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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 Janie make the magic happen.

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Ha ha ha! I think we graduated!

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We're testing some supercharged viral video trickery.

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You ready to run Christmas dinner?

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I can't wait.

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Cat on motorcycle make a tablecloth disappear.

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Here it comes!

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Meanwhile, Carrie, Grant and Tori...

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They're gonna fry my brains.

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...strain their brains for this pop culture myth.

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Did you know most people use 10% of their brains?

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...but is this fraction a fact?

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It's light enough like a Christmas tree there.

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That's so cool.

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The team probe their lobes to find out.

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This is real science.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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Now I'm ready.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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FINE!

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them...

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...Aah!

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...Carrie Byron.

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What is that?

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Tori Belleggi.

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Oh, he survived.

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And Grant Imahara.

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Start the car!

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They don't just tell the myths...

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...Aah!

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...they put them to the test.

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Check this out.

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I hate to break it to you, but I've seen that before.

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It's a magic trick.

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It's not a myth.

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This isn't.

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But there's a video that's been making the rounds on the web that is a twist to this

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trick that I think is right up our alley.

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And that is?

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In this clip, a table as long as a bus and set for a banquet has its tablecloth pulled

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out from under all its settings without disturbing any of them using only the power of a super

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souped up motorcycle.

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Ah, now you're talking.

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I thought you'd like it.

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In this viral video, rather than a quick flick of the wrist, it's a quick flick of the accelerator.

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And abracadabra, the tablecloth disappears and a perfectly laid table remains.

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But is this turbocharged trick true or just special effects sorcery?

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So what's the plan?

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Well, since this is in fact a trick that people do every day, I think we should spend some

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time unpacking the mechanics of exactly what makes it work.

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Small scale test down on the floor of the shop?

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Exactly.

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We're going to scale this up to a fairly impossible dimension.

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And I suspect that a lot of factors, object heaviness, cloth type, table type, all of these

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things might affect our success on that scale.

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Thus, in the small scale, we need to learn what factors are critical to making it work.

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And with the table made, Adam can focus on his hocus pocus.

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Dude, are you ready?

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I'm all ready.

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Well there's a vote of confidence.

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Tablecloth pull in three, two, one.

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That wasn't bad for a first try.

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Okay, it's still pretty bad for a first try.

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Not bad, but clearly there are some tricks to this trick.

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So next, it's time for Adam to button those down.

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The table jumped all over the place.

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I think we can address that with a simple sandbag.

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Two, when I feel this, it's plywood.

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It's pretty rough.

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We're going to make it smoother before continuing, like this.

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Now we're ready.

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With a smooth, stable table covered with a fresh cloth and a single bottle, there's

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one final thing Adam needs.

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I want to know if this moves.

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I have an idea.

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To monitor how much the wine moves, he makes a point.

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You ready?

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I'm ready.

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Okay, here we go.

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In.

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Three, two, one.

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Same thing.

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Maybe it's the way I'm pulling.

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But that point isn't required until eventually Adam gets the grip.

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All right, now what did I do right?

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Well, Newton's first law of inertia means that objects at rest stay at rest.

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But when the cloth is pulled, friction also acts on the objects.

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However, if the inertia is greater than the friction, the tablecloth is whipped free.

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But that's not the only reason the trick has started to work.

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I think I've got something, which is the tablecloth has to end at the table.

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It can't be draping over.

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It's draping over.

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Too much noise is created and it wants to pull the bottle over.

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But when it's at the edge, it seems to leave the bottle standing.

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Now I want to play with some other fabrics.

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Five-eighths of an inch.

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Using the high-speed camera and his pointer, seven-sixteenths.

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Adam can assess just how much the bottle moves with a range of fabrics.

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This one's no good.

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I mean, took me wrong.

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It's lovely.

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It's no good for this trick.

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That right there, that's a quarter inch.

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That's the best one yet.

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I had assumed that a heavier satin fabric would actually be best for sliding underneath

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the objects on the table.

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In fact, the lighter weight ones are outperforming everybody.

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Moreover, they're outperforming them when the shiny side is down rather than up.

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Who would have thought?

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It turns out the lightweight satin has this category, sonar, making it the best-case scenario

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fabric for large scale.

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But there's one more parameter to test.

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I find myself wondering if weight is a factor and so I plan to remove some from this bottle.

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In theory, the more mass an object has, the greater its inertia.

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Don't worry, we only waste the cheapest wines.

