea is someone walking through the rain will stay in the rain longer,

328
00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,400
but the rain is only falling on their head and shoulders.

329
00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,400
Whereas someone running through the rain is actually picking up rain on their entire front.

330
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,400
So what?

331
00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,400
We just wait for the next rainy day and go for a stroll?

332
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,400
No, sirree.

333
00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,400
The myth busters will need controlled conditions.

334
00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,400
We're going to have to be really careful about this.

335
00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,400
It seems like a simple thing.

336
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,400
It seems pretty straightforward.

337
00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,400
Yeah, but there are actually a lot of factors to consider.

338
00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,400
You've got the velocity of the rain, you've got the speed that you're running,

339
00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,400
you've got all these different things to factor in there.

340
00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,400
The setup, an indoor course 100 feet long, which Adam and Jamie will walk,

341
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,400
then run through in a downpour of homemade rain.

342
00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,400
They'll wear identical cotton coveralls, which will be weighed after each test

343
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to see how much rain they've soaked up.

344
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:22,400
Now all that means they'll have to manufacture some very precise precipitation.

345
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,400
I think the hardest part is going to be getting really reliable, consistent rain,

346
00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,400
something that's realistic.

347
00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,400
So it's got to be the right velocity, the right drop size,

348
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,400
nice even spread over a big distance like this for us to get a good consistent run.

349
00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,400
At this early stage, what do Adam and Jamie think will happen?

350
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If you walk, you spend more time in the rain.

351
00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:45,400
That's your idea?

352
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,400
I'm going to disagree with you just for the hell of it.

353
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,400
I'm going to say the person who runs the rain gets weather.

354
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,400
When it comes time to run the test, Adam and Jamie will have to make sure

355
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,400
their perspiration doesn't mix with the rain,

356
00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,400
so they'll have to wear something underneath their coveralls,

357
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,400
something snug and form fitting.

358
00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,400
Ah, so that explains the visit to the land of latex.

359
00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,400
Have you ever worn latex before?

360
00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,400
I've never worn latex before.

361
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,400
I've heard it takes a lot of powder.

362
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,400
This one, you get in through the neck.

363
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,400
This one, you open up the shell.

364
00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,400
The whole body fits through the neck.

365
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,400
This is called a neck entry, and all you do is stretch.

366
00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,400
It doesn't tear.

367
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,400
I mean, it's built very strong, and you just step inside of it.

368
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,400
This is kind of a cool feeling, because it completely closes up around you.

369
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,400
Do you want to try them on right now?

370
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,400
I'm not attached to trying them on right now.

371
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,400
It seems like a lot of work.

372
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,400
But apparently, we're going to try them on right now.

373
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,400
That's enough of that.

374
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,400
How do you feel?

375
00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,400
I feel kind of sexy.

376
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,400
It's funny, because you bend your legs, you can feel them spring back again.

377
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,400
You can't, it's like, poink, poink.

378
00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,400
Though a little unsure at first, Jamie seems quite taken.

379
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,400
The next step, buy some piping for their homemade downpour.

380
00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,400
Are these things sealed just by screwing them in tight?

381
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,400
Teflon tape, you'd have to teflon tape your thing.

382
00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,400
I'd rather use the goop.

383
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,400
It goes together quick.

384
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,400
I was trying to accommodate you.

385
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,400
You were like, we're going to have to glue all these together earlier.

386
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,400
And when you've done special effects for as many sci-fi movies as Adam,

387
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,400
you see irrigation equipment in a completely different light.

388
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:30,400
Here you go.

389
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,400
This I've seen in more than one movie as the business end of some kind of big gun.

390
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,400
So we need like 40 feet of half inch pipe,

391
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,400
and 150 feet of the two inch pipe.

392
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:56,400
We need to have at least about 60 feet of height for the sprinklers,

393
00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:01,400
so that the raindrops can achieve terminal velocity.

394
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:06,400
After falling 60 feet, a drop of water is traveling at maximum speed,

395
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,400
around 22 feet per second.

396
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,400
After that, it cannot go any faster, no matter how far it plummets.

397
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,400
We just go up there with a hose, you know, and squirt it down.

398
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,400
It's not really going to be like real rain.

399
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,400
It might be going faster or slower. We don't know.

