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Please do not try what you are about to see at home.

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We're what you call experts.

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Can't you tell?

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On this great-neck episode of Mythbusters,

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Adam and Janie are bubbling over with excitement.

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That was magnificent.

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As they test this viral video.

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Yeah, we did it, boss.

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But can a buffer pack round?

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Science is dangerous.

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Really let you walk away from a 35-foot fall.

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Still totally and utterly dead.

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Then carry Gran Tontori go head over heels.

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For some bond-carbed bedlam.

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Look, James, I got a lot of stuff going on right now.

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Can a rocket-powered ejector seat?

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This is the most dangerous thing I have ever built.

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Really flip an overturned car back onto its wheels?

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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This is science in action.

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And Janie Heineman.

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Bye-bye.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience,

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together with Brad Imajaro,

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That is crazy.

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Carrie Byron,

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and Tori Valetian.

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It's about to get real.

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They don't just tell the rits,

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they put them to the test.

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So judging by the fact that we've got this bubble stuff all over the place,

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can I assume that somebody's done something really stupid with it?

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You are absolutely correct.

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What we've got is a viral video where a guy wraps himself up

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in a bunch of this bubble packaging,

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hurls himself up a three-story building,

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and at the end of his fall appears to be totally unharmed.

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Well, it is designed to cushion things.

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Yes it is.

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Bubble pack was created to cushion cargo.

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To covile gas.

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But can a few inches of the pimply padding break a 35-foot fall?

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In other words, can this three-story story really be real?

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Obviously.

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Obviously at some point one of us is going to end up wrapped in bubble packaging

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and jumping out of building.

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But I have some safety concerns about that.

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How do you want to deal with it?

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I think quite simply by starting our testing with Buster instead of with us,

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let's replicate the exact circumstances we see in the video.

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Wrapping Buster in the same amount of bubble packaging,

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throw him off a correctly sized building,

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put some accelerometers on his body,

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and see if he lives.

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Works for me.

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So to recreate the circumstances of this bubble boy myth,

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Adam, Jamie and Buster drop in on their favorite drop zone.

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Today we find ourselves in a decommissioned military building on San Francisco Bay,

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and it's not our first time here.

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For instance, way back when we did awning fall right below me.

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Today it is all bubble boy.

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In the clip the guy falls from 35 feet.

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He lands flat on his back and he's got four inches of bubble packing on him.

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Now for us to tell how effective that bubble packing would be,

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we need to do a control which means that we're going to drop our dummy first

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from that height without any bubble packing and see what he registers on our sensors.

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So Buster's facing two three-story tumbles.

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First he'll nose dive naked, then he'll take the plunge in a bubbly burrito.

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How are we going to compare one to the other?

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With this.

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This is an accelerometer and it can read G loads up to 5,000 G.

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This ought to give us a really nice clean comparison

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between Buster dropping protected and unprotected.

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That's the plan, so Adam cuts to the chase and sets the sensors.

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Think you're ready Buster?

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Before Buster is hoisted 35 feet.

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That looks kind of perfect.

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And assumes the position.

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Poor Buster.

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Poor poor Buster.

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Here we go. Buster, control dropping from 35 feet.

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And three, two, one.

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Oh, nice.

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A perfect hit.

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He stayed together in one piece.

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He totally did.

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Yep, if there's one thing Buster can do, it's stick to landing.

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A perfect hit.

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Buster's control drop went off without a hitch.

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Feels like old times.

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He hit the target from 35 feet.

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He landed, he flipped over.

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Now we've got to see how many G's he pulled when he hit.

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What do we get?

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Well, Buster falling flat onto the ground with no protection.

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The accelerometer says that he took 300 G's.

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Lethal.

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Absolutely lethal.

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Like four times your average severe car accident kind of lethal.

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Adam's not exaggerating.

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With no protection, Buster's drop was a disaster.

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And he smacked the sidewalk at 300 G's.

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With all this talk about G's and G loads, you may be wondering what a G is.

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Well, a G is one Earth's gravity.

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So when we say that Buster is experiencing 300 G's,

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that means he's experiencing a stress.

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300 times as large as the Earth's gravity.

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And that's a lot.

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It sure is.

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A 300 G impact is like being slammed by a speeding cement truck.

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But will that be the same when bound in bubbles?

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To match the viral video, Buster is carefully cocooned in bubble pack.

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Hold on a second, I'm getting dizzy.

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Me too.

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Until the protective packing is four inches thick.

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So it's pretty obvious that if we start to add padding,

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we're going to be reducing the impact by slowing down the deceleration process.

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That meeting of Buster and the pavement.

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The question is, is four inches of padding enough to reduce that deceleration

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to where Buster would survive?

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I don't think so.

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With Buster easy prey buried up to his neck in bubbles,

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it's time for him to make his 35-foot leap of faith.

