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On this episode of MythBusters...

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I'm gonna teach you a lesson!

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Buster takes the hot seat in the Mojave Desert for the myth of the Ming dynasty astronaut.

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Oh, this is gonna be a good day!

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Adam and Jamie play mad scientist in the quest for free energy.

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There ought to be a law against that.

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And will Adam's stunt double lose its head at the hands of the killer fan?

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Oh, that is horrifying!

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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 Heineman.

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Quack, damn you!

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

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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When will the fun ever stop?

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

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Adam, Christine, it's so hot out here.

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What are we doing here?

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Well, we had to come to the middle of nowhere to be able to test the myth of the Ming dynasty

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astronaut.

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The story goes that a 15th century Chinese astrologer decided to see if he could launch

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himself into space.

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So he strapped 47 rockets around the base of his throne and had 47 people light 47

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fuses all at once.

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And when they did, apparently he went up in a puff of smoke.

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They claimed that he got into space.

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We're here to see if he did.

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According to legend, Ming dynasty astrologer Wan Hu used newly invented gunpowder rockets

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in an attempt to become the world's first astronaut in around 1500 AD.

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Adam and Jamie hit the trail of this ancient myth at bamboo sorcery, a little piece of

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the Orient in the heart of California.

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Jamie, does this remind you when you were fighting in the foreign legion in Dien Bien

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Foo?

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In China, this giant sized grass grows wild and has long been harvested for making furniture,

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buildings and rockets.

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They're looking for bamboo with an internal diameter of one and a half inches.

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Yes, I mean that's like one and three quarter inches.

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That's, I mean, it's a quarter inch over on the inside.

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Let's get it.

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They need enough for 47 rockets, each one a foot in length and stuffed with gunpowder,

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which is Adam's idea of heaven.

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No, I'm totally psyched.

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I can't wait to see how this thing goes.

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This myth is shaping up to be another one of those kid candy store kind of deals.

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This is perhaps the least safe cabinet in the shop and of course the most fun.

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The fire cabinet.

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Using an ancient Chinese recipe, they cook up some experimental gunpowder.

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The traditional ingredients are combined with roofing tar, which acts as a binder.

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What could be better?

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I'm making my own fireworks.

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No matter how much fun I'm having under no circumstances, should you try this at home?

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With this amount of gunpowder, the heat generated inside this is going to be considerable.

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So I'm actually wrapping it in twine, kind of add to its structural integrity.

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This is actually how the Chinese did their rockets.

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So I'm going to do the same.

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When the rocket is ready, it's outside for a test firing.

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A force gauge will measure the amount of thrust.

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If you are successful with this, you're supposed to get like, what, about 50 pounds of thrust

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out of it?

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Well, if I achieve the exact formulation of a modern rocket, yes.

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If Adam's right, these should be some fireworks.

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Guys, remember, we can't let our guard down on this.

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I understand.

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This becomes a bomb.

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Okay, I'm going to go down and watch traffic.

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I don't need to be right here.

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So let's all just step back a little from this one.

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Maybe, I don't know, maybe like here.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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One, three, two, one.

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Blast off is a let down.

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The rocket has barely half a pound of thrust.

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Not enough to lift itself off the ground, let alone a payload.

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We got like an 80 second burn time here.

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0.56.

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Too slow.

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Jamie, I think we proved conclusively that the Chinese had Roman candles.

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Takeoff is canceled.

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Roman goes back to his mixing bowl to see if he can spice things up a little.

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There we go.

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I'm trying to come up with a more energetic mixture of gunpowder to make a good yeoldie

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There's no change in the ingredients with these mixtures.

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It's only the ratios of the ingredients, the salt, Peter, the charcoal, and the sulfur.

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I'm having too much fun.

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Adam selects his most potent mixtures and heads back to the test pad.

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In this line of questioning, the only way to know without being educated is just to

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keep on trying different formulations.

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And at a certain point we have to stop and just blow shit up.

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Three, two, one.

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Kind of a boom there.

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It just blew the plug out, I think.

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I guess it was a little too aggressive.

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Apparently.

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0.29 pounds.

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Okay, here we go.

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So we still haven't come up with a rocket engine that could lift itself.

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Not yet.

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That's pretty good.

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Three, two, one, go.

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Looking good.

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0.77, well that's the best burn yet.

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I think we need to get some professional help.

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And then I think we need some rocket experts.

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They've had help from rocket experts before.

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In the first ever episode of Mythbusters, the Friends of Amateur Rocketry helped Adam

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and Jamie soup up a Chevy and then some.

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Fire.

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Now the Mythbusters are set to call in the Rocketeers once more for the myth of the Ming

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Dynasty astronaut.

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But first, a bit of carpentry.

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I'm making legs for my Ming Dynasty chair.

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It's got to look like an Emperor's throne circa 15th century China.

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It's just a kind of project I like to sink my teeth into.

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It's kind of like relaxing this fight from all the science.

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Determined to get someone airborne somehow, Adam's making not one rocket chair, but two.

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In line with the myth, the first will be powered by 47 traditional Chinese rockets.

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In line with Mythbusters, the second will be powered by 47 of something very modern

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and very dangerous.

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I know I'm using nail guns.

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I know.

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But it's not really about the technology of the chairs.

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It's about how far the Emperor went.

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The chairs have got to look right.

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And with the clock ticking, it's all hands on the Mythbusters deck.

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The little tiny mold is a little detail for the Ming Dynasty chair.

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We're making little tiles to decorate it with.

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And this is little Adam and Jamie tile.

