Jamie had one of those "Is this real life" moments for sure. To me, it's moments like that which made the show genuinely enjoyable to watch. Especially when in later episodes you saw Jamie really come out of his shell if you will!
I think this is BY FAR my favorite special. Mostly because i loved that eyepatch myth so much i used to do it when i was younger because that stupid adjustment your eyes make after being outside, because our main room in our house was somewhat dimly lit so it's useful!
Fun fact.. The Vasa museum in Sweden tested a real naval gun (with a lot bigger caliber than this measly 6 pounder) to see what it would do to a ships hull. The result- a LOT of very very big very very lethal splinters. Jamies last works is bang on target. They need a bigger cannon.
The different wasnt only the gun, a 24 pounder with an as historically accurate as possible load, but they also accurately replicated a hull section of the Vasa and a hit especially on the vertical supports created enormous deadly splinters that definetly could maim or kill you. Also they seem to ignore that large splinter smashing into the pigs at 1:32:50, that looks like it would cause some blunt trauma.
I agree, it has been done several times in Europe,i have seen at least 2 british versions ,they had the same result as vasa,but i get a feeling that in US they are not really used to seeing all these old ships and cannons, as we at least in northern europe are, in most old cities here there are old cannons on display by castles,harbours,old war memorials, they are just commond to see when you walked around...here in copenhagen the war museum has a row of old cannon barrel as both display and sort of decoration that lies outside in the length of the whole building, inside there are more,showing the development through time up til modern granate launchers, and there are a lot of time and versions between the cannons in pirates heydays in 16-1700 ,and untill the more modern versions from 1800-something,most of the old ones are shorter, uses bigger cannon balls and are considerable heavier than these later versions like those used in 1840,and they are not made to being moved over big distance,it took 4-6 men just to pull a ship cannon back ,load it and get in in place to be fired again. and i think they might have missed what splinters in this case is,it is not those little things,although they were great at causeing infected wounds,but splinters is whole and halv boardsize pieces that hit people with so much force their bones were crushed or they caused internal bleeding,. the pigs got hit in the heads by the board and even in the test inside it wasnt mentioned that halv of the board was blown of though it caused the kevlar vest to be shot out of place. i love mythbusters and i think they did a very goog job but comparing this little cannon to the old ship cannons is in some cases like comparing a beetle to a train,it is not in the same kind of force.
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec they shot a cannon but the ball bounced over their backstop and hit someones house far away. no one was hurt but it did some damage.
THANKS! That question really bugged me after seeing them lose a ball here! Yes, that infamous cannonball accidentally going into civilization from a believed safe bomb range (one used by the show alone 100 times by then) was a really big deal, got a lot of negative publicity. Discovery and the producers and the hosts all had public meetings and press announcements to reassure the public near the facility how they learned from whatever mistakes. And promised to fix the house with quite the visible hole. Hearing Adam and Jamie talk about in clips is really interesting, it was obviously quite the experience. And can you imagine how it felt for everyone at the time? Pretty sure you could look it up in some of their show retrospectives and definitely in old newspapers.
The eye patch one is so real that was used by the military during WW2 in the navy, German submariners had a special night glasses(Auer Uboat Glasses) for the watch crewman that had the night shift. Instead of blocking one eye and only having one with night vision, this glasses had a red film that dimmed the light a lot like sunglasses so the crew could walk inside the submarine with normal light and still have the night vision intact. Plus NAVY ships and submarines used red lights for this purpose too.
having depth perception in a boarding fight is much more important than a bit of night vision, especially when lanterns exist. having the red light for night vision works in modern times because nobody is gonna be swinging a cutlass, and also because it affects both eyes. pirates typically only wore eyepatches when in public to cover an eye wound.
My old semi truck had red lights inside the cab, they were amazing for driving at night because you could still see perfectly through the windshield but it also kept me awake
Drachinifel, the best maritime history channel on UA-cam has addressed wood splinters in several videos and Q&As. A ball going through a ship will only take out what is directly in it's path, splinters cause more casualties. It's documented in RN after action reports and accounts from participants in battles. Ships of the Line had wooden sides over a foot thick, a hit produced much more splintering and a 32 pound ball would do much more damage, a 6 pounder is a toy in naval terms. Apparently Mahogany is the worst wood for splinters. Pirates hardly ever had gun battles,
I think they should recreate these tests with a real 32 pounder and a one foot + thick slab of mahogany. Yeah, I know the shows been over for years, but still. Would like to see that
@@silentdrew7636 It depended, usually not because they liked faster, smaller ships which could not carry that big a gun, but they would use whatever they could manage to capture.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it was pretty silly to penetrate 4 carcasses with one cannonball and "thus the cannonball is more deadly". Wasn't the point of the original myth at all. The chance of getting hit with shrapnel was far higher than the chance of getting hit with the actual cannonball. If you take the internal volume of any deck, the only a small percentage is made up of pirate. By the way, look at that large piece of wood dislodging as well... looks plenty deadly to me. So yeah, I totally buy the myth.
