Damn Mythbusters is the only show where I can watch someone scream with a megaphone at a "flour Moountain" and me still be curious if it falls or not 😂
It’s sad that it’s finished.. but today, I don’t think it would be so successful, because people watching some strange people on TikTok doing nothing interesting or scientific
As a Canadian who earned his learner's permit in the middle of winter, that snow driving thing brought back frightening memories... Where in the name of HEAVEN did people think that reversing on snow is better? They clearly have not been to Saskatchewan in January! Stay safe everyone! Winter is coming
i live in the snowy mountains ... reverse driving may not be safer. But for sure it is easier to drive up a mountain on a snowtrack for most cars in reverse gear. That's not true for 4-wheel-drive of course.
You live in Saskatchewan? How do you even know which direction you’re driving? Is that why Regina and Saskatoon have ring roads? To give you some sense of direction? 😊😂
Norway here: Sometimes they so stupidly misunderstand the myth. Driving backwards is not a myth, it's just that it HAS to be a FRONT WHEEL DRIVE car and it HAS to be a HILL you want to ASCEND. It all obviously has to do with weight distribution when going up a hill and where the driven wheels are located. What is also nice is that if you start to slide down said hill, you are now going forward again which is easier to control -as we clearly saw. This has helped me in a pinch several times, but it's not for going fast or in traffic. So no, it's not busted, it just made them look fools on this one. Also a trick I can give is if you find yourself stuck spinning one wheel, is to lightly push the brake pedal as to make the brakes work as a poor mans limited slip differential. If rear wheel drive, use the parking brake instead, also lightly.
Through the late 80s and early 90s I worked as a downhill ski instructor & racing coach in the Canadian Rockies (mostly at Norquay & Mystic Ridge), and in that area the Ski Patrol and Parks Canada and the RCMP would set avalanches off by firing shells, (we called the rockets) - firing them from guns mounted on the rooftop of the teahouse at the top of the big ski lift. I used to bring my ski school kids up to watch them fire these things off, and they’d give us their big binoculars to watch the avalanches. It was very cool.
Indeed it is. Up here in Sweden it´s a matter of life or death if you are lacking in the winter driving skills department. As a bus driver (as I am) it´s even more important to know what you are doing. On a ordinary car, a good set of studded Swedish or Finnish made winter tires is the shit. It will keep the margins on your side + the driving skills of course. These guys have hardly even seen snow or ice which is understandable. It´s a whole different ball game. Then again, this is television. Entertainment. It´s supposed to be a bit dramatic.
As someone who licked a metal pole in the winter, the pole licking part hurt to watch. Even more so due to the gross pig tongue and stale saliva... Nasty.
I have caused an avalanche with some of my classmates skiing in France in 2000... Only a small one, but it scared the hell out of me! The skipatrol had to use explosives to control the rest of the mountain, which is prone to avalanches. It's hard to predict the next one 😢
34:44 but did they use the right tires? Any good Canadian/snow driver knows you gotta swap those bad boys out for your winters, and also those folks have never driven in snow before! Ya gotta get some folks who are experienced with cold weather driving
To top it all off the car types were wildly different, like you're gonna have MUCH more trouble seeing behind you in an SUV than a convertible. Add onto it they never used the same driver and the data they got was all but useless.
I wonder if what might have helped unstick the tongue after a few seconds might have been the layer of ice. Ice is a pretty good insulator once it forms maybe it provides just enough insulation that the temperature gradient across it is enough the outside starts to thaw using the heat coming from the warm blood flowing through the tongue.
Only in California would they be unfamiliar with the metal pole tongue touch. There's this thing called winter throughout the world. Was Slim Whitman not available?
Not only in California. At 34 I've never seen or been close to snow, let alone anything dealing with those conditions, so its fun to me see those things I saw in American media growing up are actually accurate (nor not, as it happens)
I mean, I grew up in the mountains of California. A ski resort town. There _definitely_ is snow in cali, its not all Los Angeles beaches (or in this case the San Francisco bay). Its a real big state with a huge diversity of geography and climate.