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So reducing the weight of the bottle could work against Adam.

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Empty bottle and my favorite fabric, three, two, one.

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But it doesn't.

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Because there's also a corresponding drop in the friction of the bottle on the tablecloth.

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When you combine all the factors of the tablecloth tug.

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Three, two, one.

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Wow.

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That works.

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I know.

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So what did we learn here?

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Well, we learned how to do the trick.

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I think we graduated.

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But we also learned some of the critical factors.

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One, most importantly, the tablecloth needs to be sheer, lightweight and have no stretch

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in either dimension.

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Two, the tablecloth's placement is critical.

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It can't go over the edge of the table.

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It needs to be right up to it.

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And three, the objects don't have to be very heavy.

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They actually can be quite light and it still could work.

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And that tells me that this might actually work.

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I think Adam has this stunt down.

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But it's one thing to do this by hand with a small table with just a couple things on

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it.

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It's another thing to do this with a motorcycle.

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And yet another thing to do this with a motorcycle and a really big table.

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You've got our work cut out for us.

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Next up, the mythbusters have a myth on the brain.

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Okay, well I hope you guys have your brains in gear.

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Always do.

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Good.

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Because for this next myth you're going to need them.

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We are testing a myth that is so prevalent that it's just taken for granted that it's

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fact.

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Humans only use 10% of their brain.

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You hear that everywhere.

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It's like ingrained in our society.

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Definitely.

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It doesn't necessarily make it true.

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This myth is so pop culture that it even made it to the Simpsons.

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Joke if you will.

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But did you know most people use 10% of their brains?

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I am now one of them.

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But are we really only using a fraction of our brains?

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I think we need to come up with the biggest, most challenging brain test.

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One that will test every single area of the brain.

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Well let's utilize some sort of technology that can monitor brain activity and then maybe

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come up with like a quiz that can stimulate that activity.

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Sounds good.

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But you know I think we need some more info.

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So if you guys want to figure out how we can map the brain for a quiz, I'll find out more

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about the brain itself, its parts and how they work.

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Cool.

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So before they start quizzing, they need a brain expert.

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And Granta's found just the man.

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Dr. Manley.

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So if we were to go about testing, what percentage of your brain you use, what sort of tests

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could you recommend?

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There's a number of tests that one can do to look at brain activity or functional connectivity.

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One of the earliest ways that we determined to do this is with what's called an EEG or

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an electroencephalogram.

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And this is where we measure the surface electrical activity on the brain.

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And when you do an EEG, you can see that all parts of the brain have some sort of activity.

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I know the brain handles a lot of functions around the body, but what are the various

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parts and what specifically do they do?

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The brain is probably the most complicated organ in the human body.

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And as you can see here, the brain has many different parts and structures, which we break

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down typically into the frontal lobes, which are involved in executive functions such as

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planning and judgment.

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We have the temporal lobes here that are primarily involved in language here on the left side.

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And towards the medial part of it are involved in memory.

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The parietal lobes here help to integrate a lot of the sensory information.

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The occipital lobe, which is in the back, is how we process all of our visual information

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and things of that nature.

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And that's important to remember for testing this myth.

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With different areas of the brain responsible for very different functions, they'll need

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a variety of tests to trigger every single part of Grant's brain, so the EEG can track

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its activity.

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Armed with this info, Grant heads to the studio where the brain games can begin.

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To test the myth that we only use 10% of our brain, we have this amazing Brain Busters

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game show set.

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Now, Grant's going to be hooked up to an EEG and monitored by our specialist Cynthia

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Curson.

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Will this enhance my innate telepathic abilities?

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No.

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I get to play the host today and present him with all of his challenges.

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So now, the first round of Brain Busters.

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Memory mania.

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This tricky test will target his temporal lobe.

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Grant, we're going to present you with 10 images of a person and an object.

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Then, we will repeat the images of the people and you have to name the object that's associated

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with that person.

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Are you ready?

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I'm ready.

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Adam Savage goes with...

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Orange.

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One right.

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By recalling who goes with what?

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Gun.

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Two right.

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Lion.

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That's three right.

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Grant's temporal lobe is triggered.

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Three.

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Four right.

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And the corresponding brain activity is recorded on the EEG.

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Cloud.

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Six right.

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Wheel.

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Seven right.

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With one test down and one perfect score, round number two is crazy calculation, which

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should be the ultimate challenge for Grant's parietal lobe.

