The Paper Crossbow Experiment! | Season 4 Episode 5 | Full Episode
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Adam and Jamie explore a myth about a prisoner crafting a crossbow out of everyday items.
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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I'm so glad these are ending up on UA-cam. Thanks a lot guys
They fucked over a lot of people who purchased these shows
@@ColinBFClarke what like 2 decades ago ? 🤣🤣
@@girlsdrinkfeck you don't seem smart enough to comprehend theft
For some reason they're not accessible in the US. Maybe because of HBO Max
@@banhatlessducks Interesting, so that channel bought the license(at least in some countries)?
Thank you so much for releasing these instead of locking them behind a Hulu membership or something
Rewatching this series makes me really realize that Jamie has pretty much done it all, like, the guy is almost licensed on every single thing. Yet, only a few knows about it. He's really well accomplished.
Jamie is that guy that everyone has heard of, but ideally, would never see.
“Only a few know about it.”
Exactly the way he wants it.
Jamie was the brains,Jamie was the brawns haha
@@jocax188723 Which is actually very rare for humans. Most people want to get recognized, at least from my viewpoint, Jamie clearly was that "the quiet guy in the room you don't want to mess with".
Even pest cat exterminator 😂
If you find a bee nest near your house, contact a nearby farmer or beekeeper to come pick it up. Bees are a precious resource and both the farmers and the bees will be thankful if the nest is moved where bees can live properly and receive the right care.
Yeah, this myth/episode did not age well. Making light of just going out to kill bees is pretty terrible, given what we know these days
Yes
Yeah I was thinking that this really didnt age well
Yeah I felt pretty weird about that one. I love bees :(
The bees you’ll find making nests are unlikely to be honey bees - and honey bees (contrary to popular belief) can actually harm local and wider bee species*, they’re essentially livestock.
Call a removal dude not a farmer, and don’t use weed killer, leave the area and leave areas of bare soil to help bees.
One of my favorite episodes, mainly because I'm still impressed by the inmates for ingenuity of creating weapons (most especially the plumbing gun).
Vernell sounds so hyped when he’s explaining how big and vast the prison is
American prison system is entirely fucked. When you start to treat prisoners as commerce, you end up with America.
@@Dennis19901 hate the system, not the person. Vernell's good people
The inmates made an honest-to-Browning makeshift M3 Grease Gun 😂
Wonder if that was a semi automatic bolt action too
Semi auto because making it fully automatic would be illegal as an NFA item.
@@JamesChurchill3 uhm....
@@kungfudavie seems unlikely that they would be able to make a functioning blowback mechanism with the limited tools, materials and testing available. Most guns made in confinement seem to be either fire once or single fire manual feed.
However there are weapons in history that were specifically designed to be manufactured with limited machinery like the Błyskawica.
Given that being able to manufacture and design functioning magazine fed gun from scratch would require significant experience as a gunsmith, the idea that one of these ex "freedom fighter" gunsmiths ended up in prison in the U.S and used their experience to craft a makeshift sub-machine gun in the prison workshop, doesn't sound that ridiculous at all.
@@JamesChurchill3 Oh no, if they made it full-auto they might end up going to jail or something!
Series 4, dated 2005. Can't believe how long it's been since Mythbusters aired. I've already watched every episode, but they were cut to 30-35 minutes due to adverts. It's brilliant seeing some 'new' stuff 20 years later from the amazing Jamie, Adam, Tory, Kari and Grant (what an incredible man he was - humanity needs more Grants. RIP).
RIP to Kari, too 😢
@@MajBuffalo
It was Jessie that died, not Kari
@@zoutewand truuuuu, my bad
@@MajBuffalo 💗 no stress
1:55 lol Adams impression of jamieis 100 percent accurate.
He did an impression of Jamie, not his father. Pay attention.
Why, thank you father..
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@@maasicaswat are you Talkn bout?
This episode ignited my love for making. I still remember building my first paper crossbow when I was 7 or 8, I was so infatuated with the concept.
