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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.

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Coming up on MythBusters.

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It's Myths Revisited, where we take you on.

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There's crashes.

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Whoa!

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Bangs.

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And wallah.

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In a Myths Revisited special, Ken Salami really work as a rocket fuel.

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Stand back and come and get some rocket fuel out of the fridge.

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Tori and Grant see if a hand-braised on a windshield will stop it from shattering.

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I'll miss you, buddy.

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Then Adam and Jamie revisit the best way to drive a pickup truck.

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This test is tailgate up, just like old times.

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And finally, there's a battle of the blades.

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Can a sword slice through a machine gun?

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Whoa!

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Aren't Tracer rounds illegal?

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Between them, over 30 years special effects experience.

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That's what I'm jogging about.

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Joining them, Tori Belleggi.

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What could go wrong?

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Carrie Byron.

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We're going for total annihilation.

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And Grant Imahara.

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I'm pooping as fast as I can.

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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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The more we do this show, the more I think really committed we are to trying to get at

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least some kind of scientific approach to what we're doing.

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But I get a lot of angry emails from fans complaining that you screwed this up or you

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messed that up or you guys have no idea what you're doing.

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Are you going to say anything but yep?

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Well, this is another Myths Revisited episode.

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We're going to take another stab at some Myths that viewers found incredibly controversial.

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And the first one is Salami Rocket.

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Yep.

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In Salami Rocket, Adam and Jamie wanted to find out if Lunch and Meat could get launched.

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Three, two, one.

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Hey!

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Look at that!

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Twenty feet, man!

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What did I tell you?

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But according to some fans, with this rocket, it's Houston.

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We have a problem.

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Well, I don't know what more of the viewers want.

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We got the rocket off the ground.

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Yes, but the viewers are saying that we did not get a bonafide ignition.

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It flew.

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Yeah, they claim that all we got was the release of nitrous oxide propelling that rocket.

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There was no actual ignition, just the gas alone and its pressure gave our rocket that

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launch.

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I think now would be a good time for a graphic.

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Their original rocket was a two-tank hybrid rocket.

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The bottom half contained the Salami Rocket fuel and the top, the fuel oxidizer, liquid

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nitrous oxide or NOx.

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The theory was that on ignition, the Salami gently smoldered until the NOx was released

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with explosive results.

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But some fans think that the Salami was never actually a light, so the thrust they got was

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thanks only to the release of the NOx.

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So we have to retest it.

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This is just a total proof of concept, just to see if we can get ignition between the

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NOx and the Salami and to see if that ignition produces real thrust.

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Huh.

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To find out if their rocket was a NOx no-hopper or a Salami sizzler, the mythbusters have

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dusted off their original plans.

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Rocket fuel.

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So, first things first, it's back to the butcher's board.

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Remember the bandsaw was invented for cutting meat.

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Just like last time, Adam's starting by shaping the Salamis so that they'll fit snugly into

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the rocket.

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Uh, disgusting.

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And just like last time, Adam's suffering from innuendo overload to many jokes.

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With Adam showing the restraint of a saint, he heads on to tackle another viewer complaint,

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the graphite exhaust nozzle.

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Despite Adam's silky skills, there were some fans who thought his original nozzles were

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not strong enough.

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So, I've made the new ones with a much thicker lip, should provide a lot more material and

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provide a lot more strength.

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Come launch time, these reinforced nozzles should do the business.

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But for this experiment, the term launch is not entirely accurate, because they're going

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to do these tests locked down.

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We're going to do the Salami Rocket Revisit Bench Tests right here outside the shop, but

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inside the bunker.

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Now, this bunker is specifically designed to be able to contain things like flame and

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explosions and projectiles that we don't want to expose ourselves to.

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And to get some data without a launch into the sky, Jamie's built a special clamp that

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will hold the rocket in place.

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That looks pretty nifty.

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At each end of the clamp, he's putting force meters that should measure the amount of thrust

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the locked down rocket gives off on ignition.

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And with countdown approaching, Jamie puts the finishing touches to the rocket fuel,

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an inner coating of gunpowder.

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This is an invention of mine that's called self cooking meat.

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So while there won't be a vertical launch with Salamis, rockets and gunpowder, there'll

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still be some fireworks.

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Now it's time for things to get rough.

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Good to go for run number one, 15 miles per hour.