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Are you ready?

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I'm ready.

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Begin.

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To add extra difficulty, the numbers will spin and fade, while an audio track spits

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out others to distract Grant.

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10.

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You are correct.

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The answer is 10.

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Next question.

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You are correct.

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Then, the unthinkable happens.

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Grant gets a math question.

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Wrong.

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The answer is 7.

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You fail.

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But one wrong answer doesn't deter Grant.

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Correct.

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And he nails the rest of the round.

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You are correct.

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You get 9 out of 10 in advance to the next round.

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Grant's brain is certainly getting a workout, but is it a strain on more than 10% of his

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brain?

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Stay tuned for the final round of Brain Busters.

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My goodness.

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And later, we're going to try the world's biggest tablecloth bowl.

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What?

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The Mythbusters are updating the traditional tablecloth tug because of this viral video.

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Now, in the video, it looks like the location they're filming into some kind of large,

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long military warehouse type building.

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Luckily, in San Francisco, we've got a few of those.

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So let the turbo-charge trickery begin.

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Let me tell you about the bike we're going to use.

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This is my personal sport bike.

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It's an 1125R DSB made by Eric Field Racing.

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It weighs 390 pounds.

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It puts 150 horsepower to the rear wheel.

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It does 0 to 60 in the 6 seconds and a quarter mile in 9.8 seconds.

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It tops out about 180 miles an hour.

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If we can't pull this off, it won't be because the bike's not fast enough.

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That's the super-charged bike, and now they need a super-sized table.

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Where do you get one of those?

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Well, I'm about to build it right here.

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When I'm done, we're going to cover it with a tablecloth and 24-place settings, which

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should allow the mismaners approved, two foot from guest to guest.

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Even though our guests are non-existent, we like to hold to mismaners.

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And with Adam's 24-foot table almost finished, the final step is the table decoration.

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First with a cloth of lightweight satin, and on top of that, well...

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This is one place setting.

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We need 23 more, which means we're going to need some help.

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That's what they're here for.

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Adam's elves make quick work of the table laying, copying the video as closely as possible.

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And with the motorcycle hooked up, time for some predictions.

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I'm up two minds about this thing.

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Part of me really wants to see it succeed.

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The other part is looking forward to the horror show of everything hitting the ground, especially

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on high speed.

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I can't tell which I want more.

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We set this whole thing up exactly like it was in the video.

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So if the video wasn't faked, when I take off, only the table cloth is coming with me.

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Personally, nah, it's not going to happen.

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Well with the table dressed for dinner, and Jamie's need for speed, there's only one

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way to find out.

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Now for the final part of the game show made for your mind.

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Brain busters.

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Grant's brain is in the hot seat.

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Six.

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To find out if he's using more than 10%.

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And we're back for more brain buster challenge.

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In this challenge, we will be stimulating the front to low.

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Now this part of the brain is used in planning, decision making, risk taking.

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So in this next test, Grant will be forced to make a decision in the face of risk.

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Grant, right in your face is a 12 inch balloon.

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You will control its inflation by the button at your fingertips.

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This is a risk and reward task.

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Are you ready?

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I'm ready.

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Start to inflate.

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The longer Grant inflates the balloon, the more points.

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However, if the balloon bursts, he'll get zilch.

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Okay.

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4.4.

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4.4.

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Flight all the way.

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My goodness.

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Okay.

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9.3.

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Wow.

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That was a crazy big balloon.

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With his frontal lobe probed, the final challenge is flash frame.

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So the next round, we are going to stimulate the occipital lobe.

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That is the lower back part of the brain.

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This is the one that helps you process visual information.

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Let's see how Grant does this round.

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This test may look easy.

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Amic.

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But Grant's occipital lobe must work hard to detect the differences.

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Green house.

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Asparagus.

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Main on the zebra.

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You got 4 out of 5 correct.

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And for those of you playing at home, here's what Grant missed.

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The clouds actually appear on the horizon.

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Got it.

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With that, this episode of Brain Busters is over.

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So we have tested all 4 lobes of the brain.

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But now what we need to do is look at the EEG, crunch the data and find out exactly how well his brain is firing.

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So let's recap.

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We determined in small scale that it is in fact possible to remove a tablecloth under items sitting on a table without any trickery.

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It's just technique.

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The question is, is it possible to do it when your table has 24 place settings on it?

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That's what we're about to determine.

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Yep, and here's a reminder of how it's supposed to look.

