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On this episode...

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I'm so traumatized right now.

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The mythbusters have Hollywood in their sights.

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You've seen it a million times,

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but can you really beat blown away by a bullet?

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Nicely done, Tori!

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It's a song sung brown.

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You gotta take your pants off.

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As Adam searches high and low

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for the elusive, bell-loosening tone.

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And water torture.

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Is it real?

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And how long can the mythbusters take it?

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Oh, oh my god!

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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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Crack, damn you.

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

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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When will the fun ever stop?

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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In an urban wasteland,

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a deadly game of cat and mouse is being played out.

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A lone gunman stalks his prey.

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A fugitive flees for his life.

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But this time, there's no escape.

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Tori, Jamie and I have a really, really fun myth

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to pass on to you this time.

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Yeah, this one is another Hollywood created myth.

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And it's the one around a person getting shot

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and like flying backwards.

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So the question is,

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does a bullet have enough kinetic energy

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to transfer to a person that would like knock them back?

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Whether or not they're wearing like a bulletproof vest

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or something, just like we see in the movies.

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We'll show you later how Hollywood blows people away.

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But first, the big test.

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Can this really happen?

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We need to come up with a realistic recreation

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of what would happen with a person

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and a real weapon.

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Obviously, they aren't going to shoot a real person.

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So here's the idea.

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Build a large rack to hold up a victim it's safe to shoot.

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A pre-deceased victim with human-like physiology.

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A recently departed pig will be perfect.

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Are we ready to roll?

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And so it's once more fun.

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We're off to the meatworks for a quick pork takeout.

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Though it was never going to be quick enough

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for vegetarian carry.

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I'm so traumatized right now.

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So now to make pigs fly backwards.

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Scotty and Tori get to work on the pig rig.

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This is our harness, basically, that's going to hold the pig up.

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We're going to put its hooves,

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dig the hooks into the hooves,

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and then this will hang from our rig.

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There doesn't seem to be anything this girl can't do

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with a welding mask and a blue flag.

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I think it's going to hold up a 180-pound pig.

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Hey, can you do a 360?

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Making a swing set?

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The harness needs to hang right on the edge of the hook

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so that any pressure will dislodge it.

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I saw you punch yourself in the head.

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It's so bad.

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I'm sorry I'm laughing,

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but you just punched yourself right in the head.

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Can I look at that tape?

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Out on the shooting range,

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Carrie's still not in hog heaven.

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I'm a vegetarian city girl from California.

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I didn't have a chance.

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It's okay, Carrie, the pigs were vegetarians too.

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In fact, they need a little fattening up

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to make the 180 pounds wanted for the test.

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We want pretty much an identical mask to a human

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to really see what the effect of the bullet would be

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and if it throws it back.

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Hold on, here, let the legs fold over.

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What does it say?

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150 pounds.

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150 pounds.

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I think we've got some 10-pound sandbags.

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We could just toss one or two at his neck

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to add a little bit more of that central mass,

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make it more like the average person,

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because the 98th percentile male

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that they do all their crash testing with is 180 pounds.

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The pig is finally balanced to within an oink of falling off.

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That's what you want, is the carabiner.

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That's beautiful.

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That's the cue for our expert marksman.

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Sergeant Alan Normandy on the right

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is Chief Firearms Instructor

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at the South San Francisco Police Department.

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He used to be a SWAT sniper team leader,

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which means the pig jokes stop now.

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What do you think when you watch the movies

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and you see people getting blown through the door

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and stuff like that?

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Does that equate to reality in any way?

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Well, in light of what we're shooting at,

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I'd say it's a complete hogwash.

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Alan may make the jokes.

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After all, he has the guns.

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And quite an impressive array of weapons it is, too.

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Okay, over here starting on the left,

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we have here is a Remington 700 308 sniper rifle

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from the police department.

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Over here we have a 12-gauge shotgun,

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some Mossberg 9200 and semi-automatic.

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We have a Colt M4 in .223.

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We also have another Colt M4 in .223.

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We also have a Thompson submachine gun in .45 caliber

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and an MP5 in 9mm.

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This is a, it looks like a pretty good cross-sampling

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of like the types of guns you see people

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get shot with in the movies.

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Absolutely. This is the sort of stuff you'd probably encounter

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in most police arsenals.

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The shots will be taken from 22 feet away.

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Statistics show that 70% of all fatal shootings

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happen at that distance.

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But first, we gotta take steps to make sure

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we don't add to those stats.

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First of all, we're gonna treat all guns as if loaded.

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Every single gun's gonna be treated as if it's loaded.

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Two is we're not gonna point the firearm or weapon

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at anything that we're not willing to destroy.

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Three, we're gonna keep the fingers off the trigger

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until we're actually ready to fire.

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And then fourth of course, we have two rangemasters here

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and that is don't anticipate any range commands

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and if you see anything unsafe, please report it to the rangemaster.

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Unsafe? How about Adam with a gun?

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We already know he's no marksman.

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Did I even hit it? Over the top.

