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

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Wear what you call experts.

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On this episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie go on a grime wave with two frightfully filthy fables.

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That is nasty.

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First, they call in the rat pack.

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I see some rat urine on a can.

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For the terrible tale that rat pee on a pop can can kill.

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Oh, this one is so gross.

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Then they test the myth that everyday items are dirtier than your toilet seat.

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Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow.

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Meanwhile, Jesse Torrey and Grant cut to the chase.

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Why'd you stop? We're supposed to skip it.

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As they find out if a souped-up supercar...

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Oh! That's a fast car.

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...can bounce across the surface of a lake like a skipping stone.

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We're like Delmar and Louise.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage

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and Jamie Heineman.

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Relax. This one hurt a bit.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience,

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joining them,

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Torrey Velaychee

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and Grant Imahara.

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We're good to go.

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Carrie Byron

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It's terrifying.

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And featuring Jesse Combs.

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This is going to be so rad.

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They don't just tell the myth.

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They put them to the test.

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What do you got there?

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A story about very small things?

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Yep.

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We're talking about millions of tiny organisms

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that you come into contact with every day.

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Some of them could have a nasty surprise waiting for you

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and be really harmful.

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I got one that fits that, Bill.

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I got a chain letter recently

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that stated a woman had died

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from a deadly pathogen she contracted

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drinking from a soda can

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tainted with rat urine.

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That's exactly what I'm talking about.

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Well, let's get to it.

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Okay.

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Wherever there are rats,

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filth follows.

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But are soda cans really contaminated by rat pee?

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And if they are,

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could drinking directly from the can be deadly?

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So how do you want to test this?

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Well, you know this myth is so pervasive,

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we need to get it right.

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And that means we need to have a nice, large sample size.

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Okay.

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And I think we should start with a positive pee control

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so that we know what rat urine looks like,

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we know how to test for it,

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we know how to know when it's there.

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And we need to just get a whole parcel of rats,

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a bunch of cans, and let nature take its course, huh?

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Is PASL the collective noun for rats?

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I don't know.

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Well, actually it's a horde, swarm,

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rabble, or pack of rats.

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But before they get started,

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but I don't understand, how is it possible

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that rat pee could kill you?

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Yes, it's not rat pee itself that could kill you.

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It's the fact that rat pee could potentially carry

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both leptosporosis and hand virus

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that makes it potentially dangerous.

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I see.

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According to this myth,

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deadly pathogens transfer from rat through rat urine

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to soda can, and from there, to people.

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So first, they're starting with a positive control.

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Now normally we certify our tasty, tasty

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MythBusters Cola as both a life extending elixir

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and rat pee free, until today.

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Today a thousand of these puppies are going to be set up

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as a rat run to be used as what we like to call

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a control for exposure to rat pee.

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Adam Janney will hone their rat pee tracking technique

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before moving on to test real world soda cans.

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So why go to all this trouble to clean the cans

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just to have rats pee on them?

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not random dirt or other false positives

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that may be introduced into our test.

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So, we scrub every single one.

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And I gotta say, looking at a thousand cans,

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there's a lot of dirt to be cleaned up.

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Now that the cans are pristine,

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let the rodent incontinence begin.

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Oh, I see some rat urine on a can.

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Nice!

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This is awesome.

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This is one of those sounds that you'll only hear on MythBusters.

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Sound of 40 rats on a thousand cans.

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And after 90 minutes of the pitter-patter of ratty feet,

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the rat party is wrapped.

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Let's put it back in their cages.

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There's certainly rat pee on those cans.

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And the first tracking technique, black light.

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Did you know that rat pee fluoresces under black light?

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That's the next thing we're going to do.

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We're going to get some black lights and go take a look for them.

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I feel like I'm one of those police procedural drundas.

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And with plenty of glowing puddles,

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It's got to be urine.

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Lights up like a pinball machine.

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Oh, this one is so gross. Look at that.

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The boys are positive that the black light is the perfect way to pinpoint the pee.

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Well, that's gross.

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I guess it's time to collect our real-world random samples now.

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Well, we better get started.

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We've got a thousand cans to collect from all over the city.

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A thousand?

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Okay, let's do it.

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With their identification method lighting up the pee,

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the main test begins.

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As the guys collect one thousand cans from a variety of sources.

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And a variety of storage conditions.

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Some upmarket, some not so much.

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Check this out, man.

