1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Please, don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home. Ever. 2 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And meanwhile, Grant, Carrie and Tori make beautiful music to find out if sound can be recorded onto pottery. 3 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Tori! Tori! Tori! 4 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 I know it would be like to be married to you. 5 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And play back just like a record. 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 That's crazy sounding. 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Who are the Mythbusters? 8 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Adam Savage 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 And Jamie Heinemann. Aren't Tracerounds illegal? 10 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience. 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 That's what I'm talking about! 12 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Joining them, Tori Bellachy. 13 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 What could go wrong? 14 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Carrie Byron. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Going for total annihilation. 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 And Grant Imahara. 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I'm pooping as fast as I can! 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 They don't just tell the Myths. 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 They put them to the test. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 The Mythbusters 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Alright, I'm going to perform this next myth in pantomime. 22 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 What do you think? 23 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Okay. We're talking about killer cable slice, I believe. 24 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Exactly. 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And this is when a cable under tension snaps and it cuts you in half. 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Allegedly. 27 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Allegedly. 28 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Allegedly. 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:14,000 The theory is that if a cable is stretched taut, the tension can become so great that if it were to snap, it could cut a person in two. 30 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Not a pretty picture. 31 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Not pretty at all, as this footage filmed on the USS George Washington shows. 32 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,000 A cable that was supposed to stop a jet broke and whipped across the deck. 33 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Luckily, one crew member had lightning fast reflexes, but five others had no time to run. 34 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Dramatic proof of this real life peril. 35 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 You know, I'm a little worried about this one. 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 I'm not sure how easy it will be to get the cable to behave in a predictable fashion, like where it's going to go and you snap it. 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Well, that sounds like a perfect opportunity for a bench test. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 We should do a scale model and see how we can make the cable snap predictably. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Well, also, actually, with that, we can figure out where the most dangerous place to be in there, like the kill zone. 40 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Sure. 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,000 To set up the bench test, Jamie screws on clamps at either end of a table. 42 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Then he secures parachute cord from one end to the other and tightens it until it's stretch-taught. 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Adam measures and marks out a scale model floor plan. 44 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:28,000 It's about 50 by 30, and it's gridded out in one foot marks so that I should be able to see where the cable is going for each of these tests. 45 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Razor at the ready. 46 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Yeah, that's sharp enough. 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 All right. 48 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Hi, Suits, ready? 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Ready. 50 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Okay. 51 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 There we go. 52 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 No obstructions. 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 The cord soars straight down the center line. 54 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 It makes all the sense in the world. 55 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 You're tensioning it, and you release tension on one side. 56 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 All the force in that cable wants to head towards the other anchor point. 57 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:04,000 He sounds like an expert now, but in a previous myth, they almost got a moving violation trying to bring a police car to a screeching halt by tying an anchored cable to its rear axle. 58 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Driving the car in a straight line broke the cable with ease, but this myth needs a little more direction. 59 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 So we need to deflect it. 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 We absolutely need to deflect it. 61 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Otherwise, there is no whip at all. 62 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 It's just going to suck. 63 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Yeah, if it's going to re-sink, all the energy is going that way. 64 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Why would it? 65 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Precisely. 66 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Extension moves closer to the cut point. 67 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Here we go. 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Three, two, one. 69 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 It's so fast. 70 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 That's just beautiful. 71 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Slap you in the face kind of thing. 72 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 The cable is just moving right towards this area, just like you'd imagine your worst case scenario would be. 73 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Yeah. 74 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So if they can get the cable to move like the cord is doing, what would happen to a person who is unlucky enough to get in the way? 75 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 They place a bolt on the grid that will play the unfortunate human. 76 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Okay, here we go. 77 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 The cord completely lassoes the bolt. 78 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Dude. 79 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 It went all the way around. 80 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 That's beautiful. 81 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 That's like Indiana Jones with a whip. 82 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Forget wimpy little string. 83 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 The boys are rated a lash out with a might of steel. 84 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 So this myth first came to our attention on the internet. 85 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Scientists were playing back sounds, inadvertently recorded onto ancient pottery. 86 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:39,000 So somehow in the midst of time, there was the perfect scenario in which a pot was turning on a wheel and something like straw or anything brushing up against that pot acted as a stylus. 87 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:46,000 And their voice, their laughter, the vibrations from sound actually recorded inadvertently into the clay. 88 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Sounds pretty crazy, doesn't it? 89 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Sure does. 90 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:55,000 The theory is in ancient times a potter was working away when there was a noise close by. 91 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 The force of the sound waves made an imprint like record grooves in the fresh clay. 92 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Fast forward to today and we can play back these sounds from the past using modern technology. 