@cheesycarrotsoup I believe that was thet purpose of the show, the only part of the last episode was the lady talking about how their episode on submerged cars saved her life
@@cheesycarrotsoup Thing is, i doubt anyone anymore subscribes for Mythbusters. They are good but not worth that much money. But the ads on the other hand.... These are getting bunch of views = ads = money and considering the series is decade and half old, it's pretty good.
0:40 that Adam savage intro is my favourite intro of his in all the seasons they did. Even better than "am I missing an eyebrow" and "I reject your reality and substitute my own" all classics but the rocket one is the best.
@@wheresmycar9559 confederacy were and still are democrats that were and still are globalists at heart. Confederates wanted cheap labour to stay in good books with the British.
@@wheresmycar9559 And they were actually very helpful for us, by stating in some of their constitutions exactly what they were rebelling about! Turns out it was the right to own and brutalize innocent human beings on the basis of them being black The prevalence of historical revisionism in this country is absurd, our education system is so broken.
It is fucking wild comparing this to the later seasons. Idk if they had insurance sitting in for this episode, and if they did I don't think insurance understood what was happening xD
@@Greippi10 They probably told insurance they were gonna test fire a rocket. They just failed to mention it was a theoretical replica of a Civil War rocket that was practically a bomb if they built it wrong.
48:29 Congreeve studied samples of Hyder Ali's rockets (developed 1780). An Ali rocket with one pound of propellant powder encased in iron had a range of 1,000 yards. By 1813, Congreeve developed the 12 pounder which could achieve a range of 2,000 yards but averaged 1,400 yards. The primary advantage of military rockets at the time was not range but rate of fire. By 1850, Congreeve rockets were replaced by Hale rockets with ranges up to 2,000 yards. The primary weakness of rockets was limited shelf life. The "long range" rocket described by Jefferson Davis had a brass case, rendering it incapable of achieving the range of iron-cased rockets. At most, it was a short-lived fireworks entertainment for Confederate VIPs.
Hahahahaha it was a different time! It's absolutely insane thinking about it now, but back then I thought "well these guys surely know what they are doing!" They did not know what they were doing! These guys are literally the people who are paid to figure out and experiment on how to create cool stuff for films and tv that nobody else did before! But this was also the first time stuff like this was widely televised and became so popular, so that we get to see the whole process!
There are a lot more episodes available on this channel if you use a VPN and connect to Australia. I’m glad they stopped region locking these recent releases because it’s so nice to see these old episodes again.
@@PlatoonGoon Yeah it's for plausible deniability, they made some level of effort so when a moron blows themselves up and the family blames mythbusters instead of the idiot himself they have something to point at. Really they shouldn't need to, dumb people will do dumb shit and we shouldn't withhold information from everyone because of that, but that's how the world works.
I think this might be the same as with the Sturmtigers 'rocket propelled morter rounds', cause this does exactly what a morter would in a battle. But yes, this would probably be exaggerated.
@@mortenhansen3455Yes it is. Synonymous: Another word for, to say in other words. Sex: Of or relating to sexual content or activity. Erection: A common shorthand to refer to an erect penis. Penis: A male sexual reproductive organ. Erections are synonymous with sex. Erections for studs could mean putting up a wall, sure, but ask yourself what you're more likely to be talking about when to refer to studs and their erections. It's okay to grow the fuck up. 😊
Remember, this originally aired on cable television and was largely targeted at a younger audience. Obviously adults are free to learn all about how to make bombs. They didn't want to just tell a bunch of kids how to make napalm in the kitchen.