400
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,400
Over the years, several studies have sought to answer the question

401
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,400
of whether you should amble or gallop through the rain.

402
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,400
Meteorologists Tom Peterson and Trevor Wallace

403
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:37,400
conducted their own experiment at the National Climatic Data Center in North Carolina.

404
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,400
They simply waited for a downpour and stepped outside.

405
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,400
We measured out an approximate course to try to get 100 meters,

406
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,400
but we didn't feel like it was crucial to have exactly 100 meters

407
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,400
because we weren't trying to see how much rain we absorbed in 100 meters,

408
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,400
but the relative difference between running and walking.

409
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,400
Tom walked, Trevor ran, then their clothing was weighed.

410
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,400
We won't reveal their results just yet.

411
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,400
Let's wait and see how Adam and Jamie get on.

412
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,400
Ironically, the heavens have opened.

413
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,400
Just as Adam and Jamie find the perfect place to whip up a storm.

414
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,400
So here we are, Jamie.

415
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,400
An Alameda Naval Base.

416
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,400
Yeah, across the bay from San Francisco.

417
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,400
You know, they used to paint C-130 planes in this room.

418
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:24,400
It's a big hangar.

419
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:25,400
Yeah.

420
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,400
Time to see whether or not Adam's rain delivery system is just a pipe dream.

421
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,400
150 feet of pipe with sprinkler heads every six feet.

422
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400
I'm actually really pleased with the way things are going.

423
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,400
We've got half up already.

424
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,400
I'm going to do the other half right now.

425
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,400
And I've got plenty of type points that looks really stable.

426
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,400
And as long as Jamie holds up on his end, we shouldn't be here too long.

427
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,400
Jamie's working on getting water for the challenge.

428
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,400
Not as easy as you might think on a rainy day.

429
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,400
It's legal to tie into these fire hydrants,

430
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:13,400
but you have to go through the fire department and you buy or rant a meter

431
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,400
that allows you to tie into it and keep tracking the water usage.

432
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,400
Accessing water is one thing.

433
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,400
Getting it to travel 60 feet straight up in the air is another.

434
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,400
There you go.

435
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,400
Jamie's calculated that the water will have to be pumped at 15 pounds per square inch.

436
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,400
No problem for this pump.

437
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,400
It can move H2O at a rate of 200 gallons per minute at 50 pounds per square inch.

438
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400
While they're setting up, let's see how Adam's getting on.

439
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,400
That might be enough, but you know what? I don't think so.

440
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,400
Guess that means he's finished the rain rig.

441
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,400
With the pipes in place and the water pumping,

442
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,400
the mythbusters are keen to give the rain a dry run.

443
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,400
Come on, come on, keep coming down.

444
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,400
No, no, it's okay, it's okay, not too much.

445
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,400
Okay, so what's next? What's next?

446
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,400
Well, we have to mark out a course and it's 100 feet long,

447
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,400
so we're going to mark it out with tape.

448
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,400
We need to get another roll and attach it to this

449
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,400
so we can make it to the other piece of tape.

450
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,400
Is that 100 feet?

451
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,400
Are we too long?

452
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,400
Just a hair.

453
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,400
On some of the tests, they plan to add wind as a variable.

454
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,400
You know, I'm not getting this at all.

455
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,400
It's like, you don't want one starting at the start line?

456
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,400
No, no, come over here. I'll draw it out for you what I'm thinking.

457
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400
Probably here, blowing like this.

458
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,400
Looks like they can't agree on a fan plan.

459
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,400
We want to get the fans as close to the course as we can anyway.

460
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,400
Well, this is certainly consistency is more important than the highest wind speed.

461
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,400
Let's set it up my way first.

462
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,400
Of course, I want to set it up my way first.

463
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,400
Do you want to set it up your way first?

464
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,400
I don't care actually, Adam.

465
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,400
For this experiment, they're looking to duplicate average rainfall

466
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,400
between 2 and 3 inches per hour.

467
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,400
Digital gauges are set out along the course.

468
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,400
Well, these are fabulous.

469
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,400
It's almost like whoever invented these didn't want to get wet

470
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,400
when they were measuring the rain.

471
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400
We're going to run it for five minutes.

472
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,400
I can't tell how big the drops are.

473
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,400
So currently we're getting just about one and three-quarter inches per hour.

