1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,680 on this episode of myth musters adam and jay me dial in on a fabulous fable 2 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,840 about two phone books interleaving their pages apparently makes them 3 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:32,080 impossible to pull apart we would need to bring some more power and then Carrie 4 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:40,520 Grant and Tori test a Hollywood Big Bang theory can you blow up a shark with 5 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:55,760 black powder a harpoon gun and a boat battery Adam Savage and Jamie 6 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:01,760 Heineman that beautiful or what between them more than 30 years of special effects 7 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,960 experience huge dramatic music joining them Carrie Byron criminals beware the 8 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:15,920 Grant immahara let's eat and Tori go lechi come eat the cougar they don't just 9 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:22,960 tell the myths mr. Heineman you are go for launch they put them to the test 10 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:41,440 what's this new suggestion yeah these guys have really outdone themselves man 11 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,440 they have filmed an entire myth busters segment themselves in order to give us a 12 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,240 story idea what's the myth well they're claiming that if you take two phone 13 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,960 books and interleave their pages one by one by one that those two phone books 14 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,660 absolutely cannot be separated that's right down our alley I think we should 15 00:01:59,660 --> 00:02:07,600 take that on I totally agree yep not only did our intrepid Dutch duo Tim and 16 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:15,280 Steve create this crazy spoof they put forward the intriguing sounding myth that 17 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,960 two phone books with their pages interleaved are impossible to rent a 18 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:27,760 thunder but could the alternating pages of a phone book that haven't been glued 19 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,880 tape your bound really stick together under any circumstances it's pretty 20 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,640 clear where we have to start I agree you know in their testing the clamp with 21 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:41,880 which they held their phone books eventually failed and they stopped 22 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,680 testing there well that's a problem we'll have to solve them I agree but first 23 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:53,080 let's get into leaving in true myth buster style the phone book fable is 24 00:02:53,080 --> 00:03:03,160 going to get ramped and revved up until the boys get answers but before the 25 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,200 envelope pushing begins let's take you back to the beginning very first thing 26 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:14,760 we have to do is interlace these things like this I think it's gonna be a 27 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:20,000 little harder than that long and tedious task ahead qr editor's favorite 28 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,640 solution the time lapse you ready to interleave some of these phone books 29 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:30,240 yep all right with the two phone books secured Adam and Jamie we've just passed 30 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,720 500 pages total we'll cruise it simply take turns flipping pages pausing only 31 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,920 when they get to aim for a mafia does this remind you when you used to count 32 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:48,920 money for the mob I was a hit man I wasn't a money count and with all 800 33 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,600 pages of each book interleaved the guys begin to get a grip on the science of 34 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,440 this myth I can't believe there's nothing holding those two things together 35 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:03,320 but friction it's really quite amazing I mean when you tug on these it's like 36 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,160 they're glued together but they're not it can only be the friction of each page 37 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:13,960 where it contacts the next one and times a thousand or so it adds up to a lot what 38 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,680 I've got here is a lesson in friction while this might look like two 800 page 39 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:22,320 phone books Jamie and I have interleaved them or for you magic 40 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:29,880 aficionados we've done a pharaoh shuffle and apparently almost nothing will rent 41 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,980 these two things a sunder and we're gonna see if that's true in an attempt to 42 00:04:34,980 --> 00:04:41,680 handle the truth Adam and Jamie are focusing on friction friction can be 43 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,160 defined as the force resisting the relative motion of two surfaces for 44 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:51,760 example the pages of a phone book static friction is the force keeping two 45 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:57,600 stationary objects from moving and kinetic friction occurs when two objects 46 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,880 that are already moving rub up against each other that's the theory on what's 47 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,320 holding the books together to help pull them apart the guys rig two plywood 48 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,480 handles along the book spines but neither these nor the tape you can see 49 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,200 will interfere with the experiment all right you want to do some tug of war 50 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,800 okay but not Jamie and I are about to have a tug of war and we are gonna try 51 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,680 and pull the phone book apart but of course I think we're also gonna try and 52 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,240 pull each other across the shop I think it's actually probably a pretty even 53 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,560 game way about the same Jamie may be a little bit stronger than me but I fight 54 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:42,880 dirty it's been a while since Adam check out my guns and Jamie have gone head to 55 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:49,160 head but it's a grand old myth busters tradition that underhand tactics I 56 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:57,080 still got a couple of tricks on my sleeve bending and then breaking the rules 57 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:07,680 are all part of the fun until someone loses but there'll be no cheating here 58 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:15,240 it's a straight tug of war a matching of muscle mano imano I'm gonna run out of 59 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,840 real quick so maybe you won't run out of room so quick of course aside from 60 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:25,960 pride and sensitive egos what's really on the line is the myth will the phone 61 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:32,320 book pages stand up to our macho man you ready there we go first across the line 62 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,800 loses 63 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:44,120 oh I believe I'm winning equally matched in Wade traction was the ultimate 64 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,840 decider in this test and with no time to substitute a hydraulically powered 65 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:56,080 robot Jamie has to take his medicine but more importantly despite being fueled 66 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,040 by the red hot fires of competition good job the phone book still together 67 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,960 that Adam and Jamie failed to make an impression on the phone books although 68 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,120 I may have had better traction on my shoes than Jamie I'd say it's Adam and 69 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,920 Jamie zero fun book one this puppy didn't creak didn't move didn't bud we're 70 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,840 