| 00:00:05 | Ohh!
|
| 00:00:06 | [ Laughs ]
Adam: The clearest difference between driving
on the wet ground
versus the dry ground is that it's a lot
slipperier.
|
| 00:00:14 | Narrator: And that's the key.
|
| 00:00:15 | By simply getting to grips with the car on
a wet surface,
they can be sure they won't lose their heads
at high speeds
on the real test,
which means they're licensed for wet-weather
science.
|
| 00:00:29 | I keep losing my hat.
|
| 00:00:31 | [Bleep]
Narrator: Now, in part one of popcorn pandemonium,
is it possible to pop popcorn with an explosion?
|
| 00:00:41 | .Woman screams]
[ laughs ]
I love this. watch this part.
|
| 00:00:45 | You know, going to the movie theater
is one of my favorite things to do,
but what does this have to do the myth?
|
| 00:00:50 | Well, the fans love popcorn as much as i
do,
and they've sent in a ton of myths about
popcorn.
|
| 00:00:55 | Yeah, like what?
|
| 00:00:55 | Can you pop popcorn with explosives?
|
| 00:00:57 | Now, how is that supposed to work?
|
| 00:00:59 | Explosions generate a lot of heat,
and the fans think that it's just enough
to pop popcorn.
|
| 00:01:03 | Cool.
|
| 00:01:05 | It's delicious. and nutritious.
|
| 00:01:07 | It's a taste delight
Narrator: Popcorn
and its distinctive explosive expansion
is a ready-made recipe for myth and disaster.
|
| 00:01:17 | And the fans want to know,
can you put the pop in popcorn with a bang?
|
| 00:01:24 | Okay, so popcorn with explosives?
|
| 00:01:26 | How are we gonna test this?
|
| 00:01:27 | Well this myth comes in a whole variety of
forms.
|
| 00:01:29 | Everything from a torpedo
hitting a container ship full of popcorn
to an industrial accident at a popcorn popping
plant.
|
| 00:01:35 | Whoa. what are we gonna do?
|
| 00:01:36 | I think we should take our favorite explosions
from our favorite myths -- apply them to
popcorn.
|
| 00:01:41 | This is gonna be fun.
|
| 00:01:42 | Oh, this is the part when she dies.
|
| 00:01:46 | Narrator: Despite the various outlandish
sources for this fan request,
the basic premise for each is the same.
|
| 00:01:55 | Heat and pressure from an explosion
causes raw popcorn kernels to cook in an
instant.
|
| 00:02:02 | ..
|
| 00:02:06 | ...The team is taking twoclassic blasts from
..
|
| 00:02:11 | [ Laughter ]
...and re-igniting themat the bomb range.
|
| 00:02:14 | He
..
|
| 00:02:19 | Now, we do have a myth from james bond
that is the exploding propane tank.
|
| 00:02:24 | If this doesn't pop the popcorn, I don't
know what will.
|
| 00:02:27 | Grant: We're gonna strap some c-4 onto a
propane tank,
put some popcorn kernels on top,
and see if we get this rain of cooked popcorn.
|
| 00:02:35 | Now we know that heat is what causes popcorn
kernels
to pop into popcorn.
|
| 00:02:40 | I mean, you can do it on your stove.
|
| 00:02:42 | And I think it's fairly likely
that the size of the fireball that we'll
get
will generate the sufficient amount of heat
to make something pop.
|
| 00:02:50 | [ Gunshot ]
Narrator: So, will the explosive c-4 and
propane cocktail cook the corn?
|
| 00:02:58 | Or will it simply be shaken, stirred, and
sprayed
shrapnel-like all over the bomb range?
|
| 00:03:04 | All right, here we go. in three, two, one.
|
| 00:03:10 | [ Cheers ]
[ laughter ]
wow.
|
| 00:03:16 | That was some heat. you think we popped popcorn?
|
| 00:03:19 | I don't know.
|
| 00:03:22 | Narrator: That's the burning quest n.
|
| 00:03:26 | But up at the corn-carnage epicenter,
the signs aren't good.
|
| 00:03:30 | I see a lot of unpopped kernels on the ground.
|
| 00:03:34 | No popcorn.
|
| 00:03:35 | Kari: Nothing? nope.
|
| 00:03:37 | There's more foil over here.
|
| 00:03:38 | Narrator: It seems the force of the c-4 explosion
and the rapidly expanding propane fireball
distributed the raw kernels far and wide,
without actually cooking and popping any
of them.
|
| 00:03:52 | My propane-popcorn empire!
|
| 00:03:55 | [ Sobbing ] WHY?!
|
| 00:03:56 | Kari: I don't think there was quite enough
heat,
and it wasn't sustained for long enough
for the popcorn to actually pop.
|
| 00:04:02 | We just kind of blew it out everywhere.
|
| 00:04:05 | Narrator:..
|
| 00:04:06 | It's like a wet-t-shirt contest, really.
|
| 00:04:08 | Narrator: Jamie and adam
use an unconventional rain-measuring method.
|
| 00:04:13 | Grant: In three!
|
| 00:04:13 | Narrator:..
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| 00:04:17 | ...Cracked the kettle-corn-making market?
|
| 00:04:20 | Look at all those burning kernels!
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| 00:04:22 | [ Laughter ]
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| 00:07:04 | Narrator: It's a popular fansite fable --
can you keep the rain out of your convertible
by putting the pedal to the metal?
|
| 00:07:14 | After taking their luxury soft-top
..
|
| 00:07:18 | [ Tires screeching ]
...adam and jamie are back at the batcave
for preliminary shop tests.
|
| 00:07:25 | So this is our scale testing rig for driving
in the rain.
|
| 00:07:28 | And since it's about two things, wind and
rain,
we're creating both of those in a small scale.
|
| 00:07:33 | I've got a leaf blower here creating the
wind over the car,
I've got jamie perched up there in the scissor
lift.
|
| 00:07:39 | He's gonna be the rain.
|
| 00:07:39 | He's got a pressurized bottle of some blue
dye
so that we can actually see the raindrops.
|
| 00:07:45 | Oh, that's nice.
|
| 00:07:46 | Hopefully, if there's any validity to this
myth,
that the rain, somehow by the aerodynamics
of the car going fast,
won't get in the driver's compartment.
|
| 00:07:53 | Are you ready? I'm ready.
