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Do not try any of the experiments you are about to see at home.

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You heard him.

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Don't do it.

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On this bone breaking episode of Mythbusters, I'm felt down I was so excited, can a pile

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of acid pills really help blast a man out of jail?

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Person can do plenty of things to a guy.

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The Fizz packs a puncher, but is it enough to crack solid concrete?

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This is the big one.

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Then we turn out the lights on the struggle to smuggle.

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Let's go blind some drivers.

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Can an outlaw cash in by crashing the border at night without headlights?

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That sucked.

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And assuming it works, would anyone live to tell the tale?

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage, I feel perfectly normal, and Jamie Heineman.

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Pain is your friend.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them, Grant Imahara, Kerry Byron.

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And I'm starting to get the idea that this shouldn't be done inside.

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Sorry, Bellachy.

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And featuring Jesse Cones.

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That was awesome.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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You mean besides cure hangover?

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I'll bite.

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What can you do?

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You can break out of jail.

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No.

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Yeah.

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The myth is that an industrious inmate lined the inside of his cell wall with sheet plastic,

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and he had collected something like 10 years worth of antacid tablets which he exposed

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to water, creating enough CO2 to pressurize the cell and break the cell walls and he escaped.

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I love it.

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What's not to love?

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For instant freedom, just add water.

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But can the massive amount of CO2 produced from a pile of bubbling tablets really budge

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Britson mortar?

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We'll need to capture every ounce of energy from a giant chemical belch.

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Well, I reckon the best place to start is to figure out what kind of pressures we can

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get out of antacid tablets here in the shop.

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I think you're right.

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Maybe we should start out on a small scale and see what we're dealing with with the

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pressures, the physics, the chemistry, that kind of thing.

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Yeah, we're definitely going to need all of that information before we go full scale.

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Before anyone breaks out the beakers, they'll need to start building a full scale cell which

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should be as tough as its tenant.

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While normally people go to great lengths to avoid a prison cell, we've actually had

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to go to great lengths to get up close and cozy with one.

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In fact, it's far and away the sturdiest shack we've ever built.

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It's a cozy 10 feet long by 7 feet wide by 6 and a half feet high, maximum security

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cell.

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It's got a lot better techniques than I do.

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That's pretty clear.

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They're all like throwing it and stuff and kind of impressed.

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It is pretty to watch.

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And hey, these guys are fast.

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This is a professional help thing.

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It's pretty good.

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This morning we had a yellow rectangle on the floor.

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This afternoon, most of our prison cell.

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But the day's only half done for Adam and Jamie.

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It's back to M5 to find out how much potentially explosive pressure they can hope to wrangle

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from the humble antacid tablet.

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Jamie starts with a volumetric test to see how much gas is produced by measuring the

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water it displaces.

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So you release the antacid into here and expands.

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That expansion of gas pushes water out of this one into here and whatever volume we get

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in here is how much gas was produced by the antacid.

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You agree?

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I love it.

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Let's do it.

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There's more than enough water to make this work.

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Jamie pulls the quick release magnet and they're off and bubbling.

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Look at that.

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It works.

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And they've got a result in seconds.

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So it looks like one pill produces about 75 milliliters of gas.

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Yeah, about 80.

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Well now my question would be, do two pills displace 160 milliliters?

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Does it scale perfectly linearly?

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Double the gas from double the pills would make sense, but science is rarely so simple.

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Wow.

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The volume of gas produced scoots past the 160 mark and continues to climb.

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This one's looking like 275.

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To see if the trend continues, the next logical step is to try four pills.

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Double the two pill result would be 550 milliliters of displaced water.

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And before long, Jamie's wishing he'd brought a bigger beaker.

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It's actually going more than double.

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It's clear there's CO2 aplenty, but the myth depends specifically on the pressure the gas

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generates.

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So that's what they'll measure next.

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Testing pressure in three, two, one.

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Look at that.

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They start over with one tablet and again the results come quickly.

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What are we getting there?

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1.9, 2 psi?

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Yeah, it's about 1.9, just a hair under two.

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Now for a mini moment of truth to see if pressure, like volume, increases exponentially.

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All right.

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Two tablet pressure test.

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If the pressure just doubles, the two tabs will fizzle at four psi.

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Both pills are still going.

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Both tablets are still bubbling.

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Two psi is roundly past.

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Two and a half psi is on its way.

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Two and a half psi, handily passed by the both tablets and now rounding up on three

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psi.

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Three psi, will we get three and a half psi?

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Three and a half.

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Anyone for three and a half?

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Yes, both pills seem to want to go to three and a half psi on our way to four.

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Four psi, four psi.

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Go, go, yes.

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Passing four psi, the expected linear expansion rate of the two tablets and it seems that

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their expansion rate is in fact exponential.

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In practical terms, that means they might be able to crack the jail cell with relatively

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few antacid tablets.