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Over the top? That's pretty lame.

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Another round.

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Adam will take the first shot.

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The M4 is loaded with a 9mm hollow point bullet.

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All you need to do is squeeze it when you're ready

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so keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.

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Lean forward just a little bit.

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Excuse me, you're in full auto right now.

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There you go.

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Squeeze slowly.

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There you go. Wow.

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And what do you know? A direct hit.

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Go ahead and put it back on S.

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But wait a second, the pig hardly flinched.

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Surely the appropriate Hollywood style reaction is more like this.

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Did you, I mean I didn't see anything move.

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Did the crucks move at all? Hardly at all.

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A little bit but that could have been a fly that landed on it.

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It's a setback all right.

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Maybe what they need is something with a little more power

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like say a Thompson submachine gun.

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The .45 caliber bullet leaves the carcass unmoved.

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I think we just need to keep on moving up higher through the calibers.

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This is a .44 magnum.

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We're going to be shooting a 240 grain bullet out of it.

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This is the same caliber that Dirty Harry uses in the movies.

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In Dirty Harry's movies, people were blown away by the dozen.

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Maybe this will get the bacon bouncing.

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Finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire.

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High speed's ready.

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At impact, the bullet is traveling at 1300 feet per second.

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But the high speed camera shows the pig hardly flinched.

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That went right through again.

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No movement at all.

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I want to see some actual action on this.

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Action Adam wants. Action Adam gets.

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Bye.

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Nope. Back on save.

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There you go.

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Each weapon is more powerful than the last.

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It's the same sort of bullet they use in the M-60 machine gun.

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You remember Rambo in the first movie where you got that belt fed machine gun?

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This is the same cartridge.

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Rambo. Now he could send the bad guys flying.

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Still, the pig refuses to fly like a hapless Hollywood fall guy.

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I think we're hitting the pig in the perfect spot.

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I mean, this is where the highest concentration of his mass is.

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You couldn't ask for better and it's not moving at all.

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But some of the rounds have passed right through the target.

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Come on.

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That means most of the bullet's energy is being expended,

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not in the body, but in the hillside behind.

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Last chance.

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A massive solid deer slug fired from a shotgun.

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Hey!

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Woo!

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Got some movement.

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Oh, finally.

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At last, the pig's off the hook.

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But let's compare with the ideal swan dive.

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Not even close.

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And Adam's not convinced the shotgun was really the cause anyway.

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It just sort of fell down.

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Yeah, it actually looked like it hit the hip bone and the legs spread.

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And then that caused the jostling that pulled it off the hook.

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But it definitely didn't move back very far.

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So the swine has got the better of them.

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They couldn't blow them away like in the movies.

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None of the bullies.

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It's time to switch to plan B.

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And B stands for Bad News for Buster.

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Buster's going to take 1.15 yet again.

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The Mythbusters are heading into a world of hurts.

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24 speakers, $60,000 worth of sound equipment.

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They're putting their dignity on the line.

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14 adults wearing diapers.

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To uncover the most diabolical secret weapon you've never heard of.

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Mythbusters is testing the brown nose.

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So what are we doing out here in the middle of an empty, windswept parking lot?

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Well, it turns out you need a big place like this to test the myth of the brown note.

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That's the myth that there are subsonic frequencies that you can play

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that will cause a human being to lose control of their bowels

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or, as they say in the industry, have involuntary bowel motility.

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The brown note.

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A mysterious sound that makes you soil your pants.

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Or worse, conspiracy theories dating back to the Second World War

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claim shady government types were secretly researching this stuff for all sorts of no good.

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Sure enough, in no time, Adam has tracked down some so-called audio weapons on the Internet.

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The device is a moderate source of ultrasonic sound

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and may sometimes be used to discourage a potential hostile encounter.

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However, we do not recommend this particular use

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since it may provoke certain individuals, then discourage them.

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I was going to rob you, but now I'm going to rob you, then kill you.

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Soon enough, the rest of the team want to kill Adam too.

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What?

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Make one go away.

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Make one go away.

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That's sound. I can hear it.

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You don't hear that? It's like a dog whistle. It's like...

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Interestingly, after an hour of fooling around with these things,

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Adam's not feeling so great.

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I feel like crap.

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I mean, I've got a kind of cold sweat.

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My head feels like it's got kind of pressure in it.

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I mean, it's really incredibly effective.

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It's those sort of feelings the conspiracy theorists say the government really wants to tap into.

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And according to the myth, get the frequency right

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and the vibrations hitting your body might also cause nausea, confusion,

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and the aforementioned loss of bowel control.

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We get contacted almost every year by one of the military organizations

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to participate in such a program.

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If anyone could build a brown-note speaker, it's John Meyer.

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His company is a world leader in concert acoustics.

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Meyer sound acoustician Roger Schwenke helped bust the myth that duck's quacks don't echo.

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I'll tell you guys to be quiet because any sound will start the computer recording

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and then you need to silently induce the duck to quack.