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The ornate chairs will look the part, but they're also designed with flight in mind.

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One of the key design aspects of the chair is actually these two pieces right here.

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The reason I did it in two levels, I found a chair just like that and it works perfectly

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for us because I can strap the rocket in here and that rocket will be slightly cantilevered

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out so that all around the chair the rockets are pointing slightly out, which hopefully

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will provide a little more stability as they shoot towards the sky.

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Then it's pink undercoat, red overcoat, and a final touch of gold to render the chairs

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fit for an astronaut.

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Oh, Adam.

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Perfect.

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Well, you know, in all the myths we've done, Jamie, we've never compiled a file on a story

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this thick.

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Free energy is a personal best.

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Yeah, it gives me a headache just looking at it.

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I mean, I don't see any way that we can test all of these claims.

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Everything from harnessing the power of the organ to testing the efficacy of juvenile water.

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Free energy has long been a favorite of mad scientists.

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What you've seen, isn't it?

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One man crazy, three very sane spectators.

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The movie version usually involves a dastardly scheme which turns upon the crazed inventor's

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ability to suck hair-raising quantities of energy from the environment, free, gratis,

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and for nothing.

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It's alive.

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Oh, it's alive.

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It's alive.

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It's alive.

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It's alive.

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But can Adam and Jamie find a way to cut their power bill?

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Our very own mad scientists have downloaded plans for free energy devices from the Internet

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that are going to test them out with the help of Dr. Gio Hansi of MIT.

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First up, a contraption which, it is claimed, can suck energy from the curvature of space.

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Gentlemen, what we have here is a G-strain amplifier, which I built from parts you find

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at Radio Shack.

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G-strain, as opposed to F-strain.

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The G-strain amplifier looks suspiciously like what we on planet Earth call a ring oscillator,

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something you might find in a flashing bicycle light.

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In this experiment, a lithium battery is hooked up to a motor, an identical battery is hooked

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up to a motor, and a so-called G-strain amplifier.

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According to the plans, the second motor will keep running longer by drawing on the cosmic

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energy of the universe.

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Use the force, guys.

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Myth turn, Christine is roped in to keep her eye on the experiment.

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Okay, is there any paint you want me to watch dry as well?

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No, just watch carefully in the minute that it stops, let us know and hit the timer, okay?

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Okay.

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All right.

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So now we wait in the name of science.

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Well, we're up to 40 minutes and I'm still not asleep.

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It's still going.

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Then, in an intriguing development, one motor slows down.

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Could free energy be keeping the other going?

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No dice.

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It's the free energy motor that's on the wane.

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That means that this is not free energy, it's using energy.

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Yep.

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Far from recharging the battery, the G-strain amplifier is draining it.

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The experiment is left to run all day, just in case cosmic energy makes a late appearance.

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Don't hold your breath.

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Okay, so it's been a day.

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Have we managed to suck power from the curvature of space?

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Well, I see one motor going and one motor not going.

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And guess what?

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The motor that's not going is the free energy device.

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So could we, from here on in, in perpetuity, stop referring to this as a G-strain amplifier

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and call it a ring oscillator?

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Ring oscillator?

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I'd be happy to do that.

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So this one, busted, we can put it to bed and now let's send our lawyers after the

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guys who charge us 25 bucks for this little diagram.

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Officially, the first earthling to leave the planet was Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

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in 1961.

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Gagarin blasted into orbit at almost 18,000 miles per hour aboard the Vostok 1.

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But a Chinese legend claims that astrologer Wen Hu beat Gagarin into space aboard his

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rocket chair way back in 1500.

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There aren't many things you can't do in San Francisco, but space launching a Chinese

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astrologer is one of them.

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So the Mythbusters team heads for the hills and beyond to the Mojave Desert.

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Their cosmic convoy makes for the test area, where with a federal permit you can put even

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the most explosive myths on trial.

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Like did Wen Hu really win the space race?

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With the help of some friends of amateur rocketry, mission control is established a safe distance

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from the launch pad.

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But the savage desert heat is too much for one would-be rocketeer.

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It's going to be a long day for the redhead.

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To make sure the day goes off with a bang, the rocket experts have come equipped with

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a recipe for super strength gun powder.

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Adam's appetite for this myth is quickly restored.

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You making curtain?

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This is just like a cooking show.

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To make 47 period rockets, sift a large helping of gun powder and gently fold in a spoonful

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of tar.

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And you'll find that if you add the sauce to the powder, you get a very explosive mix.

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Yes, it's wonderful.

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The stronger mixture is only half the story.

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The rocketeers have also added a nozzle, which by narrowing the exhaust aperture increases

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the pressure inside the rocket.

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More pressure means more thrust and better performance.

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Unless it all goes wrong, in which case you've got a bomb on your hands.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

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That's perfect.

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That's what the nozzle.

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This is going to be a good day.

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With the nozzle, the rocket's performance leaps to around 5 pounds of thrust, so the

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production line swings into gear.

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47 rockets are packed, primed and strapped to chair number one.

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Well, we're going to have close to 50 pounds of gun powder sitting right here.

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And I guess we should be careful with it.

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So far I have yet to see the gun powder ignite itself, but I guarantee you if I saw any kind

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of smoldering or anything, I'm leaving very quickly.

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With ground control, opinion about the likely outcome is divided.

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We're not even going to see this thing.

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It's just going to go poof and there's going to be an enormous cloud of smoke and...

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I think it'll go up about 10 feet and go poof.

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You think so?

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Oh yeah.

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You think we'll have lift off?

