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Attention viewers do not try anything you're about to see at home. We're what you call experts

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On this charged up episode of myth busters

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There's fire in the hole

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As the myth busters unleash their a to z of explosions

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From a for audit

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To Z for ZnF

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three two one

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This alphabet's the bomb

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With behind the scenes blasts from the past nice ride

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As well as new booms to blue

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And that is an explosion in water

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Get set for one of the most explosive episodes in myth busters history

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Fire

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My family's glad they let me borrow that China

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Who are the myth busters?

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Adam Savage 70% chance of science and Jamie Heineman

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

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That 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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All right, so you're wearing the bomb suit you got a crazy look in your eyes

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I'm guessing we're doing something pretty explosive. Oh, not just pretty explosive very explosive. How so we're unveiling the a to z of

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Myth buster explosions exactly we are going to be presenting the ultimate guide to everything that goes boom

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We're going to be reminiscing about our favorite explosions revealing insider secrets and most importantly

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Blowing a lot of stuff up. That sounds great. What are we waiting for you?

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Oh

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Blasts can be such a blast

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That it's no wonder they've become a fan favorite and this unique a to z of glee is

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packing a punch

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Starting as you might expect at the beginning

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Where a is not for arsenal or annihilation

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But audit all right, so a is for audit was that all about like tax audit?

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What's more like record keeping because somehow within the 800 or so myths that we've done

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We have found an excuse to do 750 to explosions wait

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752 you don't believe me check this out

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Dude your stomach is gonna burst

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It was the very first episode of myth busters that featured the first explosion. That's huge

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That's like three times the size of what it was even if the combo of pig stomach pop rocks and cola did fall a little flat

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Yeah, that's what we call a hell of a Saturday night through episode 4's toilet tail

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There was actually a little poof in the toilet we have food and 5's gas gag

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Hello explosion. Hello. Hello. He never answers his phone. The boom was still finding its feet

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In fact, it wasn't until tree cannon if this isn't blow up this cannon

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I don't know what will that we finally saw some shrapnel worth celebrating

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But from there this looks perfect there was no holding back three as booms

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Big and small super and subtle

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Oh began to rack up

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After three seasons the boom tally had hit 90

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After five seasons to 80

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After eight seasons 630

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And just last week all right 100 pounds of ample it reached

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But for be there's only one possible place to go

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Be is for bomb range. I know big shocker now. This is the true myth busters home away from home

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We've done over 750 explosions and a quarter of them have been done right here today

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We're gonna give you more than just stats

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We're gonna give you an inside tour because there's more to this place than meets the eye

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Like this place located just below the bomb range

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It's the emergency vehicle operations course or eva home to a number of myth busters driving adventures including spy car eat my

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There we go they stuck in I can hear them tipsy versus tires

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And dust up

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Nothing over here

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You get to the gun range where we have taken aim at a whole bunch of myths in fact, this is where we shot up black beauty

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But enough of all that let's get to the bomb range itself and we start here at the entrance gate

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Now appears what we call the blast zone

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This is where we set up all our experiments explosives blasting caps, but the wire that makes them all go boom runs a hundred yards back down the road

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To hear the bunker now this thing is made out of quarter inch steel and the windows are made from two inch thick

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Bulletproof glass the best part is it has a remote triggering system so we can set off the explosions

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The only downside is the size fitting all of us in plus our cameraman plus our sound person plus our director and JD can be a bit of a trick

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Make room for me, but besides the squash

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This is the place where we've had the opportunity to watch firsthand some of the most famous moments at myth busters history

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I love it when common materials are dangerous go ahead and light it

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There's no doubt that the bomb range can blow a gasket bye-bye

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And for this countdown it makes for the perfect B movie

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Did you get that on high speed?

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But for the C word of the day Tori's arriving in style nice ride. Thanks. I guess I know what C is for

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Exactly C is for cement truck or cement truck explosion, which has become iconic on myth busters

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In fact, it is pretty much what myth busters is all about fun

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science and taking things to the max

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Indeed but while the ending was epic the start of this cement truck clean out was anything but

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Anything that is about a half a cubic foot. Yeah, that oh my god

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That's it. Yeah, I know it's pretty pathetic you'd I liked most about that explosion

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It juxtaposes so nice and with all the little booms earlier in the show

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No anticlimactic that was the firetrucks leaving and that buildup made it even more exciting

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Yeah, it was the failure of the small explosions that made the big one so special

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However, that is the one explosion that we don't have a high speed of oh, that's right

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Everybody was just sitting there waiting in anticipation. The cement truck was there

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It was gone high-fiving celebration. We look over at the high-speed operator and

