I came back here after many, many years not having watched a Mythbusters show and damn, this is still the best show ever made! I didn't realized the void it left in me since it ended.
I got rid of cable in 2001, a couple of years before this show came out, so I've only seen a handful of episodes over the years. I agree, this is the best show. It nearly made me break down and call the cable company, but I wasn't going to pay all that money for just one show. I'm glad I finally get to watch more episodes.
Full seasons and episodes without having to pirate? Yes. Always a win. Taskmaster (UK TV show) release all their episodes on UA-cam and their fan-base adore them for it. Keep uploading!!!
problem is those are geolocked. I'm in Australia and need to resort to Dailymotion. So even when they release episodes on youtube, people still need to pirate. Just think about that!
Mythbusters in 2071 Narrator: On this episode of Mythbusters: Adam and Jamie ignite an age old American debate. [Adam and Jamie looking at a diagram in the workshop] Narrator: Can ordinary jet fuel really melt through solid steel beams? [Glowing metal rod snapping suddenly] Adam: Wow! Narrator: They'll test if this Myth can stand the heat... [Adam filling up a gas can] Narrator: Or will it buckle under the pressure? [Scale model of the World Trade Center exploding violently] Adam and Jamie: Woah!
I never saw this episode on TV, but it's definitely one of my favourites now. It's darkly hilarious to see Adam and Jamie testing one of the worst aviation disasters in history, then Tori juggling dead birds XD
They should have made 4, one that had no special coating at all and just used hydrogen. If that would have been almost as fast as the second test, the coating actually may haven't played any role at all.
I wonder if they would have been allowed to paint swastika's on the tail. The original Hindenburg did have those because it was in large part funded by the Nazi's and was a major propaganda machine for them. The reason they called it "Hindenburg" is to honor the late president Hindenburg cause there were still a lot of accusations going around that they betrayed him.
You can still draw a conclusion from the results, just not as good as it could’ve been. But bear in mind; it’s a discovery show, and they don’t have a laboratory. It’s ok if they don’t have science journal levels of data.
Never have I been so early to a new official channel. It's not even verified yet. I must let the Tested audience know by leaving a comment in whatever build tomorrow's video is. It's a strange thing seeing Adam with orange hair again.
Its not official. They didn't pay to copyright the name so the name "mythbusters" is free to use. This account is completely wrong in uploads. None of this is season 5, its season 4. My guess is to get around any claims of posting copyrighted material but its not an official discovery page
My thoughts exactly. I saw the thick substance and I was like "yup glycerin". Potasium Permanganate and Glycerine react (redox) on their own as well so it basically functions as a starter at this point
@@cosminv8751 Adam commented this on his channel. He said he couldn't give people receipts for anything dangerous with ingredients you could easily find, because the authorities who were partners with the show (like the San Francisco LPD, their bomb squad, etc etc) forbid them from doing that.
I think it's more a liability thing than trying to hide the formula for dangerous stuff. Even if it's easy to learn the recipe for, say an explosive, you didn't learn it from MythBusters
It was for the camera, same with how he later said that if Cory got caught by the crocodile, he would put him out of his misery, and that his best recourse would be to lose consciousness quickly.
i have always wondered if the difference in the speed of the burn might have been that the hindenburg fell as it burned which means it kept falling into fresh unburnt air. The scale model didn't move at all and was in an enclosed space.
I've swam in rivers with Johnson crocodiles sitting on the other bank. They're pretty chill, mostly eat fish n birds, people are just way to big. Your little doggo however... Saltwater crocs on the other hand, they take down buffalo (yes, we have buffalo in Australia). Don't swim with them, you'll get eaten.
The Hindenburg segment was, I think, the first Mythbusters segment I watched all the way through. Course, back then it was a bootleg upload, all low-res and probably mirrored. Great to see it officially.
What I think was missed in the scale testing here is that thermite has a very high ignition temperature which is probably also why the panel painted with thermite paste didn't go up straight away - the lighter wasn't hot enough. When I've seen thermite lit in experiments, it's been done with burning magnesium strip to ignite it, simply because it burns so hot and gets the thermite reaction going straight away.
