Will A Bullet Light A Matchstick? | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 1 | Full Episode

[@pticatori]

It's like I'm 17 again, I'm at my parents house, watching mythbusters, everything is good, and the world is so much simpler. Gosh I miss those days.

[@aliancemd]

I don’t think it was simpler for your parents, it’s just that they handled all the difficult parts of life.

[@RonPiggott]

Time has a funny way of changing life. Sometimes for better; Sometimes for worse. I have felt this as well.

[@abe-danger]

for me when i was, like, 10 XD

[@NVPhotography]

same here

[@paddyj7690]

Same

[@chriscothran8744]

It's so good to be able to see and celebrate Grant and Jessi at work, they are deeply and dearly missed by us all.

[@adamhalcyon3393]

Whenever I watch these, my brain cant help but to think about warning them to what would happen in the future. You just wish you could. It's like that when I see pictures of people I've lost along the way too.

[@santherstat]

I can't believe they're releasing these ... it's like a dream come true

[@gabrielv.4358]

they were everywhere on youtube, until misterious disappearing

[@Merennulli]

The problem with their methodology on the Gorn myth was that they used a red shirt on their Kirk analogue. That's the real reason the bamboo exploded.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Gotta agree. If they'd put a ripped gold shirt on it, that cannon would have worked perfectly.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

on a more serious note wasn't kirk on an alien planet? so how do we know it was bamboo and not some other type of material?

[@Merennulli]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 Yep, that's the usual argument for how it worked. The world was "prepared" by the Metrons specifically for their battle, which was the writers handwave for anything Kirk might find there like unusually large diamonds just lying around. So an alien super bamboo is just as reasonable.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 We don't know! But the Metrons created the battlefield for the purposes of the fight so maybe they populated it with resources familiar to Kirk and the Gorn captain? I mean, they recreated the Vasquez rocks. :P

[@TophTheMelonLord]

@@thomasjoychild4962 If they'd put a gold shirt, the kickback of the cannon would have ripped the shirt without harming Kirk.

[@iAmGrizzlyBear420]

It's nice to see the person running this channel seems to finally understand what the people want to watch. Keep it up!

[@_letstartariot]

Full episodes? On an official channel? What a blessed day this is!

[@sxnashivam0309]

An idea from taskmaster play book

[@brandnewdan]

"Nutted out a conclusion"...Such phrasing! 🤣

[@NoWay-cs9xm]

That's what the rape blob do

[@georgetazberik6834]

it was a different time

[@NoWay-cs9xm]

@@georgetazberik6834 when boys were blobs

[@funtourhawk]

I skipped the intro right to that part, had to stop and double check I heard right lmao

[@gabrielv.4358]

LMAO

[@anatoliileo6271]

One of the best TV shows ever and definitely my favorite one. ❤

[@gekfurian]

21:23 The amount of dust that came up when adam hit those pillows is concerning.

[@SomaFlly]

ewwwww

[@volkerracho5954]

lol wtf

[@zhukoh8244]

that was crazy

[@dylanclark1775]

Just imagine how many people have slept in that bed and nobody has washed the pillow. COVID really changed the world

[@sr-7124]

Bro went “ptuh puh” after too 😭😭😭

[@ericgorecki9347]

Back when TV had shows ppl wanted to watch 👍

[@zhabiboss]

Man, this show ended in 2016. That sounds like so recently but then I realize that that is 8 years.

[@zsoltbartus169]

​@InevitableOption-ic2vx because it didnt deserve to be loved. Even the Mythbuster Jr. was better with Adam and a bunch of science-nerd kids.

[@borntoclimb7116]

The bullet match test is awesome, the earwax candle is disgusting.

[@PlutoTheSecond]

Most of my favourite episodes are the ones where more than two myths are tested. I really wish they could have done this more often.

[@andy70d35]

Best show ever, RIP Grant and Jessi.

[@lancewalker2595]

Are they really dead?

[@cha0sniper]

@@lancewalker2595 Yeah :( Grant died to Covid, and Jessi died in a car crash while trying to beat the land speed record.

