The great thing about Mythbusters is you are learning about different things and getting entertainment at same time, and is great for any audience from little kids to senior citizens, it has something for everyone. I loved watching this with my older parents.
i like to imagine he was calling his wife "hey honey how's work?" "nothing much, just helping some people erase a car from existence with a gratuitous amount of explosives." "..what?"
What bothers me with all the tests is the Myth was blindfolded, nowhere in the beginning did they mention deaf as well yet they choose to test it that way, A lot of your balance is controlled by your ears/hearing in some weird way which depriving yourself of that could lead to why they both veered left or right while trying to walk. They tested whether you could walk in a straight line while deaf and blind, not just blind
The stack of 5 Tannerite cans did not all detonate. We don't know where he hit, but going frame by frame of their slo-mo you can see two cans rising with contents. Likely that only the bottom 3 went off which matches my experience with the stuff. If you have a large container or even a long trail of it....when it detonates it all goes. Separate containers each cushion the shockwave and far enough from the initiating point it'll get snuffed out.
100% where you initiate the explosives, as well as how they're coupled can leave alot just not detonating. Even with HE primers sometimes you have to double prime to make sure the whole colum goes off.
One thing which could help walk in a straighter line would be a fairly long rope (10-15m). If I am not mistaken, it has been used successfully in survival situations. Particularly in the snow, with an overcast sky, it can help. One trick to find the direction of the sun, even with an overcast sky, even in the middle of the forest, is to use a knife (or something shiny) and your finger. You place your finger in front of the knife and then do a full rotation with your body. You will notice that the shadow of your finger on the shinny surface gets stronger and lighter as you rotate yourself. When the shadow is the most pronounced, the sun is directly behind you.
There is different levels of blindness. 100% blindness is extremely rare. Even the most bad cases usually can see bright lights and distinguish between shadows and bright areas or the environment. At the very least, they could see where the sun is and keep it as a reference for walking straight.
Blind people need references as well. In the middle of a field and blindfolded to eliminate all light, the person will still walk erratically, even with a walker or cane as an aid.
@@gabrielv.4358 Relying on solely on sounds for direction may not be as effective as it seems. If you have to walk towards a loud sound, without echoes or reverberations, that is doable. However, if one is relying on birds, wind, etc, that may end up making the situation even worse, as the sources may change position and/or be confused with their echoes. There are many documented cases of lost people who end up walking in circles even with audio and visual stimuli. One of the reasons for it is that human beings tend to have a dominant foot, thus creating a bias towards one side or the other. There are, of course, other reasons such as terrain, erratic interpretations due to illusions confusion, panic, etc.
@@LQ_LQ_LQ 1970s subcompact cars, most infamously the Pinto, put the fuel tank between the rear axle and the rear bumper, inside the crush-zone in a fender bender. Automakers, notably Ford, knew this was bad but didn't want to spend money to fix it, and they got big lawsuits after cars caught fire in rear collisions. Ford Pinto Wikipedia article has a long section if you'd like to read more.
Not only can you not walk in a straight line but if you step in place long enough you will start to spin. I've only done it with high steps with my eyes closed but I'd like to test it out with small steps too
17:11 all 5 containers did not explode, if you slow the video down to .25 you can see one of the intact containers falling back down from around the top middle of the screen to the middle of the screen, you can tell it is still intact because it is cylinder shaped and you can clearly see the orange label in slow mo
Many moons ago when this aired I would have been as confident as Adam. These days with bad knees and hips I know even with my eyes open I would struggle to keep it truly straight.
I will never not giggle at the scientists walking around, not only with buckets on their heads, but buckets that they *drew various cartoon faces on* .
You know, I don't know if it changes anything, but the myth didn't specify you can't hear, as well. They just said walking blind. There was no need for the sound-canceling headphones.
No. Being able to hear the other crew members moving around and talking would give an unfair advantage. Isolating the part of the myth tested is the only way for sure to know of the blindness is what causing the lack of directionality. Hearing a bird in the direction they're headed and walking towards it would taint the results of the experiment.
