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Be your weapon of choice.

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Then you asked Carrie Grant and Tori to find out if a machine gun can fell a tree.

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Next, the boys take a swipe at a baseball myth you wanted in the spotlight.

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I've put makeup on Adam before.

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That worked perfectly.

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Will a road running trail of leaking gunpowder really blow up Wiley Coyote style?

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In three, two, one.

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Who are the Myth Busters?

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Smells like science.

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Adam Sable.

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

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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Bada bing, bada boom.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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It bleeds.

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Joining them, Tori Belleggi.

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We do that again.

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Grant Imahara.

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Excellent damn work.

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And Carrie Byron.

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Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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

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Adam and Jamie asked for them.

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Had you guys delivered?

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Big time.

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I am so overwhelmed.

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We have so many responses to our request for ideas from viewers.

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I think it's safe to say that we have enough here to get started.

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Myth Busters, viewer special number two.

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And for the first fan theory, one half of the team is getting dressed up.

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And it's not Jamie.

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Here we go again.

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I like this.

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I'm trying to get into the mood.

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Because what we have here is not so much a myth per se as more like a historical conundrum

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that a fan has asked us to answer.

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This particular fan is an archeological professor.

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And he's a great teacher.

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And he's a great teacher.

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And he's a great teacher.

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This prehistory mystery comes courtesy of archeology professor Todd Surrevelle.

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It's a fact that thousands of stone arrowheads are found each and every year.

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But Doc Todd wants the mythbusters to find out why.

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Why did our stony-faced ancestors have a fondness for flint when an easy to make sharpened stick may have worked just as well?

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So where do we start?

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I think we start to find out how long it takes to make a flint arrowhead as opposed to a sharpened stick.

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Let's have a race.

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You should make some flint ones and I'll sharpen some sticks and we'll compare production times.

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Yeah, and when it comes to testing time, we need to both look at their lethality as well as their accuracy because they're both important.

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So if you're ready, time to dust off those flint-napping skills because if I'm right, it's about 70 years since you've done it last.

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And they're off.

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First up in this archaeology anecdote, Adam and Jamie go head to head in an arrow making time trial.

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Three and a half minutes.

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I can't even come close to competing with that.

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Jamie's been shafted, but he keeps chipping away and an hour later, finally finishes.

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We've just seen that it takes much longer to make a stone arrowhead.

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And to do that, we're going to start with a simple lethality test.

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We'll make some more flint heads, we'll make some more pointed sticks, and we'll fire them into a ballistics gel dummy from a point blank range.

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To make sure that both aerotypes are fired consistently, we're going to use the automatic archer that we built for the Ninja Special.

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So that's the plan.

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But what does our resident Neanderthal think is going to happen?

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So with the predictions in place, it's time to get to the point.

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Here we go. In three, two, one.

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Worked like a charm.

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The sharp stick shot straight as an arrow.

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8.5 inches ain't bad, but will the flint be flung further?

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Okay, here goes the arrowhead in three, two, one.

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That is pretty clear.

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The arrowhead went a good inch farther.

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There's a glint of flint at the back of the bust and one inch more penetration confirmed by a bunch more tests.

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But Jamie spotted a problem.

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The ballistics medium by itself is good flesh analog, but animals usually have fur and hide and things like that on it.

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Despite the hide slightly hindering both the stick and flint arrows, the results are the same.

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But is that enough to justify all the effort of making one?

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This one went in this far. This one went in this far. I mean, you're dead either way.

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Right. However, you know, if you think about the animals that are being hunted, some of them are quite large and you want a bigger wound.

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There's the pointy stick wound. It's just a little hole and there's the arrowhead wound. It's nice and wide.

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But Jamie isn't impressed. In his mind, the size of the entry wound isn't the issue.

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In terms of penetration, it was only about 5% difference and yet it took a thousand percent longer to make this one than this one.

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So it may not just be about lethality. It might also be about accuracy. And that's what we have to test next.

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Yep, they're leaving no stone unturned for this myth.

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No, we haven't made this up. It's a myth straight from the fan site.

