A Car Crash Like Never Before! | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 11 | Full Episode

[@TheGreatBurgholio]

40:41 The fact that Jamie walked in a significantly straighter line with a bucket on his head is absolutely hilarious 😂

[@anyam1845]

Yknow I think it’s actually fascinating. With the bucket, he was using math with the whole 90 degree angle thing. But when using his survival knowledge and strategy, even with his sight, his line was more wobbly, even if he went mostly straight. We really just can’t manage to walk in a perfectly straight line.

[@MFAN1100]

​@@anyam1845 This is likely due to being able to find a more efficient path without the bucket (more efficient in terms of going around obstacles or rougher terrain), since with the obscured vision it was just safer to be as precise as possible to not get off course.

[@anyam1845]

@@MFAN1100 oh no yeah that’s what I meant. Like when taking environment into account, we generally just don’t usually walk in perfectly straight lines. But when we have to work off of abnormal situations like limited vision, we have to default to mathematical stuff to go in completely straight lines.

[@YodatheHobbit]

These old episodes are great to watch, because it's been so long since I've seen them now, that I've forgotten at least a 3rd of the episodes.

[@billmiller4972]

a 3rd of the 'splodes 🙂

[@matheusfiorelli8829]

26:41 "i'm holding my hands steady, but i cant shake the feeling that i'm drifting to the right" that gets me everytime xD

[@Godsrocker1970]

RIP Grant. Thank you for the many memories with grandson. We tested many try this at home. Just like childhood, Grant, gone too soon.

[@jonpeterson8927]

I agree... Before I scroll down and saw your comment I said that I love watching the show because it reminds me of when I was in my twenties.

[@jeffbrown9523]

The great thing about Mythbusters is you are learning about different things and getting entertainment at same time, and is great for any audience from little kids to senior citizens, it has something for everyone. I loved watching this with my older parents.

[@YoutubeAlgorithm01]

"Older parents is something odd to say", parents are always older😂❤

[@OldManRogers]

Love the dude just chilling on the telephone as the team nukes a car

[@tonybaran1860]

32:43 32:48😂😂 Time stamp for ya, for phone guy in Orange

[@hrodga]

Given where he works, that's probably just a normal Tuesday for him.

[@Tedybear315]

I thought he was calling his mother in law... "Yeah, about the car? slight accident...."

[@KandiKlover]

He's getting the remote readout from the observation post.

[@steverman2312]

i like to imagine he was calling his wife "hey honey how's work?" "nothing much, just helping some people erase a car from existence with a gratuitous amount of explosives." "..what?"

[@kirks06G35]

Thank you for putting these online I love watching them again this is one of the best shows ever made IMHO..

[@KanuckStreams]

I will never not giggle at the scientists walking around, not only with buckets on their heads, but buckets that they *drew various cartoon faces on* .

[@Drakith90]

Remember giggling like a schoolgirl when I first saw the scientists.. then cackling like a mad man when Adam and Jamie turned around and the back of their heads were on the back of the buckets.

[@Netbug]

2:51 "Our testing here is pretty straightforward" True. I have a feeling it won't be straight forward though.

[@StorymasterQ]

It's not very straight, and in the end it's barely even forward.

[@ArmedReject]

What bothers me with all the tests is the Myth was blindfolded, nowhere in the beginning did they mention deaf as well yet they choose to test it that way, A lot of your balance is controlled by your ears/hearing in some weird way which depriving yourself of that could lead to why they both veered left or right while trying to walk. They tested whether you could walk in a straight line while deaf and blind, not just blind

[@elijahsellers3727]

Jamie's second walk test actually ended up pretty straight, just after a 90° turn

[@tonybaran1860]

35:04 Your little info sections are golden and im glad i can enjoy these whenever i wish😊 We love ya Grant ❤❤❤

[@AnakinTheWeird]

Er, well, we did...

[@jordanrandall1873]

​@AnakinTheWeird so you stop loving when someone passes?

