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Don't try what you're about to see at home.

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Hammer out a farmyard fashion disaster.

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Can we order some exploding pants?

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Can corrosive chemicals really cause trousers to turn torpedo?

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Three, two, one!

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You are the Mythbusters.

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Adam Savage.

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Anthroil over my head, man.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Gets me all worked up, just looking at it.

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Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience.

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That was heavy.

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Joining them, Grant Imahara.

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Go get him, boy.

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Tori Belichi.

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Whoa!

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And Carrie Byron.

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That was crazy!

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They don't just tell the Myths.

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They put them to the test.

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First up, a myth from the very underside of the world.

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From the country that gave us the backdrop to the Lord of the Rings

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comes another explosive epic that would strike fear

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into even the most hardened Hobbit.

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The myth of the exploding trousers.

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Alright, this is a funny one.

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In 1931, in New Zealand, a sudden and deadly epidemic hit the country.

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Farmers' pants started exploding.

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Haha, you're kidding!

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Totally serious.

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They started exploding on the wash lines in front of fires

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and sometimes on the farmers themselves.

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We all know that there can be explosive chemicals on farms

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and it seems that the Kiwi farmers started using a new chemical

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which, once it stained their clothes, it could explode.

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This is too perfect for us.

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You guys aren't making this up.

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It brings new meaning to the term fashion disaster.

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The first victim survived when his trousers allegedly blew up

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in front of the fire, but others weren't so lucky.

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Well, I guess in order to make sure that these stories aren't exaggerated,

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your job is to get some farm-garden explosives and some pants.

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The pants are going to be the easy part, getting the explosives.

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That's going to be a little bit more difficult.

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Well, I've been doing a little bit of research

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and it seems like there could be four culprits to this.

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One, it could be made from gunpowder, or it could be made from herbicide,

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it could be made from fertilizer, or possibly even some acids.

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So your job is to get these together, mix them with some pants,

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and see which one goes boom?

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It's not really going to be that easy.

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We have two major issues to deal with.

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First of all, I'd like to start in the small scale

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because it's possible none of them work and then we're busted right there.

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Secondly, I'm pretty sure making explosives is illegal,

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so we're going to have to get the FBI involved.

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And we're also going to have to shoot this in a way that audiences can't copy us.

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Because let's face it, we don't want people going around making exploding pants.

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So that's the plan.

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The team is going to get hold of four common 1930s farm yard chemicals,

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add some secret ingredients, and see which, if any, can make trouser torpedoes.

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So, first things first, the hot pants.

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I have procured some 100% cotton overalls,

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and I'm cutting some swatches out of it that are going to be three by three squares

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so that we can do a few small scale experiments.

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To help reveal the killer culprit,

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the team is going to start the atomic trouser testing in miniature,

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where they're going to be helped by former FBI agent Frank Doyle.

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As Adam and Jamie know, Frank is a handy friend to have.

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These are .223 caliber tracer rounds.

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After all, it was Frank who helped shoot up a gas tank.

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Today are...

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This time, he's here to give up booms for beginners class.

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Just like the flight attendants tell you when you're flying on an airplane,

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safety is number one, so we want to do everything very safely.

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Frank's safety brief is crucial,

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because making farm yard explosions can be very, very dangerous.

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Any questions?

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I have one question. Did MythBusters have an FBI file?

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Oh, I don't know. That sounds like an administrative question.

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So it's classified, is that what you're saying?

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It's classified, just like the wretched recipes that the team is about to make.

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Starting with Grant.

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Okay, are you ready, Frank?

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Let's do it.

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Grant's farm ingredient is a 1930s fertilizer,

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but the rest of the concoction is a MythBusters secret.

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Start with drops, you'll need very little.

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It's a delicate operation, because one false move could spell disaster.

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Frank, this is like the world's most dangerous cooking show.

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With exploding tracer culprit one all cooked up, it's on to Carrie's number two.

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Black powder is something you would definitely find on a farm,

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and I'm not sure that everybody in New Zealand could be spreading this on their clothes

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enough to create quite a panic, but it is something explosive.

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But because black powder won't cling on clothes,

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Carrie's turning it into a sticky liquid sludge.

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It's looking good.

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Okay, that's it for the black powder laundry.

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So it's time for Tori.

