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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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Take cover.

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On this episode of Mythbusters, Jamie and Adam get all steamed up.

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Woo!

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As they test if an ordinary water heater has the extraordinary ability to fly right through your house like a rocket.

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And our Rebel Trio try on some riveting, all-American legends about blue jeans.

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Oh, those are good.

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Charging off with, if you're dragged along the ground by a horse, could your jeans patch fire?

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Do you feel any heat in your pants? I mean.

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Then there's the blood-curdling tail that shrinking your jeans by sitting in a bath could squeeze the life right out of you.

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Oh my God!

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Are we gonna have to amp the tail to his leg?

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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It's time to blow some stuff up!

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Adam Savage and Jamie Heinemann.

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That was fun.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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This is the kind of thing I do on the weekend.

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Joining them, Carrie Byron.

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Come over here, you smell that?

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He's alive!

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And Tori Belichi.

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He's starting to feel like a bad idea.

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They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test.

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I bet you're wondering why I'm standing here with a plunger.

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No, but I'm sure you're gonna tell me.

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Absolutely right. We have a plumbing myth.

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Picture, an old house and in that house is an old hot water heater.

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The hot water heater is neglected. It's beyond neglected.

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In fact, so badly that it blows up.

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But it doesn't just blow up.

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No, this hot water heater blows up like a rocket shooting up through the roof of the house.

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Hundreds of feet into the air, landing 500 feet away.

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The fans are going nuts about this on the website. They want us to test it out.

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Sounds like fun to me. It gets me all steamed up just thinking about it.

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Water heaters are fitted with two main safety devices.

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A thermostat and emergency cutoff switch to prevent the water from overheating.

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And a temperature and pressure relief valve to release excessive pressure.

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To find out what needs to happen to make good water heaters go bad,

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Jamie and Adam are conducting scale tests using small six gallon tanks.

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We're going to set this thing up using instrumentation that monitors both temperature and pressure.

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Then we're going to make each component, each safety component of this water heater

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fail until we get the entire tank to fail.

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Anyone have to go to the bathroom?

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Improper installation or lack of regular maintenance can really cause the safety devices to fail.

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Jamie and Adam are just simplifying the process.

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This is the thermostat and the emergency cutoff switch, which the water heater normally comes with.

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We've taken it off. So we've got no emergency shut off.

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The TNP valve is now the only functioning safety device. So here's how it works.

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When heated inside a closed environment, water expands and causes an increase in pressure.

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If the temperature or pressure gets too high, the TNP valve opens.

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So in theory, once this thing reaches the pressure relief or the temperature relief valve activates that,

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we should just see it start to spew some water.

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So people don't get scalded. The recommended set temperature for water heaters

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is well below boiling point of 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Look at how fast the temperature is rising, man.

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Yeah, it won't take long.

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When the water gets up to a dangerous 165 degrees, the TNP valve comes to the rescue.

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Oh, there it goes.

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Really? Oh, yeah, look, it's spewing. That's what it's supposed to do.

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That's better.

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For their next test, they're really putting themselves in hot water.

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What's next?

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Well, next, I think we pull the TNP valve and we start the final failure analysis test

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in which nobody approaches this bunker until we hear boom or all clear.

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Now, you might wonder exactly how that's going to happen in real life,

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and I'm going to play it out for you.

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A homeowner looks at his hot water heater and sees that there's this thing sticking out in a pipe

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that doesn't go anywhere, and he thinks, well, maybe that's from some old plumbing.

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It's dripping water, too, so I'll just cap it, stop it from dripping water.

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It's happened all the time.

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Removing the TNP valve could cause a serious explosion,

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so Jamie rigs up an external emergency release so they can defuse the system immediately.

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Are we live? We're live.

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All right, let's get everyone in the safety zone.

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The pressure slowly builds.

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Normally, a TNP valve is set to release at about 150 psi.

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Now, the sky's the limit.

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This is excruciating.

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Tell me about it. 400 psi.

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250 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Both the temperature and the psi are climbing steadily when all of a sudden...

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Whoa! We just lost pressure. We lost half of our pressure there.

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Something in the system is causing the pressure to drop rapidly.