@@chrismanuel9768one day they were going to find out why stop it😂😂😂 bro I don't even need MythBusters to help me figure out how to make a bomb all I got to do is get enough explosive shit an i can make it happen MythBusters was not going to teach kids how to build explosives. You do understand there is a lot of things that don't get put in the episodes lol 😂😂😂 I highly doubt a kid is going to figure out how to make bomb even if they had MythBusters I'm pretty sure building a bomb for a kid is a little complicated for children. I could be wrong but I mean that's just my guess
@@scottbivins4758I mean remember playing with the worx, tinfoil, baking soda/vinegar , dry ice when I could get some🤣 but I reckon that's just part of a rednecks child hood. But yea I didn't learn about it from mythbusters........I ironically learned about ammonium nitrate in hs science class tho🤣🤣
When you go back and watch Season 1, you can actually see the dislike, they actually had a few big arguments. Remember, neither had ever done TV before. But by Season 2, you can see that they had gotten used to working together on-screen, and were getting along much better.
@@erikhendrickson59 yes, me too, but people have those parasocial relationships with TV hosts, characters, actors and so on, thinking they know the person.
"The rest of the fatal process is classified. After a complicated afternoon..." Literally neutralizing acid and drying cotton balls, so complicated and fatal. Their team is funny sometimes
@@straphyr Liability, if they say how to make something dangerous, in a program they know (and are ok with) is watched by a decent number of children, and some idiot child does it an gets killed, they could get sued over it. Remember this was before the internet was anywhere near as accessible as it is today, a kid wasn't gonna find that out otherwise without a lot of work. Also just like, even if they wouldn't get sued for it, I think they'd probably feel pretty bad if a kid did get killed due to something they learned on their show.
@@auroraourania7161 Of course it was for liability, just funny how minimally they obscured things. The Wikipedia article for nitrocellulose has had a rough procedure since September 2003. It was never hard to find
William Hale was a local boy from Colchester , England . Invented water jet propulsion for ships and the thrust vectored rocket in the 1840s user by the Union Army during the Civil War . Apparently had accuracy at a range of 2000 M . The British Army didn't adopt them until proven during that conflict.
I’ve studied the civil war for about 15 years. I’ve done reenacting as well as writing a few papers in college, one regarding new weapon technologies invented during the war. Not once have I ever heard of this “myth” until this video came into my recommendations.
south Korea used rockets that are reported to went 1.25 miles they were called Munjong Hwacha and there were produced all the way back in 1451 bc. its said that british captured some and started using them somewhat and i am guessing some American soldiers were able to get the idea from the British. essentially rocket technology was in a way as old to them as civil war technology is to us. fun fact canon technology is only a 120 years older than rocket technology.
@@butspan7618 I know rockets existed in Asia for centuries, and I am surprised even back then they could reach a mile and a quarter, but to have a similar rocket fly the nearly 100 miles from Richmond to Washington DC with the technology at the time as well as the south’s lack of materiel, I think it’s safe to say that this never happened. Or if it was even considered, it never got off of the drawing board.
This show, it gives me nostalgic memories when me a 4 or 5 year old kid, my older brother and my father gathered together near TV and watched this episode from start to the end. And we were whatching every other episode after. It's very sad that right now the show is closed. Thank you for the great childhood guys
I am so glad this is here. It's good to see the mythbuster gang. RIP Grant. Thanks to the buster team and crew and discovery channel for putting this here.
I find it funny to imagine the top rocket scientists from the period pushing the limits of science to create the “perfect” missile for war. A few hundred years later, a couple of amateurs rocket builders do it for fun lol
THIS IS A BULLSHIT "MYTH" CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO "ROCKET SCIENTISTS" BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS ROCKET SCIENCE. AMERICANS ARE MORONS
This will always be my favorite Mythbusters episode. The test firing and Adam's description of what happened at the test firing was pure gold. Shop on fire :D :D
A tip for anybody interested in early rockets, i think in the german coast city Penemünde is the museum that portraits the whole developement of the V2 A4 Rocket
"Just a little bit closer..... just a little bit closer..... just a little bit closer.... and BOOM!!!!! Everyone is dead. " This is hands down one of my favourite Adam Savage Quotes.
