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On this episode of Mythbusters, it's revenge of the creepy crawlies as the whole team bugs

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out in the bug special.

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Kind of like an upside down kite.

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First Adam and Jamie take on the light of the bumblebee.

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I hate being run bees.

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As they put this viral video to the test, can 1000 bees really make a laptop lift off?

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Come on bees, go, up.

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Meanwhile, Carrie Grant and Tori take on the year's most requested myth.

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Can bags of water repel flies?

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Ding ding ding ding, trout-er!

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And finally, they get even more bang for their bug.

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Oh, it's a cute little bug of death.

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With the tail of a speeding motorcycle is fatally floored by an insect impact.

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Oh my god.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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I am ready.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Bugs!

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them, Grant Imahara.

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Into the belly of the beast.

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Carrie Byron.

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Kind of wreck this car.

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And Tori Bellachy.

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Oh, he survived.

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They don't just tell the Myths, they put them to the test.

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Why are you smiling?

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Because we're about to do a story that I'm pretty sure is going to make you very uncomfortable.

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Oh, what?

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Well, it involves bees.

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In fact, it comes from a viral video that shows about 1000 bees glued to the top of

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the lightweight laptop and they fly away with it.

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I hate bees.

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I do know that clip and it is without a doubt something we should test.

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This is the bee movie that has the internet abuzz.

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Supposedly glue, honey and 1000 bees lift this laptop off a log.

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But can this really be true?

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Or is it a flight of fancy?

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How do you think we should tackle this one?

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Well, we should do what they did in the clip and see if it works.

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We should put protective gear on us, right?

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If you want.

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I want.

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Yep, but Marshall's farm, they've got all the protection Adam needs.

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Let's do it.

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And of course, Adam's nemeses, the bees.

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Look, I think we all know that I don't like bees.

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Remember the hypnotism episode?

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I told you I'd do this for science and I told you I wouldn't like it one bit.

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Oh, dang.

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I'm looking forward to this because I think it's going to be fascinating, but I think

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if you check in with Future Me when we're in the middle of this experiment, he's going

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to think it's fascinating, but he's not going to like being there.

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That's totally correct.

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This is fascinating, but I don't like being here one bit.

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See, it's like I foretold the future.

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But while they make Adam nervous, Janie has nothing but respect for the humble honey bees.

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Bees are just incredible creatures.

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An average worker bee only lives six weeks.

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And for half that time, she's up foraging for nectar, where she can make 10 trips per

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day up to four miles away.

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So over the course of her lifetime, she could travel over 1600 miles.

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All that effort for not much, since it takes 12 of these bees to get one teaspoon of honey.

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It's amazing.

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There's no doubt these bees can go the distance, but can they also weight lift?

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So what I've got here is exactly what we've seen in the video.

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The same glue, the same laptop, and some honey.

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And with the laptop coated in a layer of short-acting bee-friendly glue, next, Adam adds a dash

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of honey.

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All right, let's do it.

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Then it's time for Janie to bring on the bees.

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Oh, look at all of those.

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Let's grab that end.

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You ready, Adam?

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Yeah, ready.

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Come on.

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Hurry up, the glue's drying.

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Oh, look at that.

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Oh, man, I had some bad dreams like this.

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Ah, bad.

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But unlike the video, one frame doesn't equal a bee-smothered laptop.

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Yo, up, lift.

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Well, in the video, they lay down the glue, they bring over a frame of bees, give it a

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shake, and the whole laptop is covered with bees.

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In our experience, that's not exactly what happens.

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I think this is at least going to take two frames of bees to get full coverage, if not

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more, and that's if the adhesive works.

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So for more coverage, Janie brings in another swarm of bees.

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Okay, here's the next batch.

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Oh, hey, wow.

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That made a noise.

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Well, that's a lot of bees on there.

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Well, the laptop's not going anywhere at all.

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Doesn't seem like it's any lighter.

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Despite the same glue and twice the number of bees, the guys aren't getting the coverage

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for this myth to take wing.

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But rest assured, the mythbusters have a plan B.

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We're going to increase our chance for success in this test in three ways.

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First, we're going to mix the glue and the honey together to make a tasty adhesive.

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And sweet, gluey honey, or honey gluey.

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Second, we're going to give them another reason to stick around.

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Yeah, this queen right here, we're going to put this in the middle of the laptop

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because bees are genetically programmed to stay around the queen.

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Hopefully, that'll keep them around long enough to get stuck.

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Third, instead of one frame of bees like we saw in the video.

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Whoa, whoa, nice.

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Oh, dude.

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We're going to shake three full frames of bees on this sucker.

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And if that doesn't work, wow, so well done.

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I was distracted by the fact that I hate being around bees.

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That's coverage.

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That's beautiful.

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Up we go.

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I think we need a couple more frames. Come on.

