Myth Busting 007! | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 26 | Full Episode

[@xanchvk]

“Believe it or not this, this thing right here is my idealized human. It’s a plastic tube filled with 7 cannon balls, and it doesn’t talk.” -Jamie Hyneman (2010, 13:48)

[@apathyisdeath2977]

10:15 Absolutely perfect cartoony sound effect, and somehow that actually happened! I don't think I've seen Adam laugh that hard either, that was brilliant!!!

[@ellaadams109]

i love watching these again. i remember watching theses and how excited i was to watch them as a kid lol still love watching them as a adult

[@BlueRada]

As a adult u see this show differently but as a kid this was jaw dropping amazing and I thank them all for my love of science as a kid

[@Greybush]

2:00 Did that bubble wrap video look less fake in 2010?

[@suicidalbanananana]

No lol, like Adam said the internet was just full of obvious fake bs at the time

[@TheSaintBigFoot]

It was how outrageous it was that got us

[@demicdah]

I would say so. The jumper hit so street and is not jumping again even a little bit in the air

[@Mart77]

Back then all the video-effects were hollywood stuff and such programs for home use were difficult and gave poor results. But that video was pretty well made and seemed convincing to people who didnt know anything about physics. I'm sure some people tried that at home and ended up in ER, probably some even died

[@fuckyouleftube]

people are stupid and believe anything their told example: CNN,ABC,MSNBC ect ect

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

2:07 That original bubble wrap jump was just an old, very old, editing trick. Anyone who has seen the 1970s comedy series, the Goodies would recognise it. Drop a dummy cut on the landing, replace the dummy with the actor, continue filming.

[@williamwright4813]

I was skeptical about the bubble wrap video from the moment the dude didn't bounce. Still, it made for a good Mythbusters episode!

[@Nivola1953]

When the rockets fire, the ejection seat is just pushing the ground, not the car. The gas escaping the rocket motors, hitting the steel floor are producing the lifting force.

[@TheJaguar1983]

Watching the gs that Buster is taking from 15ft up makes me wonder how many gs Mick Foley experienced at King of the Ring 98.

[@nuggetbiscuit6988]

One. Because he's the TOP G

[@AeonLibertas]

Wanted to comment the exact same thing. Sailing 22 feet through the air and landing on an announce desk, no padding... I mean, I understand the MBs here, leave getting hurt to wrestlers or the jackass crew (at the time), but still I can't help and think that 10g were a bit overly cautious and Adam's "that's the max a human can take" was ... well, Adam being Adam..

[@M3licious]

​@@AeonLibertasI feel Adam should have added 'before any harm happens.'

[@TheHutchy01]

Enough to make me who's very much not a wrestling fan, a definite member of the Cult of Mick.

[@lilyswiftiepenguin13]

RIP Grant. Wish you where still available ❤️🕊️

[@11darklight11]

Did I see it wrong or did they place the rocket seat in the middle of the car attempting to flip the car instead of placing it closer to the side for better leverage?

[@11darklight11]

I did in fact see it wrong

[@andrekrzyzowiec4063]

@@11darklight11 nice of you to have corrected yourself

[@Games_and_Music]

You saw it correctly, they even pointed it out how they put it in the middle because it otherwise wouldn't fit the flying sofa seat. I mean, they did do it eventually in the end, but yeah, it could maybe have been done without the excessive force at the end.

[@MrMarinus18]

800 lbs of thrust is not going to flip a 4000 lbs car.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@11darklight11 Then what is 11:24 about?

[@TheHutchy01]

Q always seemed to have his disagreements with Bond, but I didn't know he hated him that much!

[@johannesblank1552]

Maybe I'm stupid here, but in the small scale bubble wrap experiment, doesn't adding bubbling wrap also significantly reduce fall time and hence reduce velocity and force, regardless of material? Or did they adjust fall height?

