These MythBusters Stories Got Scrapped Due to Danger
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2023
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adam is the best..i like norm too
One of the first myths I remember was testing ways to beat a breathalyzer test. If any of the methods had worked, would you have removed it? I can't see making it easier for drunk drivers to stay on the road being a benefit to humanity.
The stuff I know, i laugh a little and get concerned a little every time I go out to any big box store or hardware store. It's amazing and scary.
01:55 Now googling the explosive! Triacetone triperoxide Thanks internets! You are so educational!
Im pretty sure any non stupid can find it in less than a minute thanks to this video on YT!
New Reality television show...
It's gonna be a killer.
By being part of that international audience I can confirm that these were, indeed, good jokes. Whichever they may have cut.
Well that’s great to hear crow guy but unfortunately you have zero credibility. Sorry about that one 😂
nice try Adam.
I thought we all got the 45min version of myth busters, we were lucky being international. The jokes were corny and annoyed Jamie.
I agree. We had to steal all of the episodes in the day, as Foxtel was showing them in Australia - and butchered them extensively. They did things like speed up the show, cut chunks... Just so they could charge you for watching adverts.
For what it's worth, when Banijay upload episodes of MythBusters to UA-cam (blocked in the US and UK), they are the full 48/49 minutes.
This is why most subscribers left cable tv for streaming services. 40 minute runtime in an hour block. That's after we also paid their ridiculous prices for the service.
That and every time they get back from commercial break, they repeat 20% of the block since the prior commercial break. Argh.
just give it one or two more years and you will be right back at the same situation with streaming too
@@lordeisschrankHonestly I dont think it will, not because the companies aren't soulless greed monsters, they are of course. But theres just not much of an incentive. Jack up the prices, sure, but there isn't a limited amount of time like there is on tv, and streaming content is also structured differently. Thats why shows that originally aired on the BBC/HBO/any service without commercial breaks seem so wierd when aired on US television. They arent often meant to be viewed as seperate acts, usually its just one smooth story throughout. Its one of the things people really like about them, its so much more immersive.
Theyd have to completely change their entire production model, and business model in general, and all to do something that gives away one of their big advantages over network television. People will put up with the service fee going up over time (within reason), but if they removed their commercial free options, there WOULD be an exodus then.
Yup. I have 2 "kids" ages late teens early 20s. They've never watched cable or network tv. Ever.
Matter of fact they both have said "why would I pay for a service and watch crappy commercials for crap I don't want"
Kinda turned on the light for me. I haven't had cable tv in 5 years and don't miss it.
@@lordeisschrankstreaming show's aren't cut around ads breaks though. they just happen and hope you keep up. (much easier to pirate)
In case anyone is wondering, the result of the syrup vs water myth was "plausible, depending on the viscosity of the syrup"
I mean by that logic submarines should be more efficient than planes but they’re not. Ships have the advantage of buoyancy. That’s why they’re so efficient.
@karigreyd2808 When you swim, part of your body is out of the water, notably your arms in the recovery part of the stroke -- so not comparable to a submarine.
@@misolo the added drag will definitely outweigh the added speed you’re gonna tie yourself out way faster in a very viscous liquid. I do competitive swimming for a long time.
@@karigreyd2808 Suppose someone suspends you in air with a harness, which slides horizontally without friction. How fast could you swim in air? Likely very slowly. Either very low or very high viscosity won't work. There's some optimal point for the viscosity of the fluid that will give you optimal swiming speed. There's no reason to expect that the viscosity of water happens to be exactly equal to that optimal point. It's probably a little bit off to either side, and I find it plausible that the optimal point is at a just slightly higher viscosity than water.
@@misolo I wish someone would test this with varying degrees of viscosity. My intuition says slightly thinner liquid might be more effective. The biggest issue with swimming is drag. Honestly this is made me more curious and now I have more questions than answers😂
The fact that he’s still thinking of factors that might affect the experiments is awesome
Several years ago I remember Kari making a passing reference to learning something that she and the others have sworn to secrecy and refuses to elaborate on, I'm sure the explosives thing is what she was referring too
It's the Terminator pipe bomb
Probably was actually a few things from various "tests" or myths, not just one.
@@ElRigs83 Out of curiosity, what makes you think it's that?
@@sgtleppard basic context clues. Keep up.
I would bet my hands that he's talking about liquid oxygen
That episode with Nathan was fun. Poor kid looked like a fish out of water when he got done with his first run, yet he soldiered on. I never get tired of MB. You created a fun, entertaining, and surprisingly educational show. I also love the various 'Don't Try This At Home' intros that you & Jamie did.
I some how forgot about those intros they where great!
Don't try this at home. We're what you call "experts" always had me in stitches. That and "remember kids, the only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down"
@@dude2299Agree
Yeah, my favorite intro was when Jamie smacked him with the bat then chased him off the set.
"Don't try anything you're about to see us do at home."
"EVER!!!"
Really miss mythbusters
Really myth missbusters
Me too
Me three.
most of the show's jokes were bad.a bad puns and that exhausting stock guitar riff in the background. same every single time 😮💨
@@callmeshaggy5166 Mealy Bliss Mistlusters.
7-8 minutes, over that many episodes, over that many seasons? Hours of Mythbusters I missed by being a north american. Best soft sell for region shifting with a VPN I've ever heard.
would be an even better sell for a physical cut of the show, on a bluray or something, but NO we only want to stream it on dp
Even back while the show was still airing I went out of my way to watch the Australian broadcast once I found out how much was missing here in the US.