[@AnakinTheWeird]

@@jordanrandall1873 At that point I guess you could say... *puts on sunglasses* ...they're dead to me.

[@recoilrob324]

The stack of 5 Tannerite cans did not all detonate. We don't know where he hit, but going frame by frame of their slo-mo you can see two cans rising with contents. Likely that only the bottom 3 went off which matches my experience with the stuff. If you have a large container or even a long trail of it....when it detonates it all goes. Separate containers each cushion the shockwave and far enough from the initiating point it'll get snuffed out.

[@PigeonSa174]

100% where you initiate the explosives, as well as how they're coupled can leave alot just not detonating. Even with HE primers sometimes you have to double prime to make sure the whole colum goes off.

[@rabbitracer79]

Yellow smoke indicates it did not all detonate. I've set off 25ish pounds before but I had to put it in a pvc pipe and it still didn't all detonate

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Oh, my favorite episode! I love the not-able-to-walk-straight episode!

[@dirtrider88]

7:42 it was amazing how strait he walked for so long even if it wasnt anywhere near towards the target or the direction he started out on.

[@KandiKlover]

Once you get used to using your other senses it's very easy. Blind people do it all the time.

[@spideymcgee4718]

Jamie walking in an almost perfect straight line with a bucket on his head in incredibly impressive.

[@QueenDerpy]

Creating a fender bender explosion is not as difficult as you think All you need is crash on the back of a 1970 Ford Pinto

[@cejannuzi]

It's a wonder they haven't got old Vegas, Pintos, and Gremlins--and also a Chevy Chevette, and see which ones blow up the easiest.

[@theLilaQ]

Whats the background, for us non-americans?

[@92xsaabaru-]

​@@theLilaQ 1970s subcompact cars, most infamously the Pinto, put the fuel tank between the rear axle and the rear bumper, inside the crush-zone in a fender bender. Automakers, notably Ford, knew this was bad but didn't want to spend money to fix it, and they got big lawsuits after cars caught fire in rear collisions. Ford Pinto Wikipedia article has a long section if you'd like to read more.

[@theLilaQ]

@@92xsaabaru- ohhhh wow! Thanks, yeah I’ll definitely read up on that.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

@@cejannuzi The Pintos were crap, but the Chevette was a good little car.

[@Callsign-Wolf]

"I can't shake the feeling that I'm drifting to the right." "Interesting..." Lol

[@leoa4c]

One thing which could help walk in a straighter line would be a fairly long rope (10-15m). If I am not mistaken, it has been used successfully in survival situations. Particularly in the snow, with an overcast sky, it can help. One trick to find the direction of the sun, even with an overcast sky, even in the middle of the forest, is to use a knife (or something shiny) and your finger. You place your finger in front of the knife and then do a full rotation with your body. You will notice that the shadow of your finger on the shinny surface gets stronger and lighter as you rotate yourself. When the shadow is the most pronounced, the sun is directly behind you.

[@Ercrcrdsstff]

Not only can you not walk in a straight line but if you step in place long enough you will start to spin. I've only done it with high steps with my eyes closed but I'd like to test it out with small steps too

[@vitorschroederdosanjos6539]

They could've used blind people without their walker to see if you can fix the bias with experience

[@helenbaumander3953]

That wouldn't necessarily work for a few reasons. If you're born blind, there are ways you can learn to not veer off.

[@anteshell]

There is different levels of blindness. 100% blindness is extremely rare. Even the most bad cases usually can see bright lights and distinguish between shadows and bright areas or the environment. At the very least, they could see where the sun is and keep it as a reference for walking straight.

[@leoa4c]

Blind people need references as well. In the middle of a field and blindfolded to eliminate all light, the person will still walk erratically, even with a walker or cane as an aid.