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For the next viewer myth, a fan wants to know if you can chop down a tree with a machine gun.

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Oh, just like in the movie Predator where they mow down a chunk of the jungle.

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Exactly. Oh my gosh, that's funny. You should say that because every time I go hiking in the forest and I'm just like, can I cut that tree down with a machine gun?

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Perfect. You're going to find out.

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Tree lovers, huggers and hippies beware. Torey's all fired up and ready to uproot this myth with some machine gun mayhem.

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Machine guns are a formidable weapon that have been in use for over a hundred years.

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Their deadly spray of bullets, lethal on the battlefield, is, or so the fans claim, the ideal tool for tree felling.

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So how are we going to test this myth because I don't want to go around destroying trees.

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Well, why don't we get some trees that have been freshly felled for clearing purposes, will create our own artificial forest.

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That way no trees will have been killed in the busting of this myth.

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I think to test this properly, we're going to need to get a bunch of machine guns and see if any of them will cut down a tree.

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You know, I think the kind of artillery that we're going to want to use to test this myth is something that's not going to be accessible in California.

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So I think we're going to have to go back to that secret location where Jamie and Adam tested shooting fish in a barrel.

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Ah, the secret location. I hope they allow us back.

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Who's with me? Come on everybody, get your guns. Let's go to the forest. Chop down the trees.

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Right there is the reason our insurance premiums are so high. So it's off for some fun in the Arizona sun.

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Are we going to have some fun?

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On scene at the secret location, the team need just two ingredients. Machine guns are no problem.

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But the tree line around here has flat line. So the guys pack their own.

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We have three freshly cut pine trees. Grant's digging holes right now so that we can stick them up.

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We're going to fire at them, see if we can cut them down.

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If they do, it won't be because they've selected saplings. These pine trees are fully two feet in diameter and two tons of piece.

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Among them, our boreal expert, Mark Maul, has planted an extra challenge.

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We have three freshly cut pine, but what's the tree at the end?

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The tree at the end is a native mesquite tree.

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Is that harder to cut through? Why do we have this one?

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It's about four times as dense as the pine tree and it's going to give the machine gun a run for its money.

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Yep, this hard core hardwood is as tough as timber gets, making it the ultimate challenge for the machine gun.

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But before either tree faces the firing squad, Tori takes us through the arsenal.

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Now, machine gun is very general term. So what we've done is we've chosen three different types to cover a very large range.

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For our small machine gun, we're going to go with the Thompson submachine gun.

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It shoots a .45 caliber round. This is like your classic gangster machine gun that you see in the 30s.

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The next, our medium range machine gun is called the SAW. How ironic.

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It's a squad automatic weapon and it shoots a .223 fully automatic. This one is going to be fun to shoot.

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Finally, for our big one, we're shooting the minigun.

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And this shoots a .30 caliber round, 3,000 rounds per minute.

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My money for cutting down a tree is on this bad boy right here.

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Still to come, the Mythbusters get fired up from machine gun mayhem.

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I want to make a withdrawal.

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Adam and Jamie have been asked by a fan why our ancient ancestors spent so much time making flint arrowheads.

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When sharpened sticks might have worked just as well.

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But the caveman jury is still out.

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Because in the so-called lethality testing, both arrow types were pretty much equal.

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So what's next?

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The whole point of this exercise is to find out if there's a point to the manufactured point on an ancient arrow.

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Now the question is, is one of these more accurate over distance?

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For that, they set up the Ninja Arrow Bot 55 feet from the target.

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But this time, the target has a tash.

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Where'd you find that picture?

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I dubbed this J-Man the Barbarian.

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With J-Man in place, Adam and Jamie line up for round one.

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They fire six of the stone tipped arrows in quick succession.

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Let's go take a look at those.

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So far so good.

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It still is quite deadly at 50 feet in hitting a large fleshy target like Mr. Heineman.

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Now the question is, will we be able to see any difference with the non-arrow headed tipped arrows?

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Sharpened sticks, fire one.

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In three, two, one.

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This time it's a volley of six sharpened sticks.

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Let's inspect.

