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

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You heard him. Don't do it.

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On this high velocity episode of Mythbusters...

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I'm all oiled up and ready to go.

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Adam and Janey wreak highway havoc in Spycar Escape.

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You're not gonna catch me.

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Just how difficult is it to give your pursuer the slip?

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I gotta say that's pretty effective.

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With in-car weapons that always seem to work so well in the movies.

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There it goes. It's deployed!

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Then Tori, Grant and Carrie play hardball with a myth of momentum.

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We're gonna see that ball drop.

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As they aim to find out if an object shot backwards while traveling forwards...

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I feel like a gladiator ready to be slaughtered.

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...would really drop straight to the ground.

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That was a pretty good shot.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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We would need to bring some more power.

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And Jamie Heinemann.

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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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We've got to keep the reflux!

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Joining them...

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Tori Belleggi.

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Hello, fire!

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Grant Imahara.

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Hey!

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And Carrie Byra.

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What's the matter here? See?

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They don't just tell the Myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Check it out.

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You know we love our movie myths.

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And specifically we love our Super Spy movie myths.

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This next one involves devices that a spy puts into their car...

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to instantly stop someone from following them in a car chase scenario.

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Ah, like a smoke screen.

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Exactly.

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And I'm thinking we test all the classics.

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Smoke screen, I'm thinking releasing a bunch of tax.

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And oil slick.

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Fast cars, dangerous gadgets.

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I'm up for it.

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I thought you would pay.

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The concept is almost as old as the automobile itself.

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Arming a car with the right kind of gadgets to ensure a slick getaway.

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Right on the arm!

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The boys are revved up to test three of the all-time classics...

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in a series of equally classic car chases.

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This is Adam. Can someone get me a car?

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This is Jamie. Make it sporty.

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Isn't that nice?

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That's cute. Drive it on in.

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Okay.

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This is SpyCar One.

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Right now it's a normal car, but when we're finished with it...

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it's going to have all the little tricks and gadgets that any self-respecting spy car would have.

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Just ought to do.

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So it's straight down to business.

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And the key word right now is deployment.

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Welcome to Jamie's Chop Shop.

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All movie fans know that most weapons are launched from the trunk...

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and a hole in the floor with a sliding trapdoor should fit the bill.

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Jamie's simple release can be sprung from a cord to the cockpit.

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It's not fancy.

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I ought to do it.

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But it works.

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With the car customized, it's off to the test track to load it with weapons.

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We're at the Alameda County Emergency Vehicle Operations Center...

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which is where the police practice chasing bad guys.

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Which means it's perfect for us.

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Of course there's no chase without a chase car...

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and an experienced daredevil to drive it.

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Morning, sir.

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Morning.

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How are you?

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I'm good. How are you?

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Good. Good day for a car chase?

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Everyday is a good day for a car chase.

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What is it that makes Brian uniquely qualified to perform this test with us?

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I ask you to cast your line back to driving in the rain.

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We'll Brian hydroplane it over 100 miles per hour...

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and get a 720 degree turn.

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Look at the internal camera.

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That impassive face on him is the face of confidence...

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and it is the face that will lead this test for us.

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If we can evade him, we can evade anybody.

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Escaping a driver who's more skilled than you means disabling his car.

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So, what's the first trick in Adam's trunk?

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They may look friendly, but these are quarter-inch pieces of hot roll steel...

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bent at right angles and welded into a tetrahedral arrangement...

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and then sharpened.

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These are road spikes.

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Always have one point facing up.

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I think they're going to be highly effective when I drop them from the back of the evading...

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Spy car.

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With over a hundred of these lethal little tire shredders, he might be right.

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But Jamie also has a point.

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Now, I have no doubt that these tacks are going to stick in the tires...

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but will they deflate the tires quickly enough to keep our spy happy?

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I'm not so sure.

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Well, first, a quick check on the rules of the chase.

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So, Brian, what are the criteria for escaping?

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If Adam's able to get far enough ahead of us that he actually loops and gets behind us...

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then he's gotten away.

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Also, if he makes a turn on the course someplace that I don't catch...

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and then we end up taking a different turn or a different route, then I've lost him.

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Okay, then.

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The cones are lined up to mark out a long and winding road.

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And they're ready to rumble.

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Okay, this is Spy Car in Evasion Techniques.

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The tacks.

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Eat my dust.

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Make no mistake.

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Both drivers are hell-bent on surviving the chase.

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Brian keeps a respectful distance of five or six car lengths.

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He's picking up a little speed.

