The way my fear of stinging insects was cured was having yellow jackets eat barbeque sauce off my fingers. In late august/early september, when they start getting more aggressive looking for food. And they were surprisingly gentle about it too.
On the seasickness one, it's likely that a person would have to go through the self-hypnosis for much longer than a week. The fact that he went from 17:30 to double the time does indicate it was working to an extent.
I feel like they should've put up those shock testers on the stands for the grenade myths. The Shockwave can also do damage on their own without the fragments
Would have liked them to have tested the grenade sump we were taught to include in our foxholes. The idea is that you dig a two foot hole - ideally on either side - of the foxhole so that if someone tosses a grenade in you can kick it into the sump and it makes the blast survivable.
Honestly even better it would've been cool to see different poses and see if they could figure out a way to do bones to keep the gel together. Because there are stories of people jumping on grenades and surviving it, just with a big hole around the area. Specifically I know a story of a guy holding one in his arms and his arms took the majority of the explosion and spared the rest of his body.
@@loonyshots5879 they didn't have the full skeleton ballistic dummies like we see today on the guntubers, something I had to keep reminding myself every time I see them making their own dummies.
@seanfoltz7645 They've done episodes where they actually make them their selves though, that's what I mean. It would've been extra work but they've done it before.
soldiers in real life have jumped on grenades, sometimes survived sometimes not depending on luck and body armor conditions. but they absolutely did save the lives of the unit.
(42:50) I wonder if this would work even better with a steel bucket? Would the bucket be able to withstand the force and direct all of the blast upward? Or would the bucket itself turn into deadly shrapnel? Unfortunately, we won't know anytime soon.
But, are we really saying that Grant lasting twice as long as a device that was designed to cause seasickness is really not a significant result? I feel like in order to say that you would have to determine whether or not other people would set that device without getting seasick. Unless a person who doesn't ordinarily get seasick doesn't get seasick you haven't established a baseline
Weirdly enough, for the longest time my eye color would change on it's own for no reason. It happened from childhood up to about my mid 30s. It wasn't instant, like 1 minute blue and green the next, but it would sort of migrate through the blues and greys, and sometimes slip in a bits and flecks of green. I think I did hit brown once IIRC. Never found out why, and it seems to have stopped now.
My cousin's were the same way, it would go from deep blue to a reddish color and everything in between ok different days. We never got an explanation or figured out why it happened but it was always interesting.
As did Herbert J. Thomas in WW2. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save the men in his squad. I worked in the hospital named after him.
Self hypnosis doesn't work the way the myth goes. It is busted, no doubts. But, self hypnosis that is learned and performed in a correct way does work. Been there, doing that.
We already know it's possible to survive a grenade and saving your buddies. Kyle Carpenter, Jacklyn H. Lucas, Robert E. Simanek, and John Baca all survived jumping on a grenade. Now it's possible but the chances of surviving is slim.
I think they also had some pretty hefty armor. Also being soldiers they would be in really top shape compared to the general public. Not that I think anyone is really expecting to jump on a grenade outside of warzones, and movies.
Ok, but they literally did not do this in the order the guy in the viral video did!! He had the mentos presumably in his stomach and then drank coke. AHAAHAHAAH!
Why didn't they test the dummy wearing a flack jacket? Standard issue protective wear designed to stop metal fragments flying through the body, present in most war movies, and they didn't test it.
I love how the Three Musketeers reversed the order of Mentos and Coke ingestion and called it properly tested. Also, they assumed there was a bunch of stomach acid present. If they had more information, it would have been nice to know what it was.
There wasn’t more information, and they didn’t do the order wrong. Normally you put mentos into a coke bottle, but in the video they were busting the person swallowed mentos and drank coke causing him to explode his stomach - so that’s what they were testing, not what would happen if you made a volcano with a stomach. Also people have acid in their stomachs, so the acids were replicating that since there wasn’t any acid in the pig’s stomach since it was a dead pig.
@@Onyxiate In the experiment, they added the coke first and then the mentos. In the video made by the guy and his friend, he ate mentos, and THEN guzzled coke. That means Tory, Grant, and Carrie DID get the order wrong, as they were *not* replicating the video.
the real myth here is that motion sickness is the same as sea sickness. i can walk around a sail boat fine, any spinning and i've got nausea and anxiety spikes
Instead of re-uploading episodes that you've already uploaded to this channel a year ago (and mislabeling them as season 4 instead of 5), why don't you upload episodes from seasons 1, 2, or 3? We know that you have at least some of them, because you've uploaded them to your other channel, Banijay Science. But it would be nice to have all the MythBusters content on the MythBusters channel.