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Shall we go up to three tablets?

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Let's.

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I got to say when we started this out, I didn't have high hopes that there'd be a lot of pressure

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being generated by antacid tablets.

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But so far what we're finding is actually kind of thrilling.

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Look at those puppies go.

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Oh yeah.

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We're finding that if you double the amount of antacid tablets, you get more than double

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the pressure.

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8.2, okay?

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I'm calling it, I'm going to release pressure, okay?

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Okay.

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It seems to increase exponentially.

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This could be a gargantuan amount of pressure we can create in this prison cell.

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I'm pretty excited.

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To make doubly sure, Jamie wants to run a last set of tests in a bigger container.

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I feel like I'm diffusing a nuclear bomb.

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Alright, replace the core very carefully.

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Don't let the two substances react with each other.

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They christen the chamber with 20 antacid pills, hoping it's tough enough to handle

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the pressure.

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Alright, it's holding steady at 10 psi.

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Shall we next go to double?

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Okay.

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If passed results hold true, the pressure from 40 tablets should comfortably pass 20

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psi.

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Only this time, it doesn't.

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It seems to be settling in at 18 psi.

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So we're not getting that exponential leap we were getting in the small scale.

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The increase was 80%.

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That's not exponential or even linear.

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So what do you say?

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Should we double it one more time, try 80 tablets?

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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It seems the size of the container does affect the pressure.

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Here we go.

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With 80 tablets, the gauge climbs to 20, then slows down.

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We might absolutely be at the pressure limit of this stuff.

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Yeah, you may be right.

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But keep in mind that 25 psi is a lot in any building.

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In fact, I don't think most buildings would be able to withstand that.

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Oh, I think you're totally right.

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I think if we can get 10 psi in this prison cell, we're going to bring it crumbling to

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the ground.

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Well that's the dream.

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But again, doubling the dose only raises the pressure by 80%.

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At least there's a pattern.

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But what's the direction?

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Sure, there's a lot of fizzy goodness, but does it mean anything?

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Well, I've grafted out.

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I think it does mean something.

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Let me explain.

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Follow me.

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Right.

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So the first test on top was volume displacement.

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How much gas the tablets put out when you combine them with water?

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We tested it three times, doubling the number of tablets for each test.

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Now, we had an expectation that when we doubled the number of tablets, we'd get double the

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volume of gas, but this was not so.

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In fact, the improvement was much greater.

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250% the amount of gas every time we doubled the tablets.

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That's an exponential growth rate.

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But what about the pressure?

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That was the next test we did.

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Again, testing it three times, doubling the number of tablets each time.

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And in this, we still saw an exponential growth a little less than what we saw in the volumetric

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test.

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About 150% improvement each time we doubled the number of tablets.

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Is it contingent upon the volume we're working with?

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Well, we wondered that too.

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So we went up to a 10-digger container here, doubling the number of tablets each time.

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And now we're seeing much more of a linear growth, about an 80% improvement every time.

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But the fact that this is slowly dropping concerns us.

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What does this mean for the full-size cell?

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Does this mean that when we get that big, the volume won't mean anything and that we

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won't get the pressure we're looking for?

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We don't know.

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There will be an answer unless effort explodes first.

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After the break, Jesse Grant and Tori turn out the lights in the struggle to smuggle.

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And later, Adam and Jamie get major results as they continue to double the dosage.

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We like breaking glass.

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This is a first.

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What's that?

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Is it a blueprint in the dark?

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Yes.

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But also, a myth about smuggling in the dark.

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And we're not talking about your old-timey, Barbary Coast Pirates.

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We're talking about modern-day smuggling.

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Well, tell me about it.

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Well, according to the viewers, what people are doing is trying to get, let's say, maple

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syrup across the Canadian border to the United States.

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And what they'll do is they'll pick a very low-key border crossing and then wait until

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nightfall.

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Not just any night.

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Very cold, dark, wintery night where it's almost pitch black.

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They go through the border and they do their entire journey in complete darkness.

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And bam, you're a smuggler.

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All right, so the myth that we're testing here is can you drive in the dark without

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your headlights at speeds and still not hit anything?

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Sounds like fun to me.

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It's a technique that's been said to be used by smugglers.

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Turn off the headlights, hit the gas, race past the border, and know when the wiser.

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But can it be done in the near-pitch dark without coming a proper?

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I don't know about this one, you guys.

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I mean, I have my doubts.

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It's like, yeah, your eyes can adjust to the dark in 20 minutes.

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But I mean, are they going to be able to process images just as fast and as accurately as if

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you had your headlights on?

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Well, that's what we got to find out, right?

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Why don't we do this?

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We'll do our experiment at an indoor go-kart track.

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That way we'll have control over the light levels at all times.

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And we can do one run with headlights and compare it to a run in complete darkness.

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Go-karts?

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High speeds in the dark?

