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On this episode of Mythbusters, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.

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How many of me can you stand?

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Adam shed some light on the tale of a 2,000-year-old death ray.

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Oh, look at that!

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A story you can't turn your nose up at.

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The Mythbusters get themselves skunked in the name of science.

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I think it's working!

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And Adam and Jamie have bulletproof materials in their sights.

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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 reject your reality and substitute my own.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Crack, damn you.

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I wouldn't say Jamie's an evil genius.

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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When will the fun ever stop?

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Just tell the Myths, they put them to the test.

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First up, a myth from the Mists of Antiquity.

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This time we have what I believe is the oldest myth that Mythbusters has tested.

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It comes from the 3rd century BC, right from the mind of the famous scientist Archimedes.

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And the idea is that Archimedes apparently utilized the sun's energy and mirrors

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to set fire to enemy ships during the Punic Wars.

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Making a solar-powered weapon?

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Sounds right up the Mythbusters alley.

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Well, haven't people speculated that he got his warriors to use their shields to create the mirror?

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Absolutely, that's one of the main theories, and it is the very first theory that we're going to test.

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And that is ancient bronze shields.

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The plan? Use sheets of bronze to focus the sun's rays on a Roman warship

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and see if they can set it on fire.

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Anyone spot the wrinkle in the plan?

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Roman warships, or triremes as they were known, no longer exist outside of Hollywood.

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What is the actual thickness we're looking for? What's the thickness of a Roman trimerine?

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Adam gives the build team its biggest challenge.

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Try and construct part of a trireme using only materials available to the Romans in 215 BC.

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The key factor here is actually the density of the wood, its flammability.

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We want to be able to make this death where we have a certain temperature

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that would have set fire to this kind of boat.

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While Tori and Carrier are left to grapple with that little problem,

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Folkloreist Heather Joseph Witham has been brushing up on her ancient history.

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Archimedes was definitely a real person, and his many inventions and discoveries

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were documented by historians of his time period.

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However, the ancient death ray wasn't written about until 800 years after it was supposed to have occurred by Anthenius.

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Therefore, this story has been debated ever since.

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Adam and Jamie have found some bronze.

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What do you think? Do you think I can set fire to a boat with this?

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Well, if we get enough of them, yeah. It's pretty bright.

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I can feel the heat on my face from it. Ow! It hurts my eyes. You like doing this, don't you?

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Oh, I really enjoy it.

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Unfortunately, the price tag's even more dazzling, so Adam might have to rethink the plan.

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So Tori, this is actual bronze. This is the most ancient material we're testing,

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and Archimedes definitely would have had access to this.

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He decides to test a range of materials to see how they reflect both visible light and heat.

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How many of me can you stand?

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Armed with a light meter and a laser thermometer, the guys turn the spotlight on bronze,

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a bronze-colored plastic called Mylar, aluminum, and an ordinary household mirror.

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So it's reading 111. It's reflecting twice as much visible light, but like 30% less infrared.

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I have no idea what that means, but it's fascinating.

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Archimedes was actually onto something. I mean, the bronze and the aluminum gave us the highest reflectivity of infrared light.

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But we still don't know whether infrared or visible light is more important at this distance,

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so I think we need to move this experiment to a bigger scale.

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I think we need to go outside and start running some tests.

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Yeah, I think that's a really good idea.

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How's the Roman trireme coming along?

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Uh, slowly.

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I've been deacon out and reading too many books,

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and totally forgetting about the experiment and just trying to actually make a Roman trireme.

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So I would go back. That'll be much easier.

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They don't have to build an entire vessel, just a section of the hull.

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We're ready to get our wood!

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This was where the siege took place.

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Greeks hanging out right here, trying to keep Sicily,

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and these Roman battleships trying to come in and take it.

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What was that about geeking out, Carrie?

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We're building a Roman trireme.

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I was wondering where you keep your wood from 200 BC.

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Triremes were made from a type of European pine.

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Wouldn't you know it? These guys are fresh out.

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Let me show you what we normally recommend for triremes.

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The nearest match is spruce.

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Not perfect, but short of going to Italy, it'll have to do.

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That doesn't seem too safe.

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Somewhat frightening. People didn't like driving behind me.

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I'll tell you that.

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At the same time, the trireme team work on their best Adam and Jamie impressions.

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We just need a piece of wood. We don't actually need to build this.

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Well, Jamie, I don't know. I mean, you know, you gotta be accurate.

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I think it's more accurate if we just use a piece of the correct wood.

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I'm going to need to do four down low and four behind.

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Tari goes off to help Adam, who's still trying to work out which material

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he should use for the death ray.

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So we're going to take a reading with the mylar,

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and then you're going to switch to the plex,

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and we'll take a reading with that, and then you'll switch to the mirror,

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and then we'll done.

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Looks like he's lining up a class photo,

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but this class is failing one basic test, aiming their mirrors at the target.

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Gather the men. Come on.

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Makes you wonder how 300 Greek soldiers with heavy shields manage that.