gonna need some more help before the help arrives there's time for a little 71 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:25,120 bloating this is like a professional wrestling trophy belt right I'm gonna 72 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,960 wear this around like check it out Heinemann who's the boss now 73 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:40,240 next up break out the popcorn because Carrie Grant and Tori catch a movie 74 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,880 so we're doing another movie myth which one is it the cult classic deep blue sea 75 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:50,640 yes genetically alter manning sharks tell me we're testing the scene when 76 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,760 they blow the shark up we're testing the scene where they blow the shark up yes 77 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,680 but there's a twist they don't have any weapons on hand so they MacGyver it check 78 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,960 this out yep in this scene from the silver screen the survivors of some 79 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,640 mutant shark mayhem are desperate to finish the fish so they turn to a 80 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,840 harpoon gun flares and an electric charge we ought to get about two and a half 81 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,000 sticks of dynamite out of these flares the question is could this MacGyver style 82 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,680 combo really equal a big boo I'm up here you ought to be able to see me spirit 83 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,320 when I do you take this end of this cable hook it up to the positive side of 84 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,320 boom so they have two and a half sticks of dynamite's worth of black powder from 85 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,600 the flares and it looks like he's gonna make a pipe on from the cylinder 86 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,160 attached to the harpoon but how are they gonna ignite the black powder it 87 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,120 looks like he's gonna just attach that metal cable to a battery and that's 88 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:50,200 supposed to set it off no way way because that's exactly what happens after 89 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,240 upping the jeopardy by pinning his friend to the shark now what's he gonna do 90 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,360 if he kills the shark he can potentially kill his friend but if he doesn't 91 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,840 kill the shark the shark can get away now he's a dilemma kill the shark, kill the friend 92 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,800 let the shark get away what's he gonna do he opts for the heroic sacrifice of 93 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:11,680 course but our harpoon toting hero hesitates perhaps fatally because the 94 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:17,360 genetically enhanced super shark makes for the hole in the fence he'd prepared 95 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,680 earlier 96 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:29,680 wait they're here three there's a spark and boom wait a minute two and a half 97 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:36,440 sticks of dynamite, a tower of water blood in fire awesome that is pretty 98 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,960 crazy scene and there's a lot of elements to test okay let's break it down 99 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,160 first of all we need to find out if you can ignite black powder with a car 100 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,360 battery like they did the movie and we need to see if it improvised harpoon 101 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,000 gun like that can go that distance and still be accurate then we need to find 102 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,160 out more about these flares do they even contain black powder and if so do 103 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,720 they have enough to make the mythical two and a half sticks of dynamite and can 104 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,760 that amount of black powder make the massive explosion that we saw and the 105 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,600 guy survives well we definitely need to test that okay that's five things to test 106 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:10,520 from one scene that's got to be a record it's the deep blue sea quintet of myths 107 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:17,400 with five separate testable elements it's something to get your teeth into but 108 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:23,440 hold the foam because Tori's starting this myth by making a mark of a shark 109 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,600 I started off with a big block of foam I put an outline on the profile and then a 110 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,240 top view mark that out with spray paint cut that out with hot wires from there 111 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:39,160 I went and took the foam cutting machine and shaped it down to more shark like 112 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:45,800 nicknamed Hugo because he's a huge oh he's a little cutlier than his movie 113 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:51,400 counterpart and talking of the movie now while Tori finishes up Hugo Grant and 114 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,880 I are going to start testing the first part of this myth which is the ignition 115 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,120 system can you ignite black powder with a battery and a wire we're going to start 116 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,720 with a proof of concept and to explain the concept and method for proving it 117 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,240 here's our resident electrical engineer okay so this is a setup for our proof 118 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,960 concept now people would normally think that it's the spark from the battery 119 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,040 that ignites a black powder but in their setup it's actually more likely to be 120 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,720 the heat so do is hook up this battery to a pair of jumper cables there's a 121 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,920 thin wire between the two and the heat should build up as a current flows 122 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,760 through that conductor and that should ignite the black power sounds simple 123 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,440 enough you just touch the positive and that should ignite right that's right 124 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:43,240 everybody ready here we go three two one yep as expected the heat emitted by the 125 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:48,960 current being forced through the wire is enough to ignite the black powder that's 126 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,280 proof of concept yeah for this part but now what we got to do is set it up like 127 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,080 they had in the movie was we expected we generated enough heat to ignite the 128 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,160 black powder but the question is will the setup in the movie do the same that's 129 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,760 the burning question and some jump cuts later they're all set to put the movie 130 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:12,080 scene to the test okay so here's a setup we have a tank filled with saltwater 131 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:17,520 inside of the tank is an airtight metal canister inside of that is black powder 132 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:22,520 now that's connected just like in the movie through a steel cable steel cable 133 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:28,080 leads back to a 12 volt marine battery then the other half of the circuit by a 134 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,760 jumper cable it's all the way back to the tank and hopefully completing the 135 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:39,520 circuit and baboon so just like the movie the metal cable runs from the black 136 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:44,200 powder canister back to the battery and the only feasible way of completing the 137 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:50,760 circuit creating the all-important spark or heat is through the salty seawater 138 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:56,440 but Grant isn't