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I think we'll have lift off.

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I really honestly believe you will.

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Meanwhile another team is giving chair number two special treatment.

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Just in case the Chinese had built some super efficient rockets back then, we have 47 what

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are called iMotors, which are very powerful 50 pound thrust 12 inch long rockets.

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And we're going to attach 47 of those to the second chair to see what kind of launch he

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could have gotten if everything was as good as it could be.

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MythBusters veteran Eric Gates of the Jato Rocket Myth is impressed.

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This is out on a limb.

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This is definitely one of the most far out, far reaching things that we've done with

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rocket motors.

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It should be a lot of fun to see one who actually take a trip.

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So far this myth is deficient in the Chinese Astrologer Department to the tune of one.

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No prizes for guessing who gets to play the part of the daredevil oriental astronaut.

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Put both legs in first don't you think?

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I think you might be right.

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Or do you do it differently?

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I put on my pants one leg at a time.

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Oh he's a picture.

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He looks great.

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Oh I'm going to teach you a lesson.

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I think Buster, aka one who is ready for his launch.

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And rocket chair number one is ready too.

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This is the most dangerous part.

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80 pounds of gun powder, 22 idiots, one crash test dummy.

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In the myth of free energy, Adams found plans on the internet for a device that claims to

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suck power from solar rays.

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I've got one here that I'm actually kind of jazzed about.

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It's basically a temperature wheel sometimes called a minto wheel after its inventor.

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The temperature wheel consists of pairs of tanks joined by a pipe.

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Half of the tanks are filled with propane and placed in water.

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When the water is heated by the sun, the propane vaporizes and condenses in the top tanks,

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which become heavier and the wheel rotates.

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The upshot?

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Free energy.

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Intoxicated by the sweet scent of power, Adam gets down to work.

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With world domination in his sights, he ropes in his evil accomplice and metal expert Scotty.

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Can you do a felit weld in there?

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Do you have to?

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Is that alright?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I've bridged bigger gaps than that before.

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Scotty welds at Adam's Slots.

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And before you can say, free energy my foot, the temperature wheel takes shape.

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I'm not sure what it's going to do, but it looks cool.

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Doesn't it though?

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So you're going to put some kind of flammable liquid in all these and then light them all

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off at the same time?

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Fill half of them full of propane, shoot a bullet, light it on fire, the whole thing

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like that.

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You know, what I can't wait for is the look on the guy's face when I bring these in to

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have them filled with propane.

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There ought to be a law against that.

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There probably is.

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Make that definitely.

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Adam's not finding this such a gas after all.

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Free energy suddenly seems further away than ever as his temperature wheel springs a leak.

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This is a problem because we've got propane leaking out of a hole.

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We can't weld that hole until we get rid of all the propane, like all of it.

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We have to go back to the shop now and I don't know what the hell we're going to do.

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Back at base, a web sourced free energy kit has arrived.

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Finally, we got something that's not just plans, it's actually all the parts and the

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plans we need to tap into real free energy.

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Apparently if you have this box hooked up to something like a 100 foot radio antenna,

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you can power a clock radio.

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I don't know, still seems like a 9 volt battery is a better bet.

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Radio waves are a form of radiation and can be converted into electricity.

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But will it be enough to power a clock radio?

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First, Adam assembles the box.

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Then he rigs up a 100 foot long horizontal antenna.

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Then he prepares to ground the device.

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He's about to find out the hard way that Jamie's warehouse is miswired.

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Now there's no question that Adam's a bright spark.

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That might have been, I don't know, a bad noise.

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But he's no electrician.

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I'm releasing the mysterious blue smoke here.

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The problem is once you release the mysterious blue smoke, electronics don't work anymore.

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Luckily, we accidentally ordered two of these kits.

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Adam's soldiers on in the face of probable electrocution.

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It's all a learning experience.

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Radio wave energy extractor, Mark II.

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Hey Jamie, check this out.

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I hook up the antenna, I'm getting almost half a volt.

331
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:43,040
You know, it's probably enough to power the display on a digital watch.

332
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Yeah, I think you would need about a volt and a half or so.

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And so that means that you would have to have three of these.

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So, three large devices to power one tiny wristwatch.

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For free energy, it's pretty costly.

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Free energy just doesn't seem that efficient to me.

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It's so cumbersome and takes so much energy to get the tiniest amounts of power.

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You might as well just go get a battery.

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In the myth of the Ming Dynasty astronaut, zero hour is approaching.

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When Wanhu took the hot seat in 1500 AD, he had 47 assistants on hand to light the 47

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fuses, which is where Adam and Jamie part company with tradition.

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Guys, you're going to hook up the wires?

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We're going to clear the hell out.

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Let's everyone go that way.

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The launch pad is cleared and everyone retires to the bunker from where the ignition switch

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can be thrown in relative safety.

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This may be the moment where Wanhu began to have second thoughts.

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It's kind of beautiful out here in an eerie way.

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It's like so serene and calm.

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Something very violent in the middle of all this serenity is about to happen.

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Adam's tickled pink.

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I'm staring at a Chinese dressed crash distillery on a throne strapped to 70 pounds of gunpowder.

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I just had another one of those myth busters moments.

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For Buster, it's no laughing matter.

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Okay, I'm going to arm it.

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These arming systems are going to fire in 10 seconds.

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A centuries old mystery is about to be solved.

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Will it be lift off or lights out?

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One.

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Well, it was fast, whatever it was.

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Just like Wanhu, Buster's vanished.

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But he's no astronaut.

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In fact, he's toast.

