The Hindenburg Mystery | MythBusters | Season 5 Episode 2 | Full Episode
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- In this action-packed episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie turn dirigible detectives to try and solve one of aeronautics biggest puzzles, while Kari, Tory and Grant come face-to-face - and have to flee - from some of Nature's natural-born killers.
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals. #MythBusters #factorfiction
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I came back here after many, many years not having watched a Mythbusters show and damn, this is still the best show ever made! I didn't realized the void it left in me since it ended.
Neuk je werkelijk apen?
I got rid of cable in 2001, a couple of years before this show came out, so I've only seen a handful of episodes over the years.
I agree, this is the best show.
It nearly made me break down and call the cable company, but I wasn't going to pay all that money for just one show.
I'm glad I finally get to watch more episodes.
Miss them alot.
Also, RIP Grant Imahara, you'll be forever missed
The first engineer robot should be named Grant in his honour.
Same here
Always a warm feeling when we get to see Grant having so much fun. We miss you man, Rest in peace.
Crocodile guy saying "you make the prettiest noises" haha omg
His eyes!!!
Came here to say this
Waiting for the day we find out bro was actually a serial killer who fed women to alligators 😭
creepy af, like who says that about someone screaming
@@kara4131 Errr, when I was in middle school a boy said that to me... he pulled my hair lol
Full seasons and episodes without having to pirate? Yes. Always a win. Taskmaster (UK TV show) release all their episodes on RUclips and their fan-base adore them for it.
Keep uploading!!!
Never have I been so early to a new official channel. It's not even verified yet. I must let the Tested audience know by leaving a comment in whatever build tomorrow's video is. It's a strange thing seeing Adam with orange hair again.
Its not official. They didn't pay to copyright the name so the name "mythbusters" is free to use.
This account is completely wrong in uploads. None of this is season 5, its season 4. My guess is to get around any claims of posting copyrighted material but its not an official discovery page
@@James27Simko is meaning we should enjoy the episodes before they got deleted
I can't believe they over looked that the hindenburg started from bottom to top a fire spreads a lot faster from bottom to top rather then top to bottom
Still didn’t matter 😂, it clearly showed that it was the hydrogen + the skin and not just the skin
@MrMonkey2475 ik but isn't their thing isbto build their simulation as accurate as possible
@@dixoncider186 easily overlooked and as long as it doesn’t effect the results it’s fine
Well, to be fair, they also didn’t account for all of the myth. The myth was that the skin had a lot to do with the burning, and they only tested that the hydrogen had to do with the burn. Full control should have been with hydrogen + the uncoated skin. Or something similar to that.
This is the best thing to have happened on the Internet this Year! Thank you so much for coming on YT. Cheers from Portugal.
Finally a channel where it doesn't zoom or distort in some way to avoid copyright
They probably bought the license
Just a quick loot at wikipedia blur and blur are most likely Potassium Permanganate and Glycerol.
My thoughts exactly. I saw the thick substance and I was like "yup glycerin". Potasium Permanganate and Glycerine react (redox) on their own as well so it basically functions as a starter at this point
That's what a good science show does, makes you curious enough to research stuff on your own.
True, but also probably didn't just want to show everyone watching the recipe for explosives 😅
@@cosminv8751 Adam commented this on his channel. He said he couldn't give people receipts for anything dangerous with ingredients you could easily find, because the authorities who were partners with the show (like the San Francisco LPD, their bomb squad, etc etc) forbid them from doing that.
I think it's more a liability thing than trying to hide the formula for dangerous stuff. Even if it's easy to learn the recipe for, say an explosive, you didn't learn it from MythBusters
The biggest mystery about the Hindenburg is why people think it was one of the greatest disasters in aviation history. It was a bad day for those involved, but with a 60% survival rate, pretty much all other commercial plane disasters have been much worse.
They should have made 4, one that had no special coating at all and just used hydrogen. If that would have been almost as fast as the second test, the coating actually may haven't played any role at all.