If you wake up in the middle of the night and need to get a drink from the fridge. Close one eye before you open the fridge and keep it closed. Once you have your drink, close the fridge and open your closed eye. You'll be able to see fine and easily make your way back to bed without tripping over
I just watched a video on Adams site where he stated you could tell Jamie's head would turn bright red when he was trying not to laugh.... The intro to this proves the point.
"The first would be blood. The second would be sweat. The third would be something found on the ship... which would be pitch" Oh phew. I thought he was going to say seamen.
Although Adam mentions it at one point I feel the cannonball myth is off in concept, the ball will always have a higher chance of outright killing someone but the way splinters would have killed more was through infection and the terrible medical treatments of the time, it's the heart of the myth but still fun to see shooting cannons and all the pirate fun they clearly had making this episode.
At 46:08 For a second you can see a green hull paddle wheeled tugboat. That's the Eppleton Hall. The last River Tyne/ Newcastle paddle wheel tugboat in the world. That was sailed from Newcastle, UK, across the Atlantic Ocean to San Fransisco.
50:55 idk why but that whole interaction of Jamie asking Adam if he can jungle the 6 pound cannon balls has the same energy how of a kid asks his dad to do a magic trick or maybe how u ask a sibbling if they can do somthin kool and thier like "bet" and u secretly hope they actually do
The cannon ball is - about 4 inches in diameter? The splinter blast is about 4 feet in diameter. The likelyhood of being hit by the ball is 1/144 of being hit by a splinter. So even with only 1% likelyhood of a splinter hitting something vital, like an artery, the splinters are STILL more dangerous than the ball itself.
Except the ball hitting people, as long as there is a line of contact it will just go through and kill all of them. The splinters we saw was like, one in one person's leg maybe if they were right there. The odds of a splinter hitting you are low, the odds of it hitting something vital are less than the odds of just...being hit by the ball itself in actuality.
@@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608 cannons are different sizes and different power, cannonballs are also different sizes, those pig carcasses likely have tougher skin than we do, many people got messed up by splinters on ships
Looking at the shrapnel content, it reminds me of a history documentary I saw a few years ago where old ships were sometimes painted red inside where the cannons were operated. The reason for this was to help prevent morale dropping by mask the blood splatter that would get on the walls from crew getting injured by shrapnel and enemy cannon balls.
The “slide down the sail” trope was made up by early Hollywood icon Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his movie “The Black Pirate” in 1926. The secret behind the effect was that the sails were pre-cut, and as Fairbanks made his descent, he didn’t descend at a perfect 90 degree angle. Rather, he was attached to a cable, hidden behind the sail (leaning on a much more obtuse angle), with a propeller plane engine working outside of the camera shot; to create the illusion of the sails blowing in the wind.
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51:11 When I was a kid, we toured a civil war era fort, that had cannons and stacks of cannon balls… They said I could pick up one… only I couldn’t move the cannon ball a bit… and was convinced it was because they were that heavy… It was several years before I learned the stacks of cannon balls were welded together so as to not roll apart.
The canon Mynthe is happent in real life in Denmark. So plausible. Ther is a video with a reproduction of it if you look for Live Kanon-Test mod Fregatten Jylland skibsside hos Hærens Kampskole. 😊
I loved these when they aired! This jumped out at me, though: 6:15 "pirates weren't choosy about what their ships were made of..." Um. Didn't pirates *steal* their ships? Or were regular sailors/etc who took over their existing ships? Or regular captains & whatnot with letters of marque that let them "legally" pillage enemy nations' ships? Pirates didn't have any choice about their ship's materials, right?
A 6-pound shot can hardly be called a typical shot for naval craft. An 18-pound shot would be considered to be a light shot. 24 pound or 30 pound would be a lot more typical.
Actually a 6 pound shot was very common on ships at the time. Heavy cannons didn't really come until the 18th century. Usually you wanted to capture an enemy ship, not destroy it and this goes doubly so for pirates. Heavy cannons also require a well trained crew and a lot of resources to use which of course pirates don't have and during the 17th century most governments didn't have either. It's just that most 17th century ships haven't survived until the modern age. During the 18th century centralized kingdoms in Europe were a lot stronger and could afford to build and man large fleets with ship destroying cannons.
The most commonly used naval artillery for pirates (and in the colonies as a whole) was 2pd to 6pd guns. Navy vessels mounted larger guns, especially during the 18th century (which doesn‘t really overlap with the age of piracy), but pirate ships usually went without firing a single shot at an enemies hull. They preferred to scare their enemies into submission.
@@MrMarinus18 But they said the myth is that more pirates died from shrapnel than cannon shoots. So that means we are shooting at the pirates in this scneario instead of pirates shooting at others.And it would make sense for a military ship to have the heavy cannons. Plus they would have less qualms about sinking pirate ships.