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We're at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. I think we're losing pressure somewhere we can't see, and we've just got to abort.

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All right, well, we'll pull the valve. That's what it's for.

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All right, let's do it.

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Jamie triggers his emergency release.

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When water that's been heated beyond boiling point hits air, it turns instantly into vapor.

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Great for opening those pores.

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Okay, that is indicating it's fully depressured.

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The PSI gauge just failed. I don't know why, but the main thing is,

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neither Jamie or I feel comfortable doing the test here in the bunker anymore.

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After watching the amount of steam that came out,

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knowing how much pressure it takes to make a tank blow,

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we just want to be far away from this.

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The pent-up fury inside this tiny tank has got the guys running for cover.

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We need more room for sure.

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Let's pack up and move it out.

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Okay, guys, the next one is as American as baseball and apple pie.

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It's myths about blue jeans.

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Oh!

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Blue jean myths. That'll be cool.

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Since their creation during the rough and tumble days of the American Wild West,

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no one item of clothing has meant so much to so many.

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Practical, synonymous with rebellion, sexy and cool,

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it's no wonder legends about jeans are bursting at the seams.

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What's the first myth?

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A cowboy falls off his horse and gets dragged by it,

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and the friction that's created actually causes the jeans to catch on fire.

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Okay, that has Tori written all over it.

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Why does it have me written all over it?

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Yee-haw!

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To get this tail off and running and to get the chance to talk like this,

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the team hightails it over to the groundy ranch in Red Bluff, California.

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Tori is going to be playing cowboy,

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so he gets himself kitted up in full body padding.

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While Carrie and Grant chat with renowned stockman John.

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So how do you get yourself in trouble?

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I mean, does your foot get caught in the stirrup?

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Does it get caught in the rains?

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I mean, how do you get dragged?

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and in the old days being caught in the rope,

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and the rope would hang on to you long enough,

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or it would actually close in on you while it was wrapped around the saddle horn,

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and then just drag you off.

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With John being a former rodeo rider, Grant asks the burning question.

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John, have your jeans ever caught fire?

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Not... I could have really gone with a good one there, alright.

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Whatever you want.

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Well, I was going to tell a story one time, but, you know, my pants have been on fire,

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but not on fire.

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Seems like John's not one to tell tales.

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But someone else on the ranch sure is.

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Okay, so the ranch actually has a psychic horse.

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This is Pistol, and Pistol's going to be able to tell me to predict what's going to happen today.

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Is this a dangerous thing for us to do?

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I knew it.

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I knew it.

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Are the jeans going to catch fire?

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Yes? No.

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Not sure. Okay.

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By Pistol's reckoning, things could go either way.

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So to find out for sure, let's get this myth saddled up.

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Now, Tori's weight represents a downward force that's pushing the jeans onto the ground,

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and as the horse drags him along, the friction there is going to build up

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and hopefully cause the jeans to spontaneously combust.

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Faced with the bottom line, Tori's starting to feel all alone on the wide open plane.

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In the shop, they're like, oh, you're going to get dragged behind a horse,

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and I'm like, yeah, that sounds fun.

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But then you get out here and you go, God, this seems like a really stupid idea.

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And I'm starting to get that feeling more than that sounds like it's going to be fun.

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Next, Denim Desperado Tori literally puts his behind on the line.

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And soon, the guys find out if a water heater is really a rocket in disguise.

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The fans want to get the down low on this classic spaghetti western scenario.

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If you're dragged along the ground by an out of control horse,

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can the friction cause your jeans to catch fire?

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Tori is trying this Saturday matinee myth for real,

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but he's finding out it's a potential minefield.

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I'm looking around and I'm seeing rocks and I'm seeing horse dung.

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Not only is it going to hurt, it's going to be very, very unpleasant.

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To reduce the hazards, Tori is decked out in top to toe denim with a padded safety suit underneath.

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Fashion please.

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Top 10 cardinal rules, denim on denim, nope.

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And paramedics are on site.

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Expert cowgirl, Neela will be riding pistol, the psychic horse.

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Wow, this ropes a lot shorter than I thought it was going to be.

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To calculate the hotness of Tori's rear, the team has got some specialized equipment.