I was about to express worry about a kid making crossbows when I had a flashback to myself making one from a pen and balloon and using it to launch sharp metal files across my bedroom… so no complaints from me I guess :)
I never knew Mythbusters was aired on the BBC! Thanks for the uploads😊
so rad, life can be.
first of all - Rest In Peace, Grant. we love you, we miss you, man. thanks for all the laughs and learns. the show would not have been the same nor as good without all your contributions. thanks so much for that.
second of all, I don't know Pinball machines, but 14:45 that laundromat's got the good stuff. just from casual pinball gaming on PS4, I was able to easily recognize two of those machines that were reproduced in Pinball FX3 - the one farthest right is the affable and pretty neat Road Crew machine by Williams ... I forget the actual name. it's a fine machine. one of the characters is voiced by Reba McEntire.
but the machine in the _middle_ is the ONE -- that's _Mediaval Madness,_ also by Williams, and it's often called one of the best pinball machine ever made. I've played FX3's recreation of that table, I even once played one in real life. it's the best. I really recommend trying pinball sometime if you're interested in gaming. it's a wholly different feel and phenomena from digital games -- you're banking on actual gravity and physics to get your score, and the whole playfield was painstakingly designed, crafted and CONSTRUCTED. it's a really very cool cultural artifact, pinball is.
and if I've learned anything from even just casual perusal of the game, it's that Williams is the best, apparently. laff. I just thought that was neat. a totally virtual collection of real tables on PS4 that are actually out there in the wild, and now caught in the background of an episode of _Mythbusters._ so like I said, so rad, life can be. be well everyone.
One of my favorite episodes. The crossbows are so memorable.
22:27 "Generally I would prefer more" this one left me gagging knowing that everyone around him knows what hes really talking about.
Gagging at a penetration joke? What planet are you from?
So what is he takling about?
@@girafmad
I think the person you replied to just meant the actual joke? Like yeah he's talking about sex that's why it's funny, I don't think there's anything deeper about it
why is a simple double entendre such an issue?
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I was a part of a touring dance company for a while, and the costume team used vodka in spray bottles to keep the costumes smelling fresh. Really did work! There's not enough time to was 50 costumes on a nightly basis, and it's also bad for the clothes in some cases. The cigarette smoke may have been a pretty heavy duty test, but I can vouch that vodka is pretty good with stinky clothes!
31:53 - I'm not sure if this is the case with Honeybees, but living in the Arctic, I remember being stunned by the Graduate Course in Forensic Entymology I took in Uni. It turned out that many, indeed all of the Insects that lasts the Arctic Winter, produces frost fluids in their blood, often diluted with ethanol or other alcohols. The bee is one such insect. Bees are busy, even in the winter, keeping the Queen warm. They eat honey, clump together around her and flap their wings, producing heat with their wing muscles. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they also thinned their blood viscosity with ethanol.
Beekeepers know that bees have a high tolerance to alcohol, and if they indeed do fill their bloodstream with that in the winter like other insects, they would need to have such a tolerance. Great MythBusters Episode!
There was a Cracked article, back from before they fired everyone, where they talked a bit about this stuff. Apparently, lots of times inmates increase the lethality of penetrating weapons by poisoning them. Don't remember exactly what they used for that, but I'd imagine things like faeces, detergent, rotten food. All those can be pretty dangerous when introduced to a wound as deep as what could be caused by a plastic bolt or similar.
I'd not be surprised given how some prison have toilet wine, that others might have poison culturing in theirs.
Vernell is a bit serious but my god I can tell he cares so much about this information and position in society. We are a better society for having people like him - and I don't mean because of his job/association with prisons, I mean someone who's learned and passionate about their career. it's unfortunately rare.
The biggest problem with the crossbows is really how the heck would anyone manage to hide those in a prison cell.
If you possess the ingenuity to make the thing, you'd be able to figure out a way to keep it out of sight.
It's paper. So long as you keep it dismantled and hide the pieces around your cell until you intend to actually use it, it's unlikely to get entirely confiscated for being a weapon - and even if they do take a piece, you can just get more paper and remake it.