93 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:14,000 First stop is the layer of mega sound system creator Alexander Ewell Thornton II. 94 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 But you can call him Thorny for short. 95 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 It was given to me in my teens and I kind of liked it so I kept it. 96 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Every conceivable kind of recording device, spare part and cool little toy imaginable is hidden somewhere on Thorny's shelves. 97 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Barbie steam engine. 98 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 No, it's a G.I. Joe steam engine. 99 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 So what's this expert audio files opinion about pottery recordings? 100 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 I think there's no question that you could do it. 101 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,000 So recording an audio signal in a piece of pottery and playing it back. 102 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Yes. 103 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 We just have to prove that it's remotely possible. 104 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I don't think it's going to be that difficult. 105 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Thorny just happens to have a device on hand that will prove his point. 106 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,000 A phonographic dictation machine from the 1930s that was invented by Thomas Edison. 107 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Warning, warning, dive, dive, dive. 108 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:14,000 The way the dictation machine worked could be very similar to how it might be possible to record and play back sound from a clay pot. 109 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Coming up next on MythBusters, can you get audio off of an old pot? 110 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:28,000 The vibrations from Grant's voice travel down the horn and cause a cutting stylist to make a series of grooves in the wax. 111 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 You can see the little sort of ruffles in the surface. 112 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 That is the information has cut. 113 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 So back in the day this would be like high tech. 114 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Oh yeah. 115 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 To play it back they simply run a non-cutting stylist back over the grooves. 116 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Coming up next on MythBusters, can you get audio off of an old pot? 117 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Alright. 118 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 It's a voice writer. 119 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 That is great. 120 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 With all of Thorny's knowledge at their disposal, the most burning question Grant has is... 121 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Does my voice really sound like that? 122 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Yeah. 123 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Well, Grant, it does. 124 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 You guys saw that. 125 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 He's all, does he record all of the low pitches? 126 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Maybe we should try that recording again. 127 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 The team thanks Thorny for his sound insight. 128 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 With a shop like this, I have a feeling we might be contacting you again for something else buried in here. 129 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Feel free. 130 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Later. 131 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 With a snapping cable slice you can write in half. 132 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 These pigs are going to help us figure it out. 133 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 But next, Tari peels out behind the wheel. 134 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 They're a faster speed on this thing. 135 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 There's high tension all around us. 136 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Cables are mighty useful, so there's no escaping them. 137 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 But if they snap, can they cut you in two? 138 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Sounds like just the job for the MythBusters. 139 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Well, we've got some safety concerns first off before we start actually, you know, snapping cables. 140 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And I figure that means that we should get some kind of interior space inside of the building so we can control it. 141 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Maybe we can be outside. 142 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Very separated. 143 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Yeah, this thing is going to be dangerous as hell. 144 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 The plan is to rig a series of chains and pulleys around a support column, attach a cable to it, 145 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 and stretch it all the way over to another support column, and position an obstruction between them. 146 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Then using a hydraulic pump, pull the cables so tight, it snaps, and see if it slices their human stand in in half. 147 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Jamie goes shopping to get some heaving hardware. 148 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Hey, Andy. 149 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Hi, Jamie. 150 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Glad to meet you. 151 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Welcome. 152 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Welcome to CH Bull. 153 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Well, thank you. 154 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 So I've got a project that I need your help on. 155 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Okay. 156 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Have you ever heard of a situation where a cable is under tension and it snaps and it cuts somebody in half? 157 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I've heard it more with nylon rope, but I've heard it with cable as well. 158 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 There's a lot more elasticity in a nylon rope. 159 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 There could be a lot more stretch, which would be a lot more recoil. 160 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Well, that's what I figured too. 161 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,000 We'll have to test a variety of thicknesses of cable as well as some different types of rope even. 162 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,000 To pull the cable or rope taut, Andy shows Jamie a hydraulic cylinder that can pull cables. 163 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 It's the kind of gadget that gets Jamie all animated. 164 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Oh, yeah. 165 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 30 tons. 166 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,000 30 tons, and I think we're a little over five inches of stroke. 167 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:29,000 As for a device that will actually slice through the cable, Andy has a safety-minded suggestion. 168 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,000 What's nice about this is it's easy to have a remote setting, set this right in the middle of the cable. 169 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:41,000 And so as you start to cut from a safe distance away, as the cable breaks, this would be the ideal way to go. 170 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Well, that's perfect. 171 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Jamie leaves with his slice and dice goodies. 172 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Meanwhile, Adam goes to market to get their target. 173 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 The killer cable stab is not at all a story we can test with Buster. 174 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 He is good for the falling... 175 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 banging... 176 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 The kind of rough, damage assessment. 177 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 This is a case where we want to find out if a cable can slice a human being in half. 178 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 We need a much better human analogue. 179 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Can you tell you what you're doing? 180 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 It's a meet and greet with manager Keith. 