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He looks like he's going to cry. There was a technical glitch first huge explosion in myth buster history

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No high-speed shot this blink and you miss it moment

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Could only be slowed down by literally playing the footage one frame at a time

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But that was plenty enough for it to become the fan favorite

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Where to go

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See today takes us on a date with danger

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These were dynamite

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Dynamite

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traditionally made from nitroglycerin

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This sticky trick has been the weapon of choice for many a Western

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It's also gone with a bang on myth busters. Okay, we're gonna blow ourselves out of jail with the ones to get dynamite

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Or has it this actually isn't dynamite in fact none of the dynamite we've used on show has been dynamite

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It's a special explosive the JD mixed up for us six drops of essence of terror five drops of sinister sauce

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It has the explosive power of dynamite

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The look of dynamite

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But it's a much safer substitute because nitroglycerin is notoriously unstable

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Coming up on myth busters more a to z of explosions. You don't want to miss this

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In the a to z of myth busters explosions

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We've seen dynamite danger

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The is the dynamite cement truck carnage and an awesome

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It's time to set free the e

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A letter which could stand forever green

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There are bits of tree everywhere or extreme environments

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Or even for experts in the vicinity of five minutes his pants should be in New York

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But while these would be suitable selections the obvious e stands for

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Explosions, but what exactly are they?

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Typically speaking explosions like the one that we're about to do this China cabinet are a rapid increase in volume and release of energy

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Usually resulting in a shockwave now. There are of course many different types of explosions such as volcanic eruptions

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Electrical explosions and nuclear explosions

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But the kind that we see most often in our show are chemical explosions

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Which usually involve a rapid and violent oxidation reaction

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Ever discovered was gunpowder and we have used a lot of it on this show

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But our explosive of choice is C4 one in doubt C4

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Explosive in it is cyclo-tramethylene trinitramine and here's the science bit

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When you press the button an electrical circuit causes the blasting cap to go off

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That creates a shock to the C4 which in turn sets off an extreme oxidation reaction that causes the C4 to decompose

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Into a variety of gases especially nitrogen and oxides of carbon

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The gases expand at 26,000 feet per second and apply a huge force to anything in the surrounding area

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So ultimately a C4 boom is just a chemical reaction taken to the max. All right you guys ready for this?

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All right, this is e is for explosion in three two one fire

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Beautiful that's a good explosion right there yep explosion number

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755 a perfect example of the rapport of C4

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I bet my family is glad they let me borrow that China

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It's f for food

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Now as you can tell by the fact that we have to put a sign like this in a refrigerator

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Mythbusters and food have a very odd history now sometimes we eat food

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First it was beans that went ballistic

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This is being the funniest day next steaks were set to sizzle red meat and high

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Then came popcorn

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But all of these food flare-ups do have one thing in common all the food that's destroyed on Mythbusters is

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Way past its sell-by date and is not fit for human consumption

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Next up is something that puts the G in gene whiz

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Now over the years we've done a number of episodes featuring these and we've come to understand that they are in fact no joke

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All right, this is testing the blast wave of a hand grenade in three two

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To be honest we're totally an off people whose job it is to face these in real life

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But the grenade that makes it into this a-to-z

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Is the rocket propel grenade or RPG because that is what gave us one of the best booms in Mythbusters history

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All right, this is RPG versus trailer just to see what it does

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It was gone in a 60th of a second

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But how did the team pull off shooting an RPG in the first place

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We've been trying to get RPGs on the show for years and then along came the movie red

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Which featured a head-to-head showdown between an RPG and a handgun, which is perfect for Mythbusters

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We headed down to our friends at the energetic materials research and testing center at New Mexico Tech

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We borrowed their expertise and their weapons to film one of my favorite explosive stories ever

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Okay, this is a survivability test RPG shooter versus bullet shooter

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That was intense

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Not only was it an intense day in the desert, but the RPG was well worth the wait

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And once more it's epic shots like these that take us seamlessly onto H for high speeds

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You know I'm with Carrie and Grant on this one that the RPG hitting the trailer and that explosion catching it on high speed

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Is probably one of the coolest ones we've ever done on the show

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The reason why is you can see the RPG actually go through the front of the trailer

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And it doesn't explode until it hits the backside of the trailer. I mean it was awesome

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While the high speed does ooze awesomeness

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It's in revealing a level of detail

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That would otherwise remain hidden

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Where the high speed really comes into its own

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And to prove just that the guys are gonna tear apart a TV

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All set, let's go

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We're going to put a pound of C4 into the television and then film the explosion on two different high-speed cameras

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One will be filming at a thousand frames per second and the other will be filming at 6,900 frames per second