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Get the dummy before it goes.

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His ass is on fire.

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And here I thought the elevator of death was the most damaged he'd ever with stead.

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He is burnt to a crisp.

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Buster's screwed.

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I think there's hardly a single patch of skin left on his body that is uncharred.

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And frankly, I don't think this is something that we can really fix.

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This time we're going to have to start over from scratch with Buster.

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We might get some of his bones or something, but Buster is gone as we know him.

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Buster, aka Chinese astrologer, was completely obliterated.

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The amount of heat was just unfathomable.

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A moment's silence for Wanhu.

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The heat from the rockets caused multiple failure and a wipeout instead of a blast-off.

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What we've just replicated is pretty identical to the eyewitness reports.

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47 packed rockets, black powder, and Buster was taken to another world in a puff of smoke.

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As soon as Buster cools down enough and his flesh is no longer molten, we're going to

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put on this new Chinese suit on him.

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Get out throne number two, which has 47 brand new rockets strapped to it.

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And we're going to see what kind of lift Buster might have gotten in the best of all possible

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circumstances.

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47 modern rockets should give almost two and a half thousand pounds of thrust.

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Buster weighs in at 180 pounds.

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This time, gravity's got a fight on its hands.

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We have a fair suspicion that this chair is actually going to go somewhere.

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And so, when Buster just falls out in the first couple of feet, I thought we should probably

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anchor him a little better than we did the last time.

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Looks like Buster's ready for the second shot.

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Okay, everybody, you're going to hear a countdown.

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And when the countdown goes, these rocket motors are going to burn for four and a half

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seconds.

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Be aware that this thing is going to be going crazy.

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Just look out and stay away.

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This is it, Buster.

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You're on your own.

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Three, five, four, three, two, one, go.

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Well, there you go.

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00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:40,640
Well, he definitely got off the ground.

401
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Oh, my poor chair.

402
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,720
Oh, man.

403
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I'm glad we tied him in.

404
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,200
I think everything held as good as we could have asked it to hold.

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Lost the leg.

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The joints came off this time.

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The high-speed camera shows Buster did get airborne before flipping over in a rocket-powered

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rodeo to oblivion.

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00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,240
Well, guys, I guess that's myth-busted.

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For one, there's no way you're going to get 47 rockets to fire at once in the Ming dynasty,

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let alone how hard it was to do now.

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Yeah, and even if you could, it's just going to go up in a fireball, you know?

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And even if you got all of that to work perfectly, there's no way that this chair with these

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rockets is getting to 17,800 miles an hour and into orbit.

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Yeah, myth-busted.

416
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,920
Myth-busted.

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Let's go home.

418
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,920
I need to get into a pool.

419
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:51,040
What do you got there, Adam?

420
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,280
I have got the part of a really fun myth to test.

421
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,520
It's actually a total classic.

422
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Can a ceiling fan, while it's spinning, chop your head off?

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Nice.

424
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,000
Yeah, and the myth is actually told in usually a couple of different versions.

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In one, husband and wife are getting frisky and he's all dressed up in a costume and

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he comes to leap towards her and he jumps a little too high and gets beheaded.

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And in another one, kids are like jumping up and down on a bed and, again, one of them

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jumps too high.

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So two myths, two rigs.

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The myth of the jumping kid calls for a rig to raise a head into the fan from below.

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For the myth of the lover's leap, they'll need a rig to carry a head into the ceiling

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fan at neck level.

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Which begs another question.

434
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Wait, wait, before you say raise a head, where are we going to get a head?

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Well, we're going to have to duplicate one.

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And we've often done it with ballistics gelatin, but in this case, we might have to actually

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put, I mean, it may be gross, but like a real spine in there.

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00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,200
Obviously we won't be able to get a human spine, but what I was thinking was something

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like a pig's spine.

440
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,880
While Tori tracks down a dead pig, the girls go shopping.

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Scotty, what do you think they sell here?

442
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,520
I think this might be the place.

443
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I think we could find some fans here.

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If there is such a thing as a fan of death, it's bound to be at the imaginatively named

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house of fans.

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So can you show us what the most common ceiling fan you'd have that most people would have

447
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in their house?

448
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I sure can.

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One of the most common ones is this one here with the lights at the bottom.

450
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It's your standard 52 inch blade fan.

451
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It's got wood blades on it.

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This fan fits the bill for the basic myth, but the girls want something more dangerous.

453
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Leave it to the mythbusters.

454
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Don't try this one at home.

455
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If you wanted to get as close as you could to chopping somebody's head off, what would

456
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you recommend?

457
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,400
You were the fan expert.

458
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,400
Okay.

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Bring it on.

460
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If I was still inclined to do that to somebody, I would maybe think of an industrial.

461
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I would say a style fan, something that's going to maybe move a little bit faster, blade

462
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a little bit stronger.

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Brian boasts one particularly head turning industrial fan, complete with powerful motor

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and metal blades.

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It's love at first sight for these chopaholics.

466
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,760
That one looks really dangerous.

467
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,560
I think that one's scary and we can make it even scarier.

468
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It has metal blades.

469
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Oh boy, what we can do with this.

470
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Back at base, the hunter returns.

471
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All right, let's see it.

472
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I hope you guys are hungry because I got 150 pounds of pork.

473
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,160
Are you serious?

474
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,160
You guys are going to love this.

475
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Oh boy.

476
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Vegetarian Carrie didn't have the backbone for this shopping trip.

477
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Vegetarian, you were not making me go.

478
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You wanted a huge pig.

