This One Might Blow Your Socks Off | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 24 | Full Episode

[@ado1101]

i used to waych this show every Thursday after school with my friend at his place. his parents had a candle business and they had a small woodworking shop for decorations and stuff. We would try to do a bunch of cool stuff, recreate some things from the show lol. we eventually went on to different high schools and lost touch. 13 years later, a few days after Grant died, he tracked me down on Instagram to tell me about it, we both cried so much and remembered our little projects. really cool that you're uploading all these episodes, judging from the comments, it was special to a lot of people

[@whiterabbit1632]

I only found out he passed the other day. I am having problems dealing with this news.

[@richardjones38]

According to a BBC interview with one of the passengers sat right next to the door blank which blew out of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 in Jan '24, he was saved by his seatbelt, but his shoes and socks were blown off. So thanks to Boeing's complacency missing the bolts out, the 'blow your socks off' myth would be worth revisiting in 2024 - if Mythbusters were still going.

[@Nickerian91]

cant really remember the verdict of mythbusters plane blowup and the socks testing but i recall it was more about impact and pressure. the plane is move at about 800-900 km/h and the wind passing by the plane will create suction from the hole (similar to a horrible vaccum cleaner) which if i recall was not considered in any of their tests. (impact and pressure difference)

[@heathergarnham9555]

More sucked off than blow off

[@CsibeBiGa]

@@Nickerian91 : there are some air between socks and the skin wich expanded when the enviromental air pressure decreased rapidly. This expansion is the most powerful element in this case. When a people get lightning strike, clothes can blow away due to the air expansion.

[@Nickerian91]

@@CsibeBiGa then it would affect all passanger since the pressure affects the whole cabin where the vaccum affect the area closest to the hole. a pressure difference would also not cause your socks to fall off just the air gap to expand but as anyone would assume the air would just leakout in the openings having no affect on your socks and shoes (we are talking about a 10 psi difference with minimum air in that area)

[@snowywelsh]

10psi differential can make a big difference.

[@stephenmoncrieff2056]

I love how they will tackle stuff that no one else will .

[@BlackRain770]

well don't know how this knocking socks off myth is but i use to have socks made by my great grandma that were made with goats wool only no elastic bands or elastics at all that might have done it i think your using the wrong socks so i would say its not that you didnt have enough power its the fact that your using the wrong socks i remember wearing those goat woolen socks and just walking made them slip of so a punch making your feet fly up in the air might actually knock them off wrong sock i say wrong sock

[@iggywow]

ye it's a bit like with how you see peoples shoes fly off when they crash on skateboards or bicycles and stuff. some well worn wool socks don't have much to hang onto esp if you wear them over regular socks they would fall off quite easy

[@timsmith5339]

I think the difference can be accounted for by the 'kick' of the gun. It is an infinitesimally small amount but might account for the fired bullet taking longer. The reaction of the gun to pushing the bullet was absorbed by allowing the gun to pivot back. For the very small amount of time the bullet is in the barrel, the barrel is re-aiming, very slightly up. I was going to try and calculate this but haven't got the information. I don't know how long it takes for the gun to pivot back so would have to estimate various things such as the mass of the gun and bullet, the position of the pivot, the friction in the pivot mechanism etc. The only clue that helps to confirm my hypothesis is the test shot at short range to confirm the level of the gun. This seemed to be smack on level when in reality, the bullet should have dropped very slightly. Fantastic experiment and the result confirms physics to within a small fraction of uncertainty. If they'd absorbed the kick on a horizontal slider, they could have got it even closer I feel. Love Mythbusters, still watching them now as I did when they first aired.

[@tullochgorum6323]

There are also going to be lags in the release mechanisms, however they try to synchronise them. There are simply too many moving parts if you use a real gun.

