Did Benjamin Franklin Discover Electricity Through A Kite? | Season 4 Episode 8 | Full Episode

[@swedichboy1000]

These old Mythbusters seasons are cozy.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Agree

[@cammos]

Yep reminds me of better days love it🙏

[@triannaclarke1554]

Agreed. Literally the only way I can fall asleep atm. Not in a bad way in a way like they calm me down. And the old seasons always work best

[@RipperTips]

As a tested viewer it's wild to see younger Adam

[@Tjescoo]

Was about to comment how I love the lack of explosions

[@mituindal]

"Voice of the Toothless One" - I'm so keeping that

[@KandiKlover]

Butt Burp 🤣

[@KLUCZESIA]

Sounds like a Dark Souls boss name.

[@danwarrjack]

That kite was spiteful! 😂 Poor Tory

[@christiaanvorster1988]

This Narrator is Gold!

[@neverendingproductions7171]

Tory, Grant and Karey laugh as though they're close friends. Loved them in The Rabbit Project.

[@darci5478]

Please keep up the uploads, loving having these to watch

[@gabrielswee585]

Sadly, some episodes will randomly and mysteriously go "hidden" after a while, or possibly be taken down... Most of the seasons on KZbin have lots of missing episodes.

[@darci5478]

@@gabrielswee585 oh man, that's so sad

[@robmckennie4203]

it's insane to me that they put adam in a cold bathtub. they couldn't have gotten warm water? throw an immersion heater in there?

[@AstralAnimater]

37:23 WAIT! I see Tory back there about to mind control Jamie!

[@robertagostino629]

It's sure depressing that we used to collectively be so enthusiastic for the concept of fact checking, it was light entertainment on TV.

[@JonatasAdoM]

The program is literary based on things people believed without any scientific backing. They put the myths to the test.

[@Damaged7]

What are they checking facts against? The point is there isn't any to check, which is why they are testing.

[@AISBERGgg]

are u ok ?

[@Stroheim333]

Franklin never made the experiment. And by lying about it, he killed a number of people who tried to replicate it.

[@MediaArchive2-z9f]

One guy I heard had a metal ruler and the lightning bounced off it and zapped him to death and leaving just a huge scotch mark. 😮

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Flatulence is often blamed as a significant of greenhouse gases, owing to the erroneous belief that the methane released by livestock is in the flatus. While livestock account for around 20% of global methane emissions, 90--95% of that is released by exhaling or burping. In cows, gas and burps are produced by methane-generating microbes called methanogens, that live inside the cow's digestive system. Proposals for reducing methane production in cows include the feeding of supplements such as oregano and seaweed, and the genetic engineering of gut biome microbes to produce less methane. Since New Zealand produces large amounts of agricultural products, it is in the unique position of having high methane emissions from livestock compared to other greenhouse gas sources. The New Zealand government is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol and therefore attempts are being made to reduce greenhouse emissions. To achieve this, an agricultural emissions research levy was proposed, which promptly became known as a "fart tax" or "flatulence tax". It encountered opposition from farmers, farming lobby groups and opposition politicians.

[@Foxtrott_4]

And it isn't even a problem because it dissolves in air into H2O and CO2 which is exactly what plants need to grow, it's a perfect circle. The real problem is burning carbon based substances like coal or petrol that have previously been bound in the earths crust and not circulating in the atmosphere. And even that is not the biggest problem we have, we should be more concerned with plastic and chemical pollution.

[@jimf1964]

@@Foxtrott_4 I largely agree. Chemical pollutants are the real problem we have. The co2 in the air now is something like 1/40 (guessing that number from memory, but I remember it was pretty large) of what it has been in the past. With the tiny increase we've had we’ve actually had a "greening" of the planet has started. Deserts are getting smaller, and more plants are growing. All that co2 that was sequestered that you mentioned, was mostly in the air way way back. It’s all from plant and animal life. Remember elementary school when we were all taught about dinosaurs, and giant plants that covered the globe? Plants need co2. Green houses often instal co2 generators to make the plants grow faster and bigger. The air we breathe now has so little co2 that they don’t actually do so well. Co2 is not a pollutant, and to spend all that cash and resources on something they aren’t even sure about is worse than foolish. It’s being done on purpose for a goal. We would be far better served spending that money on fixing failing infrastructures than blaming it all on global warming.