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Quack?

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Roger, from everything you've read, what is the brown note?

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Like, what is the range at which it's supposed to happen?

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I've seen reports of this phenomenon happening at 9 hertz.

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I've seen a couple saying 7 and 8.

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I've also heard 5 and all of those frequencies are below the human hearing range.

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And we're prepared to test all those frequencies today?

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Oh, yes.

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Sound is just vibrations.

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The speed of the vibrations is called the frequency and measured in hertz.

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One vibration per second equals one hertz.

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People can't hear sounds much lower than 20 hertz,

281
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but the brown note is set to fall below 10.

282
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Well, now you said these speakers are modified.

283
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These are not off the shelf.

284
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Do you have a catalog entry for the brown note subwoofer?

285
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No, these speakers were originally part of a concert system.

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And what we did is we modified them for this experiment.

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Normally our speakers don't go below 20 cycles.

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So these were modified to go down to 5 hertz.

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So the plan is simple.

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Array specially modified speakers around the subject and hit them with tones

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until the brown note rears its ugly head.

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24 speakers, 25,000 watts.

293
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Now this is surround sound.

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This could quite easily be the complete subwoofer system for a large toying rock show.

295
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And we'll be like a couple of feet away from it.

296
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Yes, it'll all be aimed directly at you.

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You have stuff to both drive and monitor the speakers

298
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so that we know we're exactly in the right hertz range.

299
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Yes, we'll be generating those frequencies and measuring the sound pressure level and frequency.

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Oh, we brought we're diapers.

301
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Good.

302
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So the experts have the technology taken care of.

303
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Now who wants to go potty on national TV?

304
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I would love to volunteer for this sort of thing.

305
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I mean I've stood in front of big speakers at like a big concert and stuff

306
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and I love that way it feels, that like overpowering thing.

307
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And I can't imagine anything better than getting in the middle of this 25,000 watt stack and seeing what it does.

308
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And since I'm notorious for maintaining my cleanliness and under all conditions

309
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maybe it'd be best to try you.

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Okay.

311
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A medical team will constantly monitor Adam's physical signs

312
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and they're prepared for the worst.

313
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Have you actually heard the story that there is a tone that can make you lose control of your bowels?

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Whether it's a change of pressure in your bowels or some other kind of neurological response

315
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that has been said that the military used it, that people will lose their bowels at a certain tone.

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Okay, ready when you are.

317
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But remember, the brown note is also said to induce confusion.

318
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So Christine has devised a simple test to monitor that.

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The idea of the puzzle is that you know if he stands in front of the sound waves

320
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and the sound waves cause confusion, which is what we've heard they do

321
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it'll take him longer to do the puzzle.

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So it takes him half an hour now and two hours later

323
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and you'll know there's a big difference.

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Okay.

325
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Alright.

326
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Five minutes and ten seconds.

327
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Alright.

328
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Adam, you want to go on into place?

329
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I'm ready.

330
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Alright.

331
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So everything is ready to go.

332
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The speakers are in position.

333
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Adam's physical baseline state has been tested.

334
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Now just one last precaution.

335
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Adam, it's time for you to put your diaper on.

336
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I thought I didn't have to do that until the end of the day.

337
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Oh my god.

338
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Well what are you doing?

339
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It's not going to do any good out there.

340
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You got to take your pants off and wear them.

341
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Nope.

342
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Nope.

343
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What do you think?

344
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It's you.

345
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It's all the, it's going to be all the rage.

346
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Yeah, you know Jamie it is an omnidirectional signal.

347
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I think you and you the cameraman are going to have to put it on too.

348
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Then everybody has to wear one.

349
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Alright.

350
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Oh, that's really uncomfortable.

351
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Right then the team made a solemn pact.

352
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This moment would never be spoken of again.

353
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No, you can't hide them on the chair.

354
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And now Adam stands ready to face the sweet, mysterious music of the brown note.

355
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Alright guys, I'm ready when you are.

356
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So either put your hearing protection on or get out here at this distance.

357
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I feel pretty relaxed.

358
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I'm looking forward to seeing how I respond to all this stuff.

359
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And five.

360
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So Jamie is going to be controlling this.

361
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Four, three, two, one.

362
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Right now conspiracy theorists are on the edge of their seats.

363
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Adam is being blasted with a five Hertz tone.

364
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And if there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll and man never really walked on the moon.

365
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Well, this brown note secret weapon should have him pooping his pants any second now.

366
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Note the diaper worn Superman style just in case.

367
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Four, three, two, one.

368
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Now don't be fooled because you can't hear anything.

369
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Remember, five Hertz is well below the frequency the human ear can pick up.

370
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But that sound wave is packing a punch.

371
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It's thumping out at a powerful 108 decibels.

372
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A rock concert is about 110.

373
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A normal conversation is about 60 decibels.

374
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Even so, Adam seems, uh, unmoved.

375
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I don't really feel anything.

376
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000
My heart rate's about the same.

377
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000
Can I do the puzzle?