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We're busting the myth that eight people can coordinate the simplest of movements.

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Who's that?

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One thing is certain.

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Bronze over just a couple of feet is more efficient at transmitting thermal energy,

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but over 30 feet, glass is far more efficient because it's a much more focused beam,

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and the bronze is just as polished as you can make it.

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It's still somewhat diffuse.

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But Adam, the ancient Greeks didn't have flawless glass mirrors, did they?

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I kind of got it wrong, actually.

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They had access to making very polished mirrors by coating their bronze with silver and mercury

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and getting highly polished mirrors.

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So we're actually going with something very close to technology that was available to them.

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Jamie, you're not on the target.

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Jamie thinks that, on reflection, his fellow myth buster is on the right track.

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I think it's looking surprisingly good, actually.

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Even with a small test like this, we saw a significant increase in temperature right away,

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and we're going to be going dramatically up in numbers with mirrors that we use on the real thing.

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I don't see any problem here.

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I think we're going to set something on fire.

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I'm looking forward to this because this is yet another common object,

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an everyday household object that's put to some kind of really destructive use,

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which is sort of fun somehow.

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Got to worry about that guy.

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Good times.

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Later, we'll see if Adam can turn a bunch of mirrors into a death ray.

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Once again, the myth busters have become whiff busters.

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First, they had to get the stench of decomposing pig out of a corvette.

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Now, Adam and Jamie want to find out how do you remove the fetted funk of a skunk?

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So back during the Great Depression, when you were growing up on a farm in Indiana,

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did you ever get sprayed by a skunk?

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Well, actually I was, but it was just a little bit, and so it almost doesn't count.

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I did, however, experience close up what was like handling a pet that had been sprayed thoroughly by a skunk,

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and I tell you, it'll make you lose your lunch.

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The plan is simple and extremely smelly.

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Adam and Jamie will find a skunk, get it to hose them with its caustic cologne,

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then try to get rid of the smell using a bunch of time-honored home remedies,

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including tomato juice, beer, and feminine hygiene products.

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They need to build a decontamination shower and a pool for the runoff.

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I'm afraid of getting sprayed and, you know, vomiting right in our cleaning pool,

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and then, you know, I don't know what to do after that.

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These guys have created special effects for dozens of movies and TV commercials,

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so building a shower cubicle at a black plastic pool is a no-brainer.

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I can see right through that.

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Although they haven't given much thought to privacy.

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And it's even easier when part of the rig already exists.

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This is actually our bubbling rig from the Titanic myth.

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So nothing goes unused at the myth buster.

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Look at that. Pretty as a picture. You're very on decontamination chamber.

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So you want to hand me the hose over the top?

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Oh, that's great!

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Look at that.

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You know, install one in your home?

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I don't need to. I just bring this one home.

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So we've got a table full of home remedies for skunk smell right here.

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And some professional ones.

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We've got the tomato paste.

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We've got your hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, vinegar mixture.

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We've got your feminine hygiene products.

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Dish soap. Beer.

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Are we drinking the beer or are we cleaning with it?

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Well, if we get clean with it, we'll have one later.

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This is one of those things I'm not looking forward to.

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Yeah, there's no excuse for getting out of this one, is there?

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It's not dangerous.

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As far as I'm aware, it's just unpleasant.

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In fact, that reminds me, we need a bucket in case, you know, my hemp sandwich comes back.

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I'm pleasant as it gets too much.

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Yeah, exactly. All right, I'm going to get a bucket.

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Skunks, huh?

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I'm not looking forward to this.

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All we need is a skunk.

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Enter the guys from Critter Control.

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Jeff Wrangles nuisance wildlife for a living.

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And skunks are high on the list.

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Amazingly, he has never been sprayed.

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But I mean, it's an occupational hazard, so you must know some of the many old wives' tales

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about how to get rid of the smell of a skunk.

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Well, yeah, there's one with the hydrogen peroxide and baking soda and liquid dish soap.

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That's probably pretty good for pets.

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Now, the most famous one that we've all heard all our lives is, of course, tomato juice.

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Can you tell us about that?

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Well, if you like red dogs, you know.

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Now, till I'm wearing clothes that were bought by the production, I'm going to stand over here.

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That cage will stay somewhere dark and quiet while everyone prepares to do battle with the putrid smell.

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Does it look happy?

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The crew's taking no chances.

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It's wall-to-wall protective suits and nose plugs.

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Okay, I think I'm ready.

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Our stars, however, are going for a more relaxed, outdoorsy feel.

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You know, for some reason, I keep...

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I realize that we're going to get sprayed by a skunk somewhere in the very near future.

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But what I'm thinking about more is, wow, I'm just about to have, like, gallons of tomato sauce poured all over me.

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Is that appealing?

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No, not at all.

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Adam, if that's what's worrying you, you obviously never had a dose of oda skunk.

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They used to live behind my house where I grew up, and I definitely smelled them a couple times this summer

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and saw them all the time, but I've never actually been sprayed.

