Viewer Special 2! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 30 | Full Episode
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- In the second special, Adam and Jamie's inbox is opened up once more, and several myth-busting ideas from fans of the show are tested.
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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It's 2010, I'm at my dad's for the weekend and I have no responsibilities to worry about. I'm watching episodes of Mythbusters that he downloaded, and everything is right on the world. I love that these are available on TH-cam now!
Glad we all had the same childhood
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Whoever is running this channel, DON'T STOP!
... they posted this same episode 10 months ago ..
Yeah they're reposting episodes because the original posts were restricted and not viewable in the USA
Is every episode on here? @@michaelmayhem350
@@tanmaz8006 and?
Which is odd cuz the show is in the USA
This was a core memory growing up. Kari in a sundress cutting down a tree with a minigun, total boss!
I feel like the main thing for flint is how re-useable it is. Sticks are gonna be single use, two at best, and destroyed if you miss. Flint would last, and can just be attached to a new stick.
True, but if you don’t miss with a wooden stick you could resharpen quickly and you could do this a good few times before it became too short to use
@@polarisukyc1204 Not once it's soaked in blood.
Thegnthrand demonstrated the real advantage is bleeding from the wound channel
But also, if the arrow is “modular” the repair/reuse cycle might not include having to spend time to attach flocking.
Im glad these are getting posted on youtube. I used to watch these every week as a kid. I remember staying up all night watching the moose special.
The thing with stone arrowheads is that some people just like to fiddle with stuff while they're otherwise resting. When you've already gotten dinner, and you're sitting around the fire in the evening, chatting with your family and friends, it's not hard to just casually be making tools on the side.
also when you are trying to make flint tools, you will inevitably get a lot of small pieces that are perfect for arrowheads. and if you have nothing to do, might as well make some arrowheads with them. though it's always important to remember that we have no idea, we will only know if we go back in time and ask them. so we are all just speculating.
This was my thought, too. Primitive people wanted something cool to do with their time just like we do.
That is not it, at all. That is a very modern way of looking at things. They had no free time, there was always more work to do. They did not just spend hours doing stone arrow heads because they liked it. They did it because having a stone arrowhead could mean you kill a deer, while it would escape otherwise and you would die of hunger.
Okay, this is gonna be a long one, so strap in, notify your next of kin and grab a fresh pot.
Ballistics gel is a good flesh analogue for measuring the damage done by bullets. It is not a good analogue for measuring damage done by blades. It lacks the fundamental properties that blades use to cause damage. Ballistics Gelatin acts as a compressive block that a bullet or field tip (or pointy stick) pushes apart to carve through. This is very poor at measuring the multitude of intricacies of a blade through living tissue.
For a start, when muscle is cut, it loosens. When blood vessels are sliced open, the wound opens and blood flows out, lubricating the foreign object.
The broadhead is one of the earliest simple machines mankind ever created. A set of inclined edges to convert force into work far more efficiently.
A flint broadhead will cut the skin, enter the muscle, sever blood vessels (lubricating the shaft), carve a width’s channel through the entirety of the target and possibly (with a smallish/smaller animal or heavy bow) pass clean through and exit out the other side. Now you have an animal that is bleeding from an inch wide, full body pass through long wound channel, meaning they can be tracked easily to their final resting place if not killed on the spot
With a field point or pointy tip, the arrow effectively plugs the hole it makes. The flesh wasn’t cut, it’s been forced through, so it will be ‘grabbing the shaft’ as it passes, with less chance of hitting major blood vessels. This means the animal is more likely to survive the shot, lose you in the chase and survive until the wound gets infected.
So ironically, the performance of the pointy stick may be somewhat accurate, or even underperforming.
The only medium which replicates live flesh even remotely is live (or very recently deceased) flesh, which for obvious ethical reasons, Mythbusters can’t exactly do.
TLDR: Bullets and field points kill with Kinetic Energy. Knives, blades and broadheads kill with momentum. There’s overlap, sure, but point stands. So yes, there’s very good reasons you’s spend the hour to knap a proper head instead of sharpening a stick in 3 minutes.
I mean, just knowing that historically, stone arrowheads were used widely through the world is evidence enough that they are better than a sharp stick. If you test does not show it, your test is wrong. Obviously. The people of the past were not stupid, if stick was good enough, they would have used sticks. But its not, even remotely. Not even talking about how long a pointed stick keeps its sharp point, compared with a stone arrowhead that can remain sharp for ages.
thanks for the arrow murder knowledge LocalDiscordCatgirl
In the arrow vs stick theory, is it possible they used arrowheads, because unless they get a heart shot, it will likely bolt. Any movement of the muscles could cause more damage, the further it goes?
