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On this episode, the mythbusters indulge their sweet tooth.

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OK.

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But will they be burned by an exploding jawbreaker?

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Ah!

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Woo!

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They show true grit.

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I'm going to go.

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Finding out if a sand blaster can really create

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a deadly static cannon.

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Ah!

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Stop smudging my...

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And it's the deal of a lifetime as they play a hand

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with the killer deck.

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Hey, we drew blood.

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Who are the mythbusters?

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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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I kind of like it in here.

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It's private.

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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That was intense.

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But what do the mythbusters tell the myths?

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They put them to the test.

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Jawbreakers.

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They're colorful.

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They're delicious.

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And they're fun.

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We doing a sperm in here or we screwing around.

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But what could turn this simple candy into a potential bomb?

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Woo!

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Exploding Jawbreaker.

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We know this happened.

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We just don't know why.

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Yeah, we have the police reports and everything.

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A treat for five-year-old Cameron D. Hall turned into a scary moment

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after just one lick.

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And it just blew.

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That fast.

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Boom.

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And he had this jawbreaker in his hand.

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And he went down the lick when he did it, it exploded.

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The child heated the candy in the microwave.

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There's another exploding jawbreaker story in Florida.

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The story of nine-year-old Taquandra Dick was burnt

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when her jawbuster exploded in 2003.

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Hot liquid burned her face.

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It hurts.

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It hurts a bunch.

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She went to lick it.

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And at that point the jawbreaker exploded in her face,

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leaving really severe burns on her face and on her arm

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that were described later as chemical burns.

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Jawbreakers start life as a solid candy center.

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Then they grow like a snowball as sugar syrup is applied layer after layer

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in a process that takes five days.

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This is the perfect Mythbusters story.

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A hint of truth, sweet things to play with,

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and an excuse to do really stupid, dangerous experiments.

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Don't try this at home.

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We have to come up with a heating and cooling regimen

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to determine which scenario, if any, would make these jawbreakers explode.

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And really the first place to start is to try and superheat it

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and see what happens to the insides.

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And superheating means microwaves.

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It's obviously a bad idea to put a jawbreaker into your microwave at home,

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but the Mythbusters are willing to do it for science.

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Look at that.

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Oh, God, look at that. There's a hole right in the side of it.

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you don't take any chances.

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Nope, nothing explosive there.

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To suck through a jawbreaker this size could take five days.

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So Jamie and Christine use a shortcut to see what's inside.

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That's pretty.

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The first thing that I noticed when I cut this open is that there's a potential

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could heat more rapidly than the hard outer shell.

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The layer would then expand, creating internal pressure and instability.

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If somebody nibbled on a jawbreaker in this state, it could crack.

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The molten candy would burst out and cause painful burns.

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With the slightest, you know, messing with it, it would go off like a bomb.

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The Mythbusters don't really want a mouthful of boiling candy.

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So Adam comes up with a toothy solution for Tari to construct.

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We have to build a fake mouth to chew on a gobstubber.

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We want it to be able to chew, which means the lower jaw will be the hinged part.

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The upper jaw will be fixed, like in the head.

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If you're building an artificial mouth, the first thing you need is teeth.

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Let's hope Adam's granny doesn't miss those dentures too much.

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As Adam plays dentist, Tari constructs a steel frame to support the test jaws.

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Anyone gonna need candy?

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The average human has a maximum bite force of about 170 pounds.

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This guy's not average, but our artificial mouth has to be.

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So how do we measure its bite force?

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What I've done is I've hooked up this force gauge to this device,

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and this will give us an accurate reading of how much the jaw exerts.

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The digital force gauge measures and displays the peak amount of force applied to it.

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Time to test the artificial jaws.

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By pushing down on the flexible steel rod, Tari can apply tremendous force onto the dentures.

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Maybe too much.

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He shouldn't eat hard candy.

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This job calls for teeth of steel.

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I'm about to cut some canine.

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Varying diameter steel rods are cut into tooth-sized pieces.

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They're shaped on a grinder and welded onto a steel jaw.

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They might not get you a Hollywood contract,

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but these steel choppers will be able to replicate the bite pressure of a real mouth.

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I've finished the teeth. I hope they work.

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Meanwhile, the microwave's getting a workout.

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Now look at this. The one light green layer in the middle there started to bubble and nothing else did.

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I'll put this piece back in there without the core in the middle of it

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and see whether it just kind of pools and nothing else happens.

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Christine uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of the candy's molten inner core.

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25 degrees.

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Yeah, went up to 225.

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Well, you know, this is actually pretty interesting because it's clear that it is reacting in that layer a lot more than the surrounding areas.

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And that's where we get some kind of an explosion.

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Ow, really retains the heat.

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You could get seriously burned with this. In fact, I think I did.

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So, heating a jawbreaker in the microwave can create a dangerous molten sugar center.

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Now to apply pressure.

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You want to get me a jawbreaker to test?

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Jamie loads up, Adam pushes down, and the steel teeth start chomping.

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All right, that's a full bite. Nothing's going on.

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They try again, but the jawbreakers just won't crack.

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Maybe the boys are heating the candies too fast.

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What's the solution?

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Deep-frozz cycle. See if we can figure it out on this machine.

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Okay, so...

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You could do, I think it might be power level one.

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All they have to do is figure out how to program the microwave.

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It's too smart.

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Point one pound. That's probably a good bet.