How to know you're from Texas without you saying you're from Texas LOL. Standing there giving a play-by-play while a tornado is forming in front of you 😆
Meanwhile, my grade 8 Science teacher is like: “Student’s gather in the courtyard and check this out!” *proceeds to ignite a can of thermite, burns permanent whole in the cobblestone
I know obviously this episode is from years ago, but, try coming up on a mother alligator on her nest. She'll chase you on land. These guys only tested prey and mild annoyance. Not true aggression.
I think the biggest issue for crocodiles or alligator Chase is not using wild ones. Yes, they weren't domestic, but to me, it makes sense for a wild croc or alligator to chance as food isn't always a guarantee
The biggest mystery about the Hindenburg is why people think it was one of the greatest disasters in aviation history. It was a bad day for those involved, but with a 60% survival rate, pretty much all other commercial plane disasters have been much worse.
A perspective I’ve seen online is that it caused a globel fear of blimps in general, which lead to the abandonment of future blimp projects due to general public apprehension.
@@andrewbakker7640 Yes, but the question is why. There's been hundreds of worse accidents since Hindenburg. The runway incursion at Tenerife in 1977 is the worst of all time in every possible way. On Hindenburg, there were 62 survivors and 36 deaths. At Tenerife, there were 61 survivors and 583 deaths and those were two fully fueled 747s, so the fireball was enormous. If that had happened to two zeppelins, they would simply have bounced off each other like inflatable canoes in the river. There would've been a mess in the restaurant and people would certainly have spilled their Martinis, but there's no chance that anyone would've died at all, unless they choked on an olive or something. The Hindenburg is actually a great success story, because even when the absolute worst thing imaginable happened, 60% survived.
@@s3dchr No, there are several bigger ones captured on camera. In Tenerife in 1977, two fully fueled 747s crashed on the runway. Much, much worse in every possible way and also more spctacular because it's a high speed collision with a following giantic fireball.
Two thoughts (this far @16:50): The dope was not "fresh", but had been subject to months of weather, and sunlight. Does this change the dope, making it more like termite? Does the altitude of flight have an impact on the exposure of sunlight. Dihydrogen-oxide, H20. When a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is two to one, it will bang, as seen. But in a hydrogen rich mixture, as onboard the Hindenburg, it will not bang, but burn. Search _Hydrogen Pringles Can_ There will not be enough oxygen molecules (O2) available for a reaction with every present hydrogen atom (H). At which rate it will burn... I don't know.
Well we forget to calculate the heat from the surrounding burning material + the pressure that forces oxygen into the flame from a huge balloon that has a leak now
The original story of the Hindenburg mentioned it was stormy. Did you try wetting it and applying static electricity? Isn't Iron Oxide supposed to be more dangerous when wet when in the presence of aluminum? Some of the descriptions also mentioned they were dropping 'water ballasts' as they were landing...so it sounds like they were dropping through wet air.
The official reasons behind the fire are as follows: 1) Due to unfavorable climate conditions at the landing site, the Hindemburg had to make some turn arounds to wait for the storm to subside, during that time the captain made some very sharp ones and that movment snaped some of the cables holding the super structure together, them in turn broke one of the hydrogen containments. 2) In its final aproach the Hindemburg started to loose lift in its stern section and the crew was forced to constantly open the stern ballast in order to keep it stable enough, this means that the open hydrogen containment was evacuating the gas outside the ship wich means that the skin must have failed. Plus eyewitness report a heavy skin-ripple at the top of the stern section not long before the explosion. 3) The ignition happened when the "landing-ropes" touched the ground at the same time when it was raining. With the storm coming in static was all over the place and when the ropes got wet enough they made earth contact, that discharge fired up the hydrogen that was been venting all this time over the rupture at the stern and the entire ship burned into a crisp. So one can say that it was captain error since the entire dissaster happened because he ordered very sharp turns that pushed the structure to the breaking point.
That's actually part of the original story. That the hydrogen ignited because of a spark due to the highly charged skin. When the Hindenburg dropped it's anchor ropes and they got wet the airship discharge it's massive amount of static electricity. However the cotton skin didn't discharge as quickly as the metal frame so a spark flew from the skin to the frame. They were indeed dropping water ballast because they were tail heavy. This was because there was a hole in the hydrogen bladders there.
