1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Coming up, something near and dear to our hearts. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Movie myths, ones that we've done and ones that we're gonna do. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 It's the Mythbusters Hollywood special. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 It's lights, camera, action. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 As the Mythbusters go Hollywood. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 In there you have a blood bag. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 And pull the curtain back on a few myths straight off the silver screen. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Dude, our robot. Work! 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Who are the Mythbusters? 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Adam Savage. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And Jamie Heinemann. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I couldn't like it in here, it's private. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Between them more than 30 years special effects experience. 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 That was intense. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 They don't just tell the myths. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 They put them to the test. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 So what are we gonna do? 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Well, we're gonna look back at some of the Hollywood myths we've already tested on the show. 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,000 And with the help of our build team, we're gonna put some of the Hollywood staples that we haven't yet done to the test. 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 And we're gonna introduce you to an old friend of ours and the newest member of the Mythbusters team. 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 We got to build a robot, 20 hours, okay? 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Robots got to shoot projectiles and breathe flames. 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I'm Grant Imajara. I've been in the visual effects industry for about nine years now. 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Worked on eight features so far. Dozens of commercials. 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 My specialty is electronics. Anything that lights up or moves. 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Like this big screen icon. 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Easy, really good. 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Yeah, it's just so endure and some dome and find some car parts. 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Grant Imajara is somebody that I've worked with for years. 31 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,000 And I usually consult with him on anything that's a little over my head regarding electronics. 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:05,000 He is able to almost instantaneously grasp a concept or technique and apply it to what he's doing right away and be able to get results with that. 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 But before Grant helps bust his first big screen myth, let's take a look back at one of Adam and Jamie's favorites. 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Got two feet of water in here now. 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Well, not all of the movie myths we've tested are complete works of fiction. 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Some of them are actually inspired by real life events. 37 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:33,000 And I think we'd all agree that one of the granddaddies of the mall, the story that inspired a mythology all its own, is what happened to and on the Titanic. 38 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,000 In this experiment, the boys set out to put one Titanic sized myth to the test. 39 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Would a sinking ship suck you under as it went down? 40 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Or was that just Hollywood hype? 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Well, apparently the ship moving through the water rapidly towards the bottom will create a vortex above it. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Kind of like drafting behind a truck when it's on the highway. 43 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,000 To recreate this vortex theory, the mythbusters first needed a boat. 44 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Sure, they wanted to sing an actual ocean liner in the open seas. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 But this was a TV show after all, not the largest grossing movie of all time. 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,000 So they settled on a 14 ton tugboat for their maiden voyage to the bottom. 47 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 It's a nice solid little hunk of steel. I think it ought to go down like a rock. 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Of course, this boat wasn't built to sink, but Jamie fixed that. 49 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 We're going to go cut some holes in the boat. 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 An inspired name change was made. 51 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 The ill-fated vessel launched. 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And the anxious passengers loaded. 53 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 The moment of truth. 54 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 They're only opening one valve, one valve. 55 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 We've got about two feet of water in here now. 56 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Okay, be careful. It might roll and you get caught. 57 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 One more. 58 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Yeah, it's going to go this far. 59 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Be careful. 60 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Stay with it. Stay up. Stay with it. 61 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 There you go. 62 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Did it suck you down, dude? 63 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Have you seen how nobody gets sucked in? 64 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 No suction. 65 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 No suction at all. 66 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,000 I could not have been more central to the boat where it went down. 67 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 I sat on it, the entire boat just dropped underneath me. 68 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 And I hit the water, my neck hit the water, and I never went any lower. 69 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So I say, let's get this puppy back up and call it a day. I need a drink. 70 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 So the Titanic myth? Well, it went down with the ship. 71 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Hollywood's always trying to jazz things up to make things real spectacular. 72 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,000 But sometimes when we get into a myth, the truth actually turns out to be stranger than fiction. 73 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Like our Alcatraz escape? 74 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 The spoon proves mud here than the bars and supposedly escaped proof Alcatraz prison. 75 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Alcatraz, the most notorious prison in the entire U.S. 76 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,000 and inspiration for one of the greatest escape movies ever. 77 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 But did the real-life escapees, Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, really pull it off? 78 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 The escape triggered the greatest manhunt in San Francisco's history as agents of the FBI, 79 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Coast Guardsmen, Highway Patrol, Sheriff's deputies and local police joined in the search. 80 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 To separate fat from Hollywood fiction, the mythbusters broke in to break out. 81 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Welcome to the rock. 82 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Officially, the escapees drowned and disappeared while fighting the currents north to Angel Island in their makeshift raft. 83 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 It just looks like it's more aggressive on this side. 84 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 But the mythbusters had another theory. 85 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,000 What if the trio had used the currents to carry them west to the Marin headlands instead? 86 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,000 To find out, they needed to stage an escape of their own. 87 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,000 So, based on the FBI files, they built replicas of the prisoner's paddles. 88 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 One prison escape paddle. 89 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And a raincoat raft. 90 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 That's a boat. I'm really impressed with these prison guys. 91 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 And set sail for destiny. 92 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I'll go in first. 93 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Go Jamie, it's all you buddy. 94 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Oh, Jamie. You're the man, baby. 95 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Intern Will Abbott played Frank Morris. 96 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Oh yeah. 97 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 I'll take that. I got this. You got it. 98 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I don't want a paddle. 99 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Okay, we're off. 100 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 They're escaping. 101 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Every 10 minutes, they had to reinflate the raft. 102 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 But the mythbusters made it. 103 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Paddling a raincoat raft more than three miles through the bay's treacherous tides. 