Fun fact: of the top ten highest falls survived without a parachute, three-one a deliberate stunt, another a skydiving accident, and the third an attempted murder-happened after this episode aired. During World War II, it also happened three times: 1. American Alan Magee, the ball-turret gunner this story is about, though the myth gets several points wrong: he was issued a parachute (though it was torn up by flak), he was thrown from the bomb bay instead of jumping from his turret, and of course no bomb hit the St. Nazaire station to cushion his fall. His fall was instead cushioned by the glass roof of the station, and he was captured by the Nazis and held as a PoW. 2. British tail gunner Nicholas Alkemade, who also had his parachute destroyed, jumped from his plane on the theory that hitting the ground would kill him faster and less painfully than burning alive. He fell 18,000 feet before crashing through pine trees into a snowbank in the Ruhr valley, suffering only a sprained knee. He was also captured by the Gestapo, who did not initially believe his claim to have fallen and survived without a parachute. 3. Soviet navigator Ivan Chisov, who still holds the record for highest survived fall without any form of protective device*, having fallen about 23,000 feet when he bailed out of his bomber and intentionally chose not to open his parachute, hoping to avoid the notice of Nazi fighter planes. While he intended to open his 'chute once he was below the fighter screen, he passed out from lack of oxygen at altitude and glanced into the side of a snow-covered ravine. When Soviet cavalry arrived, intending to recover the body of a fallen airman, they were shocked to find him alive and still wearing an unopened but perfectly functional parachute. Although he was severely injured, he returned to the air only three months later, though his higher-ups in the Red Army Air Forces decided to reassign him as a training instructor. *There have been two higher falls: one was the aforementioned deliberate stunt, in which there was a net at the bottom; the other was Vesna Vulović, a Yugoslav flight attendant who survived a terrorist bombing of her plane when she was pinned inside the falling fuselage, which served as a sort of improvised crumple zone around her.
@@Foul_Quince The attempted murder was against Victoria Cilliers, a British skydiver whose then-husband sabotaged her parachute, his second attempt on her life that week after tampering with a gas valve at their home.
@@martinfox9443yes, apparently someone unintentionally plugged something into the uninterruptible power supply that fed the light, which made it turn off
My high school science teacher used to peddle that myth about leaving the lights on = less energy used. He'd get so mad when we argued with him about it. The math is simple. Everything causes a power surge when first turned on that's magnitudes higher than the continuous power rating of the wiring in your home, especially appliance motors. But it's so brief that it doesn't add up to anything. If it did, your wiring and your home would've gone up in smoke long before your bill arrived in the mail.
The only situation where this myth has some slight truth to it is computers and that's why they don't truely completely shut down but just enter a very low power mode, and even then that is partly to speed up boot up times.
@@hedgehog3180 If I remember correctly it is actually not that useful, users that know about it turn it off and you're still saving more power if you just unplug it. Also, if you unplug it while this function is on, now it takes even longer to boot. To make a computer use less energy you just need it not to power at full throttle when you boot it up.
@@Idiomatick Modern LED bulbs tend to use a single large element, though of course in color changing ones they'll have at least three LEDs and maybe four.
If you watch their s1 episodes when they were still starting out with the show, they show that prior to any dangerous/large scale mythbusting -- jamie actually gives this speech on safety and what to do when things go wrong... Something they dont show on the later seasons, but i believe they still do until the last seasons. Their interactions there kinda reminded me of the old edits :)
It's so strange how an LED lamp at that time was archaic, it looks like something someone made at home, It's so crazy to think that in 20 years later, LED went from that to becoming the main form of lighting, and even then the difference in efficiency was already absurd.
I remember when fluorescent bulbs, CFC you name it were relegated to an industrial setting or a buildings. An incandescent world. Noises when the bulb died, etc.
*leans on Jamie's shoulder" You've been watching too much TV Frank and JD sense of humor is off the charts. They play along and into whatever the team is doing.
That was one of the prettiest explosions on the show! The ring of dirt clods shooting out of the dust billow milliseconds after the detonation. Ah, *Chef's kiss!
I just have to point out that an airbag doesn't stop the impact with it's own explosion, the explosion is to deploy the device. The aim is to have it fully deployed, i.e. inflated before your face hits it. In fact if it isn't fully inflated but still expanding, it will probably break your neck.
Right. There are enough x-ray-shots out there from people, who layed there legs on the dashboard. You suddenly have not one joint in your legs but three... or more...
I would like to point out that they were only using the explosive component, in the video it can be seen that the bag component had been removed. The myth was also not that "a massive airbag would cushion the fall of a gunman", and that "an explosion would cushion the fall of a gunman", so it is irrelevant if a fully inflated airbag would have been more effective at helping a scale "gunman" survive a high fall.
