1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 So what do we got here? These are viewing tapes from the editors. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Well, this is all the stuff that doesn't make it into the show, and there's some solid gold on these tapes. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 You mean like all the screw-ups and things? 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:29,000 No, the screw-ups make it into the show. It's little experiments that didn't get cut in because of time constraints or other factors 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 that really support the myths that we did and some really good stuff here. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:40,000 That's a no-take. 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,000 We keep trying to up the bar on this stupid step we're doing. 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:54,000 In this special Outtakes episode, fighting the clock, the scenes we wanted to show you. 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 I think we cured my chronic back problem. 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 But couldn't fit into the original shows. 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 A soul about man's inhumanity to man. 12 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:14,000 At last, we're getting them to air so we can finally get rid of those tapes. 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Who are the Mythbusters? Adam Savage. 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 15 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And Jamie Heineman. 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I don't like it in here. It's private. 17 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience. 18 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 That was intense. 19 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,000 They don't just tell the Myths, they put them to the test. 20 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Okay, well what's first up? 21 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Well, this is a classic case of a story under which we have no control over the circumstances. 22 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 We were shooting in a protected wildlife sanctuary. 23 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 We had experts on hand to make sure we did not mess with the local flora and fauna. 24 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 And one of the local fauna came and messed with us. 25 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 So you'd be referring to the ping pong rescue? 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Without a doubt. 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,000 In Ping Pong Rescue, the challenge was to raise a boat from the bottom of Monterey Bay 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 using thousands of ping pong balls. 29 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Challenge enough. 30 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 But there was a problem they didn't expect and you didn't see. 31 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:32,000 We're actually about to potentially release like 60,000 ping pong balls into this marine sanctuary. 32 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 And what would be like a worst case scenario with those ping pong balls, do you think? 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Well, we would want to make sure that no marine animals swallowed them, for example. 34 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 What are the penalties for interfering with or actually harming a marine animal? 35 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 The penalties are actually very severe. 36 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 So we'd have to choose maybe a member of our crew who would take the blame? 37 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 I don't know, that would be up to you. 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,000 To contain the balls and protect wildlife, they ran a boom around the site, then got to work. 39 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But they didn't count on this guy. 40 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Turns out sea otters have absolutely no respect for booms, or myth busting, or other people's property. 41 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Now either he thought the ball was food, or he was really enjoying freaking out the crew. 42 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Oh, he's got the ball! 43 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Oh man, that's really cute. 44 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Cute, huh? Tell that to the judge. 45 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,000 In Monterrey Bay, ping pong ball plus otter equals jail time for at least some member of the crew. 46 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I think we'd have to draw straws to figure out who. 47 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Jokes aside, no one wanted that otter harm. 48 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 The ball was too big for him to swallow, but they needed to get it off him. 49 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Support crew to the rescue. 50 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Oh, he's playing. 51 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Fortunately for everyone, the thief made good his escape, leaving his booty behind. 52 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Those otters were incredibly smart. Not only did they find the balls on the surface, but they found the source of the balls. 53 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 We couldn't get them to stay away from it. 54 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I'm glad that we actually did not harm any of them, because there's only 2,500 of them left. 55 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Super endangered species. And we got that otter to sign a release and give us permission to show it. 56 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Now that we've got permission, can we destroy the tape? 57 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Yeah, here you go. 58 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Well, next up is one of the simplest and yet most controversial stories that we've ever done, 59 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 and we get to show the experiment that proves we got it right. 60 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,000 In Plywood Builder, the mythbusters tested the story of the construction worker who was blown off a building. 61 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:03,000 He saved himself by holding onto a sheet of plywood and flying himself back into the floor below. 62 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 The vital component to this story was control, as he was lifted off the building. 63 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Could he possibly hold onto that board and guide the descent? 64 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,000 To test it, they set up a zipline, and in the show, you saw Adam take that ride. 65 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 I farted on you! 66 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:41,000 You never saw Jamie struggle to jump off that building, or heard how windy it in fact was, like the myth. 67 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 The more fun that this job gets, the more unfun it gets at times. 68 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:51,000 We keep trying to up the bar on this stupid stuff we're doing, and hopefully it won't get killed in the process. 69 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 We've got the screen, Jamie. 70 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Okay. 71 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 And ready to go. In... 72 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 5... 73 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 4... 74 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 3... 75 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 2... 76 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 1... 77 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Here we go. 78 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Jamie's a strong guy, but the wind resistance on that plywood sheet was more than he could handle. 79 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Well, I don't care what anybody says. 80 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 You know, they clocked me going down that zipline at about 15 miles an hour, 81 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 and I could barely hold onto the plywood, much less control it. 82 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yeah, I mean, buildings can definitely generate huge updrafts, over 100 miles an hour in some cases, 83 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 but that force would rip the plywood right out of your hands, and that's what we were trying to prove with the zipline. 84 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:56,000 And do you remember that piece of plywood was whipping around so much that Christine just flat out refused to do the drop? 85 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Well, that ran sick. 86 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I'm... 87 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 It's arriving at this moment, yes. 88 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Christine intended to be the third down the line, but what with the wind and that big board? 89 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 You say when you're comfortable. 90 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 I'm not comfortable, but I'm gonna go. 91 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Do as soon as you can, Christine. 