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On this episode of Mythbusters,

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it's automotive mayhem as the teams smash, are you?

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Thrash and bash

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through a trio of Hollywood crash cliches.

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I think it's truck hunting season at New Mexico Tech.

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There's the slapstick slash.

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Uh-oh.

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Fire.

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The Hollywood hop.

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And finally, a big rig bar.

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Did I ever tell you how much I hate traffic?

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So buckle up, because it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage

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Working on these machines is great for my stand.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Those only rose.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience,

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together with Carrie Byron.

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Let's do it.

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Tori Balachy

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Spin that ride, Buster.

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And Grant Himahara.

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Save yourselves.

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They'll just tell the myths,

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and they put them to the test.

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You go to the movies often?

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No.

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But you are aware that they get made in a place called Hollywood, right?

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Sure.

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Okay, I'll proceed.

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Hollywood's relationship to physics has provided us with some of our best episodes,

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and this episode is no exception.

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How so?

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Well, we have two stories about cars and how they crash.

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The first one is kind of an old slapstick routine.

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Two workmen are carrying the huge pane of glass across the street,

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and a vehicle driving down that street doesn't see the glass and drives right through it.

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Shattering and destroying all the glass,

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but leaving the workers completely unharmed.

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You mean they don't bleed?

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That's right.

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The two guys carrying the glass are completely unbloody at the end of this.

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So how do you figure we should test this?

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Well, I think it's pretty straightforward.

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We get several different types of glass.

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and we're pretty much ready to go.

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Sounds good.

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Let's hit the road.

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No, you mean let's hit the glass.

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So to find out if the window fitters would be glazed and confused,

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first, Adam gets to work on some bleed and workmen.

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What I need to make is a human analog

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that can potentially get injured in the way that the glass might hurt the pipey getting slashed.

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So that's what I'm about to do.

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Yep, Adam's got a slasher-able surrogate in the pipeline.

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All that work to put four pieces of pipe back together.

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By wrapping a foamy layer of flesh in a plastic skin,

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Worst duvet cover ever.

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and then giving it a transfusion.

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It's ready to draw the first blood.

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That's good.

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I'm going to simulate a glass injury now.

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Here we go.

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By now, it should be pretty obvious how we intend this human analog to work.

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These are going to be placed next to the glass that we're driving through in our car.

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if you were carrying glass when someone drove through it.

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Adam's plastic wrap design mimics the slasher-ability of human skin.

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So now they're ready to cut to the chase.

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This is a perfect street to make some glass slide.

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Step one is to set up their window workers.

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Stand back, we got a bleeder.

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the first hurdle of the day has been crossed.

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That is, no leaks in my bleeders.

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They each get a pretty face.

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And then in rolls the final ingredient.

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Here comes the glass.

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But there's more than one type of glass on the back of that truck.

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Clearly, our world is full of glass,

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but all glass does not break equally.

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It's been specially hardened.

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like the side window in your car.

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like the windshield of your car.

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These big chunks, they scare the hell out of me.

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Plate glass guaranteed destruction.

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except this quarter inch thick piece is 8 feet wide

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for rendering our glass movers dead.

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there is a certain element of risk.

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we've covered and protected our windshield with a nice,

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fat sheet of quarter inch thick polycarbonate.

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That's right, because this myth all comes down to the injuries

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outside the car.

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Okay, this is for real.

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Plate glass at 30 miles an hour.

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It just took in what we're actually doing.

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You're at 30.

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I'm at 30, here we go.

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I'm in the slot, I'm in the slot.

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Ramming speed, here we go.

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The guys clearly broke the pain barrier,

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shattering the glass into thousands of shards.

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But then that was his only purpose in life.

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Only one spot, that's all we got?

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Only one spot!

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This guy's totally fine.

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the glass isn't the only thing that's worse for wear after the crash.

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But what's surprising is that one workman managed to survive without a scratch.

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Look at these chunks.

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These things would take your arm off,

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and yet we ended up with one little, one small, and one kind of big glass duration.

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I'm surprised.

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But with two more types of glass to try, this myth isn't in the clear yet.

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Alright, so Hollywood car carnage, I know you got something good.

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What is it?

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This one is SUV versus RPG.

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Okay, now that's a classic.

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where a black SUV with tinted windows gets hit with an RPG,

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but instead of exploding, it actually flips the vehicle.

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Dude, that is awesome, I love it.