Honestly that might be pretty lucky that first airbag was used for mythbusters, if that was installed in a car that coin could concievably kill someone when the airbag goes off. That would be another type of myth i wish they could have tested if mythbusters were still going
The A Story: B-17 bomber, airman falling at maximum velocity, military grade explosives, largest explosion in Mythbusters history! The B Story: Leaving the lights on
Ball Gunner who survived 22,000 foot fall was S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee who on 3rd January 1943 while flying onboard the B-17 Snap! Crackle! Pop! Germans captured him and he spent until May 1945 in POW camps. He received the Air Medal for meritorious service and the Purple Heart. He lived another 61 years after the incident.
Thanks for sharing, but how the F did he survive that??? I found it on wiki, he fell through the glass roof and just fell to the ground....no explosion but still incredible
@@jenshoffker5702 it's odd, wasn't there a girl as well who survived falling out of an airliner? freak stuff occurs, maybe winds, maybe things braking their fall who knows
@@iggywowIn the woman's case, she survived because she fell in a forest and the tree branches absorbed the fall, much more plausible than having the fall absorbed by glass.
@@jenshoffker5702 I think the most likely explanation is that he impacted the glass feet first (Which most certainly would've broken his legs) but as it shattered, it gave way fast enough that it didn't cause damage to anything vital, and slowed him down enough that he was able to hit the ground without dying. EDIT:Wikipedia says essentially the same thing, the impact with the glass slowed his fall down enough to mitigate the fall, pretty lucky to be alive. "He fell over four miles before crashing through the glass roof of the St. Nazaire railroad station. The glass roof shattered, mitigating the force of Magee's final impact. Rescuers found him on the floor of the station. Magee was taken as a prisoner of war and given medical treatment by his captors. He had 28 shrapnel wounds in addition to his injuries from the fall: several broken bones, severe damage to his nose and eye, lung and kidney damage, and a nearly severed right arm." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee
I havent finished watching, but the small scale test used way too much weight for that tiny amount of explosive! Im sure its going to be busted in the end anyways but that bugged me
Having seen the movie myths shock waves make you jump further, I was curious if Adam and Jamie would come to the same conclusion. Shock waves in air aren't dense enough to impart a significant force on a person.
I remember watching this when it aired and thinking how weird and futuristic the LED lights were. Here we are now with out future LED bulbs being the most common bulb available, and now you have to really look to find an incandescent. X"D
That line always irritates me. They make it sound like there's some competitor out there who's show consists only of verbalizing a myth, and then rolling credits. Who are you puffing your chest at, Mythbusters?! 😳🤷♂
That's what I was thinking, but I think it depends on the strength of the shockwave. If it's still strong enough to injure you, you probably don't want to travel towards it, even thou terminal velocity probably isn't that big of speed in those circumstances. If you are safe distance away from it, it would deaccelerate your fall a bit, but probably not enough. I'd be interested if the myth is possible even in theory.
@sotakoira1390 Granted the only experience I have with explosives is from this show, but it really feels like any shockwave from a high explosive that's powerful enough to slow your fall enough would not be survivable.
You had to know the explosion was busted from the get go, I mean even if the shrapnel doesn’t kill Ted, the force of the shockwave going against the velocity of his fall would have crushed him like a panini press, that’s my guess anyway. I feel like it would’ve been 100x worse than just landing on flat pavement.
Penny inside the airbag, someone at the factory did that with the intension of sending out shrapnel to kill someone during a wreck. Amazing it ended up in a TV show and not on the road.
The authorities in California must have loved it when the Mythbusters set off a brushfire just to prove that some drunk in uniform enjoying his break from World War Two did not know what he was talking about.
You'd be surprised by how easily things can get misplaced, lost, confused (as in people owning similar stuff) and even flat out stolen - especially in a busy workplace with many employees. I mean people always talk about their "own good pen" or their "favourite mug they brought from home" disappearing all the time at their job. Considering Grant's field of work, he was probably also often surrounded by other calculators and gadgets. 😆 On a simpler note: could also be leftover habit from his school days. Practically EVERYTHING had to be labeled when you were in elementary school but in high school and college many of us still had the habit of labelling our more expensive and/or important stuff - like calculators, books, binders, etc. I remember having this really good, high quality, sharp little pair of scissors in HS that I absolutely loved and someone even stole THAT from me.
With the explosion originally occuring in St. Nazaire, but this one happening in California, would the explosion be "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?"
If I worked there I would turn it off when nobody sees just for a second just for my own kick and I bet I'm not the only one who had this thought. I bet someone did it .