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We don't have the manual for this anywhere.

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30 years special effects experience finally pays off.

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There we go. Start.

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That was crazy.

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It's like watching paint dry.

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Nope, after all that, the defrost setting doesn't do it either.

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They test combination after combination of heating, cooling, and pressure.

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Until Eureka finally they think they have it.

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Going hot on the candy.

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A highly unstable jawbreaker with a core of molten sugar is about to be crashed.

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Two, one.

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Ice water over here.

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I got it on my own.

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Christine's being hit in the face.

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I got burned by the candy.

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I wasn't wearing a face mask like I should have been.

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And I couldn't protect myself with my hands.

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At upwards of 225 degrees and with high heat retention, the liquid candy is extremely painful.

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Okay, I've got first-hand experience though.

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Doesn't feel good.

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I got the side of my neck and my temple.

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So it hurts.

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So the MythBusters have conclusively proved that jawbreaker plus microwave plus steel teeth equals scalded myth turn.

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If you were a five-year-old kid and this went off in your face, there's no doubt it would leave serious burns on you.

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I could feel it like 10 seconds, 15 seconds later, it wasn't cooling down.

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It's like a napalm.

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It's very dangerous.

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For now, the MythBusters will lick their wounds.

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But they'll take a few more bites at this myth before they're finished.

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It's a myth to make your hair stand on end.

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You think you're just sandblasting a plain old pipe, but are you really creating a massive cannon fueled by static electricity?

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This is a really cool story.

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Lots and lots of static electricity.

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Potentially lethal.

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Yes.

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The story goes that there's a construction worker who's on a site and he finds a piece of 8-inch diameter PVC pipe.

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It's kind of messed up and he wants to reuse it on the job, so he drags it over into the paint area and begins to sandblast it with a large industrial sandblaster.

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What he doesn't realize is that that builds a charge up on the pipe.

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And as he walks around the pipe to go get another tool, the pipe unloads all of its static electricity into him, killing him instantly.

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Like a static cannon.

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A static cannon.

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What a blast.

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To test this one, the MythBusters will need a length of PVC pipe, a sandblaster to build up a charge, a willing victim to get zapped, and a meter to measure the jolt.

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It turns out that the ideal conditions for static electricity are very dry conditions, because the moisture in the air inhibits the build up of static.

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So I think we're actually really going to want to seal off that area which we're already doing for the sandblasting.

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We're going to want to get that area as dry as possible.

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Tori just couldn't be happier with that idea.

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It's not like we're housing the boy in the bubble.

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A whole workshop of the building is going to be built up in the middle of the building.

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It's not like we're housing the boy in the bubble.

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A whole workshop to wrap in plastic on his own, just him and his stapler.

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He'll take a little while.

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So in the meantime, Jamie and Adam seek out a little expert opinion.

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Susie C has been an electrical engineer for 15 years.

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So Susie, tell me how electrostatic charges would build up on this PVC.

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Jamie, as you know, PVC is an excellent insulator. It doesn't like to give off electrons.

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So when you rub something along PVC with a lot of friction, electrons build up on the PVC surface and the surface becomes negatively charged.

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So PVC can collect a charge, but Susie's never heard of that charge causing problems.

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PVC is not conductive. It's very resistive. It can store a charge of electrons.

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But can that charge be dissipated so that the current flows and somebody is hurt?

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I'm not sure that's possible.

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If it is possible, the mythbusters want to be the ones to make it happen.

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Back in the workshop, Tari's plastic tent is done and they're spreading painters desiccant.

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It draws moisture out of the air.

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Now the pipe, nothing like a little PVC overkill to get the sparks flying.

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Jamie, I see a problem right away with this myth.

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I mean, they said they'd put it up on jack stands, but the problem is we're trying to build up a static charge on something that's grounded to metal.

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Yeah, I agree. This wouldn't work at all this way.

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What they need is a little insulation inspiration.

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The best I can come up with is to put it on these glass blocks. So I'm going to make a brace to hold them like so.

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This is the size of the tube. Hopefully that'll work.

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Okay, lower it down.

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So the air's dry and the cannon's insulated.

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Now, who wants to be blasted with a fatal charge?

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Come on, hands up.

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I built this hand about 13 years ago.

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It was my first attempt at some type of animatronics.

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I just had some copper plate and some springs and I put this together.

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So I think that this hand actually contributed to me getting my very first job with Jamie.

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I think he liked the animatronic aspect of it.

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He just knew it would come in handy again someday. The perfect stand-in.

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Better copper finger cops the blast than Adam's own.

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I am being a little cautious with this rig. I don't know how much electricity is going to generate.

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My thinking is, is it's not going to generate very much, but we've been surprised on Mythbusters before

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and I don't want to be at the business end of a bad mistake.

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To load the cannon, they'll sandblast the pipe end to end.

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Jamie will measure the charge buildup on a voltmeter and there's an ammeter in Adam's hand connected to Christine's computer.

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After we feel like we've leveled it out to the maximum charge, you'll touch it with this

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and Christine can tell us what the amperage spike is and if it's, you know, we can take a look and see if it's enough

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to actually cause some real damage.

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In cases of electrocution, the damage is done by the current flowing through you, measured in amps.

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You can feel one thousandth of an amp or one milliamp.

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Up to five will give you a little shock.

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Between there and 30 milliamps will be a severe jolt and affect muscle control.

