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

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Anybody else feel like an evil genius?

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To explode the myth that Bond's Bullet could ignite a propane gas tank.

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And can Jamie and Adam land 007's spectacular leap without smashing up their speedboat.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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I am the villain, bad and unsavage.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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Must.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Rise, my son.

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Joining them, Grant Imahara.

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Weapon of choice is a crossbow.

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Tori Bellegi.

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It's getting dangerous now. And that's how we like it.

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And Carrie Byron.

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That is messed up.

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They don't just tell the Myths.

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Wow, I can feel the pressure.

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They put them to the test.

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James, I'm frightened.

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I sense trouble.

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Ha ha! You are never the right to be afraid, my lovely.

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For I, Baron Von Savage, have concocted a series of diabolical tests for you and your penguin friend here.

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But why?

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Why? Because it is time for the Mythbusters James Bond special.

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Not this time, Baron.

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No.

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It's Heinemann.

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James Heinemann.

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Grab your martini glass and dust off the tux.

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Because it's the James Bond special.

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Starting off with a timeless 007 movie myth.

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And what special treat do you have in store for me?

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Ha! Your naivety, James, surprises even me.

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According to your cue, that watch on your wrist can generate an intense magnetic field.

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Supposedly strong enough to deflect bullets.

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My plan is to try it out for real.

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Well then I guess it better work.

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For your sake, I hope so. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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The scenes laid out in our secret agent's storyboard.

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The watch is the groovy gadget that cue conjures up for 007 in Live and Let Die.

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Disguised as an ordinary wristwatch, it creates a hyper-intensified magnetic field when Bond switches it on.

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And although we never see it in the movie, Bond reckons it's powerful enough to deflect a bad guy's bullet.

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How are we going to test this one out, Baron?

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I believe that we will begin in my under ground layer.

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And you're going to stay in character for this movie.

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No, I can't. I gotta take a break. It's killing my voice.

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Okay.

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Anyway, I figured that it's easy enough to find an electromagnet that can fit in that watch.

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And we hook that up, get ourselves a shooting range and a gun, and start firing some bullets past it.

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Okay.

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Now any myth that involves a magnet makes James one happy guy.

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He's got a lot of fun.

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Now any myth that involves a magnet makes James one happy guy.

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He's got what you could call an extensive collection.

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When it comes to magnets, I'm your guy. I've got every kind of magnet, all shapes and sizes, even magnets here that only exist here.

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In a previous episode, James used super powerful permanent magnets to build a duct climbing device.

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But this myth calls for a magnet of a different kind.

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That's the one.

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An electromagnet.

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Electromagnets are made by wrapping a copper wire around a steel core and then running current through it.

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That induces an electric field.

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That's as opposed to a permanent magnet, which is just some magnetic material that's been permanently magnetized.

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Unlike Bond's watch, permanent magnets can't be switched on and off, but electromagnets can.

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And James has found just the one for this test.

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I have the perfect electromagnet. It's the right size, the right shape.

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It's going to go inside this watch, which is an exact replica of the electromagnetic watch in Live and Let Die.

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James juices up his magnet to run at five times its usual voltage, making it the strongest magnet that could possibly be wedged into a watch.

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Yeah, it's a watch. Looks like a watch, but it's not.

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But does a magnet this small really stand a chance against a speeding bullet?

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Before our daring duo head out on Her Majesty's Secret Service, they do something for your eyes only.

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I think it's really good that we get this chance to bond.

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Not Bond, Hiner, James Hiner.

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Let's go.

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So what do we got?

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This one comes in the latest Bond movie, Casino Royale.

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Bond is surrounded by bad guys, seemingly no escape.

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When he spies a propane tank, he whips out his gun and shoots it.

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Yeah, he's like 20 feet away. He sees a hundred pound propane tank, shoots it with a 9mm, it explodes, and he survives.

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In the movie, our secret agent heroes got himself in a tight corner.

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Bond spies a propane tank 20 feet away.

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He whips out his 9mm Walter P99, fires a shot, sparking a giant fireball, and lets him get away.

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He's a classic Bond maneuver.

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But, is it an escape strategy to gamble your life on?

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Alright you guys, how do you want to test this one?

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I think we should start out by getting some empty propane tanks and shooting them with a 9mm.

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Just to see if we can pierce them.