@@besserwizard Usually they did fire stuff at the enemy but very small cannons or even just musket fire. Just having a lot of stuff coming at you is very frightening.
@@pandy3848 usually pirate ships were THEIR ships. Ships were just very expensive before the industrial revolution. Even in the 18th century most nations only had a handful of ships-of-the-line with heavy guns that could destroy other warships. The first to build up a large fleet of them were the British which they used to great effect during the Napoleonic wars. But the battles you see in the movies of massive fleets with big cannons tearing each other to pieces was not how naval warfare was. Ships with heavy guns like that weren't around until the 18th century and even then not many.
I came here to say the same thing. You can see it clearly in the clip that it is at an angle. If they tried it that way, it would have had a better chance of working. But I suppose real sails on real ships aren't at an angle, so maybe that's why they did it that way, but I don't know.
A lot of TV shows use videogame tracks. I remember of a episode of Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson using Mass Effect "Galactic Map" ost and some old History documentaries using Comand & Conquer and Age of Empires sound effects.
Sails aren't always vertical. Even in the animation, the sails weren't vertical. If you're sliding down a bulging sail, a knife might slow you, and a handle might make it easier to navigate.
So poor Sloth would have fallen and crushed Chunk to death in The Goonies by doing the sail gag?. I still love the hey you guys scene and the actual film though.
The eyepatch thing makes a lot of sense. They had wooden ships and only fire as artifical light, so lighting would be minimal and optimizing nightvision would be worth it.
RIGHT?! I was so worried he was going to end up slicing his arms open, or that the knife was going to flip back upon landing and get him in the face. I'm really surprised they went ahead with it.
The fact adams test was set back due to sweat. Something that's free. We all naturally produce. The fact he couldn't work hard enough to sweat through his clothes. And he just said. Screw it lol. Amazing
I do like the eye patch reveal ;p...for boarding, pillaging and swashbuckilng lower decks on prey ships! nicely done=impressive, most impressive, which truly leads into the rum cleaning laundry! Pirates were function over fashion clearly so, grain of salt!...:$
As noted below - the answer to the splinter question is already known from records of the time. Protective netting was often put up on ship decks before a battle to lessen the effect of wood shrapnel.
ships with cannons were never pine....they were made of layers of oak....more like plywood (crossing grains)....many of the shots that even bounced off the hull, still spauled splinters.
I'm just noticing this, but when they were testing the knife through a sail myth, were they also testing the Christmas tree myth in the back for the build team?
17:08 They should have tested the wood splintering wet instead of dry, seeing as Pirate ships had water soaked wood. I imagine the splintering would be heavily mitigated.
The sail trick to work it needs the sail to be at an angle,as it is when full with air. The way they test it is like a wall. And yes,it is doable,even without a knife/destroying the sail.
57:09 more than a decade late but someone tell Tori that you’re supposed to clamp handles with a piece of cloth,leather, or softer wood between the project and the jaws to prevent damaging the detail work.
My question of using dead pigs was always, the skin would be cold and harden up making it harder for splinters to penetrate. Compared to wam skin it would be softer and easier for splinters to go through. Thinking about how easily we get tiny wood splits in our hands, if it was like that pig skin it woulnd't happen would it?
I dont think so, the main problem with this mith is the wood splinter have a very low mass so even with a less dense skin the splinter would not have enough energy transfer to even go through the pirate canvas clothes.
i dont get the cannon thing. where is the 'myth'?. just read any action reports from Trafalgar, loads of evidence for lethality of splinters. Shrapnel refers specifically to a type of artillery shell designed by Henry Shrapnel, which contained small projectiles (often lead or steel balls) embedded in a casing. When the shell exploded, the casing would break apart, releasing the projectiles in a cone-shaped pattern intended to inflict casualties on enemy troops. While wooden splinters from ships damaged during the age of sail could certainly cause injuries akin to shrapnel wounds, it's not accurate to refer to them as shrapnel. Shrapnel has a specific historical and technical meaning related to the design of artillery shells, whereas wooden splinters from ships are a different phenomenon altogether.
About the only real difference is there's a century of naval development between the Golden Age of Piracy and Trafalgar. But I do agree that there isn't really a myth here, it's a pretty well documented case of injuries from splinter shrapnel, only using the term for the sake of simplicity .
I think they mistook the accounts of lethal splintering coming from thinner sided and less armed pirate acquired vessels when in fact they came mostly from the thicker and more heavily armed naval vessels.
Hmm I think the sail myth doesn’t work on a straight up and down sail. It miiiiiight only work if it’s a taught sail that you jump in to, turning it into a sliding fall with the help of a knife to slow you down or control the fall
Definitely. The sail out in open water won't be at 90-degree but on an arc due to air blowing on it. so yeah you'll be riding on it rather than on free fall at least until you are a few feet from the ground. And a dull knife would be more accurate.
