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I know it looks like we have fun on this show,

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but we spend weeks and sometimes months

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planning how to do our myths safely.

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So please, don't try this at home.

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On this special episode of Mythbusters...

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... we're putting the you...

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What's up, Mythbusters?

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... into YouTube.

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As the whole team takes a shot...

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... at the viral videos you want tested.

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I predict we're going to see some major carnage.

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First, Adam and Janie explore the explosive power of matches.

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Then a rev-react to see if a spinning tire can really catch fire.

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We've got gasoline pouring on the tire while it's spinning.

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Finally, Carrie Grant and Tori go loony for Lego.

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Last break.

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Yeah!

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Testing one of the biggest YouTube videos of the year.

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The Lego Boulder of Doom.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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The timing was perfect.

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Joining them...

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And Carrie Byron.

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She-He look like me now.

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They don't just tell the Myths...

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First up, Adam and Jamie are in for a blast.

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A few months ago, we put a challenge to the fans.

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We said if they found an internet viral video that they wanted us to test,

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they could head over to the Mythbusters channel on YouTube and put the challenge to us.

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And I have to say the response has been overwhelming.

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We've been inundated with suggestions.

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Although some of them have been kind of weird.

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I mean, there was this one guy that insists that those vapor trails left by jets

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are actually toxic chemicals put there by the government.

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And some of them were totally impossible to test, like cold fusion.

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Yeah.

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But some of the suggestions were right over our alley.

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Like what?

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Well, our fire-loving fans want us to start with a bang.

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Give me more.

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Well, this guy sent us this video of a bucket and it has a bunch of matches in it.

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He likes it.

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It makes a big fireball.

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Ha ha ha ha!

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That's perfect.

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What's up Mythbusters?

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I was looking on YouTube and I found a video where some guys got 30,000 match heads

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and they put them all together and they made this great big fireball.

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And I thought you guys could test it out, see if you can really do that with matches.

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According to the video, the backyard blast was made using a tin bucket

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with 30,000 match heads and one slow-burning fuse.

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But fans want to know, did match heads alone create this intense inferno?

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The video says that they used 30,000 match heads.

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Now that's going to take a while.

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There's nothing to do though, but get started.

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Instead of wooden matches, Adam and Jamie are slicing and dicing paper matchbooks.

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Judging by that bucket, I'd say I've only got a drop in the bucket.

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But what's key is the match heads themselves.

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All match heads use a potent chemical, potassium chlorate.

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So potent it's found in gunpowder and was widely used in early explosives.

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But is it potent enough to create the fireball of the fable?

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Well, feeling frisky after a full 10-hour day of match decapitation,

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the Mythbusters are itching to find out.

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And instead of doing it in our backyard,

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well, we're going to do it in one of our favorite locations,

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almost our second shop, the Alameda County Sharks Bombing Range.

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The bomb range may seem like overkill, but it's better to be safe than scorched.

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30,000 match heads.

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Now, has anyone got a light?

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This right here is slow-burning cannon fuse.

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It seems to be what they're using in the video.

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It burns at about one foot every 30 seconds.

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And we just happen to have somewhere on the shop.

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While Adam gets in touch with his inner pyro,

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Jamie explores the burning issue of match safety.

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And so you can strike it anywhere.

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The two chemicals combine and you've got a fire.

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because, well, they're safer.

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Safer, except when you strike 30,000 at once.

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But is this mayhem just about matches, or did other accelerants fan the flame?

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Well, that's 20.

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We're going to be igniting 30,000.

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Will they create a flame age or 10 feet high?

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Only one way to find out.

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I love it when common materials are dangerous.

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Go ahead and light it.

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I like using the fuse more than almost anything else.

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So much anticipation.

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The fuse burns at two feet per minute.

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So four feet and two minutes of anticipation later.

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That was cool.

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That was pretty good.

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It's a spark-tacular result.

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A 10 feet tall Roman candle.

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Burn for burn, it's the same as the blast in the YouTube video.

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The high-speed camera confirms it.

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It's a match.

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Give or take, 30,000.

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That is about the correct height for what it showed in YouTube.

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Oh, yes, look at that.

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In other words, it's myth confirmed.

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But before you can say, don't try this at home,

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Adam and Jamie are already hatching a more powerful pyrotechnic plan.

