1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,100 Do not try any of the experiments you are about to see at home. 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:07,100 You heard him. 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:10,060 Don't do it. 4 00:00:10,060 --> 00:00:16,820 On this episode of Mythbusters, take 10 paces, turn and draw. 5 00:00:16,820 --> 00:00:22,020 Because this is the good, the boss and the ugly. 6 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:26,220 First, Adam and Jamie fire up an old West classic. 7 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:28,540 That is scary as hell. 8 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:32,540 Then you shoot the gun right out of the bad guy's hand. 9 00:00:32,540 --> 00:00:38,300 Then Jesse, Keanu and Sandra ramp up the action. 10 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:43,500 To find out can you really jump a bus over a gap in the freeway? 11 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:46,380 You do not want to miss this. 12 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:50,980 Who are the Mythbusters? 13 00:00:50,980 --> 00:00:53,540 Adam Savage. 14 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:54,540 And Jamie Heidemann. 15 00:00:54,540 --> 00:00:56,940 Are we going to try and shoot him in the head? 16 00:00:56,940 --> 00:01:01,340 Giving them more than 30 years of special effects experience. 17 00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:05,260 Joining them, Grant Imahara. 18 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:07,260 Carrie Byron. 19 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:08,260 Let's do it. 20 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:09,260 Tori Bellegi. 21 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:10,260 And featuring Jesse Cones. 22 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:11,260 That was awesome. 23 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:12,260 They don't just tell the Myths. 24 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:13,260 They put them to the test. 25 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:37,180 Jamie, I'd like you to cast your mind back to your days in the old West. 26 00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:42,020 Okay, supposedly there's a cowboy myth from back then that you could disarm an opponent 27 00:01:42,020 --> 00:01:43,940 with your pistol without harming them. 28 00:01:43,940 --> 00:01:46,540 You mean you could shoot a gun out of their hand? 29 00:01:46,540 --> 00:01:47,540 Exactly. 30 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:49,540 I was wondering when we'd get around to that one. 31 00:01:49,540 --> 00:01:52,900 The time has come. 32 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:59,180 Back in the old West, any good guy gunslinger worthy of a sheriff's badge could supposedly 33 00:01:59,180 --> 00:02:03,180 disarm the bad guy with a single sharp shooting shot. 34 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:06,060 But is this really possible? 35 00:02:06,060 --> 00:02:11,180 And would you really leave him and any bystanders totally unharmed? 36 00:02:11,180 --> 00:02:14,540 I may not be so good the next time. 37 00:02:14,540 --> 00:02:18,020 So Cowboys, since you were there, you want to tell us how it worked in the old West? 38 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:19,620 Well there are two parts to this. 39 00:02:19,620 --> 00:02:22,900 The first is unarmed and the second is unharmed. 40 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:23,900 Which do you want to start with? 41 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:27,700 Well, I'm thinking how much force can you hold onto a gun with? 42 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:31,580 Let's make a plywood cowboy, give him the same amount of holding strength and take some shots 43 00:02:31,580 --> 00:02:32,580 at him. 44 00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:39,380 Easier said than done, but we can give it a shot. 45 00:02:39,380 --> 00:02:44,140 So first up, quick draw, savage, sketches a plywood posse. 46 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:52,620 And to give his trio of tangerine bad guys accurate handgun holding abilities, Jamie knuckles 47 00:02:52,620 --> 00:02:54,540 down and gets a grip. 48 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:59,180 This stuff right here is some of our favorite stuff to have around because it's like hook 49 00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:02,980 and loop, but it's actually hermaphroditic. 50 00:03:02,980 --> 00:03:05,300 It sticks to itself. 51 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,460 Ah, perfect. 52 00:03:08,020 --> 00:03:12,540 Next, the team saddles up and heads on down to the range. 53 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,540 The gun range. 54 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:16,540 It looks great. 55 00:03:16,540 --> 00:03:18,060 An orange posse of trouble. 56 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:19,980 Hey Adam, come check this out. 57 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:20,980 What do you got? 58 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:23,740 This is my human hand grip simulator. 59 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:24,740 I love it. 60 00:03:24,740 --> 00:03:25,740 How do you want to test it? 61 00:03:25,740 --> 00:03:31,940 If you hold onto this gun and I yank it out of your hand and see what that feels like. 62 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:32,940 Alright. 63 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:33,940 Feel like you got something? 64 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:34,940 Yeah. 65 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:39,460 If you hold onto this thing just securely and I'll yank it out of there. 66 00:03:39,460 --> 00:03:44,500 And if I feel like they're the same, then we're in business. 67 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:45,500 That's spot on. 68 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:46,500 Really? 69 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:47,500 Yeah. 70 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,060 Alright, let's mount it up and shoot at this puppy. 71 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:50,060 Okay. 72 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:54,980 The gun is placed in the bad guys grip simulator as if midway through the draw. 73 00:03:54,980 --> 00:04:00,900 And with the help of a sharp shooting laser, Adam and Jamie take aim ready to fire. 74 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:01,900 Perfect. 75 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:12,140 Okay, so we're going to start off this myth with an impersonation. 76 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:13,540 Oh great, here we go. 77 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:14,540 Go for it. 78 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:15,540 Drive straight. 79 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:16,540 Stay above 50. 80 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:17,540 How about another one? 81 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:18,900 There's a bomb on this bus. 82 00:04:18,900 --> 00:04:20,980 If you slow down, it'll explode. 83 00:04:20,980 --> 00:04:25,340 Alright, well judging from your quotes, I take it we're testing another speed myth. 84 00:04:25,340 --> 00:04:26,340 Right. 85 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:27,340 Right. 86 00:04:27,340 --> 00:04:31,060 Ever since Adam and Jamie tested whether you can prevent a bus from flipping over by moving 87 00:04:31,060 --> 00:04:35,300 all the passengers to one side, everyone has been requesting the bus jump myth. 88 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:36,620 I know this one. 89 00:04:36,620 --> 00:04:39,420 It's where their bus is speeding along and they get on an overpass that's unfinished 90 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:40,940 and there's this huge gap. 91 00:04:40,940 --> 00:04:45,740 But somehow they pull off this leap across the gap, make it to the other side, drive 92 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:48,300 away perfectly and nobody's interested in the process. 93 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:49,300 Exactly. 94 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:51,100 You're not going to do this through the whole myth, are you? 95 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:53,860 Yes, I am. 96 00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:58,300 It's a classic scene from the green screen. 97 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:05,340 Grants alter ego Keanu and the gorgeous Sandra Bullock jump their famous bus across a 50 98 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:07,460 foot gap in the LA freeway. 99 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:12,780 But is it really possible or is it just another example of fake physics on film? 100 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:13,780 Are you okay? 101 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:14,780 I think so. 102 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:15,780 Good job, dude. 103 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:17,780 Once again, making my family proud. 