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Attention viewers, do not try anything you're about to see at home.

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We're what you call experts.

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On this super cool episode of Myth Musters,

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it's all aboard for the second Alaska special.

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We've got to keep our afloat!

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As Master Savage and Commander Heinemann shiver their timbers.

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I'm the boatman of the VICE!

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In a world first attempt to build a mythical boat out of nothing but sawdust and ice,

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Nihua, Cary, Grant, and Tori are on a Northern Exposure Collision course.

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I'm a train CPR, don't worry!

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Wrestling with the myth of a snow-pulled smash that's split a car completely in two.

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Who are the Myth Busters?

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Adam Savage.

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Oh, hey!

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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We've got to try and shoot him in the head.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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That's pretty.

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Joining them,

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Tori Boleici,

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Grant Imahara.

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That was crazy.

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And Cary Byron.

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This is going to be a whole lot of fun, huh?

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If they don't just tell the Myths,

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they put them to the test.

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Alaska, famed for its stunning scenery.

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The 49th State is also shrouded in tall tales and outlandish legends.

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Making it a virtual home away from home for the Myth Busters.

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I know it's not a beret, but you gotta put this on.

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What do we got? Cold weather myths?

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We do.

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It's time to do another Alaska special.

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You got any ideas?

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Well, as a matter of fact, there is one thing that I'm kind of curious about.

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It's a material called Pycree that a guy named Pyke invented around World War II.

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And this was made of frozen wood pulp and water.

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And supposedly it made a mix that was harder than concrete when it froze.

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And they were going to build an aircraft carrier out of it,

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but they never got around to it because the war ended.

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So as far as we know, no one's ever tried to build a boat out of this stuff.

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That's correct.

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Until us.

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According to this myth,

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in World War II with steel and iron in short supply,

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an ingenious inventor came up with an entirely new concept.

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Pycree, a mixture of ice and wood pulp that was supposedly so tough,

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you could forge a fleet from it.

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But before the Allies could build a frozen flotilla, the war ended.

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Leaving this mythical question unanswered.

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Can you really build a boat out of nothing but sawdust and ice?

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An aircraft carrier made of sawdust and ice.

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I really hope we haven't bitten off more than we can chew here.

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Well, ultimately we are going to have to build some sort of boat out of Pycree.

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But first I think we need to test its magical properties.

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Such as?

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Well, like, it's bulletproof.

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It is tougher than concrete and it takes longer than ice to melt, supposedly.

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But that sounds like a great plan of attack.

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We'll test those properties here in San Francisco.

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When we've got the information we need, we head up north to launch a Pycrete boat.

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Yeah. Good.

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It's a story that will ultimately see Adam and Jamie attempt to sail the Alaskan fjords in a beautiful Pycrete boat.

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It's getting worse.

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But before all that, they're starting at the beginning by making this stuff.

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The traditional recipe, if there is such a thing, of Pycrete is that it should be 14% by weight of sawdust

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or wood pulp and then 86% of course by weight of water.

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Sounds simple. And it is.

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Jamie mixes the wood pulp and water and hay presto.

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This is Pycrete. Aircraft carriers, huh?

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Who knew?

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The Pycrete goes into the deep freeze to chill out so the guys can take aim at this myth.

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So there are three mythical properties of Pycrete.

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That it melts slower than ice, that it's harder than ice, and that it's bulletproof.

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And well, we couldn't resist testing the last one first.

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So we've set up a mini gun range and we're going to shoot a block of ice and shoot a block of Pycrete and see what the difference is.

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So for the first test, it's just plain ice.

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That's pretty darn good.

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Versus a 45 caliber slug.

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Shooting an ice in three, two, one.

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I think I can tell what the results are.

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It sounded like a bowling alley.

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Closer inspection confirms the bullet scored a clean strike.

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We turned it into a snow cone.

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So can the freshly frozen Pycrete withstand the same fate?

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In three, two, one.

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That's bulletproof.

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You weren't lying.

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It's tough stuff.

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It certainly is.

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Instead of shattering like the ice, the bullet ricocheted off the Pycrete, taking only a shallow crater with it.

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We don't only bust myths, sometimes we confirm stuff.

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We were told that Pycrete is bulletproof and it's definitively bulletproof.

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Well, it may be bulletproof, but the Pycrete isn't out of the woods yet.