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You know we can't leave it there.

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Oh, I know.

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But now, Carrie Grant and Tori are going to keep things rolling.

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Okay, so what have we got?

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Okay, so this next one is one of the most requested viral videos.

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And it's amazingly large.

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And by amazingly large, I mean ridiculous.

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Alright, spit it out.

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Alright, it's a viral video that involves a giant ball of Lego

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rolling down the streets of San Francisco.

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I've seen that one.

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Yes, along with two million other people.

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But for those who haven't, it involves these guys who built this 7 foot diameter,

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giant chunky ball of Lego, apparently made out of 5 million pieces.

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They roll it down the hill Indiana Jones style.

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It stays completely intact, gains speed, hits a car, and does no damage.

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Alright, so the fans want us to test if this is real, or a bunch of Lego lies.

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This Indiana Jones Lego Boulder was in the top three most requested videos

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for this YouTube special.

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Fans want to know if a giant ball of bricks will really roll down a road like this.

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And then maybe hit a car.

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Well, Carrie Grant and Tori think there may be a few pieces missing to this myth.

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You know, it's hard to tell whether or not this ball is real by just looking at the video.

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Yeah, actually, most of our fans think it's fake, but I think we can actually test this on three parameters.

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Number one, would a ball that size contain 5 million Lego just like the video says?

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Number two, could you roll it around that easily or to be too heavy?

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And number three, would it react the way it did in the video, you know, rolling down the hill and hitting the car?

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Yeah, and I think that last point is the most interesting because watching the video hardly any pieces of Lego come off the ball as it's rolling down the hill.

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And after it hits the car, it does hardly any damage.

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Okay, first up, I think we need to talk to some experts.

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Who are you gonna go find some eight year olds?

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No, I think we need to go to Lego Land. Lego Land. Let's go.

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Brilliant.

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And that's what we call the most interesting part of Lego Land.

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Because no carnage.

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But before all that, their first task is to find out how to even build a seven foot Lego sphere in the first place.

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And it looks like they've come to the right place.

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Legos aren't the only things they have here. They also have rides. Let's go.

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Yes, I'm really starting to understand Lego.

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Eventually the teams stop monkeying around and track down master model designer Gary McIntyre.

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So is building a sphere as easy as it sounds?

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I mean, to do a Lego sphere is pretty much just a series of circles working on three dimensions, right?

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So you're gonna want to maintain circles going on the X, Y and Z axis all at the same time.

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And that will pretty much make a sphere simple.

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And they thought Lego was child's play. It's clear the team needs Gary's help.

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How would you feel about coming back and helping us build this ball? That sounds like fun.

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To get the ball rolling, the team first begs and borrows every spare brick across the country, cleaning out Lego and Lego Land.

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It is the strategic North American Lego supply.

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You guys are losing your mind.

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Maybe.

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But in doing so, they've only come up with half a million bricks, still over four million shorts.

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Have the guys bitten off more than they can chew?

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I had too many Legos for two last night.

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Coming up, will the Lego Ball deliver doom and destruction?

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Let's chalk it up so it doesn't go rolling down the hill.

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But first, Adam and Jamie put their feet down in the spinning tire of fire.

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It's the Mythbusters YouTube special, and it's time to turn up the heat.

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I think I know what's coming up. Give me a hint.

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Well, you know when you burn rubber on a car?

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You know where there's smoke, right?

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They say where there's smoke. There's fire. That's what this next myth is about.

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The YouTube posting that posits if you spin a car tire fast enough and for long enough it'll actually catch fire.

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You bet. Check this video out.

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You're Mythbusters.

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I want to know, can you ever spin a car's wheels so fast that the tires catch fire?

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Please test this.

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The special effects won't win at Oscar, but it's clear what this web rev had once.

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The video looks a little dodgy to me, but I like the idea. How do you want to test it?

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I can't seem to get so much simpler than this one.

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We get a nice powerful car and a bunch of tires.

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Secure the brakes in the car so it doesn't get out of control.

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Some temperature monitoring equipment for seeing how hot it's getting,

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and we spin and burn those tires until we get some fire.

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I like it.

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I thought you would.

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Cavemen first used friction to make fire, but can the same thing happen when rubber meets the road?