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Now if we can't pierce them, I think we should step up to bigger and bigger guns and keep shooting until we find a gun that can.

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And once we can pierce the tank, we should fill with propane and find out if the tank can explode.

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Alright, sounds like we're going to need a lot of guns and a lot of propane tanks.

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Tanked up and firing at all cylinders, it's straight to the Alameda bomb range.

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There's no messin' about on this myth.

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Right away, the team unload an empty canister and put safety shields in place.

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After all, they all want to die another day, and not today.

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Alright, what's the plan?

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Well first off, we need to see if you can penetrate a gas cylinder before we start putting propane in it.

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I think we should start with the 9mm, because that's what James Bond used in the movie.

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Perfect! Let's do it!

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It's a plot even Blofeld couldn't crack.

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From 20 feet, Kari's firing the Walter P99 handgun.

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Same gun Bond used, same distance.

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But different results.

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So the first test was with the 9mm, shot at once, didn't pierce the tank,

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shot at a second time, still didn't pierce the tank, and we couldn't get any sort of piercing into this tank.

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Has the movie myth fallen foul of our gun toting team already?

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We pretty much busted this myth already.

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In the movie, he's using a 9mm and he punctures the tank.

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We've shot it twice, haven't been able to puncture it.

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It's not going to happen.

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Well good thing we brought the entire Mythbusters arsenal.

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Sure is, because after one test, it's not looking good for this Bond movie moment.

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But in the words of Dr. No, he never fail, Mr. Bond.

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And we're not leaving without a fireball.

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Still to come, remote control controversy.

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You are seeing everything up until this point. This is my turn.

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But up next, it's full steam ahead.

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It's the Mythbusters James Bond special.

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And Kari Granton Tory are dancing around the question,

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could you spark a massive explosion by shooting a propane gas tank

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just like 007 did in Casino Royale?

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Well, Bond's 9mm has been blown away.

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We've shot it twice, haven't been able to puncture it.

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It's not going to happen.

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So like Bond at the casino, Tauri's raised the stakes.

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And reached for the shotgun.

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Ah, look at that hole.

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Let's see if it made it all the way through.

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Oh, not quite. Check it out.

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Almost, though.

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But almost is not enough.

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For a big Bond bang, Kari reckons they need a gun that can slice through the front

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and the back of the tank.

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Next we're using the 30-06.

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And I think that this might be the gun that could create the fireball.

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Because I think that bullet is going to penetrate the front and the back of the tank.

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And I think it might be able to make an entry wound, add oxygen into the environment

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and then possibly spark on the way out.

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Nice shot!

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Well, thank you.

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The rifles ruptured the tank not once, but twice, at the front and through the back.

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But where does that leave Mr. Bond and his Walter P-99?

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It looks like we can bust the myth right here.

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I mean, the 9mm that James Bond used doesn't even pierce the tank.

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Yeah, but we have two weapons that will puncture those tanks.

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The shotgun and the 30-06.

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Why don't we take those and shoot a full tank of propane gas and see what happens.

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See if it blows up into a ball of fire.

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Well, before we start playing with fire, can we please change out of these completely flammable clothes?

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Yeah, I'm sick of these monkey suits.

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There's no monkey business back at the bomb range.

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Our intrepid trio are dealing with 22 gallons of highly flammable propane, packed at 240 psi.

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Even the steel tank's got a license to kill.

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It's a life-threatening scenario, so the tank is staked to the ground and the team will fire from a safe distance away.

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You know, one thing would be kind of cool is if we dress up Buster like James Bond,

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put him 20 feet away and see what happens to him if this thing does explode,

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because he could potentially get burned up.

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He sure could, because this round carries shooting a full tank of propane with the high-powered rifle.

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The reason why the 30-06 might work is because we're using armor-piercing rounds,

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and that's a piece of steel surrounded by lead.

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Now, when that bullet goes through the first wall of the tank, the lead could shear away, leaving just the steel.

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And when that steel hits that second wall, we could create a spark.

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The tank's locked and loaded. Buster Bond's standing by and carries got her gun.

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Are you ready, Moshmoney Penny?

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Quot ready.

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Moshmoney Penny never packed a piece like this.

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Three, two, one.

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Nice shot!

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Good shot!

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Thank you.

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The high-speed camera shows the armor-piercing bullets slicing through the cylinder,

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like Bond in a pajama party, but without the resulting bang.