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What I have right now is a herbicide, and they used it in New Zealand where this myth came from.

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This could be potentially explosive.

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Tori's herbicide is another culprit in this clothing conundrum.

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Frank, why are you standing so far away?

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Because I want to continue to live.

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So then the next question is why am I standing so close?

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With this third suspect close to finishing, it's back to Carrie for the final rancid recipe.

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Gun cotton.

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We know for a fact that when we make the nitrocellulose,

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it's actually going to change the properties of this cotton

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and make it into something totally different, which is definitely explosive.

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So we've done this before.

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We made gun cotton in the Confederate rocket story.

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So I'm somewhat of an expert.

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Don't be tricked by its cuddly appearance.

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It was Carrie's cotton wool that gave the Confederate rocket its initial thrust.

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And just like before, making it is pretty hazardous.

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Let's see how that smoke comes off. That doesn't look so good.

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Yeah, this stuff is nasty.

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Because Carrie is so confident that this will have explosive results in the small-scale testing,

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she's also going to prepare a full pair of gun cotton pants for when the team ramps things up.

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So are we ready for our giant fallout cloud of badness?

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Under Frank's careful supervision,

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Okay, we are going to wait five minutes.

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But almost immediately, the reaction starts the spiral out of control.

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The pants plume out more smoke than a Baltimore bingo hall,

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and then they start dissolving.

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That's one minute so far. Four minutes to go.

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Is there going to be any chance left?

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It's all gone a bit pear-shaped.

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Oh, parking the car!

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So Carrie and Tori follow the Mythbusters mantra.

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If anyone knows what to do, it's Jamie.

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Wow, this stuff is nasty.

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Fire in the hole!

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Later, Busters bloomers go ballistic.

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But next up, it's the Mythbusters mechanics.

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Super efficient carburetor mind.

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So what do we got?

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Well, this one is the great gas conspiracy,

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and it is that the automakers and the fuel suppliers are in collusion with each other

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to keep us dependent on expensive gasoline and inefficient cars.

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And there is a host of devices out there that are supposed to help you beat them

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and stick it to the man.

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That'd be great.

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So we're going to blow the lid off this thing.

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Conspiracy theorists say oil companies and car makers share the profits

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gained by deliberately keeping cars inefficient.

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But there are a whole host of devices that can supposedly cut your fuel

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consumption dramatically.

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And the Magnetic Mythbusters are going to put these to the test.

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What's the plan?

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Well, you know, some of these devices work on carbureted cars,

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and some of them work on fuel-injected cars.

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Sounds like we should get one of each type.

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And you know, the other thing is, I say we do this under super controlled lab conditions.

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Well, they have those things, I think they're called dynamometers.

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Oh, the thing they put the cars on while they're testing their stationary?

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And we should also put the gasoline in an exterior vessel that we can track

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and we can visually see how much we're consuming.

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I don't think anyone will have any ability to complain about our methodology here.

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They will.

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First things first, the cars.

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Car 1 is a mid-90s fuel-injected run-of-the-mill run-around.

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But carburetor car 2 is something altogether more retro.

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This is a nice car.

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Yeah, it's your style, isn't it?

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I love it.

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Drives like a cushion dream.

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Look at that.

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Seems like it's in good shape. It's real clean.

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This is a road trip car.

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We're going to Vegas in it when we're all done.

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Me and Taney.

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With both cars up and running, the Mythbusters next turn mechanics.

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But with that much success...

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What is this? That's what I also don't know.

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They're trying to work out which of the many tubes is the fuel line

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that connects the gas tank to the engine.

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This hose right here.

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That's fuel.

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That's fuel and I'm going to try and turn the engine over.

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Okay, and I should see fuel squared out of that all over the hot engine, yeah?

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Yup, no, stop, stop.

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Bingo. With the fuel line sussed,

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and attaches it to an acrylic gas holding cylinder,

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which will let them see precisely how much fuel the cars consume.

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And that means they're ready for those mythical money saving devices.

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And where can those be found?

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Why, the internet, of course.

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What I have so far,

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is fuel line magnets

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and a carburetor that is purported to give you 300 miles per gallon.

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I've also gotten plans for a homemade fuel cell

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that you can build that converts water into hydrogen gas

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that you can use to run your car.