exactly convinced I don't think it's gonna go baboon because 139 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,280 you have a conduction path through the saltwater and I just don't think the 140 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,000 voltage is high enough to get that amount of heat to ignite the black powder 141 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,640 I guess we're gonna find out even though Grant's got his doubts the team still 142 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:16,520 follows the myth busters safety mantra when using explosives duck ready this is 143 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:25,360 same ignition system is movie in three two one nothing a whole lot of nothing I 144 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,800 think that by now our hero has been swallowed and digested I just don't 145 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,520 think there's a good enough conduction path to generate the heat you need to 146 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,800 set out the black powder not a very good start to the myth no yep film physics 147 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:43,160 have once again proved false and part one of the test quintet has bond but 148 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:48,680 with Tori's finished shark now foaming at the mouth there's still four more 149 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:52,840 parts to reel in and down at the bomb range it's time to take a shot at myth 150 00:13:52,840 --> 00:14:00,760 part two the harpoon look at that what I have right here is the actual prop from 151 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,800 the movie deep blue sea now I know it looks like a harpoon gun but it's 152 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,960 actually a line thrower that they've modified they've added this tip and the 153 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,240 cylinder now since they modified it we're not gonna be able to use this anymore 154 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,840 but we have this a real working harpoon gun and this is what we're gonna use to 155 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,960 test to fire our harpoons into our shark to see if a harpoon will even go 156 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:27,120 that far and how far is far well the range in the movie looked about 200 feet 157 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:35,880 yeah that's far but before Tori takes aim and fires here's some harpoon 101 158 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,680 harpoon gun is very similar to a rifle but instead of a bullet we're using a 159 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,120 38 special blank now the blank once fired will create enough pressure to launch 160 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,040 our harpoon which is sleeved on the outside of the barrel unlike a rifle 161 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,760 where the bullet is inside the barrel and this will hopefully launch our 162 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:57,360 harpoon to our target all right we're ready to fire we're loaded in three two 163 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,360 one 164 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,360 yeah 165 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,360 bulls-eye 166 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:12,360 you hit him exactly where the guy hit him in the movie I think I might have pinned his arm to the shark 167 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,480 looks like we've confirmed this part of the myth you can shoot a harpoon over a 168 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:21,000 hundred feet and still hit your target and we pinned the dude to the shark it's 169 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,600 like double confirmed I love this meaning part two of the myth gets the 170 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,840 thumbs up making it all to play for at one apiece 171 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:39,880 Adam and Jamie are muscling up to test the tall tale of interlaced phone books 172 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:44,680 that are impossible to pull apart this experiment is one of those things that 173 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,980 is totally counterintuitive because you know it's just a couple of phone books 174 00:15:48,980 --> 00:15:53,320 interleaved together there's no glue there's no tape there's no screws they're 175 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,040 just sitting there those phone book pages and we should be able to pull them apart 176 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:03,320 quite easily but somehow I don't think so if you don't believe Jamie here's a 177 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,480 sentence you don't often hear on myth musters this is one you can try at home 178 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:13,640 and while you're at it here's something else you can try at home with phone books 179 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:20,200 the tall tale that it takes a strong man to tear a phone book in half as long as 180 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,400 we've got all these phone books around I thought this is an opportunity to learn 181 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:29,040 how to rip a phone book and Adam's tricky technique is this bend the book into a 182 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:34,680 V separating the pages that means you tear one page at a time and not all 183 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:43,960 800 simple this is like a sickness like an addiction I gotta rip up another one 184 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:49,960 but the problem with addictive highs are the inevitable subsequent lows I know 185 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,840 I'm a myth buster but I'm a little sad to find out that the trick is so easy at 186 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,480 Adam knows the only way to cheer himself up is to beat or could that be cheat 187 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:08,080 Jamie in a contest Jamie come here got a challenge for you ready okay 188 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:19,440 I don't know I've never done this before after seeing Jamie struggle for a few 189 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:24,120 minutes Adam adds the ultimate insult by offering to help here I'll make it easy 190 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:29,960 for you okay start from the other side take it bend it all the way like this 191 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,080 and you kind of spreading out all the pages and tearing them one at a time 192 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:38,400 that's the trick and it should tear open you're stronger than me what you 193 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,040 can let me show you up on television you want to get whacked in head with a phone 194 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:50,800 book that's a fun trick to know I think we should practice you go right ahead 195 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:57,000 okay after a trip to the recycling bin boys it's back to work which means it's 196 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,920 time to dial in on some hard data we weren't able to pull the phone books 197 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,960 apart that tells us something but not specifically how strong they are so we're 198 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,100 gonna test them with this scale yep this scale will measure exactly how much 199 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:17,960 tug ready when you're the phone books are being subjected to all right how 200 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:26,160 much do we get to I'm bad 320 pounds 320 pounds sound significant but what we 201 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,760 need is a little perspective to put that amount of force in perspective it's the 202 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,920 weight of your average linebacker impressive what's next let's get 203 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,360 everyone in the building on this okay yep it's time to number up ready to 204 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:47,320 fight the Spartans with nine muscled mythbusters and Adam split into two teams 205 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:57,000 of five we're about to see exactly what these phone books are made of 206 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:12,600 so far it's phone books one everybody else zero five people on five people tug 207 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:18,040 of war generating almost 2100 pounds of force