for anyone wondering, "gun cotton" is nitro cellulous, effectively (according the myth) the rocket was fired using an early form of smokeless powder. idk who the Mythbuster lawyer was but if packing black powder is illegal in certain US states, I know for a fact making nitro cellulous can be as well so I'd love to know why making their own black powder motor was illegal but making their own smokeless touch powder wasnt. the thinking was rather than needing to load powder, wadding then projectile, gun cotton could substitute the powder and speed up the loading process, it seems to me like all the ended up doing was laying to ground work for cordite, which was propellent for ammunition produced in long strands, ensuring a more even burn with less hassle, one of the biggest upsides that gun cotton was famous for. that being said why they chose to fire it using smokeless powder but not power the rocket with it as well is beyond me, could be that it burns too slowly to have the desired effect though.
I’m not totally convinced that it would be a failure if done correctly… Imagine using an actual 10” bore cannon with a nearly 10” diameter rocket with a great deal more gun cotton. If we upsize everything (especially the cotton and fuel..I’d expect a much healthier initial launch… then distance is purely a question of amount of fuel necessary to achieve the desired distance. (I’d love to see the formula for calculating the amount of fuel necessary to reach 120 miles).. Richmond VA resident here….
Ammonia (NH3) and Nitric Acid (HNO3) reacts to Ammonium Nitrate (NH4NO3). When heated above 250 degrees Celsius, Ammonium Nitrate decomposes into Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and water. Spread the word as information like that should not be concealed. Also why would anyone do any of that at home, considering that you can buy N2O legally and in large quantities and buying it is certainly less expensive than trying to produce it yourself.
I think a lot of it is just liability from the original network that made the show. They didn't want some idiot trying it themselves, getting injured somehow, then trying to sue Discovery because their TV show told them how to do it. Easier to just not broadcast it and let people find it on their own, waaayy less chance of them being blamed
No, they did not. The source for this is an alternate-history short story by Eric L. Davin, titled "Avenging Angel"; it can be found in the anthology _The Fantastic Civil War_, published by Baen Books in 1991.
It appears to be a recording of the TV show as it aired, instead of the master copy for some reason. This might not actually be an official Mythbusters channel unfortunately.
One have just to see the failure modes of the V2 to know this is Confederate typical “alternate reality”, as keeping a long range rocket flight stable is the most difficult part of rocket technology.
Same range as contemporary 19th century field artillery. Though probably more accurate. It would just be simpler to use normal artillery, but interesting none the less.
This episode could never have been made today - can you imagine the whining nowadays for their ignoring the politics? Man i loved this show so much. It always made me laugh when the subsequent copycat shows failed because they totally missed what made this show so good. They were like "oh, people like explosion, dumb" ... No, it had very little do with the explosions. It was the MythBusters clear and utter genuineness that so many fell jn love with
Well... if the compound rocket was held by weaker metal rivets it might have been possible the "2 stages" were the compound rocket melting the rivets and falling apart mid-flight.
Loved the vid , that sticker placement will take some beating , maybe one on the international space station will do it 😀. Just an idea if you put the TH-cam logo on the next batch people will out of curiosity do a search and hopefully more subscribers. I got one on my car back window . I got a few more just waiting to be placed in some bazaar places.
What a legendary show. There's been nothing like it. I grew up wanting to be part of this crew. So freakin awesome. Who didn't have a crush on Kari, tho? haha
Don't forget the CSS Hunley and the CSS Merrimack. The beginning of modern warfare. I could see this being true. 100+ miles is probably out of the question in my opinion.
Whoever decided to start releasing full episodes on TH-cam, is a genius!
Absolutely they might not get as much money as they would on a subscription site but more people get to see and enjoy it.
@cheesycarrotsoup I believe that was thet purpose of the show, the only part of the last episode was the lady talking about how their episode on submerged cars saved her life
research who owns the franchise rights now.
@@cheesycarrotsoup Thing is, i doubt anyone anymore subscribes for Mythbusters. They are good but not worth that much money.
But the ads on the other hand.... These are getting bunch of views = ads = money and considering the series is decade and half old, it's pretty good.
Praise jeebus!