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Eventually, right before a curve, Adam decides to drop his load.

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There we go.

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Despite his considerable skill, Brian's going too fast to avoid all the tacks.

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They stuck in. I can hear them.

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But at least for the moment, the chase car shows no signs of losing momentum.

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We must have had about a half a dozen at least in there.

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We're holding on just fine.

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I wouldn't take corners too fast in it, but...

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Okay, we got ya. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

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So what happens? Didn't... Oh! I got you!

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Well, you did, but then you didn't.

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The tacks went into the tires, but we were on your tail for several minutes afterwards.

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It didn't slow us down.

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I thought that as soon as you hit the tacks, you'd be skidding off the road immediately.

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I've got flat tires, but you still didn't get away.

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No, I didn't get away. Shoot, I wouldn't have called that.

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The tacks eventually worked, but they took their sweet time.

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I'll say one thing else. While I'm fagging it out on this course, help and for leather,

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it's really disconcerting to look into my rear view mirror and see Brian passively driving after me.

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It's like a lion playing with his food.

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Jamie thinks he knows why the spikes kind of worked and kind of didn't.

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The problem with tacks is that they plug the hole that they create,

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and they don't let the air out quick enough.

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Now, eventually, sure, your tire is going to deflate,

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but as far as a pursuit goes, you could hang on for quite a while.

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As a quick escape option, the tacks didn't cut it.

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So it's onto phase two of the myth, blinding the pursuer in a cloud of smoke.

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Today, the role of smoke in our little Spy Car episode is going to be played by a military smoke grenade.

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Now we were offered the chance to use a minimum smoke grenade, but we said, hell no, give us maximum smoke.

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Military style. What does that look like? I don't know. Let's check it out.

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Providing the wind doesn't pick up, that should work nicely.

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This rig is about as simple as it gets. All you do is pull the pin, you've got smoke.

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All I've done is strap them to the back of the inside of the car.

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I've hooked them up to cables that go into the cockpit of the car. I pull on the cables.

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I'm gone in a puff of smoke.

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Well, that's the theory.

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Okay, smoke evasion. You guys ready?

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That's affirmative law breaker. Do your worst.

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Right from the get go, Janey sets a cracking pace through the traffic cones.

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Brian has no idea when to expect the smoke, but he doesn't have long to wait.

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For the first few seconds, the deployment looks picture perfect.

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It's right about now that it all goes horribly wrong as Janey's convertible starts filling with smoke.

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He misses the wall by a whisker and the chase is called off before Janey swallows more than his pride.

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I think he has to get out.

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You okay? Can we get some water over here for Janey right away?

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This smoke has gone literally everywhere. It's coming out of every nook and cranny of this car.

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Well, that right there was a real pink panther moment.

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I mean, we build these things and we're going to be able to get out of here.

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With the rushing air pushed over and around the windscreen, the car's interior became a low pressure zone,

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sucking much of the smoke back up over the trunk.

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That's a rig failure.

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I think it's a good idea to get out of here.

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I think it's a good idea to get out of here.

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I think it's a good idea to get out of here.

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I think it's a good idea to get out of here.

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We're going to have to get out of here and get much of the smoke back up over the trunk.

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That's a rig failure, not a technique failure. We're going to have to reset and try it again.

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Adam's right. It's unfair to condemn a myth due to faulty method.

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We'll reassess and reload to hopefully make the convertible cockpit a smoke-free zone.

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After the break, Carrie Grant and Tori take a treadmill walk on the wild side.

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I'm never going to be...

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So what are you so excited about?

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Well, it's our turn to try a new type of myth, the physics thought experiment.

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Great! So I'm going to get the old gray matter working.

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So here's how this one goes. Let's say you're driving along in a car at X miles an hour.

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You throw something out the back in the opposite direction at the same speed.

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Does it just fall straight down?

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Basically what you're saying is the forward momentum and the backward momentum

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cancel each other out completely.

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Exactly. Or is there some other factor like air resistance that makes it impossible?

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And I wonder if it works at six miles an hour. Will it also work at 60?

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That is what we're going to find out.

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It makes sense that an object subjected to equal and opposite forces,

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forwards and backwards, would drop like a stone.

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But unless we can prove it in real life, this simple equation's no more than an untested myth.

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So how are we going to test this one?

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How about a pickup truck with a treadmill on the back?

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A pickup truck drives forward at 10 miles an hour, a treadmill goes back at 10 miles an hour,

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and then one of us jumps on it.

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By one of us you mean Tori?

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What? So this is to see if I just fall straight down or get flung off the back.