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All right, Buster, following from 35 feet in bubble packaging.

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Come on, three, come on, Buster.

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Two, one, go!

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That was a satisfying thud.

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I don't think it was a survivable thud, but it was satisfying.

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Buster bounced, but did he burst his own bubble?

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With all of this extra padding, we dropped Buster's maximum G load from 300 Gs to 260 Gs.

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He's still totally and utterly dead.

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Yeah, he's going to need a lot more padding than this to survive that fall.

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Indeed he is.

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While four inches of bubbles did reduce Buster's G load,

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he's still three and a half times over the lethal limit.

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So Buster's dead-falling naked and dead-falling wrapped in bubble pack, where does that leave us?

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Well, I can't help but think that with enough of this stuff, sooner or later you'd be safe.

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I totally agree.

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Let's head back to the shop and see how much it would take for him to survive this fall.

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More bubble trouble. I like it.

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Next up, it's time to be shaken and stirred.

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Alright, so we have a myth that involves ejector seats, missiles, and James Bond.

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Sounds like the perfect combination of me.

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He had it from the movie, but he has a car chase right across the frozen lake.

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Something goes horribly wrong and boom, cars upside down.

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Right, and that gives the bad guy time to pull over, line up his car, and fire his onboard car missiles.

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Just as you think James Bond is a sitting duck, at the last minute he pushes the passenger ejector seat and,

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shoot, seat through the roof.

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Oh, and that amount of force imparted on the ground causes the car to flip back over and he drives away.

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This could be the best James Bond myth we've ever tested.

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Upside down with nowhere to go, 007 seems down for the count.

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But by deploying his rocket-powered passenger hot seat, he flips his way to freedom.

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But is this rocketry real, or is this myth on thin ice?

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Okay, so all we need is an upside down sports car and a rocket-powered ejector seat.

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Well, the ejector seat could be a problem.

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Since we don't know exactly what Q's design involved, it could be some high-powered thing that launches people hundreds of feet in the air.

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Or it could be a low-key ejector seat, you know, enough to send the bad guy out of the car.

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Well, if you look at the footage, when it deploys, you see just a little bit of flame.

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Now, with the big ejector seat, you'd imagine you'd see this huge fireball after it.

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And that's not what we see.

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So I'm guessing probably the latter.

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Something that ejected like 25 feet.

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And then we find out what that rocket thrust is, we flip the car and test the myth.

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So first up, the mythbusters need a top-of-the-range Bond Mobile.

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I don't know about you, but I feel like a spy.

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But they got this.

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Yes, Mr. President, we'll be right there.

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After doing a little bit of research, even to find a used and trashed car, like the one in the Bond film,

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we were talking about $100,000.

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This one's a little more on our price range.

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and we can actually create the same weight distribution front to back.

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This one should work really well for our flip.

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It may not look like much, but with similar specs to Bond's movie machine, this car's the wheel deal.

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So cue the ejection injection.

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So to test this myth properly, we have to make some modifications to our vehicle.

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One, we're pulling out the pre-existing passenger seat.

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Then we are cutting open the sunroof bigger so that it allows a chair with a person sitting in it to be ejected.

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That was easy.

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And then finally, we're introducing our own rocket-powered ejector seat.

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This is going to be awesome.

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Tori soon bonds a rocket guide rail into place.

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Before he then, heeds in some heavy metal.

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We're adding a big steel plate to the floor of the car for a couple of reasons.

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Ha ha ha! It fits perfectly.

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We don't want the rocket to burn through the bottom of the car.

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We want to contain all of the thrust, and this will give us a weight distribution that's balanced just like the car from the movie clip.

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And once that reinforced floor is safely locked and loaded, their SpyCar special is almost all set.

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So our ejector seat is finished.

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Now there's wheels on the back of the chair that hook into a rail.

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That way he stays online as the rockets thrust him upwards and out of the car.

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Now all we have to do is attach the rockets to it, see if it actually works.

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If it works, then we're going to flip the car over and see if the ejector seat will actually flip the car back on its wheels.

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Adios muchachos!

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That's the theory. At a Goldfinger paint job later...

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Just paint right over the bird poop.

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Look at that! What bird poop?

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And it's time for this myth to live and let die.

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Alright, test, break...

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Coming right up, will their ejector seat fire or a fizzle?

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And Adam gets in some serious bubble trouble.

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Bye bye everybody.

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In this viral video, supposedly a wrapping of bubble pack lets you dive and survive.

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But Buster's landing was anything but soft.

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That was a satisfying thud.

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Well, Buster's dead again.

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Yep, and I have to say I'm really glad it was him and not me.

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Yeah, well speaking of that, before one of us gets wrapped in this stuff and jumps off a building,

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I have to say that I'm really glad it was him and not me.