the weight of a small car and the 208 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:22,720 phone books are steadfast and refusing to be separated which leaves one final 209 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:37,680 manpower option all ten mythbusters in one mighty team we got up to 4,000 pounds 210 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:43,440 you guys called it up called up the beast and it didn't do anything come on 211 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,960 guys do I have to keep asking for a thousand pounds is about the weight of a 212 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:53,560 full-size pickup truck still we weren't able to separate the phone books we gave 213 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:58,480 everything to this phone book it looked right back at our face and said is that 214 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:04,040 all you've got we will need to bring some more power but before the bringing of 215 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:09,440 more power what's up man in an attempt to unstick this sticky problem I have 216 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,920 something fun for you guys to try Adam brings more mythbusters the goal is for 217 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,560 you guys to separate these without ripping them tearing them just by pulling 218 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,720 you've got one half hour and any tool or material you want to use in the shop this 219 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:32,320 is gonna be easy one two three maybe not easy but it is intriguing this is one 220 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,440 of those really really cool myths that anybody can try because everybody's got 221 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,920 a phone book 222 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:44,720 magic imagining how the phone books go together it's almost like one of those 223 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:50,160 Chinese finger locks where the harder you pull the tighter the lock is on your 224 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,520 fingers 225 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:59,320 with time ticking they finally get serious and get a grip but like Adam and 226 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,920 Jamie they realize pulling against each other isn't working so it can handle at 227 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:11,280 least 250 pounds so Tori decides to tempt fate again last time I did this 228 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:17,680 that's why I'm wincing and in case you don't remember here's that golden moment 229 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:25,840 when Tori got blown away but this time Tori escapes headache free and he and 230 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,760 Kerry put their heads together right Kerry go ahead and drive away and the 231 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:35,920 shop's heavy machinery to try and bust the myth oh and Tori's teeth this is a 232 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,040 little game I like to call break your teeth you'd have thought Tori gets paid 233 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:46,960 per ambulance ride okay here we go so it's the humble phone books biggest test 234 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:52,320 yet will their pages resist the scissor and forklift or will our m7 myth 235 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,120 busters bust the myth 236 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:03,400 oh it's not working yeah no it's just ripping out the spine of the book and with 237 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:09,360 the 30 minutes long gone the guys are defeated but impressed I think this has 238 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,760 a lot to do with surface area and friction I am completely amazed at how 239 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:19,680 much force we put on that book and it's still gripped on we failed now the big 240 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,360 question is pepperoni or sausage 241 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,080 she may be the smartest animal in the world but she's still an animal 242 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:44,400 Kerry Byron come to mama Tori Balachy and Grant Imahara they're shooting at 243 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:52,160 myths from the deep green sea and so far in their quintet of chaos it's one 244 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,240 part busted one confirmed so what's next for the next part of this myth we're 245 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,920 gonna focus on the explosives and those are contained inside of the flares now 246 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:07,800 we're gonna stay here on the bomb range because it turns out taking a flare 247 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:13,920 apart is pretty dangerous remember in the movie they casually crack open a box 248 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,600 of 10 flares to harness so much gunpowder that we ought to get about two 249 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:23,680 anastasized I have these flares but how much black powder is there in a flair 250 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,960 now we don't know how much black powder is in one of these flares what we need 251 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,160 to do is find out how many of these flares we need in order to make two and 252 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:37,320 a half sticks of dynamite to find out Grant and not Tori for obvious reasons is 253 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:42,120 going to very carefully cut open some flares in order to protect myself I'll 254 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:46,960 be wearing the fire suit that's in case the black powder ignites I've got a 255 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,240 tubing cutter what I'll do is attach that to the flare and crack it open take 256 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:56,640 out the flare part and then pour the black powder into a tray where I can 257 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,680 measure how much black powder there actually is inside of the flare all 258 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,160 right remember catch on fire stop drop and roll what's clear immediately is 259 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:10,160 that opening a cartridge flare isn't quite as easy as the movie made out it 260 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,840 looks as though the Martian has figured out the earth tools in fact it takes a 261 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:21,960 full 12 minutes for Grant to crack it okay I think I'm through with the 262 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,960 dangerous part over Grant measures the amount of black powder and it's pitiful 263 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,920 these are exactly the same type of flares they used in the movie however the 264 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:37,440 big difference is that there's only one and a half grams of black powder in here 265 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:43,960 it's not like like the guy did yep the numbers just don't add up the mythical 266 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:50,240 two and a half sticks of dynamite is about 450 flares worth not the 10 they 267 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:57,800 harvest in the movie and that means number three hits the busted okay so 268 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,240 where do we go from here well I think it's time we blow stuff up I think we're 269 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,600 gonna need three booms the more the better one using the amount of black 270 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,760 powder they could physically contain in the canister used in the movie then 271 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,440 another one using the two and a half sticks of dynamite they mentioned in a 272 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,800 dialogue and if that doesn't get us the same kind of explosion we see in the 273 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:20,440 movie I say we do whatever it takes so with Hugo and toe the team hit the road 274 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:27,320 their destination the secret backcountry quarry where they had their last TNT 275 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,560 party 276 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:38,240 you guys ready to blow up a mutant shark to save the world you're back we're back 277 