181 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 You got some pigs for us? 182 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Oh, yeah. Some big ones. 183 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Really? 184 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Yes. 185 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 How much do they weigh? 186 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 150 pounds, average. 187 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 That's actually perfect. 188 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 So let's go see them. 189 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 You need those first. 190 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Oh, great. The fashion statement. 191 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Excellent. 192 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 There we go. 193 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Oh, my God. 194 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Even though they're not alive, seeing the dead pigs hanging from horror movie-sized hooks 195 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 makes this bacon lover almost lose his breakfast. 196 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 This is going to be hard even for me. 197 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 I'm not going to have a ham sandwich for lunch today. 198 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I probably won't do that. 199 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,000 But Adam manages not to hurl and takes the pigs back to M5. 200 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Do you stop some traffic with this lot? 201 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 No, I got a couple of looks, but I got looks like this. 202 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 People driving by, they saw the pigs and they looked in the cabin like, 203 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 oh, it's the mid-buster guy. 204 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,000 While they wait to be whooped, the pigs chill out. 205 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 The exact moment it was being made could be out there. 206 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Christ's words, the actual incantation to raise the dead, 207 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 were recorded in the clay grooves of the pottery, 208 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 just like the way music is recorded in to vinyl. 209 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I'll have Chuck Birx meet you over at my office, 210 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 see if this clay has Christ's greatest hits on it. 211 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 To recreate a likely ancient scenario, they'll make a drum, 212 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,000 then rest a stylus on top of it that's touching a wet clay pot spinning on a wheel. 213 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Next, they'll make some noise and see if the straw stylus etches the sound into the clay. 214 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Following in the footsteps of ancient man, 215 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Tori and Carrier are going to get primal and make some pots from scratch. 216 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Is it that messy that we need to lay down plastic? 217 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Yes. 218 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:17,000 The raw smell of the wet earth combined with the romance of the creative process 219 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 seems to be having a strange effect on Tori. 220 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 You saw that movie, Ghost? 221 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 I did. 222 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Remember that scene? 223 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Patrick Swayze, Damien Moore. 224 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Yep. 225 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Good scene. 226 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Luckily, Carrier has met her share of artistic types with unoriginal designs. 227 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Need some help? 228 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Back off, Belay T. 229 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 It's off-center, it makes it lopsided. 230 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Carrier soon learns that shaping a simple pot isn't easy. 231 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 This is going to be the worst pot ever. 232 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Looks great. 233 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Yeah. 234 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:59,000 But eventually, she setters herself and the clay, molding and shaping it. 235 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 She makes a love to the clay with the heart. 236 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 And the result is a shining example of symmetry. 237 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Nice job, Carrier. 238 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Yeah. 239 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Nice. 240 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 It's pretty fun. 241 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Yeah, looks fun. 242 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Now it's Tori's turn to take a seat behind the pottery wheel. 243 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 He slams it into high gear straight away. 244 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Talk about a lead foot. 245 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Isn't there a faster speed on this thing? 246 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 You might be going a little fast, Tori. 247 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Nah, it's not going fast enough. 248 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 I think I need to hook this up to an engine. 249 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Pretty sure the keys go slow. 250 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Really? 251 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 It's more fun to go fast. 252 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Tori, it might be a good idea to ease off of the gas a little. 253 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 But you're the boss, the clay is not the boss. 254 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Well, apparently the clay is making all the decisions right now. 255 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,000 The result of Tori's passionate artistic expression is less than impressive. 256 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Oh, it looks good. 257 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 It's so cute. 258 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 It's a little tiny thing. 259 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Not something a guy ever wants to hear, but Tori seems proud nevertheless. 260 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000 It looks great. 261 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 My first one ever. 262 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Later, things heat up when Jamie and Adam fling cable. 263 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Did you see the sparks off the barrel? 264 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 But next, the team has a scream. 265 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 You crazy killer! 266 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Yes, this myth, Jamie and Adam need to move somewhere nice and quiet where they can really stretch out. 267 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Oh, hurry up. 268 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 This should do nicely. 269 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 The perfect little hideaway in the middle of nowhere. 270 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 A former workshop on an abandoned military base. 271 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 So the metal grid there is what you're thinking, right? 272 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Yeah. 273 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 They can't wait to move in and are full of decorating ideas. 274 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 That's a fine hook to have a big on right there. 275 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 We've got big steel beams to anchor our cables and cable pullers to. 276 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 We've got a welding grid to put down our bollards and hang our pigs over and lots of beams in the ceiling. 277 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 It is ideal. 278 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000 To start with, they're going to build their cable rig. 279 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 So you're the ghost of Christmas past, is that it? 280 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Our two anchor points are going to be these big pillars. 