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But before one of us gets wrapped in this stuff and jumps off a building,

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I think we've got a bunch of testing we need to do first to determine how much it takes to be safe.

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So some small scale testing is what you're thinking.

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Exactly.

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Alright, let's get down to the shop and set it up.

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Yep, before either myth Buster takes a tumble as a crash test dummy,

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The guys first plan some bench tests to find out what can make a bubble pack leap of faith safe.

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But what equals safe?

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For that, I want you to cast your mind back to our episode called Dumpster Diving,

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which Jamie and I were trained to jump off a building by a Hollywood stuntman.

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Perfect.

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Now the G-forces we encountered were about 10 Gs.

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That is the G-load that Hollywood stuntmen used to keep themselves safe.

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That is what our target G-load is.

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But to reach that 10 G target, they need the top of the box.

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Wow, built this stuff.

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So first up, the guys are going to see which style of bubble pack,

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mini, medium, or heavy duty has the best cushion credentials.

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So many bubbles so little time.

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And how?

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By dropping a human analog that brings a whole new meaning to the word simple.

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Believe it or not, this thing right here is my idealized human.

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It's a plastic tube filled with seven cannonballs and it doesn't talk.

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Because this test ain't about chit chat, it's about getting a consistent drop.

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The idea here is to have something that is the approximate size and weight of a human,

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but has a uniform shape so that we can reliably test the performance of various types of bubble packing.

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It's ready.

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And they'll start at the mythical four inches and double the thickness from there.

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As we increase the amount of padding we're using, we're looking to see if we can find any kind of pattern.

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In other words, if we double the thickness of the padding, are we cutting the impact we see in half?

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To find out the guys attach impact accelerometers before raising the human analog to a benchmark six feet high.

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I know what you're thinking.

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You're wondering why we are dropping a solid body onto bubble packaging rather than wrapping it in bubble packaging like the guy does in the clip.

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The fact is from a physics standpoint, when you're examining the cushioning effects of bubble packaging,

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it doesn't make any difference whether you wrap it or you drop it.

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So they line up the mini, medium and heavyweight bubbles and it's bombs away on all three.

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Dropping human analog into bubble packaging.

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Three, two, one.

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200 pounds is dropped from six feet into three types of bubbles.

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I felt that one.

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Yeah.

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Four inches thick.

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It's a free fall, free for all.

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Wow.

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That was very, very different.

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It was.

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But when the dust settles.

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Let's check out the horror show of this drop.

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The G-loads are ready to be revealed.

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Coming in beautifully.

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The medium bubbles fared worst, producing 100 Gs.

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But strangely, the mini and heavyweight bubbles were almost neck and neck.

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That's amazing.

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I would have never called that this would have that result on the bubble packaging.

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But how will these four inch results stack up against eight inches?

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Now we're doing the same set of tests again, except this time with double the thickness of bubble packaging material.

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We expect that we'll get better results.

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The question we have is how much better?

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Hold on tight.

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It's time to release the pounds.

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Eight inches thick.

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Here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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Eight inches of wrap has the human analog making a break for it.

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The question is, will the rebounds pop out different G-loads?

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That is really scary as hell.

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This time the mini bubble had the least trouble with 35 Gs, while medium and heavyweight are both on 40.

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But what's crucial is that doubling the bubbles has cut the G-load in half.

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That was very interesting.

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Eight inches, very different than four inches.

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Yeah.

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I've always said it.

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But will that pattern continue at 16 inches?

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Three, two, one.

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Science is dangerous.

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Double the bubbles has cut the G-loads in half again.

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And that's not the only good news.

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Here at 16 inches, these three measurements are effectively the same.

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That means that the more bubble wrap we wrap around Buster and ourselves, the less important the type of bubble wrap.

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I would not have called that.

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Yep, it's been a successful small scale test because it seems that with a thick enough bubble burrito, a myth buster may survive the dive.

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But their shop drops were short.

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Will things still be looking up when they raise the stakes?

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That was magnificent.

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Cary, Grant and Tori are bonding as they find out if you can flip a car thanks to a rocket powered ejector seat.

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And at an abandoned airfield, first up is some ejector evaluation.

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Time to deploy our spy car.

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Myth busters, it's go time.

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We've come out to the new Jerusalem runway so we can test our bond ejector seat myth.

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Now for that we've built an ejector seat and we're going to find out how much thrust it takes to get our passenger out of the car.

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Now this is important because that's how much thrust we're going to use to try to flip the car.

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Yep, before any car flips out, the guys first need to give their ejector seat the same thrust as a 007 model with some top of the range rockets.

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Now the target height that we're looking for is 20 to 25 feet.

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But you can't get that with any off the shelf hobby rocket motor and that's why we're using these.

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These have a 500 millisecond burn time, 200 pounds of thrust each.

