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don't try this at home whoa for this
list we'll be looking at our favorite
myths that were tested on Mythbusters
throughout its 17 seasons and nearly 300
episodes these can be the most
informative the funniest the most fun to
watch and/or the most surprising
generally as long as these myths are
enjoyable and informative they will be
included number 20 mercury fulminate we
all watched Breaking Bad saw Walt blow
up a building with a chunk of mercury
fulminate and thought huh I wonder if
that actually works this is not meth
well no it doesn't we always loved when
Mythbusters would test exaggerated
scenes of action from movies or
television so it points right away for
doing that mercury fulminate is primary
explosive and so it is very sensitive to
shock and impact friction heat as well
as spice the testing of the myth was
also a lot of fun including a trip down
to a rock quarry grant building a
mechanical arm and throwing charges of
mercury fulminate at superhuman speeds
it says Walter White with 50 grams of
mercury fulminate and 3 2 1
unfortunately the myth was totally
busted throwing the mercury did
absolutely nothing and you need way more
than what Walt had to cause an explosion
of that caliber number 19
spicy cures watching the bombastic myths
is always fun but we also love when the
team tests practical everyday meds like
how to cure the pain from spicy food
hot-chili cures for spicy mouth it's not
only informative to the audience but it
puts to rest all forms of bro science
you may have heard in other words
they're busting a myth and that's what
the show is all about for this test they
attempted to cure the spicy pains using
milk water beer tequila toothpaste
petroleum jelly and wasabi you've got 30
seconds to wait before you it was very
entertaining to watch them cast all the
supposed cures and some actually worked
to an extent like beer water and tequila
but at the end of the day nothing beats
milk when it comes to relieving intense
spice but doesn't everybody know that
milk is the best cure for a hot chili
mop number 18 earwax candle you really
never know what you're going to get with
Mythbusters it's what makes the show so
entertaining in this episode we get
earwax candle yeah that's disgusting I'm
interested please go on as in a candle
literally made out of the bill team's
earwax the myth comes from the movie
Shrek as Shrek uses what he has to mold
himself a little dinner candle
the build team created their own
disgusting candle and while it did burn
to a degree it reacted very poorly when
compared to a
traditional paraffin candle paraffin and
the beeswax burnt normally as I would
have expected the really astounding
thing is how well the human ear wax
burned turns out that Shrek took some
biological liberties then again maybe
ochre your wax burns better than humans
though and that's down to the
composition of candle wax as opposed to
ear wax the long-chain hydrocarbons in
paraffin or beeswax melt and in liquid
form get pulled up the wick where they
burn in a slow controlled fashion number
seventeen curving a bullet in the movie
wanted characters managed to curve
bullets around obstacles simply by
swinging their arms in an arc while
firing a gun of course this is absolute
Hollywood nonsense but it makes for a
really entertaining segment of
Mythbusters
the build team originally tried
performing the feet themselves but
unsurprisingly no one could do it the
bullet didn't curve so in came the robot
with superhuman speed or not vampires
they don't use magic they don't have
telekinetic powers to curve the bullet
all it is is superhuman speed and
strength and that we can do in abundance
but even with superhuman arm speed addy
rifled gun barrel and unbalanced bullets
the bullets still flew in a pin straight
trajectory I see the laser it's a
straight shot there's no deviation
whatsoever superhuman strength and we
still have a straight shot
myth unequivocally busted sometimes he
just can't break the laws of physics
boring we know number 16 rocket surfing
you know it's going to be a good time
when they break out the Rockets is it
true
with no waves inside you can power a
surfboard with a rocket this myth claims
that it's possible to surf on scale
water using a rocket engine for
propulsion
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the team used Buster to help with this
myth which is probably a good thing
considering the very first test saw
Buster doing a somersault after
performing some modifications including
a wider surfboard more weight smaller
motors and timed ignitions both Tori and
Buster managed to do some rocket surf
incredible however the test did not meet
their specific parameters and required
