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Please do not try what you are about to see at home. We're what you call experts. Can't you tell?

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On this episode of mythbusters cars guns what can go wrong Adam and Jamie are on burn notice

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Testing the myth that to give the bad guys the slip close with the no cigar you can bounce a bullet

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Awesome, I totally didn't call that through the bottom of their car

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Meanwhile carry Tori Grant

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Take on some action hero heroics the ordering explosion

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Finding out if the force of a shockwave

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Could push the power of an ordinary jump into a superhuman

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Mythbusters Adam Savage

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Jamie Heineman

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience together with Tori Belachie

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I was insane Brent imihara

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And Carrie Byron do it. They don't just tell the myths

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They put them to the test

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Jamie in your travels have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're being chased by someone and you're shooting at them to try

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And stop them from chasing you. I don't want to talk about it. I figured you'd say that

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There is a story however from this show called burn notice in the show

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Our hero is being chased in a car by another car

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And he says that if you don't have an armor piercing round you can forget about shooting through the engine or the radiator of your pursuer

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But he says that you can in fact skip bullets off the ground in through the floor of the car that's chasing you

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Oh, I'm not so sure about that and that is exactly why I think it's something we should test

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To delay a pursuer but leave them unharmed the tactic is literally under fire

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Rick Shane bullets off the ground up through the undercarriage

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But can you really bounce a bullet up into the underside of a car or is this myth on the rebound?

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So what kind of gun were they using in that clip do we know it looks to be a nine millimeter semi-auto

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Seems to me the first thing we ought to do is see whether that kind of gun would penetrate the bottom of a car

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Excellent. Let's just get out to a shooting range. It's shoot at the bottom of a car

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Why not?

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So at the Yolo County bomb range the myth busters prepared to take on this myth point blank I

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Love the anticipation of shooting at cars. Yeah cars guns. What could go wrong?

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These are our cars blue car good guy red car bad guy think late sabers

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And this is the orientation they are in in the clip slightly offset and 15 feet apart

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Now in the clip the guy says that without a high-powered round

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You're not gonna get past the radiator or the firewall yep

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Supposedly the underside of the car is a better target. So first they'll test that

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We're gonna lift the car up and shoot at point blank range into the floor of the car see if the bullets make it through

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I know that they're supposed to have skipped off the ground

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But if a direct bullet won't make it through the floor well a skip bullet never would

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And to find out if those point blank rounds penetrate

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Very expensive balloons clearly

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Adam fills the bottom of the car with balloons and then gives the underside of the car a whitewash. Oh

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That's a clean experimental space

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And the whiteout makes it clear that this bounced round is quite the trick shot

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I'm looking at a whole lot of stuff right here that I've got to get past to get into the cab

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Really the only hope that I have is a spot right about there

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Which may trim the guy's toenails or something, but that's my only hope

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Shooting at the underside of a car my Jamie's ready

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That looked like an almost perfect hit Jamie's sharp shooting sends a barrage of bullets right into the sweet spot

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And although the rounds are hitting the mark have they made it through the wheel well

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Oh, I see a hit here. I've gone through the floorboard here, but not through the carpet

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It looks like underneath the car. It looks like most bullets were deflected

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Wait, there's pop balloon in here

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But one burst balloon reveals one bullet did make it through

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What does that look like? That's a bullet. Yeah, and it made it through the floor and into the cab of the car

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If it made it in through the floor it could have made it into the guy's foot nice shooting text

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So I was able to get some bullets to penetrate the cab of the car with this nine millimeter pistol

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I went in here a couple down there one over there

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But keep in mind that this was a direct hit under optimal static conditions

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And that means it is now time to find out whether or not a ricocheting bullet

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Keeps enough energy to still pierce the cab of our car. Well round ones over time for ricocheting

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Next the myth busters get the jump on Hollywood

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What do you look so excited about all right

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We are testing a Hollywood movie myth dealing with explosions great. What is it?

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All right, so this comes from a classic action movie where the hero is running from an explosive and just before detonates

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He jumps with all of his might. Well, you probably know what happens

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I know just as he's mid-air the blast goes off and the resulting shockwave actually pushes him through the air giving him a

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Superhuman jump exactly, but is that true can a shockwave from an explosion actually push you further than you can jump on your own

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It's a bombastic scene straight from the blockbusters

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Escaping an imminent explosion the hero leaps into the air and the force of the blast gives them a super human boost

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But are these filmic physics bang on or is this a mission?