I don’t recall the effects name, but basically your body will tend to drift towards your dominant hands side. That’s why some experts tell you to mark off the areas you’ve traveled as you walk if lost in the wilderness to help prevent circling
A technique that has been used to keep a mostly straight course while walking through wilderness where landmarks are difficult to see is similar to the trick with the ladder. Take a long, light stick, such as the trunk of a sapling, and carry it horizontally in one hand. Inertia will try to keep it from turning sideways, and you will feel when it does and be able to correct for it. It's not perfect, and requires you to be able to see. Using landmarks when they are visible is of course also important. Even so, it does have merit, particularly if you don't have access to GPS.
Very cool. I'd never heard that one before. Personally I just used the wristwatch navigation trick I learned back in Sea Cadets. Point the hour hand at the sun, half way between the hour hand and the 12:00 position is South. That works any place in the Northern Hemisphere
@@stephenmartin1982In the Southern Hemisphere, you point the 12:00 position at the sun, and the midpoint between it and the hour hand is North. A little expansion on that trick for any trips down under you might take. Either way, I would like to think that if you can picture an analog clock in your mind easily enough, you can decently guesstimate North/South as long as you have a reliable way to tell time.
Adam consistently would say “I feel I’m drifting this way” and it was actually the other direction, I’m more surprised he didn’t realize that and put a mental fix into place.
Pretty certain I could do at least the drive in a general "straight line" as a result of how much time I have spent driving large vehicles. This would fall more on experience and technique with number 1 being ZERO vehicles drive in a straight line with a static wheel due to a naturally imperfect wheel alignment..... you need to move the wheel side to side in small increments with a consistency dependent on the vehicle's characteristics to counter those imperfections. Granted it would probably appear as a slightly wavy line with the chalk on the ground🤔as a result of these corrections but the direction would be straight overall.
I'm always amazed at how when they do crashes like in the vertical drop how little damage is done to the rear of the target car. The safety from that engineering is outstanding.
The interesting thing about driving in a straight line is that because of the curvature of the earth, a car that has zero outside steering input is actually set to drift to the right or left based on whether it is north or south of the equator. I forget what this rule is called, but it is fascinating since to go perfectly straight, you actually have to hold the wheel slightly canted.
Fun fact my outdoor pursuits teacher had us walk about 150 yards blindfolded and no one got as close as me. I have severe scoliosis and I walked in almost a perfect line. I was off by a few feet. I did better than everyone else but I had the most damaged body
years ago there was a big lawsuit about Ford pickup trucks exploding when the gas tank got hit in a collision. I forget how it was settled, but it made a lot of national news.
So for walking in a straight line in the first test, wouldn't feeling the sun on you help with that. I mean there were multiple occasions where the sun's shining switches from the front of Jamie and Adam to the back or to the side just from them getting turned around. You would think that feeling the sun on you would be an indicator on which direction you're facing.
Maybe, but It's likely also due to our bodies not being perfectly symmetrical causing one leg to have a slightly longer stride. A longer stride might allow for one foot to cross a little more over to the opposite side of our body when we place our foot in front (think less exaggerate walking the cat walk at fashion week) causing a drift. We also heavily rely on our sight to maintain balance and that is also a likely factor( ever tried drunk goggles?)
They literally talked about that. They literally showed though multiple tests that the change in direction was random. Neither of them had a dominant foot. LISTEN while you watch.
For swimming im pretty sure the reason they both turned left is they are both right handed. Their left arm is weaker/ less conditioned and the right arm will naturally push them left.
Tannerite is fun to use if you know what your doing and all that stuff is aluminum powder and one other ingredeant and being able to walk in a straight line comes down to feel and ballance
I could be wrong, but that binary explosive is initiated by a pressure wave, not by a specific amount of energy. They could drop an oil tanker on it and it still would not initiate.
No, that's rebounding with dust. Like when Thor hit Captain America's shield. When a rubber ball bounces, do you call THAT an explosion? HOW ARE SO MANY OF THESE COMMENT SCIENCE FAILWORTHY?!?!
@@YodatheHobbit No, there was a clearly seen forceful lift on the "fist" during the slow-mo: It came down, struck and pushed the whole plate downward, and just as the plate slows to almost nothing comes the quick push of about 4 to 6 inches upward on the "fist". That wasn't rebound.