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Grant's hydrogen fuel cell is all about electrolysis.

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When you apply a voltage to electrodes in water,

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the H2O molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen.

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This internet patent can allegedly generate so much hydrogen

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that you can run a car with it.

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Adam's going to build the electrolysis device as detailed in the internet plans.

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That right there is the business end of the end of the oil monopoly, man.

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While Grant is concentrating on the power,

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it's the current through the electrodes that should cause hydrogen to be released.

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This should be a square wave, and right now it's kind of a nasty side too.

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After an hour of fernicity fiddling,

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Adam's fuel cell is connected to Grant's power circuit,

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and everything's ready for a test.

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Dude, I see bubbles. Check it out.

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Yeah, it is bubbling.

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It's working. Hydrogen is bursting forth.

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But will these tiny bubbles be enough to fuel a car?

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This was what I first thought was going to be the label.

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And then I thought, I can say that's simpler.

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And I came up with sticking it to the man.

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1930s farms were seriously dangerous places.

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There was the giant machinery and the unpredictable animals.

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But were there also exploding trousers?

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Or was it more a case of lyre lyre pants on fire?

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To put this blast of a myth to the test,

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the team has carefully made four potential farm yard howitzers

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to see if any could cause trousers to turn torpedo.

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So that just leaves the detonation systems.

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Alright, so in order to blow these pants up,

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we need to find out certain systems of ignition.

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Why don't we just go through the scenarios of the myth,

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the different ways that they possibly could ignite.

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Like say, you light a cigarette, spark falls onto your pants, they blow up.

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We could do friction, because apparently these were blowing up as people were walking.

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One of the most famous stories was when it was dragging from the fire, right?

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So maybe something, a radiant heat source, a heater.

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And impact, if you sat down really hard,

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they might burst into flames.

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To try to expose the exploding trouser culprit,

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the team is going to subject each of the volatile vagrants

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to each of the four detonation systems.

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The recipe that blasts off most often will then be wrapped up for the big scale test.

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And for round one, it carries unusual open flame ignition system.

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I picked the cigarette instead of just dropping a match,

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specifically for the reason I wanted to create a realistic scenario

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as to why these pants might come in contact with something such as a cigarette to make them explode.

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She's hoping that the falling ash will be hot enough to ignite the fabric below.

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And first up, it'll be landing on Grant's fertilizer-treated trousers.

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All right, step back.

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Smoke faster.

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Carries smoking as fast as a school kid in a washroom, but gets nowhere fast.

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So for take two, it's out with the cigarette and in with the match.

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But the results are a little disappointing.

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I would not exactly call that an energetic ignition.

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So fertilizer plus flame is infertile.

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Next up, the black powder.

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But remember, the black powder was mixed with water.

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I thought this was going to be a little more exciting.

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I thought we were going to get a little blast out of this one.

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Yeah, it's like threatening to blow up.

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Oh, come on.

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I think if I were the farmer, I would still have time to get my pants off and run before it caused any problem.

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All right, so we're rolling out gunpowder.

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I would rule it out.

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All right, next let's do my favorite, my specialty, good and cutting.

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I know for a fact that this is going to be somewhat explosive.

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So just in case maybe put on your ear protection.

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Okay.

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So far it's zero for two.

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Can Carrie's gun cotton do any better?

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This is your specialty.

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This stuff's supposed to be gun cotton.

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Should I take off my ear protection now?

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Yeah.

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It's another flame failure.

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That just leaves the weed killer concoction.

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Can this herbie go bananas?

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All right.

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Wow.

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That is awesome.

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That is graduating to the next level.

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Could you imagine walking down the street and this happening in your pants?

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That would suck.

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So the herbicide is winning so far, but how will they all respond to the next ignition test?

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Radiant heat.

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We've got our powerful light.

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Right now, I've got a probe right at the top and we're at a little bit over 300 degrees.

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It's just like a farmer drying his trousers in front of a fire.

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And just like the last test, not a lot happens.

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The fertilizer doesn't fizzle.

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The gun cotton doesn't go off.

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There's some sparkles from the black powder.

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Nice.

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But then once again the herbicide takes the cake.

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Oh no!

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The weed killer burns with a massive amount of energy and is easily the emerging culprit for this explosive myth.

