This episode Confirms my theory that the last 2 seasons are no longer about specific myths, but just 2 dudes with a large budget and an excellent camera crew. Lets just build something cool, what can you think of? "well I've always wanted to build a trebuchet..." They knew the game was over, so they were just having fun with it. And I'm all for that!
And while I miss the somewhat whimsical nature of the earlier seasons and the built team, the fact that Adam and Jame can pretty much experiment around, that Jamie seems much more comfortable, and even the intro scenes are great too.
28:02 "No plan survives first contact with implementation". It is said the German Field marshal, known as "Moltke the Elder" (Helmuth von Moltke) believed in a well developed, and flexible, series of courses of action for battle, would always be much superior, instead of a single rigid plan. He served in the Second Schleswig War, Franco-Prussian War, and Austro-Prussian War. He was aptly described as "an organized and tactical genius" fully demonstrated by his long service, in the Prussian military.
I love when they write don't try this at home. What?! I shouldn't bankrupt myself buying duct tape to reenact a myth busters episode! Don't tell me what to do!
As that kid who built a ballista with my friends in their backyard, I get why they'd put that disclaimer lol. If you are curious we had some old cross country skis we put together for the arms, some 2 by 4s for the body, and a rope and pulley system to load it. We shot the leftover ski poles into hay barrels until someone called the police. Luckily, I was smart enough after the first time we shot it to think, "Yeah the adults are not going to be okay with this, I gotta bounce."
When i was a teenager a few of my cousins and I had the bright idea to utilize the tractor, an ungodly amount of rope, chain, lags, and a few retired old telephone poles to build a massive trebuchet. We got about 4 rounds off shooting 2.5lb concrete shot we cast and hit over 650ft on the fourth. On the fifth we scored an even more impressive ~150lbs 20ft vertical as one of the legs that was buried 6ft deep ripped out of the ground right under me and gave me a taste of my own medicine. spent the rest of that family reunion in a wheelchair.
When I had to explain Mythbusters to my aunt, the thing that made her nod in understanding was "Remember that Easter when us kids had the big new potato cannon? And all you guys had to come running out to stop us just as [middle cousin] had finished getting into his hockey gear because he was gonna sprint across the yard and we were gonna see if we could hit him? Mythbusters is kind of like that, except with adults who've got a TV budget and an insurance company."
@@MostlyPennyCat pretty much spot on yup. As it went on that last shot one of the chains supporting the counterweight broke a link that i think had kinked without us noticing. The whole thing kicked kinda forward and over itself to the left. i was just behind on the right. the right rear main pole basically kicked straight up out the ground and caught me right atwixt the legs as i propelled to the heavens. soft tissue injuries and bruising to the left thigh and leg from that impact. balls surived by ungodly miracle. I'll never forget the moment i came to a stop with my head propably about 20ft vertical. That hangtime felt way too long. Plenty of time to consider just how much this was gonna suck. ice in the spine. i kinda just windmilled my arms on the way down and tried to crumple parachute style. kinda worked. My one knee made quite the noise as the mcl and acl went.
Wheels. I remember watching a challenge program years ago, might have been scrapheel challenge, or Brainiac, or something like that. Anyway, they had to build trebuchet to fire at a castle wall (which they also built). they couldnt get close. UNTIL, they took the brakes off the wheels. At that point, they didnt just hit the wall, they could fire over it. They worked out that in taking the wheels off, the trebuchet starts off moving back, but then shoots forward, adding loads of power to the throw.
@@krumuvecis cancelled due to production costs I reckon, even though the materials were "free" they still bad to pay for the junkyard rent and "maintenance" (navigation paths and others) along with portable supplies such as gas and other small things, which made costs skyrocket. I do recall there were some attempts to make something similar like crash labs, and later chain reaction, but all met the same issues and ran for only a few seasons.