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Implausible all right, so obviously we're gonna need a human stand

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I'm not exactly comfortable with any of us getting exposed to a shockwave sounds like a job for Buster

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I think the first order of business is to rig him so he can jump all right

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Well, why don't you figure out a way to get him to jump and while you're working on that you and I can find out

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How far he should jump so hit the track for a little data collection?

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Maybe check out some jump distances hang time exactly a little jump in fact-finding missions

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So to jump start the myth

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Carriontori need to find out the average distance and hang time of a regular long jump get in strong

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Ready to go jump absolutely

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We've come to the track at the College of San Mateo to test the myth that the shockwave from a bomb can actually extend your jump

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Now there is no way we're gonna be jumping anywhere near an explosion

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But Buster needs to do it so we need to get a benchmark at how far he needs to jump

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So we're here to get some expert training from champion long jumper joy upshot

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She's good real good. All right. Let's see you do it joy demonstrates exactly how it's done

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And she makes it look easy

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Then it's over to the first contender all right Carrie

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This is your long jump you get three attempts and then we're gonna average all three. You ready? Yes. Here we go

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Carrie gets a run-up and then leaps for all her work

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My god, I think we've just seen a new world record. I think I got nine feet with my new technique

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I mean graceful graceful

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Well with two more jumps Carrie's form improves and so does her distance Carrie you went 10 feet you've increased your distance

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Carrie's just finished all three of her jumps and she came away with a nine and a half feet average

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That is incredible considering the fact that she's not that athletic. She's very uncoordinated and she has a bum knee

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It's my turn next it's not a competition Tory

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It's about data collection and setting the average Joe leaping benchmark. I time to get in the zone

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Is he putting my headband? Yes, he is

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All right, I'm in the zone

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But lechi takes his run up run run run and he really goes the distance

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Oh, I got said in my pants. Well, that was about 16 feet. Do you remind you Michael Jordan? All that air two more jumps

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And the data on distance is in all right your average to 16 feet minus that and a half good job you guys

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All right, why don't we look at the high speed and see how much hang time we're actually getting?

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Yep, just as important as the average distance is the average hang time of the jumps

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But look you got any air got some height there

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That's form but the hang time isn't looking good even with Tory airborne for five tenths of a second

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Getting the timing right in full scale is going to be tough

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Now we did come out here to find out what the average long jump would be from an average person and between Tory and I

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Are average about 12 feet when you look at that on the high speed

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That's not even half a second of hang time

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That's a very small window to actually trigger everything that needs to happen the jump and the bomb

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So I think we might have to go with something that gives us more hang time

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Maybe a

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Olympic world record or something like that something like a lot no double the hang time what we can get

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Doubling their hang time is crucial after all in this myth the hero is leaping for their life

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Making this an extraordinary jump

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I got what we saw tomorrow coming up ready for the naked Avenger

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And later we're literally on the highway to the danger zone

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It's a big bounce from the small screen for sheer panic it's hard to beat bullets coming up from the floorboards

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But can a bullet on the rebound really shoot through

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Having successfully pierced the posted stamp size target of the wheel well of our chase car

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It's now time to find out if we can get underneath there with a ricocheted bullet

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So we've come out here to this runway in lovely Tracy, California

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We're gonna start firing some bullets into the ground and see what kind of predictable behavior

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We can expect from those bullets after they bounce so using the cars to map out the trajectory of the clip

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Adam sets up a remote rig for the firepower and gets an angle on the angle of the gun pretty good

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So at what angle do we begin shooting into the ground?

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The first shot is going to be at what I'm gonna call the intuition angle if I was this guy

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This is the angle at which I feel like I would have to hit the ground in order to bounce it correctly into the wheel

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Well of Maya Salon turns out it's about 16 and a half degrees am I right?