281 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 And we'll put big chains around these things. 282 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Shackles, all this hardware and stuff to make a nice solid attachment point. 283 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Everything that we do will be based on those two pull points. 284 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:50,000 From their bench tests, they learned that placing an object in the path of the cord as it snapped back 285 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000 caused it to curve around in a nice slicing arc. 286 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 So they welded a large metal tank to the floor. 287 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:03,000 We need something to anchor to the ground to make the cable snap to one side and do what we want. 288 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Well, that's a cigar cutter from hell. 289 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Now to check the bite power of their cutter. 290 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 It's nail clippings. 291 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:16,000 They power it up. 292 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:22,000 And it cuts the steel like it's a piece of string. 293 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Damn, brother. 294 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Their first test is going to be with rope. 295 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. 296 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Jamie ties the rope to the rigging. 297 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Then they crank it until it's nice and tight. 298 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Add position it over the bollard. 299 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 I hope we didn't waken it right there. 300 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Time to attract in their victim. 301 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 This is our first test subject. 302 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,000 This is horrible. 303 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 They raise Piggy up on a hook. 304 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 They don't smell as pristine as they did the other day. 305 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 And Adam gives him a reassuring pep talk. 306 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 The rope breaks. 307 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 I want it to come whipping around here. 308 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:08,000 And truthfully, I want it to slice right through your hide. 309 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Due to the danger factor, 310 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 our Mythbusters Insurance Company insisted 311 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 the entire test has to be executed 312 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 and filmed using remote equipment. 313 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 When we snap these cables, they are going to be, you know, 314 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,000 50-foot cables going to swing possibly in a 50-foot arc 315 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 and slice not only our pigs, but potentially Jamie or I 316 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 or a crew member in half. 317 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 So in order to do this experiment, 318 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,000 we need to be completely separated from it. 319 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 The rope is too elastic for the hydraulic tensioner 320 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,000 to pull tight enough, 321 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 so they're going to heave it with a little something else. 322 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Adam's so excited to be driving one of his favorite forms 323 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000 of transportation, he does 360s of joy in the parking lot. 324 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,000 It's like a lovely ballet, isn't it? 325 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 The forklift is attached to the rope 326 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,000 and a long pulley system of lines that stretch all the way outside. 327 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 The last touch is to place the cutter on the rope 328 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 and they're ready to slice them out. 329 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Cool, let's roll. 330 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 The team has been stepping back in time to dig up 331 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 and dust off the myth of Archeo Acoustics, 332 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 that ancient pottery contains sounds from the past 333 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 that can be tapped into 334 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 and recreate a very possible Archeo Acoustics scenario 335 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 straight out of a Pompeian Potter studio. 336 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 They put their freshly made, 337 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 unfired pot on the wheel and stand the drum next to it. 338 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,000 On top of the drum, they place the stylus, a piece of straw. 339 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Alright, ready? 340 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 In three, two, one. 341 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Pottery record! 342 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 I see little frequencies. 343 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 They look for a sign in the line that 344 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Tori's magnificent tenor-like tone has left an imprint. 345 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Definitely, look at this. 346 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Yeah, I can see it. 347 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 It's actually all through here. 348 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 It looks almost like a braid. 349 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Has Tori's voice been stamped into the surface? 350 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Then Carrie steps up to the mic. 351 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Pottery record! 352 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 The girl's got some pipes. 353 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Oh, I can see little zig-ziggies. 354 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 I can see it. 355 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 It's really, really fine, but it's there. 356 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 The zig-zag patterns on the clay could be sound imprints, 357 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 but they won't be able to test their pots 358 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 until they're completely dry. 359 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 If we tried to extract anything off of them right now, 360 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 we'd probably end up destroying the groove 361 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 because it's just, it's too soft. 362 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 So the Pompei scenario pottery recording 363 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 seems to be going pretty well. 364 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 What's next? 365 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Well, there was another version of this myth 366 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 that appeared on one of those forensic TV shows recently. 367 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 And, you know, same idea with the pottery on the pottery wheel, 368 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 but instead of the drum, they just had kind of a brush going along. 369 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,000 But they were able to extract audio off of it 370 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 and get some clue that helped them solve the case. 371 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 To test the freaky forensic show scenario, 372 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 the team will spin an unfired clay pot on a wheel, 373 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,000 and as it turns, they'll hold a brush against it and make a noise. 374 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 This time, the drum won't be there to help. 375 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 So to get the sound to stamp onto the clay, 376 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 it's all down to the stylus. 377 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Potters often use straw as a finishing tool, 378 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 so Grant cuts up long pieces from a broom. 