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,480 at the quarry lake this time we're gonna blow up a shark and we're gonna show a 278 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,160 few different things we're gonna show one is the bomb he made in the movie 279 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:50,800 gonna make that big of an explosion two is it enough to kill a shark there 280 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,720 should be enough black powder in this flare to give us two and a half sticks 281 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,440 dynamite and three if you're in the water and you're that close to the 282 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:07,800 explosion are you gonna survive except we're gonna destroy Hugo 283 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:15,680 yep Hugo will be going out with a bag but first it's this fishes last swim 284 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:24,480 he's going for Kerry the girl that's a great idea how you getting back on the 285 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:31,000 boat next Hugo gets that sinking feeling as the team weighs him down 286 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:37,880 positioning him 10 feet under about the same depth as the shark in the movie 287 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,960 in the water the shark looks even more menacing but the shockwave from the 288 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,840 blast could be our heroes biggest concern now to find out if our hero is 289 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,920 going to actually survive this crazy blast we have this now this rig was 290 00:26:54,920 --> 00:27:00,200 created by New Mexico tech they have installed Oseco pressure discs now at 291 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:07,260 500 psi these things will burst 500 psi is certain death for the hero so we're 292 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:11,300 gonna be able to find out from 15 foot increments how far away our hero has to 293 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:16,580 be from the blasts to be able to survive New Mexico tech is a world leader in 294 00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:22,220 explosion technology and these custom-made rigs and Oseco rupture discs 295 00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:28,460 are the perfect addition to this test let's go in easy so 50 feet from Hugo 296 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:34,020 the first rupture rig is delicately placed in the water 297 00:27:34,020 --> 00:27:41,140 50 feet represents the distance from the shark that the hero was at the time 298 00:27:41,140 --> 00:27:46,620 of the explosion but to cover all bases the team positions rupture rigs at 100 299 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:54,220 150 and 200 feet away it's been a monumental effort and finally 300 00:27:54,220 --> 00:27:59,540 everything's ready for some shark obliteration sharks in position all the 301 00:27:59,540 --> 00:28:02,900 rupture discs are in position in 50 foot increments all we need to do now 302 00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:08,900 strap some explosives to that shark blow them up Frank 303 00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:18,180 Adam and Jamie are focusing on the phone book friction fable and the ramping 304 00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:26,620 up has already begun 10 people 4,000 pounds of pull and nothing 305 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:30,940 phone books are tougher than we thought dude this thing is a behemoth what are 306 00:28:30,980 --> 00:28:37,500 we gonna pull it with now rental cars 307 00:28:39,540 --> 00:28:44,340 we said we were gonna ramp it up so we have we've got two sedans there are 308 00:28:44,340 --> 00:28:48,260 about a hundred and forty horsepower each we're gonna see if we can rip those 309 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:54,500 phone books apart yep manpower didn't do it for him so it's on to horse power 310 00:28:54,620 --> 00:29:04,420 and a whole heap of horsing around I made the car so dirty couldn't find the trunk 311 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:10,500 key it's a simple plan using the same two books that withstood the war of tugs 312 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:17,140 I lawsuit myself Adam and Jamie are going to drive in opposite directions and the 313 00:29:17,140 --> 00:29:21,620 only thing that could prevent them from driving off into a dusty sunset is the 314 00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:26,900 interleaved pages of the directories remember there's no glue and the plywood 315 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:31,980 clamps are simply providing a firm grip rigs ready I'm ready what do you think 316 00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:37,420 is gonna happen well I think the rigs gonna break before the books do 317 00:29:42,660 --> 00:29:51,020 this is it I'm ready are you ready can the drag created by the 800 pages of two 318 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:55,660 phone books stop these two drag racers 319 00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:04,220 I'm starting to spin yeah I'm spinning too 320 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:10,740 come on spin some more incredibly with the force gauge peaking at 4,800 pounds 321 00:30:10,740 --> 00:30:19,420 the phone books unlike the cars tires that's fun hold firm still intact I 322 00:30:19,460 --> 00:30:24,220 smell rubber burning but I don't see no broken rig or a phone book well at this 323 00:30:24,220 --> 00:30:29,260 point it's phone book three Jamie and Adam zilch I think the phone books feeling 324 00:30:29,260 --> 00:30:33,460 pretty self-satisfied but we're not done by a long shot 325 00:30:39,860 --> 00:30:46,420 Carrie Grant and Tori are mimicking a five-point movie myth with an explosive fishy finale 326 00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:55,580 and with three of the quintet accounted for duck because here come the big 327 00:30:55,580 --> 00:31:00,420 booms for a deep blue sea exploding shark myth here's the plan first we're gonna 328 00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:03,820 use the harpoon that they use the movie completely filled with black powder as 329 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:07,540 much as we can stuff in there if that doesn't give us our movie explosion then 330 00:31:07,540 --> 00:31:10,140 we're moving on to what they said they have which is the equivalent of two and 331 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:14,900 a half sticks of dynamite now that doesn't work then we move on to a special 332 00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:19,020 frank concoction which is going to give us the movie explosion that we're hoping 333 00:31:19,060 --> 00:31:21,060 for 334 00:31:21,060 --> 00:31:26,700 remember in the movie a small canister of black powder liquefies the shark and at 335 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:34,060 50 feet away our hero survives but what about in real life this is the harpoon 336 00:31:34,060 --> 00:31:37,900 from the movie now Frank has made us a canister the same dimension your father 337 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:40,820 wanted you to have this when you were old enough 338 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:48,500 elegant weapon now to give this myth the best possible chance we're gonna fill 339 00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:52,740 this with black powder but this only holds 28 grams now to get an explosion 340 00:31:52,740 --> 00:31:57,860 two and a half sticks of dynamite worth you need 681 grams of black powder this 341 00:31:57,860 --> 00:32:02,140 is nowhere near 681 grams but we're gonna do this first because that's what the 342 00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:07,540 movie did and see what happens out on the water Frank carefully lays the charge 343 00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:14,180 but will 28 grams of black powder really shake the shark this is going to be 344 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:22,660 shark explosion ready to fire in three two one fire 345 00:32:22,660 --> 00:32:28,060 Houston we have a problem I love it when they try to hit the button and the 346 00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:33,380 bomb doesn't go up that's the best part everything points to a misfire at least 347 00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:38,580 until Frank calls the team in for a closer look that's it that's it what you 348 00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:43,140 see is what we got so it went off and that's what we have left it was less than 349 00:32:43,180 --> 00:32:47,500 exciting it was so less than exciting we thought we had a malfunction but as you 350 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:54,260 can see we didn't so sorry Houston we didn't have a problem the same size 351 00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:59,900 