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Okay, I'm gonna ease it down so it takes it to slack, okay? 93 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Okay. 94 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Okay, standing by everybody. 95 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 What's your call? 96 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 I can't do it. 97 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 It's okay. 98 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000 You call it. 99 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 It's okay. 100 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 It's okay. 101 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I'm sorry. 102 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I'm gonna go up and talk to Christine. 103 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Adam, that's not the way she's going to do it. 104 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Which raises the question, is Adam Savage really the guy you want around to get you over your vertigo? 105 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,000 There's nothing about it that's not scary, but out of doubt, there's nothing about it that isn't scary. 106 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Soothing words indeed. 107 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Strangely, they don't seem to have worked. 108 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I want to so much. 109 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I really want to do it for you. 110 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 I can't. 111 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Time to call in backup. 112 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 All right, give it a call. 113 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Say I just can't do it. 114 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 I'm really sorry. 115 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I can't. 116 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I can't do it. 117 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Christine, you know I'm afraid of heights, don't you? 118 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Jamie is wondering like a girl. 119 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,000 So Christine, you're not gonna do it for the team, are you? 120 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Finally, they call in the big guns, the producer. 121 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 He carries quite a bit of weight around here. 122 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 This part is still there. 123 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Get it over with. 124 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 I don't think you can hit me enough. 125 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Time to go see Adam. 126 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Christine, these are for you. 127 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 So what's next? 128 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 You know, it really bugs me that we go to all this physical effort. 129 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 You know, we put our bodies on the line on these shows, 130 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 and then there's only a little tiny bit of it that gets in. 131 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 What, do you mean like Scotty and Tori's hours of rack time for Chinese water torture? 132 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:33,000 You saw two attempts to put water torture to the test. 133 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Adam spent the day in a comfy chair being dripped on 134 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 until his bladder could take no more. 135 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Oh, oh, oh my God! 136 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 But Carrie was strapped down and her head restrained. 137 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 It eventually got the better of her. 138 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 I actually don't want to do this test right now. 139 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Alright, let's get her out. 140 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 It wasn't included in the program, 141 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 but the build team continued their investigations 142 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 with Scotty next on the rack. 143 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 We're here to make you feel better. 144 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 That's pretty tight. 145 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Is it? 146 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 They were free to stop anytime. 147 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Scotty only had her head secured and did fine for an hour 148 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,000 until someone added ice to the water. 149 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 I feel like my head is shrinking into my brain. 150 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Alright, let's stop it. 151 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Let's get her out of this. 152 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Which left Tori? 153 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,000 He had the double whammy, restraints and ice cold water. 154 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 It couldn't get any worse, right? 155 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 I think we've cured my chronic back problem. 156 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,000 They cured his back, but broke his head with freezing water, 157 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 not drops a stream. 158 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 That would suck, as far as I'm concerned. 159 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 It does suck. 160 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 I can go all night long. 161 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Tori, I'm going to go, 162 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 but I'll give you 10 bucks if you make it a full 90 minutes. 163 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 You're on. 164 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Just shake on it. 165 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Okay, man. 166 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Okay, so another 10 bucks by another 90 minutes? 167 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 On top of the 90 minutes? 168 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Double it. 169 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000 You're on. 170 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Three hours. 171 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Alright, shake on it. 172 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 I don't think so. 173 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 It seemed like a good bet at the time, 174 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 but as the minutes tick by, just like Carrie and Scotty, 175 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 he'd find the going got harder and harder. 176 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I'm reaching the edge. 177 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 I'm freezing right now. 178 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 My shoulder's killing me, so I'll be losing $15. 179 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Big deal. 180 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I'm miserable right now. 181 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 I'm so miserable I can't even tell you. 182 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I'm done. 183 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 The build team had gone to amazing lengths 184 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 to discover what seemed self-evident. 185 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Torture is just no picnic. 186 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 That is the worst. 187 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Have you got that one with both you and Alice, 188 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 the researcher doing the coffin test on Buried Alive? 189 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 That one. 190 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 There you go. 191 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 You saw Jamie's contribution to the Buried Alive myth. 192 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Farewell, cruel world. 193 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 He was sealed in the coffin and a ton of dirt dumped on top 194 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 till the coffin started to cave in. 195 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 This thing's really starting to creak 196 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,000 and it's feeling like it's changing its shape. 197 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Adam's turn came much earlier in the process. 198 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Why did I feel a sigh of relief when he's locked up inside there? 199 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 They were checking the effect of confinement on the body. 200 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Temperature's 84.6 holding. 201 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Monitoring vital signs like heart rate and oxygen levels. 202 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 So Adam, how are you feeling? 203 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 I'm full. 204 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 You feeling lightheaded at all? 205 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 I'm sweaty. 