Bullet Dodge Test - Mythbusters - S07 EP06 - Science Documentary

Join Mythbusters as they test the myth of dodging bullets and explore the impact of falling onto water compared to pavement. Sniper Dave takes shots from various distances, revealing the minimum distance required for dodging. The team conducts belly-flop experiments with Buster, pushing the limits to understand the dynamics of falling onto water versus pavement. The episode concludes with a thrilling operation: "Pork Drop," where identical pigs are dropped from a helicopter at 600 feet onto water and pavement, showcasing the contrasting outcomes. Witness the science and myth-busting unfold in this action-packed episode!
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[@PanthereaLeonis]

Just me being impressed at how small the accelerometers got over the course of the series? The first one barely fit in buster's head, now they need to pad it in to keep it stationary! It's so cool to see the evolution of things like that over time.

[@jordanberndt4157]

Is it an evolution of technology, or just the show having a bigger budget?

[@PanthereaLeonis]

@@jordanberndt4157 Definitely the former. I study engineering, and those accelerometers, at least the small ones Tory was holding, is maybe two dollars a piece. For 75 bucks, I can get a microcontroller, several blinking lights, binary logic packets, humidity sensors, an RFID scanner, with a card and a chip, buttons, a joystick, wires, two breadboards, servos and stepper motors, a quartz clock module. an 8 by 8 led display, three seven segment displays, a small LCD screen and lots of other shit I forgot. The budget did go up though, considering the increasingly cool things the guys blow up, and the frequency at which they do it.

[@tfrowlett8752]

The new world record for the longest sniper shot was 3.8km. If you could somehow see the round being fired, you’d have over nine seconds to move out of the way before it reached you

[@leonlemgruber2119]

Unless the sniper already calculated where you would be on those 9 seconds. 🤣

[@espenstoro]

If you're specifically looking through a long lens directly at it, which is never gonna happen, then yeah.

[@alterego2421]

​@@leonlemgruber2119how lol

[@borntoclimb7116]

Thats the reason why the military dont use those ultra longrange shoots, distances shorter than 500 meters are good.

[@borntoclimb7116]

​@@leonlemgruber2119 this was a worldrecord, in the wars this is inefficient

[@berrodude]

That flight time graph shouldn't be straight. I mean, .338 Lapua isn't going to lose a lot of velocity over that distance, but 1200 from 500 should have seen a change.

[@jordanberndt4157]

They should've tested how far away you can see the muzzle flash at night.

[@jordanberndt4157]

Edit: I did some back of the napkin math. In bright daylight the human eye can only detect a flash of atleast ~55 lumens. On a dark moonless night it can detect a flash as low as 2-3 lumens. However, the relationship between lumens and distance is logarithmic, not linear. So with some quick math, a muzzle flash visible at 200 yards in bright daylight should be visible at 950-1100 yards under ideal night conditions, maybe 500-600 yards under average urban light pollution levels. At those distances, it is feasible you would have enough time to dodge a bullet. If Mythbusters ever comes back, this is a myth that needs to be re-tested.

[@Prince_Tricky]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Wish they tested this at night. So stupid that they expect to see a flash in the middle of the day. Good luck with that. Just seems silly that they wouldn’t think to test it under those alternate conditions.

[@TheOz91]

The issue now is that suppressors are becoming standard issue, so it would hide the muzzle flash at night, too, besides changing the gunshot sound.

[@HalNordmann]

Was about to say that

[@alecguevara1835]

Guess I'll have to try to *only* get shot at by snipers at night.

[@PanLukash]

What a great episode!

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Craig Harrison's rank was Corporal of Horse. Regiment Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry.

[@justinwashick4495]

The distance of your average restraining order lol 😂

[@monkeyhammar]

On a roll with the audio

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

A kilometer is 1093.61 yards, not 1200.

[@StorymasterQ]

Praise be the metric system.

[@ThisZombieBitesEverything]

Yep, 1000 meters per 1km is so much easier to work with 😂

[@ek-nz]

With a slight wording change we get a very different result: falling from a great height onto water, you’re just as dead as if you’d fallen on pavement. If you were a dead pig to begin with though, this is purely semantics.

