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The stuff we do is dangerous. Don't try this at home. Where would you call experts?

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On this episode of MythBusters,

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Adam and Jamie go full throttle.

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For the most dangerous stunt in MythBusters history.

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Did such an aggressive wheelie his head fell off. Testing the viral video that a motorcycle could surf the surface of a lake.

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I want to try it.

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But will it be man over bike? Could he plant himself right here and just start flying? Or will Jamie torque on water?

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Meanwhile, Carri Torian Grant get the drop on a free fall free for all.

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I don't even want to know what the G's are on that.

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Finding out if a criminal could make a parachute out of the paraphernalia inside a hotel room. Is that the new fall fashion?

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But will there crazy canopies?

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A lot of wet floors with all these shower curtains missing.

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Let Buster skydive and survive.

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Come on.

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Open.

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Who are the MythBusters?

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Adam Savage. This is science in action.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Bye-bye.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience. Together with Brad Dimahara.

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That is crazy.

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Carri Byron.

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And Tori Balachian.

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It's about to get real.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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Jamie, you remember when Carri Grant and Tori did the episode about a sports car skipping across a lake?

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I do.

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Fifty miles an hour.

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That car didn't skip. It flipped.

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We got one similar to that this time except this time it's a motorcycle riding on the water.

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A motorcycle actually riding on top of water.

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Apparently we got a motorcycleist. He's riding down the freeway way too fast.

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He comes to a bend and when he comes to the bend he can't make it.

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So he plows right through it and there is a lake except that he stays on top of the lake and makes it safely to the other side.

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It's dangerous and fun. I'm in.

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Excellent.

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Motorbikes and water seem like a catastrophic combination.

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Yet according to this myth, if you take the lake at freeway speeds you could burn aqua all the way to the other side.

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But will this physics defying feat prove more sink than skim?

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Clearly this episode ends with one of us.

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I'm guessing it's you riding a big powerful motorcycle and attempting to keep it on top of the water.

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Yeah, but I don't think we should just jump right into this because it involves high speed crashes, drowning, broken bones.

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It's risky.

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All right. Well, they do make some very powerful RC motorcycles.

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What say we take one of those out into the field, ride them over a small body of water and see what we can learn on the high speed camera?

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Sure. Why not?

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And we're not going to be going stampeding towards full scale right away in this story.

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We've come to a basically off road motorcycle park not far from the Mythbusters shop and we're going to be doing a little bit of experimenting with these.

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These are little radio controlled motorcycles and they happen to have a gyro-tron.

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They're going to have a gyroscope in the rear wheel to help them stabilize as they go.

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The top speed on them is about 20 miles an hour.

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What that'll do in water?

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I have no idea, but that's what we're here to find out.

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Well, our scale bikes require a scaled pool and that's just what this is.

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With a nice gentle transition over there, it's only a couple of inches deep and with the aid of our high speed camera, hopefully it will illuminate some key things we need to know about whether or not bikes can stay on top of the road.

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Add with the H2O ready to go, it's time for the wheels to meet the water.

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Here we go.

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Oh!

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Nice!

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Mr. Heidemann delivers.

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No riding a bike through water, he wheelies through water.

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It's not quite the wheel deal as this myth is about skimming on two wheels, not one.

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But luckily they don't have long to wait.

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Yeah, this is it!

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Woo!

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As the Heidemann masters the two wheel maneuver.

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Yeah!

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Woo!

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And for triumphant trips later, it's time to see if the bike's riding the top of the pond or the bottom, thanks to the high speed review.

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But let's see what we can learn.

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Wow, it's sort of on the surface right in the beginning because it's coming off of that initial ramp.

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The rear wheel is down though.

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And it's going down further.

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At this point, it's clear that both wheels are down.

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It is definitely deep in the water.

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It's almost deep enough where I could say it really feels like it's riding on the bottom.

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It's not the news they were looking for.

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On each and every run, their bike is driving through the water and not over it.

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And that means for this myth to stay afloat, Adam and Janie are going to need a plan B.

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Next, Carri-Torre and Grant shoot the breeze.

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Alright, so this next one sounds like a Hollywood action movie, but apparently it's totally legit.

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Alright, let's hear it.

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Alright, so wanted criminal, surrounded by police, tracked down to the 20th floor of a hotel.

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After a protracted negotiation, they break down the door and guess what they find?

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Money, jewels.

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Yes, but also a homemade parachute.

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That one sounds familiar.

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The guy was stuck in his hotel room for three hours and he started making a homemade parachute out of sheets and shower curtains.