Yeah that's the control I'm missing
I wonder if they would have been allowed to paint swastika's on the tail. The original Hindenburg did have those because it was in large part funded by the Nazi's and was a major propaganda machine for them. The reason they called it "Hindenburg" is to honor the late president Hindenburg cause there were still a lot of accusations going around that they betrayed him.
Wel not the firstt time they didnt setup a control test
You can still draw a conclusion from the results, just not as good as it could’ve been.
But bear in mind; it’s a discovery show, and they don’t have a laboratory. It’s ok if they don’t have science journal levels of data.
The coating keeps the hydrogen in. Otherwise, the gas would leak out. It would be possible, but maybe too unpredictable/dangerous to test
Thanks for uploading this video! 🙏😊❤️
21:25 Seeing Grant so happy, melts my heart
I've swam in rivers with Johnson crocodiles sitting on the other bank. They're pretty chill, mostly eat fish n birds, people are just way to big. Your little doggo however... Saltwater crocs on the other hand, they take down buffalo (yes, we have buffalo in Australia). Don't swim with them, you'll get eaten.
Meanwhile, my grade 8 Science teacher is like:
“Student’s gather in the courtyard and check this out!”
*proceeds to ignite a can of thermite, burns permanent whole in the cobblestone
Awesome, i will watch all again
Mythbusters in 2071
Narrator: On this episode of Mythbusters: Adam and Jamie ignite an age old American debate.
[Adam and Jamie looking at a diagram in the workshop]
Narrator: Can ordinary jet fuel really melt through solid steel beams?
[Glowing metal rod snapping suddenly]
Adam: Wow!
Narrator: They'll test if this Myth can stand the heat...
[Adam filling up a gas can]
Narrator: Or will it buckle under the pressure?
[Scale model of the World Trade Center exploding violently]
Adam and Jamie: Woah!
I like the extra footage that comes with episodes that are 10 minutes longer than on TV
You can always learn something from watching them work
Nice to get back into Mythbusters!
I wonder why a crocodile with its mouth taped shut doesn't chase food... I wonder af
Idk much about crocodiles, but maybe they are smart enough to realize that there is no point in wasting energy if they can't open their mouth to eat
i have always wondered if the difference in the speed of the burn might have been that the hindenburg fell as it burned which means it kept falling into fresh unburnt air. The scale model didn't move at all and was in an enclosed space.
I never saw this episode on TV, but it's definitely one of my favourites now. It's darkly hilarious to see Adam and Jamie testing one of the worst aviation disasters in history, then Tori juggling dead birds XD
“I love the smell of thermite in the afternoon”
Should have tried hydrogen without any paint on the skin for control.
Hard to believe this was over 20 years ago.
It wasn't. This aired in 2007
@@misterwishart "umm aktually" 🤓
Glad you googled that for me though.
@@haphazardprism - haha, yeah, cos Mythbusters fans are famously all jocks who don't care for accuracy
You make the prettiest noises?
"I watched a lot of professional wrestling on television so i learned some wrestling moves. And now i´m gonna try them out on this crocodile!" Pretty sure they called him a mad man in california, while in florida this type of preparation makes you a nerd. What´s next, don´t tell me the nerd was sober?!
I think I know what the blurred ingredients in thermite were, they only worked as ignition so you wouldn’t theoretically need it if you had a proper ignition charge
Put it down!
Starts to juggle the quails.
Oh, Grant.
We miss you, buddy.
Should have called it the Hynemanburg. It would be neat to see them bust a Hyneman
😂
The only myth here was how the retired NASA dude got his job in the first place.
The original story of the Hindenburg mentioned it was stormy. Did you try wetting it and applying static electricity? Isn't Iron Oxide supposed to be more dangerous when wet when in the presence of aluminum? Some of the descriptions also mentioned they were dropping 'water ballasts' as they were landing...so it sounds like they were dropping through wet air.
it wasnt lol idk where you got that info but this is like 15 years old lol
@@heeelion134
Not saying you should go check it again NOW NOW NOW. Just curious.
The official reasons behind the fire are as follows:
1) Due to unfavorable climate conditions at the landing site, the Hindemburg had to make some turn arounds to wait for the storm to subside, during that time the captain made some very sharp ones and that movment snaped some of the cables holding the super structure together, them in turn broke one of the hydrogen containments.