0:40 that Adam savage intro is my favourite intro of his in all the seasons they did. Even better than "am I missing an eyebrow" and "I reject your reality and substitute my own" all classics but the rocket one is the best.
Seeing Tori,Grant and Kari still part of the build team and not yet co host give a smile in my heart specially seeing Grant
I miss him too, we took him for granted...
R.I.P. Grant.
These are re-runs from cable TV.
@@FriedSheep69 God dammit. 🤣🤣
@@michaeljoyce-q6s NO WAYYYY
I forgot how insane early mythbusters was, i miss this show
They gave absolutely no fucks
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 self govern to do what exactly?
@@TheDogGoesWoof69Seems like the southern states governed pretty similar to northern states, except for some major thing..
@@wheresmycar9559 confederacy were and still are democrats that were and still are globalists at heart.
Confederates wanted cheap labour to stay in good books with the British.
@@wheresmycar9559 And they were actually very helpful for us, by stating in some of their constitutions exactly what they were rebelling about! Turns out it was the right to own and brutalize innocent human beings on the basis of them being black
The prevalence of historical revisionism in this country is absurd, our education system is so broken.
I can't believe they set off the rocket in the shop, especially with Jamie standing right next to it.
It is fucking wild comparing this to the later seasons. Idk if they had insurance sitting in for this episode, and if they did I don't think insurance understood what was happening xD
@@Greippi10 They probably told insurance they were gonna test fire a rocket. They just failed to mention it was a theoretical replica of a Civil War rocket that was practically a bomb if they built it wrong.
They didn't mention it at all afterwards, def a yikes moment they brushed under the rug
Back when men were men.
Early MB was fucking nuts
Cool and what makes mythbusters mythbusters
48:29 Congreeve studied samples of Hyder Ali's rockets (developed 1780). An Ali rocket with one pound of propellant powder encased in iron had a range of 1,000 yards. By 1813, Congreeve developed the 12 pounder which could achieve a range of 2,000 yards but averaged 1,400 yards. The primary advantage of military rockets at the time was not range but rate of fire. By 1850, Congreeve rockets were replaced by Hale rockets with ranges up to 2,000 yards. The primary weakness of rockets was limited shelf life.
The "long range" rocket described by Jefferson Davis had a brass case, rendering it incapable of achieving the range of iron-cased rockets. At most, it was a short-lived fireworks entertainment for Confederate VIPs.
34:50 Why they even thought that testing a rocket/missile indoors would be a good idea is questionable lmao
Its fine when it's restrained like that in fairness
First time I saw this episode, the pucker factor was high with me.
The shop itself was left asking "am I missing an eyebrow?"
I am offended for Lord Kelvin that the did not say temperatures in Kelvin. An absolute zero 0⃣ move.
Hahahahaha it was a different time! It's absolutely insane thinking about it now, but back then I thought "well these guys surely know what they are doing!"
They did not know what they were doing! These guys are literally the people who are paid to figure out and experiment on how to create cool stuff for films and tv that nobody else did before! But this was also the first time stuff like this was widely televised and became so popular, so that we get to see the whole process!
hope they add every single season, more please
Same here
Yas!
There are a lot more episodes available on this channel if you use a VPN and connect to Australia. I’m glad they stopped region locking these recent releases because it’s so nice to see these old episodes again.
plutotv all series
@@Jhamstra42 that's a very useful information 🙌
great show i think these guys are gonna make it big one day
God I shed a tear being reminded about Grant. I miss you man
The earlier seasons of mythbusters were so unhinged. I love it.
They straight up lit a wasps nest on camera and inhaled laughing gas they made themselves lol
I liked when an entire episode was devoted to a single myth and didn't have B plots
39:33 I love how they censor Kari saying it, but you can read the label on the bottle of acid in the same scene. 😂
And it's on wikipedia. also table tennis balls: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
Yep, 98% sulfuric acid and fuming nitric acid
Lol
You really just need minimal effort seeing as how most people are too lazy to try anyways and the determined ones are going to do it no matter what
@@PlatoonGoon Yeah it's for plausible deniability, they made some level of effort so when a moron blows themselves up and the family blames mythbusters instead of the idiot himself they have something to point at. Really they shouldn't need to, dumb people will do dumb shit and we shouldn't withhold information from everyone because of that, but that's how the world works.