|
| 00:07:53 | U
I would expect to see these blue raindrops
coming down
and the wind coming over the car,
inhibiting them from continuing their journey
onto the passengers in the convertible.
|
| 00:08:04 | Narrator: To simulate driving through the
rain,
..
|
| 00:08:10 | All right, go for it.
|
| 00:08:12 | Oh, yeah.
|
| 00:08:15 | Narrator:..Followed by a small-scale hurricane,
..
|
| 00:08:21 | I almost feel like I'm driving it!
|
| 00:08:24 | ...After which adam is confident this myth
holds water.
|
| 00:08:29 | Adam: I'm thinking that our scale tests
are actually proving pretty fruitful.
|
| 00:08:33 | There may be something to this.
|
| 00:08:34 | We've run three tests,
and they're showing me what I would expect
to see
if this myth were actually true,
, we've run it with no wind and some
rain,
a slow-speed wind, 15 miles per hour,
and a high-speed wind, 30 miles per hour,
and I'm seeing what looks like a bubble
forming over the driver's compartment
that less rain seems to want to get into.
|
| 00:08:50 | Yeah, it does show the rain kind of zipping
over the cockpit,
but I'm not that sure that the wind and the
rain
scale that well.
|
| 00:08:57 | We're gonna have to do it full size.
|
| 00:09:00 | [ Laughs ]
I knew you were gonna go there.
|
| 00:09:01 | Narrator: s wet-weather
driving,
adam has a couple of issues.
|
| 00:09:06 | Okay, the first problem with this as I see
it
is that this was loaned to us by a friend
and a fan of the show,
and it's worth over $100,000, and we're mythbusters.
|
| 00:09:15 | There's an inherent danger factor
just letting us near something of this value.
|
| 00:09:20 | The second problem is that we've got to figure
out a way,
at some fairly extreme speeds,
to be able to know whether water
has gotten into the driver's compartment.
|
| 00:09:29 | Jamie: We need to have a rain detector for
inside the car,
but because the amounts that we're dealing
with
are really quite small,
it's not like we can put a funnel and a collector
or an electronic instrument or something
in there.
|
| 00:09:42 | Like this.
|
| 00:09:43 | I figured that if we put something that would,
by virtue of getting wet, show a dot,
that that would do the trick,
and so I thought of tissue paper,
because when it's opaque,
you can't really see anything through the
other side of it.
|
| 00:09:56 | But when it gets wet, like so,
all of a sudden, you've got a very clear
indication
that there's a drop of water that hit.
|
| 00:10:02 | Ah, it's like a wet-t-shirt contest, really.
|
| 00:10:07 | It shows you what's underneath, don't it?
|
| 00:10:10 | [ Laughs ]
Narrator: So far, popping popcorn with explosives
is not looking good.
|
| 00:10:21 | didn't work at
all.
|
| 00:10:23 | Narrator: The extreme expansion of gases
typical of an explosion
is simply distributing the kernels over the
bomb range
without cooking them.
|
| 00:10:33 | [ Cheers ]
but our intrepid trio have yet to light the
fuse
on their final conflagration.
|
| 00:10:39 | Kari: Of all the fireballs that I've seen
from explosions that we've done,
creamer cannon has given usthe most slow
fireball.
|
| 00:10:47 | It goes into the airand then [imitates explosion]
and we're gonna have the popcorn
kind of mixed in with the creamer.
|
| 00:10:57 | Yeah!
|
| 00:10:58 | That's a recipe for disaster.
|
| 00:11:01 | Hopefully kettle corn.
|
| 00:11:02 | So maybe the sticky creamer will stick to
the popcorn,
creating that heat for long enough
that we'll get kettle corn.
|
| 00:11:09 | Grant: I'm ever the optimist.
|
| 00:11:10 | I think that this actually has a chance of
working.
|
| 00:11:13 | All right, you guys want to run.
|
| 00:11:15 | I do.
|
| 00:11:15 | What happens is you launch the cannon,
the creamer and the corn goes up in the air,
the corn's surrounded by fire.
|
| 00:11:22 | Somehow, it's going to make us kettle corn.
|
| 00:11:26 | Right to go. all right.
|
| 00:11:27 | In three, two, one!
|
| 00:11:33 | Whoa! whoa! whoa!
|
| 00:11:34 | .. something!
|
| 00:11:37 | Look at all those burning kernels!
|
| 00:11:39 | Grant: I think there's kernels out there!
|
| 00:11:41 | Let's see if we got any popcorn!
|
| 00:11:43 | Narrator: The fine-grained creamer
once again proves extremely flammable,
leading to a satisfying fireball.
|
| 00:11:52 | And there appears to be flaming food falling
to the ground.
|
| 00:11:56 | [ Cheers ]
we've popped popcorn!
|
| 00:11:59 | It's kettle corn flambé!
|
| 00:12:02 | It's burnt, but look!
|
| 00:12:03 | No, that's just burnt creamer.
|
| 00:12:06 | That's not popcorn?
|
| 00:12:07 | No, but I saw it rain down!
|
| 00:12:09 | Unfortunately, it was just little bits of
creamer.
|
| 00:12:11 | But there was such hope there for a minute.
|
| 00:12:14 | I thought we actually did it.
|
| 00:12:15 | My kettle-corn empire!
|
| 00:12:18 | [ Sobbing ]
I'm wrong again!
|
| 00:12:21 | Narrator: So, with the myth looking pretty
much busted,
it's back to the shop,
where kari meets a popcorn professor.
|
| 00:12:27 | Now, we've been trying to pop popcorn with
explosives,
and I'm wondering
if we just don't have enough heat generated.
|
| 00:12:35 | Why do you think that it's not working for
us?
|
| 00:12:37 | Popcorn pops bestat 450 degrees fahrenheit.
|
| 00:12:40 | When the popcorn is exposed to that heat,
the moisture inside the kernels expand and
expand,
like your grandmother's old-fashioned pressure
cooker,
until finally, there's enough pressure
to break open thkernel,
and what you're eating is the starch
that has been condensed inside.
|
| 00:12:57 | Narrator: That's the key.
|
| 00:12:58 | A popcorn kernel is basically a pressure
vessel
made up of three layers --
the tough outer shell, the starch-filled
middle layer,
and the small, central germ.
|
| 00:13:09 | Add sustained heat,
and the moisture in the center turns to steam.