significant modifications it turns out
that you can't surf on still water with
a rocket engine darn we were really
hoping to use that spare rocket engine
we have in the basement
number 15 prison break sometimes you
just want to watch the build team dress
like old timey prisoners and scale a
wall using human hair in this episode
the build team were trying different
tactics and materials for scaling down a
prison wall it's the moment of truth for
our prison escape ropes
we got 100% human hair toilet-paper rope
and the old school classic bedsheet and
what made this episode so great was not
just the entertainment value but the
surprising results
brant quickly and successfully scaled
the wall using bed sheets Tory found it
plausible to make a rope out of toilet
paper and Kari managed to scale the wall
using a rope made from human hair
looking pretty good so far actually well
the hair is it's holding up that's great
it's incredible australia's however this
one still remained questionable as
finding that much human hair in prison
would be next to impossible
still the act itself can be done number
fourteen
surviving inside an animal carcass one
of the most famous scenes in the star
wars series sees han cutting open a
tauntaun and stuffing luke inside to
keep him warm thank you
it's certainly disgusting but hey
desperate times call for desperate
measures
this myth is easily one of the show's
most intriguing and entertaining as Adam
sculpts a tauntaun out of foam and
garnishes it with synthetic skin and fur
great big gobs of goopy grimy Tong Tonga
meanwhile Jamie craps artificial organs
to react in a realistic manner yeah they
went all out for this one in their
estimation Luke would have died of
hypothermia after reaching an internal
temperature of 82 degrees they ended up
deeming the myth plausible as thermo-boy
only dropped to 92 degrees
number 13 having a car with an elevator
Seth Rogen's oft forgotten the Green
Hornet contains a wickedly entertaining
but ridiculously illogical scene the
characters drive the front half of a car
after shearing off the back with an
elevator the myth was immediately busted
when the build teams car was crushed at
ceiling level we have to shoot this car
with the hopes that we weaken the
structural integrity that will give us
the best fighting chance of turning this
car in half with an elevator
however guest star Seth Rogen declared
that black beauty had some modifications
including a self splitting mechanism and
a reserve fuel tank under the hood its
drive from will toy
when these modifications were taken into
account the team discovered that it was
in fact possible to drive the front half
of the car in doing it on the dirt road
we figured it would be a little bit
safer so if it did go out of control
there wouldn't be too much damage this
myth was super entertaining to watch it
had a fantastic guest star and it
contained a rather surprising outcome
what's not to love
number 12 are elephants afraid of mice
we love Mythbusters for the variety of
content it contains sometimes they do
grant movie mints
sometimes they do practical myths for
everyday purposes and sometimes they
test weird bits of supposed information
that have you asking wait is that
actually true and we've brought a bucket
full of mice I understand you have some
elephants we've always heard that
elephants are afraid of mice but we
never knew if the statement had any
truth to it well it does sort of to test
the myth the Mythbusters travel to a
reserve in Africa and flipped elephant
dung to reveal a mouse underneath and
we're hoping that the elephants will
come through here on their way to the
food and at the right moment will roll
over the ball of dung release the mouse
and see what happens
they eventually deemed the myth
plausible as the elephants avoided the
mouse but never panicked in a fearful or
exaggerated manner in what must be the
most easy to anticipate outcome in
Mythbusters history
could
as crazy as it seems the elephant backs
away the Mythbusters like me
our flabbergasting number 11 escaping a
sinking car talk about practical knowing
how to escape from a sinking car may
just save your life one day and it's a
great piece of information to store in
the memory bank I'm going to try to
start opening this door the moment I see
the water get above my glass
now if the myth is true I won't be able
to open that door until the water level
inside the car gets to the same point
the Mythbusters devoted an entire
episode commits surrounding sinking cars
and the results were both horrifying to
watch and incredibly helpful when the
pressure ultimately equalizes he opens
the door and swims to the surface but it
was too late
Adam busts various myths you can't
manually roll the window down after