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We're gonna compare the two and check out the details

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And after a quick muse of the manual, it's time to make room for the boom

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All right demonstrating a high-speed camera by blowing up a TV. Here we go in three two

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It's pretty much now you see it now you don't yep real time

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It's a blink and you miss it moment, but for the high speed you see a lot more

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This camera is running at a thousand frames per second

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I mean you can see the bloom of destruction the glass shattering the plastic flying

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But now check out the detail you can see with the 6,900 frames per second

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You can actually see the shockwave moving out from the center. You can see the television

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Pulling apart as it starts to explode not only that but you can see the gases

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Expanding and then rushing back in to fill the void where they've just left. This is a much more detailed complete story of the explosion

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Ain't that the truth it's a high speed that really gives that detonation detail and in full high definition

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Coming up on mythbusters the aid is he abooms fire the whole

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It's the mythbusters a to z of explosions

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And following H for high speed I is for implants

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You know when I got the memo that we were gonna be revisiting implants

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This is the last thing I pictured yeah me too, but you know what we're here to reminisce

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So let's reminisce exploding implants was one of the first explosive stories we ever did Adam and Jamie tested whether breast implants would explode

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On a pressurized airplane and did they?

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Well the word no

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All right, shall we take it up to let's say 30,000 feet in what must have been the first time that men were ever

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Disappointed with implants their padded pockets failed to blow. I didn't really notice any difference at all

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But the mythbusters did learn an important lesson Adam. How are they doing? Are they getting bigger?

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My breasts are expanding repeat breasts are expanding. You don't always need a blast to have a blast. Oh

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Next up it's back to the bomb range

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Where J is for JD what I think you need is the mythbusters concerto in C4

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All right JD this one's for you

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JD or more formally Sergeant JD Nelson on the record, I'm just gonna say I'm totally against this burning of wine and champagne

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Is a true honorary mythbuster?

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Okay, the question is you want to do like a surgical kind of an entry around the lock

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Or do you want to just blow the crap out of it?

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Blow the crap out of it. Okay, it's blow the crap out of it. Yeah

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But who exactly is he all in all it's just another brick in the wall and does he have the coolest job in the world?

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My name is JD Nelson and I've been a sergeant for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office bomb squad for 12 years

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As well as doing some crazy things for mythbusters

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I spend most of my time dealing with real-life explosive situations if there's a suspicious package

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I do a render safe procedure for it

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If someone's doing construction and finds a military ordinance, then it's my job to make it safe

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It's pretty cool, but sometimes it's dangerous

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But by being cool calm and collected JD's the ultimate master blaster

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From J to K with some cooking classes

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If there's one room that's suffered at the hands of mythbusters, it's the kitchen

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But don't just take my word for it. No take mine

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There's been exploding microwaves

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Fire in the hole in three two one

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Exploding fridges there's stuff in there

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And full-on kitchen destruction turn on the gas courtesy of methane

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That is awesome and see for

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Boom

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They say the kitchen is the room you're most likely to have an accident

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Mythbusters definitely true

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Hell is for loud explosions are seriously loud

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That was something else but see the problem is we can't show you how low these explosions are because we play them at full volume

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You probably burst your TV speakers or at least distort horribly

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So we're gonna do a little test we're gonna turn on the lawnmower and use this DB meter to find out exactly how loud it is

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Then we're gonna get a pound of C4 park the lawnmower on top of it blow it up and find out how loud the boom is

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Because actions speak louder than words

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Grant fires her up and Carrie gets a reading at ground zero

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We're about 90 and then again 100 feet away

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What do you got yeah, we're sticking at about 40 it's not even louder than the ambient noise around here

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So with the baselines in the bag the Bontex brace for the boom

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But how will C4s crack compare? Okay, Carrie Byron. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. Let's do this

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This is L is for loud in three two one

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It sure was a roar

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But as for data well the near mic got maimed and the far one maxed out

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That was loud. That was in fact. It was so loud maxed out the meter. Yeah, I had a feeling that was gonna happen

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Feeding all we know is that the din was at least 130 DB

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Making it louder the blast of a jet

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Meanwhile as Carrie's about to confirm M is for movies M is for movies

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What does that have to do with explosions?