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I have no idea, but it's as good a place as any to begin

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It's the natural place to start their rebound analysis

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So Adam sets up a backboard to track the angle of the ricochet alright for our first intuition shot

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I'm gonna load this copper jacketed cartridge into the gun and we're gonna fire

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the gun is hot in

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three two one

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That was a perfect shot a

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Perfect shot and a perfect bounce the bullet hit perfectly in the center of our white box

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That's great and based on the bullet hole in the backboard Adam can get the angle

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The bullet was aimed at the ground at a 16.2 degree angle and after it hit the ground it left at

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9.95 degree angle just a little bit more than half

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of the angle a

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little bit more than half

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But the question is did the bullet lose power after its rebound from the ground?

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Here's the thing the bullet is hitting the ground at 1200 plus feet per second

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It's even the ground at

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962 feet per second that is a lot of energy still in that piece of metal. Yeah, that's not a lot of loss

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Well, let's try a steeper angle. Yep

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It's going to take a few more tilts at bouncing bullets before the mythbusters have the ins and outs of ricochet dynamics

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Test number two at 32 degrees

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Gun is hot in three two one

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Whoa, whoa very interesting another shot where I hit exactly where I wanted to

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Well, that's unexpected the ricochet angle is pretty much exactly the angle that it hit the ground at like a mirror

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Hit it 32 degrees and it bounced at 32 degrees. I would not have called that

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That is weird

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Weird at its plane that the sharper angle has had another important impact on the bullet

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Entry speeds the same as its predecessor exit speed is

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475 feet per second. It's lost almost two-thirds of its energy

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Hit in the ground at that angle and that puts it down

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I think around 300 miles an hour, which you wouldn't want to get hit by but I don't know whether that's going to penetrate steel or not

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Yeah, it's a lot of lost energy

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At this point one thing is perfectly clear the steeper the bullet hits the ground at the more energy is going to lose in that

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Transaction now we need to find a butter zone where the angle is not so steep that it loses all of its energy

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But it's steep enough to get where it needs to go underneath the car and to round out the angle of their automatic

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Dangle got this hot. They're trying a much shallower eight degrees three two one

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A little bit forward of where I expected

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But hit the asphalt at eight degrees and ricochet off of it at five point one degrees

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Some data right there this time the angle was less acute

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But interestingly the bullet hit the board traveling at 1130 feet per second the fastest speed yet

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So what does that mean for bouncing bullets?

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Behind me I've got two cars a gun position and three shots in the ground and a bunch of bullet angles to work out

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Now I could have the editors do it graphically for me hold on hold on

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But that only helps you understand what's going on. I want to understand what's going on here and now

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So I'm actually gonna draw all those angles in a brightly colored string

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Like something out of CSI our pink plotting spider is tracking all the angles of the bullets to work out where they should hit the car

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And it's clear from the outset that one angle is not going to work

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I think right off the bat looking at this extreme angle and the amount of power we lose we should chuck the 32 degree angle

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I agree. All right

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Keep going, but the 16 degree angle hits the target. Oh

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Jamie that looks really good. I gotta say coming into this

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I didn't think we'd be able to get a steep enough angle to get up and into the car, but

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Looks like I was wrong their angle of aim is determined

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But there's still one more test for the bouncing bullet this right here

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It's actually cut from the wheel well of the car that's chasing us

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We're going to ricochet a bullet into it to see if 75 percent of its original energy is enough to pierce this steel plate

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Oh and all the padding that's behind it

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ricochet shot into firewall

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I'm excited about this one three two one fire

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Perfect hit

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Firing at 16 degrees the bullet bounced and hit the board at 10 degrees, but did it have the power to penetrate?

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Oh, and it went through. Oh, yeah, dude. Look at that

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Even the ricochet shot went through all the padding and heat shielding and the firewall that would have hurt

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Awesome. I totally didn't call that. Yep. The 16 degree bullet not only bounced in the right trajectory

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But it also retained enough power to penetrate

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So it's time for this myth to hit the road

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Later the surf is up for buster. Good luck buddy. Think action hero, but can he catch a shock wave?

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That was a healthy shock wave

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In this explosive surfs up myth a hero leaps at the last second

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And supposedly by catching the shock wave his jump is amped up to the superhuman

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After athletics 101

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How do you do it?