378
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Sort of psychedelic somehow.

379
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There's so many of these speakers going like this.

380
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You just want to, it's sort of hypnotic.

381
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God.

382
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I'm going to say 59 seconds.

383
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I would definitely say that was an improvement.

384
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And I felt much more of a physical response to like a really loud speaker at a concert than I did from this.

385
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So Adam's bells are more than a match for five Hertz.

386
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The Meyer sound guys have a search on their hands.

387
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Okay, Adam.

388
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It's going to be seven Hertz at 114 dB.

389
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Okay. Three, two, one.

390
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Is that all you got?

391
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Again, the silence is deafening.

392
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000
And there's certainly no noise from Adam's nether regions.

393
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000
Feel like you want to poo?

394
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000
I can't say I want to poo.

395
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Or I can't say that I'm going to poo involuntarily.

396
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,000
Well, if that's not a goal worthy of the Mythbusters time, they don't know what is.

397
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Adam's confident their next test will strike paydirt.

398
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Next up, nine Hertz right within the mystical, mythical brown note butter zone.

399
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Okay, are we ready?

400
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Yep.

401
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Let's do it. You ready, Adam?

402
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000
Ready when you are.

403
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:38,000
Okay. And three, two, one, go.

404
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This is nine Hertz, right?

405
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:58,000
So we should be right where I should just be like all over myself.

406
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000
You know, this is sometimes called the disco dump.

407
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So can you like disco for us?

408
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000
It's a dump spot, baby.

409
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000
No, nothing there.

410
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000
Wait, wait, let's see.

411
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Nope, nothing.

412
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You can feel the vibration.

413
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000
It's pretty impressive, but it's not like, you know, like it's out of control,

414
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shaking your body until something comes out of it.

415
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Some secret weapon this is turning out to be, but here's something interesting.

416
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000
There seems to be a little collateral damage going on.

417
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000
Physically, I did feel anxiety.

418
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000
I didn't feel any mental or emotional anxiety, but physically I felt something definitely in my chest area.

419
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000
Physically, I feel something in my chest.

420
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000
I don't feel like sitting down.

421
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000
I feel like I have to move around.

422
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Even John Myers feeling the effects.

423
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000
He hasn't built speakers like these before.

424
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I started feeling a little nauseous right away, like upset stomach and kind of lightheaded.

425
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000
So I walked away from the thing, felt a little bit dizzy.

426
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,000
This graphic representation of the sound wave helps explain what's going on.

427
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:15,000
Adam is right in the center of the stacks, but that wave is rolling out to weave its magic on the whole team.

428
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,000
If there are any elephants within 10 miles of here, they're going nuts right now.

429
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,000
They use subsonic sound to communicate over long distances.

430
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000
But the subject of this secret sonic attack?

431
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000
Well, he's never been better.

432
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000
Okay, you're coming up on a minute here.

433
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One minute and 32 seconds.

434
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I think these low sound waves are actually improving your cognitive ability.

435
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000
Where do we go from here?

436
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We're going to run a 32 cycle fundamental note, which is like one of the notes on a pipe organ,

437
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and run at about 128.

438
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32 hertz, that's up into the audible range, at an ear splitting 128 decibels, as loud as a jackhammer.

439
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000
Now you're just going to have to give me hand signals because I can't hear a damn thing.

440
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000
Okay, let's do it.

441
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000
Can you read this?

442
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000
No, I have no problem reading it.

443
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,000
I definitely can see that my eyeballs are vibrating from the sound.

444
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000
And you sound kind of funny too.

445
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000
You will submit, Earthling.

446
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000
Oh, that was really cool.

447
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:46,000
A little disorientation from that, like there's something, you know, kind of dizzying about it.

448
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Really? I may be the worst subject ever to test this song.

449
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I don't get cars sick, I don't really get sea sick.

450
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000
I don't know.

451
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Maybe he's a bad subject, or maybe he just loves frustrating the audio guys.

452
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:04,000
But enough's enough, they're going to blow him away with pure decibel power.

453
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:09,000
We're pulling the foam out of all the speakers to get more power out of this,

454
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:17,000
and we'll see if that has any response to me in a loss of bowel control kind of way.

455
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000
Loud noise is powerful.

456
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:27,000
Military researchers built this device to spray a beam of sound loud enough to cause ear splitting pain.

457
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000
Okay, the foam's all out.

458
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000
That's really cool.

459
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,000
These speakers are now pumping out 154 decibels.

460
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000
Louder than a jet aircraft taking off.

461
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Loud enough to instantly rupture unprotected eardrums.

462
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000
Adam can't wait.

463
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000
I can't stand the suspense, I want to get in there.

464
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It's kind of intervening, isn't it?

465
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000
It's really neat.

466
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,000
Sounds like, I don't know, imagine mountains moving, or an earthquake coming or something.

467
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:13,000
But she's right, these low frequencies are emitted in massive natural events like earthquakes and tsunamis.

468
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000
But now for something unnatural.