379 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 The longer the straw is, the better chance it'll have of vibrating 380 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 and then maybe making an impression on the pot. 381 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Grant secures his straw brush to a metal stand next to the pottery wheel. 382 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Oh, no, you'll put that on. 383 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 First place in the fair. 384 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Maybe second place. 385 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And Carrie says what all forensic investigators wish they could. 386 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 You crazy killer! 387 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 I didn't realize you were going to do it that loud. 388 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 I'm trying to get a good chance to make my left ear go deaf. 389 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Okay. I think you got it. 390 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Carrie releases her inner pain. 391 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 What? 392 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 TORRY! 393 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 You got some grooves. 394 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Is it deep enough? 395 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Any one of those grooves could capture that information. 396 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 There are definitely some mystery cuts in Nix on the clay, 397 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 but were they caused from sound vibrations, 398 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 or was it just the force of Carrie's breath that moved the straw? 399 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Torry has an idea to reduce the chance of any falsetto markings. 400 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 When they record music, they have the little windscreen. 401 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 It's like a piece of pantyhose that just goes over 402 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 and that keeps it from the wind hitting the element. 403 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000 You want to make one? 404 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Do you have your pantyhose here? 405 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I'm wearing them. 406 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I can take them off. 407 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Get the spare pair in your toolbox. 408 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 A windscreen should help block Carrie's breath. 409 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Got your pop screen already? 410 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Yup. 411 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 A quick vocal warm-up, 412 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 and the voice of an angel rings out. 413 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 TORRY! 414 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Or maybe make that the devil. 415 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 That was a good one, Carrie. 416 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I know it would be like to be married to you. 417 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 But they got their best clear marking on the clay yet. 418 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 It's perfect. 419 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000 The forensic pottery sessions were a hit. 420 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 They go double-porsally. 421 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Still to come, the team hears strange voices. 422 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 That's creepy sounding. 423 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000 But next, Jamie and Adam finally get to lash out. 424 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 That sounded more like it. 425 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Please, don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home. 426 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Ever. 427 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Jamie's got a few thousand. 428 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 And Jamie activates the cutter. 429 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000 How did that work? 430 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 It seemed good. 431 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I just let this thing all the valves open and hit the, turned on the pump. 432 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Okay. 433 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,000 And it just immediately went. 434 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Excellent. 435 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 So it was right at 3500. 436 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 So are we going to take a look? 437 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 I think so. 438 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Well, it kind of looks like it made contact with the pig. 439 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 From examining the pig's hide, 440 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 it looks like the first cut isn't always the deepest. 441 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Sometimes all you get is rope burn. 442 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000 It doesn't look like it did any real damage. 443 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Damage is stained by pig. 444 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Nothing. 445 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Don't get me wrong. 446 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 If you were standing here, 447 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 you might be in a lot of pain at this point, 448 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 but you would not be in two halves. 449 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 They check the high-speed camera footage 450 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 to see how the rope flew when it snapped. 451 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Yeah, it just wrapped around it. 452 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 And again, looking at that shot, 453 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I'm thinking the pig wants to be close to the real ripping point. 454 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 The guys move the pig closer to where the point of impact should be. 455 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000 What we want to get is the pig right at the end point of the three-quarter point 456 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 where the centrifugal force is the greatest 457 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 and where presumably the speed would be the highest. 458 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,000 They get a new section of rope, stretch it out, and try again. 459 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Jamie does the count. 460 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 2000. 461 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 And Adam pulls the rope. 462 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Three, two, one. 463 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 And that sounded more like it. 464 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 That sounded like a gunshot. 465 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 3,000 pounds on the nose. 466 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 And you pulled the trigger. 467 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Yep, I got it right. 468 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,000 It sounded like a whip crack. 469 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 So how's the hog looking? 470 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Always like Christmas, finding out if actual signs occurred. 471 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Hey! 472 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Dude, there's some visible damage here. 473 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Does the mark go all the way around or just right there? 474 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Nope, there's a little bit of a mark over here. 475 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Even though the rope was traveling at 227 miles per hour 476 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 and they got their first real solid whipping action, 477 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 again, it didn't even cut through the pig's skin. 478 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 We got a real strike from the rope test. 479 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,000 And it seems to have left one heck of a nasty rope burn on our test subject here. 480 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 It would not be pleasant. 