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First can, I see little fluorescing spotty spots.

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That's a good sign.

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I'm going to put that in the...

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I'm going to put it in the...

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For further research category.

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A sign that gets worse with every can.

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Spots.

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The whole world is contaminated.

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Spots.

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What are we going to do, dude?

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I mean, these can be all contaminated.

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Next, a myth that's sink or skin.

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Well, you guys may have figured out by now that, well, me and Kars,

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we kind of have this thing, and there's a myth on the fan site

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that I really want to test out.

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All right, what is it?

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Are you familiar with the cannonball films?

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Yeah, from the 80s, right?

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Okay, so it's the third installment that our myth comes from.

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The beginning of the movie, there's a red-layer burgundy

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but man, the cops are not going to accept a fee.

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So what the sports car driver does is he drives off the road

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and heads straight towards the lake.

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He totally floors it, skips across the water,

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makes it to the other side, and gets away from the cops.

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I love it.

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Fast cars skipping across the water, you should come here more often.

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To flee the forest, a speedy sports car skips the lake fantastic.

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But is this filmic fantasy or stone-cold fact?

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Could a 1.2-ton car really skim upon like a skipping stone?

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So what's the plan?

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I have watched the scene over and over in slow motion.

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And what I have found that watching frame by frame

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and skipped about four times over a 100-foot body of water.

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We get a Lamborghini, drive it at 50 miles an hour,

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and see if it can skip across 100 feet of water.

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Who is going to let us borrow their $250,000 car

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and drive into a lake to test this?

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I mean, it's not going to happen.

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This isn't going to be easy.

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sometimes you get what you need.

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What in the heck did she get that for?

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That doesn't look like a Lamborghini.

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Super car it ain't, but it's still a perfect stunt stand-in.

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weight and weight distribution are almost identical.

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our resident control geek gets to work.

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I got a plan.

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I got a plan.

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With Grant's remote control under control,

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Tari's talking tracks.

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Now for this myth, as well as the car, we need two things.

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for this car to try to skip across.

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Now, we've looked all over San Francisco.

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We've looked all over California, and we have come up with nothing,

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which means only one thing.

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Road trip, baby.

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Wouldn't it have been easier if we could fly?

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With local lakes few and far between,

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the team hits the road to a familiar location.

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The last time the team visited the test track of Freightliner,

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they put some big rig myths to the test.

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With open space and miles of track weight,

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it was the perfect place to put their lives on the line.

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a giant, purpose-built pond.

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Ideal for a sports car to skip.

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Only not this one.

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This is just for show.

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Why'd you stop?

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We're supposed to skip it.

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Yeah, but that's why we have make-and-believe Lamborghinis.

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Where did you get that car?

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Well, a good friend let me buy it.

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What do you think about our pond?

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This is a gorgeous pond.

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This is a little bit bigger than I thought it was going to be.

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100 feet long, 27 feet wide, and 3 feet deep.

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Tori and Jesse break out the heavy machinery.

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We can look at as close as we possibly can,

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and that Lamborghini had a little bit of lift before it went across the water.

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And a little lift that equates to a movie matching 8-inch mount.

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With that time lapsed into place, Jesse casts the first stone.

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Now this whole myth is about skipping a car across the water like a stone.

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I'm sure you've all tried it before.

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it'll actually bounce across the water's surface.

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The spin on the stone stabilizes it and stops it from simply falling into the water.

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then each time it hits the water's surface and pushes some of the water downwards,

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the stone is forced upwards.

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So the stone continues to skip along the surface until eventually it runs out of speed and sinks.

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So if skimming is all down to spin and speed with a car that isn't revolving, skip.

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There's something that doesn't look quite right with this car.

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It doesn't look fast enough.

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That's a fast car.

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We are ready to find out if this car is going to skip.

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Is it going to work?

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Probably not.

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What I think is going to happen is it might skip once?

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It's not going to make it to the end, either way.

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Well, all is about to be revealed.

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As Jesse heads to her vantage point, a clearly excited Grant starts the engines.

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The car is armed.

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This is it, you guys.

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And Tori gives the countdown.

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The car skipped just like in the movie.

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Here we go.

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In three, two, one, hit it.

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Next, Adam and Jamie get to the bottom of the Rat P puzzle.

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Oh, it's like a concentrated pet store.

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That's what that smells like.

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Dirty rats.

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They're everywhere.