104 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 This is so cool. 105 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Making landfall just east of the Golden Gate Bridge. 106 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 We made it. 107 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Neither the media nor the movie provided a definitive answer as to the escapee's fate. 108 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Beautiful, man. 109 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Good job, guys. 110 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Good job. 111 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 But the mythbusters knew one thing for sure. 112 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 We know that it could have been done, which is cool. 113 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 It's time for Grant Imahara to bust his first myth. 114 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:04,000 The newest member of the mythbusters team will use his special effects skills to replicate a Hollywood classic. 115 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Sort of. 116 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Well, it's not really a myth. 117 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 It's a special effects technique in Hollywood that we're trying to duplicate. 118 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 You know, like in all these Hollywood movies, you see people shooting up cars or houses, 119 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 and you see these crazy sparks flying all over the place. 120 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 It doesn't happen. 121 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 But Grant knows how Hollywood makes those sparks fly. 122 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,000 They load paintballs with real charges, known as spark loads. 123 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 In Hollywood, they have a custom plastic shell. 124 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:39,000 It comes in two halves, male and female, and you put all your stuff in, put them together, and glue around the scene. 125 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Sounds easy enough. 126 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:46,000 But can the build team replicate the effect using ordinary fireworks for their own amateur movie? 127 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,000 We have four different types of kind of fireworks that we're going to be playing with. 128 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 We've got sparklers. 129 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 These are the fun snaps. 130 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 You just throw them down in the friction lights of mom. 131 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Those are good. 132 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Dance, Belayche! 133 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Dance! 134 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Now these are probably one of my favorites. 135 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 You just pull the string and they pop. 136 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Now, this is dangerous, so don't try it yourself. 137 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Tori dissects the string poppers. 138 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Grant shaves the sparklers. 139 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 And Carrie unravels the fun snaps. 140 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Mythbusters have made projectiles before, right? 141 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Oh yes, several times, like the ice bullets. 142 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Here's your ammo. 143 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 This is Ballistic H2O. 144 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,000 It's an ice projectile, velocity of 3,000 feet per second, and an accuracy of up to 500 yards. 145 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 No exit wound, the bullets are going to melt inside the target. 146 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Ice projectiles. 147 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:50,000 In the action thriller Most Wanted, a bullet made of ice killed the first lady cold. 148 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Ow! 149 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 But could a bullet really be created to deliver its deadly payload 150 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:05,000 and then magically disappear without leaving any trace of ballistic evidence behind? 151 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,000 To find out, the Mythbusters crafted a few magic bullets of their own. 152 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Round one, the ice bullet. 153 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 But getting the bullet out of the mold proved to be a problem. 154 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You know, it didn't come out all in one piece, because it's very brittle. 155 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 We don't want to break it before we get it in the gun. 156 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 So he moved on to round two, the meat bullet. 157 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 The brilliance behind this beefy slog? 158 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Upon impact, you wouldn't be able to distinguish ballistics from body parts. 159 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Three, two, one. 160 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Let's go take a look. 161 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Too much ballistic evidence, too little damage. 162 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Some of it went out. 163 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Last but not least, round three. 164 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 A bullet made of gelatin and coated in red dye. 165 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 This is looking really promising, because it's not at all brittle. 166 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 There we go. 167 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Three, two, one. 168 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 That was a bigger boom. 169 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 But still, no payoff. 170 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 It went in about an inch. 171 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 It appeared that any substance capable of melting inside a human body 172 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 was simply too fragile to do much damage. 173 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Another Hollywood myth was shot down. 174 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Things are heating up nicely for the build team. 175 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Directly into the capsules. 176 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Ahhh. 177 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 We got more of those, right? 178 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 They're filling paintballs with fireworks 179 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 to demonstrate how Hollywood makes ricocheting bullets spark. 180 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Something that doesn't happen in real life. 181 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 This is a five-pop snap spark ball. 182 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 What could possibly go wrong? 183 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Ready? 184 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 How about too much pressure in the paintball gun? 185 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 I think it went off in the barrel. 186 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Because all I saw was flash as char coming out. 187 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I mean, we're using low-grade Chinatown pop snaps and sparklers. 188 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I think that maybe, since we've already taken it down to this level, 189 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 we could just throw them. 190 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Okay. 191 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Maybe that's how they do it in Hollywood. 192 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Really? 193 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Uh, not really. 194 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Grant really wants that gun to work, and after a little tinkering, 195 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 at long last, sparks. 196 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000 That looked pretty good. 197 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Looks good. 198 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 I mean, for a cheap solution for bullet sparks, I think we found it. 199 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 True, in real life, bullets don't spark when they ricochet. 200 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 How about a target? 201 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Oh, gosh. 202 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 But in Hollywood, everything is affected for the big screen. 203 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Okay, you guys ready? 204 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Here we go. 205 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 That's how they do it in Hollywood? 206 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I'm happy. 207 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Well, it's not Hollywood. 208 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 That's the mid-fungible version of Hollywood. 209 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 It's not Hollywood. 210 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Hollywood, but... 211 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 You know, Hollywood's given us an awful lot of myths, 212 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 and a lot of them involve what I'd call faulty physics. 213 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,000 I mean, like this one, when some cop is supposed to be able to kick his way through a locked door, 214 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 I'm just not sure it's possible. 