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It seems the hang-time duration of an ordinary jump is not long enough for a blast

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So they're turning to the extra ordinary now for this test. We're going for world record territory

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A long jump that's approximately 25 feet for women and 29 feet for men that should give us about a second of hang time

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That'll make it a little bit easier for buster to still be in mid air after we launch him for us to set off the bomb

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That means that we have a benchmark for at least 25 feet for buster

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But buster isn't an elite lawn jumper. So he's going to need a boost

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Since buster can't jump on his own

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We need to help him by giving him both upward and forward momentum and to do that. We're going to use this

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nitrogen cannon

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Since the cannon will ultimately be just a hop skipping a jump from an explosion

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That'd have to be so heavy

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For its own protection. It gets a full metal jacket. There it is. It's beautiful. Hello cannon in the box

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Then tori turns his attention to buster

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Fitting him with a strategically placed rod that will launch him at the perfect angle from the cannon

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Landed it with the rig set sometimes you just need a cape

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We'll jump in jack flashes leap match the professional jump distance and hang time that they need

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Grant charges nitro to 1500 psi

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All right ready for the naked avenger

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And buster is ready for jump off

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three two one

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He flies to the air without a care in the world. All right, let's see how far he went at 32 feet

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Buster's rear boost was a little too energetic

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He actually smashed into the top of the showbiz. So they dial nitro back for launch number two

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All right, here we go. 1000 psi three two one

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Think that's it cool this time at around 60 percent of the psi buster flew 25 feet

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within the professional range they were looking for and the high speed confirms a one second hang time

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All right. Well, that was a near perfect flight, but for due diligence

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They try multiple jumps

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At each time the nitro cannon gets them the perfect combination of distance and hang time

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So setting the air cannon at 1000 psi is giving us a consistent jump sending buster 25 feet

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That's good enough for an elite jumper. That's good enough for an action hero

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And it's good enough to bring on the booms

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Usually in a car chase shoot them up the shooters aim at each other

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But this myth is all about taking them out with a sneaky undershot

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fire

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So far the myth busters have gotten a mythical bullet bounce

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And it went through but will that change when they start ricocheting in motion

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We'll define that out adam and jamie have to track the trajectory of the bouncing bullet at 40 miles an hour

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Only six feet away from the truck. Well, I'm just extrapolating so they've puzzled out an ingenious solution

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This is the rig that we have designed to find this out

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It's effectively a trailer except that it's an open frame mounted to one rail our high speed camera mounted to the other

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A measurement gauge to make sure that the bullet hits the ground

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Precisely where we wanted to and at the angle we need we're going to have our gun

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Hard mounted to a mast in the bed of the pickup truck

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All we need to do is get this rig up to 40 miles an hour fire this gun

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Catch it on high speed and we will learn whether or not that 40 miles an hour makes a difference to the exit trajectory

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It's got to do a complicated job, but it's a simple build

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And in no time at all they're back out at the range with a lime rig ready for the lime line

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Awesome. Look at that. It's like it was designed for so to find out if the bullet will still bounce at speed

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Watch the plan. This is how our traveling bullet rig is going to work

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While jamie gets the truck up to 40 to 45 miles per hour

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I'll be sitting in the back protected by this bullet proof shield when we get to the right spot

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I will pull this string firing the gun

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And when the bullet hits right around here, we're going to be recording it on the high speed camera

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Then we're going to crunch the numbers and at that point

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We will know whether the gun moving 40 miles an hour over the ground affects either the exit trajectory or speed

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Yep, this is where the lead hits the road at the best case scenario angle of 16 degrees

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Rolling gun test

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Three two one go

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But will the road ricochet change its trajectory and speed?

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Jamie guns the truck to the speed from the clip and gives adam his cue

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Here at 45. Here we go firing

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All right, the gun is fired the bullet fired, but how did it bounce?