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Still to come, the ultimate fashion disaster.

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Somebody ordered some exploding pants.

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But next.

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Coming up on MythBusters, is it 300 miles to the gallon or 300 gallons to the mile?

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Every week, a couple of geeks from San Francisco face a challenge.

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For this week's challenge, the MythBusters have turned mechanics as they put miracle cures for gas guzzlers to the test.

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I guess we just put it like that.

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Adams built a hydrogen fuel cell.

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I see bubbles.

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And the team has got hold of the internet's best-selling gas-saving devices.

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Super efficient carburetor mining.

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So now they're all set to head to the dynamometer test facility.

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For a point of comparison, using a set amount of fuel, they'll calculate the miles per gallon of each car.

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First at 35 miles an hour.

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17 miles per gallon.

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Okay.

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And then at a highway average, 55 miles an hour.

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That is a lot more fuel efficient than its main gear at 55.

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We're getting 25 and a half miles per gallon.

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With the baselines for the carburetor car cached, bring on the first miracle cure, the magnets.

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Okay, so it says to put it as close as we can to the carburetor.

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Okay, magnet test. Here we go.

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According to the box, the magnets work on the principles of hydrodynamics

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and align the fuel molecules in such a way that they burn better.

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What does that mean?

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We asked our graphics guy to explain it, but he didn't understand it either.

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So it's a mystery how they work, but have they had any effect at 55 miles an hour?

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The baseline reading at 55 is 25.66.

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I come out with 25.55.

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Okay.

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No change.

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No change at 55.

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And at 35, it's the same story.

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What does that tell us?

331
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It busts this whole magnet fuel, electromagnetics thing wide open, man.

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It's crap.

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It's strike one for the gas conspiracy theory.

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So the next test is acetone mixed with gasoline.

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What we have to do is put about a 500 to one ratio in here,

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which amounts to two milliliters of acetone in with the gasoline.

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The idea is that the acetone somehow makes the gas burn more completely,

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but does it work at 35 miles an hour?

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Well, it uses fuel a little faster, which gives us miles per gallon of 16.65 with acetone

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as opposed to 17.03 without acetone.

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So acetone makes the car less efficient, a result confirmed with the 55 mile an hour test.

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Next up, the miracle carburetor.

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I'm going to get behind the wheel.

344
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This latest device can supposedly increase mileage to 300 miles per gallon,

345
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but atoms out of gas even before he's reached the baseline level.

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17.69 miles to the gallon.

347
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It's a lot less than 25 and a half miles to the gallon.

348
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I don't see any potential for 100 or 200 or 300 miles per gallon out of this thing.

349
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Darn.

350
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Farm yard chemicals can be downright dangerous.

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They can hinder your health in a whole host of ways.

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But can any of them ever make your trousers explode?

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To find out, the team is putting four potential farm yard fizzlers to the test.

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So far, the herbicide is winning, but there are still two detonation devices left.

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Starting with Tori's friction maker, which supposedly imitates the way farmers walk.

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Despite the farmer breaking the world's sprint record, there's no immediate ignition.

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He's not done walking.

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There he is.

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After a marathon run, none of the samples, not even the herbicide, smoke at all.

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Which leaves one final detonation device.

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It's hammer time.

362
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So this is cotton with black powder.

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In three, two, one.

364
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Well, it hit it.

365
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It was right on the money, but with the black powder, there's no trouser detonation.

366
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I think that rolls that out pretty fast.

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So the team tries again with the fertilizer.

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But get the same result.

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Then it carries specialty, the gun cotton.

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Not a pee.

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Last up, the current leader, the herbicide.

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Get mashed in.

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Three, two, one.

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Holy Mack!

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That was sweet.

376
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Oh, fire!

377
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Where?

378
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Just up. You know we can see it.

379
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I think we have our exploding pants.

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I say, great.

381
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With the herbicide, it's a case of now you see it, now you don't.

382
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This is my favorite stuff.

383
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Tori's herbicide really can make trousers explode.

384
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And what's more, in 1930s New Zealand, this stuff was abundant.

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So I've been doing a little bit of background research on this myth.

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And I found out that New Zealand farmers were using our classified weed killer.

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But in the 1930s, the amount they were using totally skyrocketed.

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Why is that?