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That's the idea.

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Yeah, great idea.

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Best if they bust out the gym equipment before Tori changes his mind.

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That seems safe enough.

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Normally treadmills are pretty straightforward.

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You set the speed and go.

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That is, of course, if you haven't been drinking.

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As Adam bravely proved, the treadmill is not to be trifled with.

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And now it's Tori's turn.

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My question is if he jumps onto a moving treadmill,

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will it slow down and actually throw him off at a slower speed?

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To test this, we're going to put a 180 pound load onto the treadmill,

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see if it slows down.

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If it does, then we'll turn it up until it throws it off at the target speed.

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According to the manual, the maximum speed of the treadmill is 10 miles per hour.

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That's fast enough to get the stripes strobing.

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That looks a little crazy to me.

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It looks a lot crazy.

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That looks so dangerous.

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I would not want to try to jump on that.

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And at least for the moment, he doesn't.

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That was kind of a problem.

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In fact, it was just what Grant predicted.

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The bag slowed the belt down to a relative crawl.

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It actually covers fairly quickly.

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And it gets back up to 5.45 miles per hour.

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All right, now the tricky part is doing it without falling.

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I suggest you tuck and roll.

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So to balance the myth, the truck should also move forwards at 5.5 miles per hour.

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All that remains is to attach one to the other.

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Are you really going to run on this thing, huh?

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Not so much run.

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More just fly off the back.

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Four bolts later, this traveling treadmill is primed for a field trip.

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They're bound for the Concord Naval Weapon Station, where the roads are long and level.

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That's not going anywhere.

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No, that's good.

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Should be real safe. Real safe.

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That would be the least of our safety concerns, I think.

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Straps on the famous red suit.

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Carrie still can't understand why his knee pads are traveling.

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You got dragged by a horse and it didn't seem like a bad idea.

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Got buried alive, didn't seem like a bad idea.

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Whoa, whoa, stop, stop!

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You got in a ring with a bullet, didn't seem like a bad idea.

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He's looking right at us.

246
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This is a bad idea.

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I feel like a gladiator ready to be slaughtered.

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We'll chalk that one up as a yes.

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So here's the setup. For our control test, our truck is going to be stationary.

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Troy's going to drop under the treadmill and then project off the end of the truck in a gentle arc.

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Okay, so this is our control test. You ready?

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I'm ready. I'm never going to be.

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Famous last words as a telephone call disrupts the filming.

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Hello?

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Who is it?

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Yeah, we've got the insurance company shipped.

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This is Brian. He's our director.

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You should know better.

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What's going on?

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With uncanny timing, the office has called up to tell them that Tori cannot take the fall.

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Okay, so this is unusual. We're just about to go for it and our producer gets a phone call from the insurers.

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Apparently, this is way too dangerous for Tori to attempt, this uncontrollable fall.

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So I think we're going to have to go for the next best thing, which is sandbags or something.

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So while Tori stands down, the supply truck is ransacked for raw materials.

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Okay, what do we got?

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They're looking to build a substitute fall guide, so coveralls and a blow-up doll fit the bill.

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How's that? Has it gotten into the legs?

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Oh, it is. It's getting heavy.

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And there's a real bonus to having a sand-filled stand-in.

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They can fill it to just a fraction of Tori's weight, so they can run their tests at 10 miles per hour, not the planned five.

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Not bad for a stand-in, Tori.

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It's only fitting that the man who missed out gets to discharge his stunt double.

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Alright, here we go. 10 miles an hour.

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In three, two, one.

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I am so glad that that wasn't you, man.

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That was an arc. I wouldn't say a gentle arc.

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Nor would we, and it's probably time to admit that the safety team had a fair point.

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So in our control test, stand-in Tori was thrown six feet away from the treadmill from a height of three and a half feet.

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What this means is he didn't fall straight down, but that's not a surprise.

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Now it's time to move on.

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Okay, this is the main test. I'm going to drive the pickup at 10 miles an hour while Tori throws his sand-in onto the treadmill right in front of the high-speed cameras.

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If the sack of sand comes even close to falling straight to the ground, we'll finally know that this myth is on track.

283
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It's a rare case where the team gets excited by a lack of spectacle.

284
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Still, best check the high speed.

285
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So watch that point right there.

286
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Oh, nice timing on the drop.

287
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It pretty much dropped straight down.

288
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I mean, compared to our control test, it would have been out there.

289
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Yeah. Here, straight down.

290
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That is really cool.

291
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So there might be some merit to this myth.

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Absolutely.

