Jamie Hyneman Answers: What's One Myth You've Always Wanted to Test?
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- In February 2014, Jamie Hyneman did a Reddit AMA! This is his answer to user H04X, who wanted to know: "What's one myth you've always wanted to test but couldn't, due to financial/legal/safety/etc reasons?"
The full AMA is here: / i_am_jamie_hyneman_coh...
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Here's Adam Savage answering the question, "What's a myth you won't test?" ua-cam.com/video/WFO_wMDBESo/v-deo.html
what about doing this over water ? wouldn't it eliminate the friction problem ?
@Duck Moore If the acceleration needed to be instant the baseball version of this experiment wouldn't have worked.
Try it with a 360 degree camera!!?? 👍🤘👊
@@NICOLASEVEBOUCHER ever seen anyone skid across water? Or ice? Etc etc water is like concrete.
You need to do this from a vertical not horizontal plane... a gun travelling down at its muzzle velocity and fired at 1ft above the ground in a vertical velocity would cancel each other out, if on a metal rig you can set up different acceleration methods at different rates of decent... at worst you can hit a water structure below. So rig is dropped down a sliding cetion, at a given point before impact a trigger is released accelarating the cargo upwards and cancels out the velocity. Different speeds different rate of acceleration up to a max of 30g's...
"i wanna be the baseball" threw me completely off guard and i lost it
I hope you found it
What did you lose
Your virginity
@@silverfoot6079 my will to live
@@MisterBinks Oh
the great thing about adam and jamie is how when adam says something crazy he laughs a bit, mentions how nuts it is, gets really enthusiastic, etc. but jamie will say the most batshit insane thing you've ever heard in your life with a completely straight face.
That's because he's not saying anything crazy. Just listen, he'll be covered in lube, and he'll build up to this slowly. Perfectly reasonable!
@@SpencerPaire That's what she said.
It's funny as hell
And he cant understand why anyone would not let him do it XD
It's not crazy if the physics is 100% correct. They already know from the previous experiment with the baseball that he will stay in the same place once he is thrown off the vehicle. Even the way they incrementally change the speed and use Buster The Dummy totally makes sense. It's a completely safe way to approach it. They're not just going to immediately throw Jamie off the vehicle at 50mph. They're going to start off very slow.
He said it a few times on Mythbusters, but I always thought Jaime was being sarcastic when he would say, "for SOME reason, insurance wouldn't cover it!"
Now I realize that he really gets frustrated when he can prove something is safe but insurance won't let him do it anyway.
The problem is, when you have a deep innate understanding of every concept involved and the person you're trying to convince doesn't, it can get very frustrating.
I think the producers and the insurance company made the right call on this one.
Insurance is a scam, anyway
@@allanshpeley4284 Just wanted to reply five months after you to let you know you were wrong, insurance definitely should have greenlit the Lubed Up Hyneman Bowling Ball project.
@@PlatypusVomit
The problem is that insurance companies do not employ scientists. They employ suits
I love how you can hear in Jaime's voice that he can't fathom the absurdity of not being allowed to slingshot himself off the back of a truck covered in lube 🤣
he was genuinely shocked they didnt find the idea of lubing him up to be "Fun"
"What' you mean I can't *be the baseball* ??"
"And what happens if something goes wrong?"
"Well...I die?"
"...Maybe as the last episode, unless we have a better idea?"
*THEY LOOK FOR BETTER IDEAS!*
Well, in his mind all of the proper safety precautions would be met so that it can be done with low risk. For him, because safety is the major barrier, he doesn't get why he can't do it when he can answer all their safety concerns.
@@bobdole4916 What was his answer to the "accelerate the human body to 50mph+ in less than a second" problem? I missed it/ don't think the word "slingshot" quite covers it.
"I want to be shot from a giant slingshot at the rate of a moving truck"
"for some reason my insurance won't let me do this"
So unreasonable of the insurance company. He even offered to wear lube, but they just wont compromise XD
I did lose it when he said that 😂
Hi my name is jamie hyneman welcome to jackass
I bet if they changed it from a slingshot to a slip n slide they would have let him do it. Have him slide down a 20 ft tall slide and measure the speed, then put said slide on a boat going that speed over water so when he plops off it is nice and cushioned.
He should talk to whoever insured Evil Knievel.
I REALLY, TRULY, wish James had a UA-cam channel. I could watch and listen and learn from him all day. We love you Jamie!!! Please make a channel and start making videos.
