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entertain your brain.

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Hey, don't try what you are about to see at home.

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We are what you call experts.

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That's right. We do this for a living.

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On this special episode of Mythbusters,

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the feathers are flying

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as we put animal myths under the microscope.

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Don't turn away.

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It's chickens of mass destruction.

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The Mythbusters are firing their chicken gun

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to see which does the most damage,

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thawed or frozen.

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I would say that what you got here

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is a potential supersonic chicken.

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Are goldfish and a bowl bored

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or simply stupid?

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Does their memory last more than three seconds?

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I've got all the smart ones.

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You've got all the stupid ones.

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Crack, damn you.

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And science or quackery?

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I want you to do this, got it?

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The burning question.

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Does a duck's quack echo?

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Is my 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 girl.

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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Still kind of sexy.

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They don't just tell the Myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Well Jamie, I got an angry chicken,

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a really big gun and an airplane.

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What are we working on?

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Well we're here testing the myth of the chicken gun.

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Scientists conduct impact tests

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by firing bird carcasses from big guns.

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With more than 3,000 bird strikes each year,

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aviation authorities spend millions

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trying to protect the cockpit crews.

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We know that the military uses chicken cannons

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to test windshields, you know,

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how they would do with a bird hit.

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What's the myth?

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Well the myth says that the British

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borrowed this technology from NASA

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to test high speed trains.

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and the problem was that the chickens were going

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right through the windshields of the trains

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and even embedding themselves in the seats

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further down inside the train.

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That would be bad.

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Well the British were horrified at this, of course,

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and they sent a tape back to NASA asking for help.

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NASA replied saying, gentlemen,

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thaw your chickens.

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So this is what we're testing here today.

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Not that there is a chicken gun in existence,

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but whether or not there's a difference

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between a frozen and a thawed chicken

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at a couple hundred miles an hour

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to an airplane windshield.

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That's correct.

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To fire thawed or frozen chickens at high speed,

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the misbusters will need a sealed tank

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and compressor to supply air for the massive gun.

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An industrial-strength butterfly valve

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will provide an explosive release

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for firing the carcass down the long barrel.

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The target, a used fuselage,

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and several spare windshields.

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There are loads of stories where one country pokes fun at another,

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particularly where America is involved.

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Misbusters folklorist Heather Joseph Witham.

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There are versions of this narrative

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where it's the Royal Canadian Air Force, for example,

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that invents the chicken gun,

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and it's borrowed by American airplane manufacturers

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who don't know how to use the gun right.

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First stop for anyone buying light aircraft spare parts

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in California is Ken Fates' yard in Sacramento.

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Wind shields, I'm thinking about, might be over here, some of them.

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Acres of used light aircraft components

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make it a prime location for Jamie and Adam

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to find a fuselage and extra windshields.

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I love places like this. I can spend hours here

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looking through the gauges and the headsets and seats

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and, you know, hats.

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Look, a chicken.

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Looks like a bird already went through it.

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It did. What about something like this, Jamie?

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You know, we get double the bang for our buck.

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I certainly like the looks of these better.

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Aircraft chosen.

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Now, how to get it home.

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Jamie and Adam have been all over Kenny's yard,

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but there's one question they forgot to ask,

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an oversight that will come back to haunt them.

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Not bad, sir. Very good.

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Never done that before.

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Keep going. Good.

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until the chicken gun is built and ready to fire.

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Well, we've got our target, so the next step

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and the hardest step is going to be to set up the chicken gun.

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That means that we have to build a large tank

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to hold a whole lot of high pressure air

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and rig some kind of a valve to let go all that air all at once

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to fire a chicken. It's kind of tricky. It's a lot of work.

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And Jamie should know he's solved the compressed air problem

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once before.

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Good job, baby.

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He built this seven-up vending machine with attitudes

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for a TV commercial with impressive results.

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One of the things that I noticed was that the firing system

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that we set up required a large valve

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that delivered a whole bunch of air all at once.

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And we thought, wow, this is great.

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We should use this on the chicken gun

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because it requires exactly the same thing.

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It's a simple, elegant design.

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It's exactly what I like to see come out of the shop.

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It's fun, yet deadly.

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What else could you possibly want to come out of an effects shop?

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So the search for the perfect high pressure tank begins.