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We have an infrared surface thermometer, so we'll measure how hot the jeans are before the run.

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103.5 and compare that to how hot they are after it.

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And I'll just be carrying this just in case.

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Stretched out 25 feet from pistol's back legs, Tori should be out of kicking range.

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Kidding out.

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Okay, you got to be on your back.

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As Tori is pulled across the ground, he realizes that being a movie stuntman is not as glamorous as he once thought.

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Oh, he had a patch of dung there.

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I was just trying to hold on to the rope.

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I was hoping that the horse would stop soon.

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I just kind of kept my eyes closed and my mouth shut.

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Tori's cheeks clock up some serious speed.

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All right, we're topping out at 20 miles an hour.

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But they don't even generate a puff of smoke.

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Okay, flip over, flip over.

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That was great.

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Can we do that again?

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116.5.

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Post run, Tori's posterior temperature has increased by 13 degrees.

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Do you feel any heat in your pants?

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The friction did add some heat, but I mean, these pants aren't smoking.

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Then let's ride again.

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Round two.

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Drag that no good varmin out of town.

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Pistol.

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At a quicker pace.

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They're going way faster this time.

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Tori and the dung are really flying.

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Oh my God, they're topping it 30.

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I sure hope he doesn't have a date tonight.

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This time, we went a little bit faster.

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A lot faster, I felt like.

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I felt like I was bouncing around a lot.

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My head was going all over the place.

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When his gluteus maximus finally grinds to a halt,

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our vigilant fanny assessor rushes in.

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It's 145.5 degrees.

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Whoa.

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So it increased to 34 degrees.

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Still didn't catch on fire.

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And that's kind of what I figured.

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I figured the jeans were just going to tear away before they caught on fire.

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Tori could sell his distressed denim for a fortune,

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but fire from friction was fiction.

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Tori did experience an increase in temperature of his clothing,

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but he did not burst in the flame.

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Both the jacket and the jeans are safe for now.

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But this myth isn't done and dusted yet.

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Teen Tail End has some final tests to rustle up.

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Explosion Danger

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Explosion Danger lurks in thousands of typical hot water heater installations

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because the great majority have either improper protection or no protection at all.

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Is the tale of the water heater rocket really true or just over the top scare tactics?

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To find out, Jamie and Adam have arrived at the wide open spaces of Alameda Naval Base.

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It may help you to think about this in terms of just a pure release of energy.

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All we're doing is putting energy into the water heater in the form of electricity converted to heat.

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We're not letting that energy out in any way.

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a bomb releases all of its energy in every direction at once,

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and a rocket releases all of its energy over a little bit longer period of time in one single direction.

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And that's what we're looking for here.

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The same as their scale tests, they're using a six gallon tank.

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And to recreate real life circumstances of shoddy installation and neglect have made a few adjustments.

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The electronic cutoff switches and thermostats, gone.

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The temperature and pressure valve, gone.

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The power from a remote generator is switched on.

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Okay, Adam, we're live. We're hooked up. We're running about 25 amps.

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So everybody be on alert. Over.

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And our little heater has his moment in the sun.

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Well, as far as I can tell, everything's good to go.

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I hope we get it to blow this time.

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Yep.

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I'm tired of watching a heater not do anything.

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Third time's a charm.

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In a healthy appliance, the cutoff switch would activate before boiling point and the pressure release valve at 150 psi.

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But our patient is sick and his temperatures rising rapidly.

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All right. So we're at seven minutes, almost 40 psi and 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

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270 degrees, 53 psi.

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Okay, we're at 20 minutes, 370 degrees and 190 psi.

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Suddenly his fever breaks.

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That's a failure, but that's not an explosion.

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It was pretty spectacular.

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This thing bathed in a cloud of hot scalding steam and 300, 400 degree water.

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It's ludicrously dangerous.

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Six gallons of water turned into 9,600 gallons of fishing vapor.

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But even with all that force, the tank didn't go for a ride.

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Let's get a bigger heater out here. Try this again.

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Okay. Let's do it.

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A bigger tank may give the guys the heave-ho they need.

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Coming right up, besides looking killer.

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Oh, those are good.

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Can tight jeans kill you?

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And soon you'll never look at your water heater the same way again.