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Wow! That's great! But no explosion. No.

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But ride on the money, Penny.

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The team have the propane tank myth on the run, but can they find the right bullet to blow it away?

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Now, let's leap into Movie Myth 003.

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So what's up next?

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This is a good one. Remember the famous speedboat chase through the bayous in Live and Let Die?

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Yeah, that was great.

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Alright, our task is to replicate part of that chase, specifically the incredible jumps.

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Not just to replicate them, but to find out if speedboats, like the ones you see in the movie,

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could make a jump like that, land and continue on their high-speed chase.

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So it's all about that landing and whether or not it would destroy the boat.

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Exactly. That's our task.

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The Live and Let Die boat chase is surely the most spectacular in Bond history.

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Pursued by Mr. Big's henchmen through the Louisiana bayous, 007 finds himself trapped by a levy.

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In unflappable Bond style, he aims his speedboat at the bank and makes the leap over a shocked sheriff waiting below.

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He lands safely back in the water and races away.

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But will this Movie Myth have a crash landing?

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Jimmy, in all your years as a captain in the Caribbean, did you ever jump a motorboat?

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Well, I've sunk a couple, but never jumped one.

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Well, that tells me that we probably don't want to go whole hog on this right off the bat, that a few scale tests are in order.

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Sounds like a plan.

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So it's full speed ahead for Adam as he creates a mini bayou on the floor of M5, using 2x4s, plywood and a polytarch.

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I need it to be waterproof because if I let this leak, Jimmy will get really f***ed off.

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And it's best not to anger Agent Heineman when he's got a steel girder in hand.

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That was easy.

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It lacked the part of the small scale ramp.

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Here's the sound. It's like people yelling at their TVs. I know what they're saying. You're saying,

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but Adam, in the James Bond movie, he didn't hit a ramp. He hit the side of the levy.

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Here's the thing. We don't have a levy that's the perfect size and shape.

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And if we're all going to be honest with each other, we know that it happened with a ramp.

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Our question is not ramp or no ramp, levy or no levy, it's can a boat make a jump like we saw in the movie and keep on going when it's done.

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It all sounds so simple. So with the small scale biocomplete, what's Adam's plan?

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Well, I'm just going to go for this and hope for the best.

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But he quickly learns that remote control is harder than it looks.

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This is going to take a while.

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Oh, I hit the camera.

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So how many times are you going to screw around with this before I get a go?

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Look, you are seeing everything up until this point. This is my turn and I've given you plenty of time in the past to dial it in and get it to the zone.

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I don't want to be trying to get into the zone while thinking you're just going to usurp me at some point. So give me some bloody space.

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With a thumbs up from James, Adam zones into his remote boat.

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The lessons he learns here will be crucial in the full scale test later.

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I know I want to learn some stuff from this test, like angle of ramp and speed of boat and controllability of boat.

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And there's also a host of things that I don't know about what I need to know.

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And that's probably the main reason we're doing this. Just to get a feel for controlling a boat, running it towards a ramp.

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It's not like this is an absolute analog to the full size test, but it should teach us enough to know where the problem areas might occur.

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Geez.

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And what's quickly clear is that the key problem is control. If the boat doesn't hit the ramp dead on, its chances are sunk.

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That was something.

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Well, I think that's about the end of what we can learn from this boat in scale.

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Yep. It's time to go full size. Let's get a boat and do it for real.

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Man, this one's going to be hard.

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Make that hard and dangerous, because here's what's going to happen.

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Using a full scale speed boat, the mythbusters will steer it onto a submerged ramp at high speed.

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If it miraculously manages to make the 70 foot leap over a barge below, will it still be in one piece?

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Dude, it looks just like the boat in Living Let Die.

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Not going to get closer than that.

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The speed boat's almost an exact replica of Bond's 1973 Glasstron GT150.

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But there's one tiny issue. The insurance company won't let James or Adam be in the boat during the test.

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So the only solution is RC.

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I'm going to be RC-ing this boat.

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And then maybe I can get Jamie to sit in it and I'll let it go out of control and drive through a fence like he did to me.

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What the hell was that?

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With remote revenge in mind, Adam wires up the boat so he can control the throttle and the steering wheel.

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And I'm going to use the same module to do each.

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This is a very large, waterproof, super high powered servo.