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Next up is the mechanical strength test and it's nothing if not straightforward.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you want to put these five-pound weights on one at a time until it breaks.

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It's like I'm a freaking mind.

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At first, I need to break the ice.

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Five-pound pounds.

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Forty-one pounds.

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Forty pounds, one ounce.

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That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

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At 40 pounds, the ice shattered.

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So how will the Pycrete compare?

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Pycrete, five-pound weight.

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Go.

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Well, cue fast-forward because it's tougher than it looks.

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And when the tally reaches 300 pounds, they run out of lead.

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So Jamie adopts a more direct approach.

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This is killing me!

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Well, there you go.

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I love this stuff.

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And Adam has every reason to.

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The Pycrete is nearly eight times the breaking strength of the ice.

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Hell's bells, Margaret.

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I am impressed with Pycrete.

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I would not have bet that it could withstand all the lead we had in the shop.

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I'm starting to think that, you know, the Pycrete is a little bit more than a little bit of a big deal.

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I would not have bet that it could withstand all the lead we had in the shop.

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I'm starting to think that we could have some fun with this technology.

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Next, Carrie Grant and Tori.

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Clow on.

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The last time we did the Alaska Special, we got a lot of fans from Alaska writing in saying we missed a classic myth.

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Tell me more.

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The myth is that a couple are driving down a road on a dark snowy night.

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The visibility is horrible.

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They swerve out of control, crash head-on into a park snow plow on the side of the road.

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But this is no ordinary crash.

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Instead of just crumpling into a wreck, the car splits all the way down the middle, from the front to the rear, in a perfect bifurcation.

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And both walk away from the crash.

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Are you serious?

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It's a crazy crash concept that's snow joke.

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A car plows into a plow and is split right down the middle.

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But could a snow plow really bifurcate a car?

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It's a myth that's full of problems, starting with this one.

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For this myth, we need to do some pinpoint accurate crash tests using cars smashing into snow plows.

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But there are no crash test facilities that we can use in Alaska.

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Alright, so how are we going to test this one?

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Well, our researchers have come up with an amazing location.

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It's beautiful, it's snowy, it's in Wisconsin.

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Well, ultimately this is a great Alaskan myth, but if we have to go to Wisconsin and test it, then so be it.

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I think the first thing we need to do when we get there is look at some snow plows.

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I mean, let's face it, from California, what do we know about snow plows?

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In an odd start for the Alaska special, the team head to Wisconsin instead.

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Oh, there it is. Snow plow nirvana.

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Now it isn't Alaska, but with plows aplenty, Burke's Trucks is the perfect place to start.

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We may not have Pratt fishermen walking around here, can't see rush from our back porch,

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and there's no moose freely walking the streets.

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But what we do have here is a lot of snow and snow plows, and that's our first step.

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We got to get us one of those.

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And that's a process bringing back bad memories for Grant.

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So last time we used a snow plow, it was a cursed item.

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There was a curse of the snow plow.

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This time I fell down immediately after getting out of the car.

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This does not bode well.

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Snow plow of death was a myth cursed from beginning to end.

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I'm not so concerned about the curse as I am about these plows.

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For this to be even remotely possible to get one of these cars to split, we're going to need a wedge shaped plow.

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Tori's got a point. These flat scoops are miles off the myth, but after hunting high and low...

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It turned on. Turn it off, turn it off.

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The team strikes gold.

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Now that is the plow we're looking for.

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Dude, if anything is going to split that car, it's got to be this.

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Not only does it have this sharp axe edge, but it's got this really thin blade right in front,

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which is just like presenting a knife edge to a car.

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And that's exactly what we need to split our car right down the middle.

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And there's more behind this plow than just the blade.

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The great thing about this is not only do we have this magnificent blade,

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Basically hitting a giant immobile axe.

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Later, hit a snow plow smash, split a car completely in two.

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But first, Adam and Jamie hit the drink.

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Oh, look at me. I'm in a boat made of advice.

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During World War II, the engineer Jeffrey Pike imagined a flotilla of iceberg-like ships

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made only from piecrete.

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But would a boat made from wood, pulp and ice have stayed afloat?

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Or was this idea just dead wood?

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Well, the mithbusters are finding out, putting piecrete through a frile by fire.

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And sure as heck, it is bulletproof.

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And so far, it's living up to the claims, but Jamie sees some room for improvement.