481 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 However, I don't think that it would have killed a person. 482 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Time to move on to something with teeth. 483 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 It's not got enough beef to it. 484 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Or should I say pork? 485 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Ah, it's time to fire your writer. 486 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,000 I've teased out something very fabulous from your pottery there. 487 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 In the lab over at X-Files, 488 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 they used an extraordinary sound extraction laser device 489 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 to pull out an ancient insult. 490 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 What is it? 491 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 It's Aramaic. 492 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 It's a language of principle. 493 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,000 It literally says, I am the bearded cow-like sea beast. 494 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 In the real world, 495 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,000 a laser would pick up every speck of dust from your pottery. 496 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 So Grant is designing a playback system using old turntables. 497 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000 That's more retro, but also more reliable. 498 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 This is a technique that was pioneered in the late 60s. 499 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Basically what it consists of is the tone arm from a record player, 500 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 and you connect that to an amplifier. 501 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,000 It's better to use some type of physical stylus that contacts the medium 502 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000 to get the best audio quality. 503 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 First, you remind yourself of the sound you're making. 504 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You need to get the best audio quality. 505 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 First, he removes the arm off one of the turntables. 506 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Then he needs to make a new stylus, 507 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,000 because the one that came with the record player is too sharp to put onto clay. 508 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 The cartridge that I've taken off of the record player has a little needle on it. 509 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 But if we drag that needle across any pottery, 510 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 it's probably going to destroy them. 511 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 There's a way around that, and that is to make a glass stylus. 512 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Must be the reinforced glasses. 513 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Yeah, whatever. 514 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Muscles. 515 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Finally, Grant manages to break the reinforced glass 516 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 and melts a broken piece with a blowtorch. 517 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 We make it a little swan. 518 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000 You're like a little glass sculptor. 519 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Do you want me to add to your collection a poodle this time? 520 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,000 All you really have to do is heat the glass until it's slyable, 521 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 and you pull it out in a very thin string. 522 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Once that cools, you can break it off and you have a perfect thread of glass. 523 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Heat it up and make a little ball in the end, 524 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 and you glue it right onto your record player stylus. 525 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000 By attaching the glass stylus to the arm and hooking up an amplifier, 526 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 that's the sound of my fingerprint. 527 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:13,000 DJ BC is into house and ready to rock some pots. 528 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,000 All right. 529 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Now we need her some pots with some sounds on them. 530 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,000 After the break, the team spins right around like a record. 531 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 I think it said Armageddon is in three days. 532 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000 And coming right up, Jamie and Adam make some noise. 533 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 I love hearing big sounds in the next room. 534 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Well, the myths we're testing in case you haven't been paying attention 535 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,000 is whether or not a cable under an extreme amount of tension 536 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:56,000 can break, and when it snaps after it breaks, 537 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000 that whipping cable can slice you in half. 538 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Cable comes in different sizes and strengths. 539 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 So for their first test, they're starting on the thin side. 540 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,000 The less the surface area, maybe the greater the cutting action. 541 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 This time we're using 3-8s cable. 542 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Having something like this would be something like a guy wire 543 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000 for a radio tower or possibly even some kind of hoisting operation. 544 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Everyone except Adam exits the building. 545 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Slowly and very carefully, he pulls out the slack in the line. 546 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Then high tails it outside. 547 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 I pulled the limit of what the fork can pull. 548 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 That's nine inches, so let's go for broke. 549 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 They put the hydraulic pump into gear. 550 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,000 There you go. 551 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Alright, cutting 3-8s cable in 3, 2, 1. 552 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 I love hearing big sounds in the next room. 553 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,000 Wow, I mean, it looks like it couldn't have been more successful. 554 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 He took quite a hit. 555 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Did you see the sparks off the barrel? 556 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 That ought to tell you something. 557 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 No one can fault us for not giving it the right amount of force, 558 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 tension and smacking. 559 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 That ought to be brutal. 560 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 Make your heart stop. 561 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000 But the 3-8s cable still didn't cut it. 562 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000 This was perfect for cutting in half if it was gonna, and it didn't. 563 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000 3-8s cable is done as far as I'm concerned. 564 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 It's probably time to bump up to a bigger gauge. 565 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Okay. 566 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Bigger is sometimes better, so the guys reel out 5-8s cable 567 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 that has a mighty breaking strength of 40,000 pounds. 568 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000 I wouldn't be wanting to be anywhere near this stuff when it snapped. 569 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000 No, this is going to be a bit of a different beast. 570 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000 The hydraulic puller puts 30,000 pounds of pressure on the cable, 571 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,000 and it's time to unleash this monster. 572 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Okay, ready? 573 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Cutting 5-8s cable. 