Is Running On Water Possible? | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 30 | Full Episode

[@Xython88]

Just trying to imagine her thoughts when being strapped with a tail. LOL. "What did I sign up for...."

[@MrKastle09]

I appreciate Wallaces effort, can't say he didn't give it a good try. I think he was back for the Indy car special as well.

[@Games_and_Music]

Yeah he and Jessica were good sports.

[@MrWilliam932]

Hey Mythbusters, Would be nice to add in the description of each video the date in wich the episode was first aired.

[@audreydoyle5268]

You can probably google it, but yeah, I agree. It would be more convenient if it was either channel published or KZbin added it

[@danwarrjack]

“🧢💨📍 Agh” 😂 Any kind of emotion from Jamie is always fun to see

[@teruphoto]

The fact that some people believe water repellency is the same as buoyancy; faith in humanity not enforced 😅

[@Games_and_Music]

Hah, yeah, it's all about displacement, because you can still pull a water repellant balloon underwater, which according to their physics would have been impossible. They should've busted it before they got started, or redo the trick and explain how they replicated it, just to make them happy by letting them do the trick, but that would've been against the formula of the show i guess.

[@randomprotag9329]

@@Games_and_Music it does go against the point to not even start, the point of the show is to show the busting myths even if the one they are doing should be obviously busted.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@randomprotag9329 I know, but i meant more like, Adam and Jamie showing themselves doing the trick, and then going back and show to the audience how they got there. But yeah, that is more of a magic trick explanation kind of show. They love to "science" things, and the water repellant argument is just "bad science". With that logic, if you spray water repellant on a stone, it wouldn't get wet at all and you can skip it across the ocean. But yeah, if they started busting those parts already, then it just becomes almost ubiquitously impossible and futile to even keep going at it, let alone scaling it up. I laughed and enjoyed watching the episode though, so don't get me wrong, but it was clearly a filler myth, or an excuse to do the trick themselves.

[@Netbug]

Even completely ignoring the obvious physics angle, people really need to learn how to spot fake videos; they all have the same awkward and unnatural acting, editing, and camera work. Rather than looking like every other amateur video out there, they look like film student 101 emulations of hollywood movies. It stands out like a sore thumb, especially the snap zooms and forced shaky cam that are plugins half the time. I think reality TV messed up an entire generation... it blurred the lines and took away people's ability to spot a production.

[@borntoclimb7116]

​@@Games_and_Music correct

[@rusty911s2]

What a brilliant episode. Very much enjoyed that, thank you.

[@M139NG]

Poor Jessica.😂

[@Copper_Penny]

Aww... the end of this one was so heart warming with all the mirth and childlike enthusiasm.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Love the water walking myth. Incredible the brick wall is a good "shelter".

[@dmonarch4668]

Bruh you can even see the platform in the "viral" video lmao

[@psilorder86]

Wish they'd tested how long extra it would take to run around the dumpster rather than jump into it. And also how injured you'd get at that point.

[@aceca5147]

It seemed quite clear to me that in the clip the guy was running on a platform, until it ran out and he just sank like a sack of shit. I'm only 4 minutes in so I guess they're going to come to the same conclusion

[@Games_and_Music]

Yeah, even in the thumbnail you can see where the platform ends (the little eddy/flat spot in the water right in front of them). And the curved run up is solely to accommodate the distorted camera angle, to have the runner and the water in the same shot, as it doesn't make any sense to introduce centrifugal force to a "running straight out over water" ability, if anything it should reduce the effectiveness by being less stable and having less forwards momentum. It's not like they're mimicking skipping stones, because then he should be spinning around fatally fast, it's just fake all around, but it does look like fun.

[@ZoonCrypticon]

@13:25 that was a fake duck in the right lower corner.

[@thepoobandit2850]

All ducks are fake dude you gotta Wake Up

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@thepoobandit2850 Just ducks? I hear that ALL birds are fake... :P

[@jgg75]

Still remember seeing this when it aired for the first time and yelling at my tv, "NO YOU CAN'T RUN ON WATER, STOP WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME!!!" Still remember enjoying this episode regardless.

[@albertofui]

I would've put pressure disc just behind the first duster, to check the selected pressure wave

[@YooZeus]

im so happy i get to watch this on KZbin in bed in South Africa with just wifi connection and a smile

[@fugithegreat]

Shrapnel or shock wave may not be an issue from the wall, but a whole wall falling on top of you is bound to cause injury or death in itself, just saying.

[@mvargasmoran]

I would like a better contraption than the shovel blades, something way smaller, maybe just elongated shoes, I'm talking about skis, but just small enough to let you run at top speed, just to "feel" the added buoyancy on the steps.

[@mirceamihai94]

RIP Grant Imahara. We will remember you!

[@dgthe3]

Should have brought back their test subjects for the final run

[@davissterling1724]

I can't believe that I'm now just realizing that this episode is pretty much the walking on water part of the Ninja special. Trying to make shoes to walk on water 😂

[@blaggercoyote]

I think that "viral" video had a walkway just under the surface, which they finally arrived at.