@@killingtimeitself physical media? Like a caveman? (Please take this with the sarcasm that's intended)
its the only way to get real access to mesia these days unfortunately, and much like a caveman, it's simple and works @@Opforvideo2
region shifting cable television? 🤣
Little known fact, in Hollywood silencers DO actually suppress the sonic boom, but when you leave the city limits for the rest of the world physics returns to normal.
c'mon man, creating millions of needlessly damaged eardrums is more important than common sense. technologies that make loud things not damaging to human hearing should all be banned. For example car mufflers do absolutely no good, and because I know nothing about them, I assume they probably make car emissions even worse!
@@deesnutz42069 You have that backwards. Mufflers make cars less noisy. It's in the name, they muffle the sound. Inadequate mufflers are the problem, like the ones used on Harley Davidson motorcycles.
It's probably also worth noting that they work on the same principle as a gun silencer. Essentially a (mostly) enclosed chamber to allow the sound waves to expand, but not escape.
@@uzetaab I can't help but notice that you didn't get the joke.
It doesn't actually follow city borders. Rather this phenomenon occurs within a 30 mile radius from the corner of Beaverly and La Cienega a.k.a. the TMZ.
Thats actually how they identified the center of the TMZ
As I understand it, in many European countries, suppressors are legal and can be bought over the counter. e.g. Poland, France, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, etc. They help reduce hearing damage in general as well as noise complaints during hunting season. In many places in Europe, it is considered impolite to hunt without a suppressor. They can also reduce recoil. A suppressor cannot reduce the sound of a bullet that goes supersonic once it leaves the barrel, but only the initial sound of the explosion of the powder in the cartridge.
and even then not significantly unless the round is specifically designed to be quiet to begin with. Those are the ones to be concerned about. Though apparently pillow suppressors work pretty well for a one time thing...
Even in the UK, a moderator is extremely likely to be granted along with a rifle, if requested. It's just nicer for everyone if the sport is less loud
I logged in specifically to find, and upvote a comment like this.
The myth about "silencers" is they act like they do in the movies. i.e. you can shoot someone, and it's so quiet that nobody can hear the thing. That "TV/Movie" myth is the reason why suppressors are hard to obtain without difficulty. That would have made a pretty good mythbusters episode.
One of the problems we have with guns in this country is that the people that advocate for gun laws are often the people that know NOTHING about guns but what they see on TV/Movies and read in newspapers by equally ignorant reporters trying to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
As for Sweden, I don't think that's the case actually. I think you need to have a licence for the gun the silencer is supposed to fit.
@@stevesether only 8 states limit the sale and ownership of suppressors in the United States. They are far more common than you would think.
Surfer here. Cold vs. Warm water makes a huge difference, so much that they build especially body boards specifically for that.
So let me make sure I understand this... They make different body boards for cold water and warm water? Part of me thinks youre joking but I'm 100% certain you're serious, which makes me even more curious. I never thought that would be a facet they considered during design of things like that. Are they a different shape in some aspects? Like a wing with a different profile type of situation with only slight variation?
Wait, I didn't know that they made different boards for different temperatures! (Tbf, how/why would I? I live in the middle of the US, nowhere near an ocean, have paraparesis/partial paraplegia, and can't swim.) Could you please educate me more?
How much temperature difference is needed before it makes a difference? Like, does it only matter between middle of summer vs winter or different ones for different weeks in spring/autumn? What is the difference between the boards?
The show I remember most was the one about pirates wearing an eye patch to keep one eye dilated so they could switch the patch to the undilated eye when they went down into the dark bowels of the ship which allowed them to see better in the dark. A second show I remember was the one where you tested to see if it took a lot of extra electricity to initially turn on a light than to run it. If I remember rightly, the result was a resounding NO! It did take a tiny bit more electricity, but it was almost unmeasurable.
reminds me of an old science magazine article about Fluorescent light bulbs.
the extra energy was about the same as it used in ONE SECOND.
in other words, if you turned it on and off once per second, it would use the same amount of power as if it was left on!
I do thag at work, as I'm often going from a mildly dark corner of a shed to blinding sunlight outside. Close one eye on the walk back inside, maybe thirty seconds before you enter, and the difference is massive.
You should have found a distance swimmer, or even better, open water distance swimmer.
If youve done a mile without being able to see the bottom, you get real good at doing straight lines
I did notice we in the UK always got a British narrator but occasionally we would get shown episodes with the american narrator, presumably that was when discovery started pushing US levels of adverts on us too!
There are really strict laws regarding the length of advert break in the UK that would never allow 19 minutes of commercials. Tom Scott did a great video on the subject if you're interested in learning more
2:20 many not American countries actually encourage suppressors to be used for hunting and firing ranges; because they're never actually silencers
Not to be pedantic, but silencers were invented and patented by Hiram maxim of the maxim silencer company, as "silencers." However, you're very correct about the encouragement of use by sportsman and shooters in non US countries. I use one on my 308 deer rifle, so I don't have to double up my hearing protection and can simply wear muffs. Also use one on a couple different 22 firearms as to not anger the neighbors when plinking.
So that makes a silencer just a brand name huh
@aSuspiciousPete yes, all the others are suppressors.
More of my point that while silencers may be a brand name, unless you have something purpose built for maximum quietness (like a Veterinarians pistol, Welrod, or De Lisle Carbine) even a suppressed gun is still pretty loud. Just, not as loud, quiet enough that hearing protection isn't needed quite so far away.
Because suppressors are intended to reduce the volume of gunshots from "ear-bleedingly loud" to "really loud, but not loud enough to cause hearing damage". It's a damn shame that Hollywood fanaticized them into being a complete gunshot-muter.