>Introduce myth >50 minutes go by >myth never actually gets tested >call it busted anyway >never elaborate how the guy actually survived Bummer of an episode tbh
Something falling could theoritically be cushioned by explosion... you could theoritically make explosion wave into any frequency you want... so how about thick high pressure wave that would slow you just a little bit slower than the water would (because the hardness of water would be too hard hit)
I probably just watched too much Mythbusters, but 2 minutes in I can alfeady tell it will be busted. A shockwave would need to be way over lethal to be able to have any effect on a falling body. You could use some type of giant deflector or parachute to catch the chockwave though, but wind resistance is still gonna be more important to break your fall.
Adam Savage is so clumsy, he must be a nightmare to work with. Using a knife to cut a line under tension then holding onto that line with a knife in your hand is very dumb.
No, that is a really big flaw in Adam's calculation. He calculated how long it takes to accelerate to 120mph from gravity, but he neglected to calculate that the actual acceleration is slower due to air resistance/drag. That kinda ticked me off, because terminal velocity literally happens when air resistance is so significant that it matches gravity, but he just left it out in his calculation.... In reality you reach terminal velocity (or at least within the last 2% of it which takes longer) in 12 to 13 seconds. Still fast, but over double the time as you see.
This showing of the original episodes is awesome, however something is off with the sequence of episodes here. Of course I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly Jess did not join the Mythbusters as an intern until after the Archimedes Deathray Burnoff ... which according to this playlist is the sequential episode number 30?
The lighbulb "myth" is probably the dumbest and most pointless experiment ever done. Nobody has ever thought that leaving the lights on is more efficient...
Hmm, I would think that the glass shards and the bomb casing shrapnel would shred the airman to death! Dude, the crash test dummy looked like a dead, decaying body!
if you've ever caught anything you know you gotta move with it to decelerate it. We've seen shockwaves in slow mo lmao, they have no interest in slow. I hypothesize shockwave and human are just gonna shoot past eachother, probably make eachother turbulant lol
That ol’ saying “It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop” I feel like an explosion would just make that stop happen sooner. Let’s say a shockwave would be the perfect storm of conditions to help slow a terminal velocity human enough to survive - yeah you’ll get hit with the shockwave first, but then you’ll be hit with about a million pieces of shrapnel immediately after
I also think about how if you are going to have an explosion shockwave slow you down, it has to hit you from a distance that the pressure won't be lethal. So that means the shockwave has to slow you down at a height that will be less than lethal, but after being hypothetically slowed by the shockwave, you still have to fall the rest of that height to the ground with gravity increasing your speed again. I would bet intuitively that any explosion powerful enough to slow you down from terminal velocity would have a lethality range of more than 20m, which would mean the shockwave would have to slow you down when you are more than 20m above the ground. Even if the shockwave slowed your speed to 0 at that point, it will still be the same result as falling from a 20m high building for example which is still a lethal fall
Cutting balloons was incredibly stupid. I though they were going to send Ted down the line with balloons holding the said damn line. If nothing is holding the line what is the difference from not having it?
I know I am just a random guy with next to zero understand of physics, so I am pretty sure I am wrong...I am just not sure how wrong/where I am wrong, so any comments are welcome; I would have thought that the force of the blastwave would disappate over a given area, right? So wouldn't that mean at some point the force of the blast wave could have disappated to the point it could have a decelerating affect on a falling body? And then wouldn't the question be if you could survive a fall from *that* distance? I must be wrong on the idea here, but I can't pinpoint how.
What was missing in the small scale tests was proportionality. That looked like a fairly hefty weight being pelted by a very small explosion. The reality of the myth (so to speak) is that you had a man of (say) 150lbs meeting the blast from a 1 tonne bomb. Big failure on their part here. :/
Yes true, but the glassceiling already makes it obvious that the myth is entirely unrealistic. He would be torn to shreds/impaled by the glass and metal shards flying at him at ridiculous speeds.
Then that speed is even terminal-er, it doesn't specifically mean that terminal speed is the ultimate speed that a person can attain. The point is though, a person who just simply falls from a great height will eventually reach a top speed, which will be fatal when getting to the ground. Going even faster will just make you deader, it's a bonus, overspeed/overkill.
Terminal velocity is dependent on air resistance and air resistance is dependent on what position the person is in. Most terminal velocities for humans assume that you're trying to increase drag as much as possible by laying down and spreading your arms and legs to create as much surface area as possible but if you instead go head first and hold your arms and legs tight you can easily reach much higher speeds.
Thinking the same thing. That would've become a projectile if it had gone off. It would be a crazy way to sabotage an airbag. This could've been planted for the show but that seems unlikely.
Probably some disgruntled factory employee with psychopathic tendencies put it there.. seems hard to imagine but unfortunately there are plenty of people like that walking around free
Still probably better than the recall notice on my Toyota RAV4 airbag that said "Could propel fragments of the casing in to the cabin". Having a literal grenade sat in front of me certainly upped my perceived risk if I'd had an accident.