Nice to see some classic MythBusters here on TH-cam
On a stalled ski lift, you would run into the next chair on the lift before you got down.
lol yep!
(7:00) I have to agree with Adam that the flint arrowhead is causing more damage, which can be significant. The flint arrowhead might also fair better if it doesn't hit "square on"; I suspect that the wood tip would be more likely to skip off an angled hide. I feel like the makers of those stone arrowheads probably had time on their hands while waiting for food to cook or protecting kids or otherwise maintaining the home site while other members of the tribe hunted and gathered, plus I expect that a flint-knapper with a lot of practice could turn out arrowheads a lot faster than Jaime.
23:35 The Heavy Weapons Guy: It cost $400,000 to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.
Dewalt is going to love that end bit.
Flint arrowheads enter the body and, normally, cling to the inside of the wound. Kinda like a hook and loop. They also do an enormous amount of internal damage compared to a pointed stick.
A well crafted flint arrowhead is razor sharp and can cause a lot of internal injury to your enemy or prey while it tries to escape or fight you off.
I lived in Dr Gatlings mansion in Hartford for 3 years... I freaking LOVED that place, Dr Gatlings was a smart man. And no, sadly his mansion is NOT haunted. The mansion was split into 5 condos in the 80's and mine was half the first floor and a third of the basement, and the condo designers put the bedrooms and full bathrooms for my condo and the one next door IN THE BASEMENT! My master bedroom, master bathroom, and guest room were in the basement of the freaking Gatling mansion! My guest room and the unfinished parts of the cellar were scary, but the whole rest of the place is gorgeous. The developer even found 5 of the original marble mantelpieces wrapped up in the cellar, so there's one in each condo. The ceilings on the first floor were so high, my windows were 14 feet tall and didn't even go to the ceiling...
SO Sick! That Gatling Gun & all the spent shells piling up O.O It worrrked
It’s not a Gatling gun
Nevermind-
Ty for posting these outside a paywall. It's a flashback to my childhood I couldn't really afford otherwise (at least not legally 😅)
They left off that the pointed stick would tend to come out clean. The arrowhead is gonna cause any more damage if it's pulled out(intentionally or just caught on something as the prey runs away).
I’ve seen an experienced knapper make arrowheads, one after another, in under 5 minutes.
Thanks for uploading the same video again made me realize I need to rewatch them all
i didnt know bots watched myth busters
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@@ExpEcerlol u silly bot
24:18 one of the finest pieces of video ever recorded.
I think the issue for the arrow would have been wind,they never did it outside, and wind wouldn't affect them as much with an arrow head
As a bowhunter I can confirm this. Plus ithe weight at the front keeps the arrow straighter after a longer distance. We modify the weight of the arrowhead by the smallest amounts to improve accuracy.
@@colbygill533 yea thats basically what i thought,surprised they didn't think of this
Added mass means it’s going to hit harder
I think a broader arrow head makes an animal bleed. So that the hunters could follow the blood path if the shot animal ran away.
@@JaWilli96 Thats an interesting and valid seeming point
Sharp stick = animal runs away with your stick.
Arrowhead = animal bleeds out and you only chase it a few (hundred) yards.
One more point in favour of the crafted arrowheads is reusability. The a pointy stick will dull after just one or two shots (a little more if it's burnished), while a sharpened piece of flint can be used dozens of times, easily recouping the time spent by the campfire, knapping away.
Just a heads up, on modern arrowheads (which kill in the same way as a stone one) focus on edge surface area and sharpness because generally you’re trying to get an animal to bleed to death, the edges mean that more damage is done to more vessels, the sharpness is important because it does the most cutting as opposed to pushing blood vessel dense flesh aside
I would think the arrow heads were also more reusable, making the time it takes to make the arrowhead less of a consideration.
and somewhere out there is a guy who is saying
"Holy shit, i do have a mesquite tree that needs cutting down and i just happen to have a $60k gatling gun , wow, what are the chances" LOL
*mesquite
@@samcooper1761
Really ? OK, I've made the correction. Thank you
Neanderthals did not have youtube so they had plenty of time to make arrowheads...