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Skunk musk is secreted in two grape-sized glands at the base of the tail

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and can be aimed with deadly accuracy over several feet.

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The noxious liquid is made up of a rancid recipe of chemicals called thiols.

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Thiols are the compounds that cause decomposing flesh and feces to smell bad.

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Thiols are activated by water molecules, so trying to wash out the skunk smell only results in more skunk smell.

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It's the kind of thing that you really have to experience to understand the problem.

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My vote is going to go for the home remedy of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and dish soap.

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I think that probably has the highest chance of actually neutralizing the smell on a chemical level and cleaning it off my body.

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I'm also curious about the commercial stench remover, skunk remover, because, you know, it's guaranteed.

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And so it ought to work.

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Okay, it's time for our guest star to kick up a stink.

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What's the typical trajectory? They like lift their tail and then it kind of, as it comes up.

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Yeah, I mean, they'll aim.

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And you'll tell when they're being threatened. They'll start pouncing with their front feet. That's a warning.

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Hey, you know, I haven't asked this before, but does their scent like burn when it hits your skin?

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No. Okay, good.

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Now, you've got to stay near as, you know, business end.

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You'd think it wouldn't be too difficult getting a skunk to fire off a couple of rounds.

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Jamie and Adam are primed for a point blank blast of malodorous musk.

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But this skunk is remaining calm, cool, and collected.

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Have you ever had a skunk spray in a cage? Is there something that, you know, what you want to do is probably get your hand moving behind?

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Behind?

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Well, behind you, so we can see it.

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Watch out, everyone, I've got a loaded skunk. This is how you hypnotize a skunk.

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Come on, bud.

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Woo!

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Come on, left-legged bud.

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Jamie, I think you should start singing.

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You know, they say never work with children or animals.

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These skunks hate the sounds of industry.

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The mythbusters are trying everything.

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Drills, drives, and plays.

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But there's not even a single squalid squirt.

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Do we have another skunk?

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We ended up with one of those friendly skunks.

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We had a bit of a let down, you know. We got ourselves all psyched to get skunked.

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We managed to find Buddha reincarnated as a skunk. It was like we couldn't do anything to get him to go.

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Nothing happened. What are you going to do? You know, we couldn't hurt or even seriously harass the poor thing.

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Well, it doesn't work. Can we go now?

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The reluctant skunk actually foiled our attempts to get sprayed the other day.

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What's on the agenda now? What do we do?

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Well, we've got two more skunks coming.

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And, you know, one can only assume that sooner or later we're going to get one that works.

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And just in case that doesn't work, we have a backup, which is odour the skunk. It's synthetic skunk.

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But it's the same stuff as the skunk scent?

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It's chemically identical. It smells like it to me from here.

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Oh, man. I might lose my lunch today. So there's just no way we're escaping getting sprayed.

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No. We're going to stink, no matter what.

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All in the name of science.

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Adam and Jamie have a table full of products that are supposed to bust the stink of skunk.

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But they need a skunk with more spunk. The critic control man returns.

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You got a couple of stinkers for us.

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Well, I got one. You got one. It's a female.

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I think it's smaller.

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The boys go into their skunk-scaring routine.

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But once again, unbelievably, they come up smelling of roses.

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Well, Jamie, once again, we've proved something radical on MythBusters that skunks apparently don't spray and you can't blow them off.

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It's possible that this little girl's out of ammo.

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A skunk scent glands hold about a tablespoon of musk.

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When the tank's empty, it can take up to 10 days to produce more.

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Time to sample the synthetic smell.

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Distilled disgust.

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Viles of vile stench.

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And it's not even out yet.

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These are actually sealed glass little things, huh?

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I believe.

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Yeah, I believe they are.

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I'm as ready as I'll ever be, which is not that fair. No, not that ready.

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Christine won our competition to become a MythTher.

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Right now, she's probably wishing she hadn't.

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Oh, yeah, there's a big wet spot right there.

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Oh, but I did, of course.

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Man, that is the stuff.

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Maybe this might inspire our shy skunk to join in.

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What do you think, girl? Does it smell familiar, huh?

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Yeah, can't quite. Don't know what to make of this, do you?

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She's like, these guys are ugly, but they smell great.

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But now there's another problem. This bad smell isn't hanging around.

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It's wearing off really fast.

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I mean, either that or I'm getting used to it, which is really disturbing.

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Turns out the substitutes know substitute for the real thing.

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Sorry, guys, you'll have to find a skunk.

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You know, I'm sorry to see this little guy go. I really kind of got attached to him.

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Don't worry, guys. Skunk number three is on its way.

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The Mythbusters are trying to solve an ancient riddle.

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Did the scientist Archimedes destroy a Roman fleet using only mirrors?

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While Adam's working on the death ray, the target's taking shape.

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This has been a crazy experience trying to build this,

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and I can't imagine people back then with the tools they had building these sort of ships.

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I mean, it's amazing to me. So Archimedes coming up with something so brilliant.

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I mean, he came up with so many weapons. This has got to be true.

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Torey's not so sure.