2) In its final aproach the Hindemburg started to loose lift in its stern section and the crew was forced to constantly open the stern ballast in order to keep it stable enough, this means that the open hydrogen containment was evacuating the gas outside the ship wich means that the skin must have failed. Plus eyewitness report a heavy skin-ripple at the top of the stern section not long before the explosion.
3) The ignition happened when the "landing-ropes" touched the ground at the same time when it was raining. With the storm coming in static was all over the place and when the ropes got wet enough they made earth contact, that discharge fired up the hydrogen that was been venting all this time over the rupture at the stern and the entire ship burned into a crisp.
So one can say that it was captain error since the entire dissaster happened because he ordered very sharp turns that pushed the structure to the breaking point.
That's actually part of the original story. That the hydrogen ignited because of a spark due to the highly charged skin. When the Hindenburg dropped it's anchor ropes and they got wet the airship discharge it's massive amount of static electricity. However the cotton skin didn't discharge as quickly as the metal frame so a spark flew from the skin to the frame.
They were indeed dropping water ballast because they were tail heavy. This was because there was a hole in the hydrogen bladders there.
I find it very counterintuitive that many tests like this use an open flame rather than an electric charge. It is perhaps more important to investigate if the fabric could have been ignited with a static spark. In a 1997 Secrets of the Dead documentary, Addison Bain who first proposed the incendiary paint theory did ignite an old piece of Hindenburg fabric but he had to orient it such that the spark ran perpendicular to the outer cover and used a continuous electric current inconsistent with atmospheric conditions. Also, the fabric would have been wet during the minutes leading up to the fire. In other documentaries he just burned doped fabric with a match. All this does is indicate that the fabric is combustible and can burn with an intense smoky once exposed to a pre-existing fire, but not whether it could have created a catastrophic fire if the ship was filled with helium.
For the record he did write a book in 2014 where he tries to address some of the criticism and claimed the fire started behind the tail on the starboard side (only one witness testified this), and was burning for some 30 seconds before it was widely noticed and ignited the hydrogen. He even uses this Mythbusters documentary saying that the fire could burn faster because most of his critics were burning flat pieces of fabric rather than around a circular envelope. Again, this doesn't say much because their models were small-scale and quite curved compared to the full-scale ship where these areas would have been larger flat panels. I haven't read the whole book myself but other experts (historians like Dan Grossman and Patrick Russell) were unimpressed by his rebuttals.
50 metres back from the waters edge at high tide and no swiming late at night or early morning
I feel like the editors made a lot of effort with the Hindenburg footage to avoid the Nazi flags on the rudders.
61 people surviving the Hindenburg crash is insane.
Tasting history with Max Miller made a great video about it. (Dont let the title fool you, while yes the video is partially about one of the dishes served in the restaurant, he goes into a lot of detail about the hostory of the airship and the day it went up in flames, quoting eyewitness reports and more)
Is it just me or is this a really creepy thing to say when a girl screams? gives off serial killer vibes 27:17
YEAH WTF LOL
Yeah I thought that was weird
Yeah, I came here to find this comment. Really creepy!! “You make the prettiest noises”. 🤮
It was for the camera, same with how he later said that if Cory got caught by the crocodile, he would put him out of his misery, and that his best recourse would be to lose consciousness quickly.
And the Hindenburg disaster is truly "BURNED" into our minds
Sorry to soon still
Juggling dead birds Lmao!!
Two thoughts (this far @16:50):
The dope was not "fresh", but had been subject to months of weather, and sunlight. Does this change the dope, making it more like termite? Does the altitude of flight have an impact on the exposure of sunlight.
Dihydrogen-oxide, H20. When a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is two to one, it will bang, as seen. But in a hydrogen rich mixture, as onboard the Hindenburg, it will not bang, but burn. Search _Hydrogen Pringles Can_ There will not be enough oxygen molecules (O2) available for a reaction with every present hydrogen atom (H). At which rate it will burn... I don't know.
at the end they did not do a version without aluminum, so we don't know if the thermite reaction contributed to the speed of burning
Kari's line, about putting dead birds in sexy laundrea😂😂😂😂
They always light it from the top. Flames rise so even with the first 2 tests if you were to light it from the bottom it would burn much faster.