The orienteering experiment showed that reduced vision can be compensated for with training but they didn’t try to train for complete loss of senses. Bah.
Wait, Jamie's a) driving paths were similar and straighter than b) Jamie's first walking path attempt and Adam's first walking path attempt, but the show praised b more than a.
question... you've well and truely proven sufficient impact will set off binary explosive.. but will a spark, or fire? what if the fender bender caused a spark, or there was some cloth in the back that caught fire? of course it's a long shot, but i'm curious (i'm guessing not, considering the stability of the mixture... but i'm purely guessing?) also, second thought, of course the fist (and car) have more overall force than the bullet, but what about the force per inch squared? the force of the car, spread across so much more space, how does the math measure up?
did you bother to check google? it appears not www.google.com/search?q=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&oq=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l4j33i299.12509j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Yeah it needs a certain threshhold pressure. It‘s a compression based detonation and in the car scenario that just isn‘t happening. But tiny tip of tiny bullet going very fast exerting very high pressure is 😄 that‘s why blowing it up with a detonation cap works too, since that too exerts high pressure. Pretty sure if that „fist“ was a flat cylinder, if it hit at close enough to a right angle, could have worked too.
@@lenshibo i don‘t think an arrow‘s speed is sufficient to reach the compression needed to set it off. Bc if it were, dropping it would probably set it off too 😅
24:26 has nothing to do with the amount of joules. It’s about the speed of the bullet and on impact of said bullet, it’s the flash on impact that makes it go boom.
I can guarantee that I could have walked in a much straighter line in that field. All you have to do is go by the sun's radiant heat. I could not swim straight or do it in the dark with no wind.
29:44 - Rather than an "unnatural construct", a straight line is a standard outside ourselves. 👍 Being able to do science is reliant on there being consistencies. We recognize what's crooked because we know what's straight. We didn't construct that; we're always (re)discovering it.
"What's the real-world application?" they ask, after I spend the whole episode wondering if they'd consult with a blind person about it I know the majority of blind people still have _some_ vision, but I'm still really interested whether they deal with this or if it's something you grow out of when you depend on your vision less
i wonder what field of view you would need to walk in a strait line? would you need to see the horizon or furthest possible thing you could see? if you could see 100 feet in front of you would it be enough? what about 50 or 10 feet in front of you? what if all those scenarios where in a field or as close to a surface with zero input you could get (like freshly paved asphalt)? whats the limit?
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These old episodes are great to watch, because it's been so long since I've seen them now, that I've forgotten at least a 3rd of the episodes.
The great thing about Mythbusters is you are learning about different things and getting entertainment at same time, and is great for any audience from little kids to senior citizens, it has something for everyone. I loved watching this with my older parents.
Thank you for putting these online I love watching them again this is one of the best shows ever made IMHO..
40:41 The fact that Jamie walked in a significantly straighter line with a bucket on his head is absolutely hilarious 😂
26:41 "i'm holding my hands steady, but i cant shake the feeling that i'm drifting to the right"
that gets me everytime xD
Love the dude just chilling on the telephone as the team nukes a car
32:43
32:48😂😂
Time stamp for ya, for phone guy in Orange
Given where he works, that's probably just a normal Tuesday for him.
I thought he was calling his mother in law... "Yeah, about the car? slight accident...."
He's getting the remote readout from the observation post.
i like to imagine he was calling his wife
"hey honey how's work?"
"nothing much, just helping some people erase a car from existence with a gratuitous amount of explosives."
"..what?"
2:51 "Our testing here is pretty straightforward"
True. I have a feeling it won't be straight forward though.
It's not very straight, and in the end it's barely even forward.
What bothers me with all the tests is the Myth was blindfolded, nowhere in the beginning did they mention deaf as well yet they choose to test it that way, A lot of your balance is controlled by your ears/hearing in some weird way which depriving yourself of that could lead to why they both veered left or right while trying to walk. They tested whether you could walk in a straight line while deaf and blind, not just blind
The stack of 5 Tannerite cans did not all detonate. We don't know where he hit, but going frame by frame of their slo-mo you can see two cans rising with contents. Likely that only the bottom 3 went off which matches my experience with the stuff. If you have a large container or even a long trail of it....when it detonates it all goes. Separate containers each cushion the shockwave and far enough from the initiating point it'll get snuffed out.