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I thought you would.

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It's classic action movie mayhem,

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when a bad guy's bazooka takes out the good guy's SUV.

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The car spins off its wheels.

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But could an RPG really make an SUV defy gravity?

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We find an SUV, we shoot it with an RPG, and see if it flips like in the movies.

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Sounds good to me, but you know what? I got one suggestion.

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We shoot two SUVs, one stationary and one in motion,

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because I've seen it both ways in different movies.

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That way, we cover all our bases.

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You just want to shoot two RPGs.

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Yep, I have no problem with that.

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Me neither.

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And where better to take this myth for a spin,

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than the middle of the desert?

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I'm ready to shoot an RPG, how about you guys?

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I think it's truck hunting season at New Mexico Tech.

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So we're back here at New Mexico Tech.

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You know, the school where you can get a degree and blow shit up.

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Well, last time we were here, we made an RPG meet a bullet,

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and you all remember how that went.

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Yep, whenever the mythbusters get to grips with rocket-propelled grenades,

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the results are explosive.

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So first, they prep their stationary SUV,

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with the car ready for the limelight,

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it's maneuvered into position, and then the firepower arrives.

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What I have inside this box are the actual rocket-propelled grenades.

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These things are capable of punching a hole through 6-inch thick steel plate.

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They're actually a shape charge designed to pierce armor.

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this is how an RPG or rocket-propelled grenade works.

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A primer sets off the launch motor, pushes it out of the tube,

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acceleration arms the RPG,

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and on impact, the piezoelectric switch detonates,

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and hopefully flips over an SUV.

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Hopefully.

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the team goes underground.

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I love this place.

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So we've retreated to the bunker because it's way too dangerous for us to be anywhere near Merkel

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while he's loading the RPG.

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When he's done there, then he's going to come back here,

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and we're going to do our test.

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And with the grenade locked and loaded, they're ready for the flip.

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This is SUV flip with RPG in 3, 2, 1.

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Well, it didn't even come close to flipping the SUV.

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What did it do? It looked like it kind of blew out the front end.

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Yeah, it doesn't look anything like in Hollywood.

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It was lights, camera, and action.

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But fact fell a long way short of fiction.

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Because despite being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade,

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there was absolutely no lift-off for the SUV.

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Well, that was mighty unimpressive.

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That's cool, though. Look at that hole.

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But look at that. It just punches a hole. It didn't blow it up and flip it.

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So although the RPG shape charge

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borrowed all the way into the engine block,

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it wasn't enough to match the movie magic.

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So the RPG did exactly what it was designed to do,

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which is to pierce the car and penetrate into the engine block.

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What it didn't do was generate a huge fireball like they do in Hollywood.

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And what's more, the car didn't move at all.

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It's not looking very good for this myth.

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Indeed, so far they are 0 for 1.

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But will that change when they give this myth some forward momentum?

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Coming up on MythBusters.

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Did I ever tell you how much I hate traffic?

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Well, now's your chance to even the score.

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The MythBusters are testing this slapstick shatter.

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Uh-oh.

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Did you hear something?

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No.

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And so far, one workman has been painfully wounded.

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Oh, dude, we got a gusher.

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But to get all the facts of the shatter,

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they're trying some other common types of glass.

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The next piece of glass we're going to be driving through in full scale

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is laminated glass, referred to in the industry as lamby.

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Now remember, this is two panes of regular glass with a layer in between of plastic.

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That keeps the whole thing together when you hit it.

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Will that happen when we hit it?

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That's what we're about to find out.

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So this windshield glass is designed not to shatter on impact,

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but to stay in one piece.

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However, will that mean that the workers get their slapstick happy ending

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and remain unharmed?

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Well, this time around, the Heinemann is behind the wheel,

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and it's time to test this hit and run.

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Laminated glass, 30 miles an hour in 3, 2, 1, go!

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Jamie puts the pedal to the metal, gets the car up to 30 miles per hour,

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thread the needle, baby, and the guys brace for impact.

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Here we go!

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Oh!

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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I'm okay, are you okay?

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I'm totally fine!

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This time it was more a fracture than fragment.

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But the laminated glass did separate more than expected.

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Ah, the laminated glass did not stay together.

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It seems like it more or less stayed in what, a dozen pieces.

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Also, no blood.

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No blood at all!

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No blood whatsoever!

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That was a bloodless accident.

