Torpedo Time! | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 4 | Full Episode

[@heyitsmeagain6897]

You can rly tell that Jamie had a lot of fun this episode😂

[@TGPDrunknHick]

the more seasons they have, the more comfortable Jamie looks on camera.

[@sotakoira1390]

With my vast knowledge from years in Kerbal space program working with rocket science, I thought it was obvious from the first test that flew into the air that they should have reduced power a lot. Sad that we didn't get to see if the aim was good for 800ft, would have made a great shot. Still great episode, miss this show.

[@Wesguus]

Yes, indeed.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

My knowledge in KSP tells me that Adams mini version had it's center of lift not in line with it's center of thrust. It kept going to the right, he should've enabled symmetry. Or, well, adjusting the swimmers in the back.

[@DeiselTurtle]

Ksp wasn't a thing in 2010

[@sujimayne]

​@@DeiselTurtleWOW! You are such a genius for pointing that out!!

[@TheJaguar1983]

That hydroforming is amazing. And you can see Jamie loved experimenting with it.

[@RipperTips]

The cement truck is a certified historical moment for a subset of people

[@robertkiehn7459]

I’ve been sick in bed since Friday night this channel has saved my sanity this weekend

[@andr3sjms335]

That was a shame. The "torpedo" was a "Lifting body" without elevators in the tail, which caused the front to rise and the rear part to rotate backwards. The same thing happens to airplanes if the center of lift is much further forward than the center of mass this would cause the airplane to rotate backwards.

[@MrMarinus18]

To have stability you need the tail. On airplanes the center of lift is forward of the center of mass but that is counteracted by the tail which does the opposite. For the torpedo the shape generates lift on the water but that would flip it over unless you have something to push the body back down again which is what the tail does.

[@chibicat13]

“We have to hurt this boat!” My favourite quote in this episode.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Torpedo? That is clearly a UFO, and the fact that it tries to return to space proves that.

[@sebastianahrens2385]

47:35 There's something weirdly captivating about how the torpedo throws displaced water forward.

[@matt47110815]

An Episode i do not remember having seen before. Nice! 😊

[@touchm3]

I just love the contrast between their designs, style vs simplicity

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

Simplicity usually wins, too. Reminds me of the paper crossbow episode, where Adam won by making a very simple base design that managed to look stylish as hell too once he finalized it.

[@roelantverhoeven371]

that first torpedo is basically a lifting body... flat underside and curved upperside!

[@StaringFrog]

They should be ashamed of this level of alcohol abuse 😭

[@EsteemedReptile]

Oh hell yes! This was one of my favorite episodes!

[@Xenone83]

R.I.P. Grant Imahara, You were more loved than you may of thought. Xx

[@Sethioz]

ancient torpedo is 100% confirmed, they had all the materials and trust me, they had no TV or basically no other comforts, they spent their entire day on working on things, while mythbusters only did 1 short episode on it. if they had to work on it for years, they'd get it to work perfectly aswell. i'm thinking they could have used tethers to even steer it remotely and i think torpedo is too lightweight, it has to be much heavier to make it steadier. also i think those ancient torpedoes were not popular, cuz it wasn't practical. for example it's easy to counter by building a wooden "ring" around the boat, it would take the impact.

[@jamesleduke873]

In order for it to have been confirmed, they would need a verified historical reference to the torpedoes being used. That's why Adam says "barring a time machine."

[@desel8737]

4:38 USS Buster, Savage Class Science Vessel

[@chriswatson6231]

As Bogart said in The African Queen "there is nothing more complicated than a torpedo"

[@C8Canine]

Why they gotta sync his laugh with the music at 5:44 lol

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Ha well noticed

[@PexiTheBuilder]

From moment they told about rocket motor, was wondering are they aiming for another continent or boat in pond..

[@nervosuss]

Torpedo be like "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

[@Dakhaos-ou812]

That workshop is walhalla for people with a curiosity issue as I have

[@TheJaguar1983]

That first exploding champagne bottle was rather energetic. 🎉

[@Art.URO-LM]

Now the episodes of the death ray and Archimedes' steam cannon

[@LadyYT100]

In the case of the trailer and the exploding bottles and their corks, one has to take that some people tend to exaggerate what had happened, so taking that into account, I would have called it plausible, instead of busted.

[@thirdiprodigy3579]

19:32 Jamie out of context is wild 💀

[@nitfumble]

I feel like they should have done a statistical analysis of the likelihood of a cork reaching 100 ft. using their experimental data.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

I mean the other problem is that they are assuming the cork flew 100ft and didn't just roll downhill. they didn't bring up the shape of the crash site so it might have changed a few things.

[@alsternerd]

Putting a spirit like a Port alongside wine without added alcohol is a stretch. It's wine, but with a good part of added sugar and alcohol to transport it on wooden ships in the last 500 years to England. /european pov.