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Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

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Let's do it.

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As always, there's work to do before the fun starts.

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These guys are actors, producers, and stagehands in their own drive-in movie.

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The trees are strictly scenery, but wild animals could be a deadly hazard to anyone crazy enough

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to cruise the 49th parallel with the lights off, okay?

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Now, if you were smuggling maple syrup across the Canadian border, one obstacle you might

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encounter would be a moose.

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Now I've made a moose before.

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However, that one was made out of solid rubber.

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It was actually designed to withstand an impact from a real car going 60 miles an hour.

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Wow!

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Did you see how high the moose got on that hit?

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For the record, that's what happens when a car plays chicken with a giant rubber moose.

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It's a result Torey's not anxious to replicate.

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I'm going with the material that it's going to break away when we hit him with the car.

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So I'm going to make the moose out of Styrofoam.

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Hurry up, we need those down by lunch.

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In fact, the team has till nightfall to ready the props for the great syrup smuggle.

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A moose.

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Grants found a venue that's willing to stay up late.

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So to put this myth to the test, we couldn't just go out on city streets and drive around

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with no headlights.

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That'd be way too dangerous.

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To test this out, we need a venue that's controlled and repeatable.

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We're going to drive this course in the dark, watch what the headlights are, and then we

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put them off.

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We're going to be racing against the clock.

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Against each other.

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And we're going to try to go as fast as we can without crashing.

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Yeah, because if you crash, that means you got caught by the cars.

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And to make sure we don't remember the course, we're going to drive the first round in one

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direction.

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And then the second time around, we'll go completely backwards because there's no way

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we can remember that.

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Sounds like a plan, but let's not put the cart before the moose.

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They still need to litter the track with some natural impediments.

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Hiding somewhere around a corner, our surprise moose will test the driver's reaction time.

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You have to get another one.

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This one's not trained very well.

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Yeah, that's good.

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And dropped randomly at the end of a straight bit.

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Perfect.

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This log will test their long range visual acuity.

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But that's not all.

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Now our third and final obstacle tests whether you can read a sign and make a snap decision.

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Both of these signs have four letter words that begin with C. Obviously, you want to

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go towards the cafe and not the cops.

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And here's a timely thought.

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If they can't see in the dark.

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Now I know what you're asking yourself.

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Wait a minute.

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If you guys are driving in the dark, how are we going to see?

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I'll tell you how.

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Kill the lights.

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We have special infrared cameras and infrared lights that will allow you to see what we're

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doing.

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But just because you can see what we're doing doesn't mean we can see what we're doing.

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To us, it's still pitch black.

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Ultimate success depends on not getting caught and not crashing.

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But a good smuggling trip is also a fast one.

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So each of our would be felons takes one hot lap to see just how fast they are with

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the headlights on.

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Here I go.

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The track is tight and the moose is lurking.

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But Grant's not holding back.

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Moose.

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And this is the moose.

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Wait for the log.

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Wait for the log.

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He gets around the log.

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Approaching the finish without a scratch, it's grand in provisional pole position.

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And he's going down the right path.

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That's pretty cool.

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So first Tori, then Jesse take their turns, anxious to beat Grant's time without bouncing

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the cars off the scenery.

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Unseen by the drivers, the obstacles are all repositioned from one lap to the next.

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They were all fast and faultless.

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No mean feat on a twisting track without street lights.

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That was so much different than just regular daylight.

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Yeah, it's way scarier.

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Alright, let's go check the leaderboard.

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What?

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It's glory for Tori, but just by a whisker.

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Alright, well, at least you've got a control now.

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Yes, now the hard part.

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It's time to drive in complete darkness.

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No headlights.

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Have I told you guys that I'm afraid of the dark?

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Perfect.

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It's going to be funny.

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A good ad acid does two key things.

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It cures your heartburn and quells in digestion.

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But if these jailbirds knew what else it could do, they'd put up with the pain and start

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stashing the rations.

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Adam and Jamie are testing the myth that a con busted out by exploding his cell with

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ten years worth of stockpiled ad acid.

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Unlikely or not, the method has plenty of merit.

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Stage one of our test cell is complete.

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The walls are up, but they are hollow.

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And in a prison, they're not hollow soon.

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We will fill them with rebar and concrete and cap it off with a cast concrete roof.

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We've decided to make the roof as strong as we can, because what we're really testing

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here is the strength of the walls.

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And we can't do that if the roof breaks first.

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So we've done a proper job of it.

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We've brought in a cement truck.

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The whole thing is going to be steel reinforced with rebar.

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And again, we're relying on the skills of people who normally do this kind of thing for a living.

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When the quick set sets, Adam ups the realism by adding some basic amenities.

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It's not every day a toilet's installed just for the ambience.

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Then Jamie brings in that most crucial of fittings, a custom built door that's as strong as the cell.

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I built this door out of a solid piece of inch and a quarter bullet resistant plastic.