215 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Are you ready to try? 216 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 I'm ready. 217 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 We've got the four locks here. 218 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 You've got your hotel chain, your hotel bar. 219 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 You're a basic deadbolt, and then the doorknob lock, 220 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 which is probably the weakest of all. 221 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I was thinking we start with all four, and then slowly remove them, 222 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 and then we'll see if we can get through them. 223 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Okay. 224 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 We'll blow the whole home security thing wide open here. 225 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Earlier, the build team framed this solid core wood door to code. 226 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 It's not pretty, but it's built to last. 227 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 So, big guy, test number one, all four locks. 228 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Okay. 229 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Fire at will. 230 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 It's all up to you. 231 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Do I get another try? 232 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 You're a madman. 233 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Nice work. 234 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Busted shoulder. 235 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I think I'm going to have a bruise. 236 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Really? 237 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 And a busted door. 238 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Well, you've split the whole wooden jam right down the middle, 239 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 right at the deadbolt. 240 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Kind of looks like I'm going to make it through it, doesn't it? 241 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Well, I wonder what's going to happen with these two. 242 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I don't think those are going to hold you back. 243 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 We're going to wait for Jamie to build his chi back up again, 244 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 and then he's going to make a second run at the very same door, 245 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 unaltered from the first test, to see if, after a couple of pounds, 246 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 he can get all the way through the door. 247 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 The physics that we're dealing with aren't as faulty 248 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 and as far-fetched as we originally thought. 249 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Unlike some of the other stories that we've done, like rear axle. 250 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:10,000 In the film American Graffiti, some wily teenagers played a prank 251 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,000 on an unsuspecting police officer by looping a cable around a pole 252 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 and attaching it to his rear axle. 253 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Our very own overgrown teenagers wanted to see if they could pull the prank off too. 254 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 So they borrowed a replica police cruiser, 255 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:35,000 rigged it with a remote control, and lashed 75 feet of steel cable 256 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,000 so I'm going to drop it about four feet from the pole over here and assemble it. 257 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 to a sturdy anchor on one end, 258 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 here we go, 259 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 and the rear axle on the other. 260 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Yeah! 261 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 This is in television glamorous. 262 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 All right. 263 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Wired and ready. 264 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Get ready to goose the throttle. 265 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Our police car was off in hot pursuit, 266 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 but no cable slowed him down. 267 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,000 That's spectacular! 268 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,000 I should point out that the cable has a breaking load of 15,000 pounds. 269 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Big cable, bigger than even I thought was the one used in the movie, 270 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 still snapped to standard Ford chassis, 271 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 not dissimilar at all from what they had back then. 272 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Outs here right there, myth busted. 273 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 And speaking of busted, 274 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Jamie still has to bust Hollywood's busting the door down myth. 275 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Is your chi ready? 276 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Will he get all the way through on round two? 277 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Or round three? 278 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Wait, wait! 279 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 You've actually split the framework of the door here. 280 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Cool. 281 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I don't know what to say, actually. 282 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I'm kind of shocked. 283 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000 It's plain old physics, you know, you get 185 pounds going fairly fast 284 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 at a piece of wood and metal that's like this big, 285 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,000 and it actually makes sense now that I've done it. 286 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 We started out with four locks. 287 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 The only thing left is the hotel lock here, 288 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 which we can see the screws are already pulling out, 289 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 and then the measly little girly man chain lock. 290 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 And that's it. 291 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I'm guessing, you know, one or two more tries might get me through. 292 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Well, I got the third one, but it's the chain one that... 293 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 The chain lock! 294 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 I guess that chain lock isn't so girly after all. 295 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 The chain lock would have gone, 296 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 and I'm about to pull through the washer on it. 297 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 One more go, big boy! 298 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Well, in the meantime, while you're getting your chi back up for another run, 299 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 let's look at appliances in the bathtub. 300 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Ah, the old appliance in the bathtub. 301 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Sure, it's shockingly effective killing folks on the big screen, 302 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 but how about in real life? 303 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:14,000 To find out, the boys rounded up a few pre-loved appliances. 304 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 There's a radio. 305 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 What about this? 306 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 It's exactly the television we need. 307 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,000 They'll soak in Tori's test tub back at the shop. 308 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 But unlike your ordinary tub, 309 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 this one had an electric current flowing through it. 310 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 This is an amp reader. 311 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 The ground is going to go through that so we can read our amps. 312 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 And a bather made from ballistics gel. 313 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 I think we're good. 314 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Let's do it. 315 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 If the current passing through the heart hit 6 milliamps 316 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 and a flash pot triggered, 317 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 they knew their bather was caught. 318 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Three, two... 319 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 That was cool. 320 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 First up, or should we say in, was the hairdryer. 321 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 All right, give me the countdown, baby. 322 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Okay, and five, four, three, two, one, drop. 323 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 What are you reading, Jamie? 324 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 I'm seeing 8.5 milliamps here across the heart. 325 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000 This one is dead as a dodo, well over the threshold. 326 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Next up, toaster. 