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Four of them should be more than enough to get our 300 pounds of buster plus his rig up and out of the car.

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So Tori adds the rockets to the seat.

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Alright, the chair is loaded.

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And the seat complete with bond villain to the car.

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We're in!

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Alright, this is rocket powered ejector seat.

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Test in three, two, one, fire!

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Perfect is right as their ejector seat propel buster right into their benchmark buttersome.

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But once the smoke's cleared, it's clear that this test isn't just about good news.

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Now I'm not a super spy but I think I've identified a major problem with the ejector seat concept

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and that is filling the entire car with plane.

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Now that was just a bare minimum of rocket power that we needed to get buster out of the car.

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So, you're a bad guy, he'd be out of the car, but you're a good guy, he'd be toast, literally.

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Yeah, the test does highlight the flaw of using rockets in enclosed spaces.

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But what's more important is that it's mission accomplished.

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We choose everything we wanted with this test.

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We have enough thrust to get buster out of the car, we got simultaneous ignition

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and we got the 20 feet, even 30 feet that we were looking for.

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Now is the fun part.

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We see if this actually has enough to flip the car.

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In other words, it's time for this myth to get turned on its head.

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Just to recap, we are testing the myth from the James Bond movie

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where if a car is upside down and you use the ejector seat, you can flip that car back on its wheels.

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So far we successfully made an ejector seat by using four rockets.

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That gave us enough thrust to get a man out of the car.

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But now, is that thrust going to be enough to flip a car back on its wheels?

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To find out just that, Tori carefully installs four identical rockets

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before an even more delicate operation must take place, inverting their bond mobile.

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It's a flip and unusual method for flopping a car.

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But through a combination of tug of war,

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Backing up, lowering,

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Machine muscle,

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and Tori holding the blue rope, the guy slowly inch the car into position.

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It's very exciting.

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Until finally we have touchdown.

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Perfect!

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So Q built a rocket powered ejector seat for James Bond's car, and so did we.

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The only problem is that it only takes 800 pounds of thrust to get a guy out of a car.

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That is a 4,000 pound car.

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800 pounds of thrust, I'm sorry, but it's not going to flip the car.

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In fact, I barely think it's even going to move it.

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Brad is firmly in the Dr. No Camp, but you can never say never.

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Alright, this is ejector seat car flip.

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Here we go in three, two, one, fire!

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That was a little underwhelming.

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Yeah, it looks like four just isn't enough.

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Ain't that the truth?

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Instead of look at the freedom, the car barely quivered.

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Now so far we've recreated the circumstances of the myth,

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and the results are not promising.

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Four rockets was enough to get a person out of the car, but not enough to move the car at all.

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Indeed, the math of the myth just doesn't add up.

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800 pounds can propel a passenger, but it's never going to flip a car.

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But all is not lost.

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We want to give this myth the best possible chance.

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So we're actually going to step it up.

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We're going to make our ejector seat an equivalent to a fighter jet ejector seat.

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Now we're talking about 4,000 pounds of thrust.

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I mean, it's a little bit of overkill, but Q might have gone there.

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Their first ejector seat replicated the flimsy flame of the film, and it didn't pack enough punch.

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But this time, ooh, look at all these rockets. It's like 4th of July.

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All bets are off as the mythbusters fire this myth to the max.

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But will it be the shot in the arm this test needs?

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The whole concept here is that the ejector seat is firing down into the ground,

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therefore pushing the car over back onto its wheels.

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But I just have a hard time believing that this Hollywood myth is true.

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What I think is going to happen is this car is just going to go up into a big ball of fire.

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Well, in that case, it's a good job that the fire department has arrived.

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Hey, this is Bond ejector seat 20 rockets, 4,000 pounds of thrust. Take it away.

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All right, let's see if the ejector seat flips the car.

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Here we go. In three, two, one, fire.

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It lifted it a little bit, but it didn't flip it. That was sweet.

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Let's go see the carnage.

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Well, we should probably get that fire put out.

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With the fire brought under control, the guys go in for a closer look.

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Not that it's really necessary.

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So this myth is busted.

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No matter what we did, we could not get this car to flip with the rocket ejector seat.

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And that was a ridiculous amount of thrust.

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However, we are not going to stop here.

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This is the part on the show where we replicate the results,

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and we're going to find out how much thrust it would take to get this car to flip.

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We're going to do it old school, Hollywood style.

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Strap yourself in because this myth's about to flip its lid.

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Wow!

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Next.

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This is the most dangerous thing I have ever built.

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And still to come, Adam faces a 35 foot free fall finale.

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I'm a little bit scared.

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Please, don't try anything you're about to see at home.

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Where would you call experts?

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According to YouTube, a four inch bubble burrito will mean you don't drop dead from a 35 foot drop.

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But according to the myth busters, you most definitely will.