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When the team tested the myth about driving on rough roads, paramedics are nowhere to

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be found.

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They found that for a smoother ride, the faster you go, the better.

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But now, fans want to know something new.

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Well, Grant, I understand you have an interesting side myth here.

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Yep, and it has to do with rocks on the road.

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And if you have a vehicle approaching you, or if you're following one that might kick

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up a rock into your windshield, you put your hand up on it and apply pressure.

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And doing this will save your windshield if a rock hits it.

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It's another car caper.

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Can racing your hand against a windshield really prevent it from being shattered by roadside

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shrapnel?

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To test this driver's dilemma, rather than using Jamie's hammer, Grant and Tori are actually

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going to fire rocks at windshields with that childhood favorite, the slingshot.

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One, two, three.

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Did you guys see where that went?

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But of course, they're not just going to release rocks at random.

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Instead, Tori's built a rig that should fire with pinpoint accuracy.

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I think that's going to work.

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Just fine.

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But it's not just the aim that's important for this shootout.

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Well, I'm setting up the chronograph so that we can get an idea how fast Tori's slingshot

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is throwing those rocks.

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Our target velocity is somewhere in the order of 70 miles per hour.

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With the chronograph up and running and Tori's focused, everything's set for a speed test.

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I'm going to stand behind you.

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Why, Grant?

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Remember, they're looking to hit 70 miles an hour.

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Three, two, one.

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There you go.

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Okay, 67 feet per second, 45.7 miles per hour.

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45 miles an hour.

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So we need another at least 25 miles.

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Faster.

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You can hit the chrono, man.

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It went right through the box.

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76 miles per hour.

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Now they just need a car.

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Check, a handful of stones, check, and a blanket to catch any ricochets.

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Check.

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And with the list checked off, they're finally ready to fire at the windshield, both with

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and without Grant racing it with his hand.

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All right, Grant, I'm ready to start breaking windows with rocks, but before I stick you

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in that car to shoot it, I want to make sure we can actually break a windshield with the

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Don't let that thing go.

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Three, two, one.

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Perfect shot.

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That's a pretty good hit.

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No shattered windshield.

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At 70 miles an hour, there's no broken glass, even without the hand.

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They try again, but this windshield is a tough nut to crack.

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So next they decide to go for broke.

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Well, since Jamie passed this kidney stone, we figured it'd be soon to shoot it through

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the windshield.

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This is 150-gram stone.

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We're going to see what kind of damage it does.

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Surely this monster will get the result thereafter.

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Here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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But no.

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There's a spider web crack, but no full-on shatter, which means it's back to the drawing

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board.

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Still to come.

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Will the baloney go ballistic?

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One, go.

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That sounded like a hell of a thug.

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But next, talk to the hand.

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Will the windshield get shattered?

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Three, two, one.

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You can protect that schoolgirl complexion with DuPlate Safety Glass.

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There are a whole host of ways to strengthen a car's windows, but is it true that your

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hand, braced up on the glass, can make it unbreakable?

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Well, Tori and Grant are on the case, but so far they're struggling to even shatter

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a windshield in the first place.

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Okay, here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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Whoa.

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Add after a quick research break.

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Grant discovers why.

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I think we've been having such difficulty with this windshield myth because we've been

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using laminated windshields.

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And here in America, it's been common practice to use those since the 1920s.

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Well, what I think is that this myth comes from other countries, but they've been using

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tempered glass windshields up until 1994.

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Tempered glass should be much easier to break.

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So to kickstart this myth, they're removing the laminated windshield.

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This job just keeps getting better and better.

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The mythbuster way.

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After Tori has flipped out on the car, Grant flips her around.

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What turns out on this model, the rear window is tempered and not laminated.

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And they're also going to make another change.

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Man, if I had a nickel for every window I shot out with a BB gun, I wouldn't be working.

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They're abandoning the slingshot, and instead they're going to use a BB gun, which should

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be easier to aim, easier to reload, and that's not all.

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The good thing about the BB gun, the BBs are all uniform.

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They're exactly the same, so that takes out any variability that we might have with the

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stone.

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That's the theory, but will the BB be powerful enough to shatter the shield?

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What's your prediction?

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He's going to take a BB in the nuts.

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Here we go in three, two, one.

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Looks like that breaks the windshield.

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At last, they get the break thereafter.

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So now they can put this myth to the test.

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With a replacement window in place, here we go.