206 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 I don't have anything like a headache. 207 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,000 And I really, like I'm not having like labored breathing, 208 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 the air is thick and humid. 209 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Of particular concern was how long it would take 210 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 carbon dioxide levels in the sealed coffin 211 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 to become dangerously high. 212 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Adam, we're actually going to prepare to pull you out right now. 213 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 The carbon dioxide level is shooting up pretty quickly 214 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 and the percentage of oxygen is dropping to the point. 215 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 By all means. 216 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Adam lasted 47 minutes. 217 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 There you go. 218 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Well, that's bright. 219 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I really felt like it could have gone another 20 minutes. 220 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 In fact, based on his readings, 221 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 in 20 minutes, Adam would have been in serious trouble, 222 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 probably passing out from the buildup of CO2. 223 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Fine. 224 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Producer Alice took a turn too 225 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 and her similar result confirmed 45 minutes 226 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 is about as long as you can lie in a coffin. 227 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 I'll tell you, my recommendation would be 228 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 don't drink five of these before you go in there. 229 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 In the cement truck myth, 230 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 the man tested the idea of blowing dried cement 231 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 out of a barrel with explosives. 232 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 But in the interests of science, 233 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 someone had to see how long it takes 234 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 the conventional hand-chipping way 235 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 that someone was toying. 236 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 So we've nominated you to prove 237 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 that it actually is possible to remove concrete 238 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 from a truck by manual labor. 239 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 What? 240 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 So did I miss a meeting when this decision was made? 241 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Yeah, you missed that meeting. 242 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 But that's okay. 243 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 You know, we're all really proud of you 244 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 for taking one for the team. 245 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000 See you later, guy. 246 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Hey, thanks. 247 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Nice. 248 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 I know. 249 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 I know what you're thinking. 250 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Why does he get all the best jobs? 251 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 I must have done something to put them off. 252 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 I'm trying to remember what it was. 253 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Holy crap. 254 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Holy crap. 255 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Holy crap. 256 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 They don't want me to knock all this out, do they? 257 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 It's confined in there. 258 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 It's this big fat tin can. 259 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 It's the noisiest, most unpleasant environment. 260 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 I think maybe fiberglassing a house from the inside 261 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 might be worse than this, but only by a little bit. 262 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I feel sorry for anybody who would have to do this 263 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 for a real job. 264 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,000 That's it. 265 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 That's about an hour's work right there. 266 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 So how long do you think that would take, man? 267 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Dude, I have no idea. 268 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 I mean, this would probably take at least a week, 269 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 maybe a month. 270 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I mean, it's just a horrible job, 271 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 and there's no way one person could actually do this. 272 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 There's got to be a better way to get some men out of these trucks. 273 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Oh, I think we have a better way. 274 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 That was really hard for Tori. 275 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I'm having to spend an hour inside the barrel of that cement trunk 276 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 fruitlessly trying to clean it. 277 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Can I do this one? 278 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Sure, be my guest. 279 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 So what's next? 280 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Black powder. 281 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 You know, I've been saving this one for the most frustrating kind of outtake 282 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 when sometimes whole segments get edited out. 283 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Oh, like a whole step is removed from the process 284 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 and the logic goes with it. 285 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 And then I get emails saying, 286 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 we missed the boat? 287 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Those are the ones. 288 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 In finding a needle in a haystack, 289 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,000 you saw the machines Jamie and Adam finally put to work in the challenge. 290 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 What we didn't show you was Adam's first idea in action. 291 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 What does that mean? 292 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 He wanted to use a metal detector, 293 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 but given the huge volume of hay, 294 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 needed to narrow down the search. 295 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 I'm going to do some sifting with this stuff. 296 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 See if I can separate the needle from the chaff as it were. 297 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,000 So while the sun shined, Adam made his hay shaker. 298 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 And then the sorting started. 299 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 A little bit more, yeah. 300 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 And we'll toss in a needle. 301 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 But would the needle fall through? 302 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Let's take a look. 303 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 There we go. 304 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 So, needle fell through on first try. 305 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 It seemed Adam was on a winner. 306 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 The competition was in the bag. 307 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 But then, the light bulb moment. 308 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Now the problem is how would one get a bone needle? 309 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 I don't know. 310 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I don't know. 311 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 I don't know. 312 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I don't know. 313 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 I don't know. 314 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I don't know. 315 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 How would one get a bone needle out of here? 316 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 A bone needle? 317 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Yeah. 318 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 How are you going to find that? 319 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 The metal detector was useless. 