104 00:05:17,780 --> 00:05:20,020 Alright, so what's the plan? 105 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:21,020 Get a bus? 106 00:05:21,020 --> 00:05:23,140 Half built freeway and go for it. 107 00:05:23,140 --> 00:05:24,140 Who's driving? 108 00:05:24,140 --> 00:05:25,620 No way, that's way too dangerous. 109 00:05:25,620 --> 00:05:26,620 What are you, scared? 110 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:27,620 No, I'm not. 111 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:28,620 Yes, I am. 112 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:29,620 No, I'm not. 113 00:05:29,620 --> 00:05:30,620 Yes, I am. 114 00:05:30,620 --> 00:05:35,140 I think since gaps in freeways are rare and myth busters are even more rare, we should 115 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:36,140 start in small scale. 116 00:05:36,140 --> 00:05:40,620 We'll build a scale freeway, build a scale bus and run the bus at scale speed and see 117 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:41,620 what happens. 118 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:44,100 And then what we learned from that, we will be going up to full scale because we are going 119 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:45,900 to be driving a full size bus, right? 120 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:48,140 Oh yes, we are going full scale. 121 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:52,100 So what I have here is the same type of bus from the movie. 122 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:57,860 It's 35 feet long, 8 feet wide and it weighs 24,000 pounds. 123 00:05:57,860 --> 00:06:02,220 So what I have to do is scale that bus down for our small scale test. 124 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:04,060 What I have here is a toy bus. 125 00:06:04,060 --> 00:06:05,060 Now this isn't going to work. 126 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:10,980 So what I need to do is make a 112 scale bus that's remotely controlled and has the right 127 00:06:10,980 --> 00:06:12,980 weight distribution. 128 00:06:12,980 --> 00:06:16,540 Now there's one thing in this scale bus that's not going to work. 129 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:21,420 Now there's one thing in this scale experiment that we can't scale and that's gravity. 130 00:06:21,420 --> 00:06:26,700 We made a few phone calls, we asked people at NASA if we could transport the scale bus 131 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:30,420 and all of us to the moon where the gravity is lowered to perform the experiment. 132 00:06:30,420 --> 00:06:31,920 They said no. 133 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,740 But what they did say was that if you ran the bus a little bit faster, you could compensate 134 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:39,820 for the lack of gravity scaling. 135 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:45,660 Basically what these hieroglyphics mean is that to compensate for the physical impossibility 136 00:06:45,660 --> 00:06:55,540 of scaling gravity, the speed of our 112th scale bus has to be just over 20 miles per 137 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:56,540 hour. 138 00:06:56,540 --> 00:06:59,580 20.2 miles per hour. 139 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:03,020 You forgot to carry gravity. 140 00:07:03,020 --> 00:07:04,020 What? 141 00:07:04,020 --> 00:07:13,100 Meanwhile, back at the shop, Jesse is constructing a perfectly scaled world for the soon to be 142 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,860 perfectly scaled bus. 143 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:18,260 While they scale the bus, I'm scaling the course. 144 00:07:18,260 --> 00:07:21,620 Keanu was told that the gap is 50 feet so we've got that covered. 145 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:24,540 But just as important is the angle of the road. 146 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:29,740 We've calculated it to be 1.2 degrees with the exit ramp two feet higher than the landing 147 00:07:29,740 --> 00:07:30,740 ramp. 148 00:07:30,740 --> 00:07:34,260 All of which will be scaled perfectly for this experiment. 149 00:07:34,260 --> 00:07:39,140 Back outside, before Tori builds the shell to cover the engine and chassis, Grant wants 150 00:07:39,140 --> 00:07:40,140 to know... 151 00:07:40,140 --> 00:07:41,140 16. 152 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:43,380 If it's got the speed he needs. 153 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:45,380 Not quite 20. 154 00:07:45,380 --> 00:07:48,020 Yeah, we need to get this to go at least four miles faster. 155 00:07:48,020 --> 00:07:50,140 Alright, I got a few ideas. 156 00:07:50,140 --> 00:07:52,300 We break it, you buy it. 157 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:54,300 Fair enough. 158 00:07:54,300 --> 00:08:01,020 Inside, Grant gets busy souping up the engine so it can hit the required 20 miles per hour. 159 00:08:01,020 --> 00:08:06,500 Plus he's also ensuring it weighs in at a scale accurate 13.8 pounds. 160 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,940 We're going to be ready to go in minutes. 161 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:16,260 While Tori goes to work on the bus's body by first building an accurate wooden form, 162 00:08:16,260 --> 00:08:18,260 which he then vacu-forms... 163 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:19,260 Vacu-form, maybe? 164 00:08:19,260 --> 00:08:20,260 It's like magic. 165 00:08:20,260 --> 00:08:24,540 ...to produce the lightweight plastic shell he needs. 166 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:29,860 And there's even time for a little window dressing, both in the bus and on the freeway. 167 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:37,180 Let me off this bus! 168 00:08:37,180 --> 00:08:40,660 So everything has been scaled down from the freeway to the bus. 169 00:08:40,660 --> 00:08:44,340 This is going to give us a really good idea of what would happen in the real world. 170 00:08:44,340 --> 00:08:49,740 My prediction though is there is no way that bus is going to make it across that gap. 171 00:08:49,740 --> 00:08:51,740 You done saying your last goodbyes? 172 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:52,740 Yeah. 173 00:08:52,740 --> 00:08:54,740 I think what's going to happen is it's going to crash on the ground and we're going to 174 00:08:54,740 --> 00:08:56,260 have to rebuild it. 175 00:08:56,260 --> 00:08:58,940 That, I can guarantee. 176 00:08:58,940 --> 00:08:59,940 Bus is in position. 177 00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:01,580 This is small scale. 178 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:02,580 Bus jump, you ready? 179 00:09:02,580 --> 00:09:03,580 Ready! 180 00:09:03,580 --> 00:09:04,580 Alright, here we go. 181 00:09:04,580 --> 00:09:05,580 In three, two, one. 182 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:06,580 Oh my gosh! 183 00:09:06,580 --> 00:09:12,580 It went way further than I thought it would. 184 00:09:12,580 --> 00:09:26,420 Yeah, but it still didn't land on the other side of the freeway. 185 00:09:26,420 --> 00:09:28,640 This myth is not looking good. 186 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:29,900 Not at all. 187 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:33,540 So for a first small scale experiment, the bus mis-missed the other end of the freeway 188 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:35,060 by two and a half feet. 189 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:39,180 In scale, that would be 30 feet. 190 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:41,180 That's a lot to miss, Bob. 191 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:43,580 Hey look, I survived the crash. 192 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:45,220 I don't think we did. 193 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:46,720 That's a shame. 194 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,540 Yep, despite getting every detail down to size, including the required speed of just 195 00:09:52,540 --> 00:09:57,900 over 20 miles per hour, as soon as the bus left the freeway, it started to fall. 196 00:09:57,900 --> 00:09:59,900 Go, go, go, go! 197 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:04,260 Just to prove the point, the guy set up for another test with the distance of the gap 198 00:10:04,260 --> 00:10:05,260 halved. 199 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:08,460 Alright, bus is in position. 200 00:10:08,460 --> 00:10:09,460 My prediction? 201 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:10,980 We're not going to make it. 202 00:10:10,980 --> 00:10:12,140 Alright, here we go. 203 00:10:12,140 --> 00:10:15,140 In three, two, one. 204 00:10:15,140 --> 00:10:18,140 Oh my gosh! 205 00:10:18,140 --> 00:10:27,140 Yep, as Benjamin Franklin almost said, nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, 206 00:10:27,140 --> 00:10:29,140 and gravity. 207 00:10:30,140 --> 00:10:32,700 Alright, we gave it the best possible chance ever. 208 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:36,420 Everything was 12 scale and we even halved the gap and it's still not working. 