I’m watching mythbuster with my 9yo son right now. And for sure they are helping us making core memories together! Someday when he hears about a myth, just a random myth, he’s gonna think about me, as I’ll think about him whenever new episode comes up! Thanks a lot for uploading these!
This is exactly what my father used to do with me and even after his passing I've gotten the best memories from it and I will cherish them, always. Cheers to you and your son and many more of these amazing memories
Hehe^^ A new generation of curious, explosion loving MB fans! I hope he doesn't get hurt, when he builds his first pipe bomb. Better teach him to remote control now from a safe distance, better than later. 😅
I'll let you know that this is exactly what happens with me. I'm 25 now, and when I hear a myth or anything to do with Mythbusters I think about my dad and when he, my younger brother, and I would all watch it together. We even submitted a myth together on their website. It's definitely core memory making and also a way to "trick" your kid into learning. It's good edutainment.
@@Lachskaffeeon her wiki page it says she died in 2019 while attempting to break her previous land speed record. As her jet-powered car hit just shy of 842 km/h (523 mph) one of the front wheels gave out causing the vehicle to crash.
For the first time ever I can enjoy mythbusters without commercials and randomly selected instead of the network showing the same few episodes over and over for some reason.
@@Jim-Stick There are a lot of great people inspired by Mythbusters making great content, but Mythbusters was one of the OG's and holds a special place in my heart, and many others.
the grin on jamies face just before he hits the target gun with the base ball bat is is priceless . this show is going to always will be a part of Americana . an yes i think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame . thanks for posting the full episode's i pass them along to the groups on facebook that love this show as much as i do .
I think a big part of the gun dropping myth, is the scare from the shock. You tend to drop things when they suddenly get a massive shock. Even if you could of actually held on to it.
why this didn't work: when you fire a bullet, it starts out relatively slow, then picks up speed as the powder finishs burning and propels the bullet out of the barrel. the initial shock would only be about 200 ft/lbs. by the time it leaves the barrel it's 400 to 800 ft/lbs. the impact of a bullet after leaving the barrel is 2 to 4 times more than the fiorce you would feel just firing it.
@@richtravis9562 the most generous interpretation I can surmise of the claim made in your comment is that it is incorrect to compare a force with a positive acceleration to a force with a negative acceleration, even if the two forces are equal. Am I correct in understanding you?
@@nibs7252 when you fire you feel the initial acceleration suddenly; as the bullet travels down the barrel, the bullet CONTINUES acceleration as the powder finishes it's burn; by the time it leaves the barrel, it's acquired 2 to 4 times as much force. you do feel all that force, but it's an sharp force then gradual force. when a bullet strike a target, ALL that force is instantly transferred. so, more like the baseball bat example. yes, i could phrase it better.
you have to dig pretty deep to prove this, btw; everyone goes straight to newton, not taking into account the bullets acceleration in the barrel. kinetic energy being applied for 1/100th of a second, as opposed to that same kinetic energy being applied in 1/1000th of a second.
@@richtravis9562 I see, your argument hinges on a) whether or not a bullet impacting the gun is brought to a complete stop or not and b) whether the firing or the impact take longer from start to finish.
The "shooting a gun out of a hand" myth has ben done in 1993 by Officer Mike Plumb from the Columbus PD. He shot a .38 revolver out of the hand of a guy who threatened to kill himself. Done from a prone position 82 yards away, almost head on. The guy was unharmed, the gun in three pieces. Yes, there is footage.
I think that was done with a rifle, so quite a bit more force, but still plausible since few would expect it coming, and if I recall correctly the guy was holding his gun somewhat loosely in that situation since he was just slightly suicidal, not a hostage taker or anything.
@@EricLing64 It was a sniper rifle, so definitely more force. He waited until the guy had the gun between his legs, to minimise the chance of injury. He held the gun pretty tightly, but the impact was so big, the gun broke into three pieces. No matter how good your grip is, you're not going to hold on. Of course a very specific and unique situation, but it can be done, which is amazing.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly To stop him from killing himself and to take away the threat he might shoot someone. The sniper was told he had to make the shot without injury. There are some articles that explain it all.
