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

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Ever.

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A car in reverse could stop your car.

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Hey, did you see the smoke up those tires?

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You also wanted to know if sneezing with your eyes open could pop out your eyeball.

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And if a tennis ball could serve as a lock pick.

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Don't try this at home.

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Then you even donated a car for some high explosives hijinks.

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So buckle up and get fired up because this show is for you.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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It's almost too exciting.

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Wow!

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Huge dramatic music.

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Joining them, Carrie Byron.

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Brent Imahara.

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Danger, warning, warning.

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And Tori Belleggi.

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10 bucks.

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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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General, please.

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If you're ready, it's time for the very first Mythbusters viewer special.

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Yeah, since the beginning of season five or the Hindenburg episode,

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we've been appealing to you for ideas.

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Yeah, we've been inundated with some of the myths

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and some are just questions people need answers to.

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The kind of questions that keep America awake at night.

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Exactly.

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So we're just going to take the most popular ideas that the viewers are giving us

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and we're going to test them here and now.

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Well, let's split it up.

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You guys take a few and we'll take a few.

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Perfect.

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Why don't Jamie and I kick it all off?

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Are you ready for this?

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We're just about to do the most requested myth ever in the history of Mythbusters.

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Over 10,000 people have asked us to take this one on.

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What?

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Okay, quite simply put.

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I can tell you're really excited, but calm down.

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Okay, here it is.

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That if you sneeze with your eyes open,

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your eyes pop out of your head and roll across the floor.

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Get out.

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That's where it got.

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Now, thanks to the viewer requests, we're going to take it on.

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In cartoons, a good sneeze can catapult you into the ceiling.

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In the real world, Mythbusters fans reckon

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that sneezing with your eyes open could pop them right out.

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So, is there anything to this myth

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or will the eye-popped sneeze be all washed out?

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The physics of this myth are nothing to sniff at.

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A sneeze is the fastest physical reaction of the human body

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with the spray reaching speeds of over 120 miles an hour.

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So, perhaps this force is violent enough to propel your peepers out of place.

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For viewer myth number one, the team gets straight into capturing some a-choose.

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The setup is pretty straightforward.

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Your basic grid, which we love to put behind all our high-speed shots,

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and Jamie and I need to sit in the chair in front of the high-speed camera

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and generate a sneeze and hold our eyes open while we're doing it.

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The high-speed should make it absolutely clear if we're successful,

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and that should answer this question.

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Yep, it really is that simple.

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So, who's first for the sneeze shooting range?

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So, have you ever tried to make yourself sneeze?

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No, I get boogers all over my face.

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Despite his snot rocket reservations,

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Jamie takes the hot seat,

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and to induce sneezing, Adam tries a well-known tickly tactic.

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Does that help at all?

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No, it's f***ing me off, though.

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The Heinemann isn't moved.

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So, they try something from the cartoons.

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Pepper up the nose, perhaps with eye-popping results.

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My experience in the past with pepper, plain old black pepper,

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that makes me sneeze.

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So, what is it about pepper that makes you sneeze?

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has an alkaloid of pyridine called piperine,

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and this irritates the nerve endings underneath your mucus membranes,

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and it wants to get it out of there.

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and the only way it knows how to do that is to sneeze?

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That's pretty much it.

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That is pretty much it.

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But for Jamie, it's just not working.

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It actually kind of makes me want to cough instead of sneeze,

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because it's burning all the way down to my throat.

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Gizuntai.

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But unfortunately, there's a problem.

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Eyes totally closed.

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He lost his concentration.

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Eyes are totally closed.

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right on this big old stash.

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It glints in the light.

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For this test, Jamie needed to keep his eyes open.

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he couldn't overcome the sneeze reflex.

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Well, dude, your eyes are closed, though.

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I think we need another shot at this.

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I've got too much pepper in the system.

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I don't think I can do any more.

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All right, well, I'll give a shot.

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Maybe Adam can keep his eyes on the prize.

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Good luck, buddy.

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What the hell are we doing?

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Just like Jamie, Adam takes a big whiff of the pepper.

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It's cold!

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How's that?

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That was a sneeze.

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Yeah, I think I closed my eye.

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I'm pretty sure I did. Like, I couldn't not.

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And the high speed confirms it.

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At the precise moment of the sneeze,

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Adam's eyes were shut.

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He opened them afterwards.

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So this time, Adam has a plan

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to produce some potentially blinding results.

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I'm gonna try and hold my eyes open this time.

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We'll try.

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Or like that. All right?

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Whatever floats your boat.