Jayme is WAAAAAAY too socially awkward for a channel. Hence the producer's reticence to acquiesce to lubrication as a safety precaution.
@Kustan420 Nah man. I think he comes off that way because he just doesn't care about being especially entertaining. And that to me is the best damn part. Plus, dude is an absolute evil genius and his sense of humor hits me in the funnys HARD. 😂🥰
@Egotiztik According to Adam, Jamie is at least a little on the autism spectrum, which very much lines up with his mannerisms and interactions with people.
@@kidtruck9157 Unless he's publicly declared a diagnosis, don't take these claims lightly. It's impossible to diagnose someone from footage alone. Many neurodivergent symptoms can be found in neurotypical people. Jamie is standoffish, blunt, and direct. There is nothing about his mannerisms or interactions that would ever clue you in on him being on the spectrum.
From what I can tell, Jamie doesn't have a formal diagnosis, or at least he isn't public about it. It's very important that someone be diagnosed before you start casually throwing around the idea - there is so much misinformation about autism on the Internet. It's become so bad that many adults are self-identifying as autistic, without ever pursuing a diagnosis.
@deusdamnit Look i get it, I was repeating something Adam said in one of his channels interviews, i think it was about the soldiers marching on a bridge.
"but I want to be the baseball". Love it.
I swear, no body expects him to say that when they click this video XD
+HORRIOR IKR
+singer3188 Yes this is true... xD btw... Hello fellow Hoosier :D
Fucking cried
I only liked your comment cuz it was at 999...
Now you got 1k.
You're welcome.
He sounds like a little kid trying to convince his parents to let him do a very stupid idea.
yeah! it makes me imaginine having a kid capable of forming arguments like this and it's very uncomfortable lmao like, "I love you, but I guess you need smarter parents"
@@Godz3839 I have a son like that, it is terrifying! At least as a grown up he is using his powers for good as a Navy reactor operator.
@@DingDingTheUA-camBuddy you asked for permission to jump off the roof!? What is wrong with you, every kid should learn early on that their parents are going to say no if it sounds like fun. I didn't ask for permission to jump off the roof; I just jumped, over and over and over again. Then I got grounded because the neighbors saw me and told my mom a few days later. By the way, what was the parachute for?
@@FranciscoTChavez Hell ,YEA!!
3:35 especialy sounds like that
Jamie: I want to donate my body to science.
Insurance Co.: Aren’t you already an organ doner?
Jamie: I meant while I’m still alive.
Insurance Co.: No, we don’t do that here.
Fun fact. He's currently obsessed with bio engineering
organ doner kebab
Reddit: what myth would you like to try but never could?
Jamie: I yearn for death
Wouldn't kill you
@@Aashishkebab it was a joke.
@@Aashishkebab every party needs a pooper that's why they invited you
@@isaac2990 NNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! We have visitors.
@@austinbryan6759 Jokes tend to be funny. just sating falsehoods isn't that
I had to laugh at 1:38: "for some reason, insurance won't let me do this"..
Dave Bloxham it sounded like a legit question too
Gee ya think!
Dave Bloxham i want to be the baseball
I laughed there too
@DamageIncM When I heard that, I actually said out loud "But you'd break your spine in half"
All I've learned from this is that we desperately need an AMA with their insurance agent.
reddit: what's one myth you've wanted to test
jamie: i essentially want to die
As funny as that is I doubt it would be that dangerous.
your comment made my day XD
Dconquist I laughed to hard at this comment. Thank you.
Dconquist - honestly? I'm not really shocked.
Haha. Very good.
He knew waaaay too much about this. I have a feeling the rest of the gang have been turning him down for years on this one haha
"JAMIE!!!! For the last time.... we are NOT letting you be the baseball..... Yes you've explained the lube.... No it's not happening"
@@DSCris this comment made me laugh so hard
He did NOT know too much. All the lube and cages in the world wouldn't change the acceleration his insides would have to be subjected to. Is it possible to do it safely at any reasonable vehicle speed? Sure. But the faster you're going the longer travel the slingshot needs to have. It's not trivial.
the idea of a truck delivering goods in this manner is insanely funny though
@@EnthalpyAndEntropyFighter pilots do it all the time.
I love both jamie and adam, they were a perfect storm. Adam has this overwhelming childlike enthusiasm and is an exercise in chaos theory, where jamie is plotting dark horse who rarely shows his cards. Like an evil genius. The combo of the two of them was magic to watch, its just too bad they drove eachother crazy half the time 😊
Ikr like they worked so well together but can't really stand each other outside of work
Pinky and The Brain
@@christophercastaneda9714You know, that's not a half-bad comparison!