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All right. Death by shrinkage.

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This is the one where the woman puts on a very tight pair of jeans and sits in a bathtub for six hours.

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Yeah, I've heard that's how you get the perfect fit.

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However, they end up killing her.

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Oh, maybe not the perfect fit.

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This is a fan-side denim demand.

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A woman trying to get her jeans to fit just right sat in a hot bath for six hours.

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The heat caused her jeans to shrink and legs to swell.

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And the pressure cut off her blood circulation.

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Then it was curtains.

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To find out how this Death by Denim scenario might be possible, Carrie has an appointment.

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Hi.

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Dr. Edward Kirsch, MD, explains why constriction on the legs can be harmful to your health.

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So, is this even possible?

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Well, I hate to say that it is possible.

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Really?

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Really, because I do love tight jeans.

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But there is the possibility that you could do yourself some damage.

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There are two types of circulations in the legs.

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One is the arterial circulation.

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That's the high pressure circulation of blood flowing down into your legs.

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But once that's done, the blood has to come back up.

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That's a low pressure situation.

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You could create a clot.

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Then that could travel back up and pit your lungs and produce something called a pulmonary embolism.

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You mean like DVTs that can really kill you?

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Exactly.

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DVT and it can be a fatal occurrence.

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Armed with her alarming information, it's back to M7 to recreate this potentially fatal bath time scene.

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I'm ready.

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Using Grant as the model, their first task is to make a realistic pair of jeans.

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A realistic pair of fake human legs.

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Jim Morrison, eat your heart out.

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Okay, I'm sorry.

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What I need to do is make a cast of his legs.

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We're going to fill it with a material that's similar to flesh.

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We're going to put veins in there so that way we can see if those jeans do start constricting around those legs, it cuts off the blood circulation.

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About those giants.

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Yeah.

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When the plaster hardens,

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Tori continues making the molds while Grant rigs up an old tub with a blood pumping system.

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It starts out with an aquarium pump with this vessel and it will be filled with actual blood.

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Blood's going to be pumped through this tube to valve number one, which regulates the pressure.

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Now this goes into the tube that will lead to the leg, which is inside the tub.

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Jeans are constricting.

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Finally, comes out here.

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Meanwhile, Tori inserts surgical tubing that will act as the low pressure veins in each limb.

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He places them two inches below the surface, just like in the human body.

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Then he fills up the hollows with permigill.

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Now to dress Grant's legs in a pair of new, shrinkable jeans.

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There's no way of doing this without it looking creepy.

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I know.

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Next, they place the legs into the tub and attach them to the valves.

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Then, Carrie and Grant fill up the reservoir for the veins with pig's blood.

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Grant is like Dr. Frankenstein.

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He's a genius.

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A demented genius.

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Grant checks the flow to make sure it's running through the veins at the normal human rate of about a liter a minute.

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Alright, 475 milliliters.

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So this, from now on, is going to be our level of regular flow.

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If there's any deviation from this, then we'll know that the jeans are causing constriction and possibly potential death.

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So I guess this would be a good time to explain.

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Why do jeans shrink?

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Yeah, shrinkage is all about chemical bonding.

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Your jeans are composed of cotton fibers.

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The cotton fibers are composed of molecules.

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The molecules join together to form long chains called polymers.

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The polymers themselves are quite strong, but the forces that hold them next to each other, they're much weaker hydrogen bonds.

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That's right.

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And when your jeans are first made, the cotton fibers are spun and stretched out on a loom.

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It's a huge amount of stress to put on those hydrogen bonds and many of them break.

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But new ones are formed in their place, but keeping the cotton fibers in that stressed out state.

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And the thing is, the jeans want to return to their natural or lack state, but it requires a large amount of energy to break the hydrogen bonds.

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And throwing your clothes in the washing machine with the heat and the detergent and the dryer, even a hot bath, will do just that.

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And the result of broken hydrogen bonds is shrinkage.

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In the team's shrinking jeans of death bath test, the final step is to fill the tub with piping hot water.

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Time for a nice relaxing bath for six hours, and possibly all eternity.

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Coming up, Grant gets a lethal new look.

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We're going to have to have potatoes life.