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Yep, on impact the glass cleaved into large chunks,

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meaning that the bleeders may have felt pain,

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but they remained scratch-free.

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I have to say, from inside the car, I was prepared for a much bigger hit

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than we ended up actually feeling,

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but I did have the distinct impression, once we touched the laminated glass,

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that we were driving through it like a tunnel.

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And here before me is exactly that story.

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Look at this, a car-shaped hole in the glass!

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So, after two shatter tests, it's won a piece in the injured worker's stakes.

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So now, time for the decider, the tempered glass.

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But will the so-called safety glass be the safest yet?

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Oh, nice, I'm happy with that.

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Adam gives it a spray to make it visible on high speed.

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And then it's make or break for the myth.

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I have a prediction as to how this is going to go.

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I don't think any of those little pieces are actually going to harm our dudes.

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I think they're all going to fly forward, and I think our dudes are going to be fine.

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That's Adam's theory, but now to test it.

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Okay, here we go.

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Tempered glass at 30 miles an hour in three, two, one, and go!

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Oh, this is awesome.

296
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You're at 30.

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I'm at 30.

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Oh, it's about to happen!

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Yeah!

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Wow!

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That was awesome, except that I closed my eyes right when it happened.

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He may have closed his eyes, but as they race back to the bleeders,

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the results are a real eye-opener.

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Holy crap, somebody's dead!

305
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Yeah, it's not a very nice place either, is it?

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Oh, man!

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Wow, look at that!

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That's tempered glass.

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I thought this was going to be the one that didn't do anything to him,

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and this guy is beat up.

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And this guy too!

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It seems it's the way it shatters that matters.

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The tempered glass is designed to break into thousands of tiny pieces on impact.

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But because those pieces are flying through the air at 30 miles an hour,

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that's more than enough to cause a death by a thousand cuts situation.

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The glass did not go forward from the point of impact.

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Well, a good portion of it did, but about half of it also went backwards from the point of impact,

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like an explosion.

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And our two dudes did not escape unscathed.

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They had puncturines all up and down their bodies.

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I have a whole newfound respect for tempered glass.

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A whole newfound respect.

323
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But how does that leave the myth?

324
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So when it comes to shattering glass in slapstick movies, how do we stand?

325
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Well, the idea that the guys moving the glass escape every single time completely unharmed,

326
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I believe that we pretty much...

327
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I believe that we've shattered that myth.

328
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You're a pain.

329
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Let's go.

330
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Oh, hold on a second.

331
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Nice!

332
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Way to make an exit.

333
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This is a video game.

334
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And the video is a video game.

335
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The game is a video game.

336
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The video is a video game.

337
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According to Hollywood, an RPG can flip an SUV clear off its wheels.

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But so far, that hasn't been the case.

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In test one, the RPG did not flip the SUV.

340
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So in test two, it's going to be moving.

341
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We're going to see if that momentum helps flip the SUV when it gets hit.

342
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Now for this test, it's critically important that the SUV be moving in a straight line

343
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and not connected to anything that might prevent it from flipping.

344
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To keep the SUV going straight, we have a pole in front and a pole in back that rides in this channel.

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And then we have the SUV anchored at the top of a hill by a cable.

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We're ready to start the test.

347
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We fire a cable cutter that releases it and lets it start to roll.

348
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And gravity does the rest.

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When the SUV reaches the end of the track, we'll remotely fire the RPG into the front end

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to see if we can flip the vehicle.

351
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And with the SUV poised at the crest of the hill, the team hunker in the bunker once again.

352
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Alright, here we go.

353
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Like last time, the RPG will hit the hood head-on.

354
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But will that flip the SUV off its wheels?

355
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Alright, SUV away in three, two, one, fire.

356
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The SUV is released.

357
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It's picking up speed.

358
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And gravity propels it to its RPG destiny.

359
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Wow, did you see the front end look like it popped up again?

360
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Yeah, it popped up, but that's not a flip.

361
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That means this is busted.

362
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It was so cool, but it's busted.

363
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Totally.

364
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That was a nice shot.

365
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Nice shot.

366
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Still, no flipping cigar.

367
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In fact, the RPG didn't even stop the SUV and the car continued to roll up the bank.

368
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So this myth is busted.

369
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But when you think about it, the job of an RPG is not to flip vehicles.

370
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It's designed to pierce armor.

371
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And that's exactly what it did.

372
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It punched through the condenser, the radiator, all the way into the engine block.

