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3, 2, 1, go!

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The Mythbusters are defying death in the quest for flight.

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It's not a question of whether we'll get badly hurt, it's how badly hurt.

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And we're busy busting myths about ways to legally beat the police speed radar.

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Well, it didn't disappear.

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Are you surprised?

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Absolutely.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Am I missing an eyebrow?

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Adam Savage

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I reject the reality and substitute my own.

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And Jamie Heinemann

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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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Why don't all the fun ever stop?

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They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test.

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Ever since we realized we couldn't, humans have wanted to fly like the birds.

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Gliders, hang gliders and parachutes have made non-powered flight possible.

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I've farted on you!

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But is it possible for a man to fly accidentally?

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Plywood Builder

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Plywood Builder, walk me through this one.

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Apparently a construction worker up on the top of a building was holding onto a 4x8 sheet of Plywood on a windy day.

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And the wind picks him up off the top of the building over the edge.

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Not only does he manage to hold onto the Plywood, but he controls it well enough to be able to land several floors below in the building unharmed.

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Cool, flying myth.

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What's the overall plan here? What are we going to end up doing?

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I think Buster's going for a ride with a sheet of Plywood, but ultimately if we can, one of us should take a ride.

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If I'm going to take that leap with a sheet of Plywood as my only safety, I want to do some very serious testing before we do that.

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I'm thinking scale Plywood and figure correct weights to scale and really see what kind of lift ratios we get out of this thing before we take that leap.

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No matter what you're searching for, you'll probably find it in Jamie's M5 storage system.

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Always excellent.

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If you look hard enough, you might even find a mini Buster.

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Jamie, there's a guy here who seems kind of perfect.

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It's a toy prototype built by Jamie.

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I think we should go for the goatee, but that's just because I like the goatee.

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Mini Buster is the right height, but is he the right weight?

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I'm roughly six feet at 180 pounds.

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You were 190.

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No.

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I'm just using some easy 190.

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Let's say stand 85 percentile male, right?

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Six feet, 180 pounds.

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Proportionally, that's 72 inches to 180 pounds.

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10 inches tall, 25 pounds.

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I just did the math.

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I need him to weigh 25 pounds.

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So you're saying that he needs to be built out of depleted uranium.

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Do you have some?

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Is it under G or U over here?

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Adam figures he should be calculating volume, not size.

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So in fact, mini Buster is close to being the right weight.

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The small scale testing also needs a sheet of mini ply.

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That's almost exactly 50 pounds.

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We're weighing a piece of plywood so that we can replicate this in a small scale.

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But even this tiny piece of ply is proportionately too heavy.

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Christine reduces its weight by drilling lots of small holes.

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Okay, there we go. Perfect.

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This is a scale replica of what say Adam or I with a full-size sheet of ply would be if we were 10 inches tall.

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A high-speed camera will shoot mini Buster falling in front of a scale rule.

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A computer will then calculate his drop rate.

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The test is repeated with the mini ply.

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Okay, Christine.

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So what did we learn with the drop tests of the mini Buster rate?

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Well, the ply would slow him down about 25%.

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25% from a fall with nothing, right?

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A human falling.

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Yes.

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But 25% slower is still not slow enough.

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If they tried the ply would miss themselves.

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The best that we would be able to accomplish, it sounds to me, is just broken legs and arms.

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But maybe not a broken back or a smashed skull.

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I'm willing to settle for that.

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It's too big a risk for a human, but no problem for Buster.

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That's once his rubber crash test dummy hands have been swapped for some ply would grabbing clamps.

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Let's see whether it actually will support somebody on it.

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His Buster happens to be about my size and weight.

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So, looks like it works.

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Now Buster, this won't hurt a bit.

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So Buster's new super grip robo hands are welded to his arms.

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Plywood.

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According to the myth, the builder was holding a sheet of five ply when he took his unscheduled flight.

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That's made up of five thin sheets of timber compressed together.

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As well as trying a regular sheet, Adam and Janie will use the five individual sheets to design their own flying rigs.

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Well, my thought first off was to array them like a car leaf spring to where we extend the surface area.

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And of course, end up spinning like a helicopter all the way down.

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Which might not be a bad thing because helicopters as we know land a little softer than just the same shape without the propellers.