[@gbulmer]

@@tullochgorum6323 A lag in the falling bullet's release mechanism only *helps reduce* the delay, and does not account for it. A lag only gives the fired bullet longer to travel it's 360 feet. That would *_reduce_* the time between the falling bullet hitting the ground and the fired bullet arriving that we see in this test. AFAICT, that is not what any commenter is trying to account for. Further, we an see from the high-speed camera test of the release mechanism that the difference between it and the bullet leaving the barrel is milliseconds, an order of magnitude (10x) too small to be significant. It doesn't really matter how many _"moving parts"_ are involved if their effect is very consistent. Also, there aren't many moving parts in a "real gun" that fire the bullet. Further, those parts are likely to be engineered and mass produced to be relatively consistent so that parts are interchangeable without changing the 'feel' and performance of the weapon. Best Wishes. ☮ PS It is widely claimed the the Mythbusters often repeat a test multiple times to confirm results, but don't broadcast them if they are reasonably consistent. So it's likely the variation in bullet release time was in the same range of milliseconds, and not 10s of milliseconds, because they didn't mention it once they'd got a mechanism that works.

[@gbulmer]

@timsmith5339 You didn't calculate how far the bullet might have fallen in the short range test. You say _"seemed to be smack on level when in reality, the bullet should have dropped very slightly,"_ but don't quantify _"very slightly"._ At 33:43 Adam says the target is 20 feet away. Assuming the bullet is moving at 1000ft/second (reasonable for a .45), the bullet travels 20/1000 seconds, 0.02 seconds to hit the target. Plugging the values into _s = ut + ½at²_ gives a drop of 0.077 inches, less than 1/12th inch. I don't think you could see that small fall against that tape and bullet hole. So, though I approve of your improvements to the gun mount, I don't think you can claim Adam's test confirms your hypothesis. Best Wishes. ☮ s = ut + ½at², s is distance, u initil velocity downwards is 0, a is standard gravity is 32.17405 ft/s/s, t is 20/1000 seconds s = 0 × 0.02s + ½ × 32.17405 * 0.02² = 0.07721772, round to 0.077

[@timsmith5339]

@@gbulmer Thanks for doing the maths. It just goes to show that you can't just assume something is going to be as significant as you believe it will be, you will get caught out sooner or later. 😳

[@gbulmer]

@@timsmith5339 Thank you for replying. I was attracted to your comment by your changes to the gun mount. I felt the mount needed modifying in the same way because as you wrote, the gun is pivoting upwards. Several web sites claim a slight elevation would make a difference significant enough to keep the bullet in the air the extra 39+ msec because the bullet rides on a 'bow-wave' which keeps it aloft longer. I guess the Mythbusters didn't "do the math" either. Nor did they fire a clip of rounds on camera to see how consistently-level the gun fired, making it even worse. Best Wishes. ☮

[@MrMiguella]

I saw an old homeless lady get hit by a car and not only did it knock her shoes off, it knocked one sock completely off and the other one was hanging off her toes. For anyone worried about the old lady, I sat with her until the ambulance came and she kept going on about how a broken hip meant the hospital couldn't kick her out.

[@tullochgorum6323]

Only in the USA does an injured old lady need to worry about whether she will be treated. In every other advanced economy - and and in many much poorer countries too - health care is a human right. It's bad enough being ill or injured without having to worry about money and fighting your insurance company...

[@iggywow]

@@tullochgorum6323 usa is like you sit with the injured person hoping they become conscious so you can ask if it's ok to call an ambulance or should you call an Uber 😂

[@borntoclimb7116]

I love the bullet myth

[@nathanbabiuk6286]

This is a really good episode

[@tylerbailey9329]

Knock Your Socks off was one of my favorites as a kid. Always did wonder that was true before I saw this episode.

[@Tanrisevenn]

This was the first episode I ever watched Mythbusters on TV. I couldn't shut up about it at school.

[@jeandremeyer5994]

Yeah, we probably had the same amount of friends.

[@d4slaimless]

Could have helped Mythbusters with this "knock the socks off" myth. I mean they tried to hit buster, they didn't try a live person. But I involuntarily did some mythbusting when I got hit by a car (doing 60 kmh but probably breaking, so no idea what the exact speed was). It knocked my shoes off, but the socks remained on! As for other myth: in the name of science they should have fired some more bullets. It wasn't that hard to reset.

[@trentknight3849]

37:58, the moment they were banned from Esparto.

[@lonewolfpoetics]

Would love to see the full episode of the Demolition Derby episode

[@customink1576]

I like that the Blow Your Socks off explosion sounds exactly like Cement Truck explosion

[@dgthe3]

41:20 Nobody tell Adam that the heart of a solenoid is an electromagnet.