469
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What you need to do is raise your hand if you feel anything funny that you want him to stop at.

470
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Adam, are you ready?

471
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000
I'm ready.

472
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Okay, he's ready.

473
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:39,000
Roger sweeping the frequency up and down between 20 and 100 hertz, watching for signs Adam's losing control.

474
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000
Nothing.

475
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000
Wow!

476
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Adam's dignity remains intact.

477
00:26:46,000 --> 00:27:00,000
That last bit when I went whoa, I mean it was like somebody was actually drumming on my chest.

478
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:07,000
And the other thing was, you know how when you speak there's like a, oh I could feel that just breathing.

479
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Those are still really long wavelengths and so it is actually physically moving air in and out of your lungs as you breathe.

480
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000
So, yeah, that's great that we actually saw that.

481
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000
Wow, I mean that was just really amazing.

482
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000
I mean, I'm not sure if you can see it, but I think it's really amazing.

483
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000
Yeah, that's great that we actually saw that.

484
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000
It was, wow, I mean that was just really amazing.

485
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000
Everyone's got to try this.

486
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000
It seems the military can save itself some trouble.

487
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Even with the help of some of the world's best audio technicians, the Mythbusters just couldn't produce the brown note.

488
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:52,000
It was incredibly, powerfully intense what the sound waves were doing to my body.

489
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000
But not at the 5, 7 or 9 hertz range.

490
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000
Did we bust the myth or not?

491
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000
I think we busted the myth. I think brown note is busted.

492
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000
The myth as we know it, yes, is busted.

493
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000
On Mythbusters, they have ways of making you talk.

494
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Tori and Scotty are going to make me cry today.

495
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000
Or at least they think they do.

496
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Can this tiny little drop really turn the toughest spy to water?

497
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Okay, so we have a weird psychological myth.

498
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000
We have to put the Chinese water torture to the test.

499
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Wait, is that the one where repetitive drips of water on your forehead are an effective form of torture

500
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000
and possibly will drive you insane?

501
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Exactly. That's the one.

502
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000
Wow.

503
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,000
Water torture, the stuff of movies or something more?

504
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000
Torture victim counselor Gerald Gray has certainly heard of it.

505
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:10,000
It's a process by which the prisoner is immobilized and slow drips of water are dropped onto their head

506
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000
and I don't know how long I can't say.

507
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,000
I'm not sure what's considered an effective use of the torture.

508
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:25,000
To test if and how drips become powerful persuaders, the Mythbusters have two experiments in mind.

509
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
For the first, they'll create their own torture chamber.

510
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:36,000
They'll need a rack to secure the victim, a brace to keep their head still, and a constantly dripping tap.

511
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Tori's on rack duty and seems to be taking unexpected pleasure in his work.

512
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000
You know, we don't need that. Why are we going through all this trouble to build this water torture device?

513
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000
I mean, really, just buy him a six pack and they'll tell you whatever you want to know.

514
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:58,000
He'll make a faceplate from an old mold of Adam's head, a kind of torture in itself.

515
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Take it off, Adam.

516
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Oh, it burns. I don't want to look like Adam.

517
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Carrie's creating a plumber's nightmare.

518
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000
This valve is gate valve and this is going to vary how fast the drips come.

519
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000
A constantly dripping tap.

520
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:23,000
So it'll just be little drips off the end and then one will be halfway in between.

521
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:31,000
Call her a torture perfectionist, if you will, but Carrie wants that drop to be as close as possible to identical every time.

522
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:42,000
I think it's actually going to be impossible for the human mind to decipher a large drip from a small drip, but just in case, we have to try every option.

523
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000
I imagine I'm going to fall asleep on this thing.

524
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Trying to picture the water drop.

525
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,000
Oh!

526
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
So they have the rig.

527
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Could you fall asleep?

528
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Now, as a precaution, they're calling in paramedics to monitor the test subject's health.

529
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,000
You might remember Sanjay from a previous MythBusters close encounter of the uncomfortable kind.

530
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Oh, Sanjay.

531
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
Sanjay, we respect you tomorrow.

532
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000
So have you heard this myth of the Chinese torture treatment?

533
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Yeah, I have. I've heard of this particular myth and that the dropping of the water, just the actual sensation of all the sensory is that all of it on your skin, you just feel it run across.

534
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:41,000
It feels like bugs run across you. So if somebody has an issue about, you know, bugs coming running across their bodies, they may start hallucinating about that.

535
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Hmm, bugs crawling on your head. Who's up for that?

536
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:52,000
I think because Carrie already administered her own water torture to you, she should naturally be the first.

537
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000
I'm going to have to agree.

538
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000
All right.

539
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Get on the rack.

540
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
I'm actually a little shaky.

541
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Are you nervous?

542
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Yeah.

543
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
It's all right. Just relax. You'll be fine.

544
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Carrie's being a good sport and most importantly, she knows she can stop this at any time and be released in seconds.

