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

[@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.

[@_letstartariot]

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

[@sxnashivam0309]

An idea from taskmaster play book

[@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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[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@anatoliileo6271]

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

[@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.

[@borntoclimb7116]

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

[@3van1993]

They missed the opportunity to call it a "Bamboozooka"

[@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.

[@matlerat1642]

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

[@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 .

[@cptndltrne]

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

[@Derfboy]

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

[@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

[@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

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

The Gorn bazooka was 100% Grant's idea. It had to be.

[@evanmorgan1926]

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

[@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.

[@AstrumG2V]

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

[@zhabiboss]

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

[@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

[@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)

[@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.

[@Arc115YT]

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

[@zhaneranger]

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

[@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

[@j3tts0n65]

I’m so happy they are releasing these

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@antiquesrestoration3874]

OMG...a full episode!

[@lou5368]

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

[@lazlo4693]

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

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

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

[@drivingduck2234]

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

[@doc_artwork]

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

[@uberschnilthegreat22]

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

[@nervosuss]

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

[@chrisk5125]

The Gorn part was soooooo funny

[@DarkInos]

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

[@WindjumbieFPV]

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

[@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

[@Erdnuss222]

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

[@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.

[@0INFERNO1]

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

[@ExtremeRCReviews]

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

[@Univhorn]

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

[@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.

[@GrimHellscream]

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

[@jays_jae]

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

[@RichardNickels-ot6iq]

I Love Smith Busers

[@Ivanfbi]

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

[@MattWiggyWiggins]

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

[@clseairsppt]

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

[@dylanclark1775]

no ppe when melting lead is crazy. I miss this show so much

[@konstadinosp.]

Finally Byron is replaced !

[@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😢

[@sorvads]

"I think we've nutted out a solution" is a line that did not age well lol

[@vadenk4433]

I used to light matches with my Winchester model 90 .22. If they busted the "myth" I was gonna call bs

[@FeralSB2S351]

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

[@richardh8082]

"Space bamboo" is obviously stronger

[@Teddy-mj9wd]

LEAD LEAD!!!!

[@KelseyDrummer]

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

[@EllAntares]

It's not necessary blackpowder what it was. There are dozens mixes that can explode .. some actually ignite on contact with water but are inert when apart

[@chrisruffino5168]

The mission was doomed the moment you sent out a red shirt.

[@markoaks8694]

Perhaps the bamboo was stronger on the planet the Kirk and the Gorn were standing on

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The Metrons knew what they were doing, putting fight resources into the "arena" for Kirk and the Gorn captain to use.

[@bamikroket]

Are they forgetting that Alien bamboo is way stronger?

[@wingerding]

They wouldn't have had any Gorn samples with which to test on so I don't think it's really fair to blame them for that.

[@Haarschmuckfachgeschafttadpole]

RIP Grant and Jessi.

[@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). 💜

[@JeffreyPerrault-hk6xe]

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

[@MyPisceanNature]

This episode almost literally made me vomit when it originally aired. The earwax candle makes me gag just thinking about it. Nothing else I have ever watched has even come close to that reaction. I had to skip over it watching this 😂.

[@breannahidalgo6328]

Rip Grant and Jessie

[@riftlee]

"nutted out a solution" jfc

[@georgemckenzie7524]

You going to need a shot wad to keep exploding pressure from leaking out the front of the barrel

[@kronckew]

In the mid 1960s, aboard a training ship cruise we tried this on a cadet who was disliked by all. 03:00, with his hand hanging over the edge of his rack, and snoring, we raised a bowl of warm water and immersed his hand. We left it a few minutes and left. At reveille, we all jumped out of bed, and saw the victim had indeed peed himself. He dropped out a semester later.

[@Okurka.]

Still proud to be a bully?

[@brknglasses2734]

Mat absolutely pissed the bed! C'mon!

[@TheRealJesusChristus]

44:03 Thats what she said

[@hpw.9582]

holy crap, these are an here now? This show was my childhood.

[@rudolphaswad8723]

not sure if @smartereveryday got his inspiration from Mythbusters for their bullet match video but I sure am good both of them did it especially with the better slow-mo from smarter every day

[@McMeatBag]

Awesome more full episodes plz

[@christianterrill3503]

Man this show was sooo good!

[@Deltawhiskeymike]

Smarter Everyday "lit a match with a bullet" just because of this very Myth Busters episode (albeit, just a little bit differently 😂)....

[@vernlemasters6504]

My family used to light matches with a 22 rifle. I know it can be done.

[@jamesnorman2061]

Nutted out 🤨

[@katherinerichardson2273]

I think the prank only works on some people and probably not on adults as kids don't have quite the same muscle tension we do

[@timbrown3171]

Oh how I missed seeing Jessie combs lol. Had the biggest crush on her when I was younger lol

[@OneTheSane]

RIP Jessie

[@cpless2006]

***Smarter Every Day***

[@georgetazberik6834]

23:10 I suspect that the bed wetting from hand in the water thing might just be people who are really drunk or super insane tired or yeah, the bowl of water gets spilled and that gets misidentified as pee.

[@fennecfoxmusic]

21:22 umm are we not gonna talk about that dusty af pillow

[@tonys2287]

This is so entertaining. Im sitting here grinning all the time. That would be a quite good idea for a reboot. Please do it. Though everybody will miss Grant of course. Go and get you creative asses back on track. Neither TV nowadays or YT or anybody else could provide that great content. I really hope you guys need money.😅 Come back please.

[@codyhughes4472]

“Should precipitate this bed wedding)

[@bryanyankulov3162]

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

[@kalythai]

Eating lunch while watching the ear wax sections was probably a bad idea.