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Give me that.

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Yeah, my turn.

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I didn't even think that was possible.

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Why is he here?

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I don't know, but I would just get on with it.

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So, I could be mistaken, but I'm getting the sense that we're doing something with guns?

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You are totally right.

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Specifically shooters with seemingly supernatural abilities with guns.

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Later on, we've got a story about a guy who fires bullets that he holds in his hand while he holds his hand in a fire.

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So, the bullets are like between his fingers?

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Exactly, but first up, we have a sort of a classic movie hitman trope in which hitman is tracking his guy.

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His guy goes behind the wall, but it turns out to be no barrier for the hitman.

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He knows where he is, tracks him, shoots through the wall, and right through his prey.

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So, we want to find out whether or not a bullet would go through a wall easily,

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and whether you can actually track somebody behind the wall without seeing them.

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Exactly. I've been wanting to do this story for so long, it is going to be awesome.

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Now, when we're talking about shooting through walls, the word wall could mean many, many different things

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based on when and where the building you're in was actually constructed.

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Ah, too big, too big.

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The walls could be made of different materials, and they could have lots of different things inside them.

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Starting to look like something.

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We want a broad representation of walls to shoot at.

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So, I've assembled all the materials walls have been built out of over the last hundred years.

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The house I grew up in was all lath and plaster.

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Ah, the old crafts.

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As well as a lot of the things, electrical boxes, insulation.

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I hate fiberglass insulation.

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Wiring and plumbing that you'd find inside those walls.

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Hey, that's awesome, it fits. When does that ever happen?

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With this, we should be able to make the targets that we need to find out just how bulletproof or not walls actually might be.

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Almost ready for shooting.

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Now it's ready for shooting, and so am I.

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Decided to come in costume as the man in black, the man of mystery, the man you don't want to see at your doorstep.

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Normally when we're using guns, we come to a firing range.

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But because we're going to be firing into walls, these bullets may behave well unpredictably.

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I think it looks pretty good.

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So instead of using the normal targeting range, we're going to go off to one end where we can safely control what happens.

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It's time to introduce you to the ammunition and pistol we'll be using today for the experiment.

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The bullets we'll be firing are standard high velocity hollow point rounds.

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They'll be fired from a standard double action nine millimeter pistol used by the military and law enforcement of the world over.

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And also a staple of action movie heroes.

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Here we go.

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And you know that's true because you heard it from the hitman.

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Did I pull that off?

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The panel will be shooting into is composed of the kinds of things that you would find in a standard wall from sheet rock to a solid wood stud sheet metal stud.

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Sections with plumbing fixtures and lastly an electrical box.

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Now we'll be firing bullets out of this nine millimeter pistol into those sections.

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I guess that ought to do it.

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Of course for safety, we'll be triggering this from behind the blast shields.

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Now we don't just want to shoot at walls.

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We also want to witness what happens when the bullet and the wall meet.

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Thus we've set our high speed camera perched carefully above looking down through the inside of the wall.

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We've also chosen an extremely high frame rate of 17,000 frames per second.

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That's one of the highest frame rates we've ever used on the show.

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All will be known by this ring.

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And with a steel backstop.

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It makes a cool noise when a bullet hits it.

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There's six in one interior wall mockup is ready to go.

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Will any of them halt a Hollywood hitman?

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First up a blast from the past.

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Laugh and plaster.

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I actually think the laugh and plaster is going to do pretty good in slowing the forward progress of the bullet.

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Range is hot.

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Whether it stops completely, I can't say.

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Count it down.

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But I do think it's going to provide a nice bury.

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Okay, nine millimeter into laugh and plaster in three, two, one.

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Well, it did the classic small entry wound, larger exit wound, but it looks like it came out pretty straight.

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With a bullet's trajectory unaffected and the velocity hardly hindered,

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the oldie wall would have provided no protection for our hitman's hidden target.

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And that sounds good for the myth.

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It would have made a resounding clang when it hit this backstop.

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I guess that means that you would probably get penetrated by that bullet.

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Up next.

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All right, let's slide this puppy down.

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Will this more modern eco-friendly fortification fare any better?

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This test is against two layers of drywall.

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Range is high with about three and a half inches of fiberglass insulation between them.

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Nice.

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Right through the square, heard the ding of the steel.

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Couldn't have gone better.

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More good news for the myth.

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Two targets taken down and no sign the bullet has been significantly slowed or in any way altered.