6:58 - Adam, I can tell you as a former sonar technician in the US Navy that water temperature definitely affects/impacts the propagation of sound through the water, I'm not sure it would be enough of an effect for a swimmer with regards to viscosity. Temperature gradients cause sound to bend and reflect, travelling for hundreds of miles.
I didn't think it would be significant, but at 10 Celsius (pretty cold, but swimmable in a westuit) it's 1.3 centipoise, which drops to half (0.65 cP) at 40 C (a few degrees above body temperature, so you could only briefly swim in it before getting hyperthermia)
@@L1ama But that's an effect of the temperature on the body. It's not related to the viscosity.
@uk huh? I'm just using the temperature range at which a human could swim and looking up the corresponding viscosities. It halves again if you go up to 100 C but good luck swimming in that.
@@L1ama You introduced the hyperthermia effect into the discussion.
@@No1sonuk yes, and? what's your point? are you going to go swimming in 80 degree water?
One of my favorite Explosive episodes was the Nitro glycerin episode. The bleeps and sound effects still bring me a smile when I remember it to this day.
😄💯
I have remembered that lesson from the swimming episode for years and have used it for comparion to similar situations. It was so fascinating to see how the more adaptable swimmer was superior to the inarguably-better swimmer given the correct situation. Yeah, sure, I liked the big booms in mythbusters, especially when you could see the refraction ocurring at the edge of the pressure wave. But I also loved the "a-ha" moments and watching the scientific method unfold, and that swimming episode was definitely a cool example.
I honestly think thats what made it such a great show;
You came for the "big booms", but you stayed for the learning.
I found a similar thing in martial arts. Trained for many years, you get used to sparring with people who know what they’re doing so you are looking for various techniques to defend against. Play fighting with one of my brothers one day and was all at sea, he was doing nothing approaching any technique and I kind of just stood there while he hit me going “what the hell kind of punch is that!” 😂
It all comes down to the swimmer and style! that will give you different results.
Olympic swimmers are machines programmed to follow one set of parameters. I wonder how swimmers that have to be adaptable by the nature of their job would have fared, like Navy or Coast Guard rescue swimmers.
@@PuppyMonsters I've seen others in the comments mention Navy Seals. These types of swimmers would definitely have been interesting, as they are trained in swimming in diverse situations. Most military, and many rescue situations would be in natural bodies of water, which tend to not have straight lines marked on the bottom and would involve a wide range of temperatures and other conditions. They might also be trained to swim in varying densities (highly saline water, such as the Dead Sea are more dense than fresh water). I would assume that a trained, professional swimmer would have a more consistent technique than Adam, so that data would have been interesting in the context of the myth. But, it was still interesting to see the reasons why an Olympic swimmer was not the ideal choice for a myth involving swimming. I always respected how well Adam, Jamie and the Build Team were able to illustrate the Scientific Method in an entertaining fashion.
The funny thing to me is the revelation that the generalist being a better benchmark was the lesson that stuck with me from that episode more than the results. Even when Adam started talking about the episode I knew what his answer was going to be and I haven't seen this episode in a decade.
The ads on American TV are excessive compared to European TV.
yes. America is a cooperate nightmare lol
It’s unreal and getting worse.
Yes commercials are so excessive. Even online not just TV.
@@sledgehammerk35 my mom watches gameshows. It seems like it's 5 mins on gameshow then 10mina of commercials
Part of why I haven’t bought cable in over 10 years. Even when I did, I’d use a windows media center as a giant PVR and skip ads. I even installed a sage tv plugin someone made that could detect the ads and auto skip them. They were ridiculous back in the day and they’re beyond absurd now.
20 minutes of ads, yikes
Nay… 21 minutes. Its been like that in the US for a long time. If you are lucky, you get 40 minutes of showtime (like say Star Trek: TNG), minus Title credit and ending credits. That takes you down to about 37 minutes of actual showtime.
It feels like UA-cam is heading that direction too now. You can barely skip ads here now and some videos give an ad within a minute of the video starting. And if it does let you skip, it just goes to a second ad instead if skipping both. I have straight up given up on videos a lot more often because of how many ads they have. It interrupts the video flow too much for me to keep watching. I get more irritated by the ads than my desire to finish the video, so there are a lot of videos I haven't finished as a result. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a factor the almighty algorithm doesn't take into consideration.
And it looks like youtube is trying to do the same, or more. The ad experience here has gotten way too intrusive and tries to force you to watch ads now. If I can't skip the ad, then I will most likely not be finishing the video. I will stop it and move on just to get away from the ads.
I bet the almighty algorithm doesn't take that into consideration for why a lot of videos don't get watched all the way to the end.
Stop being cheap and get premium
I haven’t watch ads in years… stop being cheap.
That must be so frustrating/heartbreaking having crafted an episode exactly the way you want it, only for the TV station to slice it up cut stuff out to fit their agenda.
It's cool how there are mini experiments within larger ones. That story about the Nathan was so mind blowing, yet it made total sense
turns out the secret commonly foudn explody thing is Olympic swimmers, thats the real reason his times were thrown out
You guys did an episode with powdered coffee creamer and it was insane. My pals and I did our own experiments with the seemingly innocent mate of coffee that scared the crap out of us and we're extremely lucky we didn't meet our makers that day!!
Coffee creamer makes excellent dry fireballs when used "properly".
@@Mike80528so whatever they won’t talk about must have even more kick
The backstories of planning these shows is fascinating. I would love to see a behind the scenes for each episode.
his ability to just immediately recall stories for these very specific questions is actually quite impressive
Right? I have very good memory, but I would find it difficult to pull out an anecdote this way.