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Adam's not leaving anything to chance.

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This time, he'll clamp his eyes open.

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But will he be able to sneeze

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without causing permanent damage?

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It's cold!

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Oh, my God.

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He opened it.

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there's another sneeze on the way.

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Good job. You did it again.

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Thank you.

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Yep, it's another world first

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for Mythbusters science.

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The high speeds confirm Adam

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definitely held his eyes open for both sneezes.

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And there was no bulging

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or eye-popping in sight.

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Oh, my God. That's awful.

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Those eyes don't look like they're bulging out at all.

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No. No.

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Well, they do, but they normally look that way.

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Peel the eye from the lashes back.

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Viewer myth number one is looking ready to bust.

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That's pretty definitive.

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I mean, I couldn't do it, but you sure as heck did.

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You did it twice.

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but because the fans asked so many times,

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I'd really like to wrap this up with an expert opinion.

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The Mythbusters are going all out for the viewers.

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So Adam heads to UCSF,

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where ophthalmologist Jackie Duncan can set him straight.

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That was just a...

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I'm sure that when the fans hear this question,

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they're thinking that you go,

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ah, shoot, and your eye goes, boing, boing, boing, boing.

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I mean, could your eye actually pop

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all the way out of your head?

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Well, that's almost impossible.

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There are a number of things holding your eye in your head.

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There's a covering over the surface of the eye

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called the Conjunctiva.

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Your eye is also connected to six different

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extra-acclaration muscles that allow your eyes to move around.

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Finally, the optic nerve is connected to your eye,

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and would prevent it from falling out and rolling across the floor.

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That's a lot of ophthalmology.

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But what it means is, no matter how hard you blow,

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your eyes aren't going to go anywhere.

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There you have it.

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I mean, I couldn't do it, but you sure as heck did.

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And you did it twice.

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You sneezed, you held your eyes open,

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and no eyeballs came out.

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Here they are. Yeah.

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You asked for it, and we did it.

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This one is totally busted.

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It's busted.

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Still to come, a fan donates a car for some Hollywood hijinks.

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And after the break,

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Vrant and Tory try to stop with reverse.

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Hey! Did you see the smoke off those tires?

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up with reverse.

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Did you see the smoke off those tires?

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Next up, another fan favorite, hot off the website.

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Our next viewer myth is a classic and that is can you stop a car by throwing it in reverse?

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At a test this we've come to one of our favorite places, the runway at Alameda.

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We've gotten two donated cars because we're pretty sure they're not going to survive.

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You ready to wreck these cars?

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Let's do it!

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This viewer myth is not recommended for your car.

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We've all thought about it and now you the fans want to know if you can stop a runaway

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car by throwing it in reverse.

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And shifting gear, stop your car or will it just trash your transmission?

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What's the plan Stan?

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Okay, this is a plan.

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I've gotten automatic, you've got a stick shift.

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We'll drive it to 50 miles an hour and then stop at a line that we paint on the ground.

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Alright, we'll hit the regular brakes, see how long it takes for us to stop and then

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for the grand finale we'll throw it into reverse and see what happens.

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I love it, let's do it!

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That's the plan, no frills, no fuss.

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You asked for it and we delivered.

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First up is the regular braking distance on the automatic.

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At 50.

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Oh my god.

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Dang, did you see the smoke off those tires?

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You do but they're all on the asphalt.

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So how to grant skid marks, measure up.

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61, 2, 3, 4, 5, 65 feet.

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65 feet to bring the automatic to a dead stop with the brakes.

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In 3, 2, 1, go!

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Tori accelerates to 50 miles an hour and when he hits the stop line he slams on the brakes.

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Alright!

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Did you smell the rubber?

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Dude!

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That was fun!

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Nice.

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How old did you get to be?

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70?

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75?

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80.

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80 feet?

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80 feet with the regular brake pedal.

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80 feet for the manual and 65 feet for the auto ain't bad.

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Slams the brakes.

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But what happens when you shift into reverse?

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How will the stopping distance compare?

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Let's do this, here we go.

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Ready?

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In 3, 2, 1, go!

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Grant brings the car up to 50 miles per hour.

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When he hits the wide line, instead of hitting the brakes, he'll shift into reverse, just

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like you asked, and try to stop the car.

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Or at least, that's the theory.

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That's interesting.

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But that's not exactly the photo finish the guys were expecting.

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Buddy, it doesn't look like you did anything.

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Nope, it's in reverse.

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The check engine lights on, the battery lights on.

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I'm still coasting.

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That was the most underwhelming outcome I've ever seen on this show.