[@gabrielv.4358]

The test was wrong. Blind DOESNT MEAN DEAF. so if you are BLIND, you can still HEAR, and change more things acccording to sound

[@leoa4c]

@@gabrielv.4358 Relying on solely on sounds for direction may not be as effective as it seems. If you have to walk towards a loud sound, without echoes or reverberations, that is doable. However, if one is relying on birds, wind, etc, that may end up making the situation even worse, as the sources may change position and/or be confused with their echoes. There are many documented cases of lost people who end up walking in circles even with audio and visual stimuli. One of the reasons for it is that human beings tend to have a dominant foot, thus creating a bias towards one side or the other. There are, of course, other reasons such as terrain, erratic interpretations due to illusions confusion, panic, etc.

[@dunstonlion1342]

I love that the truck goes THROUGH the car 😂

[@FanKiyoshi]

3:56 I love that this sequence is framed like a wild west duel between adam and walking straight

[@thegronic]

Thnx for uploading these episodes!

[@ursa_major9471]

Don’t mind me just rewatching myth busters on my birthday for nostalgia 😅

[@ArmedReject]

17:11 all 5 containers did not explode, if you slow the video down to .25 you can see one of the intact containers falling back down from around the top middle of the screen to the middle of the screen, you can tell it is still intact because it is cylinder shaped and you can clearly see the orange label in slow mo

[@michaelmayhem350]

Rocket powered car? The for shadowing is unreal lol

[@brendanvisscher5080]

I love how at 32:54 when the explosion is slowed down you can see the shockwave.

[@elizabethalvarado8698]

You should see the ANFO explosion, from the "Homemade Diamonds" myth...!

[@7ifty7ifty]

32:10 what a shoutout from Grant.

[@7ifty7ifty]

Give us the uncensored version you cowards

[@SaucePussy]

RiP

[@TheMikeNIke99]

Yay full episodes are back!

[@stephenmartin1982]

I'm always amazed at how when they do crashes like in the vertical drop how little damage is done to the rear of the target car. The safety from that engineering is outstanding.

[@Thunderhawk51]

If you got into a car crash like that, the explosives in the trunk would be the least of your worries 😅

[@IanZainea1990]

can't believe you didn't test just a blind fold with no ear muffs

[@tracytoltien]

they did while swimming

[@YodatheHobbit]

That would be stupid.

[@itsglitchy5423]

You know. The most impressive part was that binary explosive’s claim being proven true again and again.

[@jonpeterson8927]

I love to watch these it reminds me of when I was in my twenties😢 and now I understand the saying,"youth is wasted on the young" a lot better. Awesome show very sad about Grant.

[@JohnFleshman]

Many moons ago when this aired I would have been as confident as Adam. These days with bad knees and hips I know even with my eyes open I would struggle to keep it truly straight.

[@seanfoltz7645]

That binary explosive looks like Tannerite, which I've set off with a pellet gun with an FPS of just 200.

[@AnitaMaxWynnn]

I’m convinced I could walk in a perfectly straight line

[@buffysaviation]

Adam consistently would say “I feel I’m drifting this way” and it was actually the other direction, I’m more surprised he didn’t realize that and put a mental fix into place.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

A technique that has been used to keep a mostly straight course while walking through wilderness where landmarks are difficult to see is similar to the trick with the ladder. Take a long, light stick, such as the trunk of a sapling, and carry it horizontally in one hand. Inertia will try to keep it from turning sideways, and you will feel when it does and be able to correct for it. It's not perfect, and requires you to be able to see. Using landmarks when they are visible is of course also important. Even so, it does have merit, particularly if you don't have access to GPS.

[@stephenmartin1982]

Very cool. I'd never heard that one before. Personally I just used the wristwatch navigation trick I learned back in Sea Cadets. Point the hour hand at the sun, half way between the hour hand and the 12:00 position is South. That works any place in the Northern Hemisphere

[@DavidRichardson153]

​@@stephenmartin1982In the Southern Hemisphere, you point the 12:00 position at the sun, and the midpoint between it and the hour hand is North. A little expansion on that trick for any trips down under you might take. Either way, I would like to think that if you can picture an analog clock in your mind easily enough, you can decently guesstimate North/South as long as you have a reliable way to tell time.