[@alexwainwright3592]

Can you upload the cement truck one please

[@thespegs]

You can see clips of it online

[@alexwainwright3592]

Rather watch the whole episode.

[@TheNukedNacho]

19:09 "while I beat on it with a cannonball welded on to the end of a jackhammer."

[@jeromefitzroy]

Those bombs are Chinese wedding jars

[@RonPiggott]

12:01 I don't remember her name but I recognize her face from James May and Oz Clark's wine in the United States season.

[@MarcosCodas]

I appreciate the reference to this duo! They were great in Toy Stories as well.

[@Foul_Quince]

Why would a Bordeaux or Burgundy ever be chilled?

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

I always wondered why they didn't compress the bottles in the wine launch. Each action has an equal and opposite reaction. Compression increases the velocity of the launched cork by focusing the release of the expanding gases FORWARD. Increased velocity, increased distance.

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Because it's glass?

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

@@JoeZUGOOLA And your insinuation is that any force at all on the bottles would instantly shatter them? Methinks you don't understand how glass works if that's the case. I'm not talking crushing weight. Just enough force to simulate packing the bottles tightly like many shipping companies would do.

[@ZoonCrypticon]

@28:10 first ancient cruise missile design going beserk! 😂🤣🥲😂

[@danielk9316]

the magical ingridient missing in the torpedos should be a gyroscope right? my dangerous half-knowledge told me this. i have to google this now.

[@charleediaven6278]

It needs a long tail feather!

[@artemisknightprotectorofth8956]

23:57 HE HE HE HE whoops🤣🤣🤣

[@_ld_G4m3rh4nd]

The wine was an warcrime

[@josephtortona824]

did the torpedoes filled "with explosives"?

[@renanmoura2125]

i hear it right? them dont just tell the myths

[@monofame]

Wait….they don’t just tell the myths?!

[@jayerjavec]

Mwaaaah, the French... champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence. There is a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired... by that same French excellence. It's fermented in the bottle, and like the best French champagnes, it's vintage-dated, so Paul Masson's superb...

[@PexiTheBuilder]

Champagne is only made in france, others are only sparkling wines..

[@bobmarley-ml7wn]

@@PexiTheBuilder They all taste terrible anyway, who drinks wine these days?

[@gbulmer]

The process and technology for Champagne were British discovery and invention! IIRC more than 40 years before Frances Champagne region adopted making it. The most important technology was bottles that could stand the pressure, created by British glass makers using coal fired furnaces vs French wood fired furnaces. The Champenois had considered bubbly wine a defect, but once fashion changed, they went for "bubbly" very succesfully. Best Wishes. ☮

[@uriituw]

🤘

[@VL-NY]

😀😀😀🚀🚀🚀🎉

[@brettfp]

Anyone know why this channel and banijay dont seem to upload episodes from seasons 2-4? Its only season 1 or like 5+

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

Upload schedules. Some episodes seem to not have functioning audio. Some had playback errors. Sounds to me like they've got editing staff working hard at fixing some of the issues.

[@gustavfn1]

Who cleans up?

[@saralexi1420]

Whoever it is, they're not getting paid enough.

[@MartinWillett]

I would like to see, just sometimes, a two second shot of the crap they made being cleared up afterwards.

[@KoriC4077]

Naw. I want a 3 min video of the entire clean up crew cleaning the whole thing sped up. From far enough away to see the whole site. Like watching ants work

[@gabrielv.4358]

i've seen it already

[@S4murai_Screwed]

BOMBS?

[@gorgha3988]

It always kind of annoys me when they use "Modern equivalents" for these tests instead of making everything period accurate. I know why they do it, safety purposes and all that, but even if it's an "equivalent" it's still "modern". Meaning it's going to have a lot of differences in quality and manufacturing process, etc. Which all invalidates the entire point of finding out if ancient people could do it.

[@jamesleduke873]

The modern equivalent and the period accurate rockets produce the same amount of thrust. We know they could build the gunpowder rocket, so the test is valid. The quality and manufacturing process is irrelevant to the physics.

[@FullOilBarrel]

why always plausible

[@jamesleduke873]

If the myth is "X did happen" and they only prove that it could have happened but can't find anything to prove it did, it's called plausible.

[@marklivesay1226]

First comment!

[@Shorts__Facts]

3rd

[@pakuma3]

Banijay already uploaded this one

[@alexwainwright3592]

And ?

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

Doesn't really matter. This channel is actually the sub channel for such content from Banijay. Some cannot access videos on Banijay due to geographic restrictions and this channel allow viewers to have access on that.

[@AdeptusCaeiusIII]

@@ichiroutakashima4503 I think they're pre-releasing some of them on Banijay, and then fully releasing them here. That, and they have the editing staff putting in work on the audio issues some of these videos have.

[@shanestapley9491]

37:16 The characters on Jamie's "ten and a half pounds of death and destruction" say "double happiness" 😆