I mean tongue stuck to an icy pole food was normal. Like icy things cause tongue to stick to them. don't need an actual metal pole to figure that one out.
I believe that the shape of the mountain should also be taken into account for the avalanche myth, as the shape could intensify the sound waves of the yodeling by echoing it, increasing the the intensity of the sound.
the going in reverse on a frontwheel car is not a myth. here in austria we learn it in driving school. but its about going uphill not on a straight line
that's because going reverse uphill in a FWD will put more of the vehicles weight on the front drive wheel. It's the incline that shifts the traction, not the driving backwards itself. RWD cars just get that effect by themselves going forward, because the drivewheels are already downhill. There's something to be said about driving backwards sinking the front suspension as opposed to raising out of it, but at those speeds that's minimal.
That's not "busted" that's like saying "hey we tested this one dude and he didn't get sick. So that means this virus is not deadly". Jamie was 100% correct. And to Adam's "scientific" comment: No, that's simply not enough data to come to a scientific conclusion.
Everyone in Canada during the driving in snow myth, "meh". 🙂 I did my road test in January during a moderate snow storm. Driving in snow isn't hard, you just need to know what to do and keep it slow. Front wheel drive is great in snow, all power and much of the weight are up front. Driving on black ice, you're screwed. Stay off the road.
Damn driving on snow and ice is really not easy. You aren't the one that dictates speed in such conditions it's the road that determines max speed, you can steer all you want but if you slip you aren't steering anything anymore.
I grew up in Germany on the Swiss border. I’m not a fan of yodeling at all but I’ve heard a lot and can appreciate it. That woman is the first tone deaf yodeler I’ve ever heard. Man she’s bad. Since when is freezing your tongue to a pole a myth? Every Canadian or Northern American kid has done that before. The trick about it is keeping enough saliva in your mouth to warm the metal and get your tongue back off. That and don’t do it when it’s worse than minus 5 C
Sometimes I get so flabbergasted for how much they want to be scientific but then fail to account for a few HUGE set of factors, so in regards to the driving backwards they totally didn't account for having all season or snow tires as cars there would not even have all season tires, next the last vehicle is not 4 Wheel drive it was AWD and that is a very VERY big difference (Yes I live in Canada and drive a top of the line AWD vehicle with full winter tires and where i live we get about 7 feet of snow a year in total, just to be clear here) Next tires have a directionality in their design so going in reverse negates that fact causing the worse handling that might give some form of additional traction as it is NOT the transmission itself doing it, but having you go backwards at speed will fail because if this fact like some verticals that have rear wheels that turn line some forklifts this can give you some addition feeling of control but this is minor, so unfortunately all they tested about going backwards in this ep is irrelevant and pointless unfortunately,. had they driven on snow and ice and been trained on how to drive backwards they would have faired much better but having a very light part of the vehicle in front and the most weight in the back where you also have your tires will cause you to slide almost instantly as your back tires that are going in front have not weight to press them down into the snow and give you better control. this is why people with trucks and long vehicles we put 200 pounds of sandbags in the back of the vehicle to help negate this issue.
what we've learned about mythbuster drivers today are 2 things. Either Americans are terrible drivers or the myth wasn't properly tested. Get drivers used to driving in snow to do the experiment....and that can drive. In previous episodes they've proven themselves to be terrible reverse drivers under normal conditions.
It's a shame they didn't take the "driving backwards" lessons before these episodes. They proved you can very effectively drive backwards with the right technique. That much have helped here as well.