545
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:25,000
First, Sanjay checks her vital signs and as this is a psychological test, Carrie will be asked to set of questions before and during the torture to establish her stress levels.

546
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Do you feel nervous and anxious?

547
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Sometimes.

548
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Do you feel, have you ever felt afraid?

549
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Sometimes.

550
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,000
How easily do you get upset? Ever have panic spells or feel panic?

551
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Rarely.

552
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Okay.

553
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Do you like gladiator movies?

554
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Now remember, Carrie is free to call this off at any time. The shackles can be removed within seconds and she's among friends. But it's still a creepy feeling.

555
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I can't even imagine this being for real. I'm around people that I'm secure with that I totally trust. I know that are going to get me out of this.

556
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:13,000
I have an ambulance standing by with paramedics. If this was for real, I would be screaming and struggling. I'd probably have bloody wrists and ankles by now.

557
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000
I think we're ready to go.

558
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Starting clock.

559
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
And so the torture begins.

560
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Every two seconds or so, a fat, cold drop of water will fall.

561
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Hitting Carrie's forehead in exactly the same place every time. Every two seconds.

562
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Somewhat annoying.

563
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Everything is as it should be in Carrie's world of water torture. The drips are the right size and hitting her in the right place. So now it's time to start the second experiment.

564
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
It looks so painful.

565
00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Carrie has to contend with her restraints. But what about just the dripping water on its own? Would that have any effect without the discomfort of being tied down?

566
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:10,000
So, comfy chair, no restraints, the victim just has to sit there and do nothing.

567
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
No, I think I can do it. I think I can do it.

568
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Alright, let's go.

569
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:25,000
This job sounds just perfect for Adam. The biggest challenge will be not going to the bathroom. But after the brown note, he knows the drill.

570
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
There is no dignity on this bus.

571
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,000
And soon, he too is ready to take his punishment.

572
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:38,000
I feel alright. This is not the worst thing I've ever had to do for the show.

573
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Not by a long shot. Sitting in comfy chair. Get water dripped on my head all day.

574
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:55,000
I think the main problem I'm going to have is going stir crazy. Not going nuts from the drip.

575
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000
I'm getting somewhat flustered over the fact that my arm is falling asleep.

576
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Carrie isn't sharing Adam's sunny disposition.

577
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
I'm somewhat jumpy. I feel somebody touch me.

578
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Okay, Carrie, I'm going to ask you some questions. This is like the same one that Scotty asked you. We're just now 15 minutes into this.

579
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000
I didn't think I was going to go 15 minutes. I'm very surprised.

580
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Do you feel nervous or anxious?

581
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Mild.

582
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Mild.

583
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Do you feel afraid?

584
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Mild.

585
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Mild.

586
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,000
How easily would you get upset right now?

587
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Easily.

588
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Easily?

589
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000
Severe. Do you feel like falling apart or going to pieces?

590
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Not yet.

591
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
So let's say moderate?

592
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Moderate.

593
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Do you feel like you're having a problem sleeping?

594
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Yes, I am having an extreme problem sleeping. There's seven people standing around me and there's water dripping on my head.

595
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000
After 15 minutes, Carrie thinks she's holding up relatively well.

596
00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:01,000
But the power of water torture is meant to increase the longer it goes on.

597
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:08,000
As most of the Mythbusters crew knows, I can fall asleep just about anywhere.

598
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:17,000
And I'd like to attempt to do that here, but there's this fly that's just landing on every exposed part of my body in the can.

599
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:25,000
The dripping water is breaking my concentration, so I can't just zone out and forget about the pains that I'm having from being strapped down.

600
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000
It's constantly bringing me back to the reality that my shoulders are killing me.

601
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Oh yeah, plenty of water.

602
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000
We can go for hours still.

603
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
I'm going to get some water.

604
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
I'm going to get some water.

605
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
I'm going to get some water.

606
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
I'm going to get some water.

607
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Oh yeah, plenty of water.

608
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
We can go for hours still.

609
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Carrie's been on the rack an hour now.

610
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Her vital signs are still within the safe range, but the torture is starting to tell on her emotions.

611
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000
You ready?

612
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Go ahead.

613
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Okay, do you feel nervous and anxious?

614
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Yes.

615
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Would you say mild, moderate or severe?

616
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Um, uh, severe.

617
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Do you feel afraid?

618
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Um, no, mild.

619
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Mild?

620
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Um, are you getting upset or do you feel like you're going to panic?

621
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Stream.

622
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Do you feel like you're going to fall apart and go to pieces?

623
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
I actually don't want to do this test right now.

624
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Alright, let's get her out.

625
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
No, it's fine. Just give me a second, okay?

626
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:44,000
I had a moment of sheer tear and panic when I was on the rack and it was so strange.

627
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:51,000
I didn't expect going into this that I was going to freak out and start crying in front of everybody.

628
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:56,000
I mean, I knew I could get up at any time, but the restraints totally made me lose it.

629
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Do you feel yourself trembling or shaking?

630
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Yes, extreme.