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Love that sound.

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A result replicated when the sheet metal and wooden studs are also found to be duds.

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But now it gets interesting.

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Next up is the first time our bullets are going to encounter an actual object inside the wall,

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and that is copper plumbing.

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We're going to hit it right there.

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And this is the reason for all of our safety shields.

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The bullet could spatter in a lot of different directions when it hits this.

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Firing in three, two, one.

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Oh, that looks like a perfect hit.

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A perfect hit through and through.

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With the bullets trajectory and speed only marginally affected,

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the myth that a hit man can hit his hidden target is still looking good.

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But what about the toughest target yet?

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A steel junction box.

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Oh!

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Oh, yes!

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Oh, you're going to love this.

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The whole story of the bullets stoppage is apparent in this one shot, which we will cut to right.

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It took a solid piece of steel in exactly the right place to halt the bullet's momentum and disperse its kinetic energy.

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But clearly, this is the exception and not the rule.

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The myth is on track.

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I have to say I'm pretty surprised at the results that only one of our in-wall obstacles, the electrical box,

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actually stopped the bullet called the rest made it through.

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Now what that means for the myth is walls are okay to shoot through if you're a hit man.

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From my vantage point, it's looking pretty good for the myth.

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And so it's back to the shop where our hard to please professional is waiting for an update.

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So is that it?

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No, no, no. We actually have a few more tests to do before we finally call shooting through walls,

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but we're now jumping to the second story in this episode.

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It's from a movie called Shoot Him Out.

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I am dead on about who you are, right?

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Say that again.

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I said I am dead.

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Stop.

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That part of it you got right.

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At the end of the movie, our hero is cornered. It looks like he is dead. He doesn't even have a gun.

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But what the bad guy doesn't know is that the hero has a handful of bullets shoved between his fingers.

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He thrusts his hand into the fire and two seconds later,

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no more bad guy.

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What was that?

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We were reenacting the movie.

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Oh, wait. What we want to find out is one, can bullets go off that fast in a fire?

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Two, if they can, could you aim them?

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And three, are they remotely lethal?

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So which one of you geniuses is going to stick his hand in the fire?

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Well, we haven't thought that far ahead yet.

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Well, whatever. I've got a plane to catch.

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Shall we start testing?

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Sure.

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For that, Adam and Jamie hit their all-time favorite location to cause a commotion.

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Lots of goats.

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They don't seem to mind the fact that my jacket is made out of them.

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To set off this myth, the first item on the menu is a controlled fire.

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Even a simple fire can be fraught with difficulties and dangers that are unforeseen.

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That's why one, we've come out here to the Alleywood County Sheriff's bomb range to set this fire.

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Two, we've put it in a barbecue and three, Jamie and I are wearing all the proper safety equipment to make sure nothing gets out of control.

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Safety is always of the first priority to us. We don't like to let anything get out of control.

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All right, that's more like it. That's a nice little fire.

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After the flames have died down, it's time to get cooking and they're starting out hands-free.

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But they're also playing it safe. The single round being baked has had the projectile removed.

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The empty case and primer will react to the heat, but no one's in danger of being shot.

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Yet, question is, will the ignition match the movie?

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Now there are three things that we will be testing in this fire test with the bullet shell casings.

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You ready to do this?

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Yeah.

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One is, will the shell casing go off in the fire?

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Two, will it go off exactly where our hero is holding his hand in the film clip?

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He holds his hand just about three inches above the logs, right in there.

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And three, will it go off in two seconds?

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Okay, shell casing test in three, two, one.

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That's longer than two seconds.

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Five.

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We know that the chemical in the bullet primer ignites at about 300 degrees or above.

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Fifteen.

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That's just where he was holding his hand.

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But the thing is, it's surrounded by metal, and that metal is insulating it from the 1500 degree plus heat in the fire.

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Twenty.

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Jeez, I'm crowed.

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Twenty-five.

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It's right in the fire.

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Now, eventually the metal does heat up, and it gets that primer to its 300 degree plus.

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There it goes.

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And it goes off.

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Forty-three seconds.

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Forty-three seconds.

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That's a lot.

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It did go off, but it took its sweet time.

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Time our Hollywood hero would not have had.

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But Adam and Jamie aren't giving up.

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Up next, it's go big, but not at home.

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The movie, shoot him up.

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Looks like it's being shot down.

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Well, the results of our movie parameter test are in, and the two-second time is totally out.