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I think that worked perfectly

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Let's see where it hit

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There it is pretty much exactly where we expected it to hit

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Let's review the high speed and see what the data says. Yeah

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And it turns out that everything worked like clockwork

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Excellent. It's we caught it. That's beautiful

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Even with the rig traveling at 45 miles per hour

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Amazingly they captured the split second skip and crucially for the myth the bullet rebounded at

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950 feet per second and at a 10 degree angle

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Exactly matching the static results. This one is cool, dude. I mean having tested all the constituent parts

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I wouldn't have called this but i'm starting to think that this thing might actually be plausible

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Well, let's put everything together and go full scale. Yeah, absolutely

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Do not try what you're about to see at home. We're what you call experts

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Okay, so now we've got buster rig so he can jump with the distance and hang time of an olympic athlete

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What's next? I think maybe we should set buster about 50 feet away from the blast just like you would see in any typical action movie

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Sounds like a solid distance and then when he's halfway through his jump

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We set off the explosion and see if the shockwave will push him any further than if he could jump on a zone power

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Cool, but i've got one addition. You know the movies how they use all different types of explosives different sizes of blasts

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Why don't we do multiple blasts and increase the explosive each time depending on the result?

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I'm not gonna argue with that

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That's the plan and to begin the blockbuster blitz

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Where better than angels camp quarry? This is the best location the home of some of the biggest bangs in myth buster's history

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So curious see if this actually works

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Leaping dummies and explosions. I mean, I can't think of anything better

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It's a bombastic combo

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But before buster gets a leaping torii needs to make the earth move a couple more digs and we're there

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Since the nitro cannon will be boosting buster from ground level it needs to get down and dirty

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Perfect and protected from the explosive action

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But to time the jump and blast just right

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Nitro is going to need a very tricky trigger now this right here is the trigger for the cannon

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And frank initiates the blast

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It's going to come down a line of shock tube and split in two directions

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The first one's going to come over here that hits this switch

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Fires the cannon the other side of that goes over to the explosive

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Through a delay cap that's going to delay it half a second to let buster get to the top of his arc

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For fires off the explosion once the trigger is taken care of enter the stand-in action hero. He's on

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Andy stand proud

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Wait, why are we dressing like a commando?

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And with buster in position the first order of business is to check the timing on grand's trigger

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Okay, we're at a thousand psi and find out how far buster jumps without explosives in three two one

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That looks great hilarious so far so good just like the sharp test the cannon sent buster flying

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Measure from his hips like a long jump

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But how far how far did he go 27 feet?

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At altitude the cannon gives buster a little more boost setting the control at 27 feet

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But what about the timing?

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So our timing system worked out which is great news because this experiment is all about timing

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As you can see from the high speed he goes up and the explosive goes off right at the top of his arc

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So now it's time for us to load up 10 pounds of c4. See if our commando buddy

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Can beat 27 feet. Yep. That's the plan

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So it's over to explosives expert frank to wire up the c4

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Just keep the business end pointed away from you. Okay

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While grant primes the trigger and the cannon

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Nitrogen is loaded. This is it the moment of truth for the myth

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Special delivery will the shock wave from 10 pounds of c4 extend buster's jump comes the firing line

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Well, there's only one way to find out

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Safely back in the bunker a thousand feet away from launch. I'd never get tired of this. All right arming

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It's time to count backwards from three in three two one fire

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Wow that happens so fast. Yeah, we're gonna have to look at the high speed to see exactly what happened, but I don't know

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Well, it's clear from the high speed that buster's jump peaked as the shock wave reached him

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But did he fly further than 27 feet? All right, what do you got?

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27 feet. So that's a negative on c4

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That's a negative on the c4, but when it comes to myth busting. Well one boom is never enough

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You can definitely feel that fun

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For those of you playing at home

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We've been testing the myth that if someone is chasing you in a car and you don't want to kill them by firing bullets to their windshield

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You can instead skip bullets off of the ground that was supposedly pierced the underside of the car distract the driver making stop chasing

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So far we've discovered that bullets bounce off the ground at reasonable angles for this to be possible

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That they in fact actually can even after bouncing pierced the underside of the car

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Now we're about to put all of the knowledge we gather together into one large full scale full speed experiment

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And we're going to be shooting at this very car

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Are you ready? Definitely, but first the myth busters have to rejig their rig

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As this time it's towing a car

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Not a trailer and they need to leave room for the bullet to hit its target

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This arrow right here describes our target sweet spot. This is the bulkhead. This is the wheel well

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This little area right here is how much of it is visible to our bullet

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That's where we got to hit. That's our postage stamp with the gun loaded adam's feeling optimistic

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gun is hot

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Every step of this story i've been wrong about my intuition at the beginning

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I thought from a physics standpoint. It was quite a stretch

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I didn't think bullets would skip off the ground at any significant angle or significant speed

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But it turns out both are plausible now that we've got all this setup. I have to admit the feelings of true

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optimism

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I feel like we're going to get a successful hit on this run

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We are literally on the highway to the danger zone

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Okay taking off in three two one

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Ha as they ride into the danger zone

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Jamie guns the car to car chase speed 45

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And then it's over to adam for a barrage of bouncing bullets

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All right firing one two three four five

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Okay stop

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That seemed to work beautifully did

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Five bullets bounced, but did any make that mythical target?