474
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,400
We want to goose up the throttle just a little bit

475
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,400
and we should have the perfect amount of rain.

476
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,400
I'm ready to dress up.

477
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,400
Are you ready?

478
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,400
I'm ready as in economy.

479
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,400
I must admit I feel a little funky.

480
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,400
Step one, make the rain more visible.

481
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,400
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.

482
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,400
Step two, put on the coveralls.

483
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,400
Each pair weighs 757 grams.

484
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,400
Step three, it's time to walk the line

485
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,400
and find an answer to this age-old mystery.

486
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,400
Walking.

487
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,400
Our high-speed camera running at a thousand frames per second

488
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,400
captures every single droplet.

489
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,400
Adam and Jamie will walk the course twice.

490
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,400
Once with wind, once without.

491
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,400
And stop.

492
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,400
Each take is timed.

493
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,400
Then the coveralls are straight off and onto the scales.

494
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,400
785 grams.

495
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,400
What was the original weight?

496
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,400
757.

497
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,400
757.

498
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,400
Cool.

499
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,400
So 18 grams of water.

500
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,400
And the results faithfully recorded.

501
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,400
Now Jamie's turned to be under the weather.

502
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,400
Both walks clock in at around 18 seconds

503
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,400
and the coveralls have soaked up almost the same amount of water.

504
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,400
But what happens when Adam and Jamie up the pace?

505
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,400
That can't be right.

506
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,400
798, significantly more.

507
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,400
Adam's coveralls are 14 grams heavier after the run.

508
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,400
Time to find out what our meteorologists gauged from their rate experiment.

509
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,400
It's much better to run than walk,

510
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,400
according to our model and the experiment.

511
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,400
The runner was 40% less wet than the walker.

512
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,400
On Jamie's run, the difference isn't as great.

513
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400
793.

514
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,400
But the raw data is still pointing to an answer that flies in the face of science.

515
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,400
The results aren't what I expected at all, actually.

516
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,400
The numbers are really close.

517
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,400
We're only talking about a matter of a dozen grams here and there.

518
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,400
So when we average it all out, I think it's going to show that running,

519
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,400
actually, you get wetter, strangely.

520
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,400
The difference is minute.

521
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,400
Windblown rain makes the coveralls only a few grams heavier.

522
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,400
The overall result, however, remains the same.

523
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,400
At the end of the day, eight pink-tinged coveralls tell the story.

524
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,400
After the running, the rubber suits, the getting wet, crunching the numbers,

525
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,400
what's the final result? What's the verdict?

526
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,400
Better to walk than run.

527
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Really?

528
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,400
Yeah.

529
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,400
It was very clear, over a 100-foot course with 2 to 3 inches per hour rain delivery.

530
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,400
We got more than twice the rain per foot running than we did with walking.

531
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,400
Is this one busted?

532
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,400
This one's busted.

533
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,400
Fact is that it's better to walk than to run in the rain.

534
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,400
The mythbusters are aiming high.

535
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,400
Adam and Janie are unraveling the myth of the magic bullet.

536
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,400
The bullet that delivers a deadly payload then disappears.

537
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,400
It's even been implicated in the death of a president.

538
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,400
In the early days of the Cold War, movies and novels hit on the idea of a magic bullet,

539
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,400
a bullet that dissolves, leaving no ballistics evidence.

540
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:18,400
Here's your ammo.

541
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,400
This is a ballistic H2O.

542
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,400
It's an ice projectile, a velocity of 3,000 feet per second,

543
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,400
and an accuracy of up to 500 yards.

544
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,400
No exit wound, the bullet's going to melt inside the target.

545
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,400
In the action thriller movie Most Wanted, a bullet made of ice

546
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,400
gives the first lady the cold shoulder.

547
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,400
That seems a good place to start.

548
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,400
Adam and Janie will try and make an ice bullet.

549
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,400
One of the problems that it seems might occur with an ice bullet is that,

550
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,400
whereas lead conforms to the tapering shape of a barrel, ice might not,

551
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,400
and thus block the barrel and the gases might explode the barrel itself.

552
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:00,400
Now it's not going to be easy.

553
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:05,400
The guys will have to make a bullet mold, fill it with water, freeze it,

554
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,400
then fire the ice projectile from a high-powered rifle.