This is for US based audiences who can't watch the previous uploaded video and can't watch the Banijay Science videos. Since it's for the US audience it also isn't labeled incorrectly as in the US the first three episodes are considered pilot episodes and not season one. In the US Season One officially starts with Exploding Toilets.
i dont feel like the grenade test is all that accurate, in the test it was pretty much just limp skin, whereas a soldier jumping onto a grenade to save his squad will have fairly durable clothing and most likely tensed muscles in his arms and torso along with bones which will absorb a bit more of the shockwave and shrapnel compared to limply lying on a grenade naked
Yeah, and how successful it could be also depends on what era we're talking about. The US didn't start using body armor until the Vietnam War with flak jackets that most soldiers were issued with, and modern day body armor is even more resilient. I don't think that would stop the blast entirely, but it would give it a better shot of actually working. Anything pre-Vietnam though, idk, the uniforms they used aren't really any better than somewhat more heavy duty than usual civilian clothing, but there are still definitely many more variables they aren't taking into consideration.
I think this was more or less base around pre Vietnam era. Though if they ever bring back this show or someone on youtube does retesting (which i believe somebody did.) then we can see how it works
Considering how well as gelatin man suppressed the blast of a grenade, I would say a person in full military gear would contain the blast even further. The poor guy would still get blown to pieces, but it would be interesting to see how much less damaging the grenade would be with a full military gel man.
Yep. IIRC , One third of the Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the Battle of Iwo Jima were given to men who had jumped on a grenade to save the lives of his buddies.
The self hypnosis was taint with all the talking and taunting. It should have been done in a controlled environment. Probably have non mythbusters being the subjects.
@@jozef9182 because they knew the outcome. Most people who have tried the mentos and diet coke eruption have also thied dropping mentos into an already poured cup and pouring diet coke into a cup that contains a mentos.
@@md_vandenberg exactly the person has to throw it, depending on distance that is already 1-2 seconds on the fuse, and then you have to pick it up which is another second and you might even have to run over to it which is 2 seconds and then you have to throw it which is going to take maybe 2 seconds to cock your arm back and then throw it, your fucking dead by then. dumb fucks like this guy are why not even gets accepted into the military, they should stick to their video games instead of pretending to be so clever about things they have no idea about.
@@md_vandenberg and even if you are quick enough the grenade no doubt is going to blow up in the air, you have jsut created an air burst grenade making it more lethal for you and your buddies lmao
The way my fear of stinging insects was cured was having yellow jackets eat barbeque sauce off my fingers. In late august/early september, when they start getting more aggressive looking for food. And they were surprisingly gentle about it too.
On the seasickness one, it's likely that a person would have to go through the self-hypnosis for much longer than a week. The fact that he went from 17:30 to double the time does indicate it was working to an extent.
Jack Lucas, a Marine in WWII, jumped on two Japanese grenades and survived the explosions of both of them
If I recall, one went off the other was a dud that was removed from him before MedEvac
I feel like they should've put up those shock testers on the stands for the grenade myths. The Shockwave can also do damage on their own without the fragments
lethal range for JUST the blast wave is 10-15 feet depending on the gear you're wearing, IIRC from my training back in the day
Would have liked them to have tested the grenade sump we were taught to include in our foxholes.
The idea is that you dig a two foot hole - ideally on either side - of the foxhole so that if someone tosses a grenade in you can kick it into the sump and it makes the blast survivable.
Honestly even better it would've been cool to see different poses and see if they could figure out a way to do bones to keep the gel together. Because there are stories of people jumping on grenades and surviving it, just with a big hole around the area. Specifically I know a story of a guy holding one in his arms and his arms took the majority of the explosion and spared the rest of his body.
@@loonyshots5879 they didn't have the full skeleton ballistic dummies like we see today on the guntubers, something I had to keep reminding myself every time I see them making their own dummies.
@seanfoltz7645 They've done episodes where they actually make them their selves though, that's what I mean. It would've been extra work but they've done it before.
