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on this invigorating episode of Mythbusters.

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We're turning the heat on three frosty Alaskan fables.

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This is perfect for an Alaska adventure.

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Adam and Jamie prove this is no country for cold men.

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Oh great, we got a yeti outside.

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Cabin fever takes its toll.

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I've just had the worst state of sleep I've ever had in my life.

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Tori, Grant and Carrie see if hitting the gas might lessen the damage caused by Alaska's scariest roadkill.

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And we'll see if a dynamite toting dog really could devastate a drunken duck hunter's brand new SUV.

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Bye bye.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Did you know what was lurking in your basement?

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Adam Savage.

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I am the fire ninja.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Is that beautiful or what?

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Wow!

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Joining them, Tori Bellachy.

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I've been a bad player.

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Grant Imahara.

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And Carrie Byron.

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Let's do it.

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They don't just tell the Myths, they get them to the tetra.

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That is an iceberg.

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It's really cold here, but it's also really beautiful.

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This place has a mythology all its own.

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So we've got a full hour of Alaska myths.

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Tourism types up here mark at the 49th state as the land of intensity.

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It's twice the size of Texas, so we figure it's big and intense enough to handle some high impact myth busting.

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Like most of our favorite myths, this one involves some drunken friends and explosives.

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You've got a group of drunken friends, one of whom just bought a brand new SUV.

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And they all decide that they want to go duck hunting with their dog.

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Except there's nothing around them but a frozen lake and no duck is going to land on a frozen lake.

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So they need to make a hole.

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One of them offers up a stick of dynamite with a 20 second fuse to make a big hole.

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And throws that stick of dynamite as hard as he can.

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I can see what's coming.

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The dog, following its natural impulses, chases after that stick of dynamite, catches it, starts burying it back to the guy under the brand new SUV.

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Uh-oh.

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The dog, the dynamite and the SUV go boom!

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The SUV goes down to the bottom of the lake and the guy who owned it is still making payments.

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This not so urban myth surely stretches the bounds of human stupidity.

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My sympathies are all with the dog, though you must admit it's as funny as hell.

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But maybe it's too funny to be true.

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As Jamie and Adam set off to find their frozen lake, it's worth noting that this folktale is almost as old as dynamite itself.

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Over a hundred years ago, Australian author Henry Lawson wrote a comic story along very similar lines.

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He called it the loaded dog and needless to say he made the whole thing up.

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Still we can't assume it couldn't happen and that's enough reason to put it to the test.

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The first thing we obviously needed was a frozen lake and the researchers found us one here in Alaska behind me.

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This snow field you see is in fact Fisher Pond, a man-made lake which means there are no fish for us to kill with a nice coating of rock hard ice on top.

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The ice on the pond is too thick to dig through and that supports the myth, but can it support a two-ton truck?

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Okay, here we go.

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Orson Smith and his fancy ice drill should give us a quick answer.

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Fans of slapstick should appreciate the breakthrough moment.

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Whoa! That's a hell of a thing.

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The ice core cracks up as it's bashed loose.

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Look at that!

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Put back together, it's a foot and a half thick.

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So it's got vertical crystals that make it really stronger than average.

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So it's safe for us to drive our SUV out here?

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Yes, I think so.

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Good.

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That'll hold a lot more than that SUV weighs.

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So far so good and it's really cold.

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Out here in the lake it's 20 below, but that can't slow down the science.

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But this story has a ton of components to it and the first part of it is how far can you throw a stick of dynamite?

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Standard stick of dynamite, about eight inches long, about a half a pound.

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I figure I can throw it about an M5, which is 100 feet.

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That's how we measure things, Adam and I.

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Remember kids, this isn't real dynamite.

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We would never throw real dynamite and neither should you.

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Alright, Jamie.

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I want you to put your chi into this thing.

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That's it!

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Go!

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Nice!

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Jamie's toss is up over the 100 foot mark.

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Now it's Adam's chance to prove he's got the mojo of the throw, Joe.

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This looks to be about the same.

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Two hefty, manly throws with an average distance of...

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Okay, time to bring out the dog.

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This is Rudy, a young black Labrador.

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Puffing, drooling and full of running, he's a born retriever.

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Making him the perfect candidate to try to cover the distance there and back

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before the 20 second fuse fizzles out.

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The myth is about a black lab that retrieves a stick of dynamite.

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That's what Rudy is.

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As you can see, he's raring to go.

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He really wants to retrieve that stick of dynamite.

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And has no idea what he's signed up for.

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Now we've got to get another myth started.

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Okay, so we're in Alaska in the snow.

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What myth did we get?

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Okay, well this is a fairly gory myth that affects a lot of Alaskans,

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but not so many in California.