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But now, to find out if the mythbusters can pull this off.

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It's all set up.

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You ready to ruin Christmas dinner?

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I can't wait.

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Uncle Jamie always does that.

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Get started.

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Monster tablecloth pull, just like the video.

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Go!

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Well some stuff stayed on the table.

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Abracadabra that, eh?

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Despite Jamie gunning the accelerator on the superbike, it wasn't enough to overcome the friction of 24 table settings.

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Oops!

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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I guess so.

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What a horror show.

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I lost some of them on the table.

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That's exactly what I said.

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The glasses have full.

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This trick worked exactly like it did in the small skim.

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At least for a couple of settings, the problem was the other 22 pretty much got destroyed.

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The thing is that these first two settings only had a couple of feet of cloth to deal with.

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Everything from here down had much more cloth that had to clear underneath it to do the job.

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And that meant that it all started to move and a lot of it moved right under the floor.

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It's starting to look like the spectacular tablecloth strip of the video clip could be a lot more complicated than it seems.

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Clearly we've got to do that again.

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We've got to clean up first.

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Yeah, well, he who made the mess gets to clean it up.

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See you in a couple of hours.

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Next, can the Mythbusters turn the tables or will they miss this trick?

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The Mythbusters have only one thing on their mind.

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Do humans use only 10% of their brains?

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After a tense wait, Grant's brain power results are in.

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So we can't wait to find out how did Grant do through the challenges?

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Well, I was happy to see that Grant did very well on his test.

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He compares pretty closely to normal and all of the parts of the brain that we thought would be illuminated during the different tasks, most for the most part, were.

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In fact, for every test, Grant's brain activity is lit up on the EEG just where you'd expect.

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We have activity right here in the temporal lobes.

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There was activity in the left parietal area while he was doing this math task.

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You can see here that we did pick up some activity in the occipital lobes and in the deeper structures.

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Grant's brain is working, but how much of it is engaged?

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So Cynthia, what's the bottom line?

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Based on these tests, can you assign a percentage to the amount of my brain that I'm using?

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Based on these results, we can see that the right parts of your brain were being activated during the certain tasks.

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But we can't really make a determination about the percentage of your brain that you were actually utilizing.

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The results of the EEG tests showed us that we actually constructed these tests to excite the right parts of the brain.

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In fact, they were excited in the way that we expected.

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Unfortunately, they were inconclusive in actually giving us a percentage that we could assign.

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The EEG focuses on the surface activity of Grant's brain, so it can't provide a conclusive all-over percentage.

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And inconclusive just doesn't cut it for the mythbusters.

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So we need another brain testing device.

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I think I have just the thing. We should go to the MEG.

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Apparently it can give us the kind of brain mapping we're looking for.

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Oh boy, I see more quizzing in our future.

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Well, actually Tori, more quizzing in your future as the team heads to UCSF Biomedical Imaging Lab,

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where they'll use an MEG to read Tori's mind.

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I don't know if I'm ready for this.

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Now the magnetoencephalograph is much more comprehensive than the EEG.

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Any electrical current is going to produce a magnetic field.

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The MEG uses extremely sensitive, superconducting sensors to measure the field that the brain's electrical current generates.

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It's a sensitive machine that can detect even the tiniest brain waves.

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And in the capable hands of the UCSF Brainiacs...

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You guys aren't going to erase my memories, are you?

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Don't worry.

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Tori is carefully hooked up for testing.

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Help me! Help me get out of here!

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So we're going to put this microphone up by your mouth so we can record what you're saying.

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You're going to leave me in here?

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Bye!

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Bye!

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Should we start it defrosht and work our way up?

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And now comes the hard part.

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A series of four tests to put Tori's brain to work.

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And find out if he's using more than the mythical 10%.

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All right, please start holding still.

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Like the EEG, we're going to start by firing up the temporal lobe.

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Now this is the one associated with memory and auditory stimulation.

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Okay, Layton, so how does this test work?

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So I've trained Tori on these word pairs.

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What he's going to do is he's going to hear one of the words and he's going to speak back

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the word that he's been trained on that's associated with the first word.

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Basket.

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Tori.

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Book.

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Adam.

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Coffee.

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Grant.

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Tori completes test one with flying colors and then it's on to the occipital lobe test

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with some familiar faces.

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I feel like I'm in a Kubrick film right now.

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Okay, Tori, here's what you're going to do.