Exactly what I thought
13:15
Cameraman had some pretty good reflexes there
The Hindenburg burned at night and was captured on black and white film, that's why the flames looked so agressive.
Zig zag run is an old wifes tale... an old wife who wanted rid of her husband.
That’s what some people like to call “legal separation”.
“You have the prettiest noises”? What tf😂
yeahhh... 😐
Morale of the story - do not try to fly on a huge capacitor filled with one of the most flamable gasses in the universe.
That red flame was weird, cuz normally it burns pale blue with a hint of orange, but i only saw red/orange with this flame that the myth busters used
And iron burns orange so maybe they burned some iron
They only painted the model from the outside, begs the question that was the actual Hindenburg painted from the inside as well
I know obviously this episode is from years ago, but, try coming up on a mother alligator on her nest. She'll chase you on land. These guys only tested prey and mild annoyance. Not true aggression.
the humanity
A crocodile is not going to waste energy chasing around it's a ambush predator
27:15 Jeez, someone call Agent Starling, looks like Crocodile Bill wants to make a new suit !
Could the availability of air might be a limiting factor? There was a storm and the ship falling down probably created additional draft…
The nostogia is crazy to me.
nostalgia*
Mythbuster's Job Description: "Putting dead birds in sexy lingerie. And choosing the least likely lingerie to come apart while being chewed."
They should have had a fan blowing on the Hindenburg models when testing to simulate wind speed. Would have made the burn times a lot faster. I feel like if they did this they could have achieved a burn time in under a minute as appose to the 2mins with the first model making the myth far more plausible.
Well we forget to calculate the heat from the surrounding burning material + the pressure that forces oxygen into the flame from a huge balloon that has a leak now
Since heat and flames burn up quicker than down, would there be a significant enough time difference
But it was up high in the air where it more windy not in an enclosed room Fire spread quickly with wind
I think the biggest issue for crocodiles or alligator Chase is not using wild ones. Yes, they weren't domestic, but to me, it makes sense for a wild croc or alligator to chance as food isn't always a guarantee
A more interesting experiment would be to test what caused the ignition. In the original footage too many frames are missing...
The modern theory is the guide ropes for laid in the mud, sucking up water, which then allowed them to act as grounding rods for lightning, zap crackle BOOM
@@magoshighlands4074 yes sure,
but my point is where are those missing frames from the original footage
The Third Blimpse...
What medium was used to bind the metal powders to the skin? In the age of the Hindenburg often cellulose lacquers were used. These are extremely flammable.
On the Hindenburg they used Cellon wich is not extremely flammable.
Why not test the original mixture when one used busted the myth by definition?
was the coating inside considered aswell?
powdered sugar, pool chlorine and light it with a sulphur match = low budget termite.
So strange to hear them in english, "Why aren't they speaking Portuguese?"
But you didn't go full scale on the hindenburg 😅
I'M SORRY. AT 27:18 WHEN THE CROC GUY SAYS "YOU MAKE THE PRETTIEST NOISES" MY MAN. NO
made my fight or flight response go wild lollll. Creepy af
You had Tory playing with a Aussie Freshy, We literally go swimming with them. Put a Aussie 18-20ft salty in there and see what aggressive and quick striking is...
our saltwater crocs are our northern deterrent. Thats why in WW2 the japanese only tried air attacks. If they sent ships they'd all be sunk by the wildlife long before they reached shore
Id the skeleton was steel, this could have rusted in parts to give a source of iron oxide, leading to a blend of materials closer to a stoichiometric mix of fuel (aluminium) and oxidiser (iron oxide)
The skeleton of the Hindenburg was aluminium, not steel.
The hydrogen escaped and burned high above of wreck. The solid materials and fuel caused all injuries. Hydrogen fire injuries are extreme rare.
What are the secret ingredient??