To be fair, working with Adam all day would be draining for many of us.
@@timoshi119 Old comment I know, but Adam has mentioned that they were colleges that respected each other, but didn't meet outside of work. So it is not that they hated each other, they were just colleges.
"Hey Jamie, insurance agent Bob here, you had an idea you wanted to try?"
"Yeah I want to be shot out of a train on a slingshot going 50mph"
"That'll probably kill you it's just too ri...."
"I'll cover myself in lube"
@@mostlymotorized "So, if I dont go the same speed my lubed body will let me slide and not make me tumble around."
Actually, airfield foam would be the more likely candidate. It is the stuff sprayed on runways when there is fuel leaking, or a risk of fire - so you hydroplane basically on landing on the foam and it helps prevent sparks from spreading to ignite stuff, dilutes fuel, and all that. So this idea would work.
This made me laugh
Oh you’ll cover yourself with lube? Why didn’t you say so sooner? Yeah sure go on ahead with your experiment
when in doubt, lubricate!
I love the idea of applying this to other myths from the show.
"We're gonna go the zip line jeans escape."
"I want to be the jeans."
"Water heaters can blast themselves through multiple floors and out the roof of a house"
"I wanna be the water heater"
"We're going to test if two trucks can really flatten a sedan."
"I want to be the sedan."
"We wanted to see if a certain frequency can make a person crap their pants."
"I want to be the crap."
@@WEAVERMACH Eating pop rocks with coke will make your stomach explode.
"I want to be the pop rocks."
"You can clean the inside of a dried out cement truck with dynamite"
"I want to be the cement truck"
Went in a different direction than I imagined. You made it sound pretty reasonable to me. Well thought out.
2000s Jamie: Jamie want *BIG* boom.
2010s Jamie: Jamie want be ball.
Jamie doesn't just want boom. He wants big boom.
Jamie wants big mushroom cloud
Why did I read that in Jontron voice?
Jamie want big boom
2000s: I Wanna Be The Guy
2010s: I Wanna Be The Ball
Here it is guys, the proof that answers the age of question for good: contrary to the popular belief, Jamie is the crazy one, not Adam.
It's always the quite ones.
They are both crazy in their own way.
That moment when you realize that Adam was the saner one of the two :-D.
This is awesome. I will likely be returning to this in my mind from time to time for the rest of my life...
It's been 3 years since this comment. Time to return.
I love how he is completely fucking serious the entire time.
"I want to be the baseball"
+ShadeSlayer1911 "Lots of lubrication"
It would work its all mathematics.
Yea he is.
adding "fucking" was completely unnecessary.
your comment was completely unnecessary
Me: “I wonder why they wouldn’t let him do a myth he wanted to test?”
Jamie: “I wanted to be the baseball”
Me: “Ah, ok. That makes sense.”
This guy was the perfect straight man. He has perfect timing, as dry comedy lines that are great by themselves, and great explanations and delivery
"now for SOME reason, insurance won't let me do this..."
fuck insurance........we need it though
Because insurance understands he wants to subject himself to the forces of a 50MPH crash. 50 MPH to 0 in 3 feet is about 27 Gs of acceleration. I'd rather he not herniate his brain stem.
@@WarrenGarabrandt He never said 50 mph. Even if he did say 50 mph, if he starts at a height of 1 meter, he has .4518 seconds of airtime, and if he accelerates from 50 mph (22.352 m/s) to 0 within the given time, he will only have experienced a horizontal acceleration of about 49.5 m/s^2, which is only 5 G's. 27 G's is a HUGE exaggeration, any normal person could withstand 5 G's.
At the beginning you're thinking "That's insane, you'd die." but as he breaks it down and starts explaining it, you're thinking "Actually, that sounds perfectly reasonable."
Except the part where he's decelerating from 50 mph to 0 in the space of less that a second. Thats every bit as deadly as a car crash even without something to crash into. As the saying goes, its no the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop. Hes still suddenly stopping. How someone as smart as him didnt think about this baffles me.
@@atlas5100 50mph to zero in 1 second is only like 3gs. 1/2 a second is only 6. Both are totally survivable
@@maxwellfire true, but instantaneous 6g's may not feel very good.