|
| 00:13:13 | This heat and pressure gelatinizes the starch
until, finally, the shell bursts.
|
| 00:13:19 | As the steam is released,
the starch cools into the fluffy white ball
we know and love.
|
| 00:13:24 | So let me get this straight.
|
| 00:13:25 | The explosives didn't work
because we didn't have any of the right circumstances.
|
| 00:13:30 | You're saying we need 450 degrees,
even heating over a period of time,
of
more like a minute,
before we can actually get the popcorn to
expand.
|
| 00:13:36 | So there's really no way for us to flash
heat
and have explosives make us popcorn.
|
| 00:13:42 | That's my understanding.
|
| 00:13:47 | Well, as exciting as that was,
we didn't really pop any popcorn with explosives.
|
| 00:13:51 | Kari: Well, there's one more myth I really
want to test
that the fans sent in,
and that's why I brought you here to the
movie theater.
|
| 00:13:56 | Which one's that?
|
| 00:13:57 | Well, do you remember a little movie called
"real genius"?
|
| 00:13:59 | Yeah, I patterned my life off of it.
|
| 00:14:01 | Do you remember the last scene in the movie?
|
| 00:14:03 | A laser pops an enormous amount of popcorn
in the house,
blows out all the windows and the doors
just from the power of popcorn.
|
| 00:14:08 | And that's what we're gonna test?
|
| 00:14:10 | Yep. that's what we're gonna test.
|
| 00:14:12 | Check it out.
|
| 00:14:14 | Narrator:A TEMPLATE FOR GRANT'S LIFE,
..
|
| 00:14:19 | Let me have it!
|
| 00:14:20 | ...And a source for this myth.
|
| 00:14:22 | Can a 5-megawatt laser really cook a gigantic
ball of popcorn?
|
| 00:14:28 | Oh!
|
| 00:14:30 | And can the expansive power unleashed
really bring down the house?
|
| 00:14:37 | All right, well, first, we need to see
if you can even pop popcorn with a laser.
|
| 00:14:40 | And we need to characterize the force of
popping popcorn.
|
| 00:14:43 | Okay, well let's start out with some due
diligence.
|
| 00:14:45 | Before we unleash the power of popcorn on
an actual house,
how about you and I go check out a military
spec laser,
see if it pops popcorn,
while you run some tests on force and expansion.
|
| 00:14:53 | All right, let's go.
|
| 00:14:55 | We can't leave yet. the credits are rolling.
|
| 00:14:56 | People work hard on this.
|
| 00:14:57 | We didn't work on this, did we? no.
|
| 00:15:01 | Narrator:..
|
| 00:15:01 | Adam: It's a little iwo jima moment here.
|
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and the stakes.
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| 00:15:17 | [ Cheers ]
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| 00:19:13 | Narrator: Jamie and adam are on the runway
at alameda,
raising a rainmaker.
|
| 00:19:18 | Adam: It's a little iwo jima moment here.
|
| 00:19:20 | Narrator: Because to test the myth
..
|
| 00:19:24 | Holy crapola.
|
| 00:19:25 | Narrator:..They need wet weather at the
flick of a switch.
|
| 00:19:28 | [ Echoing ] HELLO!
|
| 00:19:30 | Narrator: And for that, they're going back
to their movie roots.
|
| 00:19:34 | Adam: Hollywood, like mythbusters,
doesn't wait for ideal weather conditions.
|
| 00:19:37 | They make their own weather,
and this device is one of the ways they do
it.
|
| 00:19:40 | This is a rainbar.
|
| 00:19:42 | And it sprays water through a set of spouts.
|
| 00:19:45 | These spouts -- there are six of them,
and if what you want is torrential rain,
it an deliver 1,200 gallons a minute.
|
| 00:19:52 | For us, it's gonna be delivering
a linear swath of rain 200 feet long.
|
| 00:19:57 | Well, everything's hooked up and in place,
and the next thing we're gonna do is a dribble
test.
|
| 00:20:02 | We're just gonna pressurize all the lines
to the point where water starts dribbling
out the rain heads
because of several things.
|
| 00:20:10 | [ Laughs ]
this amount of rain is perfect for our test.
|
| 00:20:14 | It's just about 2 inches per hour.
|
| 00:20:16 | One, that's a lot of weight of water,
about 600 pounds per bar,
and the weight distribution could change,
and they could swing, so we need to make
sure we can control them.
|
| 00:20:23 | Two, there's a little bit of a west-east
breeze here.
|
| 00:20:26 | We want to make sure the rain falls
where the car's gonna drive.
|
| 00:20:29 | So we might adjust our final bar position
based on what we see here.
|
| 00:20:33 | [ Laughs ]
that's perfect.
|
| 00:20:35 | Narrator: With the rain ready to fall
and the cameras ready to roll,
it's time to bring in the star -- the car.
|
| 00:20:42 | Adam: We've modified this car in a couple
of ways
to turn it into a data-collection device
for this test.
|
| 00:20:47 | First, because it's a fancy car,
we've protected the whole interior with absorbent
fabric,
so that no water can damage the car.
|
| 00:20:53 | Second, to measure what water doesget in
the car,
we've got these two boards,
which is basically a piece of plywood
faced with acrylic and tissue paper.
|
| 00:21:01 | Any water that hits this surface
is gonna create a nice dark spot
that's easy to see, easy to count,
and should give us a really nice comparative
analysis
of how much water's getting into the driver's
compartment
under the different conditions we're testing.
|
| 00:21:14 | Well, let's get to it. okay.
|
| 00:21:16 | Narrator: And by "to it,"
they mean using their driving instructor
as a human-crash-test guinea pig.
|
| 00:21:21 | The biggest danger posed by this experiment
is hydroplaning.
|
| 00:21:25 | That's where the car floats up on a cushion
of water,
and you lose all control of it.
|
| 00:21:30 | Se
okay, go rain and brian.
|
| 00:21:38 | So brian, our safety trainer and driver,
is actually going to take this run at 120
miles an hour
across the rainy tarmac
to make sure that it's safe for jamie and
I to do.
|
| 00:21:49 | Narrator: Brian's about to hit
what's essentially a sluiced-down skid pad
at 120 miles per hour.
|
| 00:21:57 | This could be interesting.
|
| 00:22:08 | Okay.
|
| 00:22:08 | Narrator: Out of control through 450 degrees
is exactly why the expert was behind the
wheel
and not adam or jamie.