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But next, Jamie and Adam become water heater astronauts.

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Wow.

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The boosters were separated.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Can an ordinary everyday water heater become a rocket so powerful it can blast through a building?

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So far, Jamie and Adam have let off a lot of steam.

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There we go.

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Whoa!

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But couldn't send a small six-gallon tank skyward.

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This time, they're using a 30-gallon tank and have a new strategy to add some extra thrust.

357
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I'd like to fill this 80% full.

358
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Okay.

359
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So let's put 24 gallons in here.

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We may find this like perfect relationship between water and steam for getting the maximum amount of pressure.

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In daily life, a water heater is an appliance nobody normally takes any notice of.

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So to mimic one in serious neglect, Jamie and Adam disable its safety devices.

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Once again, it's time for launch and to man bunker boiling over.

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By the time we're done with this, we'll actually know what we're doing.

365
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At least one of our crew seems to think they'll get it this time.

366
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Never has a single water heater been covered from so many angles.

367
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Maybe all this attention will raise them from their D-list apparatus status.

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Okay, now we're at 160 psi.

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It's officially a no-go zone.

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Anything goes from here on in, so stay clear.

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These pressure vessel ones are really difficult because they involve tons and tons of waiting and waiting.

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It's excruciating.

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It's really boring.

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This is killing me.

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After an excruciating 50-minute wait, they achieve lift-off.

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Wow!

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That was at about 350 psi.

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The heater travels in a straight trajectory into the air so high,

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he could order a pizza while you're waiting for it to come back down.

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Wow, no, it just came down.

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There it is.

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It came down like 40 seconds later.

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Oh my God.

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This was a really serious explosion.

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I mean, even though this is just a water heater,

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you would be in danger of shrapnel hitting you.

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You could get severe burns from the steam,

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and not only that, the shockwave was really significant.

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I mean, the whole area was reverberating.

390
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Adams just seen the most beautiful thing we've ever filmed on the high speed.

391
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Oh, that's one of my favorite booms we've ever done.

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Just water and pressure.

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Look up top, you can see the tank breaking through the casing.

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There it goes.

395
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Wow.

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The boosters were separated.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But there's one even more spectacular way for the guys to push this myth through the roof.

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Put the water heater into the house.

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Do we have a house?

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No, we've got to build one.

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You ready?

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Damn.

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This is where we're at with the shrinking genes of death.

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We have our fake legs with our veins running through them,

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and the bloods running through the veins.

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We have the genes on the legs, and the legs are submerged in the hot bathtub water.

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We're going to leave them there for six hours,

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because if the genes are constricting and the blood flow slows down,

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it could potentially kill you.

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With unwashed, shrinkable genes able to constrict up to three inches in hot water,

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and the veins lying two inches beneath the surface of their legs,

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enough of a squeeze to slow the flow could be possible.

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We got a bleeder.

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You know, our researchers found a lot of interesting facts about tight clothing.

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In New Zealand, in 2006, a kid was trying to shrink his genes by wearing them in the bathtub.

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And to get them even tighter, he laid out in the sun wearing them.

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They got so tight, he couldn't get them off, and they had to rush them to the hospital.

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Yeah, actually, the doctors were saying that he was in danger of losing his legs.

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If you cut off circulation too long, the muscles can die within a matter of hours.

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It's a very real, very serious condition called compartment syndrome.

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Who knew tight clothes could be so dangerous?

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Maybe we should just go back to wearing fig leaves.

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As the team continues to monitor their tub test,

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it seems to be bringing out the creature of the night in Carrie.

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This myth is actually kind of beautiful to me.

427
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For some reason, I just think blood's really pretty, so this isn't grossing me out at all.

428
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It's just kind of a neat little blood fountain.

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But after a full six hours of constantly monitoring their neat little blood fountain,

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there's barely any change in the rate.

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And that means there's not enough constriction to kill.

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Well, we ran the blood through our veins and our mock legs for six hours.

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And unfortunately, or fortunately, we did not get any decrease in flow.

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And this was with stock shrinkable genes.

435
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The only way to try and ring some results out of this myth is to do it for real.

436
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000
So what's your weight size?

437
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Uh, 32.

438
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So 30.