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What's that?

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It's about the moose and what happens when you hit one with your car.

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This is what happens when moose meets motor car.

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And it's all too common here in Alaska.

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Your best bet is always to stop or swerve.

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But this myth kicks in when a crash is absolutely unavoidable.

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Even a low speed collision most often ends with something bigger

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and heavier than a fridge coming right through your windshield.

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The myth says that speeding up instead of slowing down

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might push the unlucky beast over the car,

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meaning you might live to tell the tale.

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Well obviously we're not going to kill a real moose to test this myth, right?

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Now we're going to have to make our own moose analog.

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They'll also have to wrangle a bunch of stunt cars and a safe test venue.

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But those are problems for tomorrow.

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Right now they need to design a moose that can bounce back from something like this.

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Have either of you ever seen a real moose?

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Maybe we should try to find a real moose so that way we can make our crash test moose

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as close to a real one as we can.

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These California kids have never seen a wild moose,

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but they've had a tip-off from Alaska Fish and Game

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to search no further than downtown Anchorage.

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Whoa, that's a big one.

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This 1200 pound bull named Buzzwinkle is loitering by a two-story bar called Bernie's Bungalow.

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I'm not sure what's weirder that the moose is in the middle of downtown at a bar,

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or that it's only like 130.

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They're the legs and right about where the hood is, like right where you'd hit.

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Look, he's going to the mall.

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This mature bull looks about six foot tall at the shoulder,

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but they'll need to get much closer to take accurate measurements for a crash test moose simulate.

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Cue the Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center.

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Out here, moose are accustomed to the ways of men.

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He's stabbing me.

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They're letting us get right up close to them so we can take measurements,

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because we're not going to be able to use a real moose when we crash the car into it.

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Desperately hoping there's safety in numbers,

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Tori at his fellow moose measures venture inside the fence.

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That seems about right.

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So we have six foot to the hump, nine feet nose to tail.

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We've got the legs about four feet tall.

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Let's see, it came up to your waist.

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So we're going to go, yeah, four feet looks good on the legs.

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Okay, but they still have to decide on the dummies texture.

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Should their mock moose be served rare or well done?

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Let's say we make this moose dummy out of ballistics gel.

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We hit that with a car.

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It's just going to explode.

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Yeah, so we need to get a feeling for, you know, what it feels like.

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Well, this is definitely not a ballistics gel.

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Is he firm or squishy?

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Really dense rubber.

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Seems we need to make a very dense rubber replica.

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And that's something the team can't do here in Anchorage.

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We don't even know remotely how we're going to get all of that weight up onto such

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So it's going to take some planning, a lot of efforts, and we need the tools back in San Francisco.

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Alaska really is a land of intensity.

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The wilderness, the wildlife, and the winters.

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It's those short, cold days that make this state home to an all-time classic myth.

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What do we got?

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Well, you know, winters in Alaska are pretty harsh.

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The days are short, the nights are real long, people get snowed in with nothing to do, and

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supposedly they succumb to a condition known as cabin fever.

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You mean they get like all loopy?

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And, well, we're going to put it to the test.

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You're already a little nuts.

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How are we going to tell the difference?

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Actually, it turns out that there are a distinct set of symptoms to cabin fever.

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All we got to do is put ourselves in the right conditions and see if we exhibit those symptoms.

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Carrie delayed her flight back to sunny San Fran to act as the moderator of mental health.

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I found the perfect location to test cabin fever on Jamie and Adam.

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Hatchers pass Lodge in Alaska, far from anything.

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Adam and Jamie are just minutes away from a stint in solitary at a possible descent into madness.

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It's tiny, it's in the middle of nowhere, and you can barely see out the windows, it's so white.

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They'll spend their time just hanging out in adjacent huts, a sudden flurry of snow sets the scene.

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This is perfect for an Alaska adventure.

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Hi, Carrie.

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Hi, guys.

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How are you?

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You can barely see anything.

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Hey.

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It's about to get dark.

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There's a snowstorm.

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Are you ready to get cabin fever?

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I'm ready.

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You ready?

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Yeah, let's go.

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Wait till I show you to your room.

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The rooms aren't bad.

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But they've both been stripped back to bare essentials.

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As are the boys.

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They're well-searched for anything that might divert or entertain.

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So, I hope you have no other contraband, no electronics.

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I need your watch as well.

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I have no electronics, no reading material.

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That's my watch.

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Both of our detainees think this will be a walk in the park.

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And let's remember that Jamie's already spent quality time inside a coffin.

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And he's still alive.

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But they're not so sure about each other.

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Whether Adam is going to deal with this real well, I don't know.

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Adam's a little impulsive.

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Only a friend could put it so gently.

