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

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We're what you call experts.

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Can't you tell?

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On this episode of Mythbusters...

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Hello. I'm talking to you from a bunker two leagues below a building known to the public as M5.

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Behind me, the Heinemann watches hundreds of feeds from Mythbusters over years past, but not out of narcissism.

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No, this has a purpose.

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The powers that be have allowed the Heinemann to sift through all the constructions that he's done over the past ten years

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to find one that he found unsatisfying and wants to revisit.

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One that will bring a smile, an invisible smile underneath his prodigious mustache.

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Would you shut up?

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Yeah, can it Adam?

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Because this episode is all about second chances.

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With over a decade of episodes and 850 myths to choose from...

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One.

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They scan the archives for their greatest unsolved myth theories.

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Adam and Jamie have a blast from the past as they mix dynamite and DIY once again.

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Oh, what modern inventions will we come up with next?

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But can they deck the walls?

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I call this my psychedelic spring.

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And paint a room with a boom.

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Congratulations, you finally made the Death Star.

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Go!

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Meanwhile, Kari Torian Grant

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Inflows

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Are fulfilling a fan fantasy.

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Oh, this is going to be so awesome.

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Going full steam ahead to split a boat.

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Me that he split it.

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Testing first by sea.

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Come on, come on, come on, come on!

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And then on land.

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This is it, man.

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Three, two, one.

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But can they finally splinter their timbers?

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And tear a boat in two.

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There's one thing I like.

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It's fast.

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Who are the mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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I reject the reality and substitute my own.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Almost too excited.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Together with Brad Himahara.

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This is why we can never have anything nice.

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Kari Byron.

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Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun.

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And Tori Belachie.

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Say hello to a little friend.

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They don't just tell them this.

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They put them to the test.

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First, Adam and Jamie are brushing up on their arts and blasts.

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For those of you playing at home, Painting with Explosives is a show we did years ago

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based on an episode of the British comedy Mr. Bean.

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In which a stick of dynamite is placed in a bucket of paint.

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And when it blows up, it perfectly paints the room it's in without destroying the room.

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Yeah, but our explosives didn't do a very good job of it, did they?

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Nah, I think we ended up more like staining the walls than actually painting them.

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Yeah, it was a Jackson Pollock sort of a moment.

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Yeah, barely.

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Yep, the last time we tested this weapon of mass decoration.

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One.

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Our painters and detonators coverage total crap.

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Got paint on the walls.

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That's horrible.

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But you wouldn't call it home improvement.

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So you think you could actually do it this time?

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You have a new design in mind?

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Well, I'd like to try.

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As you know, I have a thing about actually harnessing the power of explosives to do work

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instead of just blowing crap up.

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I have some ideas of my own.

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Let's say for this episode we go off to our separate corners and each try a solution

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and see if we can't finally achieve painting with explosives.

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Sounds like fun.

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Boom.

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So the guys will split up and each craft their own room boom.

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But that's going to take some bomb range R&D.

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What a lovely day.

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Let's blow something up.

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At first to take up the brush is Adam.

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I'm going all the way back to basics.

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I'm going to take a little chunk of C4 and a bag of paint and a surface.

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So Adam's plan is to start small.

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C4 goes here.

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My test canvas goes here.

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Under the watchful eye of JD Nelson to explore what happens when paint meets explosive meets canvas.

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Painting with explosives.

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First experiment in three, two, one, go.

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Fascinating.

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Fascinating.

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It's just like a...

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That's not at all what I expected to happen.

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That's information.

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That was the whole point of this test.

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That fraction of coverage is a long way from what Adam needs.

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Boom.

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And the action replay reveals why.

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Whoa, the paint's still there.

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It's totally not vaporizing.

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I know what to do next.

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Yep, for test two, Adam's got something different on his plate.

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So the difference between this last and the last one is that I am going to move the paint much closer, in fact, right on top of the C4.

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And second, as you've probably already surmised by this, I'm going to give the C4 a reflecting backing plate.

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This big, heavy piece of steel.

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I'm not actually sure if this is going to work, but it's going to be really different than the last one, and that's going to tell me something.

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In three, two, one, go.

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That was far more effective.