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2270 feet.

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It's a new record.

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That's an extra 2250 feet from the brakes.

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Turns out the automatic has a safety device, making it impossible to engage reverse while

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driving forward.

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The reverse stop theory is running out of gas, but there's still one more car to try.

262
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Here we go.

263
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In 3, 2, 1, go!

264
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Start your engines.

265
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Once again, Tori's gunning for 50 miles per hour.

266
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And when he hits the stop line, he throws the manual into reverse.

267
00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,480
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as you might think.

268
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The transmission crunches and Tori clenches.

269
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Here we go, of course.

270
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Hit the brakes!

271
00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:18,480
Save yourself!

272
00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,480
But he can't engage the reverse gear.

273
00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,480
Hey, you made it down here.

274
00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,480
1,922 feet from the stop mark.

275
00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,480
Oh my God, trying to throw it into reverse to stop the manual is just not the way to go.

276
00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:42,480
Even with Tori's mantra, if you can't find it, grind it, the car still went an extra 1,842 feet.

277
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Maybe that's because with a manual transmission, you have to be at a complete stop to select reverse.

278
00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,480
So, what's the verdict from the guys?

279
00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,480
Alright, the fans, they have been dying to see this one tested and we tested it.

280
00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,480
Trying to stop a manual car by throwing it into reverse, totally busted.

281
00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,480
Trying to stop an automatic car by throwing it into reverse, also busted.

282
00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,480
Alright, but we can't stop here.

283
00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,480
It sounds like you have something up your sleeve.

284
00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,480
Yeah, automatics have a park gear.

285
00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,480
I think we have to get this car up to 50 miles an hour and throw it into park.

286
00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:21,480
It's the viewer special and we owe it to you to leave no stone unturned.

287
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The team revs up for one last try at trashing the transmission.

288
00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,480
Okay, everybody, heads up. This is the automatic.

289
00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,480
Going at 50 miles per hour, we are throwing it into park.

290
00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,480
In three, two, one, go!

291
00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,480
They're going to park at 50 miles per hour.

292
00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,480
Will this give them the result they're after?

293
00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,480
Okay, you're at 50?

294
00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,480
Yep, I'm at 50 miles an hour. Here it comes!

295
00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,480
No!

296
00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:52,480
What?

297
00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,480
Nothing, I'm in park.

298
00:15:55,480 --> 00:16:02,480
Even shifting into park didn't stop the car, which means viewer myth number two is busted.

299
00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,480
That sucked!

300
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:32,480
And now for something completely different.

301
00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,480
Mythbusters viewers like nothing more than a good bang.

302
00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,480
Be it an annihilated avalanche.

303
00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,480
Oh, look at that!

304
00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,480
Detonating denim.

305
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,480
Or a cement truck turned torpedo.

306
00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:54,480
So it's no surprise that viewers want more.

307
00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,480
Alright, next one up says, Exploding Car. Is that a myth?

308
00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,480
It's no myth. Some kid emailed me and said he wanted us to blow up his parents' car.

309
00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,480
I told him, sure, why not, as long as he gets their permission?

310
00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,480
Well, I suppose it is a viewer request special, so we ought to honor it.

311
00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:17,480
Yeah, and I figure while we're at it, we should just use it as an excuse to test Hollywood explosions as opposed to the real thing.

312
00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:22,480
That's perfect! We do two explosions. One's like a big Hollywood fireball, the next one's like the cement truck.

313
00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,480
The real deal.

314
00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,480
Perfect. Let's do it.

315
00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,480
It's a story inspired by Chris Canella.

316
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:35,480
He wrote in with a simple wish. He wants his parents' car obliterated.

317
00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:42,480
It may be this viewer's dream come true, but it's this car's worst nightmare.

318
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,480
It's going to explode not once, but twice.

319
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,480
And it's going to go down in one of the team's all-time favorite places.

320
00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:57,480
We are back at one of the fans' most treasured Mythbuster locations at the Rock Quarry, where we blew up the cement truck.

321
00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:02,480
And where we did 22,000-foot fall explosion.

322
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,480
Today we're here to blow up a 12-year-old kid's parents' car.

323
00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,480
Twice.

324
00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:15,480
First time, it's going to be a movie-style explosion, like from the 70s TV shows that you grew up with.

325
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,480
The second time, it's going to be a real explosion, and there's going to be nothing left.

326
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,480
So the team's hoping for some car carnage.

327
00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,480
And retired FBI agent Frank Doyle is just the man for the job.