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That's exactly the same material we use for the panels in our blast screens.

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It's set inside a heavy steel frame with very solid hinges.

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In fact, I'd bet this is actually stronger than a normal jail door.

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Look at that, it's actually fitting.

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They're not getting out. Let's go.

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OK.

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With the cell now complete, that just leaves the giant plastic bag.

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And that's something they'll first test back in the shop.

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Previous tests show that doubling the tablets won't quite double the pressure.

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We might absolutely be at the pressure limit of this stuff.

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But the boys are aware that the PSI needed to breach those jail walls could be as low as five or ten.

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All right then, 100 tablets here we come.

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It's a gamble their bedding will break the tank as Adam supplies the one-of-the-escapies.

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So our prisoner lined the inside of his cell with plastic to seal it.

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We've replicated that here in this small scale.

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We've got a hundred tablets. We've got some water.

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We've got the plastic bag and we're looking to see how that plastic interacts with this box.

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So with a shimmy and a shake, there you go.

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They're set to pop.

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That was fast. Are you OK?

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Yeah.

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Turns out it's a little harder to dump over a cup of water inside this thing than we anticipated.

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And that made me hold on to it a couple seconds too long.

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Ah, the joys of practical science.

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On a happier note, while the underside panel is busted, the myth is far from it.

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This tells me exactly what I knew about the pressures, which is they can get quite high in an enclosed space.

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And that speaks very well for us going full scale.

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But first up, that last test is well worth repeating, this time with thicker glass.

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You ready?

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Do it!

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With a flick of the wrist, the process begins.

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Now for all you who think that dogs can sense danger, let's freeze it right here.

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That's Jamie's Dog Zero, who just changed her mind about coming downstairs.

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Wow, I can see it bowing up on top.

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There it goes!

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Oh look, and they actually escaped.

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They did!

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OK, a glass tank is not a concrete cell, but the figures are all adding up.

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This is good. I'm psyched. The pressures are real.

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I don't think there's anything to do now, but go whole hog on this puppy.

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As if smuggling wasn't risky enough, Tori, Grant and Jesse have found a way to double the danger.

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They've bought their times with headlights on.

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Now it's time for Lights Out.

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My prediction for what it's going to be like without headlights?

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Impossible. It's going to be really, really crazy.

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Considering that I can't even walk around this course in the dark, Grant's chances of making it to the course in the go-kart, I think are not going to be good.

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But Grant can improve his odds of survival by sitting in solitary.

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In a few minutes, his pupils will dilate, allowing more light to pass through to the retina.

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But there's more to it than that, as the guys found out on the Pirates Special.

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We were trying to see if a pirate's eye patch could have actually been a kind of tool to get instant night vision by swapping it from one good eye to the other, and it really seemed to work.

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That's amazing.

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Apparently, one of the key factors in human night vision is a chemical in the rod cells of the eye called Rodopsin.

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It's actually bleached out in normal light, and it takes about 20 minutes of darkness to regenerate.

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So that's how long we'll spend sitting in the dark.

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At the track, it's as black as a yard of Pachimini.

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How's that look? Can you tell me? I can't see.

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To counter the possibility that he's memorized the track from his last run, Grant will set off in the opposite direction.

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This is one of those things that is just so crazy.

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If it wasn't for the sound of the engine and the squealing of the wheels, it would be just like a nightmare.

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Just these blurry shapes rushing past you, and then, wow, something's right to your face.

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I mean, it is a totally surreal experience.

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You know what I hate to tell you? From the get-go, you went down the wrong path, and you got caught by the cops.

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In other words, Grant flunked the test. But can Jesse do any better?

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At the very least, she's confident.

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I'm not afraid one bit. I'm kind of excited, actually. I don't know. I'm praying for the best.

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One problem with those sensitive ride cells is they mostly help with peripheral vision.

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The fovea, which is used to focus, has very few.

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It was fairly close to what I had expected. I knew I was going to be hesitant in stepping on the gas.

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She missed the moose, but latched onto the log. So if this was the real world, she too would have crashed and burned.

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I think I still have the log attached to me.

420
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And now, for the man voted most likely to burn rubber in a drive-thru.

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Alright, so I have been sitting in the dark for 20 minutes. My eyes are completely adjusted.

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You know what? I'm actually surprised at how well I can see right now.

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With nary a trip, nor a stumble, Tori makes his way to the cart. The flag drops, and he's off to a start that's more like a stop.

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That was so hard. I couldn't see anything. I had to get like six feet away from the sun before I could even tell which way to go.

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Jesse, of course, had the same problem, but it's what happens next that shocks the fans.

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The lethal lack of light has turned Tori timid.

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You cannot see anything. I mean, you see shapes here and there. You have no idea. You're going to crash into something at any moment.

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The fact that I didn't hit the moose or the log, I think I just got lucky.

