Battle of the Cannonballs! - Mythbusters - S07 EP29 - Science Documentary
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2024
- Join the MythBusters as they dive into daring stunts, historical myths, and high-speed impacts in this action-packed episode. From testing the safety of jumping onto a mattress in shallow water to uncovering the truth behind 15th-century stone cannonballs, the team leaves no myth unexplored.
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So happy this episode was aired considering the consequences... hell yeah!
The producer had Kari come with him to apologise to the people. Because he thought they wouldn't yell at him if a pregnant woman was with him.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980That was actually for one of the Knock your Socks off episodes.
Why?
@@benjaminfitch5271 they set off some explosives to see if the blast or Shockwave could knock your socks off, apparently the Shockwave traveled rather far that it was felt in a neighboring town.
People complained about it and they grabbed Kari, who was pregnant at the time, to go to apologize. Not sure what exactly happened in the town though as reports were all over the place.
Felt good hey 😂
Perks of landing on the matress. You'll have a little raft to float on with your broken spine
The 'Mythical' Cannonball episode!
Thanks for the upload mate 🤙
I always wondered what *THAT* loose cannon episode was, I'm glad I found it
not just episode, but The Episode
I would probably count myself lucky to have a cannonball from Mythbusters BUST through my home. I get money and a free repair AND I get to meet Adam Savage? Count me in.
I would frame the hole in the wall, and ask them to sign it.
10/10 would get cannoned again
I love the prepared statement for the lawyers at 23:00 onwards
So I've read this story and it's an amazing route that ball took. Also, amazing no 1 got hurt. It went over the hill and bounced in the front yard of a house miles away where it entered thru the front door. Bounced up the stairs thru a bedroom door where 3 ppl were sleeping. Went straight out the other end thru the outer wall and over a busy 4 lane street where it landed on a roof then bounced over across another street thru a parked vans window where it finally stopped. Amazing. There's dozens of houses in between bounces. Before it landed first it cleared like half a suburban neighbourhood.
Just realised that if that happened at my house it would've stopped inside the bedroom. not sure brick walls are preferable in this case...
It's faszinating, how easy it can be to underestimate the firepower of those old guns. In Sweden they once tested an old naval gun as used on the Vasa against the reconstruction of the side planking of a ship of the line. To quote the article about that test, they fired the canon from a distance of 32 meters, simulating close quarter fighting and
"The first round (round 37), on a full charge, passed through the planking and ceiling [of the deck], travelled another 500 meters before striking the perimeter road of the range, flew another 200 meters through the forest, limbing trees as it went, before scoring a direct hit on a 40 cm pine tree, which it cut in half before carrying on into the bog behind."
- Hocker, Fred: Ships, shot and splinters. The effect of 17th century naval ordnance on ship structure. p. 196.
My first thought when I heard about the canonball hitting the house was 'how close is the bomb range to houses??'
The bomb range was built in the middle of nowhere, and then slowly urban sprawl was authorised to build closer and closer to the bomb range
Houses/flats next to churches, nightclubs or train tracks are notoriously difficult to sell for a reason. I'm trying to imagine the kind of people unironically who say "living next to a bomb range? Sounds like a blast to me! =D "..
700m from the bomb range boundary apparently.
@@malusignatius And for freedom lovers that's 18368 alligator teeth.
@@UltraCasualPenguin Lol.
About the 25:15, Granite is in many places very common like Finland (where sandstone and limestone are extremely rare), the Baltics and eastern Europe all the way as south as Ukraine. Where it is less is common in central/west Europe and British isles. On top of all that, there is lots of variation locally...
Kudo's to the man continuesly offering his rare cannon 'old mozes' for these kind of episodes
15:54 Jamie: Ready for market! 👍
About the cannonball incident: HOW is it even possible (regardless of "who was there first"), that anybody lives close enough to a *bomb range* for this accident to happen??!
At 23:07, a few frames before it fires (use , and . to navigate frame by frame), you can see the cannon tilted up, ever so slightly. This is the reason it went over the barrels, hit the safety berm and bounce over an entire highway. Apparently, it had not rained for days on end, so the berm was bone dry and rock hard.
It is quite clearly visible and I always wondered why nobody noticed this on the day. It is sitting next to a massive ruler, so there is plenty of straight lines to reference the angle from. Outside of the obvious: using a level and/or laser to aim your cannon.
So happy nobody was hurt and the show didn't get cancelled.
Exactly. You could see the miss coming. The problem was never the homemade cannon. It was the lackadaisical Aim
Also strange is the entry hole is pretty low compared to the berm
What? Aiming a cannon upwards causes the cannonball to fly higher? I simply cannot believe this quackery.
I kinda wanted to see the Mythbusters' reaction to the ball missing the barrels and going awol(it probably involved a bunch of swearing, and emergency calls to various people including Adam and Jamie, who I'd imagine would also let out a couple bleeps themselves), but I can certainly understand the need for sensitivity in such an instance.