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And just like in the lethality tests, they refuse to be significantly outperformed by their stony counterparts.

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But the rest are pretty much just as clustered as the arrow headed arrows.

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So in summary, are Stone Age scientists have tried lethality testing?

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Actually, they were very close.

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And only got a difference in the size of the entry wound.

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They tried testing accuracy.

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Please stop hitting me with arrows.

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And got the same result.

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In terms of performance, the arrows are virtually the same.

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So how do we answer this Dr. Todd's fan fable?

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Well, here are the facts.

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It took more than ten times longer to make an arrow with an arrowhead on it than it did to make a sharpened stick.

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And yet, neither of them were any better than the other one as far as accuracy or penetration.

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Yes, but we did find that the arrowhead made a bigger wound.

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And that means that whatever you're hunting, whether it's a vison or a mammoth or what have you,

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that bigger wound is going to mean it bleeds out faster.

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And that means it's going to die quicker and you're going to eat sooner.

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And in the hunting game, baby, that's everything.

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And you also have to consider that the arrow shafts are made out of wood

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and if it's just a sharpened stick, it's going to rot.

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And the only thing that would be around for us to look at are these arrowheads.

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So we don't really know which there were more of.

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And here's one more argument in favor of the old arrowhead.

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And that is that this is technology.

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Back in the day, this puppy was caveman bullying.

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And like any technology, you've got to have the latest and the greatest.

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Oh, yeah, that's what brings on the caveman ladies.

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Chopping down trees is a backbreaking and dangerous job.

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But could there be a better way?

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MythBuster fans want to know if you could replace a saw with a machine gun.

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But enough shooting the breeze. How about them trees?

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OK, so our first weapon up today is the Thompson submachine gun.

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So grad hit man Imahara has the tree machine gun myth in his sights.

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He locks, he loads and lets loose with a drum full of 45 caliber bullets

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at 500 rounds a minute.

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But it's soon clear the handheld automatic is far from ideal.

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You know what? One thing I'm seeing with the machine gun, it's just tough to keep it on target

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because you constantly want to rise up.

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It just pushes you like that.

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It's going to be tough to hit the same spot on the tree.

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Yes, the kickback is making it tough for Grant to focus his fire.

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Which means it's time to up the ante.

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I want to make a withdrawal. Do you think you can help me?

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Story looking like a gun enthusiast magazine cover is confident the squad automatic weapon

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or the saw will live up to its name.

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You know with this machine gun I think we have a better chance of cutting down a tree

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just because these bullets are going to be flying at a lot faster velocity

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so they should be cutting through the tree.

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So Tori assumes the position and lets rip.

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After Grant's experience with the Tommy gun, Tori's using a bipod

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for increased stability and accuracy.

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It was great, you had a straight line.

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Tori works away, concentrating his fire in a line across the base of the trunk

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but despite unloading over three ammo belts into the wood, there's no sign of timber.

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Got them all right. I don't think it's going down though.

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And with one last blast Tori gives up.

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But unlike the Tommy gun, the saw bullets did go all the way through the trunk

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but the relatively small caliber 223 meant the damage was limited

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and the tree stayed standing.

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But the myth is still alive because Carrie Mad Max Byron is up next.

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After the break Adam and Jamie launch a spear campaign and Carrie brings out the big guns.

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Not so long ago the team went to the ball game to hit some baseball myths right out of the park

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but the fans say there was one glaring omission.

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Can you guess what's next?

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Let me see.

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Eye black?

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Good call.

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Well eye black is supposed to do what? Make you see better?

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Yeah by cutting the glare.

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Either that or it's supposed to strike the fear into your opponents because it looks like war paint.

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Well how are we going to test that?

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Well I think we should bring Jess into it and I think she should put some eye black on us

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and it's pretty simple. We go out into the sunlight and we take an eye test

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both with and without eye black on our face.

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Except we can't know which one we've got on.

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So for one of us she'll do eye black and for the other she'll do regular makeup.

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We won't know which one so the test will be blind.

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So to speak.

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Exactly.