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Well, to find out, the guys have found a muscle car with enough grunt to spin the tires fast enough to maybe burn rubber.

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And it's all going down at the local police training center.

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Well, this myth is pretty simple.

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The myth is that if you're doing a tire burnout, i.e. screeching your tires on the pavement,

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that you can get them going fast enough that they will burst into flames.

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I think the testing for this is pretty straightforward.

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First up, Edel to the metal Heinemann wants to put the car through its paces.

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These are the offices here are fond of doughnuts.

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He disappeared in the cloud of smoke.

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The plan for testing is to keep the car stationary.

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I'm going to goose the front up just a little bit.

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As plans go, it's pretty simple.

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But Adam and Jamie are following that old myth busters adage.

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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

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I don't know how to do it if it's going to work at all.

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I'll explain our rig.

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This, our test car, has a super powerful engine and it's only going to be spinning this tire.

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We've got no tire on the other side and a jack stand.

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The front two wheels are off the ground, lifted by the forklift and strapped in

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so that even when this thing is going full bore, the car can't get out of control.

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Jamie's built an exhaust system to vent smoke and flames away from the tire when it's going.

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We'll be behind the blast chamber section in case bits start flying off.

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First up, just spin the tire and see what happens.

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A ruptured fuel line or spark could indeed start a fire.

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But how about just friction alone?

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Well, Jamie for one has got his doubts.

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Personally, I'm guessing that we'll disintegrate the tire before we get there,

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but that's what we're here to find out.

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All right, are you ready to go?

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I'm ready.

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Okay, let's turn on the scrubbers.

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Get behind the wheel, wait for my signal and we'll start the first test.

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Got it.

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We're looking to create a fire here.

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Now, for a fire, we need three things.

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We need a fuel, which in this case is the tire.

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We need a source of oxygen, which is the air around us.

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But for the ignition, we are going to be using the heat generated by the friction between the tire and the road surface.

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The question is, can we get that tire hot enough to create that source of ignition?

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And it's got to be really hot.

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And really hot in this case is 300 degrees Celsius, the ignition point of rubber.

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This is spinning tire fire, tire with no modifications.

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Go.

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Jamie red lines the engine for over a minute, but there's no sign of flame.

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And with the car at full tilt, the question is what will blow first, the tire or the engine?

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Oh, stop.

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And there's your answer.

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Shut it down, Denny.

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Jamie's prediction was right on the rubber.

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The high speed camera reveals how the tire burst before it could ignite.

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And what's left is way below flash points.

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It's not hot.

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The thing is not hot.

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I mean, the tread failed and what was underneath wasn't very hot at all.

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So for test one, where there's smoke, there's fire, couldn't have been more wrong.

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But rest assured, the mythbusters aren't giving up without a fight.

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I think you might need some of our fireman's oxygen though.

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How you feeling?

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Yeah, I want to close the windows this time.

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Go.

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Next, the tire test spins out of control.

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We've got gasoline pouring out of the tire while it's spinning.

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Jamie, are you all right?

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Oh.

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But first, mythbusters minimum match mayhem.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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The mythbusters YouTube special has been pack in heat with the 30,000 match head fireball.

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Adam and Jamie confirmed the myth, but their viral fan has an even hotter idea.

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I thought you guys could test it out, see if you could really do that with matches.

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And if it's true, maybe you can get together like a million matches or something.

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See what happens and that would be cool.

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Okay, but cutting a million matches is a big job.

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All right, first of all, thank you guys for coming to help out.

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Which means the mythbusters sweatshop is open for business.

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A million match heads is what we've got to assemble.

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Even at 50,000 per case, that's still 20 cases of matchbooks.

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We've got appeal, cut and assemble.

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So we called everyone we could.

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We've got a 12 person assembly line going.

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We've got a quarter of a million match heads so far.

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I'm feeling pretty good about hitting a million by the end of the day.

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A million match heads is mind bogglingly massive.

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And a mythbusters first.

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They've never made or tested a million of anything before now.

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And while that doesn't stop it from being a long, tedious, exhausting day,

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after 12 hours of cutting, cutting and more cutting, it's game set and matches.

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And I thought you'd be interested in seeing just for show

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what is left over when you cut up a million match heads.