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Tori was far and away the slowest. Then again, he's the only one who didn't crash or drive straight to the cops.

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I'm the only one that made the delivery, but I mean, look how long it took me.

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With a lap that was four times longer than his effort with headlights, this myth is veering off course.

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Then, Jesse decides to steer straight for the cliff.

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And we're missing one huge thing here. What's that?

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What happens when a car comes in oncoming direction and shines their headlights right in our face?

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You know, that's a good point. I mean, that would totally ruin your night vision.

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It sure would. And in the interest of proper procedure, we're about to put that to the test.

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Up next, mass destruction through mass medication.

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I fell down. I was so excited.

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While Grant's little friend does its best to kill Tori.

440
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Please do not try what we do on this show at home. We're what you call experts.

441
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It's safer that way.

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Lisa Mann on his own recognizance.

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Okay.

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Freedom!

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An ad acid explosion might just be the craziest.

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But if someone's snatched two pills per meal over ten years, that's 22,000 tabs ready to blow.

447
00:27:31,420 --> 00:27:39,420
What makes us imagine that 22,000 of these little puppies has any chance at all of breaking us out of a steel reinforced, poured concrete jail cell.

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After all, in the shop, we got pressures up to 42 psi.

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And how is 42 pounds of anything going to break out of this wall?

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I'll tell you. It's all about a little thing we like to call a distributed load. Allow me to demonstrate.

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And yes, you can try this at home.

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Now when I blow against the surface area of one square inch, I'm able to lift a maximum of 1.1 pounds with my breath.

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But expelled inside of a plastic bag with a vast surface area, that lungful of air can work miracles.

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Now over an area of 100 square inches, all of a sudden I can lift 125 pounds.

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And that's probably more than Adam can bench press.

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I fell down. I was so excited.

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And so back to work. While Jamie tapes over the bumps and sharp edges, Adam gets technical.

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Right about now, I'll bet you're wondering how we're going to monitor what kind of pressures we might be getting from our antacid tablets during the experiment.

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This is how. One of the most sensitive gauge clusters we've ever put together for the show, it measures everything from the lowly sensitive 0 to 5 pounds per square inch of pressure all the way up to 200 pounds.

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Now if we get anywhere close to this, I'm running.

461
00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:17,420
And now with the help of some double-sided tape, Jamie and Adam start piecing together that vital component, the big plastic bubble.

462
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This is working great. So far.

463
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:32,420
It looks less and less likely that one desperate jailbird could manage all this, building the bubble or even devising a way to get the water from the sink to the stack.

464
00:29:32,420 --> 00:29:37,420
But this is a case of not letting a good story get in the way of the facts.

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I don't know, man. You know how you think about something like this for ages, but then when you finally start to do it, it becomes really real?

466
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I mean, in addition to actually real, but real in your head, I'm starting to feel like this may work.

467
00:29:51,420 --> 00:29:54,420
Yeah, well, prison can do funny things to a guy.

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What is Buster doing outside this bag? There's actually a very good reason for it.

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The fact is that when antacid tablets react with water, one of the byproducts is carbon dioxide.

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And if you're in a bag with the carbon dioxide byproduct of 22,000 tablets of antacid, there's very high risk of suffocation.

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So Buster is up against the door, Jamie, to try and breathe some fresh air while his cell crumbles around him.

472
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But now for the real star of the show, antacid by the bucket full.

473
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Okay, here you go, Adam.

474
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Thank you.

475
00:30:32,420 --> 00:30:38,420
The tablets are heat-drawn, the toilet and basin, right under the hose that's been pushed through a hole in the wall.

476
00:30:41,420 --> 00:30:47,420
Don't ask me how he hid these from the guards. I have the slightest idea. We're here to test the physics.

477
00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:50,420
I think we're good to go. All right, let's seal it up.

478
00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:51,420
All right.

479
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:55,420
Will it work?

480
00:30:56,420 --> 00:31:04,420
Well, the math says it could. Honestly, I have no idea, but I tell you one thing. I'm not going to be standing near it when it goes off.

481
00:31:15,420 --> 00:31:16,420
That guy looked crazy.

482
00:31:16,420 --> 00:31:21,420
Jesse's decided that driving in darkness means facing the dazzle of oncoming headlights.

483
00:31:26,420 --> 00:31:27,420
The light is on.

484
00:31:31,420 --> 00:31:36,420
Grant's stand-in for an oncoming car takes him back to his robot roots.

485
00:31:36,420 --> 00:31:38,420
It's a combat robot that I built.

486
00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:46,420
I mount a pair of headlights to it, and we should be able to remotely turn them on as well as drive around in the oncoming lane of traffic.

487
00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:51,420
And then we'll finally find out the effect that headlights have on your eyes.

488
00:31:56,420 --> 00:31:59,420
Good boy. Let's go blind some drivers.