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Ah, damn.

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That's a lot of bees.

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Wow.

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Calm, calm, calm thoughts, calm thoughts.

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Not calm feelings, calm thoughts.

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What's matter?

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The number of bees may be disturbing for Adam, but this test is finally starting to look like the viral video.

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The coverage is great.

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There have to be thousands of bees on there right now.

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That is a hum of activity.

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But although it looks like the video, there is one key difference.

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What do you think? Is the laptop getting lighter?

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I think it's actually getting heavier.

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Well, dude, I don't think it's happening.

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You've got the queen in the middle, the special adhesive, five frames worth of bees, like several thousand of them.

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And the laptop is honestly, I think, heavier than when we started.

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Yeah, I don't think it's going to fly.

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No, if you'll excuse me now, I'm going to go off into a corner and let go of all my heebie-jeebies at once.

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I think you'll have to agree that we've done everything we can, and it's not just looking terrible for the myth.

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It's looking awful.

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I mean, it's nowhere close to happening.

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I feel like I want to go back to the shop and start teasing apart the components of this story to find out why.

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Okay, so first up, the myth that water repels flies.

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Oh, finally we're testing this one. I mean, this one's been going berserk on the fansite forever.

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The myth being that if you want to repel flies from your property, you just hang a bunch of clear bags of water.

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Clear bags of water? No additives? Nothing else?

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Nope, just water.

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That's insane.

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Tell that to the flies.

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According to the fans, this is a no-fuss, no-buzz solution.

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Decking your house with bags of water will keep flies away.

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But could H2O alone really create a no-fly zone?

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Alright, well this seems pretty straightforward to test.

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We get a room full of flies, we take two pieces of meat, put them on either sides of the room,

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hang a bag of water over one piece of meat, and see which ones the flies go to.

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Okay, well I have two questions. First of all, how many flies should we use?

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We need a pretty big sample size. Let's start with 5,000.

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Okay, here's a better question then. How are we going to count them?

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You know what, flies don't live that long. We could just let them die naturally and then count them in.

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So to answer the fan-fuehrer, Tori creates a home for the flies, while Carrie explains just why this idea might work.

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Now flies have prismatic vision, and since a bag of water is going to reflect and refract light,

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it will create a field of high-optic flow, which is going to tell the fly that there's something in its way.

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Essentially, creating a bug lighthouse, warning it away from the rocky shores.

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Flies have compound eyes, consisting of thousands of lenses,

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which means they see a mosaic image of their surroundings.

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So the theory is, the light refracted through the water is amplified, and this deters the flies.

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Now this fly box is made up of three equal compartments, sectioned off by trap doors.

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Now in the middle section, that's where we're going to be holding our flies,

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and on the end sections, they're both going to have a piece of meat.

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However, one of the sections is going to have a bag of water.

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Then what we're going to do is open up our trap doors and see which piece of meat the flies go to.

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The one with the bag, or the one without.

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Yep, it's a simple plan, and with Tori's fly box complete, now all they need is...

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So to put this myth to the test, we need flies, and a lot of them.

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Look, Maggie!

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Oh, God! That's crazy!

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That's had nightmares like this.

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Now the flies that we've chosen are common house flies.

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Why have we chosen them?

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Well, we know that they're attracted to rotting things, particularly rotting meat.

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Smell this.

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Yeah, it's bad.

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Could it be like a buffet for bear grills?

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Alright, that's it. That's all the maggots. Let's close it up.

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And with that, it's just a matter of sitting back and waiting three days for the maggots to metamorphosize into flies.

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Come on, you filthy maggots! Get in there and grow!

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We need 5,000 healthy soldiers!

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Pronto!

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After the break, it's biker versus bug.

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All these years up in Santor, it wouldn't hurt a fly.

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And later...

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Look at that!

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Next up for the Bug Special is an uneasy rider myth.

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Alright, so what do we got?

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Either of you ride motorcycles?

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Okay, well this next myth might bug you.

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The idea is that while riding a motorcycle, a collision with an insect could be fatal.

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Like it flies in your eye and then you swerve out of control and crash?

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Nothing that obvious. It's that the impact itself kills you instantly. You're gone before you crash.

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Really? I guess. I mean, I've seen some pretty big insects.

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Well, you need a better hobby.

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Ooh, like building robots.

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The story goes that this speeding biker was taken out by a bug strike.

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But does that fly in the face of physics?

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Or could an insect impact really be deadly?

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You know, I gotta say right off the bat, I'm a little skeptical about this one.

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I mean, I get the whole bug crashes into your face, you get distracted, you crash scenario, but killing you on impact?

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Alright, well then let's start by talking to a trauma specialist.

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Maybe there's a pressure pointer or a weak spot like the windpipe or the sternum that could create that kind of fatal result.