293
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The morning's testing was a total success, and they'd learned something along the way.

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First of all, we learned that Tori is more important than we thought.

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We can't just chuck him off the back of a truck.

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Secondly, we learned something from our 10-mile-an-hour test.

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We had the treadmill going at 10 miles an hour on a stationary truck.

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We dropped our sand-in Tori, and he fell in a little arc.

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Then we drove exactly 10 miles an hour, dropped our sand-in Tori in the same position, and he went straight down.

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But this is Mythbusters, and we just can't stop there.

301
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Coming up, Adam and Jamie look for satisfaction in traction.

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I gotta say, that's pretty effective.

303
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So far, the spikes are a bust, and the smoke is a maybe in our spy car evasion myth.

304
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Given that Jamie almost gassed himself first time around, he's made some modifications.

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I didn't like inhaling all that smoke, so I've done a couple of things.

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The first is that I've put the smoke bombs out away from the car.

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And the second is, Adam's gonna drive.

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So the scene is set for a smarter and healthier smoke screen.

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All right Jamie, are you ready?

310
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We're ready.

311
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Okay, eat my smoke.

312
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Adam leads Brian on a merry chase.

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You know this is pretty fun.

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Till the time comes to pull the pin on those twin grenades.

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Oh, there we go.

316
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I gotta say, that's pretty effective.

317
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The smoke comes thick and fast as the chase car slows to a crawl.

318
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Oh.

319
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And Adam actually starts to catch up.

320
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With the red car now in Brian's rear view mirror, Adam's officially shaken his tail.

321
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I think that's a win.

322
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Good job.

323
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That was awesome.

324
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At one point I looked over and Jamie and Brian were like all the way across the course.

325
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At that point I figured I had it.

326
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With one crucial adjustment, the smoke screen worked big time.

327
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Now to move on to a test that should push Brian's skills to the limit.

328
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Well, you know this is good for the taste buds and bad for the waistline.

329
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The question is, is it good for the escapee and bad for the pursuer?

330
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I think it will be.

331
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As Adam implied, we are doing our best to save the planet.

332
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The lubricant of choice is vegetable oil.

333
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Okay guys, I'm all oiled up and ready to go.

334
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Are you ready?

335
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000
We're ready, yes.

336
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000
This should be slick.

337
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000
Knowing what's coming won't help Brian avoid a potential disaster.

338
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The course is too narrow to skirt around the slick.

339
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,000
And he doesn't know where or when Jamie plans to give him the slip.

340
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And then we see oil pour out of his back.

341
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000
And Brian tries to avoid it, but actually because Jamie does it on the turn,

342
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it sort of crosses the whole road and we can't avoid it.

343
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The chase car has clearly lost traction.

344
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It slips and it slides as Brian struggles to point the nose forward and stay on the track.

345
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Definitely made a slick.

346
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Yes, definitely.

347
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He's lost valuable time as the car careens sideways and Jamie decides to quit while he's ahead.

348
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At speed, the rig worked perfectly.

349
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000
Unfortunately, it didn't cause us to totally spin out and lose control of our car.

350
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Jamie did get far ahead, but Brian was able to stay on the road.

351
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So where does that leave us overall?

352
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Well, it's tally them up.

353
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Tax.

354
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Busted.

355
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Smoke screen.

356
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Confirmed.

357
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Oil slick.

358
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Somewhere in the middle.

359
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I agree.

360
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Somewhere in the middle.

361
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All right, let's get out of here and slowly please.

362
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That's three classic evasion techniques done in Dustin.

363
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But they're having way too much fun to stop here.

364
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Carrie, Grant and Tori are trying to confirm the myth that a dead weight drops straight to the ground

365
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if its forward momentum is exactly the same as its backwards propulsion.

366
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So far, a mobile treadmill seems to have proved the point.

367
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000
True, but you know the fans are never going to be happy if we stop right there.

368
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000
We have to test this at higher speeds.

369
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000
All right, why don't we ramp it up?

370
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We'll build an air cannon, fire a soccer ball at 60 miles an hour.

371
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We'll do it again inside of a moving vehicle going 60 miles an hour.

372
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See if the energies cancel each other out and we get a vertical drop.

373
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Love it.

374
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Let's do it.

375
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Grant gets the task of building the cannon and he's not one for half measures.

376
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This is our next step in testing this myth.

377
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It's the barrel of the largest air cannon I have ever built.

378
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Okay, here we go.

379
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000
9 psi in three, two, one.

380
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Yep, that looked like 60 miles an hour to me.