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Tari's going to fire an identical BB, and Grant will brace his hand against the glass.

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Will the windshield still shatter?

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I'll miss you, buddy.

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I'm going to catch it in my teeth.

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All right, so this is BB shot onto tempered glass, Grant bracing the windshield.

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In three, two, one.

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Oh, that went.

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You holding the windshield didn't seem to help much.

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No, not at all.

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The windshield was definitely not protected by the hand, but the team isn't quite ready

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to call it myth-busted yet.

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What we didn't do in the previous test is dial in at what point the windshield will

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shatter.

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So what we're going to do, I have a BB gun, and I'm going to take a shot, pump it up,

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take a shot, pump it up twice, take a shot, and I'm going to keep pumping it up, taking

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a shot until we find at the exact point it'll take to crack this windshield.

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Here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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Tari's worried that in the last test, the BB was fired so fast that it was always going

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to shatter the windshield.

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One, two, three, four.

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So for the next test, he's calibrating the BB so that it fires at a speed which only

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just smashes the unbraced glass.

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One, two, three, four, five, six.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Six pumps at this angle seems to be the winning number.

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With the BB dialed in, it's time to talk to the hand.

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So now we're going to do another test with me inside of the car holding the glass to

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see if this is going to prevent it from breaking or if it's just going to break anyway.

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It's the moment of truth.

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Grant assumes the position and Tari pumps to six.

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If the new windshield doesn't bust now, the myth is confirmed.

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Three, two, one.

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Well, it doesn't look like putting your hand up against the windshield really does much,

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does it?

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Tari's got it right on.

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Grant gave the windshield a hand, but it was still smashed to smithereens.

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My feeling is it doesn't matter whether or not you put your hand up against the windshield,

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it's going to break.

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Okay, fair enough.

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You're so over this one, huh?

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You tried getting BBs and rocks shot at you about a dozen times.

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We'll see how you feel.

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So that's it.

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Grant's patience is shattered and this myth is busted.

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Later, Tari, Kari and Grant chop down another myth.

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Sounds like some rabbit.

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But next, will the Salami Sky Rocket.

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Three, two, one.

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Cotto Salami, mortadella, rocket fuel, rocket fuel, who needs a rocket fuel?

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When the Salami Rocket revisit, the boys are all set to see if Baloti can go ballistic,

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because fans weren't convinced.

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We're having a revisit of this because there was a concern that the lift off that we got

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in a previous experiment might have been just the nitrous oxide coming out of the tank.

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And if, obviously, if there was enough of it, if it was energetic enough of it, we might

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have gotten some kind of burst from that, but not actually achieved ignition.

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To find an answer once and for all, the mythbusters have made some new meat missiles.

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But how do they work again?

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It's a bench stand test for Salami Rocket.

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This right here is the Salami Rocket.

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Nitrous oxide goes in here.

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This is an electrically actuated valve that releases it into the ignition chamber where

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we put the Salami and a nozzle.

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This rocket will be pushing this way, and we've got a force meter right here to test

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how much force it is pushing this way.

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We also have an analog force meter right here, a plate of steel, that the rocket exhaust

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will push against and actually give us a different relative measurement of exactly how much force

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the rockets are putting out.

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The mythbusters are going to run a bunch of tests and compare the thrust levels recorded

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on the force gauges.

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And for test one, they're going to address the fans' main complaint by measuring the

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force put out by the NOx alone.

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No Salami, no ignition, just escaping gas.

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Okay, this is NO2 only.

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Yeah.

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And three, two, one.

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That sounded like a hell of a thug.

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Well, let's see what the force gauge said.

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I believe that would be a pretty good one.

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Okay, the force gauge says 78 pounds of force.

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78 pounds of thrust sounds a lot, and it sure looks violent.

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But would this alone have been enough to propel their original Salami rocket to the sky?

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Adam and Jamie do the math, calibrating the force and weight, and wait for it.

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Okay, I will give it to the viewers.

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They may actually be right.

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The evidence supports it here that just the pure release of nitrous oxide from that top

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tank would be enough to get the rocket off the rocket stand.

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So it's looking like viewers won mythbusters zero.

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And if the escaping NOx was enough to launch the original rocket, then the mythbusters

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need to head back to square one.

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Can Salami add anything to the reaction?

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Come back and come and get some rocket fuel out of the fridge.