555
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,400
Step one, Adam fires off a letter to the CIA,

556
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,400
requesting details on the existence of magic bullets.

557
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,400
Then it's off to the local gun store.

558
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,400
The guys want to fire the ice bullet from a Mannlicher Karkano,

559
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,400
the same rifle the FBI alleges Lee Harvey Oswald used.

560
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,400
We called earlier about a rifle that looks kind of similar to the Mannlicher Karkano.

561
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,400
It's not exactly the same, but it's close enough.

562
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,400
Have you ever heard of anyone trying to fire a bullet made of ice at one of these?

563
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,400
No, I haven't. I know it's a myth.

564
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,400
You've heard the myth.

565
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,400
But I've never actually heard of anybody trying it. I don't think it's feasible.

566
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,400
So why don't you think it's feasible?

567
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,400
Because ice melts.

568
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:05,400
When buying a weapon in California, there's a 10-day waiting period, so it's back to base.

569
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,400
So we did pretty good there. We got most of what we need, I think, to get rolling.

570
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,400
We got our loader, we got our manual, we got funnels for putting powder back in if we spill some.

571
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,400
We got our bullets, we got our impact bullets.

572
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,400
The trip to the gun store has brought it home to the guys just how dangerous this project will be.

573
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:28,400
We're working with high explosives, we're working on objects and with machines specifically designed to kill people.

574
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,400
That safety's got to be paramount through every step of this.

575
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:42,400
Anytime we modify a gun, even the slightest variation in loading the bullet into the cartridge can cause the thing to explode in the gun.

576
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,400
It could be very dangerous.

577
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,400
A big X factor is gunpowder.

578
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:55,400
You know, what they told us was if you got the gunpowder 22 degrees below zero or less, that it wouldn't even fire, it wouldn't even ignite.

579
00:32:55,400 --> 00:33:02,400
What Jamie's looking at doing is casting it in such a way as to isolate the tip of the bullet from the rest of the bullet.

580
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:08,400
While Jamie starts making a bullet mold, Adams hard at work on their intended victim.

581
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:15,400
This is actually a model of my face that Jamie and I did probably about ten years ago.

582
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:20,400
I was bald and clean-shell and I figured, you know, it's a perfect time to cast her head.

583
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,400
The dummy will be made from ballistic gel, a substance used by the FBI.

584
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,400
Made from animal products, the gel mimics human flesh.

585
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,400
Time to get sculpting.

586
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:52,400
The dummy will have to be chilled for 48 hours. Where are they going to find a big enough freezer?

587
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,400
Well, that's made of gel.

588
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,400
That's made of gel, 200 pounds of gel.

589
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,400
It feels good.

590
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,400
It's over to the cool room at the local deli.

591
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,400
Thank you very much, Sunel.

592
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,400
No problem.

593
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,400
You guys coming for lunch? We got gel on special.

594
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,400
How's the bullet mold coming along?

595
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:27,400
I'm trying to find a drill that will replicate the size of the bullet itself so that I can make a mold

596
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,400
rather than pouring rubber around this and replicating it that way.

597
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:38,400
I'm going to just drill a hole that is shaped like this in a block of aluminum that I can separate.

598
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,400
A real bullet sits in a case which is loaded with gunpowder.

599
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,400
When the trigger is pulled, a primer ignites the gunpowder

600
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,400
and the explosion drives the bullet out of the case and down the barrel.

601
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,400
Jamie will have to load his ice bullet into a cartridge for firing.

602
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,400
That means getting the real bullet out.

603
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,400
I barely see anything down there.

604
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,400
That's a rimfire.

605
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:08,400
Now you're only supposed to use this tool on certain types of ammunition, but Adam never reads instructions.

606
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,400
You know, I could have read the directions and it wouldn't have made any sense to me because I don't know what a rimfire bullet is.

607
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,400
I would have been blissfully proceeding without thinking I was in danger.

608
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,400
I was raised up on a farm.

609
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,400
Then there was a varmint bullet.

610
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,400
Careful, you've got stuff in there.

611
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,400
The ice bullet mold is ready to go.

612
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,400
The two aluminum blocks screw together, forming a perfect bullet shape.

613
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,400
Jamie pours water into the mold and dunks it in liquid nitrogen.