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Because they're spinning and they get lift from that.

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Yeah, but skydivers also have what they call a death spiral.

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Well, there is that.

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I'm thinking of something totally different. I'm thinking of laminating them in such a way that you actually get a curve out of it.

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Sure, the original myth only involves one sheet of five ply.

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But Adam and Janie really want this to work.

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So they're using the five single sheets to build the most efficient plywood flying rigs they can.

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Adam coats the cardboard sheets with light spray-on glue and then puts them together in various five-sheet permutations.

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It's a nurses hat.

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Oh, nurse savage.

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So these two represent Janie and my first ideas about the best ways to slow your descent using five plies of plywood.

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And then I started to think, could you just have a little hole in the center and get a lot more square footage?

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I'll try this.

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Then I started moving towards the scoop like this.

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So it's a kind of bridge between Janie and I.

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And then we'll get to these like radical scoops.

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All of which can be done on a plywood.

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I'm not sure which approach is best.

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Should we be going towards a parachute or an actual airfoil?

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Well, I mean, I think we want to do one of each.

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I think we want to do one parachute design, like my flying nun thing, and one wing design.

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Using the cardboard sheets to design his wing, Janie attempts to maximize surface area while not compromising strength.

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The scale prototypes for Janie's wing and Adam's parachute are complete.

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Time for a test run.

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We're going to do some drop tests with some of the first mock-ups of these flying rigs.

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I've got one that kind of looks like the flying nuns habit, and Janie's got one that's just a broad piece of as much material as he can get with a couple of stringers.

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Hopefully we'll have at least some idea what this is going to do before we actually go out and do it in full scale.

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First off, Mini Buster gets no help at all.

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Point nine seconds.

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What's our next point?

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Is this the Janie wing?

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Janie wing.

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Three, two, one, go.

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1.05 seconds.

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Back to your drawing board.

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Now for Adam's pentagonal parachute design.

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That actually wasn't too bad.

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That was the best one yet. That was 1.48 seconds.

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But Janie won't take this lying down. He refines his wing prototype.

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Ready when you are.

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Three, two...

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He twists his wing to make it spin.

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1.4.

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That's interesting. That's up there with the high performers on the other ones.

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So we've decided on the two that we're going to make. One is the hexagonal parachute and the other one is the wing here then because this actually got almost as high a performance.

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The cardboard scale models have done their job but the real test will come when the flying rigs go full size.

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Coming up next, the MythBusters build team exhibits model behavior as they take on the pulley speed radar.

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The wing.

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We'll never get pulled over for going six miles an hour.

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And in his quest for the perfect plywood parachute, Adam Savage screws up.

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The end.

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Scotty, Carrie and Tori have been like little Santa's helpers.

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Oh, I'm going to be sick.

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Whenever Adam and Jamie have devised some Mythbusting mayhem, it's often been this trio's job to make their bosses twisted visions to have a reality.

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This time, however, they're going to be in the driver's seat.

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That doesn't look right.

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All right, guys. So your first story on your own. What have you got?

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Well, what we're going to try to do is legally beat the police radar.

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Legally, huh? So not the commercially available radar or laser jammers.

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Exactly. We've heard all kinds of ideas like jingling your keys in front of your window.

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Disco balls, a CD from the rear view mirror, foil on your hubcaps, putting LEDs around your license plate, microwaves and covering the entire car in foil.

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So how are you going to tackle this one? What's the plan?

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Well, obviously we need to get a radar gun. We're also going to try the LiDAR, which is a laser system.

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Lift it up a little bit more.

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And to test them, the first thing they're going to need is a car.

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Earl, the Mythbusters Cadillac, should do the job.

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You remember Earl. He's the car the guys use for target practice.

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Oh, man.

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Our resident grease monkey, Scotty, has to get him back on the road to recovery.

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It's going to be stubborn.

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While Scotty coaxes the caddy back to life, Tori and Carrie do a little radar research.

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You're not working fast enough, dude.

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Now, Carrie's packing a normal radar gun. It fires microwaves that hit the target and bounce back at a slightly different frequency.

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The frequency difference determines the target speed.

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Tori's wielding a laser speed gun, or LiDAR.

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It shoots a thousand samples per second of infrared laser light at the target.