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But he never made the jump because the police broke in and caught him before he could.

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So he never jumped.

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We don't know if the parachute actually works.

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Exactly.

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Can you make a homemade parachute out of things you can find in a standard hotel room?

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Cool.

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Yep, this audacious escape escapade comes straight from the criminal mind.

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Supposedly, this bad guy was going to wing it with a makeshift shoot.

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But could he have defeated gravity for this getaway?

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Is there any way an improvised parachute could let you down safely?

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Alright guys, how about this?

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We get all of the standard contents from a hotel room, you know, drapes, sheets, shower curtains, lamp cords,

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and we have three hours to build a parachute.

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Well, it's great.

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We can connect each of our shoots to Buster and drum from 20 stories just like in the myth.

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Alright, well we better get cracking.

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The police are on their way.

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Where's he going?

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Yep, first it's a build off or shoot out.

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We're working on the myth that you can make a parachute out of common things you might find in a hotel room.

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Now, that gives us so much material.

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We've got the bedding on the beds, the curtains, the blackout curtains, the rods, the strings,

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any cords you could find from lamps or TVs or ethernet cables,

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and the wealth that is the bathroom.

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And we have shower curtains, towels, anything you can think of.

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Now, we have three hours to do this because the burglar only had three hours

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to see which of us could come up with the most successful parachute.

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And the clock starts now.

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So the first decision is to choose their weaving of choice.

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So what I'm going to use is this blackout curtain.

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It's fabric coated by plastic.

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That's going to give me a lot of wind resistance.

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And not only that, that plastic coating is going to give me more strength.

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Hopefully this will work.

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I'm starting out with the lightest, least porous materials that I could find,

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which are the shower curtains, the liners.

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I'm going to attach them and make them the base of my parachute.

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I figure they'll hold the air the best.

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So what I'm doing is using these curtain rods to make a frame.

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And then from that, I'm going to drape this duvet cover over it.

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The reason I chose a duvet cover as opposed to regular sheets

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is I didn't want to sew any seams.

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I think if I have any seams in there, it's going to be not as strong.

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Indeed, because strength is vital,

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considering what their improvised shoots have to mimic.

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Now, the way a parachute works is by increasing the surface area of a falling object.

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So that way it has more contact with air.

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And it's this air resistance that accelerates the terminal velocity of a human

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from 120 miles an hour to less than five miles per hour for a soft landing.

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So that's what we're trying to match.

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Yep, it's a head-to-head challenge that's going to require some clever crafting.

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Whoa, what hotel are you staying in, the Ritz?

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I don't know, this looks more like the kind of hotel where you could rent the hot tub by the hour.

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And each myth buster is opting for a different shape of canopy.

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It's quite a challenge, especially with shower curtains and sheets.

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Grant's going for 144 square feet of fabric.

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I already ripped it. It's not a good thing.

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While Carrie is sewing sheets into a more traditional dome design.

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I'm using the cord from the curtains to tie it together,

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and then I'm leaving a hole right in the middle so that it should sail down straight.

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If that doesn't work, I'm going to tie a pillow to my head like a helmet.

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And Tori is patching together a rectangular shoot.

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So we're already one hour into this challenge, and I'm looking at the size of my parachute.

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I don't think this is going to be good enough. I don't think I'm going to get this done.

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It's my harness.

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What is that, the new fall fashion?

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Okay, time pressure is starting to get to me because I just don't think I can get this done.

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I don't think I can get this done in three hours.

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With less than five minutes to go, the guys race to stitch up this challenge.

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So what I've done is I've ripped out all the electrical wiring in my hotel room.

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So I'm going to diverge you this once, and I'm going to use that as my stringers for my parachute.

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I am feeling pretty darn confident.

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And with some last minute adjustments.

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If this is knotting on the ground, what's it going to do in the air?

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Oh man, I got 60 seconds.

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The cutting, taping, sewing, and sweating comes to an end.

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And...

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Done!

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Done.

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Done.

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Done!

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Three hours, three mythbusters, and three hotel rooms full of fabric later.

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And they've got three parachutes ready for the drop zone.

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You might think it looks a little flimsy, but hey, it's only got to work once.

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Is this going to save Buster's life? I don't know.

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But if I had to jump off a building and I had a choice between no parachute and this parachute,

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I guarantee you I'll take this choice.

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Wow, Kerry. That's a nice looking parachute you made.

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It actually looks like parachute.