canister is used in the movie 28 grams didn't even cause a ripple it did no 352 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:03,960 damage at all there are three things we're looking for to confirm our mutant 353 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,820 shark explosion in the movie first of all a tower of water big explosion second 354 00:33:08,860 --> 00:33:12,620 of all we have to see completely obliterated shark and third our hero 355 00:33:12,620 --> 00:33:18,780 has to survive tower water a little bit of smoke obliterated shark just a 356 00:33:18,780 --> 00:33:22,140 little bit of flesh wound he's coming back to eat you finally did our hero 357 00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:28,340 survive absolutely so one out of three not so good for the mid so what now we're 358 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:31,820 gonna up the stakes and this time we're gonna go with what the guy said in the 359 00:33:31,820 --> 00:33:36,700 movie which is two and a half sticks of dynamite worth of explosive Frank's 360 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:41,420 preparing a vessel that will contain this amount of black powder set that 361 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:47,740 off and see what happens to our shark our hero and also if we get the same kind 362 00:33:47,740 --> 00:33:53,300 of guys of course there's a problem here 680 grams of black powder the two and a 363 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:58,100 half sticks of dynamite is now so big and weighty it could never have been 364 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:03,380 fired by the harpoon but that's Hollywood for you this is mutant shark 365 00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:07,100 with the equivalent of two and a half sticks of dynamite on your go Frank 366 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:12,580 fire in the hole three two one 367 00:34:12,580 --> 00:34:15,580 yeah 368 00:34:15,580 --> 00:34:17,100 did you see that 369 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:19,100 the boobies off the shark 370 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:21,100 awesome 371 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,100 quite as big as the movie 372 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:25,100 I think the shark is dead 373 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:27,100 yeah 374 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:32,100 as the team go in for a closer look it's clear that Hugo has gone belly up 375 00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:36,300 not looking good for Hugo that's his stomach right there 376 00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:38,300 oh my gosh 377 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:42,900 but much like Mick Jagger carry can't get no satisfaction 378 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:47,900 two and a half sticks of dynamite is definitely a better blast and we got to see a little bit of a boom 379 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:52,900 it was still not the hundred foot in the air tower that we saw in the movie so 380 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:57,140 though that shark is maybe in two pieces he's not completely decimated and 381 00:34:57,180 --> 00:35:00,180 liquefied in the air like it was in the movie 382 00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:05,180 in other words part four of the quintet also bites the dust 383 00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:09,180 and that means it's time to go large 384 00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:14,180 this is it this is the one we've all been waiting for this is where we're gonna get the huge explosion that we see in the movie 385 00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:19,180 now the first time we tested it gave us hardly anything then we did two and a half sticks of dynamite 386 00:35:19,180 --> 00:35:23,180 destroyed the shark but still we didn't get that giant tower of water splashing in the air 387 00:35:23,220 --> 00:35:28,220 now we're gonna get that and we're probably gonna kill the shark and kill the guy 388 00:35:28,220 --> 00:35:31,220 oh in the same moment this is gonna be awesome 389 00:35:31,220 --> 00:35:37,220 so for the grand finale Hugo like Humpty Dumpty is pieced back together 390 00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:42,220 but not for long because this next boom will be big 391 00:35:42,220 --> 00:35:44,220 he's kinda in one piece 392 00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:49,220 we were out here and we did surfing with explosives and we used 200 pounds of cast boosters 393 00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:57,260 well we're gonna crank it up a few notches today we're gonna use 400 pounds of cast boosters 394 00:35:57,260 --> 00:36:01,260 and we're going to decimate the shark 395 00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,260 it's gonna be magnificent 396 00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:08,260 you heard it folks stand by because this is gonna be magnificent 397 00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:18,260 ah dude I am proud of our little phone books they withstood a lot more than I thought they would 398 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,300 this thing is impressive 399 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:26,300 it is and you know I have a theory I think there's more going on here than just friction of page on page 400 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,300 I think it has to do with the pages being stacked and the weight that they put on each other 401 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:36,300 as well as there may be some sort of a finger puzzle thing where the harder you pull the more it grabs 402 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:40,300 well it's clear if we're gonna get these things separated 403 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:44,300 we're gonna need bigger vehicles and a lot more traction 404 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:46,300 well you know what I've got both 405 00:36:46,340 --> 00:36:47,340 now really? 406 00:36:47,340 --> 00:36:48,340 oh yeah 407 00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:49,340 awesome 408 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:54,340 yep Jamie has contacted the military vehicle technology foundation 409 00:36:54,340 --> 00:36:57,340 and head honcho Jacques Littlefield 410 00:36:57,340 --> 00:36:58,340 wow 411 00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:05,340 who can't wait to show off the largest private collection of armored fighting vehicles in the world 412 00:37:05,340 --> 00:37:08,340 the earliest tank I have which is a World War I tank built by the US 413 00:37:08,340 --> 00:37:10,340 it was actually the first tank the US built 414 00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:13,340 and for the next happy hour 415 00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:15,340 well let me show you some other stuff 416 00:37:15,380 --> 00:37:18,380 as Adam and Jamie get the full guided tour 417 00:37:18,380 --> 00:37:21,380 that's kinda cute it's almost cuddly 418 00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:26,380 you could say they resemble two toddlers let loose in a toy factory 419 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:31,380 nobody moves nobody gets hurt 420 00:37:31,380 --> 00:37:33,380 yeah I know are you jealous 421 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:37,380 I'm not gonna touch that 422 00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:39,380 there we go 423 00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:41,380 now I'm ready 424 00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:43,380 there's a lot of munitions down here 425 00:37:43,420 --> 00:37:46,420 with playtime reluctantly over 426 00:37:46,420 --> 00:37:50,420 Jacques introduces us to two potential phone book rippers 427 00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:52,420 an armored personnel carrier 428 00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:55,420 and an M5-51 Sheridan 429 00:37:55,420 --> 00:37:58,420 this is the famous death stalker 430 00:38:01,420 --> 00:38:03,420 and with the rides ready 431 00:38:03,420 --> 00:38:07,420 it's time to raise the curtain on the Mythbuster military ballet 432 00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:15,380 the 433 00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:33,380 this is awesome 434 00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:36,380 it's like some sort of a side show with me 435 00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:45,420 yep that's the tanks 436 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:47,420 so what about the 437 00:38:47,420 --> 00:38:49,420 you got a phone book for me 438 00:38:49,420 --> 00:38:51,420 right here 439 00:38:51,420 --> 00:38:54,420 the toughest thing about ramping this test up 440 00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:56,420 is how to hold on to the books 441 00:38:56,420 --> 00:38:59,420 