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For test two, they're loading the rocket up to the max.

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Salami is the fuel, and NOx is the oxidizer.

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And they're also adding an igniter to make sure that the Salami, with its black powder

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filling, is smoldering when the NOx is released.

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We're guiding them with little model rocket engines like this, and the new mythbusters

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launch button.

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The rocket's ready, but the question is, will this setup produce any more thrust on the

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force gauge?

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In three, two, one, go.

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Now that sounds more like it should.

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It's the moment of truth.

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Mythbuster pride is on the line.

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I get 19.6.

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Pounds?

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Yeah.

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Remember on test one, with just the escaping NOx powering it, the rocket generated 78 pounds

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of force, which means something's gone wrong.

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Pull this out.

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I've just got to look right now.

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Nothing.

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Salami didn't ignite.

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Uh-oh.

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It's looking like it's viewers two, mythbusters zero.

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The Salami didn't burn, so it's not added any more thrust, which is leaving Adam and

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Jamie rather embarrassed.

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Coming right up, the boys hit the road for a fuel efficiency revisit.

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This test is tailgate up, just like gold time, except we don't have to drive for 600 miles.

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Please don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home, ever.

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So, tailgate up versus tailgate down, are you serious?

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Are we revisiting that?

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I thought we nailed that.

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Yeah, we did nail it.

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I think we nailed it, you think we nailed it, and I believe the general consensus is

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that we nailed it.

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But when it comes to fuel efficiency, the fans just want more.

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They want more tests.

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Huh.

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The tailgate up versus down dilemma first spawned a driving marathon.

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Yeah, it's definitely out.

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I'm keying it off over.

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Then a water vortex test.

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Okay.

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Both of which prove that tailgate up is a more fuel efficient way to drive.

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And it's right about here.

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They're hitting this critical point where I can see them kind of falling off and joining

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in with their friends.

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But viewers want more.

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So the basic gist of it is that the fans feel like there are several tests we did not try

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that can potentially improve your mileage on your pickup truck.

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Yeah, my inbox is full of them, like driving your pickup with that hard roof cover on it.

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Yeah, that's one of them.

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There's also, I've been suggested, the mesh in place of your tailgate is supposed to work.

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And some of them are suggesting that you even take your tailgate entirely off.

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Okay, so that's three tests.

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That's enough for us to work with.

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I think we should do it.

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Sounds like a plan.

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The boys are going to test the different tailgate setups at 25 and 55 miles an hour.

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To find out once and for all the most fuel efficient way of driving a pickup.

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Or more precisely, Jamie's pickup.

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The way this works is it's got a flow meter, an electronic flow meter that we've hooked

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directly into the fuel line of the car.

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So it knows it's not estimating, it's not calculating or extrapolating, it's reading

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precisely how much fuel is moving into the engine of the car under each condition we're

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going to test it under.

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It's a foolproof system and once more it has been pretested.

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For anyone out there who wants to email me telling me that we screwed up this test, we

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have already calibrated this thing to this car.

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So it's going to be perfect.

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With the perfect gauge in place, it's time to hit the road.

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So for each of these, I think this stretch that you're driving on is perfect.

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It's like five miles of straight, flat road when you get all of our speed readings and

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fuel efficiency readings on here to start back and forth, back and forth.

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And they're going to start by trying to confirm their original results with the tailgate down.

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Okay, I'm working my way up to 55.

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It should be pretty stable right now.

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5.3, 5.2.

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I'm real stable.

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It's not moving.

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5.2, 5.2.

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5.2 gallons per hour at 55.

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From 55, Jamie slams on their brakes and repeats the circuit at 25 miles an hour.

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Okay, 1.2 gallons per hour at 25.

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Okay.

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A quick pit stop later and it's all changed with the tailgate.

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This test is tailgate up just like old times, because I've been on a drive for 600 miles.

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They run the circuit once more at 55.

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Stable reading of 5 gallons per hour at 55.

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Then again at 25 miles an hour.

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Well, that seems to confirm our previous results that having the tailgate up is more fuel efficient

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than having the tailgate down.

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Well, that's encouraging.

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So, what's next?

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Now that their original results are upheld, the new tests can begin.

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And first up, it's on with the pickup cover.

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Putting a hard cover on your pickup truck is supposed to be the best thing you could do

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to make it aerodynamic and that's supposed to lead to the best fuel efficiency.