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But are these crafty rodents leaving disease-ridden calling cards on soda cans?

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Well, after examining a thousand cans from all over San Francisco,

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Adam and Jamie are working.

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So, we're going to have to find out what's going on.

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We're going to have to find out what's going on.

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We're going to have to find out what's going on.

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We're going to have to find out what's going on.

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We're going to have to find out what's going on.

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And this is my appetite.

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Adam and Jamie are working.

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So, where does this leave us?

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Am I lying on a mountain of Rat P infested cans?

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Are we going to need to add it as an ingredient on every soda can,

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or did we just happen to see a bunch of other run-of-the-mill things

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that happen to fluoresce under black light?

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Well, the only way we're going to know is by taking testing to another level.

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Clearly, we need to swab the top of our sample and take it to a lab

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and find out what's on top of them for sure.

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First up is the Rat P positive 1000 can control.

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I'll tell you one thing.

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I am never letting my rats play on my soda cans again.

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The things you learn on this show.

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Using a sterile swab dipped in sterile water,

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each can is swabbed and then a vacuum extracts the sample.

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I got to tell you, this may be boring and it may be painful,

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but it's also really cool.

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Yeah, this is so much fun I can hardly stand it.

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Oh, it's like a concentrated pet store.

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That's what that smells like.

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The lab should show that their positive control is brimming with rat pee,

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but will the random cans also have rodent remains?

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Or did the black light get it wrong?

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You got to try the one-handed bag opening can flip I got going on over here, Jamie.

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It's really saved me time.

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I can see that.

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That is my last can. I'm done. I'll see you later.

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Okay.

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Eventually with both samples collected,

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the Mythbusters head to Stanford University.

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Thank you, sir.

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You're welcome.

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Where Chris Adams and his mass spectrometer

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find out just how the two compare.

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This meticulous machine will detect exactly what each sample contains.

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Rat pee or otherwise.

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The results are in.

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We're done.

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The results are here.

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First up is the positive control.

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We identified 15 proteins specific to rat urine in the positive control samples.

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Urinary proteins. That would be rat pee.

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That's rat pee.

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Okay.

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But what about the reason we're here?

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Yeah, was there any urine on the random sample?

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Absolutely none detected.

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The real world cans are clean.

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They are.

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That is a load off my mind.

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Let's go and get some sodas.

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Turns out the black light had it wrong.

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That glowing organic matter, not rat pee, but harmless dust.

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The mass spectrometer, however, is completely precise.

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This machine is capable of detecting peptides on a femtomol level.

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Something like one in a bazillion.

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Or in other words, it's extremely sensitive.

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So if it says rat urine's not there, it ain't there.

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But given that millions of sodas are drunk every day,

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Jamie's not prepared to call this without a second opinion.

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He wants to find out if you could ever contract a deadly pathogen via a soda can.

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So how likely is it you can catch one of these bugs in this wire?

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Highly unlikely.

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In the case of let's brosis, number one, the usual route of transmission is through broken skin that comes into contact with contaminated bodies of water.

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Number two, the organism when ingested orally is rapidly killed in the stomach.

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So finally, let's spire is highly fragile and it is rapidly killed when it's exposed to a dried environment.

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So even if infected urine did make it onto a soda can, the pathogen would be long dead before anyone took a swig.

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Hey, so what do you say?

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Well, according to the good doctor, catching hentavirus or leptospirosis from rat pee on soda cans is all but impossible.

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Well, that's great. You couple that with our results where we found not a smidgen of rat protein whatsoever on a thousand randomly collected cans.

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And I think we can call this one busted.

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Yeah, busted.

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After the break, will a supercar skip a lake in four bounds and its cops and swobbers as Adam and Jamie turned dirt detectives.

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Mary had a little lamb as fleece was right in the snow.

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Usually when a car drives into water, it does anything but skip.

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But according to this myth, a supercar can leap a lake in four bounds.

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And at Freightliner HQ, our intrepid trio is about to put that to the test.

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Here we go.

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We're about ready to take this and do exactly like they did in the movie, going 50 miles an hour launching off the ramp and skipping it across water.

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Here we go. In three, two, one, hit it.

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Grant's actuators put the pedal to the metal and the mustard menace takes off.

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As the car gains speed, Grant expertly steers it straight down a guideline.

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45.

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Until...

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50 miles an hour.

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With a hop, a flip and a thump, the car crosses the pond but not quite as home.

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That car didn't skip, it flipped.