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It's an artistic rendition of a parachute. Let's see if it actually flies like one.

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Alright, you ready? Let's do it.

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Three!

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Later, Buster goes down.

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One, two, three!

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And the tension rams up.

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Let's launch the beast.

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Now or never.

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But can a motorcycle ever turn motorboat?

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It's a myth that's hell on two wheels.

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But could a motorbike ever turn motorboat?

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Well, so far, you can lead a bike to water, but you can't make it skim.

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However, all is not lost.

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I, for one, learned a lot from that test.

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Yeah, who knew that you could wheelie across water and your head would fall off?

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Look, I want to somehow see if a motorcycle wheel actually does a thing.

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I want to see if a motorcycle wheel at speed gains real buoyancy on the water's surface.

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But how are we going to get one of these going 60 or 70 miles an hour on water under controlled conditions?

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Well, riding on water says boat to me.

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So why don't we hang the wheel off the side of a boat?

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They make boats that go 70 or 80 miles an hour?

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You bet they do.

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Yep, with top speeds of over 90 miles per hour, power boats sure can pace across a pond.

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But before they feel the need for speed, first they need to rustle up the wheel in the water.

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What you got?

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Well, at its most basic, this is the boat.

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This is the motorcycle wheel and scale to that boat.

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Obviously, you can sit in the water like this, and when we get up to speed, if the wheel does get buoyancy, it would rise up.

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And then the question is, how much weight can it support?

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And that's where this comes in.

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We can put on barbell weights of various sizes.

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Okay.

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Until we determine how much weight.

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Sure.

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I think this is pretty straightforward.

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It may be straightforward for Adam, but for the rest of us, here's a graphic.

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The weight of a motorbike means that in water, it'll sink.

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But if its wheels were spinning at highway speeds, could that keep it afloat?

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To find out, the plan is to attach a motorbike wheel to a speedboat.

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Then as the boat accelerates, the wheel should spin up onto the surface.

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But will it stay above water as the weight of a rider is added to it?

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It's a dastardly design.

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But in the workshop, Adam's galloping through the build.

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I don't know, for some reason it reminds me of a horse rearing up.

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A horse made of steel.

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And before you can say chrome pony, his steel rim rig is ready to saddle up.

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And on a local lake, it's time to put it to the test.

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The open air, the sun, there's just nothing not to love about boating, honestly.

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Let's get this thing in the water.

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Okay.

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This year is our test platform.

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20 feet long with a 300 horsepower outboard engine and a tunnel hull design.

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She is built for racing, built for speed, and will go between 85 and 90 miles per hour.

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Perfect for our testing purposes.

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First up, we need to get our rig bolted to it.

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The plan here is simple.

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Bolt the wheel to the boat.

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I claim the scientific rig in the name of...

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...with busters.

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Lower the boat into the water.

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Perfect.

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And then take it for a spin.

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Let's get this party started.

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All right.

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Are you ready?

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Ready.

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Go!

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But almost immediately, it's clear that there's a problem.

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The tail end is so heavy that the boat's not only taking on water...

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You're spilling water over the side there.

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...its top speed has plummeted.

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Our problem is there's so much drag, the boat's not able to get up on a plane where it sits on top of the water.

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That's where the real speed happens.

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Jamie's going to crawl up to the bow.

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I'm going to rig the wheel up and we'll see if it works.

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So with Jamie clinging on as a counterbalance...

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I've actually done this before to hang on top of the car.

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It's the moment of truth.

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Okay.

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All right. Here we go.

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Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!

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At first, it all hangs in the balance.

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But when Adam gives the wheel a eave, they finally pick up speed.

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There it goes.

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As the boat clocks 50...

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Yes!

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Yeah!

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...then 60 miles per hour.

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Come on!

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It's clear that the wheel is riding the water, which is great for the myth.

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What's less great is that this crazy contraption is so dangerous...

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Yeah!

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Whoa, whoa, whoa!

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Come on up!

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That's scary!

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...that the guys decide to quit while they're ahead.

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Oh!

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All right. I've got some good news and some bad news.

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I'm going to start with the bad.

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The bad news is that our rig didn't quite work as planned.

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We had really wanted to start to add weight and experiment with different speeds of the boat

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to come up with a graph of speed to weight ratio that would tell us exactly how fast we'd have to hit the water at

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for the motorcycle wheel to support its rider.

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And we didn't quite get that.

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The good news is that even though it took everything we had,

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we were able to get the boat up on a plane and the wheel skipping across the water,

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which means that there is something to this and it means we can proceed with some confidence to full scale

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that this might just work.