I find it very counterintuitive that many tests like this use an open flame rather than an electric charge. It is perhaps more important to investigate if the fabric could have been ignited with a static spark. In a 1997 Secrets of the Dead documentary, Addison Bain who first proposed the incendiary paint theory did ignite an old piece of Hindenburg fabric but he had to orient it such that the spark ran perpendicular to the outer cover and used a continuous electric current inconsistent with atmospheric conditions. Also, the fabric would have been wet during the minutes leading up to the fire. In other documentaries he just burned doped fabric with a match. All this does is indicate that the fabric is combustible and can burn with an intense smoky once exposed to a pre-existing fire, but not whether it could have created a catastrophic fire if the ship was filled with helium. For the record he did write a book in 2014 where he tries to address some of the criticism and claimed the fire started behind the tail on the starboard side (only one witness testified this), and was burning for some 30 seconds before it was widely noticed and ignited the hydrogen. He even uses this Mythbusters documentary saying that the fire could burn faster because most of his critics were burning flat pieces of fabric rather than around a circular envelope. Again, this doesn't say much because their models were small-scale and quite curved compared to the full-scale ship where these areas would have been larger flat panels. I haven't read the whole book myself but other experts (historians like Dan Grossman and Patrick Russell) were unimpressed by his rebuttals.
They should have had a fan blowing on the Hindenburg models when testing to simulate wind speed. Would have made the burn times a lot faster. I feel like if they did this they could have achieved a burn time in under a minute as appose to the 2mins with the first model making the myth far more plausible.
I do still think they should have built a hydrogen-filled model without the thermite dope-of course the hydrogen burns, but would it have burned less aggressively with a less flammable coating?
Maybe because there was not enough supply of oxygen from the atmosphere to make the huge amount of hydrogen burn violently. That amount of hydrogen couldn't mix fast enough with the oxygen of the atmosphere to make an explosion. That's my guess.
Because the inside was filled with pure hydrogen not a hydrogen+air mixture so it could only burn on the surface where it was on contact with outside air.
I can't believe they over looked that the hindenburg started from bottom to top a fire spreads a lot faster from bottom to top rather then top to bottom
Well, to be fair, they also didn’t account for all of the myth. The myth was that the skin had a lot to do with the burning, and they only tested that the hydrogen had to do with the burn. Full control should have been with hydrogen + the uncoated skin. Or something similar to that.
You had Tory playing with a Aussie Freshy, We literally go swimming with them. Put a Aussie 18-20ft salty in there and see what aggressive and quick striking is...
our saltwater crocs are our northern deterrent. Thats why in WW2 the japanese only tried air attacks. If they sent ships they'd all be sunk by the wildlife long before they reached shore
27:14 [Kari screams] Crocodile Guy: "You make the prettiest noises." Whoa! Dude! Who the **** is that guy? Is he in jail now? On a watchlist? On the run and wanted for questioning in relation to the disappearances of women in Florida? Jesus!
those are trained crocodiles/aligators. You can't compare them to wild ones. and of course the Hindenburg was well done because of the hydrogen AND the skin. They only told it was the skin. Now ask yourself why only the skin? Logical that they lied. Who is gonna put that kind of stuff in there. Idiotic tbh
Id the skeleton was steel, this could have rusted in parts to give a source of iron oxide, leading to a blend of materials closer to a stoichiometric mix of fuel (aluminium) and oxidiser (iron oxide)
@@christianellegaard7120 No, they showed clearly what thermite is, a mix of powdered iron oxide and aluminium powder. It's the liquid ignition mix they blurred out. My guess is that it's potassium permanganate mixed with glycerol.
10:08 One of the worst scenes ever for me. That was'nt nice. That was so......can't find any more word for that. *hate* Had to skip that..... 29:48 I think that crocodile think "Why should I give you any response? You taped my mouth!"
In my opinion, this show is a time capsule because it shows us how technology has developed over the years. what a great show why they didn't make stuff like this. PATHETIC.....😢😢😢
The modern theory is the guide ropes for laid in the mud, sucking up water, which then allowed them to act as grounding rods for lightning, zap crackle BOOM
Crocs DO run, but they are a lazy species of animal. They can run really fast if they really wanted you in their maw. Problem is that these crocs in this are mostly fed and full, giving them no incentive to go at an alarming speed.