479
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,160
It was pretty bad.

480
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,160
Whoa.

481
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,160
Whoa.

482
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,160
Oh yeah.

483
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,000
Look, this is going to be perfect.

484
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,360
We still got all of its meat, so it'll be as close to a real human neck as we can get.

485
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:58,360
I thought you guys were going to get like just a science class regular spine that just

486
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looks like a model.

487
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I didn't think we were getting anything with carnage attached.

488
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Go get some barbecue sauce.

489
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,960
I can't believe they got spine with the meat on it.

490
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,800
This is disgusting.

491
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,720
Carrie's found herself in a vegetarian nightmare.

492
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:19,720
Carnivorous Tori gets down to the job of making a home for the pig spine.

493
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:20,720
It's over.

494
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:26,720
In keeping with Mythbusters tradition, it'll be Adam's head on the chopping block.

495
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:36,720
In a previous episode, gelatin molds of Adam's head were used to test the myth that tongue

496
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,720
studs attract lightning.

497
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,220
The guys discovered that you're only sure to light up if you're sporting a piercing the

498
00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:45,720
size of a doorknob.

499
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,520
For the myth of the killer ceiling fan, the dummy's head will have to be as close to the

500
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,640
real thing as possible.

501
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,640
It's a gruesome prospect.

502
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,640
I'm going to cut this to make it fit in our mold.

503
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,640
Are you going to do that now?

504
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,640
Yeah, I'm leaving the room.

505
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,640
I'm leaving the room.

506
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,600
Pig spine will stiffen up the neck, but how about the head?

507
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,800
In the myth of the jumping kid, there's no guarantee that the neck will reach the fan

508
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:12,800
at all.

509
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,720
Now, what about skull?

510
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,840
Because I'm thinking if you're raising up and you're jumping, you're going to have to

511
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,680
jump so fast to get your neck up to that level that I would think it'd be more likely to

512
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:23,680
get scout.

513
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,680
Absolutely.

514
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,560
And so probably some human cranium.

515
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,040
We've done this before when we did Penny drop.

516
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,360
We have human cranium.

517
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,200
I have the human cranium in storage yet.

518
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,200
You would.

519
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,480
We have one of everything at Mythbusters.

520
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,360
While the others plot the dummy's internal structure, squeamish Carrie busies herself

521
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,320
with making molds in the vacuum form machine.

522
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,560
Once we get them out of like this, we're going to glue both of these negatives together,

523
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,480
put them upside down, fill them with ballistics gel, a little bit of cranium, and a spine

524
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,520
that should emulate the insides of a human.

525
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:02,680
Using his special effects know-how, Tori makes latex arteries, which are filled with fake

526
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:03,760
blood.

527
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,320
In the interests of scientific accuracy, of course.

528
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,960
This is the artery.

529
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,040
When that blade can fly through there, blood is going to spray all over the room.

530
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,920
It kind of reminds me of alien.

531
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:20,360
When the thing pops out of the guy's stomach, it shoots across the table.

532
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:21,360
It's alive.

533
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:22,840
This is so bizarre.

534
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,240
This is so bizarre.

535
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,760
Carrie's nightmare deepens as the ghoulish head takes shape.

536
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,200
Next step, skin.

537
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:36,280
A coating of latex is painted on the insides of the molds.

538
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,000
In goes the cranium.

539
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,200
The molds are then filled with ballistics gel, used by forensic experts to replicate

540
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,000
flesh and tissue.

541
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,120
And finally, Carrie's favorite, arteries and spine.

542
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,200
That is one of the grossest things I think I have ever witnessed.

543
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,200
Oh my god.

544
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,960
That actually worked out pretty good, didn't it?

545
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:56,960
Yes, it did.

546
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:57,960
Yes, it did.

547
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:58,960
Wow.

548
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,760
The heads are left to set in ice, and the build team return to the problem of the rigs that

549
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,480
will deliver them into the fans.

550
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,440
Never one to shun a shortcut, Tori makes a beeline for Jamie.

551
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,160
So what I need is some kind of hydraulic lifter.

552
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,880
You know what I've got is a thing that we built for a commercial some time ago, and

553
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,040
it was made to lift a little kid up into frame on camera.

554
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,040
That would be perfect.

555
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,160
So it was like 50, 60 pounds, I believe we had sitting on it.

556
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,160
That's perfect.

557
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:30,760
The myth is that somebody jumped on a bed and jumped into the ceiling fan.

558
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,600
Jamie's scissor jack saves Tori a load of time and effort.

559
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:41,600
Meanwhile, Scotty and Carrie scout out a test chamber.

560
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,240
Scotty manufactures the rig for the myth of the lover's leap.

561
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:52,680
A track and dolly to carry the head neck first into the blades.

562
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,560
Up on the myth busters chopping block.

563
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,120
I'm going to feed you the wires first.

564
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,120
Okay.

565
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,760
Will be the common household ceiling fan.

566
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,600
Okay.

567
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,760
Once it's in place, Tori checks that the scissor jack is positioned at the correct level.

568
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,400
This lift is about a foot and a half.

569
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,600
So that'll give us enough lift to get it safely into the or unsafely into the fan.

570
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,960
Adam swings by death row to lighten the moon.

571
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,680
I feel like I'm in laughing here.

572
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:22,680
Bye guys.

573
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,680
See you guys later.

574
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:24,680
All right, man.

575
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,680
Thanks for having us.

576
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:35,800
Finally, bulletproof plastic is fitted to protect the team while they observe the experiments

577
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,760
from outside the test chamber.