15:47 I would argue "no damage to the hand" is a pretty bold statement given what happens to the 'index finger' and how much shrapnel is flying around... so I appreciate the editors immediately following Adam's words with the high-speed footage, making sure we understand how overconfident he was ;)
and who are you to determine what i should or should not do? I did not ask you to read it, did i? And as for having something substantial or funny to say: why don't you lead the way? It is not funny nor is it substantial what you have said so far as a response to me. Now, do us both a favor and get lost. @@koentenvoorde4929
Just by watching Jamie prepping to whack Adam's target pistol, grinning under his mustache and Adam bracing himself for the worst as always and our Mr. Super Mythbuster finally whacking it out of his hand with Adam feeling the jolt and freaking out, how perfect can you get? That's pure comedy gold! If the Mythbusters sent any clips of moments such as that to America's Funniest during their tenure, THAT would've been at the top. I cracked up as all living hell after seeing that again, it was THAT FUNNY! 🤣 Also, on the bus jump myth, Grant, Jessi, and Tory got that one nailed; there's no way anybody can defy gravity to pull off that jump from what we've seen during the small scale experiments and from result replications with the bus falling extremely short on the results of what Speed showed even when taking the factors at play into consideration. Also, given that they wrecked another fence during the making of the episode, did they have the fence guy on speed dial during that time?
It's that Jamie is holding it the way you hold a real gun, with your whole arm deliberately in position. Adam's arm is loose, so swings to the side, minimizing the initial effect of the force.
and the finial test was a joke that’s not a proper way to test it you can tell buy thr drastically different facial expressions from when he hit the gun with a bat to where they where shooting it
@@Ant_0922 I don't think EITHER of those tests were actually comparable to the gun being shot. There actually WAS a case of hostage situation where the police sniper actually did shoot the gun out of his hand. And I don't know why the show didn't show the video, since it happened in 1993. And it also makes it definitively confirmed. th-cam.com/video/QhECHpArQSg/w-d-xo.html
@@The22ndDoctor But even Adam would likely have dropped it more often than not if he had no idea ANYTHING was coming. There is no way he wasn't at least somewhat preparing for it with his grip. I'm not sure they could really test it with a totally unsuspecting test subject, like get Tory or Grant. IT would probably be too dangerous to just hand them the gun and remotely trigger it. I guess they could tell them to point it toward a target but not shoot and just hold it there.
They should have used a live camera with a low ms-delay placed inside the bus at the front screen, as grants heading when driving... makes it way easier when your view is centered for what you trying to stear, instead of constantly trying to counter after the fact from behind. and back around 2010.. the FPV tech for RC where quite decent, so weird they don't use that approach with a screen..
When you think about the bus jump myth as the bus needing to clear that distance from a 2ft tall, 1.2degree angle ramp... it becomes immediately obvious that it's completely impossible, no matter the speed. You put that ramp on a flat surface and you can just tell by looking at it that the wheel would just drop a few feet past the edge of the ramp. It's like expecting the bus to just keep driving on a flat surface after you take away the surface. It's not just gonna magically float at the same height for several seconds.
If they had hit the ramp properly, the bus might have kept going a good bit faster. The drive wheels lost their grip on one side and the undercarriage scraped on the side-edge of the ramp, both of which probably slowed the bus down a lot.
I know right? That just drove me crazy, with all their prior research and knowledge how could they not know that? Anyone who's shot a gun could tell you
Looking back on this, one flaw I saw in the initial shooting tests is the conclusion the other cowboy would be harmed. The shrapnel would be hitting thick, hide pants. That might offer some protection from injury. Not much (some scraps or shrapnel embedding itself a smidge), but some. Still, the merit is that harm would be done.
The side shooting pistol is a neat idea in concept, but whilst it does captures Newton's 3rd law, it fails to take into account the mass and force of impact from the bullet itself. In this scenario, the blowback you're getting from the gun firing off is only from the force of the gunpower, and doesn't take into account the additional force added by the bullet impacting. Kinda weird they didn't consider this, especially since the baseball bat to handgun, they calculated the force of impact there, but I guess overlooked it when designing the actual gun idea.
I mean they could have given the bus an alignment 😅 and a deadzone for the steering, since with this rig there is no other way for the self-aligning effects of caster angle, scrub radius and king-pin angle to actually happen, since it‘s holding the steering wheel like a lock.
Most likely the shooting the gun out of someone's hand thing... Even if it doesn't straight up knock it out, it's going to be one painful jolt to the hand which would be likely to cause a person to just drop their gun on the spot.
As someone who has experienced a comparable situation would say that something in the hand impacted by a round in flight versus the recoil of firing a round is incredibly different. All due respect to Newton I must insist that the final testing method is flawed, the bat was much more comparable
The real problem with the bus jump is they didn't consider the obvious reason it worked in the film.......it was Keanu Reeve's wholesomeness that let the bus soar over the gap!