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Oh my God.

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I don't think...

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That was insane.

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Look at what it did though. It actually made it to the other side of the pond.

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That's not how it's supposed to do it.

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Wow.

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Oh wow.

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Oh my God, we destroyed this car.

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Now we matched pretty much every aspect of the movie.

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The ramp, the speed, the specifications of the car and we got a completely different result.

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What this means is that the movie stunt was fake, that it wasn't a real skip across a leg.

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Now the most likely scenario is that there was a submerged platform, just a few inches below the surface of the water, that the car actually bounced across.

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In addition, in the movie, the car lands on its rear wheels first.

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The only way it could have gotten that trajectory is if it were specifically weighted for the stunt.

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Our car, on the other hand, was weighted to match a stock off the lot 1980's era Lamborghini and it plummeted the nose first.

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All this to say, however you look at it, this myth is busted.

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Busted indeed, but surely they're not going to leave it there.

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Next, Adam and Jamie go on a grime wave.

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Relative filth, the myth and the plan, take one.

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Dude, this one's yours, you're leading this one in.

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Can you remind me?

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Yeah, most people think their toilet seats are pretty dirty.

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Yeah.

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This myth states that that's not necessarily the case, that there are many other locations and things within your average person's immediate vicinity that are far filthier

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than their toilet seat.

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That's what we're going to test.

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We're going to pick a bunch of different places, go out and take samples, grow cultures, compare the results, see what happens, that kind of thing.

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Exactly. Shall we start?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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It seems every week there's a new claim about hidden household hazards.

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But are the microscopic critters on everyday items more menacing than the beastly bugs found on the old porcelain throne?

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Well, the mythbusters are on the swab.

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But where to start?

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Now you may be wondering what are the criteria under which we chose the samples that we were just about to test.

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And it's actually pretty straightforward.

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We looked for objects that you touch every single day that others might touch too.

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Great.

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But since germs aren't visible to the naked eye, they'll need a way to track them down.

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Allow me to demonstrate our sample collection methodology.

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It begins with a dry, cotton-tipped applicator, with which I swab a one inch square of the object in question.

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In this case, it's a scale model of the lunar lander.

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Then I dip that cotton swab in tryptic soy broth for exactly 10 seconds.

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This is basically like a growth medium, a sterile growth medium.

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It's a liquid petri dish, if you will.

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At the end of 10 seconds, which is now, I remove the cotton swab, cap and label my soy broth.

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Later, I'll use it to try and grow some bacteria.

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Yuck!

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If you'll excuse me, I've got some samples to collect.

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First up, our yardstick, the toilet seat.

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Mary had a little lamb.

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Its fleece was white as snow.

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Three, nine, 10 seconds.

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Money.

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Mary had a little lamb as fleece as white as snow.

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They're not regressing.

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The ride ensures that each sample is swabbed for the same count.

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Shopping cart handle.

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Mary had kitchen sponge.

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Everything they swabbed has one thing in common.

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A little lamb.

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Hotel room remote.

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In a plethora of reports, they've all been deemed dirtier than a toilet seat.

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Keyboard.

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Light switch.

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But can that really be true?

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Cell phone.

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Hold on a second.

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With the everyday eight collected, the guys call in Dr. Russell Vance,

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an expert in microbiology.

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You guys ready?

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Ready.

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Then let's begin.

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Okay.

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Number one, toilet seat.

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A precisely pepetted amount of each broth is carefully transferred

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onto an agar petri dish.

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End to the incubator they go.

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They'll sit there overnight at 98.6 degrees.

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And tomorrow, after a steamy night of bacteria breeding,

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there should be plenty of germy growths.

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Let's go.

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Next up.

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Dude, that is nasty.

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The results of the Mythbusters Grime Wave.

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

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Wear what you call experts.

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The Mythbusters are dishing the dirt.

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And last but not least, cell phone.

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Testing the myth that everyday items are more germ-ridden than a toilet seat.

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And after a night of micro multiplication.

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The colonies that are growing in there could be anything.

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They could be yeast, mold, bacteria, whatever.

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So what we're going to do is count and record the different types of colonies

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and also the other types of bacteria that are growing in there.

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And we'll pick the dirtiest ones.

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I see two.

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That's it? Just two from the toilet seat?

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Just two.

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This is already getting interesting.

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The toilet seat is remarkably clean.

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But that's not so true of the others.