@@loonyshots5879 Yeah - not like today where you can order ones with bones and organs already installed.
True, those were "fun" to make. They usually became latrine holes not long after though. Just for urinating though.
"Haiiii Kar-eeee, Come to me Darling..... " One of my favourite Tori Quotes
46:14 the explosion, the whole crew laughing, and the narrator’s commentary 46:21 Makes this so funny to me.
That hit to the groin would definitely punch your ticket.
even if not it'll make you want to punch it yourself...
soldiers in real life have jumped on grenades, sometimes survived sometimes not depending on luck and body armor conditions. but they absolutely did save the lives of the unit.
(42:50) I wonder if this would work even better with a steel bucket? Would the bucket be able to withstand the force and direct all of the blast upward? Or would the bucket itself turn into deadly shrapnel? Unfortunately, we won't know anytime soon.
He chewed the mentos first
RIP Grant 😭
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@47:03 the hero didn't just 'duck down square to the door ', he ducked behind a wall.
But, are we really saying that Grant lasting twice as long as a device that was designed to cause seasickness is really not a significant result? I feel like in order to say that you would have to determine whether or not other people would set that device without getting seasick. Unless a person who doesn't ordinarily get seasick doesn't get seasick you haven't established a baseline
Weirdly enough, for the longest time my eye color would change on it's own for no reason. It happened from childhood up to about my mid 30s. It wasn't instant, like 1 minute blue and green the next, but it would sort of migrate through the blues and greys, and sometimes slip in a bits and flecks of green. I think I did hit brown once IIRC. Never found out why, and it seems to have stopped now.
My cousin's were the same way, it would go from deep blue to a reddish color and everything in between ok different days. We never got an explanation or figured out why it happened but it was always interesting.
The body over a grenade story is valid because Micheal Monsoor (SEAL) he sacrificed himself to save his buddies
As did Herbert J. Thomas in WW2. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save the men in his squad. I worked in the hospital named after him.
Yeah it has happened time and again in warfare so confirmed on that one
Hollywood with James Cagney with a WW1 helmet covering a grenade and his body.
Duly noted, again, do not toss a grenade in the fridge. Yikes.
I'd got forgotten what a mess the fridge made.
Self hypnosis doesn't work the way the myth goes. It is busted, no doubts. But, self hypnosis that is learned and performed in a correct way does work. Been there, doing that.
R.I.P. Grant Imahara.
The fridge was basically turned into a really big frag grenade
They should have stuck.to the actual parameters of the event: Mentor first, then the soda and not the other way around.
We already know it's possible to survive a grenade and saving your buddies. Kyle Carpenter, Jacklyn H. Lucas, Robert E. Simanek, and John Baca all survived jumping on a grenade. Now it's possible but the chances of surviving is slim.
I think they also had some pretty hefty armor. Also being soldiers they would be in really top shape compared to the general public. Not that I think anyone is really expecting to jump on a grenade outside of warzones, and movies.
do the grenade under the military helmet under the body!
Ok, but they literally did not do this in the order the guy in the viral video did!! He had the mentos presumably in his stomach and then drank coke. AHAAHAHAAH!
Why didn't they test the dummy wearing a flack jacket? Standard issue protective wear designed to stop metal fragments flying through the body, present in most war movies, and they didn't test it.
26:00 anybody else feel the urges to just...*SLAP*
Also the soda should be much colder. Warm soda loses CO2 more easily.
44;43 it looks like there is two explosions there.
I love how the Three Musketeers reversed the order of Mentos and Coke ingestion and called it properly tested. Also, they assumed there was a bunch of stomach acid present. If they had more information, it would have been nice to know what it was.
There wasn’t more information, and they didn’t do the order wrong. Normally you put mentos into a coke bottle, but in the video they were busting the person swallowed mentos and drank coke causing him to explode his stomach - so that’s what they were testing, not what would happen if you made a volcano with a stomach. Also people have acid in their stomachs, so the acids were replicating that since there wasn’t any acid in the pig’s stomach since it was a dead pig.
@@Onyxiate In the experiment, they added the coke first and then the mentos. In the video made by the guy and his friend, he ate mentos, and THEN guzzled coke. That means Tory, Grant, and Carrie DID get the order wrong, as they were *not* replicating the video.