"100-mile rocket" sound s like a typical period exaggeration. was fun watching them take it literally and give it a go.
Was that a camera on fire? :D
They were testing a myth.
@@anzaca1 ya don't say.
I think everything was on fire :P
@@anzaca1 good catch
I think this might be the same as with the Sturmtigers 'rocket propelled morter rounds', cause this does exactly what a morter would in a battle. But yes, this would probably be exaggerated.
They need to release all Mythbuster episodes because it teaches people about dangers that most don't take for granted, plus its fun to watch.
44:54 they actually got that into the script 🤣
It's not synonymous with sex.
IK LOL
@@mortenhansen3455 It is when you say it after referring to studs.
@@AlyssMa7rin not really, thats what you do with timber studs when you put them up for housing. double entendre, yes, only sex, no
@@mortenhansen3455Yes it is. Synonymous: Another word for, to say in other words. Sex: Of or relating to sexual content or activity. Erection: A common shorthand to refer to an erect penis. Penis: A male sexual reproductive organ. Erections are synonymous with sex. Erections for studs could mean putting up a wall, sure, but ask yourself what you're more likely to be talking about when to refer to studs and their erections.
It's okay to grow the fuck up. 😊
It looked more like galvanized electrical conduit to me ....Instead of " plumbing parts "
I'm very glad that the editors blurred out certain things so that I can never buy STP or GMC products. Thanks !
Their is TH-cam channel that tell us what is what all the time. I have seen better gun cotton.
Remember, this originally aired on cable television and was largely targeted at a younger audience. Obviously adults are free to learn all about how to make bombs. They didn't want to just tell a bunch of kids how to make napalm in the kitchen.
@@chrismanuel9768one day they were going to find out why stop it😂😂😂 bro I don't even need MythBusters to help me figure out how to make a bomb all I got to do is get enough explosive shit an i can make it happen MythBusters was not going to teach kids how to build explosives. You do understand there is a lot of things that don't get put in the episodes lol 😂😂😂 I highly doubt a kid is going to figure out how to make bomb even if they had MythBusters I'm pretty sure building a bomb for a kid is a little complicated for children. I could be wrong but I mean that's just my guess
@@scottbivins4758 Dear ATF, get this guy's ass
@@scottbivins4758I mean remember playing with the worx, tinfoil, baking soda/vinegar , dry ice when I could get some🤣 but I reckon that's just part of a rednecks child hood. But yea I didn't learn about it from mythbusters........I ironically learned about ammonium nitrate in hs science class tho🤣🤣
I know these two weren't actually best friends, but I can tell they had a lot of intellectual fun on this one.
When you go back and watch Season 1, you can actually see the dislike, they actually had a few big arguments. Remember, neither had ever done TV before. But by Season 2, you can see that they had gotten used to working together on-screen, and were getting along much better.
I assume the money made them grit their teeth. I read it was a few million a year at peak mythbusters
@@MrMr-ws3tvI mean… they HAD worked together before. They didn’t hate each other or anything. They just weren’t bestest buddies.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing I mean it makes sense. In my experience, coworkers rarely hang out outside of work (aside from work-related functions)
@@erikhendrickson59 yes, me too, but people have those parasocial relationships with TV hosts, characters, actors and so on, thinking they know the person.
So they made Nitrocellulose. Just drop the cotton into a nitration bath. I mean don't since you need some nasty acids for that but well.
Or just buy gun cotton
@@jacobishii6121 In California?