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Cornered by the cops, could you improvise a parachute, defeat the free fall and flee to freedom?

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To find out, Carrie, Tori and Grant have unraveled the record

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and now have three makeshift shoots to deploy.

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It's time to find out if any of our do-it-yourself hotel parachutes can decelerate Buster gently to the ground.

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We've come out to Treasure Island on a beautiful day with a crane that can lift him 20 stories into the air.

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We're going to drop him with each of our designs, but first, the control. No parachute.

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Now to find out exactly what Buster is going to be experiencing in this drop, we're going to attach an accelerometer.

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Now for him to survive this fall, he has to withstand less than 100 Gs.

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For him to survive the fall without injury, he has to withstand less than 10 Gs.

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Don't look so sad, buddy.

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Yep, once again, Buster will have to do what he does best and take the fall from 200 feet.

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Alright, here we go. Bye-bye, Buster. In three, two, one.

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God, I don't even want to know what the Gs are on that.

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Well, thanks to the accelerometer.

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Alright, see what we got.

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It's easy enough to find out.

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Wow, look at that. 500 Gs.

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And he hit the ground at 83 miles an hour. He definitely did not survive that.

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But we'll jumping from 20 stories with a homemade shoot be any better.

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Here's why we're hoping our parachutes will work. Gravity acts on all objects, no matter how much they weigh, causing them to fall at the same rate.

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The only reason why two objects won't fall at the same rate is because of air resistance.

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These two pieces of paper, in fact, do weigh the same amount.

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But this one has a lot more surface air. It has to push a lot more air molecules out of the way to fall down.

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And thus, in order for this myth to be confirmed, this is what our parachutes will have to do.

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You ready?

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I am ready.

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And first to attempt that is Tori's blackout curtain canopy.

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That's something you don't see every day.

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Blackout curtain parachute drop in three, two, one.

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Yeah!

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Amazingly, Tori's shoot deployed and slowed Buster down.

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But unfortunately, not enough to head off the impact.

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Oh, Buster lost his hand.

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That is a bad sign.

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So we just dropped the blackout curtain parachute.

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And there's some good news, but there's some really bad news.

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The good news is the parachute opened and it decelerated Buster's descent.

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However, the bad news, when he hit the ground, he hit it with 160 Gs.

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That's well over 100 Gs, therefore Buster is dead.

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That brings the curtain down on Tori.

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But Grant's frame up is still to go.

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We got a technical difficulty.

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Oh boy.

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Trouble in Myth Busterland.

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The wind has picked up and apparently Grant's rig does not like that.

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Had to be a windy day, didn't it?

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Yep, Grant and his frame are all bent out of shape.

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But can the parachute still bring Buster down safely?

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Look at that!

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You guys!

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You can be flattened out of this!

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Oh man!

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Oh boy!

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Here we go, this is canopy parachute in three, two, one!

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Hey! Hey!

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Woohoo!

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Yep, as it turns out, that was an impact of 144 Gs,

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a quarter of the control, but still a lethal landing.

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He hit the ground at 29 miles an hour.

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That is well above our benchmark of 100 Gs, which is survivable.

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So Buster died with that parachute.

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And for Buster's final flight, it's time to put Kari's six sheets to the wind.

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Look, I like my design, but honestly, I wish I'd thought of Kari's design.

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I mean, look at it.

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It looks like a real modern day parachute.

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Come on, criminal!

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Got a huge amount of surface area, and it's got an event at the top to direct the air throughs.

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It's going to have great stability.

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I think this one has a really good chance of saving Buster.

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This is curtain parachute in three, two, one!

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There you go!

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Oh!

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He had a little deployment issue.

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Late deployment!

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Kari's late deploying shoot did decelerate Buster,

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but he still hit the ground at 160 Gs, well above the lethal limit.

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Okay, this is not looking good for the myth.

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I mean, we looked at the data for all the drops.

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There's not one survivable fall.

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We have to start from scratch.

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Well, maybe we try different fabrics and pick out the best parts of each of our designs.

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All right, well, let's go back to the shop and see if we can figure out how to make a parachute that actually works.

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The Mythbusters

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YouTube says yes.

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The Mythbusters say maybe.

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But can a motorbike really skate the surface of a lake?

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I think I might have beat Jamie.

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Maybe not.

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Well, it's time for this myth to surf up or ship out.

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Ever since we first started talking about doing this story,

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we knew, of course, we'd finish on a lake,

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and we had a very specific list of attributes we considered critical for this lake to have

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in order for us to have any chance of success.