320 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Things started to get weird after that. 321 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Could we get a trained dog to sniff it out for you? 322 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 What we need is a blood. 323 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Hold on. 324 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Shut up. 325 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Swear to God, that's a great idea. 326 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 The research department would be thrilled. 327 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 How hard could that be to find? 328 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000 A bone-snipping dog. 329 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 I need to find somebody who's got a scent tracing blood hounds 330 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 that I can bring in on Monday. 331 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I want to know if a bloodhound can find a bone needle in a haystack. 332 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 But you've got to keep the secret from Jamie. 333 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Okay. 334 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Are you ready? 335 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Yeah. 336 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 A shaker and a bloodhound. 337 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 In truth, it was a planned best kept secret from everyone. 338 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000 So we did. 339 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Until now. 340 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 You know, it's not just steps in the process that are missing. 341 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Sometimes it's entire alternative theories that are left by the wayside. 342 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Oh, you mean like that theory that the second team had 343 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,000 and actually tested that it was radio waves that caused the exploding tattoos 344 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 and not magnetic energy? 345 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Exactly. 346 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And it wasn't that we missed the boat. 347 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 They just didn't put it in. 348 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Can we blow this up now? 349 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 You ready? 350 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Okay. 351 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,000 The myth of exploding tattoos claims that a magnetic resonance imager 352 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 or MRI scan can make tattoos blow up 353 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,000 because many inks contain traces of iron oxide. 354 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Ink can certainly react to the magnet. 355 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 The build team tried several types of ink 356 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 and even made a giddy pig of Scotty. 357 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 But there was just no reaction. 358 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 No, you're looking all right. 359 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Now, what you didn't see was a side experiment 360 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 the build team started down at the local radio station. 361 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 We learned that an MRI works in two ways. 362 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,000 It has a magnetic field as well as emitting radio frequency 363 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 which is close to what an FM radio band would be. 364 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 So we've come to the rooftop of KPFA to test radio waves on iron oxide ink. 365 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,000 So they needed to get their ink up next to the transmitter 366 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 and that's where they hit a snag. 367 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 We shouldn't climb it. It's not a good idea. 368 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 We could get fried. 369 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Plan B, build a smaller transmitter inside the workshop. 370 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Instead of 50,000 watts of power, this one had a much safer 30. 371 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Pirate radio mythbusters was on the air. 372 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Hey, Tori. Unplug it so we can see if we're actually broadcasting silence 373 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 over the radio station that should be there. 374 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Why, is it getting blocked right now? 375 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 I think so. It's silent. 376 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 All right. Unplug it. 377 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Look at that! 378 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Wow, so we are totally covering up radio signal. 379 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 There's going to be a lot of mad listeners in this area. 380 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 You're like, what happened? 381 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Now, the ink. 382 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,000 First thing we need to do is see what the temperature of our control and our ink is. 383 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Then we're going to stick it next to the radio transmitter, 384 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 leave it there for a half hour and see if there's any heat differentiation. 385 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Sounds good. 386 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Both samples were a cool 69 degrees. 387 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Positioned next to the antenna, it was time to start transmitting. 388 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Welcome to Radio Mythbusters. 389 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Half an hour of nonstop hard rockin' news and weather together. 390 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, silence. 391 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 30 Minutes Later 392 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,000 30 Minutes Later, was the ink hot? 393 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Was it warmer than the control? 394 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 The temperature, right into the iron oxide. 395 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 I'm excited to see the results for this. 396 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 What do you have? 397 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 69.5. 398 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 69.3. 399 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Both of these went up less than half a degree. 400 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 What do you guys think? Busted? 401 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Busted. 402 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Definitely busted. 403 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Alright, let's wrap this thing up and go home. 404 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 You know, occasionally we do go too far. 405 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 We're accused of testing every last permutation of a myth. 406 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,000 You mean like the time we tried to leech electricity from the power grid on the free energy story? 407 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Yeah, have you got the tape there? 408 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 You probably got like nine tapes from that. 409 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Probably. Let's see what happens. 410 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Let the whole thing go. 411 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Oh, yeah. 412 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Modulator activated. 413 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:58,000 In free energy, Jamie and Adam tried all manner of weird and wonderfully unsuccessful devices 414 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 to generate power out of nothing. 415 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Free energy across the board busted. 416 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Yeah, they're totally and absolutely busted. 417 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,000 We showed you that the laws of physics just wouldn't play ball on this one. 418 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:19,000 But in one more experiment you didn't see, the guys put the laws of the land to the test. 419 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,000 This myth started with a farmer that apparently had some bailing wire out in his barnyard, 420 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,000 which happened to be in the vicinity of some power lines. 421 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 And he somehow noticed that he was getting a little current. 422 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,000 So he refined this and built a large coil, I believe, 423 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 and was actually able to run his whole house off of it. 424 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Well, so I'm not sure I would call this free energy, but I might call this free to me energy. 