574 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 In 3, 2, 1. 575 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Oh. 576 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,000 That kind of wound you up, didn't it? 577 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Wow. 578 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 They go inside to inspect the whack factor. 579 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Pig's still in one piece, but it went a little further, didn't it? 580 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000 He went a lot further. 581 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000 The pig took a massive hit, but he's still not cut in half. 582 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Dude, that is so... 583 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 That was a good hit. 584 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 ...cruel. 585 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000 I don't reckon that there's any other hit we could have gone for 586 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 to do any better than that. 587 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,000 We were pulling 30,000 pounds or more on it when we cut it. 588 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,000 And 30,000 pounds, I mean, that's like 10 cars or so of energy 589 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 that's getting let go, bang, like a shot of a gun. 590 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Looks like the killer cable myth isn't such a snap after all. 591 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,000 Back at Base BC, the team have dug up a theory that's been buried in the sands of time 592 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000 that ancient pottery can contain sounds from the past. 593 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000 You crazy killer! 594 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Attempting to record onto clay, they think they might have got some sound to embed onto pottery. 595 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Now, to try and play it back. 596 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 There's one primary piece of scientific evidence that does support this myth. 597 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Yeah, in 1969, there was a letter published in the proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 598 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:48,000 of which I am a member, where they claim to be able to record and play back the sounds of a potter's wheel in a piece of pottery. 599 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:55,000 To listen, they place the now-fired Pompey pot onto the pottery wheel and spin it like a record on a turntable. 600 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000 Then they put Grant's glass stylus in a groove and are all ears. 601 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:09,000 As the pot rotates, they can clearly hear the stylus scraping as it moves over the surface of the clay, but nothing else. 602 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Go to this one, because this is a good groove here. 603 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000 Grant finds another groove to trace further down the pot. 604 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000 What? 605 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,000 That's creepy sounding. What is that voice? 606 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:36,000 As Grant puts the glass stylus onto this pottery, he can hear almost a ghostly voice. 607 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000 I'm here. 608 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,000 That was like some crazy voice from beyond. 609 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:52,000 They slow down the speed of the wheel. They might hear the whoop whoop more clearly. 610 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000 It sounds like some demon possessed tea. 611 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Hey, this stuff, okay. 612 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 It's giving me chills. 613 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Putting their Pompey pot aside for now, they're ready to test their forensic TV show pot, where they used a brush stylus and no drum. 614 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Again, the team places the stylus on a groove in the pot and listens closely, but it's hard to make out if it's anything more than just static. 615 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:31,000 There's one area right here, sort of a, but it's really faint and I don't know if I'm making enough in my head. 616 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Huh, probably won't ever be a hit carry, but it's given our trio hope. 617 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Coming right up, the team may have spun a hit. 618 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 This is phenomenal, phenomenal. 619 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,000 And Piggy goes all the way home. 620 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Pork salad. 621 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Wow. 622 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000 Go to this one. 623 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Listening to their pottery records, the team heard some mysterious sounds. 624 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000 But it was hard to tell if it was a human voice. 625 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,000 What? 626 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,000 So they're off to a professional sound studio to get this myth cleared up. 627 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 It's like we're doing a drop off. 628 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Yeah. 629 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:23,000 So now that we've gotten all of our ghost sounds off of our pots and recorded them onto tapes, we've come down to a little place called Denouc. 630 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:31,000 They're hopefully going to do that forensic show thing where they clear up all the background and you get some sort of discernible words off of this audio track. 631 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Hello. 632 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Meet Super Sound Guy Albert. 633 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:43,000 Do you have any sort of laser system that, you know, we could bounce a Doppler laser off our pottery and capture audio off of that? 634 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,000 I don't have a laser system, but I have very good restoration tools. 635 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000 So what we have on this tape, I will be able to hear. 636 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:58,000 Albert cues up a track from their Pompeii pot where the team thought they got their best possible sound imprint. 637 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000 I will try to use different tools to increase the sound, to reduce the noise. 638 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000 He filters out the snap crackling pot. 639 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Oh my God. 640 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 I'm getting excited. 641 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000 Our good pot might actually have something. 642 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Yeah. 643 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Our trio is full of anticipation. 644 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Will Albert be able to lift off any comprehensible words so we can share their excitement? 645 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:26,000 I had some fairly high hopes because we did have something that sounds like an audio signal on our pot. 646 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Everyone is all ears. 647 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,000 I hear something, but there is so much noise in the middle. 648 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 No. No pottery record. 649 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Oh. 650 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Okay. 651 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000 An unexplained squeak? 652 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Yes. 653 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000 But an easily distinguishable human voice? 654 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000 No. 655 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 The best we got today was a squeak. 656 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000 And at most it's not like you get pottery record. 657 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,000 All we heard was, 658 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000 No. 659 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Looks like their pottery record won't ever make the Archeoacoustic Hot 100. 660 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Sorry kids, limbs the brakes. 