389
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In the 1920s, it seems that ragwort was accidentally introduced into the ecosystem.

390
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Oh, ragwort's that super aggressive weed. It overtakes crops. It's toxic to livestock.

391
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I think it's a problem even today.

392
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Exactly. And you know that's why they wanted to get rid of it as fast as possible.

393
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And of course, what was the miracle cure in that era?

394
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Oh, our classified chemical.

395
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All right, let's move on to the full scale.

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Yeah!

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Later, Buster dons his hot pants.

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Fire in the hole!

399
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But next, there's more Fire in the Hole with Adam and Jamie.

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Remember, don't try this at home.

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We've got years of experience that keeps us safe.

402
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Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars fueling their cars.

403
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To try to claw some of that back, the mythbusters are putting miracle gas cures to the test.

404
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Faster pickup, getaway, more miles per gallon than you ever dreamed were possible.

405
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But they're not doing well. Their carburetor car scored zero for three.

406
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Nothing improved its mileage.

407
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So they swapped to the more modern fuel-injected car.

408
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Some of the mythical cures will supposedly work better on a more modern car.

409
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But unfortunately, neither the magnets...

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This is such total, of course.

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Nor the acetone mixture increased mileage at all.

412
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It's not like it magically changes lead into gold or something like that.

413
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You know, it's an o-brainer.

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All the magical cures so far have failed to improve fuel efficiency,

415
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and some have even made it worse.

416
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But is anyone really that surprised?

417
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Look, the EPA takes claims of fuel efficiency very seriously

418
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and has tested over 100 devices for their improvements.

419
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Yeah, out of 104 that they tested, only about 7 showed any improvement at all,

420
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and it was only up to about 6%.

421
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000
Well, your mood can affect your driving a hell of a lot more than 6%.

422
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Yeah, studies have shown that you can reduce your mileage by up to around 33%

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by aggressive driving due to, you know, bad mood.

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Do you actually have moods?

425
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No.

426
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Back at the dyno, the cars have been swapped around for one final test,

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the PS to resist ons.

428
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This is the one that I've been waiting for.

429
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This is the water car hydrating fuel cell.

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And this is the one that, if it works, is making this one of the most legendary hours of television ever broadcast.

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They're about to see if they can run a car on flammable hydrogen gas produced by electrolysis.

432
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This is the instructions on the patent that you bolt the output of the fuel cell

433
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right to the throat of your carburetor.

434
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There will be no gasoline, just hydrogen fed straight into the carburetor.

435
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000
But will the car even start?

436
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We'll make it history.

437
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Oh, oh my God!

438
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Oh my God is right.

439
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The car is working.

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But sadly, it's not because of the hydrogen.

441
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I think that was a little bit of residual fuel in the system. What do you think?

442
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I think that's the case.

443
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It wasn't a miracle. Just some leftover gasoline in the engine.

444
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I'm going to turn it over again. Let's give it another shot.

445
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Come on!

446
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Come on!

447
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My God!

448
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It doesn't work.

449
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I can't believe it doesn't work. I found it on the internet, man.

450
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The electrodes are just not giving off enough gas.

451
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000
But to test whether a car could even run on hydrogen in the first place,

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the boys are going to hose some directly into the carburetor.

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Ready?

454
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Yeah, okay.

455
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Okay, here we go.

456
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Okay.

457
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Okay.

458
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That's the coolest thing ever.

459
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I guess you could, if you had a lot of hydrogen,

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run your engine completely without any other modifications.

461
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Let's do it again.

462
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You know there's going to be trouble when it's all going so well.

463
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Whoops! Okay, that's enough of that test.

464
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With a rather nasty backfire, it's time to back out.

465
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I think it's best if we just let it go.

466
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In the myth of exploding trousers,

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the boys are going to be the first to go to the car.

468
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000
They're going to be the first to go to the car.

469
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In the myth of exploding trousers,

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the herbicide has been ID'd as the pan protagonist.

471
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Okay, well I'm impressed.

472
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000
That was pretty amazing.

473
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Yeah, well it was very cool.

474
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000
Well, now you know what we have to do.

475
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000
We have to bump this up to full scale.

476
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So I'm going to take a pair of pants and just saturate the heck out of them,

477
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see if they explode.