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Alright, that's a good idea.

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And then we'll figure out a way to ride a motorcycle into insects.

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Okay, not it on the driving. Ew.

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First up, a second opinion from trauma expert Dr. Trollin.

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So Dr. Trollin, is there any area of the head or neck that is vulnerable to something like this?

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Well, there's maybe one spot. There was a study done where they did different pressures on those different parts of the body.

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The forehead, 2,000 pounds.

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The chest, 404,000 pounds, depending on how old the person was.

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But there's one spot that's a little vulnerable.

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Right here, the cricothyroid area, only 76 pounds of pressure.

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So let's say we do find a bug that could cause this kind of force. How does that lead to death?

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It's not the crush itself, it's the swelling afterwards.

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What happens is the swelling in the area of the throat closes off the air pipe, the trachea, and that's what causes you to die.

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Right, so that weak spot means there could be something to this myth after all.

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Alright, so now we have all the information we need to go full scale.

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So now we're going to need a motorcycle.

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And since we don't want to injure our motorcyclists, we'll get a sidecar.

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We'll get a force plate.

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And some bugs.

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So, the first insect we're going to try is a common housefly.

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Now if this doesn't work, we're going to move on to this big guy.

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This is a cicada.

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Now this guy should definitely do some damage.

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To measure that damage, Grant's using the force.

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So how do we know if our bug strike is fatal or not?

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Well, with the force plate that I'm building, here's how it works.

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This is a force sensor.

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When it gets compressed, it registers on the computer.

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There'll be one of these in each corner of the plate.

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When a bug comes along and hits the plate,

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and based on that information, we'll know if the bug was a deadly bug or if it just bounced off.

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This is our motorcyclist.

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This is the guy who's going to be crashing into our insects.

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First thing I need to do is cut his head off.

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That way we can attach our force plate where the head is.

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With the force plate attached, the headless rider is complete, and it's time to hit the road.

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Let's find out if these bugs are really lethal or not.

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So this is the plan.

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We have the motorcycle.

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The human simulate is inside the side car.

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Now all I need to do is drive the motorcycle and run the human simulate into the fly.

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Then we'll find out, does a fly have enough force to crush a human being's windpipe?

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And because, let's face it, this seems like a long shot.

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Tori will drive the bike at its top speed of 85 miles an hour.

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That's good right there.

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His target, the fly, will be held in place by a string of spaghetti to combat the breeze.

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Okay Tori, stand by. Here we go.

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In three, two, one, go.

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Looks like he's going fast.

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He's right on target, 85 miles an hour.

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Whoa!

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85 miles an hour and it looked like he's creamed that fly.

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Yeah, that was a good hit.

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It's no surprise to anyone that the impact obliterated the fly.

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Did I hit it? You nailed it.

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All these years I've been saying Tori wouldn't hurt a fly.

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But the astounding thing is just how much force the split second fly spot imparted.

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Look at that.

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We have ten pounds.

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That is incredible.

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I mean, I didn't even think it was going to register on the force plate.

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I didn't think this myth had a chance at all, but that's an incredible result.

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Yeah, it's nowhere near what we need for actual fracture of the cartilage in the neck, but it's a start.

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Next up, the bees start throwing their weight around.

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Dude! She took off from the whole set.

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Alright, let's recap what we learned out there.

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The glue that they said they used in the video works great.

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The honey that they said they used to attract the bees attracted the bees.

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We got a thousand bees on that laptop.

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Every parameter that they laid out in the video worked for us except we got no lift off.

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I think clearly that means we need to break this down, take a single bee, and figure out that bee's lifting capacity.

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Like a bee Olympics.

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Weren't you part of the first bee Olympics?

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Well, first up for Janie is a trip to the roof at our bee Olympics athletes village.

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Let's see how we're doing this morning.

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Oh yeah, come to papa.

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With the bees on loan from the apiary, Janie carefully selects a contender.

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Got her.

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And then gives her a time out.

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Just going to leave her in there for a little while and cool her down.

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They won't hurt her, but it will slow her down, make her sleepy.

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That way when she's cool we can handle her safely.

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And then when we're ready to start the experiment, we'll warm her up.

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And while our bee relaxes, Adam makes the arena.

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In determining the lifting capacity of flying insects, we are not working completely in the dark.

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It has been tried before scientifically many different ways allow me to demonstrate the methodology we'll be using.

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Our honey bee represented by this little plastic bee right here will have around her midsection tied a little thread.

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That thread will have tied on it at regular intervals weights, in this case, beads.

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As she takes off, she will be lifting these beads until she reaches the limit of her lifting capacity.

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At that point, we will count the number of beads that have become airborne and we will know just how strong this little cookie is.

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And once they know how strong one bee is, they'll be able to extrapolate just how many it would take to lift a laptop.