It's one thing to have events record in great detail in your "mental database" but beeing able to filter and sort through them like this is something else.
I watched one of these energetic events get amplified by the news. A friends kids were looking to create a sound effect for their band. The effect they got resulted the cops searching the neighborhood for what had blown up. The local paper ran the story with too many details which resulted in copycats. A regional paper then ran the story and the events escalated to the point where one high school had to be evacuated and the bomb squad called.
Sometimes knowledge is too dangerous for the public.
Our silence teacher taught us how to distill and set off hydrogen
"Sometimes knowledge is too dangerous for the public" paternalistic and authoritarian mindset
Oh man, over the hundreds of hours of Mythbusters -- with edits like that -- that's like...a DOZEN funny Adam jokes we missed out on! (I KID - I KID!!) The best Adam is MORE Adam.
I remember that swimming episode. Remembered me about something similar with Olympic dart players, move them a step closer or further away than the distance they trained years at, and their results would turn horrible..
Please, get Discovery/Beyond to finally release a box set, and now I'm asking please, please make it be the long cut we've never seen!
It's actually not a secret that Mentos plus Cola gives too much energy for regular folk to handle. Both are easily available to the public.
Not even just limited to bomb squad and EOD, going through a blasting course for quarry operations you learn about chemical makeup and reactions. It's fascinating stuff
dry ice
We learned a lot about basic explosives in my Forensic Science classes. Quite easy to make and find. Also, there are some fascinating simple ones in Chemistry, which most university students will need to learn about early so they don’t accidentally blow themselves up on lab day.
You can also find out about a lot of them by studying industrial accidents or terrorist attacks. When he mentioned a commonly available explosive a number of things came to mind, but I think the _most_ likely is ANFO. It checks most of the boxes being that it's relatively easily available (in small amounts anyway, purchasing large amounts without proper licensing will send up all kinds of red flags and probably get you a visit by multiple people with badges), relatively powerful (not _technically_ classified as high explosive, but quantity is a quality all on its own), and incredibly easy to use. Once you know even highschool level chemistry there's all kinds of things you can make that are quite deadly even without turning to explosives. Someone like NileRed if he decided to use his knowledge for evil could definitely cause major destruction. Ultimately though, just about anything classified as fertilizer has the potential to be an explosive, it's just in the nature of what fertilizers do.
oh how to release the energy of triple bonded nitrogen, let me count the ways
@@orclevCody is already on the list and has been visited a number of times.
@@orclev ANFO is definitely a high explosive. The ammonium nitrate itself is an explosive that detonates rather than deflagrates in that the fuel and oxidizer are in the same molecule. Perhaps you mean that it's not regulated as a high explosive, since ammonium nitrate is used as fertilizer by farmers?
I'd also guess it's NOT the thing Adam and crew were worried about. It's very well known, and has been featured in pop-culture quite a bit. It's also an explosive that's hard to actually detonate.
I have a couple guesses as to what Adam is talking about, It's slightly more obscure than ammonium nitrate, and more readily available, but it's also not exactly a secret to anyone that's familiar with explosives. Adam is most likely worried about idiots getting ahold of this stuff and "trying it at some".
@@stevesether Ah, I misread something as saying it wasn't classified as a high explosive, but looking back you're correct it is in fact considered a high explosive.
I was guessing ANFO because the way he was talking about it made it sound like it was common knowledge among anyone with knowledge of explosives. There's all kinds of explosive compounds that can be made from simple household chemicals, but most of those aren't actually high explosives even if they will easily take a hand or arm off, so I was guessing it was something more powerful.
The idiots getting ahold of it thing has always been an issue. It's why back in the day the anarchists cookbook supposedly included various mistakes in it, so that someone who didn't know what they were doing would blow up whatever it was in the manufacturing process rather than ending up with a stable explosive (now there's an oxymoron).
What I've always found more interesting is that people focus on explosives so much when there's to me WAY scarier things you can do with chemistry. Things like dimethylmercury that if you get exposed to them in ridiculously small quantities are pretty much a death sentence and can bypass many typical materials used in PPE.
An extra 8 minutes of commercials is why we cut the cord in 2009 and never looked back. Advertising is to modern civilization as lead pipes were to ancient civilizations.
You sound like me. Haven't watched anything but youtube creators since about the same time.
I don't want to be programmed by their programming, if you get what I mean.
Ancient lead pipes were perfectly safe... if your water source didn't react with the lead.
@@gobbomanyeah, there's still quite a lot of lead pipes delivering drinking water. If properly managed, they're quite safe.
e.g. the Flint water crisis happened after Flint started treating its own water instead of purchasing water from Detroit. They neglected to treat the water with orthophosphate, which reacts with lead piping to form a scale, preventing leaching. The Flint River water also had a higher chloride concentration, making it able to corrode the already-existing scale.
Leaded petrol and lead paint are responsible for many more cases of lead poisoning. I have a friend who used to live in an old building next to a highway, her toddler had elevated blood lead levels that were thankfully caught fairly quickly.
Of course, the ancient Romans also liked to boil grape juice to make a sugar syrup called defrutum or sapa. They often used lead pots (instead of, say, copper), possibly because the resulting lead (II) acetate made a noticeably sweeter syrup. That probably didn't help.
uhhh... advertising isn't killing people
@@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Oh it's way worse than that. Advertising doesn't just kill people - advertising normalizes killing people.
It is always fascinating when someone perfects a useful skill to such a degree that it becomes basically useless to them in practical situations outside of competition. Like it must be hell for a veteran stuntman to get into a real brawl as the muscle memory is to barely miss their target with their punches and kicks.