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Forty-three seconds.

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The fire gets a lot hotter inside among the hot coals.

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I think we should do another test to find out if there's any place in this fire where we can get the bullet to go off in two seconds.

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And frankly, I predict we totally will.

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So for test two, Jamie stokes the fire.

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Mommy, I don't like barbecues at Jamie's house.

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Because this time they're baking the bullet deep among the coals, a temperature differential from test one of 800 degrees.

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All right, sir, you ready?

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I'm ready.

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I'm going all the way in this time.

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Looking for the hot spot.

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Looking for something close to two seconds.

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Three, two, one.

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Two.

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Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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Those didn't sound like regular seconds.

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What kind of seconds were you counting there?

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Two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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What kind of seconds are those?

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Who counts like that?

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What was the time?

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Ten seconds.

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Ten seconds.

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I think we've definitively proven that there's no way a bullet is going to go off in that fire in two seconds flat.

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I mean, it will go off, but not in two seconds.

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Even exposed to the hottest heart of the fire, at temperatures no human hand could survive, the primer did not reach its flash point in anything like the time it took in the movie.

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I think we could use a hand on this story.

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But although one facet of this film fable is an obvious fiction, the guys aren't done yet.

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Well, it's true that the timing of the hand in fire is busted.

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Nevertheless, I've got to find out whether bullets fired in that manner are both accurate and lethal.

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So to do that, I need a hand that I can heat up safely.

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Yep.

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Dr. Franken-Honneman is making a heat-resistant human hand.

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Well, I've got a good start with the grinder, but from here on in, it's mostly going to be blacksmithing.

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One of the joys of doing this kind of work is, first, there was nothing, and then there was something.

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That's something being an adjustable, articulated hand able to realistically grip bullets between each finger.

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Detailed and disturbing work the doctor clearly enjoys.

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I've left a texture that is not unlike the wrinkles in my finger, and where it kind of smooths out over the knuckle.

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I've done that with a blob of weld.

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It's all very fast and crude, but it gives it a strangely organic look for it being all metal.

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For added accuracy, it fits like a, you know what, a leather glove that grips like skin is heat-molded onto the metal skeleton.

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And to gauge human-like strength, position number one between the thumb and index finger, Adam sets a calibration benchmark with his own grip.

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8.1 pounds. This force cage here holds what's called a peak value. That is the most amount of weight that it took since you last pressed zero.

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Now, I will put the bullet on this string on the force cage and hold it between two fingers as hard as I can until it lets go.

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Ah! Ow! Ow! And then I read that value, enter it into this chart.

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With the data handed over, Jamie mechanically matches Adam's grip strength to his metal digits.

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A couple of minor adjustments, and I think we should be all set.

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And this myth is all set to go off.

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It's perfect.

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But first, there's some unfinished business for a wall shooting hitman.

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Now that we've determined exactly how porous walls are, and that bullets will most likely make it through them, it's time to deal with what's on the other side.

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So, you are the good guy, the camera, you're people watching TV, and you're looking at a wall, and there's a bad guy behind.

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Whereas he, oh, there he is! Now that bad guy is going to move behind the wall and you've got to shoot him. How are you going to do that?

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We figured there's two methods that you could use. One is, you could watch him run behind and make an assumption that he's going to maintain his speed, bang, and try and shoot him.

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Or, you could listen for the sound of his footsteps and use your natural powers of triangulation to make an assumption about where he is and shoot there.

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I'm not sure if either one of those is going to work, but in either case it's going to require a rig with a motorized dude on it.

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What's the dude? How are you doing, dude? He's not a very handsome dude. Something kind of like this.

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So, bullets can penetrate an interior wall, but is hitting your target as easy as Hollywood would have us believe.

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That is so weird.

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To find out, the team is testing two mythical methods.

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First up, target tracking.

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Here's how this test is going to work. Our target, that's me, will always start every test by moving from a visible position to an obscured position.

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The operator will be able to control the position of the target with this joystick and he'll be able to see what he's doing through this monitor.

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The shooter must use trajectory tracking and their intuition to surmise where the target might be behind the wall and attempt to shoot them through the wall.

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Dude, there are two restrictions to this test. One is, shooter can't start shooting until the target's past that yellow and black line.

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All the action happens on that side. And, only one bullet at a time.

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This first test is going to be pretty basic. I'm going to be moving the target at what amounts to walking speed continuously.

