Human Projectile Launch! - Mythbusters

[@araonthedrake4049]

With how adamant the US people are about their imperial system, there's something deeply hilarious about an american tv show reverting to metric because it'll be easier to calculate the experimental results...

[@rollingmetal949]

Metric just is way more precise

[@acmelka]

Any engineer or scientist or technician who uses imperial measurements can't be trusted.

[@araonthedrake4049]

@@rollingmetal949 Oh, I very much agree, but it's just ironic to see an american TV show admit that when the general public seems sometimes almost fanatical about keeping the imperial system.

[@rollingmetal949]

@@araonthedrake4049 yeah. Would be better to stick with it

[@TiborRoussou]

Canadian here. Love the metric system; definitely easier. However, I find myself dealing with the imperial system when doing renovations. Luckily, I'm fluent with both systems.

[@colinofay7237]

Jamie stamding right next to where that kg ball was landing is fun to see, wouldnt see that in subsequent seasons, health and safety significantly improved since this episode!

[@P1ankt0nb0y]

Honestly it's a lot safer than the people that measure discus throws or javelins. Someone got impaled a few years back, but still...

[@matthewticer8686]

@@P1ankt0nb0yyou say that but there bulletproof plexiglass was not actually bulletproof lol

[@SquallLion1]

40:30 Adam:"what a familiar result!" 🤣

[@cherriagana]

These days they would be going from the USA into Canada :D

[@kyuofcosmic]

They never said they’d get over the border in one piece

[@Unknown0YT0]

8:15 This moment was featured in another 2000s TV show called Maximum Exposure in the episode "Pain Fest." I remember watching it back in the day on TV but it's actually here on KZbin as well if you want to watch this incident.

[@calumsanderson6741]

I love it when Adam does his "nerd" voice, because it's a nerd making fun of nerds.

[@damonullerick6572]

16:55: "It's got a creamy nougat center!" Strange as it might sound, now I want to eat a bowling ball... 😛

[@megapintofwine1068]

Awesome with these older episodes in such great quality!

[@Oroberus]

16:00 another chapter from the book "Why men actually die earlier"

[@jasonyoung7705]

8:00 I'm so proud of my countrymen, also, why men die earlier.

[@h2obeast854]

Here comes trouble 🤣🤣

[@Itsmytest]

I would much rather wait in the traffic from TO to Niagara Falls and the border bridge there. I just don't see the cost savings of a slingshot across the Falls.

[@plusRpm]

Now i love mythbusters, i really do. But sometimes it is hilarious on accident. „Let‘s do scale testing to come up with an equation of what materials to use and how to build this thing“. Now, i‘m not an… well i actually am an engineer and what you are looking for here is a book on entrance level physics, a book on material science, a book on machine elements and a book on technical mechanics. And what you will find is that all said equations exist. I know right, crazy 😂

[@swedichboy1000]

Classic Episode.

[@ddt-bug]

lol, the myth itself is so troll, most cross the mountain where they could just walk across the boarder, there's no point in a slingshot🤣

[@MrMarinus18]

If you know how MAGA thinks it makes total sense. In their minds migrants are superhuman aliens.

[@jordancochran7979]

The myth implies the USA- Mexico border, but maybe that would be insensitive or something? So they chose Canadian border

[@MrMarinus18]

@@jordancochran7979 The US/Mexico border and immigrants there usually comes with a LOT of racist implications. So they likely didn't want to deal with that so they just switched it to Canada as that is more white.

[@blankfrankie3747]

"Canadians." 😆

[@TheMono25]

Anybody see the news clip about the woman trying to use the giant slingshot the ball didn't leave the pouch till it was bouncing bk and fired straight at her face 😮

[@huey-fan8335]

You mean the melon?

[@uknownhero2764]

That's from the Amazing Race.

[@Brahlam]

Jörg Spraves wet dream xD

[@asadabdulqaabir4006]

Just the opposite. Jörg actually constructed a far better design capable of launching a bowling ball.

[@NEB-BEN]

4:06 had me laughing because he made the exact sound as spongeBob in this video > kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3ewcmqNqKifgcU hahaha

[@EtaCarinaeSC]

I dont wanna damage Jamie's floors

[@Martinchox]

This is one of these myth that i wish they come back and re-tested with more experience.

[@TheDuckling1986]

You know you have a sh*t job when you're Buster's stunt double...

[@RB-bd5tz]

5:13 "Metric being the international scientific unit of measurement." What an incredibly useful unit, and what an incredibly simple system! "How much does it weigh?" "One metric." "I live about 10 metrics from here." "Man, it must be 30 metrics out there." "Could you pick up a couple of metrics of milk on your way home?"

[@TheMarineDoctor]

Canada is launching people????

[@jackbarkley288]

Yeah why? How do you cross the border? 🙃

[@RandB_Aquatics]

she hit the net then the ground then the headlines

[@kfckillie1]

Wrong border crossing...😁

[@dbca33]

What's a border? 😂

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

how about a crossbow method

[@skyborne80]

Adam had nothing to say? That's legitimately shocking 🤣

[@toddbob644]

Frostbacks are at it again, eh?

[@TheLastChannel-o4j]

nice videooo

[@Viagra_risk_PERMANENT_insomnia]

Hello everyone.

[@davia.sampaio8633]

Helo

[@mrdan2898]

Yikes, those cameramen standing downrange right in the path of the projectile!! Soo many more instances of unsafe handling of basically every test they performed.

[@westisnt]

I mean you wouldn't need a slingshot to hop the Canadian border, there's no fence or anything.

[@user-fm7db6ko4t]

21:24 Keeping cameramen in the line of sight seems to be very dangerous

[@blond_slut]

Don’t you know cameraman always lives.

[@uriituw]

🤘

[@PlutoTheSecond]

18:29 No, Adam. 300 yards would be 900 feet, not 600.

[@jdphotograph]

Busted, they just walk across the border.

[@ii1bomberzzxx351]

Amen nba amen

[@burningatthetrailhead]

It's alot easier to go around or under a wall 😅

[@andrewclark8225]

Why would a Canadian need to do that when they’re free to cross the border ?

[@PanLukash]

Kilograms?

[@NazihMina]

you need a structural engineer on board the team .

[@marianpyter5948]

this show is like 15 yrs old already

[@AeonLibertas]

Sometimes I just doubt the common sense of anybody (ir)responsible on the show. MB: "Oh gee, I sure hope we don't hit the blue van!" Only sane person around: "Why don't you just move the entire rig like, 10feet to the left? Or turn it by like 30°, there's a perfectly fine empty field right next to the blue van.." MB: ".... SCIENCE DEMANDS SACRIFICES!" *fires away*

[@KuyaHandyKap]

fascinating... no inanimate or zoological unit of measurement from a show coming from the US. 😂

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

This episode would be considered racist by today's standards for calling them "illegal immigrants".

[@Ninosai]

Remember when we could still say they were trying to illegally get into a country? Yeah, me neither. lol

[@stocktonjoans]

Failure is _always_ an option

[@petrsvetr5271]

I love Mythbusters, but it's like they never seen a slingshot. What a terrible design. They could make ropes from that rubber tubes and have just two or four of them it will be more stable. And two big trees will work much better, than that stupid radio towers.

[@acmelka]

You gotta be careful with those super slingshots. It's mega illegal to shoot frozen dog poo into the police winter carnival!!!

[@markusfeddersen]

First

[@uriituw]

Great.

[@RB-bd5tz]

You win ... nothing!