209 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:40,220 Yeah, I mean as soon as the bus leaves the freeway, gravity takes over and it falls. 210 00:10:40,220 --> 00:10:42,900 I mean there is just no way this bus is going to make this jump. 211 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,180 Yep, we would have had to shorten the gap to not much more than a pothole for the bus 212 00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:47,180 to make it. 213 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:49,380 I think this part of the myth is definitively busted. 214 00:10:49,380 --> 00:10:50,380 Busted. 215 00:10:50,380 --> 00:10:53,140 Next, shoot first. 216 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:56,380 Our gun-totend duo take on the plywood possum. 217 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:18,500 Quick draw, Savage and Harry Jim Heineman want to know if you can shoot the gun out 218 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:22,700 of the bad guy's hand without harming him. 219 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:33,620 And by testing three classic configurations, the draw, the shoot out, and the hostage, 220 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:35,620 we're about to find out. 221 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:40,620 Here we go, shooting the gun out of the hands on the draw. 222 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:42,620 Three, two, one. 223 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:47,980 Wow, it knocked it right out. 224 00:11:47,980 --> 00:11:48,980 So it did. 225 00:11:48,980 --> 00:11:52,220 That might be a result. 226 00:11:52,220 --> 00:11:56,580 But it's a result in more ways than one. 227 00:11:56,580 --> 00:12:01,020 Because although he was disarmed, he was also harmed. 228 00:12:01,020 --> 00:12:02,340 Wow. 229 00:12:02,340 --> 00:12:08,980 That bullet went in all directions, or at least pieces of it did. 230 00:12:08,980 --> 00:12:10,140 It really did. 231 00:12:10,140 --> 00:12:11,140 That is terrifying. 232 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:12,140 Look at that. 233 00:12:12,140 --> 00:12:15,940 That's a little dose of reality you don't see in the movies. 234 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:19,260 Deadly shrapnel flying in all directions. 235 00:12:19,260 --> 00:12:25,620 Shooting away unscathed is clearly not a given, meaning the myth is already looking shaky. 236 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:26,620 But what's next? 237 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:28,260 Right, here's a scenario. 238 00:12:28,260 --> 00:12:33,940 A bad guy's actually gotten his gun out of the draw and into a firing position. 239 00:12:33,940 --> 00:12:34,940 Shoot first. 240 00:12:34,940 --> 00:12:41,020 Our hero still has to try and shoot that pistol out of his hand non-laterally. 241 00:12:41,020 --> 00:12:44,580 Shooting the gun out of the hand in shootout position. 242 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:49,460 Three, two, one. 243 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:51,580 I saw shrapnel go everywhere. 244 00:12:51,580 --> 00:12:54,460 Yep, shrapnel went everywhere. 245 00:12:54,460 --> 00:12:58,500 Oh, that is some nasty damage. 246 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:01,340 And the gun stayed put. 247 00:13:01,340 --> 00:13:05,980 It didn't drop because the profile of the gun meant that there wasn't enough leverage, 248 00:13:05,980 --> 00:13:09,820 meaning this scenario is busted on both counts. 249 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:13,660 We are positing that he's pointing the gun at someone else and we're going to hit it 250 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:14,660 in the side. 251 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:17,660 I personally have high hopes for this one. 252 00:13:17,660 --> 00:13:27,260 Shooting the gun out of the hand in the hostage position, firing in three, two, one. 253 00:13:27,260 --> 00:13:29,460 Success! 254 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:32,420 Looks like it. 255 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:33,860 No damage to the hand. 256 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:34,860 No. 257 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:37,180 I don't see any damage to the cowboy behind him either. 258 00:13:37,180 --> 00:13:38,180 No. 259 00:13:38,380 --> 00:13:42,460 In the hostage position, we can see that the bullet got caught squarely on the gun and 260 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:44,260 delivered most of its energy. 261 00:13:44,260 --> 00:13:48,380 Nice shooting, inanimate shooter. 262 00:13:48,380 --> 00:13:53,220 That in combination with the fact that there was a little leverage going like this as a 263 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:59,100 result of that hit meant that this actually came out of the guy's hand. 264 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:04,220 So the orientation of the gun drastically alters the disarming outcome. 265 00:14:04,420 --> 00:14:09,660 But as for the unharmed half of the myth, well, there's a whole lot of lead flying around. 266 00:14:09,660 --> 00:14:12,900 Remember, if you're shooting the gun at someone's hand, it's because you don't want to hurt 267 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:14,820 them and you definitely don't want to kill them. 268 00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:18,540 And our two cowboys here have sustained a lot of damage. 269 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:23,780 Every piece of yellow tape represents either a graze which would cut you or a hit that 270 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:25,980 really might kill you. 271 00:14:25,980 --> 00:14:29,460 We've got a lot of time to aim, more time than a cowboy would have. 272 00:14:29,460 --> 00:14:34,020 This leads me to believe this might not be the most efficacious method for disarming 273 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:36,220 someone safely. 274 00:14:36,220 --> 00:14:40,180 After the break, Adam and Jamie are on target to disarm. 275 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:42,380 I call it Newton's Law. 276 00:14:42,380 --> 00:14:47,340 Then Tori, Grant and Jesse ramp it up with a ramp and a full-sized bus. 277 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:49,340 Look, Ma, no hands! 278 00:14:57,940 --> 00:15:01,820 Adam and Jamie have been testing whether you can shoot the gun out of your opponent's 279 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:06,660 hand, leaving them unarmed and unharmed. 280 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:09,940 The unharmed department is not looking so good. 281 00:15:09,940 --> 00:15:12,180 That is some nasty damage. 282 00:15:12,180 --> 00:15:17,340 And although the bad guys drop their gun in two out of the three positions, Adam is not 283 00:15:17,340 --> 00:15:20,100 convinced unarmed is working out either. 284 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:21,900 The gun didn't fall out. 285 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:24,740 He thinks there's a missing human link. 286 00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:31,100 But with shooting at each other out of the question, how do they test this safely? 287 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:34,180 So what is it like when one of these gets shot out of your hand? 288 00:15:34,180 --> 00:15:36,460 I think that it would sting like hell. 289 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:42,340 I think it would be like hitting something hard with a baseball bat. 290 00:15:42,340 --> 00:15:46,780 So what I'm going to do is take this pistol, use it as a template to take an aluminum plate, 291 00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:49,380 put some gun handles on it and a big paddle out here. 292 00:15:49,380 --> 00:15:50,820 You see where I'm going with this? 293 00:15:50,820 --> 00:15:55,420 And then I'm going to have Jamie hit that paddle with something like a baseball bat and 294 00:15:55,420 --> 00:15:57,660 see how hard it is to hold on. 295 00:15:57,660 --> 00:16:00,340 I think I might want to let go immediately. 296 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:02,260 I'm getting close. 297 00:16:02,260 --> 00:16:05,260 You don't know this about me, but I have a particular penchant for objects that were 298 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:07,700 clearly made for a very specific function. 299 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,820 And yet what that function might be has been lost to time. 300 00:16:11,820 --> 00:16:15,180 This definitely falls into that category. 301 00:16:15,180 --> 00:16:16,180 Tada! 302 00:16:16,180 --> 00:16:21,420 I'm very pleased. 303 00:16:21,420 --> 00:16:26,060 I can say without reservation this is my favorite thing I've ever built for this show. 304 00:16:26,060 --> 00:16:27,060 Yeah. 305 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:29,500 If you will hold that. 306 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:34,380 And with a little help from Slugger Heidemann, Adam is going to put his new favorite toy 307 00:16:34,380 --> 00:16:36,380 to the test. 308 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:38,380 My eyes are closed. 