100% where you initiate the explosives, as well as how they're coupled can leave alot just not detonating. Even with HE primers sometimes you have to double prime to make sure the whole colum goes off.
Yellow smoke indicates it did not all detonate. I've set off 25ish pounds before but I had to put it in a pvc pipe and it still didn't all detonate
RIP Grant. Thank you for the many memories with grandson. We tested many try this at home. Just like childhood, Grant, gone too soon.
Oh, my favorite episode! I love the not-able-to-walk-straight episode!
35:04
Your little info sections are golden and im glad i can enjoy these whenever i wish😊
We love ya Grant ❤❤❤
Er, well, we did...
@AnakinTheWeird so you stop loving when someone passes?
@@jordanrandall1873 At that point I guess you could say...
*puts on sunglasses*
...they're dead to me.
Jamie's second walk test actually ended up pretty straight, just after a 90° turn
7:42 it was amazing how strait he walked for so long even if it wasnt anywhere near towards the target or the direction he started out on.
Once you get used to using your other senses it's very easy. Blind people do it all the time.
32:10 what a shoutout from Grant.
Give us the uncensored version you cowards
RiP
One thing which could help walk in a straighter line would be a fairly long rope (10-15m). If I am not mistaken, it has been used successfully in survival situations. Particularly in the snow, with an overcast sky, it can help.
One trick to find the direction of the sun, even with an overcast sky, even in the middle of the forest, is to use a knife (or something shiny) and your finger. You place your finger in front of the knife and then do a full rotation with your body. You will notice that the shadow of your finger on the shinny surface gets stronger and lighter as you rotate yourself. When the shadow is the most pronounced, the sun is directly behind you.
They could've used blind people without their walker to see if you can fix the bias with experience
That wouldn't necessarily work for a few reasons. If you're born blind, there are ways you can learn to not veer off.
There is different levels of blindness. 100% blindness is extremely rare. Even the most bad cases usually can see bright lights and distinguish between shadows and bright areas or the environment. At the very least, they could see where the sun is and keep it as a reference for walking straight.
Blind people need references as well. In the middle of a field and blindfolded to eliminate all light, the person will still walk erratically, even with a walker or cane as an aid.
The test was wrong. Blind DOESNT MEAN DEAF. so if you are BLIND, you can still HEAR, and change more things acccording to sound
@@gabrielv.4358 Relying on solely on sounds for direction may not be as effective as it seems. If you have to walk towards a loud sound, without echoes or reverberations, that is doable. However, if one is relying on birds, wind, etc, that may end up making the situation even worse, as the sources may change position and/or be confused with their echoes.
There are many documented cases of lost people who end up walking in circles even with audio and visual stimuli. One of the reasons for it is that human beings tend to have a dominant foot, thus creating a bias towards one side or the other. There are, of course, other reasons such as terrain, erratic interpretations due to illusions confusion, panic, etc.
Creating a fender bender explosion is not as difficult as you think
All you need is crash on the back of a 1970 Ford Pinto
It's a wonder they haven't got old Vegas, Pintos, and Gremlins--and also a Chevy Chevette, and see which ones blow up the easiest.
Whats the background, for us non-americans?
@@LQ_LQ_LQ 1970s subcompact cars, most infamously the Pinto, put the fuel tank between the rear axle and the rear bumper, inside the crush-zone in a fender bender. Automakers, notably Ford, knew this was bad but didn't want to spend money to fix it, and they got big lawsuits after cars caught fire in rear collisions. Ford Pinto Wikipedia article has a long section if you'd like to read more.
@@92xsaabaru- ohhhh wow! Thanks, yeah I’ll definitely read up on that.
@@cejannuzi The Pintos were crap, but the Chevette was a good little car.
Don’t mind me just rewatching myth busters on my birthday for nostalgia 😅
Thnx for uploading these episodes!
The world is not the same without Grant Imahara
It really isn't. When people like that go early, they leave a unfillable and irreplaceable void.