489
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:05,420
Actually, just one driver. Tori volunteers to be the deer in the headlights.

490
00:32:06,420 --> 00:32:09,420
Hey there, little buddy. What's your name?

491
00:32:09,420 --> 00:32:10,420
Say hello to Blinky.

492
00:32:11,420 --> 00:32:16,420
The obstacles are reset, and Grant puts Blinky behind the wall at the first turn.

493
00:32:16,420 --> 00:32:19,420
This lap could be all over in a flash.

494
00:32:20,420 --> 00:32:25,420
There goes Tori, and here comes the other guy.

495
00:32:34,420 --> 00:32:35,420
Give me the lights!

496
00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:38,420
Dude, that was so crazy.

497
00:32:39,420 --> 00:32:46,420
That sucked. All of a sudden the lights went on, and it was like an instant black wall with two little headlights.

498
00:32:46,420 --> 00:32:51,420
As soon as the car was coming towards you with the headlights on, you would be completely blinded and you would crash.

499
00:32:51,420 --> 00:32:52,420
Done for.

500
00:32:52,420 --> 00:32:58,420
So technically, this myth is busted. They simply couldn't drive fast enough with any control.

501
00:32:58,420 --> 00:33:05,420
The concept still has a chance, assuming the Crimbs have access to some high-tech headwear.

502
00:33:06,420 --> 00:33:10,420
Straight ahead, can a gadget save Tori from crashing and burning?

503
00:33:11,420 --> 00:33:15,420
While the boys in the bunker finally get things fizzing.

504
00:33:15,420 --> 00:33:16,420
This is the big one.

505
00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:32,420
After days of exertion and experimentation, it's finally time to appraise the legend of Ant-Assad Jailbreak.

506
00:33:32,420 --> 00:33:35,420
So with our guys hopefully out of harm's way...

507
00:33:36,420 --> 00:33:42,420
...Ant-Assad Jailbreak circumstances of the myth start the water flowing...

508
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:44,420
...and start the hearts pumping.

509
00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:52,420
How much water are we putting in there?

510
00:33:52,420 --> 00:33:54,420
We have about 350 gallons.

511
00:33:54,420 --> 00:33:56,420
We're not putting that much in though.

512
00:33:56,420 --> 00:33:58,420
We'll run it as long as it takes.

513
00:33:59,420 --> 00:34:06,420
Fighting words from a man in a tangerine jumpsuit, but the nostrils soon confirm their worst fears.

514
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:11,420
I'm smelling the Ant-Assad tablets. That means we've got a leak somewhere.

515
00:34:11,420 --> 00:34:12,420
Yeah.

516
00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:18,420
With the pressure at zero, at least according to the gauges, Adam ventures forth.

517
00:34:21,420 --> 00:34:25,420
This felonious fable looks dead in the water.

518
00:34:25,420 --> 00:34:27,420
Well, I guess that means myth busted, huh?

519
00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:28,420
No.

520
00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:32,420
I think it's entirely feasible that we got a leak around the sink or the toilet.

521
00:34:32,420 --> 00:34:38,420
I think we need to remove the sink, remove the toilet, make a really nice pristine bag in there and try it again.

522
00:34:38,420 --> 00:34:39,420
Eliminate the variables.

523
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:40,420
Exactly.

524
00:34:40,420 --> 00:34:41,420
Okay.

525
00:34:43,420 --> 00:34:45,420
And eliminate they do.

526
00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:47,420
Out goes the old plastic bubble.

527
00:34:47,420 --> 00:34:50,420
There's no choice but to build another from scratch.

528
00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:53,420
And Adam uninstalls the fixtures.

529
00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:58,420
It's decided that no matter what, this next attempt will be their last.

530
00:34:58,420 --> 00:35:03,420
But we badly want a result, and that means going the extra mile.

531
00:35:05,420 --> 00:35:11,420
What we're doing here is preparing for phase two, where we can hopefully deliver a lot more water a lot faster.

532
00:35:11,420 --> 00:35:15,420
So to install a bigger pipe in the roof, we need to cut a nice round hole.

533
00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:20,420
And the tool for this job is the incredible carbide tipped hole saw.

534
00:35:20,420 --> 00:35:24,420
This is the one Adam bought for his wife on their last anniversary.

535
00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:27,420
The new plan has three steps.

536
00:35:27,420 --> 00:35:29,420
First, more water.

537
00:35:29,420 --> 00:35:32,420
Second, build a tighter and better bubble.

538
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:37,420
I'm ready to go. Should we bring the tub in?

539
00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:38,420
Yeah.

540
00:35:38,420 --> 00:35:40,420
And third, up the medication.

541
00:35:40,420 --> 00:35:43,420
This tub will be filled with enough raw ingredients,

542
00:35:43,420 --> 00:35:50,420
citric acid and baking soda to approximate 72,000 antacid pills.