439
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So Carrie goes to help Grant pick out a form-fitting pair of dentals.

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Oh, that was perfect.

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This is going to be an excruciating three-hour experience.

442
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Grant, you have no idea how excruciating.

443
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This isn't happening.

444
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Oh, those are good.

445
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Normally, the biggest worry about buying designer genes is the price, but not this time.

446
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My worries are the potential for death due to a blood clot forming in my leg

447
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because the genes have cut off my circulation.

448
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Other than that, it should be easy.

449
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Soon, Carrie, Tori and Grant discover if a muffin top is the worst effect of tight genes.

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But right after the break...

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A little steam batch.

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Since prehistoric times, friction has been used to set things aflame.

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But the fans want to know if this force can also set fire to your genes.

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To answer this burning question, Tori gravely had his denim clad derriere dragged along the ground by a galloping horse.

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But all he got was the manure wash glue.

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I think I've had enough.

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To reproduce the speed of a horse in full galloping stride,

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Tori sets up a belt-sanding rig to represent the bumpy surface of the ground.

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And to represent a human, he outfits a ham-hawk.

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I can honestly say I've never stuck a piece of pork in a pair of jeans.

461
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Their cool swine is secured in place.

462
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Then they take its temperature.

463
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69 degrees. Ready? Here we go.

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The ignition point of cotton is about 250 degrees.

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The belt sander provides a consistent surface that the denim can be graded across.

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Hopefully upping the friction factor.

467
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I can see the jeans are starting to fray.

468
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The smell of smoky bacon is in the air.

469
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Get some of this, man. You're missing out.

470
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But it's still not being cooked.

471
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Alright, shut it off.

472
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This is why cut-priced dermabrasion is never a good idea.

473
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We turned it into leather.

474
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Still only 138.5.

475
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138. It actually ripped through the jeans.

476
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The jeans are no longer in existence.

477
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Jeans are shredded.

478
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:09,000
They've doubled their temperature increase from their experiment with Tori and pistol the psychic horse.

479
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However, your jeans are going to disintegrate before they catch on fire.

480
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Unless we've got something else that catches it on fire, it's not going to be friction.

481
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000
But nothing comes between the mythbusters and a result.

482
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Finally, they've got the look.

483
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,000
And that, my friend, is what it takes to set your jeans on fire.

484
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Yeah.

485
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Torch.

486
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Can this kind of damage be caused by your water heater?

487
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:57,000
To find out, Jamie and Adam have successfully launched a 30-gallon water heater 500 feet into the open air.

488
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Now, to really blow the lid off this myth.

489
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
That hot water heater flew into the air. That's amazing.

490
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
It wasn't contained.

491
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000
It doesn't tell us whether it would make it through a building or not.

492
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:17,000
Well, and that's our next step, I think. Let's build a building around that hot water heater and get it to fail and see what happens.

493
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000
And we'll have to build the roof to code.

494
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000
Absolutely. I totally agree.

495
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Then we'll know if it happens in our building, it would happen in your house.

496
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
I can't wait.

497
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Only the mythbusters would take delight in building a house from scratch in anticipation of destroying it.

498
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:42,000
It's going to take me a few hours to build it, but you'll get to watch it in all of about 10, 15 seconds.

499
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000
So let's get this time-lapse started.

500
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,000
First goes down the floor, which they tile in Deco-inspired black and white.

501
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Next, they unpack their shining centerpiece.

502
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Bada bing, bada boom.

503
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000
A 52-gallon water heater.

504
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000
This size would typically be used by a family of four.

505
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Once again, they disconnected safety devices as if it's faulty or needs a service.

506
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
There we go.

507
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000
It does add a charming focal point to the room, doesn't it?

508
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Then they close it in with walls and windows.

509
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Here's hoping they're double glazed.

510
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Hi everybody, welcome to the Mythbusters Clubhouse.

511
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Now to create a typical water heater home scene with the lady of the house enjoying a relaxing bath.

512
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000
A little steam bath.

513
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Remember, their cozy cottage is no balsa wood and hobby glue construction.

514
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Jamie and Adam are building the roof to exact California code building regulations.

515
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
The roof is lowered in place and secure.

516
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Now for the final touch.