478
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Maybe just as a point of comparison, you know, just for fun,

479
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we could get a hold of a few real explosives.

480
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Well, I'm sure Frank is going to help us out with that.

481
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I just want to see some really big exploding trousers.

482
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At last, using the results of the small scale test,

483
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it's finally time to ramp this myth up.

484
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing, right?

485
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With the overalls fully functional, it's time to hit the road

486
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and see if Buster will fly by the seat of his pants.

487
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We're here at Alameda Sheriff's Facility.

488
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And this is where Buster is going to put on his exploding pants.

489
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Frank Doyle's here.

490
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000
The bomb squad's here.

491
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000
The paramedics are here.

492
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We're going to blow something up.

493
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Well, it seems that everyone is here, so let's get started.

494
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Somebody order some exploding pants.

495
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000
With the pants prepped,

496
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step forward our naked volunteer farmer, Buster.

497
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Buster, you don't want to do this?

498
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Well, that's too bad.

499
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
We're going to blow your pants off.

500
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Once Buster is dressed to kill,

501
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000
all that remains is the detonation system.

502
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,000
The remote triggering system that the FBI is going to be using on our pants

503
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,000
is probably closer to the impact triggering system that we had in our small scale test.

504
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,000
With the igniter wired up and the final touches in place,

505
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000
it's time for a Huckleberry Dinn.

506
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Fire in the hole!

507
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Fire in the hole!

508
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000
Three, two, one!

509
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Oh!

510
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000
That's awesome.

511
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
It burned completely off.

512
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000
It totally just burned from head and from wherever it blew up,

513
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,000
his crotch, and it just totally burned off.

514
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Now that's what I call hot pants.

515
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
The fact that his hat's still here shows how hot and fast this burned.

516
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000
It didn't even make it up to the hat.

517
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000
It just disintegrated really quickly.

518
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
But this myth isn't about disintegrating trousers.

519
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
It's about exploding ones.

520
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
So the gang is going to try again,

521
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,000
this time with a pocket load more of the herbicide hodgepodge.

522
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Good luck, buddy.

523
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Nice knowing you.

524
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Fire in the hole!

525
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Fire in the hole!

526
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Three, two, one!

527
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Oh!

528
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
That was great.

529
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000
That obviously burned up twice as fast as that last one.

530
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000
And it's much bigger.

531
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
A bigger reaction.

532
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000
That was cool.

533
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000
The pockets of pesticides sure got Buster fired up.

534
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
But was he fired up enough?

535
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Here's my question, though.

536
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000
We call this myth exploding trousers.

537
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
They didn't really explode.

538
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
No, I mean they were just burning rapidly.

539
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000
I have a feeling though, if you were wearing those pants

540
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
and they burned that fast, you would definitely claim explosion.

541
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000
You need compression to have an explosion.

542
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000
You are so hard to please.

543
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
But I mean if your pants burst into flames like this,

544
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
how would you explain it to somebody?

545
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Semantics. It's an explosion.

546
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
My pants blew up.

547
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
That's what I'd say.

548
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
I'm with Carrie and Tori on this one.

549
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
It may not technically be an explosion,

550
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000
but did 1930's farmers really know the terminology?

551
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000
This is Myth Confirmed.

552
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000
The only remaining question is, would Buster have survived?

553
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
So as medical professionals, what do you think of the damage?

554
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000
If he just had pants on, it would have burned up all the pants.

555
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Maybe he'd have a couple of burns up here in the chest area,

556
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
but it wouldn't have gone any further.

557
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
So you're saying he lived?

558
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Yeah, he would have lived.

559
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
He would have just maybe had some scarring from the burns,

560
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
but a person could survive from it.

561
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
You lived!

562
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Like a phoenix from the flames, Buster smolders to fight another day.

563
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
But maybe not for long.

564
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Buster, you're not over yet.

565
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
On the other side of the break.

566
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,000
That right there, it's the end of the gas conspiracy.

567
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Adam and Jamie hit the road with some greasy lightning.

568
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000
But if we don't meet again, I love you.

569
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000
Well, there's your problem.

570
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000
In the great gas conspiracy, skid marks aside,

571
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Adam and Jamie have tested all of their mythical mileage boosters.

572
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
This is such total force.

573
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
And the results are in.