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Getting beyond 50, it can affect breathing and heartbeat and can prove fatal.

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But can their static cannon produce a massive fatal blast?

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Okay, I'm going to go.

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By bombarding the pipe with sand, Adam is loading it up with millions of electrons.

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It could discharge when they touch it with the copper hand or, as in the myth, completely at random.

243
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Let's see where it is now.

244
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Went back down again. That's like 500 volts.

245
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Something weird is happening. The static charge has actually dropped.

246
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This is a big piece of plastic, so we should be able to create a big charge.

247
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Why we're not at this point, I'm not so sure.

248
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And here's another problem.

249
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Adam's got gas, or at least the blaster does.

250
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So here's the unit.

251
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Maybe that we don't know how to use it, it may be that it's not working right.

252
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It seems for blasting, there's the right sand.

253
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And there's the kind the mythbusters bought.

254
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Yeah, it's catching in the nozzle.

255
00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:52,600
We've got hundreds and hundreds of pounds of sand meant for kids playpen, not for a sand blaster.

256
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Jamie doesn't really buy the whole gritty sand thing.

257
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While Adam is off searching for something finer, a little Heinemann handiwork

258
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gets the mythbusters back in the blasting game.

259
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:17,600
Jamie's done something right. This time the cannon is charging up.

260
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17,000 volts.

261
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Will that give off a fatal zap?

262
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Okay, Christine, did we catch any amperage?

263
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Nothing, I mean it's just a blank screen.

264
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It doesn't even look like it's connected to anything.

265
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I didn't see a blip.

266
00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:37,600
What are you doing wrong?

267
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Nothing, I swear.

268
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I've been looking at it the whole time.

269
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I got the volts. Where's your amps?

270
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,600
She can't help you.

271
00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,600
There's no current, no spark, not even a blip on the screen.

272
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Unless Jamie and Adam can think of something fast,

273
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the only thing this static cannon will blow away will be the myth.

274
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Adam is gambling with his life.

275
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You wimp.

276
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He is an apprentice before the master.

277
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Are you ready?

278
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I'm ready.

279
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This ain't old made. It's the biggest deal of all when you're playing with the killer debt.

280
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This is real.

281
00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,600
Killer Deck, this has got to be one of your favorites.

282
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One of my all time favorites actually.

283
00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:51,600
The myth is that an ordinary playing card can be turned into an instrument of death

284
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and actually kill somebody with a powerful throat.

285
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Sounds highly implausible to me.

286
00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600
Be that as it may, you can actually throw these things with a fair amount of force.

287
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,600
I've been doing it since I was like 10 years old.

288
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,600
You're pretty good at that.

289
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,600
Adam's better than pretty good.

290
00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:14,600
He's a card throwing ace and is proud to display the fruits of a mis-spent youth.

291
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,600
The first aspect is just imparting lateral speed to the card.

292
00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,600
The second is imparting spin to it.

293
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:27,600
It's a combination of both of those things that I think yields the most distance and stability.

294
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,600
So all it takes is speed, spin and say 30 years practice.

295
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,600
I haven't had all day to sit around practicing like you guys.

296
00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,600
Yeah, that's what I've been doing.

297
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,600
As far as I'm aware, it's not possible to actually kill someone with a playing card by throwing it at them.

298
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,600
I can't try anybody with a playing card.

299
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,600
No way.

300
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,600
I'm sure they're going to try.

301
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:59,600
The high-speed camera shows Adam in all his mutant ninja glory.

302
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,600
He's hitting that phone block target at an impressive 25 miles an hour.

303
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,600
But when it comes to cards, few can trump Ricky J.

304
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,600
Well, some people have called me the leading hurler of martial projectiles in the world.

305
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,600
Ricky can throw a regular playing card nearly 200 feet.

306
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:24,600
So yeah, I can just throw one without too much, I've got a little curve, but that'll hit him anyway.

307
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,600
I'll take credit for anything.

308
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,600
Watch closely here.

309
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:36,600
He's putting a card right through the same hole in the paper as the throw before.

310
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That's it.

311
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,600
And he can cure your smoking habit better than any hypnotist.

312
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,600
When it comes to killer cards, Ricky wrote the book.

313
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:54,600
Well, Ricky, have you heard the myth about someone being killed with a throwing card?

314
00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:01,600
Well, there's a book called Cards as Weapons, which is a study of self-defense with the ordinary playing card

315
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that deals with some stories of people who may have actually been killed with playing cards.

316
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,600
Now, isn't it true that you wrote this book?

317
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,600
It is true. Yes, I did write that book.

318
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,600
So you may be the genesis of this tale.

319
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,600
I would be surprised if I wasn't.

320
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,600
Lethal cards. Is it true? Ricky's not saying.

321
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,600
Jamie's always crisp shirt is as good as body armor.

322
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,600
Of course, that doesn't mean the myth is dead.

323
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,600
We have some unsubstantiated accounts that world record-holding card throwers like Ricky J.

324
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are throwing the card at almost 90 miles per hour.

325
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:43,600
Our challenge in this myth is to build a machine that can throw a card as fast as possible.

326
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,600
Let's go for it.

327
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,600
So here's the deal.

328
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:53,600
The myth musters will build a high-powered card throwing machine and compare it to other weapons.

329
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,600
But son of a gun, you'll never guess.

330
00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,600
Adam and Jamie have completely different ideas on how to do it.