517
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000
All right, everybody, we're going to paint this thing.

518
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,000
You want to start from the bottom and move to the top and paint everything except the bottom.

519
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000
You want to start from the bottom and move to the top and paint everything except the black shingles.

520
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Everything you can see.

521
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Neatness does not count.

522
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:11,000
It's not exactly a subtle shade, but salmon just doesn't say Mythbusters.

523
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Jamie and Adam's impressive construction skills have created a house fit for the likes of Little Red Riding Hood.

524
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000
It's almost a shame to make it go, whoa!

525
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Those jeans are so tight.

526
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
They were clinging into her skin.

527
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Tight jeans look very foxy, but can they strangle the very life out of you?

528
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:48,000
The theory is if you sit in a hot bath trying to get your jeans to shrink, the pressure could cut off your circulation, causing a blood clot that kills you.

529
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Grant is courageously offering his own legs to experiment on, but the team is taking no chances.

530
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Grant is going to be our guinea pig.

531
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:06,000
He's going to put on the tight jeans, sit in a hot tub, but we brought him here to a hospital so in case anything goes wrong, if a clot starts forming, the doctors will be here.

532
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000
They'll be monitoring him, make sure that he doesn't die.

533
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,000
First, Grant changes into his brand new, unwashed, shrinkable jeans.

534
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,000
An unfortunate result of size denial is emerging already.

535
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000
A hot bath has been prepared for Grant to slip into.

536
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Do you want to back in and we'll just lower you down?

537
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
It's nice.

538
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Nice.

539
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Yeah?

540
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Yeah.

541
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,000
All he has to do is sit back, relax, and wait for any warning signs.

542
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Why is there all those air bubbles coming out of your pants?

543
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,000
So how's he feeling so far?

544
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:52,000
I have to say I'm feeling a little bit of discomfort in my stomach, but nothing that's unbearable.

545
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
It's tight.

546
00:35:53,000 --> 00:36:00,000
No doubt about that, but I don't think it's life-threatening at this point.

547
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:09,000
To make absolutely sure there are no blockages forming, medical technician Keith checks his condition using a Doppler machine.

548
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000
So if a clot was forming, what would it look like on that?

549
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:19,000
In the veins, you would not be able to see the blue venous blood flow because it would just be obstructed.

550
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
There would be no way of blood getting down or up.

551
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
In the arteries, you would see just no flow.

552
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:35,000
But fortunately, Grant's leg veins are flowing freely after six long hours of being submerged and continual monitoring throughout.

553
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000
How you doing, sir?

554
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Fantastic.

555
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
This is a good day at work?

556
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Excellent day.

557
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Keith gives his final verdict on Grant's condition.

558
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Are you seeing constriction?

559
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
No, it's got beautiful flow still.

560
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Absolutely no obstructions or restrictions.

561
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Are we going to have to amp potatoes' legs?

562
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000
I don't think you're going to have to.

563
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Well, that's good news.

564
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Now all they have to do is get Grant out of this denim shrink wrap.

565
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
You know, you may have to cut me out of these.

566
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Let's see.

567
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
That's what I've done.

568
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Oh, see how tight they are.

569
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Oh my God!

570
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Look how tight those are!

571
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
They're capris now.

572
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,000
So how are they going to summarize this gripping life-or-death jeans legend?

573
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Well, I guess this one's looking busted.

574
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Grant didn't die and we didn't have to amp-butate his legs.

575
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000
You sound a little disappointed.

576
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Yeah, I'm not going to lie.

577
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Well, we didn't have any loss of flow in either the fake Grant legs or the real Grant legs.

578
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Well, perhaps someone who wasn't in as peak physical condition as me might experience some loss of blood flow.

579
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Well, if that's the case, then we're going to have to test hundreds more people to really find out.

580
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Well, we know the DVT and Compartment Syndrome are very real conditions and constricting blood flow to your legs for a long period of time is never a good idea.

581
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000
It's okay, it wasn't your look anyway.

582
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Good.

583
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
I'm willing to let go of the muffin top.

584
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Yes, but is the muffin top willing to let go of you?

585
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Next, Adam and Jamie try to raise the roof.

586
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
It's kind of stressful on a regular basis.