There were three different versions of the show in Australia - the Discovery channel version, a clip show as part of another show and the one SBS TV showed. It seemed to be its own thing as it had the uncensored pig cannon clip or a lot different than what Discovery channel showed. Adam swore a lot more in it too.
Not to mention the Australian release of the DVD's. Episode ordering and numbering was soooo all over the place, and did not match any US episode ordering. Some episodes are even missing. I own all the DVD's, but I've never seen shark week. It just doesn't exist here.
The show was edited in Australia, probably by or atleast for SBS who has a large HQ in Sydney and I would expect maybe Melbourne.
Being edited for/by SBS is likely a big part of the reason an international cut existed. Had it been done in house at discovery I’m not sure they’d have bothered.
This is just speculation though.
@@Jay22222 The show was created by Beyond Productions in Australia and pitched to Discovery. Both of them would've been fully aware of international needs. It was pretty much a Beyond+Discovery production. SBS just bought it like anyone else.
@@static-san You’re right.
My bad.
Thanks for reminding me that my own memory is the most unreliable narrator I’ve come across
@@djsolstice8964 you didn't miss much.
I learned about unstable substances in Chemistry. One chemical powder in a demo exploded without being touched, and the professor used a large feather on a loooong bamboo pole to set off the other samples. It made nitroglycerin look like water in terms of stability.
Yup.
Perchlorates and Fulminates are ridiculously unstable and energetic.
Iodine contact explosive perhaps?
@@cycleboy8028 Yes. That is a typical trick for Nitrogen triiodide. Which is absurdly dangerous in every sense of the word. And almost certainly what Jamie is so carefully not talking about.
@@cycleboy8028yeah that was my thought also. Learned Ed how to make them years ago but never been brave/stupid enough to thankfully.
@@cycleboy8028 That's some especially nasty stuff once dried...
Explosives, lol.. Retired Army EOD here.. I won a case of beer and a 20 year old bottle of Scotch from one of my Lt's when I said that I could get stuff from CVS & Dollar General to remove an old train bridge.
Sounds about right, you can get some *very* useful chemicals from those places that can do *all sorts of stuff*....
@@mlmmtthat's no joke. It's wild what you can do with a little knowledge.
Always vent sewage gas. For a reason!!!! Also comes to mind . Classic gas in A glass bottle problem
@@vamwolf but the air/fuel mix for methane can be tricky
tatp is good stuff, amateurs'll blow their hands off tryna make it tho
In general, suppressors are safety equipment that help the shooting environment be more pleasant for the shooter and the surrounding area. But I could see how improvised suppressors would not fall into that category.
if safety equipment doesnt work predictably or consistently imo its dangery equipment
Agreed! Another issue is that improvised suppressors would technically still require NFA approval and a $200 tax. Lots of people wouldn't do that so you'd create a lot of felons. Yay for stupid US laws around suppressors.
ah yes, an attachment to an offensive weapon is "for user and environment comfort", and has absolutely no origin in tactical reasons whatsoever. Next you're gonna tell me guns were first invented for sport and hitting bottles at a distance.
@@eldorado3523Tell me you've never fired a gun without telling me you've never fired a gun.
@@alfredvonfleisch Yeah most people out side of America haven't, as we have grown up.... As far as I am aware I don't know a single person who has even touched a gun, never mind fired one.
You always have to love the moments of unexpected results, so much part of the learning process 👍
Just few household chemicals in the proper proportions! - Burt Gummer
Only thing that'll take out a Graboid!
Miss this show glad Adam is still making awesome content
that makes me very curious what that common item with such explosive power could have been
obviously, mayonnaise
Dried, powdered Mayonnaise as a thermobaric weapon.@@RarityTiks
Google "Mother of Satan"
Wow thanks man, really appreciate it!! :D @@RarityTiks
I heard a rumor once that the common household item was a particular brand of peanut butter, but I have no way of confirming that and have no interest in testing it for myself!
Gosh, Adam. This stuff is gold. I got drawn in by the Jamie reference, but the nugget was all about the 'swimming in syrup' episode backstory. thank you!
Loved you on mythbusters and love your videos on youtube even more. Hear about all aspects of mythbusters and building things
The big problem with water-v-syrup is temperature. Water viscosity doesnt change hardly at all with temp, but syrup changes immensely from say 58 to 90 degrees.
Long distance swimming of more than a few minutes in hot water will cause people to overheat. I was in typical temperature water in a wetsuit and started feeling hot and couldn’t sweat to cool off before.
But it is a good point that the viscosity of syrup does change with temperature and that can affect repeatability.
1/3 of American TV is commercials. 1/2 of talk radio is commercials. I don't do it anymore but when HDTV first came out, I'd run a program that'd intelligently strip the commercials. Always almost exactly 20 minute of a 60 minute show.
It's funny when you download a podcast of a talk show. It's half the normal length without commercials.
I used to do that for my wife's favorite soap opera. There was 36 total minutes of programming in a 1 hour show and they often repeated scenes coming back from a commercial break.
@@drescherjm OH YEAH. The re-cap of what you just watched. I remember when Discovery started doing that on a bunch of their shows.
That syrup swim where you slip over at the end. Was sooo funny. Would had been better had you fallen in lol.😂
I remember here in the UK you could switch between Discovery HD and regular Discovery and switch between the US and the UK voice over guy just by changing the channel as both would run in parallel at the same time which was kind of weird.
Yes, warm water is less viscous than cold water. If you pay attention to water drops on a windshield in near-freezing weather vs very warm weather, you'll notice that the cold drops act thicker.