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Number one, the lake needed to be smooth and calm.

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Two, we needed the land to water transition to be incredibly gentle.

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And three, we needed that transition between land and water to be not too muddy.

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And amazingly, we found everything we need in this lake, in Ion, California.

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And in a few minutes, what looks like a lake may end up in fact being a motocross course.

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But before Jamie trips the lake fantastic, they first need a rider with some serious grunt

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and some serious stunt expertise.

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Meet Eric McCrummon.

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What do you think, Eric? Are you up for it?

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Sure.

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Eric is the designated driver, but there's one last thing to clarify.

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I am currently standing in the path our motorcyclist is going to take across the water,

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and it is 38 inches deep in the middle.

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If that motorcyclist makes it across, it rode on the water. That's official.

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Yep, it'll be official, but only if it works,

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which means it's time for the rubber to meet the reservoir.

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Well, he's all set. He's 375 feet away. You want to wave him in?

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Let's launch the beast.

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So now or never.

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Okay.

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Here he comes.

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Whoa!

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Ah, that worked!

403
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He totally stayed on top of the water.

404
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,600
That was beautiful. He parted it like a little red sea.

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That was amazing.

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Amazing is what. Remember, the lake is over 3 feet deep,

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yet instead of sinking, Eric sailed 50 feet at 60 miles per hour.

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But now, Adam and Jamie want more.

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You feel like you could go a little longer?

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I think so.

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Excellent.

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I have to say, I'm really pleased about this so far.

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Eric successfully just crossed 50 feet of open water,

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not fake water would land underneath,

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but deep open water, 50 feet on a motorcycle.

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So now we're going to cross 100 feet.

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He's going to go for 100 foot length of water,

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and we're just going to see how far we can get.

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Yep, they're doubling down on the dirt bike,

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but will Eric make it to the other side this time?

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I'm excited, 100 feet.

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It's time to put our money where our mouth is.

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Let's do it.

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The pressure is on as Eric revs the bike,

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gets it up to 60 miles per hour,

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and...

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Wow! Yeah!

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Leads the lake in his wake.

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00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:16,600
He was on top of the water.

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He was totally, he was actually,

431
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I saw him do this on top of the water.

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That was beautiful.

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00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,600
It's clear from what we're seeing when this bike goes across the water,

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it's riding on the water,

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because we can see the wheel is bouncing.

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00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,600
It's just like it was when we were on the speedboat doing our bench test.

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That means that it's hitting the water and rebounding off of it.

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It means that we're riding on water.

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And that means this myth is well and truly confirmed,

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but it's not the end of the road yet.

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Dude, I believe we have proven that you can ride a motorcycle across the water.

442
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I think we have, but you know I have a question.

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What's that?

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Is what is happening there actually due to his momentum,

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like skipping a stone across water,

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or is a bike this powerful, capable of actually going out like the water?

447
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Water crafting, continuing to power its way across the top of the water.

448
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,600
That is a good question.

449
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I want to try it.

450
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,600
Okay.

451
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Pulling the cords on peculiar parachutes is not new,

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00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:28,600
but could you source a successful shoot from your hotel room?

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After a free fall, free for all,

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maybe not.

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Buster did not survive any of these drops.

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So now they want to know if anything in a hotel room could let you down safely.

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Since our do-it-yourself parachutes didn't quite give us the results we wanted,

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we've come back to the shop to do some small-scale experiments.

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We're going to test every fabric you might find in a hotel room.

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I'm going to make small parachutes, put them on top of a big industrial fan,

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blow it upwards, and see which parachute is actually going to yield the best results.

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Our benchmark for this test will be real parachute material.

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In the end, what we're looking for is the material that best matches a parachute's law and weight.

464
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,600
Oh yeah, and something that can also be found in a hotel room.

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Now, instead of having our parachute falling down,

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we're going to have it stationary and have the fan blow air up into the chute,

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acting as if the parachuter were falling.

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And then we're going to find out which material has the best wind resistance

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so we can see which material makes the best parachute.

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Yep, it's all about the fabric with the most air resistance, or loft.

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So with a force meter attached, they fire up the fan for the control.

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The real parachute.

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00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,600
Alright, it looks good and stable.

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1.79 for the control.

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00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,600
So that's our ideal performance.

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1.79 is the lift to beat, and the first makeshift chute is the shower curtain.

477
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We're at 1.86. This has better wind resistance than the parachute material.