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Wow.

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The machinery and equipment company in Brisbane, California

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is a vast supermarket for used tanks.

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You can flip this in any direction.

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You can hang it from something or leave it like that.

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What do you want for this thing?

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This is $750.

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Jamie, it still occurs to me that it's way overkill

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for what we want to do.

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But Adam's not convinced.

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He's called around town and found another tank.

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What I've got, I found a guy who's got one.

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It's about half that size.

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I think it's just perfect for us up in Petaluma.

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I need some cash and I need the keys to the car, Dad.

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Drive carefully.

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Vegas, baby!

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Adam's ideal tank is waiting out back at Masselian Sun.

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What's it rated for?

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It's 200 PS.

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That is good.

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I love it. Let's do it.

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That's it.

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Meanwhile, Jamie has found an oversized butterfly valve

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that will release the pressurized air.

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He also ordered 20 feet of quarter inch steel pipe

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for a 10 inch diameter barrel.

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How you savage?

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You all righty?

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So, here she is.

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Even Jamie is impressed with Adam's purchase.

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It's an ideal tank for storing enough compressed air

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to propel chickens.

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Jamie is using a plasma cutter,

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a high energy precision tool to cut the pipe to length

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and to make a hole in the tank for the barrel.

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the butterfly valve will be fitted between two lengths of pipe.

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Adam's job is to fit the short end to the tank.

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The big valve is the most critical aspect.

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It's the only mechanism standing between a great shot and a weak one.

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When we pressure this tank up, this can hold 250 PSI.

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and chickens will be flying.

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The air compressor is connected to the tank.

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Time for a chicken free test blast

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at 200 pounds per square inch of pressure.

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Staying clear.

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There goes the neighborhood.

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Give us a countdown then.

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Two, three, one.

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It looks impressive.

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Yet the white smoke is simply water vapor forming droplets

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when the previously hot compressed air meets the cool.

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It feels like a Mack truck just drove by me.

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I just wonder what a chicken breaking the speed of sound

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sounds like.

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If you're going to let your chickens fly free range,

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there's no better place to stock up than Tarantino's.

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Tony's family has been in poultry for years

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and he's heard all the chicken stories.

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Tony, do you think there'd be any difference

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between whether they used frozen or thawed chickens?

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I would imagine frozen would be harder.

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It could do more damage.

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Do a little bit more damage.

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I think the fresh just might kind of splat.

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you'd rather hit a thawed chicken than a frozen one.

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I don't imagine there's many frozen chickens at 2,000 feet.

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they're chickens of choice,

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eight rock hard four pounders.

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The key to launching chickens explosively

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is to ensure they fit the barrel snugly.

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Adam places them in a mold of expanding rigid foam.

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The result is a sleeve called a saboteur.

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It enables projectiles to be fired

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from weapons of a larger caliber.

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So once the foam sets up and gets rigid,

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what we end up with is this perfect sort of molded cartridge

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for the chicken that equals the size of the barrel

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and allows us to propel it out.

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I would say that what you got here

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is a potential supersonic chicken.

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Just a few bolts to tighten

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and this very potent chicken gun

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is ready for its first outing.

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Bringing up the rear is Bruce Bradford,

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a man who knows all about gigantic guns.

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He's the designer of one called Second Amendment.

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At the annual Pumpkin Chunkin in Delaware,

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these huge air guns blast pumpkins nearly a mile.

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With Bruce, the 2002 and three world champion,

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who better to consult on the business of big barrels?

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I think it's a great looking gun.

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It's got all the basics.

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It's got a tank.

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It's got a valve and it's got a barrel.

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Excellent job of welding by Adam, that's for sure.

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And it's going to shoot a chicken at high velocity.

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The countdown to chicken blast off has begun.

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Unsure of the chicken gun's firepower,

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for safety reasons, they sit the plane inside their blast chamber.

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I'll lean it right there.

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To check their aim, they need a test shot.

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Yeah, you're going to try it here first.

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So our first test is a frozen chicken.

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Let's see here.

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The tank is primed to 120 pounds per square inch of air pressure.

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Here we go.

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That is one loaded chicken gun.

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I'm good.

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All right.

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We are arming the chicken cannon.

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I'm going to stand back here.

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All right.

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Three, two, one.