Not only can you not walk in a straight line but if you step in place long enough you will start to spin. I've only done it with high steps with my eyes closed but I'd like to test it out with small steps too
3:56 I love that this sequence is framed like a wild west duel between adam and walking straight
Yay full episodes are back!
17:11 all 5 containers did not explode, if you slow the video down to .25 you can see one of the intact containers falling back down from around the top middle of the screen to the middle of the screen, you can tell it is still intact because it is cylinder shaped and you can clearly see the orange label in slow mo
Many moons ago when this aired I would have been as confident as Adam. These days with bad knees and hips I know even with my eyes open I would struggle to keep it truly straight.
I will never not giggle at the scientists walking around, not only with buckets on their heads, but buckets that they *drew various cartoon faces on* .
You know, I don't know if it changes anything, but the myth didn't specify you can't hear, as well. They just said walking blind. There was no need for the sound-canceling headphones.
No.
Being able to hear the other crew members moving around and talking would give an unfair advantage.
Isolating the part of the myth tested is the only way for sure to know of the blindness is what causing the lack of directionality.
Hearing a bird in the direction they're headed and walking towards it would taint the results of the experiment.
@@YodatheHobbit But there was nothing in the myth that said you had to be unable to hear... They just decided to do that.
I don’t recall the effects name, but basically your body will tend to drift towards your dominant hands side. That’s why some experts tell you to mark off the areas you’ve traveled as you walk if lost in the wilderness to help prevent circling
I love Tannerite.
What happens when you burn it
you need to also explore how BLIND people navigate and get straight lines and direction.
I dunno, Jaime was doing pretty good driving in the correct direction.
I love how at 32:54 when the explosion is slowed down you can see the shockwave.
Jamie walking in an almost perfect straight line with a bucket on his head in incredibly impressive.
A technique that has been used to keep a mostly straight course while walking through wilderness where landmarks are difficult to see is similar to the trick with the ladder.
Take a long, light stick, such as the trunk of a sapling, and carry it horizontally in one hand. Inertia will try to keep it from turning sideways, and you will feel when it does and be able to correct for it.
It's not perfect, and requires you to be able to see. Using landmarks when they are visible is of course also important. Even so, it does have merit, particularly if you don't have access to GPS.
Very cool. I'd never heard that one before. Personally I just used the wristwatch navigation trick I learned back in Sea Cadets. Point the hour hand at the sun, half way between the hour hand and the 12:00 position is South. That works any place in the Northern Hemisphere
@@stephenmartin1982In the Southern Hemisphere, you point the 12:00 position at the sun, and the midpoint between it and the hour hand is North. A little expansion on that trick for any trips down under you might take.
Either way, I would like to think that if you can picture an analog clock in your mind easily enough, you can decently guesstimate North/South as long as you have a reliable way to tell time.
@@DavidRichardson153 Awesome. Thanks for posting that trick
The test was wrong. Blind DOESNT MEAN DEAF. so if you are BLIND, you can still HEAR, and change more things acccording to sound
Rocket powered car? The for shadowing is unreal lol
Explosive fender bender? I didn't know the Ford Pinto was a myth!
I love that the truck goes THROUGH the car 😂
Adam consistently would say “I feel I’m drifting this way” and it was actually the other direction, I’m more surprised he didn’t realize that and put a mental fix into place.
That rocket sled was always my grandson's and my favorite. Even today, my inner child has an out of body experience
This show was so good.
can't believe you didn't test just a blind fold with no ear muffs
they did while swimming
That would be stupid.
Pretty certain I could do at least the drive in a general "straight line" as a result of how much time I have spent driving large vehicles.
This would fall more on experience and technique with number 1 being ZERO vehicles drive in a straight line with a static wheel due to a naturally imperfect wheel alignment..... you need to move the wheel side to side in small increments with a consistency dependent on the vehicle's characteristics to counter those imperfections. Granted it would probably appear as a slightly wavy line with the chalk on the ground🤔as a result of these corrections but the direction would be straight overall.
If you got into a car crash like that, the explosives in the trunk would be the least of your worries 😅
had to post this to the mythbusters face book group . a great episode an my favorite part was when Tory Belleci shot the zombie .