[@-danR]

I'm sure he knows that. What Adam and Jamie are missing is that an electromagnet is an inductor, and with a metal core it's going to have significant inductance. Inductance resists rapid changes in current so that there will always be a latency before the solenoid's armature fully releases the bullet.

[@jakemacmenamin9306]

47:16 there are some people who claim they can tell the difference between 24FPS and higher framerates So i think somebody confused that value with the minimum required for a series of images to appear as if they are moving

[@hypermonk33y56]

whatever the myth, busted or not always end in a big bang.🤣🤣🤣

[@xXturbo86Xx]

It depends on the socks. Tall and tight socks will not go off. Short or old loose socks will.

[@ultru3525]

yep, got some worn, old, wool socks I could kick off myself if I wanted too

[@zsoltbartus169]

15:05 - this background tune sounds like a resident evil save room track for some reason.

[@almerindaromeira8352]

I don't think the paintball inaccuracy has anything to fo with the discrepancy. Firstly there is a delay between pulling the trigger and the paintball leaving the barrel. Secondly, the hand dropped ball is not perfectly aligned with the height of the gun. It might seem superfluous but we are talking about tiny fractions of a second here. Thirdly, any random movement pattern left or right won't affect the physical truth that the ball experiences gravity. It would only be a concern if the trajectory were to be tilted upwards.

[@markedis5902]

Nice one ..>>

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

They did retest knock your socks off and eventually they hit buster hard enough that his socks came off his feet and to put it simply the force required is way beyond more than enough to kill you and that was with the sock most likely to get knocked off hairless dry legs buster on his own weight and the mass and speed of the object hitting him ramped to the max and one of the feet was ripped apart once the sock was removed

[@fishingfan1500]

I wanna know if anyone actually sent socks in, or if it was all for TV 😂

[@sywrexile3078]

Sweat would be a factor with the "Knocking Your Socks Off". But hey, they're done.

[@robmckennie4203]

Do you think sweat would make it easier or harder? I always find that my socks come off easier if I let my feet dry for a while first

[@sywrexile3078]

@@robmckennie4203 That's a very good point & totally agree. Perhaps the talcum powder used would have had a better go of it? I'm just speculating to flip here!

[@heathergarnham9555]

The redid it a few yes later, and yes sweat plays apart

[@jessh5310]

Sock myth. I witnessed a motorcycle hitting a car at speed. The riders trainers and 1 sock flew off. He did live but was like putting runny jelly on the stretcher. Another time I arrived shortly after a motorcyclist crashed and both shoes were off but not socks, A pair of riders crashed and BOTH were wearing full kit with lace up ankle riding boots and neither suffered more than bruises. SO. Not only is it difficult to knock someone out of their socks but wearing full kit will save you. Crash 1 = 70(ish) Crash 2 50-60. Crash 3 80+.

[@whiterabbit1632]

#1 Wear the lid, leathers and boots. Only idiots ride without PPE.

[@shahrukhpenker8860]

4:57 The difference between 402 and 410 milliseconds is 2%, not "less than 1%".

[@ReDJstone]

Adam says “its 8 tenths of 1% difference”, which implies that he is comparing it to the full second (1000ms). Both balls are separated by 0.8% of a second (or 8ms). Comparing both balls to each other is not wrong, and the result is indeed ≈1.99%, but this is not what Adam is after. He's not trying to find the PERCENTAGE difference between them touching the floor. (≈1.99%) Instead, he is trying to find if they touch the ground "at the exact same time". This is, the ABSOLUTE difference. (8ms) Why is the distintion important? Let me show you an example: --- In the video, the balls took 402ms and 410ms to fall. - That is a ≈1.99% difference when compared to each other. - And it is 0.8% of a second (8ms) difference between them. For clarity, lets imagine you drop an EXAGERATEDLY lighter item in the exact same way. Let’s say it takes 16080ms and 16400ms to fall. - That is STILL a ≈1.99% difference. - but 320ms is almost a third of a second, or specifically, 32% of a second. --- Even though in the example both items fell with a ≈1.99% difference between them, an 8ms gap is an acceptable margin of error to say that they hit the ground "at the exact same time". Meanwhile, a 320ms gap would probably not be enough to confidently say that the items touched the ground "at the exact same time”. The issue, and the reason you’ve been thrown off, is that Adam presented this absolute value (8ms) as a percentage (0.8% of a second). This was an overcomplication on his part, absolutely. I hope this helped!