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Then they try the blackout curtain.

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2.0.

480
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,600
2 pounds, that is our best performer so far.

481
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,600
And finally, the remaining swatches.

482
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,600
Okay, we've settled at 1.37 for the polyester drink.

483
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600
Alright, 1.67 for the cotton sheet.

484
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:15,600
Next!

485
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,600
Okay, looks like we've got 1.65.

486
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,600
Cam is curtain pretty good as a parachute.

487
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,600
That's 5 pocket parachutes and 5 impressive lift results.

488
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,600
But that's not all they're looking for.

489
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,600
We have a winner, the blackout curtain.

490
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,600
It was the most air resistant and gave us 2 pounds of pulling force.

491
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,600
However, the problem here is it's heavy.

492
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600
So what I need to do is weigh each of these parachute materials

493
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:42,600
and see which one is the lightest and has similar air resistance to our parachute material.

494
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,600
Ripstop nylon, 2.5 ounces.

495
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,600
Shower curtain, 3.55 ounces.

496
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,600
Polyester drape, 9.9 ounces.

497
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,600
Cotton sheet, 3.65 ounces.

498
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,600
Blackout curtain, 8.35 ounces.

499
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,600
Canvas, 7.95 ounces.

500
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,600
So it turns out the winner is, shower curtain.

501
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,600
This is where we're going to build our final parachute out of.

502
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,600
So while the blackout curtain had the most air resistance, the shower curtain was lighter.

503
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,600
And that, coupled with its lift, makes it the best material for full scale.

504
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,600
So we've chosen shower curtain as our final material for our parachute.

505
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,600
And now that means we have to scale up.

506
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,600
Here's how it goes.

507
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Gravity over row, 9.8 meters per second square.

508
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:39,600
And there is 2 times the square root of a diameter equivalent to 17.4 feet.

509
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,600
Now you could never get that much shower curtain out of one room.

510
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,600
But if you had a whole floor, now you're talking.

511
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:51,600
With a diameter of 17.4 feet, their shower curtain shoot is going to be giant.

512
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,600
So they've opted for the classic dome design.

513
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,600
But making a hemisphere out of square curtains means they need a plan.

514
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,600
This is a little pattern model of what our finished parachute should actually look like.

515
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:10,600
We're actually going to take each of these pieces and make a large pattern out of paper.

516
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,600
And then construct each one out of shower curtain.

517
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:18,600
Now it's hard to actually figure the scale until you really see the pattern laid out.

518
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,600
This is going to be a huge parachute.

519
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,600
It's a mammoth task of attaching 24 curtains with duct tape.

520
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,600
If this duct tape doesn't hold, busters do.

521
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,600
And then cutting out the six panels.

522
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,600
Now we stitch them all together, right?

523
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,600
Oh yeah.

524
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,600
All right.

525
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,600
Now after actually making our pattern, cutting it all out,

526
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,600
I think our original parachutes were a lot more labor intensive and took a lot longer to put together.

527
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,600
Is that all the pieces? Yeah, that's it. That's the pieces.

528
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,600
So we have...

529
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:50,600
That's it for the main shoot.

530
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,600
Now to bring in the reinforcements.

531
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:59,600
Our next job is to reinforce this hole at the top, which is actually going to bear a large amount of the load.

532
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600
With a little curtain cord taking up the slack, the last element is the lines.

533
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,600
Almost done.

534
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,600
That's it. Last two lines.

535
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,600
And with that, it looks like this canopy caper is all stitched up.

536
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,600
My work.

537
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,600
A shower, curtains and duct tape. Who would have thought?

538
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,600
Next stop, 30 stories high.

539
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,600
Cool.

540
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:42,600
So far in this parachute escapade, for Buster, it's been more high dive than sky dive.

541
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,600
But will that change with their best case scenario, shower curtain shoot?

542
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,600
Dude, this is super cool.

543
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:56,600
We're at the Mary Island shipyard where we've been given access to a 50 ton crane.

544
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,600
Now this is going to give us the ability to raise our parachute and Buster 30 stories into the air.

545
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,600
We're going to drop them into this dry dock with all his accelerometers and find out if this is going to be an effective parachute.

546
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,600
That's an extra 10 stories to decelerate their shower shoot.

547
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,600
Shut up, buddy.

548
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,600
So first they need a frame of reference at this height with the most successful shoot from their previous test.

549
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,600
Alright, go ahead and take it up.

550
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:31,600
Just like it's dropped from 20 stories, the frame buckles under Buster's weight.