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Basically, when I make a motion on my RC transmitter, this will rotate according to what I tell it to do.

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But the question is, will the boat obey Adam's every command or is it on a crash course to catastrophe?

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There's just one way to find out.

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Coming up next on MythBusters, find out how not to dry clean your tuxedo.

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And is the Bond Magnetic Mission still on target?

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Right to the same hole.

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The MythBusters are taking aim at 007 movie myths.

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In Live and Let Die, James Bond's Magnetic Watch saves his bacon more than once.

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But could it really deflect a speeding bullet?

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Or is it just Bond Bologna?

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Armed with a replica of 007's watch, steel bullets, and, well, a ballistics gel arm, James and Adam are on target to put this myth to the test.

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This myth depends on deadly accurate aim.

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So to take human error out of the equation, our Magnetic Duo rig up a remote firing device.

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Adam's gone high tech to explain how it'll work.

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Allow me to demonstrate with a bit of secret agent yarn.

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Under normal circumstances, the bullet leaving this barrel will follow a consistent trajectory towards the target.

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I.e. every bullet we fire should go through the same hole at this distance.

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However, if there is any merit to this myth, the bullet when it goes past the watch will change its trajectory.

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And then we'll see a different hole being made into the target.

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Queer the theory, Adam. Let's put it to the test.

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The first two shots simply check the trajectory of a bullet without the magnet in play.

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And sure enough, both bullets land in the same spot on the target.

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That's what I like to see right through the same hole.

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Alright, let's get that watch fired up and see if there's a difference.

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Remember, any differences in the next test will be the result of the magnet.

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So, like Solitaire, it's time to lay the cards on the table about the might of our electromagnet.

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Magnetism is measured in Gauss. The Earth's magnetic field is about half a Gauss.

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A fridge magnet, 10 Gauss, while a junkyard magnet is a whopping 10,000 Gauss.

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Add as for our bond watch.

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575.

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That's not bad for a small one that fits in a watt.

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Well, yeah, that's the most we could fit in there.

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And I want to point out that we've overclocked this.

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This is running at like five times the voltage it's intended to.

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Perfect.

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James has juiced up the magnet as far as it'll go.

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But has it got the stones to sidetrack the slug just like in Live and Let Die?

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You know, Adam, even though they say that this electromagnetic watch was powerful enough to deflect a bullet,

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you never actually see it do that in the film.

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We do, however, see it do some other pretty remarkable feats.

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Like pull the zipper down on that woman's dress.

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You see it attract that compressed gas bullet and even pull his boss's teaspoon off of his teacup from across the room.

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Yeah, but all those effects are old-school.

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Pulling monofilament, rods, stuff like that.

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Yeah, the fact is a magnet's power decreases exponentially the farther you get away from it.

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They simply can't act at a distance unless you're really close.

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And that's exactly what we're doing in our testing at very close range.

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Okay, but the question is, even at close range, will a magnet this size affect a bullet at all?

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Okay, electromagnetic watch test.

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In three, two, one.

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Right through the hole.

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Right through the same hole. No effect from the watch.

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Well, let's double check and have a look at the high speed.

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Okay.

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The high speed camera captures the bullet at 6,000 frames a second and it confirms that the bullet stayed on course.

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Well, that's definitive. The electromagnetic watch did not work.

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And the fact is there's just no way to pump enough energy through an electromagnet that size to be able to affect a bullet.

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But we're not going to leave it there. That's just the first part of what we do, replicating the circumstances.

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Now we want to see if we can replicate the results.

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Will a bigger electromagnet alter the trajectory of our bullets?

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But when it comes to electromagnets, does size matter?

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Well, it might not fit on your wrist, but this magnet has 3,200 gauss of pure pulling power.

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This is fire and a bullet pass. It's a super big electromagnet.

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And three, two, one.

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Went right through the same hole. The electromagnet had no effect on the trajectory. Let's look at the high speed.

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Yet again, the high speed tells the same story. Even an electromagnet this big doesn't affect the bullet.

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Well, the results of all the tests we've conducted so far are pretty conclusive.

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No matter how many bullets we've fired, and no matter what we've fired them past, they are all exiting through the same hole in the Jamie target.

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Which tells me that nothing we're trying is affecting the trajectory of any of our bullets.

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The electromagnet is not enough, but our secret agents haven't surrendered yet.