614
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:40,400
Looks good.

615
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,400
Looks like a bullet to me.

616
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,400
But getting the bullet out of the mold in one piece is proving a problem.

617
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,400
You know, it didn't come out all in one piece.

618
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,400
I need to put a coating on the inside of the mold so that the ice comes out easily because it's very brittle.

619
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,400
We don't want to break it before we get it in the gun.

620
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,400
The alarm bells are ringing already.

621
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:06,400
If an ice bullet is too brittle to survive the mold intact, how could it be fired from the barrel of a rifle?

622
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,400
A bullet does not stop accelerating once it leaves the gun.

623
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,400
It actually gets propelled by heated gases exploding from the barrel.

624
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,400
Is it really possible that a simple ice projectile, no matter how cold,

625
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,400
could withstand such forces and reach its target intact?

626
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400
This man says no.

627
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:36,400
Dr. Roger McCarthy is the chairman of Exponent, a company whose success comes from the failure of others.

628
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:43,400
He spent his life investigating everything, from faulty massage chairs to major disasters.

629
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:50,400
He's also studied the magic bullet theory, in particular the idea that JFK was killed by a magic bullet,

630
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,400
fired by a second sniper on the grassy knoll.

631
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,400
But Dr. McCarthy's magic bullet isn't made of ice.

632
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,400
It's metal, hollowed out, and filled with liquid.

633
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:07,400
A liquid bullet was one of the few ways to guarantee that all the energy of the bullet would be dissipated in the target

634
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,400
and there would be no exit wound.

635
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,400
Because a bullet exiting the target is a complete waste of energy.

636
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,400
You never want to see that as a professional assassin.

637
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:22,400
In the wake of JFK's assassination, the magic bullet theory was dismissed for one simple reason.

638
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:30,400
The sniper would have been on the right of the motorcade, but there was no exit wound on the left side of the president's head.

639
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:36,400
But because it has less mass than a conventional bullet, a liquid bullet wouldn't exit the target.

640
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:43,400
I was able to show in my experimentation that the pressure wave being introduced by the bullet into the skull and then bouncing off the other side

641
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,400
will in fact expel all the parts of the bullet out.

642
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,400
Ice projectiles.

643
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,400
What do these people think of next?

644
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,400
Fruity flavors?

645
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,400
No.

646
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:57,400
What's this?

647
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,400
But the mythbusters aren't beaten yet.

648
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,400
There's stuff to make a bullet out of.

649
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,400
Imagine you're an overworked forensics expert.

650
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,400
Would you be looking for a slug made of meat?

651
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,400
What did you do today, honey?

652
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,400
I made a meat bullet.

653
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,400
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

654
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,400
That's a hard little steak.

655
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,400
That's a loaded meat bullet.

656
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,400
The result? Well, Adam's mouth's watering.

657
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:36,400
I would bet you that this is the most successful test we have.

658
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:42,400
Jamie's on a roll. He tries again. This time a bullet made of simple gelatin.

659
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,400
I've got it cold.

660
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,400
This is looking really promising because it's not at all brittle.

661
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,400
I don't want you to mess with that. That's sealed up.

662
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400
That's pretty good stuff right there.

663
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,400
Yeah, it's a little bit flexible, a little bit hard.

664
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,400
It's a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.

665
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,400
Meanwhile, some interesting mail has arrived.

666
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,400
A reply from the CIA.

667
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:11,400
Operational files of the CIA are exempt from the publication provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

668
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:17,400
The files that would contain responsive records, if any, exist are not subject to search.

669
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,400
What that seems to say is there's almost definitely something like this,

670
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,400
but because it's being used, they can't tell us about it.

671
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,400
It's not subject to a Freedom of Information Act request.

672
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,400
Request denied.

673
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,400
Jamie, let's put up a dummy.

674
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,400
Time to see if the Mythbusters magic bullets are at home on the range.

675
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:53,400
How you doing, buddy? How you doing? Yeah, you're doing so good. We're going to shoot you.

676
00:39:53,400 --> 00:40:00,400
To make sure everything's above board, we've had to call in one of San Francisco's finest to oversee this shoot.

677
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,400
I have a concern about what we do if the rifle doesn't fire, actually.