Same argument could be made with a bunch of other real weapons people have created in prison
@@sparrowflyaway You can't exactly unglue the parts to dismantle it.
Well with all the rampant bum love that goes on perhaps they hide it up the boyfriends exhaust?
This has to be at least a top 5 episode for me. Insane!
"That is why there's no cats left int the neighbourhood!" Geez that would go down well today! LOL.
dont let your cats run feral then
Not if you love birds 😅
@@thalivenom4972 I dont own cats and i don't like them either doesn't mean i go around killing them.
@@joshyc2006 I do like birds!
Yeah it would. People still make jokes, it's not even offensive or anything.
Some bee information for everyone complaining about this episode - honey bees are not the ones we should be saving.
Honey bees are livestock, there are loads of them. They have been transported all across the globe to places they wouldn’t usually bee (heh), and they out compete other bee species. They’re actually an ecologists nightmare.
If you wanna help bees, don’t use weed killer, leave the weeds and leave patches of bare soil (for the solitary bees, the most common types of bees).
there is not such thing as a solitary bee and all bees are getting fucked by pestisides
-2 points for the bee pun. But I also have to double down so here goes nothing: Also solitary bees are just "let-them-bee(s)" :)
Funny how they asked Adam for ID when they can put you in prison without even knowing or seeing your ID 😅
Without the ID, they can hold you for a while (depending on crime). They can't actually register you for prison time.
And the reason he asked, is because of security.
@@Schmorgus Well thee reason he asked was for the shot. They would have already been cleared for entry beforehand, notice how the c as Mera man didn't get asked??
Hahahaha they got so much San Fran Chinese newspapers to make the crossbow! When the camera zoom in I can pause and read the community news twenty years ago lol
So that's what it was! xD
I got so confused why it was covered with Asian letters!
What did it say?
12:22 "Oh honey!"
Kari has seen some things 😂
I like that Grants inmate number is Pi. Lol
If you can make glue, then you can make paper mache', which would be more rigid than their constructions.
But you lose flexibility, which is key in a crossbow
But then you lose flexibility
Yeah I was surprised that for all the brains and consultants, there was no mention of water sticks. Not so much for the props, but for the rest of the frame and the parts where you need the rigidity.
Water sticks are the easiest to make and most common prison weapon, along with shivs. You're returning wood pulp to a more solid state, with sufficient compression you get something akin to particle board, and there are plenty of home crossbow builds using that.
@@Si74l0rd do you have any more information on water sticks? it sounds interesting but i didnt have any luck on google.
@@maxinehardy9411 I don't, I hit Google just before making this comment and was surprised to also find no mention of it, despite having seen a lot of American prison documentaries featuring them, and having seen footage of prisoners soaking magazines in a basin to get them ready for moulding into their final form. But no details on the intermediate steps as to how you go about moulding and drying it out etc. Clearly there's some form of compression, and presumably some sort of fixative substance to turn the pulp into something more or less resembling a solid, but the details elude me.
My best guess is that it was more common in the nineties, and has faded from the public consciousness. A lot of nineties things have no internet reference, despite being relatively recent, and I could have seen it at any point in the last thirty some years, I'm not good at time stamping the information in my brain!
thx MythBusters!!!! your show was never broadcasted in Spain and I much appreciate that you upload the episodes!!!!!
Jamie browsing underwear killed me!
Regarding the crossbow, I think the methos to use would be to re-harden the newspapers into wood through compression and then build a regular crossbow?
A moments silence for all the bees😢🫡
All 2 of them.
@@Schmorgus tbf I typed this before we saw the results and the revival
Killing bees purposefully and so cheerfully would NEVER make it on TV in 2024 lol
I give it 10 years for people being against using paper.
MythBusters also used pig carcasses a lot. That "meat man" crushed in diving suit one was particularly gruesome lol
i think you're forgetting the existence of hells kitchen and Survivor, the latter of which frequently features contestants killing animals to feed themselves.
@@rafael_lana
people still eat veal, despite it being tortured baby cows. paper isn't going away, nor are the killing of small animals.