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I'm talking about.

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I know you're right there.

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I'm good man.

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Out of the barrel and free of the sabote,

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the frozen chicken clocked 121 miles an hour.

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So much for the blast shield.

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So even if you're flying with a rated plexiglass shield

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in front of your plane, you're in some serious danger.

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Where's the chicken?

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What the chicken?

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Oh my God.

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You know, who knows what the damage to the neighbors would have been

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if this had gotten out?

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You know, that's about one of the more destructive things

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that I've ever done.

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That was cool.

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Yeah, that was exceedingly cool.

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Let's do a thought.

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A replacement windshield is fitted for another shot.

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This time, a thawed chicken.

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The big question, will it cause as much damage as a frozen one?

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Three, two, one.

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Whoa.

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Under the same pressure, the thawed chicken was marginally slower

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than the frozen one, but still reached a destructive 99.5 miles an hour.

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For the next shot, the tank pressure will be reduced by more than half

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down to 50 psi.

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They're hoping to see a difference between frozen and thawed

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at a slower speed.

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And three, two, one.

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Another frozen bird is blasted.

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This one at 128 miles an hour.

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Jamie.

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Yeah?

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There was no difference in speed between 120 psi and 50 psi.

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It may just be that initial blast.

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Like, it's probably within the first, like, eighth of the valve opening.

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It's gone or something, you know?

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Once more into the breach for the thawed bird at the 50 psi mark.

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Three, two, one.

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It's clock speed, a shattering 132 miles an hour.

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You know, if anything, the thawed chicken leaves a bigger hole.

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Which would kind of make sense.

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It would.

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Its impact spreads out as it hits, but it's still the same amount of mass

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going through the same amount of space.

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They cut the pressure again to just 25 psi for the frozen valve.

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And then thawed.

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The Mythbusters are some outcome.

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All their flying poultry, highly destructive.

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I'm totally shocked.

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Does that mean that the myth is busted?

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I think that would mean that the myth is definitely busted.

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But wait, there's a hitch.

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Those light aircraft windshields they bought are not rated for bird strikes.

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Well, Jamie, that's the biggest screw up we've ever done.

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I mean, we're supposed to test the difference between frozen and thawed chickens

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and the Piper Cherokee.

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Its windscreen is not even rated to be smacked into by anything.

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Yeah, it was like trying to check the difference between a 22 and a 357

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by shooting at a cardboard box.

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I mean, it looked really destructive.

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It looked great, but it didn't really tell us anything.

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Yeah.

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For the moment, the Mythbusters are stymied.

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But already they're formulating a new plan to measure the chicken's force of impact.

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We'll tell you about it a little later in the show.

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It automatically deboned the chicken, didn't it?

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Up next, the Goldfish Memory Face Off.

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I also, in fact, trained a fish to ring a bell.

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I don't have anything like that kind of pedigree with Goldfish training regiments.

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Does a Goldfish's Memory last more than three seconds?

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He's looking at it. He's trying to eat it.

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Jamie and Adam are locked in combat.

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We have to identify the smart ones.

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Who's the superior fish wrangler?

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Back in the Amazon when I used to train piranhas.

336
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Oh, and does a Goldfish's Memory last more than three seconds?

337
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This Myth's a pretty laid-back one, huh, Jamie?

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Yeah. The Myth says that you can put a Goldfish in a small bowl, and they're okay with it,

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because they're so stupid that by the time they make it around the bowl,

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in about three seconds, they've just forgotten where they were.

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I think that we tell this story in order to placate ourselves and allow us to keep animals in a small tank,

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which usually we would perceive as being kind of cruel.

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And you could certainly keep it in a small bowl, because every time it goes around that bowl, it's a new experience.

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So what we really want to test here is what is the memory span of the average Goldfish?

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Well, what I thought we'd do is build a maze, and the Goldfish will have to be taught how to make it through the maze.

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And if they can remember that, we'll know a little bit more how smart they are.

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So what you're talking about is not just a Goldfish intelligence test, but a Mythbusters intelligence test as well.

348
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You can look at it that way.

349
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One that I think I will win.

350
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So the guys want to train Goldfish to swim through a maze.

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If they do it, they'll prove they're smarter than we think. The Goldfish will look clever too.

