A strike-anywhere match can be lit if grazed by a bullet fired from a gun. They discovered that dimpled golf balls could fly almost twice as far as smooth balls. Unable to find the necessary facilities in Alaska, the Build Team instead settled for a test location in, In their first test, a blindfolded Jamie (wearing proper protection) stepped on a banana peel while walking, but did not slip. It took Tory four seconds using a hammer and crowbar to break a. He died in a construction accident on December 20, 2009.[7]. The creators of the video sought the advice of LEGO Master Model Builders and claimed that they gave them the one-million piece estimate, though the company claims it never gave them such an estimate. A 2-disc set, this Mythbusters Collection 11 brings you 10 episodes and more than 7 hours of scintillating scientific mayhem. In the control test, they put the untouched dip and salsa into. Meanwhile, Jessi bored out a thick bamboo stalk to use as a cannon barrel, which the Build Team wrapped with ropes to duplicate the episode more closely. The MythBusters concluded that duct tape was a viable temporary repair method when applied in dry conditions. Adam and Jamie began with a control sample of 1,000 cans, cleaning their tops and turning a pack of rats loose for 90 minutes to urinate on them. The Build Team was brought in to determine the terminal velocity, based on one specific type of skydiving suit and the diver's body position. businessman", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MythBusters_(2009_season)&oldid=998004337, Articles with dead external links from January 2016, Television articles with incorrect naming style, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, While a city bus is turning at 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), all the passengers need to move to the inside of the turn if the bus is to stay upright. Popcorn can be made by detonating a propane tank with high explosive. A wedge entirely made of steel was made and then installed onto a rocket sled to represent the snowplow. $19.99 ; View in iTunes. The ice melted significantly faster than the pykrete. ...hold on to the roof of a car with the windows up while the car was zig-zagging. ThomasTheil6767. The Mythbusters work to replicate the results of the snowplow split myth. In order to flip the bus, Adam and Jamie distributed all of the weight to the outside of the bus to shift the center of gravity, added steel weights to the roof to make it top heavy, and added a valve to deflate the left side air-suspension to further shift the weight of the vehicle. Jessi then suggested that the team add the hazard of an oncoming car's headlights, and to simulate them, Grant fastened halogen lamps to his old champion BattleBot Deadblow (nicknamed "Blinky" because of the headlights) and positioned it behind a turn before the next run. See what's behind Adam Savage's "Doink!" FebruaryTVSeries. 00:43. New episodes return Wednesday, Oct. 7th @ 9pm E/P on Discovery! The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. Browse more videos. Adam and Jamie put a story of a prisoner's escape to the test, while the Build Team investigates a supposedly foolproof method for smugglers to avoid detection. 3:50. In the wind tunnel, it was determined that having all windows open seemed to be the best option, since it would provide the least stress on the structure of the house. Commenting that this difference was less than the duration of one film frame (shot at 24 frames per second), and thus short enough for the human eye not to notice, they declared the myth confirmed. The windows were up for all tests after this. Jamie and Adam were surprised too. The official MythBusters website lists episodes by calendar year. 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