You're missing a myth. An alternate explanation for the eye patch is navigation. Regular sun shots could eventually ruin vision. Knowing that, sailors would only expose one eye to loss, but that eye was at considerable risk.
i see one problem with the cannon ball test, the wood's density isn't anywhere near what it used to be, so being much "softer" would take away a large portian energy and also reduce the splinters as well. This is only in my mind i may not be correct
Yea that whit the canon is not busted. We have the reports from the medics of that time there is no need to doubt. Such tests can not be scalled down. The beams would also be stressed from the weight the contortion and the twisting coming from the ships movment.
i always thought the myth about splinters causing more death than the actual cannon was due to infection. I didn't think it meant immediately. I always thought it meant they died from infection after getting a bunch of small wounds from the splinters.
Did the aim through the boards between the beams back in the day? I’m thinking of the beams would have more splintering and wouldn’t just be a clean hole like the boards would be.
I love to see Jamie genuinely laughing at Adam’s jokes
I think that's because Adam's "pirate voice" is very funny XD
Jamie had one of those "Is this real life" moments for sure. To me, it's moments like that which made the show genuinely enjoyable to watch. Especially when in later episodes you saw Jamie really come out of his shell if you will!
Are you sure it's genuine... Do you know him?😅
I scrolled down to comment that. I'm pretty sure that's the most exuberantly Jamie has ever laughed on the show. xD
@@leandervr in Chicken Gun you also see Jamie crack a rare smile when his 7-up robot was yeeting cans at a wall!
38:28 I love how her expression goes from excited/happy to immediately unsure and grossed out XD
38:29 The way Kari's smile instantly went away is funny.
38:28 Kari's face 🤣🤣🤣, just completely dropped smile the second Adam said stale urine, hahahahahaha
😀 to 😶 real fast
I think this is BY FAR my favorite special. Mostly because i loved that eyepatch myth so much i used to do it when i was younger because that stupid adjustment your eyes make after being outside, because our main room in our house was somewhat dimly lit so it's useful!
I do it sometimes when I get up in the middle of the night - it works so well!
It's great to see good old team again! Including Grant Imahara, rest in peace.
Grant died?
@@MrJimheeren sadly, but yes.
@@MrJimheeren yeah he died to a brain aneurysm in 2020
@@retrosquadchannel2.050
Absolutely awful and so unfair for us all and most importantly his family.
Fun fact.. The Vasa museum in Sweden tested a real naval gun (with a lot bigger caliber than this measly 6 pounder) to see what it would do to a ships hull. The result- a LOT of very very big very very lethal splinters. Jamies last works is bang on target. They need a bigger cannon.
How big is a real naval gun?
The different wasnt only the gun, a 24 pounder with an as historically accurate as possible load, but they also accurately replicated a hull section of the Vasa and a hit especially on the vertical supports created enormous deadly splinters that definetly could maim or kill you. Also they seem to ignore that large splinter smashing into the pigs at 1:32:50, that looks like it would cause some blunt trauma.
I agree, it has been done several times in Europe,i have seen at least 2 british versions ,they had the same result as vasa,but i get a feeling that in US they are not really used to seeing all these old ships and cannons, as we at least in northern europe are, in most old cities here there are old cannons on display by castles,harbours,old war memorials, they are just commond to see when you walked around...here in copenhagen the war museum has a row of old cannon barrel as both display and sort of decoration that lies outside in the length of the whole building, inside there are more,showing the development through time up til modern granate launchers, and there are a lot of time and versions between the cannons in pirates heydays in 16-1700 ,and untill the more modern versions from 1800-something,most of the old ones are shorter, uses bigger cannon balls and are considerable heavier than these later versions like those used in 1840,and they are not made to being moved over big distance,it took 4-6 men just to pull a ship cannon back ,load it and get in in place to be fired again.
and i think they might have missed what splinters in this case is,it is not those little things,although they were great at causeing infected wounds,but splinters is whole and halv boardsize pieces that hit people with so much force their bones were crushed or they caused internal bleeding,. the pigs got hit in the heads by the board and even in the test inside it wasnt mentioned that halv of the board was blown of though it caused the kevlar vest to be shot out of place.
i love mythbusters and i think they did a very goog job but comparing this little cannon to the old ship cannons is in some cases like comparing a beetle to a train,it is not in the same kind of force.
Much bigger.
@@stevo6812 pounder, smaller ones, larger ones 32 pounders, this is ships from the age of sail gally could have 60 to a 100 pounders.
In case anyone is wondering this is NOT the episode that caused the cannonball accident. That one is episode s10e19 titled "cannonball chemistry".
What incident
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec they shot a cannon but the ball bounced over their backstop and hit someones house far away. no one was hurt but it did some damage.