I wonder why the failsafe didn't kick in with the bus. I mean I assume he did what they normally do which is that the break engages if the signal falls away.
Yeah.... the recoil of a firearm kinda breaks Newton's law. You actually feel only a small percentage of the impact strength because one is a compressible gas and the other is a solid going very fast coming to a sudden stop. This is one of the many reasons that a 4 year old child could fire a 357 magnum and not drop it but a .22 can break bones on impact.
It's also about mass. a person holding a gun weighs a lot more than a bullet. Both get the same energy, the gas expands equally in all directions, so it pushes the bullet in one direction, the back of the chamber in the other direction, but also against the inside of the barrel. But since the bullet is so much more lighter, it accelerates faster. Bullets are also somewhat pointy, so they will go deeper into the target than the gun. And Newton's third law also explains why you can't send someone flying with a shotgun. If the pellets had enough energy to send someone backwards, the same energy would act on the shooter. Which turns the shotgun into a jetpack. And that is after the shot already went through the air and had drag acted upon it. So it's slowed down.
The bullet breaks bones because it takes the same amount of force that's applied to the person firing it, but applies it to a smaller area. In the case of someone shooting a gun out of another's hands, the amount of force applied to the hand is roughly the same - because the bullet's energy comes from the same explosion that's applying energy to the gun in the shooter's hand, and it's dispersing its energy through the target gun. In fact, the target gun will receive less energy than the shooter, because the bullet has expended some energy in travelling, and some of its energy is dispersed after impact in launching the shrapnel to the sides, whereas the full energy of the explosion that launched the bullet is absorbed by the gun and dispersed to the shooter.
You guys are comparing the force of a primer propelling a bullet, versus absorbing all the expelled force of a bullet. It's 2 VERY different things. The “Newtons Law” was just shooting a gun sideways, a lot like a corner shot. If you guys did the math, you'd know its absolutely NO comparison. Except for backing up your theory there's literally no reason to let go, Adam sure saw through it and he's the smaller of the two. I also think his test with the bat was way more plausible just based on the stats alone
Adam is taller than Jamie. You're right about the rest. It has been done by a police sniper called Mike Plumb from the Columbus PD. All the way back in 1993, so they could've researched it for this episode.
Just think of the improvements for if the bus was done now... easier streaming of a good detail camera from the drivers perspective to the remote driver allowing easier steering.
"Vacuum form" is still being used today, in fact many automotive industries still rely on using it Its cheaper, faster and more efficient Its not really a thing of the past
21:08 A lot of energy and a lot of pain, but not nearly as painful as in the case of Adam holding his "target pistol" with his finger on the trigger. I think that situation would result in extreme damage to his finger, his hand, and even his wrist.
Regarding the gun one, I wonder if the force felt is really the same between shooting a gun and holding something that is hit by a bullet. When you shoot the gun, the force is spread out over a longer period of time as the bullet accelerates down the barrel. When a bullet hits something, that force is felt at once. I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make, but it might make some.
Anyone else notice how front heavy the small scale test bus was? If you look at the wheels, front and back, and compare them you can see its front heavy. Now that doesn't mean the myth wouldn't be busted, of course it would, but that bus didn't stand a chance being that heavy up front.
I feel like if they had lined the bus up perfectly straight with the ramp, then locked the wheels so they could only go straight, they would have been far more successful with far less issues. Or put a camera on the front, and a screen on the steering rig, so Grant could watch the line easier.
I only just realised that Adam is wearing a nostromo shirt from alien specifically either kane or dallas (Parker didn't have the patch on the right sleeve and Ash had a blue shirt
What I don't understand is why they didn't just put a video camera on the front of the bus so that the remote driver could guide it that way using a TV screen on the chase-car; if they had it set up that way instead of just watching the rear of the bus, the driver might have hit the ramp more squarely, since he could actually see where the bus was heading.
I think it's a lag issue. There is a delay between the joystick and when the tires actually turn, and a video feed would add even more lag. I've had a lot of trouble controlling robots in the past so I understand why the unstable bus was probably too difficult to drive.
@@templeprogramming4982 I dunno; the controller said himself that it was hard to direct the bus just by watching it from behind. I don't understand why they apparently didn't think to use a video camera in the front; from what I've seen, that's how pretty much everybody sets up a remote-controlling-of-a-vehicle stunt like this nowadays.