331
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:04,600
Hi, how you doing?

332
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,600
Adam's ambitious plan is a sort of bionic arm.

333
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,600
Jamie's making a kind of mini baseball pitching machine.

334
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,600
Whenever an engineer builds something that's over-complicated,

335
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,600
that's the mark of an inferior designer.

336
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,600
Simpler is always better.

337
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,600
This pulls all the way back.

338
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,600
Something like this spreads and the card flies out.

339
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:39,600
It's complicated, but just maybe Adam's gizmo will work.

340
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:40,600
That's actually pretty clever.

341
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:48,600
What's going on?

342
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,600
Getting worse.

343
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,600
Oh, looks like the fingers are getting tweaked a little bit.

344
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,600
That was pretty cool.

345
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,600
Adam actually had a pretty clever idea.

346
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,600
It doesn't work, but it was really clever.

347
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,600
I'm not very happy with it.

348
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,600
As usual, I've tended to get a little over-elegant in my design.

349
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:20,600
Over-elegant is apparently engineering speak for it won't work.

350
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,600
Adam is thrown in his hand and it's down to Jamie.

351
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,600
With less elegance, more grunt as his mantra,

352
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,600
this promises to be the most diabolical little machine he's ever created.

353
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,600
Jamie's made what could be a card-throwing monster.

354
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,600
All right.

355
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,600
Yeah, I'm a little scared of this thing myself.

356
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,600
I'm tickled with my design actually.

357
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,600
It came together really quickly.

358
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,600
It's really simple.

359
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,600
And best of all, it just rockets those cards.

360
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,600
I mean, they're just like, gone.

361
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,600
So, that's cool.

362
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,600
Jamie's pitching machine is getting that card out there

363
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,600
at around 70 miles an hour.

364
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,600
Look at that.

365
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,600
I mean, I can definitely say you're going a lot deeper than I can go.

366
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,600
I mean, look, even from here, you know,

367
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,600
you're going like half, burying half the card.

368
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,600
That's an intense amount of speed.

369
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,600
Yeah.

370
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,600
This is becoming quite a dangerous little card-throwing machine.

371
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,600
But maybe for the wrong reasons.

372
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:40,600
What was that?

373
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,600
Oh, you know what?

374
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,600
Oh, yeah.

375
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,600
Oh.

376
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,600
What happened to it, do you think?

377
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,600
That's going 30,000 RPM.

378
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,600
The small rubber wheels can't handle the speed

379
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,600
and are breaking apart.

380
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,600
It's time to up the ante.

381
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,600
Bigger wheels and the mythbusters will be killer card high rollers.

382
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,600
I'm ready.

383
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:25,600
That might be the fastest failure we've ever had.

384
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,600
I wouldn't have called that.

385
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,600
Rubber wheels aren't happening on this one.

386
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,600
We have to do it out of metal.

387
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,600
In fact, you know, I have some things that I can bring you out right now

388
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,600
to show you an example of what we can try.

389
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,600
I use these when I made the first Chef Boy Rd commercial in 1948

390
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,600
for the LSD.

391
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,600
I'm a chef.

392
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,600
I'm a chef.

393
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,600
I'm a chef.

394
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:51,600
I'm a chef.

395
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,600
I'm a chef.

396
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,600
I'm a chef.

397
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600
I'm a chef.

398
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,600
I'm a chef.

399
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:56,600
I'm a chef.

400
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,600
I'm a chef.

401
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,600
I'm a chef.

402
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,600
I'm a chef.

403
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:00,600
I'm a chef.

404
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,600
I'm a chef.

405
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,600
So, why do you wanna younger people come out in the audience,

406
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,600
instead of early on when they're gonna get waxed,

407
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,600
and finish the defect all over the channel

408
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,600
from being the worst parent for our kids?

409
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:15,600
You know?

410
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,600
The saunas, the nineties,

411
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,600
the pierwsacks,

412
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,600
and the chessridge.

413
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,600
And, of course,

414
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,500
they're the most spectacular things in the world

415
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,600
against the pandemic in the Middle Ages nine or 15.

416
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,360
Of course, danger is the Mythbusters' constant friend and companion.

417
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:36,160
And now they have a new toy, the mother of all card-chuckers.

418
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,160
Alright, let's try that.

419
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,660
Let's go.

420
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:42,660
Everybody eyes open, we're spinning up a big fast thing.

421
00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:44,660
Here we go.

422
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:52,500
It even sounds dangerous.

423
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,500
I don't want to get near that thing.

424
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,500
I don't need it.

425
00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,500
They're serious.

426
00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:00,500
They really don't want to get near it.

427
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:04,500
But they have to load the cards.

428
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:06,500
Adam's got a solution.

429
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:11,500
This, I got when I bought an esophagus scope.

430
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,500
This is for going all the way down.

431
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:17,500
Ahhhh, ah, ah, ah, I got all the way down to your stomach.

432
00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,500
Oh, ah, ah, like that.

433
00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:22,500
I'm pulling it back out again.

434
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,500
Yeah.

435
00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,500
You want to try?

436
00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,500
I hate this thing.

437
00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:30,500
I know, it's terrifying.

438
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,500
You ready?

439
00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,500
Yeah.

440
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:36,500
I'm ready.

441
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:38,500
Go ahead.

442
00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:53,500
That was beautiful.

443
00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:56,500
Oh my God.

444
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:00,500
That's one that I did.