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The reason piecrete is strong is because of the overlapping fibers of these wood chips.

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So what other kind of cellulose products do we have that maybe would be superior?

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And there's your answer. Newspaper. Lots of newspaper.

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In phonebook friction, the mithbusters found out just how much force

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This is like a sickness.

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And it's that layered strength that Jamie is hoping to capitalize on

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with his own new brand of piecrete.

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What if we saturate something like that with water and freeze it?

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We might have something, say like plywood instead of particle board, and plywood is stronger.

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The newspaper is more or less the same old wood pulp, just different form.

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Okay, the last few pounds.

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Just like the classic piecrete, the super piecrete supports 300 pounds of lead.

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But even after a beating, it doesn't crack under pressure.

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Dude, I'm going to go out on a limb and say I like this material.

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I mean, I'm literally out on a limb.

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But before they set sail, there's arguably the most vital question.

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Will it melt?

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And for that, Jamie whips up these.

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Perfect.

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Like an ice cube tray on steroids, these molds will ensure that the boys end up with three identical small scale boats for testing.

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We got our newspaper one.

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We have our piecrete mix and we have plain water that will turn to plain ice.

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We're going to pull them out when they're frozen and launch them and see which one melts first.

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And they've come to bamboo reef to do just that.

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Adam, what's our plan of action today?

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Oh Jamie, it's going to be totally great.

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We're going to take all three ice boats out of the molds and put them in the water and see which one melts first.

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And we're going to use two little characters of us to represent us just to increase the danger.

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Do we really have to use these stupid representations of ourselves?

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Yeah man, it's going to be funny.

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It's a head to head melt test to find out which boat will be the last one floating.

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And with the stunt dolls standing by, first up is the ice.

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Why don't you try turning it over and I'll try and hold it on my hands?

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Now it may have cracked, but all they're looking for is how long it takes to melt.

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Abandon ship.

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I'm going to put a passenger in here.

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Here we go.

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Oh look at me. I have a boat made of the ice.

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Well right off the bat we can see it's better than ice.

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Oh look at me. My boat's perfect. My boat's lasting a long time. I love wet newspaper.

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Notice that even in scam, little Jimmy kind of looks smug.

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There's plenty to be smug about. Five minutes in and the super piecrete is still going strong in the warm water.

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But Adam's ship is sinking.

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I'd say that's a total failure of the boat right there.

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The piecrete held up five times longer than the ice.

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There you go.

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But it's no match for the super piecrete.

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Very good. I'd say given that this is no longer a structure.

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I call it.

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We can call it.

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The super piecrete lasted 12 times longer than the classic piecrete.

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And let's face it, every second will count in those icy Alaskan waters.

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It looked like the newspaper piecrete was just as strong as the regular piecrete,

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but when we put it in the water it becomes far superior as a building material for our purposes.

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You might see a pile of wet newspaper here.

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Timmy and I, we see a boat.

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Adjective to mythbusters. Can't get enough and you need help?

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Go to discovery.com slash mythbusters and feed that addiction.

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It's Plow Wars as the team takes on a snow plow collision for the Alaska Special.

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So what are they doing in Wisconsin?

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Carrie knows, so where Alaska?

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This is what we couldn't find in Alaska and why we ended up in Wisconsin.

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This is MGA Research Corporation, one of the world's leading testing companies

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for the consumer, aerospace, military and automotive industries.

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And I hear that they excel in working in these snowy conditions, which is perfect for us.

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It's the ideal location for our two mythical foes to duke it out.

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No, no, not you two. The snow plow versus the car.

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But what is it that makes MGA so perfect?

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We need the dead center of the car to hit the pinnacle point of the blade of the snow plow.

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And for that we need something far more reliable, which starts 900 feet that way.

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With this, a continuous loop of steel cable that propels the car along the guide rail,

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all powered by a 600 horsepower electric motor that will ensure pinpoint accuracy and repeatability.

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So let's get that straight. Instead of a towing system, MGA use a motor to pull a cable,

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which will let our car plow into our stationary plow with incredible accuracy.

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And speaking of cars...

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So the observant viewers are probably asking themselves, why are there two cars?

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The engine is the most resistant part of the car, so we need to test two different types of car.

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A front engine car and a rear engine car.

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Now this is a front engine car. The only problem is, the other car we have is also a front engine car.