[@d4slaimless]

@@ReDJstone Overcomplicated indeed. 8/10 of 1% difference still implies it is 0,8% of a value. Adam never said "of a second". Although before that he said 4,02/10th of a second. So he uses 1 second as 100%? This makes absolutely no sense. He probably mixed it all up in his head with all this "who doesn't love fractions". I agree that absolute value matters, but it wasn't what he was going for when eh said that.

[@Uncreeperble]

Womp womp, everyone else who matched it managed to know he meant less than 1% of a second....

[@-danR]

@@d4slaimless 'Adam never said "of a second" ' 4:16

[@motelghost477]

The fist was hitting upwards, the pendulum was hiting through, just knocking Buster back not up.

[@skyborne80]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@Curie_ELiTE]

34:05 They edited the footage lol xD The first one wasnt centered enough so they swapped out the shot with another shot where it was better centered. Look the black border on teh first target/paper and the red tape going around the edge. On the next target the white paper is covering the blackborder and the red tape is ripped :D and the hole also shifted position physically xD

[@Damaged7]

Well yes, it was a TV show when it aired.

[@Curie_ELiTE]

@@Damaged7 Yes I know lol... But why "hide" it/lie about it? :D Thats nto in the spirit of mythbusting/fact finding. Also now, it literally makes teh earlier findings/tests/values non-valid. Bc we know it wasnt centered/aligned properly. So this proves (but so does their own espisodes) that Mythbusters are often wrong and inconclusive by default.

[@AJD09FB]

They do multiple takes of the same test to ensure reliability and for TV purposes. You'll also notice that some of these takes are for the high speed camera (the shots with a lot of extra light) and others for the regular cameras. There's no trickery there, and it's not being "hidden" from the viewer - after all, it's really obvious that the target paper was swapped. That's just how television works.

[@-danR]

@@AJD09FB Point taken, but I can see both sides. Because MB presented a certain methodological meticulosification, the show should have included some "after-a-few-more-trials" verbiage in their episodes, where appropriate. It wouldn't have taken up more than a few seconds extra narration.

[@AJD09FB]

@@-danR I'm not sure that such verbiage would even be needed, given that it is obvious enough from the video itself - and from the well-established format of repeated testing on the show - that additional trials were performed. I agree that really spelling it out would have solved the issue for people like the OP, but 99.9% of viewers already understood this to be the case. It was also true that a lot of commentary had to be cut from episodes in order to make room for ad breaks. Adam has even stated that jokes were regularly cut mid-punchline because the episode running times were so tight. So I'm not sure that such verbiage would have made it into the final cut anyway. Of course people are always going to want more, or to see the entire testing phase, and a modern version of the show would probably just post that as exclusive content, or as an extended version. However, that was not feasible when Mythbusters first aired. It is also important to remember that Mythbusters wasn't a "science documentary", it was an entertainment show aspiring to make use of the scientific method - and regularly failing in that regard (as was always an option). That entails a different standard and editorial approach than for something which presents itself as purely "scientific" in nature.

[@reitinet]

Socks just don't have enough mass/inertia. Like if you pull a sock from a foot by hand, the foot/body has a lot of inertia. That's why shoes fall off - less friction and more mass, so more inertia holding them in place when body is knocked. I mean turn it around - you can grab a sock and pull it off a foot easily but you cannot pull out a foot from a sock without fixing the sock to something with more mass and give them inertia. I wonder if this would be mathematically solveable ..

[@zoliking]

I don't buy the conclusion on the bullets at all. The dropped bullet will turn and have air resistance act against a smaller cross section than the fired bullet which is falling with its side against the air. A 39 ms difference across a less than a meter fall is significant. In video game time that would be 2 whole frames. That being said, there are tons of variables at play. If they did the same thing over a variety of heights and the difference between the bullets was constant it would be confirmed. Just shrugging and saying 39 ms is not sifnificant is wrong in this case imho.