373
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But it did not flip the vehicle.

374
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Yep, there's no doubt that the live action doesn't match the action film.

375
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But that's never deterred the MythBusters before.

376
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This myth is busted, but we're not going to stop here.

377
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No, this is my favorite part of the show where we're going to replicate the results.

378
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It's going to be fun.

379
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The MythBusters

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Next up, it's a cinematic solution to traffic jams.

381
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So what's our next crash myth?

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Well, it's a common movie trope.

383
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First, I needed a picture, a couple of lines of cars sitting in traffic.

384
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When another character in the movie is driving a giant truck at high speed along city streets

385
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when he approaches these cars standing still, there's not enough space for him to get through.

386
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But no matter, he revs his engine and barrels right up the middle,

387
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sending cars flying really nilly and continuing on his way.

388
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I don't know whether that happened or not, but it sounds like it's going to be fun to test it.

389
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Yep, according to the movies, a tailback is no match for a truck.

390
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But could you really keep on trucking through traffic?

391
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Or is this big rig barge rigged?

392
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Look, I think we get a bunch of cars, put them out on a tarmac, get a giant truck,

393
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and see if we can't plow right through.

394
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And I think I've got just the truck. Awesome.

395
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When it comes to head-on collisions,

396
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this truck has had its fair share of fender benders.

397
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And for J-03, it even became a rocket-proof bunker.

398
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So now it's armored, dangerous, and perfect for ramming into traffic.

399
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Well, almost.

400
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If our dump truck is going to survive pushing through two lines of cars,

401
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it's going to need a super powerful bumper.

402
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Okay.

403
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So we're putting on a much more powerful bumper.

404
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This steel, these tubes, 6 by 8 inches, half-inch thick steel,

405
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they are beefy as...

406
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Every word I was thinking of was a curse.

407
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So they're just beefy.

408
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Yes, to make sure the truck will survive to drive another day,

409
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Jamie finishes bolstering the bumper.

410
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While Adam's playing in traffic.

411
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This gives a whole new meaning to driving a car.

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We're going to drive our truck into a couple of lines of cars.

413
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We're going to need, you guessed it, a couple of lines of cars.

414
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Did I ever tell you how much I hate traffic?

415
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Well, now's your chance to even the score.

416
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So with 10 cars in two lines and a dump truck ready to rage,

417
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will there be some fact to the Hollywood fiction?

418
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This truck weighs over 30,000 pounds.

419
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Those 10 cars over there also add up to somewhere over 30,000 pounds.

420
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But the thing is the truck's going to be moving it around 40 miles an hour when it hits them.

421
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So it's going to impart several times its own weight to those cars.

422
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And that means the truck is going to win.

423
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But whether it also means that it's going to be able to move completely through the cars

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and keep going like it does in the movies or not, that's another thing.

425
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And that I'm not so sure about.

426
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Well, now to find out by tackling this head-on collision head-on.

427
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All right, here we go.

428
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Flowing through traffic in three, two, one, go.

429
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30,000 pounds of truck heaves into action as Jamie slowly accelerates down the runway.

430
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And once he hits 40 miles an hour, he maintains his speed until...

431
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Wow!

432
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Holy crap!

433
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That lifted up our truck!

434
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We didn't make it through it, though.

435
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We didn't make it through it all.

436
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Wow! That was awesome!

437
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Yep, awesome just about conversing.

438
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As initially, it looked like the truck would make it all the way through the queue.

439
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:08,000
But eventually, that 10-car pile-up proved too much for the dump truck.

440
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Well, clearly the first two cars we hit were the worst off for this impact,

441
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000
but all of the cars actually got quite a bit of damage.

442
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This is a pretty impressive amount of impact for all of them.

443
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Let me play out for you what this season's damage actually represents.

444
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These two cars here have skipped forward by two full car lengths.

445
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The van here has skipped forward by one whole time its own length.

446
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That means that the truck stopped at just about where the fourth cars were in line.

447
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So although the truck did a number on the traffic, it failed to ram the entire jam.

448
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,000
Well, if that truck with that bumper on it couldn't do it, they're not doing it.

449
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000
No, it's totally, totally busted.

450
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However, it does start the wheels to turning though, don't it?

451
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It certainly does.

452
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And, haha, check out how much time is left in this episode.

453
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We're not even close to the end.

454
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Let's get to work.

455
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Alright.