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A nearly endless number of fans wrote Jamie and I to explain this very point, so that's

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why we're doing it.

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Once the cover's in place, they drive around in circles some more.

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1.2 gallons per hour at 25.

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Let's go up to 55.

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Okay, and steadying up.

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Not moving.

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Okay, I get a reading of 5 gallons per hour at 55.

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The stats are in, so they head back to mission control, where it's off with the roof as the

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cover is uncovered.

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And there you have it.

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One nice fallout shelter.

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Hello honey, there's a tornado coming.

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Hold on sweetie, let's go down.

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While Adam seeks shelter, what's next?

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Next is actually a truck tailgate mesh.

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Requires removing this and putting the mesh on.

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Well, this thing weighs a bit.

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I guess that'd save mileage if it's not on the truck, right?

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Well, the fans emailed us and said if we're testing tailgate up and down, we should test

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this because this is supposed to be the least aerodynamic.

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It's supposed to use the most fuel.

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And on the box it actually says it improves the gas mileage.

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So we're going to investigate that.

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There's a mishmash of information about the mesh.

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The manufacturer claims it improves mileage, but the fans disagree.

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Luckily, the myth busters are going to put an end to this controversy.

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So this is the test for the mesh installed with the tailgate removed.

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And two laps later, the info's in.

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And that leaves just one final configuration.

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Okay, we're good to go.

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Well, let's go.

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The last test is no tailgate and no mesh.

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And after another bout of driving, they have all the data they could ever need.

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So where are we now?

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Well, now I'm tired of driving and I think we should go back to the shop and crunch all these numbers,

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compare them to each other and see what kind of data we actually achieved today.

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Okay.

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So Adam, we're back at base and you're looking a little confused with that calculator.

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I'm not confused.

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Hold on.

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All right, the results are in.

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The most fuel efficient thing you can do to drive your pickup truck is...

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Mesh.

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Really?

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Yeah, actually it was an improvement of almost 5%, which exceeds most of the other things we tried.

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Wow.

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What about the other combinations?

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Well, no tailgate, tailgate up and hard cover were all about the same and tailgate down was again the worst.

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Well, there you go.

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Yeah, I really, really hope and I'm asking you, sitting at your computer, not to email me about this.

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I don't want to do any more fuel efficiency myths.

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Yeah, if you don't believe us, go right ahead and drive the way you want.

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Two, one.

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Later, the Salami rocket backfires.

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The Salami everywhere.

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But next, it's a barbecue myth buster style.

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Always remember, use plenty of lighter fluid.

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Now, Carrie, Grant and Tori are going to slice another myth wide open.

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So, sword cuts a sword.

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Did you guys screw up or what?

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No, we actually got it right this time.

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Cut to flashback.

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In the mega movie special, the team tried to chop a sword.

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We go in three, two, one.

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Yeah.

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Whoa.

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Nice.

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But no matter what combination of blades they used, they could never get a clean cut.

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At first, I was so impressed.

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I thought we might have had a slice, but comes down to it, we had another snap.

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But the fifth one, we had a slice.

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We had a slice.

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At first, I was so impressed.

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I thought we might have had a slice, but comes down to it, we had another snap.

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But the fans now want them to shoot down another sword chopping myth.

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So, we actually got a letter from a fan that said during World War II,

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Japanese soldiers were cutting through American soldiers' hot machine gun barrels with their swords.

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I'll be darned.

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All right.

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Well, it sounds like we need to dust off the cutting rig and I'll go get a machine gun.

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Sounds like you got your work cut out for you, don't you?

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Machine guns are the foundation of today's military units.

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But could this mandate of modern warfare really be cut down by the humble sword?

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To carve out an answer, Grant is first making some modifications to the original sword-swinging robot.

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Before, this was just able to match what a human could do.

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00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,560
But for this one, we're actually going to amp it up and make it something superhuman.

494
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,560
Because shearing through a machine gun is a tough task,

495
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,560
Grant's maximizing the robot's cutting power.

496
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,560
With a new pressure cylinder, it'll be packing twice the punch,

497
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:52,560
which makes it so dangerous that for a preliminary test, the team must retreat to the bunker.

498
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,560
Here we go.

499
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:59,560
Three, two, one.

500
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,560
Yeah, all right.

501
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,560
That's only at a third of the maximum pressure, a quarter of the maximum pressure.