578
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,760
The stage is set.

579
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,600
The dummy is unveiled.

580
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:48,040
That is nasty.

581
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:53,600
In the myth of free energy, Adam's been deflated by the discovery that his temperature wheel

582
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,120
leaks gas.

583
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,440
He's on a collision course with his welder, Scotty.

584
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,320
I've got a bone to pick with you.

585
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,160
We tried filling these things with propane today.

586
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,600
Because I can smell it.

587
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,720
Yeah, it's leaking out of your weld.

588
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,240
Scotty protests that she didn't know Adam intended to fill the tanks with propane.

589
00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:12,280
Well, first I said that I needed gas-tight welds from you.

590
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,520
The people that filled this want nothing more to do with this.

591
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:16,520
Tori.

592
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:23,320
Well, it looks like every possible thing that could be failing on my rig is actually failing.

593
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:29,640
And I know this seems consistent, but there was a time I was really good at making things.

594
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,640
Oh, no.

595
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Uh-oh.

596
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,560
Thank you, Bob.

597
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,000
Adam comes up with an unusual solution to his leaking wheel.

598
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:48,160
I am actually pulling a vacuum on each one of these pipes so that I can capillary some

599
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:55,440
glue into the leaky or problematic areas of my welds and then cover over it with a engine

600
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:02,480
epoxy to eliminate all the problems you would have welding a casting to a steel pipe.

601
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:03,480
Crazy glue.

602
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,480
I need crazy glue.

603
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,680
On goes the crazy glue, followed by some hard-wearing engine epoxy.

604
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,680
Oh.

605
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,680
Oh.

606
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:17,280
For the temperature wheel to have any chance of success, it must be gas-tight.

607
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:23,040
Adam leaves the epoxy to set and turns his power-crazed mind to the next free-energy

608
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,040
device.

609
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,040
What is next?

610
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,040
The Bidini motor.

611
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,040
The Bidini motor.

612
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:32,000
You know, the Bidini motor is like the holy grail of the free-energy freaks.

613
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,280
It couldn't be simpler.

614
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:41,080
A battery drives a motor which spins up a flywheel, which charges wire coils which in

615
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:48,440
turn recharge the battery, and bingo, a perpetual motion or over-unity machine.

616
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,240
It's important to keep an open mind and realize that all the principles that drive the over-unity

617
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:56,760
machines operate outside of everything you've ever heard about science.

618
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:03,320
MIT's Dr. Gio Homsi has been helping the guys by assembling the contraption and with

619
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,960
his pedigree, they're quickly in business.

620
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,200
Free energy, man.

621
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,200
Here we go.

622
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,560
Activate the modulator.

623
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,360
Modulator activated.

624
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:17,840
A modulator switches the motor on and off, so preserving power while the flywheel keeps

625
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,240
on spinning, in theory, replenishing the battery.

626
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:25,400
Okay, it's spinning up.

627
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,400
I can hear it getting slower.

628
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400
Yeah, it seems to be out.

629
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,720
I don't think I need a meter for this one.

630
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:36,480
In a sudden burst of free energy, the Bidini machine runs down.

631
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,240
Sounds like my grandfather.

632
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,040
Oh, getting sick.

633
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,200
It's draining more from the battery on each cycle than it's putting back in when it recharges.

634
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,720
That's the one big problem with perpetual motion machines.

635
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,540
They're not perpetual.

636
00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:51,100
Over-unity, huh?

637
00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:54,040
That's an efficiency of over 100%.

638
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,320
Kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don't it?

639
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,600
If you mean it makes me feel like I feel about the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, yeah.

640
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:07,320
That kind of warm and fuzzy, because it's a fantasy.

641
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:12,440
The fortunes of free energy are now riding on the reglue temperature wheel.

642
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,880
If it comes unstuck, Adam's dreams of glory bite the dust.

643
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,560
But nothing is leaking today.

644
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,000
Everything is good.

645
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,920
The temperature wheel stands in a tank of water, which will be heated by studio lights

646
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,200
in place of the sun.

647
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,880
Jamie's baffle by Adam's creation.

648
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,040
I don't know what to think of this contraption.

649
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,800
I think, in theory, it actually ought to work, as I understand it.

650
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,560
But, you know, actually come to think of it, I'm not really sure that I do understand it.

651
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:48,360
The idea behind the Minto wheel is that these tanks are arranged in pairs, each one connected

652
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,120
to its neighbor opposite the wheel.

653
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,200
And there's some propane in here.

654
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,120
Propane is a terrific natural refrigerant and a coolant.

655
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,600
It's got a boiling point that's below room temperature.

656
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,240
So there's some propane in here.

657
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:05,200
And when we heat it up with the water, it bubbles up into this tank, making it heavier.

658
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:10,680
And as each one successively does that and gets heavier, the wheel starts turning.

659
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,880
This is the idea.

660
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,120
We'll see if it actually works.

661
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:23,120
And before your very eyes, free energy is revealed to be as elusive as ever.

662
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:30,240
I'm not getting satisfactory operation out of my wheel here.

663
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,240
Come on!

664
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,240
Not happening.

665
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:39,160
I think, I think I need to abandon the water because I think the propane tanks going through

666
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,920
the water isn't working.

667
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:46,160
The guys decide to change tactics and heat the tanks directly with the lights.

668
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,880
So it starts to move.

669
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,880
Adam just can't keep his hands off.

670
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:51,880
No.

671
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,360
I know, I know.

672
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,120
I'm impatient.

673
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,120
We know this.