587
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Can't be good.

588
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
With a water heater.

589
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Look at that house!

590
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:23,000
The buildup of steam under pressure can cause many things to go off.

591
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000
But how about a water heater bursting right through your house?

592
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:36,000
To mimic a real life situation, the roof of the house has been constructed to California Building Code specifications.

593
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000
And the water heater contains no explosives.

594
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,000
They turn on the power, hunker down and wait.

595
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Do you feel ready?

596
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Everyone's in position, cameras are all rolling.

597
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Yeah, we've got a nice little red house out there sitting there, you know, like everything's rosy.

598
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Rosy on the outside, but roasting on the inside.

599
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Okay, everybody, we're at 300 psi.

600
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000
That's twice the tank rating.

601
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Keep your eyes peeled.

602
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,000
As the pressure inside the tank mounts, so does Jamie and Adam's heart rate.

603
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
315 psi.

604
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Oh, this is killing me.

605
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,000
320.

606
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Any second.

607
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
325.

608
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
This is excruciating.

609
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000
This kind of stress on a regular basis can't be good.

610
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000
No, shortening our lifespan.

611
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
We're going to make it 350.

612
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Suddenly the heater launches and tears through the roof like its tissue.

613
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:46,000
You could practically have a three course meal while you're waiting for it to come back down.

614
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Look at the house.

615
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,000
What house?

616
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
I don't see a house.

617
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000
I don't know what you're going to be talking about.

618
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
This actually surprised me.

619
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000
The house was no hindrance whatsoever to the rocket.

620
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000
It probably would have gone through several houses like this before it stopped going.

621
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,000
It's like a fairy tale come true.

622
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,000
The water heater huffed, it puffed, and it blew the house down.

623
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000
It just goes to show you, you know, there's danger everywhere.

624
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Did you know what was lurking in your basement?

625
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
The guys inspect what's left of their once charming home.

626
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
The bottom of the tank went from concave to convex.

627
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Probably in a split second, there's a hole in the roof.

628
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000
It had to go through two layers of two by four trusses.

629
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
And we didn't make that hole, and yet it totally did.

630
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000
And it did it without breaking any of the three windows in here.

631
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
That's a rocket, my friend.

632
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Not a bomb.

633
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:58,000
The trajectory in form of the 500 foot high rocket like blast is revealed on the high speed.

634
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I gotta say it's more interesting than an actual explosive explosion.

635
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Because the steam is just erupting everywhere and completely disintegrating.

636
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
It's different. It's more elegant.

637
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Yes, it was like a lovely, delicate water heater ballet. But deadly.

638
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
So researchers have found cases of this actually happening.

639
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Indeed, in 2000, outside of Burrito Shop's hot water heater exploded,

640
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:32,000
went right through the roof, and apparently flew 439 feet into the air.

641
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,000
And there was one in Minnesota where the water heater went through all the floors of the house,

642
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
continued 150 feet in the air.

643
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,000
And it was so bad that it knocked the house off its foundation and it had to be condemned.

644
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Two people were injured, killed a dog.

645
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Bad stuff.

646
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,000
So the moral of the myth is, even though you use them daily,

647
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
don't take your water heater for granted.

648
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Or there may not be a happy ending.

649
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,000
And test your relief valve.

650
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,000
So what I hope that people get out of this episode is,

651
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000
when they see that pipe sticking out of the water heater that doesn't go anywhere,

652
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,000
and it's dripping water, that they don't go, oh, maybe I should cap that.

653
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Hey, look!

654
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
There's a hole in the roof!

655
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
I can call that.

656
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Can I wrap this up yet?

657
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
Myth confirmed.

658
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000
So Grant, you're not going to keep those skin tight rocker jeans, can I have them?

659
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Yeah, you can have them, because I'll be returning to my regular shop jeans.

660
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Thank you very much.

661
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Do either of you want my jeans that were dragged through horse manure?

662
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Absolutely not.

663
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
But I would like a few more myths where I get to go shopping at vintage clothing stores.

664
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Hmm, alright.

665
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Well, if you have any ideas for myths that involve carry-going shopping,

666
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
log on to discovery.com slash mythbusters and let us know.