"I can't shake the feeling that I'm drifting to the right."
"Interesting..."
Lol
I'm always amazed at how when they do crashes like in the vertical drop how little damage is done to the rear of the target car. The safety from that engineering is outstanding.
I wish they would have compared a blind person to them blind folded
The interesting thing about driving in a straight line is that because of the curvature of the earth, a car that has zero outside steering input is actually set to drift to the right or left based on whether it is north or south of the equator.
I forget what this rule is called, but it is fascinating since to go perfectly straight, you actually have to hold the wheel slightly canted.
23:25 that little side eye there got me real goood.. so glad it's not tv and I can rewind 😁
You know. The most impressive part was that binary explosive’s claim being proven true again and again.
Fun fact my outdoor pursuits teacher had us walk about 150 yards blindfolded and no one got as close as me. I have severe scoliosis and I walked in almost a perfect line. I was off by a few feet. I did better than everyone else but I had the most damaged body
Adam can walk forward.. be he never walks “straight “😂
They were shooting Tannerite. Easy to make at home but getting harder to find the fert.
Consider the Maze Runner. Escape Room. The Internet. Regarding being blindfolded and needing to walk a straight line.
years ago there was a big lawsuit about Ford pickup trucks exploding when the gas tank got hit in a collision. I forget how it was settled, but it made a lot of national news.
39:19 Hey Jamie, can I barrow that helmet for... an experiment.
Thank you for the Chance 😮😊😊
So for walking in a straight line in the first test, wouldn't feeling the sun on you help with that. I mean there were multiple occasions where the sun's shining switches from the front of Jamie and Adam to the back or to the side just from them getting turned around. You would think that feeling the sun on you would be an indicator on which direction you're facing.
I have seen this demonstrated several times. If the sun was noticeable no one bothered with it. Everyone spirals.
The walking part is definitely dominate foot pushing the opposite direction slowly.
Maybe, but It's likely also due to our bodies not being perfectly symmetrical causing one leg to have a slightly longer stride. A longer stride might allow for one foot to cross a little more over to the opposite side of our body when we place our foot in front (think less exaggerate walking the cat walk at fashion week) causing a drift. We also heavily rely on our sight to maintain balance and that is also a likely factor( ever tried drunk goggles?)
They literally talked about that. They literally showed though multiple tests that the change in direction was random.
Neither of them had a dominant foot.
LISTEN while you watch.
RIP Grant Imahara!
For swimming im pretty sure the reason they both turned left is they are both right handed. Their left arm is weaker/ less conditioned and the right arm will naturally push them left.
Tannerite is fun to use if you know what your doing and all that stuff is aluminum powder and one other ingredeant and being able to walk in a straight line comes down to feel and ballance
I could be wrong, but that binary explosive is initiated by a pressure wave, not by a specific amount of energy. They could drop an oil tanker on it and it still would not initiate.
so a pressure wave isnt a specific amount of energy????
Why didn't they try walking heel-to-toe? That's probably the best way to walk in a straight line
21:55 (spoiler) shows there WAS an explosion when they claimed none.
No, that's rebounding with dust. Like when Thor hit Captain America's shield.
When a rubber ball bounces, do you call THAT an explosion?
HOW ARE SO MANY OF THESE COMMENT SCIENCE FAILWORTHY?!?!
@@YodatheHobbit No, there was a clearly seen forceful lift on the "fist" during the slow-mo: It came down, struck and pushed the whole plate downward, and just as the plate slows to almost nothing comes the quick push of about 4 to 6 inches upward on the "fist". That wasn't rebound.
That binary explosive looks like Tannerite, which I've set off with a pellet gun with an FPS of just 200.
which episode is the one shown in the title sequence at 1:01?
28:24 you could just keep your hands off the wheel
I think that the wheel alignment being off and any rocks or divots in the road would mean hands free wouldn't drive straight either.
Say you've never driven a car without saying you've never driven a car
if you want to make an instead U turn.
They should’ve texted the two cars impacting while the engines are running..
The orienteering experiment showed that reduced vision can be compensated for with training but they didn’t try to train for complete loss of senses. Bah.