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interior inspection

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The interior is clean no penetration. No not that I can see

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Inside the cap. There's no sign of penetration and a look underneath reveals why

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Look, I can see four of the bullets. They just bounced into the swing arm on their way to find the firewall. It's in the way

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Close but no cigar. Exactly

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A close shot

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But although the bullets bounced there was just too much car in the line of fire

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But the mythbusters have come too far to give up after only one run so they reset excellent

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And unleash another five bullets firing one two three four five

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But once again, they're floored by the floor. It definitely didn't come through this piece of cardboard

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I have to admit I'm a little disappointed after everything that we've learned so far this seems so within our graph so

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plausible

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Like but it just turns out that there is too much crap underneath this car that is in the bullet's way

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On its trajectory towards the firewall and this is the exact same make and model of car

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It's in the clip we're testing yep the gun the car it all matches

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But even though firing point blank at the bottom of the car might work like an almost perfect hit in reality

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A bouncing bullet just doesn't have a clear path through to the real well

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Coming up gotta say i'm a little disappointed in this one. I was really hoping it would work

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Yeah, but you know what if you want a non-lethal way of getting a guy to stop following you

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You should just shoot the darn tire. We should totally we should totally do that. Why not?

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It's a myth ripped straight from the big screen

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Our hero runs from an explosion and at the last second jumps

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Supposedly surfing the shockwave for a super human spring

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And despite exploding 10 pounds of c4

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50 feet from buster. There's been no shockwave surfing

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Well, not yet for our first experiment. We used 10 pounds of c4

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We did see the wave propagate through buster just as he hit the peak of his jump exactly where it should have been

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Though it did not change the trajectory of the jump nor the distance that he jumped

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So now we're moving on to a low velocity explosive anfo. This should be really interesting

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C4 is a high brissons explosive

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It delivers a rapid shock impulse and shatters objects in close proximity

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However anfo is a low brissons explosive meaning that it will heave and throw objects

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But does that mean that it can heave and throw our commando?

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Unfortunately for buster. He's about to find out. All right, that's 10 pounds of low velocity explosive anfo

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We go

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All right, this is 10 pounds of anfo. Let's see if he rides that shockwave

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in three two one fire

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Oh

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Let's see what happens. Yeah

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The anfo definitely packed a punch and the shockwave is clear to see but did buster hit your ride

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All right, what do we get?

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27 feet. That's it. So he didn't go any farther

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It's the same result again despite changing explosive buster didn't serve the shockwave

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So far everything we've tried has failed. That's 10 pounds of anfo 10 pounds of c4

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Neither one has moved to any further than no explosive at all. So next up

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We're going to more than double that to 25 pounds now my personal feeling

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It's not going to make a difference. Okay. Here we go with 25 pounds of anfo arming

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I didn't three two

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one fire

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A healthy shockwave

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I don't know. Let's check the ice beat

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That felt good

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Doubling up on the anfo certainly doubled the thud

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But did it pick up buster along the way?

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Okay, and we have

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27 again. So he hasn't moved at all

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Nope

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25 pounds of anfo and still

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27 feet but as the myth buster's scene goes it's worth doing it's worth over doing with 100 pounds of anfo

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Down at tracy airport the myth busters are ready to make the rubber meet the round

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A bullet bounce into the wheel well is busted. So they're taking aim of the actual wheels

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Now this is a fun way to get to location

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Now in the movies somebody shoots a tire the tire explodes and the car spins out of control

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Now, I don't know whether that's going to happen or not

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But I do know that if you shoot a tire

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You are going to put a hole in it and it will deflate the real question here is how quickly is that going to happen because