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Well, we can't do a myth busters a to z of explosives without taking movies to task because if there's one thing we've learned on myth busters

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It's that Hollywood will always choose style over substance. Yeah, you know

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There are still so many classic mistakes that Hollywood makes like cars going over cliffs always explode

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That's a negative on the explosion. I'm a reality makes a crappy special effects crew

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Or there's the idea that you can jump out of the way of an explosion or that every explosion has to end in a fireball which it doesn't

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Not to say movies always get wrong. No, I mean we were able to blow up in a safe using water in a charge

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And it is possible these liquid nitrogen to slow down a battery trade explosion

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There for the most part movies should just get real because even without special effects trickery

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Explosions are awesome. Can you guys stop talking? I'm trying to watch smooth

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Bye-bye

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Don't try anything you see on this show at home. We're what you call experts

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With cement trucks

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food fights and movie cliches

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The explosion a to z has hit halfway. So what's next next up the mother of all explosions?

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Here we go in three two one

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fire

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Oh

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It looks like we must be on the letter in for nothing because when nothing happens when you fire that trigger

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Something has gone wrong, which also means somebody needs to man up and go over rewire and fix the problem

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It's a bomb text worst nightmare. Yep. It's when nothing happens. Sendier a torpedo in

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three two

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one fire and

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Miss fire that explosions are at their most dangerous

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This is exploding shark 400 pounds of explosives on your go Frank

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It's also when nothing happens that explosives technicians are at their most brave you kidding me

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This is like the worst experiment ever

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But that's why the myth busters use the best in the business

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Most of time I'd say a bomb tech has the best job in the world, but when nothing happens, that's really when they earn their pay

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No, looks like that's my problem

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Next it's over to Grant

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Now one of the key parts of myth busting is data. I am totally psyched

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About numbers now explosions are no exception, but usually the type of data we're trying to get is whether a person lives or dies

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For that our favorite tool is this the Oseco rupture disc

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Now this is a carefully engineered metal disc that's designed to burst when it experiences a certain pressure

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Now the beauty part is that it's a binary system. There's no complex graphs to interpret. There's no numbers of crunch

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It's either not burst or burst. It's very simple and get your answer right away

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Simple and quick

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Just the way the myth busters like it

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Awesome, I love results

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Meanwhile back at the bunker carries feeling the pressure

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Back when we were on the letter E. We talked about the science of explosions where we concentrated on chemical explosions

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But there's another kind of explosion

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Pressure vessels now we do these a lot on myth busters and we're going to do one right now

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And for that they need three things a pressure vessel a heat source and a don't try this at home warning a

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Pressure vessel explosion is a mechanical explosion

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The way it happens is you take a sealed vessel and you increase the pressure inside of it to the point where the vessel can no

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Longer hold that pressure when it ruptures it creates an explosion

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But you know what we have never done a can of shaving cream until now

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You know my favorite part about pressure vessels are waiting for the boom you never know quite when they're gonna go off

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By my calculation it should explode in three two one

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Magic oh my god it went everywhere

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Next up time to join the queue

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You is for quagmire the one disadvantage to working at the bomb range is it when it rains?

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It becomes a horrendous place to work and it rains a lot

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carries right gas canister rocket was a deluge disaster. I thought the dangers probably gonna be the

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Exploding program takes you're right. Oh, no sounds bogus was a seasonal monsoon

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I

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Love the bomb range. I don't love it so much when it rains

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The mud is basically clay when you walk around you get stuck when you drive around you get stuck

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Think we got away with that one. She was a really hard

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No one likes a good bag

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More than the mythbusters

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But in their explosive encyclopedia are somewhat surprisingly stands for rockets

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And that's surprising because technically rockets are not explosives, but this being mythbusters things can and do go wrong

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That's why our rockets turn into explosives sometime

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To be fair most mythbusters rockets

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Have flown straight and true

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But that's not always been the case

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First there was the salami rocket. I'm making a rocket out of meat which was less meat missile and more baloney bomb

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But that's nothing compared to the most epic rocket fail. It's time to install the rockets

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The Jato rocket car revisit the goal of the experiment was to get a 67 in poly to fly

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So Adam and Jamie spent upwards of twenty thousand dollars in super-sized rockets, which should have been more than enough to get the job done

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Grants, right these rockets had power aplenty

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Good on the hook moving well it goes it's heading towards the ramp, but with that power came no responsibility

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Or not

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So we built a big rolling bomb instead of a rocket

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Do we get a mine then?