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He could just, like, get a bug up his butt and go nuts for all I know.

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I don't really know.

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And right back at you from cell block one.

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Good buddy.

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I think Jamie will be painting on the walls in his own blood inside of 46 hours.

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Well, that should add some color.

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But let's spare a thought for Carrie.

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She has to watch these two slowly unravel.

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This is my big sister surveillance system.

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I've got four cameras, one in the front and back of each cabin.

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I can switch between the cameras with the touch of a button and watch their every move.

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Surveillance aside, Carrie's running cognitive and stress tests to get some hard data.

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But our volunteer voyeur has her own troubles.

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I think I'm going to go crazy before they are.

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Did I mention we're in the same circumstance that they are except for I have to watch them be bored?

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Jamie at least has a simple plan to preserve his sanity.

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I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

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Every day is going to be working out until I'm exhausted and then I'm going to sleep.

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The man with the moustache kicks off in style, but the short days and long nights might soon sap his spirit.

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So who's going to crack first?

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Adam, Jamie or Carrie?

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Sweet dreams all around.

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Good night.

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If Carrie, Tori and Grant are testing a myth that says speeding up your car might prevent this potential Alaskan roadkill from killing you.

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Back in San Francisco, Carrie's been on the net looking for inspiration.

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And believe it or not, she's found a thesis by a Swedish man on how to build a giant rubber moose.

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That's cool.

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With his permission, they modify the multi-slice design and source a small mountain of rubber.

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Cool. Those are the jet cutters right there.

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With an OMAX water jet cutter, H2O precision can carve our moose slices in next to no time.

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Tori's already had the details of our design punched into H2O's computer.

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Alright, here's our moose. I know it doesn't look like much of a moose, but it will.

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Now what I have here are half inch sheets of rubber.

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Now we have the design of our moose in the computer in slices.

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Now once we stack those together, we'll have the shape of a moose in rubber.

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The high pressure water spurts out at 50,000 psi.

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That's enough to cut through five inches of solid steel.

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So this is like the proverbial hot knife through butter.

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Okay, so this is what we're left with. This is one layer out of over 150 layers of rubber that's going to make up our moose.

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Now once we stack these together in the right order and fasten it, we'll have roughly the same size, weight and density as a real moose.

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But a real fake moose needs more than sheer mass.

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Back at M7, Kari adds the bones and the sinew.

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This is the cable we're going to use to keep the moose together.

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This is going to run the length of the moose twice, and that way when the car actually hits the moose,

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the moose will stay flexible and bendy as if it's a real moose.

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Kari sleeves the cable in rubber tubing and grants it, unlike wise, with the legs.

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The deal is we want the legs, this is our moose leg, we want them to be floppy,

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but we also want them to be reusable once it gets hit.

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So the hip joint is going to be made out of steel and that's going to connect to the cable that's inside of the moose leg.

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And when it gets hit, it'll go flying, and then we can set it right back up again.

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Meantime, Tori's going gangbusters with his half inch fillets.

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And slice by slice, glued together with silicone, we're seeing a moose in the making.

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Looks good though, looks like a moose.

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I know, kinda.

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What do you think? Moosey.

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Do you see the moosey?

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I love it.

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Congratulations, Tori. It's a girl.

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But does she have enough junk in the trunk?

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Alright, so moose is done and it looks like it's weighing about 620 pounds,

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which is a good average for the type of moose that would likely get hit by a car.

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Big giant moose antlers.

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You'll notice we're not adding these to our final crash test moose, and for a few very good reasons.

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First of all, two thirds of the adult moose population, female, don't have antlers.

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Secondly, most of the moose that get hit are calves.

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Don't have antlers yet.

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And lastly, you know, moose don't even have antlers all year round.

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And during the winter when they don't have them, is when they're more likely to be near the roads,

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because they're attracted to the salt on the road while they're searching for nutrients.

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So to have big antlers like this and be hit by a car, very rare.

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Now that the moose is done, we're going to see if we can make them stand up.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to build a pair of 2x4 legs that the moose will sit on.

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It'll cradle in.

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So that way when the car comes crashing through, it'll knock the legs away,

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and then the moose will behave the way the moose will behave.

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Building the frame is no big deal, but will it support the massive load we call Lucy?

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Good move. Stay.

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It does.

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Nice.

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I love it.

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And it's at just the right height for her ample proportions.

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And like any cow to the slaughter, it's best she doesn't know her destiny.

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The moose whisper.

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Alright, let's bring those cars in.

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So the myth states that the guys used a 20 second fuse on their stick of dynamite.

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Now the question is, can a dog from a cold start run to 125 feet, fetch a stick of dynamite,

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and come on back in under 20 seconds?