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Particularly the kitchen sponge.

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Oh, dude, that is nasty.

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Oh, dude, that is nasty.

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I'm going to get a little bit of that.

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Dude, that is nasty.

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Have fun counting that.

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I'll see you next summer.

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Yeah.

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Well, we don't have that long.

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So Dr. Vance has a solution.

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I think it's almost uncountable.

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So then how do you write that down?

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Well, I would say that's just off the charts.

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The remaining six samples from cell phone to light switch are counted and locked.

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Well, that's it. All present and counted for.

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Which means it's time to sum up the results.

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So our everyday eight swaps have become eight Petri dishes,

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which in turn have yielded eight results.

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And those results are, in order from least filthy to most filthy,

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can you editors help me out with a graphic here?

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That's better.

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So you can see at number eight, with only two colonies, is the toilet seat.

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Then the colony counting increases only slightly until you reach it.

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Number four, the keyboard with 65.

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From there on things start to get really dirty as the colonies go through the roof

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with the light switch and the money before finally topping the chart,

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we have the kitchen sponge.

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A sample so numerous we couldn't even count it.

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So does this mean that the kitchen sponge is the dirtiest thing in your house?

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Well, it actually all depends on what your definition of dirty is.

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Sure, there's a ton of colonies, but suppose those colonies are all totally harmless,

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whereas the two colonies we found on the toilet seat are really nasty.

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What we need to know now is what we're looking at on those Petri dishes.

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Luckily, we found a microbiologist to help us out.

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Yep, it's over to Dr. Vance.

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There you go. Fabulous.

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To find out exactly what kinds of gasly germs lurk within our everyday eight.

506
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Can a car skip a pond like a skimming stone?

507
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000
No, apparently not.

508
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000
But of course, the Mythbusters never leave any stone unturned.

509
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000
All right, so the scene as portrayed in the movie is busted.

510
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000
A car going that fast hitting that ramp, there's no way it would skip to freedom.

511
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000
But that's got me thinking.

512
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:08,000
I wonder what it would take for a sports car like that to make it all the way across the water surface by skipping.

513
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000
Well, that's why we have our patented small scale here at Mythbusters.

514
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000
We'll take a 112 scale car, a 112 scale pond.

515
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000
We'll fiddle around with the parameters until it works, and then we'll take a full scale.

516
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000
And those parameters include presence or absence of the ramp.

517
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000
What are we waiting for? Let's go!

518
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000
Speed. Don't forget the speed.

519
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:30,000
And to find out exactly what it will take to skip a car, first they'll need a scale vehicle.

520
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
So, what I have here is 112 scale Lamborghini.

521
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000
It's an exact replica in every detail except for one, the weight.

522
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000
They did not scale the weight correctly.

523
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,000
Alright, so right now this weighs four pounds. I need to get it to two pounds.

524
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000
This is a pretty nice car. It kind of pains me to do this.

525
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
Look at the detail on this thing.

526
00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:00,000
It's a little auto shop of horrors as Tori strips his teeny turbo down to two pounds.

527
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000
You're probably thinking to yourself, it's not aerodynamic anymore.

528
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000
Well, this is how I'm going to take care of that problem.

529
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000
I'm going to use some tape to cover up all the holes.

530
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,000
That way it'll remain aerodynamic and light.

531
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,000
So with a streamlined supercar, how's the small scale going to go down?

532
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,000
So I have this car jacked up. All I need to do is hit the gas and then stick this car underneath the wheel,

533
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000
which will fire it out just like a baseball pitching machine.

534
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000
It'll go down the track, into the truck, and skip across the water.

535
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000
At least that's the plan. I'm really testing this yet.

536
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,000
As a final touch, Tori adds a bike speedometer to track the speed of the car when it's pushed into the wheel.

537
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000
First things first, we're going to set it up just like in the movie with a slight ramp

538
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
and a scale car going at a scale 50 miles an hour.

539
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000
Here we go in three, two, one.

540
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000
Wow, that was exciting.

541
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Maybe not, but off the rabbit, 50 miles per hour, the car noses into the water.

542
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Just like the full scale.

543
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Alright, so my theory is that we need to ditch the ramp and have the car come into the water at a lower angle.

544
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000
So for this next test, we're going to do it at myth speed.

545
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000
50 miles an hour or scale speed of 14 miles an hour.

546
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
And we won't have the ramp, so we'll see if it works any better.