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 I never said it was going away, I said people would start complaining about it. More than 12 bees probably died of old age in that hive during the segment on that bee farm. Taking a handful of worker bees for science from a healthy colony is completely inconsequential. It's like cutting a branch from a big tree. People need to chill
Of all the things to age poorly, them rejoicing over the killing of bees really does hurt :(
This is pure gold to have Mythbusters to enjoy !
Adam: "Remember kids, working with newspaper can be dirty."
Kids watching in current year: "What's newspaper?"
I missed this show so much. Was my comfort show during childhood
There will be a whole generation of people that will think mythbusters is just a UA-cam channel...
I Love those old Episodes. Thanks you.
45:00 From Red Baron to drem catcher... Dude is really Savage 😂
i love it when they go to some specific person (crossbow dealer, beekeepers, etc) to get something for a myth and then they ask them about the myth and that person is always like "uhhhh.....no i guess"
Crossbows are often underestimated in their power. A crossbow has more power than a full power rifle does.
20:33 that scale looks vaguely familiar.....
Oh yes, my favorite show, Master Chef UK where they bust cooking myths.
Why would you kill bees ????
No way! Full episodes?! That's SO cool!
The bee killer thing didn't age well. Considering bees are now being endangered.
It was only 12 of them, and honey bees aren't endangered.
I don't like the idea of killing them, but people in the comments should chill out
@@colinofay7237 It wasn't even 12. Actually died only 2. No idea what they did with those that remained alive tho.
I am absolutely eating these episodes up
Vernell seems like a cool dude 😂
Thank you for releasing these episodes for free
Jamies "yaaay" gives me life
That prison gun both im both shocked and impressed
Swear jamie and adam always get the best myths
It is their show.
You mean the original stars of the show?
@@brettjarvs7458 may get too pick
I can certainly imagine one of these being lethal, especially with some strong elastic bands, crossbow limbs made from plastic + strengthened with paper/fabric, a sharper tip, and a bolt poisoned with faeces/detergent etc. Those factors could easily double the effectiveness. And on first appearance it would look like it was made from paper.
I dislike how they changed from "killing bees" to "it's a repellent" when they talked to the beekeepers. I disliked the whole premise tbh. You don't kill bees.
Honey bees aren’t the important ones, millions are bread each year on farms and such
@@richardmontegue3131 I didn't say anything about honey bees specifically
@@Lrofmaulol the bees they killed were honey bees, not important
@@richardmontegue3131 Thanks for repeating yourself instead of addressing the point.
@@richardmontegue3131 All bees are important. Each and every single one.
There are some plants that can only be pollinated by just one or two specific types of insects. You just don't kill bees, unless it's absolutely necessary. Bees also rarely sting humans. And most of the times they do, they do so because the humans did something to deserve those stings. After all, stinging a large creature like a human for a bee has a high risk of them dying, pulling out their guts out of their bodies.
So many innuendos in this single episode, they sure were able to get away with way more back then 😂
Rest in Pjeace Grant, God speed
@14:24 "A quick product test" LOL
"Semi automatic, bolt action"..... California doing California things (born and raised there, and well, SoCal and the Bay Area are pretty damn firearms ignorant as a rule). Perhaps he meant "magazine fed, bolt action", as in a repeater?
On behalf of all laundry rooms, please do not wash anything in those machines you wouldn't wash in your own at home
No I wash extra heavy stuff and things I don’t wanna wash at home there
2:24 Saul Goodman’s car parked out front 😂
this is one of my top ten episodes
NO NOT THE BEEEEES!
that bolty is straight out of Rust damn
Like in KSP, when in doubt add more struts.
Another iconic episode.
The beekeepers are definitely are good old hippies, and might have much more going on then vodka! 😂
The vodka might be a bee repellent though
In maximum we had a guitar available. No metal cutlery only plastic (at the time i was in, now it would most likely be paper) i used to use the plastic knives to make guitar pics im surorised i wasn't pulled up on it
this is my favorite episode of masterchef UK
3:25 Those prison made weapons are kind of creepy
21:47 “That’s what she said!”
Bee killer??
You call a bee keeper, it takes the Queen away, and the whole beehive goes with her.