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While all that debris will be recycled,

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the million match heads have gone on a one-way trip to the bomb range.

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A million match heads.

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Let's go get them.

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Instead of a one-gallon bucket, they need a 44-gallon drum to hold all the match heads.

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For added shock and awe, they're burning them at night with the help of bomb tech JD.

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What now?

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A million match heads.

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A million?

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A million.

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You guys have way too much time on your hands.

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Seriously, a million match heads.

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30,000 was fine. Don't get me wrong.

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But we went ahead and cut a million.

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And now we're going to get to see these puppies.

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Can you imagine if this went off while we were here?

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If it does go off, it's time to de-ass the area with the quickness.

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De-ass the area? I like that.

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That's my new favorite phrase.

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A quick de-assing plan could come in handy.

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This crazy request is 33 times larger than the original match blast.

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But Jamie thinks it could be even bigger.

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There are times when we're dealing with explosives and other energetic materials that scale isn't linear.

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In other words, we can get something like a thermal runaway and we get a lot more boom than we planned on

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because things kind of escalate out of control.

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Could happen.

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And when out of control is on the agenda, Adam can't help but laugh like a maniac.

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Oh, wow.

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What is a million match heads going to look like?

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A lot more than a million times that, I swear.

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I feel like it's going to be like a giant freaking flashball.

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To prove Adam's pyro prediction, they still need one final ingredient.

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Anybody got a match?

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You guys ready so we can do this?

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I'm ready. You ready, JD?

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I'm ready. Let's do it. All right.

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A million match blast has never been attempted.

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It's unknown, highly explosive territory, so Adam uses a longer fuse for added safety.

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Lights out.

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This is one of the coolest things we've done.

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Or possibly the stupidest, but now there's no turning back.

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Here we go.

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Yeah!

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That was awesome! That was exactly like the small one, only bigger.

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Lots bigger.

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I saw match heads like salt and pepper in the playing ball.

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It just kept getting brighter and brighter and brighter and larger.

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It's a massive fireball, at least 50 feet high.

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The high-speed camera reveals the rapid acceleration of the burn.

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One million matches went up in smoke as quickly as 30,000.

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It's like a rocket engine.

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A giant blow torch.

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Even Jamie Giggled, and I think that's a testament to just how thrilling it was to watch it happen in front of us.

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Which brings us to the disclaimer.

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Say it with me, do not try this at home.

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If I find out that any of you tried this at home, I'll personally come to your house and kick your butt. You got that?

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Seriously, there's no need to try this at home, because we've done it for you.

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And they say you shouldn't play with matches.

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Coming up, the mother of all match-blasts.

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Where did the bowling ball go?

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I don't know.

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

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We are what you're called experts.

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It's a YouTube classic, a giant boulder of Lego rolling through San Francisco.

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But is this video the real deal, or just Lego larceny?

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To find out, Grant, Tori and Carrie have scoured North America for enough Lego to build a seven-foot ball of bricks.

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It is the strategic North American Lego supply.

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But Carrie thinks something doesn't quite add up with this myth.

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Now, in the YouTube Lego Ball video, they claim to use five million Lego blocks.

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We've cleared out North America of all of the excess Lego, and we've come up with a little over half a million.

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I have some serious doubts that they were able to come up with a whole five million for their video.

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While Carrie has her doubts about the number of blocks, Grant wants to find out what a five million brick ball would weigh.

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So that's pound. Now, to find out how many are in a pound.

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88 pieces.

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By seeing how many bricks make up a pound, it'll be grade school math to calculate the weight of five million.

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So that is 160 bricks per pound.

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Meaning that a five million brick ball would weigh a car crushing 10 tons.

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Yet despite being rolled down a steep hill, the YouTube ball didn't bend a fender.

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That makes the five million brick posts seem a little unlikely.

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But they won't know for sure until they build their own.

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So they've enrolled in Carrie's Lego Ball Building 101.

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What we're going to do is build these giant bricks out of these little bricks.

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And then each one of these giant bricks is going to be one of these in this entire prototype here.

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Oh my God, that's huge!

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That's a lot of bricks.

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It sure is. First, hundreds of Lego pieces must be built into a giant block.

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This is then snapped together with 3,599 other giant blocks.

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Until, hey presto, a gigantic, chunky seven foot ball.