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Speed is calculated by comparing the distance between each sample.

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Before we get to the real car and do tests, we want to do some sample material tests on the RC car.

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But before we can even do that, we have to make sure that the RC car will even show up on the radar gun.

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The RC car has a top speed of between 5 and 6 miles per hour. But will the radar detect it?

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Four, five. We got a reading.

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So the RC car is visible to the radar. Now, to make it invisible.

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Right now I'm making extra shells to the body of the RC car.

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Now that we know how the radar and LiDAR work, we're going to do some tests with all of our materials.

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Beautiful! It came out perfectly!

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The game of radar hide and seek has been played out since World War II and has sparked the growth of stealth technology.

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Modern stealth aircraft have flat surfaces and sharp edges.

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They're also coated with materials that absorb radar.

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So every foot? Every foot.

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It'll take way too long to coat earl in all the materials the myths mention.

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The remote-controlled car is a much simpler option. But why the blue paint?

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Theoretically, it's supposed to change the wavelength of the reflective light on the LiDAR.

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So we'll see if we can pick this up at a different distance.

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Are you ready? I'm always ready.

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Okay, go!

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How fast?

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Five miles an hour? Six topping out when you get to the finish line?

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We'll never get pulled over for going six miles an hour.

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Myth number two, prism tape. This stuff's used to make fishing lures.

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It might fool fish, but can it rattle the radar?

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Alright, yellow reflective! Go!

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Well, the reflective tape is, as far as the RC control is, it's a myth.

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I'm picking it up a lot faster than the control.

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And I have no change at all. It's the same thing. I'm picking it up just at 50 feet.

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So far, no good.

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The most common myth that we've heard of is the tinfoil, or aluminum foil.

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So what we're going to try now is the aluminum foil over the car.

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Go when you're ready.

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Is it doing anything?

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I'm actually picking it up sooner. So if you're avoiding a ticket, this is not the way to go.

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One of the myths says that an LED will mess up a LiDAR detector.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to rig up this test one with an LED.

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Go!

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LEDs are infrared, and they're supposed to scramble the LiDAR's infrared beam.

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So the LED do anything?

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The LED seemed to have no effect on the laser.

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Well, it didn't have a significant difference, but it was about 10 feet in difference.

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We might want to try it on the big car as well.

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So on full scale, that could be a mile.

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The only thing left, a type of paint which is supposed to absorb radar.

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It's actually embedded with a bunch of iron and makes it really heavy.

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It goes on like frosting.

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And it's so expensive that if you were actually going to paint your car with this,

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you might as well just pay up all your speeding tickets.

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The paint's so heavy, the RC car won't even go.

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Don't give up, Scotty.

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You can barely go.

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Has this myth been busted before Earl the Catty is out of the garage?

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They look really cool, guys.

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Did anything you try to have any effect on the radar's ability to detect them?

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The radar can detect all of these cars.

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We also can write off the prism tape.

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It actually made it more detectable.

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It's supposed to deflect the laser, but it's actually reflecting it back better.

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So the plan now is to go with the most popular ones, like Flat Black and Tinfoil.

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And we have a few tricks up our sleeve as well.

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But before Scotty reveals her tricks, can Adam make plywood become plywood?

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Adam and Jamie are testing the myth of a builder flying off a skyscraper

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while holding a sheet of plywood.

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They're helping the myth out by using five single sheets to create their own flying rigs.

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After testing scale models, Adam has decided on a parachute-like design.

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And Jamie is building a wing.

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The plywood sheets may be heavy, but they're also fragile.

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Adam removes his five sheets from the twelve available.

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Screw.

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Make that eleven.

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One tore, bringing it out, trying to get it out of the way of Jay, the cameraman.

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Using a scale model, he calculates the angles for the full-size version.

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He measures up the sheets, and then lays them out.

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Meanwhile, Jamie is placing the sheets for his wing on a cradle made from two-by-fours.

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Well, look at what you're doing.

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You're going to laminate it up on the curve.

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Yeah, you know, I figure we'll get the glue to actually help it hold its shape

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before we put the struts in.

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Jamie's plan is simple but effective.

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He'll achieve a curve in his wing by placing weights in the center of the plywood sheets.

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When the ply is glued, the curve should remain.

