Sonic Boom Glass Test - Mythbusters - S05 EP22 - Science Documentary

Join MythBusters as they test the myth of sonic booms breaking glass. From supersonic jet flybys to attempts at curving bullets, watch the team explore the physics behind these cinematic ideas. Witness high-speed shots, altered bullets, and a smooth gun barrel in action. Does a sonic boom shatter glass? Do bullets really bend? Find out in this thrilling episode of MythBusters!
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[@jamespfp]

40:28 -- RE: "Can I get my bike back?"; Best Mythbusters skit this episode.

[@harlyquin]

12:54 Adam is thinking "why am i pulling all these G;s when i only need to fly in a straight line to test a sonic boom, hell why do i even need to be in the jet?'

[@wingerding]

Ya they do multiple things every episode that have nothing to do with solving the myth. Got worse and worse as the show went on.

[@damonullerick6572]

26:25: That is my favorite high-speed shot they ever filmed. No contest. The way the glass shatters almost like a line of dominoes falling is just... *mwah* beautiful.

[@TaikaJamppa]

Gotta love how they play Danger zone when flying the Blue Angels’ jets - but in Mythbusters’ theme style! I swear I’m not hearing things…

[@callumjohnston858]

What's wild is that low flying sonic booms were evaluated for military application by the Soviets. They tried to maximise the boom and the area for the design, but the challenges wound up being too high for potential benefits. The theory seems sound though.

[@Lampe2020]

Ba-dum tss!

[@davidecorti3712]

Some time ago i read a story where an f-16 american pilot who was out of bomb but want to continue give air support to the troop on the ground used is jet sonic boom to scare and stun afghani troop

[@amrastheluckywoof5524]

Just 200 feet up? That is nuts! If anything goes wrong at that altitude and speed, it's over. It's a good example of "leave it to professionals", and even leave it to the very best of professional pilots.

[@borntoclimb7116]

It is great adam fly with the blue angels. The sonic boom sound is awesome.

[@wingerding]

Grandfather flew as part of the snow birds, the Canadian equivalent of wild flying acrobats. Crazy shit. Unfortunately never got to meet the man before he passed. At 40 he died of heart attack. I had my own heart attack at 28 so it's pretty worrisome. Broke all my ribs with cpr before they shocked me multiple times back to life. Don't remember a second of it but took me many months to recover.

[@SomaFlly]

@@wingerding hope you live many years!

[@joshuacalderon1837]

what I love about this myth buster youtube video is the narrator muffle voice like something is on his mouth while speaking

[@frankb5728]

They managed to screw up the narrator's audio stream but the actual episode is fine... it boggles the mind

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

I like how the pilot says "Ready, hit it!"

[@JacobConkin]

It's amazing to see just how much safety goes into this show when they're handling guns compared to the movie rust when Alex Baldwin killed someone because he was rushing and not using the gun properly. That movie had a higher budget likely than this discovery series and yet nobody has been seriously injured on this show

[@kungfudavie]

Apart from buster

[@wingerding]

I still feel it was the production staff that were to blame. Why did they give him a live gun, I highly doubt he brought his own.

[@CsibeBiGa]

The window breakage depends on the size of the surface. Bigger surface -> bigger chance of the breakage.

[@laughingoutloud5742]

I do not remember seeing this episode in Canada on Discovery Channel!

[@RealCadde]

It is not just the speed of the projectile, it's the cross section of the projectile that matters the most. If you fire a 16 inch projectile at sub sonic speeds, as it passes something or someone, it's going to wreak havoc on that thing/person. Just like a pressurized air nozzle won't do much to a flimsy house... But a hurricane will! And that one asteroid that came down in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Which blew apart and cracked windows for miles around. It's not the sonic boom, it's the magnitude of the pressure wave (which sound is) that will break stuff.

[@kungfudavie]

People say that. I’ve even seen an “ex army” guy talking about his 50calachine gun saying that anything within 2 feet of the round dies. Just full of crap. It might scare you or even you will feel the wind or get moved by it but unlikely you will get injured.

[@RealCadde]

@@kungfudavie If a candle can't "feel the wind" of a 50 cal passing within 2 feet then a person most definitely can't feel it. They can hear it and they could possibly feel the sudden shockwave as it's passing by supersonic. (And a high speed camera would also show the candle just ever so slightly flickering) You are of course correct otherwise. They can get scared or "moved" (as in muscular reaction to it) and the only way to get injured by a .50 cal that isn't directly hitting your body is from it impacting near you, sending shrapnel at you. A .50 can pass within a tenth of an inch next to your skin and you won't know it was that close. You can even cut body hairs with .50 and you would not even feel like you are having a shave. Of course, standing close to the muzzle of a .50 cal machine gun firing will do damage as the intense pressure in the barrel will exit there and can rip all kinds of new ones. But even a tank shell can pass by within a foot of you and you will be fine (as long as it keeps going), but standing within 30 yards of the barrel of the tanks gun when it fires can knock you down with a concussion or worse.