Perhaps it would have been better to make the lighter stone balls travel faster. Matching the energy of the metal ball rather than speed, would have been more of a fair test.
😂
Its really interesting to note that we are watching them making one of the cannonballs that was fired and hit a residential home during that time. That incident was all over the news.
It wasn't a rock cannonball that went through a house. It was a metal ball.
Omg I heard about this one I'm so excited to see how it happened
I find it so funny how their looks change between 8:55 and 9:30. Something had to be filmed afterwards.
They are using roughly 1/3 of the powder load. They should have keep the same powder load. A stone cannonball weights less that an iron one and would travel faster at the same pressure in the gun.
Keeping the same speed makes no sense.
Probs trying to not damage the cannon
40:35 . Not a chance that isn’t a severe injury. While it may not be as severe as the injuries seen previously seen, that’s definitely more than just a “bump” on the bottom.
Stone cannonballs actually existed. I saw them in the historical museum of my city
I remember learning about this way back, but I didn't think it was this serious.
very good episode
The main advantage of the stone cannon ball is you can make them from suitable stone cause enough damage and there's nothing that can be used to fire back which means that if they are shooting back they're going to have no ammunition in very short time but the attaching force their limitation is how fast they can make the balls and their supply of gunpowder but they have the ability to bring more gunpowder because they have not transported so many steel balls use a few steel to start creating damage then continue the attack with stone
It is common knowledge here in England that Granite cannon balls were used in the early years of cannons
and in Europe as they did the same damage as the cast iron ones but could not be fired back mainly as cast iron was scarce in the early years.
Yikes, that training mannequin is disturbing! A medical expert, paramedic can be seriously pranked with it.
I was surprised at the accuracy of the bones
@@aaronando1218Yeah, was impressive.
How on earth would it fool a paramedic? It has no skin bro...
@@wingerding A paramedic in training, after being told it's a skinned body for training purposes.
26:54 top glamour moment haha
Still would
This is the one episode!
I would have liked to see them test different (non stuntman) methods for hitting the water. Eg Show that diving will break your neck, then test bombie, horsee, and tin-soldier.
The bricks were placed not bonded. Im sure that even in the 1700s they would of had some kind of basic cement to use as a kind if a binder. This is why the bricks just seperated and the ball didnt travel as far. Call it my opinion but yeah. I believe they could of tested this better
Apparently one of those syndavers will set you back a cool $70k, while regular old human cadavers cost between $5k - $10k.
Thanks for the upload
Buster poppin' manus
Cannonball Vs American cardboard houses myth confirmed.
When the fear level inside is high enough they will surrender because they have no ammunition but they are still being fired upon stone or not they are destroying the place with them inside
Cannonballs in Europe were not made solely of rock. They were lumps of rock coated in lead to make them round and reduce wear on the cannon.
I heard a sheet of paper (cardboard maybe?) floating in the water is enough to double the fall damage
The cover clip says “Experimenting with Canons”! 🤭😂🤣 I didn’t know you were interested in testing religious texts experiences!
It's a well known fact that stone cannon balls were used but I doubt that it was because they shattered, rather it was because stone and stonemasons were more readily available than cast iron and foundries.
I need to practice this diving tactic.. i cant swim but at least then i know i will be able to stand up in 4.5ft pools hahaha. Im 6.1ft.
Learn to swim man
Tiny canon ball though. Kind of scary to think of the proper 18 pounders.
Certainly not the calibre of cannon you would fire at a castle
ball on di brick 👌
I feel like equal powder charge would better replicate the myth, no 15th century cannonneer is gonna figure out how fast he's shooting, he'll probsbly just keep the load thats supplied/trained on
Stone balls were used because they could be made on campaign. They were made of whatever was readily available. That's kind of the thing with fighting on a medieval campaign, you take what you can get. A team of masons could form more balls than an equivalent team of smiths, more importantly, the masons could make balls for each gun quite easily. Those old guns weren't perfectly uniform, there was no guarantee a particular ball would fit well.
Then you have the logistical nightmare. During the 100 years war, 300 knights sailed with at least 1000 horses (each Knight had his Pomfrey, Charger and Courser). Over 100 vessels were required just for the horses, tack and fodder. The average horse in those days would be around 700kg, in total some 700 tons of horse, the untold tons of fodder and tack, yet consider the absolute nightmare shipping cold iron would be. Horses can disembark on their own, they can pull the caravans. A ball requires a cart to draw it to the lines, carts which could carry food, powder and equipment. Soldiers often found their own food when on campaign, they did the same for ammunition.
The cannon stuff isn't a myth, it's truth.
Please tell me the professional diver is steve-o
People jump from far higher than 35 feet and be fine. The thing is this whole myth only makes sense if they jump on a pool in such way that the impact with the pool's floor would be a bigger problem than the impact with the water, which is obviously not the case if you decide to butt flop, rather than falling on a more vertical manner, making their tests extremely pointless.
Isn't this myth about doing a cannonball into pools? cannonballs are usually done with butt first, unlike what you are thinking, which involves going feet first.