Yodeling specifically might not cause avalanches, but shouting can. Like Jamie said at the end, skiers can cause an avalanche, and the combination of shouting and skiing at the exact wrong spot can trigger one. But not yodeling from as far away as they tried it. Also, reversing in snow is just stupid. And who even reverses that fast to begin with?
and driving backwards in a front wheel car is just like driving a back wheel drive car. when is good for getting grip is thinner tires or wheels or 4x4
its because of the weight of the motor it have better grip and if you get stuck with a front wheel you just sit on the hood and you will get grip again. and if the motor is in the back you just stand on the back and jump and it will get the grip again.
@@maartengaat8718 Mirrors are on cars so the driver can pay attention to what is around them. They are not there for when you want to drive backwards. Turning around is not harder to steer. It is easier to see a wider view and to process information. Mirrors distort things and didn't you notice on the mirrors saying "objects in mirror are closer than they appear"?
how many heaps of wildlife were hurt by all those avalanches?..... How many flora and fauna, micro ecosystemsthat were stressed and scared ...k1ll3d.... All for your dumb stupid..myth busting??¿? . this is hard for me to say because back in the day....this show was my bread and butter with my family👍💖but as an adult, 😑I'm just looking at those hillsides and y'all just exploding stuff...😮. and I've watched episodes with exploding lakes and I just don't know like good Lord🙏 how much stress have you put on to wildlife???!🥺 I watched you irradiate roaches which I did not love (even though I don't love roaches I think they're very very important critters) I mean what the he🏒🏒. 🤔🤬😶 You guys also hurt drosophila melanogaster which I'm not happy with. I bred those critters and worked on them for a whole year to learn about them and I didn't like you irradiating them like they were nothing. Its just all 💩 do you.. not this
You know the avalanche patrol would have triggered that avalanche irregardless of the Mythbusters to lower chances of a greater build up of snow and ice and causing worse damage to the surroundings...
i love how we're drip fed bits of insane lore about Jamie's life, one anecdote or unexpected skill at a time
True. Even those fictional ones that Adam makes up add to the real mystery.
makes you wonder what else can be learned from the hynemman species.
Wasn't he a bugler in the Civil War 😂@@Goalsplus
Damn Mythbusters is the only show where I can watch someone scream with a megaphone at a "flour Moountain" and me still be curious if it falls or not 😂
It’s sad that it’s finished.. but today, I don’t think it would be so successful, because people watching some strange people on TikTok doing nothing interesting or scientific
As a Canadian who earned his learner's permit in the middle of winter, that snow driving thing brought back frightening memories... Where in the name of HEAVEN did people think that reversing on snow is better? They clearly have not been to Saskatchewan in January! Stay safe everyone! Winter is coming
winter's already here in newfoundland
i live in the snowy mountains ... reverse driving may not be safer. But for sure it is easier to drive up a mountain on a snowtrack for most cars in reverse gear. That's not true for 4-wheel-drive of course.
You live in Saskatchewan? How do you even know which direction you’re driving? Is that why Regina and Saskatoon have ring roads? To give you some sense of direction? 😊😂
@@timthompson7205 LOL never thought of it that way🤣
Norway here: Sometimes they so stupidly misunderstand the myth. Driving backwards is not a myth, it's just that it HAS to be a FRONT WHEEL DRIVE car and it HAS to be a HILL you want to ASCEND. It all obviously has to do with weight distribution when going up a hill and where the driven wheels are located. What is also nice is that if you start to slide down said hill, you are now going forward again which is easier to control -as we clearly saw. This has helped me in a pinch several times, but it's not for going fast or in traffic. So no, it's not busted, it just made them look fools on this one. Also a trick I can give is if you find yourself stuck spinning one wheel, is to lightly push the brake pedal as to make the brakes work as a poor mans limited slip differential. If rear wheel drive, use the parking brake instead, also lightly.
5:15 I remember first seeing this and was laughing hysterically. Just imagine a giant Adam Savage yelling at a mountain.
Some guy has a job throwing dynamite out of the window of a helicopter. WTF am I doing with my life?
Well, nothing stops you doing something similar. You just have to improvise.