Miss them alot.
Also, RIP Grant Imahara, you'll be forever missed
The first engineer robot should be named Grant in his honour.
Same here
Pioneered the Episode 1 R2D2. A true engineer.
I came back here after many, many years not having watched a Mythbusters show and damn, this is still the best show ever made! I didn't realized the void it left in me since it ended.
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I got rid of cable in 2001, a couple of years before this show came out, so I've only seen a handful of episodes over the years.
I agree, this is the best show.
It nearly made me break down and call the cable company, but I wasn't going to pay all that money for just one show.
I'm glad I finally get to watch more episodes.
@@ambulocetusnatans it's a good show, not the best though. Fun to watch. And sometimes you learn. But that's all.
Always a warm feeling when we get to see Grant having so much fun. We miss you man, Rest in peace.
Oh damn, way to ruin my day. I didn't know.
@@Richard-ug4elindeed…
Full seasons and episodes without having to pirate? Yes. Always a win. Taskmaster (UK TV show) release all their episodes on UA-cam and their fan-base adore them for it.
Keep uploading!!!
problem is those are geolocked. I'm in Australia and need to resort to Dailymotion. So even when they release episodes on youtube, people still need to pirate. Just think about that!
Grant: Sees frozen quails. "I can't do this..."
Also Grant: "It's a quail-cicle :D"
This is the best thing to have happened on the Internet this Year! Thank you so much for coming on YT. Cheers from Portugal.
Mythbusters in 2071
Narrator: On this episode of Mythbusters: Adam and Jamie ignite an age old American debate.
[Adam and Jamie looking at a diagram in the workshop]
Narrator: Can ordinary jet fuel really melt through solid steel beams?
[Glowing metal rod snapping suddenly]
Adam: Wow!
Narrator: They'll test if this Myth can stand the heat...
[Adam filling up a gas can]
Narrator: Or will it buckle under the pressure?
[Scale model of the World Trade Center exploding violently]
Adam and Jamie: Woah!
Brilliant 😂
I never saw this episode on TV, but it's definitely one of my favourites now. It's darkly hilarious to see Adam and Jamie testing one of the worst aviation disasters in history, then Tori juggling dead birds XD
They should have made 4, one that had no special coating at all and just used hydrogen. If that would have been almost as fast as the second test, the coating actually may haven't played any role at all.
Yeah that's the control I'm missing
I wonder if they would have been allowed to paint swastika's on the tail. The original Hindenburg did have those because it was in large part funded by the Nazi's and was a major propaganda machine for them. The reason they called it "Hindenburg" is to honor the late president Hindenburg cause there were still a lot of accusations going around that they betrayed him.
Wel not the firstt time they didnt setup a control test
You can still draw a conclusion from the results, just not as good as it could’ve been.
But bear in mind; it’s a discovery show, and they don’t have a laboratory. It’s ok if they don’t have science journal levels of data.
The coating keeps the hydrogen in. Otherwise, the gas would leak out. It would be possible, but maybe too unpredictable/dangerous to test
Never have I been so early to a new official channel. It's not even verified yet. I must let the Tested audience know by leaving a comment in whatever build tomorrow's video is. It's a strange thing seeing Adam with orange hair again.
Its not official. They didn't pay to copyright the name so the name "mythbusters" is free to use.
This account is completely wrong in uploads. None of this is season 5, its season 4. My guess is to get around any claims of posting copyrighted material but its not an official discovery page
@@James27Simko is meaning we should enjoy the episodes before they got deleted
21:25 Seeing Grant so happy, melts my heart
Just a quick loot at wikipedia blur and blur are most likely Potassium Permanganate and Glycerol.
My thoughts exactly. I saw the thick substance and I was like "yup glycerin". Potasium Permanganate and Glycerine react (redox) on their own as well so it basically functions as a starter at this point
That's what a good science show does, makes you curious enough to research stuff on your own.
True, but also probably didn't just want to show everyone watching the recipe for explosives 😅
@@cosminv8751 Adam commented this on his channel. He said he couldn't give people receipts for anything dangerous with ingredients you could easily find, because the authorities who were partners with the show (like the San Francisco LPD, their bomb squad, etc etc) forbid them from doing that.
