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- Adam and Jamie set out to see if a ping-pong ball could be deadly. They try different methods to make the ball go supersonic, reaching speeds over 1100 mph-faster than a speeding bullet. Although the ball causes impressive damage to things like plywood and glass, their final test on a pork shoulder shows it makes a serious wound but isn’t actually lethal.
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Can a Ping-Pong Ball Really Be Deadly? | MythBusters | Discovery
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Will never happen, jamie is done with TV and Adam.
They held castings and one season for the next generation of MythBusters, but that was as far as it went. Nothing like the OGs
Jamie is still doing it there are just no cameras
I concur
@@godnah Um, Jamie is a professor in Finland.
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Early 2000's is my childhood
Absolutely
It was shortly after then that I stopped watching TV. I lived in a tent on a campsite for 2 Summer seasons, teaching rock climbing, no TV, just sitting round the fire chatting instead......Came back to 'civilisation', I'd just about lost interest, the final straw was when I split with my (now ex) wife, and she took the TV (Fair enough, it was hers), and I've never bothered replacing it. IF I want to watch something, I can usually find it online, and as I'm in the UK, I object to paying the 'TV licence fee' that funds the incredibly politically biased Government propaganda channel, and paedophile employer / defender / apologist, the BBC, British Broadcasting Cooperation.
it looked like the air did a lot more damage then the ball, air pressure isnt something to mess with
that was my thinking too. would have like to see them run the test a second time without the ball.
Even though the air did most of the damage, I think the ball broke the skin to allow the air a pocket to fill and tear. Without the ball I don't think the air would have broken the skin. I'd like to see it tested further.
This is the post I was looking for. High pressure fluid injection can cause massive local trauma. Even in an appendage- without amputation, that sort of injury could certainly be lethal.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. The ball broke the skin which allowed the air to enter and cause quite the bubble under the skin. Maybe not fatal, but that would be an incredibly painful wound.
@@angusmctwangstick4079 yeah, you can actually see remnants of the ping pong ball get forced into the wound even further after impact - the superficial damage they saw was probably because of the ball splintering into sharp plastic and allowing tears and then being forced in by the remnant air pressure.
Ping pong ball may not have been deadly, but that air pressure going into the cavity most likely would be.
We used to watch myth busters in school when i was a kid if we got all of our work done before Friday. Nobody messed it up for us. We were a team so we could watch the show
That’s a fantastic incentive. It clearly worked wonders, too
I really enjoy how the producers found it necessary for grip department to rig a camera to the end of a baseball ball for some baseball bat POV shots
To be fair, they were really cool shots
This was all stuff you could get at Home Depot and they're just casually accelerating ping pong balls to 1000 miles an hour LMAO
Might not be deadly if it hit you in the torso but if that hit you in the head you'd probably be in a bit of trouble.
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A "professional" regulation ping pong ball weighs 2.7g, and at 1100 mph is impacting with 240 ft-lbs of force over a very small area. I would say plausible, if not confirmed.
If I did my math right, that's only about 1.7 PSI. The average boxer hits with about 770 PSI. Granted, that's wearing a boxing glove and a larger impact area, but even bare knuckles, it's unlikely to be fatal. Personally, I think the air pressure did the bulk of the damage to the pork shoulder.
If the ping pong ball hit the neck just right, I feel it could be deadly. Plausible.
Plausible...if the ball is going over 1000mph, which isn't very plausiblelol
if it hits your temple you'd definetly be dead
Funnily enough, a supersized version of Adam's pressure-vacuum cannon, using the same principles, would be used by Destin from SmarterEveryDay to fling supersonic baseballs at M1.3+.
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I'm no doctor, but I wouldn't want to be hit by that ball in the neck.
"Pork have 4 shoulders, and 2 of them are butt. It's true, look it up" - Adam Savage, Scientist.
Similar mass and velocity to a .22LR bullet, but with a much larger surface area and a geometry that will distribute the transfer of kinetic energy when compared to a bullet.
.22LR is lethal but not by much. A ping pong ball is unlikely to be lethal.
Ok, maybe on Earth a ping pong ball is unable to achieve lethal velocity. But in space...