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How you doing?

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The high-speed shot of my blue paint explosion is absolutely gorgeous.

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I got exactly the vaporized fog of paint that I was looking for, and most of it ended up on the 4x8 of wood that I had placed there to receive the paint.

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It's about as far as you'd get if you wanted to roll that much paint onto that board.

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And that's exactly the kind of coverage Adam was looking for, but he still thinks he can improve on it.

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In this test, I'll be using this.

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It's actually a thin sheet of plasticized sheet explosive, sort of a C4 jerky, if you will.

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But don't eat it.

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No, I'm going to paint with it.

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But while spreading the explosive under the paint, also spread the coverage.

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All right, here we go.

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Final explosion in three, two, one, go.

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That was more powerful than I expected it to be.

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It was less a lick of paint and more a riot of color.

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And that goes there.

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But piecing back together his canvas has inspired Adam.

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Well, for me, that was a very successful and excellent day, and not just because I spent the day blowing stuff up.

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Because in blowing stuff up, I actually learned, I believe I learned everything I need to know to paint with explosives,

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including how much explosives is too much.

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Time to get to work.

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So Adam heads back to the shop, where another myth buster has been planned with his nozzles.

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The way I see it, if I can get a single blast of paint going through a nozzle to cover an entire wall perfectly evenly,

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then if I have multiple nozzles painting multiple walls, I can get a single blast of paint to paint a whole room.

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I'm thinking that this sort of flattened orifice here is restricting the paint to where it doesn't come out in a cone,

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It's exactly what he needs.

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But a hose is a long way from an explosion.

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With that in mind, I've broken out this rig that I built some time ago, because it'll allow me to test with up to about 700 psi,

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Jamie's aiming for a rectangular spread onto the wall.

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It's too far open.

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But it's a delicate business of tweaking his nozzle just so.

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I like the first one better.

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Until eventually, he finds his Goldilocks ratio.

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It's looking pretty good.

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Yep, and with his nozzle in hand, Jamie heads to the bomb range to put part two of his theory to the test.

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Solid as rock.

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My theory is that this time around, we need to contain the paint and the explosives in something like this high pressure scuba tank,

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and when the explosives go off, the paint will be propelled out the nozzle of the tank, kind of like a spray nozzle,

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and we'll end up with our nicely painted wall, hopefully not a pipe bomb.

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Yep, Jamie's method all comes down to pressure.

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But first, what happens when you put explosives inside a tank of paint?

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All right, this is test one, C4, no nozzle.

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In three, two, one, go.

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Ah, that actually is quite nice.

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It looks like it sent most of the paint out.

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It didn't blow, so tank two is filled with paint and then fitted with the patented Heinemann nozzle.

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But will the combo of rectangular nozzle and pressurized paint cover the wall?

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In three, two, one.

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Well, once again, the tank survived, but the nozzle doesn't seem to have made any difference to the coverage.

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We're pushing the limits with what we can get with these tanks, and the fact is that I'm not creating the kind of spread that I need.

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I need more pressure to get that spread, so I think it's best to the drawing board.

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Later, can the Mythbusters make high art with high explosives?

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Oh, my gosh.

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And territorial grant way anchor on water.

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Maybe he split it.

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But will the curse of the bifurcated boat return?

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The Mythbusters have been testing, confirming, and busting for over 10 years.

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And now they're closing the case on some unsolved mythteries.

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Now, if you guys don't remember the story, it goes like this.

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A man is driving his speedboat out of control and crashes into a channel marker, almost splitting the boat in half.

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Now he tells the insurance company that he was only traveling at 25 miles an hour.

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We tried it.

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We couldn't split the boat.

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We couldn't even get a tear.

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Yeah, our results were less than spectacular.

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But according to you fans, that's because our methodology was totally wrong.

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Because we didn't do it on water.

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So right here, right now, we are going to retest it.

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We're going to kill two birds with one stone.

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It was the myth they said was cursed.

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But despite the rain...

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Pretty much over this one.

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The problems...

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Did we lose the cable?

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The arguments...

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We never used the blue rope.

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We always used the blue.

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No, we haven't.

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And the accidents...

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The guys could never split the boat.