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Jamie, you ready to start this?

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I am.

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Gun is loaded. Safety is off. Range is hot.

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Alright, count me down, sir.

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Three, two, one.

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Stop. Let's see if I hit him. I'm going to go inspect.

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Well, it turns out with velocity tracking of an obscured target.

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A perfect hit. I'm actually pretty good. I got myself in the face on the first try. A perfect hit.

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But maybe Adam got lucky. It's Jamie's turn.

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Okay. Range is hot.

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Time to double down on the data.

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Let's go see if you hit me.

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With nothing to go on but the projected trajectory of the target, how did Hanuman the hitman fare?

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Yeah. Nice. Right there. Took out my left lung.

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Adam and I both got what might have been kill shots on our first go, but that was following a consistent movement.

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So, that obviously is the best case scenario.

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Oh, look at that. Nice little boo boo.

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The reality is going to be more like somebody is starting and stopping. Who knows what they're doing back there.

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And the only thing you might have to go on is sound.

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So, that's what we're going to try next.

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The hitman.

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Give me that.

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The ultimate Hollywood anti-hero.

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With a seemingly supernatural ability, he always gets his mark.

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Or does he?

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Sounds like it's time for test two.

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The test is going to be pretty much like the last one, except that the target is going to be moving all over the place.

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And the only thing that the shooter will have to go by is the sound of footsteps.

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Can I hear a test of that?

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With the fake footstep audio coming from a speaker attached to the target.

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I can kind of hear it go.

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The setup is complete.

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In theory, I thought this would be pretty cool. In practice, it's far cooler.

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What do you think? One shot this time? Or how about three shots?

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Yeah, let's have the ante.

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Okay, cool. All right, so are you ready?

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I'm ready.

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You're wondering how we're going to do a test about hearing for footsteps when we're hearing protection to protect ourselves from the sound of the gun going off.

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Excellent. Sounds loud and clear.

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And I think the other things I use are military grade and they have really cool feature.

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Actual microphones that play sound into the muff so I can hear stuff in the world until a gunshot happens and then they cut out to protect me from the loud sounds.

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Also it's two separate sound chips. One on the right, one on the left.

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I actually can fully triangulate while wearing these.

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So that's what we'll be wearing for this test.

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Oh, what's that over there?

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I must admit, I'm a little surprised that both Jamie and I

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got successful kill shots on the first test.

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Ha!

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Ha, ha, ha, ha!

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A perfect hit!

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But on the second one, I personally

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think it's going to be a lot harder

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to triangulate the sound of footsteps behind a barrier.

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Count me in, sir.

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I'm giving myself only a 20% chance

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of actually hitting this thing.

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Three, two, one.

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MUSIC

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Let's see if I hit him.

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Adam acoustically and intuitively tuned in to his target's

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tread and took him out.

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Oh, looks like you got him.

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No way.

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Oh, no, I'm sorry.

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No, or not.

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No, that was there before.

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That was from this, yes.

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Oh.

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Adam missed.

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He survived this time, Savage.

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And you'll notice that he clustered three of his shots

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in one small area.

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I'm not so sure that's the best approach.

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If I were doing this, which I'm about to, I'm ready.

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I think I'd be inclined to do a sweep across an area

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to try and bracket in the sound.

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Because we can hear the sounds, but pinpointing it,

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not so much.

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MUSIC

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Despite the benefit of being able to adapt his tactics,

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you missed him entirely.

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Jamie missed as well.

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So while you can easily shoot through a wall,

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the real world detail of the prey's unpredictable position

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makes hitting a moving target tough.

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And this myth is on the ropes.

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So what do you think?

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Have we answered the question of shooting people

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on the other side of the walls?

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How easy it is?

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Well, mechanical moving targets are all well and good,

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but I don't think there's any substitute for the real thing.

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I think we ought to shoot at each other.

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Maybe.

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Not with real guns, right?

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Well, OK.

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Paintball guns.

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Paintball guns.

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OK, I think we can do that test.

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A new test, a new day, and a new location

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for a spot of hitman elimination.