"The rest of the fatal process is classified. After a complicated afternoon..." Literally neutralizing acid and drying cotton balls, so complicated and fatal. Their team is funny sometimes
@@straphyr Liability, if they say how to make something dangerous, in a program they know (and are ok with) is watched by a decent number of children, and some idiot child does it an gets killed, they could get sued over it. Remember this was before the internet was anywhere near as accessible as it is today, a kid wasn't gonna find that out otherwise without a lot of work.
Also just like, even if they wouldn't get sued for it, I think they'd probably feel pretty bad if a kid did get killed due to something they learned on their show.
@@auroraourania7161 Of course it was for liability, just funny how minimally they obscured things. The Wikipedia article for nitrocellulose has had a rough procedure since September 2003. It was never hard to find
Just found these full episodes. So stoked they have been uploaded. Been waiting so long to be able to rewatch entire episodes
"Next it's Lord Kelvin's big O"
I beg your finest pardon? 🤣
Man I can't express how much gratitude I feel that mythbusters is being shared on youtube. Instantly subscribed.
William Hale was a local boy from Colchester , England . Invented water jet propulsion for ships and the thrust vectored rocket in the 1840s user by the Union Army during the Civil War . Apparently had accuracy at a range of 2000 M . The British Army didn't adopt them until proven during that conflict.
I’ve studied the civil war for about 15 years. I’ve done reenacting as well as writing a few papers in college, one regarding new weapon technologies invented during the war. Not once have I ever heard of this “myth” until this video came into my recommendations.
south Korea used rockets that are reported to went 1.25 miles they were called Munjong Hwacha and there were produced all the way back in 1451 bc. its said that british captured some and started using them somewhat and i am guessing some American soldiers were able to get the idea from the British. essentially rocket technology was in a way as old to them as civil war technology is to us. fun fact canon technology is only a 120 years older than rocket technology.
@@butspan7618 I know rockets existed in Asia for centuries, and I am surprised even back then they could reach a mile and a quarter, but to have a similar rocket fly the nearly 100 miles from Richmond to Washington DC with the technology at the time as well as the south’s lack of materiel, I think it’s safe to say that this never happened. Or if it was even considered, it never got off of the drawing board.
You have been studying the Civil War for 15 YEARS?! The war itself was only 4 years Hahahah
@@Jboss1337translation: he got the john wayne civil war boxed set 15 years ago
@@butspan7618 the difference is that the hwacha was firing arrows using, basically fireworks, rather than a like, 300 pound missle
Glad I was able to find a digitized version of this show I grew up watching Mythbusters
This show, it gives me nostalgic memories when me a 4 or 5 year old kid, my older brother and my father gathered together near TV and watched this episode from start to the end. And we were whatching every other episode after. It's very sad that right now the show is closed. Thank you for the great childhood guys
I knew how to make guncotton when I was 12. The recipe was in the 1967 World Book Encyclopedia.
And it's currently on Wikipedia
Craziest episode of Master Chef ever.
Finally!!!!
FULL EPISODES!!!
Memories. Also... still R.I.P. Grant. :(
My of my fav myths tested, to be able to launch a rocket that well, great job! The power it had, what it did to the shop was scary!
29:00 you know someone must’ve complained about this scene
Sucks that most of the episodes in the playlist are hidden but I’m here to binge as much as I can!
what
this was my favorite episode of all time and it hasn't been on any streaming services in forever.
I am so glad this is here. It's good to see the mythbuster gang. RIP Grant. Thanks to the buster team and crew and discovery channel for putting this here.
im so glad they started releasing episodes online, we need to preserve all these amazing shows from discovery channels prime
This is excellent as the versions I purchased from apple way back in the day seem to be cut shorter.
My favorite mythbuster? The fricken narrator
Robert Lee. Adam has talked about him on Tested.
This aged very well. If I did not know better I would believe this is a recent production by a YT channel.
THIS show is reality tv done right.
4:55 the first person ever recorded to say “ Denial is a river in Egypt” or at the time “ Denial is a river in Africa” fascinating stuff hey
I find it funny to imagine the top rocket scientists from the period pushing the limits of science to create the “perfect” missile for war. A few hundred years later, a couple of amateurs rocket builders do it for fun lol
not quite a few hundred years, the civil war was ended in 1865, just about 160 years ago
Well, inspiration and knowledge are the big things. Knowing what's going to happen, and how to do it better is an entirely different task.