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Adam's pentagonal plywood parachute is taking shape.

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He's just got to remember those sheets are really fragile.

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Now they're down to ten sheets, and there's no room for error.

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The last sheet of ply is found and slid into place carefully.

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Got it?

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Alright, cool. You can let that down. Thanks, Adam.

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That was a pain in the ass.

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Jamie's wing is looking good.

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Oh, and I want to put the strip down.

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Narrow strips of ply are used as strengtheners.

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Yeah, charm.

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Okay, now we've got to bring the pipe in.

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Finally, the curve is achieved by adding whatever weights Jamie and Christine can find.

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There we go.

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I'm actually really happy how this came out.

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And tomorrow when the glue is set, we'll remove all the wood,

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and hopefully this will retain as much as possible of this curve.

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This will give us something to work off of for the final touch, which is the twist.

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Because I'm going to put a diagonal on this that'll torque this thing a little bit

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and create a propeller shape, which gives us the spin,

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and the spin gives us the lift, which slows us down.

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Coming up, it's Buster vs. Gravity.

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And there can be only one winner.

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I never get tired of doing that.

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Plus, a police radar myth is totally blown away.

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Good. It works.

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Could a builder fly through the air on a sheet of plywood?

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Adam and Jamie have glued together two plywood flying rigs for Buster to find out.

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But how will they know if Buster survives?

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Jamie, a key part of this myth is going to be how lethal is Buster's impact when he lands.

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And we have installed auto industry computer accelerometers in him before

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with greater and lesser degrees of success.

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I mean, we're always entering myth Buster's meter hell.

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I think it's time that we build our own GeForce meter.

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Yeah, you know, if we can't find it, we'll build it ourselves.

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Exactly.

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Inspiration comes to Adam in the form of a light bulb.

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I'm hoping that these light bulbs will end up being the sort of soul of myth Buster's home-built G-Meter.

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We're going to put these inside a ball so that they break at a fatal amount of GeForce.

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And to add a little drama and realism, the bulbs are filled with fake blood.

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If they break, we'll know it.

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Isn't that cool? Don't you have all these same nithverious thoughts?

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Hey, you're dripping it.

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The bulb is sealed and placed inside a pair of aluminum sugar scoops.

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You ready?

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Yeah.

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Time for a test drop.

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This should be the non-lethal distance.

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It made it.

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That's good.

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All right, I'm going to try the high point.

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Ready?

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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It looks gruesome, doesn't it?

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Oh, and a horror show.

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The new G-Force meter is instantly christened the Ball of Death.

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The myth Buster's have turned decades of occupational health and safety death descriptions into a figure for brain death.

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80 G's for just 32,000ths of a second.

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Because the ball is solid metal, it builds up a lot of G-Force in just a small drop.

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But once it's cushioned by Buster's head, it'll survive a much bigger drop.

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Jamie has used weights to curve the plywood for his wing.

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But what will happen when the weights are removed?

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Jamie, this looks great, man.

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It looks like it held its curve quite nicely.

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It was pretty darn rigid.

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Yeah, it actually is holding its shape quite nicely.

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Have fun flying with it.

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Yeah.

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Hopefully, Adam's plywood parachute will cause a little motion sickness.

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He's left one section unglued so it can be pulled together to form the plywood into a dish shape.

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Hey, Jamie.

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I'm gonna make some help with this.

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Be careful on a blink, you're gonna end up with a split right along that line.

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Jamie and Adam's plywood creations are nearly done.

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Jamie uses a diagonal cord to increase the twist on his wing.

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Okay, now let it go.

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That's more like it.

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Yeah, that's a lot better.

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And Adam, well, he's just Adam.

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Jamie's wing made it outside and into the truck easily.

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But Adam's plywood parachute is a pretty close shave.

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That just barely fit in there.

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Yeah.

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The Flying Plywood Test Site is at Hamilton Base in Novato, an hour north of San Francisco.

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I don't want one of these for myself.

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After 47 years as an Air Force bomber and fighter base, Hamilton closed in 1976.

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The old control tower will be the ideal place to drop busters.

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I think we're gonna need to use the crane to get up here.

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Well, that's what the crane's for.

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Shouldn't be a problem.

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That's perfect.