1. Hard paper tube with the diameter not more than your average toilet roll tube.
2. Find a Balloon with good Elasticity & Rubber Strength.
3. Cut the "neck" of the Balloon where the diameter is similar to the Hard Paper Tube's diameter, Tread it on and Tape them together.
You now have a Deadly weapon that has more power, easier and faster to make than these paper crossbows.
Fun fact, in nature a drunk bee gets exiled or killed by the hive which usually ends in its death before it can sober up.
Vernell was cold 😂😂😂😂
You see, Ivan, vodka is a multitool.
The smoke box looks like Yul Brynner's bedroom 🤣
37:14 That thing reminds me of a Cylone Basestar ^^*
Someone making a gun in prison is WILD
For the crossbow I would've tried to make a laminated bow from paper, glue & fabric and use that as part of the power delivery. 😊
15:00 German surrealist painter: Unica Zürn
shooting the arrow into grant's cast right into the nostril, that's much like him having straws in his nose when making the cast !!!
The vodka trick with bees actually work but u have to spray at them. My theory is that alcohol sucks the water out of them and they die very quickly. I use this trick to kill all types of bugs
Sry correction i use propyl alcohol
wow this one is fresh of the press, I didn't even notice
I'm glad the narrator got back to his mic
4:42 They even got Steve Harvey to do some talking
I like Adam's Hunter S Thompson t-shirt.
12:22 I think Grant was talking about weed too lol
3:38 Semi-Automatic, Bolt Action..?? which is it
Fun episode of MasterChef, never seem them cook up stuff like this
Finally you have fixed the sound bloody hell finally
Built one of those,miss those days😞
Normal bees don't sting unless their live is in danger or they think you are attacking the hive or the queen. The reason for this is that a bee can typically only sting once in its life, and if you can only attack once, you better make it count. Under normal circumstances, a bee has no interest in stinging you and losing its life for nothing. Why should it? A bee's first priority is to protect the queen and the hive, so it is absolutely willing to give its life for this goal. And the second priority is to protect the other bees of the hive from being killed, so if something threatens their life (another animal trying to kill or eat them), they will sting, which seems pointless at first because it won't save their life either (instead of getting killed, they just killed themselves), but it might hurt the attacker and thus save the lives of other bees.
All of this is true even for the "Africanized bee" (aka "killer bee"), which is not a natural species at all, but an artificial breed created by humans. And as is often the case when we mess with nature, the results are problematic. This bee, too, will only sting in self-defense, but through artificial breeding, it has been made super aggressive, meaning that pretty much any living creature in the vicinity of the hive is considered an attacker. In an attempt to create a more effective honey bee, we just created a very aggressive one that basically overreacts to situations that other bees would consider harmless.
And don't confuse bees with wasps. Wasps can sting multiple times in their lives, so not only will wasps sting to protect their hive or in self-defense, they will sting whenever something makes them feel threatened or in a fight over resources, even trying to push them away from your food could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Though I love mythbusters, I can't say I'm a fan of Jamie jokingly(?) referring to shooting cats with a crossbow. He previously also talked about spearing frogs for fun.
It's not the kind of thing we want to be advertising.
Frog gigging is pretty common in the southern states.
Incidentally, "Big Butch Strands" is the name of my grunge band
Even as a little kid it always drove me insane how they said "we have to build a crossbow to be accurate to the myth" and yet the weapon the myth describes isn't a crossbow. By definition, a bow of any sort gets its power from the limbs, not the string, and the myth talked about using elastic.
Please, for the following videos put the myths of Archimedes 😁🙏
2:01 Hahaha His Shirt... Gonzo journalism... This Logo Shows a Hand, Holding an peyote cacti..
Its from the Guy who wrote "fear and loathing in Las Vegas"
38:00 That didn't age well... RIP Grant... We all miss you, you left to soon 😢
Confirmed Jamie is a serial-killer? They always start with small animals...
When i was a kid i seen this episode and made a paper crossbow in school out of printer paper. My teacher was actually impressed 😅 granted it was my gym teacher.