[@jgg75]

13:40 "Spearman junior..." What the hell...?

[@Mr.-V.C-]

"Air is technically a fluid" -Grant Imahara r.i.p

[@audreydoyle5268]

He truly was a special human

[@kyuofcosmic]

Wallace and Jessica seems like a pair of good sports; not everyone is willing to splash down in duck poop water. Even with a furry-adjacent tail! I don’t mind the viral video myths, there’s something fun trying to unpack if something is real and what left of field idea might work if it isn’t. Failure is always an option

[@Sethioz]

running on water doesn't work, but you can make an illusion that you run on water for 3-4 steps. instead of a fast runner, you need a long jumper. basically what you do is make a jump before you hit water, but you manipulate your body and feet in a way that it appears that you're still running, but actually it's the jump that keeps you "flying". you should get 3-4 steps out of it when done by a professional. those "viral" clips were obviously fake, they had some acrylic underwater

[@ImIoOImI]

if they only listened to clarkson. it's speed and power, not speed and agility

[@gregkirby9059]

General ZOD watlked on water in sequel to superman 1978

[@LaraCroftCP]

Damn, Jessica is stretchy! I definitly have to train again.

[@lorenzolofi]

A human running on water i would say indeed busted if you look at the weight and size compared with the speed and the proper feet (something close to flippers or what salamanders or frogs would have) someone would need to accomplish that.

[@josephtortona824]

The walls have no reinforcing bars

[@calumsanderson6741]

I'm so used to KZbin that when Kari was talking about the possibility of the car moving and flattening someone trying to hide from a bomb blast, when she said "smash" I genuinely thought she was going to say "that like button"

[@lewilewi1800]

Personally hiding behind a car id sit behind the the engine block more mass and metal in-between me and the explosion

[@towmater1287]

That lizard runs as if Phoebe Buffay were a lizard

[@jinstinky501]

Running on water? They should try breathing underwater. What a waste of time.

[@bernardkriel1]

The shovel shoes were upside down!!!!

[@avus-kw2f213]

24:34 water is denser than people

[@hankrhill324]

I don’t care what those discs say… 9 out of 10 people wouldn’t survive at that 11ft mark

[@Games_and_Music]

That waterwalking video is so fake, it makes absolutely no sense for them to suddenly sink when they're going the same speed and running the same way, that cutoff just isn't logical. The Jesus lizard can do it because of its light weight, big bendy feet and spreading the weight directionally from left to right, instead of straight forward like regular walking. I'm pretty sure Mythbusters tried the Jesus lizard way at some point, because i thought that it was this episode, but i guess the other waterwalking episode was about ninja myths. Jamie was cracking me up at the beginning though, the "you know me, i'm right there", "It may not look like it, but this is me stretching, getting all pumped up and in the zone". EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it is this episode, hah, i was too early with this comment. (actually no, i was picturing them at a pool and Adam wearing some tennis racket like shoes, and wooden flippers or something, which i guess were ninja tools or something) 29:23 Really?... wow, this is season 7 and she still thinks 3 pounds of C4 (OUTSIDE of the car) will blow a car away?? Wow!

[@Legion563]

A good chunk of the myths they test are only believable if you're a child or a moron. I'll prob get hate for this but let's be honest Kari wasn't brought onboard for her brains eg, I thought they where all qualified engineers or similar qualified etc but she only has a Bachelor of Arts in film and sculpture. She was hired to make it less of a sausage fest and for hot nerd eye candy...who isn't going to like the smoking hot red head 'nerd' goth chick.

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

Well, starting from Season 7, it was when Mythbusters had started to fall down, technically, Season 5 even. Season 4 was their peak.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@ichiroutakashima4503 Yeah, i personally also always liked season 4 most, although i can't really put my finger on why. It seems it is still "raw" enough in 4, before the production changes, even though there's still a couple of clunkers in that season as well, and i do really like some of the later season episodes as well. It's only since i've been watching them on this channel that i've seen the majority of viewers also say that they liked season 4 the most as well, so i guess it is universal.

[@kamalalsb7292]

Oh sure, but the thing I love about Mythbusters is that they'll periodically do Myths like this where something is clearly bullshit - and then after proving "well this is bullshit" most of the episode is them being like "so hypothetically how could you ACTUALLY make this work?"

[@00tensonam]

i really wanted them to try light weight strong material and try to find balance. what they came up with was disappointing.

[@MrValis169]

Pretty sure you can see one of the boards at 44:04 in the bottom right corner

[@desel8737]

3:42 micromimic says no, mouth says yes

[@silvokristensen9982]

How did production greenlight this???

[@Aj-om9nm]

How did they green light testing myths? Bro, did you read the title of the show?

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

if you want to run on water you just need to be a 1970s / 80s Hong Kong movie star who works for Shaw bros. or Raymond Chow

[@whovianhistorybuff]

So the wall will save you from the pressure but not from being crushed by a wall.