[@kungfudavie]

@@RealCadde yeh so you agree with everything I said great. Thanks for the detailed agreement.

[@RealCadde]

@@kungfudavie If that's what you take from it then i won't burst your bubble.

[@kungfudavie]

@@RealCadde thanks your a gent

[@xcoder1122]

The glass on the table was surrounded by an open space, so that the air pressure had plenty of room and pressure differences could equalize. But the house is a closed space. So if there is more pressure outside than inside or vice versa, the pressure can only equalize by making its way through the walls or the window. I know what you're thinking: what about the car? Isn't that also an enclosed space? Well, not quite. First, if cars were an enclosed space, the car doors would be hard to close, and smashing a car door could cause damage, so a car has multiple vents that allow pressure equalization between the inside and outside of the car. Also, a car has special safety glass, i.e. Car glass can withstand more pressure than normal window glass (it breaks more easily when hit by a sharp object, but not when hit by a pressure wave), and also consists of three layers, of which only the two outer layers are glass, the inner layer is clear plastic, while window glass consists of only a single layer of glass (even if a window has "multiple glass", for sound or heat insulation, these are separated by an air gap and do not form a laminate).

[@jumpman8282]

Yeah, even the side windows of a car are tough. Slow Mo Guys had Will Smith try to break one with a sledgehammer, but it just bounced off! But the car is as much an enclosed space as the cabin, because I don't think Jamie had a problem closing the cabin door either. The car was just sturdier than the cabin.

[@Lampe2020]

Isn't a whip crack technically also a sonic boom?

[@wingerding]

Not technically but definitely. Very interesting tool in the way it delivers it's force.

[@Lampe2020]

@@wingerding Well, I'd still call it "technically" because it's not a big badda-boom, just a high-pitched, loud snapping sound.

[@SomaFlly]

@@Lampe2020 no multipass..

[@Lampe2020]

@@SomaFlly What do you mean with "multipass"?

[@Sion_Revan]

Look up F-111 Low pass Evans Head range, they don't just shatter the windows, they nearly rip a roof off.

[@FuzzyTA11]

*finding out if sonic-boom breaks all glass* *wears glasses over eyes*

[@JacobConkin]

And remember when they say don't try it at home they're serious. Try it at a friend's house instead.

[@canadianoperator]

Testing the myth from wanted really should have been done under much more controlled circumstances lol.... That is SO dangerous to be flinging a handgun around like that.

[@wingerding]

They're professionals clearly lol

[@slumzz]

Yep this did happen in a town before, Three-quarters of the windows in an eight-block area of downtown were shattered by a sonic boom accidentally created by the Blue Angels.1969.

[@draco84oz]

In 1969? What planes were the Angels flying at that point? Were they capable of going supersonic?

[@swedichboy1000]

28:43 Reminds me of the Cleft from Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.

[@ii1bomberzzxx351]

Amen nba amen

[@RekkGaming]

Ahhh my left ear can take much more

[@chuckycheesesbday]

Same. Had to turn on mono audio right away haha

[@ArnoldRozeboomPot]

One of the reasons a bullet will probably not curve is because the rifling of the barrel and the shape of the bullet will prevent it from spinning in another direction. I wonder whether a slower ball bullet from, for example, a musket would curve, given enough spin.

[@sparrowflyaway]

A musket shot would probably curve, but not in any kind of way you could aim. Apparently those things were painfully inaccurate. So inaccurate, in fact, that some historians estimate 1 in 300 musket balls actually hit the target. If you look up pictures of musket balls, they're horribly inconsistent, all different shapes and sizes and deformations, all of which impact the aerodynamics of the projectile. So curving probably, accuracy not so much. And definitely not the magical 360° curve Angelina Jolie pulled off near the end of the movie. Also a lot of muskets had their smooth barrels replaced with rifled ones in the 1840's and 50's to be able to take more bullet-like ammo that was more accurate, so you'd need a musket that didn't have the barrel replaced.

[@StahortheDark]

No, when they tested steam machinegun, it launched balls from spinning barrel. It flew strait.

[@musicbruv]

@@StahortheDark Those balls were smooth and consistent spherical, unlike moulded musket balls of the day.

[@shadowripper6128]

only in america you can hear a gunshot before every other sound😅 strange why it kicks 🤔 did the baby get ear protection aswel? 😅

[@easygroove]

ROFL Curvin Bullest - in the top 3 of all StupidCrap which came outta holywood

[@wingerding]

It was science fiction man, they could also miraculously heal themselves and had super human strength and reflexes.