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He better run a flamethrower because I don't think those mirrors are going to work.

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Jamie's got a flamethrower in his office.

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The vessel now has to be caulked or made watertight,

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and they're doing it the same way the ancient Romans did.

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First, hemp fiber is wedged between the planes.

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It's really just...

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Jamie, after traveling around the world, it's so...

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Freaks!

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I'm going to be sick.

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Then just add tar.

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And finally...

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We covered the raw wood with the beeswax to preserve it from the sea water.

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Hemp, tar and wax.

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It's almost as if the Roman fleet chose the most flammable materials they could find.

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That's going to be cool.

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Now, it just so happens that Mythbusters safety officer, Jim Rockwell, is a bit of an old salt.

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He loves a sea shanty.

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And if things go according to plan, he might have to learn a couple of verses of smoke on the water.

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There's not much on a boat that doesn't burn.

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In fact, fire is one of the biggest hazards at sea.

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And when you mix a light wood like pine or fir with wax and pitch and loose up pieces of rope, unspun yarns of rope,

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it's just a tinder box floating around.

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So the trireme section is ship shape.

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Adams chosen the type of mirrors he wants for his death ray.

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Now he has to work out how many he'll need and how best to arrange them to harness the sun's boat burning potential.

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This right here represents a 112th scale model of the Archimedes death ray experiment.

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We're going to actually do for real.

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Here's our miniature boat and here's 13 James focusing the sun's energy on the target.

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So we'll be able to aim all these guys up.

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So there are three methods that Archimedes could have used to actually focus sunlight and set fire to his enemies.

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The first and the simplest one is actually handing a mirror to every one of X number of soldiers on the shore.

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The problem with that is it takes a lot of soldiers to get a focused beam to get something strong enough.

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And as we saw in our test with even eight people, it's really hard to coordinate even that small number to focus their mirrors all at the same point.

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Gather! Gather the men! Come on! Hold it there! Come on people! What's going on here?

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Focus! Attention deficit disorder is going on.

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The second method is to have all the soldiers who are holding these mirrors actually point their mirrors at a secondary mirror, which then focuses on the source.

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The problem with this is unless that mirror is curved, it sends out a scattering of beams.

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And you can see that up on the wall up here. There. You can see that it's not a focused beam.

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It's an array just like these guys. So that method's pretty much out.

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Adam builds a miniature rig.

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Did you know that Archimedes built the first disco ball?

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And the result is quite illuminating.

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The third approach and the one we think that Archimedes was probably most likely to have stumbled upon is holding all of the mirrors inside a common structure with a common focal point.

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Although this arrangement, which is called a Fresnel arrangement, wasn't invented for another thousand years, its concept would have been very clear to Archimedes.

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And that is that as each mirror gets farther away from center, its angle is increased so it's still aiming at a common point.

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And in this way, you're actually able to get all of these mirrors, 61 of them focused at one spot, and we're looking actually to make a whole bunch more mirrors than this.

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So I think this is the most likely arrangement we're going to go with.

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They tap solar power in a similar way.

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At the Solar 2 project in California's Mojave Desert, almost 2,000 giant mirrors reflect sunlight onto a central tower containing molten salt.

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The superheated salt is then used to boil water and the steam powers a generator.

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The result? Enough electricity to power 10,000 homes.

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Now, Adam knows the sun produces 100 watts of energy per square foot, so 300 mirrors should produce 30 kilowatts per square foot.

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And that's hard, about 600 degrees.

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How many mirrors have we got so far?

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About 250.

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Those mirrors will be screwed to a frame measuring more than 400 square feet.

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This is actually my depth gauge so I can focus the mirror array from behind it.

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All the mirrors have a screw adjusting their angle, and this depth gauge tells me how far a given screw should be out for a given row.

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The setup is big and time is short.

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I need to start drawing these circles because I need to drill 300 holes.

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It's not like I'm sitting over here goofing off.

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I'm just trying to get this thing right.

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I want this thing as tight as it possibly can.

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But I understand we only have another day and a half to finish this.

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Oh, no, we have four hours to finish this.

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We have tomorrow to install it.

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So begins a Fresnel lens frenzy.

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They've got paper on them so that we don't blind ourselves and we're trying to focus it.

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Or burn down somebody's house or something like that.

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Adam, this looks like a small one, but a fun one.

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Oh, lots of fun. There's tons of myths out there about what is bulletproof and what isn't.

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And we're going to set out to test as many of them as we can.

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What do we got? We got playing cards, books, Zippo lighters.

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It's off to the Shabo Gun Club to test this myth.

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The setup is simple.

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In place of a human body, one slab of ballistics gel, and a selection of mythical bullet-stopping items.

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Target number one, a book. Hard cover, naturally.

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And the weapon of choice, a .22 caliber rifle.

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Dead center.

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Well, pull it out. Let's see if it went through.

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It did not.

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So somewhere, oh, look at what it did.

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Punch the paper.

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Where's your round?

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There it is.

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There's your round.

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It's probably actually about 400 pages that made it through.