[@stephenmartin1982]

@@DavidRichardson153 Awesome. Thanks for posting that trick

[@gabrielv.4358]

The test was wrong. Blind DOESNT MEAN DEAF. so if you are BLIND, you can still HEAR, and change more things acccording to sound

[@gottfriedleibniz8581]

39:19 Hey Jamie, can I barrow that helmet for... an experiment.

[@KrazzeeKane]

6:13 - bug jumpscare had me slapping at my phone screen, good lord

[@Godsrocker1970]

That rocket sled was always my grandson's and my favorite. Even today, my inner child has an out of body experience

[@allmightyloaf7134]

Explosive fender bender? I didn't know the Ford Pinto was a myth!

[@markcondrey2297]

Adam can walk forward.. be he never walks “straight “😂

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

I dunno, Jaime was doing pretty good driving in the correct direction.

[@heartofdawn2341]

which episode is the one shown in the title sequence at 1:01?

[@FalloutJack]

You know, I don't know if it changes anything, but the myth didn't specify you can't hear, as well. They just said walking blind. There was no need for the sound-canceling headphones.

[@YodatheHobbit]

No. Being able to hear the other crew members moving around and talking would give an unfair advantage. Isolating the part of the myth tested is the only way for sure to know of the blindness is what causing the lack of directionality. Hearing a bird in the direction they're headed and walking towards it would taint the results of the experiment.

[@FalloutJack]

@@YodatheHobbit But there was nothing in the myth that said you had to be unable to hear... They just decided to do that.

[@anyam1845]

⁠the myth was specifically humans alone can’t walk in a straight path. Like if you’re lost in the woods. It’s why they didn’t do it when they were in the woods for the last bit.

[@tonybaran1860]

23:25 that little side eye there got me real goood.. so glad it's not tv and I can rewind 😁

[@ejb992]

Pretty certain I could do at least the drive in a general "straight line" as a result of how much time I have spent driving large vehicles. This would fall more on experience and technique with number 1 being ZERO vehicles drive in a straight line with a static wheel due to a naturally imperfect wheel alignment..... you need to move the wheel side to side in small increments with a consistency dependent on the vehicle's characteristics to counter those imperfections. Granted it would probably appear as a slightly wavy line with the chalk on the ground🤔as a result of these corrections but the direction would be straight overall.

[@ReaperessRogue]

I love Tannerite.

[@johnd2422]

What happens when you burn it

[@brucetoo3294]

you need to also explore how BLIND people navigate and get straight lines and direction.

[@christophermitchellsr9492]

had to post this to the mythbusters face book group . a great episode an my favorite part was when Tory Belleci shot the zombie .

[@savagethebarbarian943]

The best part is you can buy that binary explosive 😂🎉

[@daisy87657]

I'm surprised they didn't get a blind person to help them with the restricted vision segment. I know there are blind people who hike so I imagine there would be a lot of good information on combatting walking in a straight line when you can't see that's better than a ladder.

[@marktadlock5428]

I wish they would have compared a blind person to them blind folded

[@andrewm5840]

I love science😊

[@Mr.inky213]

2:13 lol dude fell onto his nuts.

[@camronk1356]

Fun fact my outdoor pursuits teacher had us walk about 150 yards blindfolded and no one got as close as me. I have severe scoliosis and I walked in almost a perfect line. I was off by a few feet. I did better than everyone else but I had the most damaged body

[@Games_and_Music]

Here before the: "I've heard that they don't just tell the myths." guy.

[@NorrisHistoryCorner]

Ah but were you here before the first "RIP Grant" comment?

[@Games_and_Music]

@@NorrisHistoryCorner I hadn't thought of that, but it seems i am, although there is one person probably talking about Jessi.