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You're going to be looking at the screen and there are going to be faces appearing on the screen.

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Okay.

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Faces are either going to be ones that are familiar to you, like Carrie there.

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If you see a familiar one, you press the button with your right hand.

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Okay.

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If it's an unfamiliar face, one you've never seen before, like that person right there,

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you're going to press the left button.

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Okay.

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And that's it.

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Hey, who's that guy?

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Now the occipital test, it wasn't that hard, but it was designed to stimulate the part of

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my brain that visually recognizes things that I already know.

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Yeah, I just saw him push a button there.

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That's cool.

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Test number three is a simple math task to stimulate Tori's parietal lobe.

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All right, so what's this test all about?

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There's going to be a pair of numbers flashing on the screen, and the numbers can be either

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the same or different.

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And if the numbers are the same, he's going to press the left button.

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If they're different, he's going to press the right button.

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As the numbers flash, Tori does his best to press the right buttons, but it seems the

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tension is getting to him inside the MEG.

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Oh, try not to grade your teeth, please.

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All right.

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For the frontal lobe quiz, the team uses a test which seems like a simple enough combination

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of text and color.

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What happens is a word appears on the screen, and the word is a color, either yellow or blue.

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And the color of the word itself can be either the same color as the word or a different

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color.

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And when the two are incongruent, it creates a cognitive conflict, and that really drives

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activity in the frontal lobe.

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I like that one.

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That's cool.

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It's cool, but deceptively difficult.

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And with all the tests complete, Tori's head is completely checked.

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Hey, good job, man.

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Who are you, people?

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What year are they?

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All right, so tell me, am I using more than 10% of my brain?

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We'll know in a couple of days where I have to crank on the data.

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But preliminary results show that you're missing part of that frontal lobe where it tells you

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not to jump over red wagons with bicycles.

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Can we wipe that memory from my brain?

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In this viral video, the motorcycle takes off and takes the tablecloth with it.

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But after one tragic magic trick, it's looking more like a mission improbable.

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Well, that was just the horror show that I was looking for.

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And honestly, I'm not sure if this is going to work at all, but if it is, if there's any

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chance of it working, I see that there's two major problems that we've got to solve.

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One is there's a lot of weight on that tablecloth.

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I mean, one of the reasons I think the small, light, thin tablecloth works so well on the

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small scale is because it got out of the way.

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When you've got heavy weight on it, it's harder for it to get out of the way.

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Second is that tablecloth has to start moving faster from the get-go.

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It needs more of a big jerk.

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I'm not talking about Jamie.

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I'm talking about some slack in the rope so he gets up to speed and then, boink, pulls

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it out at speed.

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That's what we got to do.

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00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,400
That's the plan.

505
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:41,400
So first, Adam gets rid of that excess weight and just like any diet, cutting out booze

506
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,400
is a good start.

507
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,400
Yeah, that's cheap.

508
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,400
Then with the lighter table settings back in place, the next step is to give this trick

509
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,400
enough rope.

510
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,400
Here we are.

511
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,400
200 feet.

512
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,400
200 feet of nylon line coiled so that it cannot get tangled.

513
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,400
What will happen is, I will say, okay, pull the tablecloth out from under the table,

514
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,400
out from under the table with 200 feet of line, go.

515
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,400
Jamie's going to take off on his bike.

516
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,400
This rope is going to spool out all 200 feet of it until he reaches the end.

517
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,400
He's going to tug on this with about 50 to 60 miles per hour with the force, whatever

518
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,400
that is.

519
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,400
Not going to say, I don't think it's going to help.

520
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:31,400
And while Adam is skeptical of the full table strip, Jamie has a case of worst case scenarioitis.

521
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,400
This time around, the rope is going to pull taut.

522
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,400
The bike's going to stop and I'm going to keep going straight into the wall.

523
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,400
Well, time to find out who will survive this tablecloth tug of war.

524
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,400
The table settings or the Heinemann?

525
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,400
Go!

526
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,400
As Jamie throttles the throttle, the line unspools and...

527
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,400
That was so much closer than I thought it would be.

528
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,400
Once again, the magic doesn't happen.

529
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,400
But this time around, there was a lot less destruction.

530
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,400
Clearly, we still need to do some work, but less than I thought.

531
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,400
You can see the difference between this run and the last run.

532
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,400
Most of the dishes are still on the table and not only that, they're not broken.

533
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,400
What that tells me is that we're on the right track, but of course, we can do better.