[@reitinet]

I would rather argue, that how level is actually level for a fast moving object on a slightly curved surface (earth) .. so depending on expected distance, you'd need to compensate by ever so slightly aiming the gun down so the falling distance to the ground is actually the same for both bullets. Basically what centrifugal forces are - when leveling the gun, you basically aiming slighty up/away from the ground xx distance away. Would be interesting what distance this would be in terms of expected range.

[@AdelinoGambiarras]

Confirmed 👍 👍

[@HalNordmann]

11:26 I wonder, what if the sock got stuck on something inside the shoe? Could that work?

[@scrivener68]

Can't speak for socks, but one of the saddest things I ever saw was the almost-immediate aftermath of a ten-year-old kid being struck by a car and killed across the street from my house. Thankfully for me, the poor kid's body had been taken away by the time I saw the scene (I wasn't home when it happened), but all the other evidence had been left in place, including one of his shoes, laces still tied.

[@BrimeFlame12]

I want to see when the car ran through a fruit stand and the diver gets crushed in a old diver suit. I wonder if it is available?

[@richardelder6519]

I think you have Confused a Few Episodes Together😅😅😅

[@TrevorMachenzy]

I've seen so many accidents and yes, d shoes and some times even d socks come off of people because of the impression... What they missed here is the human factor, Buster can not react...

[@TheBackdrafter80]

Actually 1 percent of 402 milliseconds is roughly 4 milliseconds. So 402 and 410 is not a tenth of a percent accurate, it's actually 2 percent. Which is pretty bad for such a simple experiment. That's why you should repeat the experiment 10 times for both cases and then take an average.

[@Septic-Savlon]

Boxers stand on toes sometimes, i bet that with a great uppercut would take a sock off.

[@swedichboy1000]

Is the episode with the duck tape bridge available?

[@philbobagbox1177]

I’ve seen it on here somewhere for sure.

[@borntoclimb7116]

On yt on a another channel

[@richardelder6519]

It's on this Channel Brother- Just look for it!👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@victoriaademi8661]

Can we just appreciate how Kari was able to do experiments when pregnant I mean there was so many moments that could have sent her into early labor. Kari Byron is one badass lady and no one will convince me other wise.

[@joaocordeiro198]

Yea i think this one is confirmed. 1st there is a difference. 2nd horizontal pistol? What would a 0.001º error do? My opinion, the standing still bullet arrives 1st. Reason: the rotating fired bullet will "have wings" because of the cone of the bullet tip.

[@gerhardvanderwalt3271]

They should test a higher velocity round... that goes faster and further

[@dnservice]

It would still be the same result, just a slight difference due to air resistance.

[@robmckennie4203]

It doesn't matter how far it goes, it still accelerates toward the ground at the same rate. I guess unless the bullet goes so far that the curve of the earth comes into play

[@ArtemCheberyak]

What's up with the fart sound upon explosions?

[@krystiankrysti1396]

no wonder the show became more expensive, they just pretty much went trigger happy with explosives and every myth, its pretty weird

[@sashacw4798]

In one of Adam savages tested videos he talks about how the bomb squad would actually provide the explosives free of charge.

[@krystiankrysti1396]

@@sashacw4798 yes but people had to be paid to be there, im sure the deal was - you get free explosion but you gotta hire 5 of our men for each of the explosions to make sure its safe

[@bfg9000zx]

Great tv

[@mihaipuscasu7357]

22:41 you can see one of the shoes going off but when they check buster has both shoes on. What gives?

[@d4slaimless]

You know that's something similar to what happened in the myth where they were dropping a pig body sealed in a bag from helicopter. In one high-speed video clip you can see spray of presumably meat particles from the ripped bag, in the other it just drops without any effects. Probably they did more than one take for some reason and edited different parts together. No idea what would be the reason in case of this myth though. With pigs it was probably so they won't have to show all the gory details. But here... Just a test dummy, so no idea.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@d4slaimless corrupted footage or just decided they needed a retake I'd guess.