309 00:16:44,380 --> 00:16:45,380 Eee! 310 00:16:45,380 --> 00:16:46,380 Wow! 311 00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:47,380 Ow! 312 00:16:47,380 --> 00:16:48,380 Yeah! 313 00:16:48,380 --> 00:16:52,780 No, there's no way you'd be holding on to that thing. 314 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:54,500 God, that hurt! 315 00:16:54,500 --> 00:17:02,540 And here's how much it hurt in glorious, technicolored, thousand frames a second slow motion. 316 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:05,420 The shock and the pain in Adam's face was really evident. 317 00:17:05,420 --> 00:17:09,700 And may I say also really satisfying, but how does that relate to a bullet hitting a 318 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:11,700 gun in terms of energy transfer? 319 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:15,740 Well, on the one hand we have a bat, 800 grams. 320 00:17:15,740 --> 00:17:18,620 It was traveling 85 miles per hour. 321 00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:25,340 That gives us a potential energy of 428 foot pounds force. 322 00:17:25,340 --> 00:17:30,460 On the other hand we have a bullet, 15 grams, traveling 613 miles per hour. 323 00:17:30,460 --> 00:17:35,060 And the potential energy there is 416 foot pounds force. 324 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:37,380 Those numbers are basically the same. 325 00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:42,620 And yet somehow I'm not going to be satisfied unless I get something really close to an 326 00:17:42,620 --> 00:17:46,900 actual bullet hitting an actual gun and one of us holding onto it. 327 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:54,460 Alright, so the question is could the bus bridge the gap just like in the movie? 328 00:17:54,460 --> 00:17:55,980 I think we all know the answer. 329 00:17:55,980 --> 00:17:56,980 Nope. 330 00:17:56,980 --> 00:18:00,780 Yeah, you can't just switch off gravity at the moment the front tires leave the edge. 331 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:01,780 It's going down. 332 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:03,780 And what you see in the movie is a special effect. 333 00:18:03,780 --> 00:18:07,420 Yeah, they get the bus to take off by using a ramp and then with some clever editing the 334 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:08,620 rest of it's just fate. 335 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:11,860 Yeah, but what I want to know is the central premise possible. 336 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:15,220 Can you get a bus jump just like the one in the movie to actually happen? 337 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,220 Great. 338 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:19,220 And what does the ramp say as if there was just a pile of dirt sitting at the end of 339 00:18:19,220 --> 00:18:20,220 the freeway? 340 00:18:20,220 --> 00:18:21,220 Perfect. 341 00:18:21,220 --> 00:18:23,860 But since it's still too dangerous for any of us who drive the bus, even channeling 342 00:18:23,860 --> 00:18:27,460 the spirit of Keanu Reeves, we're going to have to radio control full size bus. 343 00:18:27,460 --> 00:18:29,460 Well, let's do it. 344 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:30,460 Cool. 345 00:18:30,460 --> 00:18:39,300 So as the small scale setup clearly illustrated, the jump as per the movie cannot be made. 346 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:41,340 But what if there was a ramp? 347 00:18:41,340 --> 00:18:44,620 What if the bus took off with a more realistic trajectory? 348 00:18:44,620 --> 00:18:48,020 Would the 50 foot jump then be possible? 349 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:52,820 To find out, it's full steam ahead with the full size bus. 350 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:54,820 Come on board. 351 00:18:54,820 --> 00:18:58,540 Now obviously I'm not going to be driving the bus when we try and jump it and neither 352 00:18:58,540 --> 00:18:59,780 is anyone else. 353 00:18:59,780 --> 00:19:04,060 So the first job is to take the human element out of the equation. 354 00:19:04,060 --> 00:19:06,460 So I got my box of goodies. 355 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:11,900 High torque electric motor, pneumatic cylinders, pneumatic valves and servo controllers. 356 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:17,540 Now the trick is to take all of this and replace the driver so we can control the bus remotely. 357 00:19:17,540 --> 00:19:20,860 Adam and Jamie have done this before, but that was a different bus. 358 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:24,020 So I am starting from scratch. 359 00:19:24,020 --> 00:19:29,380 So using Adam and Jamie's design, Grant will be steering and pressing the pedals from the 360 00:19:29,380 --> 00:19:31,420 trailing pickup truck. 361 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:35,940 Now to press these pedals, we've got this pneumatic cylinder. 362 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:40,460 So I'm going to have one each for the throttle and for the brake. 363 00:19:40,460 --> 00:19:41,460 Just be like this. 364 00:19:41,460 --> 00:19:42,460 Whaaaaa. 365 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:44,460 And then the jump. 366 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:45,460 Yeah. 367 00:19:45,460 --> 00:19:46,460 Yeah. 368 00:19:46,460 --> 00:19:47,460 Exactly like that. 369 00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:51,580 Except at the end it will be like, yeah, we made it. 370 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:55,620 What you're not going to hear is, oh my God, it's out of control because I'm going to 371 00:19:55,620 --> 00:19:58,900 make sure that it doesn't go out of control. 372 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:04,900 With everything almost under control in the remote control department, let's check out 373 00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:05,980 the ramp action. 374 00:20:05,980 --> 00:20:07,980 So this is how we're doing our ramp. 375 00:20:07,980 --> 00:20:12,060 We have a 40 foot container that we're cutting on a diagonal to the angle that we need for 376 00:20:12,060 --> 00:20:13,540 our bus to jump properly. 377 00:20:13,540 --> 00:20:16,500 Right now what we're doing is we're just cutting through the corrugated steel. 378 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,740 Once that's done, we're going to cut through the edges and then pull the whole thing off. 379 00:20:20,740 --> 00:20:22,660 So we'll have two halves and we'll flip them over. 380 00:20:22,660 --> 00:20:24,220 That way we'll have a ramp. 381 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:27,540 Now Jamie and Adam did this in the Mojave Desert when they were doing the Jato rocket 382 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:28,540 car. 383 00:20:28,540 --> 00:20:34,380 However, ours has to carry the weight of a 24,000 pound bus. 384 00:20:34,380 --> 00:20:37,260 So we are going to have to reinforce the inside of this with steel. 385 00:20:37,260 --> 00:20:41,260 So that way when the bus hits the ramp, the whole ramp doesn't just crumble underneath 386 00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:43,940 the weight of the bus. 387 00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:50,100 Sounds easy, but the team spends a long, hot, dirty day bracing and reinforcing the structure 388 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:55,380 before they can move it to the runway for the final touches. 389 00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:57,500 Yo, Biuque! 390 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,540 So the first half of the ramp is loaded on the truck. 391 00:20:59,540 --> 00:21:01,220 It's going out to the runway. 392 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:05,580 Once we have the other one loaded up, we still have to put the two halves together and then 393 00:21:05,580 --> 00:21:11,620 weld them and then skin the top with plywood so the bus has something to run up. 394 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:12,620 Back at the shop. 395 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:13,620 Rise! 396 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:14,620 Rise! 397 00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:17,140 Grant's almost done. 398 00:21:17,140 --> 00:21:19,580 I think we have steering. 399 00:21:19,580 --> 00:21:23,860 And he's so confident he's ready to put his tool pouch where his mouth is. 400 00:21:23,860 --> 00:21:30,500 There are so many safety interlocks in place that if this bus goes out of control, I'll 401 00:21:30,780 --> 00:21:34,620 eat my multi-tool case. 402 00:21:34,620 --> 00:21:39,180 A confidence that is only bolstered after his arrival at Alameda. 403 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:42,740 Look, Ma, no hands! 404 00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:47,860 Because out on the runway, early tests of the remote control setup are looking real good. 405 00:21:47,860 --> 00:21:48,860 Yeah! 406 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:52,820 Well, I hope Grant's having fun with the little bus. 407 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:55,620 I think I'm getting the hang of this. 408 00:21:55,620 --> 00:21:57,460 Let's see what this baby does at 70. 