534
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,400
Look at that!

535
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,400
It's a little sloppy, but it's a lot better than it was the last time.

536
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,400
I'd say 90% of what we had stayed on the table.

537
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,400
I mean, it all got tipped over, but it stayed on the table.

538
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,400
That's a lot closer than I thought we'd be.

539
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,400
Well, you know what that means.

540
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,400
What?

541
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,400
I just need to go faster.

542
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,400
I'm not sure if speed is the only fix, but definitely speed will help.

543
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,400
How fast do you think we want to go?

544
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,400
100 miles an hour.

545
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,400
You can need like a quarter mile to get up to that speed.

546
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,400
Let's go find a quarter mile.

547
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,400
Okay.

548
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Did you know most people use 10% of their brains?

549
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,400
According to the Simpsons, this is fact.

550
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,400
But the Mythbusters are putting that to the test.

551
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,400
Well, this has been terrific.

552
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,400
Let's do it again sometime.

553
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,400
And Tori's MEG results are in.

554
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,400
We're back at UCSF to get the results for Tori's MEG.

555
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
This is going to tell us if our myth is confirmed.

556
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,400
It's a really big moment for us.

557
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,400
Yep, so it's over to the neurologist to reveal the final percentages.

558
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,400
So we've got the results from the MEG.

559
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:53,400
How's the myth looking?

560
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:54,400
Very interesting.

561
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,400
I think that there's an element of truth to this myth.

562
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,400
If you look at a 100 millisecond time scale and you're doing one thing.

563
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,400
Basket.

564
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,400
Tori.

565
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,400
We see about 10% of the brain active.

566
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,400
But that's just one tenth of a second.

567
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400
What's the percentage of the brain activity during the entire challenge?

568
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,400
We found that the total overall brain activation was about 35%.

569
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,400
35%.

570
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,400
So the myth is busted?

571
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,400
Totally busted.

572
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,400
So the essence of the myth I really believe is that you're only using 10% all the time.

573
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,400
So for that you're pretty much saying it's busted.

574
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,400
But what's interesting is just that one tenth of a second.

575
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,400
There's a little bit of plausibility there.

576
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,400
That's really cool.

577
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,400
Even individually, Tori's lobes were still firing at more than 10%.

578
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,400
So the myth is busted.

579
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,400
But that's given our brainbusters a brainwave.

580
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,400
And they can't leave it there.

581
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,400
Mythbusters.

582
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,400
So after all of our tests we have proven that we do use more than 10% of our brain.

583
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,400
But now it's time to go deeper to find out exactly how much or how little of our brain we use.

584
00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:01,400
So we're here at UCSF to get an fMRI, a functional magnetic resonance image.

585
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,400
This should be interesting.

586
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,400
Once again, Lab Rat Tori is ready for testing.

587
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,400
But instead of quizzes, this time they're doing things slightly differently.

588
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:12,400
Alright.

589
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,400
Engage.

590
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:16,400
What?

591
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:17,400
You're such a nerd.

592
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,400
Newsflash.

593
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:26,400
So the first test that Tori's going to take in the fMRI is going to be the bare minimum of activity.

594
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,400
He's going to be at rest with his eyes closed.

595
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:34,400
Okay Tori, what I need you to do is try to stay still and stay awake for the next eight minutes.

596
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,400
Here we go.

597
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:41,400
And that way we can see when you're doing absolutely nothing, how much of your brain you're actually using.

598
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,400
That's insane.

599
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,400
So that's what he looks like as a zombie.

600
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,400
Even at rest it seems that Tori's brain is still very active.

601
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,400
That's so cool.

602
00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,400
And eventually after eight minutes it's time for test two.

603
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,400
We're going to try to have Tori fire up every lobe of the brain and the cerebellum all at once.

604
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,400
Now to do that we're going to have him tell a story out loud.

605
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:16,400
The story's going to involve trauma, recollection, order of events, all sorts of things that we can see all of the brain firing at once.

606
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,400
Okay Tori, we're going to do the storytelling part of the experiment.

607
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,400
We're going to begin.

608
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,400
So one day you're out.

609
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:31,400
Interestingly Tori's traumatic story involves an unfortunate bike accident.

610
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,400
Gosh, pretty scary.

611
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,400
He's lighting up like a Christmas tree there.

612
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:39,400
What's going on?

613
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,400
Well as he's telling the story there's activity in a lot of brain regions.