[@richardelder6519]

One of my favourites- MB 4EVA!🤗🤩😍🥰👌🏻👍🏻💪🏻🦾

[@yrtracingteam106]

42:35 glue a small piece of sewing thread in or over the guns output and glue the other end to the bullit. Fire the gun the thread breaks and the bullit falls 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@gbulmer]

That will almost certainly give the 'falling' bullet a tug, likely in an upward direction (as it will be suspended with nothing other than the thread preventing it from falling), before the thread breaks, invalidating the experiment. Best Wishes. ☮

[@Deer-Hirsch]

2:00 No it don't it a bullet drop depends on gun powder barely length and temperature. And as u fire a Bullet it get a twist to it fly longer range with more accuracy

[@Orteiga]

the human eye absolutely can absolutely distinquish those timeframes though, but i suppose this was filmed way befor a time this would be relevant to the average consumer.

[@khaitomretro]

Just have the bullet being fired cutting a thread that holds the other bullet. 🤷

[@-danR]

elegant, but it might be hard to keep the dropped bullet undisturbed by the muzzle-blast. There's also the same-height requirement. The hanging bullet will be lower than the fired one.

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

dang, it still hurts to see Grant after all these years!

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Idiombusters*

[@duncan680]

Im at 2:30 now. The bullet has a parabolic trajectory after firing. Eg a rifle I once shot with, the elevation of the bullet halfway (150m) the distance from the firingrange (300m) was 1.5m. You could literally put an obstacle halfway down. Aim at the target and the bullet flew over the obstacle and hit target. So since a fired bullet has a parabolic trajectory I think the dropped bullet is more likely to hit the ground.

[@robmckennie4203]

That applies if you're aiming up, but the scenario in the myth is that the bullet is fired perfectly level. You might say "but I am firing level, I'm aiming right at the target" but your scope is sighted in to compensate for gravity, the barrel is aiming high and then gravity brings it back down. Although that might be a perfectly legit way to look at it, if you aim level with a properly sighted scope, the bullet will take longer to hit the ground because the barrel is aiming up

[@gbulmer]

@duncan680 If you watch, you can see that the Mythbusters do not aim the gun using its sights. The guns sights _never_ play any part in testing the myth. At 18:33 they put a laser in the barrel, and adjust the mount to fire the bullet parallel to the ground. Also, at 33:42, Adam calibrates the gun inside the hangar to again fire parallel to the ground, first using the laser pointer, then by firing at a target line 20 feet away. If you do the maths (s = ut + ½at², and plug in a = 32.17405 ft/s, and estimate the bullet has a velocity of 1000 ft/second, then t = 20/1000, = 0.02 seconds, so s, the distance the bullet drops due to gravity is about 0.0064 feet, or 0.0768 inches, ie about 1/12th of an inch, which is negligible. So the bullet never travels along the parabolic path you describe where it rises along part of its trajectory. The bullet is *_always falling_* when it's fired parallel to the ground. So, for this myth, it doesn't actually matter what the sights on a rifle (or hand gun) do because the sights are never used. Best Wishes. ☮

[@gbulmer]

@JimboDaBimbo-my9mx A bullet fired at a target 100 yards away will drop. Assuming a rifle firing at an average of 2000 ft/s, then the bullet is in flight for roughly 300/2000 = 0.15 seconds. Plugging that into _s = ut + ½at²_ gives _s,_ the distance the bullet has fallen, as 0.3619581ft or 4.3 inches. So the gun needs to be aimed 4.3 inches above the target to 'hit the spot'. With a rifle firing at 3000ft/s, travelling for 0.1 seconds, the drop is about 2 inches. Those are enough to need correction on small targets. The bullet will rise about half that distance, under 2.2 inches (2000ft/s) or under 1 inch (3000ft/s), on its path. Best Wishes. ☮

[@3AnxiousFerretsInATrenchcoat]

Anyone else see the difference between the bullets by eye alone? - it tripped me up hearing the "37ms is faster than the eye can see" bit, so i did a bare minimum of math, and if anyone has ever experienced the difference between 30, 45, 60, 75 and lets say, 120 fps gaming, here's a factoid: if 37 ms would be faster than the eye can see, That would mean you shouldn't be able to tell any difference past 27.027 fps. (1000 ms in a second, divide by 37 ms to get the total number of frames, you get 27.027) If you've ever noticed the differences in fps yourself, even if we go by 60 vs 75 fps, you'd be at sub-14 ms. Even worse if you go full 120, youd be anywhere between 13.3 and 8.3 ms of "eyespeed". I know this myth (ironic, aint it) used to be repeated by console players when those couldnt push past 30fps to dismiss higher fps gaming, but i figure almost anyone by now has seen that the difference is indeed detectable. Sure, you might not "see" an individual frame (you couldn't identify the contents of an image if it was shown only for 1/60th of a second on a 60hz monitor) you can still tell that something has occured/changed.