409 00:21:57,460 --> 00:21:58,820 I can drive a RTD too. 410 00:21:58,820 --> 00:21:59,820 I can drive a bus. 411 00:22:00,260 --> 00:22:02,940 Over there, take it around, stay in clean. 412 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:07,540 While we're out here welding, getting dirty, breaking our back, doing this ramp. 413 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:11,540 Alright, maybe I'm a little bitter. 414 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:16,540 Aren't there any, like, massage therapy myths? 415 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:19,540 That's it. 416 00:22:19,540 --> 00:22:20,540 We're done. 417 00:22:20,540 --> 00:22:22,540 Can you believe it? 418 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:25,540 Oh, you done playing with your bus? 419 00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:26,540 Up next. 420 00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:27,540 Kill it! 421 00:22:27,540 --> 00:22:28,540 Kill it! 422 00:22:28,540 --> 00:22:29,540 Kill it! 423 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:36,420 Do not try what we do on the show at home. 424 00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:38,140 We're what you call experts. 425 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:39,140 Stay safe. 426 00:22:44,140 --> 00:22:47,140 Jamie enjoyed disarming Adam. 427 00:22:47,140 --> 00:22:48,140 Yeah. 428 00:22:48,140 --> 00:22:53,540 But although the force of that hit is comparable to a bullet, they're not satisfied. 429 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:57,140 The subjective experience is the same. 430 00:22:57,140 --> 00:23:02,180 So without resorting to shooting at each other, and obvious no-no, Jamie's come up with an 431 00:23:02,180 --> 00:23:06,580 ingenious plan that will exactly recreate the experience. 432 00:23:06,580 --> 00:23:10,500 As we know, Newton's third law says that for every action there's an equal and opposite 433 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:11,500 reaction. 434 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:17,980 So, if I were to make a gun that fires a bullet in the exact opposite direction that an incoming 435 00:23:17,980 --> 00:23:23,380 bullet would have hit it at, then my reaction, being the guy that's holding the gun, should 436 00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:25,180 be exactly the same. 437 00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:31,020 A double-barreled handgun that is the perfect embodiment of Newton's third law. 438 00:23:31,020 --> 00:23:35,060 That every action has an equal and opposite reaction. 439 00:23:35,060 --> 00:23:40,780 The bullet fired will push back on the handheld barrel with the same force as the target gun 440 00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:41,780 would receive. 441 00:23:41,780 --> 00:23:44,260 And the word, genius. 442 00:23:44,260 --> 00:23:45,260 What are you calling? 443 00:23:45,260 --> 00:23:47,260 I call it Newton's law. 444 00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:50,180 For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. 445 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,180 I love it! 446 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:53,180 Well, let's test it out. 447 00:23:53,180 --> 00:23:54,180 Okay. 448 00:23:56,180 --> 00:24:02,180 But outside in the bunker, the testing reveals an unforeseen design flaw. 449 00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:08,180 Oh, that's a little bit of a let down. 450 00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:10,180 That's a lot of a let down. 451 00:24:10,180 --> 00:24:11,180 It didn't work at all. 452 00:24:11,180 --> 00:24:15,180 Well, Newton's law may work, but this one didn't. 453 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:20,180 It turns out that these bullets are only made to go off when the primer is hit, and they 454 00:24:20,180 --> 00:24:22,180 don't like to go off with a fuse. 455 00:24:22,180 --> 00:24:25,180 So, I've got to go back to the drawing board. 456 00:24:26,180 --> 00:24:32,180 A subtle modification or two, and our gun guru soon gets a handle on the situation. 457 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:34,180 Have you got a solution yet? 458 00:24:34,180 --> 00:24:35,180 Actually, I do. 459 00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:37,180 You're going to love this. 460 00:24:37,180 --> 00:24:38,180 It's simple. 461 00:24:38,180 --> 00:24:41,180 We didn't need to go to the trouble of making two separate barrels. 462 00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:45,180 All we need to do is have two separate handles. 463 00:24:45,180 --> 00:24:47,180 It's the same equal and opposite reaction. 464 00:24:47,180 --> 00:24:48,180 Ingenious. 465 00:24:48,180 --> 00:24:50,180 I love it. 466 00:24:50,180 --> 00:24:53,180 So, it's Newton's law, Mark II. 467 00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:54,180 And it works like this. 468 00:24:54,180 --> 00:25:00,180 While holding the handle, the real gun is fired remotely, imparting an equal and opposite 469 00:25:00,180 --> 00:25:03,180 force of the bullet to the hand gripping the handle. 470 00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:04,180 Genius. 471 00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:05,180 Again. 472 00:25:08,180 --> 00:25:14,180 And back down at the gun range, Jamie's design has got Adam's entrepreneurial juices flowing. 473 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:19,180 Ladies and gentlemen, I have a special surprise for you today from Mitbusters Labs in Heinemannia 474 00:25:19,180 --> 00:25:24,180 where this comes a mix of Hoosier ingenuity and total insanity I bring to you. 475 00:25:24,180 --> 00:25:25,180 The Heinemann Broulette 6000. 476 00:25:25,180 --> 00:25:28,180 Yes, with this gun, not only can you play the most advanced game of the night, 477 00:25:28,180 --> 00:25:33,180 but every shot is a surprise, keeping life on the uncertain footing it was always meant to be. 478 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:34,180 Buy yours today. 479 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:41,180 Welcome to the Mythbus 2. 480 00:25:41,180 --> 00:25:42,180 Step on board. 481 00:25:42,180 --> 00:25:43,180 Whoa. 482 00:25:43,180 --> 00:25:48,180 In an attempt to find out if a bus could jump a 50-foot gap in an elevated freeway, 483 00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:54,180 Tori, Grant and Jesse are about to launch this remote control bus off this ramp. 484 00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:57,180 But please, read the small print. 485 00:25:57,180 --> 00:25:58,180 All right. 486 00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:00,180 So, there's something that we want to make very clear about this ramp. 487 00:26:00,180 --> 00:26:04,180 If you watch the DVD extras, you will find that they actually had a ramp with a pneumatic 488 00:26:04,180 --> 00:26:09,180 kicker at the end to help give that bus a little lift and distance that it needed to 489 00:26:09,180 --> 00:26:10,180 make that gap. 490 00:26:10,180 --> 00:26:14,180 Well, we're not trying to recreate movie visual effects here. 491 00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:18,180 We're trying to give you a real-life situation, as if they're just so happened to be a pile 492 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:21,180 of dirt or sand right at the end of the road. 493 00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:28,180 First up, the guys who have a turbulent relationship with remote control runaway vehicles 494 00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:37,180 want to test Grant's fail-safe, fool-proof override kill switch. 495 00:26:37,180 --> 00:26:38,180 All right. 496 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:40,180 This is slow speed test. 497 00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:41,180 Checking the brakes. 498 00:26:41,180 --> 00:26:42,180 Here we go. 499 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:44,180 In three, two, one. 500 00:26:47,180 --> 00:26:48,180 Oh, my God. 501 00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:49,180 This is crazy. 502 00:26:49,180 --> 00:26:50,180 Ten miles an hour. 503 00:26:50,180 --> 00:26:52,180 Twenty miles an hour. 504 00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:58,180 We're at 30 miles an hour and holding. 505 00:26:58,180 --> 00:26:59,180 Kill it. 506 00:26:59,180 --> 00:27:00,180 Kill it in the switch. 507 00:27:01,180 --> 00:27:02,180 Yes. 508 00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:03,180 Great. 509 00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:04,180 Woo-hoo. 510 00:27:04,180 --> 00:27:05,180 Yes. 511 00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:06,180 Good job, Grant. 512 00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:09,180 Unfortunately, no runaway vehicles today. 