381
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000
At a check of the high speed confirms the call.

382
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The good news is that we have our number.

383
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We now know that 9 psi equals 60 miles an hour out of the barrel.

384
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Perfect.

385
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000
Great.

386
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,000
That's our target speed.

387
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000
All right, we're there.

388
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000
Well, almost.

389
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,000
It's now back to Concord to see if they've got the balance just right.

390
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000
All right, time to give this experiment a shot of steroids.

391
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000
Logistically, this is going to be a very difficult experiment.

392
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000
Everything has to come together for it to actually yield the results we want.

393
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000
I mean, the small scale was brilliant.

394
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000
If we can get anywhere close to that, I will be happy.

395
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000
But Tori's already anticipating trouble down the road.

396
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000
My feeling is, Grant's going to prematurely hit that button

397
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000
and the soccer ball is not actually going to make it in the high speed shot.

398
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000
We'll see what happens.

399
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000
All right, you guys ready?

400
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000
Cannon is armed and truck is in place.

401
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000
We're ready on your go, Tori.

402
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000
Hit it.

403
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000
20, 30, 40, 50.

404
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000
I'm going to get to 60.

405
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000
Come on.

406
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000
Okay.

407
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000
And fire.

408
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000
Hey!

409
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000
That was a pretty good shot.

410
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000
It's in the high speed.

411
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Given how hard this is to get right, it's a mighty first effort,

412
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000
but the ball did bounce backwards.

413
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000
It's not perfect.

414
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000
It's not the same results as the other one.

415
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000
That's what I'm saying.

416
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000
This should drop straight down, not fly backwards.

417
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000
It's agreed that either the car was too slow or the cannon too fast.

418
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000
The afternoon rolls on as a series of runs.

419
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000
The ball did not drop straight down.

420
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000
Never quite seemed to hit the mark.

421
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000
Looking good.

422
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000
And he fired it too soon.

423
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000
But the ball still bounced backwards.

424
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:42,000
25 attempts later, they haven't come close to seeing the soccer ball drop like a stone.

425
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:49,000
Some even bounced forwards, and it could be the cannon, the car, or the myth that's at fault.

426
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,000
We could be out here all day and not get a result.

427
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000
This might be the time to rethink their approach.

428
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000
After all, no one said science was meant to be easy.

429
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:08,000
Up next, Jamie and Adam take on each other in an empty head spy car challenge.

430
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000
Not hard to do it.

431
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
Please do not try what we do on the show at home.

432
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000
We're what you call experts.

433
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000
It's safer that way.

434
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000
Adam and Jamie have already tested three classic spy car evasion techniques.

435
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Tax, smoke, and a 10 gallon oil slip.

436
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:42,000
And the best way to keep the thrills coming is getting our two spies to take on each other with weapons they'll both build from scratch.

437
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Pop quiz, what do you see here on the table?

438
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000
You may see a random clutch in the plumbing parts.

439
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000
I see the next evolution in spy evasion technology.

440
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Ow!

441
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,000
If you think Adam's being deliberately obscure, give a load of Jamie.

442
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000
You know what they say, the best defense is a good offense.

443
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Well, I figure I'm going to make something that I can take right to the pursuer's car, deliver it point blank, and take him out.

444
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:21,000
Ensuring their secrets remain just that, a huge curtain divides the workshop, while Adam assembles what looks and sounds like a prototype space shuttle toilet.

445
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000
Jamie gets low down, nasty.

446
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000
Yeah, baby.

447
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
That thing starts to dig in.

448
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000
We've got some trouble on our hands.

449
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:43,000
It's clear from the outset this mystery rig will be heavy duty, as gear teeth are cut into crommely steel with a plasma torch.

450
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000
Whatever he's building, it's a safe bet this would get you suspended from metal shop.

451
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
That ought to do it.

452
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000
After hours of diligent, diabolical labor, Jamie's finally up for some show and tell.

453
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:10,000
I've made this relatively simple looking little thing out of crommely steel, and it's flat enough to mount underneath my car out of sight and out of mind.

454
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:19,000
But it's going to be mounted in a gun, and I'm going to drive up to the pursuer's car, fire this from under my car right over the ground to under their car.

455
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,000
At which point it changes, and it goes like that.

456
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,000
If it works on the day, that's a bona fide car crippler.

457
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Yeah.

458
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000
Adam, meantime, has taken his show on the road.

459
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,000
In a radical twist, it looks like he's trying to slow himself down.

460
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000
That's promising right there.

461
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:51,000
The idea is to shut down the chase car with a parachute blindfold, launched from that strange plumbing project.