I think it's more a liability thing than trying to hide the formula for dangerous stuff. Even if it's easy to learn the recipe for, say an explosive, you didn't learn it from MythBusters
27:10 That dude seems a bit too happy
Is it just me or is this a really creepy thing to say when a girl screams? gives off serial killer vibes 27:17
YEAH WTF LOL
Yeah I thought that was weird
Yeah, I came here to find this comment. Really creepy!! “You make the prettiest noises”. 🤮
It was for the camera, same with how he later said that if Cory got caught by the crocodile, he would put him out of his misery, and that his best recourse would be to lose consciousness quickly.
i have always wondered if the difference in the speed of the burn might have been that the hindenburg fell as it burned which means it kept falling into fresh unburnt air. The scale model didn't move at all and was in an enclosed space.
I've swam in rivers with Johnson crocodiles sitting on the other bank. They're pretty chill, mostly eat fish n birds, people are just way to big. Your little doggo however... Saltwater crocs on the other hand, they take down buffalo (yes, we have buffalo in Australia). Don't swim with them, you'll get eaten.
How about alligators? Do they alligate?
Fishing Garett would agree
“I love the smell of thermite in the afternoon”
Finally a channel where it doesn't zoom or distort in some way to avoid copyright
They probably bought the license
Well yeah... it's the official Mythbusters channel.
Crocodile guy saying "you make the prettiest noises" haha omg
His eyes!!!
Came here to say this
Waiting for the day we find out bro was actually a serial killer who fed women to alligators 😭
creepy af, like who says that about someone screaming
@@kara4131 Errr, when I was in middle school a boy said that to me... he pulled my hair lol
I feel like the editors made a lot of effort with the Hindenburg footage to avoid the Nazi flags on the rudders.
27:15 Jeez, someone call Agent Starling, looks like Crocodile Bill wants to make a new suit !
Megadope is my new old favorite word.
Put it down!
Starts to juggle the quails.
“You have the prettiest noises”? What tf😂
yeahhh... 😐
The Hindenburg segment was, I think, the first Mythbusters segment I watched all the way through. Course, back then it was a bootleg upload, all low-res and probably mirrored. Great to see it officially.
Awesome, i will watch all again
I like the extra footage that comes with episodes that are 10 minutes longer than on TV
You can always learn something from watching them work
What I think was missed in the scale testing here is that thermite has a very high ignition temperature which is probably also why the panel painted with thermite paste didn't go up straight away - the lighter wasn't hot enough. When I've seen thermite lit in experiments, it's been done with burning magnesium strip to ignite it, simply because it burns so hot and gets the thermite reaction going straight away.
Morale of the story - do not try to fly on a huge capacitor filled with one of the most flamable gasses in the universe.
Thanks for uploading this video! 🙏😊❤️
So many adam's "wow!" for sampling
How to know you're from Texas without you saying you're from Texas LOL. Standing there giving a play-by-play while a tornado is forming in front of you 😆
Hard to believe this was over 20 years ago.
It wasn't. This aired in 2007
@@misterwishart "umm aktually" 🤓
Glad you googled that for me though.
@@haphazardprism - haha, yeah, cos Mythbusters fans are famously all jocks who don't care for accuracy
Zig zag run is an old wifes tale... an old wife who wanted rid of her husband.
That’s what some people like to call “legal separation”.
Meanwhile, my grade 8 Science teacher is like:
“Student’s gather in the courtyard and check this out!”
*proceeds to ignite a can of thermite, burns permanent whole in the cobblestone
I know obviously this episode is from years ago, but, try coming up on a mother alligator on her nest. She'll chase you on land. These guys only tested prey and mild annoyance. Not true aggression.
That paint is dope
Rule for Crocodilians:
If you're in Australia, Florida, or Louisiana, if you see water, there could be a croc/gator in there
23:26 made me laugh for some reason
27:15 what a creep lmao
I think the biggest issue for crocodiles or alligator Chase is not using wild ones. Yes, they weren't domestic, but to me, it makes sense for a wild croc or alligator to chance as food isn't always a guarantee
Should have called it the Hynemanburg. It would be neat to see them bust a Hyneman
😂
The biggest mystery about the Hindenburg is why people think it was one of the greatest disasters in aviation history. It was a bad day for those involved, but with a 60% survival rate, pretty much all other commercial plane disasters have been much worse.