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If it does happen quickly

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That's going to be a problem for the driver and he's going to have a hard time maintaining that pursuit

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It's going to work perfectly

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The rig for this test is pretty straightforward

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I have welded a platform to the frame of the car right in front of the tire

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I'll attach a loaded pistol with a string that goes from the trigger pull all the way to me in the driver's compartment

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When I get this car up to 45 miles an hour and I want to shoot out the tire

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I pull the string pulling the trigger and put a hole in the tire

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However, adam's safety is not going to be quite so straightforward

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Basically because the gun is going to be mounted in the front of the car facing back

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Which puts adam in the line of fire

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Now it's sought to mitigate this in every way we can conceive of we've lined the inside and the back of the wheel well

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With bulletproof vests in addition

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We've lined the engine compartment with several layers of bulletproof vests

438
00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:49,660
On top of that we've lined the inside of the car and adam seat with bulletproof vests. Finally

439
00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:57,100
I'll be wearing one. I think we're ready. Let's do it. All right. All right, everybody. Here we go shooting out the tire

440
00:35:57,660 --> 00:35:58,620
in

441
00:35:58,620 --> 00:35:59,420
three

442
00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:00,060
two

443
00:36:00,060 --> 00:36:02,060
One here we go

444
00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:10,060
Once again adam gets the car up to the 45 mile per hour car chase speed and then it's over to the bullets

445
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,500
Here we go firing

446
00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:19,900
The bullets take out enough rubber to black out the camera, but when it comes to the car

447
00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:25,580
I don't notice anything and this car is still totally within my control

448
00:36:26,140 --> 00:36:30,220
Look I can actually steer like this and it's not a problem. This is nothing

449
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:36,940
It may be nothing now, but it's just a question of time. My tire's been shot and nothing happened

450
00:36:37,740 --> 00:36:43,660
All right, i'm stopping here half a mile down the track and adam has no alternative but to stop

451
00:36:45,340 --> 00:36:46,780
I lived

452
00:36:46,780 --> 00:36:48,940
That is our tire. Look it's flat

453
00:36:50,620 --> 00:36:55,420
Totally worked. It wasn't instantaneous, but that didn't stop a pursuit that would totally

454
00:36:55,580 --> 00:36:57,660
Put an end to a pursuit

455
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:05,420
It might not spin the car out of control hollywood style, but it's more effective than a bounced bullet at stopping a car

456
00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:09,020
It's up skipping bullets off the ground is a reliable technique for stopping a pursuit

457
00:37:09,580 --> 00:37:12,620
Totally busted if you're gonna shoot at something shoot at their tires

458
00:37:13,420 --> 00:37:16,220
Let's get out of here. Yeah. Well, we're not driving. Yep

459
00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:18,380
Yeah

460
00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:29,740
Next the surfer shockwave finale goes out with a bang all right 100 pounds of amp foe. Well, let's send the action hero flying

461
00:37:36,860 --> 00:37:43,580
So far we have thoroughly tested this myth we have a action hero jumping 50 feet away from an explosion

462
00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:47,100
Our timing has been perfect. We started off with 10 pounds of c4

463
00:37:48,060 --> 00:37:50,060
Moved on to 10 pounds of amp foe

464
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:52,780
Then ramped it up to 25 pounds

465
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:57,180
But still the shockwave was not enough to push him forward now

466
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:02,620
We're gonna move on to 100 pounds four times the explosive might sound like overkill

467
00:38:03,020 --> 00:38:09,980
But this is a boom or bust test so far. We haven't actually seen any extra jump distance

468
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:13,180
I'm not so sure we're gonna see any with this either

469
00:38:14,380 --> 00:38:18,780
But I'm still crossing my fingers with a hefty pile of amp foe about to go boom

470
00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:21,580
And the cannon prime

471
00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:24,940
Maybe this is what it will take for buster to hang 10

472
00:38:26,460 --> 00:38:29,660
Somebody ordering explosion. Everybody ready? Okay, here we go

473
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:32,700
Arming and in three

474
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:34,700
two

475
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,700
one

476
00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:41,100
Dang that was a big blast. Nice desk

477
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,700
I can't even see him. All right, he's used the desk cloud clears. Maybe we could see if he went any further

478
00:38:49,980 --> 00:38:53,740
Uh, 100 pounds of amp foe had the myth busters jumping out of their skin

479
00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:57,340
But did that impressive shockwave send busters surfing?