[@leocelente]

You're not stupid, but if they paid that much attention to the small scale tests the full scale would tend to be boring, IMO, trying to guess what they didn't account for before the final test is an engaging aspect of the episodes

[@TheTrueBatBrain]

You wouldn't change the height precisely because of the reduced fall time. Flip the test around so that the tube is wrapped, if it was 16 inches thick rather than 4, the bubble wrap would hit the ground first, reducing the impact of the test. Adjusting the fall height would make the test invalid because the force being imparted would be higher when the only variable was to be the thickness of the bubble wrap

[@mato219]

Well, i think it wouldn't have mattered that much because the bubble wrap collapses. If they fixed the height to the first layer of bubvle wrap, it would have skewed the result in another way. But they should have taken into account the elasticity of the bubble wrap more thorough.

[@chardington3412]

So glad I saw this one - I was about to try it out myself - dang heh heh heh

[@dgthe3]

11:35 "The wheels on the chair go up and up. Up and up. Up and up. The wheels on the chair go up and up. All the way to clouds."

[@bo2_435]

I like the little detail that they put into the car flip animation where the driver character gets half their face burned from the rocket. BLACKFACE!!!!!!!!!!!! BLACKFACE BLACKFACE

[@SyntheticFuture]

6:30 that sure aged well xD

[@thepoobandit2850]

I know right. It’s so fake

[@SyntheticFuture]

​@@thepoobandit2850I was more talking about the statement before it 😅 But yeah the video definitely shouldn't fool anyone these days 🤣

[@Mart77]

Putting the LOG into human analog. And the deceleration did not change logarithmically

[@kardelenkoc9746]

6:30 you can see the cut when he lands, he is in a different "pose"

[@kardelenkoc9746]

in fact the whole fall seems animated

[@INDAREVISH]

That video is so fake, I call it busted before the episode continues. Can’t help to feel this episode was made to tell people don’t be fools, don’t replicate this.

[@somedude3443]

I think you're right. The original video was quite tightly edited, so it wouldn't surprise me if some more impressionable people wanted to try it themselves. I mean, just as an example, how many people got seriously hurt trying to replicate or outdo stunts from Jackass?

[@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc]

Ejecto seato's cuz used nitrous oxide lol 😂

[@Kodded_Wrld]

The viral video he fell onto a ‘sandy ground’, yall made a mistake and throw dumy onto ‘concrete ground’

[@andygibson8143]

Bubblewrap was originally invented as a wallpaper.

[@Rando_Shyte]

wat

[@steven_mkn]

f1 drivers casually take 52Gs

[@_Atomic_impact]

Different type of effect on The body. Different impact

[@r3stl3ss]

"mythical 4 inches"

[@MediaArchive2-z9f]

Was there ever a JFK episode? Ir mythbusted DB Cooper jump?

[@Pigness7]

They tested different bullets supposedly used in the assassination but never DB cooper, idk what you would test for him.

[@retrorainbow5861]

wondering what all their jobs have been, was there ever an episode that explained that? grant was the mechanics guy, tory stuntdude and carrie? 🤔

[@suicidalbanananana]

Pretty much all their job titles were just "Host", see IMDB.

[@tomthomas3499]

The art girl? I think i remember one of the episode where Kari said before joining as host, she used to design stuff, 3d modelling or something like that.

[@retrorainbow5861]

@@suicidalbanananana yeah but i mean when filming ^^ tory did mostly stunts, grant the electronics, just realized i never really understood what carries job was, tv always made it look for me she was just for decorating stuff xD

[@Mart77]

Kari was more like a people's person in the team of nerds. KInd of like Jen in the "IT Crowd", she had not much real purpose, she was just there to be important

[@AeonLibertas]

@@Mart77 That's a bit unfair to Kari tho. There are several episodes that have her welding, woodworking, modeling, destroying and designing. So, a pretty complete workshop portfolio, save for the electronics part (even though Grant tried to teach her once). It's just that the heavy mechanical part is usually Tory's speciality (well, that and hurting himself / stunts), so he and Grant have more fixed roles, leaving her often as 'the backup' and free to do the oddjobs like talking/presenting/artsy stuff etc.