this is an opportunity to not mess around 442 00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:01,420 nice 443 00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:03,420 if these clamps give way 444 00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:05,420 I'll eat my beret 445 00:39:05,420 --> 00:39:08,420 that's ready aesthetically it matches the tanks 446 00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:10,420 yeah military steel 447 00:39:10,420 --> 00:39:12,420 it's the new black 448 00:39:12,460 --> 00:39:14,460 we're going from a car 449 00:39:14,460 --> 00:39:16,460 and some wood clamps 450 00:39:18,460 --> 00:39:20,460 to a tank 451 00:39:20,460 --> 00:39:22,460 that's something a little heavier 452 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:26,460 and with phone books held snugly in their brand new bindings 453 00:39:26,460 --> 00:39:29,460 what are you the ghost of Christmas futures 454 00:39:29,460 --> 00:39:32,460 the gang chain on metal monsters together 455 00:39:34,460 --> 00:39:36,460 there you go 456 00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:40,460 and remember their interleave pages are the only things holding the two books together 457 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,500 I don't know about you but I think we're ready to start stretching 458 00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:48,500 in three 459 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:52,500 Carri-Torian Grant has made a shark called Hugo bubble and trouble 460 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,500 and now they're going to turn him into rubble 461 00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,500 with 400 pounds of TNT 462 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,500 set up for this is kind of cool 463 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:04,500 we've got Frank out there on the boat with his crew 464 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:08,500 strapping two body bags full of 400 pounds of explosives to our shark 465 00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:12,540 we're standing at the perimeter at a safe distance so we can watch this blast 466 00:40:12,540 --> 00:40:16,540 we have a feeling that the Tower of Water might hit the top of that hillside 467 00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:19,540 yep, Hugo is going to be Hugo 468 00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:21,540 this is exploding shark 469 00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:24,540 400 pounds of explosives on your go Frank 470 00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:26,540 where in the hole 471 00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:28,540 where in the hole 472 00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:30,540 yeah the secret 473 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:32,540 two 474 00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:34,540 one 475 00:40:34,540 --> 00:40:36,540 fire 476 00:40:36,580 --> 00:40:38,580 Justin, me again 477 00:40:38,580 --> 00:40:40,580 this time we really do have a problem 478 00:40:40,580 --> 00:40:43,580 oh this is every bomb techs worst nightmare 479 00:40:43,580 --> 00:40:45,580 oh god 480 00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:47,580 oh 481 00:40:47,580 --> 00:40:50,580 400 pounds of explosives just sitting there 482 00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:53,580 misfire, this is really really stressful 483 00:40:53,580 --> 00:40:56,580 this is the part of explosions I really really hate 484 00:40:56,580 --> 00:40:58,580 this is a really really dangerous situation 485 00:40:58,580 --> 00:41:01,580 probably the most dangerous kind of situation for these guys 486 00:41:01,580 --> 00:41:05,580 because they don't really know what has gone wrong 487 00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:08,620 but something's gone wrong and the explosives are already rigged out there 488 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:12,620 so they're going to check it out and maybe see if the blasting cap came out 489 00:41:12,620 --> 00:41:16,620 very carefully Frank and his team move in 490 00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:20,620 they have to remove and replace the faulty blasting cap 491 00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:23,620 one false move and they're dead 492 00:41:23,620 --> 00:41:25,620 are you kidding me 493 00:41:27,620 --> 00:41:30,620 this is like the worst experiment ever 494 00:41:30,660 --> 00:41:35,660 but after 40 breath holding white knuckled cold sweat minutes 495 00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:39,660 the team thankfully are good to go on take two 496 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:42,660 yeah 497 00:41:42,660 --> 00:41:45,660 we're ready to go man's countdown 498 00:41:45,660 --> 00:41:47,660 go ahead Frank, it's dark 499 00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:49,660 where in the hole 500 00:41:49,660 --> 00:41:51,660 where in the hole 501 00:41:51,660 --> 00:41:53,660 three 502 00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,660 two 503 00:41:55,660 --> 00:41:57,660 one 504 00:41:57,660 --> 00:41:59,660 fire 505 00:42:00,660 --> 00:42:05,660 now that is what I call a Hollywood boom 506 00:42:05,660 --> 00:42:07,660 wow 507 00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:09,660 that's crazy 508 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:12,660 that looks like what, what, 500 feet 509 00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:15,660 I don't think the shark made it 510 00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:18,660 I think the shark is liquefied 511 00:42:18,660 --> 00:42:22,660 explosion three delivered a near perfect match for the movie scene 512 00:42:22,660 --> 00:42:24,660 look there's a big chunk out there 513 00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:27,660 sending shark debris all over the lake 514 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:30,700 wanna see it again 515 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,700 that was exactly what I imagined it would look like 516 00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:39,700 I mean that explosion was huge 517 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:43,700 I think that's my new favorite explosion 518 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:47,700 the spray of water probably went like 500 feet in the air 519 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:50,700 those boos went at least 600 feet in the air 520 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,700 it was raining down shark 521 00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:55,700 and that was definitely more than two and a half sticks of dynamite 522 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,700 you go is you gone 523 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:01,700 Tori's gonna cry tonight 524 00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:03,700 oh you go 525 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:09,700 so having at last recreated the Hollywood explosion 526 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,700 they can finally answer the last part of the myth 527 00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:15,700 would the hero have survived 528 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:20,700 remember in the movie the team estimated he was 50 feet away 529 00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:23,700 so the closest rupture rig is the crucial one 530 00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:25,700 that's totally ruptured 531 00:43:25,740 --> 00:43:27,740 all of them 532 00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:29,740 all four of them are ruptured 533 00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:31,740 50 feet 534 00:43:31,740 --> 00:43:33,740 that dude would be dead 535 00:43:33,740 --> 00:43:35,740 alright let's go check out the 100 footer 536 00:43:35,740 --> 00:43:38,740 a hundred feet is also in the death zone 537 00:43:38,740 --> 00:43:40,740 so that's a hundred feet all ruptured 538 00:43:40,740 --> 00:43:42,740 you'd be dead at a hundred feet 539 00:43:42,740 --> 00:43:47,740 it turns out that to have survived you'd have had to have been a hundred fifty feet away 540 00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:49,740 way further than the movie hero 541 00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:52,740 we checked the rupturedness at 50 feet 542 00:43:52,780 --> 00:43:55,780 every single disc was completely burst 543 00:43:55,780 --> 00:43:57,780 100 feet same thing 544 00:43:57,780 --> 00:43:59,780 150-200 still intact 545 00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:01,780 so that means for us 546 00:44:01,780 --> 00:44:04,780 there is certain death at 50 feet and at 100 feet 547 00:44:04,780 --> 00:44:07,780 so we think our hero is completely obliterated 548 00:44:07,780 --> 00:44:09,780 and you know what that means 549 00:44:09,780 --> 00:44:11,780 part five of the myth is busted 550 00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:13,780 and it's time to wrap things up 551 00:44:13,780 --> 00:44:15,780 