I WAS wondering! Thnx.
THANKS! That question really bugged me after seeing them lose a ball here! Yes, that infamous cannonball accidentally going into civilization from a believed safe bomb range (one used by the show alone 100 times by then) was a really big deal, got a lot of negative publicity. Discovery and the producers and the hosts all had public meetings and press announcements to reassure the public near the facility how they learned from whatever mistakes. And promised to fix the house with quite the visible hole.
Hearing Adam and Jamie talk about in clips is really interesting, it was obviously quite the experience. And can you imagine how it felt for everyone at the time? Pretty sure you could look it up in some of their show retrospectives and definitely in old newspapers.
I remember hearing that on the news back in the day. and a few other times :-p
No way he cooked piss indoors 😭💀
"biggest danger is a body part hitting another body part"
I'd be scared of Tori stabbing himself honestly haha
Looks like they stuck something on the pointy end to prevent that.
18:33 that high-speed shot is so funny!!🤣🤣🤣
The sound effect is killing me 😂😂
The eye patch one is so real that was used by the military during WW2 in the navy, German submariners had a special night glasses(Auer Uboat Glasses) for the watch crewman that had the night shift.
Instead of blocking one eye and only having one with night vision, this glasses had a red film that dimmed the light a lot like sunglasses so the crew could walk inside the submarine with normal light and still have the night vision intact.
Plus NAVY ships and submarines used red lights for this purpose too.
having depth perception in a boarding fight is much more important than a bit of night vision, especially when lanterns exist. having the red light for night vision works in modern times because nobody is gonna be swinging a cutlass, and also because it affects both eyes. pirates typically only wore eyepatches when in public to cover an eye wound.
My old semi truck had red lights inside the cab, they were amazing for driving at night because you could still see perfectly through the windshield but it also kept me awake
Drachinifel, the best maritime history channel on UA-cam has addressed wood splinters in several videos and Q&As. A ball going through a ship will only take out what is directly in it's path, splinters cause more casualties.
It's documented in RN after action reports and accounts from participants in battles.
Ships of the Line had wooden sides over a foot thick, a hit produced much more splintering and a 32 pound ball would do much more damage, a 6 pounder is a toy in naval terms.
Apparently Mahogany is the worst wood for splinters.
Pirates hardly ever had gun battles,
I think they should recreate these tests with a real 32 pounder and a one foot + thick slab of mahogany. Yeah, I know the shows been over for years, but still. Would like to see that
Did pirate ships have 32 pounders?
@@silentdrew7636Some might have. Pirates would use whatever they could get their hands on
@@silentdrew7636 It depended, usually not because they liked faster, smaller ships which could not carry that big a gun, but they would use whatever they could manage to capture.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it was pretty silly to penetrate 4 carcasses with one cannonball and "thus the cannonball is more deadly". Wasn't the point of the original myth at all. The chance of getting hit with shrapnel was far higher than the chance of getting hit with the actual cannonball. If you take the internal volume of any deck, the only a small percentage is made up of pirate.
By the way, look at that large piece of wood dislodging as well... looks plenty deadly to me. So yeah, I totally buy the myth.
This is such a blast from the past. I had this episode downloaded on my iPod Classic back in the day! I think I’ve seen it fifty times.
If you wake up in the middle of the night and need to get a drink from the fridge. Close one eye before you open the fridge and keep it closed. Once you have your drink, close the fridge and open your closed eye. You'll be able to see fine and easily make your way back to bed without tripping over
I close one eye when hanging up the washing outside, in the noon sun, otherwise, once you go back inside, the house is so dark
I just turn my lights on like a normal person lmao.
@@AnNatie Lol. You might anger the other half that way XD
when im half asleep i can only open my left eye, its not even on purpose, but its handy
Ya...I just know the layout of my house. I can walk around it with my eyes closed lol
9:30 the eye doctor 😂
I just watched a video on Adams site where he stated you could tell Jamie's head would turn bright red when he was trying not to laugh.... The intro to this proves the point.
Thanks for uploading these episodes!! Keep them coming please 🙏😊❤️
"The first would be blood. The second would be sweat. The third would be something found on the ship... which would be pitch"
Oh phew. I thought he was going to say seamen.
I mean, pirates WERE historically gay lol
@@ob2kenobi388 Any port in a storm, I suppose.
@@Bobal27
Moreso they were already breaking hundreds of laws so nobody cared if you broke one more lol. Hell, the pirates even had gay marriage!
imagine your boss firing a half inch ball at a cast of your face 😂😂
"Friends for 10 years but no, he's gonna shoot me with a cannon"
it was a 2 inch ball
I'm laughing at Adam's pirate expressions.
Adam sounds more like Macho Man Randy Savage , kills me every Time 🤣
Thanks. Now I cannot unhear that uncanny vocal resemblance 🤣
Tori free-falling with the knife that popped out of the sail made me so nervous.