547
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Three, two, one.

548
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000
That was cool.

549
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000
Indeed it was. That was a small scale car skip.

550
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Now without the ramp going at 50 miles an hour, the car skipped.

551
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000
I mean, eventually it sank, but it did skip.

552
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000
So it's obvious the ramp is a hindrance.

553
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000
The shallower the angle of attack could better for this.

554
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,000
And I think if we get the car going fast enough, we're going to get that little Lamborghini to skip the whole way.

555
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000
Well, for kicks and giggles, should we try and go faster?

556
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000
Like 100 miles an hour?

557
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,000
Yeah.

558
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000
Hit it.

559
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,000
20.

560
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,000
28.

561
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000
Holy crap.

562
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Tori's right.

563
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:14,000
At 100 miles per hour, the model car skips and would skip again, except it runs out of trough.

564
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,000
Check out this high speed.

565
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,000
At 28 miles an hour, which is 100 miles an hour for a real car, the car is skipping across the water,

566
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,000
which means speed is going to be a huge factor when we go to do this full scale.

567
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
But this is just small scale.

568
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000
I mean, this is a toy we're using right now.

569
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,000
When we go to full scale using a car weighing 2600 pounds, who knows what's going to happen?

570
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Coming up.

571
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
Everybody knows that cars with flames are more awesome.

572
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000
Our Intrepid Trio soup up for a super car skid.

573
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Dirt.

574
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000
It's everywhere.

575
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000
You can't run and you can't hide.

576
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,000
But is there more frightening filth lurking on everyday items than on your toy seat?

577
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Adam and Jamie are finding out and the results are in.

578
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000
For those of you playing at home, it is finally time to count down the everyday eight.

579
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Now, this is the table based solely on colony count.

580
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,000
And as you can see, kitchen sponge off the charts is the filthiest thing we found.

581
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000
Toilet seat, the cleanest.

582
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,000
But check out what happens to this list when we count not only for the number of bacterial colonies,

583
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
but also for how nasty they might be.

584
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000
Toilet seat moves up a couple of notches specifically because while it only had two colonies,

585
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
those colonies were actually pretty nasty.

586
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000
The other two big movers, hotel remote control, moved down because it had some colonies,

587
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:43,000
but they weren't actually bacteria and the cell phone moved up because what was on it was pretty nasty.

588
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,000
But staying strong at number one, kitchen sponge, which had a synod, this stuff,

589
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
which is apparently really bad if you have a weakened immune system.

590
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
James Franklin Heidemann, what do you think?

591
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Nice work, but I don't think we can call it yet.

592
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,000
I mean, it's only a single solitary swap. We need a larger sample size.

593
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,000
All right. Well, what say we choose the top five? Toilet seat as a control plus the four top contenders

594
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000
and do a really nice large sample size with those. Our filthy five.

595
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Works for me.

596
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
So to expand their sample size, they're off to UC Berkeley,

597
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000
where a class of microbiologists are about to start myth busting 101.

598
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Hello.

599
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000
Hello.

600
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,000
We need your help. We've selected several surfaces that we're calling the filthy five.

601
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Now, these are surfaces that people come into contact with on a daily basis.

602
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000
And the question we need to answer is how dirty are they? That's where you come in.

603
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Now, in order to get a nice big fat sample size, we need 50 of you to collect us samples from the following.

604
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Toilet seat, a light switch, a kitchen sponge, money, and a computer keyboard.

605
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,000
Can you guys help us?

606
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Yeah.

607
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Awesome.

608
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:02,000
And with a hunger for the filthy five facts, our mob of microbiologists quickly get the swap done.

609
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow.

610
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Then once again, the samples are transferred to the Petriegar, incubated, counted, and finally DNA tested.

611
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Want more? Log on to Discovery.com slash MythBusters. Go.

612
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,000
So far in the Cannonball Run Caper, we've seen a spectacular flip, but there's been no scale.

613
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,000
But after small scale success, this myth is far from sunk.

614
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000
In the small scale test, we did learn a couple of important things.

615
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Yeah. First thing is that the ramp has got to go.

616
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,000
We need to glide onto the water surface as seamlessly as possible, so the ramp is out.

617
00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:00,000
And also speed is a very important factor here. The faster the car is going, the better chances it has of getting across the pond.

618
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Now, how fast are we talking? We're talking rocket fast?

619
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000
No, it's actually surprising how little speed we need.