500 feet and 5½ sec to optain maximum velocity.?? 12:08 They are winging it from episode to episode... here its suddenly 14 sec and 2000 feet ruclips.net/video/ZugogOLHJHg/видео.html
Solving this problem requires integration that can only be done with computers afaik and you can see Adam doing everything by hand so that's where the error comes from.
So we can only read and moralistic material now? According to this far too extensive "evaluation", books or films should stick to political correct stories. Young people should be educated by stories instead of developing a mind of their own.
Its not possible for the ball turret to open in fhe air. Ive rebuilt one of those it just cant happen. It has to be opened from the outside. And most turret gunners did wear parachutes. They just squeezed in there. They werent supposed to but they usually decided its better to have it than not
Fun fact: of the top ten highest falls survived without a parachute, three-one a deliberate stunt, another a skydiving accident, and the third an attempted murder-happened after this episode aired.
During World War II, it also happened three times:
1. American Alan Magee, the ball-turret gunner this story is about, though the myth gets several points wrong: he was issued a parachute (though it was torn up by flak), he was thrown from the bomb bay instead of jumping from his turret, and of course no bomb hit the St. Nazaire station to cushion his fall. His fall was instead cushioned by the glass roof of the station, and he was captured by the Nazis and held as a PoW.
2. British tail gunner Nicholas Alkemade, who also had his parachute destroyed, jumped from his plane on the theory that hitting the ground would kill him faster and less painfully than burning alive. He fell 18,000 feet before crashing through pine trees into a snowbank in the Ruhr valley, suffering only a sprained knee. He was also captured by the Gestapo, who did not initially believe his claim to have fallen and survived without a parachute.
3. Soviet navigator Ivan Chisov, who still holds the record for highest survived fall without any form of protective device*, having fallen about 23,000 feet when he bailed out of his bomber and intentionally chose not to open his parachute, hoping to avoid the notice of Nazi fighter planes. While he intended to open his 'chute once he was below the fighter screen, he passed out from lack of oxygen at altitude and glanced into the side of a snow-covered ravine. When Soviet cavalry arrived, intending to recover the body of a fallen airman, they were shocked to find him alive and still wearing an unopened but perfectly functional parachute. Although he was severely injured, he returned to the air only three months later, though his higher-ups in the Red Army Air Forces decided to reassign him as a training instructor.
*There have been two higher falls: one was the aforementioned deliberate stunt, in which there was a net at the bottom; the other was Vesna Vulović, a Yugoslav flight attendant who survived a terrorist bombing of her plane when she was pinned inside the falling fuselage, which served as a sort of improvised crumple zone around her.
It's fun to see how much the Internet progressed since this episode aired (~2007) and information became moer readily available.
1. Vesna Vulovic is awesome! I don't know why but she has always been a sort of a hero of mine. 2. Tell us about the attempted murder?
@@Foul_Quince The attempted murder was against Victoria Cilliers, a British skydiver whose then-husband sabotaged her parachute, his second attempt on her life that week after tampering with a gas valve at their home.
@@roserichardson9480 Wow! thanks for that!!
@@TheKarabanera that and them using Windows XP on the laptop.
For those interested: the light bulb at the fire department is still on.
That light bulb is crazy
It went out once didnt it
@@martinfox9443yes, apparently someone unintentionally plugged something into the uninterruptible power supply that fed the light, which made it turn off
@@micha_el_ as far as I know, the UPS broke
Yes because the wire in the lightbulb is strong
My high school science teacher used to peddle that myth about leaving the lights on = less energy used. He'd get so mad when we argued with him about it. The math is simple. Everything causes a power surge when first turned on that's magnitudes higher than the continuous power rating of the wiring in your home, especially appliance motors. But it's so brief that it doesn't add up to anything. If it did, your wiring and your home would've gone up in smoke long before your bill arrived in the mail.
The only situation where this myth has some slight truth to it is computers and that's why they don't truely completely shut down but just enter a very low power mode, and even then that is partly to speed up boot up times.
@@hedgehog3180 Only junky fad computers (windows 10) do that. Non-garbage computers like Linux and Mac do not and actually shut down.
Your teacher was the OG "akchually" reddit neckbeard contrarian.
@@hedgehog3180 If I remember correctly it is actually not that useful, users that know about it turn it off and you're still saving more power if you just unplug it.
Also, if you unplug it while this function is on, now it takes even longer to boot.
To make a computer use less energy you just need it not to power at full throttle when you boot it up.
Yeah but you're forgetting the part where you both really had no idea and you're just saying this now because NOW you know better.