445
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:02,500
Here's ours.

446
00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:05,500
Embedded like half the card.

447
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:07,500
Well, we got to see what kind of speed that is.

448
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,500
Yeah.

449
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:14,500
The high speed tracks that card at a blistering 150 miles an hour.

450
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,500
But even at that speed,

451
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,500
Jamie isn't convinced the card is lethal.

452
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,500
You know, creating a killer playing card isn't just about the speed.

453
00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:25,500
It also involves the mass.

454
00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:29,500
They found out all about the importance of mass in the penny drop myth.

455
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,500
I'm scared.

456
00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,500
Jamie built a gun to fire a penny at high speed.

457
00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:36,500
Good. Are we ready?

458
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,500
Ready on him?

459
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,500
The lite coin didn't have any penetrating power.

460
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500
Ah, what?

461
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:47,500
You hit me in the same exact place.

462
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:51,500
It didn't hurt that much before, but now it really hurts.

463
00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:53,500
Oh, you baby.

464
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,500
When you're looking at the mass of a penny here on the scale,

465
00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,500
the penny comes out at just a little over three grams.

466
00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:04,500
And a card comes out at just about 1.7 grams.

467
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,500
Yeah, well, nevertheless, I think we need to put this up against some things

468
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,500
that we know can penetrate human flesh.

469
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:15,500
So out comes the myth busters old friend Ballistics Gel.

470
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,500
I'm going to open up a brand new deck of cards,

471
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:21,500
so I've got some nice sharp cards for this one.

472
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,500
Here we go.

473
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:27,500
No.

474
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,500
Hey!

475
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:35,500
Adam's best effort can only penetrate a quarter of an inch.

476
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:38,500
But how will the killer deck cut it?

477
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,500
OK, ready when you are.

478
00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,500
There we go. That's a hit.

479
00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:56,500
Even at 150 miles an hour, the card only penetrates half an inch.

480
00:29:56,500 --> 00:30:01,500
Now, what about a dangerous, but generally not deadly, pellet gun?

481
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:08,500
The lead slug is traveling at around 350 miles an hour

482
00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,500
and burrowed in seven inches.

483
00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:15,500
And last, well, crossbows, anyone?

484
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:18,500
That's pretty devastating.

485
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:24,500
At 200 miles per hour, the heavy crossbow bolt has penetrated 20 inches.

486
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,500
The myth busters have cast their last chip.

487
00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:33,500
The fastest card they can throw lacks the penetrating power of even a humble pellet gun.

488
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:38,500
Well, all that being said, Jamie, are you willing this time to put your body on the line

489
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:40,500
and take a hit from the machine?

490
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,500
Yeah, sure, I don't mind.

491
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:50,500
Well, I think it's only fair to give Adam a chance once in a while to inflict some damage on me.

492
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,500
So it's shirt off.

493
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:56,500
It's so nice that Jamie's finally doing this instead of me.

494
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:58,500
Eye protection on.

495
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:01,500
Look at what a fine specimen of manhood he is for 83.

496
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:03,500
Here we go.

497
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:07,500
Jamie is putting his body where his myth busting mouth is.

498
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:16,500
Really?

499
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:17,500
Really?

500
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:27,500
He's taken two for the team, and it seems the killer machine ain't quite so killer.

501
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:29,500
Does it really?

502
00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:31,500
I figured it might.

503
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:32,500
Do you have any marks?

504
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:34,500
Hey, we drew blood!

505
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:35,500
Look at that!

506
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,500
Excellent, we drew blood with a card.

507
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:39,500
And there, that was the arm.

508
00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:40,500
Look at that.

509
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:44,500
I believe that might be your first significant injury on myth busters, Jamie.

510
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:45,500
Could be.

511
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:54,500
So unless you can bleed to death from a nasty paper cut, it seems a killer hand will remain a figure of speech.

512
00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:03,500
Well, we fired everything we had in the shop at this piece of ballistics gel, and for the life of me, even from our Uber machine,

513
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,500
I didn't really see anything I thought was lethal from that playing guard.

514
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:08,500
Yeah, I don't have any problem with that.

515
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,500
I'm willing to say that this myth is pretty busted.

516
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,500
I agree, it doesn't happen in mass.

517
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:25,500
A treat for five-year-old Cameron D. Hall turned into a scary moment after just one lick.

518
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:27,500
It just blew.

519
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,500
That fast.

520
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,500
It's the case of the exploding jawbreaker.

521
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:37,500
How can a common candy become a ticking time bomb?

522
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:43,500
I can't imagine if a child got hit with candy like that, that was heated like that.

523
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:45,500
It would be terrible.

524
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:50,500
Well, Adam, you know, a microwave is clearly the best option for this kind of thing to happen with,

525
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,500
because we know that it did in fact occur with a kid getting his face burned.

526
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:59,500
Yeah, but, Jamie, I really think we need to look at some other options that might have created some kind of explosion.

527
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:05,500
And the first thing that comes to mind is a chemical reaction, where some part of the manufacturing process

528
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,500
went awry and left a chemical that reacted with another chemical in the candy.

529
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,500
I think the prime candidate for this would be caustic soda or lye,

530
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:17,500
which is often used in the cleaning of food processing equipment.

531
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,500
Yeah, lye is pretty reactive. It's powerful stuff.

532
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:22,500
So let's put that under some heat and see what we get.

533
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:23,500
Okay.