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So what we need to do is pull this engine out, stick it on the back so we have our rear engine car.

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While Tori puts the junk in the trunk, the other car also needs some attention.

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I got Alaska up this car a little bit. It's looking a little Wisconsin right now.

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But halfway through pimping her ride, Carrie's worried.

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But I think this is going to be a much more daunting task than the snow plow actually thinks it's going to be.

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It's got to get completely through this dashboard, all the way through the center of the car to the back.

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I'm having a hard time seeing this actually happen.

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It's clear that there's a lot of car to clean. So will the snow plow be up to the task?

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Look, the car is all decorated for big Alastin style crash.

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Well, the rear engine vehicle is ready to go.

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Well, let's come back tomorrow and split this myth in two.

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Yeah.

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Coming up next on MythBusters, can we split a front engine car with a snow plow?

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Carrie, Tori and Grant are about to crash and burn in the snow.

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I want to ride that one.

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They're testing the myth of a snow plow smash that split a car completely in two.

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What they're doing right now is they're chaining the car to the skate.

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Now, the skate is a device that hooks onto the track and ensures that the car goes straight the whole distance.

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Now, at the very end, there is a high-tech quick release. There's no blue rope here.

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Now, this will ensure that we hit our snow plow dead soon.

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And with a few final tweaks, we're good to go, except for one last thing.

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Passengers.

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So Buster, having a little bit of a problem with airport security, called ahead to get us some local talents.

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You're thinking how are inflatable people going to provide any sort of data?

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Now, these guys are clearly not crash test dummies or human analogs of any sort.

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But the myth says that both the passenger and the driver made it out of the crash completely unharmed.

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Now, if either of one of these gets the slightest nick, they'll totally deflate.

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And with the dummies sitting pretty, here's how the test is going to go down.

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This cable will pull that front engine car up to 55 miles an hour and 10 feet before the plow will release the car and it will go smashing into the blade.

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And if that all works out, what we're looking for are two things.

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Number one, does the car split on the snow plow blade cleanly all the way down?

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And number two, are inflatable people still inflated?

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Well, there's only one way to find out.

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Because it's go time.

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Alright, this is front engine car at 55 miles an hour versus the mother of all snow plows.

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In three, two, one, go!

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It's the moment of truth as the car hurtles down the track at 55 miles per hour.

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Looking good. It's looking great.

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But will the combination of speed and snow plow be enough to split the car?

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Wow!

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That is not bar-focated.

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Nope, it did split in half, but that was awesome.

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That was great.

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Yep, that test couldn't have gone better, but that's hardly the result the team was looking for.

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That's not splitting too.

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No, that's not even cut. I mean, it's just like a dent in the front end.

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Yeah, it hit the engine block and stopped.

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So as cool as this crash was, we're watching it real time, so it only lasts a split second.

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But luckily, for the viewers, we have high-speed cameras.

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And not just one, but four for their viewing pleasure.

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Viewing pleasure is right.

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Every angle of that spectacular crash tells the same story.

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Although the car hit the plow head-on, there's no bifurcation.

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But the MythBusters aren't ready to call this one just yet.

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After all, it wasn't a complete failure.

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The bumper, totally severed in half.

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But that is only the first four inches of the car.

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The other 98% of the car, still pretty much intact.

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98% still intact.

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But the passengers, not so much.

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I'm a trade ZPR, don't worry.

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I'm pretty sure these people are not going to be walking away from this accident.

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We lost that.

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Sorry, Tori.

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But to find out if the plow can split more than just a bumper,

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it's over to Plan B to bring up the rear.

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Now we want to give it a better chance of working.

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So we've got a MythBuster-y rear-engine car that we can try to split on the snow plow.

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Maybe this will give us some sort of bifurcation.

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Yep, because a snow plow smash just isn't enough.

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To confirm this myth, we need to see a car split in two.

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After the break, it's all hands on deck.

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Okay, welcome to building a boat out of Paper 101.

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As the Paper Boat Build begins.

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Don't try anything you see on the show at home.

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Wear what you call experts.

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You can make some pretty useful stuff out of ice and wood.

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But could you really make a boat out of both combined?

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Well, to find out, Adam and Jamie have put Pycrete through its mythical paces.

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Oh, look at me! I'm in a boat made of ice!

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And so far, it's looking good.