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I think we're ready.

303
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But first, to harness up their bee bodybuilder.

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It's a delicate operation to tie the beads on loosely enough not to hurt our little contender.

305
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I think she's ready.

306
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You want to warm her up in the palm of your hand?

307
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I never imagined I'd feel such feelings of affection for a honey bee.

308
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Wow, she's already flying.

309
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I know.

310
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Attracted to the UV light overhead, the worker bee starts a few warm-up flights, but she's still too tired to compete.

311
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It's kind of like an upside-down kite.

312
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Okay, I'll let you sit down and walk right towards the honey.

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She's looking it up. I can see her little tongue.

314
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Look at that. She's having a meal.

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After her recharge on honey, a slightly more lively bee begins her flight tests.

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There you go.

317
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She flew above my fingers.

318
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With a bit of encouragement, it's a good girl.

319
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She's a little weightlifter.

320
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Oh, good.

321
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Dude, that was a solid bore.

322
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I think she's getting stronger.

323
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Suddenly, our bee is throwing her weights around.

324
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Oh, dude, she took off with the whole set.

325
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She did.

326
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Wow.

327
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That was a good one.

328
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That was a very, very good one.

329
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See? Very powerful.

330
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And the high speed confirms just what a bruiser our bee turned out to be.

331
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There we go.

332
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight beads.

333
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She's like a bodybuilder.

334
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Let's weigh them.

335
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Six, seven, eight beads. They're all there.

336
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96 milligrams.

337
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That is really significant.

338
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This little worker bee lifted eight beads, which weighed 96 milligrams.

339
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She herself weighs 118 milligrams, so that means she was capable of lifting 81% of her own weight.

340
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:05,800
That's pretty impressive, but what does that mean when it comes to lifting a laptop?

341
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Well, there's only one way to find out.

342
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Let's weigh this, baby.

343
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,800
2216 grams.

344
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OK.

345
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,800
Now it's just a matter of some math.

346
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I'm going to crunch the numbers.

347
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2,200,000,000 by 96.

348
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So, it would take somewhere in the neighborhood of 23,000 honey bees

349
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to lift our laptop far more than the 1,000 claimed by the clip.

350
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But my question is, is there even enough square footage on the laptop to fit 23,000 bees?

351
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That's the next thing I'm going to find out.

352
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We know the laptop has a surface area of 234 square inches.

353
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So now, to find the bees per square inch.

354
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,800
I've got here a piece of paper with a hole that's exactly two inches by two inches.

355
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,800
That's four square inches.

356
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,800
I'm thinking, I hold this over my bee frame.

357
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I count how many bees is in here, and I get an average bees per square inch distribution.

358
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:04,800
Here we go.

359
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2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.

360
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They keep moving.

361
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,800
Let me try this again.

362
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,800
With his bee average, now for the calculating.

363
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,800
I'm coming up with an average distribution of about 40 bees.

364
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,800
That's 10 bees per square inch.

365
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,800
10 bees per square inch means that this laptop can support 10 times as many bees as the square inches of the laptop,

366
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which is 2,340 bees on laptop.

367
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Yep, and numbers don't lie.

368
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,800
So what does that mean for the myth?

369
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What'd you figure out?

370
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:47,800
Well, I conclude that it takes 23,000 bees to lift our laptop.

371
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More than that, the laptop can only support a total population of 2,300 bees, roughly one-tenth of the number it needs to get airborne.

372
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,800
This thing's totally busted on the math alone.

373
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,800
Well, you know what?

374
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,800
I don't think that's the only reason it's busted.

375
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,800
What could he mean?

376
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,800
Coming up, the exterminator rides again.

377
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,800
And can H2O alone create a no-fly zone?

378
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800
Pretty disgusting.

379
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:30,800
The team is testing the tail of a motorcyclist who got slugged by a bug and bit the big one.

380
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,800
We just ran our first test.

381
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We hit the fly at 85 miles an hour.

382
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It registered on the force plate, giving us 10 pounds of force,

383
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,800
but that's not enough to crush a windpipe and kill a human being.

384
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,800
You need somewhere around 76 pounds of pressure to do that.

385
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,800
Now we're going to move on to the cicada.

386
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:55,800
Now this could potentially give us that 76 pounds of pressure that we're looking for to make this lethal.

387
00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:02,800
Weighing around 100 times more than the fly, they should get more bang for their bug.

388
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,800
To find out, the exterminator guns the bike to 85 miles per hour.

389
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The 85.

390
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Right on target.

391
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,800
And that's past the la vista baby.

392
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,800
I think I got some cicada in my mouth.

393
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,800
The force of impact vaporized the cicada, spraying bug bits everywhere.

394
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800
But was it a lethal bug strike?

395
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:39,800
Okay, what's the result?

396
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37 pounds.