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This is a pattern for what every layer should look like as we build each brick.

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Does anybody else think this is going to be a lot simpler when we start it out?

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It seems pretty complicated. I got it.

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A lot of work.

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A lot of work may be the understatement of the year.

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And they soon realize they need a hand to build their bricks.

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We need to make 3,600 of these bricks.

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But these bricks are made up of over 100 bricks.

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And it's taking about 10 minutes per brick to make these.

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Now, Carrie Grant and I can make them ourselves, but that would take forever.

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So we brought in some help.

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Alright you guys, 3,600!

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Hooray!

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You, the green coat. Let's talk more work.

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Now the web is running so hot with requests to test viral myths.

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We couldn't test them all on this show.

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That's right. So if you want some more hot web action, not that kind of hot.

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You know what we mean.

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Log on to Discovery.com slash MythBusters for more YouTube Myth Mayhem.

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Look at that! It may have taken 35 minutes, but we got some burning rubber. Hey, Jamie!

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It's a sizzling surprise.

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Remarkably, the powdered rubber shed by the tire has ignited half an hour after the test.

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That sucker's gotten hot in the last half hour.

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The flames fuel Adam's optimism.

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What we saw in this tire dust after Jamie burned the rubber was a little bit more hot.

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But it's still hot.

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The flames fuel Adam's optimism.

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What we saw in this tire dust after Jamie burned the rubber was smoldering smoke.

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That was small particles of this actin kind of like coals in a barbecue.

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They were being converted to smoke by heat.

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And enough of them propagated that while we're eating lunch, the thing caught on fire.

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To me that means that the elements for tire ignition are here.

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They're just maybe not all in the right place at the right time for us.

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If they can find a way to ignite the rubber while it's on the tire, then maybe this myth is more effect than friction.

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So we did get the tire burned. It just took a little longer than we thought. Like about an hour.

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Exactly. We just have to shorten that time stamp and I think we're good.

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And Adam's got an idea to shorten that time span on their next spin.

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We get the tire spinning up really fast. We got some really hot temperatures.

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And then we add sparks, which could happen if a piece of equipment's dragging from the bottom of the car.

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Maybe that is going to get us the ignition working.

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Right spark Adam has rigged an angle grinder to a sheet of metal to get more sparks from the 4th of July.

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We'll do that for about 45 or 55 seconds.

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Once more, Jamie climbs into the hot seat, this time with an oxygen mask.

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Alright dude, you're good to go. I'll start the sparks once you start to burn.

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Now we got sparks going.

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It's like we're being transported to a mystical land.

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Two minutes and the tire hasn't blown. Jamie floors the V8 once more.

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Alright, he's really mean to the noun.

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Oh, there we go.

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The tire is totally totaled. But even with sparks, once again, no fire.

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This myth is looking more than a little rubbery.

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So for a final test, they'll throw everything at the tire.

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We tried the regular old tire. We tried the tire plus sparks.

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And we still have not got a burning tire.

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I think you'd agree with me that it's time to add some fossil fuels.

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And that's what's hanging in that bag over there, which leads to a tube and a stopcock.

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It goes all the way under the car to an outlet right here.

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Gas, fumes and sparks.

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If this doesn't get the tire burning, it's just not going to happen.

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It's an old Mythbusters standby. When in doubt, add accelerant.

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Alright, gas plus sparks. I'm going to start the gasoline.

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Go!

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This blast chamber is great for degree, not for smoke.

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After 90 seconds, no flames, but plenty of smoke.

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Gas fumes and sparks should be an explosive mix.

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Something here doesn't add up.

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I think that's about it.

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Jamie, are you alright?

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He's alright.

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He's breathing oxygen. How's that for you?

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Seemed like it took forever. Did we get any kind of fire?

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We didn't get any kind of fire. We had sparks shooting right on the gasoline.

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And the smoke was everywhere.

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We gave it every kind of bad situation a car could find itself in.

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Accelerance on the ground, sparks shooting, tires spinning until it burst,

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and we didn't get a burning tire.

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And Jamie's got a theory as to why.

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It seems to me that the wind coming off of the tire as it was spinning

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was keeping the gasoline from igniting.

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Yeah, totally.