678
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,400
If we get the round too cold and when we pull the trigger, it doesn't fire.

679
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,400
Is it in danger of actually going off if it warms up?

680
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:15,400
Yes, it can. That's why I just wait a few minutes before trying to take it out.

681
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,400
Wait a few minutes, don't approach it. Just get back.

682
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,400
Just in case, the guys will fire the rifle using a remote rig.

683
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,400
In this case, a piece of string tied to the trigger.

684
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,400
Well, that's a nice meat bullet if I ever saw one.

685
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,400
Which I never have.

686
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,400
But will it make mincemeat of the dummy?

687
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,400
Three, two, one.

688
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,400
Let's go take a look.

689
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,400
The beef bullet exploded. Specs of meat are embedded in the torso.

690
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,400
Unfortunately, there's also plenty of ballistics evidence left behind.

691
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,400
It looks like half of the cornet didn't even explode. Didn't even ignite.

692
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,400
It was less loud than before.

693
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,400
It's a certain amount of, you know, stay in there ad-ness.

694
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,400
You know, like, you need to plug the cartridge.

695
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Stay in there ad-ness?

696
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:16,400
Yeah.

697
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:17,400
Is that scientific?

698
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,400
Maybe a gelatin bullet will have that elusive stay in there ad-ness.

699
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,400
The gel is colored with food dye, so it'll show up in the dummy.

700
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,400
Ready to fire, guys.

701
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,400
Everybody ready?

702
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,400
Well, all ready. Let's go.

703
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,400
There we go.

704
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,400
Good. Grab the cord.

705
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,400
And three, two, one.

706
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:39,400
Bullseye.

707
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:40,400
That was a bigger boom.

708
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,400
But there's still a problem.

709
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,400
The gel bullet struck the dummy at three times the speed of sound

710
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,400
and with a force of more than 2,000 pounds per square inch.

711
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,400
But even so...

712
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:52,400
It went in about an inch.

713
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,400
That's not much penetration.

714
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,400
If you compare the gel bullet with the effects of a real carcato,

715
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,400
or a 6.65 millimeter round, fired from the same rifle,

716
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:09,400
you can see that the frozen gel just won't work if firing over a distance.

717
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,400
Now, how do I know which one's in the chamber?

718
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,400
The guys have more success with a smaller firearm at close range.

719
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,400
Judging by this, it's the best of all of them.

720
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,400
That went at state intact and went all the way to the bone there.

721
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:30,400
Yeah, point like rain.

722
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,400
But if you have to be that close to the target,

723
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,400
then you have to fire your magic bullet from something that doesn't look like a weapon.

724
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,400
So, Jimmy, what are your thoughts about turning one of these into a gun?

725
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,400
Well, do we want to shoot it like a rifle, like that?

726
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:54,400
In 1978, an umbrella was the weapon in the sophisticated assassination of a Bulgarian defector.

727
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,400
Georgi Markov was the victim of the most bizarre murder of modern technology,

728
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,400
a sophisticated metal pellet fired from an umbrella into his thigh.

729
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:09,400
Analysis showed the poison to be ricin, 70 times more lethal than the cyanide on the right.

730
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,400
That umbrella insertion was brilliant and much more effective than an ice bullet.

731
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:23,400
You know, bullets are not subtle, and the best bullet draws everybody's attention, including the victims, immediately.

732
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:30,400
In true Mythbusters style, Jimmy's going to build his own umbrella gun from scratch.

733
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,400
A chamber near the handle will be charged with compressed air from a dive tank.

734
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,400
That's great, Jimmy.

735
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:41,400
The air will drive the gel bullet from the umbrella tip at supersonic speed.

736
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,400
It's a big call. The CIA would spend years developing such a weapon.

737
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,400
Jimmy's got three days.

738
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,400
I have no idea how fast that's going to propel something, but...

739
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,400
In the realm of what we've done for Mythbusters, isn't this one of the most dangerous things we've tried yet?

740
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,400
Probably.

741
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,400
There is a lot of energy in there, and it's not to be underestimated.

742
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,400
Like I said, it will remove flesh from your bones.

743
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:16,400
We're making a super high pressure gun here, and so I'm trying to keep it really simple and also make sure that it's safe.

744
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,400
So I'm overbuilding it a little bit.