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So outside Jess positions the eye chart so the guys will face directly into the sun.

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Close your eyes.

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Then she launches a smear campaign putting eye black on Adam.

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I've put makeup on Adam before.

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What was that?

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Oh you know.

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And ordinary makeup on Jamie.

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Remember they don't know which substance they've got on their faces.

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Oh it's bright outside.

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Then they take turns sitting Jess's eye exam.

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H-V-Z-D-S-N-C-V-K-D-O-N-V-C-S-V-D-V-O-H-C-S-R.

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I think that's the last line, the third to the last is the smallest one I can read.

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At the end of round one Adam and Jamie each made just a single mistake.

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Could you tell what you had under your eyes?

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Honestly I could not tell whether I had a light or dark color under my eyes.

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They swapped stripes and sit the test a second time.

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C-Z-S-H-N-E.

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Is Jamie finding it easier with the eye black on?

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N-C-V-K-D-C-S.

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Is Adam struggling with the glare?

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Now that his cheeks no longer bear the sooty swipe.

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H-V-O-N-V-O-H-C-S-V-D-V-O-H-C-S-R.

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How did you do on that last one?

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Well actually the results are the same.

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One wrong letter each.

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However, I really feel like I can see it better.

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Please tell me I'm wearing the eye black.

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No.

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Negative results.

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Is what's on me now a lighter color?

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No actually it's black and I think it really compliments the beret.

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So both feel the test was harder with the eye black on.

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But because the eye test is so subjective they decide to remove the human element.

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They're going to use a fake face with a fake tan.

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Not entirely awful.

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And insert a light meter into the eye socket.

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I've got a professional grade eye black from the Sporting & Store.

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Gonna take a reading with the light on.

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Without the eye black and with the eye black.

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Let's see if there's a difference.

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With a single light source beaming down on our one-eyed outfielder.

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It's now settled out at around 3,160 or so.

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The guys note down the reading.

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Measured in lux, with and without eye black.

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It's about the same.

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The difference in a couple of lux.

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You never notice it with your naked eye.

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So the eye black didn't affect the amount of light bouncing off the cheek and into the eyeball.

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Don't these guys normally wear baseball caps?

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Yeah.

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Let's put one on and see what happens.

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Maybe it's about the reflected light not the direct light.

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On goes the cap and without eye black the light meter hovers around 103 lux.

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Then being careful not to move the cap, Adam adds the pigment.

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It's pretty well stabilized.

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Well below 100 like you know 90 thereabouts.

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That's significant.

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Yeah.

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With the cap on the eye black definitely reduced the amount of reflected light.

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And let's face it.

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When did he allow to see a baseballer without his cap?

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What do you reckon?

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Well you know it's funny.

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Eye black tests that we were first doing really seem to point towards the opposite of conventional wisdom.

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It seemed like we were about to prove that the eye black makes it worse for you in bright sunlight rather than better.

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Indeed.

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But once we threw in the addition of the baseball cap, the change in the total amount of light coming in actually turned it in the other direction.

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It looks like eye black actually does help it.

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So it's plausible.

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I would agree.

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This one is...ow.

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Plausible.

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What a no is it possible to fell a tree with a machine gun?

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So far ballistics, Balechi and hitman Imahara have left their wood standing.

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Well, I hate to tell you this but the tree is still standing.

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But it ain't over till the fat lady sings and in this case the fat lady is the Dylan minigun.

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Now it's time for the big gun.

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This is the M134D Gatling gun otherwise known as the Dylan minigun.

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It shoots 30 caliber rounds at 3000 rounds per minute.

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3000 rounds a minute.

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It breaks down to an incredible 50 per second.

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And whatever it sounds like...

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It's gonna be a whole lot of fun.

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Grant, curious to know how long it'll take to take down the tree as a stopwatch ready.

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Okay, we're going hot?

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Yeah.

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The tree primes the gun and lines up her target.

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In three, two, one.

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Now that's a machine gun.

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In a torrential downpour the spent cartridges pile up around Carrie's feet.

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And in less than a minute the tree catches fire and...

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Nice job, you cut it down.