352
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Have you heard of the myth that Goldfish only have three seconds of memory?

353
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Yes, I have. Their brains are pretty small, and it's about 2% of their body weight, so you can figure that they're not going to have too much of a memory.

354
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Steve, the pet shop guy, has all the fish and all the accessories the Mythbusters need.

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I think this is definitely the one for me, Jamie. It's a deep sea diver with a shark.

356
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But the Goldfish have needs too.

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This is a 38 gallon. I have the best food for Goldfish. You make sure that you have a good water conditioner.

358
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Those are perfect. What do we need? 10 of those?

359
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Yeah, 5.

360
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5 in each tank?

361
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Yeah.

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It's the easiest sale Steve's ever made.

363
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Two tanks, 10 fish, and enough supplies to feed a whale.

364
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Jamie and Adam have given themselves 45 days to train the fish and bust the myth.

365
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They've each got a tank, and each will devise their own training method.

366
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The competition is heating up.

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I think that I shall be the best trainer.

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Purely because of the fact that training animals requires above all consistency.

369
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Adam is not a very consistent person.

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Turns out Jamie has another advantage. He used to own a pet shop, and he knows his fish.

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In addition to his time in the Special Forces and being the International WISTS Champion and even being a lion owner,

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Jamie is probably one of only a handful of people in the world who has actually trained a Goldfish to ring a bell.

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I don't have anything like that kind of pedigree with Goldfish training regiments.

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Oh, look at that.

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Undaunted, Adam is determined to rise to the ultimate challenge of teaching fish to swim through a maze.

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I think I'm in fact just going to leave mine totally uncovered.

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I'm going to kick your Goldfish ass.

378
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It's day one of the Great Goldfish Challenge.

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Jamie and Adam are trying to bust the myth that Goldfish only have a three-second memory

380
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by training them to swim through a simple maze.

381
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But this challenge has already transcended the myth. It's a battle for bragging rights.

382
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I better not go get a tube and feed them with a tube because I'll kick his butt. That was my idea.

383
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In fact, Jamie has something entirely different in mind.

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He's making bright plastic holes, which he hopes will be to the fish's liking.

385
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I'm going to get them used to taking their food out of the middle of the hole by making this colorful hole

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that they'll easily recognize that has some mesh suspended in the middle of it that will put the food in.

387
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Jamie's holes are already attracting interest.

388
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But will the fish be as attracted to the holes as Adam is?

389
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If someone comes down out of the hole, maybe they'll start to look around and eventually find it.

390
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There we go. You're looking at it. He's looking at it. He's trying to eat it.

391
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Oh my God, he's taking the bait almost. We have to identify the smart ones.

392
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School is in for Adam too. He's trying to be the goldfish to understand their needs. He has an idea.

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Instead of using the store-bought tank dividers, Adam is making his own out of plastic.

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He'll custom make the course based on his deep grasp of fish behavior.

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If I get them comfortable with the fact that they can go through, perhaps they'll understand that there is a way to get there

396
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but all they see is just this black ring that's exposed. They don't know that they can actually go and swim around over there.

397
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So they have their strategies and the battle of the fish tags is on.

398
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Adam's clear dividers versus Jamie's gaudy plastic.

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May the best fish man win.

400
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Eight days since the Goldfish Memory Challenge began and Adam's got a problem or rather his fish do.

401
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Smells. Oh no. Oh no. I've got a dead fish.

402
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Okay, something's going on. I don't like this whole thing. I'm going to call the pet store. I'm going to replace the water completely.

403
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Jamie's water is clearer. Mine's really, really foggy.

404
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The thing is, is the tank is really foggy and then last night one of the Goldfish died.

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Turns out the filter hasn't removed the ammonia in the water created by the fish waste.

406
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A tank that's working correctly has a certain amount of bacteria that's grown in the filter that processes the ammonia.

407
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It actually takes like four to eight weeks for it to fully take effect.

408
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Given everything is going so swimmingly in Jamie's tank, perhaps Adam's solid plastic dividers are messing with the filter.

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Whatever the cause, eight weeks is time Adam just doesn't have.

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I'm trying to train them but it turns out I'm just trying to keep them alive.

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Jamie's fish aren't just alive. They're happy, healthy and apparently pretty smart.