Although Adam mentions it at one point I feel the cannonball myth is off in concept, the ball will always have a higher chance of outright killing someone but the way splinters would have killed more was through infection and the terrible medical treatments of the time, it's the heart of the myth but still fun to see shooting cannons and all the pirate fun they clearly had making this episode.
The oaks would be more primarily dangerous, but those pine splinters would fuck you up slowly which is just worse.
If the pirates said they used it for cleaning, it may have been to stock extra on the ship or explain a larger than expected consumption.
1:11:19 haha each of their individual reactions here are so good
Just that casual amazing juggling lol
This was my favorite episode as a child I'm so happy to see this again ❤❤❤
At 46:08 For a second you can see a green hull paddle wheeled tugboat. That's the Eppleton Hall. The last River Tyne/ Newcastle paddle wheel tugboat in the world. That was sailed from Newcastle, UK, across the Atlantic Ocean to San Fransisco.
On a calm day, no doubt. /s Man, whoever sailed that across the ocean had balls of steel.
@@MrAntipaganda that’s geordies for you
50:55 idk why but that whole interaction of Jamie asking Adam if he can jungle the 6 pound cannon balls has the same energy how of a kid asks his dad to do a magic trick or maybe how u ask a sibbling if they can do somthin kool and thier like "bet" and u secretly hope they actually do
This is amazingly helpful when driving at night, against the insanely bright headlights of many vehicles.
the show has to be open to all to see. science on its best!
Rip grant, miss the bro
❤😊
18:24 ‘You think it went all the way through his face’ Jamie- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I haven’t laughed so hard in a while
The cannon ball is - about 4 inches in diameter? The splinter blast is about 4 feet in diameter. The likelyhood of being hit by the ball is 1/144 of being hit by a splinter. So even with only 1% likelyhood of a splinter hitting something vital, like an artery, the splinters are STILL more dangerous than the ball itself.
Except the ball hitting people, as long as there is a line of contact it will just go through and kill all of them.
The splinters we saw was like, one in one person's leg maybe if they were right there. The odds of a splinter hitting you are low, the odds of it hitting something vital are less than the odds of just...being hit by the ball itself in actuality.
I think the infection after being hit by a splinter accounted for most of the fatality.
@@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608 cannons are different sizes and different power, cannonballs are also different sizes, those pig carcasses likely have tougher skin than we do, many people got messed up by splinters on ships
Looking at the shrapnel content, it reminds me of a history documentary I saw a few years ago where old ships were sometimes painted red inside where the cannons were operated. The reason for this was to help prevent morale dropping by mask the blood splatter that would get on the walls from crew getting injured by shrapnel and enemy cannon balls.
The “slide down the sail” trope was made up by early Hollywood icon Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his movie “The Black Pirate” in 1926.
The secret behind the effect was that the sails were pre-cut, and as Fairbanks made his descent, he didn’t descend at a perfect 90 degree angle. Rather, he was attached to a cable, hidden behind the sail (leaning on a much more obtuse angle), with a propeller plane engine working outside of the camera shot; to create the illusion of the sails blowing in the wind.
cool thing is those splinters would be a great risk to the eyes, BUT the other myth tests suggested they might have an eyepatch on
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The velocity of the cannon balls reaching the ship opponent would be far slower than 400 miles an hour.
No, they would be much faster…
51:11 When I was a kid, we toured a civil war era fort, that had cannons and stacks of cannon balls…
They said I could pick up one… only I couldn’t move the cannon ball a bit… and was convinced it was because they were that heavy…
It was several years before I learned the stacks of cannon balls were welded together so as to not roll apart.
It’d be funny if you just picked up the whole stack lmao
The canon Mynthe is happent in real life in Denmark. So plausible. Ther is a video with a reproduction of it if you look for Live Kanon-Test mod Fregatten Jylland skibsside hos Hærens Kampskole. 😊
I loved these when they aired! This jumped out at me, though: 6:15 "pirates weren't choosy about what their ships were made of..." Um. Didn't pirates *steal* their ships? Or were regular sailors/etc who took over their existing ships? Or regular captains & whatnot with letters of marque that let them "legally" pillage enemy nations' ships? Pirates didn't have any choice about their ship's materials, right?
A 6-pound shot can hardly be called a typical shot for naval craft. An 18-pound shot would be considered to be a light shot. 24 pound or 30 pound would be a lot more typical.
Actually a 6 pound shot was very common on ships at the time. Heavy cannons didn't really come until the 18th century. Usually you wanted to capture an enemy ship, not destroy it and this goes doubly so for pirates. Heavy cannons also require a well trained crew and a lot of resources to use which of course pirates don't have and during the 17th century most governments didn't have either. It's just that most 17th century ships haven't survived until the modern age. During the 18th century centralized kingdoms in Europe were a lot stronger and could afford to build and man large fleets with ship destroying cannons.