480
00:39:00,780 --> 00:39:03,500
The same 27 feet

481
00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:09,100
100 pounds of amp foe. He didn't move at all 27 feet again. I so wanted this to work

482
00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:13,100
I don't know. Maybe it's just watching too many action films, but I really wanted this one to happen

483
00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:17,100
Well, I guess we got no choice, but to call this one busted. You can't surf a shockwave

484
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:21,900
All right, so this myth is totally busted. Yeah, but it's got me wondering

485
00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:24,220
Do you think there's any way to surf a shockwave? I don't know

486
00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:28,060
What if we were able to increase your surface area by a huge amount?

487
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:32,460
Maybe having that much more surface area you might catch the shockwave and push you a little bit further

488
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:38,860
So maybe we build something to attach the buster to act as a shockwave catcher. Exactly. I know just what to build it out

489
00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:45,180
For his shockwave enhancer, torii's turned into a combination of the familiar and the bizarre

490
00:39:45,660 --> 00:39:49,820
A steel frame and a blanket now you're probably asking yourself. Wait a minute

491
00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:52,700
The blanket is not going to withstand the blast and you're right

492
00:39:52,940 --> 00:39:56,860
So what we're going to do is we're going to spray it with bed liner because as you remember

493
00:39:57,820 --> 00:40:03,660
Bed liner is blast proof after a quick spray of bed liner to harden it up

494
00:40:04,620 --> 00:40:07,340
The team is back at the quarry giant kite, huh?

495
00:40:07,980 --> 00:40:14,860
We'll see it's like a big sail to give buster his bombproof blanket. That is gorgeous. Let's see if he flies

496
00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:19,020
For a control test in three two one

497
00:40:19,340 --> 00:40:21,340
Fire

498
00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:28,300
Perfect the heavier rig has buster flying a slightly shorter 23 feet

499
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,460
But will the explosion fling him further? Okay, here's the thing

500
00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:38,620
The reason why I think buster hasn't jumped much further so far is because while the shockwave moves very quickly

501
00:40:39,020 --> 00:40:41,900
It only moves a relatively small amount of air a layer

502
00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:46,860
Perhaps 12 inches thick and that's not enough force to push him any further

503
00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:51,580
Now this rig has the advantage of having a lot of surface area to catch a shockwave

504
00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:55,820
But unfortunately it adds a lot of weight and so the net result

505
00:40:56,140 --> 00:40:58,300
I think is that he's not going to go much further

506
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:04,060
Well with a hundred pounds of anfo set to detonate will that extra surface area

507
00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:06,940
Finally get buster surfing the shockwave

508
00:41:07,580 --> 00:41:11,820
All right, this is the final experiment for riding a shockwave this time with the sail

509
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:13,820
three

510
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:15,020
two

511
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:16,780
one

512
00:41:16,780 --> 00:41:18,780
two

513
00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:23,420
Wow, I never get tired of that. I can't tell what happens

514
00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:25,900
The cannon triggered

515
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:30,940
The anfo went off and it seems as though the shockwave did in fact give buster a boost

516
00:41:32,220 --> 00:41:34,220
But did he travel any further?

517
00:41:35,340 --> 00:41:36,860
Five feet

518
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:38,860
I can't wait to see if it worked

519
00:41:40,060 --> 00:41:41,820
10 feet

520
00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:43,580
15 feet

521
00:41:43,580 --> 00:41:45,580
20 feet

522
00:41:46,780 --> 00:41:48,380
23 feet

523
00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:52,540
What he didn't go any further at all. That was the same as the control test

524
00:41:52,780 --> 00:41:58,060
Okay, we give it everything we got and we still didn't get that Hollywood sail jump and then just blow up

525
00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:04,780
All right. Well, I guess it's busted. I'm a little disappointed in Hollywood. All right buster busted

526
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:07,660
again

527
00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:11,980
And that was so cool to watch him jump through the air and the explosion going off

528
00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:15,500
Yeah, you know what being in action here is a tough job

529
00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:19,580
I

530
00:42:22,460 --> 00:42:29,420
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