534
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:30,500
It's a highly unlikely scenario, but it is possible, and it may cause an explosion.

535
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,500
How could a myth buster resist that?

536
00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:38,500
Four samples are prepared, two contain caustic soda and ground-up jawbreaker,

537
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:46,500
and two contain caustic soda and ascorbic acid, a common food additive, also known as vitamin C.

538
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:51,500
Water will be added to one set of samples, heat will be added to the other.

539
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,500
Nothing's happening at all.

540
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:57,500
But Adam wants a kaboom, and he wants it now.

541
00:33:57,500 --> 00:33:59,500
Let's put him on high for five minutes.

542
00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:03,500
He did. He put it on high for five minutes.

543
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:08,500
It's really effective for cleaning out the microwave in just a couple of minutes.

544
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,500
Whoa!

545
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:14,500
Wow! Okay, that would be...

546
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:16,500
Okay, stop, stop, stop.

547
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:18,500
Wow, you've made like a burning cupcake.

548
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:19,500
Well, that was fun.

549
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,500
That's spectacular.

550
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:27,500
The dry caustic soda and crushed jawbreaker mix proves highly combustible.

551
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,500
Well, it produced a lot of hot ash.

552
00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:35,500
The caustic soda, ascorbic acid, and water mix also proves to be a surprise.

553
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,500
Whoa, that's super hot.

554
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,500
Yes, it is.

555
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:47,500
I think we should take this last mixture of the caustic soda and the candy powder and put it at the same temperature the jawbreaker was at in the other, the radiant heat.

556
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,500
Okay.

557
00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:55,500
This will approximate a caustic soda-contaminated candy being left out in the sun.

558
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:56,500
Whoa!

559
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:59,500
And the result is dramatic.

560
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:01,500
All right, well...

561
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:07,500
Glove, glove, glove, glove, glove, glove.

562
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,500
That was spectacular.

563
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,500
That's a handy way to get rid of a paper cup.

564
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:13,500
Geez.

565
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,500
Look at that, man.

566
00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:16,500
That's crazy.

567
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:17,500
Feel it.

568
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:18,500
It's like rock art.

569
00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:20,500
Feel it, feel it.

570
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,500
Are you convinced?

571
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:35,500
I mean, that radiant heat was enough within just five minutes to make the caustic soda react with the powdered candy and create like an incredible expansion, explosion, flames, everything.

572
00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:37,500
Yeah, I guess that's a possible scenario.

573
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:48,500
You know, it is conceivable that they could use a caustic soda to clean out the equipment for candy making, and if some of it got with the sugar and it got heated up, obviously it creates a reaction.

574
00:35:48,500 --> 00:36:01,500
Although it's far less likely to occur because manufacturers in the food industry are held to much higher standards than five-year-olds with microwaves, I think this is still a very plausible scenario for exploding jawbreaker.

575
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:10,500
So the Mythbusters have created jawbreaker explosions with microwaves and with chemicals.

576
00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,500
But what if neither of those were involved?

577
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:19,500
So a key element that keeps popping up in the stories about the exploding jawbreakers is the plastic packaging.

578
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:35,500
And on the off chance that the packaging itself will somehow focus heat and make the jawbreaker more explosive, I think we should place it under a radiant heat source like a toaster oven and leave it there for a while, see if it actually has any significant effect on the jawbreaker.

579
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:44,500
Putting the jawbreaker in the toaster oven is like leaving it in the sunshine for a couple of hours, something any kid could accidentally do.

580
00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:45,500
Anything happening yet?

581
00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:46,500
Not yet.

582
00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:52,500
But leaving a candy in the sun couldn't really have any effect. Or could it?

583
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:55,500
Oh, look, the bag's almost like pillow-like.

584
00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,500
Alright, well, let's put them in the jaws.

585
00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,500
Okay. In the bag, right?

586
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:00,500
Yeah.

587
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,500
Are you ready? Is everybody clear?

588
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:03,500
Yeah.

589
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,500
Nope, that's as hard as a human can bite and I'm getting squat.

590
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:10,500
Okay.

591
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,500
When he removes the jawbreaker from its plastic wrapper, Jamie is in for a surprise.

592
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:22,500
Well, actually it is still hard on the outside and it's molten in the middle. That's interesting. I never would have thought it would do that.

593
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:25,500
I thought the only way we could get that was with the microwave.

594
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:29,500
Well, under radiant heat, it got molten in the middle and stayed crispy outside.

595
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:34,500
I think we've come up with three possible scenarios for candy destruction.

596
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,500
This is confirmed, confirmed, confirmed.

597
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:45,500
Maybe. But what about that other scenario? You know, the one about the evil, genius five-year-old with a bag of gunpowder.

598
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:46,500
It's kind of cute.

599
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:51,500
Cute but deadly. The jawbreaker from hell.

600
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:58,500
How likely is this scenario depends on whether or not you live in the real world or Wiley Coyote's world?

601
00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:03,500
Because I can imagine a child licking on a ball with a fuse that's going on.

602
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:10,500
This scenario doesn't really have anything to do with this, with what we understand happened in the stories. We're just doing it for fun.

603
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,500
Let the fun begin.

604
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,500
Three, two, one.

605
00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:20,500
Just chat amongst yourselves a moment.

606
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:22,500
Nothing's happening.

607
00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:25,500
Can we get a fresh battery?

608
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:26,500
Take two.