[@LeutnantJoker]

@@cha0sniper Grant didn't die of Covid, he died on an aneurism

[@jakem8155]

@@cha0sniper Yeah don’t know where you got covid from, he died of an intracranial aneurysm.

[@borntoclimb7116]

So true

[@matlerat1642]

Thank you for uploading the full episodes. I've seen all of them but they've never not peaked my interest.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

It's been fun watching Adam keep us up to date on his projects for the last 10+ years on KZbin. Also, I feel a bit guilty saying this, but it's also been fun seeing Adam be a bit of a curmudgeon at times, like he would poke fun at Jamie for back in the day.

[@SoloPilot6]

Consider the irony that Grant played Sulu in a series of Star Trek fanshows.

[@HeyFromTheVoid]

Its so amazing to see these episodes again! I grew up watching the mythbusters and they were a huge inspiration to me, enough so that I now am in my senior year of a degree in biotechnology with the intention of moving on to a graduate degree. They really know how to keep the spirit of discovery and the joy of science alive even all these years later.

[@christophermitchellsr9492]

mythbusters was such fun to watch . you made science fun from start to finish . the full episodes on here are just the best hope you do that more often . rest in peace Grant and Jessi .

[@RenatoSantino]

the earwax candle has to be the most disgusting thing they ever created on MythBusters, and that's saying something

[@codeyemerson3091]

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[@codeyemerson3091]

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[@codeyemerson3091]

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[@codeyemerson3091]

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[@codeyemerson3091]

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[@matthewlo7868]

RIP Grant Imahara and Jessi Combs…

[@rickcs7050]

Wait, what happened to Jessi?

[@matthewlo7868]

@@rickcs7050 Injuries sustained during a land speed record attempt.

[@Vidar_Odinson]

Damn, I didn't know she had died as well

[@UlisesBarrera]

True legends.

[@ChunkaMunka-z8m]

​@@matthewlo7868 wow. Sounds about right.

[@cptndltrne]

16:25 I always loved how the "all dry" harmonised with the background music

[@3van1993]

They missed the opportunity to call it a "Bamboozooka"

[@Freelanci]

The color of the burning ear wax is bizarre. That distinct red color is almost what I would expect from a lithium salt, not ear wax.

[@JonasHamill]

It's probably from the potassium and calcium in cerebrospinal fluid which could leak to the ear

[@Derfboy]

20:33 It lasted about as long as the candle in Shrek was on camera, lol.

[@PublicAtLarge]

Not only did the Mythbusters do the "lighting a match with a bullet" myth, @smartereveryday confirmed it too.

[@jojolafrite90]

Maybe if it was one of those old matches you could light on anything. They had the phosphorus mixed in the tips and not exclusively on that scratchy thing. Oh, well, that's exactly what they said too. And it worked. Wonderful, no surprise there.

[@ord_huntire8412]

Adam uses nail clippers. Jamie uses scissors 😅

[@adamwilliams7064]

75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur

[@AlexJosefson]

And mix it with alcohol, let i dry, brake it into smal pices. It burns alot better

[@derSchweiz]

Ratios - Multiple combinations are possible as there are 2 redox reactions taking place: 8KNO3(s)+5S(s)+5C(s)-->4k2O(g)+4N2(g)+5CO2(g)+5SO2(g) 4KNO3(s)+3S(s)+2C(s)-->2K2O(g)+2N2(g)+2CO2(g)+3SO2(g) etc... what coefficients did you use?

[@hondaben78]

RIP Jessi, will miss your amazing skills, forever. Best welder ever... Hope you are flying fast in heaven.

[@evanmorgan1926]

I hope these guys reprise their roles someday. There are so many KZbinr scientists that they could guest appear on!

[@AstrumG2V]

Thank you so much to the MythBusters channel owners for putting all these online for the public to see!!

[@tootired76]

RIP Grant and Jesse.... Jesse was the perfect stand in for Kari when she had maternity leave. God, I miss the Mythbusters!!

[@MrJimheeren]

Wait Jesse died to? What happened to her?