@@lukeolinger6000 It's lateral G, he'd be fine
@@JohnMaxGriffin I didn't say he wouldn't be fine. It's a little bit faster of an acceleration than one of those fast start roller coasters like the Hulk ride in Universal Orlando (which is only about 1g according to wiki). So the average person would survive fine, they would just be uncomfortable until their circulatory system regulates back to normal.
Man, I love Jamie! He has always been my favorite in Mythbusters. Most people who watched the show consider him to be that stoic, emotionless character, but I see there a man of deep emotions! You don't need to be an extrovert to be a great personor to be emotional. I see Jamie as that cool guy who just wants, with the purest heart, to bring people joy and have fun and learn and teach from crazy scientific experiments. I admire the man deeply! I really hope he's happy!
BTW: I love Adam too, I think he's awesome!!!
How about just have a go cart like thing with wheels and a roll cage? I'd definitely do it.
Sounds fun actually!
its cody.😀
haha nice one cody
We would love to see this on your channel : )
Codys in Jamie's lab!
Hay Cody
I just finished watching a video where Adam described Jamie's humor as extremely dry, dark sarcasm.
Then the algorithm directed me to this video to show what Adam meant.
This man has a brilliant sense of the absurd, the mass transit observation is the icing on a very funny cake. And he kept a straight face!
1:48 "We start at a slow safe speed and increment upwards until.....you know
I die"
For those who don't know much about Jamie I'd definitely recommend doing some research on him.
He's basically a super badass genius.
For all of his skill, the one thing that I admire about Jamie the most is just how calm and level-headed he is. He's an anchor for Adam's manic energy. He's the kind of person that I could *NEVER* be. I might be able to concentrate and pull it off for a while, sure. But I'll return to chaotic energy form eventually. But Jamie is cool and collected all the time, and that's IN SPITE OF doing crazy cool things that others simply never get to try.
Teacher: "You can be whatever you want when you grow up!"
6 year old me: "1:03"
"I want to be the baseball" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard Jamie say.
+Luke Thedrifter Classic Mike Wazowski standup bit
Quack D@mn you
"I want you to lube me up and shoot me off the back of a moving trailer out of a slingshot made of surgical tubing at exactly speed of the trailer's movement. Also this is a concept for optimizing mass transit."
- Jamie Hyneman
What a legend.
Jamie be like "Grease me up, woman!" 😂
He’s not wrong, the most ideal form of transit would be dropping off passengers like this. It’s just ridiculous complex to streamline
Doesn't all this mean that if your mass transit system was a starship transporter, you'd have to shave off 28,000 km/h of speed when you materialized on the planet's surface?
@@nadennight interesting query... I think it's an issue of lubrication
@@DanBlabbers The issue would be people getting on the bus though. Busses and trains don't just stop to let people off, but also to take people in.
Okay, this is absolutely amazing. Just, a hilariously (on the surface) bat-shit insane idea, but the more and more you hear Jamie explain it, the less and less insane it gets. It almost seems like the insurance company was just like, nope, nope, nope, that's too crazy, we aren't allowing it, while Jamie systematically annihilates every argument they use, making the insurance company basically just throw up their hands in defeat and say, look, it just SEEMS too crazy, I could never get my boss to okay it, I'm sorry, but I can't approve this. I know it all works out mathematically, but, Jamie, for God's sake, have you heard your pitch?? You want to be the baseball. Do you not see how insane that is? I get it works out mathematically, and yes, you'll be covered in lube and perhaps even in a protective cage, but, if I go and pitch this to my boss, I lose my job. Doesn't matter that it works mathematically. For God's sake Jamie, you want to be a BASEBALL, thrown at the kind of speeds an actual baseball would be thrown!
He didn't explain the issue with acceleration though. To have the same speed as the track he needs to be shot in opposite direction with a certain acceleration. At low speeds required acceleration would be low, but to acquire the speed of 50 mph from zero it might be dangerous.
@@d4slaimlessI could try to calculate the G's you would end up pulling, but you're right. A catapult would be the same as rapidly decelerating, like in a crash. You'd probably at most for a flatbed length, be going 20 mph, I suspect. I think using a shuttle pulled by a cable along the flatbed would be the way to do it. _Oh great, now I'm starting to sound like Jamie..._
_Edit: Typo/spelling_
@@classifiedveteran9879 Down the comment line someone made a calculation assuming the acceleration via some spring mechanism (can't say is it correct or not, something about Hooke's law spring) and got the number around 7g peak acceleration for 50 mph speed and 24 ft flatbed track. From the equation of motion with a constant acceleration you get twice lower value 3,5g. So depending on how exactly you do it could be rather dangerous. 7g certainly can be considered as dangerous, while 3,5g shouldn't be a big problem. As Jamie said it could be tested consequentially. He didn't specifically mentioned this issue, but I am sure they would have thought about it. That's the first thing that came into my mind when I was watching the video.