[@K3M15A]

re: the block wall weh de steel?

[@soberedgy4453]

problem with using the jesus lizard as inspo when making footwear is the lizard also uses its tail as a sort of propeller to both keep balance and to push forward, their feet basically just slap up and down like if you were to cup ur hand and slap the water , the wabbing just traps air to posh it off the water

[@markco_3419]

Who are the mythbusters?

[@krokodil191]

Adam Savage and...

[@TommyPrins]

1st contact with water can never be downward/landing if you want any chance of succes

[@Games_and_Music]

Yeah, water already isn't known to be very walkable, and regular walking already is a kind of fall/land motion to begin with, it does not help to add more momentum to that. But they seemed to eventually ignore the reflex to jump when crossing into the water, but yeah, it's obviously impossible to do with just our plain feet anyway.

[@TommyPrins]

@@Games_and_Music a sudden burst,with short,fast steps,combined with plastic flaps on the side of the shoes would be my best guess

[@Games_and_Music]

@@TommyPrins Yeah, in an ideal situation i also picture "speed and power", which i can't help but hear in Jeremy Clarkson's voice. But "realistically", it would be something only the Flash could do. I'm not sure if we would need flaps (i assume that means something that can bend), as i think that we're too heavy and slow by ourselves to make use of bendy parts. Considering we also need to move at really high speeds, maybe something more rigid would do better in that situation. Maybe inflatable shoes with a smaller footprint with equal "buoyancy" that the flaps could have, it would be cumbersome either way. I could swear that they've tried these things somewhere else as well. But yeah, the lizard also moves like a water wheel, the feet point sideways and scoop into the water to get purchase, because it can overcome the weight/surface ratio that we lack with our strength. The tail keeps it upright, which also allows it to keep scooping his feet, and it's basically in freefall while running, because a lizard cannot walk upright without using its tail anyway, although some people believe in lizard people.. It distributes its own weight more widely, our legs are too close to each other to spread the weight efficiently like the lizard does. Obviously, we don't have the hips of a lizard to do proper wheel motions. Our natural way of running is like a circle saw in comparison to that. I really don't see a realistic way for it to be possible with human strength alone, especially without any modifications. Our shoes would need to be like 20feet, sticking out to the left and right, distributing our weight sideways perfectly, but somehow not adding any weight and also be extremely durable and rigid. If possible, we would look like stretched out water wheels, really wide pointy shoes, which would be ridiculous.

[@TommyPrins]

@@Games_and_Music instead of a tail,maybe some wings at elbow hight,and try it on a windy day....flexible flaps,but not soft like flippers...

[@gregkirby9059]

movie REMO williams an Asian guy ran over the water

[@kolasikandar]

here's a q: is it better to stick one of ur fingers in ur ears, or to cover them with ur palms when a bomb (c4 or bigger) goes off?

[@Wings_of_foam]

They should turn the shovel shoes the other way around. So much for big-brain Hollywood science lol.

[@Games_and_Music]

I think they might become too "sticky" with all that surface on the water, and they might get full of water as well, making them more heavy. It might work a little better if they ditch the running altogether and basically try to use them as water skis or skates, but yeah, that's not what the myth was about. Or, keep them as they were, but adding vents in the back to maybe disperse a bit of the air pocket, to make it feel less like you're standing on a slippery air bubble (like the tail might be doing, adding a little drag to keep them stable), and also make them less sticky, by using the air inflow to push the water out when pulling them loose to make a next step. Then again, it probably looks more like walking on quicksand, when the one leg that wants to go up pushes the other leg down without ever really breaking loose, until you're stuck all the way. It needs a LOT more speed and power, as Jeremy Clarkson would say.

[@chucktesta7192]

Sure, that would absolutely make a difference....

[@Ellerion2]

In my opinion the running on water was achieved by placing something they were running across just below the water level, like a plank or plexi glass slabs. The only creature larger than insect i ever heard of running on water was a lizzard ( i think it was called basilisk). By running fast enough and the feet being large enough, it was just enough for the lizzard to make it. Humans are way too heavy for this, so the video was fake.

[@daemonburns-waight2421]

@JimboDaBimbo-my9mx Calm down ya bimbo!

[@bghoody5665]

Adam @ 19:50 "Speed is definitely not a factor." Adam @ 35:29 "Speed is probably one of the most critical factors."

[@alexandercz.4218]

Is Running On Water Possible?🤔 Jesus: Hold my wine ...😊

[@Games_and_Music]

People do carry a lot of ... wine for him.

[@hiddenxalpha7053]

Right but we're trying to bust myths, not agree with them

[@TommyPrins]

add some soft plastic flaps to the shoes....cant believe the bad ideas this episode,or the lack of physics with the running

[@DrBarbequeSauce]

Agreed. Jamie's cart, Adam's tail & his focus on slapping the water are all ridiculous

[@swedichboy1000]

39:03 Why not use real bricks instead?

[@danielmadar9938]

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