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So it looks like Pycrete's living up to its hype, huh?

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Absolutely it is. The stuff is really impressive.

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Impressive until you improved on it with the idea of newspaper.

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Yeah, well, what's next though?

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Obviously, we have to finish this episode putting around the Alaskan Fjords in a boat made out of newspaper and ice.

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It's not like we're going to be able to build a full-sized aircraft carrier. We don't have the time.

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No.

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What if we made a boat that looked like and performs like a real honest goodness speedboat with a big motor on it?

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That is ambitious.

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It'll be fun though.

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I love it. Let's go.

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It's destination Alaska to attempt to build and set sail in the world's first frozen speedboat.

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This is Ketchikan, Alaska. Population? Just about 8,000.

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Often the first stop for cruise ships heading up the west coast of North America.

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It's Alaskan locale and proximity to water make it the ideal place for the maiden voyage of the midbusters ice boat.

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And this is the Ketchikan High School Wood Shop.

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It's a shop actually pretty similar to this where I first cut my teeth in the making of things.

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This is where 2,000 pounds of newspaper aided by low temperatures will hopefully become a boat.

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Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some work to do.

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Indeed. Because in just a few days the boys will be putting their lives on the line.

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There's paper everywhere.

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In a boat made out of these.

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What weighs over a ton and might end up being a boat. That's right.

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Newspaper. And we've got about 15,000 local Alaskan newspapers that we've got to unfold and soak in order to build our boat.

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It's too big a job for Jamie and me.

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Okay, welcome to building a boat out of paper 101.

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But luckily Ketchikan High School has some willing midbusters fans who also happen to be students who also happen to have some free time.

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So for this to work properly we need to make sure that water gets in between all of the pages and all of the fibers and makes it all one piece.

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Air bubbles and things like that are good. It could cause it to delaminate and we've only got one shot at it.

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With 150,000 pages soaking, the next step is the mold. And Jamie's got just the design in mind.

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I used to work as a boat captain so I've been around a lot of boats.

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There was one type of boat that caught my attention some years ago though. It was called the Carolina Skiff.

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And that's because it has a flat bottom.

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Now the flat bottom allows it to get up on a plane really quickly which is good for our purposes.

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But also it makes our mold making really simple because the mold basically just has to be a box with flat sides and bottoms and so on.

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So we're going to have a boat in no time at all.

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Jamie and I ran through at least 20 different ways to build this boat from the inside out, from the outside in.

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Pouring it, spraying it, laying it, freezing it until we came upon what we think is the solution with the highest chance of success.

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It's going to be a painstaking process that starts in the center.

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That's the first one.

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And works out to protect the integrity of the boat.

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We're going to be layering in the newspapers layer over layer like the shingles of a roof.

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So that all the open sides of the newspaper point away from the direction of travel.

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Thus as it starts to melt, the water's still not going to be able to peel off big chunks of newspaper as it's going.

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And hopefully that will make it last longer.

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Well, that's the plan, but it's going to take time.

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Your back's getting to you already, huh?

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As every layer is built from the center out, front to back, one at a time.

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Paper boat making is dirty work.

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Dirty work, but the build is going just as they planned.

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I feel like I'm working in a swamp.

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And right on cue, the all-important freezer truck arrives.

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Ah, that's perfect. It's nice and cold already.

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That's it. Let's lay in some plastic.

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Okay.

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With the plastic covering in place, the boat is watertight.

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So the boys construct the internal mold.

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Working lovely.

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Well, the outer mold is in place, the inner mold is in place,

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and the newspaper and the water are in place.

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It's time to get this thing into the freezer truck and let physics take over.

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Which, when you're dealing with something 20 feet long, 8 feet wide,

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and weighing 3,000 pounds, is easier said than done.

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Yeah, that's why I got the little forklift down here.

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And despite weather that would freeze the balls off a pool table,

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they get the boat onto the ice truck and the freezing can begin.

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Extra, extra. Read all about it.

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Coming right up.

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Hey, which way to Alaska?

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Carrie, Grant and Tori bring up the rear for a smashing snow plow split.

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Deep in the heart of Wisconsin,

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Grant, Tori and Carrie have been making music.

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Welcome to the Mythbusters Alaska Special in Wisconsin.