Through the late 80s and early 90s I worked as a downhill ski instructor & racing coach in the Canadian Rockies (mostly at Norquay & Mystic Ridge), and in that area the Ski Patrol and Parks Canada and the RCMP would set avalanches off by firing shells, (we called the rockets) - firing them from guns mounted on the rooftop of the teahouse at the top of the big ski lift. I used to bring my ski school kids up to watch them fire these things off, and they’d give us their big binoculars to watch the avalanches. It was very cool.
@@amsivertson thanks for sharing, cool story :)
They spent 15 years each working on tight schedules, this is a payoff ..
13:42 for a big puppy
Looks like they all went on a vacation to a skii resort and had load of fun blowing up snow and drifting cars in reverse 😂😂
in canada they tell you in schools not to put your tongues on poles, it's practically a PSA thing
Back in the 80's when i was a very small kid, i got my tongue momentarily frozen into a steel laundry drying pole. Never again.....
When i was a kid some kid got his tongue stuck to a pole at school lol
What if i tripple dog dared you?
@@mishtergoose2851 then I'd get some hot water and do it
it's really quite easy to melt yourself off it
@@themoonsevilsister1561 ik lol just couldn't help making the reference
As someone who drives in snow often enough, the snow driving part hurt to watch
i know what you mean :D
Indeed it is. Up here in Sweden it´s a matter of life or death if you are lacking in the winter driving skills department. As a bus driver (as I am) it´s even more important to know what you are doing. On a ordinary car, a good set of studded Swedish or Finnish made winter tires is the shit. It will keep the margins on your side + the driving skills of course. These guys have hardly even seen snow or ice which is understandable. It´s a whole different ball game. Then again, this is television. Entertainment. It´s supposed to be a bit dramatic.
Yeah if all they were trying to prove is that they suck at driving on snow, mission accomplished because they didn't prove anything else.
As someone who licked a metal pole in the winter, the pole licking part hurt to watch. Even more so due to the gross pig tongue and stale saliva... Nasty.
13:42 the look on that wolf's face🤣🤣🤣
Driving reverse ist helpful when climbing a steep slope with a FWD. Nothing else. Back wheel steering is crap, so reversing mostly is crappy.
I had the sticking tongue effect with an ice cube once, that was a hassle to get off
I have caused an avalanche with some of my classmates skiing in France in 2000... Only a small one, but it scared the hell out of me! The skipatrol had to use explosives to control the rest of the mountain, which is prone to avalanches. It's hard to predict the next one 😢
7:50 Tori always cracks me up
On a sad note: Liz Masterson has passed away in 2017 after losing a battle against ovarian cancer.
they should have invited a pro stunt driver for the reverse driving
34:44 but did they use the right tires? Any good Canadian/snow driver knows you gotta swap those bad boys out for your winters, and also those folks have never driven in snow before! Ya gotta get some folks who are experienced with cold weather driving
To top it all off the car types were wildly different, like you're gonna have MUCH more trouble seeing behind you in an SUV than a convertible. Add onto it they never used the same driver and the data they got was all but useless.
liz is a vibe
Who ever is choosing and cropping things to make these thumbnails, needs a raise 😂
I wonder if what might have helped unstick the tongue after a few seconds might have been the layer of ice. Ice is a pretty good insulator once it forms maybe it provides just enough insulation that the temperature gradient across it is enough the outside starts to thaw using the heat coming from the warm blood flowing through the tongue.
Only in California would they be unfamiliar with the metal pole tongue touch. There's this thing called winter throughout the world.
Was Slim Whitman not available?
Not only in California. At 34 I've never seen or been close to snow, let alone anything dealing with those conditions, so its fun to me see those things I saw in American media growing up are actually accurate (nor not, as it happens)
I mean, I grew up in the mountains of California. A ski resort town. There _definitely_ is snow in cali, its not all Los Angeles beaches (or in this case the San Francisco bay). Its a real big state with a huge diversity of geography and climate.