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Still totally and utterly dead though.

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Yet all is not lost.

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The readings we've been getting thus far in the shop are good.

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It gives a direction, but they're nowhere near our butter zone of 10 Gs.

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So now Buster here is our new human in a long time.

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He's floppier, he's more accurate, and he's going to get dropped from the highest point in our shop.

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15 feet is more than double the height of their bench tests,

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but still less than half the height of the myth.

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So will Buster's impact on a 16 inch bed of bubbles approach the 10 G low that this myth needs?

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Buster dropping 15 feet into 16 inches of bubble packaging.

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3, 2, 1, go.

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That was magnificent.

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Wasn't it?

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Buster bounced dead center, but is his impact in the zone.

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So Buster's fall into the bubble packaging from 15 feet was perfect, but he pulled 39 Gs upon impact.

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We're looking for a butter zone of 10 Gs.

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39 is totally out.

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So next up we're going to double the thickness and drop him again.

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39 is four times their safety target.

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So once more they double the bubbles to 32 inches thick.

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It's starting to get kind of impractical, isn't it?

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Yeah, it is.

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Here we go. Buster dropping 15 feet into 32 inches of bubble material.

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3, 2, 1.

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Poor Buster.

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Once again Buster bounces, but is he walking away?

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I would feel like if we were going to see a reduced G load that he would take longer to bounce back up.

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It's not the result they were after.

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Doubling the bubbles reduced the load by less than a quarter, and that doesn't bode well.

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Because if 16 inches resulted in 39 Gs and 32 inches in 30, they need a pile of packing 15 feet high to get to 10 Gs.

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And that's just for a 15 foot drop.

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From 35 feet, they need well over 50 feet of wrap, giving Buster a 100 foot diameter.

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So if layering up the bubble pack isn't working, is there a design that will?

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For a full 60 minutes, the guys stop, drop and roll out ideas.

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What about something like this?

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But get nowhere fast.

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That doesn't seem to give any improvement.

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But then they pop out a plan in parallel.

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What if we didn't wrap it in tight tubes, but we wrap it in tubes with a bigger hole in the middle?

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So these would crush just like a coil spring in our mattress.

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Right, exactly.

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It may not look like much, but by alternating regular sheets with coiled but hollow bubble springs, the guys have high hopes.

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Awesome.

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Alright.

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And once two bubble spring mattresses are complete, Buster's ready to take another for the team.

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Here we go, Buster onto modified bubble packaging geometry in three, two, one.

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With no Buster bounce, there's a clear difference.

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Oh my God, that's like one of the best drops ever.

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Once he enters the bed, you never see him again.

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But from 15 feet, Buster still took 30 Gs, three times their 10 G target.

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So they add one more mattress.

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In three, two, one.

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But is this the soft landing they're looking for?

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So our 15 foot Buster drops here in the shop are yielding some exciting data fruit.

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And I just coined that term.

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Check out the first drop here.

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We are dropping Buster into two layers of tubes constructed of thick wall, heavy back, half inch bubble packaging.

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And he pulled an average of 30 Gs on that drop.

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That's an improvement over some of the other stuff we've seen, but it's still not in our ballpark.

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However, for the second drop, which you can see here, we added a layer of thin wall, non-heavy duty, half inch bubble packaging

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to slow down his deceleration.

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And it seems to have done exactly that.

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On that second drop, he pulled an average of 15 Gs.

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We cut our G load in half.

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And to bring the 10 G target into range, Jamie's tweaking the tubes into a more shock absorbing shape.

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That cone or funnel shape will allow the bubbles to neatly fold inside the structure, like so, and give us a nice linear deceleration.

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And these bubble cones serve a double purpose.

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We can make a curved instead of a flat sheet, and we can actually roll out them up inside it.

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Uh, yep, you heard that right.

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And we can actually roll out them up inside it.

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So confident are they in their new mattress model that for the next drop, it's out with Buster and in with someone altogether more important.

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Now the question is, is this engineering of bubble packaging enough to save my life?

474
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,500
That's what we're doing next.

475
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,500
Alright, hey to admit it, but this bond myth is busted.

476
00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:54,500
Yep, we got the car to bounce up, but it didn't flip over.

477
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,500
Plus, we burned up Bond in the process.

478
00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,500
So that means...

479
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,500
It's time to replicate the results.

480
00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:04,500
Yep, there is one technique that Hollywood uses when they want to flip a car.

481
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:10,500
That's right, nitrogen cannon pointed straight down should provide enough force to flip the car all the way back over.

482
00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,500
Nitrogen cannon it is.

483
00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:20,500
Originally built for the superhero special, the nitrogen cannon sure packs a punch.

484
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,500
But for this myth, the gloves are coming off.

485
00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:27,500
The suit is barrel, this ain't a barrel.