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Pressure sensitive trigger in ballistic dummy chest where heart is and redo deadly ping-pong
when this first aired i actually had a bunch of ping pong balls that my wife an i found as we were cleaning out a house that your landlord had bought i took a handful of them an looked at one an was like no way they weigh next to nothing after seeing what adam an jamie did i changed my mind . great episode it would be great to bring this show back an i dont know about the rest of you but mythbusters needs a star on the walk of fame
I have a question: Has there ever been a myth that Adam was hoping would be busted, but instead ended up getting confirmed?
several, the mice scaring elephants for one
Thank you Discovery. A lot of these I couldn't watch in its entirety.
They put it right next to the barrel. Just the air probably did that.
Chuck Norris can bowl a strike with a ping pong ball.
What a seamless wonderful experience watching this with no commercials, and no other stories edited together.
No jumping back and forth is good indeed.
They literally used the exact same vacuum pump I use at my job replacing air conditioners😂 it’s AWESOME to see what else they the do…hell I need to do this!
I do believe it is possible for a ping pong ball to kill a person the same way a chihuahua can kill a bull dog in a 1 on 1 fight, by getting eaten by the bulldog and having its head get stuck in the bulldog's throat and choking to death.
did the math and if i did it right a ping pong ball, or at least something with the same mass, would need to go 2550 mph to impact with the same Joules as a 5.56 round
They needed to add a reservoir at the end of the barrel off to the side to provide a place for all the air getting past the ball to accumulate. i.e. create a really large vacuum volume but most of the vacuum volume is off to the side near the end of the barrel. The air (atmospheric or boosted) rushes in, pushing the ball and some getting past it but at the end of the barrel the air goes out small side holes into the side reservoir and the ball continues straight and breaks out of the barrel, never being slowed by the air cushion. One of the few episodes where I had an idea that could help and they did not just go there. I so want to try the larger vacuum and see how much faster it would have gone.
I love hiw excited Adam looks when he talks about the pork butt fact lol
I love how he's like "it's true, look it up 😃"
A 2.5g ping pong ball at 1100fps is 103.7 FPE. That could definitely be lethal.
I'm thinking if the ball hit anywhere mid torso I would be worried about the kinetic energy delivered to all surrounding internal organs, and the spine being the backstop for all those organs moving close to the speed of sound. I'm betting lethal at that range... Re-do on complete pig cadaver and see what occurs.
Bring back thus show!
this may be the first and only gun that gets fired with a baseball bat
I think I would call this one highly unlikely, but "plausible." An impact of that caliber on your throat could certainly crush your wind pipe and cause suffocation.
I remember this when it came out , learned a lot since then and play (pritty well ) table tennis , spin on the ball maters , a lot , a ball smashed at you by some 1 that does,nt play hurts , but a ball hit at you by a player that can get good top spin hurts more , and leaves a bigger mark , probably still would,nt be leathal , but at 1100 mph with top spin would be very interesting to see
If it was a spy movie and the target was in a restaurant, and the villain set up this ping pong ball weapon next door with the barrel sticking out behind a painting. And when the target sat down in a booth against the wall. The villain takes his shot. Thatd be lethal then
I got hit enough times with ping pong balls by other drunk college kids in my time that were hit ungodly hard. Those little turds hurt!
This two men inspired me to become a ME major
I'm left wondering about barrel lengths between 20 and 150 feet.
But what if it was either a shot to a person's temple or a person's nose? It would definitely break a person's nose. Though the latter (death by broken nose option) maybe an urban legend.
Totally leaving out the fact that the "victim" was cooperating by standing practically AGAINST the weapon. Which rarely happens. Not even "Plausible". Really busted.
Not what this is about lol
As usual, I am as impressed as I am surprised.
I'm no expert but depending on the impact zone, that looked plausible to me.
Discovery really trying to relive their glory days.
I want to live the glory days. May I?
i took a few pingpong balls to skin on my back from a few feet away from a water balloon launcher, and it did not feel good.
I like how there was a large "GAUGE" marked on the pressure gauge (1m30s) so we know what it is...
Add a golf ball with a gps tag and see how far this rig could shoot it
I’m surprised they didn’t bring out some ballistic gel Lmd like Buster
Next time use a ball bearing
Idk. Seems like I can think of several places on a human where that last hit would terminate life.