661 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 So you mean everything we see on TV isn't real? 662 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 I'm afraid so, Tori. 663 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000 So what's Albert's take on the myth? 664 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,000 You can imagine that you can record almost anything on the media that's hard enough to keep the groove. 665 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Okay, not on butter, but on anything like plastic or wax. 666 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 But if you do it intentionally, it would be only noise. 667 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Seems as a recording medium, Clay just doesn't cut it. 668 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 What's your gut feeling? 669 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000 No. 670 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 No recording. 671 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000 As a Frenchman and a sound engineer? 672 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 No, pas possible. 673 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000 PAPOSIBLE. 674 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000 PAPOSIBLE. 675 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000 PAPOSIBLE. 676 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Playing piggy in the middle hasn't been a whole lot of fun for Adam and Jamie. 677 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000 It took quite a hit, but you know what? It doesn't look like it cut him. 678 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000 So far, trying to snap that dead pig in too with a whipping cable, 679 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000 Porky has emerged victorious and still intact every time. 680 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 I can help. 681 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000 This is one way to cut a pig in half. 682 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000 These results, they're not only counterintuitive to what I thought was possible, 683 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000 but they're really frustrating. 684 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:24,000 So I had a research team called pretty much every national, federal, military safety organization 685 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000 that they could get on the phone to ask for evidence of this myth. 686 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:33,000 And while there's tons of anecdotal evidence and there's not a fisherman alive who doesn't think this myth is true, 687 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:40,000 we could not locate a single definitive confirmed case of someone being sliced in half by a cable. 688 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Well, the myth says that the cable will slice you in half like a hot knife through butter. 689 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000 There are plenty of recorded fatalities and we showed that a snapping cable can kill you. 690 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000 Well, you know what happens now? 691 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,000 Yes, I do. 692 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000 You've got to get back down there and find out what it'll take to actually cut one of those pigs in half with a cable. 693 00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Exactly. 694 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000 For their next attempt, they hog-tie Adam's nemesis. 695 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,000 This time, the idea is to combine the best of both worlds from thick and thin cable, 696 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:16,000 mass and cutting action by attaching a piece of 3-16th cable to the end of the monster line. 697 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:23,000 We're hoping that this little whip gets such high speed from its instantaneous yank from the big cable 698 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,000 and it'll cut the pig. 699 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Pressurizing the cable, 5-8th cable with the 3-16th's whip. 700 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 The tension builds, but will they get their release? 701 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 Okay, cutting the cable in 3, 2, 1. 702 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Made a good loud sound. 703 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:48,000 Damn, it sounded satisfying, but the pig was faking. 704 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,000 No dice, no slice. 705 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000 The myth's not looking good at this point. 706 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000 No, we're not getting anywhere near the carnage we thought we'd be able to get. 707 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000 The stress of no success is making Adam a little loopy. 708 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:07,000 This time, we're actually going to attach a loop of 3-16th's cable to the 5-8th's around the pig, anchored to the grid. 709 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 You see what I'm talking about? 710 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000 You see what we're doing? 711 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000 I think we're good to go, man. 712 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000 We've got the loop as everything's tied down. 713 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000 If he doesn't get a result this time, please don't hold me responsible for his actions. 714 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Final death loop. 715 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Oh, please, please, let there be a big cut in half in there. 716 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,000 That's it? 717 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 He's not cutting half at all. 718 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Sorry, Adam, the hog is still whole. 719 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Let's go get a sword. 720 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000 A meat cleaver. 721 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000 If anything is about to snap, it's Adam. 722 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000 That's all we can do, right? 723 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,000 Jamie never say that to a man whose eyes are glazed over. 724 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,000 Look, I'm just going to go back to the forklift and pull back the forks until that cable goes through his midsection. 725 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Okay. 726 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000 Warning, if you're a sensitive soul, now is the time to avert your eyes. 727 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Things are about to get a little disturbing. 728 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000 All right. 729 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000 All right, I'm good to go. 730 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Like a man possessed, Adam floors the forklift and prudes pigs really can fly. 731 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000 There we go. 732 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000 Hey! 733 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,000 Woo! 734 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000 Oh, man. 735 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000 It smells even worse now. 736 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000 Pork salad. 737 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Let's get her into the truck. 738 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,000 I'll take the top half. 739 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000 I'll split the duty. 740 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000 I have to say, we're asked a lot if we were surprised by the results. 741 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,000 This one was perhaps the most surprising thing we've ever done to me. 742 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:10,000 I was completely convinced at the beginning of this testing that we would be able to slice up one of those pigs with one of those cables under tension. 743 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,000 20,000, 30,000 pounds of pressure. 744 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000 I just thought it was completely going to happen. 745 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000 And halfway through, when I saw what was happening, I was like, you know what? 746 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000 I don't think this is possible. 747 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,000 And it was absolutely right. 748 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,000 Nope, it'll kill you, but it won't slice you in half. 749 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,000 Amazing. 750 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Busted. 751 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000 Totally busted.