456
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Well, you know what?

457
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I think we owe it to our fans to give them the Hollywood style flip that they want to see.

458
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And he means necessary.

459
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Now that sounds like fun.

460
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I love it.

461
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Now for that, we're going to need three things.

462
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We're going to need some sort of dummy RPG flying towards an SUV.

463
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We're going to need something that explodes and something that flips the SUV.

464
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And that's what we're going to do.

465
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,000
So this nitrogen cannon is going to give us the punch we need to actually do the flipping on the car.

466
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A lot of the weight has been removed here in the engine compartment.

467
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As you can see, there's a distinct lack of engine.

468
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All I have to do is put some supports in here and then mount the cannon.

469
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But despite the lack of engine, bring it in.

470
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It's still a bit of a squeeze to pimp his ride.

471
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Alright, so this is the moment of truth.

472
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The cannon's installed in the car.

473
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Let's see if it still looks like an SUV.

474
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Awesome.

475
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Bring on the RPG.

476
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With the jump in the front, it's out to the range, where the piston is welded to a trench plate.

477
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And the cannon is carefully lowered onto it.

478
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That's a good sign.

479
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Alright, you hit the hole.

480
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So step two of this stunt is a bazooka toting bad guy with his charade grenade.

481
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I know what you're thinking.

482
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How the heck did you guys get a real RPG?

483
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000
Aren't those illegal in California?

484
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Well, this isn't a real RPG.

485
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000
I made it back in the shop out of plastic.

486
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But the job here was to get it to fire like an actual RPG for this stunt.

487
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000
So I've also made this fake grenade launcher.

488
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000
And the way I'm going to get this to fly is I'm going to use a model rocket.

489
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Now the way we're going to be able to hit our SUV is we're going to have a guideline from our hero into the SUV to start this whole car flip off.

490
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:18,000
But with only a fake grenade in the chamber, they'll need something extra to create the big screen boom.

491
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Now for our big Hollywood boom.

492
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We don't want the high velocity explosive of C4.

493
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We don't want the pushing power of Anfo.

494
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We're going to use some fuel and get the kind of explosion that gives us a fireball without actually a boom explosion.

495
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It's the final element to recreate this celluloid stunt.

496
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So Grant charges the cannon.

497
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Okay, good to go.

498
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000
The crew retreats and it's quiet on set as they prepare for launch.

499
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Okay.

500
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000
This is the big moment.

501
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Okay.

502
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:56,000
All right, this is Hollywood SUV flip with an RPG in three, two, one, fire.

503
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:04,000
Tori releases the dummy grenade and then Grant triggers the cannon and boom.

504
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000
But...

505
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Wait a minute.

506
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000
That's not how it happens in Hollywood.

507
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000
What happened?

508
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000
I don't know.

509
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000
The stunt went off with a bang, but not the kind they were expecting.

510
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
That wasn't a Hollywood ending.

511
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
That's more like just a carbacue.

512
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000
We better call a fire department.

513
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:34,000
As the firemen douse the wreckage, it's clear that this stunt was a little more classic mythbusters than classic Hollywood.

514
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000
Now we shot the RPG.

515
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:44,000
The gas bomb went off, but for some reason the nitrogen piston didn't fire and therefore the car didn't flip.

516
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000
If this had happened in a Hollywood movie, you would never see it.

517
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
It would not make the cut.

518
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:53,000
But here on Mythbusters, when something goes wrong, it becomes part of our story.

519
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000
Thank God for us on Mythbusters, failure is always an option.

520
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Next, the team is armed and dangerous.

521
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Don't worry, honey.

522
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000
I'm not afraid of you. You're practically armless.

523
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000
But can they finally flip their lid?

524
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000
Fire!

525
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Never try anything you see on the show at home.

526
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000
The experiments we do are very dangerous.

527
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
And we have experts to keep us safe.

528
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,000
According to the Hollywood Highway Code, a truck could ram through a traffic jam.

529
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:39,000
But so far, although it's been smashing, this trucking tail is busted.

530
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Wow! We didn't make it through it though!

531
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,000
We didn't make it through at all!

532
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,000
So now the Mythbusters are on a mission to get a truck through traffic.

533
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:55,000
And to do that, back at the shop, they're taking inspiration from an old school source.

534
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,000
We have a method to do this, that even though it's like 150 years old,

535
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
I think it's going to work beautifully.