425 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 That's about it. 426 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:54,000 The theory was the electromagnetic field around the power lines would induce a current to flow in their coil. 427 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,000 It seemed worth a try, and Jamie just loves getting down on the farm. 428 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Just a couple of hours away, they found what looked like free energy heaven. 429 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:14,000 The legal requirements for distance of any structure to a power line is between 10 and 16 feet. 430 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Depending on the type of power line, we are at least 16 feet away, because we do not know what kind of power line this is. 431 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:26,000 So technically we are fully legal in trying this experiment, and also I should add safe. 432 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,000 What we have here is about 3,000 feet of wire and a coil, and we put it on this frame, 433 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 which is made out of PVC plastic, which is not conductive. 434 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,000 And we're going to get it as close as we possibly can safely to a power line. 435 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,000 And we're hoping to be able to induce some current in this coil. 436 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:54,000 It's a lovely sculpture. It's all about man's inhumanity to man in a pipe and rope sort of way. 437 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:05,000 With the coil, they would also hoist up a box of meters to measure any electrical current generated, 438 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 and a camera to record the momentous event. 439 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Jamie, you ready? 440 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Yeah, let's try it. 441 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Alright. 442 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I hope, fellas. 443 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Worst case scenario is that we've got a camera in our rig up there, and some huge lighting bolt shoots out of the power line into our rig, 444 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:25,000 down the cable that we're watching it on, and turns everyone into a bunch of electrified German soldiers like the end of Raiders. 445 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Jamie, how fast do you think it would work? 446 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,000 It's going to be instantaneous. We can bring it down any time. 447 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Well, let's bring it down. I'm tired of holding on to this thing. 448 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Okay. 449 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Well, no sparks. No lightning bolts. 450 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,000 It went from 2 millivolts on the ground to 8 millivolts up there. 451 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:57,000 We're talking that 100 pounds of wire might be able to make your digital watch go. 452 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:06,000 In order to make this work to power your house, we're talking thousands and thousands of pounds of wire in massive coils lined up under a big power line. 453 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,000 I think we got to call it plausible, but ridiculously impractical. 454 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 I agree. 455 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Plausible doesn't make much sense, though. 456 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,000 And it's potentially dangerous, too. So don't try it. 457 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Hey, Adam. 458 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 We can see the Alcatraz straight behind us right now. 459 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Wow! 460 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 We're coming quite a ways, haven't we? 461 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 We have. 462 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Another theory squeezed out of its original show involved the Alcatraz escape. 463 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Jamie and Adam proved the famous escapees could have made it across the San Francisco Bay to the Marin Headland. 464 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 We made it! 465 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:52,000 What you didn't see was testing the idea they also used the tides to throw police off their scent. 466 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Some of the escape equipment washed up at Angel Island. 467 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 That's where the FBI believes the criminals headed on their raincoat raft. 468 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,000 But using the model, Jamie and Adam showed if the escapees got out to the water at the Marin Headlands, 469 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 their equipment would have washed back to Angel Island on the incoming tide. 470 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Look at that. They're heading right for Angel Island. 471 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:25,000 You know, what's interesting, Jamie, is that it's on the western shore of Angel Island that they found a lot of the debris. 472 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:31,000 It could indicate exactly what we're modeling here, which is that they might have released their raft here. 473 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 They might have released their equipment and materials here to throw people off the tracks. 474 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 These weren't stupid guys. I mean, the main guy was pretty intelligent. 475 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:53,000 You know, I'm really glad that our theory about debris from the Alcatraz escape finally got to air. 476 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000 I mean, now the fans can watch it and debate it with all the information that we had. 477 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Well, you know, while we're at it, Adam, we should give our fans a chance to debate our second attempt at the Breakstep Bridge. 478 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000 What do you think? 479 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Enthusiastic fans might have seen this story on the website. 480 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 But we've included it here for everyone else. 481 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:26,000 In the original Breakstep Bridge experiment, the guys failed to generate a bridge-wrecking wobble in their scale bridge. 482 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 So they decided to try again. 483 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,000 We didn't really show a whole lot on this. 484 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 The bridge that we chose was a suspension bridge. 485 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:42,000 It was, you know, one of the hardest bridges to bust this myth with because it's so flexible and strong by nature. 486 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 This time, the bridge was much simpler. 487 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Up here at each end and boards across the middle. 488 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,000 They'd be able to tune the bridge by taking boards out or adding more in. 489 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:02,000 We want to show that it's not the weight, which is what most people think when a platoon walks over a bridge, that it's the weight. 490 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,000 But we want to show that it is possible to introduce a fatal resonant frequency to a structure. 491 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 This time, there were no mechanical soldiers. 492 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Adam would do the job himself, feeling the bridge's rhythm. 493 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 In no time, Jamie and Adam had a new bridge to bust. 494 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I know for a fact that it is going to break one way or another, and it's going to break dramatically. 495 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 It's going to, like, snap. 496 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,000 It's just a question of whether we can do this in such a way that seems like it's related to some harmonic. 497 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 They started with all ten beams in place. 498 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,000 They needed to test if the bridge was strong enough to hold Adam's weight. 499 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Can you sing a little marching song while you're doing it? 500 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Adam, no, but I'm in, no. 501 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Members, this bridge just won't hold. 502 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 It held his weight. 503 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 So now the test. 504 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:05,000 Adam needed to gently spring the bridge deck up and down in time with its natural harmonics. 505 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Adam, remember, you can't leave the bridge service, you know? No jumping. 506 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 No impact. 