Yeah really, I mean they're not strangers to polluting (all the stuff they blow/burn up is gonna release things into the environment) but even for this I expected something a little more "burnable'" - like an army of plywood cutouts
love these guys and the show, but I'm surprised they let them do this on a sill-in-use runway. looks like it was taking a toll on the surface. * just noticed crashes 2 and 3 were done on the side of the runway.
@@HappyBeezerStudios indeed, and if you set that in context to the episode, where they were hesitant about breathing air from an inflated tire, we have another irony right there
Any half competent carpenter could do this simply by cutting interlocking joints so the whole thing slots together and holds itself through weight and friction
What are the attitudes to seatbelts in the US? I lived in the UK for a bit, and the bus driver became passive-aggressive when he saw me wearing one, saying I was indirectly accursing him of being a bad driver .... That being said, I didn't drive with other people, so I don't know if he was "the rule" or "the exception"
I can't remember if I ever saw seatbelts on a bus in the US. Maybe long distance coach busses, but they're optional. In Sweden, busses are required to have seat belts if they travel on the motorway.
In Finland, local line buses don’t have seatbelts, I recall at least 10-15 years ago when I last rode one (to school). But, LONG distance ones do, again, last time I rode one, they did. However, they aren’t mandatory to use. Also, as far as I know, one of the local school bus lines, one of the two that I used to ride myself, has the same vehicle still in use, with no seatbelts at all for passengers, and even standing spots in the middle section. Literally standing while holding onto a skii lift style of a handle, in a bus. Yup, am not even kidding.
INTO speech: "Seatbelt from duct tape" Doesn't matter if it protects you in a crash or not... A seat belt from duct tape is never going to fly! (Legally speaking) Also, what happens when you are plunged into a river and you don't have your cutting tool in reach? Real seat belts have to be operable even when you are hanging upside down.
If a rodent has chewed through the seat belt, you REAPAIR the seat belt with duct tape. You don't replace it with all duct tape. And yes, you can quite possibly repair a seat belt with duct tape if you weave it back together. And in any other case, the most effective repair would probably be to just tie a knot...
Maybe Adam need som fysik and math learning befor he can just calculate the right anser to his projects so instead of trial and error maybe do it right the first time? should have save so much money. Or just ask Chat GTP. to help you out... Adam.
To day's duck tape is crap compared to the one we had like 20 years ago .Today's crap is 4 times less good. than the old one. Stop saving money and stick to your deal. like the best Tape in the world.. Grrrr cause price gone up quality going down. again grrr
seen a test done on different brands of tape, and while there are differences, there isn't one "best" tape. Some are have better adhesives, some are more tear resistant length-wise, some are more resistant perpendicular, some are more heat stable, etc.
No, it's a trebuchet. The key difference between a catapult and a trebuchet is that the trebuchet uses a weight to fling the ammunition, where the catapult is powered by a compressed 'band' or some other thing that stores kinetic energy. To overly simplify, a trebuchet uses gravity, a catapult uses stored energy.
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This episode Confirms my theory that the last 2 seasons are no longer about specific myths, but just 2 dudes with a large budget and an excellent camera crew. Lets just build something cool, what can you think of? "well I've always wanted to build a trebuchet..."
They knew the game was over, so they were just having fun with it. And I'm all for that!
This format was not better, nor worse, just different.
In the past they also used to do this. In this episode they showed their other duct tape episodes for example.
Ya no actual myths being tested.
@@wingerding really?
And while I miss the somewhat whimsical nature of the earlier seasons and the built team, the fact that Adam and Jame can pretty much experiment around, that Jamie seems much more comfortable, and even the intro scenes are great too.
28:02 "No plan survives first contact with implementation". It is said the German Field marshal, known as "Moltke the Elder" (Helmuth von Moltke) believed in a well developed, and flexible, series of courses of action for battle, would always be much superior, instead of a single rigid plan.
He served in the Second Schleswig War, Franco-Prussian War, and Austro-Prussian War. He was aptly described as "an organized and tactical genius" fully demonstrated by his long service, in the Prussian military.
I love when they write don't try this at home.
What?! I shouldn't bankrupt myself buying duct tape to reenact a myth busters episode!