But the effect is pretty small, and even smaller for temperatures that you would swim in. It's a much smaller effect than that of muscle comfort.
There's a better way to illustrate it.
Just look up "you can hear the difference between warm and cold water".
The syrup myth with the Olympic swimmer was incredibly interesting. I wonder if someone who was trained to swim in all kinds of environments (such as a Navy SEAL) could’ve given you guys a more consistent result.
I dont think Navy Seals train in something else than water.. (maybe salt water, different temperatures and so on..) but they never swim in syrup.
@@georgelionon9050 But they are used to swimming in any kind of water, not just crystal clear warm pool water. They are adept at swimming with heavy military armaments in muddy water, dirty water, clear water, cold, hot...
@@Milehighsnake98 sure but syrup is so different from all of that.
@@georgelionon9050 That's going to be a problem when Canada invades and we need someone to swim through giant maple syrup vats to conduct super secret missions. The Navy better get on its syrup swimming training!
@@georgelionon9050 The point isn't that they train to swim in syrup, it's that they are at the intersection of highly capable and adaptable, whereas the olympian was only highly capable and Adam was only highly adaptable.
I submitted several times for them to do an episode on welding on a gas tank. I have heard over the years, purging them with argon, filling them with water (for an electric welding process!?) and some even said as long as you have a hole on each end of the tank it can't explode it will just blow through.
Never saw this episode and can't find evidence of this being brought up in an episode during google.
Years later, still thinking up questions worth testing. Nice.
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It's weird they drew the line at silencers. I mean, how many times did they instruct us on how to make a fatal kill?
Not that silencers make most guns & ammo silent in the first place. Just less damaging to ones hearing. "Can you get to movie level sound gunfire" would have been an interesting myth though!
@@robertmartinu8803 Yeah, it seems like an extension of "What is Bulletproof". Instead of random stuff stopping the bullets, it's random stuff silencing the bullets.
Or, "how to move a body."
They drew that line because they aren't actually gun people and don't know about guns, it's San Fran afterall.
Adam is extremely smart and knows a LOT of stuff, but he knows less about guns than he thinks he does.
The issue wasn't suppressors, it was improvised suppressors.
Love your work Jamie. Thanx.
For being such a circumspect answer, it was surprisingly satisfying.
I am surprised you didn't also mention the myth where you shot a football off the back of a truck at the same speed the truck was moving, as Jamie wanted to be the football... If I remember correctly the insurance company said no, but Jamie wanted to as it could bring a development to mass transport....
Actually it was Tory who wanted to drop off the back of the truck.
@@Vickie-BlighThere's a 9 year old AMA with Jamie on this channel where says exactly what Tom wrote. Tory might've said the same on the episode, but Jamie 100% said "I want to be the ball". I watched that video yesterday, coincidentally. Worth watching as it is Jamie being a mad scientist.
@@Yvolve The dropping off the truck was the one I was referring to: 2010 Spy Car Escape. Tory was all suited up when the ins company said no. He was disappointed. Which amazed me given the number of times he hurt himself on the show.
@@Vickie-Bligh Interesting that Tory and Jamie came to that same conclusion.
Normally Tory hurts himself by his own volition. Like faceplanting after hopping over a little cart when that doesn't quite goes as planned. Or taking a sword swinging robot to the head mere second after he swung it around.
I imagine he was the kid who would give an empty swing a massive push and then walk in it's path so he get annihilated. Thinking it through maybe 25% of the way makes any plan seem like a brilliant idea.
Shooting him out of a cannon from a moving truck, backwards, is a little too wilfully putting him in harms way I reckon. It is a shame they never tried it with Buster, just to see what happens.
@@Yvolve "Worth watching as it is Jamie being a mad scientist." That implies there's times when Jamie *isn't* a mad scientist. The only reason he isn't a Bond villain is because he found work in Hollywood first.
You know what episode I think about all the time? Pykrete. Why do I think about it? The boats. I have no idea why those have become a mini Roman Empire for me.
As someone who used to have to design storage equipment, and had to take into account how explosive certain products could be, it still amazes me that you were allowed to get that close to the sawdust explosion! WRT the commonly available material mentioned, I can think of several products that could be candidates!
I'm pretty sure I know what it is too.
Awww, you two should get a room 💕
Reminds me of when my little brother got a Ford Mustang. Except, that we're a rural family out in the back roads of Kansas. He learned fairly quickly why the rest of us were sticking to driving trucks and less-fancy cars.
Dang, I didn't know there were international cuts. I just checked my collection and the episodes are all 42-ish minutes long. Guess I'll have to squire the proper version, and maybe the behind the scenes, QA sections that were available on the discovery website while I'm at it.
Tell about the time that the FBI told you not to run a story!
I believe that is part of the same explosive episode. It has come up before.
the one episode which sticks in my mind almost daily is the gas pump one. MB tested the dangers of smoking around a car being fueled vs talking on a cell phone. If I remember the episode right, the cell phone did nothing to ignite anything while obviously the smoking did. I think static electricity was tested in the episode. I do wonder when Buster made his first appearance on the show because he or some form of him was a fairly consistent silent co-host.
I believe a form of Buster (maybe unnamed) was in the pilot - trying to be hit by lightning in a pool.
It makes me laugh going to fuel stations and seeing people walk past the pumps to go for a smoke at the perimeters, right where the tank vents are usually located.
It’s the vapour that goes making it more dangerous than being close by if you ask me
ive been that annoying smoker for years, that will exit the car with a smoke, fill the tank with said smoke in mouth and chill around while waiting just to finish and drive away, with angry people yelling about the presumed danger of lighting a gas station fire.
its the fumes not the liquid people i keep telling them. once i even dipped my cig into a small puddle to illustrate and the same 2 people that yelled was quickly in their cars again.
what happened? my smoke went out and smelled of gasoline.
personally i have never feared that myth thanks to mythbusters and my old science teacher.