With a "mechanical" hand there is no allowance for reflex action even an airgun pellet at 12lb sq inch will elicit a reflex reaction (anticipation + surprise + realisation = reaction - gun dropped!). However, to hit a pistol from most angles would take an extraordinarily accurate shot (unless electronically aimed) so I would suggest the hit rate would be somewhere above one in sixty.
I had a thought about this. Jamie said that jumpiness plays a part in dropping the gun. You know what makes you jumpy? PTSD, I know from personal experience and research. You reckon there was a significant amount of PTSD in the wild west? I do. I feel the lawless culture these guys existed in could contribute significantly to dropping the gun upon impact.
The issues they had with the bus are what airplane engineers call pilot induced oscillation... Happens when the delay between action and reaction of the system is getting too long
Every time I see Jamie having fun, my heart grows a little warmer.
JamieBot only feels human when it's causing pain.
Watch out for heartburn!
@@sniffinglue7236 Or creating a device that can cause pain.
Pay attention when any sort of small animal appears. I swear in the Hollywood sounds one, that Boa puts the biggest smile on his face I've ever seen.
I’m watching mythbuster with my 9yo son right now. And for sure they are helping us making core memories together! Someday when he hears about a myth, just a random myth, he’s gonna think about me, as I’ll think about him whenever new episode comes up! Thanks a lot for uploading these!
This is exactly what my father used to do with me and even after his passing I've gotten the best memories from it and I will cherish them, always.
Cheers to you and your son and many more of these amazing memories
This is very nice and way better than watching some short crap or crap pranks.
Hehe^^ A new generation of curious, explosion loving MB fans!
I hope he doesn't get hurt, when he builds his first pipe bomb.
Better teach him to remote control now from a safe distance, better than later. 😅
I'll let you know that this is exactly what happens with me. I'm 25 now, and when I hear a myth or anything to do with Mythbusters I think about my dad and when he, my younger brother, and I would all watch it together. We even submitted a myth together on their website.
It's definitely core memory making and also a way to "trick" your kid into learning. It's good edutainment.
I remember watching with my dad when I was younger, absolutely are core memories. I’m glad to hear you are sharing this with your son 👍🏼
Mythbusters are rare, and sadly even more rare today. R.I.P. Grant and Jessi ❤ from a lifelong Mythbusters fan.
No way, dude ... I knew about Grant, but Jessi too..?
Damn... I'm so sorry.
@@Lachskaffeeon her wiki page it says she died in 2019 while attempting to break her previous land speed record. As her jet-powered car hit just shy of 842 km/h (523 mph) one of the front wheels gave out causing the vehicle to crash.
@@TheGreatThicc badass way to die
❤😊
@@TheGreatThiccat least she succeeded, she was posthumously awarded the record.
For the first time ever I can enjoy mythbusters without commercials and randomly selected instead of the network showing the same few episodes over and over for some reason.
TV shows are not made all year. When new shows aren't being made, they show old shows.
Thanks so much for the full episodes.
I love this show.
Miss it.
We got it now! There are so many great people making similar type content now. I'll admit that Mythbusters has a special feel.
@@Jim-Stick There are a lot of great people inspired by Mythbusters making great content, but Mythbusters was one of the OG's and holds a special place in my heart, and many others.
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the grin on jamies face just before he hits the target gun with the base ball bat is is priceless . this show is going to always will be a part of Americana . an yes i think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame . thanks for posting the full episode's i pass them along to the groups on facebook that love this show as much as i do .
Jamie really hammered Adam with that bat lol
Jamie couldn't believe Adam didn't drop the gun.
Yeah haha, he freakin nailed him. That was hilarious.
Nailed him so hard, the handle grip broke lol
Jamie knew it would hurt.
he is immune to forearm shock now.
I think a big part of the gun dropping myth, is the scare from the shock. You tend to drop things when they suddenly get a massive shock. Even if you could of actually held on to it.
why this didn't work: when you fire a bullet, it starts out relatively slow, then picks up speed as the powder finishs burning and propels the bullet out of the barrel. the initial shock would only be about 200 ft/lbs. by the time it leaves the barrel it's 400 to 800 ft/lbs. the impact of a bullet after leaving the barrel is 2 to 4 times more than the fiorce you would feel just firing it.
@@richtravis9562 the most generous interpretation I can surmise of the claim made in your comment is that it is incorrect to compare a force with a positive acceleration to a force with a negative acceleration, even if the two forces are equal. Am I correct in understanding you?