Don't tell me what to do!
As that kid who built a ballista with my friends in their backyard, I get why they'd put that disclaimer lol.
If you are curious we had some old cross country skis we put together for the arms, some 2 by 4s for the body, and a rope and pulley system to load it. We shot the leftover ski poles into hay barrels until someone called the police.
Luckily, I was smart enough after the first time we shot it to think, "Yeah the adults are not going to be okay with this, I gotta bounce."
@@travelbyfire8474 cross country skis you say..... hmmmm..... *furiously checking fb marketplace for old skis
When i was a teenager a few of my cousins and I had the bright idea to utilize the tractor, an ungodly amount of rope, chain, lags, and a few retired old telephone poles to build a massive trebuchet. We got about 4 rounds off shooting 2.5lb concrete shot we cast and hit over 650ft on the fourth. On the fifth we scored an even more impressive ~150lbs 20ft vertical as one of the legs that was buried 6ft deep ripped out of the ground right under me and gave me a taste of my own medicine. spent the rest of that family reunion in a wheelchair.
When I had to explain Mythbusters to my aunt, the thing that made her nod in understanding was "Remember that Easter when us kids had the big new potato cannon? And all you guys had to come running out to stop us just as [middle cousin] had finished getting into his hockey gear because he was gonna sprint across the yard and we were gonna see if we could hit him? Mythbusters is kind of like that, except with adults who've got a TV budget and an insurance company."
I'm not sure what happened to you exactly, but my best guess is the trebuchet leg kicked you in the nuts so hard you flew 20ft straight up.
@@MostlyPennyCat pretty much spot on yup. As it went on that last shot one of the chains supporting the counterweight broke a link that i think had kinked without us noticing.
The whole thing kicked kinda forward and over itself to the left. i was just behind on the right. the right rear main pole basically kicked straight up out the ground and caught me right atwixt the legs as i propelled to the heavens. soft tissue injuries and bruising to the left thigh and leg from that impact. balls surived by ungodly miracle.
I'll never forget the moment i came to a stop with my head propably about 20ft vertical. That hangtime felt way too long. Plenty of time to consider just how much this was gonna suck. ice in the spine.
i kinda just windmilled my arms on the way down and tried to crumple parachute style. kinda worked. My one knee made quite the noise as the mcl and acl went.
@@SPierre-dm4wo Brilliant description. Brilliant story.
@@k1ng5urfer Hear hear Bye. To bad they wasn't there with a high speed!
Wheels.
I remember watching a challenge program years ago, might have been scrapheel challenge, or Brainiac, or something like that.
Anyway, they had to build trebuchet to fire at a castle wall (which they also built). they couldnt get close. UNTIL, they took the brakes off the wheels.
At that point, they didnt just hit the wall, they could fire over it.
They worked out that in taking the wheels off, the trebuchet starts off moving back, but then shoots forward, adding loads of power to the throw.
Sounds like Junkyard wars to me
@@DungeonBricks that was a cool show, what happened to it?
@@krumuvecis cancelled due to production costs I reckon, even though the materials were "free" they still bad to pay for the junkyard rent and "maintenance" (navigation paths and others) along with portable supplies such as gas and other small things, which made costs skyrocket.
I do recall there were some attempts to make something similar like crash labs, and later chain reaction, but all met the same issues and ran for only a few seasons.
i doubt it was scrapheap challenge, the only trebuchet i remember from that self-destructed spectacularly after being overloaded
@@krumuvecis
Well, watch Scrapheap Challenge instead, we made 11 seasons.
the fact that adam is wearing a proximity suit but the crew nearby isn’t is hilarious to me lmao
Also, no head/face protection...
He was tasked with putting out fires on the machine if it broke out, which they didn't. Why woul bystanders need it?
29:48 you could use a variety of things, barbed wire for example would hold him in
Yesssssss love watching this show!!!!
Thank you for the multiple episodes ❤
Nylon fibre tape is insanely strong under tension, they could've done so much with that over the years.