397
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,800
What?

398
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,800
Wow, that's a lot of force.

399
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,800
Yep.

400
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:45,800
But it's not enough to kill you.

401
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,800
But it's halfway there.

402
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,800
That's incredible from a bug.

403
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,800
Incredible is right.

404
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,800
I never really expected this cicada to be a fatal collision.

405
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,800
The 37 pounds is really, really surprising.

406
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,800
I mean, that's halfway to the minimum dynamic fracture load that it would take to crush a windpipe.

407
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:09,800
So if a 10 gram bug got 37 pounds of force, then to get the deadly 76 pounds,

408
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they're going to need a bigger bug.

409
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,800
Look at this thing.

410
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,800
Raaah!

411
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,800
Luckily, they prepared one of those earlier.

412
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The Goliath beetle.

413
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One of the largest insects on the face of the earth in terms of its bulk and its weight.

414
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They average about four inches long and can weigh up to 100 grams.

415
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They're indigenous to Africa, and if you're wondering, yes, they do in fact fly.

416
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,800
But you can't import these things live.

417
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,800
They come all dried out.

418
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:45,800
I'm recreating our Goliath so that it has an exoskeleton, the right mass, and a nice gooey center so we get a splat.

419
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,800
For that, Carrie took a mold of the Goliath beetle.

420
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800
I feel like I'm unearthing some sort of ancient dinosaur.

421
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,800
And then using a polyurethane resin, replicated its outer shell.

422
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,800
Nice. Perfect exoskeleton.

423
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,800
Then the final step was to give the model some pudding guts.

424
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,800
That's bug guts.

425
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,800
I actually do know what this tastes like.

426
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,800
Thanks to Mythbusters.

427
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:24,800
Right now, my dried out Goliath beetle and the shell that we're using as a simulation have the same weight.

428
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,800
They're both about 12-13 grams.

429
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,800
We want these bugs to be live, so I'm adding guts to create the mass, the weight.

430
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,800
We're going to get 60 grams of bug guts into this guy.

431
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,800
How weird is this?

432
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:39,800
Weird indeed.

433
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:46,800
But since it's six times the mass of the cicada, perhaps the Goliath Goliath will prove fatal.

434
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,800
You might say that it's crunch time.

435
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,800
One, two, one, go!

436
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,800
One giant beetle versus a motorcyclist at 85 miles per hour.

437
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,800
Here it comes.

438
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,800
Right on target.

439
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,800
Yeah, 85 holding and...

440
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Did you hear the sound it made?

441
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,800
Yeah, I think that could have been a kill. It went...

442
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,800
Covered in bug simulation.

443
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,800
This is pudding.

444
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:28,800
It's tasty.

445
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800
Ooh, it's really old pudding.

446
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,800
There's no doubt that the beetle hit with a thwack.

447
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,800
That's a cartoon splat!

448
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,800
That is a bug splatter.

449
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,800
But was that splat in the deadly force range?

450
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,800
The body just explodes.

451
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,800
That's over 100 pounds of force.

452
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,800
Well, that's a lethal blow right there if it hit your windpipe.

453
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,800
After three bugs with three different masses,

454
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,800
they've finally gotten the deadly impact of the myth at 85 miles per hour.

455
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,800
But it's a million to one impact.

456
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,800
After the mythbusters, those odds are too high.

457
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,800
This myth is really starting to look plausible.

458
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,800
But what we really need to find out now is since we could get our 100 pound payload from this,

459
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,800
what if we had higher speeds?

460
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,800
What if the beetle hit somewhere else?

461
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,800
I mean, it's more likely to hit your head or your chest.

462
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,800
So can we cause instant death with a more likely scenario?

463
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,800
To test that, I think what we're going to have to do is go to a much higher speed.

464
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Certainly much higher than we can get on the sidecar rig that we have right now.

465
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,800
But before the guys get up to speed, there's a swarm of flies to deal with.

466
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:47,800
They're irritating, infuriating, and downright annoying.

467
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,800
But can you repel flies with a bag of water?

468
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,800
So as you can see, our 5,000 flies have finally hatched.

469
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,800
We have our very own swarm.

470
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,800
And now it's time for our final experiment.

471
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:01,800
Here's how it's going to work.

472
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:07,800
Box number one and box number three will each have a chunk of rotten meat in it to attract the flies.

473
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,800
But only box number one will have a plastic bag filled with water.

474
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:16,800
We'll open up the doors, let them go for an hour, then close them and count the flies.

475
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,800
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, child time!

476
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,800
It smells so bad!

477
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:30,800
This putrid meat has been fermenting for 10 days, and with an identical amount in each chamber, it'll certainly attract the flies.

478
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,800
I can see if this thing repels the flies.

479
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,800
They're sealed in.