327 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 What? 328 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Whoa. 329 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Our friend here was toast. 330 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Oh, yeah, 12 milliamps. 331 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 That's very lethal. 332 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Toaster. 333 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Next item, one of my personal favorites, the curling iron. 334 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Let's go. 335 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Three, two, one. 336 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 We've got four and a half milliamps at the heart. 337 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 It means the rest of your body is going to be like... 338 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Lethal dose is six milliamps. 339 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I think I wouldn't want to be in there with that. 340 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 And now the iron. 341 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Or as we refer to it right now, 342 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 we're going to be using the iron. 343 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 We're going to be using the iron. 344 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 I don't want to be in there with that. 345 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 And now the iron. 346 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Or as we refer to it around here, 347 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Fierro de los Muertos. 348 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Wow, that's the highest spike yet. 349 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 We've got 32 milliamps. 350 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 This thing is literally pumping death into our subject here. 351 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 32 milliamps. 352 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 That was more than five times the lethal limit. 353 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Big spike. 354 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 You'd be toast. 355 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 You'd fry. 356 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 You'd boil. 357 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Four appliances, four electrocutions. 358 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 The verdict on this Hollywood myth was no shocker. 359 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 In three attempts at busting down their test door, 360 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Jamie's not only destroyed three of the four locks, 361 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 he's pretty much left the door in splinter. 362 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Surprisingly, only the dainty chain lock remains. 363 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 For now. 364 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 One lock left. 365 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Break it away. 366 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 So little is holding that on. 367 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 It's the screw head. 368 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Okay. 369 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Like I said, it's all an electrical exercise at this point. 370 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Turns out Jamie couldn't get through the last lock 371 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 because the build team didn't use the hardware that came with the chain. 372 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 They used their own stronger screws. 373 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I think that given that you've made it through three of the four locks, 374 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I'd say we call this absolutely plausible. 375 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Yeah. 376 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 And there are a lot of guys out there that are bigger and stronger than I am. 377 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 It's hard to believe. 378 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Bigger. 379 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Maybe not strong. 380 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 But Adam's not one to let a sleeping myth lie. 381 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Oh! 382 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 The pads are screwing. 383 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Better just wrap this one up before anyone else gets hurt. 384 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 I'm calling it really. 385 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Today we're actually testing a pretty cool myth. 386 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 We're going to work on the Tin Man myth from The Wizard of Oz. 387 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 1939 movie version that is. 388 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Apparently that the original actors slated to play the Tin Man, 389 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000 but they had a reverse reaction to the aluminum paint and got really, really sick. 390 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 What they settled on at first was white clown makeup, 391 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 and then they just dusted this aluminum powder on top of it. 392 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Oh, that is not good. 393 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Yeah, it doesn't sound so healthy. 394 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,000 But he wasn't the last person to have problems with a full-body paint job. 395 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Remember when Jamie tried busting the gold finger myth? 396 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 The story goes that if you paint your whole body with gold paint, 397 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 your skin will not be able to breathe. 398 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,000 The solution to this supposedly is to leave a small patch at the base of your spine. 399 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,000 140 over 110 on that arm. 400 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 So that means my blood pressure had elevated? 401 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Yeah. 402 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 I feel like I'm basically about to become ill. 403 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:02,000 I could say it's almost like I'm a little lightheaded. 404 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I can tell. 405 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 I feel like... 406 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Let's get that off you then. 407 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Okay. 408 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 That myth was busted. 409 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Jamie recovered. 410 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 And with a modified paint job, 411 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,000 the next actor to play the Tin Man pulled off his role without a hitch. 412 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And then they changed over with the new actor, Jack Haley, 413 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:23,000 and they made an aluminum paste so you don't have all that airborne dust getting inhaled. 414 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 But how would Carrie do? 415 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Only one way to find out. 416 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 She slips into something a bit more comfortable. 417 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Are you ready, Carrie? 418 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 And with paramedics standing by. 419 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 All right. 420 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Do you want to show us how to mix up the paint? 421 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Yeah. 422 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 It's off to see the wizard. 423 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 The wizard of alchemy, that is. 424 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 You open up this little jar. 425 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 It is strictly aluminum powder. 426 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 It's a really fine metallic dust. 427 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Looks like liquid mercury. 428 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 That's cool. 429 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:02,000 This particular brand includes a lotion that will help it stick to the skin. 430 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 It makes it so it doesn't smear off. 431 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And this one jar would probably paint half of my body. 432 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 How's your skin feeling? 433 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Fine right now. 434 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 No itching? 435 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,000 No itching. 436 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 No itching? 437 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 A little wet and cold? 438 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Better than that. 439 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 I can still breathe just fine. 440 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 Awesome. 441 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Sorry. 442 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Oh my gosh. 443 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 This is so bizarre. 444 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 How does it feel otherwise? 445 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Can you feel like a coating on your skin? 446 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 A little bit. 447 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It feels a little bit sticky but it's really not bad. 448 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 It's not thick. 