328
00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,480
We're going to fix it. We're going to do some instantaneous repair.

329
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:39,480
As the bomb techs get technical, prepping the car for the Hollywood-style boom, Adam's pulling out all the movie cliches.

330
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,480
Here's how it's going to set up. Camera's going to be right where camera is right now.

331
00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,480
Car's going to blow up. I'm going to be running.

332
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:53,480
Oh, I'm going to be diving, hopefully, in midair as the explosion happens and land safely on these mats.

333
00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,480
Then I get to live out my fantasy as a stuntman.

334
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,480
With Adam Adamant, he's playing the role of stuntman.

335
00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,480
Jamie wants to first take a few safety precautions.

336
00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:11,480
So Adam, if you want to do that shot where you're running away from an explosion, and the explosion's in the car...

337
00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,480
I don't want any glass in my backside.

338
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,480
Exactly. That's what I was thinking. Maybe I should take the windows out, huh?

339
00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,480
Yeah, let's... Can I do one?

340
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,480
Okay, sure.

341
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,480
Don't try this at home.

342
00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:22,480
Boom!

343
00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,480
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

344
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,480
With the glass out the window, the bomb squad takes care of the rest.

345
00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,480
This type of stunt is all about the visual effect.

346
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,480
The main thing that people are going to be seeing here is just gasoline burning.

347
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:47,480
Now, we are using explosives, but it is only to place under the gasoline to vaporize the gasoline and make it easier for the gasoline to burn.

348
00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,480
That's the theory.

349
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,480
Add with the gas in place, everything's ready for some movie-inspired mayhem.

350
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,480
So, are you ready for a Hollywood-style explosion for your parents' car?

351
00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,480
Yeah.

352
00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,480
You got anything else you want us to blow up?

353
00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,480
Aside from my other parents' car.

354
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,480
Ha ha ha ha ha!

355
00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:05,480
Well, where is it?

356
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,480
It's party time. Let's do this.

357
00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:08,480
You feel ready?

358
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:09,480
Oh, yeah.

359
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:10,480
All right, give me a high-five.

360
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,480
Excellent. Let's go.

361
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,480
With everything set, stuntman Adam does his stretches.

362
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,480
And then it's go time.

363
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:20,480
Burn it all!

364
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,480
Burn it all!

365
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,480
Three, two, one!

366
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,480
Good!

367
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,480
It's a perfect copy of a cinematic cliché.

368
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:46,480
Janey presses the plunger, and in a move that Hannibal Smith would be proud of, Adam leaps as the car gets blown sky high.

369
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,480
I love it when a plan comes together.

370
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,480
Well, almost.

371
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,480
Of course, nothing ever goes quite as smoothly as you'd hope.

372
00:20:54,480 --> 00:21:05,480
And when the three, two, one, which we had all planned out for me to start running at three, to jump at one so that I'd be in the middle of the air at zero when the bomb went off.

373
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,480
The three, two, one happened a little slower than I thought it would, so I kind of had to slow down.

374
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:21,480
Nonetheless, the high-speed shot of Janey pushing the plunger while I'm in midair with the fireball behind, a wide shot of flames shooting high up into the sky, it could not have gone better.

375
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:28,480
You can't improve on perfection, and viewer Chris is pretty darn excited.

376
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:34,480
Right now, I pretty much feel like the happiest kid on earth, and this is just half of it.

377
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:41,480
The next thing we're going to do is put real explosives in this car, and the car is going to go away.

378
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,480
Going on the investors!

379
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,480
Everyone knows that cigarettes are deadly, but what about their butts?

380
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,480
Remember, don't try this at home.

381
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,480
We've got years of experience that keeps us safe.

382
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:11,480
So what's the next story?

383
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:16,480
It's called Killer Butts, and it's not about somebody's rear end.

384
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,480
Okay, I gotta know, what is the story?

385
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:24,480
Well, a couple of good old boys decided to get drunk and mess around with guns. Generally not a good idea.

386
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:32,480
Anyway, one of them decided to put three cigarette butts down the muzzle of a muzzle loading rifle, and just for fun, fired at his buddy.

387
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,480
It didn't turn out well.

388
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,480
Sounds like it's a bad case of heartburn.

389
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:37,480
It killed him.

390
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:47,480
Alcohol and guns may be great on their own, but together they're never a good combination.

391
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:53,480
Add cigarettes to the mix, and you've got a visit to the ER just waiting to happen.

392
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,480
The story goes that two alcohol-fueled buddies had a boozy idea.

393
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:06,480
They loaded up a rifle with three cigarette butts, took aim from seven feet, but that's when things went horribly wrong.