543
00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:57,420
Add 28,000 store-bought tablets, and the magic number is 100,000.

544
00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:02,420
Looking at this building and how well it's built, it actually terrifies me.

545
00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:05,420
I mean, with pressure vessels, it's not like an explosive.

546
00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:08,420
You don't know when it's going to go off, or if it's going to go off.

547
00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:10,420
It's just, it's nasty.

548
00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:12,420
It's either going to do it or it's not.

549
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:14,420
This is the big one.

550
00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:17,420
This is for real.

551
00:36:17,420 --> 00:36:21,420
Turn the engine on and go to phase one. Release the water.

552
00:36:24,420 --> 00:36:29,420
Want more? Walk on to Discovery.com slash MythBusters. Go.

553
00:36:38,420 --> 00:36:43,420
Alright, so it looks like the naked eye just isn't up to their man's of this smuggling mission.

554
00:36:43,420 --> 00:36:45,420
Which means it's time to deploy some technology.

555
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:51,420
Check this out, night vision goggles.

556
00:36:51,420 --> 00:36:56,420
That's right. These babies are state-of-the-art third generation from B.E. Myers.

557
00:36:56,420 --> 00:37:00,420
They take all the available light and amplify it into an image we can see.

558
00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:02,420
Now this is the kind of technology you've been talking about.

559
00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:06,420
Yeah, so I'm going to do a run in the dark using nothing but these and see how I do.

560
00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:11,420
Okay, but this time no lollygagging around the track at a snail's pace. Let's make it realistic.

561
00:37:11,420 --> 00:37:14,420
I'll be chasing after you like I'm the cop.

562
00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:19,420
These night vision goggles are legal in the U.S. but not in Canada.

563
00:37:19,420 --> 00:37:24,420
Still, I don't suppose that would deter a depraved syrup smuggler.

564
00:37:24,420 --> 00:37:26,420
Are you ready? I'm ready.

565
00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:27,420
Alright, here we go.

566
00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:31,420
Okay, lights out.

567
00:37:32,420 --> 00:37:36,420
So can technology work with a human eye fan?

568
00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:40,420
Tori's first few laps are fast and bouncy.

569
00:37:44,420 --> 00:37:45,420
Seeing is not a problem.

570
00:37:45,420 --> 00:37:51,420
Being able to judge how far you are from objects or seeing around you, that is the problem.

571
00:37:51,420 --> 00:37:53,420
I mean, it is truly tunnel vision.

572
00:37:53,420 --> 00:37:56,420
You have no depth of field. You have no peripheral vision.

573
00:37:56,420 --> 00:38:00,420
I mean, I must have banged into the wall, you know, half a dozen times.

574
00:38:01,420 --> 00:38:09,420
Now, Officer Jesse gives chase and you get the feeling it won't be long before justice catches up with our scoundrel.

575
00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:20,420
And then you have the cop chasing you and, you know, that's a whole new game where it's like now you have the stress of somebody catching you and you're having to react quickly.

576
00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:27,420
But what's the ultimate verdict?

577
00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:35,420
I mean, you can drive with the Night Vision goggles, but as soon as you started chasing me, I had to speed up and my reaction time had to speed up.

578
00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:43,420
And having total vision, basically, I totally misjudged that last turn, crashed into the wall and that's when you smacked into me and stopped me.

579
00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:48,420
So driving with Night Vision goggles might help a little, but less than we'd hoped.

580
00:38:48,420 --> 00:38:51,420
The myth is first tested, totally busted.

581
00:38:52,420 --> 00:38:53,420
Is it dangerous?

582
00:38:53,420 --> 00:38:55,420
Yeah, absolutely.

583
00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:01,420
Turn everything up to full.

584
00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:05,420
And still to come, the bubbliest bust out in history.

585
00:39:05,420 --> 00:39:07,420
The door's gonna go.

586
00:39:14,420 --> 00:39:26,420
In a last ditch attempt to bust out of jail, Adam and Jamie unleash the supposedly awesome power of antacid, some in tablet form and some as raw ingredients.

587
00:39:26,420 --> 00:39:32,420
They start by drenching just the pill pile with the small hose. This is phase one.

588
00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:36,420
The pressure's still increasing on the plastic. I can see it moving.

589
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:37,420
Really?

590
00:39:37,420 --> 00:39:39,420
Yeah, right in the corner down there.

591
00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:43,420
Even better, Adam's gauge cluster is finally feeling the pressure.

592
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:50,420
Oh, we're getting something on the needle just a tiny bit. We got maybe 20% of 1 psi.

593
00:39:51,420 --> 00:39:56,420
We've probably taken care of more than half of the antacid tablets there, 14, 15,000 at this point.

594
00:40:03,420 --> 00:40:07,420
My crazy is that door seemed like it's pushing out on the bottom. It is.

595
00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:08,420
Is it?