The most commonly used naval artillery for pirates (and in the colonies as a whole) was 2pd to 6pd guns. Navy vessels mounted larger guns, especially during the 18th century (which doesn‘t really overlap with the age of piracy), but pirate ships usually went without firing a single shot at an enemies hull. They preferred to scare their enemies into submission.
@@MrMarinus18 But they said the myth is that more pirates died from shrapnel than cannon shoots. So that means we are shooting at the pirates in this scneario instead of pirates shooting at others.And it would make sense for a military ship to have the heavy cannons. Plus they would have less qualms about sinking pirate ships.
@@besserwizard Usually they did fire stuff at the enemy but very small cannons or even just musket fire. Just having a lot of stuff coming at you is very frightening.
@@pandy3848 usually pirate ships were THEIR ships. Ships were just very expensive before the industrial revolution. Even in the 18th century most nations only had a handful of ships-of-the-line with heavy guns that could destroy other warships. The first to build up a large fleet of them were the British which they used to great effect during the Napoleonic wars.
But the battles you see in the movies of massive fleets with big cannons tearing each other to pieces was not how naval warfare was. Ships with heavy guns like that weren't around until the 18th century and even then not many.
Doug Fairbanks Jr, used to shoot these sail sliding stunts at an angle so he could make the fall but land safely.
I came here to say the same thing.
You can see it clearly in the clip that it is at an angle.
If they tried it that way, it would have had a better chance of working. But I suppose real sails on real ships aren't at an angle, so maybe that's why they did it that way, but I don't know.
@@ambulocetusnatans Sometimes sails are at an angle. Like the jib! They shoulda tried the angle.
@@MrAntipaganda Thanks, it seems the Mythbusters didn't know that either, so I'm not *too* embarrassed by my ignorance on this subject.
Whatever people say I just love how Adam can make Jaimie laugh
The fact that they used the banjo music from the original tower defense game ”madness” is wild
A lot of TV shows use videogame tracks.
I remember of a episode of Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson using Mass Effect "Galactic Map" ost and some old History documentaries using Comand & Conquer and Age of Empires sound effects.
The 17:40 eyepatch 9n the ballistic head was drawn backwards and worked great 😂
Adam sounds more like an Ork from 40k lol
when adam talks like a pirate, he more likely sounds like big smoke
Sails aren't always vertical. Even in the animation, the sails weren't vertical. If you're sliding down a bulging sail, a knife might slow you, and a handle might make it easier to navigate.
So poor Sloth would have fallen and crushed Chunk to death in The Goonies by doing the sail gag?.
I still love the hey you guys scene and the actual film though.
1:06:48 Put an eye patch to the 3rd one, that thing makes me recall jeeper creepers
using gloves for oranges but not blood is next level
The eyepatch thing makes a lot of sense. They had wooden ships and only fire as artifical light, so lighting would be minimal and optimizing nightvision would be worth it.
Dude this is like one of my favorite shows
10:41 anybody know the musik or the instrument/synthesizer used for that background sound ?
That knife test was so dangerous. So much could go wrong.
RIGHT?! I was so worried he was going to end up slicing his arms open, or that the knife was going to flip back upon landing and get him in the face. I'm really surprised they went ahead with it.
The fact adams test was set back due to sweat. Something that's free. We all naturally produce. The fact he couldn't work hard enough to sweat through his clothes. And he just said. Screw it lol. Amazing
1:05:05 I know they're probably a safe distance away but I still think it's funny that they aim the air cannon directly at the city.
I’m sure the Mythbuster will always have excellent luck with cannons after this episode
I do like the eye patch reveal ;p...for boarding, pillaging and swashbuckilng lower decks on prey ships! nicely done=impressive, most impressive, which truly leads into the rum cleaning laundry! Pirates were function over fashion clearly so, grain of salt!...:$
Okay that Rube Goldberg was out of control🎉🎉🎉
I hope I'm not the only one that was turned on by Adam juggling those cannon balls😅
0:47 what sort of gravity-defying rum is Jamie drinking??
As noted below - the answer to the splinter question is already known from records of the time. Protective netting was often put up on ship decks before a battle to lessen the effect of wood shrapnel.
😂😂😂 i laughed my socks off so much during this fantastic MythBusters episode, wicked 😈
Kari Byron was every little nerdy boys crush. She still got it goin on. Also watching this now, I understand why I have a think for chokers 😂
The really wild thing is that Douglas Fairbanks probably did it for real in the movie.
ships with cannons were never pine....they were made of layers of oak....more like plywood (crossing grains)....many of the shots that even bounced off the hull, still spauled splinters.
Some used pine, but oak was by far the most common. Some ships had both pine and oak together.
I'm just noticing this, but when they were testing the knife through a sail myth, were they also testing the Christmas tree myth in the back for the build team?