536
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000
So we're going to be welding some big chunks of steel.

537
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000
When locomotives of old needed to get big things out of their way fast,

538
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
they used the aptly named cow catcher.

539
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,000
And now the Mythbusters are putting their own slant on history for their retro design.

540
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
That goes right through the middle.

541
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
First they weld a massive steel frame.

542
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000
This is going to be a finger buster.

543
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Which then gets dressed in sheets of steel.

544
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
We mean business.

545
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000
But as this steampunk shovel takes shape, just how is it going to work?

546
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,000
What you've got here is six triangular plates attached to a very strong central frame

547
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
that's bolted to the bumper of the truck.

548
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Now the idea I have here is that this semi-conical frame will come in low on the cars

549
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,000
and then lift and separate them, allowing us to pass between them the most efficiently

550
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
and also be the least likely to slow us down.

551
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000
This thing's cool, isn't it?

552
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
I can't wait to see this thing go.

553
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Lift and separate.

554
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,000
And now that they've completed their design, they're ready to drive a wedge through this myth.

555
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000
So far in testing our Hollywood style SUV meets RPG myth,

556
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,000
we tried it once Hollywood style and we had a little mishap.

557
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
That's not how it happens in Hollywood.

558
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,000
But no worries, we've got a brand new SUV and I've recycled the piston out of the other SUV

559
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
and put it into this one.

560
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
And hopefully today we will get that Hollywood style stunt.

561
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
The new SUV is lowered onto the piston.

562
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Perfect!

563
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Then the boom gets aboard and Carrie arms the shooter.

564
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Don't worry, Arnie.

565
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000
I'm not afraid of you, you're practically armless.

566
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:14,000
Grant then primes his cannon and finally Tori wires the fake grenade.

567
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Now just to remind you, this is our bad guy or good guy, depending on which movie you're watching,

568
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000
he is going to launch the RPG down this guide wire.

569
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And when the RPG hits the grill, we will set off the gas explosion and the air cannon at the exact same time.

570
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,000
So it looks like an exploding flipping SUV from a Hollywood movie.

571
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
The scene is set and if everything goes according to plan,

572
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Alright, let's flip this thing.

573
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,000
This time their Hollywood hop should go off without a hitch.

574
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Standing by.

575
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Charging.

576
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Alright, here we go.

577
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000
This is RPG versus SUV Hollywood flip.

578
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000
In three, two, one, fire!

579
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Wow!

580
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Now that's what I call doing it Hollywood style.

581
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
That was a nice explosion.

582
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Good one.

583
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Yep, everything finally came together.

584
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Let's compare high speeds.

585
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Reality versus Hollywood.

586
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Now in reality, our RPG hits the front of our SUV.

587
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000
There's a hole and then a little bit of a poof of color.

588
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Now in our Hollywood version, RPG flies towards the SUV.

589
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:53,000
A beautiful plume of orange and yellow and red explode from the car as it flies through the air.

590
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Reality?

591
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Hollywood, yeah.

592
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Indeed, because this is what you get when you follow that old Hollywood mantra,

593
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Fake it till you make it.

594
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
I think the timing was perfect.

595
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Yeah, and it takes all that just to get a Hollywood style ending.

596
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
But as far as a real RPG hitting an SUV,

597
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
It'll never flip it, not a million years. This one's busted.

598
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
That was cool though. Let's watch it again.

599
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Next.

600
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Can you imagine sitting in traffic and looking in your rear view mirror and seeing this thing?

601
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:48,000
The Duck Bill of Death makes its debut.

602
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Oh, look, I found this camera. Here we go.

603
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Oh, let's try that again.

604
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Oh, here I found this camera.

605
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000
I am not going to be beaten by this window.

606
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Here we go.

607
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000
What is this? Is this like a presidential limousine window?

608
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Here we go.

609
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000
I don't think we got the shot, but I feel better, don't you?

610
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000
Down at Alameda, the dump truck is getting its car lift and nose job.

611
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Yeah, that's it.

612
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Can you imagine sitting in traffic and looking in your rear view mirror and seeing this thing?

613
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Nice.

614
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:54,000
And while Jamie completes the rhinoplasty, Adam is lighting up the cars for their Duck Bill of Death.

615
00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:02,000
And for those of you playing at home, they've added another six to put their truck to the ultimate test.

616
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Hey, Adam, I got a present for you.

617
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
What do you got?