|
| 00:22:15 | What happened there, buddy?
|
| 00:22:17 | That's what we call hydroplaning. wow.
|
| 00:22:20 | That seemed quite intense.
|
| 00:22:21 | It was very intense and a lot of fun.
|
| 00:22:23 | [ Laughs ]
Jamie: I got to say, brian gets real props
for that one.
|
| 00:22:30 | Looking at the footage,
brian's expression didn't change at all.
|
| 00:22:34 | He didn't flinch while he's spinning out
of control
around and around and around at 120 miles
an hour.
|
| 00:22:42 | Narrator: So one thing's clear --
these tests will be dangerous.
|
| 00:22:46 | Hitting a wet surface at higher than highway
speeds
has the potential to put you into a spin
cycle.
|
| 00:22:52 | How do you feel about it, jamie?
|
| 00:22:54 | He did it.
|
| 00:22:55 | I'll do it.
|
| 00:23:00 | Man: Whoa!
|
| 00:23:03 | [ Grant sobbing ]
Grant: My kettle-corn empire!
|
| 00:23:08 | [ Sobbing ]
Narrator: Our intrepid trio
are looking into unconventional ways to pop
popcorn.
|
| 00:23:16 | Oh!
|
| 00:23:16 | And to test this popcorn-themed scene
from the silver screen,
kari and tory go back to school.
|
| 00:23:24 | Because they want to know if there's any
science at all
in this science-fiction-sounding scenario.
|
| 00:23:30 | Now, what we're trying to find out here is,
can you pop popcornwith a laser,
and if so, could you do itfrom a plane?
|
| 00:23:36 | I believe that they're both possible.
|
| 00:23:38 | Just a matter how much laser power you have.
|
| 00:23:39 | Now, how realistic do you think the laser
in the movie was?
|
| 00:23:42 | 5 Megawatts is a stretch.
|
| 00:23:44 | I'm not saying it's impossible,
but it's a stretch even for chemical lasers,
which typically operate -- you know,
the highest power is about 100 kilowatts.
|
| 00:23:52 | I don't think that a 5-megawatt laser
is around the corner just yet.
|
| 00:23:55 | Now, one serious question
that grant wanted me to ask you was,
how close are we to lightsaber technology?
|
| 00:24:03 | [ Laughs ]
oh, that's classified.
|
| 00:24:08 | Narrator: So, as unlikely as it sounds,
there's a "kernel" of truth to this myth.
|
| 00:24:14 | ..
|
| 00:24:16 | Here is my popcorn kernel.
|
| 00:24:18 | Here we go.
|
| 00:24:19 | ...They've got a 10-watt laser pointed right
at it.
|
| 00:24:23 | [ Silly voice ] WE'RE POPPING POPCORN WITH
Lasers!
|
| 00:24:25 | I'm looking at the thermal camera.
|
| 00:24:27 | I'm seeing a tiny bit of heat at the top
and the bottom of the kernel,
and they're expanding very slowly.
|
| 00:24:31 | I'm pretty sure this is not how mom used
to make it.
|
| 00:24:35 | Maybe this is how grant's mom used to make
it.
|
| 00:24:38 | [ Cheers ]
it popped! proof of concept!
|
| 00:24:41 | [ Cheers ]
well, now that you can laser-pop popcorn,
let's just concentrate on the power of popcorn.
|
| 00:24:48 | That is cool.
|
| 00:24:50 | Let's go.
|
| 00:24:51 | Pretty good.
|
| 00:24:52 | Narrator:..
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| 00:24:54 | Aaah!
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| 00:24:57 | Narrator:..It's all hands on deck
for a full-scale popcorn cookout.
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| 00:26:18 | Second half.
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| 00:26:21 | Dan goes for the fake.
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| 00:26:24 | Let's break it down.
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| 00:26:26 | Two entrees
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| 00:29:06 | Please, do not try what we do on this show
at home.
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| 00:29:09 | "
it's safer that way.
|
| 00:29:16 | Narrator:..
|
| 00:29:19 | [ Silly voice ] WE'RE POPPING POPCORN WITH
Lasers!
|
| 00:29:23 | ...Kari, grant, and tory
have discovered that, just like the myth,
you can actually cook popcorn with a laser.
|
| 00:29:29 | Proof of concept!
|
| 00:29:31 | So now all we need is a 5-megawatt laser,
and then we can finally find out
if popcorn can break down doors and windows.
|
| 00:29:37 | Ah, no.
|
| 00:29:38 | In fact, 100 kilowatt is the most powerful
you're gonna find,
and that's even in military applications.
|
| 00:29:43 | Yeah, so basically,
we're never gonna find a laser big enough
to pop a houseful of popcorn.
|
| 00:29:49 | If we can't get a laser,
we can substitute another heat source.
|
| 00:29:52 | Already on it. induction heating.
|
| 00:29:53 | We just have to switch out the tinfoil
for some sort of steel container.
|
| 00:29:56 | Sounds reasonable to me.
|
| 00:29:57 | So, did you ask him about that thing we were
talking about,
the laser sword?
|
| 00:30:01 | Actually, I did. and guess what?
|
| 00:30:03 | I got a prototype right here.
|
| 00:30:04 | There you go, buddy. don't turn it on inside.
|
| 00:30:06 | I said don't turn that on inside!
|
| 00:30:08 | You're gonna cut somebody's head off!
|
| 00:30:11 | Narrator: So out goes the science-fiction-sized
5-megawatt laser,
and in comesa giant steel frying pan,
heated by electromagnetism?
|
| 00:30:20 | Tory: So we're trying to find out does popcorn
have the expansive power
to blow open doors and windows of a house?
|
| 00:30:25 | Now we know, in theory, that a laser can
pop popcorn,
but there's no way we're gonna be able to
get a laser
powerful enough to pop a whole houseful of
popcorn,
so I'm gonna make a frying pan,
but a giant steel,
electromagnetically heated frying pan.
|
| 00:30:43 | This is gonna be crazy.
|
| 00:30:44 | Narrator: It's a big pan, but it's not house-sized.
|
| 00:30:47 | And that's because the second change to the
movie scenario
is one of scale.
|
| 00:30:53 | The team are starting small, with just one
window.
|
| 00:30:56 | Kari: In the movie, the weak point was the
windows,
so I'm constructing a window, putting it
in a wall,
making that the lid for our pan.
