Does Mattresses Break Your Fall? | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 29 | Full Episode

[@Jaymeel5500]

For everyone else: 4,5 feet is 1,37m

[@AISBERGgg]

4,5 feet its 1 feet * 4,5

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@Jaymeel5500 jup

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

How many football fields is that? 🤔 --- Americans

[@Pawel_Mrozek]

I am a bit surprised that stone cannonballs were treated as a myth. There are tons of them on battlefields and in castles in Europe. Granite balls did not disintegrate. They were often embedded in the walls of buildings in places where they were hit, as a memento. It was a tradition, so almost every castle has them in its walls. Steel balls began to be used only later, at the end of the Middle Ages.

[@hangover89]

There's a lot of these 'myths' that they covered, I mean they called coke and mentos a myth lol. They just want an excuse to make and shoot stone cannonballs, and ya know what, I support that

[@KandiKlover]

@@hangover89 Exactly. Nearly half the episodes are "myths" just like that, and I appreciate because not only do we get cool explosions, but they often cover the methodology behind such things which is valuable insight for me.

[@rahat2345]

Ah yes the "Myth"ical episode where they hit the cannonball into someone's house. I remember seeing all the headlines back in the day about this episode.

[@cherekde2789]

I didn’t think it was real but they actually did 😂 imagine a cannon ball just flying into your house. thank fully no one was hurt

[@borntoclimb7116]

Same here, even in Germany they show this in the news

[@lordeisschrank]

how American to be more concerned about fucking property than about people...

[@vladimirzimmerman9510]

From Mars here, this was all over the news. We all were like WTF but in Martian language.

[@In_swedish_the_jam_means_sylt]

that is just a myth, never happened

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Finally, the cannonball through the house episode!

[@KandiKlover]

"The cannonball is so important we gotta find it!" *proceeds to lose it over the hill*🤣

[@leighaplin6127]

Does "a" mattress or Do mattresses.

[@bazra19]

Or, will a mattress

[@EsteemedReptile]

Is a mattress?

[@bazra19]

Can a mattress

[@4224Prod.]

Its 2024, clearly a they/them situation.

[@8bvg300]

Yeah, this immediately got to me. 😅

[@UnknowinglyDerpy]

Oh no.. this is the one where they accidentally punched a hole through someone's house

[@yyfyyf1105]

that's the one

[@j3tts0n65]

We’re just gonna ad a little more gunpowder Everything will be fine * cannon misfires in the worst direction possible *

[@araonthedrake4049]

@@j3tts0n65 Not sure if more powder was the issue... for all we know it could've been as simple as just aiming a few degrees too high

[@randomprotag9329]

@@araonthedrake4049 from the looks of the slow motion, the cannon was jolted up slightly during firing, it was likely a relatively issue of the cannon being too aimed to high for a safe jolt margin.

[@jojolafrite90]

Why "oh no"? It's not like it got them cancelled and no one was hurt.

[@FDCPElmo]

The cannon they used to test the myth was a type that was mainly used against infantry. It is not a siege cannon like a mortar which fires larger cannonballs.

[@KandiKlover]

Lucky for whoever's house that was.

[@TheJaguar1983]

Honestly, you could probably make an entire series on testing Burn Notice myths.

[@Obviouslynotalarry]

This whole show is like straight from a cartoon

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

About as scientifically correct too.

[@omnirath]

@@themonsterunderyourbed9408keep complaining

[@mytube001]

The castle "walls" are nothing like actual walls. The real ones were made of solid rock, not porous and brittle concrete, so would've been much, much tougher. The walls would also have been quite tall, and the extra mass on top of the lower parts of the walls adds quite a bit to the strength, in that they prevent rocks from moving out of the way upwards, and add compression that further "toughens" the walls. Extra thickness also helps, as that blocks movement in the longitudinal direction. These concrete block "walls" are probably no more than a few percent of what an actual wall was capable of.