745
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:27,400
So much stuff, and it's still not enough.

746
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,400
I just can't get there from here.

747
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,400
I've got to make everything from scratch.

748
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:34,400
In the butt.

749
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,400
I'm going to try one more thing.

750
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,400
It should hold a little better than that, shouldn't it?

751
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,400
I don't know what to think, so...

752
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,400
Jimmy's getting frustrated. Air from the scuba tank is getting into the chamber.

753
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,400
Unfortunately, it's getting out again almost as fast.

754
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,400
I'm a little pissed off. This thing's taking way too long.

755
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,400
What's going on with it?

756
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,400
One stupid little seal. I have to walk away from it.

757
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,400
I've been doing this all day, wasting way too much time on it.

758
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,400
And when the troublesome gunbrella is finally tested with a BB...

759
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,400
Watch out.

760
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,400
Watch out.

761
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Adam's far from impressed.

762
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,400
Yeah, it's only like three-quarters of an inch in there.

763
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,400
Here, we can...

764
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Okay. About like that?

765
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:29,400
Yeah.

766
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,400
Interesting. It looks like it went in deeper.

767
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,400
Say, seven inches.

768
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,400
That's interesting.

769
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,400
What did you waste your time? Did you just waste three days on this?

770
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,400
Could be.

771
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,400
Right off the bat, I think it's actually kind of disappointing.

772
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:53,400
I mean, it's been three days working on this, like, super high-powered air reservoir to fire this thing,

773
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,400
and this, you know, 50-dollar BB gun outperformed it right off the bat.

774
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,400
I could have modified this to fit in that umbrella in a couple of hours.

775
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,400
Adam scavenges a CO2 canister and trigger from an old air pistol.

776
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:34,400
We're loaded and ready to go.

777
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,400
CO2 cartridge from the pistol.

778
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,400
Yeah.

779
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,400
Loaded into the barrel, which goes up the center of the umbrella's chamber,

780
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,400
and comes out the tip,

781
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:52,400
and the trigger mechanism would be like a ball bearing on a leaf spring going...

782
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,400
because that gun fires the same way the other one does, just a weight against that thing.

783
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,400
Okay.

784
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,400
That pretty cool?

785
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:01,400
Yeah.

786
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,400
So umbrella's at 30 paces.

787
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,400
You're gonna be pitting your umbrella against my umbrella.

788
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,400
My umbrella's gonna take you down.

789
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:08,400
We'll see about that.

790
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,400
Absolutely.

791
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,400
You won't even know it's an umbrella.

792
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,400
I mean, you won't even know it's not an umbrella.

793
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,400
In California, a weapon like this is illegal,

794
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,400
but we have police permission and supervision.

795
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:30,400
Umbrella guns loaded, point blank, in three, two, one.

796
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,400
Wow.

797
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,400
That was really effective.

798
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,400
That went all the way into the sternum.

799
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,400
I mean, that went all the way in.

800
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:45,400
The projectile is tiny, but could easily carry a lethal dose of poison.

801
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400
Both umbrellas worked better than the real guns.

802
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,400
Looking at this 22-hole, Jamie, I see burn marks around the edge,

803
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,400
whereas our two umbrella guns left absolutely no evidence at all

804
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,400
that it was even a ballistic hit.

805
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:58,400
It's just a hole.

806
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,400
Yeah, and they did just as much damage.

807
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,400
Absolutely.

808
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,400
I mean, I think they're the cleanest things we got today.

809
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,400
I'd go with the air gun.

810
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,400
I'd go with the air gun myself.

811
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,400
And the magic bullet?

812
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,400
It seems any substance that would melt inside a human body

813
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,400
is too fragile to be successfully fired from a high-powered weapon.

814
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,400
So, myth busted?

815
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,400
Absolutely.

816
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,400
Does Roger McCarthy believe JFK was killed by a liquid bullet

817
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,400
fired by a second sniper on the grassy knoll?

818
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,400
The answer is, we'll never know until the National Archives finds

819
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,400
President Kennedy's brain.

820
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,400
Because President Kennedy's brain was not buried with his body.

821
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,400
It was put in a specially sealed container

822
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,400
and given to the National Archives for safekeeping.

823
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,400
They have subsequently lost the President's brain.

824
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:02,400
The National Archives