620
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:12,000
All we would have to do is get another sports car, take it to the max, and it should make it across the water.

621
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,000
But just in case, why don't I add some nitrous just for the extra little kick?

622
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Perfect.

623
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Wait, yes. I think I see some radio controlling in my future.

624
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000
It's like you're a mind reader.

625
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Yep, grants the controlling time, and luckily the team has found just the thing for test two.

626
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,000
So we pretty much know what went wrong with the first car.

627
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Believe it or not, we got a second car of the same vintage, and this one is as good as gold.

628
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
In fact, it is gold.

629
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000
But before we can take it back to Madras for a second try, I've got to do a little radio control magic.

630
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Now after it's tripped across the water, I managed to salvage the control system.

631
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000
And here it is.

632
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Now all I have to do is install this in the second car and we'll be ready to go.

633
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Since I've already done this once, it should be pretty easy.

634
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Once again, it's a simple setup of servos, cylinders, and wiring.

635
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Which one is it? The brown wire? The other brown wire? Or the other other brown wire?

636
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:20,000
And while Grantson's installing his system, Jesse is giving the horsepower a boost.

637
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000
Okay, so what we have here is a normal engine.

638
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Air comes in, mixes with fuel, and then is dispersed down into the cylinders.

639
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Now we need this little engine to go as fast as we can possibly make it go.

640
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
So we're going to be adding nitrous.

641
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Now what nitrous does is it's added into the mixture, helping cool it down, giving it a more dense charge.

642
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000
It adds more oxygen. All of this, making the rate of compression happen a whole lot faster.

643
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Which in turn, takes this little car go as fast as we wanted to go.

644
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,000
You know what would make this car more awesome? Flames.

645
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Because everybody knows that cars with flames are more awesome.

646
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
See? I told you.

647
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:08,000
While flames undoubtedly add style, Jesse's knock system will add much needed speed.

648
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Alright, now being the fact that this is an older car, it's not going to want to get up to the speeds that we really want it to.

649
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000
So adding this nitrous is definitely going to help us get across that water.

650
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Especially by looking at all of our past tests, we need as much speed as we can get.

651
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000
So this is just going to be one of those added benefits.

652
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,000
So basically all you got to do is hook up the nitrous, tap into the fuel lines, wire it, and it's ready to go.

653
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
It's very, very simple.

654
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Okay, so the car is looking great.

655
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,000
The radio system's in. Jesse's added the sheet metal on the bottom to reduce the drag and the knock system to increase the speed.

656
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
And Tori has finished the nose cone.

657
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Now all we have to do is go back to Oregon and see once and for all if we can get a car to skim.

658
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Who could possibly go wrong?

659
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Next, it's sync or skim for the car to skim finale.

660
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,000
My heart rate just went up. We started that engine. I'm ready to do this.

661
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Skipping. Kids can do it. Insects can do it. Even a well-aimed stone can do it.

662
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000
But can a car weighing over a ton do it?

663
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Well, the mythbusters are back at Freightliner HQ to find out.

664
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000
This ain't built for comfort. That's for sure.

665
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,000
But man, it sure looks good.

666
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000
They've souped up their supercar to give it the best chance of a skip.

667
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
But there's still one more modification to make.

668
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:43,000
The first thing I have to do is get rid of this ramp. I'm going to get my big digger and knock this thing out of here.

669
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Counter-intuitively, ramping up this test means getting rid of the ramp.

670
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Who said TV's not glamorous?

671
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000
This little wire right here, this is the Go Baby Go wire.

672
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Now, my only concern is that this system gives out over 100 horsepower boost to the engine.

673
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,000
That's basically doubling this little guy's horsepower.

674
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:15,000
So, my concerns lie in the fact of possibly blowing up before it actually hits the water.

675
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000
But I have faith that it's actually going to make it all the way. Most of it.

676
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Thanks to the nitrous, it'll be traveling at twice the speed of the last test.

677
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,000
And as far as traveling fast enough, each time it hits the surface and water downward,

678
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,000
the opposing force of the water pushing up on the car should propel it forward.

679
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000
At least, that's the theory.

680
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Nitrous bottle is now open, system engaged.

681
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Nothing's going to happen until you push your Go button.

682
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Alright.

683
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,000
No turning back now.

684
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Grant nervously makes his last minute checks, and then it's Go time.

685
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Alright, time to turn on the car.

686
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000
The vehicle is in drive.