I mean tongue stuck to an icy pole food was normal. Like icy things cause tongue to stick to them. don't need an actual metal pole to figure that one out.
As some1 who lives in Finland.. winter driving is not a problem
Yes, it is the majority condition of the year, so no problem for the most up here.
😂 “wHy dIdNt yOu tAkE cOnTrOl oF tHe sItUaTiOn?!“ Why didn’t you take control of your own 😂
13:20 was that a spinal tap reference 😂😂
I believe that the shape of the mountain should also be taken into account for the avalanche myth, as the shape could intensify the sound waves of the yodeling by echoing it, increasing the the intensity of the sound.
These peashooters will not cause an avalanche. Try some 20mil antiair gun and you might just make it.
43:25 Id like to see a professional driver doing all the tests, changing drivers makes it inconsistent. This myth is still up for discussion for sure.
"90 on the nose" How can he tell that from measuring his tongue?
the going in reverse on a frontwheel car is not a myth. here in austria we learn it in driving school. but its about going uphill not on a straight line
exactly it makes a big difference when driving uphill. I also live in austria
that's because going reverse uphill in a FWD will put more of the vehicles weight on the front drive wheel. It's the incline that shifts the traction, not the driving backwards itself.
RWD cars just get that effect by themselves going forward, because the drivewheels are already downhill.
There's something to be said about driving backwards sinking the front suspension as opposed to raising out of it, but at those speeds that's minimal.
More seasons pleaseee
That's not "busted" that's like saying "hey we tested this one dude and he didn't get sick. So that means this virus is not deadly". Jamie was 100% correct. And to Adam's "scientific" comment: No, that's simply not enough data to come to a scientific conclusion.
sloppy tongue my favourite
28:42 actually is not :) but I understand it’s a show and they couldn’t finish it all in 5 minutes :)
35:41 the serious question and maybe Adam can answer it, did they changed to winter from summer tires before the test? :)
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY 💯💯💯 im a born and raised Canadian and that was my very first thought lol
34:00 Should have tried it with a Subaru.
Everyone in Canada during the driving in snow myth, "meh". 🙂 I did my road test in January during a moderate snow storm. Driving in snow isn't hard, you just need to know what to do and keep it slow. Front wheel drive is great in snow, all power and much of the weight are up front. Driving on black ice, you're screwed. Stay off the road.
They really did the tongue sticks to frozen pole. Did they not have winter where they were, were they never children?
Damn driving on snow and ice is really not easy. You aren't the one that dictates speed in such conditions it's the road that determines max speed, you can steer all you want but if you slip you aren't steering anything anymore.
I grew up in Germany on the Swiss border. I’m not a fan of yodeling at all but I’ve heard a lot and can appreciate it. That woman is the first tone deaf yodeler I’ve ever heard. Man she’s bad.
Since when is freezing your tongue to a pole a myth? Every Canadian or Northern American kid has done that before. The trick about it is keeping enough saliva in your mouth to warm the metal and get your tongue back off. That and don’t do it when it’s worse than minus 5 C
You can just wrap your hands around your mouth to contain the heat, and then exhale warm air until your tongue finally thaws free.
Globally, children in regions experiencing substantial winter conditions have done it at least once.
Sometimes I get so flabbergasted for how much they want to be scientific but then fail to account for a few HUGE set of factors, so in regards to the driving backwards they totally didn't account for having all season or snow tires as cars there would not even have all season tires, next the last vehicle is not 4 Wheel drive it was AWD and that is a very VERY big difference (Yes I live in Canada and drive a top of the line AWD vehicle with full winter tires and where i live we get about 7 feet of snow a year in total, just to be clear here) Next tires have a directionality in their design so going in reverse negates that fact causing the worse handling that might give some form of additional traction as it is NOT the transmission itself doing it, but having you go backwards at speed will fail because if this fact like some verticals that have rear wheels that turn line some forklifts this can give you some addition feeling of control but this is minor, so unfortunately all they tested about going backwards in this ep is irrelevant and pointless unfortunately,. had they driven on snow and ice and been trained on how to drive backwards they would have faired much better but having a very light part of the vehicle in front and the most weight in the back where you also have your tires will cause you to slide almost instantly as your back tires that are going in front have not weight to press them down into the snow and give you better control. this is why people with trucks and long vehicles we put 200 pounds of sandbags in the back of the vehicle to help negate this issue.