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Turns out that the turbulence caused by the spinning prevented any sort of ignition,

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meaning that the tire effectively has its own fire prevention system.

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And that means it's time to retire this myth for good.

484
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000
Well, I guess this means it's busted.

485
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000
That's totally busted.

486
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000
Coming right up, how dangerous can a child's toy be?

487
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000
One, two, three.

488
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

489
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000
Go!

490
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Frantorian carry are up to their arms in Lego,

491
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000
testing whether this YouTube video is really real.

492
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000
They've employed a Lego army to build 3,600 super blocks to make the ball.

493
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,000
But with half the ball complete, they're running out of their half million tiny pieces.

494
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
And that busts the first part of the myth right there.

495
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000
They won't need anything like the five million bricks the video claimed were used to build the ball.

496
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000
But they will need another half a million to finish it.

497
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000
So, Carrie goes looking for a Lego loan.

498
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000
We hear you have the largest private collection of Lego in the entire world.

499
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Now, why is that?

500
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Well, I am an artist who works with Lego bricks.

501
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
I am a brick artist.

502
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Nathan Sawaya is one of the world's leading Lego artists,

503
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000
found in galleries and museums worldwide.

504
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000
And Carrie hopes he has the odd brick or two to spare.

505
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Would you be willing to lend us enough to finish off this crazy ball?

506
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000
I would be more than happy.

507
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
I'm happy to send out about half a million.

508
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000
Should that do it?

509
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000
So you just have half a million, you can just flow our way.

510
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Well, here and there.

511
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,000
And that pretty much flattens part two of the Lego ball myth.

512
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:38,000
At 3,000 pounds, pushing this ball might be a tougher chore than the video depicts.

513
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Now, all one million bricks are transformed into 3,600 super blocks.

514
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,000
So the ball itself can be built for the final Lego versus car test.

515
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
I need some of the little bricks on here, is one of the big bricks on there.

516
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000
We're just going to put it all together right here on the floor.

517
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Alright, I guess it's Lego time.

518
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Let's get the ball rolling.

519
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,000
The final stage begins, layering the blocks to build the ball from the ground up.

520
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000
That's if they can follow Gary's plan.

521
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
This layer, here is this layer, and this layer is that layer.

522
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Maybe you should put the middle pieces on.

523
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,000
After two whole days, the last big brick is hammered into place.

524
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Last brick?

525
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000
All in all, it's just another brick in the ball.

526
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:44,000
But it's the final one, after one of the longest builds in the hallowed history of Myth Bustery.

527
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000
The labor involved in building this ball was intense.

528
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
We had an army of volunteers.

529
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000
All of us worked around the clock for two weeks.

530
00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:00,000
It was just one of the biggest builds that we've ever had, and it was just little Lego bricks.

531
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:07,000
I can't imagine that the few people we saw in the video actually spent the time to build a Lego ball like this.

532
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000
And now they've done the time, it's time to do the crime.

533
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Alright, well that leaves rolling the ball down the hill.

534
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000
We need to see if it's going to do the same damage, if any, when it smashes into that car.

535
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000
We can't get permission to just roll it down a neighborhood street. It's way too dangerous.

536
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000
All that work for nothing?

537
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000
No, actually we have a backup plan. You know the paved road up to the Alameda bomb range?

538
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000
It's the same grade as the one in the video, and it gives us plenty of run to do the test.

539
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Perfect!

540
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,000
So all we need to do is get a car, put it at the bottom, roll our Lego ball, and see what happens.

541
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000
Let's get smashing!

542
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Giant Lego ball, here it comes.

543
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000
It's a delicate operation, but eventually the ball rolls up at the roll down.

544
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Just a few casualties, they've mostly made it.

545
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Keep coming, you're almost there, and...

546
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000
This looks like a perfect place for a giant game of 10-pin.

547
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Okay, so here's our setup. We are on an incline, roughly matching the one in the viral video.

548
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:13,000
We have our ball at the top to guide the ball down to its target, which is in fact a real car.

549
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
We have barriers set up on either side.

550
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Let's chalk it up so it doesn't go rolling down the hill.

551
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Before they can Lego, the team review the myth, piece by plastic piece.

552
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000
So there are three parts to this myth.

553
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000
First, that a ball of this size required 5 million pieces.