[@gabrielv.4358]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@Zidane43]

nice upload, but the epic narrator is only heard by the left speaker....

[@TheTyisawesome]

In Android settings you can toggle mono audio

[@gabrielv.4358]

just use an EQ extension and put mono LOLOL!

[@andretasse1607]

Really? A bullet behaving like a curveball? What kind of forces would be required to give an arc to a speeding bullet?

[@apveening]

I'd say a strong magnetic field would do it, especially when the bullet (or at least the casing) is of a magnetic alloy.

[@wingerding]

Non existent ones?

[@RealCadde]

Ok, for the curved bullet tests... They are testing it at FAR too short distances. ALL bullets curve... To the ground! It's due to gravity! But not only that, the Coriolis effect affects ALL bullets. Technically speaking, one could say they curve because of it, even if it's just the frame of reference that is changing. Finally, if we disregard both of those factors, every gun has a MOA where simple changing conditions in the alignment of the barrel and bullet inconsistencies and all other factors that isn't just down to gravity and the earths spin will make even the BEST gun not shoot true hole in hole at any distances. That is, not even in the vacuum of space in a gravity well will a gun hit hole in hole at significant distances. And since bullets aren't perfect shapes, they WILL deviate even if they are spinning and they deviate in random directions every time. All that matters is the distance you have to measure it and if you just have 50 yards of indoor firing range to measure across then that's just a fraction of the distance you actually need to see any effect. In short, they should have tried this at a 2000 yard range with a setup that would shoot on target at any rotational velocity. EDIT: Heck, fire a bullet under water and you can actually SEE it curve.

[@wingerding]

They were trying to confirm what happened in the film though.

[@RealCadde]

@@wingerding But they phrased it wrong, regardless of the movie, curving bullets is not only possible but an inevitable reality of physics. At the distances in the movie? NO! At further distances? YES!

[@gabrielv.4358]

I expected to see a SEGA Sonic BOOM LOLOL

[@micha0001]

Audio is bad on headphones: narrator is only on left channel

[@TheTyisawesome]

If android settings then you can toggle mono audio in settings

[@gabrielv.4358]

just use an EQ extension and put mono LOLOL!

[@xl000]

beggars can't be choosers.

[@danielmadar9938]

😂

[@jamalcolorado]

rip my ears :(

[@gabrielv.4358]

just use an EQ extension and put mono LOLOL!

[@nickes6168]

You're a god for editing out the cheesey voice over guy.

[@wingerding]

The narrator? Because he's talking the whole time.

[@cosmefulanito5933]

How beautiful is the F-18 It is one of the prettiest and most capable airplanes the United States made. Like the F-22. Beautiful. Beyond the usual catastrophic failures, like the F-35 in all its catastrophic variants. Poor Adam Savage. Can you imagine what would have happened if he had gotten on a real fast plane, like a MIG-25?

[@jaykaygxd8497]

Should’ve used real pig

[@scrivener68]

The bullet doesn't curve for the same reason David's sling-slung stone did hit Goliath.

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

The best part of the episode is how the split sound channels drive mad the uncultured philistines.

[@daniel-bg5nq]

Thinking the sound is fine makes you the uncultured philistine

[@gabrielv.4358]

just use an EQ extension and put mono LOLOL!

[@user-mi1km9bu2h]

Careful you don't get a cease and desist from Discovery Channel or MythBusters themselves

[@kikixchannel]

They own the Mythbusters franchise...

[@wingerding]

Lol they own it but maybe don't say shit like that if you believe something is pirated and want to continue watching it. Snitch man, snitch.

[@Leo_Aqua]

Double bust 😫

[@dbmaster46446]

demaged sound

[@manusb6441]

the sound was just as designed in the episodes lol just because you don't have surround sound now it's a problem

[@toweri_li]

Nothing to do with surround sound. This is just different soundtracks placed on different stereo channels on this upload. Probably the soundtracks are fully separate on broadcast tapes, to allow operators to mute unwanted narration, where a local language narration is dubbed over. In my country, where there is no dubbing, but subtitles with original audio, the narrator was placed in the center of the stereo image. Not on left-only.

[@daniel-bg5nq]

You're wrong

[@daniel-bg5nq]

If it is a designed, why is it only in the minority of episodes? Plenty of them are balanced correctly

[@TaikaJamppa]

@@toweri_li I really appreciate the countries that do no dubbing, but subtitle the show instead. I recall hearing the British narrator… and he was bad. Not badass, BAD.

[@gabrielv.4358]

just use an EQ extension and put mono LOLOL!

[@godzillagaming602]

Just another broken ass episode posted by someone who can't sync or proof listen to audio

[@wingerding]

Stop complaining and taking the content for granted. Would you prefer if it wasn't posted? You could also unplug your headphones.