502
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:11,560
With the rigs swinging like Babe Ruth, it's time to bring in the World War II weaponry.

503
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,560
What we've got here is a browning 30-caliber machine gun.

504
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,560
And it's got the outside guard, but more importantly, the barrel.

505
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,560
And as you can see, it's pretty thick.

506
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:29,560
With such a thick barrel, it's looking like the sword will have its work cut out.

507
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,560
But then, Grant offers this myth a lifeline.

508
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,560
Well, supposedly, the reason that they were able to cut through the barrel is because

509
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:43,560
as these guns were being fired, they would heat up almost to the point of being red or even white hot.

510
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,560
Now let's get this straight.

511
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:50,560
When a bullet is fired, the gases expelled can reach temperatures of 5,000 degrees.

512
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:56,560
So it's no surprise that with a rapid-fire weapon, the barrel can become red hot,

513
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,560
making a slice and dice much more likely.

514
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,560
Of course, it's too dangerous to actually shoot the browning to heat it up.

515
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,560
So instead, they're having a barbecue.

516
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:15,560
The reason why we're starting a fire is we need to get these machine gun barrels at an even temperature.

517
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,560
Run it over to the sword machine and try to cut it in half.

518
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:25,560
But with Tori in charge of the fire, this method could be just as dangerous as the shooting.

519
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,560
Always remember, use plenty of lighter fluid.

520
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,560
Who put you in charge of the fire?

521
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,560
I don't know, but I'm glad they did.

522
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,560
Where there's smoke, there's fire.

523
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,560
And this little shin dig is no exception.

524
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:47,560
With a little help from the shop fan and a few more calls, he's hoping to reach 600 degrees.

525
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,560
Does this all seem incredibly dangerous?

526
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,560
Yes, it seems very dangerous.

527
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,560
Just as long as everyone's aware of that.

528
00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:03,560
With everyone aware of the danger, Tori adds the gun barrel to the flames, which is making Carrie even more nervous.

529
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:10,560
Worst case scenario would be that as the samurai sword comes whipping around, hits the gun barrel,

530
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:15,560
one or the other, both shatter into a million pieces, and they go into every part of the shop.

531
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,560
Shop catches on fire, burns down. I don't have a job.

532
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,560
Carrie may yet be fired, but it's too late to back out because...

533
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,560
It's done.

534
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,560
Let's heat the gun barrel up to about 600 degrees.

535
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,560
We're going to bring it inside.

536
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:37,560
We've got our samurai sword swinging rig already to try to give it a cut and see if this revisit has any truth to it.

537
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,560
Three, two, one.

538
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,560
It sounded like something happened.

539
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,560
It was a clean strike, but what's the result?

540
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,560
Wow.

541
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,560
That is a slice.

542
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,560
Yeah, it's definitely a cut.

543
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,560
That's a lot better than I would have thought.

544
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,560
Me too.

545
00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:59,560
Given the thickness of this material.

546
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,560
But it didn't cut through it.

547
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,560
Or it's a slice.

548
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,560
It didn't cut in half, but that's a gash.

549
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:12,560
The gun may be gashed, but in a complete reverse of the myth, it's the blade that's been broken in half.

550
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,560
So the next step is we're going to stick this back in the fire, try to get it up to a maximum temperature,

551
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,560
and then we're going to go and try to cut it in half again.

552
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,560
Last time they got the barrel to 600 degrees.

553
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,560
Oh, I bet that's over a thousand.

554
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,560
But this time they're cranking the heat up to the maximum.

555
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,560
Oh, it's well over a thousand.

556
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:33,560
Wow, the 14...

557
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:34,560
1500.

558
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,560
1600 degrees.

559
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,560
Okay, it looks like it's holding there.

560
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:39,560
And...

561
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:40,560
Alright.

562
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:47,560
With the temperature at 1600, the barrel starts to resemble something out of a sci-fi movie.

563
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,560
Oh my God, it looks like a lightsaber.

564
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,560
So cool.

565
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,560
Alright, let's get this thing cut.

566
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:55,560
Okay.

567
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,560
We are hot.

568
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:57,560
No pun intended.

569
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,560
Get in here.

570
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,560
Three, two, one.

571
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,560
Okay, well...

572
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:09,560
There, here.

573
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,560
The barrel is still intact.

574
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,560
It's got a deep slice.