513 00:27:09,180 --> 00:27:10,180 So what's next? 514 00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:13,180 All right, so we can stop it, but the thing about it, though, is in the movie, the bus 515 00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:15,180 got up to 70 miles an hour. 516 00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:16,180 How fast can this bus go? 517 00:27:16,180 --> 00:27:18,180 As a matter of fact, I have no idea. 518 00:27:18,180 --> 00:27:19,180 Well, let's test it. 519 00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:24,180 Of course, the speed at which the bus is going as it hits the top of the ramp is crucial. 520 00:27:24,180 --> 00:27:26,180 Let's find out what she can do. 521 00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:33,180 So this is full speed test in three, two, one. 522 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:34,180 Hit it. 523 00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:40,180 Thirty-five miles an hour. 524 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:42,180 She went off to the right. 525 00:27:42,180 --> 00:27:43,180 Stay, yeah, you stay here. 526 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:44,180 Good. 527 00:27:44,180 --> 00:27:46,180 Forty-five miles an hour. 528 00:27:46,180 --> 00:27:47,180 It's all over the road. 529 00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:50,180 Come on, get over the back, get back. 530 00:27:50,180 --> 00:27:51,180 There you go. 531 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:52,180 Good job. 532 00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:54,180 We're at 58 miles per hour. 533 00:27:54,180 --> 00:27:56,180 Looks like that's all she's got. 534 00:27:56,180 --> 00:28:02,180 With the bus swerving wildly and the speedometer topping out at 58 miles per hour, the guys 535 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:03,180 call it. 536 00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:04,180 Killing it. 537 00:28:04,180 --> 00:28:08,180 And bring the bus and top speed test to a start. 538 00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:12,180 In the movie, their bus is going 70 miles an hour. 539 00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:17,180 Now, we just did a speed test with our bus and ours was going more like 60 miles an hour. 540 00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:22,180 The other significant result was the obvious difficulty Grant was having maintaining a 541 00:28:22,180 --> 00:28:23,180 straight course. 542 00:28:23,180 --> 00:28:27,180 What I'm about to do is paint a shoe with the ramp. 543 00:28:27,180 --> 00:28:30,180 Now, this is going to be our point of no return zone. 544 00:28:30,180 --> 00:28:32,180 Now, the bus is not lined up with the ramp. 545 00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:35,180 At this point, we're going to port the nation. 546 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:39,180 Grant will have to steer the bus up the ramp and jump it to here. 547 00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:45,180 This is the distance of the gap in the freeway adjusted for the bus's slower top speed. 548 00:28:45,180 --> 00:28:50,180 But where exactly it'll land, there's only one way to find out. 549 00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:58,180 With days and days of work all leading to this one final test. 550 00:28:58,180 --> 00:28:59,180 Very near. 551 00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:02,180 Nerves are on edge and frayed. 552 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:05,180 Never seen this jump before. 553 00:29:05,180 --> 00:29:07,180 So this is the real deal. 554 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:08,180 I mean, we are going for it. 555 00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:10,180 There's no more scale models. 556 00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:13,180 If we don't hit that ramp, this is like totally ruined. 557 00:29:13,180 --> 00:29:15,180 We only have one shot at this. 558 00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:16,180 All right. 559 00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:17,180 So this is the real deal. 560 00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:20,180 This is full scale bus jump. 561 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,180 There's no turning back now. 562 00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:23,180 You guys ready? 563 00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:24,180 Ready. 564 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:25,180 We're ready. 565 00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:26,180 All right. 566 00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:27,180 Let's do it. 567 00:29:27,180 --> 00:29:28,180 Go! 568 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:30,180 Let's get that bus to jump. 569 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:34,180 We're in the back, Denny. 570 00:29:34,180 --> 00:29:36,180 20 miles an hour. 571 00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:37,180 There it is. 572 00:29:37,180 --> 00:29:38,180 It went all over the road. 573 00:29:38,180 --> 00:29:39,180 Better though. 574 00:29:39,180 --> 00:29:40,180 Get in the center. 575 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:41,180 Get in the center. 576 00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:42,180 There you go. 577 00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:43,180 There's your line right there, buddy. 578 00:29:43,180 --> 00:29:44,180 Right there. 579 00:29:44,180 --> 00:29:45,180 35 miles an hour. 580 00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,180 40 miles an hour. 581 00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:48,180 Come on. 582 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:49,180 Get over it. 583 00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:50,180 Get back. 584 00:29:50,180 --> 00:29:51,180 Get back. 585 00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:52,180 There you go. 586 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:53,180 Good job. 587 00:29:53,180 --> 00:29:54,180 We're at 50 miles an hour. 588 00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:55,180 Come on, Grant. 589 00:29:55,180 --> 00:29:56,180 Kill it. 590 00:29:56,180 --> 00:29:58,180 We are killing the bus. 591 00:29:58,180 --> 00:30:00,180 We lost control. 592 00:30:00,180 --> 00:30:02,180 That was close. 593 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:04,180 Oh my God. 594 00:30:04,180 --> 00:30:07,180 Tensions are running a little high right now. 595 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:11,180 We just did the first test and Grant was all over the road. 596 00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:12,180 All right. 597 00:30:12,180 --> 00:30:13,180 Let's reset. 598 00:30:13,180 --> 00:30:15,180 It's not looking good so far. 599 00:30:15,180 --> 00:30:18,180 I'm telling you, you do not want to miss this. 600 00:30:26,180 --> 00:30:27,180 Let's go. 601 00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:28,180 Bingo. 602 00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:29,180 The next. 603 00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:33,180 So let's recap. 604 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:37,180 We're testing the Old West myth that you can shoot a gun out of your opponent's hand, 605 00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:40,180 leaving him unarmed and unharmed. 606 00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:43,180 I got to say, in the unharmed department, it's not looking very good. 607 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:48,180 There's a lot of shrapnel crews when a lead bullet hits a steel pistol. 608 00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:52,180 But in the disarmed department, everything we've been testing so far says that it's 609 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:53,180 looking pretty good. 610 00:30:53,180 --> 00:30:56,180 But pretty good isn't good enough for us. 611 00:30:56,180 --> 00:31:01,180 It's time to put the finishing touches on this myth and finally put it to bed. 612 00:31:01,180 --> 00:31:03,180 Here's how it's going to work. 613 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:07,180 Adam will be holding Newton's law Mark II by the second handle. 614 00:31:07,180 --> 00:31:10,180 There you go. Like that. 615 00:31:10,180 --> 00:31:15,180 Jamie will pull the trigger remotely, maintaining that crucial element of surprise. 616 00:31:15,180 --> 00:31:19,180 Okay, Tex. If he blinks, shoot him. 617 00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:25,180 And the bullet will push back on Adam's hand with equal force to that of a bullet hitting the gun. 618 00:31:25,180 --> 00:31:30,180 First up is the draw position. In this scenario, I am just pulling my gun out of its holster 619 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:35,180 when Sheriff Buster there takes a crack shot hitting my sidearm on its top. 620 00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:40,180 From everything we've tested so far, I think I'm going to drop that gun. 621 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:42,180 Okay, the gun is hot. 622 00:31:42,180 --> 00:31:43,180 Understood. 623 00:31:43,180 --> 00:31:47,180 All right, draw position. Fire one ready, I guess. 