618
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Nice, fresh tub of lard.

619
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Awesome, a little lubrication to slice through our cars.

620
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Yeah.

621
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Excellent, you got a big brush?

622
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
I do.

623
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Jamie and his lard.

624
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Yep, Jamie's love of lube should give their nose that extra edge.

625
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Sometimes a little lubrication makes all the noise.

626
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000
The truck bill is complete and the cars are on standby.

627
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,000
But before they get this nose on the road, how about a prediction?

628
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Will it make it through?

629
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Well, the real question is, does the kinetic energy of this truck exceed the amount of mass of the cars sitting on the runway as they're being split apart by this Duck Bill?

630
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
And my intuition says, I feel like I'm going to be in a hurry.

631
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
But I don't think we'll still be driving by then.

632
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000
I think we'll be coming to a halt.

633
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000
All of those cars are going to go flying.

634
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
I'm not just talking, pushing them aside.

635
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000
They're going flying.

636
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Yep, the Duck Bill of Death should lift and separate.

637
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Coming in.

638
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,000
But will it plow through all 16 cars?

639
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
All right, you ready?

640
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000
I'm ready.

641
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000
All right, I'm ready.

642
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
But will it plow through all 16 cars?

643
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
All right, you ready?

644
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
I'm ready.

645
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Here we go.

646
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Adam gets the duck truck into position, and the countdown begins.

647
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000
All right, here we go.

648
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:39,000
The duck bill of death into stationary traffic in three, two, one, go.

649
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Mr. Savage accelerates to 40 miles an hour.

650
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
That's second gear.

651
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,000
And keeps his foot wedged until he reaches the cars.

652
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Yeah!

653
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Yeah!

654
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Whoo!

655
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Yeah!

656
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Do it, Tom!

657
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
Yeah!

658
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Incredible.

659
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Not only did the truck make it all the way through 16 cars,

660
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Adam and Jamie kept on trucking down the runway,

661
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,000
meaning this attempt won by a nose.

662
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,000
That was amazing!

663
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Holy crap!

664
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
That was insane!

665
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Insane is the right word.

666
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,000
It just didn't stop.

667
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
It didn't stop.

668
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
I kept giving a gas, and it wouldn't stop.

669
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
If anything, it was self-centering.

670
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
That was the most incredible thing we've ever done.

671
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
I've never experienced anything like that.

672
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000
It was just, they're just kind of like flying.

673
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000
We could have kept going through 100 cars.

674
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
I really feel like we couldn't.

675
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
We weren't going that much slower.

676
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
We didn't take nearly the impact on that run as we did on the first one.

677
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000
I think we just solved my traffic problem.

678
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000
I'm going to put one of these on my car.

679
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Oh my God, the guys are clearly duck-billin'-dilirious.

680
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:27,000
I'm a little drunk on adrenaline right now.

681
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
I believe, even though this car is upright,

682
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
and that one too, that they both did a full roll.

683
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:36,000
As judging from the glass here and all of its contents being on the road,

684
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000
this is amazing. It's like a triangle of pure destruction.

685
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000
That experience was almost indescribable.

686
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I mean, it was over in a second,

687
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000
but these cars are just like, I'm speechless.

688
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
They're just kind of going like this.

689
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
It worked.

690
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
I don't know what else to say.

691
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Here's a cool way to think about what you see here.

692
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Imagine that our dump truck was a boat,

693
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
and then these cars are its wake.

694
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,000
That's right, not water, but a wake of 60,000 pounds of steel.

695
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
It's kind of poetic.

696
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000
You know, you think things through, and you engineer something,

697
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000
and you kind of take your best shot.

698
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
I have to say that was one of our best shots

699
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
that could not have worked better.

700
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000
And given the chaos of this sort of situation,

701
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
I'm really proud of that. That was cool.

702
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Yes, it truly was something to be proud of.

703
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:47,000
As the truck cut an epic swath through 60,000 pounds of steel,

704
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,000
in an uplifting ode to the incontrovertible laws of physics.

705
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Well, the myth was busted.

706
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Where do we stand on our method for piling through traffic?

707
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
That thing worked so well.

708
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,000
I'm just waiting for somebody to steal it and put it in a movie.

709
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Totally. Remember, kids, you saw it on Mythbusters first.

710
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000
Did I ever tell you how much I hate traffic?

711
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
We have to find an excuse to do that again.

712
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
Yeah, that was fun.