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Oh, the story's busted at 25.

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However, the fans say this land-loving test...

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Was a flub.

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Alright, ten year take two. What's the plan?

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Well, it's obvious.

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We have to test this on water just like the fans asked.

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Well, we need a boat and a channel marker, but how do we get the two to crash?

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Why don't we do it the same way?

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This time we just used power boats.

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You make it sound so easy.

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Well, now we're older and wiser.

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We are older.

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Yep, although the myth is the same...

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Crash a speedboat at 25 miles an hour into a channel marker...

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Instead of testing on the runway, they'll float their boat on a lake.

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And rather than using a tow truck, they'll use a pair of tow boats.

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So to weigh anchor on water, it's off to a big break arena in Oakley.

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So that's the boat.

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Oh, that is awesome. There she is.

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That brings back memories.

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Not all of them good.

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Now remember, we have to crash our boat into a channel marker.

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As you can see, this arena is filled with them,

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but for some reason they don't want us to crash our boat into there.

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So we need to plant our own.

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Now this is no easy job, and we're talking about a 40 foot pole being sunk 12 feet into the ground while on top of the water.

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Luckily for us, Rob, our friend here, has a floating pile driver.

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Indeed, and with Rob driving our pole into the Delta,

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it's time to shape up and ship out.

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We've removed the engine just like last time,

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so we're going to replace the equivalent weight of the engine with barrels full of water.

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And with the barrels aboard, it's time to hit the waves.

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Check for holes.

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It floats, and now to give it the equivalent ballast of an engine.

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But to get it moving on water, it's going to need help.

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These are our tow boats. That's right. You heard me. Two boats.

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Because there's too much water resistance for just one.

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Each of these boats has 175 horsepower engine.

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That should be plenty of power to get our speedboat up to 25 miles an hour.

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Up to 25 miles per hour.

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And into the newly installed Picture Perfect Channel Marker.

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Before we rig all the important components to this experiment,

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I thought we needed a little authenticity and make this look just like the viral photo.

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And with the tow system working, they're ready to test.

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But while the cameras reset,

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tragedy strikes.

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You're probably wondering why there's a giant barge in the middle of our channel.

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And we were wondering the same thing.

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And then that barge got closer and closer to our channel marker

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and it actually knocked it over into the water.

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In fact, our crew right now is looking for it trying to fish it out.

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Did you guys find it yet?

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Not yet.

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This is so myth busters.

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I mean, everything was going so smoothly, something had to go wrong.

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But unlike the marker, this myth ain't sunk yet.

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Could painting be as easy as 321 boom?

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Well, when the myth busters tried this, their TNT DIY was DOA.

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I thought it would be a little better than that.

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Now armed with seven years more explosives experience,

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their first stop was painting in Detonation 101.

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That's information. That was the whole point of this test.

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And back at the shop, Jamie's tank full for all that research.

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Having seen this tank down near rupture from an explosion

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points out the fact that when an explosive goes off,

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the energy from it wants to travel outward evenly in all directions.

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It's almost a spherical swelling.

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So, you know, maybe a cylindrical tank isn't the way to go.

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Maybe we need a spherical tank.

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But the problem is that you can't just go to the store and buy one

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like you can a scuba tank.

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You got to make your own.

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And that's not a simple task.

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Not a simple task, but the Heidemann mind will find a way.

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In fact, it looks like he already has.

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Jamie's thought up an ingenious flat-pack design for his spherical tank.

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There we go. 24 one-inch thick washers.

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And 26 assorted other parts to bolt it all together.

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Looks like it on a way around 3,500 pounds.

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That's a big heavy sphere.

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Yep, that's no moon.

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So it's off to get those washers plasma cut and then put it all together.

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So, when this is all assembled,

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it should hold upwards of 50,000 psi from the blast.

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At least that's the plan.

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That's the plan.

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But with over 50 parts all cut from one inch heavy duty plate,

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this thing's a beast.

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That's one giant 3D puzzle.

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But as it's a brain teaser of his own design,

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Jamie has this riddle wrapped in an enigma all figured out.

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The sphere is being made in two halves

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and each half is basically a stack of different sized washers

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that get put on top of each other and welded together.