[@BlitzMekanika]

@@MrJimheerenland speed record racing. Her jet car crashed at over 300 km/hr. 😔

[@MrJimheeren]

@@BlitzMekanika oh yeah, I remember reading about that

[@tootired76]

@@MrJimheeren She died in a high speed racing crash.

[@antiquesrestoration3874]

OMG...a full episode!

[@StanleyJohnson-tf5el]

They didn't test with OGRE ear wax ;)

[@hrodga]

I feel like it would have worked better if they had processed the earwax.. beeswax has to be melted down and filtered before you make candles out of it, after all.

[@zhaneranger]

Yes!!!!! Please release more. One of my favorite shows ever

[@typical947]

1:02 what episode do they hit the dude with that fridge looking thing?

[@amsivertson]

I can’t recall the episode off hand, but I just very recently watched it here on this channel - one of the episodes where they tested idioms. It was season 6 (maybe 5 but I think 6) - and that myth was can you “knock your socks off” - just google that and you’ll find it.

[@j3tts0n65]

I’m so happy they are releasing these

[@zhabiboss]

Seeing Adam wearing thick gloves encouraging Jamie to put his fingers in molten lead is just…

[@fredhurst2528]

I am not usually squeamish but piles of collected earwax is not a pleasant sight. Glad full episodes of Mythbusters are finally hitting youtube, long overdue.

[@BrandonSLedford]

21:28 ... Was that anthrax the poofed up when jamie hit that pillow... Lol.. I remember seeing this when this originally aired

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Why would it be anthrax?

[@BrandonSLedford]

@@cdogthehedgehog6923 ..I'm just being a little hyperbolic. . Its likely was starch but at the time their was a big anthrax scare when this episode originally aired ..

[@NoWay-cs9xm]

Blob residue

[@sr-7124]

Anthrax 💀💀💀 GOOD night

[@adamhalcyon3393]

When I was a kid, I bothered my parents for an aquarium. They didn't want it in the living room so it went in my bedroom. The filter I used had a little "waterfall" for the filtered water to return into the tank. It made a trickling sound, and the first AND second night I wet the bed! I remember having a dream that I was sitting on the edge of a ornamental fountain and then, all of a sudden, I was sitting IN the fountain and I remember, in the dream, noticing the water was warm! Lol

[@gabrielvasquez1662]

The shot at 7:51 kinda trips me out knowing Grant and Jesse are dead. Rip to both of their lovely souls.

[@michelstoel2921]

Nobody warned me about the earwax candle

[@chrislaws4785]

The leidenfrost effect is definitely true, ive seen guys slap molten metal with their bare hands before and be perfectly fine.

[@kylejohnson3569]

My dad knew a guy who could shoot a pistol freehand and light a match at about 10 feet. He saw him do it many times. He also had a buddy who could shoot an aspirin tablet at 20 yards with a bow

[@paulcerny3805]

My grandpa did I was very young

[@WannabeWoodsman]

The powder made in this episode is FAR too weak to be a usable weapons grade powder. It was WAY too slowly burning. The ingredients needed more mixing (mill time)

[@markiangooley]

Someone I used to know claimed that he and 3 or 4 friends saved up earwax for several years in college and on graduation made and lit a candle that burned well enough but smelled vile. I am certain that most people have heard such a story from one of the supposed participants.

[@doc_artwork]

I think this is the best combo of experiments ever, all I'vewindered about, even got some star trek in there!

[@philgman]

i like how for the beaming sound they used a door fx clip from Doom!

[@Arc115YT]

"We've nutted out a solution" is my new favorite thing to say.

[@kingofnonation5843]

Lol 3 ingredients we won't tell you, "Dr.stone here's how ya make black powder"

[@hellboundrubber4448]

In 2013 Combs' 1st run across Oregon's Alvord Desert reached over 800 km/h!! She broke the 48yr old women's speed record by Lee Breedlove, 465 km/h in 1965. When she died in 2019 she broke the existing women's land speed record of 825 km/h set in 1976 by Kitty O'Neil Race in Peace Jessie!