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What was the time?

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45 seconds.

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Oh my gosh.

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He just riddled this thing.

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Look at it, it's the splinter maker.

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Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, it's just like there's nothing left structurally.

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Smells like campfire.

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Smells good.

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Smells like destruction.

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Yep, Carrie is sawing her victim in half, which leaves just one conclusion.

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Well, I think there's one thing we can definitely say.

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Cutting down a tree with a machine gun as long as it's in the tree.

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But before the team wander off into the sunset, there's one last challenge.

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The Mesquite.

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Remember, this tree has four times the density of the pine,

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making it a much tougher target.

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But is it tough enough?

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We're going hot.

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Three, two, one.

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Fantastic.

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It's smoking.

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Nice shooting.

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Oh my gosh.

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The minigun is the ultimate tree killer.

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What is the official time?

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One minute, eight seconds.

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A little bit longer than the pine.

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So, as far as the myth is concerned, even if you have a Mesquite tree,

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you can't get it out of the tree.

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You can't get it out of the tree.

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You can't get it out of the tree.

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You can't get it out of the tree.

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So, as far as the myth is concerned, even if you have a Mesquite tree,

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and you got a Gatling gun, confirmed.

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Yeah, absolutely confirmed.

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It's confirmed.

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Coming up, Tori flies by the seat of his pants.

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Not so long ago, the team tested out some hard-wearing myths surrounding genes.

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But there's another fabric fabrication the fans want unzipped.

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Okay, here's the myth.

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He flies on a ski lift. The chair stops. He panics.

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So, what does he do? He pulls off his genes.

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He flips it over the top of the wire, and he sails the safety as if he's on a zipline.

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Yeah, we definitely have to try that one.

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A zipline is a cable suspended at an angle with a free-moving pulley.

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Then all you need to glide through the air with the greatest of ease

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is a tight grip and good old gravity.

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But on a stalled ski lift, can you use this notion of motion to escape?

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Can your denim duds really be used to slide safely back to ground?

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Let's go try that.

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Well, hang on. Before we go hitting ski slopes, let's do a test to see the critical angle

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at which genes will slide down the cable.

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It's a good idea, and we should also first try it out in a very controlled, safe environment.

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Tori, a controlled, safe environment, is like saying, don't push that button.

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I'm okay.

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Here at Trapeze Arts, they've got everything we need, including 75 feet of steel cable

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similar to the kind used on ski lifts.

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So we're starting out at a fairly shallow angle of probably 5 or 10 degrees.

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Next is a question we're all dying to know the answer to.

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What's Tori's technique?

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I'm going to wrap one pant leg around my wrist, toss the other one over the cable,

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and then wrap this one around my other wrist, and then I'm going to jump out

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and slide down the cable.

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Piece of cake.

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All right, here we go.

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Come on, dude. Like your life depends on it.

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Three, two, one.

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Ah!

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Whoa.

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I hear the pants ripping.

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Ah!

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Nice landing. Yeah!

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So in a real-life jeans escape, on a ski lift cable at an angle of 10 degrees,

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you simply wouldn't slide.

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I kind of tried to move a little bit while I was on the cable, and I could hear stitches snappy.

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A sound you don't want to hear when there's only that stitch between you and a plummet to death.

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So what the guys need is more angle on Tori's dangle.

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Now we've increased our angle to 20 degrees, double what the first test had.

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So with the cable at the maximum incline possible on this rig, will Tori slide or stick?

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All right, 20 degree angle, new pair of jeans.

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In three, two, one.

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Oh, oh, oh, yes!

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I guess if my life depended on it, it might take me some time.

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Pretty good crawl.

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This time round Tori does get further down.

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I wouldn't fall and die.

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But remember, this myth is about an effortless glide to freedom, not a jerky bunny hop.

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And check out the big brain on Grant, because he's got an idea.

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One thing that we're missing is this lubricant.

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So I was looking it up online, turns out they use a light oil.

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Now we don't have exactly the same thing, but we have something that is the same consistency.

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Castor oil.

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It's Jamie's shop model in action.