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Now the holes leave a 10-inch diameter cavity in the middle of this sphere.

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And that's where the paint and the dynamite goes.

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There we go.

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Now when the explosive goes off,

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all of that paint has got to go somewhere.

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And so I'm hoping that it'll go right into these sort of funnel shapes

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in these nozzles and straight out and paint our walls.

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What it actually will do as far as painting a house,

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I'm not really sure, but I'm having a ball.

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Get it?

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He's having a ball.

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And as he works long into the night,

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it's clear Jamie's sphere has turned to the dark side.

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You know, if you want to contain a high explosive,

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that's what you've got to do.

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That's pretty.

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Well, while Jamie's working on whatever flower of death

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he's building back there behind the forklift,

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I have been thinking seriously about the explosions that I got

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out of the bomb range.

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Oh, right.

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So they have given me the ideas that I need.

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I've got all the stuff that I need.

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I've got all the steel cut.

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I'm about to start constructing my painting device here in the shop.

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Yep.

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And just like the Heinemann, Adam's device ain't simple.

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There's a lot of moving parts in this painting rig,

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but it's going to be cool.

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Adam welds some frames.

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And then, well, we're not quite sure what he's doing.

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Woo!

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Coming along.

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And that's exactly how he wants it to stay.

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All right.

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At this point, I'd like you to take a moment and speculate

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on how you think my painting machine works,

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because you know what's cool?

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You're totally wrong.

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I'm going way off the reservation on this one.

348
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Oh, what modern inventions will we come up with next?

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So with Adam's secret device apparently complete

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and Jamie's secret device,

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apparently complete and Jamie's giant death sphere

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on the back of the truck,

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war on walls can begin.

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Three, two, one, go.

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At the big break marina,

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What the f***?

357
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Oh, no!

358
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There's been a big barge break,

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and it seems as though the bifurcated boat curse is back.

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Ah, good old bifurcated boat.

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In the great tradition of the myth that he split,

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this is a completely cursed experiment.

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We lost our channel marker to that barge,

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but luckily we've procured another.

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The bad news is we do lose a little authenticity

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as our seagull and our siner at the bottom of the lake.

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Go ahead, Tori, back it in.

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Yep, with ten years of experience,

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our crew certainly knows how to salvage a myth.

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And thanks to their quick thinking and resourcefulness,

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I feel like we've done this before.

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Because you have.

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Hole two is good to go.

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And now that the fans are getting their watery way,

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just how much difference will testing in the drink make?

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So what's the big deal with water?

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Well, here's why it might make a difference

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doing it on water this time.

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The boat is sitting on the water, water's incompressible.

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That means that there's pressure on the hull.

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That extra pressure might translate into more impact force

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on the bow, potentially allowing us to split.

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The second reason is that the keel is now in water,

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helping to keep the boat straight

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so you avoid possibly getting a glancing blow.

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Now, why might it not make a difference?

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Well, think about it.

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The weight of the boat is the same.

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The speed is going to be the same.

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Therefore, we're going to have the same amount of kinetic energy

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hitting that pole.

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What do I think is going to happen?

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I don't think we're going to get a split.

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At least not at 25.

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Grants skeptical, but after their cursed morning,

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Tori is hoping they can actually push the boat out.

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Alright, there should be one word going through your guys' heads right now.

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And that's bifurcation.

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But while testing this myth afloat, split the boat.

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Alright, the boat's in place.

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Channel markers up.

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This is bifurcated boat take two.

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The myth that he's split it.

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In three, two, one, hit it.

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The tow boat's accelerating.

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And the myth that he's split takes off.

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Press the boat.

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The rope's tensing.

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Looks away.

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Oh, here it comes.

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Wow, look at the light.

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Slowly speeding up to the mythical 25 miles per hour.

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Here comes the motor.

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That looks so crazy.

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Ghost boat.

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It's beautiful.

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But will the channel marker finally make its mark?

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Come on, come on, come on, come on.

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Come on.

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Here it goes.

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Straight for the pier.

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Whoa!

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What the heck?

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We just took the pillar down.

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That was the wrong thing to split.

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The marker just got split.