[@MattWiggyWiggins]

"LET'S BURN IT!" **gives earwax determined look holding a lighter hahahaha...Jessi was so awesome. RIP

[@d4slaimless]

They didn't do the best with black powder. The easiest way was to look what remains after the sample burned - remaining component(s) is in the excess. Black remains means charcoal is in excess. Blue flame after initial flash - sulfur is in the excess. Finally if there's some melted mass - it is potassium nitrate. Adding step by step the deficient component(s) allows to fix the ratio. It is possible to get way better results (quite close to industrial product). And of course just grinding ingredients together is not enough to get the powder that they have in canister. The mixture they got left a lot of residue, by the looks of it too much KNO3.

[@lazlo4693]

god i remember this episode... its been so long since then.. just watching myth busters on my grandparents old tv...

[@drakkafiercetalon9866]

the real answer to the whole, "can you light a strike anywhere match with a bullet" has been answered by smarter every day with a .22 caliber bullet and a line of matches, the answer is "yes, yes you can"

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Yeah not first thouth.

[@NoWay-cs9xm]

They ain't got that blob

[@zakuraayame5091]

so you are saying smarter every day stole the idea from a 2009 Mythbusters episode that aired on Discovery cable channel?

[@drakkafiercetalon9866]

i wouldn't say stole, more like smarter every day was inspired by said episode and decided to try it themselves@@zakuraayame5091

[@SmithRowe-v6u]

The standard composition of black powder is typically: Potassium nitrate (KNO₃): 75% Sulfur (S): 10% Charcoal (C): 15%

[@TheRealJesusChristus]

44:03 Thats what she said

[@Lachskaffee]

21:21 - "Alright, sweet dreams!" * slaps all the disgusting dust out of the pillow * ... 😆

[@demomanchaos]

Reinforce the breech of the bamboo cannon better and it works fine, and doing a wet mix vs a dry mix like they used gives a much greater output

[@nervosuss]

I now wanna try send a coconut by airmail from Scotland and see if it'll get to his Tested mailbox lol.

[@lou5368]

can't believe they cooked that earwax without mask on. it's just on my screen and I'm gagging

[@Hexon66]

I don't know about the westerns, but the lighting of the match by a bullet is part of the ridiculous conclusion of the 1946 film noir, The Blue Dahlia. For some reason (and it's never really explained), the fact that William Bendix's character has the marksmanship to achieve that feat from 10 feet away, proves that he *couldn't* have shot the victim in the ribs at point blank range.

[@KelseyDrummer]

Omg I needed a trigger warning for that jar of earwax! 😂

[@solahifuefos9301]

problem with gunpowder is that you need to corn it, fine powder doesnt burn as fast as big chunks

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

for the kirk myth how do we know the cannon was made of bamboo it could have been made of alien wood which could be more dense or something.

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

I think the homemade gunpowder would have benefitted greatly from extra mixing & grinding, especially after they tested it in a better cannon that orange smoke at the tip of barrel tells me that a lot of sulfur was burning independently from the other two ingredients, making it a very inefficient reaction, when you make homemade gunpowder that way by melting it down with an oxidizer you ensure that each component of the reaction is well mixed. however while this works well for model rockets I would not suggest doing it at home, it is very easy to start a massive fire or even worse.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

The tips are White Phosphorus on top of the Red Sulfur.

[@uberschnilthegreat22]

The part of me that knows about lead poisoning was screaming when Jamie got lead onto his fingers

[@clseairsppt]

This was such a good show. RIP to Grant and Jessi

[@McMeatBag]

Awesome more full episodes plz

[@Ivanfbi]

I just realized I started watching this show like 20 years ago...

[@usmcMike05]

Personally, I like to think that the "bamboo" that Kirk used wasn't actually bamboo, but an alien plant that looked like bamboo, but was as strong as steel which allowed it to actually function like a real cannon (not blow up in kirks face)... they were on an alien planet, after all...

[@ExtremeRCReviews]

I almost can't watch this anymore.... No Grant, the groups split up, and it just makes me sad.