394
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,480
And you, the viewers, want to know if this could really happen.

395
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,480
I just had the funniest daydream.

396
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,480
Anyway, so what's the plan?

397
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,480
Well, it's pretty straightforward.

398
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:27,480
We get a ballistics gel dummy, some cigarettes, some gunpowder, a muzzle loading rifle, and a firearm range.

399
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,480
You know, in this one, I'd also like to add a heart to our ballistics gel test subject.

400
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,480
That way, if a cigarette gets all the way through the skin and into the heart, we know we've got death.

401
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,480
Well, it's kind of gross and smelling. I like it.

402
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,480
It's never stopped us before.

403
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:53,480
The plan is to pack a muzzle loading rifle with black powder and three cigarette butts, then take aim at a ballistics gel dummy from seven feet for some heart-stopping action.

404
00:23:53,480 --> 00:24:00,480
So while Jamie rustles up a rifle, Adam shoots to the workshop to fire up a boozy ballistics buddy.

405
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Like a lot of other myths where we've got something deadly that occurs, we're going to test this by making a human analog to show whether or not death has occurred.

406
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:20,480
In this, I'm using a very old Mythbusters torso mold, which we've used on countless myths, except I'm pouring into it a brand new ballistics medium we've got.

407
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,480
This stuff is totally clear.

408
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:32,480
Like regular ballistics gel, this stuff has the same properties as human tissue, but has the added bonus of being crystal clear.

409
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,480
That'll help the team see right through to the heart of the matter.

410
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:45,480
If any of these cigarette butts actually reach that heart, we will know that not only are cigarettes deadly, so are the butts.

411
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,480
For this viewer myth, only a shot through the heart will do.

412
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,480
So the pig's heart is perfectly suspended. I like its placement, I like its distance back from the front.

413
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:59,480
All that has to happen now is that the ballistics media has to cool down, and then we can experiment with it.

414
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,480
And with a miracle of television, twelve hours pass in a heartbeat.

415
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,480
This is going to be great. This stuff is perfect.

416
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:16,480
With buddy all set, they pack up the shooting party and head out to the range to meet an old friend.

417
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,480
What's right here doing, Jamie? Nice to see you.

418
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,480
Always a pleasure.

419
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,480
Welcome to the South San Francisco Police Department.

420
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:34,480
To test the killer butts, Adam and Jamie are back at the familiar ground of South San Francisco Police Department gun range, and to help them get fired up is Master Sergeant Alan Normandy.

421
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,480
Al, we have a doozy for you today.

422
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,480
Well, I'd love to hear this one.

423
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,480
This one is a guy who decides to do an experiment with his 50 caliber black powder rifle.

424
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:52,480
He loads it with the black powder charge, but instead of a bullet, he actually puts in three cigarette butts and shoots at a friend of his, killing his friend.

425
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:59,480
Well, I always heard tobacco will kill you, but this is the first way that I've heard that's different from smoking it. So let's see.

426
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:05,480
Jamie brings out the big guns with an exact replica of the rifle used in the myth.

427
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,480
Looks good to me.

428
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,480
It's a nice one, huh?

429
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,480
It's pretty.

430
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,480
It certainly is a beauty, and soon, buddy's going to be staring down its barrel.

431
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,480
But first, a word from his creator.

432
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:24,480
For us to confirm a kill from the cigarette butts, we'd need to see them go through the front of the chest and into the heart.

433
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:31,480
Now, we didn't put a rib cage in this because the myth isn't that the cigarette butts got through the spaces in a rib cage.

434
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,480
It's whether or not they actually pierced his heart and killed him.

435
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,480
So which one of you guys is taking the shot?

436
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:37,480
I'll take the shot.

437
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,480
I'm a better shot anyway.

438
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:46,480
Jamie will take the shot, and as they load the rifle, Adam has a revelation.

439
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,480
Now, this is the moment where the whole scene plays itself out, right?

440
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,480
I look down at that, I go, oh, hell, look, they fit right in there.

441
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,480
Hey, what say you stand right over there and I shoot you with that?

442
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Yeah! That sounds like a great idea.

443
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:10,480
Once the rifle is locked and loaded with the three cigarette butts, Jamie takes aim from seven feet, the same distance as the myth.

444
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:16,480
All right, Jamie, this is three cigarette butts, 80 grams of black powder from seven feet when you're ready.

445
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,480
Stand by for smoke.

446
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,480
That's a thud!

447
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:31,480
Indeed it was, but was it a long shot or is Buddy heartbroken?