631
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,000
I just had a sudden glossophobia attack. That's what that was a minute ago.

632
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000
Being bound is crazy.

633
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000
I didn't even feel the water at that point.

634
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Goddamn fly!

635
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Which lands on my feet, my toes, my elbows, my hands and this is just awful.

636
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
The fly is definitely much worse than the water.

637
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Flies aside, Adam's finding life is an unrestrained, soggy couch potato, somewhat to his liking.

638
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Long term psychological side effects.

639
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:43,000
If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't going to hurt much more.

640
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Are your hands feeling wet and clammy?

641
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,000
No.

642
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Are you having a problem sleeping?

643
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000
I think this is actually a very good torture.

644
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Although Carrie's regained her composure, somehow this just isn't fun anymore.

645
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,000
The experiment is becoming a little too real. Enough is enough.

646
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:20,000
I think you've proven yourself. I think you probably could stay here longer, but I'm actually going to let you lose some concern about your shoulder and all the twitching that you're doing.

647
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:27,000
I'm also getting that aggro, and that's the last thing you need to get.

648
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Take it nice and slow. If you start to feel like crap, go back to it before.

649
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Carrie lasted more than an hour and a half, but in hindsight, it was probably an hour and a half too long.

650
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,000
I'm so used to coming into Mythbusters and having a blast doing everything that we do.

651
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:51,000
It was a rough experiment for me. I still haven't gotten over the bruises on my wrists from the shackles.

652
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Unrestrained, Adam is able to cope much better with the drip.

653
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
It's been about three and a half hours.

654
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:04,000
At the worst, I feel like someone's got their finger on the spot on my forehead that the water keeps hitting.

655
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Ultimately, it seems it's not the waterworks above his head that will defeat him.

656
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:22,000
These adult diapers are really meant for occasional leakage and incontinence, not for a grown man's midday wee.

657
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Oh, oh, oh my God!

658
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:36,000
In the space of an afternoon, water torture has claimed its second Mythbuster in an unexpected way.

659
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:41,000
But Adam's left in no doubt about the power of those little drops.

660
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,000
I put it this way. Because you'd have to restrain someone to do that, even if we eliminate the restraints,

661
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:58,000
as we did for me, I felt the pressure with the restraints. It would be a horrible experience over like eight or ten hours or a couple of days.

662
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,000
You'd not only feel the pressure from the drip, but you'd be itching, you'd be wet, you'd be cold.

663
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,000
All of those factors, I'd say, yeah, absolutely, it would be a torture.

664
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:12,000
No, it's not a myth. It's been used at least once in my experience. I suppose it's been used other times.

665
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Gerald's too polite to say they should have thought a little more about the consequences of this experiment before starting it.

666
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
But you get the drift.

667
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:32,000
It's a very tricky thing to experiment with torture. Most people don't know it, but it can be very, very deadly.

668
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Well, when we began this, it seemed like a fun experiment, exciting, almost like a game with the torture.

669
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:45,000
And after talking to Gerald, my opinion of this whole thing has completely changed. I don't know about you guys.

670
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Oh, I felt the same way. I went into this, thinking of it like a physical endurance test, like climbing a mountain.

671
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
And I walked away with it with much more real experience. It was much scarier than I expected.

672
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Yeah, for sure.

673
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:06,000
When it comes down to it, we can confirm Chinese water torture through our expert interview, but there's no way we can physically endure anything that would confirm this myth.

674
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:12,000
Exactly, because at any point we can just say, I'm done. I want off the table and someone's there to let us off.

675
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:20,000
I mean, in reality, that's the fears that you can never get out. And there's no way that we can ever really experiment that way.

676
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
We'll never be able to get there.

677
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,000
So let's finish this. We're done with Chinese water torture.

678
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Yes.

679
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Hollywood tells us the correct etiquette when eating lead is a dramatic plunge in the general direction of backwards.

680
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,000
But try as they might, the mythbusters couldn't get a recently deceased pig to do that.

681
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000
So now it's Buster's turn to be blown away.

682
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
What did Adam and Jamie do to you?

683
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,000
He's looking a little worse for wear after an unfortunate brush with the Ming Dynasty rocket chair.

684
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
His ass is on fire!

685
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Burnt but not broken, he stands ready to be blown away.

686
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
He's on the edge.

687
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
Okay, look down.

688
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:47,000
After the test with the pigs proved basically that the bullet is not going to throw you back, we decided to do what is the worst case scenario if you're wearing a bulletproof vest,

689
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,000
which is going to take all the force of the bullet right here. It's not going to be absorbed in your body.

690
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:58,000
What would happen? So we're going to run through our spate of weapons with this and see if Buster actually gets thrown back.

691
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Even if the bullet gets through the vest, Buster's solid torso will bear the brunt of the impact.

692
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Is it enough to blow him away?

693
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Expert police marksman Sergeant Alan Normandy will do the honors.

694
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Nothing.

695
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,000
Nothing.

696
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000
Nothing.

697
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000
One round 9mm pistol fired from an MP5.