[@Foxtrott_4]

@@jimf1964 I could not have said it better, I totally agree. Looks like I'm not the only one that figured out that plants grow better in a CO2 rich enviroment...

[@jimf1964]

@@Foxtrott_4 Apparently an area equal to the size of the US has re-greened in the last few decades. What made me begin to doubt the narrative was china. Countries have gone to war over things far smaller than the "end of the world", so why doesn’t the world go after such a huge polluter like china? No, they get a free pass. Why? Because it’s more convenient to let them pollute than do it here, so the politicians can look like they’re doing something? Or maybe because they’re just getting paid off by them? Hard to say why, but no way do they really believe this stuff. Hell, even Obama bought a $20million dollar home on low laying coastal land, so I guess he doesn’t believe it either.

[@zwippie92]

I thought that Franklin had the key up with the kite in the sky to see if the key would draw the lightning not weather it would conduct electricity or not. I mean, even in Franklins days they would know that a lightningstrike has a lot of power.

[@maasicas]

The difference between drawing lighting and conducting electricity is not as big as you seem to think. Infact maybe the exact same thing.

[@zwippie92]

@@maasicas Yeah but the difference here would that Franklin wouldn't have been near the key and a metal key discharges the lightning traveling down the string easier than just a string would if the key was with the kite high up. Or maybe Franklin wasn't even holding the string, but tied it up to something instead.

[@Goalsplus]

Actually Ben invented electricity and he stood on a nylon carpet!

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

These episodes are pure memberberries... I member why I had the biggest crush on Kari Byron when I was in high school 😍

[@MrValis169]

Memberberries is surely someone else's name for their testicles.

[@iAmTaki]

What a nice episode to watch during my lunch break.

[@gabrielv.4358]

frfr

[@qwadratix]

You don't even need a kite. When I was a kid I discovered I could draw sparks off a long wire antenna I'd rigged up for my crystal radio. I had to be really careful not to give myself a shock with it just picking up atmospheric electricity. It was only about 15 ft off the ground.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Sulfur and methane gas are noxious but sulfur dioxide is deadly

[@fatrobin72]

Finally... some good food on masterchef.

[@gabrielv.4358]

bhahahhahhha

[@leonneldayoc5715]

Adam and Jaime is so enjoyable to watch but those trio make it more so special. KAri, Tori and Grant is much connected to each other its too bad why the producer could'nt grant their request to still continue on mythbuster. Watchng Grant have fun on debunking on the myths with Kari and Tori really made us viewer miss him. I wish they return the mythbuster again even without Grant just Adam Kari and Tori will suffice.

[@TRUBSYT]

He experienced electricity most certainly did not discover it

[@docostler]

Exactly, he can be credited with proving _lightning_ is electrical, but not the discovery of electricity.

[@Emesh83]

This is like a lottery everytime... will mr Narrator be in Monospeaker this time or not?

[@Duhya]

I like how they gave the sidekicks the main quest here, while adam and jamie sniffed farts.

[@d4slaimless]

39:58 Methane, ethane, propane doesn't smell. So usually it is ethyl mercaptan added to a kitchen gas. So if there is a leak it is possible to smell it. Since the odor is very strong even for small quantities of ethyl mercaptan it is very effective measure.

[@LaraCroftCP]

Wasnt that the sulfur combinations?

[@d4slaimless]

@@LaraCroftCP While organic sulfides also have foul odor, it is ethyl mercaptan that is specifically introduced to a kitchen gas. The reason - it's smell can be detected in minute concentrations and very distinct. Sulfides might be more reactive or less intensive in smell, I don't know. If they are used for this purpose I never heard of it.