674
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,120
I don't want it to get too hot.

675
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,400
Oh, I'm seeing something.

676
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,400
Is it moving?

677
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,880
What do you think?

678
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Trying to determine whether, I think I'm seeing it move really slowly.

679
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,560
It's going this way.

680
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,880
With all the speed of continental drift, the wheel is turning.

681
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,880
I get a full revolution.

682
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,880
I call this a solar generator.

683
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,880
I don't care.

684
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,880
How slow it goes.

685
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:22,880
Come on.

686
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,880
It's breaking free.

687
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:31,040
It's breaking free of the bonds of the energy conglomerates.

688
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,040
It's just slow.

689
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,680
You know, it's silly.

690
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,520
We're now working on almost three quarters of a full revolution.

691
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:41,600
It is the slowest machine I've ever seen go, but it is going and it's working on thermal

692
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:42,600
energy.

693
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,840
I don't think this is the kind of thing that's going to end up powering a generator at your

694
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:46,840
house.

695
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,760
I mean, the fastest machine that anyone's built from this, and I know I'll be corrected

696
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,720
on this, but that I could research, the fastest machine yet built was like one revolution

697
00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:57,720
per minute.

698
00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:02,120
I mean, that's not a blistering energy producing speed.

699
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,280
You know, maybe you could, I don't know what you could do.

700
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,440
You know, fan your sheep or something at that speed.

701
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:14,520
A solar sheep fan is hardly a revolution in power generation, and it's not even free

702
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:15,520
energy.

703
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:21,440
Strictly speaking, the temperature wheel is just an overly elaborate and highly inefficient

704
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,760
solar generator.

705
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,200
Free energy, hot air.

706
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,840
So free energy across the board busted.

707
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,800
Yeah, they're totally and absolutely busted.

708
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,560
You know, it just frustrates the heck out of me going through these plans.

709
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,840
They're so confusing.

710
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:43,360
They're so difficult to actually follow because they're mixing actual science with a lot of

711
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,360
crap.

712
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,360
Nevertheless, we were able to do it with a reasonable number of tests, and I'd say it's

713
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:59,640
busted, busted, busted, and I don't want to get an email about it.

714
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,440
Back at the myth of the killer ceiling fan, the ballistics gel head together with pig

715
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:12,920
spine, human cranium, and latex arteries and skin is strapped onto the scissor jet.

716
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,040
Fans never modeled for such a realistic dummy.

717
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,920
The older, wiser heads decide to test out the rig and find it comes up short.

718
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:22,920
No!

719
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,560
Who measured this thing?

720
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:28,560
That would have sucked.

721
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,600
Adam can't believe his eyes.

722
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,760
Where do you want it to hit?

723
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,840
About like there?

724
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,760
For one thought, nobody would have built this whole rig without double-checking where the

725
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,160
head's going to fall on the fan.

726
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,480
I mean, who would do that?

727
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,600
Apparently they would do that.

728
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,440
This is the first thing Jamie or I would have thought.

729
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,440
But yeah, it's okay.

730
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,440
You know, they're learning.

731
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,440
They're good kids.

732
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,440
Put the box right on there and be ready.

733
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,640
A sheepish Tory raises the head.

734
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,640
I don't know who measured that.

735
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,640
I'm going to really give it to him.

736
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,640
Yeah, why don't you give it to him when you find out?

737
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:01,640
When I find out.

738
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:02,640
All right, going to steal the chamber.

739
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:08,240
The fan spins up to top speed, which they calculate to be 26 miles per hour using a

740
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:09,240
tachometer.

741
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:15,200
At last, the head is in place for myth number one, jumping up into a household fan from

742
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,200
below.

743
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,880
Don't try this at home.

744
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:18,880
Everybody ready?

745
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:19,880
Ready.

746
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:20,880
Ready?

747
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:21,880
Ready?

748
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,880
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

749
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:25,880
Oh!

750
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:26,880
Oh!

751
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,120
The head is rocked, but it doesn't roll.

752
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,920
It really didn't have much of an impact.

753
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,320
It didn't cut through the ballistics gel.

754
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,320
It didn't crack the skull open.

755
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:41,760
That actually surprises me because this stuff is not quite as tough as muscle, but it certainly

756
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,080
held together for this.

757
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:49,640
The household fan spins too fast for the head to reach neck level, but too slow to do any

758
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,400
real damage.

759
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,800
The dummy takes the blows on the top of the head and the blades just bounce right off.

760
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,480
Myth number one is busted.

761
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,200
Time for myth number two, the lover's leap.

762
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,600
Everybody ready for this experiment here?

763
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,200
We're going to push this head straight in at the fan right at the neck level.

764
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,320
We got this track set up.

765
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,960
We got a rope around this pulley going out to the wall to our control panel.

766
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,560
And we're just going to pull the rope, sending this guy straight into the fan.

767
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,560
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

768
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:24,560
Oh!

769
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,560
Oh!

770
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:30,240
That's the last we saw of that ceiling.

771
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,160
Broke the fan.

772
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,400
There's no damage on the neck whatsoever.

773
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:35,400
Not even a hickey?

774
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,680
Nothing.

775
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,640
This time the dummy gets a sore throat, but kept its head.

776
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,680
When it comes to a household fan, both myths are busted.

777
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,880
It's time to step things up a gear.

778
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,880
Bring on the industrial fan.

779
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:49,880
Wow!

780
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,880
It's like a little tornado down here.

781
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:52,880
A lot more power.

782
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,360
That's why we want to get this one.

783
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:56,360
It's like a little tornado.