596
00:40:08,420 --> 00:40:10,420
Look along the rail on the bottom.

597
00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:11,420
Yeah.

598
00:40:11,420 --> 00:40:13,420
The door is pressing out on the top and the bottom.

599
00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:16,420
We're at just a hair's breadth under one half of a psi.

600
00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:20,420
Yeah, the pile is almost entirely wet. The foam's crawled all the way up it.

601
00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:23,420
I don't know, dude. You want to do what we do best?

602
00:40:23,420 --> 00:40:24,420
Yeah.

603
00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:25,420
You want to take it to the next level?

604
00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:28,420
Yeah, over the top. Cue the deluge.

605
00:40:29,420 --> 00:40:33,420
Let's go to phase two to turn everything up to full.

606
00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:36,420
Phase two is the tub and the fire.

607
00:40:37,420 --> 00:40:42,420
If it does what it should, we're just moments away from the world's biggest belch.

608
00:40:45,420 --> 00:40:46,420
There we go.

609
00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:48,420
Water's pouring into our tub.

610
00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:49,420
Okay, everybody.

611
00:40:49,420 --> 00:40:51,420
Oh, we're at one psi.

612
00:40:51,420 --> 00:40:52,420
It's climbing like a rocket.

613
00:40:52,420 --> 00:40:54,420
One and a half psi.

614
00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:55,420
Look at the door.

615
00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:57,420
I'm going to go to the next level.

616
00:40:57,420 --> 00:40:59,420
I'm going to go to the next level.

617
00:40:59,420 --> 00:41:01,420
I'm going to go to the next level.

618
00:41:01,420 --> 00:41:03,420
It's climbing like a rocket.

619
00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:04,420
One and a half psi.

620
00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:05,420
Look at the door.

621
00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:06,420
Eyes open.

622
00:41:06,420 --> 00:41:07,420
Guys, be careful.

623
00:41:07,420 --> 00:41:08,420
Two psi.

624
00:41:08,420 --> 00:41:10,420
The door's going to go.

625
00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:12,420
Two and a half psi.

626
00:41:12,420 --> 00:41:14,420
Oh, my God.

627
00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:19,420
We're coming up to four psi.

628
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:21,420
That's a joyous...

629
00:41:25,420 --> 00:41:26,420
Oh, my God.

630
00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:27,420
Is everyone okay?

631
00:41:31,420 --> 00:41:32,420
Dude!

632
00:41:32,420 --> 00:41:34,420
Look at that.

633
00:41:34,420 --> 00:41:39,420
You could hear it and within seconds the door started to potato chip.

634
00:41:39,420 --> 00:41:45,420
This massive door that I built is just like creaking and groaning and curling from all

635
00:41:45,420 --> 00:41:46,420
of this pressure.

636
00:41:46,420 --> 00:41:48,420
It was agonizing to watch it.

637
00:41:48,420 --> 00:41:54,420
This 150-pound piece of inch and a quarter bullet-resistant plastic, and yet all it

638
00:41:54,420 --> 00:42:00,420
took was one 6-mil piece of plastic with 4 pounds per square inch of pressure behind

639
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:02,420
it to deflect this door.

640
00:42:02,420 --> 00:42:06,420
This is a great place to get your hands on.

641
00:42:06,420 --> 00:42:08,420
It's a great place to get your hands on.

642
00:42:08,420 --> 00:42:10,420
It's a great place to get your hands on.

643
00:42:10,420 --> 00:42:12,420
It's a great place to get your hands on.

644
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:14,420
This is a great place to get your hands on.

645
00:42:14,420 --> 00:42:16,420
It's a great place to get your hands on.

646
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:19,420
More than half a day for an hour to take off.

647
00:42:19,420 --> 00:42:24,420
With 4 pounds per square inch of pressure behind it to deflect this door.

648
00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:27,420
That much, and this is where it ended up.

649
00:42:27,420 --> 00:42:31,420
During the test, it was probably stretched easily twice that far.

650
00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:36,420
It's a cracker result, but just where does that leave prisoner Buster?

651
00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:39,420
Let's posit that he's inside the bag.

652
00:42:39,420 --> 00:42:44,220
on that. And what if he's able to actually seal himself outside the bag during a reaction?

653
00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:49,860
Well, I'll just put it this way. The amount of force required to bend this door like this,

654
00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:54,340
it's more than enough to squish our poor inmate like a grape.

655
00:42:54,340 --> 00:43:02,580
So the myth, like the inmate, is all washed up.

656
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:08,340
I think we have clearly demonstrated the awesome power inside an antacid tablet, at least under

657
00:43:08,540 --> 00:43:09,540
bright conditions.

658
00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:12,540
Yeah, but they ain't going to break you out of jail. Busted.

659
00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:13,540
Totally busted.

660
00:43:13,540 --> 00:43:20,540
Yet another common household item that can wreak destruction.