574
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Alright, so our dynamometer tests.

575
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000
How did we do with the magnets?

576
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Bubkus.

577
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Acetone?

578
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Bubkus.

579
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
The hydrogen fuel cell?

580
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,000
Less than Bubkus.

581
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000
And the, oh, the miracle carburetor.

582
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000
Even less than Bubkus.

583
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000
I think we still need some more exploration into ways to break yourself free

584
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,000
of the man's death grip on your wallet.

585
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Well, if the ultimate goal is to actually defeat this monopoly of fossil fuels,

586
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
there is a way to do that.

587
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
And maybe we can try it out.

588
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000
And where does this mystery solution live?

589
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
I need some french fries and all the fry oil you can lay on me.

590
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Why the burger bar, of course.

591
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,000
That right there, it's the end of the gas conspiracy.

592
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Maybe.

593
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000
It's used cooking oil, the gunk that gets left at the bottom of deep fat fryers.

594
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000
And believe it or not, this may be the next big thing.

595
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
I think that's it.

596
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,000
And back at the shop, it's refinery time.

597
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Apparently all that's needed to convert this fatty fry oil into fuel is filter it.

598
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000
That's it.

599
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000
This is obviously something that you do overnight.

600
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,000
It's a time consuming process, but given that it could result in free fuel,

601
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
it's more than worth it.

602
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000
There we go. That's the leader.

603
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,000
And to put it to the test, they're going to drive a circuit around Alameda in a diesel car,

604
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000
which has their viewable fuel tank attached.

605
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000
I like this dammy.

606
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
I think this is a nice solid arrangement.

607
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Not going to move.

608
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
I'm going to just tape that down.

609
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Well, as long as you're happy, Adam.

610
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Thank you, David.

611
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000
And with everyone happy, it's time to get started.

612
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000
We've been hearing that people are running their cars completely without any modifications

613
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
on used vegetable oil like this.

614
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000
But before experimenting with beefed up burger juice,

615
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,000
they first need to test regular diesel to find the car's normal fuel consumption.

616
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Hold on.

617
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000
You're pretty much exactly at a leader, so give it a tiny bit more.

618
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000
That's perfect.

619
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Exactly right.

620
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Okay.

621
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Diesel.

622
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,000
First run.

623
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
All right.

624
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Ready.

625
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Go.

626
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:14,000
The course is 2.9 miles long and has been designed so that they can maintain a steady 35 miles

627
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
an hour all the way around.

628
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000
They're going to drive lap after lap until they've used one leader of each fuel.

629
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
That's it.

630
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
We are out of fuel.

631
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000
What was the mileage on that?

632
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
8.8.

633
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000
8.8.

634
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Okay.

635
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
15 minutes and 15 seconds.

636
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000
33 and a third miles to the gallon on straight diesel.

637
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:43,000
With the baseline sussed, next up is the used cooking oil.

638
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Look at that.

639
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Pure power.

640
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Pure power it may be, but will the car even start?

641
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Got you.

642
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Shake it.

643
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
The engine is purring perfectly.

644
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000
If we don't meet again, I love you.

645
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
They're off.

646
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Remember, this is unmodified French fry oil.

647
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,000
The gunk that restaurants up and down the country chalk out.

648
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
The flames can be running just fine.

649
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:19,000
They do the laps and get an MPG of 30, which for something that didn't cost a dime is pretty

650
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
darn impressive.

651
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Number one, I'm surprised and impressed that the car runs on just straight filtered used

652
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000
kitchen oil.

653
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:34,000
But number two, the fuel efficiency, it's only 10% less than regular diesel fuel.

654
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Yeah, that's cool.

655
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,000
The other thing is we didn't make any modifications to this car.

656
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000
That means anybody who had a diesel car could just pour the stuff straight into the gas tank

657
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000
and it would run fine.

658
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Yeah, baby.

659
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
So what do you think?

660
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Do you think the oil companies and the automakers are colluding to screw us?

661
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Well, not a single one of the devices we tested did anything at all with sole exception of

662
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
used cooking oil.

663
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Right, but that didn't make your engine any more efficient and that's only helps because

664
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,000
it's currently free.

665
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000
As soon as that becomes a real economy, they're going to charge you for that like anything

666
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,000
else.