575
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,560
It's good?

576
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:15,560
Yeah, it's deeper, but...

577
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,560
It's still not cutting it in half, huh?

578
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,560
Okay, I think just straight heat is not doing it because it's still red.

579
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,560
And if it couldn't cut it at this point when it's soft and malleable and 1600 degrees...

580
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,560
It wouldn't cut it ever.

581
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,560
With the gun still standing strong, this myth is surely looking busted.

582
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,560
On the other side of the break, will the gun get sliced and diced?

583
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,560
And will the Salami rocket shoot for the moon?

584
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,560
In three, two, one.

585
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:10,560
The Mythbusters have been testing hot barrel against chiseled blade to see whether a sword can really cut through a machine gun.

586
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:16,560
But so far, it's gun two, sword zero.

587
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,560
So like something happened.

588
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:24,560
But all is not lost because Grant's just had a moment of imahara ingenuity.

589
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:32,560
One possibility for another way this might have happened is to heat up the barrel just like you're shooting it and then quench it rapidly.

590
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:39,560
And if you do this over a succession of times, it will make the metal harder and in some cases, more brittle.

591
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:45,560
Which would make it easier for someone to cut it or break it somehow.

592
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:52,560
To put Grant's theory to the test, Tari first reheats the barrel before plunging it into some cold water.

593
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,560
There she blows.

594
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,560
And once chilled, the barrel jumps back from the freezing pan into the fire.

595
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,560
Back into the fire.

596
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:14,560
After five more repetitions, the barrels all set for test three, for which Carrie has lined up one more change.

597
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,560
I've finally convinced Grant and Tori that we are going to have to give this our best shot.

598
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:24,560
So we've gone through our inventory and pulled out the strongest best sword we have.

599
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,560
I think it's going to give us our best shot.

600
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,560
It's a souped up sword versus a bruised up barrel.

601
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:37,560
Alright, brittle barrel, strong sword in three, two, one.

602
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,560
Whoa!

603
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,560
There's a drop of metal.

604
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,560
Kicking, kicking, kicking.

605
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:46,560
Yeah!

606
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,560
Look it right there, right there, right there.

607
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,560
At last, they've hit pay dirt.

608
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,560
The barrel has broken into four pieces.

609
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,560
But according to Grant, it's not myth confirmed.

610
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,560
And there's three reasons why.

611
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,560
The first reason is that this is not a slice.

612
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,560
The myth is about slicing through a barrel.

613
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,560
This is hitting it and the barrel shattered.

614
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,560
The second reason is under normal operation, this machine gun would have an outside guard,

615
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,560
which we weren't using for our tests.

616
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,560
And the third reason is that I've really amped up this rig.

617
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:18,560
It is superhuman.

618
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:24,560
So that amount of force could not be delivered by even an expert swordsman.

619
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,560
So on the Browning machine gun, it's myth busted.

620
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,560
But Carrie wants to try one more thing.

621
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,560
I think we should actually move on though.

622
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,560
I think we should go on to something.

623
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,560
Is there some sort of machine gun or something from the same era that would have smaller barrel

624
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,560
or thinner walls or something?

625
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Well technically it wouldn't be a machine gun, it would be a submachine gun.

626
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,560
But there are smaller barrels like a Tommy gun, which we have.

627
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,560
Okay.

628
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:47,560
We should try that.

629
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,560
Yeah, let's ruin another gun.

630
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:50,560
Alright.

631
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,560
It's the last chance for this myth.

632
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,560
Armed with a thin walled Tommy gun, it's back to the barbecue.

633
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,560
It ain't gonna lie, that's hot.

634
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:10,560
Alright, I'm watching it go up 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1617, 1740, 17...

635
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,560
Topping at 1750.

636
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:13,560
Alright, cool.

637
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,560
Let's do it.

638
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:20,560
With the temperature red hot, can this shooter get slashed by the super strong sword?

639
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:28,560
Okay, here we're going with a modern alloy blade, Tommy gun barrel in three, two, one.

640
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,560
Oh, no way!

641
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,560
It bent it.

642
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,560
No freaking way.

643
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,560
Huh.

644
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:45,560
The barrel's more crooked than a politician, but even at almost 2000 degrees, there's still no cut.

645
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:51,560
You know what my feeling is, it is that hot, it's hot enough to bend it by hitting it, and it's still not cutting it.