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We're actually gonna do some drop tests with buster and some various things that are mythically held to be able to help you survive a fall from several stories.

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I just moved this over here.

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Nothing much has changed in the last hundred years.

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Hey, could someone let me out?

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The test will take place in front of a scale ruler.

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A computer attached to the high-speed camera will then be able to determine the exact drop rates.

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When buster drops, the ball of death G-force meter will tell us whether he survives or not.

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Okay, be careful with this guy now. He has a brain.

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Buster will be raised up on the crane and then dropped on cue via a cable quick release.

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Once you get up in position, push the blue button and pull out the safety pin.

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Okay.

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When you pull out the safety pin, it's live and when you yank on this, he'll drop.

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Up goes buster, 60 feet up.

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Man, buster is toast.

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So they can work out if the flying aids do slow him down, buster's first drop will be totally unassisted and very painful.

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3, 2, 1, go.

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I was laying on the ground when he hit and I felt the ground move a little bit.

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I never get tired of doing that.

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The high-speed camera reveals buster is traveling between 34 and 35 miles per hour when he hits the ground.

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What's the verdict, Christine?

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I think he's dead.

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That's a shocker.

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Buster kind of looked like a baby bird that just fell out of the nest.

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Since the police started using speed radar back in the 1960s, there have been a lot of myths about legal ways to beat it.

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Are you ready?

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Scotty Carriantori used an RC car to put some of these myths to the test.

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How fast? 5 miles an hour?

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Now they're rigging up Earl, the myth buster's caddy, for a full-scale speed radar assault.

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I'm making a wheel made of mirrors that catches the wind.

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As the mirrors get to the back side of this wheel, they should reflect the radar back and fool the radar and to think we're going slower than we actually are.

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They plan to attach an array of mirrors to a bicycle wheel which will spin on top of the car.

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But Jamie's got other ideas.

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You get that thing spinning at 20 miles an hour, it's going to just, the glass is going to shatter, things are going to vibrate itself apart.

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I think you should get some three-quarter inch birch ply, a big rod compass.

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Draw yourself your three-foot diameter circle and faceted off.

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Suddenly this radar rig isn't so simple.

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Jamie's just turned it into a big, complicated build.

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Still, it gives Scotty a bit more time to work on the caddy.

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Come on!

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It looks like she might need it.

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Meanwhile, Carri's working on another myth.

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I'm making a chaff gun that we can explode out the side of the caddy right now.

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Cutting up the foil into little pieces, loading it up like a potato gun and shooting it off a fire extinguisher.

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During World War II, aircraft under attack dropped large clouds of chaff to confuse enemy radar.

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The chaff was just small pieces of foil which hit the plane's exact location.

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I love it when things fit perfectly.

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The chaff gun is powered by a modified fire extinguisher.

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And the test firing is a success.

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So glad I gave up my desk job.

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Did you ever have a desk job?

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Second floor reception.

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Carri's also heard a myth about microwaves messing with radar.

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I'm stripping the magnetron out of this microwave so we can mount it in the front of the caddy.

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And that way we shoot microwaves back at the radar and the lidar.

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Well, if it doesn't beat the radar, maybe it'll intimidate the cop.

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The LEDs didn't trick the lidar when they were mounted on the remote control car, but Tarry thinks they're worth another try.

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300 LEDs will be wired up to the caddy's license plate.

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Finally, it looks like we're ready to roll.

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Revolving mirror rig, check.

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Microwave gun, check.

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If I were you, I'd stay farther away from that.

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Chaff gun, check.

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LED license plate, check.

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Now, do we have a car?

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Whoa, that doesn't look right.

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After the break, this is going to freak them out.

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Earl hits the road and it's MythBusters vs. the California Highway Patrol in the great radar rumble.

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It's illegal?

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Absolutely.

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And later in the show, the plywood builder myth is finally put to the test.

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One, we'll buster fly or fall.

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This is the California Highway Patrol Academy training course, and it's the ideal place to see if our Cadillac can slip underneath the radar.

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A few of the guys from CHIPS are on hand to oversee the experiment.

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If anything does beat the radar, they want to know about it.

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This is going to freak them out.

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So a lot of the tricked out cars I've seen, they've had a CD dangling from the mirror, or they've had LEDs around their license plate.