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We're testing the myth that a car skids off the road,

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goes head onto a snow plow,

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bifurcates perfectly,

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and the driver and the passenger walk away completely unharmed.

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But in test one, which was a front engine car at 55 miles an hour,

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the only thing to bifurcate was the front bumper.

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And the passenger and driver, they were pretty far from being unscathed.

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But we can't bust this myth yet.

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Our first vehicle was a front engine car.

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For test two, we have our modified rear engine car,

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which means there's hardly anything in the way for that plow to cut through.

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This vehicle is going to give us the best chance of confirming this myth.

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And to give this myth even more of a fighting chance,

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we've made a few additional changes.

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And the first of those changes is to the pointy end of the plow.

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So if you review the high speed footage from test one,

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you'll see that the snow plow did indeed sustain a little bit of damage.

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And in fact, it left a little cove in the snow plow blade.

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Well, our friends at MGA Research have repaired it,

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and dare I say, made it better than new.

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There's one more thing that I've got to do,

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and that is to sharpen the blade.

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A super sharp blade may seem unrealistic,

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but it could happen.

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And to show you exactly how sharp this is,

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let me give you a demonstration.

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At least we got one split.

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But that's not the only edge this myth is getting.

465
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Test two is also about speed.

466
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Okay, to ramp up test two, we have an even sharper snow plow blade,

467
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
and we have a rear engine vehicle.

468
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
But I hear you're the man to talk to you about speed.

469
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
How fast can we go?

470
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Well, I would love to do the 92 miles an hour that our system is capable of,

471
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:37,000
but because of track conditions, vehicle balance, I can do 70.

472
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
I like 70. Let's do 70.

473
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Fifty extra miles per hour.

474
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
That's 25% faster than the first test.

475
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000
But hold on, who's driving?

476
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
So test one, Judy didn't make it.

477
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
John did.

478
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000
I tried as hard as I could to revive her,

479
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000
but nothing I could do to bring her back.

480
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
These are Judy's clothes.

481
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
It still smells like her.

482
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
But luckily, Judy has a twin sister, Trudy.

483
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
So all I need to do is fill her up with air,

484
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000
stick her in the car, and see if these guys survived this test.

485
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000
With Trudy in the hot seat and the car on the track,

486
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000
there's only one thing left to do, and that's get some predictions.

487
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
I don't think we're going to split it all the way down the middle,

488
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000
but I think we're going to get a lot further through the vehicle.

489
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,000
But I definitely don't think those people are going to walk away from this accident.

490
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,000
In terms of the myth, if we can't get this car to split with a rear engine vehicle

491
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:47,000
and a super-sharpened snow plow, this is completely, totally busted.

492
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000
I mean, there's just nothing that's going to make a car split into two if this doesn't do it.

493
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
This is test two, rear engine vehicle at 70 miles an hour

494
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
versus the mother-in-law of all snow plows.

495
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,000
In three, two, one, go!

496
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000
It's now or never for the snow plow split,

497
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
as the rear engine car hurtles down the track at 70 miles per hour

498
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000
and headlong into its date with snow plow destiny.

499
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000
You see that thing? It's like a banana peel!

500
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
But I don't think the passenger driver are walking away.

501
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And at snow plow ground zero, the wreckage confirms their suspicions.

502
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000
I've never seen anything like this.

503
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000
No!

504
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
I'm going to tell you.

505
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000
It is split for sure.

506
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
It's split all the way to the back seat.

507
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Pretty sure that though, that the guys did not survive.

508
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
I can't wait to see the high speed.

509
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
That's going to be awesome.

510
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Well, it certainly is impressive.

511
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000
At impact, the car is cleaved almost in two.

512
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,000
But once again, that pesky engine block proves too tough for the plow.

513
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000
That was sick. As soon as that car came out of the garage,

514
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000
you hear the whizzing of the cable on the carcass.

515
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
It's faster than that plow.

516
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,000
It was like, busy!

517
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
It went two directions.

518
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Wheels flew over on that side, glass came over here.

519
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000
But we still were not able to split it all the way through.

520
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
It was still awesome.

521
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
So I've seen a lot of crashes, but that,

522
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
that is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

523
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000
See a car almost split in two?

524
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
That's once in a lifetime.

525
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
It certainly is a once in a lifetime crash.

526
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
But where does that leave our snow plow myth?

527
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000
We tested this myth using a front engine vehicle going 55 miles an hour,

528
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
and we busted it.