@@d4slaimless I'll look into it later. It's fairly warm where I live, and my house doesn't have its own A/C. I'll run the numbers when I'm not melting. Stay tuned!
@@d4slaimless Why would you use a 24ft flatbed truck? 53ft trailers are literally everywhere, and you could go longer if needed, it just complicates shipping the acceleration trailer to the runway. Acceleration isn't even slightly an issue. You could build a 100ft long trailer if needed and just have it bolt together at the runway. You'd have to custom build the trailer either way, as you're trying to get the lowest possible launch height anyway.
Do it on a boat, if fail you float.
+Marcos Noble If you've ever been thrown from a tube/waterski/wakeboard at high speed, you know that it is totally survivable and you don't get injured even after skipping several times. A water version of this would totally be viable! I agree completely
+mlnlme1 hurts like a nut sack though
+mlnlme1 I thumbed up your comment but I just want to check - you're being sarcastic, right?
In case you weren't: Impacting water at high speed is basically like hitting solid ground. People suffer concussions and internal injuries purely from hitting water with force. It's not bouncy and it doesn't cushion your fall.
+Privacy Lover That's if you hit it as if you're falling straight down onto it. If you're flung from something you'll likely skim over the water for a bit like a stone and it won't be so bad.
+Privacy Lover If I was gonna push you off one of two 40ft diving boards and under one was a nice deep pool and under the other was some tarmac. Which would you choose? Doing ths experiment on water would greatly reduce the risk of injury, especially if you were in something that floats, like a zorbing ball. The worst that could happen is some diziness.
Everyone saying that he’s insane, but if he managed to pull this off it would be legendary
Like literally, the first ever human to do a stunt like this
Noone said he's insane
@@sexysalmon4411
literally the top comment after the pinned one
@@Neo2266.
I started citing the comment and realised you're right, fuck, I'm dumb
Cheers to you
There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
@@richiem5112 i think thatt line is whether or not you're successful
It's taken me years to realize that Jamie was a real life supervillain. Imagine what he could have done had it not been for insurance and legal policy.
I... This is what millionaires should be funding. Like Jackass, but smart. Smartass. Boom. Done. SpikeTV I'm lookin at you.
You're onto something big...
+Lil Oak That's what she said
You should pitch this to an actual network.
Jack-Busters? Myth-Ass?
Jack-Myth or the best one is Ass-Busters!
I want to see an interview with their insurance agent. That would be an amazing chat of all the crazy dangerous ideas they had to say no to.
4:32 What's really cool about this is not only would the bus not need to slow down at bus stops, they could actually speed up. The people getting ejected would be like rocket fuel, accelerating the bus forward as they shoot back.
So the myth is: "Can you witness me as I go shiny and lubed into the gates of Valhalla?"
I'm getting abs from laughing rn
Not a bad way to go
WITNESS HIM!
Lmao at that last part with a mass transit system. imagine those super fast trains popping people out 300+mph
I'm thinking Hiperloop might try this!
Their organs would be destroyed from the g forces.
@DB Cooper's MoneyBags Whilst I do agree that 'organs would be destroyed' is hyperbole, I would not be so quick to dismiss the risk.
The fastest train in the world is the Shanghai Maglev, which has a top (operational) speed of 431 km/h (268 mph). If a slingshot could run the full length of the train (153m), a passenger would experience just under 5Gs. Of course, any 'realistic' design could not run full the length, and so the G-force would be higher; If it was only 5m long, then the G-forces would be around 150Gs. The relation is inversely proportional, so you can extrapolate from there.
At the upper end of that scale, it is certainly possible for some significant internal injuries. It is not the velocity that does damage - it is the acceleration, which is dependent upon the distance over which the person is decelerated.
@DB Cooper's MoneyBags The equation I used is from the constant acceleration formulae: v^2 = u^2 + 2ax. As the final velocity is 0, it simplifies to: -u^2 = 2ax. Therefore: a = -u^2/(2x).
u = 431 km/h = 120 m/s; and if x = 5 m, a = -14400/(2*5) = -1440 m/s^2 = 147 Gs deceleration.
popping out lubricated people in motorcycle gear, no less
A buddy of mine at work got in a bad motorcycle accident and was wearing gear like Jamie was talking about. It def saved his life. I think he said he wrecked at 70MPH and slid like 100 yards or so. Then he was eventually stopped by a guardrail, slid backwards into it and hit his back. He said he was wearing some kind of back plate and that saved his back. The 1st responders all knew him bc of the type of work we do.