In another couple hundred they probably won’t even know what a missile is.
Our understanding of Rocket science evolved from the V2 rocket the main problem with rockets is its tendency to explode without leaving the tube
THIS IS A BULLSHIT "MYTH" CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO "ROCKET SCIENTISTS" BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS ROCKET SCIENCE. AMERICANS ARE MORONS
This will always be my favorite Mythbusters episode. The test firing and Adam's description of what happened at the test firing was pure gold. Shop on fire :D :D
A tip for anybody interested in early rockets, i think in the german coast city Penemünde is the museum that portraits the whole developement of the V2 A4 Rocket
"Just a little bit closer..... just a little bit closer..... just a little bit closer.... and BOOM!!!!! Everyone is dead. " This is hands down one of my favourite Adam Savage Quotes.
for anyone wondering, "gun cotton" is nitro cellulous, effectively (according the myth) the rocket was fired using an early form of smokeless powder.
idk who the Mythbuster lawyer was but if packing black powder is illegal in certain US states, I know for a fact making nitro cellulous can be as well so I'd love to know why making their own black powder motor was illegal but making their own smokeless touch powder wasnt.
the thinking was rather than needing to load powder, wadding then projectile, gun cotton could substitute the powder and speed up the loading process, it seems to me like all the ended up doing was laying to ground work for cordite, which was propellent for ammunition produced in long strands, ensuring a more even burn with less hassle, one of the biggest upsides that gun cotton was famous for.
that being said why they chose to fire it using smokeless powder but not power the rocket with it as well is beyond me, could be that it burns too slowly to have the desired effect though.
So happy to have found this channel!! Are seasons 1 to 3 also available?
Why am i just now finding this channel??? One of the best shows ever!
When this show came out, I was in awe and watched it religiously every week.
I’m not totally convinced that it would be a failure if done correctly… Imagine using an actual 10” bore cannon with a nearly 10” diameter rocket with a great deal more gun cotton. If we upsize everything (especially the cotton and fuel..I’d expect a much healthier initial launch… then distance is purely a question of amount of fuel necessary to achieve the desired distance. (I’d love to see the formula for calculating the amount of fuel necessary to reach 120 miles).. Richmond VA resident here….
Wanna see how quick You can get to Washington ?
Oh man I love these, not like the badly cut up version shown on tv years ago.
Ammonia (NH3) and Nitric Acid (HNO3) reacts to Ammonium Nitrate (NH4NO3). When heated above 250 degrees Celsius, Ammonium Nitrate decomposes into Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and water. Spread the word as information like that should not be concealed. Also why would anyone do any of that at home, considering that you can buy N2O legally and in large quantities and buying it is certainly less expensive than trying to produce it yourself.
I think a lot of it is just liability from the original network that made the show. They didn't want some idiot trying it themselves, getting injured somehow, then trying to sue Discovery because their TV show told them how to do it. Easier to just not broadcast it and let people find it on their own, waaayy less chance of them being blamed
This was peak television
I love the rocket scientist with the mullet going on. I dont remember him
I love love love this show. Remember my science teacher showing us an episode every friday
I'm more surprised they aren't using what they gave Netflix without the watermarks of BBC and Master Chef.
1300 yards = 1.25 km not bad
No, they did not. The source for this is an alternate-history short story by Eric L. Davin, titled "Avenging Angel"; it can be found in the anthology _The Fantastic Civil War_, published by Baen Books in 1991.
47:40 at the dude testing to see if the tube was hot lol
Why do all of these videos have the MasterChef logo in the top right of the screen? Lol
It appears to be a recording of the TV show as it aired, instead of the master copy for some reason. This might not actually be an official Mythbusters channel unfortunately.