[@donepearce]

The person holding the string should not be the one trying to draw the spark. They are all going to be at the same potential.

[@bennu547]

I wonder why no one brought up chick peas. Sometimes my stomach hurts when I eat hummus. Love hummus especially with garlic. If I have it on its own with rice crackers or something, then I’m passing gas a lot more then I’d normally would. I’d eat yogurt to help with it cause it’s good for your gut anyways. If I’m not having hummus on a pita or something that’s with a bunch of different foods then I’d have hummus with yogurt. Like I’d have a snack of hummus and rice crackers and yogurt and strawberries. My stomach from my experience seems a lot less likely to get upset if I have hummus and yogurt But yeah I’m very surprised no one tested chick peas

[@MyHeartsBeat]

37:23 is that Tory with the mind control helmet in the background?

[@Eye_Make]

37:30 You can see Tory in the background with a camera crew filming the mind control helmet episode.

[@WMartinNI]

I have to question the methods and results of the suffocation by flatulence myth. Sometimes I can backwards breathe all night and have no problems but sometimes even one can almost choke me so I think they should have done more through research on the parts that make up the parp. Everyone knows the deadly ones are rare, but we all get them every now and then.

[@uriituw]

“…ring of truth…”

[@franepoljak9605]

Beans, cabbage, beer, boiled eggs, baloney

[@Ma_X64]

They determined the hydrogen sulfide content incorrectly - that's absolutely certain. Hydrogen sulfide dissolves well in water, and therefore capturing it with a water seal from clean water is completely useless. Either the seal should have been made of another liquid in which hydrogen sulfide does not dissolve, or the water in the water seal should have been saturated with hydrogen sulfide. However, the latter option would most likely have ended in death. Hydrogen sulfide is extremely toxic, since it leads to the replacement of hydroxyl groups with sulfhydryl ones, which breaks many enzyme systems in the body.

[@ShockingPikachu]

I cant belueve people get offended over farts 😂

[@jackarrossi9584]

I thought the same, never met anyone offended over farts

[@ShockingPikachu]

@@jackarrossi9584 Public TV so I guess bored housewives with nothing better to do. But I will say it's funny watching them try not to say fart

[@ek-nz]

Ah the 2000s. When you can show on TV a cartoon of one of the presenters being shot right in the head, but you can’t say the word “fart”. Innocent days.

[@MartinWillett]

I think they were allowed to say fart but there was a ration. One or two would have been fine but to do the piece properly they needed to use euphemisms or technical terms. Hundreds of millions around the world were taught the word flatus by this show.

[@LaraCroftCP]

Speak for yourself american! Continues to laught in german😋

[@LaraCroftCP]

Gosh, i thaugt that was a joke because you cant swear on American TV! You cant say fart? Thats pathetic, i thought that was the land of the free!

[@MartinWillett]

@@LaraCroftCP I'm not American. I think they were allowed to say words like shit, tits, fart or crap once or twice but not multiple times. That's enough for most television shows, but not when you are featuring such concepts and so you need to use poop, breasts, flatus and so on.

[@MartinWillett]

@@LaraCroftCP OK, third and final attempt, you can say those words in moderation, once or twice. But if you use them more than that the networks will not broadcast the show, as is their free choice to do. Advertisers expect the shows to maintain the published standards.

[@jimf1964]

I’m disappointed they didn’t try to light a fart….but I guess that would have been hard to film. 🤭

[@hexlart8481]

They keep saying "Kari's kite" but its literally a different kite each time LOL

[@ДмитрийАверьянов-у4м]

I think this is the most expensive duct tape ad in history.

[@SquallLion1]

22 videos hidden from the playlist unfortunetaly

[@LaraCroftCP]

My school actually thaught me that franklin used a copper wire for this experiment.

[@MigMonkey]

why does it say the rest of season 4 is "hidden" in the playlist? I need more!!