[@kevinbelcher8490]

The world is not the same without Grant Imahara

[@tacticalmattress]

It really isn't. When people like that go early, they leave a unfillable and irreplaceable void.

[@tylerprime3547]

Rust in peace

[@Ornes]

Thank you for the Chance 😮😊😊

[@endangeredmarmot4518]

This show was so good.

[@leoa4c]

I could be wrong, but that binary explosive is initiated by a pressure wave, not by a specific amount of energy. They could drop an oil tanker on it and it still would not initiate.

[@dirtrider88]

so a pressure wave isnt a specific amount of energy????

[@seanfitzgerald9815]

The walking part is definitely dominate foot pushing the opposite direction slowly.

[@kamicokrolock]

Maybe, but It's likely also due to our bodies not being perfectly symmetrical causing one leg to have a slightly longer stride. A longer stride might allow for one foot to cross a little more over to the opposite side of our body when we place our foot in front (think less exaggerate walking the cat walk at fashion week) causing a drift. We also heavily rely on our sight to maintain balance and that is also a likely factor( ever tried drunk goggles?)

[@YodatheHobbit]

They literally talked about that. They literally showed though multiple tests that the change in direction was random. Neither of them had a dominant foot. LISTEN while you watch.

[@brucetoo3294]

years ago there was a big lawsuit about Ford pickup trucks exploding when the gas tank got hit in a collision. I forget how it was settled, but it made a lot of national news.

[@MichelleRRasmussen]

29:44 - Rather than an "unnatural construct", a straight line is a standard outside ourselves. 👍 Being able to do science is reliant on there being consistencies. We recognize what's crooked because we know what's straight. We didn't construct that; we're always (re)discovering it.

[@stingingcashew2321]

Why didn't they try walking heel-to-toe? That's probably the best way to walk in a straight line

[@digdugbingo]

I like how Kari was like, "I think we need to blow some more shit up"

[@DarkLord-7]

So for walking in a straight line in the first test, wouldn't feeling the sun on you help with that. I mean there were multiple occasions where the sun's shining switches from the front of Jamie and Adam to the back or to the side just from them getting turned around. You would think that feeling the sun on you would be an indicator on which direction you're facing.

[@kerrywhite6720]

I have seen this demonstrated several times. If the sun was noticeable no one bothered with it. Everyone spirals.

[@dirtrider88]

31:26 but there are 2 controls thats needed to be performed. this one and one with the rocket sled being slammed in to a car without explosives.

[@ondrejkratochvil4589]

So I guess to make that binary explosive explode you need impact with some minimum energy density? Therefore bullet works, car doesn't.

[@plusRpm]

Yeah it needs a certain threshhold pressure. It‘s a compression based detonation and in the car scenario that just isn‘t happening. But tiny tip of tiny bullet going very fast exerting very high pressure is 😄 that‘s why blowing it up with a detonation cap works too, since that too exerts high pressure. Pretty sure if that „fist“ was a flat cylinder, if it hit at close enough to a right angle, could have worked too.

[@lenshibo]

would an arrow from a bow work?

[@plusRpm]

@@lenshibo i don‘t think an arrow‘s speed is sufficient to reach the compression needed to set it off. Bc if it were, dropping it would probably set it off too 😅

[@JETHO321]

It needs a super sonic shockwave to propagate through it.

[@JaemanEdwards]

Small turns left and right might work for the driving straight challenge

[@stephenpetersen354]

18:30 they should ask FPS Russia whether it can destroy a car 😂

[@wolfmantroy6601]

They were shooting Tannerite. Easy to make at home but getting harder to find the fert.

[@jackovoltraids5937]

Consider the Maze Runner. Escape Room. The Internet. Regarding being blindfolded and needing to walk a straight line.