A perspective I’ve seen online is that it caused a globel fear of blimps in general, which lead to the abandonment of future blimp projects due to general public apprehension.
@@andrewbakker7640 Yes, but the question is why. There's been hundreds of worse accidents since Hindenburg. The runway incursion at Tenerife in 1977 is the worst of all time in every possible way. On Hindenburg, there were 62 survivors and 36 deaths. At Tenerife, there were 61 survivors and 583 deaths and those were two fully fueled 747s, so the fireball was enormous. If that had happened to two zeppelins, they would simply have bounced off each other like inflatable canoes in the river. There would've been a mess in the restaurant and people would certainly have spilled their Martinis, but there's no chance that anyone would've died at all, unless they choked on an olive or something.
The Hindenburg is actually a great success story, because even when the absolute worst thing imaginable happened, 60% survived.
@@jeschinstad idk then man Google it
I guess it's one of the greatest... By volume? And visuals.
@@s3dchr No, there are several bigger ones captured on camera. In Tenerife in 1977, two fully fueled 747s crashed on the runway. Much, much worse in every possible way and also more spctacular because it's a high speed collision with a following giantic fireball.
Good memories are attached to MB and the originals are much funnier than the German ones, who would have thought that.
50 metres back from the waters edge at high tide and no swiming late at night or early morning
Since heat and flames burn up quicker than down, would there be a significant enough time difference
So strange to hear them in english, "Why aren't they speaking Portuguese?"
Two thoughts (this far @16:50):
The dope was not "fresh", but had been subject to months of weather, and sunlight. Does this change the dope, making it more like termite? Does the altitude of flight have an impact on the exposure of sunlight.
Dihydrogen-oxide, H20. When a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is two to one, it will bang, as seen. But in a hydrogen rich mixture, as onboard the Hindenburg, it will not bang, but burn. Search _Hydrogen Pringles Can_ There will not be enough oxygen molecules (O2) available for a reaction with every present hydrogen atom (H). At which rate it will burn... I don't know.
Well we forget to calculate the heat from the surrounding burning material + the pressure that forces oxygen into the flame from a huge balloon that has a leak now
Oh, Grant.
We miss you, buddy.
powdered sugar, pool chlorine and light it with a sulphur match = low budget termite.
Could the availability of air might be a limiting factor? There was a storm and the ship falling down probably created additional draft…
The original story of the Hindenburg mentioned it was stormy. Did you try wetting it and applying static electricity? Isn't Iron Oxide supposed to be more dangerous when wet when in the presence of aluminum? Some of the descriptions also mentioned they were dropping 'water ballasts' as they were landing...so it sounds like they were dropping through wet air.
it wasnt lol idk where you got that info but this is like 15 years old lol
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Not saying you should go check it again NOW NOW NOW. Just curious.
The official reasons behind the fire are as follows:
1) Due to unfavorable climate conditions at the landing site, the Hindemburg had to make some turn arounds to wait for the storm to subside, during that time the captain made some very sharp ones and that movment snaped some of the cables holding the super structure together, them in turn broke one of the hydrogen containments.
2) In its final aproach the Hindemburg started to loose lift in its stern section and the crew was forced to constantly open the stern ballast in order to keep it stable enough, this means that the open hydrogen containment was evacuating the gas outside the ship wich means that the skin must have failed. Plus eyewitness report a heavy skin-ripple at the top of the stern section not long before the explosion.
3) The ignition happened when the "landing-ropes" touched the ground at the same time when it was raining. With the storm coming in static was all over the place and when the ropes got wet enough they made earth contact, that discharge fired up the hydrogen that was been venting all this time over the rupture at the stern and the entire ship burned into a crisp.
So one can say that it was captain error since the entire dissaster happened because he ordered very sharp turns that pushed the structure to the breaking point.
That's actually part of the original story. That the hydrogen ignited because of a spark due to the highly charged skin. When the Hindenburg dropped it's anchor ropes and they got wet the airship discharge it's massive amount of static electricity. However the cotton skin didn't discharge as quickly as the metal frame so a spark flew from the skin to the frame.