462
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:59,000
He'll cut the rig loose when it's caught enough air, the main chute deployed by a much smaller one called a drogue.

463
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:06,000
I'm going to try throwing this out as I drive and see if that launches this parachute for me.

464
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Adam takes off, and short of cutting loose the big chute, the test seems to work.

465
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Ow!

466
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000
Okay, ow!

467
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:30,000
The parachute launched and immediately ripped this off the trunk and sent it into my head.

468
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:36,000
But I like the drogue chute. It seems like a nice quick deploy.

469
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:43,000
While Adam untangles, Jamie just adds to his arsenal how this one fits in is anyone's guess.

470
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000
It's still smoking.

471
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:53,000
But his real party piece is the Auto Stub 3000, installed in a tube welded under the chassis.

472
00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:01,000
When I pull this trigger, the pressurized air that's in this tank goes through the valve, out the bottom of the car and out the barrel.

473
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:12,000
And so the air from the car has shot this whole assembly out the bottom of this car aimed for the bottom of the neighboring car.

474
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000
That would be a successful test.

475
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Adam's also been busy customizing his rear end.

476
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Then, just to rattle Jamie's cage.

477
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Yeah, yeah, bring in all the puppies and all the lead.

478
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:33,000
On that disturbing note, it's time to return to a favorite Mythbusters test track, this abandoned suburb at Fort Orr.

479
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Are you ready for this?

480
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000
I'm ready.

481
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000
I want to go first, because I don't think you can handle my technique.

482
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Knock yourself out.

483
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
Okay, here's my plan.

484
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Right about here, I'm going to push the launch switch, activating the cannon, setting the drope shoot out behind my car.

485
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,000
At this point, Brian and Jamie are likely to wonder what the hell's going on, and they're likely to back off a little bit.

486
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000
It'll take the drope shoot a little while to fully inflate the parachute.

487
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,000
Right about here, in fact, at that point, Brian and Jamie are likely to be wondering,

488
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
what the hell am I doing slowing myself down with a parachute?

489
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:13,000
And this is where I activate the final part of my plan, which is to cut the cord that holds the parachute to my car.

490
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,000
They will either A, get entangled in the parachute, or B, figure that because the parachute stopped, I've stopped, and they will stop.

491
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Meanwhile, I will have pulled into my secret hiding place, out of sight of the road, sending them down the wrong road, looking for me in the wrong place.

492
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000
I think it's a pretty sound plan. I think it'll work.

493
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Let's remember that Jamie hasn't a clue that the plan is to blind him with billows of nylon.

494
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Nothing to see here, folks.

495
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000
Are you guys ready?

496
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000
We're all set.

497
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Okay, eat my dust.

498
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Adam takes off like a shell from a shotgun.

499
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
Once again, Brian's steering the chase car.

500
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000
These streets have never seen speeds like these.

501
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,000
You're not going to catch me. I got a secret weapon right here on the desk.

502
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
And the shoot is let loose right on the mark.

503
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Here it goes. It's deployed.

504
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Parachutes out.

505
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Oh, and it's away.

506
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Nice try.

507
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000
But no cigar.

508
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
I hope that wasn't all he had.

509
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Well, it was all he had.

510
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000
The parachute worked, but not well enough.

511
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Ah, it caught me.

512
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Adam's been totally tailed to his secret lair.

513
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Well, shoot.

514
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Well, your device deployed fine.

515
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000
It deployed beautifully.

516
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000
I was hoping it would either make you stay too far back or you'd get entangled in it.

517
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000
I thought it would contest just right.

518
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000
It might have worked, but it didn't.

519
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Adam admits that it could have gone better.

520
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000
It might work under certain circumstances, but to be a viable spy-caravasion technique, it really has to work every time.

521
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:08,000
So I think we've got to relegate the parachute to the dustbin of failed ideas.

522
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Now it's all up to Jamie to press his advantage and take out this head-to-head challenge.

523
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000
And if his plan comes off, Adam's in for the ride of his life.

524
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Straight ahead, a surprise result in a high-tech three-way machine shootout.

525
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Hurry!

526
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Can an object shot backwards while traveling forwards ever drop straight to the ground?

527
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:44,000
It's a fascinating thought, but trying to prove it is bringing our physics team unravel.

528
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Okay, either this myth is busted or a methodology's flawed.

529
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

530
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Okay, well, there's more than one way to fling a ball.

531
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Let's look into some other propulsion systems and figure out which one's the most reliable.

532
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000
All right, we could get a ball pitching machine.