I love how high tech LEDs look in this episode
Don't know what's so high tech, it looks like a bunch of cheap LEDs crammed in one bulb-shaped device
lolol they were bunch of dim lights that could barely light a room. but they would for sure handle 1999% more abuse than todays leds
@@DukeChameleon Thats what modern LED bulbs are too if you saw one open.
@@Idiomatick Modern LED bulbs tend to use a single large element, though of course in color changing ones they'll have at least three LEDs and maybe four.
I love the little interaction at 25:03 even if staged Jamie sounds sincerely concerned about Adam being tired.
If you watch their s1 episodes when they were still starting out with the show, they show that prior to any dangerous/large scale mythbusting -- jamie actually gives this speech on safety and what to do when things go wrong... Something they dont show on the later seasons, but i believe they still do until the last seasons. Their interactions there kinda reminded me of the old edits :)
29:54 "With memories to savor for a lifetime."" RIP Grant
This episode has the most serious, responsible Adam I've ever seen.
I would prefer airbag manufacturers not to add small metal projectiles to the product for superstitious reasons 6:50
I mean if nothing else, being killed by a US Penny would confuse the investigators here in the UK and that'd be enough.
It's so strange how an LED lamp at that time was archaic, it looks like something someone made at home, It's so crazy to think that in 20 years later, LED went from that to becoming the main form of lighting, and even then the difference in efficiency was already absurd.
It looks like a joke prop from Doctor Who when you compare it to the one above me which is just 8 high powered LEDs in a regular lightbulb form.
I remember when fluorescent bulbs, CFC you name it were relegated to an industrial setting or a buildings.
An incandescent world. Noises when the bulb died, etc.
*leans on Jamie's shoulder" You've been watching too much TV
Frank and JD sense of humor is off the charts. They play along and into whatever the team is doing.
That was one of the prettiest explosions on the show! The ring of dirt clods shooting out of the dust billow milliseconds after the detonation. Ah, *Chef's kiss!
I just have to point out that an airbag doesn't stop the impact with it's own explosion, the explosion is to deploy the device. The aim is to have it fully deployed, i.e. inflated before your face hits it. In fact if it isn't fully inflated but still expanding, it will probably break your neck.
Right. There are enough x-ray-shots out there from people, who layed there legs on the dashboard. You suddenly have not one joint in your legs but three... or more...
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Exactly! I'm disappointed in the Mythbuster team for not realizing that simple fact.
I would like to point out that they were only using the explosive component, in the video it can be seen that the bag component had been removed. The myth was also not that "a massive airbag would cushion the fall of a gunman", and that "an explosion would cushion the fall of a gunman", so it is irrelevant if a fully inflated airbag would have been more effective at helping a scale "gunman" survive a high fall.
@@fireflightphoenix8710 Exactly, people missing the point 😂😂
43:40 I LAUGHED waaaaaaaay harder than neeeded LMAO
I have been waiting for this upload for many weeks now thanks!
Im waiting for the Ancient Chinese Invasion alarm :V
hahah is that a lightbulb with LEDs? that's silly, that will never succeed..
Honestly that might be pretty lucky that first airbag was used for mythbusters, if that was installed in a car that coin could concievably kill someone when the airbag goes off. That would be another type of myth i wish they could have tested if mythbusters were still going
That was a magic trick, if they had actually found a penny inside an airbag it would have triggered a massive scandal and investigation.
That LED bulb is such a fascinatingly odd old design.
Over the years I kept remembering the results of the light bulbs on/off. It was a 2006 episode… almost 20 years now…
Trippy to finally see it again now
What I love is that I genuinely cannot tell when I saw these. It couldn't have been all the way back on 2006, could it?
It is always a good episode when Frank is involved.
Better if both JD and Frank are involved you know you will get a bang.
The best tv show of its categorie!
The best tv show. period.
@@dieritze4185 lol. No.
I LOVE to rewatch those episodes.
The A Story: B-17 bomber, airman falling at maximum velocity, military grade explosives, largest explosion in Mythbusters history!
The B Story: Leaving the lights on
Ball Gunner who survived 22,000 foot fall was S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee who on 3rd January 1943 while flying onboard the B-17 Snap! Crackle! Pop!
Germans captured him and he spent until May 1945 in POW camps. He received the Air Medal for meritorious service and the Purple Heart. He lived another 61 years after the incident.
Thanks for sharing, but how the F did he survive that???
I found it on wiki, he fell through the glass roof and just fell to the ground....no explosion but still incredible
good genetics? lol
@@jenshoffker5702 it's odd, wasn't there a girl as well who survived falling out of an airliner? freak stuff occurs, maybe winds, maybe things braking their fall who knows
@@iggywowIn the woman's case, she survived because she fell in a forest and the tree branches absorbed the fall, much more plausible than having the fall absorbed by glass.