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The Casino Royale Exploding Propane Tank Mitt is busted.

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Bond's 9 mil couldn't even pierce the tank.

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And even when the team used a high velocity rifle with armor piercing bullets, there was a good head of steam, but no explosion.

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But Carrie's got a hot idea.

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None of this regular stuff's going to do it. We're going to need something with a little fire, so we're moving on to a tracer round.

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This should be interesting.

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Tracers have a small amount of bright burning phosphorus at their base. That's what makes them visible to the naked eye.

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But it vaporizes as the bullet travels through the air.

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It's possible Bond could be packing tracers, but gun guru Frank Tabor reckons he'd need more than a single shot.

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You may have to shoot it twice. One's to pierce it, and the second one maybe to ignite the ball of gases that come out. We'll find out.

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Yeah!

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Tori's pumped, and the tracers are locked and loaded.

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Oh, yeah!

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The first tracers lit up like Christmas jolts, releasing a huge cloud of flammable gas. In comes the second, and the third, but...

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I can't believe this. No explosion!

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Yeah, but I saw the tracer rounds definitely lit up.

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So the tracer rounds went in, it punctured the tank, it should have ignited, but it didn't.

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This myth's not just double busted, it's triple busted. No bullets triggered the mighty Bond Caboon.

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That's it. I am so over bullets. We even tried to trace around, which is basically a bullet on fire, and we couldn't get any explosion out of a propane tank.

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So we're moving on to high explosives, something that will guarantee a really James Bond ending to the story.

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And if you want a Bond-worthy explosion, bomb technician J.D. Nelson's the go-to guy.

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He attaches a small amount of incendiary explosives to the tank and rolls out the charge.

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While Buster Bond stays 20 feet from the tank, the team retreat to the safety of their blast-proof lair.

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Anybody else feel like an evil genius?

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Bye-bye, Dubino Buster!

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Today, propane tanks. Tomorrow, world domination.

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You've seen your last martini, 003. In three, two, one.

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That was the biggest fall of flame I've ever seen!

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Oh, that was rad!

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Now that's what you'd call a real thunderball.

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Remember, all J.D. added was enough explosive to rupture the tank and ignite the gas. The rest was pure propane.

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Buster Bond's lucky to have kept his head. The tank's been blown to smithereens.

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Wow!

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Oh, dude, it's a kill that right open.

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That's crazy.

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Where's the top?

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The top is over there.

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Mythbusters, was this a successful day?

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Absolutely.

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Fantastic.

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I'm happy.

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Let's walk off in the sunset.

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Wow.

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You know, we got a few more of those cans of propane.

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And you could bet we're going to use them, because this Bond myth ain't over yet.

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Stay with us, because Adam's in control of Bond's live and let tie boat jump.

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As many times as we do this, I don't get used to how much fun it is.

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You want to see more crazy characters that we played in the opening scene? Log on to discovery.com.

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The Mythbusters, where you can see our very own James Bond trailer with the entire Mythbusters team bonding.

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

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Unless your James Bond in live and let die 007 leaps a Louisiana levee without smashing up his speedboat.

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But James and Adam's small scale tests have already washed up a few problems.

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Seems to be our curse on Mythbusters is that these things we only have one shot at.

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And this one is no different. It's all or nothing.

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So with nothing to lose, the Mythbusters have hightailed it up country for a full scale test.

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Well, unfortunately California is pretty far from Bayou's of Louisiana.

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And this myth is all about location, location, location. It has to be the right location for us.

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So we've come to a secret location in Northern California. I can't tell you where we exactly are, but this, we're told, might be perfect.

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And just to make sure the now not so secret location is as perfect as it looks, James and Adam head out on reconnaissance.

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We're scouting the lake right now for the perfect location for our ramp. It's going to be built out of scaffolding.

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And it's got to be built in relatively shallow water five or six feet deep because any deeper than that and just be too hard to build.

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Most of the lake is 15 to 18 feet deep, but Adams had a tip off about a nice shallow straight stretch.

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Yeah, perfect. Right here. This looks great. Yeah, this is nice. It's fairly consistent.

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With a buoy marking the spot, it's back to base and all hands on deck to rig up the full scale ramp.

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While this may look like a bit of standard painter scaffolding, in fact, it is the heart and soul of our boat jumping ramp that we're going to construct out here in the lake.