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If in doubt, Lou Brickhead.

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But will it be the key to the swift escape described in this viewer inspired myth?

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Slide!

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Tori made it down, but how did the jeans cope with the friction from the cable?

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Totally ripped right up the crotch.

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Yeah, but maybe the waistband would save you.

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Maybe.

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There's only one way to find out for sure, full scale, on our real ski lift.

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Here's hoping Tori's denim duds are double stitched.

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Up next, the boys are on the trail of a black powder boom.

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While Tori and Grant try to pull off a pants down maneuver.

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And now for something completely different.

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Starting with a flashback.

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In the tale of the trailblazers.

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It's time to burn for science.

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Adam and Jamie release their inner pyro.

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Oh, camera. Let's put it out.

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No one's watching.

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Then they wrestled with the idea that you can outrun a trail of gunpowder.

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Oh, it's still gonna be a little bit of a mess.

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They sure had a blast.

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But according to fans, there's one thing they forgot to tell.

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What if we forget in trailblazers? That was a stunning episode.

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Well, it's a cartoon thing. Let me set the scenario.

476
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000
You've got a keg of gunpowder. It's got a hole in it.

477
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000
It's leaking. You're walking along leaving a trail of gunpowder.

478
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Somebody sneaks up behind, lights the trail.

479
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,000
It catches up with you, blows up the keg, and you get all toasty like they do in the cartoons.

480
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
I love the way they do it.

481
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000
It's a cartoon caper the guys just can't resist.

482
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Our animated hero is carrying a powder keg, but unbeknownst to him, it's got a leak.

483
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000
The sneaky villain takes advantage.

484
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:39,000
The sparks travel up the falling powder and our hero is barbecued cartoon style.

485
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
To test this fun fable, they'll need a robot.

486
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000
An armored remote control robot, and a gunpowder.

487
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:52,000
They'll need a robot. An armored remote control robot with a leaking powder keg attachment.

488
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
This is made from an electric wheelchair base.

489
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
It's radio controlled, computerized, and do anything that I want.

490
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000
But so that I don't destroy it, I'm going to build an armor cover for it.

491
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Just out of steel. And hopefully Sparky won't go away when the gunpowder does.

492
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,000
There we have it. It's going to be like, run Sparky run.

493
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:21,000
With Sparky dressed to kill, it's time to get this myth up and running.

494
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Starting of course with some bench tests.

495
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Well, the main question I want to answer here is, can the black powder leaking out of that barrel leave a line contiguous enough to ignite?

496
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,000
That's the question. And after laying down a moving trail, it's time to fire up an answer.

497
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Firing in three, two, one.

498
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000
There you go. That's fine. I think that's good.

499
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,000
Yes, the trail was continuous enough to let the flame burn along its length. So what's next?

500
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Now I feel like I know it would travel along the line, but I want to know if it would climb that line up into the keg.

501
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:14,000
So I'd like to walk down halfway down the line, same as I did before, but park it, get out, light it, and see if it blows up the cone.

502
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,000
That worked perfectly.

503
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Mythbusters and perfection. Not words you often hear in association.

504
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
That was very satisfying.

505
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,000
That was perfect. It was like boom.

506
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
A little pop at the end there.

507
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000
Tells me what I need to know.

508
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:54,000
This is a zipline down to terra firma. Practicing this alpine escape on a circus high wire, Tori glided to the ground.

509
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Now to test this on a real mountain, but before leaving, a mysterious package has arrived at M7.

510
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I have a surprise for you.

511
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,000
A dead body!

512
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
This is not a coffin. This is the new buster.

513
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000
No way. Thank God. I'm so sick of putting him back together.

514
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
That's cute.

515
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
How cute is that? They gave him coveralls with Buster's name on it.

516
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Buster now.

517
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
That's adorable.

518
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Let's take a moment to salute our former buster's dedication,

519
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Come on, buster!

520
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,000
tireless work ethic, and positive attitude.

521
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Dang! He hit hard.

522
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Thanks a bunch, buddy. It's time for a well-earned retirement.

523
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
That was cool.