533
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
They actually make it for soccer balls.

534
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
They're pretty accurate.

535
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I've got an idea for another machine where it actually punches the ball without imparting any spin.

536
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
That might help.

537
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Okay, let's get started and have a showdown.

538
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000
It sounds like a plan.

539
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Three machines, including the air cannon, competing to see which is the most consistent shooter.

540
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000
The soccer ball launcher is designed to reliably fire ball after ball at the same speed,

541
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
and it's working just fine.

542
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Oh!

543
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
I think you got your aim.

544
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
And there's work to be done on the factory floor.

545
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,000
For machine number two, Grant needs to modify a mythbusters favorite.

546
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Now, the last time you saw it, it had a play to fix to the end, and it was smashing frozen heads.

547
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
I must say it was a smashing success.

548
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,000
But now it's going to become a soccer ball kicking robot.

549
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
Just you wait.

550
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000
It's a 10 out of 10 for lateral thinking, and you know that when Grant gets his hands on a robot,

551
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000
it will kick balls.

552
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Okay.

553
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Okay, all of our kicking contraptions should be complete, which is perfect because it's time for the mythbusters World Cup,

554
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000
also known as calibration tests.

555
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
We have our official goal right here.

556
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Back here we have the contenders.

557
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
First off, we have the ball checker.

558
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
You're already familiar with the air cannon, and finally, we have our robot kicker.

559
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Consistency was a huge problem when we did our last test.

560
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
So, that's what we're testing now.

561
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Which one of these contraptions will be the most consistent at 60 miles an hour?

562
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
In three, two, one.

563
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Wow.

564
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
That was a good kick.

565
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
How fast did it go?

566
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
58 miles an hour.

567
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Nice.

568
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000
We're in the ballpark.

569
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000
The kicking robot was great.

570
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
It was consistent within three miles per hour.

571
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Now, moving on to the ball checker, which was actually made to chuck balls, so hopefully this will be consistent.

572
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
All right, we're ready to go.

573
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Tori's already fine tuned the speed of the tires,

574
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000
and from the very first ball, it looks like he's right in the zone.

575
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
God!

576
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
59.

577
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000
It's an impressive display from the favor, but there's still one to go.

578
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Nerves.

579
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
All right, why don't we do this?

580
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Let's test the air cannon one more time.

581
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Who knows?

582
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Maybe it's more consistent than the other machines.

583
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
All right.

584
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Going up to 9 psi.

585
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000
So it comes down to these last five shots.

586
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Fire away!

587
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
The shootout is finished, and the result is a shock to everyone.

588
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000
You know what?

589
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Out of all the machines, this one looks like it's the most consistent.

590
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Yeah, I think we all know who the winner was, but just for fun, I calculated the standard deviation.

591
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
You and I have really different ideas on foot.

592
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000
He said, um...

593
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Go ahead.

594
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000
Okay, this one's 1.22.

595
00:35:52,000 --> 00:36:02,000
This one is 2.3, and the winner and still champion, Air Cannon, with 0.84.

596
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Oh, my gosh.

597
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000
After all that, we have to go back to the air cannon.

598
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Yes.

599
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,000
The ball speeds as close as we're going to get, but let's not forget that's just half the equation.

600
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:21,000
If the speed going forward is also in doubt, we'd be fools not to fix it, and Carrie's no fool.

601
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000
So the solution to our speedometer problem is this.

602
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
It's a tachometer.

603
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Now what we're going to do is we're going to brace it with all sorts of clamps that I've scavenged from the camera department.

604
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
So it's right here against the wheel.

605
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000
We have some reflective tape that's going to make the laser able to pick up every revolution,

606
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,000
and from there we can do the math, find out exactly how fast our car is going.

607
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Now they've done all they can do to fine tune the hardware, but with cannon reloaded, reverse the results.

608
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Only time mixed with patience...

609
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Nerds!

610
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000
...will tell.

611
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000
And still to come, Jamie unleashes his arsenal of car killers.

612
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
We hear this boom, and he takes off.

613
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Tori, Carrie and Grant are struggling to prove the supposedly common sense myth that an object drops straight to the ground when its forward and backward momentum are exactly the same.

614
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
So here's where we're at.

615
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Grant's air cannon was precise enough to earn a second shot, but Carrie's replaced a possibly faulty speedometer with an incredibly accurate tachometer.

616
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:46,000
This is it. We have eliminated all the variables. We have the cannon shooting at 60 miles an hour, the car driving at 60 miles an hour, just to show that this ball will drop straight down.