@@jenshoffker5702 I think the most likely explanation is that he impacted the glass feet first (Which most certainly would've broken his legs) but as it shattered, it gave way fast enough that it didn't cause damage to anything vital, and slowed him down enough that he was able to hit the ground without dying.
EDIT:Wikipedia says essentially the same thing, the impact with the glass slowed his fall down enough to mitigate the fall, pretty lucky to be alive.
"He fell over four miles before crashing through the glass roof of the St. Nazaire railroad station. The glass roof shattered, mitigating the force of Magee's final impact. Rescuers found him on the floor of the station.
Magee was taken as a prisoner of war and given medical treatment by his captors. He had 28 shrapnel wounds in addition to his injuries from the fall: several broken bones, severe damage to his nose and eye, lung and kidney damage, and a nearly severed right arm."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee
I havent finished watching, but the small scale test used way too much weight for that tiny amount of explosive! Im sure its going to be busted in the end anyways but that bugged me
It was so obvious. Their methodology sucks.
Having seen the movie myths shock waves make you jump further, I was curious if Adam and Jamie would come to the same conclusion. Shock waves in air aren't dense enough to impart a significant force on a person.
I remember watching this when it aired and thinking how weird and futuristic the LED lights were. Here we are now with out future LED bulbs being the most common bulb available, and now you have to really look to find an incandescent. X"D
Wait a minute! They don’t just tell the myths?!
They put them to the test!
@@TheReelStuff yEeeea
That line always irritates me.
They make it sound like there's some competitor out there who's show consists only of verbalizing a myth, and then rolling credits. Who are you puffing your chest at, Mythbusters?! 😳🤷♂
Wouldnt the force of the explosion just add to the force of the fall, making it even worse? Even if we ignored all the shrapnel...
That's what I was thinking, but I think it depends on the strength of the shockwave. If it's still strong enough to injure you, you probably don't want to travel towards it, even thou terminal velocity probably isn't that big of speed in those circumstances. If you are safe distance away from it, it would deaccelerate your fall a bit, but probably not enough. I'd be interested if the myth is possible even in theory.
@sotakoira1390 Granted the only experience I have with explosives is from this show, but it really feels like any shockwave from a high explosive that's powerful enough to slow your fall enough would not be survivable.
Those bomb techs must have had the time of their lives working with the MythBusters 🎉
That penny makes the airbag into a claymore.
Which is something I'd rather not have pointed toward my face.
28:37 wow led lights have come a *long* way in not very much time
To me, this is the best explosion in the Mythbusters history
You had to know the explosion was busted from the get go, I mean even if the shrapnel doesn’t kill Ted, the force of the shockwave going against the velocity of his fall would have crushed him like a panini press, that’s my guess anyway. I feel like it would’ve been 100x worse than just landing on flat pavement.
Bro imagine finding a penny in your airbag
Wouldnt that penny hurt a LOT if the airbag went off in a real car accident!?
You'd find out the hard way and have a penny lodged in your skull for life.
That was probably a magic trick.
Penny inside the airbag, someone at the factory did that with the intension of sending out shrapnel to kill someone during a wreck. Amazing it ended up in a TV show and not on the road.
I think that was a magic trick.
There is a fire department in Harrisburg pa that has also been on for around 100 years as well.
The authorities in California must have loved it when the Mythbusters set off a brushfire just to prove that some drunk in uniform enjoying his break from World War Two did not know what he was talking about.
Ted looked a little too excited when that crate opened who designed him 😭😭😭
Energy is NOT W/hour! It is W x hour!!
They probably meant average power consumption over a duration of one hour
W/Hr (Watts per hour) is correct but we mostly use kW/h. Not kWxhr
Yeah, Grant said it correctly and so did Kari writing it in watt-seconds, but the illustrator labeled it incorrectly (38:48)
@@mxb2432 No. 1 Watt = 1 Joule/second, thus a W/hr would have units of [Energy]/[Time]^2
@@enderyu Exactly!
lol, those early LED bulbs. But why do they not do a control when testing the bulbs?
There's just something funny about Grant having his name on his calculator... Like there's an issue with calculators being taken or something.
You'd be surprised by how easily things can get misplaced, lost, confused (as in people owning similar stuff) and even flat out stolen - especially in a busy workplace with many employees. I mean people always talk about their "own good pen" or their "favourite mug they brought from home" disappearing all the time at their job. Considering Grant's field of work, he was probably also often surrounded by other calculators and gadgets. 😆
On a simpler note: could also be leftover habit from his school days. Practically EVERYTHING had to be labeled when you were in elementary school but in high school and college many of us still had the habit of labelling our more expensive and/or important stuff - like calculators, books, binders, etc. I remember having this really good, high quality, sharp little pair of scissors in HS that I absolutely loved and someone even stole THAT from me.