[@cozmothemagician7243]

Cool, mythbusters try out 'barrelmancy' from Baldur's Gate 3 O_o

[@n0bl3hunt3r]

The orienteering experiment showed that reduced vision can be compensated for with training but they didn’t try to train for complete loss of senses. Bah.

[@everlyblacketor3415]

I wonder how a blind person, someone who wouldn't rely on eyesight, would do trying to walk straight

[@MegaLokopo]

Couldn't they have gotten mixed during the accident?

[@maximusprime3767]

28:24 you could just keep your hands off the wheel

[@jerameysattler5291]

I think that the wheel alignment being off and any rocks or divots in the road would mean hands free wouldn't drive straight either.

[@GlassyMocha]

Say you've never driven a car without saying you've never driven a car

[@YodatheHobbit]

if you want to make an instead U turn.

[@letsgobrandontrump2024]

In case anyone doesn’t know HVAR rockets are 5 inches in diameter and Have been used on helicopters, ground strike aircraft and other aircraft for a long time now, it’s still surprising to me that they were able to get to use them for such a purpose

[@jasminedragon333]

They should’ve texted the two cars impacting while the engines are running..

[@IanZainea1990]

2:44 ... but ... blind people...

[@xxxxredxxxx]

The cane is equivalent to having their eyes open

[@nathantroyer6956]

For swimming im pretty sure the reason they both turned left is they are both right handed. Their left arm is weaker/ less conditioned and the right arm will naturally push them left.

[@MichelleRRasmussen]

Wait, Jamie's a) driving paths were similar and straighter than b) Jamie's first walking path attempt and Adam's first walking path attempt, but the show praised b more than a.

[@larrytemen4789]

24:26 has nothing to do with the amount of joules. It’s about the speed of the bullet and on impact of said bullet, it’s the flash on impact that makes it go boom.

[@spunn_co]

ive walked stright lines in the dark but. still missed my turn and at that point i stoped tell day light

[@KarmaCadet]

These full episodes make me happy! Thanks for uploading! btws referring to the oxidizer as "inert" is dangerously incorrect... it doesn't explode when you shoot it, that is not the same as inert 😶‍🌫🔥

[@jamesrogers6376]

44:12. They could have used the ladder like a Caterpillar. Inchworm forward a bit at a time.

[@curtb.9450]

Tannerite is fun to use if you know what your doing and all that stuff is aluminum powder and one other ingredeant and being able to walk in a straight line comes down to feel and ballance

[@psinjo]

question... you've well and truely proven sufficient impact will set off binary explosive.. but will a spark, or fire? what if the fender bender caused a spark, or there was some cloth in the back that caught fire? of course it's a long shot, but i'm curious (i'm guessing not, considering the stability of the mixture... but i'm purely guessing?) also, second thought, of course the fist (and car) have more overall force than the bullet, but what about the force per inch squared? the force of the car, spread across so much more space, how does the math measure up?

[@dirtrider88]

did you bother to check google? it appears not www.google.com/search?q=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&oq=can+a+binary+explosive+be+set+off+by+fire&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l4j33i299.12509j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[@bathbomber]

19:18 I love that the camera lens cracked

[@sukiya_nattouteishoku]

23:35 Cadillac ranch. 24:12 …and Volvo crashtest.

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

No, the explosive didn't go off because it was too far inside the car, they just tossed it in instead of having it on the bottom of the trunk itself.

[@guitaristkuro8898]

Wanted to know if the explosives even got hit from the drop test but we’ll never know.

[@spcpitts]

The real question is, did the guy who thought it was a good idea to drive around with pre mixed binary explosives also have blasting caps with it.

[@Monkey_Snot]

Anyone else see a cowboy boot in Jamie's swimming GPS lines?

[@JETHO321]

A little sulfur will greatly sensitize the binary.

[@mylesog4835]

what about running in a straight line?

[@Malroth00Returns]

Maybe the collision caused a gasoline explosion which then caused a larger explosion with the oxidizer reacting to the gasoline.