480
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,800
Okay, 60 minutes with the doors open. Go!

481
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,800
Remember, because fly eyes consist of thousands of tiny lenses,

482
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:53,800
supposedly the refraction of light through the water bag will be amplified and create a confusing obstacle.

483
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,800
So we just opened the trap doors inside the fly box to release the flies.

484
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,800
Now what do I think is going to happen?

485
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,800
I have a feeling once those flies smell that rotting meat, they're going to go straight for it,

486
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,800
and that bag of water is going to do nothing to deter them.

487
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:07,800
Tori could be right.

488
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,800
So far the water bag is doing nothing to deter the flies from their feted feast.

489
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:18,800
We do a lot of exciting things on this show, explosions, guns, sharks, but believe it or not,

490
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,800
will a bag of water repel flies?

491
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,800
Is the most demanded myth on our website right now.

492
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,800
You asked for it, and here it is.

493
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,800
But halfway through, it's looking dubious.

494
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,800
Look at that, apparently bags of water attract flies.

495
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,800
A quick time lapse, and 30 minutes later, the free range feasting is up.

496
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,800
Now we can start counting flies.

497
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,800
Well actually, not quite yet.

498
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,800
They have to wait a week for the flies to, uh, drop like flies.

499
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,800
God, that's a lot of flies.

500
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,800
Alright, let's clean them up and weigh them.

501
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,800
Here's a dirty job for you.

502
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,800
This is pretty disgusting.

503
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,800
With both sets of flies collected,

504
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,800
Time to get counted in the name of science.

505
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,800
It's time to weigh in on the water bag theory.

506
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:24,800
Alright, so these are the flies from the compartment without water, and they weigh 20 grams.

507
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,800
Alright.

508
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,800
Well these are the flies from the compartment,

509
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,800
They supposedly fly repelling a water bag.

510
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,800
Alright, ready for a moment of truth?

511
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:34,800
Yep.

512
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:36,800
Oh!

513
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800
35 grams.

514
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,800
This one's busted.

515
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,800
It's only busted, it's ridiculous.

516
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,800
Yep, looks like a bag of water does not work as a bug repellent.

517
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,800
Tell that to the fan site.

518
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,800
Next, the guys get to the chopper.

519
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,800
To test the physics of flight.

520
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,800
That's pretty definitive, man.

521
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,800
Hollywood bugs may be a force to be reckoned with.

522
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:17,800
It's lifted.

523
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,800
But in the case of this B movie,

524
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,800
Well the bees don't have the pulling power.

525
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,800
Look, the numbers here just don't add up.

526
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,800
It would take 23,000 bees to lift that laptop

527
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,800
And they could never fit within that surface area.

528
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,800
This thing is totally busted.

529
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,800
Well not only that, but the laws of physics won't allow it.

530
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,800
And you know what? I can prove it.

531
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:37,800
Cool.

532
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,800
There's a really basic problem inherent to this whole idea of having bees lift a laptop.

533
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,800
And that is that, say, this is the bee,

534
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,800
And it's attached to a large flat surface like my hand.

535
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,800
When it blows air down,

536
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,800
The air is going to hit that surface that it's trying to lift.

537
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,800
It doesn't have any choice but to go off sideways.

538
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,800
It needs to go down past the object to actually be able to lift it.

539
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,800
It's kind of like being in a cartoon and you're in a sailboat

540
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,800
Blowing on the sail and off goes the boat with you in it.

541
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:06,800
It doesn't work that way.

542
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,800
And I think we can prove it with this little guy.

543
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,800
Yep, these tiny helicopters are just right to test Jamie's theory.

544
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,800
Right in the face.

545
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,800
Not only are they more cooperative than bees,

546
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,800
Oh, come on, into the shark's mouth.

547
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,800
There's also no sting in their tail.

548
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,800
Shall we figure out how much these puppies can lift?

549
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:41,800
Sure.

550
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,800
I broke out one of my weight sets.

551
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,800
What I'm thinking is that we replicate the experiment we used on the bees

552
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,800
and see how much it can lift here.

553
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,800
Great idea.

554
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,800
Adam starts with a weight of two grams on the string.

555
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,800
And then it's over to the helicopter to start its weight training.

556
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,800
Well, two grams.

557
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,800
Okay, that's a good test.

558
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,800
One more gram is added to the mini chopper payload.

559
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,800
I think that's our limit.

560
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:12,800
I mean, it was literally like...

561
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Yeah.

562
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,800
So I think three grams per helicopter is our weight limit.

563
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,800
How many helicopters do you want to use?

564
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Six.

565
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,800
Okay.

566
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,800
18 grams it is.

567
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,800
With the lifting capacity of the teeny heli sorted,

568
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,800
Jamie whips up a 10 gram frame for the first part of this experiment.

569
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,800
That ought to do it.