that explosion was insane 552 00:44:15,780 --> 00:44:17,780 yeah I think that's my new favorite explosion 553 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:20,780 okay so we started out this myth by breaking it down into five parts 554 00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:22,820 the ignition system 555 00:44:22,820 --> 00:44:24,820 the amount of black powder from the flares 556 00:44:24,820 --> 00:44:26,820 the size of the explosion and the hero surviving 557 00:44:26,820 --> 00:44:28,820 all busted 558 00:44:28,820 --> 00:44:30,820 the only thing that actually worked was the harpoon gun 559 00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:32,820 yeah but even the harpoon gun was problematic 560 00:44:32,820 --> 00:44:34,820 I mean the amount of explosives you would need 561 00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:36,820 to get that big of an explosion 562 00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:38,820 I mean the harpoon would never even fly 563 00:44:38,820 --> 00:44:40,820 it would be too heavy 564 00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:42,820 it would just be like 565 00:44:42,820 --> 00:44:44,820 so while this has been a totally cool myth to test 566 00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:46,820 and I love the way we broke it down 567 00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:48,820 this one is totally and completely busted 568 00:44:48,860 --> 00:44:50,860 can we see the explosion again? 569 00:44:50,860 --> 00:44:52,860 heck yeah 570 00:44:52,860 --> 00:44:54,860 oh 571 00:44:58,860 --> 00:45:00,860 that was crazy 572 00:45:00,860 --> 00:45:02,860 that was crazy 573 00:45:02,860 --> 00:45:04,860 that was crazy 574 00:45:04,860 --> 00:45:06,860 that was crazy 575 00:45:06,860 --> 00:45:08,860 welcome back 576 00:45:08,860 --> 00:45:10,860 here's where we stand so far 577 00:45:10,860 --> 00:45:12,860 Jamie and I got word that interleaving the pages of two folks 578 00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:14,860 yielded something incredibly strong 579 00:45:14,860 --> 00:45:16,860 does this remind you of when you used to count money for the mob? 580 00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:18,900 man I wasn't from money counting 581 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:20,900 so we did it and we've tucked on them 582 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:22,900 we couldn't separate them 583 00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:24,900 we got ten friends together 584 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:26,900 they couldn't separate them 585 00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:28,900 we got two cars 586 00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:30,900 and still those phone books wouldn't be separated 587 00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:36,900 but we're not gonna leave it there 588 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:38,900 we went out and found a couple of tanks 589 00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:40,900 behind me is 30 tons 590 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,900 of military steel 591 00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:44,900 650 horsepower 592 00:45:44,940 --> 00:45:46,940 I don't know if you guys have read the phone books 593 00:45:46,940 --> 00:45:48,940 at this point I have no idea 594 00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:50,940 but I do know that something 595 00:45:50,940 --> 00:45:52,940 is gonna happen 596 00:45:52,940 --> 00:45:54,940 so it's the 14 ton 597 00:45:54,940 --> 00:45:56,940 300 horsepower 598 00:45:56,940 --> 00:45:58,940 M113A1 fire support vehicle 599 00:46:01,940 --> 00:46:03,940 and the M551 Sheridan 600 00:46:03,940 --> 00:46:05,940 also known as the Death Stalker 601 00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:07,940 which packs a healthy 602 00:46:07,940 --> 00:46:09,940 350 horsepower 603 00:46:09,940 --> 00:46:11,940 and weighs in at 15 tons 604 00:46:11,940 --> 00:46:13,940 versus 605 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:15,980 two phone books 606 00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:17,980 I was trying to make a phone call 607 00:46:17,980 --> 00:46:19,980 that's all I wanted to do 608 00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:23,980 the question is 609 00:46:23,980 --> 00:46:25,980 can the pages take the pressure 610 00:46:25,980 --> 00:46:27,980 if this doesn't separate the phone books 611 00:46:27,980 --> 00:46:29,980 I'd call them effectively unseparable 612 00:46:29,980 --> 00:46:31,980 I think so 613 00:46:31,980 --> 00:46:33,980 alright let's see what happens 614 00:46:37,980 --> 00:46:40,980 ah I love the smell of diesel in the morning 615 00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:42,980 okay go ahead and pull a slack 616 00:46:43,980 --> 00:46:45,980 with the lightest of touches 617 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:47,980 on the throttle the tanks ease 618 00:46:47,980 --> 00:46:49,980 delicately apart 619 00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:51,980 the careful positioning 620 00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:53,980 not reflected by the force gauge needle 621 00:46:53,980 --> 00:46:55,980 that's 1000 pounds of force 622 00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:57,980 so far 623 00:46:57,980 --> 00:46:59,980 with the slack taken up Jamie signals the start 624 00:47:01,980 --> 00:47:03,980 30 tons of mighty military 625 00:47:03,980 --> 00:47:05,980 machines slowly 626 00:47:05,980 --> 00:47:07,980 begin to move in opposite directions 627 00:47:07,980 --> 00:47:09,980 and the force gauge 628 00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:11,980 climbs quickly 629 00:47:12,020 --> 00:47:14,020 but the courageous phone books 630 00:47:14,020 --> 00:47:16,020 you couldn't call them yellow 631 00:47:16,020 --> 00:47:18,020 hang on for all their work 632 00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:20,020 it separated 633 00:47:20,020 --> 00:47:22,020 it worked 634 00:47:22,020 --> 00:47:24,020 but the Yankee tanks finally win the tug of war 635 00:47:24,020 --> 00:47:26,020 darn 636 00:47:26,020 --> 00:47:28,020 you wanted to see some metal breaking 637 00:47:28,020 --> 00:47:30,020 yeah well I wanted to see these things 638 00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:32,020 spin you know burn rubber 639 00:47:34,020 --> 00:47:36,020 no fun like the rental cars 640 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,020 these puppies had traction 641 00:47:38,020 --> 00:47:40,020 and power to spare 642 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:42,060 and talking of power 643 00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:44,060 let me see how many pounds it took 644 00:47:44,060 --> 00:47:46,060 8000 pounds of force is what it took 645 00:47:52,060 --> 00:47:54,060 while our military steel 646 00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:56,060 was up to the task of separating the phone books 647 00:47:56,060 --> 00:47:58,060 and lest you think that 8000 648 00:47:58,060 --> 00:48:00,060 pounds of force is not a lot 649 00:48:00,060 --> 00:48:02,060 let me put it in perspective 650 00:48:02,060 --> 00:48:04,060 we could hang 651 00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:06,060 both of those rental cars 652 00:48:06,060 --> 00:48:08,060 from those interleaved phone books 653 00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:10,100 and it wouldn't have broken them 654 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:12,100 that's how much force we're talking about 655 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:14,100 it's pretty amazing 656 00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:16,100 so it turns out that 657 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:19,100 interleaved phone books are not in fact indestructible 658 00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:21,100 you just have to have a couple of tanks 659 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:23,100 hanging around to do it 660 00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:33,100 I still just wanted to make a phone call 661 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:40,100 music 662 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:42,100 music 663 00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:44,100 music 664 00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:46,100 music 665 00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:48,100 music 666 00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:50,100 music 667 00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:52,100 music 668 00:48:52,100 --> 00:48:54,100 music 669 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,100 music 670 00:48:56,100 --> 00:48:58,100 music 671 00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:00,100 music 672 00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:02,100 music 673 00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:05,100 music 674 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:07,100 music 675 00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:10,100 music