507 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000 No jumping. 508 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Okay. 509 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Yeah? 510 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Yeah. 511 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 That's about as much as you can do. 512 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Your heels are leaving the ground, and, you know, it's getting, it's more like you're pounding on it than creating a bounce. 513 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000 Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's time to detune the bridge. 514 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Okay. 515 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Let's pull out a slot. 516 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 That one's going to actually pull pretty easily, I think. 517 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000 And so began a game of Mythbusters bridge busting Russian roulette. 518 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000 What'd I say? 519 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Let's pull out one more, and I'll run another march and bounce. 520 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Down to eight planks. 521 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 I definitely feel that it moves more. 522 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000 As far as possible, Adam was trying not to exert any more force on the bridge. 523 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 He was just moving in time with its natural bounce. 524 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 That's about as much as you can do. You're starting to get off the ground. 525 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000 Yeah, I feel like I'm really close to the edge. 526 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000 Let's pull out one. 527 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000 Okay. 528 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Oh, Jesus. 529 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 I think that's enough, Adam. 530 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 So, Jamie, shall I go to Goose Step? 531 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000 All right. 532 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 Yeah. 533 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 You know, bridges are strong. 534 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000 You're getting airborne. 535 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I know, I know. 536 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000 That's it. 537 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000 That's it. 538 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Jesus. 539 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 They were down to five beams, but the bridge was still holding up. 540 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 That's it. No more. 541 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Wow. It's a thank-you. 542 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,000 Now it's four. 543 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Good man, walking. 544 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 You're getting airborne. 545 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 No, can't break it. 546 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Amazing. 547 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Walking out three boards left. 548 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 If they hold my weight, I swear to God, it's going to break now. 549 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 And so they do. 550 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Ready? 551 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,000 Okay. 552 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Finally broke this damn thing. 553 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Adam, I think this was really successful because the bridge held your weight stationary. 554 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 No problem at all. 555 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Yeah. 556 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000 Once you started to oscillate, it broke. 557 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 We tuned it to exactly that point. 558 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000 If it did it on this bridge, it'll do it on a real bridge. 559 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Yeah. 560 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000 So can you get me down from here because I can't touch the ground. 561 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000 You don't want to swing around a little bit. 562 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 I'm going to swing around a little bit. 563 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000 I'm going to swing down from here because I can't touch the ground. 564 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 You don't want to swing around a little bit. 565 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,000 You know, with us, a lot of men beg the question, what happens next? 566 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 And we always test those if we have the time, but that definitely doesn't always make it in. 567 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000 I mean, like with the second team when they were doing the balloon lift, 568 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 and they proved that they could lift the kid off the ground with party balloons, 569 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000 but we had to ask, how high would you go? 570 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 In carried away, the build team tested that old Hollywood myth 571 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000 about the kid floating away with a bunch of carnival helium balloons. 572 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,000 It's possible, but you need three and a half thousand balloons to do it. 573 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000 Look at that! 574 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Oh my God! 575 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:41,000 To find out how high she might have flown, the mythbusters broke out the trusty vacuum chamber. 576 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,000 I'll say 3000 feet, my guess. 577 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000 I was going to say 2000. 578 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 I'll split the difference. Two-five. 579 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,000 Alright. 580 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 At least around 30,000, maybe more. 581 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Alright. 582 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Let's get this thing on. 583 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,000 By pumping out the air inside the chamber, they'll simulate increasing hot. 584 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 But getting an airtight seal is tricky. 585 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000 What's the shop motto? 586 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Carry? 587 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 What's the shop motto? 588 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000 With enough lubrication, we can do anything. 589 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 That's right. 590 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Alright. 591 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Oh, do you think it's lifting? 592 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,000 There we go. 593 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Woo! 594 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Alright, that's good. 595 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000 That's 3000 feet. 596 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000 4000 feet. 597 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Okay. 598 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Wow. 599 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 5000 feet. 600 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Wow, we were way off. 601 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000 Way off. 602 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Now guys, you know, this two inch thick plex is something that I've sort of eyeballed as being enough. 603 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000 11,000. 604 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,000 We've learned to be cautious, so I'd recommend as we get up near the higher levels of this thing, we should like stay away from it. 605 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Okay. 606 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000 13. 607 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 13. 608 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,000 Okay. 609 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000 Look at the size of that balloon. 610 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000 18. 611 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000 19. 612 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 I think Jamie might be right about this one. 613 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,000 We were way off. 614 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 We should have put money on it, Jamie. 615 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000 I don't like the bet. 616 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000 23. 617 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 I don't like the bet. 618 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,000 23. 619 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000 I don't like the bet. 620 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000 23. 