Sounds really scary as to what the common thing could be that is highly explosive, considering how bad the COFFEE CREAMER was.
I have a few ideas, but like adam I won't say. The world is violent enough. Don't mess with what you don't understand.
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Same.
The info of what it was is out there and yeah it's sketchy shit, even making it is incredibly dangerous
@@noodlelynoodle. best to leave it in the field manuals.
@@karlajaeger2082 yeah like I've been curious about it before but figure that level of explosives I prolly shouldn't mess with lol I saw pictures on a different video that were sent in to a chemistry channel of someone who had made literal pounds of the stuff without realizing how dangerous it was at the time because he realized how bad it was now and it was a video about like dangerous chemistry and the host was so terrified for him even though it was years ago he had made it lmfao I'll just stick to tame stuff like thermites and make exotic ones if I need more excitement lol
😂 the second you said that the water was warm not cold I had the exact same thought !
Does anyone know where to watch the international 49 minute cuts? Definitely sounds like a more ideal version.
Once you get rid of the actual commercials there is a ton of 'where were we...' that can go as well.
The amount of commercials in American TV disgusts me. That's why I got rid of cable. But it's a huge shame American viewers missed out on so much Mythbusters
2:37 WEEEEEEEEE., NEED YOU ADAM! So smart, its awesome listening to you, and seeing you and your brain do cool stuff. Please... Please please please
-chef, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, construction guy, and lover of myth busters -the 1940's musthache strongman guy..
Adam, you ****ing rock!
I got the feeling a few times they kinda just stopped investigating and said something was "plausible", or even going as far as to say something was busted when the investigation was seeming to be pointing to at least plausible... generally when there was a government entity involved...
not that what i think matters to adam savage but +1 on the suppressor discussion. "there is no benefit to society" is extremely short sighted. even the best commercial suppressors limit shots to like 135 or less db... this is still extremely loud however it can be quiet enough to not cause permanent hearing damage after firing one shot indoors. doing an episode on how you cannot duplicate a $1000 suppressor with years of R&D with a used 2 liter bottle of faygo would probably have a more positive impact on society than it would to just not air the episode.
If you would have done an episode about "silencers" you'd realize guns with them are still loud enough to damage your hearing, most of the time.
That's the real reason they didn't do the episode. Anti-gunners don't want that to be common knowledge.
@@HuskyKMA nice bait, but he literally said in the video specifically testing other items as silencers, not silencers themselves. 1/10
@@callmeshaggy5166Even then, the best thing at suppressing guns are silencers/ suppressors. Off the shelf items, such as fuel filters and oil filters are bad at noise reduction.
@@callmeshaggy5166 Adam said "Silenced rounds do not provide a benefit to humanity". He's wrong of course, and to be fair, there is no such thing anyway. "Suppressed" is the correct term and even suppressed rounds are plenty loud. The cute "pew, pew" sound used in the movies is not at all accurate.
@@VKZ24 hiram percy maxim called it a silencer, if you're going to be a pedant be a pedant
I used to be a swimmer, and I have 100% believe that Coldwater and warm water have different resistances. It always felt like your hand was gliding through the water when it was warm.
Great work Adam, your videos are both amusing and informative which equals Awesome
Thank you sir for all your hard work, looking forward to seeing more of your awesome videos
May Gods Blessings be with you always
Silencers (suppressors is the proper term) exist to prevent hearing loss when using firearms.
Exactly. They do not make a shot silent. They at best "take the edge off" of the audible portion.
Really makes you wonder with Adams comment...is he aware theyre not like in the movies?
He has to know that, working in the industry for so many decades.
Similar to a while back talking about that book with all the SF street names in it, that used to be like a bible for those who lived in the city "and if you stole one of those you were a bastard". Then claims that living in a big city having your car get broken into is just par for the course. Uhh how about no that shouldnt be normalized?
i guess in the context of america with the amount of mass shootings any amount of edge being taken off gunfire means less people hear it and so are less prepared.the only benefit is saving the users hearing which can be achieved through earplugs
@@ThePurpleCheesecakeZebra well considering the US murder rate isn't anywhere near the top in the world your comment is foolish. The US ranks about 4.96 vs the top country at over 52. Get over yourself.
@@N.Cognito having heard a gun with one fired and using subsonic ammo(also important), it makes the gun sound more like a roofer with their nailer. Which I guess if doing something clandestine means it would still work. people know a gunshot, but if you hear what sounds kind of like a pneumatic nailer well then someone is just doing some work.
Silencers could be a benefit to prevent hearing loss.
Fun Fact: Quite a few countries even *require* people to use them due to the noise pollution factor and ecological impacts that loud, repetitive gunshots can have on wildlife. Only in the US are they a regulated NFA item because Hollywood made them seem scary.
The real use for them, for the most part ^ Obviously also helps you not pinpoint where a shot is coming from but they're certainly still loud, most people use them so they don't have to worry as much about ear protection. You'll still be ringing if you even use a suppressed 9mm inside. .22 is where it starts to get scary quiet up close. Long distance shots where you won't hear the report at the target, something like a 300 BLK at distance, is TERRIFYING (Dr. Thumb has some good videos on this sort of thing)
respectfully disagree , plenty of " things " available to protect hearing , if you don't have one , don't shoot . If your life is on the line what's more important at THAT moment ?