Idk
@@Number_055 So how can banjay allow it? I am glad they dont mess with it
Perfect show in concept and execution
Its amazing seeing Adam with bandages on his fingers during MB... Some things never change!
One have just to see the failure modes of the V2 to know this is Confederate typical “alternate reality”, as keeping a long range rocket flight stable is the most difficult part of rocket technology.
Spoiler: Audio is good 👍
Early mythbusters are the goat...and you would not get away with half this stuff these days. not with that flag on that rocket!
This show was such a huge part of my college life. Thank you for sharing it.
Nice to see TH-cam commenters arguing about the episode and picking apart their methodology, just as people did on forums constantly back in the day!
I'm gonna tell everyone since I know a bit on the topic:
One of the ingredients in guncotton is Nitroglycerin
44:55 That joke was not lost on me.
prolly why Nasa has such a presence in Alabama
Same range as contemporary 19th century field artillery. Though probably more accurate. It would just be simpler to use normal artillery, but interesting none the less.
You’re a saint and hero for posting full episodes on here
Carrie, you know that you could go buy that stuff at black powder shooting range. Guess it’s too late now.
I remember seeing the sidekicks come in and being upset because I thought it was a Steve being replaced in blues clues situation
it would have been interesting to compare this rocketry to multi stage ancient Chinese military rockets that were from a much earlier period...
Lol. Lounches a rocket... instantly puts hand on the launch pad.
I think it looks like they put in the De Laval nozzle backwards. That would have cut performance by 40~50% of possible Isp.
I think the overwhelming majority of myths on this show were made for no reason other than people wanted to see them keep doing the show
The Polish Army used rockets to deliver mail to mountainous areas of the country where normal deliveries were not possible.
Dang even the narrator took a dig at him lol.
C.R. Johnson = See Our Johnson lol
OH MY GOD I HAVEN'T SEEN THESE GUYS IN YEARS
Love these earlier episodes where things weren't 'quite' safe, but they did them anyways. Reminds me of growing up in the 80's
Guy burning his hand on the rocket guide tube is my spirit animal (47:40)
R.I.P. Grant. What a Legend.
*_"C.R. JOHNSON"_*
{Oh, boy...🤭}
Whats the joke here?
@@madkoala2130See Our Johnson (penis)
Episodes like this one are why everyone loved Mythbusters
This episode could never have been made today - can you imagine the whining nowadays for their ignoring the politics? Man i loved this show so much. It always made me laugh when the subsequent copycat shows failed because they totally missed what made this show so good. They were like "oh, people like explosion, dumb" ... No, it had very little do with the explosions. It was the MythBusters clear and utter genuineness that so many fell jn love with
My man, the show is right here nowadays and nobody is complaining.
You're making people up in your head to be mad at.
The amount of farb in this episode is wild. They chose the absolute worst reenactors ever
The way Adam wore that kepi set me off
This show allways warmed my heart with science
Weird how Mythbusters is getting chopped up again and uploaded. I remember watching it on TH-cam all the time as a kid.
Well... if the compound rocket was held by weaker metal rivets it might have been possible the "2 stages" were the compound rocket melting the rivets and falling apart mid-flight.
This is probably my favorite MB episode of all time.
You know you giggled at C R Johnson. This is a safe space, you can admit it.
Loved the vid , that sticker placement will take some beating , maybe one on the international space station will do it 😀. Just an idea if you put the TH-cam logo on the next batch people will out of curiosity do a search and hopefully more subscribers. I got one on my car back window . I got a few more just waiting to be placed in some bazaar places.
That guy burning his hand at 47:40 haha.
What a legendary show. There's been nothing like it. I grew up wanting to be part of this crew. So freakin awesome. Who didn't have a crush on Kari, tho? haha
The guy @47:40 who touches and confirms that yes, the thing that just fired a rocket is hot ahahaha 😂
More full episodes please!
Don't forget the CSS Hunley and the CSS Merrimack. The beginning of modern warfare. I could see this being true. 100+ miles is probably out of the question in my opinion.