529
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000
We tried using a rear engine vehicle going 70 miles an hour,

530
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
and we busted it.

531
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
And then one final thing we busted,

532
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000
the curse of the snow plow.

533
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Oh, oh, oh, oh!

534
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
This test couldn't have gone any better.

535
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Yeah, we gave this myth the best possible chance of working,

536
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000
and the car still didn't split.

537
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000
And there is no way those people are walking away from that crash.

538
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
So this one's busted.

539
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Busted.

540
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Busted.

541
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Let's be back to the shop.

542
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000
That's a long walk.

543
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Yeah, well.

544
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
I'm sure we're going the right way.

545
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
After the break

546
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:28,300
It's the headline deadline for the world's first newspaper boat

547
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,680
The mythbusters are no strangers to setting sail in dangerous dinghies for science

548
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:49,680
This is so cool and they've also engineered in genius devices

549
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,480
using only paper

550
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,720
But in this Alaskan special

551
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,680
They might just outdo themselves

552
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,800
In case you ever wanted to know how to build a boat out of frozen newspaper

553
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,700
This is how it works first you got to get a bunch of newspaper

554
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:12,460
Then you build a mold and you put the wet newspaper in the mold

555
00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:18,340
Then you build an inner mold to hold the whole thing together you take the whole affair you put it in a freezer

556
00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:25,220
And when it's frozen you pull it out and then you remove all the mold stuff so excited

557
00:36:25,220 --> 00:36:27,220
You put an outboard motor on it

558
00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:33,440
You take the whole thing down to the water and out you sail away into the icy Alaskan ocean

559
00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:36,500
Well, they've got the first part taken care of

560
00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:40,540
It's a nice boat and it's a nice boat

561
00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:44,420
Get it. I got it an ice

562
00:36:44,980 --> 00:36:46,380
boat

563
00:36:46,380 --> 00:36:52,460
And no boat not even an ingenious ice boat would be complete without a catchy moniker

564
00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:57,620
Look at that. It's even got the name of the boat on it. It's perfect

565
00:36:58,140 --> 00:37:02,700
Which means all yesterday's news needs now is some muscle

566
00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:13,740
Why 150 horsepower well we could have built a boat that floated and frankly it wouldn't have been much of a challenge

567
00:37:13,740 --> 00:37:19,380
But a boat that will take a really powerful motor and get it up on a plane

568
00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:24,940
That's another thing and that's what I want to see here. This sufferer is gonna get up and go

569
00:37:24,940 --> 00:37:27,700
It's gonna go scary fast if it works at all

570
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:36,540
Well, here's hoping because it's judgment day as the boys get ready to literally put their lives on the line

571
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:40,900
Well, we are at the water's edge. It's dead calm the conditions couldn't be better

572
00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:44,460
Although I I don't need to tell you that it's pretty cold out here

573
00:37:44,460 --> 00:37:50,300
So the very first thing we are going to do is put on our survival suits just in case we get wet today

574
00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:54,100
With the water two degrees above freezing these orange

575
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:59,660
Monstrosities will keep the hypothermia at bay should the boys end up in it

576
00:37:59,660 --> 00:38:04,620
My biggest concern right at the gate here is that the boat actually floats

577
00:38:04,620 --> 00:38:10,460
I mean we just sort of invented this thing and we've done our homework, but we're not gonna know if it floats

578
00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:13,020
until it floats

579
00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:20,700
This is it it's no return once we open the doors of this freezer. Are you ready? Let's do it. Okay

580
00:38:24,220 --> 00:38:32,500
It's a tense process as the boys unpack their precious cargo for its first and possibly final voyage

581
00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:35,180
That's beautiful

582
00:38:35,740 --> 00:38:38,380
It's the first time we've seen the outside of the mall. I know

583
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,060
At the water's edge, there's time for a few adjustments

584
00:38:43,820 --> 00:38:51,620
That's it. I don't want to catch your stash. You're good. Okay leaving master savage and commander Heinemann ready to cast off

585
00:38:54,140 --> 00:39:00,580
Remember the myth that launched it all was of a World War two era boat made only of ice and wood pulp

586
00:39:01,980 --> 00:39:09,620
The myth busters pushed the boat out and confirmed those mythical pie cream claims and then added their own news