@@PaulThePhotoGuy if your life is on the line, why do you have to sacrifice your hearing? and why do you think banning silencers prevents gun violence? A silencer doesn't actually make a gun whisper quiet. It still makes a loud noise, it just makes it so it is not damaging to the ear. Furthermore, a silencer would make a firearm even more difficult to conceal. It adds bulk and length.
@@PaulThePhotoGuy you can’t disagree with reality. I said this is the most common use, which is correct. That is the most common reason you’ll see someone using a suppressor. I use big ol cans because they’re exponentially cheaper but I’d like to have one on my handgun I keep in my house so I don’t have to worry about blowing my and my wife’s eardrums out if someone breaks in. And I’m not gonna fumble with giant ear protection in the middle of the night, I’m gonna wrap my arm over my head and hope I can block both ears.
I remember that episode, the result was very interesting but when you think about it logically it makes sense. I watched another video were they took some world class classical pianists and asked them to just do some free form jazz. None of them could do it well. They are highly trained to do exact reproductions of music, they'd have to reprogram their brains to do improvisation.
Cheers, from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Silenced rounds are not a benefit? WTF? It’s considered good manners in European shooting. Saves your ears while hunting too. Gun ranges become less of a noise annoyance. And it’s not like the movies, you can still be heard from a LOOOONG way off.
I don't like arguing with someone I respect: do you think car mufflers aren't a benefit to society?
Yes, because, there are SOOO many cars.
A world with an absence of them would be truly horrific and impossible to live with.
Just think about how modern sonar is effecting orcas for example. It'ld be a similar thing for humans just walking down the street.
Looking forward to meeting you on the princess Discovery ship this weekend.
6:52 I was wondering the EXACT SAME thing throughout while listening to this story.
Just FYI, suppressors do have benefits to general public as it quiets the report, so hearing is saved. But they do not "silence' the report
Fun fact. Club moss pollen is one of the most explosive things in existence and it grows wild.
You can use sugar
i love your stories and memories...KEEP YAPPING
It’ll be interesting to see how an Ironman would have done with the swimming, someone more used to irregular swimming conditions. I however suspect that the bank effect makes swimming in narrow troughs near enough possible to anyone capable of producing significant thrust
I feel it's time for a reunion show. And maybe we figure some new stuff out.
I think there's money to be made in a reunion show (or mini series of them), but it's figuring out what myths are in the sweet spot of fitting the budget and satisfying the audience.
And, I would guess, re-starting might be a logistical challenge since the original shop equipment/supplies are probably gone. I bet that shop conformed to their needs, over the years, like a custom glove.
It can be done though. Case and point: if you're old enough to recall _The Brady Bunch_ television show - nearly 50 years ago. Well, it was a wild, far-out, fantasy to imagine that people would come together and make the exterior (real-life) filming house's INTERIOR match - very closely - the studio (filming) set. But, it happened (HGTV's _Brady Bunch House Renovation_ ) AND they included cast members - the Bunch - plus those Property Brothers guys. Never in a million years, would I have thought that was possible.
It can absolutely be done. Obviously, no Grant Imahara (greatly missed).
@RodCornholio Grant is making robots for God now. But maybe we do a legacy look back. All of it. Fire up a 24 months thing. It's time.
@@RodCornholioas far as I know Jamie still owns m5 but getting him to let it be used again would be the trouble I imagine, I wanna stop by and get a picture of it from outside next time I'm in sf cause it was such a big part of my childhood
Jato car take 4!!!
Great. If Jamie's public persona is any indication, I bet he would be the most resistant to the idea. But, he's getting close to an age when one's health can quickly take a turn for the worse.
So, the sooner, the better. I can handle a 67 year old Jamie. But I don't want to wait and see an 87 year old Jamie in a wheelchair and diapers. Not to mention, _I'm_ not a spring chicken anymore. @@noodlelynoodle.
*suppressor and they are actually great for reducing hearing damage.
The ad break at 5:00 made all that umming and ahhing much funnier. I didnt think id ever have anything positive to say about ads
It is shocking how dangerous some normal household things are when ignited or how mixing common household chemicals wrongly can have explosive consequences. Yet we have them around us and are pretty much oblivious to it's danger.
Silencers are commonly used here for completely safe and normal purposes, obviously just to cut down on the noise for target shooting. Helps save your ears and can keep “neighbors” happy. The bad guys already know how to make their own though lol
They are actually called noise suppressors, as they are unable to totally "silence" the sound of a gunshot.
If you defend your family inside your home, a noise supressor prevents you from momentarily or permanently affecting your hearing, which has a negative impact on tour ability to defend.
You need to be able to hear the footsteps of your attacker, which is impossible if your ears are ringing from your own, unsupressed, gunshots.
Exactly my first thoughts.
@@paulbester5594yes suppressor however the actual original name is silencer
I love to see a video of you making a crystal trench radio and turn it into a crystal trench radio transmitter receiver and pretty much have a portable improvised radio station
The FCC enters the chat
@@NavySeal2k I'll get a license at some point probably if it don't cost a arm and a leg
As a former military EOD tech, I do know what you're talking about. Very common, and very powerful in the right circumstances. Thanks for keeping your discovery a secret.
The nitrogen free white powder I suspect.
I love the detail in the explanation
I would love a Video with Adam and Colin Furze, building something great together ❤
We’d love that too!
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The fact we can use suppressors are great to reduce hearing loss at the range. The best thing that was implemented. The movie silencer idea is a fake movie idea.
Happy new year to you and your family and friends and all the best for the future new year.
I for sure thought you were going to bring up the credit card processing fee debacle lol. More people need to talk about that honestly.