[@KamikazeBourloten]

33:02 "Que the cute stabilizing SHIT!"

[@BeyondtheBack40]

Family just out for a nice day at the park and wham a pig falls from a helicopter 600ft up

[@Stogiewise]

I hope it didn't hit any animals in the water

[@rollingmetal949]

Aporkalypse now😂

[@MiguelBalaraw]

🤣

[@ThisZombieBitesEverything]

No matter what anyone says… I have fallen from great heights on to pavement and into water… water is softer to land in every time. Don’t believe me? Then dive on to pavement like you are diving into a swimming pool… no? 😂 now…. Could you get hurt? Yes, most definitely… but water is still softer 😂

[@liamcollinson5695]

My main questions are how many costumes does adam have and where does he keep them

[@desel8737]

raiders in fallout 4 can dodge a .50 from 10m away

[@AFNacapella]

poor Will always being fired at...

[@DarkFlame-wo9oe]

37:01 Is Adam carrying a SVD?

[@kingofbrushes]

Kari looks stunning in this episode 😮

[@HarmonRAB-hp4nk]

dodging bullets huh.. ok you go first !

[@nicolaandria522]

Perhaps you could just (only just) have a chance against a relatively slow round like a for instance 45/70 from 500 or 600 yards if you happened to look just at the muzzle and you are ready to jump right or left.... definitely a realistic scenario 😅

[@HughStLeger]

I think the myth of dodging from a shot is better attributed to scope glint rather than muzzle flash,it'd be very easy to confuse if you knew snipers might be in the area, from a distance it'd look basically the same, also possibly bullet arc might be a factor

[@jumpman8282]

Sniper scopes aren't reflective, though.

[@blessedbow720]

@@jumpman8282 old ones are if anything this myth is most likely to come from a world war or older

[@HalNordmann]

Also potentially shooting at night

[@Djorgal]

As for handgun, what you'd dodge is the line of fire as you interpret the person's body language as that they're about to shoot.

[@murkrow5909]

I like how the duck didn't flinch at all

[@XGuarden1]

try swim away after the hit hehehe

[@fixed1t]

Pig drop narrative not quite true. At 43:56 the bag hits the car park away from the lines in the split screen and blood and stuff shoot from the bag sprays out of the end, the next shot they walk towards is on the lines and nothing comes from the bag.

[@davidcat1455]

It’s a ‘reality’ show made to entertain people. Accuracy honesty and science don’t matter.🤷Gotta admit, it’s definitely entertaining.

[@d4slaimless]

It seems that they did shoot two different falls. In high speed they show real fall, and all other shots is the fall where bag didn't split. The data of X-ray probably is true though.

[@MeMenno88]

Can you imagine if that black bag was compromised and spilled it's "goods" out?

[@ArjayMartin]

reaction time matters too

[@jjay2771]

I've still always felt they should have tested the bullet dodge at night; including with nv always thought there was more chance you could see the muzzle flash and react in that situation.

[@vitorschroederdosanjos6539]

200 milliseconds is the reaction time of a F1 driver, I'd say plausible...

[@andrewwalsh5616]

At 37:07 Adam predicts Fortnite by dancing in an outfit in front of a gun.

[@ddt-bug]

on behalf of all my fellow crashtest dummies, the day of reckoning is coming🤣

[@adambarclay5950]

I'm tired of the myth that water is incomprehensible. Water is compressible. It just takes a lot more force

[@desel8737]

S09 EP 08 or something like that... mythbusters wasn't very consistens with seasons and episodes. i put the 3 pilots with the first "real" season and start counting from 2003 onwards, and this episode is from 2011

[@strangelman]

Since one might try to make oneself "arrow-like" if one fell from great height at terminal velocity, it would be interesting to see which damage Buster would sustain if he were made to be more streamlined when he met the water. I know if I fell from great height towards water, i would try to make myself like an arrow. Which damage would you sustain then?