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And that's what we're about to answer with Rudy.

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Of course, for this test, they swapped the dynamite for a rubber ball.

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But you get the idea.

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We got our starting line.

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We got the target pylon over there.

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Let's just throw the ball a few times and I'll time it.

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I'll bet you can throw it there.

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He gets it right about at that pylon and comes on back and we'll just see how long that takes.

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It sounds simple, but remember that Rudy is not only skidding around on slippery ice,

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but it's 20 degrees below zero.

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Good boy.

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You'd think he'd get slower and slower, but each successive fetch and return

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reads the same on Adam Stopwatch.

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16 seconds.

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So far, the idea that the dog could actually get the stick of dynamite and bring it back

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is looking really good.

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It's totally doable as far as the myth is concerned.

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This whole myth is falling nicely into place, perhaps a little too nicely.

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Here comes the bit where we tried blasting a hole through the ice,

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Sinking this car with one stick of dynamite.

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You know, we broke out of jail with a single stick of dynamite during the western myths episode,

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or at least tried to.

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Well, the jail's still there.

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The jail is definitely still there.

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After watching that, I can't see this doing enough damage to the ice to sink this SUV.

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I don't think it's going to do it, but it might.

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Yeah, it might.

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And just in case the car ends up at the bottom of the pond, heavy chains are latched onto the chassis.

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So far, the Alaska myth is looking pretty good.

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The dog did his job real well, but now it all comes down to this.

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If one stick of dynamite can't sink the car, it's busted.

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And now back to the myth designed to separate Adam and Jamie from their fragile faculties.

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Day two dawns on our cabin fever test, though it should be noted that a midwinter Alaskan sunup kicks in around 10 a.m.

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Good morning. It is the morning of day two.

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I've had a reasonably fitful night of sleep.

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I had some really weird dreams.

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I dream I'm in a plane and slowly crashing.

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It's slowly crashing down on a street in San Francisco, and I'm way up at the cockpit.

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And I turned everyone on.

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I say, listen, I don't think this is a real plane crash because I happen to notice that I'm not wearing any pants.

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And whenever I'm not wearing any pants, it's probably a dream.

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Carries up already, bright-eyed, keyed-eared, and she's wearing pants.

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It's early morning, and this is actually the first surprise, is that Jamie is still sleeping.

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He's an early riser.

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Usually he's up doing exercise and probably into the shop by 5 a.m.

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Adam, on the other hand, is just a beehive.

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Jamie does eventually rouse himself and starts the first of his two tests.

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The cognitive test aims to see if their mental faculties decrease over time.

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The saliva test is a stress indicator, but to get a fair reading, you can't eat or drink beforehand.

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Oh, you know what though?

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I think he just took a drink of water right before he took this test.

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So this and, trust me, many spit tests to come count for nothing.

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Spit reading of 35.

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This is the morning of the second day, so apparently I'm pretty relaxed.

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Shame we can't say the same for Carrie.

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But biometrics aren't the only indication of who is or isn't stressed and bewildered.

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Pat Warlitzer owns these cabins, and he's come real close to misplacing his own marbles through many a long winter.

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It happens to everybody in Alaska, including me.

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What would you consider the symptoms?

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Well, it's probably being an age, irritability, angry looking eyes, forgetfulness.

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What's going on?

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And sleeping extra time in the cabins.

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So now we know what to look for.

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Jamie's already a pin-up boy for symptom number four.

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Next door, Adam can't stop fidgeting.

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Adam's body language at the moment shows that he's sort of antsy.

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Oh, he's going for the coat hanger.

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I knew he would make something with the coat hanger.

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I would totally make something with the coat hanger.

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Desperate times call for desperate diversions.

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Adam's building a fancy desktop toy from his one potential plaything, a wire coat hanger.

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I've spent some time making a little whirligig here out of one of the two coat hangers I found on the rack.

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Green time.

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The big news from Cabin 2 is that Jamie's sitting up.

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I think Jamie has reached full Buddha.

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He's not moved in an hour.

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Before days in, both boys find time to write in their journals, then repeat their cognitive and spit tests.

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123? What are you crazy? Look at this.

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Okay, just forget the stress test.

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What we all need here is a timeout and a nice nap.

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As the sun sets, it's hard to say if either one technically has cabin fever.

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The boys say no, but Carrie's unconvinced.

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She knows that every picture tells a story.

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Tori, Grant and Carrie spent the past few days making something that, let's face it, we've all thought about but never got around to doing.

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Building a huge rubber moose called Lucy.

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Now they've arrived at a specialized test track for what should be a shattering debut.

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Okay, so this myth is really about hitting the moose because obviously if you can stop in time, that's going to be the best choice.