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And the boat's in there going.

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I didn't see that one coming.

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I didn't see that coming either.

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That's not how it happened in the myth.

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That was a good shot though.

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It hit it right on the bow.

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But it did not split the boat in half.

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That is the most important thing.

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That's important thing.

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Important because in that shocking split second impact,

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the tables on this myth turn.

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The marker bifurcated.

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And the myth that he's split refused to live up to its name once again.

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So the whole reason for this revisit is that fans said that without water,

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our original tests were invalid.

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You know what?

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They were right.

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See, the resistance of the water kept the boat going straight on impact

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without glancing off.

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However, the energy of the impact caused the pole to break and not the boat.

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So ultimately, it's the same result.

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The busted myth.

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Just a slightly different way of getting there.

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Now they say the two of the happiest days of a boat owner's life

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is the day he buys the boat and the day he sells it.

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But I won't be happy until we cut that boat in half.

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Yep, it ain't over until the myth that he split splits.

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One.

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Can you paint a room with a boom?

456
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Well, after a little trial and error,

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it looks like I need a little bit more work on my nozzle.

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Each of the myth busters have come up with a plan to find out.

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Down at the range, it's time to test the state of their art.

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I don't know what Adam's been up to,

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but I've had my hands full building my paint bomb,

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and I didn't have time to build a room to paint.

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So we brought in a team of carpenters,

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and they put this 8-foot high by 12-foot square room together as our blank canvas.

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The canvas is prime.

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Here we go.

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But strangely, Adam's not unloading his device anywhere near it.

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Allow me to introduce the snowflake, my painting machine.

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It is named after both its hexagonal design and its uniqueness.

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And its design is informed by exactly what I learned out here on the bomb range earlier this week.

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And this is the result.

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00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000
Some might feel like I have broken the rules with this design.

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00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000
Clearly, Adam's up to something.

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And as he welds the final touches to the snowflake, Jamie's confused.

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00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
I'm guessing the paint goes in the middle.

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00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000
Yep, right along with the explosives.

477
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000
So, these things are in the way.

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00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000
What are they supposed to disperse the paint or something?

479
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Nope, these panels are exactly where I want them to be.

480
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000
Well, how are you going to paint the house?

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I'm not going to paint the house.

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I'm going to paint art that goes in the house.

483
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Oh, paintings with explosives.

484
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000
Yeah.

485
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I thought I'm the one that's supposed to cheat.

486
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000
Yeah, I thought I'd steal your thunder this time.

487
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Usually, it's the underhanded pineapple who decides to bend the rules.

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And stack the odds in his favor.

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But after 10 years, you clearly all that devious designing has rubbed off on Adam.

490
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Well, this all started when I was out here at the bomb range doing my preliminary tests of painting and explosives.

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I really, really liked the patterns that I was getting on my target board.

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And I thought, what if we made art?

493
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I'm still technically painting with explosives.

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I just figured I'd do it.

495
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I just figured Jamie was going to go whole hog on getting that room covered with paint.

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And I could kind of do my own thing.

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And that's what I did.

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Now it's time for the snowflake to make its kinetic art debut with six marbles of C4 and some paint.

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I call this my second electric spring.

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I'm ready to go.

501
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Let's get the safety.

502
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All right.

503
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You ready, sir?

504
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000
I'm ready.

505
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All right, here we go.

506
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Painting with explosives to make some all in three, two, one.

507
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000
Wow, that was quick.

508
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000
It was quick.

509
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:57,000
But when you slow the explosion to a thousand frames per second.

510
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Wow.

511
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000
That is insane.

512
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000
It's also beautiful.

513
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000
That's a piece of art in and of itself.

514
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000
It looks like a cloud's head exploded.

515
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,000
That is the loveliest thing I have ever seen.

516
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:18,000
But did that explosive pop of color create pop art?

517
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,000
That's beautiful.

518
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000
All right, there's one.

519
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000
Oh, it's gorgeous.

520
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000
It's beautiful.

521
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000
The tail of destruction reeked on the ground.

522
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,000
It's beautiful.

523
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000
The tail of destruction reeked on the canvas.

524
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000
As Adam canvases his canvases.