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Actually, we're going to build the first part of it here right on this fantastic barge that I'm standing on.

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We're going to carry it out to the location and dump it in the water and build the rest of the ramp on top of it.

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We never tried anything quite like this before and I'm actually, while I think this work is going to be hard, I'm pretty psyched.

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Psyched over scaffolding, whatever floats your boat out, but getting the angle of the ramp right could make or break this myth.

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James has crunched the numbers and calculated that at 45 miles an hour, an 18 degree incline should mark the boat more than 70 feet.

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But building a ramp this size in the middle of a lake ain't easy.

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So, yeah, I think if we just push it off and then use the lines to stabilize it.

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Sometimes it's the simplest plans that go horribly wrong.

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The base of the ramp is now upside down and submerged six feet under.

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It's a battle of will versus water as the team struggled to flip the scaffolding right side up.

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Well, we've got the scaffolding on the water sort of.

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I mean, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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We just dumped it in.

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Now we've got some twisted and torqued metal pieces.

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We'll figure it out.

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And slowly but surely, the ramp comes together like a massive mechanoset.

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We're putting a bunch of anchors out in all directions with cables so they don't stretch and hopefully we'll be able to get it rock solid by the time we cinch everything in tight.

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With the ramp looking somewhat sturdy, Adam turns his attention back to his remote control boat.

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I know what you're saying to yourself.

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You're saying, self, how would you turn a full-size motorboat into a really big remote control toy?

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I'll tell you.

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All it takes is one of these transmitters which sends some signals to this receiver.

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This receiver parses those signals and sends it out to both the throttle and the steering.

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In the case of the throttle, this 12-volt battery powers through this switch to this throttle servo here right on the engine.

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In the case of the steering, this switch sends power from the 12-volt battery to the steering servo right here on the steering wheel and hopefully allows me to steer this boat through the water, into the ramp, through the air, over the police car and into history.

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Now all I need to do is get it in the water and test it out.

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Remember, other than the remote control, the boat is exactly like bonds.

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That works perfect!

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This myth will live or die on Adam's ability to hit the ramp dead on at just the right speed.

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As many times as we do this, I don't get used to how much fun it is.

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Driving behind an empty ghost speedboat, racing across the lake at 45 miles per hour.

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That is exactly the speed we wanted to hit.

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The control I have is fantastic.

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All that's left at now is to set out our flags for the course we're going to run, make sure the ramp is secure and go for it.

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After the break, grad's packing some serious heat.

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Going hot!

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And James and Adam throw everything they have at Bond's Magnetic Watch.

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We've flicked the switch on a magnetic movie myth.

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The mythbusters have turned up the dial on James Bond's Magnetic Watch, but the results have left them hanging.

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Even a Mondo-sized electromagnet failed to deflect a steel bullet.

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Nothing we're trying is affecting the trajectory of any of our bullets.

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But like all good secret agents, James has a backup plan.

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Super strong permanent magnets.

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This is neodymium iron boron, which is the most powerful type of rare earth magnet.

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This right here is the bomb.

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And it's a super strong magnet.

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It's a super strong magnet.

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It's a super strong magnet.

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It's a super strong magnet.

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It's a super strong magnet.

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This right here is the bomb.

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And if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

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The bullet will travel over not one, not two, but ten super strong magnets.

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It's one of these magnets that lifts 350 pounds.

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It's like adding a lot of extra gravity to this bullet.

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I feel like it might actually work.

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Tomorrow never dies.

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And neither does Adam's optimism.

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Even James is feeling confident.

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My guess is they're going to actually affect it enough to put a groove in the last magnet as the bullet goes across it.

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And it will probably put the bullet in a lower spot on the target.

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And three, two, one.

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I'm not exactly sure what happened.

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Well, I can see that the hole is lower.

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The hole does seem to have been affected a little bit lower.

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Sure enough, the bullet hole is slightly lower, but there's a whole lot of nothing on the magnet.

439
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
No scratch or anything that I can see.

440
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Darn.

441
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Momentum is a powerful thing, James.

442
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Let's check the high speed.

443
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,000
The bullet drops, even flips end on end, but ultimately keeps going.

444
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000
Bond's still taking one in the chest.

445
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
His chance of survival is slim.

446
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
That is so close.

447
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
I wish we had a little more.