I like how Kari was like, "I think we need to blow some more shit up"
Wait, Jamie's a) driving paths were similar and straighter than b) Jamie's first walking path attempt and Adam's first walking path attempt, but the show praised b more than a.
Cool, mythbusters try out 'barrelmancy' from Baldur's Gate 3 O_o
no heat to help set it off.
2:13 lol dude fell onto his nuts.
that sedan got isekai'd by a 300mph truck kun.
19:18 I love that the camera lens cracked
question... you've well and truely proven sufficient impact will set off binary explosive..
but will a spark, or fire? what if the fender bender caused a spark, or there was some cloth in the back that caught fire? of course it's a long shot, but i'm curious
(i'm guessing not, considering the stability of the mixture... but i'm purely guessing?)
also, second thought, of course the fist (and car) have more overall force than the bullet, but what about the force per inch squared? the force of the car, spread across so much more space, how does the math measure up?
did you bother to check google? it appears not
www.google.com/search?q=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&oq=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l4j33i299.12509j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
23:35 Cadillac ranch.
24:12 …and Volvo crashtest.
ive walked stright lines in the dark but. still missed my turn and at that point i stoped tell day light
So I guess to make that binary explosive explode you need impact with some minimum energy density? Therefore bullet works, car doesn't.
Yeah it needs a certain threshhold pressure. It‘s a compression based detonation and in the car scenario that just isn‘t happening. But tiny tip of tiny bullet going very fast exerting very high pressure is 😄 that‘s why blowing it up with a detonation cap works too, since that too exerts high pressure. Pretty sure if that „fist“ was a flat cylinder, if it hit at close enough to a right angle, could have worked too.
would an arrow from a bow work?
@@lenshibo i don‘t think an arrow‘s speed is sufficient to reach the compression needed to set it off. Bc if it were, dropping it would probably set it off too 😅
It needs a super sonic shockwave to propagate through it.
Here before the: "I've heard that they don't just tell the myths." guy.
Ah but were you here before the first "RIP Grant" comment?
@@NorrisHistoryCorner I hadn't thought of that, but it seems i am, although there is one person probably talking about Jessi.
I wonder how a blind person, someone who wouldn't rely on eyesight, would do trying to walk straight
A little sulfur will greatly sensitize the binary.
31:26 but there are 2 controls thats needed to be performed. this one and one with the rocket sled being slammed in to a car without explosives.
24:26 has nothing to do with the amount of joules. It’s about the speed of the bullet and on impact of said bullet, it’s the flash on impact that makes it go boom.
44:12. They could have used the ladder like a Caterpillar.
Inchworm forward a bit at a time.
The real question is, did the guy who thought it was a good idea to drive around with pre mixed binary explosives also have blasting caps with it.
I can guarantee that I could have walked in a much straighter line in that field. All you have to do is go by the sun's radiant heat.
I could not swim straight or do it in the dark with no wind.
Wanted to know if the explosives even got hit from the drop test but we’ll never know.
2:44 ... but ... blind people...
29:44 - Rather than an "unnatural construct", a straight line is a standard outside ourselves. 👍
Being able to do science is reliant on there being consistencies. We recognize what's crooked because we know what's straight. We didn't construct that; we're always (re)discovering it.
Maybe the collision caused a gasoline explosion which then caused a larger explosion with the oxidizer reacting to the gasoline.
"What's the real-world application?" they ask, after I spend the whole episode wondering if they'd consult with a blind person about it
I know the majority of blind people still have _some_ vision, but I'm still really interested whether they deal with this or if it's something you grow out of when you depend on your vision less
18:30 they should ask FPS Russia whether it can destroy a car 😂
19:18 the camera lens hot cracked
i wonder what field of view you would need to walk in a strait line? would you need to see the horizon or furthest possible thing you could see? if you could see 100 feet in front of you would it be enough? what about 50 or 10 feet in front of you? what if all those scenarios where in a field or as close to a surface with zero input you could get (like freshly paved asphalt)? whats the limit?
The walking myth location - North Livermore Avenue / Manning Road in Livermore, CA
@45:57 "its right behind me- isn't it?"
what about running in a straight line?