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Does this do anything?

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It's not going to do anything, and plus they're both illegal.

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It's illegal?

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You can't have anything hanging down from your mirror. It's going to obstruct the drivers of you.

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We're going to try to get through the techniques that we think are kind of dumb first, so we're going to do them all together.

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Can you detach that to the mirror?

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All these shiny accessories are supposed to bounce back the radar's rays and confuse it.

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Which by the way, that's illegal.

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But it looks so cool.

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Lastly, can you jiggle these keys to make sure it hits the radar?

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That is so stupid.

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On each pass, Scotty will keep the Caddy steady at just under 50 miles per hour.

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We've got to do a test. Are you ready?

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Okay, the disco debilical is locked, loaded, and ready to freak out the radar.

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Over.

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Whenever you're ready, over.

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On my way.

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Got it on radar.

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39, 40.

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48, up to speed. 49.

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I have...

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I love that sound.

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So, keys, disco ball, CD, busted. No effect whatsoever.

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Are you surprised?

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Absolutely.

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Alright, next let's do foil on the hubcaps.

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Done.

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The next radar myth. Tin foil on the hubcaps.

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Scotty, hit it.

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700 feet. 47 miles an hour.

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Once again though, the radar and the lidar have a fix on Scotty all the way.

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Still jiggling the keys?

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Still doesn't work.

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Maybe that was too subtle.

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I think maybe people think that because it's kind of crumbly that the radar will shoot at the crumbles and maybe dissipate.

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But it's just one giant reflector if you ask me.

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We'll be able to see it from outer space.

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Yeah, she's going fast.

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I'm just picking it up way sooner.

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Foils been foiled.

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We'll see if the LEDs can light up this experiment.

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One infrared license plate.

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Perfect.

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Alright, so the theory here is that these infrared LEDs are on the same wavelength and have enough intensity to fool the lidar.

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300 LEDs are emitting infrared, but the lidar's own infrared beam is locked on all down the line.

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47.

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Busted.

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Okay, let's try Kerry's magnetron gun.

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Yes, I know I spelled magnetron wrong.

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That's supposed to have an E. Don't email me.

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That jumped up so fast. It is definitely working.

470
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,000
The K-band radar operates in about the same frequency as a microwave, so we're going to shoot microwaves towards it to try to confuse it.

471
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
I got a 49.

472
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000
But the radar still has the caddy in its sights.

473
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000
No change at all.

474
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
The magnetron theory is busted.

475
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
I had no difference in the speed.

476
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,000
I got like 48 miles an hour. Is that what you guys got?

477
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Yeah, and I picked her up right away.

478
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Maybe the aluminum foil firing chaff gun will be able to trick the radar.

479
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Got it, Sky!

480
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,000
As the caddy passes the radar, Kerry will trigger the chaff gun from the back seat.

481
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
It didn't go!

482
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Why didn't it go?

483
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000
I have a feeling she forgot to pull the pin.

484
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Look at it.

485
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
Oh my God.

486
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
I'm a total dumbass!

487
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
I don't know what's going on!

488
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
A quick reload and we're ready for take two.

489
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000
This time, Kerry's right on cue.

490
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000
But again, the radar is unaffected.

491
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
It all blew to the side.

492
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Which is going to be more expensive.

493
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000
The speeding ticket or the littering ticket?

494
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000
The littering ticket.

495
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Alright, now my favorite, the wheel of death.

496
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,000
The mirrors on the wheel of death are supposed to be revolving at a slower speed than Earl is traveling.

497
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Will the radar detect the speed of the mirrors or the speed of the caddy?

498
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
46, 47.

499
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
The radar result is exactly the same.

500
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
44, 42, 40.

501
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Kerry detects an anomaly.

502
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:06,000
It's giving a weird Doppler reading, but overall it's not really making it look like it's going any slower.

503
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000
There's only one thing left to do to try and make the caddy stealthy.

504
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000
Cover the car with matte black paint.

505
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Will the matte finish reduce the car's reflectivity and absorb the radar signal?

506
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000
This is the moment where we think we may have the edge.

507
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
What do you got?

508
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
I got 48.

509
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
47.

510
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
47.

511
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
47.

512
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000
47.

513
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Okay.