What's your point? The meaning was to use silver tape
Or duck tape.
hey MythBusters , can you make a duct out of duct tape?
46:08 - You're Going to need a bigger Duct Tape Trebuchet !
Jaimie said: “applied in the right way”
That got incredibly polluting at the end
Sadly sharks are incredibly polluting by nature. It's the very reason the CCP turn them into soup.
Yeah really, I mean they're not strangers to polluting (all the stuff they blow/burn up is gonna release things into the environment) but even for this I expected something a little more "burnable'" - like an army of plywood cutouts
yeah I was cringing at the thick black plume of smoke
yes, but as soon as you pay your carbon tax it magically goes away..
@@cyborgar15 when we buy cabon credits it goes away....not.
46:07 OMG!! :) ... I 100% KNEW for sure!! .. That it was going to be an inflatable bouncy Castle !!... How wrong could I have been!! ??? :)
Should have filled the bouncy shark with Gas, lolz!
This is season 14 episode 11, NOT season 10 episode 1
The fact you know scares me😊
Your fun
@@Tubs-or-vendo His fun?
The seatbelt looked as though it broke on the bottom, and not at the shoulder Adam....
As I understand, Mythbusters filming production didn't numered episodes chronologically more than the release date.
Great episode
Applied in a right amount I'd say.
10:40 the cybertruck taking notes
i still cannnot believe that they just tell the myths....wait a second!
Bring them back !!
Does anyone know name of the show where a group of people built full sized ancient weapons using modern and ancient techniques?
love these guys and the show, but I'm surprised they let them do this on a sill-in-use runway. looks like it was taking a toll on the surface. * just noticed crashes 2 and 3 were done on the side of the runway.
This is not a "Molotov cocktail". This is just a jar with petrol. To be a "cocktail" there must be minimum one more ingridient.
40:06 turn the close captions on
In-fla-ted Shark doo doo doo doo 🦈 🎶
Some eg acetylene in the inflatable slide would've made for a literally explosive finish.
I have been looking for Grand Am front end plastics forever. Screw you guys!
27:54 .. Yuk! ) .. I hate getting greasy Engie oi on my hands! .. at least unnecessarily . I'd have power waked that old engine :)
i feel it would be stronger if theydrilled holes and put the ducttape ropes thru and tighten it w a squueze like they mentioned
Fiber reinforced duct tape should perform much better results.
And they also can iflate shark with some flammable gas 😀
How do you have so many episodes I haven’t seen?
Wouldn't a late model car have been a comparison of duct tape seat belt as the 40 mph may have not killed both busters?
After season 3 no more myths were tested, just some youtube (semi)viral videos, or plainly memes.
A small correction on where Boskalis is based. Boskalis' headquarters are based in Papendrecht The Netherlands
This episode was not sponsored by duct tape 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
if they taped the ducktape in U that rips like safety harnesses Buster would probably been fine
flamin awesome
Buster, taped in, has such wiplash, he'd lose his head!
look at that black smoke burning the slide. just before this episode, i watched the one about reducing a motorbike's pollution - what an irony... 🙄
and they got lucky the wind was blowing in the right direction, those were some nasty fumes.
@@HappyBeezerStudios indeed,
and if you set that in context to the episode, where they were hesitant about breathing air from an inflated tire, we have another irony right there
Any half competent carpenter could do this simply by cutting interlocking joints so the whole thing slots together and holds itself through weight and friction
must say it was good with Jamie and Adam but way better with all 5.
Yup
2016 wasn't that long ago; I'm surprised the producers thought all that intentional burning pollution was appropriate.
Well you’re right but in the grand scheme of things it’s not mythbusters who screw the climate
Yes the show would probably be woke garbage if on now - it's amazing how far we've come
What are the attitudes to seatbelts in the US? I lived in the UK for a bit, and the bus driver became passive-aggressive when he saw me wearing one, saying I was indirectly accursing him of being a bad driver .... That being said, I didn't drive with other people, so I don't know if he was "the rule" or "the exception"
I can't remember if I ever saw seatbelts on a bus in the US. Maybe long distance coach busses, but they're optional. In Sweden, busses are required to have seat belts if they travel on the motorway.