551
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,600
The good news is, it's doing exactly what it did last time.

552
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,600
But now it has more time to decelerate.

553
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:44,600
Okay, this is hotel parachute with the frame in 3, 2, 1.

554
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,600
Welcome back.

555
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,600
Hey.

556
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,600
Oh, wow.

557
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,600
Dang, he hit the ground hard.

558
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Well, let's check the data and see if he survived the fall.

559
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,600
Look, I'm not a doctor, but that does not look right.

560
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:10,600
Yep, and closer examination proves that even from 30 stories, Buster still clocked over 140 G's on his landing.

561
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:19,600
Clearly, a one room parachute is a flop, but can a 24 room shower curtain canopy do any better?

562
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,600
It's going to be a lot of wet floors with all these shower curtains missing.

563
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,600
I think they're going to build it back to our room.

564
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:30,600
This is it, the final experiment to see if you could take materials from your hotel room, make a parachute, jump out and survive.

565
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,600
Now, we've taken everything we've learned from our small scale.

566
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:39,600
We're going to use our shower curtain, we've made a dome shaped parachute, we've put a hole in the top and we have a drag chute.

567
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,600
This time we're going to be dropping from 30 stories to see if Buster will actually survive.

568
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,600
This is going to be so awesome.

569
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:53,600
Now we know from our initial experiment that without a parachute, Buster's impact can get up to 500 G's and that's from 20 stories.

570
00:33:53,600 --> 00:34:01,600
The goal for today with our super final experiment shower curtain chute is to get that number down to 100 G's from 30 stories.

571
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,600
The bonus is if we can get that down to 10 G's, that's a landing you can walk away from.

572
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,600
The team preps the canopy and for stability adds a drag chute.

573
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,600
Now I know what you're thinking, why do you guys have a drag chute? That's no fair.

574
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,600
Well, actually it's my laundry bag and I travel with it all the time.

575
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,600
Then the lines are attached.

576
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:27,600
All these are 18 feet long which should give us the minimum our lines should be so that it opens to the perfect circumference and drops at the most stable rate.

577
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,600
I love your optimism.

578
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,600
Let's take it up.

579
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,600
It's crazy but a parachute made out of shower curtains and duct tape, I think it's going to work.

580
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,600
Our science and sound calculations all work out.

581
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,600
It works on paper, I think Buster might actually land safely.

582
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:49,600
Well, Buster will have to find that out the hard way or if Cary is right, the soft way.

583
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:55,600
Suspended from 30 stories, it's time for this myth's shower curtain call.

584
00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:00,600
Alright, here we go. Shower curtain parachute in three, two, one.

585
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,600
Come on.

586
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,600
Open.

587
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,600
Do you think it might have worked?

588
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,600
Did you see how light he landed? Let's go check the data.

589
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:24,600
Initially, Buster was on a crash course but meters from the ground amazingly the shower curtains opened and gently slowed his drop.

590
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,600
The question now is, did he survive?

591
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,600
Am I seeing what I'm seeing?

592
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,600
Yeah, that's the peak right there.

593
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,600
Four Gs, he survived the landing without injury.

594
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,600
That's so cool.

595
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:44,600
Our parachute worked and the best part is Buster received 4.2 Gs, which means not only did he survive, he survived without injury.

596
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:54,600
However, the problem here is he had way more shower curtains than the criminal would have had, way more time to build it and the criminal didn't have the engineering that we used to make this.

597
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,600
So, even though Buster isn't busted, this myth is.

598
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Next we hook this up to the ironing board and go kite surfing.

599
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,600
Come on.

600
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,600
I can't pull, it's too strong.

601
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:13,600
After the break, Jamie puts his life on the line.

602
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,600
Here he comes.

603
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,600
But can he motor cross over 4,000 feet of water?

604
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,600
Whoa!

605
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,600
Obviously, if you're going to ride a motorcycle on water, weight is a huge issue as is power.

606
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:40,600
I'm not sure why I've chosen this particular motorcycle because it's made by a company in Indiana called Service Power Sports and what they do is they take a lightweight aluminum chassis that normally only has a 250 cc engine on it.

607
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:51,600
Instead, they put a 500 cc high performance two cycle motor on it and that makes it power for pound about as good as you can get in a dirt bike.

608
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,600
It's a rocket.

609
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:58,600
Welcome back.

610
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:03,600
All episode long, we have been testing a story that a motorcycle might just be a viable water vehicle.

611
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,600
Seriously.

612
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:05,600
Whoa!