514
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
Got it right away.

515
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000
That was our best bet and it's busted.

516
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Time for the guys to report back to Adam and Jamie.

517
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Well, we tried almost every theory that we heard.

518
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:48,000
The only thing that gave us any result, but just barely, is my favorite.

519
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
And I think you're going to like this one, Adam.

520
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
The radar wheel of death.

521
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000
Oh my God.

522
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
What did this actually do?

523
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Hardly anything at all.

524
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,000
It just buried the audio tone that the radar sent back that let you know how fast the car was going.

525
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000
I think if you're going to get out of a ticket, short skirts and crying is still the way to go.

526
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000
After the break, Adam makes the plywood jump into the unknown.

527
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000
But is Buster up to the challenge?

528
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Oh, I can tell you're feeling it.

529
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Oh, he's ready.

530
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,000
It's been a bad day for Buster.

531
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
He's lost his head.

532
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000
They've amputated his hands, they've operated on his skull and they've made him bleed.

533
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Could it get any worse?

534
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
Buster's going to die.

535
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:51,000
While they're at Hamilton base, Adam and Jamie are using Buster to test out a few other flying myths, like umbrellas.

536
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000
All right, safety device number one.

537
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Buster's first mythical safety device is an open rain umbrella.

538
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Well, at least he won't get wet.

539
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Three, two, one, go.

540
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
That was great, Jamie. Come on down.

541
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Well, it actually held up quite well.

542
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000
I'm looking forward to see if it slowed his fall even a little bit.

543
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000
There's plenty of fake blood, but the ball of death reveals a surprise.

544
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
That's not that broken at all.

545
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
There's one of two conclusions we can draw from this.

546
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Either the umbrella did a significant job in slowing his speed,

547
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000
or we're a little incompetent with our home-built G-meter.

548
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000
And personally, I vote for the second one.

549
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,000
The high-speed camera reveals what really happened.

550
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Feet first.

551
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:56,000
So because the umbrella held him upright, he actually fell faster this time, 38 miles per hour.

552
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Yeah, but what about the impact?

553
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Speed isn't the only factor in a fall.

554
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000
How you impact also affects survivability.

555
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,000
In his free fall, Buster's head and body hit the ground at the same time.

556
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Even though the umbrella drop was faster, Buster's body acted like a shock absorber,

557
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000
greatly reducing the impact on his head.

558
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
That's why the ball of death only cracked.

559
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000
He's probably dead anyway.

560
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
Oh, you're dead.

561
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Let's get the big picnic umbrella.

562
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
All right. Are you ready?

563
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Oh, yeah.

564
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Cool.

565
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Here we go.

566
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:37,000
In five, four, three, two, one, drop.

567
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
That was pretty cool.

568
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000
That didn't look entirely unsuccessful.

569
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
I'm trying to keep a straight face, but I take the...

570
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000
The picnic umbrella reduces Buster's speed to 29 miles per hour.

571
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Slower, but not slow enough.

572
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Uh, he's dead.

573
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000
It's no myth that a parachute is designed for this purpose,

574
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
but can it open in only 60 feet?

575
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
One, go.

576
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000
That worked almost stunningly well.

577
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Buster's down to 28 miles per hour,

578
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000
but unfortunately, his head smashes into his own knee.

579
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
I'm sorry. We did everything in our power.

580
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Buster didn't skip.

581
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Get off of me, pervert.

582
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000
He's a poor defenseless dummy, and look what she's doing.

583
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Finally, the original Flying Builder myth is to be put to the test.

584
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000
He's going to die, but it's going to look great.

585
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000
You're acting weird, aren't you?

586
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Remember, in the myth, the Falling Builder is able to glide gracefully back inside the skyscraper, totally unharmed.

587
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Go.

588
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Buster was such a good dummy.

589
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Rather than slowing him down, the plywood increases Buster's velocity to over 36 miles per hour.

590
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
His body snaps the five-ply sheet in half.

591
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
He's got blood dripping out the back of his head.

592
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Oh.

593
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Getting used to all this blood, Christine?

594
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Still grosses me out.

595
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:29,000
We can look at the speed test, and we can look at the death ball, but I don't think I need to see either of them to say this one's busted.

596
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
I'm going to go for the speed test.