448
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,480
All right, let's see what happened here.

449
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,480
I see a lot of fluff. I don't see any penetration.

450
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,480
I don't see any subcutaneous damage here.

451
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,480
Buddy survived the first test and on closer inspection, Al thinks he knows why.

452
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,480
There's black powder all over Buddy's chest.

453
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:55,480
What the unburned powder suggests to me is perhaps that the powder charge isn't tightly packed enough.

454
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,480
If we pack it tighter, we get more pressure, perhaps more penetration.

455
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:06,480
So Al's theory is that the black powder didn't all burn, meaning the butts weren't traveling at maximum speed.

456
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:12,480
So for test two, they'll pack the butts in tighter for a faster exit velocity.

457
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,480
We're talking. You can hear it squeak when you push it.

458
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,480
That's much better.

459
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,480
Okay, so second shot, more wadding, whenever you're ready.

460
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,480
That looked impressive.

461
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,480
Sounds impressive, but what's Buddy's prognosis this time?

462
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:42,480
Again, more of the wadding and more of the filter, but I don't think we have a lethal hit there.

463
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,480
Nope.

464
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:50,480
The tight wad hasn't given anything up. The butts are not lethal and Jamie has a theory as to why.

465
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:57,480
More wadding didn't do it. What we're seeing is kind of a shotgun-like effect where the cigarette butts are spraying out,

466
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:04,480
going in all directions instead of hanging together to go down one hole, which is what we need for a kill.

467
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:12,480
So far, this myth is zero for two. Sorry, viewers, it's not looking good for the smoking gun.

468
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,480
Soon, the boys go ballistic.

469
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,480
Look at that. That used to be your parents' car.

470
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:24,480
But first, they'll shoot to the heart of the matter with killer cigarette butts.

471
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,480
It bleeds!

472
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,480
Next, the teams serve up another viewer myth.

473
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:44,480
So this one's being talked about by thousands of fans.

474
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,480
There are mythical ways to open your car door locks when you don't have your keys.

475
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:55,480
All you do is you take a tennis ball, you cut a hole in it, stick the hole over the car lock, and press it as hard as you can.

476
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,480
And somehow, the air pressure will unlock your car door.

477
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,480
Well, this sounds just crazy, so why don't we just go ahead and try them?

478
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,480
No, they're not making this up.

479
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,480
It's an ace viral video from the Internet, scoring millions of hits.

480
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,480
And it goes something like this.

481
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,480
A humble tennis ball serves as a lock pick.

482
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:24,480
With a small hole cut into the ball, the leading lady holds the hole to the lock, squeezes the ball, and hey, presto, the car unlocks.

483
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,480
So, does this actually work?

484
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,480
Tori gets the balls rolling.

485
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,480
Okay, what do you got?

486
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,480
Alright, so I looked at the video and she had cut a hole about this size.

487
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,480
And what they're saying is the air pressure is opening up the car door lock.

488
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,480
The pressure from the ball.

489
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,480
Yeah, from the air pressure from inside the ball.

490
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:54,480
So what I'm thinking is, if it's about air pressure, I cut another smaller hole in this tennis ball, and hopefully that'll give us a stronger stream of air.

491
00:30:54,480 --> 00:31:00,480
That's all they need. Two tennis balls, two different air pressures, and of course, the lock.

492
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,480
Okay, so, just like in the video, electronic door lock.

493
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,480
Go for it.

494
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,480
Okay, so we'll do the big hole first.

495
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:14,480
And she said, all you need to do is push it as hard as you can.

496
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,480
Wow, it's not working.

497
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,480
It looked like I'm doing it the same way.

498
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:30,480
It's love one for the tennis ball, but perhaps the ball with the smaller hole and greater air pressure will pop the lock.

499
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,480
You want to try the smaller hole?

500
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,480
Yeah, go for it.

501
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,480
Not exactly open sesame.

502
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:43,480
That's game set and match for the car, but the team aren't ready to stop play just yet.

503
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:49,480
So let's take apart what exactly you think people would think this works by.

504
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,480
I think it's all about air pressure.

505
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:56,480
All right, why don't we get the shop air and just shove it into the lock and blow.

506
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:01,480
Make a complete seal around the key lock so see if air pressure can at all open the lock.

507
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:07,480
Sounds like a plan. After all, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

508
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,480
With a perfect seal, they'll pump in 100 psi of shop air.

509
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,480
And if anything is going to jimmy the lock, it's this.

510
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,480
All right, Grant.

511
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,480
Okay.