[@danielmadar9938]

😂

[@DoRullings]

I'm a huge fan of Mythbusters and have been since the first episode aired, but the fact that they included things like "blow/knock someone's socks off" which is a saying and not a myth annoyed me then and it still annoys me now. There are so many myths Mythbusters never tested that would be far more interesting than this nonsense.

[@timthompson7205]

Did I always misunderstand the bullet myth or did they? I always thought the bullet was supposed to be shot straight down. While one was dropped at the same time

[@tomeidt7057]

You misunderstood the bullet myth. Bullets don't fall at supersonic speeds by gravity alone.

[@robmckennie4203]

Comparing a bullet dropped with a bullet fired downward seems like a much less interesting conundrum lol

[@timthompson7205]

@@tomeidt7057 I've always heard about this myth from the military. Eg. Guy shoots downward and drops bullets out of a helicopter. The one shot then weighs less and has more friction through the air from being shot so fast. The ones dropped have a higher terminal velocity because they weigh more. I thought that's why this myth could never be tested. You would have to find the right gun/bullets and the exact height to shoot/drop from. It could take years to figure all of that out. It could probably be done but would be way harder to figure out than what they did. What they did was kinda the same but a much simpler version. Either way it's basically the same thing, they just found an easier way to test it. I don't understand who would ever question the myth their way. If you're shooting while standing there where did the loose bullet come from? Who would ever question if they hit the ground at the same time. If you're in a helicopter bullets could roll out. Someone on the ground might question how an unfired bullet killed someone at the same time as a fired bullet. The way they did it makes no sense.

[@tomeidt7057]

@@timthompson7205 a fired and unfired bullet weigh the same unless they different bullets. falling bullet has a terminal velocity " the maximum speed at which gravity can pull the bullet through the air" it would reach that speed very quickly, a few seconds. A fired bullet even from a small pistol is going to travel hundreds of yards straight down before it even begins to slow down to the speed of the dropped bullet. The dropped bullet would never be able to catch up. There was another episode where they tested the terminal velocity of a dropped bullet. You'll be shocked at how slow it is.

[@timthompson7205]

@@tomeidt7057 they don't weigh the same. You should not ever speak, you're dumber than a deaf mute with down syndrome. The gun powder has weight you dumb fuck. There is such a thing as wind resistance, which is stronger at higher speeds. You're just like a woman, you don't have a brain but you're always arguing.

[@graceybfrg]

Hurts my soul them just ramming that gorgeous van 😢 vanlifers today would have payed big money

[@goatah]

Hell even classic guys like 3rd gen econolines, hurts my soul.

[@houseofsaudisthebeast]

grant passed away after the filming of this episode rip

[@e.p.4767]

I mean , the sheer stupidity of these guys... The dead one had a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from university of south california, (....) and still couldn't figure out why punching the dummy in the chest (while trying to knock it's socks off), was not the same -in terms of momentum - as hitting in in the jaw like he did it with the nitrocannon fist. The hit was in a completely differnet axis... so the dummy's feet were not accelerating the same way in these two tests.... But no. Why would they know anything from highschool physics? It not like they entered university....

[@ostapchovgan1115]

Why the disrespect? You clearly know Grant's name 🤔🤔🤔

[@heathergarnham9555]

They are scripted, and need to make it easier for the average person to understand. Answer the question the average person would ask.

[@-danR]

it's differnet highschool

[@Ryan_the_dawg]

With the pendulum thing and knocking busters socks off I feel that upwards motion is the key because that's what the nitrogen cannon was doing it was pointed straight up under his chin and socks naturally come off by sliding down the leg its not going to come off with sidewards momentum

[@skyborne80]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@Ryan_the_dawg]

@@skyborne80 I like finding like minded people 👍🙂

[@kkloikok]

Except a spinning bullet does generate lift.

[@andrewcao1526]

I love the bullet myth