In Finland, local line buses don’t have seatbelts, I recall at least 10-15 years ago when I last rode one (to school). But, LONG distance ones do, again, last time I rode one, they did. However, they aren’t mandatory to use. Also, as far as I know, one of the local school bus lines, one of the two that I used to ride myself, has the same vehicle still in use, with no seatbelts at all for passengers, and even standing spots in the middle section. Literally standing while holding onto a skii lift style of a handle, in a bus. Yup, am not even kidding.
Huh, weird. I live in the UK, have done my entire life, been on plenty of busses, never seen a single bus with seatbelts ever.
Pretty sure seatbelts are is just for "coach" busses?
Canadian buses have no seatbelts, either.
trebuchet s worked better when on wheels .the stress can be re routed and projectile goes further
Poor buster. Nobody likes more than 2 fatal car crashes in 1 day.
INTO speech: "Seatbelt from duct tape"
Doesn't matter if it protects you in a crash or not... A seat belt from duct tape is never going to fly! (Legally speaking)
Also, what happens when you are plunged into a river and you don't have your cutting tool in reach?
Real seat belts have to be operable even when you are hanging upside down.
If a rodent has chewed through the seat belt, you REAPAIR the seat belt with duct tape. You don't replace it with all duct tape.
And yes, you can quite possibly repair a seat belt with duct tape if you weave it back together.
And in any other case, the most effective repair would probably be to just tie a knot...
@@RealCaddethanks mister reality
@@RealCadde yeah, thought about that as well. How about just fixing the seat belt
no build team... no Mythbusters :(
I feel like, just when Jamie got over himself and become relatable, he'd killed Mythbusters.
Maybe Adam need som fysik and math learning befor he can just calculate the right anser to his projects so instead of trial and error maybe do it right the first time? should have save so much money. Or just ask Chat GTP. to help you out... Adam.
I don't think any AI chatbot of sufficient quality was around in 2016
Duct tape car 2009
I can just tell Adam was a bed wetter well into his teens,
Original "100mph tape" or modern day crap?
To day's duck tape is crap compared to the one we had like 20 years ago .Today's crap is 4 times less good. than the old one. Stop saving money and stick to your deal. like the best Tape in the world.. Grrrr cause price gone up quality going down. again grrr
seen a test done on different brands of tape, and while there are differences, there isn't one "best" tape.
Some are have better adhesives, some are more tear resistant length-wise, some are more resistant perpendicular, some are more heat stable, etc.
I guess this station is uploading EVERYTHING now since the rights are gonna revert? Huh.
Wait what? I thought the channel had the rights to the show?
Banijay has bought Endemol Beyond and holds the rights
Life of buster
Day 1 they love me
Day 100 KILLLLLLL MEEEEEE!!!
The burning of the waterslide at the end probably caused more air pollution than an average family in a whole lifetime.
Fast forward to 38:00
Finnish invesion Molotov cocktail
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The carbon footprint of this shw is absurd, Especially for California.
Science doesn't care about your comment
@@RubberfoxyI'm all for it. It's just absurd that California with all its laws for climate allowed this.
Are you kidding
The carbon is pretty negligible. What bothers me is the unnecessary air pollution they're creating.
They really ran out of ideas
This is basically a duct tape catapult
No, it's a trebuchet. The key difference between a catapult and a trebuchet is that the trebuchet uses a weight to fling the ammunition, where the catapult is powered by a compressed 'band' or some other thing that stores kinetic energy.
To overly simplify, a trebuchet uses gravity, a catapult uses stored energy.
@@cycoholic understood
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Oh my god, what an achievement. 🥳 Speech!
Sure do miss watching things like this on TV, when Discovery Ch wasn't a flaming pile of dung.
DUCK tape. genius
Titles and episode number are all made up by Banijay - Do not try looking for favorite episode.
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