512
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,480
Blows away.

513
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:22,480
So this will be the ideal case for opening the lock with air pressure.

514
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,480
Got compressed air and a really good seal.

515
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,480
Ready?

516
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:36,480
Despite pumping in more than 10 times the air pressure of the tennis ball, the car stays secure.

517
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,480
I think that was pretty definitive.

518
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,480
Sorry, viewers, but the tennis ball opening the car lock is busted.

519
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:47,480
And even ideal seal air pressure won't open the car lock.

520
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,480
You know, they did it in the video though. How do you think they did that?

521
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,480
I think we should show the viewers how we think they did it in the video.

522
00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:02,480
Cut to Mythbusters Masterpiece Theater, where with some editing genius, we can show you exactly how it was done.

523
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,480
Carrie puts the tennis ball to the lock and, hey presto, the door unlocks.

524
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,480
But didn't they just bust tennis balls?

525
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:17,480
Yes, they did. It's not the tennis ball. It's actually Tori behind the camera with the key.

526
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:23,480
Just goes to show, and this is important, you can't believe everything you see on the Internet,

527
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,480
which means that's another viewer myth busted.

528
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,480
There were way too many great ideas for our viewer special, so we had to cut out a few.

529
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:42,480
But if you want to see more sword-stabbing action, log on to Discovery.com slash Mythbusters and check it out.

530
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,480
Adam and Jamie have been firing up a drunken disorderly viewer myth.

531
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:04,480
The fans want to know if cigarette butts fired from a muzzle-loading rifle could pierce a heart.

532
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:10,480
It's not going well for the guys, but for once, there's a policeman when you need him.

533
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,480
Well, the cop in me has a question, and that is, are we thinking that filters are the same as cigarette butts?

534
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,480
I see where you're going with this.

535
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:23,480
Yeah, I mean, typically you wouldn't smoke it all the way down to the end. There'd be a little bit left on it.

536
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:31,480
That adds up to a certain amount of weight as well as you've got nicotine and tar and other crap that is collecting in the filter, right?

537
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,480
Up till now, we have been firing what we've called cigarette butts. In fact, it's just the filter torn off a cigarette.

538
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:43,480
We have posited that perhaps this is what a smoker would be playing with.

539
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:52,480
A full smoked butt, burnt tobacco, everything. This wastes three times as much as this, and thus, very likely has much more deadly force in it.

540
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,480
The unsmoked butts are out of the picture. They've been all fluff and no fury.

541
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,480
Maybe the smoked butts will prove to be deadly.

542
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:08,480
All right, three pre-smoked butts. That is nasty.

543
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:15,480
So this is pre-smoked butts, three of them, same amount of water as last time, at seven feet.

544
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,480
All right, we're ready to fire.

545
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,480
As the smoke clears, the guys go in for a closer look.

546
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,480
Oh, wait. There's definitely some real skin breakage here.

547
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,480
There's some penetration, but it's certainly not lethal.

548
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,480
Yeah, he'd be bleeding. That's about it. So what's next?

549
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:41,480
Well, I'm starting to think we've replicated all the technical details, and I think they might have been lying about the distance that they shot at.

550
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,480
I'd say we moved to point blank range.

551
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:45,480
Okay.

552
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,480
This is the final chance for this viewer myth.

553
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:53,480
If the butts at this range don't break Buddy's heart, then it's busted.

554
00:35:53,480 --> 00:36:00,480
We're down to our last option, which is just to move in point blank range, because it's not working from seven feet.

555
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:06,480
I can't help but think that all that energy coming out of that gun muscle is going to do something to this if we're close enough.

556
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,480
Jamie moves in for the kill.

557
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,480
Trigger set. Okay, everybody ready?

558
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,480
Ready.

559
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,480
Look, it bleeds.

560
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,480
That's a shot through the heart and Jamie's to blame.

561
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Does it feel like you're going into the heart?

562
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,480
Dude, yeah, it does.

563
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,480
I believe what we have there is what I'd call a confirmed kill.

564
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,480
That's lethal.

565
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:42,480
He's dead.

566
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,480
A few feet made all the difference for Buddy.

567
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,480
The dummy is dead. No F-sans or, well, butts.

568
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:56,480
And it also goes to prove the golden rule with guns. Don't aim a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy.

569
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,480
Wise words. So what's the verdict for killer cigarette butts?

570
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,480
So, cigarette butts fire to point blank range. Is he alive or dead?

571
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,480
Dead.

572
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:07,480
Dead.

573
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,480
That makes the status of the myth?