525
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,000
Oh, yeah.

526
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000
That's really nice.

527
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000
It's clear that all six were mostly covered with paint.

528
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Well, I don't know much about art, but I know I like making it with explosives.

529
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000
Well, two of them have some nice colors going.

530
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000
They show some promise.

531
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Maybe you could take an art class or something.

532
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000
I'm very pleased.

533
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000
I'm very pleased.

534
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000
But while the results of Adam's art, Detto, are a little muddy,

535
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000
it's the process that was beautiful.

536
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,000
Nice.

537
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000
Can't wait to see what Jamie comes up with.

538
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000
Top that, Heinemann.

539
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:19,000
Next, will a rocket sled close the case on this unsolved mystery?

540
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000
This is it, man.

541
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000
Hopefully we can cut this boat in half.

542
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000
And can Jamie's paintball deck the wall?

543
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000
I'd like to watch this one from the bunker.

544
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000
Do not try what you are about to see at home.

545
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Or what you call experts.

546
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000
Rocket sled track.

547
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000
You guys ready for this?

548
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000
There's one thing I like.

549
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000
It's fast.

550
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000
Let's do it.

551
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000
What do we want to fly a wall down a track and pull for as a car?

552
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000
We want to pause the rearrangement nearly 400 miles an hour.

553
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000
That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

554
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,000
We come here because A, there's no one around to get on the harm's way.

555
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000
And B, nobody does extreme like our friends in New Mexico Tech.

556
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000
And today, there's going to be no exception.

557
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,000
So why are we taking it to these extremes and using a rocket powered sled?

558
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,000
Well, we tested the myth just like it stated, crashing a boat at 25 miles an hour into a channel market.

559
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000
But we couldn't get it to split in half.

560
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
So the myth is busted.

561
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
But now it's my favorite part of the show where we replicate the results.

562
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Now if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

563
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000
And I would have to say this is overdoing.

564
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000
Now this is the boat that we're going to use.

565
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000
It's not the exact same boat as the one in the myth, but it's going to do just fine.

566
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
It will be weighted the same.

567
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000
It's made of the same materials.

568
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000
And the center of the bow is still hitting the center of the pole.

569
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
There's only one difference.

570
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,000
Yep. And the reason for that difference is very familiar to the myth busters.

571
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Cable bra.

572
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,000
F***.

573
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000
And inside NMT's high tech classroom.

574
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Hey, Van.

575
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000
Welcome back.

576
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Van Romero has the solution.

577
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Flying the boat down a track is a little tricky.

578
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Getting a boat to go 100, 150 miles an hour.

579
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
What's going to happen with a fast acceleration is it's probably going to fly apart.

580
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000
But we do have another option.

581
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Instead of moving the boat down the track, let's look at moving the piling down the track.

582
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000
Awesome.

583
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000
If we do that, we can accelerate this pipe as fast as we want.

584
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,000
Won't have any problems.

585
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000
The physics is identical.

586
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000
As long as we get the closing speed to match with the closing speed that we want.

587
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:45,000
The rolls will be reversed and the pylon will hit the boat, traveling at the top speed of a speed boat.

588
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000
So it's time to trek back to the track and prepare the sled.

589
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000
The first thing you'll probably notice about the pole is unlike our previous experiment,

590
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000
it's metal instead of wood.

591
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000
The reason for this is that at the speeds we're talking about, wood would simply shatter.

592
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Where we know the metal is not going to shatter.

593
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000
The more important kinetic energy it's going to generate.

594
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000
The pole plus the sled weighs almost 600 pounds.

595
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
It's going to be traveling at really 200 miles per hour.

596
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
See the key to any good rocket sled experiment?

597
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Lubrication.

598
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000
That's the kind of kinetic energy we need to give this boat split a fighting chance.

599
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,000
But first, the marker needs a maritime makeover.

600
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
So we're out here in the middle of New Mexico.

601
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,000
There's not a lot of ocean around so we decided to make it more marine like so we brought a seagull.

602
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Is that the most irritating thing you've ever heard?

603
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:46,000
With the pole sitting pretty, it's the boat's turn to get nautical.

604
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Ocean's clear.