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So shall we try a .357 Magnum, see if it makes it all the way through?

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Did I even hit it?

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Over the top.

382
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Over the top?

383
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That's pretty lame.

384
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Another round.

385
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This test reveals Adam would struggle to hit the side of a barn.

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From the inside.

387
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I think it's your turn, sir.

388
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I can't seem to hit that damn thing.

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Okay.

390
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Let's see what it did.

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All right.

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Oh, went all the way through.

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Okay, so...

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A book won't stop at .357 Magnum, but I've never considered a book to be really body armor anyway.

395
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Our next target, a deck of cards.

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The Joker gets another chance with the .22.

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We're going hot, eyes and ears.

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Good shot, Adam.

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Thank you, Uncle Jamie.

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And it went through it.

401
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It did.

402
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It went all the way through it.

403
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But not through the Ballistics Gel, you can see it.

404
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Yeah, no, it made it about six inches into the Ballistics Gel.

405
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Still, if you had one of these in your pocket, it wouldn't do you any good at all.

406
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I think it's time to try the Zippo.

407
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Okay.

408
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Are you ready, Ace?

409
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Yeah.

410
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All right, let's do it.

411
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Looks like you hit it pretty good.

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Books, cards, lighters.

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None will stop a bullet.

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Now Adam and Jamie want to put another myth in the line of fire.

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And this one's a little closer to home.

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Every time the Mythbusters have made something go bang,

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they've done so from behind the safety of a high impact resistant plastic screen.

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But how safe were they?

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Were the Mythbusters living their own myth?

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There we go.

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All right, ready?

422
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Yeah, well last season, Jamie, we protected ourselves from a whole bunch of our experiments

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using this quarter inch polycarbonate, which you told us all was actually bulletproof,

424
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and it's not.

425
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I don't recall it that way.

426
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You know, that was quarter inch polycarbonate, and I never said that quarter inch was bulletproof.

427
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Oh, I believe that the very next cut in this segment is you saying bulletproof first.

428
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I don't stop a bullet.

429
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It'll stop all sorts of shrapnel, and I just love the stuff.

430
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Well, not exactly.

431
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It'll stop a bullet.

432
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Well, what were you thinking?

433
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It can't stop a bullet, so it's not bulletproof.

434
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That plastic is a bulletproof plastic when it's used in appropriate thicknesses and arrangements.

435
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Anyway, we've got a sheet up there of what we had in our blast chamber,

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and we're going to fire some bullets at it and see how bulletproof it actually is.

437
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So our first shot is going to be at the quarter inch polycarbonate, and we'll see what it does.

438
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You know, it most likely, my guess, is it'll shatter.

439
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Well, and that's why I think you should take the first shot, farm boy,

440
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and show us how bulletproof it actually is.

441
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All right.

442
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Have a good one.

443
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To test the stopping power of their blast screen, they'll use the 22.

444
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Did you miss the last shot?

445
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It looks like it.

446
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Oh, look at that.

447
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Yeah, bullet right through.

448
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It's worth remembering the guys aren't actually being shot at in their experiments,

449
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but it's got them wondering what they should be behind if they ever are.

450
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Not even remotely bulletproof.

451
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Okay, well, let's try the real thing.

452
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Let's do the real thing.

453
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Ugh.

454
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This stuff is a little bit more than a bulletproof plastic.

455
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Let's do the real thing.

456
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Ugh.

457
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This stuff is rated bullet resistant.

458
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Again, they're using the 22.

459
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Okay, I'm firing.

460
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Wow.

461
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It's a little high.

462
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All of a sudden he's like, yeah, it's a little high.

463
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Yeah, that definitely stopped it.

464
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The bullet hasn't even penetrated halfway.

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Once again, they pull out the 357 Magnum.

466
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Well, that looks almost like a bullseye.

467
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Wow.

468
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Look, it's like completely encased in the plastic.

469
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Oh, that is really cool.

470
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000
So the 357 Magnum didn't penetrate the bulletproof glass either.

471
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Clearly, this calls for something special.

472
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
This is the 44 Magnum, right?

473
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
This is the 44 Magnum.

474
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
The first cousin to the Dirty Hairy Gun.

475
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,000
So this is the most powerful handgun in the world.

476
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
That's the kind that movie was made?

477
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Yes.

478
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000
The fabled 44 Magnum, Dirty Hairy's weapon of choice.

479
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Take a breath.

480
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
Relax.

481
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:58,000
But again, that tough little box has stopped the bullet.

482
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000
It did about the same as the 357.

483
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
It's a bigger hole, but it didn't go any deeper, I don't think.

484
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Right, but it means it's spread out more energy right there.

485
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
God, that's fantastic.

486
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000
It's becoming a source of considerable frustration.

487
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
So we got to stop pussyfooting around here.

488
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000
What do you got that will make it through that thing?

489
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:22,000
What they've got is the Springfield 30 Ot 6, the oldest caliber rifle on the grounds.

490
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:30,000
And the Mythbusters last chance to see if bulletproof really means bulletproof.