617
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,000
This is it.

618
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
It's go time.

619
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Go!

620
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Look, this is a classic physics thought experiment.

621
00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:02,000
You've got something moving, you fire something off of that moving vehicle at the same speed, and ideally it should cancel out.

622
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000
But this is the real world.

623
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,000
And the real world remains a frustratingly difficult place to do science.

624
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
The cannon was fired a little too soon.

625
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000
This is all a bit finicky. I think we're going to have to try it a lot until we get it perfect.

626
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,000
More tests only lead to more disappointment.

627
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Once again, Grant's timing is just off the mark, but Carrie at least sees a light at the end of the runway.

628
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,000
I have a feeling that we are very close to a perfect demonstration. We're going to see that ball drop.

629
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:43,000
With the forward and backward momentum matched as close as they're going to get it, the pressure's on Grant for a perfect release.

630
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,000
I don't know about you guys, but I look pretty good to me. Let's check the high speed.

631
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000
It really looked good to the naked eye, but the judge in this case is the high speed.

632
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Oh my God, it's like a cartoon. It's just in the air. It stops and it just falls.

633
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Look at that. Fantastic.

634
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000
I mean, look, it doesn't move at all. It's going straight down.

635
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Woo! We did it! We did it! Yeah! Vector edition!

636
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,000
We canceled that velocity.

637
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:22,000
After three days of suffering, that single shot brings the myth to an end.

638
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:30,000
I can't be happier. We actually got the speed of the car to match the speed of the soccer ball, and we got a perfect straight down drop.

639
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Ladies and gentlemen, the laws of physics are still hard at work.

640
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Adam's attempt to escape Janie's spy car came sadly adrift.

641
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Parachute's out! Oh, and it's away!

642
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Things might have gone better with a backup device, and Janie will not make the same mistake.

643
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,000
First up are my tailgater terminators, which are going to deploy out of the back of my car like so.

644
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Notice that I've placed them in a narrow area that the chase car pretty much has to go through, and that means that they have to drive over these things.

645
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Frankly, if they do, I think they're done.

646
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
But...

647
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:24,000
If they're still moving, I go to plan B, which is the side shooter.

648
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Now, this puppy will be shooting out from underneath my car to underneath their car where it opens up, and also will prohibit them from moving forward.

649
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Not to mention the fact that I have a smoke bomb that is going to be set off at the same time just for, well, fun.

650
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Probably just as well, Adam doesn't know what's about to hit him.

651
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Hey, guys. Yeah? See if you can keep up, okay?

652
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Roger that! Secret agent code name Walrus.

653
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Go!

654
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Just a few seconds in, Janie launches the first of his deadly barrages.

655
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,000
He's playing the game. I said puppies. He's throwing puppies out.

656
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Brian heedlessly plows through the pelting of puppies.

657
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
And regains lost ground.

658
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:22,000
But to pull off his serious double deployment, Janie needs to slow way, way down.

659
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Brian has no choice but to take on the spikes.

660
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Only to find he's been set up for the sucker punch.

661
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000
And then Janie's just looking at us. We hear this, boom!

662
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
And he takes off.

663
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:48,000
And incredibly, Adam and Brian lurch off right behind it, calling enough shrapnel to sink a battleship.

664
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
We are on him!

665
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000
The cars leaking gas and the noise is not healthy.

666
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:03,000
But they ride Janie's tail for a five minute lap of the desolate streets.

667
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Until their prey makes a bolt for his barrel.

668
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
We found him!

669
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,000
You guys are leaking a little bit. I don't know, what do you think? Did I get away or didn't I?

670
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Technically you didn't get away because we saw you turn in here from the road. So we caught you.

671
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,000
If you'd have went any farther we wouldn't have. This thing wasn't running much longer.

672
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,000
One of the spikes is still stuck in the car. And Janie can't fathom how this one turned pear-shaped.

673
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,000
I can't believe they were able to keep going. I mean I thought those spikes were a death trap for that car.

674
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
So how are we going to wrap this up?

675
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:56,000
Well, between the five things that we tested, I think we've definitely proved that stopping a car that's chasing you instantly in its tracks is actually really hard.

676
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Well your parachute might have worked under perfect circumstances, but as it was it was pretty much a bust.

677
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:07,000
And your spikes, while ultimately I think effective in the long haul, were far from instantaneous.

678
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
Something tells me you guys are already cooking up other ideas.

679
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000
Yeah.

680
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000
I smell a revisit.

681
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
So do I.

682
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:23,000
One more?

683
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,000
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