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I think someone owes me ten thousand bucks

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Now turns out there was a glitch which meant the thrust couldn't escape fast enough and that meant

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The most epic of epic failures in the history of mythbusters and one of the most spectacular explosions ever

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With our defied by a menacing mishap S is for our number one priority

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safety

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People often assume that explosions are the most dangerous thing that we do on our show

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But in fact, there's some of the safest things we do

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But that's because we have an array of protective gear and a strict set of safety protocols that we follow

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But that doesn't mean it doesn't get scary sometimes like the time I carried a bag full of explosive gas in a bomb suit just like this

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In a scene that's never aired until now

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All right, I'm gonna start feeling it as

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suited for safety Tory once carried a bubble of trouble

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Knowing that one small spark could spell disaster suddenly I wish I were wearing a bomb suit too

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We go camera ready, okay

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I'm like you'd think explosions aren't necessarily fraught with danger, but that doesn't make them risk-free

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Ironically the piece of equipment that has caused the most serious injuries on the show are these safety ballistic shields

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They're over 200 pounds of piece. They've crushed a couple of fingers and definitely put out a few backs

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But still much better than getting blown up

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Meanwhile tea is for a toilet

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Now the kitchen isn't the only dangerous place here on MythBusters the bathroom can be just as dangerous

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Why because you never know when a toilet might explode with an unsavory subject matter. This ought to clean out the pipes

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That's not hang around

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Whether it be thanks to C4

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Or even alkali metals with Mary of rubidium count three two one

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There's been more than enough blue lunacy on MythBusters

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Next you is not for you Bend but for underground

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Right now. I'm burying a firecracker. Why because I love underground

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Explosions, I don't know if there's just more of an anticipation, but they just seem to be a lot more fun be they golfing gags

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Drain disasters all right sewer explosion three two one

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Or simply movie madness firing four pounds man for three two one

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Oh, yeah, I saw it go all the way up the hill there

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Oh

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The underground boom is something worth seeing again and again so it's back to carry

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Now for a completely gratuitous explosion underground in three two one

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Well that was a nice little thud

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Oh

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B was for bomb range a was for audit and was for nothing fire

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Oh, and G was for grenade

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Put them together and what do you get fire and the bags continue right now? Oh

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All right now

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I know all this looks like a lot of automotive junk, but it's actually what's left over from a car

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Exploded, so I'm guessing B is for vehicle exactly now

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We have probably totaled around 130 vehicles on the show a lot of them. We've crashed

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Some we've destroyed with the rocket sled at New Mexico Tech

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But a lot of them we've blown up so we roll the montage indeed we shall

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Next up is W a letter. That's all about H2O

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Now water and explosives are a particularly good mix for mythbusters for two reasons first water and air have very different properties

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For example water is incompressible. It's denser than air

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It's more conductive and all this means that explosions travel differently through water than they do through air

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Indeed by being incompressible

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Go for it water is a great way to help crack a safe

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And the way its density differs from air

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Everything's in it looks great has led to many a lagoon boom 50 pounds of Ampo in

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three two

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one

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Bye-bye

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But what's grads other reason for loving this liquid?

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Second reason is that explosions on high speed with water look really cool and to prove just that

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Don't try this at home

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That is an explosion in water

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With W all washed up

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Next up it's two letters for the price of one where X is nothing if not predictable

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Well, we've moved on to the letter X and let's face it we can't afford to blow up an X ray

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So we've gone the cheap route and blowing up some xylophones

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Why do we hate instruments cuz we can't play them but X is not flying solo

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We're also gonna throw why in here because why is for yelling fire in the hole fire in the hole

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Whether it's me or Adam

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Or JD

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Or Frank

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It's always yelled three times and in three different directions, but every time it's yelled it definitely means something exciting is gonna happen

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All right, this is X for xylophone because well, it's too expensive to blow up an X ray machine

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Are you guys ready ready three two one?

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Like music to my ears

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I call this piece explosion 753 from a ferrata

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To why for yelling

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The most busters a to z of explosions has been a blast

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And with just one letter left you might say that the guys are going to end the bank

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I

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Will if X is any indication next we're gonna be blowing up a zebra right no z is for zenith the pinnacle the biggest

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Explosion in myth busters history, which would be the blast from homemade diamonds

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Yeah, that was the episode we were trying to figure out different ways to make diamonds in one of them involved using explosives

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Yep when microwaving peanut butter didn't spring any bling

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I'm starting to get the idea that this shouldn't be done inside the myth busters turned to a girl's second best friend

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Explosives

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They started big

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But ended enormous with

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5,000 pounds of ant foam charging five four three two one zero

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Oh

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Given that that's the biggest explosion we've ever done why isn't it the fan favorite well

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I'm like the cement truck, which was there and gone

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Well, there's your problem. We really are just looking at a big giant tube

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Yeah, there's really nothing in it to give you scale. I mean when the explosion went off

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Which was five times bigger than the cement truck you couldn't tell how big it was

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Yeah, but unlike the cement truck we actually have an amazing high speed that just shows the shockwave moving

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All right fair enough there's just one more thing that bothers me though. What's that? How are we ever gonna top it? Oh, we'll figure out a way