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Right, this is the point of no return. You're going to hit the moose. Now the question is, is it better to speed up or slow down?

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Alright, what do you think? Like 45 miles an hour? It's a good average between highway and regular roads?

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That sounds good.

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Crashing cars is more or less what the folks at e-tech testing services do for a living.

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And parent company energy absorption systems make crash cushions, which could be useful if this moose mayhem runs off the rails.

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But that's highly unlikely. A guide bar fitted to one wheel keeps the car on track and through a system of chains and pulleys, a truck tows it from a safe distance in the opposite direction.

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The reason why we came to e-tech is because they are set up to test crashes. That's what they do.

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They have a towing system. It's a 2 to 1 ratio so that their towing vehicle only has to go half as fast as the actual vehicle that's going to crash.

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Plus, they have a steering hub and he's attaching that right now so that way our car won't fear off course and we hit the moose right where we want.

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But crash test cars still need crash test dummies.

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You know, I think this is the first time we've ever used Buster for what he was intended to be used for.

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It's a historic moment.

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Use a carapace or maybe a socket wrench.

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He just needs to stretch a little.

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With Buster buckled up, we're ready for test number one.

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Moose meets machine at 45 per.

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Am I excited? You better believe I'm excited. We just made a giant rubber moose and now we're going to crash cars into it. It doesn't get much better than this.

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This is the control test. 45 miles an hour. Continuous speed into the moose. You guys ready?

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Starting in 3, 2, 1, go.

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Here comes the car.

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That's 40 miles an hour.

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30 miles an hour.

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40.

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Look at it go.

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45.

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Oh, f**k.

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Wow. That worked perfectly. That's great. And the moose is still together. Let's go look at the car.

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Oh my god. Dude, that's exactly what the real moose hit looked like.

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Well, this is a good test then.

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Yeah, that's a great test.

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And Tori knows what he's looking for.

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Back in Anchorage, he checked out a local body shop. Just in his end of town, Gary Mogg deals with 12 moose wrecks a year.

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This is not as bad as I've seen total out the whole car. And a lot of the times, I mean, I've seen some fatalities, of course, people didn't make it through.

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But this here is probably the best scenario when you hit a moose in the front end.

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Wow. That's a lot of damage. I mean, look at that.

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The whole top of the car is just peeled back. And how this guy survived, it's like a miracle.

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You know, apparently he laid down like this and let the moose go flying over him. But man, that would really ruin your day.

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Back in California, this eerily similar squashed sedan is cause for celebration.

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You got to look at it from up here.

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The bumper's crushed in a little bit, but it traveled all the way over the hood.

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Look at that, like the hood's intact.

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That is a beautiful thing.

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I mean, the car came careening at the moose, hit the moose, moose flies in the air, and that kind of just floats, falls to the ground.

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We got exactly the result we need. And a lot of comedy out of this high speed, I'm sure.

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But we're not so sure. Aside from Kari, seems the only one to split her sides was Lucy.

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It's not pretty, and it's not over. Will speeding up or slowing down reduce the carnage?

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And just how many cars can we afford to wreck in the cause of sensible driving?

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Adam and Jamie are locked in mortal mental combat. The winner of this cabin fever test is the first one to start talking to his own toenail clippings.

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I've just had the worst night of sleep I've ever had in my life.

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Jamie has gotten up and straight away started eating. He's not done his spit swap test, which is a problem for me because it's going to mess up my data.

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Either he's forgetting, or he's just lost the plot completely.

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But don't underestimate Adam's cold weather quirks. These long-life military rations are called MREs, or Meals Ready to Eat. Some soldiers call them Meals Ready to Expel.

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For breakfast today, I'm going to have a little jambalaya.

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It's not exactly toast and grapefruit, but he might get a chance to test his chemical toilet.

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I forgot to try the basque going there.

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Yes, charming.

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The morning wears on, and self-sufficient Jamie finds there's one thing he can't live without.

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I don't have any coffee, which bugs me because I'd be a lot more active and less inclined to just nap, which I'm sure is scintillating TV to watch me nap.

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But it's not my decision.

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Oh, great. We got a yeti outside.

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I've decided to play a little prank on Jamie and Adam to help the ultimate urban legend.

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Jamie's cold stare shows he's not amused, but Carrie gets a better response from Adam.

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He's hiding in the bathroom.

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Sounds like Carrie's the one who's been in the bathroom for a while.

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This is very heavy.

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Sounds like Carrie's the one who's ready to crack.

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I have to get out of here.

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But she has a remedy.

458
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,000
For one crazy hour, Carrie does everything worth doing on fresh white snow.

459
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000
And I mean everything.

460
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000
It's my best work yet.