486
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:31,500
That's a barrel.

487
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:37,500
By beefing up both the diameter of the barrel and the size of the tank,

488
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,500
Grant's cranking the cannon's power to the max.

489
00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:47,500
And in theory, this mighty machine should be able to flip this myth on its head.

490
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,500
It fits.

491
00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:53,500
But what about in practice?

492
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,500
We're back at the New Jerusalem runway.

493
00:29:55,500 --> 00:30:01,500
Now we've already busted our bond myth that an ejector seat is going to be able to flip a car from upside down to right side up.

494
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,500
So now we're going to get a little Hollywood on it.

495
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,500
We've got a nitrogen cannon loaded into the passenger seat.

496
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:12,500
Hopefully this is actually going to flip our car completely over so we can see this bond myth in action.

497
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,500
But before firing it up, first comes the obligatory inversion.

498
00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,500
Okay, so just to be clear, here's how things are going to work.

499
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:22,500
Hang on one sec.

500
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:26,500
Inside the barrel of the cannon is a solid steel rod that's about three feet long.

501
00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:28,500
Yeah, hold it right there.

502
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:34,500
When the car's in position, Grant's going to weld the bracket from the rod onto the trench plate so it doesn't fly out.

503
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:38,500
Then we'll fill the tank to maximum pressure and the idea is that when we trigger it...

504
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:40,500
Three, two, one.

505
00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:47,500
The rod will get fired into the ground with such power that the car should twist up and over landing on its wheels.

506
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,500
Indeed, but it's not just the tank that's feeling the pressure.

507
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:56,500
Well, this is orders of magnitude more dangerous than what we normally do.

508
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:01,500
Uh, look, I'm a little nervous, right?

509
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,500
The cannon could rupture.

510
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,500
The valve could have a leak.

511
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:10,500
It could accidentally go off while I'm filling up.

512
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,500
Luckily for all of us, Grant mans up.

513
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:16,500
Fills up.

514
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,500
Okay, good to go.

515
00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:20,500
And finally...

516
00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:21,500
Alright, you guys ready?

517
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:22,500
Yeah, let's flip the car.

518
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:29,500
Alright, ejector seat, car flip with the nitrogen cannon in three, two, one.

519
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:37,500
In Bubble Boy, Adam and Jamie finally think they've cracked it.

520
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,500
That looks pretty good.

521
00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:43,500
So back at the drop zone, it's time to crank the danger dial up to the max.

522
00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:44,500
Well, almost.

523
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:51,500
Well, our hard work and our testing have paid off and it now seems like it is time for me to wrap myself in bubble packaging and get thrown off a building.

524
00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:53,500
I'm not going to the full 35 feet just yet.

525
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:58,500
No, the first drop I'm going to do is to replicate Buster's 15 foot fall.

526
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:01,500
Am I scared?

527
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:03,500
I have to admit, I'm a little bit scared.

528
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:10,500
Scared because their best impact has been 15 Gs, a full 5 Gs above the safety threshold.

529
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:16,500
Hopefully tapering their tubes will ensure Adam can make the leap and live to tell the tale.

530
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,500
We're counting on the fact that the bubble packaging here is going to save my life.

531
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:25,500
But we've also posited some other worst case scenarios and implemented safety procedures to protect me in their case.

532
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:30,500
First of all, a neck brace, a helmet and a spine protector.

533
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:35,500
I'll have a radio earpiece in so I can communicate to the outside.

534
00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:37,500
This ought to keep me safe.

535
00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:44,500
Aught being the operative word because remember the cone coil springs are an untested technology.

536
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:45,500
You ready?

537
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:46,500
I'm ready, let's do it.

538
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:47,500
Here we go.

539
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,500
See you on the other side.

540
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:53,500
That's right because from this point, Adam's under wraps.

541
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:54,500
Oh, that's cozy.

542
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:58,500
Starting with five layers of heavyweight bubble pack.

543
00:32:58,500 --> 00:32:59,500
Bye bye everybody.

544
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:06,500
Then the first coat of their spring system is coiled around him.

545
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:07,500
Okay, up we go.

546
00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:08,500
Keep tension.

547
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:11,500
It's a good thing I don't get claustrophobic.

548
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:12,500
Followed by the second.

549
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,500
Full little tension and up and in.

550
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:16,500
You're doing good.

551
00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:19,500
But once that's taped on, Adam drops a bombshell.

552
00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:20,500
Hey, Jamie.

553
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:21,500
Yeah.

554
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,500
I'll tell you, I can feel the pressure.

555
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:25,500
It's quite a lot of weight.

556
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,500
The weight on me is actually quite intense.

557
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:35,500
100 pounds of bubble pack mattress has Adam under pressure and there's still a layer to go.

558
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,500
Is it a problem?