554
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,000
That one's busted. We only used a million pieces to get to a ball this size.

555
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000
The second part of the myth is that this ball is easily moved around, but there's no way that's possible.

556
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,000
This ball weighs 3,000 pounds, so that part of the myth is busted.

557
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:48,000
And the third part of the myth is that the ball rolls down the hill and bounces off a car.

558
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Will that be busted or confirmed? We're about to see.

559
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:58,000
And after putting in so many hours and so much hard work to build their big rainbow-colored ball,

560
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000
the team is hoping for a big finale.

561
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Grant's got a perilous prediction for a fantastic plastic car-crushing ball of doom.

562
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
I predict we're going to see some major carnage.

563
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
The ball is going to roll down there, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk.

564
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Pieces flying off everywhere and, baboom!

565
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,000
It's going to hit the car at the bottom and cause mayhem.

566
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
It's only 3,000 pounds.

567
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Okay, we're clear. We're ready to roll.

568
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Oh, no!

569
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Oh, no! I can't believe it!

570
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000
My heart's racing. You ready?

571
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000
1, 2, 3!

572
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,000
It's a good start as the ball makes a beeline for the car.

573
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
But then...

574
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000
Oh!

575
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
No!

576
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
No!

577
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,000
Two weeks and nearly a thousand man hours to put a million bricks together

578
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000
and just ten seconds to tear them apart.

579
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
It didn't even make it to the car!

580
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Woo! Yeah!

581
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Clean up on aisle five!

582
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000
The high-speed camera reveals a huge vertical split

583
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
busted the ball wide open,

584
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000
along with the third and final part of the Lego ball myth.

585
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
It's StereoG3 for this story.

586
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
This is the last thing I expected to happen.

587
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I mean, I thought I was going to roll down and actually destroy the car.

588
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
I never thought in a million years that it would just bust up into a million pieces.

589
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
From the totally different results,

590
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000
it's most likely the guys in the YouTube video did some trickery with their brickery,

591
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,000
gluing their Lego onto a large, lightweight ball.

592
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,000
It means this myth is also broken into a million tiny pieces.

593
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,000
We didn't even get halfway down the run and all of a sudden it just went...

594
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,000
It completely filled the pieces. This one is completely busted.

595
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Next, Adam and Jamie Gopa-Listic playing with matches.

596
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Now for some Mythbusters insider info.

597
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,000
If you had 40 billion pieces of Lego, you could build a tower to the moon.

598
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000
That's around 240,000 miles.

599
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
There's been a lot of monkeying around with matches by our Mythbusters.

600
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Jamie and Adam have applied heat to the YouTube match blast myth.

601
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000
They confirmed that 30,000 match heads are a blast.

602
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000
But then at the request of a fan, they increased the inferno to 1 million.

603
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
That was awesome!

604
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
So, what's left to prove?

605
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000
You know what I like about doing this show is that we actually get to do stuff like light up a million match heads.

606
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
When the hell is that ever going to happen again?

607
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000
And yet I have to admit, somehow I just don't feel like it's enough.

608
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Well, you know what I was thinking about that?

609
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
What if we actually made the matches do work?

610
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Like, say we put them in a cannon and fired a cannonball with them.

611
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Instead of just blowing something up.

612
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
I love it, let's do it.

613
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
A cannon powered by match heads?

614
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
I got your cannon right here!

615
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Well, how about an old welding cylinder powered by matches?

616
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
As is our way on Mythbusters, we're using tools and materials.

617
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
In ways for which they were never intended.

618
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000
This right here is a K-sized gas cylinder.

619
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
But soon it's going to be a cannon.

620
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Now may be a good time to say, don't try this at home.

621
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000
Leave it to the experts.

622
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
It's like a smoking gun.

623
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
The plan is to make a muzzle loading cannon.

624
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Pack it with 60,000 matches.

625
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
And see if that explosive energy can launch a cannonball.

626
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Or should that be launch a bowling ball?

627
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Because our hard to impress Heinemann is ready to get loaded.

628
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000
I'm done.

629
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
You think it'll fit?

630
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
It's going to be close.

631
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000
First, the six pound bowling ball needs a close shave.

632
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Totally doesn't fit.

633
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000
While Jamie Sands is big orange ball,

634
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Adam gives the former gas tank a steel girdle and a set of wheels.