609
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:27,500
Okay, we're ready?

610
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:28,500
Give it a kept up, please.

611
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:32,500
And three, two, one.

612
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:38,500
That was a nice boom.

613
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:44,500
It's like a magic trick. It's like, watch me make half the ball disappear.

614
00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:53,500
Well, that is an exploding jawbreaker. I think we have examined every last way you could get candy to explode.

615
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,500
And a few ways that they can't.

616
00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:58,500
That's it then. I mean, all our scenarios paid out and were possible.

617
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,500
Myth totally confirmed.

618
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:05,500
Confirmed and as Christine found out, dangerous.

619
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,500
Don't try any of these experiments at home.

620
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:12,500
Like Christine, you could end up burned.

621
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:22,500
The static cannon myth seems to have short circuited.

622
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:27,500
The mythbusters can't generate a fatal shock out of their PVC pipe.

623
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:35,500
No matter how much sand they blasted with, they need to find a way to create a much bigger static charge.

624
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:40,500
And Jamie and Adam have very different ideas about how to do it.

625
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:45,500
You know, I didn't get any satisfaction out of the last thing with the static cannon.

626
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,500
Now we're going to have some real fun.

627
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:53,500
We're going to make a Vandegraaff generator and see whether we can make some big static electricity out of it.

628
00:39:54,500 --> 00:40:02,500
A Vandegraaff generator uses a spinning belt to carry a charge picked up from a brush at the bottom of a long tube to another brush at the top,

629
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:06,500
where the charge is distributed onto a metal sphere.

630
00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:12,500
It's a simple machine, but can generate in excess of 100,000 volts.

631
00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:15,500
So on top of this is going to go an aluminum sphere.

632
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:19,500
And basically all we have to do is put a belt in the middle of this.

633
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:22,500
And that will probably be the hardest part, this belt we have to custom make.

634
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:31,500
So the build team will try to create a Vandegraaff generator and a bigger kick than the static cannon.

635
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,500
Scotty starts on the rollers for the belt.

636
00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:36,500
Oh, happy new year.

637
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,500
The belt itself is Carrie's job.

638
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:45,500
I'm trying to precisely cut this vinyl so that Jamie doesn't get mad at me.

639
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:48,500
See whether they're actual.

640
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:53,500
Incredibly, Jamie didn't have a huge metal globe lying around the workshop.

641
00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:55,500
They've had to order one in.

642
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:01,500
The belt will be driven by a small electric motor.

643
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:07,500
This is brass screen, which we're going to make into the electron sprayers.

644
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:11,500
Those little fingers reach out and grab the electrons.

645
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:17,500
They have all the components they need for the generator.

646
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,500
And there you have it.

647
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:24,500
Adam hasn't given up on that static cannon.

648
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:29,500
He's got a hunch it just needs a helping hand to produce that fatal jolt.

649
00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:36,500
Well, we're back to our old Mythbuster tricks with our friendly early capacitor, the Leiden jar.

650
00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:41,500
This is a device for storing a charge.

651
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,500
It actually acts like a capacitor.

652
00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:48,500
And it does that with a layer of foil on the outside and a layer of foil on the inside.

653
00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:50,500
And the charge is stored between them.

654
00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:55,500
Those two foil sheets are enough to store quite an impressive little charge.

655
00:41:55,500 --> 00:42:01,500
Okay, the meter is actually reading about 5,000 volts.

656
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:04,500
5,000 volts. Not bad.

657
00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:08,500
But will a bigger Leiden jar store a bigger charge?

658
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:11,500
That's 6,000.

659
00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:15,500
I'm building it up. That's 7,500.

660
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:22,500
9,500.

661
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:26,500
So bigger is better when it comes to storing static.

662
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:30,500
And out on the workshop, there's a very big pipe indeed.

663
00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:32,500
Hello!

664
00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:36,500
Sandblasting our big PVC pipe didn't actually yield a very large charge.

665
00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:43,500
Mainly because we've been finding out through our research that PVC is actually quite poor at storing a high voltage charge.

666
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,500
Part of the Myth says that he was cleaning paint off the pipe.

667
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:49,500
And I know that metallic paint is actually somewhat conductive.

668
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:57,500
So I'm going to paint the end of this pipe on the inside and outside with a chrome spray paint to see if I can create, in fact, a modified Leiden jar.

669
00:42:57,500 --> 00:43:02,500
Something that can actually store a charge and perhaps discharge it all at once out at the end.

670
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,500
So the cannon is becoming a Leiden jar.

671
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:09,500
One end sprayed inside and out with a metallic paint.

672
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:19,500
The tape is a key part of the Leiden jar's construction in that the outer and the inner surfaces, the metallic surfaces can't actually be in contact with each other.

673
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:24,500
Only when they're close but not in contact are they able to store a small charge between them.

674
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:30,500
This could prove a stroke of genius, or maybe it's just desperation.

675
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:35,500
When the paint dries, Adam's pipe will certainly look more like a cannon.

676
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:40,500
But that will mean nothing if it doesn't pack a killer punch.

677
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:47,500
Back in the land of Van Der Graaf, the generator is coming together.

678
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:49,500
Things are going well.

679
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:53,500
Here's a sentence you don't hear too often on a Mythbusters build.

680
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:56,500
Well, that was a lot easier than I thought it'd be.

681
00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,500
It's actually kind of scary.