@@nibs7252 when you fire you feel the initial acceleration suddenly; as the bullet travels down the barrel, the bullet CONTINUES acceleration as the powder finishes it's burn; by the time it leaves the barrel, it's acquired 2 to 4 times as much force. you do feel all that force, but it's an sharp force then gradual force. when a bullet strike a target, ALL that force is instantly transferred. so, more like the baseball bat example. yes, i could phrase it better.
you have to dig pretty deep to prove this, btw; everyone goes straight to newton, not taking into account the bullets acceleration in the barrel. kinetic energy being applied for 1/100th of a second, as opposed to that same kinetic energy being applied in 1/1000th of a second.
@@richtravis9562 I see, your argument hinges on a) whether or not a bullet impacting the gun is brought to a complete stop or not and b) whether the firing or the impact take longer from start to finish.
I especially love it when they address the crew on set, the camera and mic people, the editors _and the insurance folk_.
I actually own the first prototype of the "bus" that Tory made at the 7:00 mark. That thing is pretty epic!
sweet you lucky duck . big fan of your youtube channel
The "shooting a gun out of a hand" myth has ben done in 1993 by Officer Mike Plumb from the Columbus PD. He shot a .38 revolver out of the hand of a guy who threatened to kill himself. Done from a prone position 82 yards away, almost head on. The guy was unharmed, the gun in three pieces. Yes, there is footage.
I think that was done with a rifle, so quite a bit more force, but still plausible since few would expect it coming, and if I recall correctly the guy was holding his gun somewhat loosely in that situation since he was just slightly suicidal, not a hostage taker or anything.
@@EricLing64 It was a sniper rifle, so definitely more force. He waited until the guy had the gun between his legs, to minimise the chance of injury.
He held the gun pretty tightly, but the impact was so big, the gun broke into three pieces. No matter how good your grip is, you're not going to hold on.
Of course a very specific and unique situation, but it can be done, which is amazing.
Was he endangering others? Why exactly did they stop him, was he threatening to do it in a public place?
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly To stop him from killing himself and to take away the threat he might shoot someone. The sniper was told he had to make the shot without injury.
There are some articles that explain it all.
I SAW that! The single most amazing shot I have ever seen. The stuff of legend
4:30 “Perfect” sounds EXACTLY like that old street fighter perfect/adlib
It's uncanny
i had the exact thought lol
I literally said aloud it in the street fighter style right after
15:47 I would argue "no damage to the hand" is a pretty bold statement given what happens to the 'index finger' and how much shrapnel is flying around... so I appreciate the editors immediately following Adam's words with the high-speed footage, making sure we understand how overconfident he was ;)
God, one of the best shows of all time. This was my childhood. RIP GRANT and RIP JESSIE ABSOLUTE LEGENDS.
Tory: "Aren't there any massage therapy myths?" 🤣
5:24
I can't believe they actually got Sandra Bullock to do this skit
Bullocks...!
The impulse from hitting the gun with a bullet is much higher than that from shooting a bullet, because it takes place over a much shorter time.
RIP Jesse and Grant
I miss them so much. Sad to think we’ll never see the full Mythbusters crew together again
Stop typing rip here, it gets a bit lame now.
When u got nothing substantial or funny to say, be quiet.😊
@@koentenvoorde4929 who pissed in your lunch?
10:54 hits different
and who are you to determine what i should or should not do?
I did not ask you to read it, did i?
And as for having something substantial or funny to say: why don't you lead the way?
It is not funny nor is it substantial what you have said so far as a response to me.
Now, do us both a favor and get lost.
@@koentenvoorde4929
Thanks so much for another full episode. It's a good day whenever that happens.
Just by watching Jamie prepping to whack Adam's target pistol, grinning under his mustache and Adam bracing himself for the worst as always and our Mr. Super Mythbuster finally whacking it out of his hand with Adam feeling the jolt and freaking out, how perfect can you get?
That's pure comedy gold! If the Mythbusters sent any clips of moments such as that to America's Funniest during their tenure, THAT would've been at the top. I cracked up as all living hell after seeing that again, it was THAT FUNNY! 🤣
Also, on the bus jump myth, Grant, Jessi, and Tory got that one nailed; there's no way anybody can defy gravity to pull off that jump from what we've seen during the small scale experiments and from result replications with the bus falling extremely short on the results of what Speed showed even when taking the factors at play into consideration. Also, given that they wrecked another fence during the making of the episode, did they have the fence guy on speed dial during that time?