491
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000
That went right through it.

492
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Wow, look at that.

493
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Went right through that side and right through that side.

494
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000
It didn't even make the thing jump.

495
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Wow, you know, this stuff is pretty impressive what it did with the handguns.

496
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
It's exactly what they rated it for.

497
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
You know, it's not made for a high-powered rifle.

498
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Yeah, well, and we were using the highest-powered thing they had on site today.

499
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Well, we lined them up, we knocked them down, and we fired some big guns.

500
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
What turned out to be bulletproof or not?

501
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
We're playing cards bulletproof?

502
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Nope.

503
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000
We're books or bibles?

504
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
No.

505
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,000
A Zippo lighter?

506
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,000
No.

507
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
And last year's blast chamber?

508
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
No.

509
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
So polycarbonate itself is not inherently bulletproof.

510
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000
It has to be laminated in a whole bunch of sheets, especially, and be really thick, right?

511
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Well, polycarbonate itself is not used as a bulletproof plastic.

512
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000
It's got to be laminated and specially put together as a bulletproof product.

513
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
And it's actually just bullet-resistant.

514
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000
So it depends on the circumstances, whether it's going to resist the right bullet at the right time.

515
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Right.

516
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:47,000
And all these other household objects and things that are supposed to stop bullets and famous stories about them stopping bullets,

517
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
wrong, wrong, wrong, any wrong.

518
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Rollity wrong?

519
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Wrongity wrong.

520
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000
You said, rollity wrong.

521
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000
I did not.

522
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000
Simple.

523
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Get sprayed by a skunk and test a batch of home remedies for removing the smell.

524
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Trouble is, the mythbusters just can't get sprayed.

525
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
What we want is a little bit of this.

526
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
This skunks from a different supplier.

527
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Do you have some advice about the best way to blow this off a skunk?

528
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,000
I mean, we've, we've, we think we've tried everything.

529
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
I'll tell you, I have not found it difficult.

530
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000
So all you got to do is expose that thing.

531
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Right now it's covered.

532
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
And when you take that off, it's going to feel threatened.

533
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
So you think we're going to get sprayed?

534
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Yeah, absolutely.

535
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
I'd be shocked if you didn't.

536
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Well, Regan, prepare to be shocked.

537
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
That is a really good bark.

538
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Maybe it's just the wrong season for skunk spray.

539
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
I've never seen it happen this way.

540
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
It's incredible.

541
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
I mean, it's, this is, this is third time.

542
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
There's only one option left.

543
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Let the skunk out of its cage and see if it will spray when cornered in a confined space.

544
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Thanks for putting it in the women's bathroom.

545
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Hey, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

546
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Woo!

547
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
I'm trying to ease it up.

548
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Oh, he squirted.

549
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Yeah, he definitely squirted.

550
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Yeah, I can smell it.

551
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
You smell it?

552
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000
It's bad.

553
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
And finally, he squirted my shoe.

554
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
The only thing I didn't want him to squirt, he squirted.

555
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Never seen anyone so happy to be skunked.

556
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Finally, we smell foul.

557
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
I totally slacked home skunk.

558
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000
At last, a chance to test our skunk smell remedies.

559
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Remedy number one, an all time favorite, tomato juice.

560
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Jamie, marinate.

561
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Wow, this is like performance art.

562
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Now, not only do they stink, they're pink.

563
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:08,000
For everybody out there that thinks we have a great job, think again.

564
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Mythbuster builder Scotty has volunteered to be the nose that knows.

565
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
He just smelled like a bloody Mary.

566
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000
No, bloody Mary.

567
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Woo, no, that's not skunk.

568
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
You know, I can't really tell for sure.

569
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
I mean, Scotty didn't smell anything on us.

570
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000
And we got sprayed, so, you know, it seems like it must have done something.

571
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Yeah.

572
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Problem is, for this experiment to work, Adam and Jamie have to be re-skunked after each test.

573
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
But this little critter isn't giving up any more juice.

574
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Maybe the sight of Adam and Jamie in their underwear sent it into shock.

575
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000
So it's goodbye to Regan and his skunk and hello, Plan B.

576
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000
It's so hard to get the skunk to spray.

577
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:05,000
I mean, we feel relatively fine now, but the bathroom where we had the skunk, it reeks.

578
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:10,000
So I think we ought to finish the test in here, use some of our substances in here and see what we can clean up.

579
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Beer.

580
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Will beer de-skunk or will it be debunked?

581
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000
What are you doing? You're spraying it all over the floor. That's going to help.

582
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
You start at the top and you work down.

583
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
It's hard being Jamie sometimes.

584
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Humans are very sensitive to tiles, the chemicals in skunk spray.

585
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,000
We can detect them in minute quantities, parts per billion.

586
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:39,000
In fact, a sulfur tile is added to odorless natural gas, just so we can detect leaks.

587
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Smells like the men's room in a dive bar.

588
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Yeah, but like a dive bar frequented by skunks?

589
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
It's got that skunky beer smell.