[@araonthedrake4049]

As true as that is, since the comparison conditions were the same for all of the different cannonballs, it's still a valid test. If they were testing how much damage the cannon balls to do medieval walls, then sure, they'd fail at that. But the test was how a stone ball compares to a metal ball. They didn't even technically have to be firing at anything resembling a wall to test that.

[@Merlok_3_0]

yes, their walls were bad representations of real ones, but their walls were used to measure the effectiveness of cannon balls pretty sure that all, that you wanted to say was about the unrealistic walls, but lack of counter-arguments just bothered me.

[@Dabeyoun]

Also Old Moses is more modern cannon, it looks like field artillary not siege piece, and not to mention the black powder was less pure, and... Yeah. It is not a perfect comparison, but it is what it is.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

You know... Science™!!!

[@Justgregular88]

They were testing the damage capabilities of the balls not the structual integrity of the walls themselves. Pay better attention chump

[@sim00n99]

i love that they released full episodes on YT

[@KandiKlover]

But only for outside USA. So use VPN.

[@SpainLord]

oh i thought the cannonball episode hadnt been on the air at all, interesting

[@scrivener68]

Listening to Americans use decimals to work with pounds and feet makes my metric brain hurt.

[@borntoclimb7116]

I remember the cannonball incident from the news.

[@Ghost-ed3oi]

Good to know they learned from there errors in safety precautions for accidents happening to the area around the site they’re at

[@MrMarinus18]

20:30 I kinda already knew it when they showed the impact on the water was larger than the pool surface. Since the mattress adds resistance to where it was already the highest.

[@RonPiggott]

The sandstone damaging bricks didn't surprise me. This is similar to the insulation foam on the Space Shuttle punching a hole through the ceramic leading edge on take off.

[@jirkavebr-czmapper8059]

In Europe the cannonball wouldn't go through the house, it would get stoped most likely even by the first wall. Atleast after that kind of distance

[@swilleh_]

You do know that LA doesn't have winters like we do? They don't need this much insulation.

[@jirkavebr-czmapper8059]

@@swilleh_ It is not about the insulation as much as having a wooden walls instead of brick ones here in most of Europe

[@Unit_5S_Delta]

@@swilleh_ Insulation is just as useful in a warm climate as it is in a cold one. Down under we often use double brick walls, whereas the americans are well known for building the entire house out of timber and weatherboard.

[@BarneySaysHi]

32:15 That's the face of a Hyneman getting caught! 😂

[@clemensruis]

I think you can actually see the canon ball for one frame at 23:11 when the camera is next to the barrels, right the first frame when you see the fireball and smoke come out of the canon. Oh - you can actually see it in more frames and even go through the wall.

[@Drinkyoghurt]

Never realized it, but the Syndaver costs $70.000! Wild how big the budget for this show was.

[@haydendegrow945]

When i saw these headlines, it kickstarted a trend for me that keeps to this day: "There are some things the word 'oops' just doesn't cover."

[@martinsnow6641]

If it was my house i would want them shut down. They could've killed someone. The way they're trying to say they care but then gloss over it. Nah, that's not cool at all.

[@haydendegrow945]

@@martinsnow6641 Consider that the episode was actually delayed for almost eight months as a full investigation was done, as well as the entire safety plans and procedures surrounding MB were fixed and modified. It was found that the whole thing was a freak accident, and that the MB were free to continue. Yes, someone could have been hurt or worse, but foreseeing something as crazy as this was as likely as someone predicting the exact number raindrops that will fall from a thunderstorm. It was determined by the police and the FBI that the MB safety team could not have predicted this, and that what they had done was sufficient for what they had planned for. In case you didn't notice, they spent most of the episode showing what they had done to prepare for the whole cannon thing. You can't prevent every eventuality

[@geoffdanker3034]

Dr. Noah Weiss fixed one of my trigger fingers. Can't remember which one, so that's a good thing.