|
| 00:31:01 | Now, if this myth is true, the popcorn should
pop like crazy,
pop with mythical power, bust through the
windows,
and spill out everywhere.
|
| 00:31:09 | Narrator: That's the setup.
|
| 00:31:11 | ..
|
| 00:31:13 | Apply the jedi mind force.
|
| 00:31:16 | Narrator:..Uh, mind...
|
| 00:31:19 | [ Grant laughs ]
...to crunch the crucial numbers
for the expansion potential of popcorn.
|
| 00:31:25 | Ah.
|
| 00:31:25 | So, the popped kernel
has an increase in volume
of approximately 30 times, which is pretty
good.
|
| 00:31:31 | Narrator: Next, he uses the force -- gauge
..
|
| 00:31:37 | Rise, popcorn, rise.
|
| 00:31:40 | Push on the plate with force.
|
| 00:31:44 | ...Which turns out to be 0.22 psi.
|
| 00:31:49 | Tory: So we're about to heat up the pan to
cook the popcorn.
|
| 00:31:52 | Now, the way we're gonna do that
is we're using an induction heating system.
|
| 00:31:55 | How that works is there are copper coils
underneath the steel plate,
and they send out a high-frequency a.c. current.
|
| 00:32:02 | Now, that current creates a magnetic field
which will move the molecules around in the
steel.
|
| 00:32:06 | As those molecules are moving, it creates
friction,
which creates heat.
|
| 00:32:10 | And that's how we're gonna cook our popcorn.
|
| 00:32:12 | In essence, we're making a giant skillet.
|
| 00:32:15 | [ Imitates sizzling ]
aaah!
|
| 00:32:20 | Grant: So, now we're gonna coat the bottom
of the pan
..
|
| 00:32:26 | Mm. smells like popcorn.
|
| 00:32:27 | ...And then fill it with 3/4 of an inch
of popcorn kernels.
|
| 00:32:31 | Narrator: According to grant's earlier calculations,
3/4 of an inch of kernels should expand to
over 20 inches.
|
| 00:32:39 | And with the window a mere 6 inches above
the uncooked corn,
we're all set to find out
if popcorn has the power to break out.
|
| 00:32:49 | Grant: So what we're looking for in this
experiment
is whether the force of the popping popcorn
will actually break the window.
|
| 00:32:55 | Grant: Okay, it's on.
|
| 00:32:56 | Now in my earlier experiment,
..
|
| 00:33:02 | They're popping! one, two, three!
|
| 00:33:05 | Yeah! yeah!
|
| 00:33:06 | ...Which doesn't sound like a whole lot,
but consider this is a relatively large surface
area,
and the window's over 1,000 square inches,
which means, potentially, 220 pounds of force.
|
| 00:33:16 | Narrator: But despite a sterling, stirring
..
|
| 00:33:21 | Rake it, grant!
|
| 00:33:22 | Now's your chance to show us what you got,
boy.
|
| 00:33:24 | ...The popcorn fails to make an impression
on the window,
and it never will,
because confining the popcorn while it's
cooking
prevents it from popping.
|
| 00:33:34 | So it looks like most of our kernels popped,
and you might be thinking,
well, if they didn't bust through the window,
why don't they just add more popcorn?
|
| 00:33:41 | But there's actually a maximum amount of
kernels you can use
before not only does the compression
start making them pop smaller, but everything
just burns.
|
| 00:33:48 | This is the most popcorn
that's going to pop in these circumstances.
|
| 00:33:52 | Narrator: So it's a catch-22.
|
| 00:33:53 | Putting pressure on the popcorn means it
doesn't pop,
and can't exert that expansive pressure.
|
| 00:33:58 | But the guys aren't giving up yet.
|
| 00:34:01 | Kari: We do know from your experiment
the pressures that the popcorn should exert.
|
| 00:34:05 | So what if we took the cooking out of the
equation,
used pre-popped popcorn and applied our own
force?
|
| 00:34:12 | then we could see the popcorn is strong
enough
to break out of a house.
|
| 00:34:16 | Or whether the kernels
would simply crush under those conditions.
|
| 00:34:19 | So back to the drawing board?
|
| 00:34:21 | Narrator:..
|
| 00:34:23 | ..
|
| 00:34:25 | 70% Chance of science!
|
| 00:34:26 | Narrator: And 100% chance of rain.
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| 00:34:29 | Then, kari, grant, and tory pop the top off
with popcorn.
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| 00:34:34 | [ Laughter ]
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| 00:38:30 | Narrator: Adam and jamie are lifting the
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you put your foot down.
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| 00:38:39 | Adam: First up is the control.
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| 00:38:40 | See, the myth states that if it starts to
rain
and you're driving your convertible with
the top down,
you shouldn't waste your time putting it
up.
|
| 00:38:45 | You should gun it, floor it, go as fast as
you can.
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| 00:38:48 | So of course we're gonna gun it, floor it,
and go as fast as we can.
|
| 00:38:52 | But what do we compare that to?
|
| 00:38:53 | We compare it to the control,
which is driving into a rainstorm,
stopping, putting the top up,
and seeing how much rain we gather that way.
|
| 00:39:01 | Narrator: With a direct line to the weather
..
|
| 00:39:04 | All right, stand by for pressure.
|
| 00:39:06 | Narrator:..Or at least john, the rain bar
operator,
adam commences the rain.
|
| 00:39:11 | Today's forecast, 70% chance of science!
|
| 00:39:16 | Go ahead and pressure it up.
|
| 00:39:18 | Jamie, come on in.
|
| 00:39:20 | [ Engine revs ]
Narrator: Remember, this is a control for
comparative purposes.
|
| 00:39:27 | Adam: All right, now stop and put the top
up.
|
| 00:39:30 | [ Laughing ] OH, THIS LOOKS AWFUL.
|
| 00:39:31 | Narrator: If you're foolish enough to be
driving
with the roof down while there's a rainstorm
approaching,
we want to know how wet you'll get
in the time it takes to pop the top back
on.
|
| 00:39:42 | Now go ahead and drive off.
|
| 00:39:44 | And it's pretty clear, because that's one
wet hyneman.
|
| 00:39:49 | [ Laughs ]
how was that? looks like you got soaked!
|
| 00:39:53 | I think so.
|
| 00:39:54 | Oh, look at our test boards!
|
| 00:39:55 | they're just 100%
soaked.