You'd think so, but like most modern people you underestimate how much time it takes to survive without technology and large scale civilization. Free time literally didn't exist until the dawn of agriculture, and even then, only for a very very very very lucky hyper-minority of humans. It wasn't until the industrial revolution started to make tractors and the like that most humans didn't have to spend all of our time farming.
@@MeepChangeling They had plenty of free time. It does not take 16 hours a day to hunt and father food...There is evidence they painted on walls of caves...They built fires to keep warm. They did not spend all that time in front of a fire tanning clothes and cooking/eating...It is very likely they played games. monkeys/apes play games...There was lots of time there was probably a lot of food and much more free time...NEANDERTHALS DID NOT FARM SO THEY SPENT ZERO TIME FARMING... they prepared plants and cook "wild" plants...
@@MeepChangeling Neanderthals had plenty of free time. They spent zero time farming...They painted on cave walls(clearly had free time) ...they built fires what do you think they did in front of those fires? Monkey/apes have plenty of free time...They are not running around 24/7 trying to feed themselves...Neanderthals would be at least as capable as Apes/monkeys...Sure they lived in colder environments...But you get accustomed to the temps you live in...
@@MeepChangeling Sorry but anyone who has done a few hours with flint will make an arrow head in maybe 20 minutes. That aspect of this episode was absolute BS.
If you ever get the chance, fire an m-134 at 6k. It's amazing as long as you don't pay for the rounds
I'm annoyed they didn't test or even bring up reusability in the arrow head myth, because one of the major benefits of using stone tips is they last so much longer and the time spent making then could be repayed in not having to sharpen or make new ones nearly as often.
stone arrowheads can also damage bone much more than a sharp stick. The stone arrow is also more likely to stay in as the animal runs away, doing internal damage and killing faster.
Missing information on the arrows...
Weight.
Range.
Kinetic energy on impact.
The flint knapped arrowheads add weight, which helps them better overcome drag and windage to accurately hit the target at a longer range and impart enough energy at impact to penetrate to the vitals.
They did not test enough parameters.
I stoned tipped arrow will be more accurate over longer distances. It ALSO carries much more energy over those distances. which yall didnt check.
I know it's two decades late for production feedback, and I think this has been a discussed point for decades, but I'm not too fond of some of the sound editing inserting sound effects. More specifically because of that last one. I want to know what the real sound of the fire catching the keg sounds like, and if they DID use the real sound I wouldn't know because the whole episode set the expectation of edited-in sounds.
Thank you for making this valuable scientific show freely available.
knowing now that jaimie was pissed off about adams characters makes it so much more funny
What an awesome break from politics 😉
You know, when watching this show, I wonder how the Mythbusters' kids must have felt about their parents doing insano things like this. Like, imagine being the kid Kari was pregnant with while she was on the show! Imagine saying to your classmates "Yeah, while my mommy was pregnant with me, she was blowing things up!"
The sharpened stick arrows will get blunt much faster than the flint arrowheads.
why are stone arrowheads found more than wooden arrow heads? id say decomposition probably, though love this myth nonetheless
Because there were no wooden arrowheads. Or they were extremely rare. We would have found evidence if there were, there were stone age level civilizations during the time of the colonization. We know what they did, mostly. Wood is just not a good material for an arrow head, a stone is much better, whihc is why it was used until metal became easier still.
The ski lift myth is BUSTED because there's always another chair every 20 feet or however far apart they are. In order to be able to slide down it you would have to be the ONLY chair on the lift line which is not how ski lifts are designed lol
The production time of flint knapping vs stick sharpening was BS. First off Jamie has next to no experience, even an intermediate knapper will be able to make an arrowhead in a matter of minutes. You can find a multitude of TH-cam videos demonstrating this. Second off speed isn't a factor. Not only would there be designated tool makers who were experts in the field and supplied the rest of the group, but time isn't constrained. There is nothing else to do. Even if it take 10 times as long if it's taking up time during the day with a task instead of sitting around someone is going to be doing it.
Exactly what I posted to the forums when the episode first aired.
Biggest thing is the stick wound does not bleed while the flint one creates a wound that will bleed rather than self seal.
They missed a big point on the arrow head one. They should have asked a hunter.
even 5% better performance of the flint arrow is worth it. Production time doesn't matter. First of, our ancestors were proficient, while Mr. Hineman is a mere beginner - no offense - when it comes to flint work. Second, time they had plenty. They had no TV or social media!