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They seem to know automatically where the food is. I would say that even now, even though we haven't got them to go really through anything in terms of a maze as such,

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that the myth is busted because they clearly recognize either me or the location where the food is being delivered.

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They are clearly capable of some sort of minimal memory.

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I think the myth that Goldfish are easy to maintain and hardy fish has also been busted.

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There are three weeks left in this challenge. Adam has a lot of ground to make up.

417
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Look, they're even growing little Jamie mustaches now. They're like, oh, thanks for the food every morning.

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Coming up, Adam and Jamie have bigger fish to fry as they attempt to prove who is the superior fish wrangler.

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It's a record.

420
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Remember, don't try this at home.

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We've got years of experience that keeps us safe.

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It's been nearly six weeks since the Goldfish Challenge began. Today, all their hard work will be put to the test.

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Remember, they're testing the myth Goldfish only have a three second memory by trying to train them to swim through a simple maze.

424
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The Heinemann technique is to associate orange plastic with food. It's working.

425
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Oh, look, they see the orange thing. They want to go for it.

426
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Jamie appears to have science on his side. Studies have shown that Goldfish repeatedly respond to color for food rewards.

427
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In other words, they seem to have memory longer than three seconds.

428
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Camp Savage has struck troubled waters with an ammonia problem. There are only two contenders left.

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They just like, you know, bang their heads in the corner over here.

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The first to get fish through their maze wins and busts the myth.

431
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Time this starting now.

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They're off and racing.

433
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Hey guys, here's your food.

434
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Corn boys, there you go.

435
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Jamie's school has learned its lessons well.

436
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But Adam's guys must have been playing hooky.

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I think it's quite obvious what's happening or not happening.

438
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They seem to be fascinated with their reflection on the other end of the day.

439
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Jamie's crew is halfway through and going swimmingly.

440
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You know, you want it. Look at them. They're frantic to get through there.

441
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Maybe I should give them a compass.

442
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Who's to say luck doesn't play a part in these things?

443
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They're through the first barrier but not for long.

444
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No, no, no, no bag.

445
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There's no backtracking in Jamie's tank. The first fish is through.

446
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One minute.

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The rest of the gang isn't far behind except one.

448
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Interesting to note there's one fish that is the stupidest one.

449
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There's a little redhead in the back and he's the skinniest.

450
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Adam apparently has two skinny fish.

451
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I don't understand the total ignorance of this panel.

452
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It's like this wall doesn't even exist for him.

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I would say that without a doubt one minute to make it through the maze is a lot quicker than random.

454
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And for Adam's fish?

455
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Nine minutes.

456
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Day 43 of the Goldfish Memory Test and Adam is still behind.

457
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Listen, I don't have any work to do on this experiment. These fish have a lot of work to do.

458
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I'm just giving them the framework with which to pre-themselves.

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For all Goldfish kind.

460
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Adam just got stupid fish. What are you going to do?

461
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Alright boys, you ready?

462
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Whistle

463
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Meanwhile, Jamie's A students are lining up at the gate.

464
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They're looking perky this morning.

465
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Just going for it.

466
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The starting gun has sounded. Jamie's looking to go under 60 seconds.

467
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Oh, oh, oh.

468
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Yay, that was, let's see, 25 seconds. It's a record.

469
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They were like definitely, way to go guys.

470
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Mine are eating your own poo.

471
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Well they seem healthy for all that.

472
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000
I know that everyone's going to take me to task for wasting these fishes time.

473
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Hey, they're both in the second chamber though.

474
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Oh, they go back.

475
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Okay guys.

476
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I'm going to awake this morning.

477
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Jamie is confident his fish are drawing on all their memory cells.

478
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It's the final day, day 45. Will they find their food faster?

479
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Okay, that's a go.

480
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Alright, timer's starting.

481
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There we go, we're going through one.

482
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Go back through.

483
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Oh, they're looking like they're going to do it.

484
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20 seconds.

485
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Oh, they've lost the record.

486
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25 seconds.

487
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There we go. Almost.

488
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35 seconds.

489
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Come on, handsome.

490
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There it goes.

491
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There we go.

492
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Not bad at all. 40 seconds.

493
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40 seconds. I think that judging by what I'm seeing that that's probably the threshold,

494
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plus or minus 30 seconds to get through.