448
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
I've actually, I've got a surprise for you.

449
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Wait here.

450
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000
It's from Adam with love.

451
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Same diameter, three times as thick.

452
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,000
This may look like a hunk of metal, but if I brought this close to that light pole, I could lose my hand.

453
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
These just might be the shot in the arm for this experiment.

454
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Three more super magnets means more than 60,000 gauss of total pull.

455
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
But Adam wants the results to be indisputable.

456
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000
I have also added a piece of pristine white tape across the tops of all of these.

457
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:48,000
So if this tumbling bullet that we saw in the last shot actually hits or touches anything along the way, we'll see it in the tape.

458
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Hey!

459
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
I see peeled tape.

460
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
You hit the magnet.

461
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
It looks like we hit the magnet.

462
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000
It was sliding right along the magnet when it hit.

463
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,000
And the difference was made by those last three magnets.

464
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Look, it bounced up and hit above.

465
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Our result.

466
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:13,000
But it took 13 super strong magnets to finally alter the trajectory of the bullet.

467
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Well, this whole spy gadget is predicated on the idea that you can overcome the force of momentum with the force of magnetism.

468
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Now, while we were able to gather up enough magnets to affect the trajectory, we didn't come close to stopping it.

469
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,000
And there's no way you're going to fit our rig wrapped around your wrist.

470
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:37,000
And if you were going to do it with an electromagnet, you'd need so much power that you'd have to have a small nuclear reactor in the watch battery or something.

471
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
You're totally right.

472
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
This thing is busted.

473
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Our work here is done.

474
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
And let's go get a couple of martinis, James.

475
00:35:43,000 --> 00:36:02,000
The mythbusters have blown holes a mile wide in the myth that 007 could make a propane tank explode using his 9 millimeter handgun.

476
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
We've shot it twice.

477
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Haven't been able to puncture it.

478
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000
It took explosives to create a bond worthy blast.

479
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:14,000
That was the biggest ball of flame I've ever seen.

480
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,000
But one huge fireball is not enough for the mythbusters.

481
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Bet you guys thought this myth was over and we exploded the propane tanks, huh?

482
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
That was an amazing explosion, but there's one thing that's been bothering me.

483
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
I mean, we used explosives to blow up the propane tank.

484
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
James Bond just used his pistol.

485
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000
But the fans will say you didn't use incendiary rounds.

486
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000
They're illegal in California.

487
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000
I bet you at Jamie's secret location, they're not illegal.

488
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Yeah, let's go there.

489
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,000
As Adam discovered, Jamie's location is strictly on a need to know basis.

490
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Where are we?

491
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000
We're right here.

492
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,000
And right here's the perfect setting for a mini gun massacre.

493
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:01,000
We tried shooting our propane tank with three different guns and trace arounds.

494
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Still no explosion.

495
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
But our friends at...

496
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:10,000
have decided to let us use their Gatling gun with incendiary rounds and a much bigger propane tank.

497
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
You know, this just might work.

498
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Incendiary rounds have a lot more firepower than any bullet we've tried.

499
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:25,000
They're packed with a combustible material at the tip and in the core that burns at a very high temperature.

500
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
And using a mini gun might help too.

501
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Now the Gatling mini gun shoots 50 rounds a second.

502
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
50 rounds, that's a lot of bullets.

503
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000
I am pretty sure we're going to be able to explode this propane tank.

504
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
It doesn't have a chance.

505
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Let's hope so, Tori, because this is the last chance for the Casino Royale myth.

506
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
This is propane tank with incendiary rounds.

507
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Going hot.

508
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000
In three, two, one.

509
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Whoa!

510
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Hey!

511
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Wow!

512
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
That is awesome!

513
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Never say never again.

514
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:15,000
The first flail of ammo hits and almost instantly the propane set a blaze.

515
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Ah, that was cool!

516
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Finally we found a gun and bullets that will set off a propane tank.

517
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:28,000
The only thing is that the gun is a mini gun, firing thousands of rounds a minute and the bullets are incendiary.

518
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:34,000
James Bond didn't have either, so unfortunately this myth is still busted.

519
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
That's busted in Royale style.

520
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Coming right up.

521
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
There's a lot of pressure on me to get this right.

522
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Adam leaks into Bond's speedboat stunt.

523
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Oh my God!

524
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Way back when in mega movie myths, Jamie and Adam made a leap of epic proportions.