646
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,560
I don't think you'll ever be able to cut it no matter how hot the barrel gets.

647
00:38:54,560 --> 00:39:00,560
No, I agree. I mean, here you see that, that deflection, it should have been able to.

648
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,560
If it was going to, this is the softest state you're gonna find it in.

649
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,560
It bent the barrel.

650
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:12,560
And let's not forget that those are the thinnest walls on the smallest barrel using a modern sword with modern alloys.

651
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,560
What they're trying to say is that it's miffed completely and utterly busted.

652
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,560
So, let's cue the wrap up.

653
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,560
So, what were the results you guys came up with?

654
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,560
Totally busted. You can't cut a World War II-era machine gun barrel with a sword.

655
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,560
It's just too thick.

656
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,560
But we do think we found a reasonable explanation for why people thought maybe that you could cut them in half,

657
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:37,560
and that is under certain conditions. The heating of the machine gun barrel through firing can make it kind of brittle,

658
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,560
and it can shatter on impact with a sword, but it doesn't slice.

659
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,560
So it's totally busted. Nice work. Well done.

660
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,560
The Salami Rocket Revisit is not going well.

661
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:56,560
So far, it's looking like the fans are right. Salami may be tasty, but Rocket Fuel it ain't.

662
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,560
Nothing. Salami didn't ignite.

663
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,560
But Jamie, bright spark that he is, has had a bright idea.

664
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,560
Our ignition system worked perfectly this last run.

665
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:14,560
However, we didn't get the reaction with the fuel grain and the gnaws.

666
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,560
That means everything was burning, but it wasn't carried through into the fuel.

667
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:26,560
What we figure that we need to do to make that happen is actually choke down the nozzle considerably more,

668
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:32,560
because increasing the pressure in that engine is part of the formula of how rocket engines work.

669
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,560
And on the off chance, you are not a rocket scientist.

670
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:41,560
All that means is that on the next test, they're going to use an exhaust nozzle with a smaller hole.

671
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:48,560
Nitrous oxide with a 5-16 inch nozzle and 3, 2, 1.

672
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,560
That's more like it.

673
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:03,560
More like it indeed, the reinforced nozzle blew out, but there's no doubt they got the ignition they wanted.

674
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,560
There's Salami everywhere. Dude, it blew out the nozzle.

675
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,560
The nozzle gave way, so there's Florida's ceiling Salami shrapnel,

676
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,560
but it did hang in long enough for the rocket to thrust its way into the force meter.

677
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:22,560
Oh yeah.

678
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:29,560
That's a hell of a lot of pressure. 218 pounds of thrust.

679
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:34,560
That's a lot.

680
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,560
218 pounds of thrust. That's three times the force of the Noxolone,

681
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:44,560
proving that yes, Salami can act as rocket fuel.

682
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:49,560
But with another tweak to the nozzle size, the boys think they can go better still.

683
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:56,560
This is Nos Hybrid Salami rocket with a 3-8s nozzle.

684
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,560
In 3, 2, 1. Go!

685
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,560
I think we got more thrust.

686
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:09,560
I bet we got more.

687
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,560
Let's go see what it reads.

688
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,560
880 pounds of thrust.

689
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:23,560
It's a heck of a lot of force for such a little Salami, but is it enough to have launched a rocket?

690
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:32,560
This thing would have taken off like nobody's business if we had had this launched.

691
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,560
It would have exploded mid-air at some point and stopped going,

692
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:44,560
but with 500 pounds worth of I'm going up, something that weighs under 20 pounds is going up.

693
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:50,560
So in other words, the Salami rocket rocks. It's myth should accomplish it.

694
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,560
Well, I am really pleased with those results.

695
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:59,560
The thrust we got from the Noxolone reaction and ignition vastly exceeded the thrust we got

696
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,560
from just the release of the Noxolone.

697
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:08,560
Yeah, in fact, the results were so good that we maxed out the force gauge and even ruined it.

698
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,560
I'm also pleased to note that I did not screw up the nozzle design.

699
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,560
That the reaction is so energetic, it's more like an explosion than anything else,

700
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,560
and it blew up even our new much stronger nozzles.

701
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,560
I mean, this stuff is confirmed. It's just not an ideal rocket fuel.

702
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:27,560
Maybe someday when science unlocks the secret, we'll be traveling to Mars on pure mortadella.

703
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,560
But not now.