574
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,480
Confirmed.

575
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:42,480
So, how do you pay attention? Here's where we stand so far. A viewer, a kid, wrote in and asked us to blow up his parents car.

576
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,480
We figured why not do a real explosion of a car but also show how Hollywood does it.

577
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:54,480
So, for the first blast we placed a couple gallons of gasoline with a little bit of explosives in this car and should a big fireball but not much destruction.

578
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,480
Now it's time to make this car go away. So we have a lot of time to do that.

579
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:11,480
It's time to make this car go away. So we have put many hundreds of times the explosives in the same spot as the gasoline and another batch under the hood.

580
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:17,480
Just for good measure. I'm about to retreat to our detonation zone and we're going to make this car disappear.

581
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:24,480
But before plunging the plunger, the boys first get a taste of things to come. Thanks to tour guide Frank Doyle.

582
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:25,480
How's it going, Frank?

583
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:33,480
Hey, okay guys. Give you the tour here. Under the hood we are doing the tune up with a large bag of blasting agent there.

584
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,480
Alright.

585
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:42,480
You can see. And then moving on down here, we'll close that up. And moving on down to the interior of our vehicle here.

586
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:48,480
We have a quantity, a midship here and then another quantity on the back beam here.

587
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,480
And with all of this, we would project that it's going to go away.

588
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,480
It's going to go away. Alright, where do you want this to be for this one?

589
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,480
A long way away. A long way away.

590
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:03,480
Well, we've got a hill about a thousand feet distant. Is that far enough?

591
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,480
Hey, we're all set to go and that should be perfect.

592
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,480
Terrific.

593
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,480
And all that really leaves is a chance to hear those myth busters predictions.

594
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:17,480
Percentage of the car that will be remaining when we're all done with this, 5 to 10 percent.

595
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:24,480
Strune over about a 300 foot radius. The experience? Priceless.

596
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,480
For this task, we've picked a relatively slow and powerful explosive.

597
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,480
So we're more into pushing and heaving and tearing.

598
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:38,480
So when we detonate this, it will cause the car to go in 360 degrees.

599
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,480
The word smash and smithereens spring to mind.

600
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,480
Well Chris, I think it's about that time. Are you ready?

601
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,480
How about you watch the thing through these things?

602
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,480
Make sure, go ahead and check it out. Make sure you've got a good beat on the car.

603
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:59,480
Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

604
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,480
Three, two, one!

605
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:10,480
Hold everybody, hold!

606
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,480
Hold, hold, hold!

607
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,480
No more car!

608
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,480
No more car. Ain't that the truth?

609
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,480
Nice work. Thanks for the car, Chris.

610
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,480
Like the cement truck before it, now you see it.

611
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:31,480
Now you don't. Here one minute, gone the next.

612
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,480
What's here anew, you get the picture.

613
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:44,480
Now, remember viewers, myth busters strongly advises that you don't try this with your parent's car.

614
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,480
Or anyone's car for that matter.

615
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,480
Wow, Armageddon out here. Look at this.

616
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,480
It's kind of like car confetti.

617
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,480
Each piece has a potential to be modern art. Come on out here, Chris.

618
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,480
Look at that. That used to be your parent's car.

619
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,480
There's your problem.

620
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:15,480
One way that you can tell that myth busters has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees.

621
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:23,480
This right here is a piece of the car that we just blew up and it kind of tells you about what we've been up to.

622
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:31,480
That explosion was a real one. It had a real force behind it and there was crap flying everywhere.

623
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:36,480
Ain't that the truth? The movie magic was a blast.

624
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,480
But it fails in comparison to what real explosives can do.

625
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:48,480
I think that while some may look at the car after our first blast and go, well, I would call that car destroyed.

626
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,480
I think this makes my case that there is a real difference quite clearly.

627
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,480
Steering wheel still works, huh?

628
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:13,480
Frank's left the car well and truly destroyed and viewers, given that this is your show, this repeat is for you.

629
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:26,480
Well, Chris, Jimmy, I think our work here is done.

630
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,480
Yeah, well, you know, let us know when you get it all cleaned up, all right?

631
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,480
Well, that was cool. I can't believe you blew up a car.

632
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,480
Well, that is what little Chris wanted us to do.

633
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:43,480
After all, this is the viewers special and while we prefer busting than this, this is all for you, the viewers.

634
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,480
That's right. We'll be back in another 12 episodes with another episode dedicated to your needs.

635
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,480
Log on to Discovery.com slash MythBusters, follow the links and tell us your ideas.

636
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,480
We'll be waiting.