687
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Yay!

688
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Okay.

689
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Dude, has it hit you yet?

690
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
We are about to skip a car across the pond.

691
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
This is crazy, man.

692
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
This is totally, totally crazy.

693
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
We're like Dumb on Louise.

694
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000
We are?

695
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
I just say dumb things when I'm excited.

696
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Okay.

697
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000
In three, two, one, hit it.

698
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Okay, brakes off.

699
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,000
And here we go.

700
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
It's make or break time.

701
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Grant builds up the speed, then presses the Go baby Go button.

702
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Here goes the nitrous.

703
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,000
The car surges forward, and then when it reaches the edge of the lake,

704
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
physics take over.

705
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000
No!

706
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Please skip the car across the lake.

707
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:01,000
The Mythbusters understandably can't contain their excitement.

708
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000
That was a full scale car skip.

709
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000
The high speed shows the super car skip twice across the 100 foot lake,

710
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000
and then continue to drive on the far bank.

711
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
That is until Grant remembers to apply the brakes.

712
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Yes!

713
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
I was piloting in the car.

714
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
We hit the water.

715
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
I saw a big splash.

716
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Like, okay, we hit the water.

717
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000
And then the water went down, and the car was still driving on the other side.

718
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
We did it!

719
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000
We skipped!

720
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
And this little guy, I'm so proud of it.

721
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,000
I am so proud of it.

722
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
We doubled its horsepower, more than doubled its horsepower.

723
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000
And it's still running.

724
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Look at this.

725
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
I'm so happy.

726
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,000
We did it.

727
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000
We set out to skip a car, and we actually did it.

728
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000
I mean, the small scale said it would work, but we didn't believe it.

729
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
But we brought it out here, and it did it.

730
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
It did exactly what the small scale did.

731
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Seeing is believing.

732
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000
I can't get over this.

733
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000
We actually skipped a car across the pond.

734
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
It's so awesome that they're both still running.

735
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000
I can't believe it worked.

736
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000
I know.

737
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000
We got a car to flip and skip.

738
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
All right, last one of the show.

739
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I know a shortcut.

740
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Go, go, go, go!

741
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Woo-hoo!

742
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You guys, that was pretty awesome.

743
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
I have never seen anything like that before.

744
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I mean, we totally replicated the result, and we got a car that weighs over a ton

745
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to bounce across the surface of a pond.

746
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
I know, and how cool was that high speed?

747
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Absolutely.

748
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000
But it's not a big deal.

749
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000
It's a high speed.

750
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Absolutely.

751
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,000
But you know the most amazing thing is how little it actually took to do it.

752
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I mean, that was a 15-year-old car going a little bit more than highway speed.

753
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No rockets, no special tires, no ramp, and no underwater platform.

754
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
And it skipped across the lake.

755
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Just like the small scale said it would.

756
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,000
I agree.

757
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000
However, I'm with Grant.

758
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I just cannot believe how easy it was to do.

759
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,000
In fact, it's so easy.

760
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I think we really need to stop and say, do not try this at home.

761
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Yes.

762
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000
Let's keep in mind the movie is still busted.

763
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Of course, going 50 miles an hour with a ramp and you're going for a swim.

764
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Yeah, but you get rid of that ramp, you put the pedal to the metal, and you just might

765
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make it home safe and dry.

766
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Yep.

767
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000
You know what I think?

768
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000
I think we need to look at that high speed shot one more time.

769
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Absolutely.

770
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000
Because with results like these, we're skipping over ourselves to show you them again.

771
00:41:42,000 --> 00:42:00,000
But spectacular high speeds aside, let's not forget that there's another dirty story awaiting

772
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000
conclusion.

773
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:09,000
And after a swathe of swabs and a deluge of DNA tests, that conclusion is at last cooked.

774
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Ladies and gentlemen, it is finally time for the filthy five countdown in order from cleanest

775
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
to dirtiest and starting at number five.

776
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,000
We have the light switch number four, our control, the toilet seat number three, the keyboard

777
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,000
number two, money and the number one dirtiest thing of everything that we tested.

778
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000
He's back on top after a year of hard training.

779
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Jamie, come on in and name number one.

780
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
The kitchen sponge.

781
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Where does that leave us?

782
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Well, given the myth that there are everyday things in your house that are far filthier

783
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
than your toilet seat, I'd say it's totally confirmed.

784
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Confirmed it is.