"So Jamie, how do you want to die?"
"I want to be fired at a slip-and-slide at 60 miles per hour."
I laughed so hard my nose started to bleed. You did it you beautiful bastard. You made me laugh for the first time in the past two weeks. Thank you ☺️
@@ksarnaszek4436 It's been a rough few weeks (months, year) :)
Nobody:
UA-cam algorithm: hey you wanna see part of a live stream from 5 years ago
Same with me but I was down to watch lmao
And yet, here we are, so the algorithm worked
UA-cam strikes again! Those meddling kids..
Same
These are the times I approve of the algorithm.
Jamie was so underrated on MB. Dude was the best!
I love how in depth his analysis is. He’s really done all the research. Just never got the green light.
Well, the good thing with being famous, having alot of money, and having access to youtube is that he CAN test it if he wanted to and insurance can't say a damn thing. Yes he wasn't able to do it on Mythbusters because if he got hurt he could not only sue the company but the production studio as well for filming it and not stopping it (which of course he wouldn't do). But now that he's essentially a free man with money, support from his fans, and the ability to upload to UA-cam he could very easily test this without restraint.
Slight hitch: He’s ten years older now…
Because its batshit crazy idea that most likely would get you killed.
@@ArDeeMee so? Doesn't make it any less safe.
@@moviemaker2011z Bones break more easily, f.e., and take longer to heal. Biology‘s a bitch.
"I Wanna be the ball" thank you so much for that
"Hi, I'm Jamie Hyneman and welcome to Jackass...."
Underrated comment.
"When I was a boy, I dreamed of being a baseball."
always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!
Moving forward not backwards, upwards not forwards...
best quote ever "but insurance won't let me do this"
Kanaan Nichols "for some reason"
Makes you wonder how the cast of jackass was able to get insurance
Julie Riddick they probably don’t use insurance. They probably have shit tons of money.
Never seen a man so respectable be so outraged that no one will let him get greased up. Great stuff.
Jamie's dream when he grows up is to be the ball. I guess he took the little league coaches advice to serious.
He already knew how to 'be a plant'.
Baseball was not invented during the reign of the Hyneman
I love how his saftey counter-measure is just "whats the problem, just *LUBE ME UP* "
The little photo of Adam waving on Jamie’s shoulder, gives me a bit of a chuckle. Adam’s manic energy next to Jamie’s deliberate way of looking at problems, was what made that show work.
I was wondering who else was going to mention that.
"We're not friends, or friendly, and never ate a meal alone together, but we hang up pictures of each other.", is an interesting vibe.
"What did you want to test but couldn't?"
"I wanted to be shot out of a slingshot in a cage at 50 mph"
"Interesting"
"I wanted to be shot out of a slingshot in a cage at 50mph *while slippery and covered in lube*" ftfy
giant (5lb) gummy bear used as a bulletproof vest!
How does this relate?
The train/baseball experiment has been done by Action Lab except on a truck pulling a trailer. He runs off the back and stops exactly where he jumped at. It’s pretty cool and he also did several variations of it with a tennis, small steel ball and a nerf gun..
I remember when they did this test with a soccer ball. The ball did in fact drop straight down, but getting the speeds to match was more difficult than they anticipated
It took 6 years for the UA-cam algorithm to recommend this video to you, welcome traveler.
i feel welcomed. May i have a drink of water, for i am very tired from my 6 fucking year travel.
I shall rest my feet from the long journey here as ever decision i have ever made has lead me here at this exact time
Greetings.
Same
😂 😂 😂 😂 Love it 👍
7 years damn
Jamie's idea has still stuck with me
And I'm starting to understand him now.. I want to see what happens if you are "the ball"
I just love how like mono and blunt Jamie is AS he's saying crazy ideas "I wanna be shot out of a slingshot"
"For some reason insurance won't let me do this."
(Chuckles to himself)
I love Jamie. As crazy as this is, this is the kind of out of the box thinking that invented powered flight or scuba diving. Bro, what if, like, I could breathe under water! And I would have this tank with air, and it's compressed air so one tank stores a lot of it, and we could do it incrementally at depths like 1 foot and then try 10 feet, etc.