524
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Being a former crash test dummy, Buster 2.0 is a well-qualified replacement, so he's being put straight to work.

525
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Before any of us try it, we're going to let Buster try it first so we can see how dangerous it is.

526
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Tori carefully replaces Buster's hands with metal clamps, tests his jeans grappling grip,

527
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Looks like it's going to hold on to me,

528
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
and loads him into the van.

529
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Leaving Carrie at home to rest her sore leg, the guys head for the hills.

530
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,000
The Sierra at Tahoe Resort is their destination, and despite knowing Buster will be going first,

531
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Tori's a little nervous.

532
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
That's a lot steeper than I thought it was going to be.

533
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Yep, and we're doing it all the way from the top.

534
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
When we were at Trapiz Arts, we found that an angle of 20 degrees,

535
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,000
which is just enough to start sliding down the line with a pair of jeans when the line was greased.

536
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000
Here at Sierra at Tahoe, they have the same consistency grease.

537
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Just to hedge our bets, we've found a section of line close to the top that's at 25 degrees.

538
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,000
At the top, Chief Rigor Lawrence and his crew are putting together a safety system of ropes and pulleys.

539
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000
These guys are here to make sure I don't fall to my death.

540
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Tori and Grant strap on their harnesses, secure themselves to the chair, hoist in Buster, and head downhill.

541
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Are we nuts or what?

542
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Oh my God.

543
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
So what's the denim divination?

544
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:24,000
The best case scenario for Buster is that he and his jeans will take a very quick ride down the line,

545
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
slamming to the rollers at the end.

546
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:34,000
And the worst case scenario is that he will rip through his jeans and probably plummet to his doom.

547
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:44,000
When they reach the 25 degree mark, they sling over the jeans and secure them to Buster's clamp hands.

548
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Buster is ready to go. All we need to do is unhook him from the chair and release this ratchet strap.

549
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,000
It's a long journey to the bottom, Buster. Don't forget to ride.

550
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,000
In three, two, one, go.

551
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
Nothing really happened. We pushed him off and he just stuck there.

552
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Even though Buster is only about 10 pounds lighter than Tori, his weight couldn't overcome the friction of the jeans on the cable.

553
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,000
And he simply stuck on the line.

554
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
What do we do now?

555
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
How about help him down?

556
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Although Buster never lost his grip, he's a bit of a dummy and couldn't follow Tori's lead in creating his own momentum.

557
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Good job, buddy. Way to take one for the team.

558
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Question is, can Tori do any better?

559
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000
I don't know if I should have seen that.

560
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Stay tuned because coming right up, it's the explosive moment of truth for Sparky.

561
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:13,000
The fans have a theory that if you pull off your jeans, you can pull off a daring denim escape.

562
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:21,000
But Tori and Grant found that if you try to fly down a ski lift cable by the seat of your pants, the friction can fix you in place.

563
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Go.

564
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
But they may have a way to fight it.

565
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Cue Tori for an attempted slide down the ski lift in hot pants.

566
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Well, they will be after all the friction.

567
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
So let's flip the jeans over and try to fly.

568
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000
In three, two, one.

569
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Get that weight on those jeans.

570
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Nice. Nice.

571
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Very nice, but it's not easy.

572
00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:03,000
My hands are cramping up because I was holding onto the jeans so tight, but then I had to lift my weight off the jeans so that I could shimmy down the cable and then my arms started getting tired.

573
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Our little dungarees clad flying squirrel is plum tuckered out.

574
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
And not only that, stuck.

575
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
I can't, I'm stuck. See that?

576
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000
I see it.

577
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000
I'm letting go.

578
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,000
The jeans themselves actually starting to roll up as they grab onto the cable.

579
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000
There's way too much friction in the system to be able to slide.

580
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000
So guys, how'd it go?

581
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
It was a little disappointing and it was nothing like we imagined.

582
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
You know you picture going out on a zipline.

583
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
It took a lot more work than that.

584
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
The jeans kept sticking to the cable.

585
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Using your clothing to escape a ski lift, bad idea.