[@marcel_max]

go ahead and eject me, see if I care.... quote from M in Skyfall 😆

[@Gixie-R]

Once got pushed backwards and hit my head on a high kerbstone, Woke up in Adambrooks hospital with fractured skull, my brain ripped from its lobes, the bleed popped my right ear drum and gave me tinitus while dropping my hearing 40dbs in right ear. I had a full memory reset and knew no body or where i was. Took me over 2 years for my memories to come back but i still have years of info missing. Concrete is hard, Heads are not. 4" of bubble wrap wouldnt help one bit.

[@cleoo]

damn all these comments remind me of how much i hate modern media and internet, and why its gone to shit. everyone thinks they are the smartest mf ever, and everyone has only negative things to say. this show was my childhood and it's one of the best shows out there.

[@suicidalbanananana]

🤔 Hmmmmmmmm. Never really been taught much physics so there is a high likelihood that i just misunderstand or whatever, but the whole idea seems wrong?? why would a projectile that the car *_releases_* then proceed to flip the car? Even if the ejector seat had the same thrust as the cars weight it still wouldn't do enough? the whole "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" thing doesn't really seem to pan out in the real world & this (to me anyway) is a perfect example? there's no way that all the force coming off of the rockets would go into making the car go up? wouldn't that force just go everywhere instead of only up? I feel like they would need the rockets to sit in some sort of barrels for it to apply force in the up direction for a long enough period of time to actually have it go up? 🤔

[@Xentillus]

Rockets propel themselves by pushing gas downwards. In this case, the upside down rockets push gases up and into the steel base plate, which in turn pushes the base plate up. As the base plate isn't in the centre of the car, the force would cause the car to flip, not just lift straight up. But the simple way of thinking of it is just recoil. The same way that a rifle recoils back as the bullet (and all of the gases) leave the barrel, the car would be moved by the ejection.

[@BabyMakR]

Newton's First law.

[@storm_filter]

man kari is all sorta hot

[@Helllphy]

the way mythbusters pick "myths" is strange, that bubble wrap video is clearly fake yet they still tried it did it have that much views or somethin ?

[@gordonbrinkmann]

Well, I don't know how much views it got, but they call it a "viral" video... so probably there was some amount of views. I guess they picked it just because they saw the video and it got them thinking if it might be possible to protect you from a fall even though the video was fake.

[@markedis5902]

Or because someone at Discovery told them to do it

[@fabiosantos6419]

I think that myth was just an excuse to throw Buster from a high altitude 😂

[@Canadianmade83]

They should do the myth of why your parents failed you.

[@KaidenLewis-wy4hd]

I mean yeah, they could simply look at the video and say it's fake but as you may know: They don't just *tell* the myths...

[@dmonarch4668]

That bubble wrap video is the fakest shit in internet why they wasted time with that 😂

[@mato219]

The 007 myth is silly. The seat ejects and pushes the car with the jet. It cannot push against the car in any efdective way.

[@BabyMakR]

So, jets and rockets don't work... Interesting.

[@Games_and_Music]

7:26 & 40:52 I'm all for puns normally, but it's getting a bit repundant to do a double bubble trouble squabble, same for the many Bubbleboy references. EDIT: Although i did like some of the Bond ones. I've noticed more double puns from the narrator and J&A in other episodes, makes me wonder if the narrator actually records his lines while watching, or if he just records them in one go without the video material at hand.

[@aredub1847]

why did they have adam on top of a board? how stupid. no wonder it was crushing him.

[@egeerdem8272]

jamie and adam should have gotten a better myth (preferably related to 007), theirs was extremely bland

[@janhaheim1348]

l you can clearly see the bubble wrap jump and spesial the landing is fake,

[@omcartoons-t3g]

Im first 😂

[@nuggetbiscuit6988]

First comment on the first. Also, I might just be baked right now, but isin't *first* a weird ass looking word? like, if i was a non native english speaker, and learning english, i'd see the combination of letters and be like.... *"huh?"* amirite?

[@omcartoons-t3g]

@@nuggetbiscuit6988 so what I do 😡