525
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Armed with an RC Chevy, they wanted to know whether a car could do a duke's of hazard inspired jump and land in a drivable condition.

526
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000
The answer was a resounding no.

527
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Now, in our final test of the James Bond special, our agents of destruction are at it again in a live and let die inspired myth.

528
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:33,000
The dirt ramp has been replaced with scaffolding, the road with water and the car with a speedboat.

529
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
No doubt the chances of something going horribly wrong are horribly high.

530
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:46,000
The worst case scenario is at the moment this boat hits the ramp, the rails of the ramp go like this, like that and swallow the boat.

531
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000
Basically running it through a sheet like a wood chipper.

532
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Ah, is now the time to mention that during live and let die, the stunt team trashed 17 boats and made 100 practice runs before perfecting this jump.

533
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Adam's got just one chance to steer the speedboat right at the ramp or the myths dead in the water.

534
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
There's a lot of pressure on me to get this right.

535
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
We've been out here for three days.

536
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
If I don't nail this, we've pretty much wasted our time.

537
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000
So I feel the pressure, but I like the pressure.

538
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
I feel good about it.

539
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
I actually feel good about this test.

540
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,000
I feel like I'm going to hit that ramp and I feel like this boat's going to sail beautifully through the air and land on the other side.

541
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
I feel pretty optimistic about it.

542
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
Like positions right, everything's running.

543
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
You feel good about it, Jimmy?

544
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
I feel great.

545
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Yeah, a little pressure's off you this time.

546
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Uh-huh.

547
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Good luck, buddy.

548
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Thank you.

549
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Remember, this myth is all about the boat being drivable when it lands.

550
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
So hang on to your beret.

551
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
It's showtime.

552
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000
Adam bumps the boat up to 45 miles an hour.

553
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
He's got to hit the ramp dead on.

554
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
And at this speed, that's like threading a needle.

555
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000
But remarkably, he's doing just that.

556
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000
But at the last second, Houston, we have a problem.

557
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,000
I'm hitting over the car.

558
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Oh my God.

559
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
And that worked surprisingly well.

560
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000
I mean, we can probably still use a boat.

561
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Despite James's optimism, there's no doubt that this test went belly up.

562
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000
The boat's not speeding off into the sunset.

563
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
So what went wrong?

564
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000
In short, we were chasing our RC speed boat at a really perfect clip.

565
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000
But I think we fell off the wake and went off center.

566
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,000
When we went off center, I lost my aim.

567
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,000
And honestly, I'm glad that I hit the ramp as much as I did.

568
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000
Considering I had about three or four seconds of no idea where it was going.

569
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Remember, Adam was supposed to hit the ramp dead on.

570
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Then the boat was supposed to fly through the sky over the awaiting police car

571
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000
and touchdown on the other side.

572
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,000
That way, the Mythbusters would have been able to learn

573
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
if it was still drivable once it landed

574
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,000
or would the hull have been ripped to pieces.

575
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Unfortunately, Adam's last second lack of control meant the boat flipped.

576
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000
And the chance of accurately answering this myth flopped.

577
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000
It's not exactly what we hoped for, but the hull is intact.

578
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000
I looked at it carefully. It's good as new.

579
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
So what does that tell us?

580
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
It means that you could actually make a jump like this and survive it.

581
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Despite the jump going off the rails,

582
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,000
is it possible to salvage a conclusion to this myth?

583
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000
I think we have to call it plausible.

584
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,000
The boat held up quite well.

585
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,000
It was a little funny flip thing, but I got to say,

586
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,000
I think it would have landed just fine.

587
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000
It cleared the barge with the car on it.

588
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Based on the evidence we have, I would agree.

589
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,000
I'd call this one plausible.

590
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Let's go try and get that boat out of the water.

591
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000
We need to practice a little more before we do that again.

592
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000
Music plays

593
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Music plays

594
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Snap out of a buster bond!

595
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Music plays

596
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000
I don't think Double-O Buster's going to make it to the next bond installment.

597
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000
He's been burned, drowned.

598
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000
How much more punishment can a secret agent take?

599
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Well, there's got to be a million more spy myths that we can test.

600
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,000
If you have any of those spy myths, log on to discovery.com.

601
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
I'm going to call the busters and give him another shot.

602
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Come on, buddy!