|
| 00:39:58 | Adam: I don't know whether there's gonna
turn out
to be something to driving really fast
to keep the rain out of your convertible,
but it's pretty clear that stopping at all,
even to put the top up,
is gonna get you saturated with rain pretty
quickly.
|
| 00:40:11 | All right, now stop and put the top up.
|
| 00:40:14 | Now that we've got a good control,
it's time for some real testing.
|
| 00:40:17 | If there's any merit to this myth,
we should see a lot less rain
on our rain-collection panels than last time.
|
| 00:40:24 | Narrator: But the weather gods,
the real ones,
otherwise known as the physical forces of
meteorology,
decide to rain on adam and jamie's scientific
parade.
|
| 00:40:34 | The tissue-paper rig isno gonna work
in these conditions.
|
| 00:40:36 | Well, why don't we do some runs anyway,
and shoot it on high speed, look at it closely,
and see if we can detect any kind of pattern
from it.
|
| 00:40:42 | Okay, that sounds good.
|
| 00:40:43 | First up, let's do 25 miles an hour. okay.
|
| 00:40:46 | For this stately 25-mile-an-hour test,
out go the rain-detection boards,
and in comes the high-speed camera.
|
| 00:40:56 | Then, after a quick reset,
jamie ups the speed to a healthy 55 miles
an hour,
before heading back to compare the two runs.
|
| 00:41:05 | Jamie: At 25 miles an hour,
I don't see any plume coming off the windshield
at all.
|
| 00:41:09 | You will.
|
| 00:41:10 | It's coming up in just a minute. there, see?
|
| 00:41:13 | Yeah, it's pretty small.
|
| 00:41:14 | But still, you can see the effect.
|
| 00:41:16 | Looks like a lot of it's going into the cockpit,
though.
|
| 00:41:19 | Yes.
|
| 00:41:20 | Here's 55, though.
|
| 00:41:21 | The difference is actually pretty marked.
|
| 00:41:23 | So, no plume. look at how the plume appears.
|
| 00:41:26 | Isn't that nifty? yeah.
|
| 00:41:28 | Just totally clear.
|
| 00:41:29 | Totally clear?
|
| 00:41:30 | Well, there seems to be more of a plume at
the faster speed,
but is the cockpit actually staying drier?
|
| 00:41:36 | There's no way of knowing for sure
until the real rain lets up.
|
| 00:41:42 | I'm not gonna say this too loud,
but it looks like it might actually be clearing
up.
|
| 00:41:46 | We might get a window for testing soon!
|
| 00:41:50 | Narrator: Kari, grant, and tory are asking,
can popping popcorn blow out your house?
|
| 00:41:55 | They're just kind of tinkling against the
window.
|
| 00:41:57 | I thought they'd be more aggressive. yeah.
|
| 00:41:59 | Narrator: Large-scale cooking didn't work,
so they're taking heat out of the equation
to focus on the expansion potential.
|
| 00:42:07 | Now, what we do know is that if you can pop
popcorn,
it does exert a certain amount of force.
|
| 00:42:13 | Gives us a psi .22.
|
| 00:42:15 | So, we're gonna try this experiment again
but in a different way.
|
| 00:42:19 | Tory: We're gonna take a bunch of pre-popped
popcorn,
fill a house that we build, add our own pressure,
and see if the popcorn is enough to destroy
the house.
|
| 00:42:30 | Ow!
|
| 00:42:31 | That kettle's hot!
|
| 00:42:33 | Am I missing an eyebrow?
|
| 00:42:35 | Kari: We've done the calculations.
|
| 00:42:37 | TO FILL A HOUSE THAT IS 6x6x6 FEET,
We're going to need 30 55-gallon garbage
bags full.
|
| 00:42:43 | So we've got six popcorn poppers,
all popping at the same time,
and we're working around the clock so we
can fill the house.
|
| 00:42:49 | Narrator: After the corn mountain peaks,
kari's four-legged vacuum cleaners move in,
and the team can move on.
|
| 00:42:58 | And with a house built to code in fast forward,
grant steps up with a larger-than-necessary
piston
to apply the popcorn power.
|
| 00:43:08 | Ta-da!
|
| 00:43:09 | I'm not compensating for anything.
|
| 00:43:12 | [ Both laugh ]
Grant: So, I'm standing underneath what would
be
the floor of our house.
|
| 00:43:16 | We're gonna fill up the entire house with
popcorn,
and then this cylinder is going to push up.
|
| 00:43:22 | [ Laughing ] OH, YEAH! IT FITS.
|
| 00:43:25 | Now, initially it's going to be just the
popcorn force,
just to see if, under ideal conditions,
if we popped every kernel,
what would happen to the house?
|
| 00:43:35 | Would it push up and blow out the windows,
or would it do nothing?
|
| 00:43:41 | Pump's on!
|
| 00:43:42 | All right, you guys ready? yep.
|
| 00:43:44 | Okay, so, this is regular-popcorn
popping force.
|
| 00:43:48 | ..
|
| 00:43:53 | Tory: It's moving.
|
| 00:43:55 | Kari: Yeah. slowly moving.
|
| 00:43:57 | You hear the creaking?
|
| 00:43:58 | Yeah. something's gonna give.
|
| 00:44:00 | Is it the popcorn? is it the house?
|
| 00:44:03 | Narrator: As it turns out, neither.
|
| 00:44:05 | Popcorn power, which, according to grant's
calculations,
22 psi
and exactly the pressure exerted by the piston,
just isn't enough to do any damage at all.
|
| 00:44:16 | So basically the expansive pressure popcorn
exerts
doesn't come close to denting the door or
windows.
|
| 00:44:24 | ..
|
| 00:44:25 | I got to say, this part of the myth is looking
busted.
|
| 00:44:27 | Yep, busted. yep, busted.
|
| 00:44:29 | But you know what,
we still have a house full of popcorn.
|
| 00:44:31 | I say we max it out, see what happens.
|
| 00:44:33 | I want to see what's gonna go first,
the house or the popcorn.
|
| 00:44:38 | Do it!
|
| 00:44:38 | All right, let's wreck this house!
|
| 00:44:40 | Narrator: With grant's piston cranked to
..
|
| 00:44:44 | ..
|
| 00:44:46 | ...This test is a transparent excuse to destroy
stuff.