461
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:32,000
So far, Adam and Jamie have ticked every box and peed on every post in the Dynamite dog story.

462
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000
16 seconds.

463
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Now they need to see if one stick of dynamite really can break the ice and sink this car, which has exactly the same curb weight as the one in the myth.

464
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:55,000
There's something known as reflection, meaning that the blast can bounce off of the underside of the SUV and into the ice.

465
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
The ice is brittle.

466
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
I don't think it's going to do it, but it might.

467
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Well guys, it's the moment of truth.

468
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
It's time to put a stick of dynamite under this SUV and see what happens.

469
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Oh yeah, man. All of our facts so far have stacked up pretty plausible.

470
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000
This is the last link in the chain. Frank, do you have a stick of dynamite for us?

471
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Right here it is. The real thing.

472
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
That is red and everything. That's perfect.

473
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Now cover your ears and thank goodness you're not here on Fisher Pond.

474
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000
This is what happens when myth busters play with dynamite.

475
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Burn the hole!

476
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Almost nothing.

477
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Whoa!

478
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000
The ice is slightly dented, the car is undented, and this myth is busted.

479
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
I see a little dent there and that's about it.

480
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Other than that, no damage.

481
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
The dog would have been gone.

482
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000
But the truck's still here.

483
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Look, the ice that we're on right now is a good average thickness for a frozen lake that you'd feel safe driving an automobile out onto.

484
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
So based on what we've seen, we have to call it busted.

485
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Busted but not beaten.

486
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000
We've all come a long way in the freezing cold to see a good old-fashioned truck sinkin.

487
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:25,000
And two dozen pounds of dynamite packed inside these high-tech directional cones should do the trick.

488
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:33,000
Well, it's clear from the whole pattern I see around the car that we've got a nasty case of ice gophers.

489
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000
These little varmints will bore their way around any vehicle they find on the ice to chew on it underwater.

490
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,000
There's only one way to take care of them and that's high explosives.

491
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Burn the hole!

492
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Burn the hole!

493
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Burn the hole!

494
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Three, two, one.

495
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Bye-bye!

496
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Ready!

497
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
The ice ripples out like a liquid earthquake.

498
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Surface snow fills the air and blurs the view.

499
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000
By the time it clears, the car has disappeared.

500
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
I don't see no SUV.

501
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000
No more SUV!

502
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Here with my wife.

503
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000
So what do you think? Did it just blow the truck up or did it sink it?

504
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Well, I see a couple pieces of debris from the truck but nothing in major.

505
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
I think it sank it. 99% of that truck's under the water.

506
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Let's yank on the chain and see what happens.

507
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Okay.

508
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,000
Incredibly, this fresh blasted duck pond is already freezing over.

509
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Adam and Jamie really don't know for sure where the car went but a few tugs on the chain confirm they've got a two-ton catch.

510
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
I think we're going to need more explosives to get this truck out.

511
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000
I think we are.

512
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000
If they weren't putting it in, they're going to work getting it back out again.

513
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000
That's true.

514
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Now we're not yanking your chain.

515
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,000
To get the car back, they have to blast the ice one more time.

516
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Filming stops as the light fades but the car was retrieved.

517
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:28,000
We've left this pristine pond pretty much the way we found it, busting a myth and saving a puppy in the process.

518
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:41,000
They don't know it but Adam and Jamie are just a few hours short of finishing their cabin fever experiment.

519
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Judging solely by the video evidence, it won't be a moment too soon.

520
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Well, the sun is out and it's made it unfathomably beautiful out here.

521
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:58,000
I don't know whether the sun is just about to set over the mountain there or has just risen over the mountain there.

522
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
I've already lost all my concept of time.

523
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
And here's what's happened so far.

524
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
They've been bored.

525
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000
They've slept.

526
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
They've exercised.

527
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
They've gone back to sleep.

528
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
I napped the first day because I could.

529
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000
It was great.

530
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Get up when you want.

531
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Go to sleep when you want.

532
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:28,000
And by drinking just before the saliva tests, they've both ruined any chance of accurate stress data.

533
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Having just woken up from a nap, it's saying that my stress reading is 94.

534
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Hey, look.

535
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Okay, that's just scary.

536
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Meantime, Jamie's decided to hold a one-man convention and draft a new U.S. Constitution.

537
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Seriously.

538
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000
You know, it started because we started seeing t-shirts that says Savage Heineman 08.

539
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:02,000
The first thing that we'll do is relocate all politicians to employment on pork farms.

540
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:12,000
And then we'll pretty much start from the ground up and try to come up with a system that actually works.

541
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,000
You know, get people that run the country that are actually literate, things like that.

542
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:23,000
This test has run its course and Carrie's ready to pull the plug.