I recorded this on a video tape maybe 15 years ago. Since lost the tape, happy that I can watch this here.
17:17 “Okay!”
18:33 *wheezing*
17:08 They should have tested the wood splintering wet instead of dry, seeing as Pirate ships had water soaked wood. I imagine the splintering would be heavily mitigated.
Adam must be fairly strong, imagine juggling three 5.5 pints (2.5 litre) bottles at once.
The wood splinter shrapnel isn’t a myth, there’s Royal Navy documentation of it.
"Slave not include" I chuckled at that one XD
very few people will understand this, but to me Adam's pirate talk was more Orky than piraty
Mor daka
*Disapproves of you in the name of the Emperor*
He’s one of the boyz
"Is it possible they don't just drink rug" - 22:16
The sail trick to work it needs the sail to be at an angle,as it is when full with air. The way they test it is like a wall.
And yes,it is doable,even without a knife/destroying the sail.
there is an outtake reel with doug fairbanks, (yes he did his own stunts), doing a number of takes with the sail until he got it right.
I would not want to be any of the people responsible for sending the cannoneer the wrong cannonballs, thank goodness grinding it down worked lmao
1:32:50 they seemed to miss the 2x6 knocking two of the pigs on the head. Looks like at minimum a concussion maybe could've killed someone
57:09 more than a decade late but someone tell Tori that you’re supposed to clamp handles with a piece of cloth,leather, or softer wood between the project and the jaws to prevent damaging the detail work.
34:56 they were making piss air before it was cool😂
My question of using dead pigs was always, the skin would be cold and harden up making it harder for splinters to penetrate. Compared to wam skin it would be softer and easier for splinters to go through. Thinking about how easily we get tiny wood splits in our hands, if it was like that pig skin it woulnd't happen would it?
usually someone would be wearing clothing as well, so the difference made by slightly hardened skin would be negligible i would imagine.
I dont think so, the main problem with this mith is the wood splinter have a very low mass so even with a less dense skin the splinter would not have enough energy transfer to even go through the pirate canvas clothes.
After this aired, I started closing one eye when I have to turn on a light at night.
i dont get the cannon thing. where is the 'myth'?. just read any action reports from Trafalgar, loads of evidence for lethality of splinters. Shrapnel refers specifically to a type of artillery shell designed by Henry Shrapnel, which contained small projectiles (often lead or steel balls) embedded in a casing. When the shell exploded, the casing would break apart, releasing the projectiles in a cone-shaped pattern intended to inflict casualties on enemy troops.
While wooden splinters from ships damaged during the age of sail could certainly cause injuries akin to shrapnel wounds, it's not accurate to refer to them as shrapnel. Shrapnel has a specific historical and technical meaning related to the design of artillery shells, whereas wooden splinters from ships are a different phenomenon altogether.
About the only real difference is there's a century of naval development between the Golden Age of Piracy and Trafalgar.
But I do agree that there isn't really a myth here, it's a pretty well documented case of injuries from splinter shrapnel, only using the term for the sake of simplicity .
I think they mistook the accounts of lethal splintering coming from thinner sided and less armed pirate acquired vessels when in fact they came mostly from the thicker and more heavily armed naval vessels.
I think the rum thing started because strong alcohol is useful as a disinfectant. It probably got morphed over the years into detergent.
13:21 - that computer is pretty awesome-looking
Yes. Lovely episode just like them all. 🤗.
Hmm I think the sail myth doesn’t work on a straight up and down sail. It miiiiiight only work if it’s a taught sail that you jump in to, turning it into a sliding fall with the help of a knife to slow you down or control the fall
Definitely. The sail out in open water won't be at 90-degree but on an arc due to air blowing on it. so yeah you'll be riding on it rather than on free fall at least until you are a few feet from the ground. And a dull knife would be more accurate.
You're missing a myth. An alternate explanation for the eye patch is navigation. Regular sun shots could eventually ruin vision. Knowing that, sailors would only expose one eye to loss, but that eye was at considerable risk.
I like the talking walrus
12:30 There's a box on the shelf behind Adam labeled "Putrid Pork"!?
i see one problem with the cannon ball test, the wood's density isn't anywhere near what it used to be, so being much "softer" would take away a large portian energy and also reduce the splinters as well. This is only in my mind i may not be correct
Yea that whit the canon is not busted. We have the reports from the medics of that time there is no need to doubt.
Such tests can not be scalled down. The beams would also be stressed from the weight the contortion and the twisting coming from the ships movment.
Eyo me boi is a pure bred dutch man for your speak easy enjoyment!
i always thought the myth about splinters causing more death than the actual cannon was due to infection. I didn't think it meant immediately. I always thought it meant they died from infection after getting a bunch of small wounds from the splinters.
Did the aim through the boards between the beams back in the day? I’m thinking of the beams would have more splintering and wouldn’t just be a clean hole like the boards would be.