449 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 It's sort of just like a thin coat. 450 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Let's take a break from Tin Woman Carrie and look back at another star studded metallic myth. 451 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Now here was a myth Adam and Jamie could really sink their teeth into. 452 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Was it possible to receive radio transmissions through the fillings in your mouth? 453 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 America's Queen of Comedy. 454 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Hey, what am I going to get? 455 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000 A kiss or a quart of milk? 456 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Lucille Ball believed it was. 457 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 I had some dental work to be done. 458 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 You know they put in temporary fillings. 459 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:32,000 I was just driving along and rode that I had taken many times. 460 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And all of a sudden I heard music. 461 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 But I mean with a great beat, you know. 462 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000 And I looked down and turned off my radio and it was none. 463 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,000 And the music was getting louder and louder and louder and I realized it was in my mouth. 464 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 And it was bleeding and beating in my ears. 465 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 I could hear the tune and everything. 466 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 I recognized the tune. 467 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:04,000 One theory behind Lucille's remarkable reception was that if her fillings were made from different metals, 468 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 they may have acted as a point contact diode. 469 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 I recognized the tune. 470 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,000 That's when two metals combined to capture radio frequency. 471 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000 That's a grody looking skull. 472 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 To see if they could tune into this myth for themselves, 473 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 the guys fitted a skull with two different types of fillings. 474 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 They're very bright out. 475 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,000 One amalgam, the other gold. 476 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 That is real gold foil. 477 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Then they connected a voltmeter to monitor any change in electrical activity across the fillings. 478 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Let's do it. 479 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 And with the help of electrical engineer Frank Hausmann, 480 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 he handled several radio frequencies into the molars. 481 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Now as I sweep the RF field in that chamber, there's no change in the teeth. 482 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 The voltmeter didn't flicker. 483 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,000 So if the teeth were acting as a diode, which is one of the theories about how they might pick up radio, 484 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 we would see a change in voltage, but we didn't. 485 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Adam, is the myth true or false? 486 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,000 I think definitively we've shown that two different types of fillings do not act as a rudimentary radio crystal. 487 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 It's busted. 488 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Okay, we'll call it busted. 489 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Back in Oz, Tin Woman Carrie's metallic makeover is almost done. 490 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 How about breaking out in a rash? Look up. 491 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,000 I don't think I am. I've got goosebumps. 492 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,000 They're testing to see whether aluminum-based paint would have the same adverse effects on Carrie 493 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 that they had on the original Tin Man. 494 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:49,000 The first man slated for the Tin Man position had painted himself with the aluminum powder and got really sick. 495 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Cramped up in all his muscles, stopped breathing, and he ended up in an iron lung, 496 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 spent two weeks in the hospital and a month in recovery. 497 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Hey, Carrie, how do your lungs feel? Do you feel like you're breathing in any aluminum powder? 498 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Well, I mean, I'm sure I've got a few stray particles here and there, 499 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 but overall, once you mix it into a paste, I think you're past any of the danger zones. 500 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,000 But the paramedics aren't so sure. 501 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Okay, your heart rate's up. 132. Are you getting nervous? 502 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Nervous about what? 503 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Being painted head to toe in silver while wearing nothing more than a shiny bikini on national TV? 504 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Maybe I'm getting nervous. 505 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000 In front of a whole bunch of people, why would you be nervous? 506 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000 You're helping. 507 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Okay, you need to calm down a little bit. 508 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Me? 509 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Yeah. Your heart rate's 134. Take a slow breath for me. 510 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 I'm going to put you on some oxygen. 511 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Okay. 512 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Kind of calm me down a little bit too. 513 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 And just when she thought it couldn't get any worse... 514 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 I didn't know we got slave girls. 515 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Sweet. 516 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,000 How you doing, sweetie? 517 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Turning into an android. 518 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 This is the exact stuff that they were using on the Tin Man, 519 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 which was just a pure aluminum powder. 520 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 No, why are you guys feeding her oxygen? 521 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Her heart rate's gone up. 522 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 I was so affected by your teasing. 523 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Oh, oh, oh. 524 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000 And you were willing to take that chance for us. 525 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 You know, that's above and beyond the call of duty. 526 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Ah, yes. 527 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Whether it's silver or gold, the Mythbusters will risk life and limb to get to the truth. 528 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 That's much worse than we... 529 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Well, I guess the gold paint was supposed to kill you, so technically that might be worse. 530 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 The team eases off so Carrie can get back to baseline. 531 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 I can take this off now, yeah? 532 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 You can take that off. 533 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,000 I'm okay. 534 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000 With the crisis past, the paint job resumes. 535 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Well, we got to paint your face just to be sure. 536 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Yeah. 537 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Okay. 538 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Whoa, that's cool. 539 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,000 That's hot. 540 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Here we go. 541 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000 She's ready to meet Captain Kirk. 542 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Oh my god. 543 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 The things we will do. 544 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000 Go for it. 545 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Yeah, there you go. 546 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 This is the foolish thing we've ever done. 547 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Dude! 548 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Dude! 549 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Dude, our robot worked! 550 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:16,000 So how long do I have to be in this get up before we consider it a conclusive scientific 551 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000 experience? 552 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 You have to stand there for one hour, starting now. 553 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 What am I going to do for an hour like this? 554 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000 I'm not going to be working with the tools or nothing. 555 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 After a quick nap, at a clean bill of health... 