[@rickyspanish492]

The stone dust 😬

[@antongrekov7710]

tasty, like powdered sugar

[@Ondemas]

Yeah. As a hobby mineral collector, it really hurt watching Kari talking without a respirator while surrounded by stone dust. That can be really dangerous, depending on the mineral. Good thing they weren't working with malachite 😆

[@jessh5310]

FYI. Cannonballs were sort of ball shaped and then covered in a skin of lead. Reason? Stone does too much damage to the barrel BUT lead is soft and is gouged off by the barrel reducing wear.

[@skyborne80]

In honor of the grammatically challenged title of this upload, I have to ask: Who IS the MythBusters?

[@oburi85]

Insurance Company be like "u hit what... with what?"

[@hankrhill324]

It’s amazing they though that they could load up that little mortar like a full sized artillery cannon. It took 2 people to move the mortar and 4+ to move the cannon. Something about equal and opposite reactions… they should have seen this coming.

[@zyhgar25]

Apparently that ball ricochet off the hill going down 600ish metres then ricocheting out of one house going through a roof and stopping in a van which was around a good 100 metres from the looks of it.

[@gorgha3988]

Tory with a beard makes me feel uncomfortable ...

[@Elizabeth_sawnset]

❤❤❤ love it

[@BlessMyBuild]

Is it possible to share when the episodes were aired on the description?

[@wolfenpixels]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MythBusters_episodes . This shows every air date for each episode. I doubt they will put it in the description.

[@BlessMyBuild]

@@wolfenpixels the title here and in the list just don’t match. Sure it can be worked out but i find it hard

[@BlessMyBuild]

The matching title is on season 2012 episode 17 shit just don’t line up

[@TheGrandmaMoses]

At least we know that mattresses does not improve your proofreading skills.

[@Ondemas]

26:55 you should NEVER take off your respiration mask while polishing stones or minerals, especially when it's that dusty. The dust can easily get into your lungs, and many minerals are toxic. Geologists often douse the ore in water while polishing, to reduce the amount of dust flying everywhere. (Just a tip in case anyone wants to polish rocks at home. 👍)

[@DOOM_Dwarf]

Why the hell did they decide to match the speed of the cannonballs instead of their kinetic energy? They should have used more powder for those stone balls, getting them flying as fast as the material would allow.

[@maryrose2676]

Cannons bursting is a common enough occurance. Very very dangerous.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Weirdly enough world record of belly flop dives is from 9 meters (about 30 feet) to 30 cm water and he survives and walks away. Hence the record. Ten meter fall to 137 cm to water is easy-peasy for such divers. Of course not everyone can dive like that.

[@j3tts0n65]

That epic moment when the myth busters shoot a cannon ball through your domicile 😂😂😂

[@CorwynCelesil]

42:05 Was that a NOT PENNYS BOAT moment there?

[@jonhylow1239]

40:39 He wouldn't have survived that one most probably. He would have had some severe injuries at least from hitting the pool ground. Also his head was below the line & his back touched it completely, while he was moving pretty fast still. My suggestion would be to make the jump in reality & repeating it afterwards.

[@desel8737]

the stone canonballs sound like they're making gronckle iron

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I used to dive from 33ft and could resurface from maybe 7ft without hurting myself so an expert could do it from way shallower than me. Not that I'd ever dive from that height again lol.

[@MaelraJade]

How much black powder did they load into that cannon that the ball went off course for over half a kilometer?

[@thenightranger4253]

my question is why is a bombing range near any home they should be km's/miles away from the range.

[@dmsanct]

charly garcia jumped 18m into a pool and made it

[@lordeisschrank]

uhm...you can literally look at those stone canon balls if you visit any fortress in Europe. Doesnt matter which one

[@uriituw]

“Does a Mattresses…” Who writes these titles?

[@Sicanda]

Now it's "Does Mattresses". Getting closer.

[@Rando_Shyte]

Someone with extremely limited mental faculties.

[@CalciumChief]

Princess Buster > princess Kenny.