587
00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:13,140
Twist to give this myth the best shot at success

588
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:16,140
But now thousands of man hours later

589
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:22,060
Unbelievably, they're setting sail in a boat that is only frozen newspaper and an engine

590
00:39:24,740 --> 00:39:26,740
Okay, you and I are pushing ready

591
00:39:36,940 --> 00:39:38,940
First impressions are good

592
00:39:39,180 --> 00:39:45,380
You realize what this is the maiden voyage of yesterday's news ice and newspaper. Let's go

593
00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:53,700
Incredibly yesterday's news is staying afloat but for our intrepid voyagers. That's not quite enough

594
00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:57,060
Dude, it's holding up. Let's take it up on the plane

595
00:39:58,220 --> 00:40:03,060
The real test for this boat is will it stay in one piece at speed?

596
00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:06,300
Three miles per hour

597
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,740
Ten miles per hour

598
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:15,780
18 miles per hour

599
00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:17,780
Wow

600
00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:27,780
Holy crap just about sums it up

601
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:34,820
Remarkably even at a click of 23 miles per hour the frozen newspaper boat is holding fast

602
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,380
But Adam celebrations may be a little premature

603
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:41,660
Dude, we've got a leak

604
00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:47,500
Yeah

605
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:51,700
Although Adam snap freezes the first leak with a blast of co2

606
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:54,260
We've got to keep the reflute

607
00:40:56,220 --> 00:41:01,100
You can't stem the tide the water's coming in quicker than that pumpkin push it out

608
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:06,860
I think I think we should head back into shore. Okay. Can I drive? Yeah, go for it

609
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:10,220
It's my last chance to drive a boat made out of freaking ice

610
00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:19,180
After 30 minutes on the high seas the guys head back to shore and just in time judging by the trail of newspaper

611
00:41:19,940 --> 00:41:23,580
But our able-bodied mythbusters aren't disappointed

612
00:41:24,860 --> 00:41:31,620
We did everything we could as far as testing this material before we got committed to making this whole big boat and

613
00:41:32,220 --> 00:41:37,660
It looked like it was gonna work out fine. And who knew it actually did it worked like a tree

614
00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:41,580
What is a boat a boat floats by that rudimentary definition?

615
00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:48,180
We've succeeded but more than that a boat is made to move efficiently over the water ie get up on the plane

616
00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:57,660
We put a 500 pound engine on this boat and we got up on a plane. Yep yesterday's news was paper mache in motion

617
00:41:57,660 --> 00:42:00,620
I don't want to get all misty on you, but it's a pleasure building strange crap with you

618
00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:09,020
That's one of the most gratifying parts of this job is you know trying something out nobody's ever done it before and

619
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,100
When it actually works, it's wonderful

620
00:42:12,380 --> 00:42:16,700
We came to Alaska to make a boat out of ice and newspaper and as far as I'm concerned

621
00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:19,340
We knocked it out of the park

622
00:42:19,420 --> 00:42:22,540
They came they saw they conquered

623
00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:29,660
It's funny to think that you know in a few hours. This is just gonna be a pile of mush. I know I love that

624
00:42:30,620 --> 00:42:34,780
And the myth busters abandoned their ship to melt to slush

625
00:42:35,660 --> 00:42:38,420
How are we gonna call this one seems to me pretty straightforward?

626
00:42:39,060 --> 00:42:42,060
Piperi lived up to all three of its mythical properties

627
00:42:42,380 --> 00:42:45,820
Beautifully and we built a viable boat out of ice and newspaper

628
00:42:45,820 --> 00:42:50,220
I mean not only did our boat get up on a plane not only did it go over 25 miles per hour

629
00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:57,740
But it looks so damn good. I swear people are gonna think we faked it even though we didn't I say that makes it plausible

630
00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:04,180
Yeah, but let's not forget that this myth is about the original piecrete and about an aircraft carrier and

631
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:09,260
Given that our super piecrete darn near melted through in 20 minutes

632
00:43:09,260 --> 00:43:14,460
If you're talking about an aircraft carrier that can go anywhere in the world including tropical waters

633
00:43:14,780 --> 00:43:18,660
It's gonna be sloughing off huge chunks of this stuff as it goes along

634
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:24,460
That means it's just not at all practical. How about plausible but ludicrous?

635
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:27,380
I'll buy that good

636
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:30,700
You