624 00:31:50,180 --> 00:31:52,180 Huh! 625 00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:57,180 That is scary as hell. 626 00:31:57,180 --> 00:31:59,180 You didn't drop it though. 627 00:31:59,180 --> 00:32:00,180 Not even close. 628 00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:01,180 And you weren't ready for it. 629 00:32:01,180 --> 00:32:03,180 I was totally not ready for it. 630 00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:08,180 It lacked all the shock of the target pistol hitting the baseball bat. 631 00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:12,180 It didn't have any of that kind of pain aspect to it. It was more like adult thud. 632 00:32:12,180 --> 00:32:15,180 So, I didn't drop that gun. 633 00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:19,180 And from everything we've seen so far, I totally didn't expect that result. 634 00:32:19,180 --> 00:32:21,180 So, James going to have a go with it? 635 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:22,180 All right. 636 00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:23,180 You ready, Jamie? 637 00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:24,180 Yeah, I'm ready. 638 00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:26,180 And then we'll see where we stand. 639 00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:31,180 He dropped it. 640 00:32:31,180 --> 00:32:34,180 Yep, jumping Jamie Hoderman. 641 00:32:34,180 --> 00:32:35,180 It's a shock. 642 00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:38,180 Was decidedly disarmed. 643 00:32:38,180 --> 00:32:44,180 You can see clearly in this clip how my hand is being twisted by the gun as it received the impact from the bullet. 644 00:32:44,180 --> 00:32:48,180 And it's being pushed right beyond the grasp of my fingers. 645 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:55,180 With Adam holding on and Jamie surprised into letting go, the draw position ends in a draw. 646 00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:57,180 Next up is the hostage position. 647 00:32:57,180 --> 00:33:01,180 In this scenario, I'm not pointing the gun to Sheriff Buster, but at Jamie here. 648 00:33:01,180 --> 00:33:05,180 And to protect his friend Jamie, Sheriff Buster takes a crack shot at the side of my gun. 649 00:33:05,180 --> 00:33:09,180 And from everything we've seen so far, I think I'm dropping that gun like a hot potato. 650 00:33:09,180 --> 00:33:10,180 Me too. 651 00:33:10,180 --> 00:33:11,180 All right. 652 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:13,180 All right, hostage position. 653 00:33:13,180 --> 00:33:15,180 You may fire when I'm not ready. 654 00:33:19,180 --> 00:33:20,180 I didn't let go. 655 00:33:20,180 --> 00:33:21,180 I noticed that. 656 00:33:21,180 --> 00:33:23,180 Admit it, you're clenching. 657 00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:24,180 I'm not clenching. 658 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:25,180 You've got to have a turn. 659 00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:26,180 Your turn. 660 00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:27,180 Here you go. 661 00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:32,180 Mr. Hoderman in a hostage position. 662 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:34,180 When's it going to be? 663 00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:39,180 And he dropped it again. 664 00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:41,180 This is fascinating. 665 00:33:42,180 --> 00:33:47,180 What I'm seeing is that this isn't so much about the force that it takes to remove this gun from my hand. 666 00:33:47,180 --> 00:33:54,180 It's about the reaction that I have to the jolt that I'm feeling, and it makes me jump and I let go. 667 00:33:55,180 --> 00:33:58,180 Editors, can I get a split screen please of that last test? 668 00:33:58,180 --> 00:33:59,180 Thank you. 669 00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:04,180 Now, you may be wondering, looking at this, why I'm holding onto my pistol while Jamie lets go of his. 670 00:34:04,180 --> 00:34:11,180 This could be explained by the fact that I endured so much pain holding onto the target pistol that I built while Jamie hit it with a baseball bat. 671 00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:12,180 Yeah, like that. 672 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:16,180 That I'm inured to the shock and pain of this new rig. 673 00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:18,180 But really, I think it comes down to something else. 674 00:34:18,180 --> 00:34:26,180 I think it's just the fact that everyone's a little bit different, and that means that this technique, shooting a gun out of your opponent's hand, is never going to be a surefire technique. 675 00:34:28,180 --> 00:34:29,180 But they're not done yet. 676 00:34:29,180 --> 00:34:31,180 Sheriff Buster. 677 00:34:32,180 --> 00:34:39,180 Jumping Jamie Hondeman and Adam Clench Savage have yet to test the shootout position. 678 00:34:49,180 --> 00:34:51,180 We no longer need the secondary handle. 679 00:34:52,180 --> 00:34:54,180 This is very much like naturally shooting a gun. 680 00:34:54,180 --> 00:35:01,180 I'll be pointing the gun directly at my cowboy down there, except the only difference is Jamie will be activating the trigger without my knowledge. 681 00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:05,180 Ho ho ho ho ho! 682 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:07,180 That is terrifying! 683 00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:13,180 And that just leaves Jamie. 684 00:35:19,180 --> 00:35:20,180 Yeah, I held onto it. 685 00:35:20,180 --> 00:35:25,180 I mean, it's funny, it shocks you the same way the others do, but it pushes itself deeper into your hand. 686 00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:29,180 Well, the gun is built to take force in exactly that direction. 687 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:33,180 I think of all the shooting positions, this one's the least likely to be knocked out of your hand. 688 00:35:35,180 --> 00:35:39,180 So it's been a Russian roulette of results, but a result there is. 689 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:44,180 It's clear from our testing that shooting a gun out of somebody's hand should be your very last option. 690 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:50,180 For one thing, that gun is a tiny target and you pretty much have to hit it on a bullseye to have any effect. 691 00:35:50,180 --> 00:35:56,180 Secondly, if you do hit the gun, the shrapnel or ricochets are likely to actually hurt your guy. 692 00:35:57,180 --> 00:36:01,180 So if you do ever find yourself in a western duel, know this. 693 00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:09,180 You might be able to shoot the gun out of someone's hand, but chances are, someone's going to get hurt. 694 00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:14,180 Next, how does Grand take his tool pouch? 695 00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:18,180 Maybe fried with a little bit of powdered sugar. 696 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:29,180 You could say the bus jump test didn't get off to a great start. 697 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:30,180 Killing, killing. 698 00:36:30,180 --> 00:36:32,180 We are killing the bus. 699 00:36:32,180 --> 00:36:33,180 Hit it. 700 00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:38,180 But it takes more than a wildly out of control remote control bus to stop the Mythbusters. 701 00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:39,180 Q take two. 702 00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:40,180 Come on. 703 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:41,180 Over to the right, we're killing it. 704 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:42,180 Killing it, killing it, killing it. 705 00:36:42,180 --> 00:36:43,180 It's killing. 706 00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:44,180 There's the bus. 707 00:36:44,180 --> 00:36:45,180 That's not good. 708 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:46,180 Yay! 709 00:36:46,180 --> 00:36:47,180 And we took out the fence. 710 00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:48,180 That's an affirmative. 711 00:36:48,180 --> 00:36:53,180 A sudden loss of power to the steering sent the bus into an all too early position. 712 00:36:53,180 --> 00:37:00,180 But there is good news. 713 00:37:00,180 --> 00:37:01,180 The bus is okay. 714 00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:02,180 It's a little fender bender. 715 00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:03,180 It's not even scratch. 716 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:06,180 Not the first fence we've taken out here at Alameda. 717 00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:07,180 Well, the kill switch worked. 718 00:37:07,180 --> 00:37:08,180 That's good news. 719 00:37:08,180 --> 00:37:09,180 What happened? 720 00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:10,180 Right out of receiver battery. 721 00:37:10,180 --> 00:37:13,180 So we just lost control of steering and whatnot? 722 00:37:13,180 --> 00:37:14,180 Yeah. 723 00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:15,180 There's the bus. 724 00:37:15,180 --> 00:37:17,180 We're going to take the bus out of the bus. 725 00:37:17,180 --> 00:37:18,180 What happened? 