[@Weinertroner]

3:35 * uses a Springfield 1911 45 magnum to strike a bullet. * * takes a 17 hmr or a 22LR to strike a match*

[@koentenvoorde4929]

Yes, ot is a damn shame two such 2:21 young artists dead.Jesse knew is haf a deadly hobby - speedrace cars in Bonneville but things have changed😢

[@nakamotolikesyou]

Rest in Peace Grant and Jessi. Man this reminds me of simpler times. Better times.

[@MRblazedBEANS]

Man this show was sooo good!

[@tonyzed6831]

At 38:55 ... Was that Simcity4 music ??

[@FeralSB2S351]

Dang... feeling like I just got out of school on Friday and am waiting for my parents to come home with dinner.

[@johnmcleodvii]

I remember the time the camp dog chased a skunk into the head councilor's sleeping where the skunk went off.

[@chrisk5125]

The Gorn part was soooooo funny

[@shorttimer874]

From what I remember from reading an alternative universe novel many, many years ago once you mix your black powder you then need to moisten it, form it into cakes, dry it out, and the grind it back into powder.

[@Zappygunshot]

Having accidentally touched a piece of ~500C steel, I can confirm that the Leidenfrost effect is both really fascinating, and not at all protective. Essentially, the source of the water vapour is the insides of your cells, meaning that the outer layer of your skin needs to explode to form that layer. This happens so quickly that your flesh begins to visibly evaporate before you even feel the heat, and in my case the piece of steel started sliding out from between my fingers - carried on the 'cushion' of exploded skin cells - even before my reflexes could kick in. It was a really strange sensation, this insanely hot piece of rough metal feeling slippery like an ice cube. Now you might be wondering, why on earth would I pick up a piece of bloody steaming hot metal? That sounds like a really dumb idea! And you'd be right, it was - but the thing is, steel doesn't start to visibly glow red (in daylight) until it hits around 525C. Below that it just looks like a regular old piece of metal, no signs betraying that it is in fact very angry. I grabbed a piece of metal that didn't _look_ hot, and as a result I had a patch of dead, leathery skin on my thumb for months afterward to remind me that in a forge, you have to always treat _everything_ like it's hot. Only grab stuff with tongs, folks!

[@magsimags]

Adam and Jamie's pronunciations of Leidenfrost are hilarious different. Jamie's is quite good. Like far better than I expected. Adam basically switched the e and i and said Liedenfrost instead

[@drivingduck2234]

ita amasing how much the earwax looks like an Alheira toasted!

[@JeffreyPerrault-hk6xe]

I miss this show,also r.i.p.Grant and Jesse.

[@0INFERNO1]

The Kirk/Picard debate is Moot. It's Benjamin Lafayette Sisko. He's the coolest one.

[@DarkInos]

Based on the video with that russian guy just paddling in molten iron being poured... I would say that... the effect works 100%.

[@RichardNickels-ot6iq]

I Love Smith Busers

[@brknglasses2734]

Mat absolutely pissed the bed! C'mon!

[@GrimHellscream]

14:48 I know it's not but it kinda looks like Jamie sleeps with an open box of 5.56 lol

[@WindjumbieFPV]

I made many working bamboo cannons as a child, they are strong enough.

[@nothingmowslikeaherder]

can't wait for the water slide episode 😍

[@thejuiceweasel]

About the ear wax: fun fact, some ethnicities, for example, a lot of asians, have a different type of earwax that's dry and flakey, not like wax at all. Since Grant was of Japanese descent, it might be the reason why the doc couldn't sample any.

[@jamesnorman2061]

Nutted out 🤨

[@3gsFreak]

Mythbusters got me into engineering! RIP Grant. Wish I could afford things from the recent auction. Everyone from the show got me into that tech mind and lead me to FIRST robotics (Shoutout #1529). 💜

[@andrewschaeffer8147]

They put the gunpowder together wrong. When the episode first aired I googled how to make gunpowder. You mix it, wet it, let it dry, mix it again, wet it a second time and then let it dry

[@onestupidboi9320]

Well the point is whether Kirk could have done it, and he didn't have time to let it dry

[@bryanyankulov3162]

I Became A Fan In The 1st Show.. These Vids Are An Excellent Blast From The Past. 🇺🇸