[@MichelleUS66]

At 26:56, Kari looks like she’s been mining zenite..! (That’s a Star Trek reference, folks!)

[@kshitizshah6685]

Nice

[@SyntheticFuture]

The one question that wasn't addressed was "could you make those cannonballs with authentic tools". And my guess is that aside from the sand stone that'd be a no :p

[@Asphyr]

Probably glossed over by that cause it's not a myth at all and it'd just be annoying to do, still makes for a good episode! Suppose the only part about this would be to see if they shatter or not, whether or not they were used is just known to be true. They used granite even. And they didn't even shatter and are found embedded in walls of castles to this day.

[@joemyers5302]

I'm guessing the title writer doesn't have an English degree.

[@BloodChampagne]

Or they could've slipped up. Something tells me you've made at least one mistake in your life. Can't other people do the same?

[@precisionleadthrowing4628]

who cares? I'm here for the testing with scientific method

[@Rando_Shyte]

It's not a slip up. There are many retarded video titles, it's kinda funny.

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

@@BloodChampagne This fail doesn't just show a mistake, it shows carelessness. That's obviously what the guy was attacking.

[@chidori0117]

Lets be honest while the show took safety somewhat seriously they did a looot of janky stuff. Blast screens for example sometimes they were ok but sometimes they would use the same weak ones for big explosions that were not made to withstand shrapnell with that much energy ... From the looks of it the canon was aimed slightly upwards to begin with and might have gotten a slight initial kick from firing but trajectory seemed pretty in line with original aim ... the ball did not hit the water so barely lost energy, smashed through the wall and probably bounced off the incline of the hill hurling it upwards. I dont really know why they did not correct the aim it seemd pretty obvious that it was angled upwards...

[@Arma5666]

Does seashells by the seashorepheous? Walruses. Orifices!

[@uncleike6211]

Is it me or does the Narrator seem to spend extra time talking about all the safety measures to stop the cannonball?

[@jojolafrite90]

In this context mattresses break bones.

[@salvadorsempere1701]

Making the canonballs go to the same speed makes no sense at all. Obviously, the heavier one it´s going to do more damage, and the iron ball it´s heavier that any stone ball. They must stick to keep the same powder load.

[@maastomunkki]

Aye, I don't know why they went down the stupid road with this one. They must have been aware that a less massive projectile will have less kinetic energy if the velocity remains constant..

[@tammyslammy]

Yeah, strange choice. If you're a medieval cannon loader and you're switching steel for stone, do you take out your physics textbooks to calculate the exact amount of black powder necessary to match the original speed, or do you just pack in the normal amount and see what happens?

[@Ark_Exercise]

I landed 1 n a half stories out of a tree from a broken zipline on a queen size mattress without it would have been hospitalized, i was young tho so maybe my lightness helped

[@Br33zeKooL]

Just realized how short Jamie is.

[@Михайло-д2п]

From today you are HouseBusters !

[@mofi3641]

just go to european museums and read chronicles to get the answer.

[@nullref0]

Huge fan of PNW Tory.

[@keplersync1859]

charly garcia reference 2:43

[@pulsar22]

After I saw how they tested the first drop into the water, I was aghast at why they dropped it butt first. Any sane person would jump in feet first.

[@kitchenerleslie6177]

Does they?

[@Gowerrr]

Do Title Grammar??

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

I know it’s the same saying either way but why use the term even more dead when deader is the smaller words choice

[@Blue5wirl]

Please fix the grammar mistake in the video title, it's setting off my pedantry. ;)

[@precisionleadthrowing4628]

Best show ever

[@bazra19]

I don't know who owns that site but it needs cleaning up, it looks like a rubbish dump.

[@jaygee5546]

Hey, ummm, do you mean 'DO mattresses..." because IDK if that's correctly grammatical the title way it's wrote

[@carlosgatica7953]

a lo charly garcia saltando en la piscina

[@RonPiggott]

I struggled with the introduction "apology". If there wasn't as much flamboyance from the build team throughout the series it would have come across as being more sincere to me. I know Adam gets into character. But when the time comes to be serious you can see this in Adam. I didn't see this with the build team. For example how they built their castles. I've said this to ask others how they felt about the cannon ball incident.