605
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000
We're going to add a little water to this boat just to keep the fans happy.

606
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
They really like bifurcated boats to be on water.

607
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000
With the Methodist Split 3 in commission, they hoist the sails.

608
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000
So it's floating on air.

609
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
Well, there's something you don't see every day.

610
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:10,000
The boat's in place, now it's time to load up the sled with rockets and see if we can split this boat in half.

611
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Three, two, one.

612
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000
Devious Adam moved the goalposts.

613
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Wow, that was quick.

614
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000
And created art with explosives.

615
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
That's beautiful.

616
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,000
But now it's the Heinemann's turn to paint and detonate.

617
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
We need that.

618
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
I do.

619
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000
It's time to load it up.

620
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
The myth requires 100% wall coverage.

621
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000
So Jamie's reducing his boom.

622
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,000
On our first test we used C4, which is a very fast, high explosive.

623
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,000
This time we've slowed it down to about a quarter or a fifth of that speed with ditching dynamite.

624
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000
This stuff goes off at about 5,000 feet per second.

625
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000
And I'm hoping that it'll have a lot more push with it.

626
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Maybe it'll push some paint, but will it impress Adam?

627
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000
No freaking way.

628
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000
What?

629
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000
This looks like it weighs 6,000 pounds.

630
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Yeah, it's only 3,500 or so.

631
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Oh my god.

632
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
How does this work?

633
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Well, you put the top on and you bolt it down.

634
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,000
You pour paint in, it fills up, the dynamite goes off and it shoots the paint out through the jets.

635
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
It's okay with you.

636
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
I'd like to watch this one from the bunker.

637
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Yeah, this is a dangerous thing.

638
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
It is a beautiful thing.

639
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Nice work.

640
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000
And with the dynamite in position, Jamie's planning to paint the town red.

641
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Who knows what the right paint thickness will be for this particular spray paint job.

642
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:56,000
I mean, normally you thin paint a little bit when you put it in a sprayer, so I figure this wouldn't be any different.

643
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,000
And in any case, the thinner the paint, the more it's going to break apart when it's sprayed.

644
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000
And why not hedge my bet?

645
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Well, with the paint payload on board, the sphere is locked and loaded.

646
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Congratulations.

647
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
After all these years, you finally made the Death Star.

648
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Well, let's get out of here before it is actually the Death Star.

649
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,000
The circle is now complete, so it's time to return to base and use the force.

650
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
But can it paint an entire room?

651
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Okay, painting with explosives, the paintball in three, two, one, go.

652
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000
What happened?

653
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Let's go check it out.

654
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,000
All right.

655
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Wow.

656
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
That wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

657
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:09,000
But you've made a four-wall Rorschach test.

658
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Jamie, what do you see when you look at this block?

659
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
I see Valentine's Day.

660
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Valentine's Day? Well, that's not the... Wow, that's quite romantic of you. Who knew?

661
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:29,000
The death ball sprayed a red mist over the walls, but it looks less solid color and more Hollywood horror.

662
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000
All that work and this is what we get.

663
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Well, it's food for thought, isn't it?

664
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,000
And even though he didn't coat all of the walls, Jamie's not disappointed.

665
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Well, I'm tickled pink that my ball actually withstood the high explosive.

666
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000
That was the main thing that I was worried about.

667
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
And the paint actually came out the jets quite nicely.

668
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
They did what they were supposed to. They directed the paint at the walls.

669
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,000
And you can even see that the jets were starting to shape the spray the way that I wanted to,

670
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
so that it didn't end up all right in the middle.

671
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:16,000
But as far as painting a house with explosives, it needs a little work.

672
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Final analysis, painting with explosives. What do you think?

673
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Well, we made some fine art today, but as far as painting houses, it's just not practical.

674
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000
No, it's not going to replace house painters any time soon. It's got to be busted. Let's go home.

675
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,000
It would actually be kind of nice to be able to paint your house in a millisecond, wouldn't it?

676
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
After the break.

677
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:51,000
After seven years of waiting to find out if we could actually bifurcate a boat, we're ready to go.

678
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Meanwhile, at a gallery somewhere in San Francisco.