@@minoxknoctis5851 it was the other myth that was about cannonballs bro...
35 feet pool jump of 8 feet thats not deep water but could be enough to make it wit a pool of 16 feet is no problem at all.
When I was young I like it a lot to jump from 35 feet ^^
Cannons of that caliber were not used to take down castle walls.
Well, you go find a bigger cannon that they can use, and they can try it again.
We'll wait.
who the hell built they house behind a bomb range
🥳
Why does an object not fall as deep into the other as its speed increases?
I think that the same result happened when they fired guns into water. The faster the projectile, the higher the chance of it disintegrating.
It would appear to me that the higher the velocity, the more water behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid. Does anyone know the scientific name of this effect?
Obviously...they smack the water harder and it becomes more dense.
@@wingerding What are you talking about? Density remain constant.
In the case of water, cavitation could be part of the answer. Another factor is that a rifle bullet at 3000+ feet per second could be getting into transonic flow in the medium created by cavitation. I hadn't thought of this before, but I'm still not too sure about it.
Hard to take them seriously talking about the stone cannon balls, considering Jamie made one in season 1 and it's a pretty well known martial history fact
Budget is Lord
This is the episode, with the thiccest straw
Imagine having your lunch and a cannonball lands on your table! I'd be surprised.
23:00 Let the small man stand on chair
Shit. Very late i rcognized, it is like paper on the water. You will never hit it. it is hard as concrete.
That limestone is a piece of shite... Proper building lime stone is uniform like the sandstone and good to carve...
Don't even know why they bothered with that one.
26:29 technally the stone did not need to be rounded?? Could just be a cylinder🤷🏼♂️😁
At same length as width, to prevent to much wobble
Imagine the amount of dust
- ALLOWER IN THE SHOP🫣
Not just dust, but grit.
They really should have done that in an isolated room.
A cylinder wouldn't be aerodynamic though, it would tumble through the air
@@jordanberndt4157 Does not matter at that distance, AS i wrote same length as width🤷🏼♂️ Wobble/tumbe same same different day
@@christianellegaard7120 💯
@@michaelripley4528 they wanted to be accurate to history.
Re: the hotel confrontation myth. Just put sugar in your kettle and boil it. When you open the door, throw it on them. I call it junkie napalm
All hypothetical youtube.
If they have a gun, it's equal force (not really as a gun would do more damage. That being said charged should be reduced regardless of harm caused) if it is in self defence of course.
@@demonicravergaming.4766 I don't think many places would consider that self defense.
the water myth testing is wild to me. Where I live every public pool has a 35feet high jump tower and all the kids jump from that height all the time.
They make it sound like its deadly to jump from that height :D
EDIT: My comments dont seem to get saved, so let me edit this one here: I was only talking about them testing the direct impact on the water surface. They showed 50g on impact from 35feet and said its deadly potentially. That has nothing to do with the depth of the pool. Altough of course that is a very important part of the myth.
You missed the part in the myth where the pool in the myth is only 4 feet deep. That is at least 1/4 to 1/7th the depth of a dive pool. Plus, the way the diver enters the water, piked or feet first, prevents injury. But those entries require a deep pool to slow the diver down before touching bottom. (Unless you are a trained individual like some of the circus divers)
And your local public pools set these towers over water as shallow as what's being used here? Sounds like you're very confused....
I was only talking about the part of the myth where they test the impact on the water surface. Or did I miss something important? Was actually doing something while watching. @@SPierre-dm4wo
I was just talking about the part where they test the impact on the water surface from that height. So the depth of the pool did not matter at all there. @@SPierre-dm4wo
@@XLC-zd8dnexactly. My local pool has a 10 metre (30 feet) board, the pool is about 4.5 metres deep.
I don’t get why they use the term ‘even more dead’ when the term ‘deader’ is just as accurate
"even more deadlierest" is the correct term.
Deader than disco
@@espenstoro There's a documentary about the guy who came up with the idea and the shitstorm it unleased. The Saint of Second Chances, the guy is called Mike Veeck. It's a good watch, the man is a character.
You answer yourself in your own comment. Because it's just as accurate ..
8:38 Kari has big (stupid) earrings and Tory has a beard.
9:32 No earrings, no beard and I think that Grant has had a haircut too lol
Not to mention the fact that granite is a type of uranium ore... So technically that was a nuclear strike... I know, it's not enough to do a whole lot but hey if you got some of that granite in your mouth you'd have some issues...
No one would consider that technically a nuclear strike. Hell, we're nuclear and I wouldn't claim to have delivered a nuclear strike on you if punched you.
@wingerding rofl! Well, in my defense, granite is one of the best uranium ores out there... but for the most part it's not putting out enough of anything to do anything...
@wingerding although, some granite counter tops do put out dangerous levels of radiation... I've seen someone take the best radiation detectors to a granite counter top warehouse and the results were surprising...
Does Kari have an Onlyfans account? Lol
I always thought that it was pretty dubious to use a bomb range as an artillery range.