784
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:01,280
The blades are like little knives and it goes so much faster than the regular fan.

785
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:08,000
In fact, it goes 54 miles per hour, twice as fast as the household fan.

786
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,920
Will this one prove deadly?

787
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,480
Once again, they test the jumping up from below myth first.

788
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,480
2, 1.

789
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:16,480
Oh!

790
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,480
Chunks!

791
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:18,480
Yes!

792
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,480
Oh, that did some damage.

793
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:27,480
It's got to be at least a concussion.

794
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:28,680
At least a concussion.

795
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,480
Maybe a fracture.

796
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,480
And certainly a bloody nose.

797
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,480
This time the dummy really takes a hit from the high speed metal blades.

798
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,680
He got, oh look, look, he cracked into his skull.

799
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,360
A little fracture.

800
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,360
That's skull.

801
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,480
And it definitely made a mark in the skull.

802
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:46,480
Yeah, I agree.

803
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,080
I mean, it might not kill you, but you wouldn't want to have this happen to you.

804
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,920
No kidding.

805
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,880
Jumping up into an industrial fan is a bad idea, period.

806
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:57,880
Next in line.

807
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,880
The big one.

808
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,880
If you want to get a little bit of a run to your hats, we're going neck first.

809
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:06,880
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

810
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,880
Oh, a juggler!

811
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,880
Oh!

812
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:10,880
Woo!

813
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,880
He splattered the walls with one.

814
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:13,880
Yeah!

815
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,880
All right, I want to see the high speed.

816
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,880
Oh, that was some good horror movie stuff.

817
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,880
The team's special effects expertise is paying dividends.

818
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,880
Oh, look at that!

819
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:24,880
Look at that!

820
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:25,880
Nice!

821
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:26,880
Crack!

822
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,880
You don't really want to see this one, do you?

823
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:29,880
Look at the blood!

824
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:30,880
Oh my god!

825
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:31,880
Really?

826
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:32,880
So brutal.

827
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,880
It not only sliced his artery, it went in for a second round and just...

828
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:37,880
Bleh!

829
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:38,880
Chop the extra.

830
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:39,880
Oh, go on.

831
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:49,880
The fan actually sliced through his neck, through the juggler, and even into the vertebrae.

832
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,880
I mean, that says deadly to me.

833
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,880
Deadly, but not decapitation.

834
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,880
Myth still busts.

835
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,880
This is the most powerful fan you can buy.

836
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:03,880
And obviously it wasn't enough power, so now we have to create our own fan.

837
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,880
And I think we're going to start with a lawn mower.

838
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,880
This dummy's head is coming off.

839
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:17,880
The plan is to suspend a lawn mower engine from the ceiling, attach large razor sharp blades,

840
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,880
and let it rip.

841
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:24,880
Scotty fashions the blades from sheet metal, and there's no room for error.

842
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:30,880
Right now I'm using the edge finder and the digital readout to find the exact center of

843
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,880
our blades, which is very important because if we don't get this thing centered, it's

844
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:43,880
very likely that it will blow apart and go sending blades flying into the wall, possibly

845
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,880
through the wall where we're standing.

846
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:52,880
While Scotty finds dead center, Tori rigs up the housing for the lawn mower engine.

847
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,880
Scotty adds the final deadly touch.

848
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,880
This should be a real close shave.

849
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,880
Oh yes, nice and sharp.

850
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,880
I think his head's going to fly right off.

851
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,880
The homemade blades are attached.

852
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,880
That looks so good.

853
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,880
Then a finishing touch from a team player.

854
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,880
So I'm going to make the ultimate sacrifice here.

855
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:18,880
As long as you're going to do it with me, let's make sure everyone knows who it is.

856
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,880
There we go.

857
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,880
All right, you'll have to tell me how it turns out because I can't see a damn thing.

858
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:32,880
Judging by the Coke bottles on this thing, he can't see a thing either.

859
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,880
Tori starts up the fan with the heavy blades.

860
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,880
It takes some turning over.

861
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,880
It's getting faster.

862
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,880
It looks pretty deadly.

863
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,880
It does and pretty balanced.

864
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:44,880
Nice work.

865
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:45,880
You guys ready?

866
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,880
And three, two, one.

867
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,880
Oh my God.

868
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,880
Oh my God, look at it.

869
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,880
That is horrifying.

870
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,880
Brace yourselves for a slice of slow mo.

871
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,880
Oh dude, it's just going right through.

872
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:04,880
Wow.

873
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,880
It's a horror show in there.

874
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,880
Oh, and now it's just carving it up.

875
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,880
Look, glasses hovering in the air.

876
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,880
Wait, here they go.

877
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:14,880
Here they go.

878
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:19,880
I hope you didn't even add an extra pair.

879
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,880
Oh, that is so great.

880
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,880
This head is dead, but the spine is still intact.

881
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,880
It didn't decapitate him, but it's definitely a deadly blow.

882
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,880
Scotty and Tori, this one goes into the Mythbusters Hall of Fame.

883
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,880
I mean, this is perhaps one of the most upsettingly lethal things you guys have ever built.

884
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:38,880
But still no head.

885
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,880
I can't believe how hard it is to chop a head off.

886
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,880
It is apparently very difficult to chop a head off.

887
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,880
This injury that this thing inflicted was definitely lethal,

888
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,880
but it still didn't behead our dummy.

889
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,880
I mean, I think that's busted.

890
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:53,880
That is busted.

891
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:54,880
Unfortunately.

892
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:16,880
Thanks for watching.