Graphing calculators are kinda expensive so it makes sense you'd label them, especially before the rise of smartphones.
With the explosion originally occuring in St. Nazaire, but this one happening in California, would the explosion be "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?"
106 years and the power never went out in that firehouse? Nope.
If I worked there I would turn it off when nobody sees just for a second just for my own kick and I bet I'm not the only one who had this thought. I bet someone did it .
>Introduce myth
>50 minutes go by
>myth never actually gets tested
>call it busted anyway
>never elaborate how the guy actually survived
Bummer of an episode tbh
I am wondering, where's seasons 1-3? Is there some reason you seem to have skipped them?
Something falling could theoritically be cushioned by explosion... you could theoritically make explosion wave into any frequency you want... so how about thick high pressure wave that would slow you just a little bit slower than the water would (because the hardness of water would be too hard hit)
no way in hell you could have manually time those two reactions to occur at the same moment
I probably just watched too much Mythbusters, but 2 minutes in I can alfeady tell it will be busted. A shockwave would need to be way over lethal to be able to have any effect on a falling body. You could use some type of giant deflector or parachute to catch the chockwave though, but wind resistance is still gonna be more important to break your fall.
Why did Adam looked so stoned out in the desert when they came to build the train station 🌬️💨💨
Adam Savage is so clumsy, he must be a nightmare to work with.
Using a knife to cut a line under tension then holding onto that line with a knife in your hand is very dumb.
Those gunners couldn't wear a parachute but what about a safety rope?
it really only takes 5 seconds of free fall to reach terminal velocity for an average person? that's impressive
No, that is a really big flaw in Adam's calculation. He calculated how long it takes to accelerate to 120mph from gravity, but he neglected to calculate that the actual acceleration is slower due to air resistance/drag. That kinda ticked me off, because terminal velocity literally happens when air resistance is so significant that it matches gravity, but he just left it out in his calculation.... In reality you reach terminal velocity (or at least within the last 2% of it which takes longer) in 12 to 13 seconds. Still fast, but over double the time as you see.
@@ShadowMomentum you know... SCIENCE™!!!
Maybe it were a winter garden inside the station
This showing of the original episodes is awesome, however something is off with the sequence of episodes here. Of course I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly Jess did not join the Mythbusters as an intern until after the Archimedes Deathray Burnoff ... which according to this playlist is the sequential episode number 30?
9:16 Holy shit de har en Store Nørd trøje, jeg vidste ingengang at Mythbusters kendte til det TV show.
6:20 I can see the floor bending under that ball so it took some of the energy. Invalid test. But let's proceed...
You think that's what invalidates the test? Oh boy... So, so, so much more wrong with it.
@@UnitSe7en What else is wrong with this particular test?
Because... SCIENCE™!!!
How many times does Kari change her top/t-shirt from 37:40 to 38:02 ❓
No amount of clothes changing will save her from that haircut.
The lighbulb "myth" is probably the dumbest and most pointless experiment ever done. Nobody has ever thought that leaving the lights on is more efficient...
Hmm, I would think that the glass shards and the bomb casing shrapnel would shred the airman to death!
Dude, the crash test dummy looked like a dead, decaying body!
if you've ever caught anything you know you gotta move with it to decelerate it. We've seen shockwaves in slow mo lmao, they have no interest in slow. I hypothesize shockwave and human are just gonna shoot past eachother, probably make eachother turbulant lol
124 years later is the light still on at that fire station?
What about Gs he'd have to take to slow to a survivable fall? It seems too much energy to "burn" in a short period of time.
For a family of 6 each turning on the bathroom 3 times a day would burn out the bulb in less than 2 years.
That ol’ saying “It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop” I feel like an explosion would just make that stop happen sooner. Let’s say a shockwave would be the perfect storm of conditions to help slow a terminal velocity human enough to survive - yeah you’ll get hit with the shockwave first, but then you’ll be hit with about a million pieces of shrapnel immediately after
I also think about how if you are going to have an explosion shockwave slow you down, it has to hit you from a distance that the pressure won't be lethal. So that means the shockwave has to slow you down at a height that will be less than lethal, but after being hypothetically slowed by the shockwave, you still have to fall the rest of that height to the ground with gravity increasing your speed again. I would bet intuitively that any explosion powerful enough to slow you down from terminal velocity would have a lethality range of more than 20m, which would mean the shockwave would have to slow you down when you are more than 20m above the ground. Even if the shockwave slowed your speed to 0 at that point, it will still be the same result as falling from a 20m high building for example which is still a lethal fall
36:47 some programs used by Grant
Cutting balloons was incredibly stupid. I though they were going to send Ted down the line with balloons holding the said damn line. If nothing is holding the line what is the difference from not having it?