That third hindenburg. I'm sure germans cheated while making the OG one by just mixing the stuff together and then painting it. "made in germany" did not always meant quality.
THE WHHHHHHALE
Anyone else spot the continuity error when Kari changed outfit half way through the crocodile myth?
no. no one.
not even you.
the real question is WHO started the fire?
wasn't that caused by the Hindenburg not being properly grounded?
No, the real question is WHAT started the fire. Depending on the answer to that first question, then you might have cause to ask who.
Do not attribute agency, without having obvious cause to do so.
People are to be considered innocent until sufficent evidence prove their guilt.
Evolutionary, there is a benefit to thinking that the sound that you hear in the tall grass, is a predetor, so you run. Instead being curious, and go looking.
But this provides a lot of false positives, which that leads to superstition. Which leads to people flying into buildings, or having a none cannabalistic barbecue. It all traces back to "you" starting which the question _who_ , and not _what_ . So if you want the world to improve, don't do that.
i ask the questions people are afraid to ask@@bodan1196
Good question.... Or rather WHAT
We didn't start the fire
kirov reporting
I miss Grants laugh :(
14:41 red as blood, what orange is he talking about
hey if anyone has the audio recording of the disaster can you let me know?
One comment is plenty, it's not a live chat.
croc doesnt run fast they jump, the croc myth make my head hurt see this
Crocs DO run, but they are a lazy species of animal. They can run really fast if they really wanted you in their maw. Problem is that these crocs in this are mostly fed and full, giving them no incentive to go at an alarming speed.
35:26 he says that here
I think blur and blur are potassium permanganate and glycerin
??? no
hmm it was my best guess. what do you think it is
The consistency of the liquid they showed a few seconds later certainly fits glycerin. It's definitely a logical possibility. At least that's the stuff my chemistry teacher used back in the early 90'ies.
Hindenbörg
Just for the Europeans among us. Why would you have crocodilians on a farm??
Like do you guys eat them? Sure nobody uses the leather in large amounts 😅 and pretty sure the egs are useless. So why?? Take water buffaloes if you live in a swamp or go Dutch and drain that boggy marsh 😂 all ya need is loads of windmills and they're way more fun than gattors 😅
Isn't the test with hydrogen a bit disingenious?
I mean, they take a container filled with air and add hydrogen, but that just makes a flammable air-hydrogen mix, while a gas bag of pure hydrogen isn't flammable at all.
I want to know what blur and blur are.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
@@7uring Of course. Thank you.
Deez and nutz
@@christianellegaard7120 No, they showed clearly what thermite is, a mix of powdered iron oxide and aluminium powder. It's the liquid ignition mix they blurred out. My guess is that it's potassium permanganate mixed with glycerol.
@@mytube001 It says that potassium permanganate and glycerol or ethylene glycol are one of the ways of lighting thermites on the wikipedia page.
why did the Hindenburg burn and not explode?
Maybe because there was not enough supply of oxygen from the atmosphere to make the huge amount of hydrogen burn violently. That amount of hydrogen couldn't mix fast enough with the oxygen of the atmosphere to make an explosion. That's my guess.
@@kgeorgejuniorbullshit
Because the inside was filled with pure hydrogen not a hydrogen+air mixture so it could only burn on the surface where it was on contact with outside air.
you make the prettiest noises?
The extra weight = extra hydrogen pressure, for size will change combustibles
Weird to hear it with the wrong narrator... 😄
Guys? Why should a croc chase its pray, when he has his mouth taped together? ...
Was the blurs glycerin and potassium pergamenate?
no why?
Why didn't the Hindenburg's hydrogen explode like Adam's box?
Because the Hindenburg was filled only with Hydrogen and not a box filled with air and hydrogen, creating an explosive mixture.
New myth if you can poor salt on a cheetahs tail you can catch it easily. 😂 the salt makes them calm.
love the show, but god these myths are sooo dumb...
Funny how they were blurring basic information which can be found in basic chemical books.
Steve Erwin won't zig zag, he would tackle the basterd.
Nah, he'd just sacrifice a kid to it.
@@zybch very doubtful
@MegaFramed..... all while saying "Crikey"