It has only sense in front drive, front engine, car.
Without the chain you'll see a difference between FWD and RWD. RWD is incredibly squirrely under aggressive acceleration, it's why they drift so well.
Adam and Jamie were the stars but Grant was my favorite..........
Gets a gun to be loud; happens to be one of the quietest smg you can get
cool
what we've learned about mythbuster drivers today are 2 things. Either Americans are terrible drivers or the myth wasn't properly tested. Get drivers used to driving in snow to do the experiment....and that can drive. In previous episodes they've proven themselves to be terrible reverse drivers under normal conditions.
It's a shame they didn't take the "driving backwards" lessons before these episodes. They proved you can very effectively drive backwards with the right technique. That much have helped here as well.
I think if we all lose our collective memories, yodelling is something we’d be quite happy never to remember
Yodeling specifically might not cause avalanches, but shouting can. Like Jamie said at the end, skiers can cause an avalanche, and the combination of shouting and skiing at the exact wrong spot can trigger one. But not yodeling from as far away as they tried it.
Also, reversing in snow is just stupid. And who even reverses that fast to begin with?
I shouldn't have been eating while watching this episode... 🤢
Adam: “YODEL!!”
and driving backwards in a front wheel car is just like driving a back wheel drive car. when is good for getting grip is thinner tires or wheels or 4x4
That mountain sucks
its because of the weight of the motor it have better grip and if you get stuck with a front wheel you just sit on the hood and you will get grip again. and if the motor is in the back you just stand on the back and jump and it will get the grip again.
S’ils m’avaient appelé je leur aurais confirmé par expérience que la langue qui colle c’est vrai 😂
Reverse on the mirrors not looking back.
Why??
You're SUPPOSED to look back when driving in reverse...
@@derGameplayDJ yes and where are mirrors for? Looking behind you. When you twist youre body it's harder to steer
@@derGameplayDJTell truck drivers that.
@@maartengaat8718 Mirrors are on cars so the driver can pay attention to what is around them. They are not there for when you want to drive backwards. Turning around is not harder to steer. It is easier to see a wider view and to process information. Mirrors distort things and didn't you notice on the mirrors saying "objects in mirror are closer than they appear"?
how many heaps of wildlife were hurt by all those avalanches?..... How many flora and fauna, micro ecosystemsthat were stressed and scared ...k1ll3d.... All for your dumb stupid..myth busting??¿? . this is hard for me to say because back in the day....this show was my bread and butter with my family👍💖but as an adult, 😑I'm just looking at those hillsides and y'all just exploding stuff...😮. and I've watched episodes with exploding lakes and I just don't know like good Lord🙏 how much stress have you put on to wildlife???!🥺 I watched you irradiate roaches which I did not love (even though I don't love roaches I think they're very very important critters) I mean what the he🏒🏒. 🤔🤬😶 You guys also hurt drosophila melanogaster which I'm not happy with. I bred those critters and worked on them for a whole year to learn about them and I didn't like you irradiating them like they were nothing. Its just all 💩 do you.. not this
You know the avalanche patrol would have triggered that avalanche irregardless of the Mythbusters to lower chances of a greater build up of snow and ice and causing worse damage to the surroundings...
The main factor is having a member of the female persuasion behind the wheel 😂
How does an avalanche see without eyes? 🏔️
guess usa needs to add driving on ice/snow on the driving test, is it even possible to spin out at 25kmh or was that just special effects?