679
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:05,000
What are my bomb paintings about? Well, I mean, they're really about the universal themes of art.

680
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:11,000
The explosive moment of inspiration, the randomness of our creation, the marks of detritus,

681
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,000
we leave on others lives, but most of this just because I like to blow up. Yeah.

682
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Deep in New Mexico, things are about to get fast.

683
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
So I heard you got some rockets for us.

684
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:44,000
This is the most dangerous part of our day, loading the rockets onto the sled.

685
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,000
It's dangerous. All right. In fact, it's so dangerous, it requires a costume change.

686
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:59,000
This is an incredibly tense moment. The reason is that the rockets have their igniters pre-installed.

687
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:06,000
So just by handling them, they could ignite and that would be a very, very bad thing.

688
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:13,000
And the other thing that makes it difficult is that the ignition level is not very high.

689
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:23,000
One volt at one amp. When you just walk around in wool clothing, you could generate a static charge of upwards of 40,000 volts.

690
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:31,000
So that's why we have to remove anything that's not cotton and ground ourselves because we don't want these things going off.

691
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Yep, they're staying grounded because the power of these rockets could knock more than their socks off.

692
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:44,000
To send this pylon down the track at 200 miles an hour, we are using vintage Korean War high velocity aircraft motors.

693
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:52,000
That's going to give us the 200 miles an hour we need, 375 Gs and 12,000 pounds of thrust.

694
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000
It's going to annihilate the Mythety Split 3.

695
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Indeed, that pylon will be traveling at the maximum speed a super fast speedboat can go, which means there's no margin for error.

696
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
To the bunker.

697
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:15,000
Okay, so our high speed cameras are in place. We are ready to go. This is the moment of truth. What do I think is going to happen?

698
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Look, that's a fiberglass boat. It's a steel pole coming at it. That thing is going to shatter into a million pieces. Mark my words.

699
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Well, where the curse of the bifurcated boat is involved, nothing is certain. But they've cleared the decks.

700
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Alright, the pylon is loaded and hot. We've got our boat in place.

701
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Batten down the hatches.

702
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000
This is it, man. Finally, hopefully we can cut this boat in half.

703
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
And now it's full steam ahead.

704
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Alright, rocket sled pylon versus boat.

705
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Three, two, one.

706
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000
It's going to be a bifurcation!

707
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
It's going right down the needle!

708
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000
It's in! Finally! Awesome!

709
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Yep, it seems the curse has lifted and they finally split the boat.

710
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Finally, after all this time, we bifurcated a boat.

711
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Wait, you know what that shows me?

712
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000
That dude had to be going fast.

713
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Real fast. Yep.

714
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Let's go check out the carnage.

715
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Outside, it's clear that this ship is wrecked.

716
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000
I cannot tell you how happy I am that this boat is finally split.

717
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
It's split in two. I mean, it's annihilated, but there is a clear division.

718
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000
The rocket sled does not disappoint.

719
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
It does not.

720
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Reaching 200 miles per hour in only 200 feet,

721
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,000
the rocket-powered pylon plowed into the prowl, tossing the boat into the air,

722
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
and leaving two halves in its way.

723
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Alright, so my prediction was that when the channel marker hit the boat,

724
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
it would shatter into a million pieces.

725
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,000
But as you can see here, it actually tore a hole almost all the way down the hole,

726
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000
leaving us in two pretty much intact halves.

727
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
I'd have been happier to say that I was wrong.

728
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000
And it just goes to show that even a blunt object like our channel marker

729
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000
could turn into a knife when you add enough speed.

730
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
There's no way that guy was going 25 miles an hour.

731
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
We tried it over and over at 25.

732
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
We tried it off-water, on-water.

733
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
It took 200 before it started to split it.

734
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000
We didn't even get a dent at 25.

735
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
I think he might have been lying.

736
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,000
Seven years in the making, four channel markers, three boats, a barge and a crane,

737
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,000
but nothing could bifurcate the boat.

738
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Until now, with a rocket-powered sled.

739
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000
But it looks like this one's still busted.

740
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000
That was fun.

741
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
What do you think we could put on the rocket sled next?

742
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,000
I don't know.

743
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Maybe a bus.