667
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Yeah, and considering the thermal efficiencies of these types of engines, you're simply

668
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000
not going to get these ultra high mileage out of those.

669
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:23,000
If there was a way to make your engine super crazy efficient, we would know about it.

670
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,000
It's busted.

671
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Busted.

672
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Coming right up, Buster flies by the seat of his pass.

673
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
Three, two, one.

674
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Back with the farmer's fable, it's myth confirmed.

675
00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Farm yard chemicals can turn and cycle, but given that this myth is called exploding

676
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
trousers, we can't leave it at that.

677
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Myth busters, we always like to ramp it up to replicate the circumstances.

678
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
So you want to ramp up the results?

679
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
You want to see a pair of pants explode?

680
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Buster did burn baby burn, but for this crew, that ain't enough.

681
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,000
They want a real explosion, not a flash in the pan.

682
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Q Explosives expert Frank Doyle and his magic silver.

683
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:35,000
This is a high velocity explosive that we're using here, a specialty explosive, and it's

684
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:42,000
much faster in detonating velocity than anything that we've used in previous episodes.

685
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
So we expect Buster to get a pretty interesting ride.

686
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
This is serious stuff.

687
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Exploding with a velocity of 21,000 feet per second, this could be Buster's last goodbye.

688
00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,000
In the vicinity of five minutes, his pants should be in New York.

689
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,000
I think Madison Square Garden or Times Square or someplace like that.

690
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:14,000
With the last wires in check, this boom promises to be one of the biggest in myth busters history.

691
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
So hold on to your pants.

692
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

693
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Three, two, one.

694
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Uh oh.

695
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
I turned it on.

696
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Well, that's a problem, isn't it?

697
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Right about now, Buster should have been somewhere over Texas, but it seems he's missed his flight.

698
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

699
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000
Let's try that again.

700
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
This is it, the main event.

701
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Two, one.

702
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
Oh no.

703
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
A little quieter than I thought.

704
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000
So generally if there's a live bomb and the trigger doesn't work, that's bad, huh?

705
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
That's not good.

706
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000
With some ultra-dangerous explosives, this is the worst-case scenario.

707
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,000
But at least we have the best in the business to sort it out.

708
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Well, we had a Murphy's Law glitch.

709
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:19,000
And apparently there was a minor break in the firing line.

710
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:25,000
And that's being corrected, and we're gonna move full speed ahead and go to plan B.

711
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Three, two, one.

712
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Yeah! That's what I'm talking about.

713
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Those are exploding pants.

714
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Buster's not there anymore.

715
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
That's 10 milliseconds to blow him up in three hours to find the pieces.

716
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000
That was cool.

717
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Hop in the hole.

718
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Smoldering buster parts all spanking over the field.

719
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
There's a space!

720
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
That's a hat.

721
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Frank, what'd you do to buster?

722
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000
Friends and family of buster should look away now.

723
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Bottom.

724
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Okay, I got leg and knee. That's good.

725
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
I got a face, there's a thigh.

726
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,000
There's a chest and a head.

727
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Even the great Humpty Dumpty was never this scrambled.

728
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,000
What do you got?

729
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
I got a hand.

730
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000
That's all that's left of his pants.

731
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000
But I guess all Humpty did was fall off a wall,

732
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000
whereas buster just got blown to smithereens by the bomb squad.

733
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
I am not disappointed with these exploding pants.

734
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000
That was one of the finer explosions I've ever seen in my life.

735
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000
And when watching the high speed, you can actually watch body parts go off into the hills somewhere.

736
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Where I don't know, but I'm sure they're out there.

737
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Well, after that blast, as Frank said, busters on his way to New York.

738
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,000
Now that's what I call flying by the seat of your pants.

739
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,000
How did you guys go?

740
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,000
Dude, it was sick.

741
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
I think this might be my new favorite myth.

742
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
We actually had exploding pants.

743
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,000
But you know what though, the herbicide-treated pants were still really dangerous

744
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,000
and we know that that chemical was common in New Zealand at the time.

745
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000
And I mean, if I was telling the story and I had a flash ignition in my pants, I would call an explosion.

746
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,000
So you've got a little history and some exploding pants, you can call this one confirmed.

747
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
I sure hope this never happens in my pants.

748
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Let's all pray it doesn't.