682
00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:03,500
I'm a little concerned as to whether we could actually hurt somebody with this.

683
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:09,500
Because the only people that I know that have played around with these things have played around with little ones that you can put on a desktop.

684
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:11,500
This is not a little one.

685
00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:13,500
Yeah, I have no idea what this is going to do.

686
00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:15,500
Let's find out. Go ahead and plug it in.

687
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:17,500
Be ready to unplug it real quick.

688
00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:18,500
Okay.

689
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:24,500
Gotcha.

690
00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:25,500
That hurt.

691
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:30,500
If it's working, there should be a static field around the dome.

692
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:32,500
You're the one with the hair.

693
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:34,500
You're doing it.

694
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:37,500
All right.

695
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:40,500
Will this make my hair stand up?

696
00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:42,500
Oh, ow!

697
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:47,500
That was that long!

698
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:49,500
Oh my God!

699
00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:52,500
I'm fed enough of my day. I want to go home.

700
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:56,500
And now for your entertainment, the oldest trick in the book.

701
00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:00,500
I'm checking out. It's not working. I don't know what's wrong with it.

702
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:01,500
That's our band grab generator?

703
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:02,500
Yeah.

704
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:05,500
Why not work? Why not work?

705
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:07,500
We haven't figured it out yet.

706
00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:20,500
I felt that spectacular.

707
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:21,500
Little.

708
00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:22,500
It's a carpet spark.

709
00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:23,500
Yeah.

710
00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:26,500
So you've made a seven foot tall carpet.

711
00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:34,500
By adjusting the position of the brushes, they should be able to increase the charge being generated.

712
00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:36,500
Wait, don't play it until I'm holding onto it.

713
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:40,500
Standing on a wooden box, Carrie is insulated from the ground.

714
00:45:40,500 --> 00:45:46,500
The charge is building up on her body, repeating that hair-raising old school science lab trick.

715
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:47,500
Feel it.

716
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:49,500
And your hair is standing up a little bit.

717
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:51,500
Yeah. Here it goes.

718
00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:54,500
We're at 50,000 volts.

719
00:45:54,500 --> 00:46:01,500
Unexpectedly, it turns out that's a charge big enough to suck all the power out of Jamie's legs.

720
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:02,500
Whoa!

721
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:05,500
Jamie, you want it running to get a shot?

722
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:06,500
Do it. Do it.

723
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:07,500
Come on, baby.

724
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:08,500
Touch it.

725
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:10,500
Show those big c*****.

726
00:46:11,500 --> 00:46:13,500
Adam will give you mouth to mouth if you pass out.

727
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:16,500
Scotty.

728
00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:19,500
Well, the machine's working, we can tell it's working.

729
00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:24,500
It's making all this horrible popping noise.

730
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:26,500
What are you doing? Are you snake charming over there?

731
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:28,500
You're teasing it. You're just going to make it mad.

732
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:33,500
You've been doing some sort of grateful dead dancing by us for some reason.

733
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:35,500
Come on, let's do it.

734
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:37,500
I'm feeling it.

735
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,500
My arm hairs are standing up out here.

736
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:40,500
Come on, come on.

737
00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:50,500
Now it's time for Adam to step up.

738
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:51,500
Oh, wow.

739
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:55,500
God, I feel the power.

740
00:46:57,500 --> 00:46:59,500
Stop sparking my...

741
00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:04,500
This is doing nothing for the myth's credibility.

742
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:06,500
Wow!

743
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:13,500
Even with that big charge, the current is so small and the pulse so short that no one is getting hurt.

744
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:16,500
It's the full God-giving knowledge to Adam.

745
00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:24,500
Well, Jamie, according to our instruments, I've got a couple of hundred thousand volts heading through my body,

746
00:47:24,500 --> 00:47:32,500
and even with this amount, it still...it hurts, but it's not killing us and it doesn't sound like a thunder clap.

747
00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:34,500
That's true. Can I go away now?

748
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:35,500
You can go away now.

749
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:43,500
No one's going anywhere until they finally lay this myth or Adam to rest.

750
00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:49,500
Has he created a deadly weapon with his static cannon come lighting jar?

751
00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:59,500
Despite the metallic paint, the charge just isn't building up.

752
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:03,500
This is really sluggish. It doesn't really seem to want to go above 4,000 volts.

753
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,500
All right, Jamie!

754
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:10,500
And the discharge isn't hair-raising either.

755
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:11,500
20 milliamps.

756
00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:12,500
Yeah, they're a good drop.

757
00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:16,500
They're both just dropped from 4,000 to zero and we had a 20 milliamp jump.

758
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:22,500
That's totally not nearly enough to hurt anybody.

759
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:28,500
It seems PVC pipe just isn't very good at storing a big charge.

760
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,500
And there's another problem.

761
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:35,500
Like humidity, dust in the air can help dissipate a static charge.

762
00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:40,500
So the sandblasting in the myth could well have doomed it from the start.

763
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:46,500
Well, Jamie, Christine was recording the entire time and although the paint actually acted like a laden jar

764
00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:50,500
and it did store a small charge, that charge never got above 6,000 volts.

765
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:55,500
And then when you did a discharge and the amperage dump was like 20 milliamps.

766
00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:59,500
I mean, it's not nearly enough to cause you any real damage through your skin.

767
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:02,500
I think this myth is totally busted.

768
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:03,500
Yeah.

769
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:25,500
Thanks for watching.