621 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000 23,000 feet. 622 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Wow. 623 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,000 And it's all green it is. 624 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:27,000 So the balloon flew to 23,000 feet, but remember it's cold up high, so they tried again with dry ice in the chamber. 625 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,000 I'd say stop it at 25. 626 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Temperature's 14. 627 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,000 14 degrees. 628 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000 25,000. 629 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000 That's pretty cold. 630 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000 It's going to start declining in altitude. 631 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000 How long do you guys want to go? 632 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000 Well, there you go. 633 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 25,000 feet. 634 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,000 The mythbusters have their answer. 635 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000 So cool. 636 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 So we're going to have to let our four-year-old know that this is an efficient way to run away from home. 637 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:09,000 In cola myths, Jamie and Adam put a bunch of beverage myths to the test. 638 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Could it clean up blood, dissolve meat, polish chrome, shine a penny, or eat your teeth? 639 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000 But there was another myth you didn't see. 640 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000 I've got the leading brand of bleach toilet bowl cleaner. 641 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,000 I'm going to try and clean the toilet bowl and sink. 642 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Yes, it was the old cola as bathroom cleaner myth. 643 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Could it do this dirty job even better than the conventional cleaner? 644 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000 Who thought cleaning could be so much fun? 645 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000 The leading brand of bathroom cleaners seem to do really quite fabulously. 646 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 I took about three minutes to clean up this bathroom. 647 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,000 I can only imagine that cola is going to take longer because even if it takes up the grease in the stains, 648 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000 then you've got to clean up all the cola. 649 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Now while Jamie is sitting over there, I'm going to prepare his bathroom for cleaning. 650 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Come on. 651 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is engine grease. 652 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 Jamie will be thrilled. 653 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Okay, I hope I can get it off my hands. 654 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000 Maybe I should use cola. 655 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 All right, let's go get him. 656 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000 What is that? 657 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000 Grease. 658 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Have fun. 659 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000 You've got to ask before doing this to my stuff. 660 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:58,000 You know, it's like if that doesn't get cleaned off of there by some kind of a detergent, then it's like, I mean... 661 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 I just tested the leading brand. It works fine on there. 662 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000 Okay. 663 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 As per the myth, Jamie tried cleaning it off with cola. 664 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000 The results? Less than stunning. 665 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Adam had a job to do. 666 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Okay, well the cola doesn't do anything to it. 667 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Now you get your ass on the toilet and clean it off then, because I ain't doing it. 668 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 No sense of humor. 669 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000 I hope this works. 670 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000 Oh, it's just going to take me a little while. 671 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Oh man. 672 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000 Okay, maybe I was over his outs. 673 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000 Oh, it's cleaning it just fine. 674 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000 Yeah, it was fun. 675 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Yes. 676 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,000 See ya. 677 00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:00,000 You know, we get a lot of complaints for not being rigorous on this show, and I think it's because this show makes it look like we only do these experiments once or twice. 678 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:07,000 When in fact, we run these repetitions as many times as time and money will allow, it's not easy to get a big day to set on MythBusters. 679 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000 Yeah, how many times did we do that eel skewed and wallet experiment anyway? 680 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000 God, like 500 times? 681 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000 In this one, the guys determined an electric eel couldn't wipe a credit card. 682 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000 Oh, he just bit the card. 683 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Yeah. 684 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000 And thank goodness I didn't feel anything. 685 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Nor was there enough electromagnetic energy in an eel skin wallet to do it. 686 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:37,000 So the experiment boiled down to how strong a magnetic field it takes to wipe a credit card. 687 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000 That one's good. 688 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:49,000 In the show you saw, the guys tried a bunch of stuff, from wallet clasps to phone speakers and a monster electromagnet. 689 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Fine. 690 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000 800 Gauss man, are you crazy? 691 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:59,000 There wasn't enough time to show them all, but they tried that thing literally hundreds of times in various permutations. 692 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000 Another thing we couldn't show you was Jamie's favorite little toys. 693 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Tiny neodymium rare earth magnets that pound for pound could pull a car off the street. 694 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,000 Watch this, that's a 25 pound weight. 695 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Now those are a couple of strong magnets. 696 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Now, 50 pounds. 697 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Well, okay. 698 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000 75? 699 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000 Well, that's the failure point. 700 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000 About 25 pounds per magnet. 701 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,000 Wow. 702 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Be careful with these, you know. 703 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 And here's a neat trick. 704 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000 I just wanted to point out the, this bit. 705 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000 You can even do it on your arm, can't you? 706 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,000 What the? 707 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Okay, so I'm going to take one swipe with this. 708 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000 So would a magnet that strong wipe a credit card? 709 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000 Is Jamie's shirt clean and white? 710 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Put it through. 711 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Put this right there so you know where it's at. 712 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000 Yeah, there's definitely nothing on that card. 713 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,000 Score. 714 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Yeah. 715 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:10,000 So it turns out as everyone already knew, big magnets will damage your credit cards. 716 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Problem was they couldn't get an accurate measure of the magnets' immense strength, 717 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000 so it never made it in the show. 718 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 There's an awful lot of tapes lined up here, Jamie. 