597
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
I'm going to go for the speed test.

598
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I'm going to go for the speed test.

599
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
I'm going to go for the speed test.

600
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000
I don't think I need to see either of them to say this one's busted.

601
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Yeah, I'm afraid so.

602
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
He went straight down.

603
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:54,000
There was no deflection off to the side or anything, and he's done for it.

604
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Let's go get our solutions.

605
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Let's go try my wooden parachute.

606
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Okay.

607
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:06,100
have taken the five component layers of the plywood sheet and created two flying rigs for Buster to try.

608
00:39:07,940 --> 00:39:13,180
Jamie's design is based on a spinning wing and Adams is modeled on the parachute.

609
00:39:14,220 --> 00:39:19,180
These rigs represent three days of skill, passion and effort.

610
00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:21,780
Pity really.

611
00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:27,860
Oh fat lot of connected.

612
00:39:30,180 --> 00:39:33,180
And that's why they don't make parachutes out of wood.

613
00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,180
Oh well, the best laid plans.

614
00:39:35,180 --> 00:39:37,180
It was a nice idea.

615
00:39:37,180 --> 00:39:38,180
Nice try.

616
00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:40,180
It worked most of the way.

617
00:39:40,180 --> 00:39:44,680
I'm taking solace in the fact that your wing is going to fail so utterly spectacularly.

618
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,680
You're probably right.

619
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,680
But then you never know.

620
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:49,680
Then you never know.

621
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,680
Jamie is quietly confident his rig will do the job.

622
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,180
Four, three, two, one, go!

623
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Hahaha!

624
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Do you feel better now?

625
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
I do. I feel a lot better.

626
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
All this Buster dropping has created an impromptu MythBusters fan club.

627
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
So Adam, what do you think? Did he go slower at all?

628
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
At least he didn't flip over again until the right at the last minute.

629
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000
He didn't spin at all and then he went totally sideways and landed on its edge and he just collapsed with it.

630
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000
It was a horror show.

631
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000
And unfortunately he was off center and the high speed camera caught none of it.

632
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Bummer.

633
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Oh man, poor guy.

634
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
And the crowds verdict.

635
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
We win! We win! We win!

636
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
That was better than I could have ever hoped.

637
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Buster's day has come to an end.

638
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Now it's time to see if a MythBuster can fly.

639
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
Adam and Jamie rig up the zipline from the control tower to the crane.

640
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
The crane backs away to tighten the cable.

641
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000
Stop!

642
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
We're totally looking forward to flying with a piece of plywood.

643
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Even though Buster took a hard hit from it, we're doing a more controlled test so that hopefully Jamie and I won't get horrible head trouble while doing it.

644
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
We're ready to go.

645
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:35,000
But it is always a strange thing to throw yourself out over the edge of a 60 foot drop. Your body resists it.

646
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:41,000
But this is the only way to find out if it's possible to control the plywood sheet in flight.

647
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
We have lived up to it.

648
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000
I farted on you!

649
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Forget about controlling this thing.

650
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000
There's no control.

651
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000
I mean, I tried pushing my head up against it.

652
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,000
At the peak, I could not get it just like all over the place.

653
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Now I was holding it dead center.

654
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
What?

655
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Jamie has even less control over the plywood.

656
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000
There's just no way you can steer this thing.

657
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Well, more than any other data we can come up with, Buster's a pretty clear indicator of how survivable a 60 foot fall actually is.

658
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000
But what was our actual data?

659
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Well, not surprisingly, the parachute was actually the best at about 28 miles per hour.

660
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Right behind it was the large umbrella at 29.

661
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000
What really surprised me was that the plywood was no use at all.

662
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000
In fact, it broke over Buster's back upon impact.

663
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000
And our rigs didn't do anything at all. Didn't help either.

664
00:42:52,000 --> 00:43:00,000
From a controllability standpoint and from a velocity pating the ground standpoint, this is one of those myths that just unequivocally busted.

665
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,000
Yeah, absolutely. Myth busted.

666
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,000
The builds are finished and the bikes have been test footed.

667
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000
But which bike is the best?

668
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,000
Coming up, a master fabricator is named on World Biker Build Off The Votes Are In.

669
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:23,000
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670
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,000
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