590
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
It's skunky though still.

591
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
It's slightly skunky.

592
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000
The beer hasn't helped.

593
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
The beer covers it up a little bit.

594
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Like I said, it smells like the boys room.

595
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000
All right, so beer busted.

596
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Okay, that's tomato juice and beer down.

597
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
All right, time for feminine hygiene products.

598
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
How's that work?

599
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
I think you just twist it probably.

600
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
So what's in these things?

601
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
It's supposed to be vinegar and water.

602
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Yeah, it tastes like vinegar and water.

603
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Talk about a thirst for knowledge.

604
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
You know I just took a taste test.

605
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,000
All right, Scotty, you're on.

606
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Well, it didn't get out the beer smell.

607
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Just tell us if there's a little skunk on the wind.

608
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Yeah?

609
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Yeah.

610
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Still a little skunky.

611
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000
So feminine hygiene products.

612
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Dush busted also.

613
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Not so fresh.

614
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000
It seems those tiles are still working their magic.

615
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000
We're down to our second to last test.

616
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Okay, two answers.

617
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and just a squirt of dishwashing liquid.

618
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Better, worse, worse.

619
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Really?

620
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Yes.

621
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
A lot better.

622
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
A lot better.

623
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Smells very clean.

624
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Mmm, home remedy might have worked.

625
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Yeah.

626
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000
When the peroxide, baking soda, and soap mix,

627
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
they release a storm of oxygen molecules.

628
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Those molecules bond with the tiles in the skunk spray

629
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
and change their chemical makeup,

630
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000
neutralizing their smell in the process.

631
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
In fact, it's worked so well

632
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,000
that the bathroom has to be re-skunked for the final test.

633
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Oh!

634
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Ha!

635
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Adam uses up the last of the synthetic skunk stink.

636
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
All right, so what is this stuff?

637
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Commercial skunk remover.

638
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Really?

639
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Yeah.

640
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000
It's made for this purpose.

641
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
What does it smell like?

642
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Smells fruity.

643
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Smells orangey.

644
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Makes me kind of thirsty.

645
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Let's go for the reeks in here.

646
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
It's pretty good.

647
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
Slight bit of skunk.

648
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000
How do they compare to the home remedy of the last test?

649
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
I think the home remedy worked better.

650
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
The home remedy worked better than the commercial skunk remover.

651
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I think so.

652
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
I think we've created another myth out here, Jimmy.

653
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
That skunks want spray netbusters.

654
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Exactly.

655
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
I'm ready to walk through the woods with impunity now.

656
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Skunks, look out!

657
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Look out!

658
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Turn your wheels this way.

659
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
I want it angled slightly.

660
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000
It's D-Day for the death ray.

661
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Luckily, it's not overcast.

662
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Dude, do you think this is going to work?

663
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Oh, absolutely not.

664
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
All right, let's get it flooded.

665
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
The tri-remes being launched on its maiden voyage.

666
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000
Adam and Tori have to work out a way to float their boat.

667
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
And soon, there's drama on the high seas.

668
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
We built half a boat and it stopped floating level.

669
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Because it's only half a boat.

670
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
So now we're trying to get weight into the back of this thing

671
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
so we can get it upright and actually see something that we can burn.

672
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
I can't believe we didn't think of this.

673
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
I mean, there's an entire crew full of idiots here.

674
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Me included.

675
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
At the same time, Adam's death ray has arrived in sections.

676
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Ready for assembly.

677
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000
These screws that I'm putting in are actually the aiming screws

678
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,000
for all 300 of our mirrors.

679
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,000
And once we get them in,

680
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,000
we have a formula for what their position is,

681
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000
inner or out, depending on the row and their position on the mirror.

682
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
And then we'll get some fire.

683
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
So, we got the mirrors down.

684
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Frame's almost done.

685
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
We're going to bring the forklift around, lift this puppy up

686
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
and see if we can't put our sad little boat out if it's misery.

687
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Not so fast, Adam.

688
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Jamie's arrived on the scene.

689
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
And he's not happy with the waterlogged warship.

690
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Adam's job of securing the boat sucks.

691
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Now I've got to fix it.

692
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000
And I don't think it'll be that big of a deal,

693
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
but sort of paying the butt.

694
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
The tide's coming in. We have no time.

695
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000
And this ain't a boat. It's sort of a pile of wood.

696
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Jamie, you know, you're going to put a lot of load on the center of the boat.

697
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
Yeah, yeah, you had your chance.

698
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Let the guy that actually knows a thing or two about ropes and boats do his work

699
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
and later the ocean.

700
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
If our Phoenicians couldn't build a sufficient boat, it's not my fault, all right?

701
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000
You were the one that dumped the bag of sand.

702
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
All right, I'm backing off.

703
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Skepper Jamie goes to work

704
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000
with a little help from his first mate, Christine.

705
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000
I have a job for you.

706
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,000
He's a bit of a landlubber.

707
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,000
No, I need you to stick your hand all the way under there and grab that rope.

708
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000
I'm working.