495
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And 30 seconds I think is pretty good to make it through four holes.

496
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It's clear that they've learned and it's clear that they do in fact have a memory longer than 3 seconds.

497
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Absolutely. I mean, I'm impressed how fast that is.

498
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My fish on average sort of randomly take between like three and 20 minutes to get to their food.

499
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I mean, you guys definitely know what's going on.

500
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Mitch Busted.

501
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Thanks, Adam.

502
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Alright, goodnight fish.

503
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000
See, it's that kind of behavior that screwed him up.

504
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000
It's like, goodnight fish. Yeah, that helps.

505
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Bang, bang, bang.

506
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000
They don't need to be trained anymore.

507
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Next, does a duck's quack, echo, and still to come?

508
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000
We are arming the chicken cannon.

509
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000
Which chicken is more destructive?

510
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000
Frozen or thawed.

511
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
I think this one's thawed.

512
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Another bird-brained myth to bust.

513
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000
Could it be true?

514
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Or have Adam and Jamie gone quackers?

515
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Anything to say to the ducks back home?

516
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
So Jamie, what are we working on?

517
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Why are there ducks pooping all over your desk?

518
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
I don't know.

519
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
I don't know.

520
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000
I don't know.

521
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
So Jamie, what are we working on?

522
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Why are there ducks pooping all over your desk?

523
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Well, the myth is that a duck's quack does not echo.

524
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000
That sounds kind of simple.

525
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Well, I guess we'll figure out a way of making it complicated, won't we?

526
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000
This really is an internet story.

527
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Not even a story, just a little factoid.

528
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:27,000
And it generally comes out on these internet lists of facts that are very odd.

529
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000
In the past, they would have circulated as Xerox lore or Facts lore.

530
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000
The boys will take the lore into their own hands down on the farm.

531
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
Adam, don't let their looks deceive you.

532
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
These are actually quite deadly.

533
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000
If anyone can answer this myth, it should be Jim Reichard,

534
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,000
part of America's oldest duck farming family.

535
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
The Reichards have been listening to ducks quack for more than a century,

536
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
but there's one thing they haven't heard.

537
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Jim, have you heard of the myth that a duck's quack will not echo?

538
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
I've never heard that.

539
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
I've grown up on the ranch, you know.

540
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
I've never had anybody ask me.

541
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
It's pretty hard to ruffle Jim's feathers.

542
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000
He's agreed to help the mythbusters with some test subjects.

543
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:24,000
I asked for volunteers this morning and I came up with a couple, you know.

544
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Meet Bob on the left and Roy.

545
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,000
You go down that side, I'll walk him down this way.

546
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
That wasn't so bad, was it?

547
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
That wasn't so bad.

548
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000
So, they've got their ducks in a row.

549
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Now they need a man who can catch an echo.

550
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
That would be him now.

551
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Roger Schwenke is an acoustician,

552
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
which means he knows a thing or two about noise.

553
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Rogers agreed to help catch a duck's echo.

554
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000
The science is simple enough.

555
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000
Sounds are just vibrations in the air.

556
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000
An echo happens when those vibrations hit something and bounce back.

557
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,000
So one of the challenges I have for you is we're going to use a tyclip mic

558
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000
as the trigger mic to start the recording.

559
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000
And we need to attach that to the duck.

560
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Duck tape.

561
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
That microphone acts as a trigger.

562
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000
It'll hear Bob crack and switch on the main mic a few yards away.

563
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000
That will record the initial crack, then listen for echoes bouncing back.

564
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
The whole shooting match plotted by a computer.

565
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
You know what happens to ducks that don't cooperate, huh?

566
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Yeah.

567
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Got it.

568
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
That was a test.

569
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
You can see the initial shot from the starter's pistol is the peak on the left.

570
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000
And the smaller bumps after it are the echoes coming back.

571
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000
The system works now for the ducks.

572
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,000
I'll tell you guys to be quiet because any sound will start the computer recording.

573
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
And then you need to silently induce the duck to quack.

574
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
You need to quack.

575
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Silently induce a duck to quack.

576
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Look me in the eye and quack.

577
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Quack.

578
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Come on, boy.

579
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Quack.

580
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Quack.

581
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
All right, see if they're ready.