You, anonymous person who upload those MythBusters videos on TH-cam... I love you so much
They missed the obvious reason why Adam could hold onto the gun. While he didn't know WHEN it was going to happen, he did know that it WOULD happen.
It's that Jamie is holding it the way you hold a real gun, with your whole arm deliberately in position. Adam's arm is loose, so swings to the side, minimizing the initial effect of the force.
and the finial test was a joke that’s not a proper way to test it you can tell buy thr drastically different facial expressions from when he hit the gun with a bat to where they where shooting it
@@Ant_0922 I don't think EITHER of those tests were actually comparable to the gun being shot.
There actually WAS a case of hostage situation where the police sniper actually did shoot the gun out of his hand. And I don't know why the show didn't show the video, since it happened in 1993. And it also makes it definitively confirmed. th-cam.com/video/QhECHpArQSg/w-d-xo.html
@@The22ndDoctor But even Adam would likely have dropped it more often than not if he had no idea ANYTHING was coming. There is no way he wasn't at least somewhat preparing for it with his grip.
I'm not sure they could really test it with a totally unsuspecting test subject, like get Tory or Grant. IT would probably be too dangerous to just hand them the gun and remotely trigger it. I guess they could tell them to point it toward a target but not shoot and just hold it there.
@@FUGP72 That's with a rifle carrying seven times more energy on impact than the pistol does, they are wildly different things.
It’s like this channel sparked to life over night.
“However, I’m not gonna be done until I see what the audience is wanting to see” I love this show so much
Nostalgia at its finest I loved this show the first time and and loving rewatching these episodes ha thanks for uploading full episodes
They should have used a live camera with a low ms-delay placed inside the bus at the front screen, as grants heading when driving... makes it way easier when your view is centered for what you trying to stear, instead of constantly trying to counter after the fact from behind.
and back around 2010.. the FPV tech for RC where quite decent, so weird they don't use that approach with a screen..
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10:54 💀 damn bro, thats back to the future type of "too soon"
I wish they had extended cuts that could explain why the steering was so sensitive or why the bus was so hard to control
6:05 That look of genuine terror on dude's face!🤣
In the 90’s a sniper shot a handgun right out of a guys hand sitting on a lawn chair in a intersection on live tv. He was unhurt.
I remember that
This is one of the coolest episodes, because of the remote bus.
I'm dying. Adam's hairs at 19:24 :-D
When you think about the bus jump myth as the bus needing to clear that distance from a 2ft tall, 1.2degree angle ramp... it becomes immediately obvious that it's completely impossible, no matter the speed. You put that ramp on a flat surface and you can just tell by looking at it that the wheel would just drop a few feet past the edge of the ramp.
It's like expecting the bus to just keep driving on a flat surface after you take away the surface. It's not just gonna magically float at the same height for several seconds.
The myth-bus-two. Not even mad 😂
32:53 I thought it was a cat on the ramp then I saw it was crane in the background xD
I never thought I'd say this but this makes driving a bus look kinda fun.
If they had hit the ramp properly, the bus might have kept going a good bit faster. The drive wheels lost their grip on one side and the undercarriage scraped on the side-edge of the ramp, both of which probably slowed the bus down a lot.
RIP Jessi and Grant. Gone way too soon. They will never be forgotten
I appreciate you guys uploading British episodes of mythbusters but PLEASE upload more episodes that aired in the US. There are so many good ones.
I love how the orange cowboy is behind Grant in the Speed lead up
Recoil is definitely different than impact
I know right? That just drove me crazy, with all their prior research and knowledge how could they not know that? Anyone who's shot a gun could tell you
If you can do the math and get that published, you get to say you proved Sir Isaac Newton wrong.
"Forgot to carry gravity"
Hahahaha 7:50
"Well the failsafe works" - Bus drives on throught the fence.
Some of our current gun channels could re test these gun myths with modern ammo, like fmj's and brass solids
Looking back on this, one flaw I saw in the initial shooting tests is the conclusion the other cowboy would be harmed. The shrapnel would be hitting thick, hide pants. That might offer some protection from injury. Not much (some scraps or shrapnel embedding itself a smidge), but some.
Still, the merit is that harm would be done.
25:42 What a weird forklift tire 😮
85 mph swing is pretty good there Jaime 😂
NASA said no for 1 reason. xD
The side shooting pistol is a neat idea in concept, but whilst it does captures Newton's 3rd law, it fails to take into account the mass and force of impact from the bullet itself.