709
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000
Wait.

710
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Oh!

711
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000
Oh, my God!

712
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Sorry about that. I couldn't help myself.

713
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:51,000
The trireme should now stay afloat long enough to test the death rate.

714
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000
So Jamie, some more old, timey stuff from the farm.

715
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Are you going to go fishing with a bow and arrow?

716
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Well, not exactly.

717
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000
The myth says that Archimedes focused the mirror to hit the boat,

718
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000
a boat shot away from the walls of Syracuse.

719
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,000
Realistically, Jamie, we've made this entire thing and all the math is to aim about 60 feet away,

720
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,000
so if you can, just try and not shoot much farther than 60 feet, okay?

721
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000
All right.

722
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,000
All right, let's see what it does.

723
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Okay.

724
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:22,000
I know it's gone.

725
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:31,000
60 feet is the hot zone, the point at which the 300 reflected rays will converge.

726
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000
60 feet, right there.

727
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,000
The mirror rig is exactly the kind of thing that Adam's good at.

728
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000
He really flew through this.

729
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:44,000
It's a big, hard to build thing that he did in just like practically no time at all.

730
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000
I think it's actually quite brilliant.

731
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,000
Despite that, he doesn't think it'll work.

732
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:58,000
It's just so hard to imagine that something of this scale would actually set something on fire from 60 feet away.

733
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000
I just don't know.

734
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,000
I'm actually really excited to see whether this works or not, but my guess is that it won't.

735
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,000
The trickiest part of this challenge is raising the rig.

736
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:13,000
The worst-case scenario here is that the whole thing is just going to collapse somewhere in the middle of us trying to lift it.

737
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000
And if that happens, it's going to be like Humpty Dumpty, you know.

738
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000
All the King's men can't put it back together again.

739
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000
What's up? We got it, Jamie.

740
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Oh, look at that.

741
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000
I can't help noticing that it's not on fire.

742
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,000
300 mirrors, it should be on fire.

743
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000
That's a pretty bright light you got going there, buddy.

744
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,000
The Romans wouldn't know what hit him.

745
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Oh, bright light.

746
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000
Sail away.

747
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Jamie dons a fire suit.

748
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,000
There he comes.

749
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,000
And bravely wades in to take a temperature reading.

750
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000
What's a temperature, Jamie?

751
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000
It's about 150.

752
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,000
150?

753
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,000
Give it a minute.

754
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,000
200 degrees.

755
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:08,000
The highest temperature we seem to be reading on the boat right now is about 200 degrees.

756
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,000
That's just about 400 degrees shy of ignition temperature.

757
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Even so, the wax is melting.

758
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000
Oh, I see wax dripping off.

759
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,000
As a boost, the team holds up sheets of mylar.

760
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:26,000
The added rays bump up the temperature almost 100 degrees.

761
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000
It's 280 degrees.

762
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000
284, 287.

763
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,000
The tar begins to smolder, but still no flames.

764
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Something else is clear.

765
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:42,000
For this to work, you'd want the enemy to stay very still in exactly the right spot.

766
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,000
Our death ray doesn't seem to be working.

767
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,000
I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

768
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:54,000
Despite Adam's best efforts, the beams just aren't concentrated enough.

769
00:46:54,000 --> 00:47:00,000
Instead of meeting at a single point, the 300 rays are scattered across the entire structure.

770
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000
The sun's energy is diffused.

771
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,000
I don't think we're going to get anything better than this.

772
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000
I mean, even if we move the whole mirror, which I'm not sure it would survive,

773
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,000
and get into the sun, we're not going to get instant ignition on this.

774
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000
I think we should call it quits and go for the flaming arrows.

775
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Oh well, nice try, Adam.

776
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,000
Yeah!

777
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Now, that's about 2,000 years bad luck right there.

778
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Not sure you'd want these guys defending against the invading hordes.

779
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,000
This is harder than it looks.

780
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,000
Molotov cocktail, anyone?

781
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,000
The waterlogged triarene just won't burn.

782
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Not even gasoline can provide that elusive spark.

783
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,000
It's busted.

784
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,000
I mean, from a purely practical standpoint, this myth is 100% busted.

785
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000
If you have enough mirrors that make an effective death ray,

786
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,000
the rig that they're mounted to was going to be so big,

787
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,000
we saw that you can't move it or aim it effectively.

788
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,000
Yeah, Archimedes was a really smart guy,

789
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:26,000
and like a lot of us, he knew that sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones.

790
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,000
This is not a simple solution.

791
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:33,000
No, I mean, you could only use it at a certain time of day when it's most effective,

792
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,000
it's difficult to aim, what are you going to ask your enemy to please show up around noon?

793
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,000
Or what if it's raining?

794
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,000
If I was a Roman, I'd want to show up on a rainy day.

795
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Now, this is definitely, I really, really, really wanted this one to work.

796
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,000
I wanted to see some fire, but the question wasn't whether we could do it,

797
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,000
it's whether Archimedes did it, and I think we showed that he definitely didn't.