582
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Are you guys ready?

583
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Don't mess with me, duck.

584
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
When I say quack, you're going to quack, right?

585
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
I'm the boss here.

586
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Don't give me any beak.

587
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Quiet!

588
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
Give him a thumbs up.

589
00:34:52,000 --> 00:35:04,000
It's like he's trying to collect a loan from the duck.

590
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Duck loan collection agency.

591
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000
We want to talk to you about some outstanding feed.

592
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Who'd have thought ducks get cold feet?

593
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Oh, boy.

594
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000
There's nothing but wind noise.

595
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Clearly, Bob's got stage fright.

596
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
I want you to do this. Got it?

597
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Quack.

598
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Quack, damn you.

599
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Done.

600
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
I'm going to swap them out with the other one.

601
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
All right, I'll bring them over to you.

602
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Bob's out. Roy's in.

603
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000
But a funny thing happens in the changeover.

604
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Oh, maybe they're taking him together.

605
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,000
They just needed someone to talk to.

606
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Seems obvious now.

607
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
The mythbusters are back in the hunt.

608
00:35:50,000 --> 00:36:00,000
That looks like a quack.

609
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000
It's astonishing how well that works.

610
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
There's something else astonishing.

611
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
They've got the quack, but they don't have an echo.

612
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,000
Not a one.

613
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000
But then there's not much here for the sound to bounce off.

614
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,000
In terms of trees and plants and so on,

615
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
you don't get very much of an echo.

616
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Certainly not off of leaves.

617
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Roger thinks if there were any echoes,

618
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000
the background noise drowned them out.

619
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
A sweetheart duck.

620
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
To prove that and bust this silly myth once and for all,

621
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,000
Bob and Roy will have to go high-fiving.

622
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Okay, that's really cool.

623
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Meyer Sound makes top-of-the-range concert speakers.

624
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Roger's their staff scientist.

625
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Hi, guys.

626
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000
They plan two experiments at the lab.

627
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000
First, to capture a crystal-clear quack with no echo.

628
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Then they'll record Bob and Roy in a room that does echo.

629
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
The computer should show if there's a difference.

630
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
To get the clear quack, they'll use an anechoic chamber.

631
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
It absorbs echoes by trapping sound vibrations

632
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000
in baffles on the walls and ceiling.

633
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Let's take them in the chamber.

634
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000
There we go.

635
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Bob and Roy are game.

636
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
I noticed there's a hole in the screen.

637
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Maybe I can goose the duck.

638
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Nothing.

639
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Bob and Roy have wised up.

640
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
It's all starting to look like a high-tech waste of time.

641
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,000
When, for no apparent reason, Bob and Roy get chatty.

642
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Got something.

643
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
It's a pristine quack.

644
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
It turns out there is something different about it after all.

645
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Well, I never, he said.

646
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000
It's a series of exponentially decaying impulses,

647
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,000
which looks almost exactly like room reverberation.

648
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000
This is the exact moment Jamie is blinded by science.

649
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Have you been paying attention?

650
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
What they've found is that when you plot it on the computer,

651
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000
the quack looks exactly like an echo.

652
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
And that could explain the origins of the myth.

653
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Its echo might actually sound just like it's quack.

654
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000
It might blend together for you.

655
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
So you might be hearing an echo,

656
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,000
but think you're still hearing the quack.

657
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Time to crank up the second experiment in the echo-y room.

658
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Hopefully the computer can tell the difference.

659
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
You ready to quack for science?

660
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Okay, quiet please.

661
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Go.

662
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Got it.

663
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
You did really, really good.

664
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Good job.

665
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,000
You did excellently.

666
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Finally, Bob and Roy have produced on cue.

667
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,000
This cavern of a warehouse is perfect for echoes.

668
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
If there are any, the moment of truth has arrived.

669
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Okay, so you want to see our quacks?

670
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
So here's the duck quack that we recorded.

671
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
This initial part here is the quack.

672
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Does that mean it echoes?

673
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000
You know what?

674
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
It's just hard to tell.

675
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Really?

676
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
The reverberation looks just like the quack.

677
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,000
You'd think the combined brains of man and machine

678
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
would be more than a match for Bob and Roy.

679
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000
But somehow, once again, they've frustrated science.

680
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Quiet.