570
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,800
I think we're ready to fly.

571
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:38,800
So if you do the math,

572
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,800
six of these little guys should easily be able to lift this frame.

573
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,800
And as it turns out, Jamie's right.

574
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:46,800
Yes!

575
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,800
Six mini choppers can definitely lift the frame.

576
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,800
That's quite...

577
00:33:58,800 --> 00:33:59,800
So what's next?

578
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,800
All right, now, if your theory is correct

579
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,800
and we add a film under here,

580
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,800
they won't take off at all.

581
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,800
Not going anywhere.

582
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:10,800
Let's do it.

583
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,800
All right.

584
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,800
Jamie tweaks his frame by skin in the bottom with tape.

585
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,800
So I've removed these things

586
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,800
and I'm replacing them with tape.

587
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,800
At 10 grams, it weighs exactly what it did before.

588
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,800
But now air can't pass through the frame.

589
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:28,800
Oh, it's ready.

590
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:29,800
It's ready.

591
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:30,800
Awesome.

592
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,800
That's not flying.

593
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,800
She's a vibrate a little bit,

594
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:37,800
but she's a no-fly.

595
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:38,800
No flying.

596
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:39,800
I love it.

597
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,800
That's pretty definitive, man.

598
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:42,800
Yep.

599
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,800
Definitive and down-to-flight physics.

600
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,800
The chopper blades not only create lift,

601
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,800
but they also force air down on the surface of the frame.

602
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,800
Meaning that any lift is counteracted

603
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,800
by the downward pressure of the air on the frame.

604
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,800
So how does all this relate to bees lifting a laptop?

605
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,800
Well, assuming you had enough bees

606
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,800
and enough lift from them to do the job,

607
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,800
the physics and the geometry of the situation

608
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,800
just isn't going to let it happen.

609
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,800
Stay tuned for the Bug Special Finale.

610
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,800
Oh, it's a cute little bug.

611
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,800
Of death.

612
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,800
And there's a sting in the tail.

613
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:23,800
Look at that.

614
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,800
It's totally lifting off.

615
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,800
When it comes to a biker versus a bug,

616
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,800
most people would back the biker.

617
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,800
However...

618
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,800
We found out at the Alameda runway with our motorcycle

619
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,800
that if you hit one of these Goliath beetles going 85 miles an hour

620
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,800
and it happened to hit you in this tiny little spot right here...

621
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,800
That's over 100 pounds of force.

622
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,800
Well, that's a lethal hit right there if it hit your windpipe.

623
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,800
But you're more likely to hit the head or the chest,

624
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:54,800
some area like that.

625
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800
Now, what would it take to make that lethal?

626
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,800
Well, we're going to do some experiments

627
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,800
using much, much higher speeds to find out if that's a possibility.

628
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,800
Now, for that, we're going to need to build an air cannon.

629
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,800
Perfect.

630
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,800
You ready?

631
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,800
I'm ready.

632
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,800
Let's do it.

633
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,800
Alright.

634
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,800
Now armed with the Bug Zooka.

635
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,800
It's the final showdown for the biker versus bug.

636
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,800
Oh, it's a cute little bug of death.

637
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,800
For the first test at 120 miles per hour,

638
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,800
Cary loads the Goliath Beetle inside a sabo

639
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,800
to make sure he makes it out alive.

640
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,800
Six and a half PSI. We are ready to fire.

641
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,800
And remember...

642
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,800
The forehead, 2,000 pounds.

643
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,800
The chest, 404,000 pounds.

644
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,800
So that's the deadly range they're looking for.

645
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,800
In three, two, one.

646
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,800
Now that was a slap.

647
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,800
Was that a lethal hit or what?

648
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,800
Yeah, it sounded pretty, pretty crazy.

649
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:15,800
Ta-da!

650
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,800
Our 60 gram Goliath Beetle hits the force plate

651
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,800
at 120 miles per hour.

652
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,800
But was it a deadly strike?

653
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,800
285 pounds of force on that one.

654
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,800
So we just fired our bug out of our cannon

655
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,800
at 120 miles an hour into our force meter.

656
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,800
It gave us 285 pounds of force.

657
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,800
Now we know that would be a lethal hit

658
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,800
if it hit you in the throat.

659
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,800
However, it would not be lethal if it hit you in the head

660
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:41,800
or the chest.

661
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,800
So now it's time to move on to the ridiculous.

662
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,800
We're going to fire our bug at 200 miles an hour.

663
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,800
That is the fastest known motorcycle ever ticketed.

664
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,800
Let's see if that is enough to kill you.

665
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,800
Ridiculous is right.

666
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,800
And depending on how you look at it,

667
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,800
this is either a best or a worst case scenario.

668
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,800
Ready to fire at 10 psi.