543
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Adam's been both irritable and really restless.

544
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000
He's been pacing around the room.

545
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Both of them have been forgetful.

546
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000
Either they're not doing their tests or forgetting to do them all together or they're making a lot of mistakes.

547
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000
And finally, they are sleeping a whole lot.

548
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
It's practically hibernation.

549
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
These could be the symptoms of cabin fever.

550
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
I've seen enough.

551
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
I'm going to bust them out.

552
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000
You had enough?

553
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
I've definitely had enough.

554
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
This was far from the relaxing respite that I thought it would be.

555
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Now let's see how Jamie coped with just Jamie for company.

556
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
The worst part was the beginning.

557
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,000
F***ed off at being here because you're in a closed up room.

558
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Chances are you're not going to like it as much as if you had all your normal stimulus.

559
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Have you had enough?

560
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
I'm just starting to get into it.

561
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
I'm not sure what that proves and I was a little f***ed off about it.

562
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,000
But that being said, then I started to get into it.

563
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000
I craved the sound of a human voice.

564
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
I missed my wife.

565
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,000
I haven't been bored, but I have been really lonely.

566
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,000
But the real question remains, did either one ever lose his fragile grip on sanity?

567
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000
The cognitive test results were too consistent to prove anything.

568
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000
And they both blew the spit tests.

569
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000
But Kari's kept a lookout for perhaps four sure signs.

570
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,000
What's going on with me?

571
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Irritability.

572
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000
The mattress was terrible.

573
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Forgetfulness.

574
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Angry eyes.

575
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Oh yeah.

576
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
And excessive sleeping.

577
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Napping in the afternoon, napping morning.

578
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
I love napping.

579
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Alright guys, how do you want to call this one?

580
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Well based on the surveillance, you exhibited four out of four of the cabin fever symptoms and you won.

581
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Yeah, well he's a robot.

582
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
And I just got in.

583
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000
It was a long trip.

584
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
I was tired.

585
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,000
I think we could call this plausible.

586
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Plausible it is.

587
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Okay, plausible.

588
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Can I go back to the room now?

589
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Hehehehehe.

590
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Hitting an average size moose in an average size car can only end in tears.

591
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
You know, it's like you're driving down the road.

592
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000
You're eating your baked Alaska and all of a sudden a moose is in front of you.

593
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
And you're like, you don't have time to swerve.

594
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
You're going to hit the moose.

595
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000
But now the question is, is it better to accelerate into the moose or hit the brakes?

596
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Some say it's better to speed up.

597
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
But let's first test this Alaskan roadkill myth by slowing down.

598
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Grant's installed a remote control braking system that's every bit as effective as a panicked human's right foot.

599
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000
So the remote braking system is radio controlled.

600
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:33,000
What that does is send a signal to the receiver inside the car, activates a pneumatic solenoid that fires a pneumatic cylinder.

601
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:39,000
And that'll pop the brake very, very quickly, just as if you were to stamp hard on it.

602
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000
They know that at 45 miles per hour, the car takes 70 feet to stop.

603
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:55,000
So to best simulate a real accident, they plan to hit the brake and in a later test, the accelerator, just 30 feet short of our makeshift moose.

604
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Busters had enough, so cousin Ted is the designated driver.

605
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000
There you go.

606
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Yeah, the boy.

607
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Now braking on pavement is not the same as braking on snow or ice.

608
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:13,000
But it's fair to assume that a sane person wouldn't drive this fast in truly bad conditions.

609
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000
And anyway, it's a hit.

610
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
We are ready to go.

611
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Grant will hit the brakes 30 feet before we hit the moose.

612
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Ready?

613
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Ready in three, two, one, we're going.

614
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
There it goes.

615
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
All right, we're at 45.

616
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000
Yeah, hit the moose.

617
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000
Yeah.

618
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000
We're going to read that.

619
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
It stopped perfectly.

620
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Wow.

621
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,000
It's another windshield wipeout.

622
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
But they all agree that this time there's less damage.

623
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000
And that could mean the difference between life and death.

624
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,000
In this test, we decelerated drastically before hitting the moose.

625
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
And there is not as much damage.

626
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000
I mean, you still don't want to hit a moose.

627
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,000
It's a bad thing.

628
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
But if I was driving, I would try to brake.

629
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:13,000
But they've also noticed that the moose hit higher when the car went faster.

630
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000
This myth might have some mileage after all.

631
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:27,000
I'm starting to think that if you speed up, if you accelerate like in the myth, it might actually hit even higher.

632
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Now, whether it's going to clear the car, I'm not entirely convinced of yet.

633
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000
All right, you guys, this is it.

634
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,000
This is what the myth is all about.