They were indeed dropping water ballast because they were tail heavy. This was because there was a hole in the hydrogen bladders there.
I find it very counterintuitive that many tests like this use an open flame rather than an electric charge. It is perhaps more important to investigate if the fabric could have been ignited with a static spark. In a 1997 Secrets of the Dead documentary, Addison Bain who first proposed the incendiary paint theory did ignite an old piece of Hindenburg fabric but he had to orient it such that the spark ran perpendicular to the outer cover and used a continuous electric current inconsistent with atmospheric conditions. Also, the fabric would have been wet during the minutes leading up to the fire. In other documentaries he just burned doped fabric with a match. All this does is indicate that the fabric is combustible and can burn with an intense smoky once exposed to a pre-existing fire, but not whether it could have created a catastrophic fire if the ship was filled with helium.
For the record he did write a book in 2014 where he tries to address some of the criticism and claimed the fire started behind the tail on the starboard side (only one witness testified this), and was burning for some 30 seconds before it was widely noticed and ignited the hydrogen. He even uses this Mythbusters documentary saying that the fire could burn faster because most of his critics were burning flat pieces of fabric rather than around a circular envelope. Again, this doesn't say much because their models were small-scale and quite curved compared to the full-scale ship where these areas would have been larger flat panels. I haven't read the whole book myself but other experts (historians like Dan Grossman and Patrick Russell) were unimpressed by his rebuttals.
They should have had a fan blowing on the Hindenburg models when testing to simulate wind speed. Would have made the burn times a lot faster. I feel like if they did this they could have achieved a burn time in under a minute as appose to the 2mins with the first model making the myth far more plausible.
Oh the mythanity!
Should have tried hydrogen without any paint on the skin for control.
That was my first thought too!
Kari's line, about putting dead birds in sexy laundrea😂😂😂😂
what watch is Adam using in 47:07
You make the prettiest noises?
Helium can extinguish fire, so even of the skin caused the fire, an airship filled with helium might not have burned at all.
The hydrogen escaped and burned high above of wreck. The solid materials and fuel caused all injuries. Hydrogen fire injuries are extreme rare.
Who would have thought that all that highly flammable hydrogen was a contributing factor to the Hindenberg disaster?
A blimp 1:01
The only myth here was how the retired NASA dude got his job in the first place.
I do still think they should have built a hydrogen-filled model without the thermite dope-of course the hydrogen burns, but would it have burned less aggressively with a less flammable coating?
why did the Hindenburg burn and not explode?
Maybe because there was not enough supply of oxygen from the atmosphere to make the huge amount of hydrogen burn violently. That amount of hydrogen couldn't mix fast enough with the oxygen of the atmosphere to make an explosion. That's my guess.
@@kgeorgejuniorbullshit
Because the inside was filled with pure hydrogen not a hydrogen+air mixture so it could only burn on the surface where it was on contact with outside air.
was the coating inside considered aswell?
Just to clarify, how to avoid a Croc:
Stay away from areas where there are crocs.
If you see a croc, just run the f*ck away.
You're welcome.
Oh the humanity!
I can't believe they over looked that the hindenburg started from bottom to top a fire spreads a lot faster from bottom to top rather then top to bottom
Still didn’t matter 😂, it clearly showed that it was the hydrogen + the skin and not just the skin
@MrMonkey2475 ik but isn't their thing isbto build their simulation as accurate as possible
@@dixoncider186 easily overlooked and as long as it doesn’t effect the results it’s fine
Well, to be fair, they also didn’t account for all of the myth. The myth was that the skin had a lot to do with the burning, and they only tested that the hydrogen had to do with the burn. Full control should have been with hydrogen + the uncoated skin. Or something similar to that.
Why not test the original mixture when one used busted the myth by definition?
You had Tory playing with a Aussie Freshy, We literally go swimming with them. Put a Aussie 18-20ft salty in there and see what aggressive and quick striking is...
our saltwater crocs are our northern deterrent. Thats why in WW2 the japanese only tried air attacks. If they sent ships they'd all be sunk by the wildlife long before they reached shore
27:14 [Kari screams] Crocodile Guy: "You make the prettiest noises."