698
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,000
Nounce.

699
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,000
Nothing to sequel.

700
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,000
This will be a 45 cartridge fired through the Tommy gun.

701
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:48,000
That was a hell of a punch to the vest. I mean the whole thing puffed out.

702
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,000
Heal the answer.

703
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000
12 gauge, double-ot buck.

704
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000
Again, it's down to the shotgun to at least knock Buster off the hook.

705
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000
Come on, man.

706
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Any high school physics textbook will shoot holes in Hollywood's gunfight scenes.

707
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:11,000
Newton's third law says any action has an equal and opposite reaction.

708
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:18,000
So to make the shooty fly across the room, the shooter would have to be thrown in equal distance battles.

709
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,000
It don't happen.

710
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:30,000
The simple truth about this test is it's about the impact or effect on the target can't be greater than what the shooter is going to feel.

711
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Newton's laws still apply.

712
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,000
So if he was going to go 10 feet, the shooter would go 10 feet in the opposite direction.

713
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,000
Absolutely.

714
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,000
That's a big gun.

715
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000
That's a big big gun.

716
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,000
Real big gun.

717
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,000
But Hollywood never lets the laws of physics stand in its way.

718
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,000
Remember Tori being blown away?

719
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Now we'll reveal some special effects secrets.

720
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000
I think that was a take.

721
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000
Oh, you got me.

722
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,000
Yeah, we're going to put on this jerk harness and it'll make you fly.

723
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000
It'll be like Superman except backwards.

724
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,000
Matt Heron has worked on films like Jurassic Park and the Star Wars prequels.

725
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Blowing people away is a special effects staple.

726
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,000
First, Tori is strapped into a harness called a jerk suit.

727
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000
It's nice. It's very slimming.

728
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000
It's very slimming.

729
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,000
It brings out your girlish figure quite well.

730
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:26,000
Tori, how could you?

731
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:33,000
A rope is attached to the back of the suit and looped through a pulley.

732
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Jump! You got it, jump!

733
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000
We're going to pull and then it's a timing thing.

734
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:44,000
So you pull, he's going to fly in the air and then when he gets over the mat, he's going to ease him in gently.

735
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,000
I see. So it'll triangulate down to like over here and he'll get pulled up and then be let down.

736
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,000
On the other end of the rope, a tug-of-war team, all too ready to jerk Tori off his feet.

737
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000
It's a Tori pinata.

738
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:11,000
For that extra dollop of realism, Jamie straps a bag of fake blood to Tori's chest.

739
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,000
So Tori, I'm going to shoot you with this thing and it'll poke a hole in the bag, alright?

740
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000
It's an airsoft pistol.

741
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Great.

742
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,000
Alright.

743
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Cool.

744
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Ready guys? Ready? Ready?

745
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,000
On bang, on bang!

746
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Three, two, one, bang!

747
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

748
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Time to perfection and Tori eats lead movie style.

749
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Nicely done Tori!

750
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Alright, let's do it again.

751
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000
It's certainly convincing on the high-speed camera.

752
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,000
Man, the bad guy takes it away.

753
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,000
I think Tom Poole hired me as a stuntman.

754
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,000
Alright.

755
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000
But that reveals one last problem. That rope.

756
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,000
Well, the clever geeky guys in the graphics department take care of that during their lunch break.

757
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,000
Well guys, we threw everything that we had at those pigs and the most we got was getting

758
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000
the pig to fall off the hook.

759
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,000
I know, totally busted.

760
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,000
I mean, you see in Hollywood movies, people getting shot and they get thrown back.

761
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
I mean, this pig went back maybe two inches?

762
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,000
Yeah.

763
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,000
Top.

764
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
And we were using deer slugs, fully automatic machine guns.

765
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,000
Three machine guns at once?

766
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,000
Yes, even the high-powered sniper rifle, you know, didn't really do that much to it.

767
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,000
No.

768
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000
And when you think about it, it's not that surprising.

769
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000
It's kind of like a flea running head on it, an elephant.

770
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,000
No matter how fast you get it going, it ain't going to do a whole lot.

771
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:46,000
Well, just as I said on the shooting range, if it was going to toss the shootee back that much,

772
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,000
it's going to shoot the shooter back the same amount.

773
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,000
I mean, there's going to be the same reaction.

774
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Equal and opposite reaction.

775
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,000
Exactly.

776
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,000
So it's busted.

777
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,000
It's busted.

778
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,000
Totally busted.

779
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,000
100%.

780
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,000
100%.

781
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,000
100%.

782
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,000
100%.

783
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,000
100%.

784
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,000
100%.

785
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,000
100%.

786
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
100%.

787
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000
100%.

788
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,000
100%.

789
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,000
100%.

790
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,000
100%.

791
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
100%.

792
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,000
100%.

793
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,000
100%.

794
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000
100%.

795
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,000
100%.

796
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000
100%.

797
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,000
100%.

798
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,000
100%.

799
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,000
100%.

800
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,000
100%.