Reupload from just under a year ago, and mislabeled as season 4
th-cam.com/video/t1W1tlscnns/w-d-xo.html
boo hoo, its free, shut up
32:47
now that's funny.
the real myth here is that motion sickness is the same as sea sickness. i can walk around a sail boat fine, any spinning and i've got nausea and anxiety spikes
27:33 *(Spoiler Warning)* Dang O.O How’d that Spanish Medal of Honor Recipient Survive this! Yowzah you’ll need todo it again w/Army Clothes
I ended up marrying a brown eyed red head. I blame Kari for this
Instead of re-uploading episodes that you've already uploaded to this channel a year ago (and mislabeling them as season 4 instead of 5), why don't you upload episodes from seasons 1, 2, or 3? We know that you have at least some of them, because you've uploaded them to your other channel, Banijay Science. But it would be nice to have all the MythBusters content on the MythBusters channel.
Shut up
Omg. Tell me about it.
Probably has something to do with licensing, most of them aren’t even available in Canada so I’m assuming that is part of the issue
The had to delete them before
This is for US based audiences who can't watch the previous uploaded video and can't watch the Banijay Science videos. Since it's for the US audience it also isn't labeled incorrectly as in the US the first three episodes are considered pilot episodes and not season one. In the US Season One officially starts with Exploding Toilets.
i dont feel like the grenade test is all that accurate, in the test it was pretty much just limp skin, whereas a soldier jumping onto a grenade to save his squad will have fairly durable clothing and most likely tensed muscles in his arms and torso along with bones which will absorb a bit more of the shockwave and shrapnel compared to limply lying on a grenade naked
Modern soldiers would also have body armor on
Reminder that there's a WW2 Marine who won the Medal of Honor for doing EXACTLY THIS.
Yeah, and how successful it could be also depends on what era we're talking about. The US didn't start using body armor until the Vietnam War with flak jackets that most soldiers were issued with, and modern day body armor is even more resilient. I don't think that would stop the blast entirely, but it would give it a better shot of actually working. Anything pre-Vietnam though, idk, the uniforms they used aren't really any better than somewhat more heavy duty than usual civilian clothing, but there are still definitely many more variables they aren't taking into consideration.
I think this was more or less base around pre Vietnam era. Though if they ever bring back this show or someone on youtube does retesting (which i believe somebody did.) then we can see how it works
Considering how well as gelatin man suppressed the blast of a grenade, I would say a person in full military gear would contain the blast even further. The poor guy would still get blown to pieces, but it would be interesting to see how much less damaging the grenade would be with a full military gel man.
The grenade myth has been confirmed irl by an american serviceman.
Yep. IIRC , One third of the Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the Battle of Iwo Jima were given to men who had jumped on a grenade to save the lives of his buddies.
Jack Lewis, right? I think The Fat Electrician covered his story not too long ago...
Do the same test but the dummy wearing Body armor
Adding to that, do another test with a fully loaded rucksack. I.e. instead of on stomach the guy back flops onto the 'nade.
The self hypnosis was taint with all the talking and taunting. It should have been done in a controlled environment. Probably have non mythbusters being the subjects.
25:17 mmmmmm i think it actually calls for a bunch more testing actually
They did the stomach experiment wrong, the guy ate a few mentos first then the diet coke.
oooh thanks god im not the only one who saw that big mistake they did, i dont get it why they didnt do it same as the guy in the video
@@jozef9182 because they knew the outcome. Most people who have tried the mentos and diet coke eruption have also thied dropping mentos into an already poured cup and pouring diet coke into a cup that contains a mentos.
why do they always lay on the grenade rather than pick it up and throw it away? Then you save everyone and don't die.
because it will blow up in your hand or in your face mid air, real life isnt call of duty idiot
You've got about 4 seconds of fuse; do you think you're fast enough?
@@md_vandenberg exactly the person has to throw it, depending on distance that is already 1-2 seconds on the fuse, and then you have to pick it up which is another second and you might even have to run over to it which is 2 seconds and then you have to throw it which is going to take maybe 2 seconds to cock your arm back and then throw it, your fucking dead by then. dumb fucks like this guy are why not even gets accepted into the military, they should stick to their video games instead of pretending to be so clever about things they have no idea about.
@@md_vandenberg and even if you are quick enough the grenade no doubt is going to blow up in the air, you have jsut created an air burst grenade making it more lethal for you and your buddies lmao