556 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Well, Carrie, my idols are all good. 557 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Carrie was no worse for wear from her silver lining. 558 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000 So how do you feel? 559 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Well rested. 560 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 I had a little nap. 561 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,000 I noticed you're alive. 562 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,000 I'm alive. 563 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:49,000 I'm breathing well. 564 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,000 The build team's hard at work attempting to shatter a classic movie myth. 565 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000 Can someone be thrown through a plate glass window and walk away without even a scratch? 566 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000 We're going to show that it probably is a little bit more painful than that. 567 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Strangely, there are no volunteers for this one. 568 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 Plan B. 569 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:13,000 We are about to pour our dummy filled with ballistics gel in order to have an actual 570 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 person throw through a pane of glass. 571 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,000 But first, this dummy is going to need to be thick skinned. 572 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Latex should do nicely. 573 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Making a nice skin for the outside of our ballistics gel body. 574 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Because it will react a little more like human skin. 575 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000 It will give the glass a little bit more of a resistance than going into the straight 576 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000 gelatin ballistics gel. 577 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,000 The reason why we're doing the white is because that way when we pour in the dark red ballistics 578 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:44,000 gel and then the glass cuts the skin, then we'll have a contrast and we'll see how much 579 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000 damage a body would get if it got thrown through glass. 580 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000 This is the funnest batch of ballistics gel we've ever got to make because it's bright 581 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000 red which is going to give it a nice gore factor inside of our little torso. 582 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Alright, go ahead and start pouring. 583 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Ready? 584 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,000 Yup. 585 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Ooh, that's pretty cool. 586 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 And the pièce de resistance? 587 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000 Fake blood. 588 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,000 If you don't have a big budget, corn syrup and red food coloring. 589 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Sweet. 590 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000 And you can get those at the local supermarket. 591 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Okay, so now what are we going to put the blood in? 592 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 We're going to fill them with condoms. 593 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Which they use in squib hits. 594 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,000 When somebody gets shot, they'll get a condom, fill it up with blood and then lay it over 595 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,000 a hit or a little explosive and that'll shoot out spraying blood all over the guy. 596 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 Alright. 597 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000 And there you have a blood bag. 598 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 So what we're doing right now is we're hanging these blood bags just below the surface of 599 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000 the ballistics gel. 600 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000 So hopefully the glass will cut through the skin and the ballistics gel, puncturing these 601 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000 and spraying blood all over the place. 602 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Hopefully this will show us how much damage a human body would get if going through a 603 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000 paint glass. 604 00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:01,000 Now they just let the mold set for 24 hours and voila, they've got themselves a volunteer. 605 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Oh god, this mold looks really gruesome. 606 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000 We're going to bust this one wide open. 607 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Just like another classic movie myth that we busted, kill a quick sans. 608 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000 In the movies, quick sans always a guaranteed killer. 609 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,000 But how about in real life, could it really suck you under? 610 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000 To get to the bottom of this myth, the boys needed one key element first. 611 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000 Sand. 612 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000 20,000 pounds of sand. 613 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 That's a lot of sand. 614 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Quick sans is a result of a process called liquefaction. 615 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Water rising from under the ground over saturates the sand or soil, reducing the friction between 616 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:48,000 the particles until they can no longer bear any weight. 617 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000 So, 10 tons of sand, check. 618 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000 You're good. 619 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Well how about that? 620 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000 2000 gallon pit, check. 621 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000 Wow, look at the bag drain. 622 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000 And the final killer ingredient, water. 623 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Alright, well the tank is full of sand and water and we're sort of primed. 624 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Look, it's a white sandy beach. 625 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000 I don't feel any danger at all. 626 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Let's just say Adam's confidence sank when the water pumped in. 627 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Whoa, it feels more dangerous now than I thought. 628 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Whoa, let's go! 629 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Well I started going down really slowly. 630 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000 The water got up to my chest in the sand and water mixture. 631 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,000 I kind of felt where I hit my buoyant point, which is just probably right about here. 632 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:50,000 Like a cork in water, Adam was far less dense than the quicksand, so he simply remained buoyant. 633 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000 Brown your basket. 634 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,000 I think we've created a very realistic scenario for a worst case scenario quicksand. 635 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000 I got one leg almost. 636 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:07,000 So the MythBusters final word on Hollywood style killer quicksand, confirm, plausible or bust it? 637 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 It's absolutely busted, no such thing. 638 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 I agree, completely busted. 639 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:22,000 The classic movie myth that we're about to test out is would somebody being thrown through a glass window 640 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000 be able to just dust themselves off, have no cuts and walk away? 641 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000 They couldn't find a willing volunteer, so they just cast their own. 642 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000 Alright, let's crack them open. 643 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 No! 644 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 It's kind of gruesome, isn't it? 645 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 You ain't seen nothing yet. 646 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:50,000 He's basically white latex skin over red colored ballistics gel. 647 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:56,000 The reason why we're doing that is when he goes through the glass, hopefully it'll puncture the latex skin 648 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000 and give us a contrast between the white and the red. 649 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000 But wait, it gets better. 650 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Also, what we have placed inside the ballistics gel are little pockets of blood 651 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:12,000 and that will also simulate if the glass goes deep enough, hopefully it'll puncture one of those pockets and spray blood. 652 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 Now, how do you convince a dummy to jump through a window? 653 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000 I've made a very simple rig. 654 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000 We're going to wax or oil up this table so he goes sliding down the table. 655 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:29,000 He's going to break through this pane of glass and land softly on our table. 