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GUNSHOT

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PINK BELL

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BELL

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DONG

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DISH Jinger

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DIST 회

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DIST

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morning morning shall we get to work yeah let's do we have brought you to an

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abandoned machine shop in Mare Island California to put all the disparate

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elements of this story back together for a nice violent fun-filled family

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friendly finale so it's time we ramp things up and use live human targets

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that are moving namely Adam and I that's right it's you and me Heinemann

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suit up

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am I out? awk for it

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for this gunfight head-to-head so freaking cool Adam and Jamie are putting

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the human back into the experimental equation this last test is a classic

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cat and mouse this is building a hitman fantasy camp Jamie and I are gonna

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stalk each other through a labyrinth created of walls making hallways rooms

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doorways we must try and win this stalking contest by shooting each other

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through one or more of the walls of our lab our walls are made of paper our

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weapons paintball guns with help from their origami army go ahead Willie pivot

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and an artistic finishing touch or two lovely the eight room assassins arena is

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ready for the showdown but it won't be a free-for-all these are the rules first

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there's no time limit the winner is the first one to shoot the other through a

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wall we each only have one eight round clip so every shot counts finally during

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the test we are not allowed to travel beyond the boundaries of the

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experimental space and with the rules laid down Adam and Jamie are all set for a

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hitman hunt

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to test Hollywood's idea of a handheld shoot them up the mythbusters need

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bullets a helping hand it's perfect and dry experimental conditions doesn't rain

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all week and then when we go out to shoot it's raining so let me introduce

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you to a little bit of how mythbusters conducts a shoot in the pouring rain

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we've actually set up 400 square feet of tent city here in the middle of our

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muddy field right there is our high-speed camera off that's an expensive laptop and

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our hundred thousand dollar high-speed camera the important cables were running

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up through the rafters there is where Jamie now will be standing behind the

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blast chamber shields that's our experimental setup hopefully it's dry

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enough to actually get this experiment off so if you hold bullets in a fire

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they're gonna take a lot longer than two seconds to go off 10 seconds but at

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this point we haven't established what exactly they'll do when they do go off

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and in the movie the bullets are shown to be lethal so that's what we've got a

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test now mythbusters during the monsoon season despite the deluge the team has a

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handle on the situation and is all set to fire up for this test we've got a

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single bullet mounted on the hand right here and I'm gonna have a single flame

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coming out of this tiny copper tube let's try quickly when I pull on a cord

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the flame will swing in and we'll set off the bullet that's it you're right on

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the bullet you're right on the bullet this time the round is live come on

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bullet come on bullet with primer powder and projectile intact I just blew out

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this program is rated thrust frustrating in theory they'll use the high-speed

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camera to capture the bullet speed you're good still lit still lit oh it just

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blew out in practice that's not happening this goes to show best laid

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plans of mice and men are often screwed up by the grain so it turns out our tiny

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little flame wasn't concentrated enough the torchhead we're gonna use this time

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is called a pencil torch and that means that it literally has a point on it that

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similar to a pencil point Jamie you're good to light it and I'm gonna aim that

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right at the cap and I think that'll get us where we need to go there it is

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that worked a lot better that was like within 10 seconds that's what I wanted

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excellent at last there's fire in the hole but what does the data say flame

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placement looks perfect let me see if I can't get a rough idea of speed here

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bullets moving at 82 miles per hour yeah question is why is it going so slow when

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you pull the trigger of a loaded gun the bullet inside basically explodes the

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resulting shockwave travels down the barrel and propels the bullet out but

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without the gun to enclose and back up the cartridge there's nothing to prevent

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it from simply expanding and rocketing backwards instead of pushing the bullet

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forwards hence the low speeds of the bullet with no barrel to contain the

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energy it disperses and the bullet comes out at 10% of its usual velocity I

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don't think that's gonna be lethal but for due diligence let's put our dummy

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in there and see what happens to him sure why not okay your days are numbered

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dude so will a handheld bullet accurately hit a target with lethal impact okay

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coming in that's it it's on I can hear it going I don't know if it hit him the

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early signs for accuracy are not good I don't see any bullet holes I don't see

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any bullet holes nor do I see any bullets this is a job for the high-speed

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camera bang oh it went way down

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boink is it bounced off actually it looks like it's still there this is

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right about where it looks like it hits right well see any reason why I shouldn't

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excavate I don't see any reason why you shouldn't excavate high-speed says bullet

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entered the dude we should cut him open and find a bullet let's see okay there

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it is whoa no way embedded in his chest amazing it's a satisfying and surprising

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result but with such shallow penetration it wouldn't have been lethal merely

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painful if only our hero could hold his burning fleshy hand in a fire until it

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melted and kept that pressure on well he might have just injured the villain that