In this scenario, the blowback you're getting from the gun firing off is only from the force of the gunpower, and doesn't take into account the additional force added by the bullet impacting.
Kinda weird they didn't consider this, especially since the baseball bat to handgun, they calculated the force of impact there, but I guess overlooked it when designing the actual gun idea.
In high speed footages delay between of shot and recoil looks funny.
This was the first episode of Mythbusters i ever remember seeing
Honestly unbelievable that these don't have more views
Grant is on fire in this one
I mean they could have given the bus an alignment 😅 and a deadzone for the steering, since with this rig there is no other way for the self-aligning effects of caster angle, scrub radius and king-pin angle to actually happen, since it‘s holding the steering wheel like a lock.
The speed gun Grant has is the Hotwheels brand one, I recognize it because I had one experience growing up.
Most likely the shooting the gun out of someone's hand thing... Even if it doesn't straight up knock it out, it's going to be one painful jolt to the hand which would be likely to cause a person to just drop their gun on the spot.
Bus and crew to moon for experimentation.
NASA: no
Space X: how soon?
Elon: ah em, ah I think ah em aaaah next year
24:30 ngl, that shot goes hard.
We miss you Grant.
As someone who has experienced a comparable situation would say that something in the hand impacted by a round in flight versus the recoil of firing a round is incredibly different.
All due respect to Newton I must insist that the final testing method is flawed, the bat was much more comparable
The real problem with the bus jump is they didn't consider the obvious reason it worked in the film.......it was Keanu Reeve's wholesomeness that let the bus soar over the gap!
Did Adam sketch that Cowboy on the fly? O.o ( 2:33 )
the rc car was already leaning forward
The western myth was interesting. 2:55 in Germany we call this Klett. 20:10 poor Adam.
Sad the bus jump was not that big success.
10:54 It is ominous that Grant says he and Jessi "didn't survive the crash", considering that both have sadly passed on.
was they proximal end of the skyway a bit at an upward or upramp angle?
I wonder why the failsafe didn't kick in with the bus. I mean I assume he did what they normally do which is that the break engages if the signal falls away.
The model rebar is a nice touch
Even channeling the spirit of Keanu Reeves …… so I’m building an ouija board for the living to get this experiment to work .
Yeah.... the recoil of a firearm kinda breaks Newton's law. You actually feel only a small percentage of the impact strength because one is a compressible gas and the other is a solid going very fast coming to a sudden stop. This is one of the many reasons that a 4 year old child could fire a 357 magnum and not drop it but a .22 can break bones on impact.
It's also about mass. a person holding a gun weighs a lot more than a bullet. Both get the same energy, the gas expands equally in all directions, so it pushes the bullet in one direction, the back of the chamber in the other direction, but also against the inside of the barrel. But since the bullet is so much more lighter, it accelerates faster. Bullets are also somewhat pointy, so they will go deeper into the target than the gun.
And Newton's third law also explains why you can't send someone flying with a shotgun.
If the pellets had enough energy to send someone backwards, the same energy would act on the shooter. Which turns the shotgun into a jetpack.
And that is after the shot already went through the air and had drag acted upon it. So it's slowed down.
The bullet breaks bones because it takes the same amount of force that's applied to the person firing it, but applies it to a smaller area.
In the case of someone shooting a gun out of another's hands, the amount of force applied to the hand is roughly the same - because the bullet's energy comes from the same explosion that's applying energy to the gun in the shooter's hand, and it's dispersing its energy through the target gun. In fact, the target gun will receive less energy than the shooter, because the bullet has expended some energy in travelling, and some of its energy is dispersed after impact in launching the shrapnel to the sides, whereas the full energy of the explosion that launched the bullet is absorbed by the gun and dispersed to the shooter.
@@HappyBeezerStudios While you are right, I was only touching on one part of the experiment that they were testing.
You guys are comparing the force of a primer propelling a bullet, versus absorbing all the expelled force of a bullet. It's 2 VERY different things. The “Newtons Law” was just shooting a gun sideways, a lot like a corner shot. If you guys did the math, you'd know its absolutely NO comparison. Except for backing up your theory there's literally no reason to let go, Adam sure saw through it and he's the smaller of the two. I also think his test with the bat was way more plausible just based on the stats alone
"you guys!... it's not an official channel.
I'll make sure to let 2009 Adam and Jamie know
Exactly what I thought. Similar but not quite the same.