|
| 00:44:50 | The only question is,
will the popcorn crush into dust,
or will the house come tumbling down?
|
| 00:44:58 | [ All cheering ]
and as it turns out, the popcorn wins out.
|
| 00:45:02 | Raise the roof!
|
| 00:45:03 | It blew the roof off!
|
| 00:45:04 | Narrator: Or at least grant's giant piston
did.
|
| 00:45:07 | Kari: It wasn't really popcorn power.
|
| 00:45:09 | That was how many tons of force? 15.
|
| 00:45:11 | So it was really just popcorn as a spacer.
|
| 00:45:15 | Yeah.
|
| 00:45:15 | So popcorn power didn't really destroy the
house.
|
| 00:45:18 | No.
|
| 00:45:19 | But that was cool!
|
| 00:45:21 | Narrator:.. 90 miles an hour?
|
| 00:45:23 | 90 Miles an hour.
|
| 00:45:24 | 90 Miles an hour! let's do it.
|
| 00:45:26 | Let it rip.
|
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| 00:48:54 | Narrator: Adam and jamie have already seen
hints
of the aerodynamic basis for this myth.
|
| 00:48:59 | Oh, yeah. isn't that nifty?
|
| 00:49:01 | On the next 70-miles-per-hour run,
they're looking for physical evidence
on the tissue-paper rain detectors.
|
| 00:49:08 | Jamie, you may start your run now.
|
| 00:49:11 | This is 70 miles per hour, gunning it.
|
| 00:49:14 | Gun it, jamie does.
|
| 00:49:19 | Hitting his mark and holding steady at the
target speed
for the length of the course.
|
| 00:49:27 | And cut the rain.
|
| 00:49:28 | Narrator: And with no hydroplaning or dangerous
spinout,
it's time to take in the results.
|
| 00:49:34 | Whoa, look at that!
|
| 00:49:37 | Wow, that's far out.
|
| 00:49:38 | It looks like no rain at all hit the middle
here,
but we've got wetness up top here
and on the left-hand side here.
|
| 00:49:46 | It's important to note
that whatever little water came in here
on the 70-mile-an-hour run
was a tiny, tiny fractionof what came in
on the control.
|
| 00:49:55 | Totally.
|
| 00:49:55 | I predicted there'd be less rainin the car
on this run.
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| 00:49:59 | Not nearlythislittle.
|
| 00:50:00 | There really seems to be something to this
myth.
|
| 00:50:02 | A conviction only confirmed by the high-speed
camera.
|
| 00:50:06 | it's like there's a
line.
|
| 00:50:08 | It's a really visible bubble, isn't it?
|
| 00:50:11 | Yes.
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| 00:50:12 | That's what the windshield's for.
|
| 00:50:14 | [ Laughs ]
so it would seem.
|
| 00:50:17 | But the guys aren't done yet.
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| 00:50:19 | Adam, who will observe from a safe, dry distance,
feels the need for more speed.
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| 00:50:24 | Adam: Well, as far as I'm concerned,
we should go for 100 miles an hour
and see if we can get those boards to stay
bone-dry.
|
| 00:50:30 | I'd go ahead and leave the traction control
on.
|
| 00:50:33 | Narrator: But brian, our safety driver,
is concerned about the additional soaking
the surface took from the real rain,
so he suggests sticking to 90 miles per hour.
|
| 00:50:41 | Try to countersteer, but if you can't, let
it go.
|
| 00:50:45 | Got it.
|
| 00:50:47 | Adam: Let's go to full pressure.
|
| 00:50:53 | I am set and ready to go.
|
| 00:50:54 | jamie, you may start your 90-mile-an-hour
run now!
|
| 00:50:59 | Let it rip.
|
| 00:51:14 | And cut the rain! nice work, jamie!
|
| 00:51:17 | It didn't hydroplane. awesome!
|
| 00:51:20 | Let's open this top and see how we did.
|
| 00:51:23 | Ho ho ho ho! dude!
|
| 00:51:27 | Look at that!
|
| 00:51:28 | Jamie: We wanted to find out
whether driving fast when it's raining
will actually keep you dry, and it turns
out it does.
|
| 00:51:33 | Around 25 miles an hour or so, it's not so
effective,
but as you go faster,
it actually does deflect most of the rain.
|
| 00:51:41 | Now, it's not that hard to understand, really,
because the rain's coming down like this.
|
| 00:51:45 | If you're going this way
and you've got something in front of you,
then it's gonna catch all the rain
and send it up over the top of you, and you
stay dry.
|
| 00:51:53 | Adam: So it does make sense to gun it.
|
| 00:51:55 | The faster the better, in fact.
|
| 00:51:57 | ..
|
| 00:52:00 | You'll be dry. you'll be dry.
|
| 00:52:01 | Adam: Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of
the jury,
for my closing argument,
I'd like to call your attention to exhibit
24,
which is footage
"fuel-efficiency
myth
that mythbusters filmed.
|
| 00:52:13 | If you'll notice hereat the water oatmeal
test,
there's a bubble formed in the back of the
pickup truck
that allows air to flow over the back of
the pickup truck.
|
| 00:52:21 | Those self-same aerodynamics
that the engineers put into this sports car
that allow it to be aerodynamic even with
the top down,
create the same kind of bubble over the passenger
compartment,
and I contend that that's what keeps the
passenger dry
at high speed!
|
| 00:52:40 | This is a conundrum,
because I don't feel like it's right
to call this one confirmed.
|
| 00:52:44 | Yeah, driving really fast in the rain
can be very dangerous.
|
| 00:52:47 | How about plausible, but not recommended?
|
| 00:52:51 | I'll buy that.
|
| 00:52:58 | Narrator: It's been a long and winding road
for this popcorn parable.
|
| 00:53:03 | Kari, grant, and tory have discovered explosions
won't pop your corn.
|
| 00:53:09 | it didn't work
at all.
|
| 00:53:11 | Narrator: But lasers will.
|
| 00:53:13 | However, a giant ball of corn
popped by a 5-megawatt laser
leading to a house explosion is pure fiction.
|
| 00:53:22 | Busted. yep, busted.
|
| 00:53:24 | [ Horn honks ]
Tory: Now, our house hasn't exploded yet,
and this myth calls for an exploding house.
|
| 00:53:28 | So we're out here at the bomb range, and
this is the plan.