656 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Adams popped in for the show. 657 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 We're just interested in the effects of the glass on the body. 658 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000 We didn't have a cranium in that head. 659 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000 It couldn't have been expected to break a glass with the same kind of force. 660 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000 That's what the test is about. What happens to you when you get hit by that kind of glass? 661 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 This is a bar fight, so it's going to be sliding down like it took a... 662 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000 Ah! 663 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 So, we need to... 664 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 I'm glad you've thought through the whole narrative. 665 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Alright, here we go! 666 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Okay everybody! 667 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Okay, five, four, three, two, one, go! 668 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 That was really great! 669 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000 That was a beautiful day! 670 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 But how'd the dummy fare? 671 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Any blood first? 672 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000 No. 673 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,000 The team's not ready to confirm this myth just yet. They want to see some blood. 674 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000 So, next step... 675 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000 We might need to get to a quarter inch piece of glass. 676 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Dicker glass. 677 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000 I like that. 678 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:35,000 While they reset the glass, let's take a look back at another classic movie myth the boys tried to bust. 679 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Or should we say, buried? 680 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:46,000 In Hollywood horror, the only fate worse than death is being buried alive. 681 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:52,000 But how long could someone survive the confines of a coffin six feet under? 682 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,000 To find out, the mythbusters buried one of their own. 683 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000 I don't know if I'm going to like this too much. 684 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000 What wasn't to like? 685 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:10,000 A sturdy 20 gauge steel casket, an above ground burial chamber, several tons of dirt, 686 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:19,000 a team of paramedics, and as an extra precaution, a night vision camera, and an emergency supply of oxygen. 687 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000 Alright, I'm a little apprehensive at the moment. 688 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000 I'm hoping that the box won't collapse, but I think it'll be alright. 689 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000 You ready, Jimmy? 690 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Farewell, cruel world. 691 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Bye bye, honey man. 692 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,000 I got a fair amount of dirt in here, and it actually crushed the container a little bit. 693 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000 Roger that, are you nervous about it over? 694 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000 No, I think I'm fine. It definitely had an effect on the casket though. 695 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,000 But the weight of the world wasn't Jamie's only pressing concern. 696 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,000 He also had to worry about the buildup of deadly CO2 gas. 697 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Oxygen levels? 698 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Oxygen is at 98%. 699 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,000 I imagine my heart's beating a little faster than it was on the test, over. 700 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000 You'd be correct about that. It's at 95 right now, buddy. 701 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 You are almost officially completely covered now, Jamie. 702 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:28,000 This thing's really starting to creak, and it's feeling like it's changing its shape. 703 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000 The cascading tons were just too much for the casket to bear. 704 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000 The thing is buckling and changing shape on him. 705 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000 I can feel it coming in. 706 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Roger that, we're gonna get you out. 707 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000 A hasty exhumation followed. 708 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,000 Oh wow. 709 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 Yeah, it buckled. 710 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,000 Here you go. 711 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Hey Jamie. 712 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000 Hey. 713 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000 And he's still alive. 714 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000 It's just sitting there, Gordon. 715 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,000 After 30 minutes underground, too much weight, not too little air, 716 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000 caused the boys to kill the experiment. 717 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000 This Hollywood myth was laid to rest. 718 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000 I don't think it's possible for someone to survive a couple of hours 719 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,000 in the panicked state of being buried with their coffin crushing 720 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,000 and all of that stuff, let alone a couple of days until they're exhumed and found to be alive. 721 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000 That's just patently ridiculous to me. 722 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Well there you go, myth busted. 723 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Back at the workshop, the build team sets up for another go at shattering a classic movie myth. 724 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000 Can you jump through a plate glass window unscathed? 725 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000 Their dummies first flight through an eighth of an inch pane proved the myth plausible. 726 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000 But garnered unspectacular results. 727 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 So they're modifying the experiment 728 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000 Oh my god. 729 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000 by removing the dummies thick latex skin. 730 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,000 Yeah. 731 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000 I am not an animal, I am a human being. 732 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000 As soon as the glass comes cutting through here, we're going to see all the slices. 733 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,000 It's going to be perfect. 734 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000 They also replace the window with thicker quarter inch glass, 735 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 the type found in most storefronts. 736 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000 This is the quarter inch thick. 737 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000 Twice as thick as the other one. 738 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000 It's a lot heavier. 739 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Five, four, three, two, one, go! 740 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Oh! 741 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000 Ah! 742 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Dude! 743 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000 Break out the band-aids. 744 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000 Look at this, he's taking a massive amount of scraping here. 745 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Whoa, it's bigger than just small. 746 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000 Yeah. 747 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000 That's pretty deep. 748 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000 Look at that. 749 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000 That's going to take a few stitches. 750 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000 This is, I mean this guy is, this is standard. 751 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000 This is standard. 752 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000 He has lacerations on a whole bunch of different parts of his anatomy. 753 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Yeah. 754 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 And look at this, you got this big scrape right here. 755 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000 Look at that. 756 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Look at that. 757 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:15,000 So, the Hollywood myth that you could plow through a storefront plate glass window, 758 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000 dust yourself off on the other side, 759 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000 and keep on running without any damage to yourself, 760 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000 busted, plausible, or confirmed. 761 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000 Busted for sure. 762 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Busted, definitely. 763 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 Look how deep these cuts are. 764 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000 Yeah, I'd agree. 