635
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Oh, that's awesome.

636
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Alright, a few more welds.

637
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Welded and ready for duty.

638
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Well, that's a cannon.

639
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
And there's a cannonball.

640
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Then it's back to the bomb range to see if 60,000 matches pack enough pine.

641
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000
And then it's back to the ranch to send a six pound ball into the air.

642
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
It's just another lovely day at the bomb range.

643
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Birds are singing.

644
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Rapids are hopping about.

645
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
And soon there's going to be a big explosion.

646
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
With a bowling ball as the projectile,

647
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000
the boys have picked the perfect target.

648
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,000
What else are we going to shoot at with a cannon that fires a bowling ball?

649
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Of course we're going to shoot at bowling pins.

650
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
We're going to shoot at the bowling pin to the right.

651
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000
So swing it to the left.

652
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000
That's it.

653
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
Let's load.

654
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,000
With the target ready, the cannons primed with 60,000 match heads.

655
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000
One recycled grocery bag, some cannon fuse and Jamie's favorite ingredient.

656
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000
I didn't have too much lard.

657
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Lard should ensure a smooth exit out of the cannon.

658
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Alright, bowling ball is properly larded.

659
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
And this means they're ready to fire.

660
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Though they're not sure what will happen when they do.

661
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000
There we go.

662
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
There's nothing right about this setup.

663
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Everything is wrong.

664
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Our cannon here is actually a modified K-sized argon cylinder.

665
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Our cannon ball is actually a modified six pound bowling ball.

666
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Our propellant is actually modified books of matches, just the heads.

667
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
There are so many variables we don't know what's going to happen,

668
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,000
but we're a safe distance and the blast chamber panels come into play.

669
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Okay, I'm going to lay and come around and make room for me over there, alright?

670
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Well do.

671
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000
I love cannon fuse.

672
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000
I know, I know, totally.

673
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
You can see what it's doing.

674
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
It sort of builds anticipation.

675
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000
Adam's confidence grows as the fuse shortens.

676
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
You know, personally, I think this is actually going to work.

677
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Bowling balls are going to come flying out of there and knock down all those pits.

678
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000
I'll probably break the bowling ball because it's going so fast though.

679
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000
It's amazing, it's just match heads.

680
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I know.

681
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Dude, that's awful.

682
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Okay, now it's inside.

683
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Oh!

684
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Where did the bowling ball go?

685
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
I don't know.

686
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Shot over the pins.

687
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Really?

688
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
We missed the pins.

689
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
It's a humongous blast.

690
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
The cannon went great guns, hurling the bowling ball over the pins,

691
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,000
over the pins, and up over the hill.

692
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,000
We've got to go look for it.

693
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Uh-huh.

694
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Come on.

695
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
The teams search high and low,

696
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
but despite it being day glow orange,

697
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
no one can see any sign of the ball.

698
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Until...

699
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,000
There it is.

700
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Right there, straight ahead.

701
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000
They find it.

702
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Oh! Ha ha!

703
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,000
It's got a big crack in it, but it's perfectly intact.

704
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
I swear, aside from missing our pins,

705
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000
that's a very viable impromptu cannon.

706
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Yeah, I mean, that would have killed you if you'd been in front of it,

707
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
or a bunch of people, actually.

708
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
This is becoming an area of expertise of ours.

709
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,000
It's still intact.

710
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
Oh, I'd bowl with it.

711
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,000
The six-pound ball traveled 1,500 feet uphill.

712
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000
1,500 feet uphill?

713
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
That's like 3,000 feet normal.

714
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,000
With matches.

715
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,000
With matches!

716
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
That is a lot of power.

717
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Nicely done.

718
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,000
16-E.

719
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Awesome.

720
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Large.

721
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,000
The high-speed camera reveals a fiery blast and recoil

722
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,000
that's as good as, or better than, if they'd used gunpowder.

723
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Not only have they confirmed the original myth,

724
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000
but the million-match blast and the match cannon

725
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,000
prove the explosive power of the chemicals contained in household matches.

726
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,000
That was great.

727
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,000
It was, you know, one of those things I had no idea that that would actually work.

728
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Yeah, well, we proved the video was true and we topped it.

729
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
You can't ask for more than that.