|
| 00:53:31 | We're gonna load it with c-4 at the top and
the bottom,
and when this day is over,
we should see splinters and popcorn, and
that's all.
|
| 00:53:38 | I don't think they taught methis in bomb
school.
|
| 00:53:41 | Kari:WELL, WE STARTED WITH A BANG, AND WE'RE
Ending with a bang.
|
| 00:53:45 | So basically we've gota boom popcorn sandwich.
|
| 00:53:48 | All right,you guys ready? ready.
|
| 00:53:50 | ..
|
| 00:53:55 | Whoa! whoa! whoa!
|
| 00:53:56 | Look at the rain of popcorn coming down!
|
| 00:54:00 | Ohh!
|
| 00:54:01 | The rain of house, too. whoa!
|
| 00:54:04 | Tory: No.tha is exploding a house with popcorn.
|
| 00:54:11 | with c-4, surrounded
by popcorn.
|
| 00:54:17 | Grant:TO GET THIS RESULT,
We had to go very far awayfrom popcorn power.
|
| 00:54:24 | It didn't really push upon the house,
it didn't blow the windows open,it didn't
really do a whole lot.
|
| 00:54:32 | Kari: Popcorn power turned outto be science
fiction.
|
| 00:54:35 | This explosion, real genius.
|
| 00:54:46 | Hey, you. yeah, you.
|
| 00:54:48 | You want more?
|
| 00:54:49 | WELL, IT'S ON discovery.com/mythbusters.
|
| 00:54:56 | It may not look like it, but we're professionals.
|
| 00:54:58 | Do us a favor.
|
| 00:55:00 | Don't try this at home! whoa!
|
| 00:55:02 | Narrator:..
|
| 00:55:04 | [ Flatly ] JAMIE, DON'T JUMP. YOU HAVE SO
Much to live for.
|
| 00:55:07 | ...Adam and jamie take out the trash...
|
| 00:55:10 | Those things will get ya.
|
| 00:55:12 | Ow!
|
| 00:55:13 | ...As they test the movie myth
..
|
| 00:55:16 | A perfect 10!
|
| 00:55:17 | ...And find out if legging it
after a "trash" landing is legit.
|
| 00:55:23 | [ Laughter ]
nice job. thank you.
|
| 00:55:25 | Meanwhile, kari,ory, and grant go off the
..
|
| 00:55:29 | [ Laughs maniacally ]
...with and old time diving myth.
|
| 00:55:33 | Time to go divin'.
|
| 00:55:34 | Narrator: Could an air-supply failure up
..
|
| 00:55:36 | You're kidding me. this is working?
|
| 00:55:38 | ...Spell a spectacular squeeze and certain
death down below?
|
| 00:55:43 | Oh! look at what's happening to his head!
|
| 00:55:46 | Kari: Yeah!
|
| 00:55:50 | Narrator: Who are the mythbusters?
|
| 00:55:53 | ..
|
| 00:55:53 | I feel perfectly normal.
|
| 00:55:55 | ...And jamie hyneman.
|
| 00:55:56 | Pain is your friend.
|
| 00:55:57 | Between them, more than 30 years of special-effects
experience.
|
| 00:56:03 | ..
|
| 00:56:05 | ..
|
| 00:56:06 | Burn!
|
| 00:56:07 | ...Kari byron...
|
| 00:56:08 | And I'm starting to get the idea
that this shouldn't be done inside.
|
| 00:56:11 | ...Tory belleci...
|
| 00:56:12 | [ Grunts ]
...and featuring jessi combs.
|
| 00:56:15 | That was awesome!
|
| 00:56:16 | They don't just tell the myths.
|
| 00:56:20 | [ Cheering ]
they put them to the test.
|
| 00:56:31 | First up, adam and jamie dive into a film
fable.
|
| 00:56:35 | So, I hear you have a movie myth for us.
|
| 00:56:38 | [ British accent ] I DO, OLD BEAN.
|
| 00:56:39 | It seems that within the logic of an action
movie,
any building can be escaped from
by handily jumping into a dumpster parked
next to it.
|
| 00:56:46 | Hop out, dust yourself off, and walk away
unharmed.
|
| 00:56:49 | Well, that sounds like rubbish.
|
| 00:56:52 | It's an action-movie cliché.
|
| 00:56:53 | After a roof runaround with nowhere else
to go,
a dive into a dumpster equals a guaranteed
getaway.
|
| 00:57:01 | But can you really get up and go every time
after a "trash" landing?
|
| 00:57:06 | So, how is this gonna go down?
|
| 00:57:08 | [ Normal voice ] WELL, I FIGURE THAT ANY
Line of investigation we pursue
is ultimately hopefully gonna end
with one of us leaping into a dumpster.
|
| 00:57:16 | So first things first.
|
| 00:57:17 | I think we need to be trained how to fall
safely.
|
| 00:57:19 | I think we need to call one of the stuntmen
we know
to teach us.
|
| 00:57:22 | Well, I guess it's time to jump right in,
huh?
|
| 00:57:24 | [ Laughing ] ALL RIGHT.
|
| 00:57:28 | Yep, this myth can only end one way --
with an actual dumpster dive.
|
| 00:57:32 | And to make sure our mythbusters will live
to bust another day,
it's off to treasure island for stunt-falling
101.
|
| 00:57:40 | Adam: So in our ongoing training to be action-movie
heroes,
we are about to learn how to take a high
fall safely.
|
| 00:57:46 | Andthisis the building we're gonna start
with.
|
| 00:57:50 | This is the air bag that's gonna break our
fall.
|
| 00:57:53 | ..
|
| 00:57:55 | ...Is the guy that's gonna train us.
|
| 00:57:57 | That's randy lamb, stunt coordinator and
fall guy.
|
| 00:58:02 | Oh, this is cool in here!
|
| 00:58:04 | As jamie said,
they're not starting on the dumpsters just
yet.
|
| 00:58:08 | First there's this.
|
| 00:58:10 | ]
[ laughs ] how does this air bag work, you
ask?
|
| 00:58:14 | Well, it's called a two-stage air bag, and
it works thusly.
|
| 00:58:17 | The first stage, this top part, slows you
down by popping,
by opening through this very portal that
I climbed out of.
|
| 00:58:24 | The second stage, that bottom layer, stops
you.
|
| 00:58:27 | It does not deflate.
|
| 00:58:29 | Narrator: And that's key,
because the name of this game is deceleration.
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