719 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000 Yeah, well, we're always running into these little mini myths or side stories 720 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:37,000 that are related to the main story, but they're not big enough to make a whole story or episode out of their own. 721 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000 And we want to get them in there anyway, so we shoot them, and now we're going to shoot them. 722 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000 We're going to shoot all of them for real. 723 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Yeah. 724 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,000 Excellent. 725 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Three, two, one. 726 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:05,000 In Exploding House, the Mythbusters proved that using too many insecticide bug bombs is a really bad idea. 727 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:13,000 Jamie and Adam were confident it would work, because they'd already done a bunch of testing in a mini blast chamber. 728 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000 Three, two, one. 729 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000 And because time was short, you didn't see everything they did with it. 730 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:27,000 I remember growing up on the farm hearing about barns that went up from, I guess, it was straw getting in the air, 731 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,000 and if it builds up a certain density, it can ignite and explode a building. 732 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:38,000 The same with sawdust in a place where carpentry is done or flour in a flour mill. 733 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Yeah, I've heard flour mills used to explode all the time, and actually also I've heard that fake smoke, 734 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,000 like a smoke machine can actually, if in a high enough concentration, be ignited. 735 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,000 So I think we should try all those in our scale house before moving on. 736 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,000 Sure. 737 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000 In the show that went to air, you'll remember they tried several different ignition sources, 738 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000 and the plan was the same for the flour, smoke machine, and sawdust. 739 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,000 First, the flour. 740 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000 I'm going to try the faulty wiring. 741 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000 Number one, here it comes. 742 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,000 Okay. 743 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,000 Oh! 744 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,000 Faulty wiring. 745 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:10,000 Number two. 746 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,000 Oh! 747 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,000 Smells kind of like baked goods. 748 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,000 Good. 749 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000 The danger in your local ravioli factory. 750 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000 I don't know what you have to do to get it to light. 751 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000 Which is unable to get the density in the air. 752 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,000 So they couldn't replicate a flour mill explosion. 753 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000 Next up, the smoke machine. 754 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000 This is mineral oil. 755 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,000 It's super heated and then put under a little bit of pressure. 756 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,000 I don't see any way that it's going to be flammable, but I'm often wrong. 757 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000 Once again, they tried everything they had to get it to blow. 758 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,000 Okay, so... 759 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000 Stove igniter, one. 760 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,000 Okay. 761 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000 Now the open flame. 762 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 It ain't lighting with that, it ain't gonna. 763 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,000 No. 764 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000 A fog machine fog. 765 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,000 It's not flammable. 766 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Sure, but it looks cool. 767 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,000 One test left. 768 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,000 Sawdust. 769 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000 I've actually been in quite a few circumstances where I was worried about it. 770 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Working in a wood shop where it's just dense with, you know, wood dust or something like that. 771 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,000 I can kind of understand how it worked. 772 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000 Okay, ready on the igniter? 773 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,000 I'm ready on the igniter. 774 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000 The theory seems to be that the particles need to be exactly the right distance apart 775 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,000 to allow the flame to spread between them. 776 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:44,000 You can see some of it igniting, but there we got a little bit of flash. 777 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000 It just doesn't seem to want to ignite the whole area. 778 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,000 Finally, a little success. 779 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,000 Very little. 780 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Too little to make it into the final show. 781 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000 Well, it's proof of concept at least, you know. 782 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,000 It wasn't very impressive, but it does burn. 783 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:18,000 In Elevator of Death, Jamie and Adam spent a long happy afternoon with elevator expert, Les Appel. 784 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:25,000 He didn't think jumping up would save you if it fell, but the guys had a bunch of other elevator questions they just had to ask. 785 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:32,000 Les, I've heard a phrase called Eleva Perpetuation that states that if you push the elevator button a lot, it'll make the elevator show up quicker. 786 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,000 Is that true? 787 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,000 Absolute nonsense. 788 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000 It is however human nature. 789 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,000 Have you ever seen anybody get their head stuck in a door or be decapitated? 790 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,000 No, I don't think it's possible to have a decapitation from elevator door. 791 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,000 What do you think? Is it possible to achieve zero G if you jump up in an elevator while it's descending? 792 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,000 I don't believe so. 793 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:04,000 You may, I think, create that feeling in your stomach on a fast moving elevator as it starts, but I don't think you can actually achieve zero G in a moving elevator. 794 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000 Maybe we need Michael Jordan here to do this. He seems to hover in the air. 795 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:19,000 To test the peeing on the third rail experiment, Jamie and Adam ventured to the Golden Gate Railway Museum. 796 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:27,000 And while they were there, they tackled the mini-myth that you could derail a train by putting a penny on the track. 797 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Guys have actually graciously allowed us the use of their engine to test this. My guess is they don't think it's going to derail the train. 798 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,000 I would agree. 799 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:08,000 Oh, yeah. Look at this. Oh my God, they're really hot. 800 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,000 The myth wasn't busted. It was flattened. 801 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,000 Rob the engineer wasn't too surprised. 802 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,000 So Rob, do you think a penny can derail a train? 803 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000 Absolutely not. Unless it's lodged in the engineer's eye. 804 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,000 That's good. 805 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:42,000 You know, it just goes to show that you cannot attack any one of the myths that we do without unearthing like 20 other little micro myths, and they're just not all going to make it onto the show. 806 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:50,000 Yeah, and then there's this constant battle that we have between science and entertainment. It's really an agony to decide what goes in the show. 807 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:57,000 I'm glad at least that the fans get to see the amount of work we do in support of these myths that doesn't always make it onto the show. 808 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,000 And I see you're already doing the final honors. 809 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,000 I can't keep doing this! 810 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:25,000 Thanks for watching!