559
00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,500
No, it's not more than I can take, but I can tell you that when we put that third layer on,

560
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:43,500
that's about as much as a human could take.

561
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,500
It's a worrying revelation.

562
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,500
Here comes the third layer.

563
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:52,500
At the full 150 pounds, the weight of the wrapping will be almost unbearable.

564
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:53,500
It's going to be heavy.

565
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,500
So the guys really need to bubble along.

566
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:57,500
Okay, now I've got to get the big tape.

567
00:33:57,500 --> 00:33:58,500
Are you guys okay?

568
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,500
And get the final mattress mobilized.

569
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:02,500
Wow.

570
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:03,500
Are you all right?

571
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:04,500
Yeah, I'm all right.

572
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:05,500
Am I fully wrapped now?

573
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:06,500
You are.

574
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:07,500
Oh, great.

575
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:10,500
I truly am a bubble boy.

576
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:16,500
With Adam trust up like a turkey on steroids, the team carefully cradles him to the drop zone

577
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,500
before Jamie gets ready to raise the bar.

578
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:20,500
So we're going up.

579
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:21,500
Are you ready?

580
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:22,500
Almost.

581
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,500
Am I feet off the end of this thing?

582
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:27,500
No, they're not.

583
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,500
Then I think I'm ready, Jamie.

584
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,500
Okay, up we go.

585
00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:37,500
But as they start to rise, the test strikes turbulence.

586
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,500
I feel myself being blown around in the wind.

587
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:44,500
Out of nowhere, the wind has picked up and that's got Jamie very worried indeed.

588
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:49,500
You guys are going to go that way and I need the four guys on the four tie lines.

589
00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:52,500
You keep track of Adam, make sure he's okay.

590
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:57,500
With Adam in a squeeze, this is like I could feel pressure over my whole body.

591
00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,500
They dare not delay this free fall finale.

592
00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,500
I'm on the trip line.

593
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:03,500
Adam, we're in place.

594
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:04,500
You're at the correct height.

595
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,500
Are you good to go?

596
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,500
Jamie, I am good to go.

597
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:11,500
But just as they're ready to rumble.

598
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,500
Is there anybody that's not good to go?

599
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:17,500
Okay, we're going in three, two.

600
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:18,500
Hold on.

601
00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:19,500
There's too much wind.

602
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:23,500
The wind cranks up so much that it's too dangerous to continue.

603
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:24,500
Okay.

604
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:31,500
But it's also dangerous to stand down because 15 feet up, Adam's being smothered.

605
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:35,500
All in all, the mythbusters are in a bubble of trouble.

606
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,500
The bond ejector flip.

607
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:42,500
Have a good flight, buddy.

608
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:43,500
Fire.

609
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:44,500
Didn't lift once.

610
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:46,500
That was pathetic.

611
00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:48,500
Let alone twice.

612
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:49,500
Wow!

613
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:56,500
Which means the team has a license to kill off this myth, courtesy of their nitrogen cannon.

614
00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:57,500
Ready to do this?

615
00:35:57,500 --> 00:35:58,500
Oh yeah.

616
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:00,500
Just flip the car Hollywood style.

617
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:01,500
All right, here we go.

618
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:05,500
This is ejector seat car flip with nitrogen cannon.

619
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,500
In three, two, one.

620
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:18,500
Good job, Q.

621
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,500
Awesome.

622
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:22,500
And that's how it's done.

623
00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:24,500
At last they've got air.

624
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:28,500
And for your eyes only, here's the high speed.

625
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:35,500
The nitrogen cannon fired its steel rod with enough force to flip the car a full 180 degrees

626
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:41,500
before the whole thing falls gently back to earth right side up.

627
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:47,500
The bond myth is busted, but the flip was worth the trip.

628
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,500
And that is how you flip a car.

629
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:51,500
I can't believe it worked.

630
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:53,500
But it worked and that's what counts.

631
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,500
Right, all you need is a giant nitrogen cannon.

632
00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:57,500
Let's go get some martini.

633
00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:58,500
Shake it.

634
00:36:58,500 --> 00:36:59,500
That's dirt.

635
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:10,500
Careful about tipping me.

636
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,500
It's the grand finale of Bubble Boy and Adam's life hangs in the balance.

637
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,500
Okay, up we go.

638
00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:20,500
I have taken some falls on this show before.

639
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:23,500
I've jumped off buildings.

640
00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,500
I've slipped on banana peels.

641
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:31,500
I've flown 70 feet through the air at the end of a giant waterslide.

642
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:37,500
But this fall is different because I am completely passive to this entire enterprise.

643
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:40,500
My life is in Jamie's hands.

644
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:44,500
Well, Jamie's and Mother Nature's.

645
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:47,500
I can feel myself being blown around in the wind.