614
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,400
So you can see these parts of the frontal lobe in either hemisphere active as he's telling the story.

615
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,400
Now he's taking a break and you can see the activity go down.

616
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:56,400
And when he hears himself tell the story you can see activity in auditory cortex and temporal lobe light up.

617
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,400
That's great.

618
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,400
And with Tori's story over he's ejected from the test tube.

619
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:10,400
The interesting thing about our test today is that at rest your brain is using so much more than I actually expected.

620
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,400
I feel like a lap rat.

621
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:19,400
I mean I knew that when you were going to tell a traumatic story or you're doing something interesting that you're going to have a lot of things firing.

622
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:25,400
When you're just sitting there doing nothing you're already looking like you're using more than 10%.

623
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,400
Next.

624
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,400
Tablecloth pole.

625
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,400
600 feet of rope.

626
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,400
100 miles an hour.

627
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,400
Jamie go.

628
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:45,400
When magic works it makes you believe the impossible is possible.

629
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:52,400
But so far this tablecloth take off looks like it could be just smoke and mirrors.

630
00:33:54,400 --> 00:34:01,400
So the mythbusters have come to Alameda to find out if they can pull this one off at 100 miles per hour.

631
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,400
Show off.

632
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400
Tablecloth pole 101.

633
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:14,400
We tried it in scale in the shop and learned that you need a thin tablecloth with no hem and a good sharp pole.

634
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:20,400
So then we went into a warehouse and we tried replicating exactly what we saw in the video and this happened.

635
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:30,400
Then we thought what if we pulled the tablecloth much faster so we added 200 foot of rope between the motorcycle and the tablecloth.

636
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,400
Jamie got up to about 50 miles an hour and this happened.

637
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,400
But we wanted to know what it would take to do it for reals.

638
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,400
So the table is set.

639
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:48,400
Jamie is warming up the motorcycle and in a few minutes we're going to try the world's biggest tablecloth pole.

640
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:57,400
We've considered that one of the biggest stresses on the tablecloth for the success of this effect is the overall weight of everything on this table.

641
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,400
And thus we've reduced it by at least half.

642
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:06,400
We've replaced all the cast aluminum flower pots and champagne buckets with stainless steel ones with smoother bottoms.

643
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,400
We've replaced all the ceramic plate wear with plastic plate wear.

644
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,400
We're hoping that that lighter weight will actually make this much more possible.

645
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,400
Remember this trick is a battle between inertia and friction.

646
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,400
So reducing the weight of the table settings means the friction should decrease.

647
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,400
That's the idea.

648
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:31,400
But Jamie for one is still skeptical that this will work even at 100 miles per hour.

649
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:40,400
When I take off on this bike, 600 feet of line is going to pay out and it's going to yank the tablecloth off the table at 100 miles an hour.

650
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,400
Hopefully all the dishes will remain in place and intact.

651
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,400
But what really is going to happen is hard to say.

652
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,400
100 miles an hour is awfully quick.

653
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,400
But if the dishes just move a little bit and they stay upright,

654
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,400
we're going to.

655
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,400
I still don't think it's going to work.

656
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,400
Even with all this, I don't think it's going to work.

657
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,400
But again, I'm usually wrong.

658
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,400
So you should probably bet the opposite.

659
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,400
Well, with the preparations complete, it's the moment of truth.

660
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:09,400
You ready to do this?

661
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,400
Yep.

662
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,400
Let's do it.

663
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,400
All right.

664
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,400
Here we go.

665
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,400
Possibly the world's biggest tablecloth.

666
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,400
Pull.

667
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,400
In three, two, one, go.

668
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,400
Oh.

669
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,400
Oh.

670
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,400
Oh.

671
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,400
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

672
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,400
It really was the best attempt so far.

673
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,400
And still we have destruction.

674
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,400
But hey, I was right.

675
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:59,400
It's the closest they've come to success with half the table intact.

676
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,400
Oh.

677
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,400
But the high speed reveals that there was a hitch.

678
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:12,400
We can tell by looking at the high speed that a rip occurred on the front corner of the table

679
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,400
because the tablecloth is being pulled down slightly

680
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:21,400
and the sharp square corner eventually made a little bit of a start of a rip

681
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,400
and then it was all over.

682
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:23,400
We can fix that.

683
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,400
It's a simple fix.

684
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,400
And while Jamie takes the edge off, Adam whips up another tablecloth.