586
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Either the clothing is going to rip or your arms are going to give out.

587
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
So zipline jeans escaped. Busted.

588
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Busted.

589
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Busted.

590
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Jamie and Adam are tackling a tall tale of cartoon physics.

591
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Can a leaking trail of burning gunpowder catch up and blow up the moving powder keg?

592
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,000
To find out, our animated duo are back at the Alameda Bomb Disposal range.

593
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
We've come back to the bomb range.

594
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
We're going to do the same setup as we did before.

595
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Plywood laid down for the gunpowder to go on, except this time the difference is,

596
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Sarky will be going full tilt with gunpowder leaking from his barrel.

597
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,000
The question we wanted to answer is, will the lit trail catch up with him?

598
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000
This is tough because this is not a myth where we're working from an actual case

599
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
that we've read about or a story someone's told us.

600
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
This is like cartoon physics.

601
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:46,000
So of course we're going to run into trouble between cartoon physics view of the world and the real world.

602
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000
And in the real world, we've got an outdoor thing.

603
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It's the only place we can do this experiment with black powder.

604
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
And of course, outdoors there's going to be a breeze.

605
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
With a tumbling trail of powder vulnerable to the wind,

606
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000
the guys carry out the final prep with one eye on the weather.

607
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Sparky's barrel is loaded with two pounds of gunpowder,

608
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:10,000
and Adam rigs a remote ignition system to spark the powder trail to life.

609
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000
There you go.

610
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000
This is it.

611
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Jamie directs Sparky along the track, trailing his deadly trail.

612
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Then Adam lights her up.

613
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
In three, two, one.

614
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:28,000
But there's another problem.

615
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,000
The sparks caught up with Sparky,

616
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000
but didn't travel up the falling powder and into the keg.

617
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Adam and Jamie's solution is to drill a larger hole for a more substantial leak.

618
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000
I'm on.

619
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
But once again, our big bang junkies don't get no satisfaction.

620
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,000
It didn't go.

621
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
That sucker just wants to clog.

622
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Yep.

623
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Despite several more attempts,

624
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,000
either the powder doesn't want to fall freely or stay lit all the way to the intended target.

625
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Wait.

626
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000
And although Adam's annoyed, he's adamant they can get this right.

627
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000
I don't think this is disproving the myth or saying that it's not possible.

628
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,000
I don't think we're hitting our mark and I'm not ready to call it until I feel like we have.

629
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:21,000
What Adam and Jamie need is an ingenious last minute plan to keep the powder flowing freely.

630
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
The only thing I can think to do is put a shaker on it.

631
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
And the only shaker I have is right here.

632
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
That's really a shame to make this go away.

633
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
It's a nice drill.

634
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
It's the last chance for this viewer myth.

635
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Now or never, this is No Drill.

636
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Here we go.

637
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Yeah.

638
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
That worked.

639
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Well, Sparky looks like he's, let me see if he's still alive.

640
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Success.

641
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
The gunpowder trail worked.

642
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,000
It caught up, it traveled up the link and it exploded the barrel.

643
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,000
And what's more, Sparky and the drill have survived intact.

644
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Yay!

645
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Sparky survived, but this isn't about Sparky.

646
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000
This is about what if you were carrying that barrel?

647
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
And I'm here to tell you, you'd be dead.

648
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Even though these explosions were incredibly small,

649
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,000
they were some of my favorite ones we've ever done on the show.

650
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Something about seeing the line of the fuse going towards the barrel of explosive stuff.

651
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,000
Satisfies me.

652
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000
A deep five-year-old level.

653
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000
A favorite explosion and a viewer myth confirmed.

654
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000
All in all, a good day's work.

655
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Oh, there I am.

656
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Okay, I could do some formation work if you'd like to.

657
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Did you guys like that last hour?

658
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,000
If you did, you can pat yourselves on the back,

659
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,000
because everything we just did came from the viewers and the fans of Mythbusters.

660
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,000
So please keep your good ideas flowing towards us,

661
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000
and we'll take the best ones, we'll test them out, and we'll put them on the air.

662
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Thanks.