I still can't believe Jamie and Adam don't get along
ikr
Scare Crow they get along they just aren't friends, it's like most co-workers tbh.
It was really obvious in the show, I genuinely don't get how so many people didn't notice...
Scare Crow it just co workers. The guys on top gear/ grand tour aren't friends but it looks genuine etc.
The guys on grand tour are friends, that is way the midget and mr. slow quit the show to go do grand tour
We actually did similar to this in the army. We call them 'Truck exits'. A flat bed would travel at about 25kph and you run from the cab in the opposite direction as fast as you can and jump of the back. And it works, you land softer than jumping of a stationary truck, and without rolling etc. No slingshot but the concepts the same.
It’s crazy how thoroughly he has thought out every facet of this idea.
It's always a pleasure to hear Jamie talk.
i love both adam and Jamie kinda make me sad they dont like each other
Its not like they hated each other. They just had different personalities and it was rather obvious that Jamie got annoyed by Adam's antics at times. They respect each other, but they're both happy to be doing things on their own.
ST∆R™ Most of the best duos in entertainment clashed the way they always did. It's part of what makes them great.
DharmaMidget true
John Greene yeah true
i almost died when i found out about that
Jamie is honestly a legend, a true unique one of a kind human being who is absolutely true to himself no matter what, the whole Fuckin, “you’d let me do it at ten miles an hour so why not fifty” shit just blows my mind, imagine talking to an insurance agent and saying that to him, you know he won’t say yes you know he’s not going to listen to that reason but Jamie can’t comprehend that because why would he not listen to scientific logic?
I simply love how he thinks, and his willingness to take things to the extreme
Does anyone else think that Jamie could spend like half hour reading Mary had a little Lamb?
+undead890 Yes, anyone could read Mary had a little lamb, assuming they knew how to read.
+undead890 It's the first sound recording of all time.
+undead890 So... kinda like Walken reading stories, or... even Kevin Pollack doing an impression OF Walken reading "3 little kittens" and such? :D
+ExtraTERRORestrial ! The irony in this comment is palpable. Talks about people's ability to read while failing at reading comprehension. I want to believe that you're kidding. This being the internet and Poe's law being what it is, I don't know for sure if you are or not.
Yes I was joking.
I like to think Jamie is retired out in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere, where he can being mildly annoyed about everything in peace.
FACT: Jamie Hyneman does not, in fact, have a goatee. He is one of only 3 people on the planet capable of growing an ouroboros mustache.
InnerPartisan who are the other 2?
InnerPartisan your kidding right?
Are you sure you're not secretly Adam Savage?!
What does that mean
Thank you dwight
How to make a good Mythbusters episode:
Lots of lube.
matty linden "I want to be the baseball."
A baseball and lots of...
Adam just cracks up laughing before Jamie can finish.
The world needs Jamie to do this. It would be amazing.
couldn't you do it using a boat instead of something on land??
oh yeah, I was about to say that at the same time. lol
makes sense to me...
Waves, too much bouncing, speed is harder to control, etc.
That's why they use quarry lakes. Take the rocket surfer myth in "Titanic Survival" for example. The quarry lake they used was, I quote, "totally flat."
hitting land using appropriate gear hurts less than hitting water
or you could use a sled like jamie was talking about or even a capsule.
Military cargo delivery would be an area that this could have some practical application .
The problem I see is that in order for this to work, your body has to go from (the speed of the truck) to 0 fps in the time it takes the truck bed to pass underneath you. A 53' flatbed trailer traveling at 30 miles per hour completely passes a point on the track in 1.23 seconds. That's how much time your body would have to decelerate from 30 mph to 0 mph. You could fudge it a bit by ramping up the deceleration, but you're limited by the 53' flatbed length. Once you're at the back of the trailer you need to be at 0 fps relative to the ground or you're going to be tumbling once you contact the ground.
If we're talking speeds a baseball pitcher uses, a 53' flatbed trailer traveling at 70 mph passes a reference point in 0.52 seconds. Your body would need to go from 70 mph to 0 mph in a shade over half a second - basically subjecting a 70 mph crash on your internal organs.
I'm sure the insurance would let him do it if they remove the train out of the equation and replace it with a boat.
EveryThingOld human cannonball into a pond
On a boat seems like a great idea, since you could probably build a water cannon to shoot yourself out of a boat without any problems, then you do it while moving and your. Even if you totally mess up the speeds you should be fine as long as your not doing it at very high speeds.