[@derGameplayDJ]

They have already uploaded them, but will publish them over time instead of instantly. Some KZbinrs find this more convenient than just-in-time uploads. Or maybe they want KZbin's algorithm to analyze it first, so they don't get an unjustified demonetization for copyright infringement.

[@mytch7968]

Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, so eat your beans at every meal.

[@neilperry2224]

Didnt franklin do most of his scientific research in the 'buff', not the hoff. Lol

[@Ep5ilion]

What I learned from this episode is that Benjamin Franklin wasn't US president, and that MythBusters never had vitamin C poisoning

[@gorgha3988]

I feel like for the fart myth they also should have tested all the gasses/chemicals together, along with adding the amount from the breathing part of the test. Might have come up with a much different result. I also could have gladly gone my whole life without knowing how often Kari farts every day ...

[@gabrielswee585]

06:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hellphy5521]

why did they had to censor fart ?

[@_J.F_]

Come on. Franklin did not discover or invent electricity. What he did was to demonstrate that lightning carries an electrical charge.There is a quite big difference.

[@bokami3445]

I'm posting this on July 13th, 2024.... RIP Grant Imahara, you continue to entertain and inform

[@HotQgav]

Can`t believe they can`t make a kite...

[@Aletheia-Media]

Other slang for trouser coughs, sayings pre and post guff. Air Biscuits. Food ghosts. Cut the cheese. Said when one let's fluffy off the leash. Step on a Duck. A shot across the bowels, warning of the impending launch of a brown torpedo. Butter ones cheeks. Keep shouting, we'll find you. Alexa, play the latest pop music.......pffffttttt. My next guest needs no introduction.....pfffffttttt. Speak up caller you're through. Turd burp. Airborne toxic event. Harmonic distortion. Sulphur DiBaxide. Arsecetylene. You'll have to pay for that now you've torn it. etc.

[@drewb427]

34:32 😂😂😂

[@Phyto.]

I'm sorry, only 3 farts PER DAY?

[@gabrielv.4358]

lmfao 34:34

[@marcwright8395]

Maybe they were box kites 6:34

[@CreativeWorkflowHack]

cant believe they didnt take protein shakes lol

[@markedis5902]

Got to be Heinz beans

[@atlasfeynman1039]

3:35 That's what she said.

[@h1murashi]

24:56 - that's a lotta pee.

[@jeromefitzroy]

Voltage is charge not current. Amperage is current. Thousands of kilovolts wouldn’t kill you, but a few milliamperes would.

[@NorwayT]

Benjamin Franklin may very well have drawn out sparks from a key hanging on a rope attached to a kite. If the kite was flying high on a day of lightning, it didn't need to discharge into the rope. The potential difference between the high flying kite and the ground would have been enough to discharge statics. Static electricity from such a storm passing overhead has extremely high voltage (electrical force) but very little current (number of electrons) compared to a lightning discharge - which has BOTH extremely high current (measured in Ampere) AND voltage (measured in Volts). This is an error on the MythBusters Team. If they had a Van de Graaff machine, say on the size of a Thunder Storm, they would easily have produced high enough voltage to see sparks jump from the key to something connected to the ground. Sparks with phenomenal voltage but with very little current flowing through them. The second source of error is that they tested this in a laboratory of an electrical company. Such a company deals in testing equipment for grounding faults from their grid. That means BOTH high voltage AND high currents, but not anything nearly as powerful as a lightning. And to test Static Discharges, this equipment is unsuitable, because it also delivers high currents. The third source of errors is in the Ballistics Gel they used AND their interpretations of the Data. First of all, since they made sparks with high currents instead of extremely high voltage with hardly any current, such as in a Static Discharge, it's no wonder they saw the Lethal Shock in the simulant's heart. A Static Discharge on the other hand could in extreme cases be lethal, but hee they cranked up the current to produce the sparks, leaving an invalid test. And then there is the ballistics gel. They didn't measure that for water and electrolyte content. So, in order to get a spark to jump to ground through - what I expect to have been a dummy with much, much higher resistivity than a human body - they needed a spark with much higher current than what Dr. Franklin drew off as Static Electriciy.