Adam is taller than Jamie. You're right about the rest. It has been done by a police sniper called Mike Plumb from the Columbus PD. All the way back in 1993, so they could've researched it for this episode.
Who tf is "you guys" bro this is a TV episode that aired in 2009 lollll, did you never watch mythbusters growing up?
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I need more!!!
4:12 Yeees, very scientific... XD
Torie and the gang sounds like an old episode of Archie
Just think of the improvements for if the bus was done now... easier streaming of a good detail camera from the drivers perspective to the remote driver allowing easier steering.
Back when there wasnt 3D printers and they were excited to have "vacuum form"
"Vacuum form" is still being used today, in fact many automotive industries still rely on using it
Its cheaper, faster and more efficient
Its not really a thing of the past
@@MrComfysleep yeah probably, it's just interesting to see people use the old tech
Thank you Grant....if there is a Nerd heaven, you've already been there.
"you forgot gravity".
21:08 A lot of energy and a lot of pain, but not nearly as painful as in the case of Adam holding his "target pistol" with his finger on the trigger. I think that situation would result in extreme damage to his finger, his hand, and even his wrist.
A police sniper shot a gun out of the hand of a man sitting on a park bench, threatening suicide. Didn’t hurt him. True story.
Definitely a bit of a difference between a sniper and a revolver though.
I wonder how Grant could have gotten the steering more calibrated. And how reliable an 2008-2009 radio control transmitter would have been to do that.
19:23 😂😂😂
Imagine they had used a drone fpv camera for steering the bus
RIP Jessie. Fastest woman on earth.❤️
Any stewardess is faster.
Regarding the gun one, I wonder if the force felt is really the same between shooting a gun and holding something that is hit by a bullet. When you shoot the gun, the force is spread out over a longer period of time as the bullet accelerates down the barrel. When a bullet hits something, that force is felt at once. I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make, but it might make some.
Anyone else notice how front heavy the small scale test bus was? If you look at the wheels, front and back, and compare them you can see its front heavy. Now that doesn't mean the myth wouldn't be busted, of course it would, but that bus didn't stand a chance being that heavy up front.
Rip grant and jessi, we will never forget them
I feel like if they had lined the bus up perfectly straight with the ramp, then locked the wheels so they could only go straight, they would have been far more successful with far less issues. Or put a camera on the front, and a screen on the steering rig, so Grant could watch the line easier.
I only just realised that Adam is wearing a nostromo shirt from alien specifically either kane or dallas (Parker didn't have the patch on the right sleeve and Ash had a blue shirt
Just saw that, myself!
What I don't understand is why they didn't just put a video camera on the front of the bus so that the remote driver could guide it that way using a TV screen on the chase-car; if they had it set up that way instead of just watching the rear of the bus, the driver might have hit the ramp more squarely, since he could actually see where the bus was heading.
I think it's a lag issue. There is a delay between the joystick and when the tires actually turn, and a video feed would add even more lag. I've had a lot of trouble controlling robots in the past so I understand why the unstable bus was probably too difficult to drive.
@@templeprogramming4982 I dunno; the controller said himself that it was hard to direct the bus just by watching it from behind. I don't understand why they apparently didn't think to use a video camera in the front; from what I've seen, that's how pretty much everybody sets up a remote-controlling-of-a-vehicle stunt like this nowadays.
They did video for one of the tries with jet-car iirc. Have to remember it is way easier now, than it was 15 years ago.
With a "mechanical" hand there is no allowance for reflex action even an airgun pellet at 12lb sq inch will elicit a reflex reaction (anticipation + surprise + realisation = reaction - gun dropped!). However, to hit a pistol from most angles would take an extraordinarily accurate shot (unless electronically aimed) so I would suggest the hit rate would be somewhere above one in sixty.
10:55 DAMN... I mean.... that's spooky ^^*
It really is lol, goosebumps
A camera in the bus acting as the busdriver eyes would maybe have worked?
I had a thought about this. Jamie said that jumpiness plays a part in dropping the gun. You know what makes you jumpy? PTSD, I know from personal experience and research. You reckon there was a significant amount of PTSD in the wild west? I do. I feel the lawless culture these guys existed in could contribute significantly to dropping the gun upon impact.
PTSD is a myth.
The issues they had with the bus are what airplane engineers call pilot induced oscillation...
Happens when the delay between action and reaction of the system is getting too long
Grant getting to live the dream of full size remote control cars.
It hurts my heart to see them shooting perfectly good pistols.
We miss you Grant and Jessie