635
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,000
That's right, man.

636
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000
We're going to drive 45 miles an hour towards the moose, 30 feet before we hit it.

637
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000
We're going to speed up and see what happens.

638
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,000
So we can definitely see if there's a difference between speeding up or slowing down if you're going to hit the moose.

639
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000
So what do you think is going to happen?

640
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Oh, I think we're going to do some serious damage to both the moose and the car.

641
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Lucy gets pieced back together for the big show.

642
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,000
All right, good as new.

643
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000
And fearless Ted gets dragged back behind the wheel.

644
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Snap out of it.

645
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000
This is the test that might confirm the myth.

646
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Just 30 feet short of certain catastrophe, driver Brian's been told to hit the gas.

647
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,000
All right, this is acceleration test.

648
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Ready, kid?

649
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000
We are ready.

650
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,000
We are ready.

651
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Okay.

652
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,000
One, go.

653
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000
10 miles an hour.

654
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,000
20 miles an hour.

655
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,000
40 miles an hour.

656
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000
45.

657
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Accelerate.

658
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,000
That was great.

659
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Wow.

660
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,000
Did you see how high the moose got on that hit?

661
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000
It looked like it got higher than any of the other hits.

662
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,000
Big, big damage.

663
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,000
And look at the glass.

664
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000
It sprayed all over.

665
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,000
At the point of impact, the car hits 51 miles per hour.

666
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,000
Oh my God, look.

667
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,000
It broke the back window out.

668
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,000
Oh.

669
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,000
Wow.

670
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Dude, that moose flew higher than any of the test.

671
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
But it didn't clear the car.

672
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:16,000
The side pillars are crushed and the roof is peeled back like a sardine tin.

673
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,000
Look at this.

674
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000
It totally bent the midsection of the car down.

675
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,000
Look at the back seat.

676
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,000
It went to the back seat.

677
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,000
It went, whoosh.

678
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,000
So what do you think?

679
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,000
Going faster?

680
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
It doesn't look like it's a better tactic.

681
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000
Unless you want to get your car more damaged.

682
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,000
I mean, you are accelerating.

683
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,000
You're hitting with greater force.

684
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000
More speed is more energy.

685
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000
That's crazy.

686
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,000
Myth busted.

687
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Myth busted.

688
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,000
Busted.

689
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,000
Just like all these cars.

690
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Okay, it's busted, but all these cars are mid-sized sedans.

691
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000
What if your car is a low-profile coupe?

692
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,000
The roof is lower, so Lucy might sail right over the top.

693
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,000
But Carrie's already made her mind up.

694
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,000
Personally, I think people are watching way too many cartoons

695
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000
and getting their physics from Wiley Coyote.

696
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000
I mean, when he goes off a cliff, he hangs there for a minute before he falls.

697
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,000
I think they're seeing that the moose gets hit, and kind of hangs there, and then drops.

698
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,000
This is not possible.

699
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Well, let's see.

700
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:21,000
This time, Brian's simple brief is to put his foot down all the way.

701
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,000
This is full speed test.

702
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,000
We're giving it everything we got.

703
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,000
Right, low-profile car.

704
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,000
This is it.

705
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,000
All right, Brian, hit it.

706
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,000
There you go.

707
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000
Oh my gosh.

708
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Oh my gosh.

709
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Oh my god, it's going so fast.

710
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,000
There's smoke coming out.

711
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000
Oh my gosh.

712
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:53,000
That was a rush.

713
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,000
The car hits 75 miles per hour.

714
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,000
Lucy's lost her legs, the car is caved in,

715
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Ted's a sad statistic, and this myth is double busted.

716
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,000
This hit was hard enough to knock the ears off of our moose and the antlers.

717
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,000
That's kind of an impact.

718
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,000
That's pretty crazy.

719
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000
The moose is coming down on the car.

720
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000
No matter what you do, you're crashing.

721
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000
You know what, I have a whole new respect for moose.

722
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,000
I hope I never run into one on the road.

723
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:30,000
If I do, I'm definitely not going to speed up and try to take his legs out.

724
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,000
I mean, we've shown it.

725
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Unless the moose you hit is a world-class gymnast,

726
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:41,000
speeding up will not save you or your car.

727
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:46,000
I did a little research and it turns out that there are no commercially produced vehicles in the world

728
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000
that are capable of driving under our moose without damage.

729
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,000
In fact, the only way that this could work is if you're driving a Formula One car

730
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,000
at over 97 miles per hour.

731
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,000
On the snowy roads of Alaska.

732
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,000
Yeah, that's a thing.

733
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000
Yeah, that's never going to happen unless the moose is a race fan.

734
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,000
So this one's still busted.

735
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Busted.