646
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:53,500
With the wind gusting, they've stopped the drop, leaving Adam precariously poised.

647
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:59,500
You guys are going to go that way and I need the four guys on the four-tile line.

648
00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:03,500
Dave, you keep track of Adam, make sure he's okay.

649
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:08,500
Luckily for everyone, it's not long before the wind falls.

650
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:12,500
Okay, is there anybody that's not good to go?

651
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,500
So it's now or never?

652
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:20,500
Okay, we're going in three, two, one.

653
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,500
There's no doubt about it.

654
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500
The padded pod plummeted.

655
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,500
But how's the cargo?

656
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,500
Oh, my God.

657
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:35,500
That silence rings alarm bells.

658
00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:39,500
The team rushes in and Jamie is the first to the scene when...

659
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:42,500
Oh, I'm okay.

660
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:45,500
I'm okay.

661
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:54,500
After a free fall of 15 feet, it looks like Adam and Jamie's bubble engineering has taken the bulk of the blow.

662
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:55,500
That was intense.

663
00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:58,500
But the touchdown didn't please the pilot.

664
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:04,500
What happened was the moment you released me, my head came off the board and then an instant later it hit the board.

665
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:07,500
But that rough landing wasn't the worst part.

666
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:13,500
Oh, I have to tell you, man, the weight of all this bubble wrap was the hardest part of that.

667
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:16,500
It just felt like two guys sitting on my chest.

668
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,500
Well, that's something Buster couldn't tell us, huh?

669
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,500
That's absolutely what I call an empirical test.

670
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,500
Thank you, sir.

671
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,500
It's done.

672
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:34,500
While it came close to crushing him, their bubble barrel did protect the plummet.

673
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,500
Peeking at just nine Gs.

674
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:41,500
But remember, in the clip, Bubble Boy jumped from 35 feet.

675
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:44,500
Yeah, but you know what?

676
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:47,500
I don't think I'd trust something like this at 35 feet.

677
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:49,500
I don't want to go at 35 feet.

678
00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:53,500
If I went to 35 feet, I would need more padding and more padding. I couldn't take it.

679
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:56,500
I think that's the limit of human experimentation.

680
00:39:57,500 --> 00:39:59,500
It just makes me nervous anyway.

681
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:01,500
You and me both.

682
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:07,500
So Buster's going to pick up the pieces and wrap this myth for the final 35-foot fall.

683
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:12,500
He will have around him the same amount of padding I had at 15 feet, and here is why.

684
00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:17,500
With all the weight of that bubble packaging around me, it was about as much as my body could take.

685
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:23,500
That tells me that this is the most amount of bubble packaging one could have around their body for a jump off of a building.

686
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:27,500
That further tells me that if Buster does not survive in this amount of padding,

687
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:33,500
the entire idea of jumping off a building and being protected by bubble packaging is totally busted.

688
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:37,500
With old friend David Harding ready to crunch their drop data,

689
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:41,500
their packages postmarked 35 feet ready for delivery.

690
00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:44,500
Alright, here we go. Buster from the full 35 feet.

691
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,500
In three, two, one.

692
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:52,500
That was perfect.

693
00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:54,500
I think that was perfect.

694
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,500
The falling was perfect. The landing, not so much.

695
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,500
I'm so glad that was not me.

696
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:02,500
But how did Buster fare?

697
00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:06,500
Well, for that, it's over to David, the data doctor.

698
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:13,500
Alright, dude. Dying divided how Buster did from 35 feet. What do the numbers say?

699
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:17,500
Alright, for the torso. Okay. Peaked right around 29 Gs.

700
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:18,500
Ow!

701
00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:19,500
Yeah.

702
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,500
The head, it's quite a bit higher. You can see it's about 48 Gs.

703
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:24,500
48 Gs?

704
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:25,500
That has hurt.

705
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:30,500
Dude! And that is barely survivable, but you'd be tongue and funny for the rest of your life.

706
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:32,500
Yeah, that's quite a hit.

707
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:35,500
I am so glad that I did not try this one.

708
00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:42,500
Yep, although Adam and Jamie's mattress mechanism offered way more protection than the Bubble Boy Burrito,

709
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,500
this three-story story is nothing but Busted.

710
00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:49,500
So how are we going to call it?

711
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:52,500
I think it's pretty clear. We've tested it every way from Sunday.

712
00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:59,500
There is no reasonable amount of bubble packaging that will allow you to safely leap off a three-and-a-half-story building.

713
00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:02,500
The myth is busted and the whole idea is busted.

714
00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:04,500
Yep, I agree. It's busted.

715
00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:05,500
That's good.

716
00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:20,500
MythBusters is all about experimentation, but that means there are a lot of things that we shoot that don't make it on air.

717
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:26,500
So if you want to see some of that stuff, log on to Discovery.com slash MythBusters and check it out.