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is awesome all right let's count down the components of this story bullets going

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off in a fire in two seconds or less busted okay what about the lethality or

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danger of those bullets after that well it is where it starts to get a little

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interesting but now it's still busted it's still totally busted

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that's one myth done and busted but still to come a head-to-head hitman

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showdown deep in an underground bunker

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Jamie and Adam captured an exquisite world exclusive we've just taken a shot

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with a high-speed camera called the Phantom of a bullet exiting a gun at 73,000

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frames per second 73,000 I seriously had no idea it would be that lovely oh my

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gotta go back and watch it again the artifacts that you start to be able to

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see mushroom clouds and little rivulets of gases and fire forming on flame fronts

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of pressure waves and stuff and not sure many people in the world have ever even

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looked at it's just really cool yep it's

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it's showtime

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one by one our would-be hitman are guided silently to separate random

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locations in the arena

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catahal wood hitman gentlemen really locate and liquidate a wall hidden target

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are you ready with supernatural like acoustic ability and intuition in three

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two one go it's a stalk to the death to find out

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oh I'm hit it got my gun hand got me right in the wrist I've been looking

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forward to this test for a while that was far more scary and hair-raising and

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exciting than I ever imagined it would be that's just stunning you might

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recall from our earlier testing to track somebody moving behind a wall was fairly

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easy to do as long as you can anticipate their movement now in this first game I

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remembered that I peeked out the doorway just in time to see him move behind a

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wall and so I was able to actually track his movement fire through the wall and I

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hit him that was beautiful it worked just like we learned so the combination of a

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preliminary visual cue audio location and intuition does make it possible to

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pop your opponent good news for the myth but Adam's not giving up yet nicely

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done best out of three okay this is too much fun to give up after one try love

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this game that's the cue for a fun and fear-filled test to looking down on this

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test from above I'm struck by a couple things one how lovely it is with all the

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colors in all of the labyrinth go

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but perhaps the most diabolically scary part of this test to me was the quiet I

462
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open my eyes I don't see Jamie I hear little creaks but that doesn't

463
00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:45,300
necessarily help because you're waiting somebody else out you know that they

464
00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:48,940
want to kill you and even though this is for play it doesn't make it any less of

465
00:38:48,940 --> 00:38:53,100
an adrenaline rush to know that someone's got your number and they're looking for

466
00:38:53,100 --> 00:39:01,860
you and you are looking for them it is really really thrilling in a way that few

467
00:39:01,860 --> 00:39:07,060
tests that we have done on this show really deliver

468
00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:19,780
I'm hit I'm hit I'm hitting the leg this whole test came together quite

469
00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:27,500
beautifully that was scary as hell because in our earlier mechanical

470
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,660
testing we found only one technique that was effective you got me right in the

471
00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:37,340
knee that is a totally incapacitating hit well you know that's my personal style

472
00:39:37,340 --> 00:39:42,620
you know it sends a message but here with real human subjects I found I had to

473
00:39:42,620 --> 00:39:47,340
put all of those techniques together I used a little bit of sound to roughly

474
00:39:47,340 --> 00:39:51,460
locate where they were at once I did get any kind of hint of how they were

475
00:39:51,460 --> 00:39:56,660
moving I tracked them and then I spray and putting all of those techniques

476
00:39:56,820 --> 00:40:04,060
together allowed me to win you've nailed it I'm dead two out of two I'd say you

477
00:40:04,060 --> 00:40:09,300
are the absolute winner sir congratulations thank you that was an

478
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:13,380
awesome contest well it would seem that just like the rest of the world it is

479
00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:20,140
very difficult for me to get a bead on James Franklin Heineman he seems to be a

480
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:22,820
fan of shooting people in the joints maybe that's from when he used to be a

481
00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:27,420
shark I don't know but I couldn't hit him once how do you want to call it I

482
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:30,940
gotta say I'm surprised but I think the hit men are on to something shooting

483
00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:35,500
through walls has far more efficacy than I began this myth believing yeah I

484
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:39,700
agree interior walls don't offer much protection do they're far more porous

485
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:51,460
than anyone thought let's get out of here you coming sure oh yeah back across

486
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:55,980
town it's time to settle accounts

487
00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:15,460
you're going shooting through walls confirmed shoot them up busted see you

488
00:41:15,460 --> 00:41:18,780
on the next bounce boys

489
00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:25,860
trust that guy now that do I let's get inside