[@mamax7169]

you would want bo be falling with your stomach downfacing and in the last moment switching to feet first

[@liveyourdreammedia]

I read in a magazine once you can do it 2 ways. if you're a good diver, try to dive as straight down as you can an put your hands together to make your body like an arrow. if you are a bad diver, they recommended feet first, toes down to break surface tension, while using one hand to squeeze your nose and the other hand to cover your a-hole from great heights to prevent damage to your insides. having typed that, dunno if true, but seems plausible

[@neilperry2224]

Broken neck

[@neilperry2224]

Hell wjere did they dig up the ponyisc.

[@petercunnington6808]

Except what if you pencil dive into the water rather than land flat on your stomach or back

[@PlutoTheSecond]

That graph is such a lie. The 200-yard bullet, taking 0.231s, should have been below the first quarter-second mark on the Y-axis, not above it. The 500-yard bullet, taking 0.597s, was way too close to the 0.75s mark; it should have been closer to the 0.5s mark. The 1200-yard bullet isn't far off, but it should be above the 1.75s mark.

[@alanrose4827]

Moorhens or coots do not quack!

[@jcmate1692]

The second drop test into water at 75 feet couldnt be accurate as his legs were bent his legs should be fixed to a cable connected from the top of the crane down to the target or tape ran up the back & front of his legs to his torso I thought these people were good at that sort of thing

[@Matthew-h6e]

Is anyone else severely disturbed by putting time on the Y axis?

[@maxnjax7294]

you're up to and Buster down to

[@AlergicToSnow]

The distance of the average restraining order? Ouch. Somebody is hurting.

[@gownerjones]

They couldn't have just gotten a better g-force sensor? The fuck?

[@carstenlechte]

One important difference between water and pavement is that water is much more gettingoutofthewayable.

[@JoeRocket-sf6qs]

Only incompressible if it cannot be displaced dummies,buster the smartest thing there.

[@d4slaimless]

Well, compression and displacement are different things though. But the result was predictable, of course.

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

Water vs pavement you’re dead either way but on pavement you’re deader

[@sekaramochi]

Please please please never stop

[@danielmadar9938]

😂❤😂❤

[@plutoyaldnil4750]

What I find that is kool that they didnt really go into....jaimie says to hit the target from aprox 1 km away the shooter must aim about 30 ft above the target... hmmm the reason includes curvature of THE EARTH.........explain that one flat earthers😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@gooseface2690]

Had they dropped the second pig onto a big tarp floating on the surface, preventing the big splash, the outcome would probably have been the same

[@zuzoscorner]

Yup, it no the fall that kills you, it the sudden stop that does.

[@gooseface2690]

@@zuzoscorner Yup! And that's a lovely christian accent you have there. 😇

[@torben777]

The bullet travel time is not linear. The bullet slows down when it travels. Its not noticable at shorter distances, but its definately a factor at 1200 yards

[@d4slaimless]

In their case it wasn't much noticeable as graph shows. Of course it is not linear because of friction.

[@torben777]

@@d4slaimless No the margin of error in their measurements clearly exceeded the slow down. Nevertheless the conclusion they stated was clearly incorrect.

[@d4slaimless]

@@torben777 and it is the reason why it wasn't much noticeable. Although the method of measurement doesn't seem to suggest to big of an error. With big error it wouldn't look so nice as on their graph. Although we can't guarantee they shown genuine data.

[@sekaramochi]

How to get the your pork chops extra tender... Terminal velocity Dudes

[@JAKOB1977]

its so great they dont relate to the aspect of darkness which drasticaly would elevate the distance you could see a given shot. Mythbusters in a nutshell, rig the myths enviroment / situation to fit a certain narrative and I understand its a dayjob for these people and they dont wanna stay out to when the sun starting to go down..

[@horrorblehorror5319]

ŔIP❤

[@deants5149]

Second comment is something

[@gabinrichter3330]

Donald Trump unfortunately watched that episode

[@jasonphillipo9654]

I disagree with their conclusion on this one for the pavement drop. The myth never states at what relative heights people hit the water and pavement are. So while dropped from the same height it isn't going to be as bad, they should have compared being dropped from water at a greater height compared to pavement. In the spirit of the myth, that would been at least plausible.

[@jedfra9172]

The pigs in the final test in no way landed in the same orientation.

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

Kari talking about twisting human bodies in inhuman ways makes my pants tighter..

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

Kari gives me Pacman fever.