613
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:14,600
And with a motorcycle wheel strapped to the outside of a high powered speedboat going 70 miles an hour, it really seemed like there might be something to this story.

614
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,600
Yeah!

615
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:23,600
So then we got a professional motocross rider and we gave him 100 feet of open water to cross and he was able to do it.

616
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,600
Wow!

617
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:27,600
Yeah!

618
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,600
But now Mr. Heineman has a brand new question.

619
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:38,600
Is the motorcycle skipping across the water on its own momentum or does it have enough power to continue indefinitely and Jamie wants to try it?

620
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,600
Yep.

621
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,600
While Eric crossed a mere 100 feet, Jamie wants more.

622
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,600
It's a nice flat run.

623
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:51,600
He wants to see if the bike can get such a grip on the water that he can speed across the entire lake.

624
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:59,600
To do so, he'll literally be putting his life on the line, but not without some modifications.

625
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:07,600
First, the run up to the water needs to be smoother to let Jamie really let rip.

626
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,600
I think that ought to do it.

627
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,600
Then the bike needs a floatation device so it doesn't drag him to the bottom if he fails.

628
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,600
I believe I've got enough floatation here to make it float.

629
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,600
Maybe.

630
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,600
And finally, a lifeguard team is on standby.

631
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:33,600
This is where it's all about to happen, but what exactly is going to happen here to transition between land and water?

632
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,600
By the time Jamie reaches this point, he should be going between 55 and 75 miles per hour when he enters the water.

633
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:45,600
Could he just skip all the way across the water to the opposite side of the lake about three quarters of a mile away?

634
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:53,600
Or could he plant himself right here and just start flying and become his own cautionary Discovery Channel documentary about what not to do?

635
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,600
It's one of the most dangerous experiments in Mythbusters history.

636
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,600
Here he comes.

637
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,600
At great next speed, Jamie hits the water and then...

638
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,600
...is man over bike.

639
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:16,600
Let's go over to him.

640
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,600
Adam and the medic team rush in.

641
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:21,600
He's good.

642
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:26,600
But it'll take more than a 70-mile-an-hour high dive to hurt the Heinemann.

643
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:27,600
You all right, sir?

644
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,600
I'm just fine.

645
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,600
I think it did a little bit of a...what is it, a half gain or something?

646
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,600
Definitely no broken bones or anything, so...

647
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:41,600
Good.

648
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,600
The good news is that Jamie's fighting fit.

649
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:49,600
The bad news is that he traveled only 80 feet, far less than Eric's effort.

650
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:50,600
So what went wrong?

651
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,600
There's one of those cases where if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

652
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:58,600
We added this foam just so that we could retrieve the bike without drowning it afterwards.

653
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:10,600
But it turned out that the spray coming up off of the wheel was providing a certain amount of lift back here, which in turn made more stress on the front wheel, which made it plunge and made me do a somersault.

654
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,600
So I'm going to go back to the original type of bike.

655
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:18,600
We have a second one and have another try.

656
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,600
You heard that right.

657
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,600
Jamie's getting straight back on the horse.

658
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:24,600
Power.

659
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,600
And what's more, this time he's upping the speed to 80.

660
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,600
But will that allow him to burn Aqua all the way across?

661
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:41,600
Oh!

662
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:45,600
He's good!

663
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:46,600
Beautiful!

664
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,600
That was amazing.

665
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,600
It seemed to go on forever.

666
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,600
It's riding, riding, riding, riding.

667
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,600
That's like easily 300 feet or more, buddy.

668
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,600
That was amazing.

669
00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:59,600
He's a cake.

670
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:04,600
How you feelin'?

671
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,600
Relieved it's over and I'm alive.

672
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:17,600
Incredibly, Jamie hit the water, throttled the throttle and surfed for over 300 feet.

673
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:25,600
And while he wasn't able to get a good enough grip to carry on across, it's still myth well and truly confirmed.

674
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,600
In case there's any doubt, I'm standing on the bike.

675
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,600
It's in about 8 feet of water maybe.

676
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,600
So I was riding on water for about 300 feet.

677
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,600
So, riding a motorcycle across the water, busted, plausible or confirmed?

678
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,600
Confirmed.

679
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,600
Not recommended but it's confirmed.

680
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,600
Yes, but only for 300 feet.

681
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,600
I was hoping for further.

682
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,600
I'll settle for that.

683
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,600
And so will we.

684
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,600
So why not cue the music for a motor cross water montage?

685
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:19,600
That was amazing.