I am pretty sure it would be way safer in protective gear on runway than on any body of water where you risk waves and in case of misfire and mismatch of the speed you will get all those dangerous rotation forces on the body.
@@NetAndyCz the mismatch would never be that much so you'd be in no real risk and also people get dropped into water at a couple dozen mph all the time while skiing and tubing, heck i've ate shit while tubing fast enough to skip on the water a few times, fucking hurt but im not dead.
as for the choppiness of the water if you do it on a lake and wait for a calm day out season that anyone would be boating the water will be almost perfectly still.
you realize water impacts like concrete, don't you?
Another thing I'd be concerned about especially at higher speeds would be the amount of acceleration from the slingshot imparted on the person. Accelerating from 0 (from your point of reference) to 50mph within a short distance like the length of a trailer would be significant. Dragsters accelerate faster but the safety equipment is built for it. Chromoly cages, 5/6 point harnesses, hans device attached to the helmet etc.
Looking at it another way. You can describe the problem as crashing a vehicle. He decelerates to 0mph from 50 over the length of a vehicle.
Its definitely not exactly the same, but I think close enough.
@@RealTwiner Forces wouldn't even be close to a crashing vehicle. You would have to custom build a launch trailer no matter what, as no production trailer is going to allow you a low enough launch height. So you build the launch trailer as long as you need to. You could build the trailer 100ft long and experience the same deceleration as a normal car would experience under hard braking.
This is also something I thought of. The extreme version is like standing on the back of a train before it goes into a tunnel. Negative acceleration from the speed of the train to zero. Then to put a curve on that acceleration you could put some sort of shock absorbing padding in front of the tunnel.
A sling shot has a different acceleration curve, really is the only relevant difference I can see. I can't see how it would feel much different than being shot out of a stationary sling shot, but I guess that's what a practical experiment would prove/disprove.
I love how Jamie can take the most outlandish ideas, and give them practical applicability. His closing idea about the bus is rather brilliant - maybe not the thing for mass-transit, but I could totally see it as an option for cargo at remote train stations.
"and you fall really fast and break you bones and whatever.."
i love how rehearsed and detailed this is
One myth i want to test is if jamie is actually related to a walrus. Most people say no, but i have my suspicions. Just what are you hiding hyneman?
Here's a hypothesis that could explain Jamie: One parent was a walrus, the other was a human.
Another hypothesis: Jamie's family line didn't evolve from Primates, but from Carnivora. Thus where we developed from Primates into Hominidaes and eventually into Homo Sapiens, his line developed from Carnivora into Odobenidae and eventually into whatever his subfamily species is called.
"Lots of lubrication" -Jamie Hyneman
I'm imagining an entire runway coated with lard. Of course then you have to use a pulley system to move the vehicle...
Joey Sofia MEATY WHACK
"Lubrication" is a word that Jamie seems to say more often than the average person.
What an icon. Some kids dream of being baseball legends like Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth known for their exceptional skills at hitting the ball, and then there’s kids like Jamie Hyneman dreaming of being the ball. Truly in a league of his own.
It's a testament to his willpower that he was able to maintain a straight face the whole time.
Or a testament to his insanity
@@whocares435-z9v it's not insanity if the science is sound.
They should have recorded the reaction of the insurance agent hearing this scenario. God I miss the MythBusters... 🤣❤️
I LOVE how his mind works, and the logic he uses is so convincing, even the reason to do it is great! It would be fun!
Jamie: *watches a ball thrown out of a train to see if it drops straight down*
Also Jamie: "God I wish that were me."
Don't kink shame him. We're all different.
"Just yeet me out of a slingshot of the back of a truck" Jamie Probably
Five minutes of listening to Jamie Hyneman talk about an experiment he didn't get to do but really wanted and I have a better understanding of how fall and impact safety works than I did before.
"For some reason insurance won't let me do this.." said Jamie as he lets a sigh of sadness and confusion escape him.
I learned something about Jamie... he's batshit crazy!
What an amazing concept. Would love to have seen him carry this out 😂
Hay Jamie have you considered doing it over water. Out the back of a (large) speedboat?
+Stephen Hunter good idea, actually
Hay is for horses
I think the energy from propelling the test subject backwards would have to much of an impact on the boat moving forward, unless we're working with a large boat with much high mass than the subject, and then we have the wake to contend with.
I get the concept but as someone who lived on a sailboat for 13 years i can say there are waaayy too many variables with any kind of boat or water vessel to get this to work.