669
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,800
At 200 miles an hour, the fastest recorded speed

670
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,800
that anyone's gotten a ticket on a motorcycle.

671
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,800
Three, two, one.

672
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,800
Wow!

673
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,800
Oh my god!

674
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:17,800
Wow!

675
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:18,800
Look at that splash!

676
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,800
I don't know about you guys.

677
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,800
That might have been lethal.

678
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:29,800
It's an incredible impact at an incredible speed.

679
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,800
But can we call this souped up bug deadly?

680
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,800
So at 200 miles per hour, direct hit,

681
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,800
558 pounds of force.

682
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,800
I mean that sounds like a lot, but it's really not.

683
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,800
I mean your chest can take so much more.

684
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,800
That is the worst case scenario.

685
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,800
Bottom, bottom number is 400.

686
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,800
So this is really unlikely.

687
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,800
Yeah, and we are giving this myth the best possible chance.

688
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,800
And it's still coming up barely plausible.

689
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,800
But I think we need to call it plausible

690
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,800
because if it did hit you in the throat, it could kill you.

691
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,800
I mean that's what all the best myths are based on.

692
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,800
Really unlikely circumstances.

693
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,800
All aligning perfectly to create a really good story.

694
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,800
So plausible.

695
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,800
Mythbusters is all about experimentation.

696
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,800
But that means that there are a lot of things

697
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,800
that don't make it on air.

698
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,800
So if you want to see some of that stuff,

699
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,800
log on to discovery.com slash mythbusters.

700
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,800
That's a lot of bees.

701
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,800
Adam and Jamie have proved that bees can't lift a laptop.

702
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,800
Come on bees, go.

703
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,800
You need too many bees.

704
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,800
23,000 honey bees.

705
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,800
On too little surface and the physics just doesn't work.

706
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,800
That's pretty definitive man.

707
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,800
This myth is triple busted.

708
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,800
Oh, look at that!

709
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,800
It's totally lifting off.

710
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,800
Ah, this myth is triple busted.

711
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,800
Wow!

712
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,800
They are totally flying this laptop.

713
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,800
So how did that just happen?

714
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,800
We've come back to the bee farm to get this laptop to fly.

715
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,800
Except this time, instead of relying on the bees to lift it,

716
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,800
we are going to rely on our experience in special effects.

717
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,800
For while this barrel and this laptop look exactly the same

718
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,800
as they did the first time we tried this,

719
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,800
there's a critical difference.

720
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,800
And that difference is this.

721
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,800
High strength fishing line,

722
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,800
monofilament strung between the laptop

723
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,800
and this overhead poppiting ring.

724
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,800
Yes, so that when we have this laptop properly covered with bees,

725
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,800
we will pop it up into the air lifted by the invisible monofilament

726
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,800
and it will look hopefully just like the video.

727
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,800
That's movie magic in action.

728
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,800
Once again, Adam preps the laptop.

729
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,800
We're not even going to use glue in this test,

730
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,800
we're just going to use honey.

731
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,800
I'm going to coat this laptop and they're going to lap it up.

732
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,800
That's the theory anyway.

733
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,800
Now to bring on the bees.

734
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,800
And strangely, Adam is volunteering.

735
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,800
It strikes me that you're getting a little more comfortable around bees.

736
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,800
More than that, I think by the end of this episode,

737
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,800
I'll be totally over my phobia.

738
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,800
First frame of bees.

739
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,800
Here we go.

740
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,800
Oh, perfect!

741
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,800
That is beautiful.

742
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,800
The bees are in place and then miraculously,

743
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,800
Oh, look at that!

744
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,800
the laptop starts to fly.

745
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,800
Wow! That is amazing!

746
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,800
Look at that!

747
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,800
Look, I can raise it and they fly even higher.

748
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,800
Look, oh, that is movie magic.

749
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,800
And just like the viral video, it's all done with strings.

750
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,800
Look, it's easy to see why this video is so popular and compelling.

751
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,800
It makes a great story and you want to believe it.

752
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,800
Strong bees, strong like bull.

753
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,800
Unfortunately, that desire doesn't make it so.

754
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,800
The laws of physics dictate that it is not possible

755
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,800
and we have proven that and we've proven how they actually did it.

756
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,800
There it is! It is totally flying!

757
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,800
Oh, they're getting tired.

758
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,800
So, let's chop one up for critical thinking.

759
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,800
I think we put this one to bed.

760
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,800
That looked just like what we saw in the video.

761
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,800
It did. I think that's exactly how they did it.

762
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,800
Well, it just goes to show.

763
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,800
Don't believe everything you see, huh?

764
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,800
Exactly.

765
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,800
Did you know that mead is made out of honey?

766
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,800
I did not. I've never tried it.

767
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,800
You should. You'll get a little buzz off of it.

768
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800
Ha ha ha!