Divemaster, a master shot and a degree in Russin lingiustics. You guess, what Jamie used to do with his time.
Surroundings might help too
Could of been sent into A bush
Cost of bulb is a factor and life
22:24 just woke up eh?
The way Grant said, i love electronics is so deep. You can feel the passion on hes voice.
is it still a pyrotechnic if theres no combustion?
I know I am just a random guy with next to zero understand of physics, so I am pretty sure I am wrong...I am just not sure how wrong/where I am wrong, so any comments are welcome;
I would have thought that the force of the blastwave would disappate over a given area, right? So wouldn't that mean at some point the force of the blast wave could have disappated to the point it could have a decelerating affect on a falling body?
And then wouldn't the question be if you could survive a fall from *that* distance?
I must be wrong on the idea here, but I can't pinpoint how.
0:16 yet
Incrivel
Where’s the exploding cement truck one
What was missing in the small scale tests was proportionality. That looked like a fairly hefty weight being pelted by a very small explosion. The reality of the myth (so to speak) is that you had a man of (say) 150lbs meeting the blast from a 1 tonne bomb. Big failure on their part here. :/
Yes true, but the glassceiling already makes it obvious that the myth is entirely unrealistic. He would be torn to shreds/impaled by the glass and metal shards flying at him at ridiculous speeds.
@@BobLobster-fo9zw You're absolutely right, I didn't mention that because I felt that aspect was obvious. 😊
Kari needs to fire her hairstylist.
Calaveras County?
Mythbuster are wrong about terminal velocity because sky divers can reach over 370 miles per hour.
Then that speed is even terminal-er, it doesn't specifically mean that terminal speed is the ultimate speed that a person can attain.
The point is though, a person who just simply falls from a great height will eventually reach a top speed, which will be fatal when getting to the ground.
Going even faster will just make you deader, it's a bonus, overspeed/overkill.
Terminal velocity is dependent on air resistance and air resistance is dependent on what position the person is in. Most terminal velocities for humans assume that you're trying to increase drag as much as possible by laying down and spreading your arms and legs to create as much surface area as possible but if you instead go head first and hold your arms and legs tight you can easily reach much higher speeds.
Why the f**k was there a penny in the airbag? Am I the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea??... Anyone?
Thinking the same thing. That would've become a projectile if it had gone off. It would be a crazy way to sabotage an airbag. This could've been planted for the show but that seems unlikely.
Probably some disgruntled factory employee with psychopathic tendencies put it there.. seems hard to imagine but unfortunately there are plenty of people like that walking around free
Still probably better than the recall notice on my Toyota RAV4 airbag that said "Could propel fragments of the casing in to the cabin". Having a literal grenade sat in front of me certainly upped my perceived risk if I'd had an accident.
IDFK
@@Pink404 That was probably one of the airbags from the worldwide recall. That became a huge issue.
Jess > Kari any day
Daily dosages❤
RIP metal tube you was a real legend 🫡
They have to do the show again
Why is there a BBC and a Masterchef UK logo on screen?
ehhhh why answering own questions
Take a wild guess.
@@ao1778 mythbusters was never on bbc though? This was a discovery channel show.
because yes
Mythbusters,the low quality video is inexcusable.
Who doesn't bring backup balloons?
500 feet and 5½ sec to optain maximum velocity.?? 12:08
They are winging it from episode to episode... here its suddenly 14 sec and 2000 feet ruclips.net/video/ZugogOLHJHg/видео.html
You know... SCIENCE™!!!
Solving this problem requires integration that can only be done with computers afaik and you can see Adam doing everything by hand so that's where the error comes from.
2024
Oh and BTW, you don’t pay for electricity power, what you pay is energy, that is power in kW x the time in hrs that is energy in kWh.
That's an incredibly pointless technicality.
The only thing busted here was the Mythbusters. What an absolute shambolic excuse for an experiment.
What a dissapointing end, seriously?!?! It would've been a really cool result too see play out in super slow motion ahh man
Schade das es nicht auf deutsch ist
If only you guys would have won the war 🫤
Just use the the subtitles... Good luck. have a great night
It's a Shane Grant isn't with us anymore,, what a Beautiful person he is ❤❤❤❤
You are comparing a round steel ball with human body? What about the shape of the body that also changes the results?!
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Adam is so damn useless. i dislike him so much.
Under hour gang 👇
So we can only read and moralistic material now? According to this far too extensive "evaluation", books or films should stick to political correct stories. Young people should be educated by stories instead of developing a mind of their own.
Its not possible for the ball turret to open in fhe air. Ive rebuilt one of those it just cant happen. It has to be opened from the outside. And most turret gunners did wear parachutes. They just squeezed in there. They werent supposed to but they usually decided its better to have it than not
cre leds have busted their bust