[@palkasalyami]

Bravo 👏

[@WardenXp1243]

He is consistent even when He farts

[@hanzelvasconcelos7903]

Eau de Colon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DAWS0NStream]

S tier 2000s TV. LOL didn't Tori actually reuse the fart catcher in Jackass 4? pretty sure he did, it was a Steve-O bit

[@Art.URO-LM]

Now the episodes of Archimedes 😊

[@RenanDavidSoriaAhumada]

48:40 in "Founding Fathers" from Trevor MOre he explained WHY he never got to be president, got Too Wasted to be President

[@smallbikesrool9581]

Should have learned how to fly a kite first

[@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100]

This episode is one of the ones that always stuck out to me as proof that tv ruins great things. Because they had to stick to the format, they said busted even though they proved the key was getting charged and shocked... the twine was probably on a wooden reel as was standard back then... so it would have been relatively insulated, allowing it to be shocked without killing the kite flier. There are also umpteenth examples of people struck by lightning who recovered relatively unharmed in the long term...

[@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914]

Kerry and grant (rip) seem like fun people to be around

[@siyano]

wow how can you regularly pass gas a couple of time a days, your eating habit must be poor because I barely do any fart once a week

[@lou5368]

lol you stupid or something?

[@damianbennett1214]

lol they couldn't say flatulence?? to quote adam about bubblewrap, fuck the world

[@92xsaabaru-]

They could say "flatulence." "Fart" was the banned word.

[@damianbennett1214]

@@92xsaabaru- hahaha thats even worse. my point stands lol

[@krsspr1032]

​@@92xsaabaru- for what reason is the word fart banned/a bad word?

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

@@krsspr1032 Yeah Discovery in those days was pretty ridiculous. Maybe because MythBusters was a science-centric programme aimed at children and adolescents, and some parents liked to make complaints.

[@danielmadar9938]

😂❤😂❤

[@Redmenace96]

Hold on. Ben's kite design clues were minimal. Doesn't that mean they were inconsequential and he didn't think he needed to explain it? Just get a book on kite making and make one. They wasted hours and film and 10 minutes of my life, trying to fly that garbage.

[@walenty2255]

no fucking way did they air this with those crazy strobe lights

[@Redmenace96]

There must be a pretty good body of medical research on this subject. It is a part of human biology.

[@christiaanvorster1988]

Why would he ad metal to a kite and a key if he did not know electricity existed in the first place to conduct from the rod to the key.

[@wuzzy41123]

12:48 PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING!!

[@Krizalid3YE]

They did the kites wrong in the first.

[@ariannem8629]

Co2 is life

[@Orphioux]

Legend has it Adam Savage was a farter long before he had children.

[@jaybee9716]

I never understood why they stuck with Kari Byron. Jessie and Scottie were much much much better. They were more like Tori and Grant's female counterparts and equally, if not more, hot.

[@jacobbroe5279]

Wow. Love the guys, but they have zeroooo idea how to make a kite 😁

[@neilperry2224]

I think we've become to pc, correct on YT, with you can't say murder but it's mentioned from 6am on tv news programmes. You can't say abuser abuse or killer, killed kill, etc. Come on, people, we're going on to the 22nd century and on people, but we're going backwards on our pc . We're more puritan than ever before, and that was way back in the 15th century. But l can see why Jamie wanted to hate Adam with insanity and throughout the show with his piss-taking and the inane agist jokes. But Jamie doesn't help himself with the stupid mystery previous jobs!! What was he, a hitman for the pasta industry?

[@gabrielv.4358]

LLOL

[@wekkimeif7720]

Yes Lightning can kill you, but if you are lucky you can survive it too. So this was super stupid test as everyone already knew that

[@Phyto.]

ok boomer

[@kkloikok]

The sleeping man who farted himself to death actually drowned in his own diarrhea. It wasnt fart It was liquid.