I can't believe that they didn't realize that the point sic of the the arrow head is that if the prey pull it out it would cause more damage killing it quicker than if they just pulled out a shaft.
No Kari, mini guns are only known as MINI GUNS
Tory’s lowercase scream at 29:20 lol
i love this channel, but hate that more then a few videos are blocked in here the US by the UK
14:26 a skilled worker could make a flint arrow head much faster
Probably wasn't the safest thing of tori to take a chainsaw to a tree that potentially had metal fragments in it.
I think you missed testing the arrow's against bone in the penetration tests. I would think that the arrow head would have a better chance at breaking through bone over a sharpened piece of wood.
In days before Netflix spending hours making flint arrow heads probably wasn't a problem 😅
16:41 look at how small the ammo clip is 😆. Now I'm no gun expert but I don't think that is correct.
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Part of me wonders how a Browning M2 would have handled the tree cutting myth. It's a lot slower firing than a minigun, but the rounds are a lot heavier.
I remember hearing a story where in Normandy they used four brownings in an anti air configuration to down a tree a German sniper was using.
That is most definitely obsidian. Not flint.
The game they would be hunting has tougher skin and flesh than humans, and much tougher than the straw targets. A flint arrowhead will stay sharp whereas a pointed stick would need to be sharpened after every use.
Is MythBusters was a more modern show at came out recently, the secret location would have been revealed by 4chan in like 20 minutes.
A sharpened stick wouldn't survive until today, would rot or crumble.... whereas the flint arrow head lasts indefinitely.
My god Kari Byron and a Gatlimg gun = dream woman
It’s not a Gatling gun
Should have put "Acmy Powder company " on the barel
It costs $10,000 to fire dis weapon... for tvelve seconds.
alright... *WHO TOUCHED MY GUN*
The saw is the law
So I’m curious, since modern smokeless powders burns faster than old school black powder, would it still work? Or will it burn fast enough to where it can’t climb up? Something makes me think the slower burn helps each flake of black powder reach each other climbing up cause there’s no way the flow out the keg is 100% consistent
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Adam kinda overdid it in this one. I usually like his enthusiasm, but the fake teeth were too far
Yeah I was eating dinner and for some reason his teeth made me queasy. Weird.
The arrowhead was in case Ug wanted to shoot his neighbour Og with an arrow. The Oggster just couldn't pull an arrow head out of himself the way he could a sharpened stick
ah, when John Buster got retired and replaced by his cousin. Jack Buster!
Flinte making was a Art for for millions of years.
Newbe Flinte making cant compair.
human beings havent even existed for 1 million years
MOVIE: Tango & Cash, used a belt to slip line down. Would that work irl?
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Who the f... missed getting Adam dressed and painted?! :)
Would the stone arrows last longer?
Good point. I'd think that they would. Since they take longer to make, it would make sense that it would take longer to destroy.
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wait wat...
27:20
oh, ok
How does this channel get so few views?
jessie is cute
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You know what if you peed your pants, would your pee make it easier to slide down and perhaps help out with the integrity of the pants just like how if you get a shirt wet wrap it around two metal poles and stick a pole between it to act as a crank you can use it to bend the bars.
cable is too thick
.. why the same episode.. you posted this one 10 months ago ??
They've been doing this and I don't know why; they have dozens of episodes that are reuploads from their own channel.
Backups
Kari - sundress - Minigun
I paid for all the Mythbusters on TH-cam a few years ago and now they are getting posted for free. May I have my money back TH-cam?
Lesson = don't pay for things. 👍
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Same episodes over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I get the show is done, but there are more than 30 episodes to the whole show.
I’ve resorted to downvoting these reuploads. I love mythbusters but I hate reuploads.
You should see Kitchen Nightmares' channel (Gordon Ramsay) they just keep reuploading the most iconic episodes of the show with different funny titles, compilations for different topics, or just different funny thumbnails and ppl keep watching them haha, the guy running the channel knows what he's doing, surely MB would eventually do the same
This is not an official channel.
@@hectorcastillo3943 Meanwhile...Mr.Bean - a show which only ever produced 15 episodes - just reposts different combinations of those episodes on a daily basis. They have 30 million+ subscribers. lol
For some reason, it doesn't bother me. I think it's because they've held back 0% of the total episode bank.
There's something inherently funny about a chick in a dress shooting a minigun. 😆