685
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,400
And once the repairs are finished, the table is set for take two.

686
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Tablecloth pull.

687
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,400
600 feet of line.

688
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400
100 miles an hour.

689
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,400
Jamie, go.

690
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:54,400
Whoa, whoa.

691
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,400
Well that is certainly as good as it gets, but it's still rolling.

692
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,400
They faked it.

693
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,400
Totally faked it.

694
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,400
They almost pulled that one off.

695
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:27,400
But even a perfect run at 100 miles per hour still wasn't enough to leave the table intact.

696
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,400
Hey, that's not bad.

697
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,400
Not bad at all.

698
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,400
Everything's slid, especially on the front half.

699
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,400
We lost a few place settings.

700
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,400
Most everything is still standing.

701
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,400
But honestly, you know what I'm thinking?

702
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,400
What?

703
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,400
They faked it.

704
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:49,400
Yeah, they faked it.

705
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,400
It's busted.

706
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400
Yeah, totally busted.

707
00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,400
That run wasn't half bad.

708
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,400
In fact, it was pretty darn good, but it wasn't what we saw in the clip.

709
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,400
So that's what we've got to do next.

710
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,400
We're going to have to fake it.

711
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,400
Coming up.

712
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,400
Boy, I hope this works.

713
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,400
It'll work.

714
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,400
They're going to fry my brain.

715
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,400
The Mythbusters have been picking Tori's brain to find out just what it can do.

716
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,400
And now the results are in.

717
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:34,400
So, Layton, from the results that you were looking at, overall total percentage, how much was Tori using at resting point?

718
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:42,400
So when we're looking at the brain at rest, if we look at three major networks in the brain, the visual network, the auditory network, the sensory motor network,

719
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:49,400
and put those three networks together, even at rest when he's not doing anything at all, that accounts for about 15% of total brain activity.

720
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:56,400
The scans for Tori at rest clearly show that even though his body is inactive, his brain certainly isn't.

721
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:01,400
All right, so this is the test where I'm trying to recall a story and try to use as many lobes as possible.

722
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:02,400
What did I come up with?

723
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,400
When you're telling the story, we see activity in the frontal lobe, in the temporal lobe, in the visual lobe,

724
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,400
and also in the limbic lobe as you're experiencing the emotional content of the story.

725
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,400
And there, across the brain, we see about 30% of the total brain volume active.

726
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:21,400
That's the most brain power for any individual test across all the different scans.

727
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:28,400
With all of Tori's lobes engaged, his brain maxed out at a huge 30%.

728
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:42,400
It's obvious that even at 100 miles per hour, this trick can't be done without devious deception.

729
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:48,400
So it's back to where it all began, Fort Mason, for some tablecloth trickery.

730
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:53,400
What's different about this setup than its predecessor? Actually, quite a lot.

731
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:58,400
I started out by treating the entire tablecloth with a dry lubricant made for sailboat sails,

732
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,400
and that should actually reduce its coefficient of friction.

733
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:09,400
But most importantly, I then laid down on top of the tablecloth a sheet of plastic, 24 feet long,

734
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,400
and mounted at the non-motorcycle end of the table, and then we set the table as normal.

735
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:21,400
What this means is that between all the place settings on the tablecloth is a thin membrane on which everything sits.

736
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:28,400
So the tablecloth should, in theory, slip out easy as you please without disturbing anything on the table.

737
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,400
That's how I think they did it.

738
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:35,400
Boy, I hope this works.

739
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:36,400
That will work.

740
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,400
That's it. Let's try it.

741
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,400
Ha ha ha ha ha.

742
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,400
This is tablecloth pull, the sheet.

743
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,400
Three, two, one, go!

744
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:59,400
This is it. Will they finally be able to pull a fast one and make the tablecloth disappear?

745
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,400
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

746
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,400
And that's how it's done.

747
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,400
Ha ha ha ha ha.

748
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,400
Congratulations, we did it.

749
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,400
It looks fantastic.

750
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,400
Yeah, we disturbed one fork and that was it.

751
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,400
I'll settle for that.

752
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:32,400
So will I.

753
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:38,400
Just like the Hollywood saying, you have to fake it till you make it.

754
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,400
And that's Mission Accomplished.

755
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,400
Well, we replicated the results. Where does that leave the story? The myth?

756
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,400
There's no way they could have done this without faking it. It's busted.

757
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,400
I totally agree. It's busted. Let's get out of here.