681
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000
And for one final time, they'll have to sing for their supper.

682
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Roger knows the echo is there somewhere.

683
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
And sure enough, amid the techno babble,

684
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
at last he finds what he's looking for.

685
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:04,000
This series of decaying impulses is the reverberation.

686
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Definitely the echo.

687
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Definitely the echo.

688
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000
With busted.

689
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Don't be so hasty.

690
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000
With busted, let's go home. See ya.

691
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000
They've conclusively shown that although a quack's echo

692
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,000
might be quiet and tricky to hear, it does exist.

693
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
So how does it feel to be riding the absolute crest

694
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
of urban myth busting?

695
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Busterific.

696
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:35,000
And for their contribution to modern science,

697
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Bob and Roy have earned a rent-free,

698
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Bayside home for life.

699
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Well, what do you think?

700
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000
Looks good?

701
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000
All right.

702
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Where were all those quacks when we needed them?

703
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Still to come.

704
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
One last blast for the chicken guy.

705
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
It's maker break time on Myth Busters.

706
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Three, two.

707
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,000
You'll recall that while testing which chicken hits hardest,

708
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,000
frozen or thawed, the guys discovered that their

709
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
light airplane windshields were not rated for bird strikes.

710
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:19,000
As a result, all their flying chickens smashed every windshield.

711
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
This chicken went through it like butter.

712
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Whoa.

713
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,000
So this is the experiment take two.

714
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000
To finally lay this myth to rest, they have

715
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
rethought their methodology.

716
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
No more windshields.

717
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
This is purely a moment of impact test.

718
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000
The chickens will be fired at a solid steel plate.

719
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
By using the high-speed camera to measure the time

720
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000
between the start and finish of impact, they hope to see

721
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:56,000
a difference between frozen and thawed chickens.

722
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,000
The three frozen chickens clock more than 140 miles an hour.

723
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000
The impact time, 7 1-thousandths of a second.

724
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
It automatically deboned the chicken, didn't it?

725
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:16,000
Three, two, one.

726
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Impact times for the three thawed chickens showed a perfect

727
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
match with the frozen poultry.

728
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Seven one-thousandths of a second.

729
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Here we go.

730
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
One point of impact.

731
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Two, three, four, five, six, seven.

732
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
And then now it's starting to move back again.

733
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
It's given all of its impact in that amount of time.

734
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,000
The results from the high-speed camera seem to be

735
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000
fairly convincing.

736
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
You know that adage that it's not the falling that kills you?

737
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,000
It's the stopping.

738
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000
The stopping is where the force gets imparted.

739
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,000
So both the frozen and the thawed chicken have the same mass.

740
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
They have effectively the same speed.

741
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
So the only difference between the two is going to be how much

742
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,000
time they take to impart their energy to the plate.

743
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
And on the high-speed camera we showed that each of them

744
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
exerted all their energy in seven milliseconds.

745
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000
Almost exactly.

746
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Basically, there was no difference.

747
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000
So does that mean the myth is busted?

748
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000
At these speeds, frozen or thawed chicken myth busted

749
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
no difference at all.

750
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Now that we're done testing, we get to have some fun.

751
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000
That'd be pumpkin chunking kind of fun.

752
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000
Dude, look at this.

753
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000
It's what you get when the pumpkin chunking champion buys

754
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,000
your pumpkin for you.

755
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,000
It's perfect.

756
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000
With the day almost done, what better way to finish

757
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,000
than with a few pumpkin chunking rounds of their own?

758
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Was there anything in its way?

759
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,000
I suspect that the pumpkin went through here.

760
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Oh, here we go.

761
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Jamie, can I ride it?

762
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000
Three, two, one.

763
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,000
That was so cool.

764
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,000
You feel a little tingle between your legs when that

765
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sucker went out.

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I do.

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It's going to be hard to top that.

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Ever wonder what would happen if the shark and the crocodile,

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two of the world's top predators, met?

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Witness a virtual battle between these two animals,

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used to being at the top of a food chain,

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on the world's third largest animal.

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The world's second largest animal,

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the crocodile.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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We're going to do a little test.

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We're going to do a little test.

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We're going to do a little test.

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We're going to do a little test.

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We're going to do a little test.

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On the world premiere of Animal Baseball.