[@suicidalbanananana]

Never heard about this incident before, idk, i don't really see the issue in the first place?, these things can happen, to me it's more of an issue with the bomb-range people letting it be used for cannons compared to anything else being the problem. Yeah okay, maybe don't make your own cannon because it has a higher chance of failure, but they used that thing several times without issue so ehh, these things can happen & they sit in the bomb shelter because they know it can happen 🤷‍♂ Based on what i know about America (with all due respect: a lot of people seem overly dramatic & eager to sue?) i'm sure this was massive drama at the time, but eh, (1) don't go living next to a bomb-range if you don't want the chance of stuff flying into your house & (2) i still see this as 90% the bomb-range people's fault for allowing it, you should have some long firing range if you are going to fire a cannon, not a 'small' bomb range and a hill. A canon like that can easily shoot at least mile (or km) and probably several, so why the bomb range people weren't like "sorry guys its not safe to fire that thing here" is beyond me. Why anyone would live closer than that distance to a bomb range (regardless of if they also fire cannons or not) is also beyond me but that's another issue, American things i guess.

[@RonPiggott]

@@suicidalbanananana Now that you say this it does make me wonder how land use is designated / determined around a bomb range and how much space is deemed as safe. You've really got me intrigued pointing out that houses were built close enough for a canon to bounce from a near by bomb range.

[@alika.dudu.tshela]

Is grammar a myth😪

[@aarongrawbarger1875]

23:02 hehehe that’s what she said

[@_hunu]

"Do* Mattresses Break Your Fall?" Please fix the title.

[@Youtubeforme88]

I GUARATEE that 35 feet drop is not deadly. Especialy on the ass. Yeah it will hurt. I saw a lot of belly/side floos from this height and all survived no problem (painfull yes)

[@Murdock777]

I think I'm going to believe more the evidence I'm seeing and the doctor who is exploring the dummy

[@tammyslammy]

@@Murdock777 The question is, how reliable is the dummy? It's made for anatomy lessons, not for crash testing. The muscles may be super accurate, but did they really bother using a true bone-like material for the skeleton? The pigs and ballistics gel dummies they used in other episodes are probably more reliable for these tests. (But also, 50g does NOT sound healthy, even if it's only a fraction of a second.)

[@badad0166]

Yes, of course, the age old question, "Does Mattresses Breaks Yo Fawz?"

[@uriituw]

Proofreading is dead.

[@bazra19]

All that dust inside a building with no extractor. Your safety methods stink.

[@russellmcphee72]

Does a mattress break your fall or do mattresses break your fall? That is the question.

[@TeslaNick2]

Titled should read "Do Mattresses"....

[@user-ix7iu4wf8o]

ahahaha so this was that infamous episode and this is the place they never gone back to for testing .... ahahahaha ~

[@Oskar6875]

A thinner matress should help more than the super thick one they were using.

[@ydoumus]

DO* mattresses. English, please.

[@LarrysUniqueHandle]

oh it seems

[@gibberxsh]

Y'all need a proof reader or.. asking for a friend

[@nigelmtb]

Does mattresses? Really? Do grammar mythical?

[@FranciscoBo]

8:41 Beard 9:40 No beard 11:55 Beard Wat

[@Justgregular88]

Welcome to the mythbuster comment section, filled with a whole range of nitpicking, pedantic pain in the butts

[@smatt566]

The hottest Kari has ever been.

[@Rando_Shyte]

"Does Mattresses" Ummm maybe hire someone who speaks English to upload your videos? I can do it, but it'll cost ya.

[@_Hewman_]

Does Mattresses... very english, much grammar

[@canada_rye]

Does Mattresses Break Your Fall

[@DannyAakjær]

Who jump butt first? Headdive or feet First