Not lethal? Still.. owch!
Id want to see one filed with sand lol
Man Adam's laugh is the best
Rip too the two cast members that beat us to the afterlife
Try swallowing one.
Lmfao, well played.
Straw has been found imbedded in trees and brick/cinderblock walls after hurricanes so why not a fatal ping-pong ball?
453 mph is 664.4 fps - a CO2 powered pellet gun averages between 400-600 fps firing a 7.4 grain pellet, which weighs approximately half a gram while a ping pong ball weighs 2.7 grams, or 41.7 grains, which is approximately a .22 long bullet weight.
Weight plus fps is what creates the lethality of a bullet - the FBI has determined that about 63 foot-pounds (85 Joules) is the minimum needed to be considered lethal, so that means that the ball is currently delivering 40.86 foot pounds of energy to the target - not enough to officially be considered lethal, especially in light of how large the diameter of the ball is and thus how dispersed the energy on the impact area is.
779 mph is 1142.5 fps which brings the ball up to 120.8 foot pounds, almost twice the minimum the FBI feels is lethal, meaning that even with the diameter of the ball spreading out the energy, it should be capable of ruining someone's day.
1086 mph = 1592.8 fps = 234.9 foot pounds - average 9mm bullet delivers 300-400 foot pounds.
1100 mph = 1613 fps = 240.85 foot pounds - 9mm bullet travels an average speed of 1150-1200 fps, so yes, faster than a speeding bullet.
Sorry, gotta give thumbs down because they failed to use a ballistic skull or some sort of simulation of a headshot as I'm sure the myth of a fatal ping pong ball impact did involve being struck in the head and that ball was delivering sufficient foot pounds of energy that odds were in its favor of caving in a forehead and potentially even blowing through plywood.
I’m surprised Jamie didn’t eat the plug of raw pork he pulled out.
When the world needed them most, they stayed hidden
the ping pong ball not lethal but there's lots of trauma caused if you're not rushed to hospital you're screwed anyway.
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Come on guys, the rear shoulders are hams. And the fronts are butts. But they're only called butts, because in colonial england the butchers would ship them in specialty barrels called butts.
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Does everybody have an Uncle named Bob.. or just most everybody?
they are trying to increase the energy in the system instead of increasing the efficiency of the system - just needed wadding behind the ball
Adam is a 17 year old boy in the body of a 67 year old man (idk if he IS 67 but he looks that age)
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No wonder this show didn't make it...
Think the air is worse than the ball
What would a golf ball do?
lol OK MY expected result wasn't there! I had the ball disintegrating at the lower pressure. Ummmm....nope....
Hey! At HIGHER pressure I was right! Woo hoo!
Just release the actual episodes
I think that could kill you
Why not just cut it in half and make a shape charge? :)
The air did more damage then the ball did. should have pulled back about 7 feet. Would have been a whole different turn out.
That definitely looks deadly to me. The wound might be small but the displacement bubble was huge. Heart, lungs, liver, whatever was in that bubble would be obliterated - and that isn't even considering a head shot. It's like saying a .22 isnt deadly because the hole is small. This was definitely influenced by someone, these guys are smarter than that.
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Stick in your throat.... But it's no frozen chicken....
Glass too close...pork butt too close, getting impact of the air.
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OLD, being sold as new. LOL!!
It's ridiculous how little they understand about what was going on in the testing of this myth. The air in front of the ball was not blowing the wine out of the glass. The air from the tank was going around the ball and blowing the win out.
This isn't exactly the right time to make a video like this so... *never make this kind of video again.*
You think they filmed this last week? You don’t understand how media works.
What are you talking about? This thing is ancient!
@@adamwright3363 seems apropos for the right and their terrible media literacy rates
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This is an educational video that just so happened to have been upload *at the wrong time.* LOOK UP THE NEWS!
@@DonnyHooterHoot
Excuse me, *exactly when was this video broadcast?*
Boring, long and drawn out.
15 years and 43 subs. Are you describing your life?
You obviously have the attention span for 5 second videos.
We forgive your mentally feeble mind for not being able to watch an 18 min video
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@@BillWaltriphahaha 😂 i wonder how long it takes for them to Ping you back a reply!
@@kevdimo6459probably a pong pong time 😂