726 00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:20,180 Right out of receiver battery. 727 00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:22,180 So we just lost control of steering and whatnot? 728 00:37:22,180 --> 00:37:23,180 Yeah. 729 00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:24,180 There's the bus. 730 00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:27,180 I'm not eating my multi-tool pouch just yet. 731 00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:28,180 Oh. 732 00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:33,180 And I get to choose how I eat it. 733 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:38,180 Maybe fried with a little bit of powdered sugar. 734 00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:44,180 While Grant contemplates a multi-tool pouch donut and replaces the steering servo's batteries, 735 00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:48,180 the light fades, forcing the team to abandon the runway. 736 00:37:48,180 --> 00:37:54,180 The following day, after a full systems check, there's renewed optimism in the air. 737 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:56,180 We're back out here. 738 00:37:56,180 --> 00:37:57,180 It's a new day. 739 00:37:57,180 --> 00:37:58,180 I'm feeling confident. 740 00:37:58,180 --> 00:37:59,180 I'm so excited. 741 00:37:59,180 --> 00:38:02,180 We're going to hit that ramp. 742 00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:03,180 Are we going to make the distance? 743 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:04,180 Don't know. 744 00:38:04,180 --> 00:38:05,180 But we're going to hit that ramp. 745 00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:06,180 This is it. 746 00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:08,180 This is full scale bus jump. 747 00:38:08,180 --> 00:38:11,180 This is not a drill. 748 00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:18,180 In three, two, one, hit it. 749 00:38:18,180 --> 00:38:23,180 20 miles an hour. 750 00:38:23,180 --> 00:38:26,180 30 miles an hour. 751 00:38:26,180 --> 00:38:29,180 Stay on target. 752 00:38:29,180 --> 00:38:31,180 45 miles an hour. 753 00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:32,180 Yeah, Lulee. 754 00:38:32,180 --> 00:38:33,180 Get back on. 755 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:34,180 Where are you going? 756 00:38:34,180 --> 00:38:35,180 50 miles an hour. 757 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,180 Woo! 758 00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:37,180 Loot control. 759 00:38:37,180 --> 00:38:40,180 Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. 760 00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:46,180 And chapter after chapter, that's the story for the next few hours. 761 00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:50,180 If it isn't down to the extreme difficulty of steering. 762 00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:51,180 Oh my God. 763 00:38:51,180 --> 00:38:52,180 Kill it, kill it. 764 00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:53,180 Oh my God. 765 00:38:53,180 --> 00:38:56,180 That could have been disastrous. 766 00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:58,180 It's a mechanical failure. 767 00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:00,180 10 miles an hour. 768 00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:01,180 Killing it. 769 00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:03,180 Or a radio signal failure. 770 00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:07,180 I thought I had it and then it wasn't responding. 771 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:11,180 Or an electrical failure that leads to an electrical fire. 772 00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:13,180 I thought this was a non-smoking bus. 773 00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:15,180 Nope, apparently not. 774 00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:18,180 And you could say it's taking its toll. 775 00:39:18,180 --> 00:39:20,180 Grant seems a little edgy right now. 776 00:39:20,180 --> 00:39:23,180 He's like one of those little grumpy bus drivers. 777 00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:26,180 That's my stop. 778 00:39:26,180 --> 00:39:28,180 Do you ring that bell? 779 00:39:28,180 --> 00:39:30,180 This ain't a stop. 780 00:39:30,180 --> 00:39:31,180 Damn. 781 00:39:31,180 --> 00:39:32,180 Get off this bus. 782 00:39:32,180 --> 00:39:33,180 Get off. 783 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,180 But the team sticks out. 784 00:39:35,180 --> 00:39:38,180 And despite some attractive sounding advice from Tori. 785 00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:43,180 I say we just load this thing up with C4 and if it gets under 50 we blow it up. 786 00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:44,180 Then we have a confirmed myth. 787 00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:45,180 Copy that. 788 00:39:45,180 --> 00:39:47,180 They run through the system once more. 789 00:39:47,180 --> 00:39:50,180 And once again it's all down to Grant. 790 00:39:50,180 --> 00:39:56,180 Can he conquer the over-sensitive steering and guide the bus going at top speed onto 791 00:39:56,180 --> 00:39:59,180 what looks like a very small ramp? 792 00:39:59,180 --> 00:40:00,180 Hit it. 793 00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:01,180 Come on. 794 00:40:01,180 --> 00:40:03,180 10 miles an hour. 795 00:40:03,180 --> 00:40:05,180 20 miles an hour. 796 00:40:05,180 --> 00:40:08,180 Come on dude, get back on line. 797 00:40:08,180 --> 00:40:10,180 30 miles an hour. 798 00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:11,180 Uh-oh. 799 00:40:11,180 --> 00:40:12,180 We're losing it. 800 00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:13,180 We're losing it. 801 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:14,180 Get back over. 802 00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:15,180 Come on, Grant. 803 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:16,180 45 miles an hour. 804 00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:17,180 Hold it. 805 00:40:17,180 --> 00:40:18,180 No. 806 00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:20,180 55 miles per hour. 807 00:40:20,180 --> 00:40:22,180 Oh crap. 808 00:40:22,180 --> 00:40:25,180 58 miles per hour. 809 00:40:25,180 --> 00:40:26,180 Return. 810 00:40:26,180 --> 00:40:33,180 Oh my god. 811 00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:38,180 Oh my god. 812 00:40:38,180 --> 00:41:01,180 I think that's it. 813 00:41:01,180 --> 00:41:07,180 That was crazy. 814 00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:12,180 Did that look easy? 815 00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:13,180 Because it wasn't. 816 00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:23,180 It was really, really hard. 817 00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:27,180 Steering on the bus is a little tricky because you're following it. 818 00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:30,180 All you see is kind of the back end swerving and you have to correct for that. 819 00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:34,180 Trying to keep up, keep correcting the bus, keep correcting it. 820 00:41:34,180 --> 00:41:39,680 And it got a little swervy right towards the end, but I saw the ramp coming up and I made 821 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:44,180 the last move to get us right on the ramp. 822 00:41:44,180 --> 00:41:50,180 Yes, hit the ramp, caught air and that's the important thing. 823 00:41:50,180 --> 00:41:54,180 Did the bus go the entire distance of the gap? 824 00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:56,180 No, unfortunately. 825 00:41:56,180 --> 00:42:01,180 Okay, I think that is where the bus landed. 826 00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:02,180 Look at that. 827 00:42:02,180 --> 00:42:03,180 Impact zone. 828 00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:04,180 That thing is huge. 829 00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:05,180 The couch is massive. 830 00:42:05,180 --> 00:42:08,180 Yeah, but I mean, look at this is our target distance. 831 00:42:08,180 --> 00:42:10,180 Dude, that's a long way. 832 00:42:10,180 --> 00:42:12,180 I mean, we didn't even come close. 833 00:42:12,180 --> 00:42:13,180 Not even halfway. 834 00:42:13,180 --> 00:42:14,180 And you know what? 835 00:42:14,180 --> 00:42:17,180 In the movie, they didn't have a ramp. 836 00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:19,180 Okay, the good news. 837 00:42:19,180 --> 00:42:24,180 Just like the movie, the bus, before hitting the safety barrier at least, was relatively 838 00:42:24,180 --> 00:42:25,180 unharmed. 839 00:42:25,180 --> 00:42:29,180 But here's the but. 840 00:42:29,180 --> 00:42:36,180 Even with a ramp, the bus failed by a long way to clear the gap in the freeway, which 841 00:42:36,180 --> 00:42:41,180 would have meant a tragic and very unholy would like end to the movie. 842 00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:43,180 All right, this was looking busted. 843 00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:45,180 Busted. 844 00:42:45,180 --> 00:42:47,180 Busted.