765 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000 He sustained a hell of a lot of damage on that trip. 766 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000 You know, people have come to expect really big explosions when they go to the movies. 767 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000 They've become a mainstay of Hollywood films. 768 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000 Yeah, they've paid their ten bucks and they want to see a big boom. 769 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Just like Jamie does. 770 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000 And we know a thing or two about big explosions because we've done quite a few of them on the show. 771 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:02,000 The myth we're going to test right now is about how a lot of those explosions get started. 772 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:06,000 We're going to test the myth of, can a cigarette ignite a pool of gasoline? 773 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,000 And there are no circumstances should anybody try this at home. 774 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000 Yeah, we're not giving you instructions on how to burn things in your house or on your street. 775 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000 This is debunking the Hollywood myth. 776 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,000 Gasoline ignites between roughly 500 and 540 degrees Fahrenheit. 777 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000 So to determine if this myth is even plausible, 778 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000 they gauge the temperature of a lit cigarette first. 779 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000 You want to blow on that, Timmy? 780 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Why don't I just inhale on it and you get it. 781 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,000 I'm getting about 450, 500 degrees. 782 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,000 Just in range. Time to pour. 783 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000 Here we go. I am the villain. 784 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 My plan is foiled. 785 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000 Not exactly the Hollywood result they were hoping for. 786 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:09,000 While the team works out the kinks, let's revisit another volatile myth. 787 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000 The classic Hollywood myth usually involves a car, doesn't it, for a big explosion? 788 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,000 Yeah, like the exploding gas tank that we did, 789 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000 shooting bullets at the gas tank actually make it blow up. 790 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000 That's the one. 791 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:26,000 To test this myth, Jamie and Adam loaded up their caddy 792 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000 and headed to their home on the range. 793 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,000 That's fire. 794 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000 There was gas in the tank 795 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000 and the bullets were definitely hitting it. 796 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,000 But there was no explosion. 797 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000 Look at that. One, two, three, four, five. 798 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,000 All right. 799 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,000 Look at that. One, two, three, four, five. 800 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000 All right in the room. 801 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,000 Yep. 802 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000 You punctured that gas tank quite neatly. 803 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000 And I'll bet you went right through the other side. 804 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,000 In a whole of three. 805 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000 Jamie's rounds went clear through. 806 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000 There's one that's right out the bottom there. 807 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,000 So you're right. 808 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000 This Hollywood myth was shot. 809 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,000 In another attempt at a gratuitous explosion, 810 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,000 they wired the barrels of two cement trucks. 811 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Well, I got a one pound black powder bomb. 812 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000 To test whether explosives could remove old hardened concrete 813 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000 from inside the mixers. 814 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,000 I love this job. 815 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000 Without blowing up the trucks entirely. 816 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,000 I want to blow that one up. 817 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000 The first truck was filled almost completely with rock solid cement. 818 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,000 There's a slab of concrete in there that's three and a half, four feet thick. 819 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 While the second had only a thin coating. 820 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000 It's like a good one inch, half inch cake on all the fence. 821 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000 The honors went to twister one. 822 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000 Glass danger. 823 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000 Clear the area. 824 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Glass danger. 825 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,000 Three, two, one. 826 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000 But the interior was unscathed. 827 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000 Did we break some off the floor? 828 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,000 Nothing. 829 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000 Nothing off the floor. 830 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000 Time for the lighter twister two. 831 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000 Glass danger. 832 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 Clear the area. 833 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000 Three, two, one. 834 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Yeah. 835 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000 Got some big chunks. 836 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000 A lot of stuff came off. 837 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000 This area is pretty clean. 838 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,000 The stuff that's still here is pretty loose. 839 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,000 But what about twister one with its barrel full of concrete? 840 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:47,000 You know, you can't really put enough explosive in there to blow that up without just blowing the truck up. 841 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000 And that's when the light bulb lit up. 842 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000 So under the watchful eyes of numerous law enforcement agencies, 843 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,000 dozens of bags of high explosives were loaded into the drum. 844 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,000 Fire in the hole. Fire in the hole. 845 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:09,000 Five, four, three, two, one. 846 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000 Yeah. 847 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000 Finally, the Mythbusters got what they came for. 848 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,000 Talk about removing concrete. 849 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,000 There is no concrete. There is no truck. There is no nothing. 850 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:41,000 Having failed to ignite a gasoline trail like they do in the movies with the toss of a lit cigarette, 851 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000 the boys modify their experiment. 852 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000 Okay, I'm clear. 853 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,000 And place the cigarette in the gas. 854 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,000 No. 855 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000 Well, what if they roll it? 856 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,000 It's still hot. It's still not out yet. 857 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,000 Nothing's happened. 858 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,000 Well, it seems that an ember isn't pulling in as much oxygen as an open flame. 859 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,000 Right. 860 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,000 So maybe that has something to do with it. 861 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000 I think you're probably right about that. 862 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,000 So, Mythbusted? 863 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:27,000 So the reality of this is that it is highly unlikely that you will be able to ignite gasoline on the ground with a cigarette. 864 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000 But theoretically, it's possible. 865 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:34,000 We know the temperature that gasoline needs to ignite at from a cigarette. 866 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,000 We've got that data, but I can't make it do it. 867 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000 Right. 868 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:50,000 Well, Hollywood has definitely provided Mythbusters with a ton of excuses to prove and disprove and test 869 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,000 and just plain blow stuff up. 870 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000 And I bet they're going to give us a few more. 871 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000 Actually, I've got a couple of ideas about that. 872 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,000 I was on some movie the other night.