Whoa! Dude! Who the **** is that guy? Is he in jail now? On a watchlist? On the run and wanted for questioning in relation to the disappearances of women in Florida? Jesus!
LMAO, IKR. How creepy was that guy?
You think that deserves jail time? Lmao
are you "r-worded"@@TunaIRL
@@boccatxrx5023 What? Why would I be retarded for asking that? Do you think he should be in jail or?
yeah it was a bit creepy
Could have named it the Hynenburg
The Third Blimpse...
Mythbuster's Job Description: "Putting dead birds in sexy lingerie. And choosing the least likely lingerie to come apart while being chewed."
And the Hindenburg disaster is truly "BURNED" into our minds
Sorry to soon still
But you didn't go full scale on the hindenburg 😅
A crocodile is not going to waste energy chasing around it's a ambush predator
"They're crazy enough to let us try the rig on some crocs"
Also the croc farm employees when Kari screams "You make the prettiest noises"
those are trained crocodiles/aligators.
You can't compare them to wild ones.
and of course the Hindenburg was well done because of the hydrogen AND the skin.
They only told it was the skin. Now ask yourself why only the skin?
Logical that they lied. Who is gonna put that kind of stuff in there. Idiotic tbh
Id the skeleton was steel, this could have rusted in parts to give a source of iron oxide, leading to a blend of materials closer to a stoichiometric mix of fuel (aluminium) and oxidiser (iron oxide)
The skeleton of the Hindenburg was aluminium, not steel.
14:41 red as blood, what orange is he talking about
I’ve never heard the zig zag myth with crocodiles. I have heard it for bears though because they’re so top heavy.
I'M SORRY. AT 27:18 WHEN THE CROC GUY SAYS "YOU MAKE THE PRETTIEST NOISES" MY MAN. NO
made my fight or flight response go wild lollll. Creepy af
Weird to hear it with the wrong narrator... 😄
15:59 Adam created a literal of hydrogen bomb
I want to know what blur and blur are.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
@@7uring Of course. Thank you.
Deez and nutz
@@christianellegaard7120 No, they showed clearly what thermite is, a mix of powdered iron oxide and aluminium powder. It's the liquid ignition mix they blurred out. My guess is that it's potassium permanganate mixed with glycerol.
@@mytube001 It says that potassium permanganate and glycerol or ethylene glycol are one of the ways of lighting thermites on the wikipedia page.
at the end they did not do a version without aluminum, so we don't know if the thermite reaction contributed to the speed of burning
New myth if you can poor salt on a cheetahs tail you can catch it easily. 😂 the salt makes them calm.
love the show, but god these myths are sooo dumb...
10:08 One of the worst scenes ever for me. That was'nt nice. That was so......can't find any more word for that. *hate* Had to skip that.....
29:48 I think that crocodile think "Why should I give you any response? You taped my mouth!"
In my opinion, this show is a time capsule because it shows us how technology has developed over the years. what a great show why they didn't make stuff like this. PATHETIC.....😢😢😢
Guys? Why should a croc chase its pray, when he has his mouth taped together? ...
The extra weight = extra hydrogen pressure, for size will change combustibles
I miss Grants laugh :(
They always light it from the top. Flames rise so even with the first 2 tests if you were to light it from the bottom it would burn much faster.
Exactly what I thought
A more interesting experiment would be to test what caused the ignition. In the original footage too many frames are missing...
The modern theory is the guide ropes for laid in the mud, sucking up water, which then allowed them to act as grounding rods for lightning, zap crackle BOOM
@@magoshighlands4074 yes sure,
but my point is where are those missing frames from the original footage
Why didn't the Hindenburg's hydrogen explode like Adam's box?
Because the Hindenburg was filled only with Hydrogen and not a box filled with air and hydrogen, creating an explosive mixture.
croc doesnt run fast they jump, the croc myth make my head hurt see this
Crocs DO run, but they are a lazy species of animal. They can run really fast if they really wanted you in their maw. Problem is that these crocs in this are mostly fed and full, giving them no incentive to go at an alarming speed.
35:26 he says that here
Juggling dead birds Lmao!!