being submerged and you can't break it
with a set of keys but he also confirmed
a few important bits of knowledge you
can escape the car immediately upon
impact with the water when the water is
up to your waist and when the interior
of the car is completely flooded you can
also use a window breaking hammer we
suggest buying one they try the
underwater emergency hammer first
number ten bifurcated boat is it
possible for a boat to be split clean
down the middle after hitting a channel
marker
it's an exciting question but it's even
more exciting to see a tested the build
team first tested this myth in episode
77 and found it easily busted
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however the fans weren't having this
result and demanded that they test the
myth on water instead of on land they
placed a wooden channel marker in a lake
and steered a boat directly into it
surprisingly it was the channel marker
that split in half not the boat the boat
itself actually sustained very little
damage the myth was sunk once and for
all
albeit in a very fun and destructive
manner importantly because in that
shocking split-second impact the tables
on this myth strip the marker bifurcated
and the mythity split refused to live up
to its name
once again number 9 shooting a hat off
someone's head you may have seen it in
western movies or video games one
character draws their gun with lightning
speed and shoots a cowboy hat off
someone else's head our Hollywood hard
guys use handguns so Adam and Jamie
select an 1860 army Colt revolver that
doesn't work they'll try a Winchester
lever-action rifle it's a funny visual
but is there any truth to it
unfortunately not the myths testing is
fun to watch though particularly for the
interesting period weapons it also had a
hilarious result not only than the hat
not fly off the dummy's head it barely
even budged when shot but those rims
hardly budge and the reason is simple
and it strikes the Hat a small
projectile traveling at around a
thousand feet per second doesn't
encounter enough resistance pistol and
rifle bullets do not transfer enough
energy to move a hat deciding to be
funny the Mythbusters blew the Hat off
the dummy's head with a shotgun and it
worked but it also killed the dummy
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now that's more like what we see on the
silver screen myth unquestionably busted
number eight motorcycle on water
sometimes the Mythbusters test viral
videos most of which are obvious
nonsense but sometimes you come across a
golden nugget like a motorcycle driving
across the surface of a lake and water
seem like a catastrophic combination yet
according to this myth if you take the
lake at freeway speeds you could burn
aqua all the way to the other side
demonstrating their intelligence and
meticulous scientific process Adam and
Jamie performed a few preliminary tests
like driving a remote-controlled toy
motorcycle on water and hanging a
motorcycle wheel off a speedboat it's
clear that the wheel is riding the water
which is great for the myth watching
them work really is fascinating for the
test proper Jamie successfully rode the
motorcycle over 300 feet of open water
but will that allow him to burn aqua all
the way across
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this is arguably one of the most
surprising outcomes in the show's
history and it proves that you can never
know what can be accomplished until you
ask questions
number seven massive Lego ball on what
other television show will you find a
7-foot diameter ball made of Lego the
myth is that a seven foot diameter ball
made from five million pieces of Lego
can be pushed down a hill and hit a car
without sustaining damage could you
really roll it so easily and would a
collision with a car really caused no
carnage and while it was very fun to
watch the build team well build a giant
ball of Lego nearly every facet of this
myth was busted they've employed a lego
army to build 3,600 superblocks to make
the ball but with half the ball complete
they're running out of their half
million tiny pieces a ball containing
five million Legos would weigh 10 tons
so pushing it is out of the question the
7-foot ball they created was 3000 pounds
and made of 1 million Legos
unfortunately it broke apart shortly
after launch and the myth collapsed
within two weeks and nearly a thousand
man-hours to put a million bricks
together and just 10 seconds to tear
them apart number 6 the Titanic door
long after we're gone the question will
remain why didn't roll share the door
with jack the logistics of sharing the
door were explored on Mythbusters and
the results were rather surprising rose
is perched on a piece of wood and jack
is not because there wasn't enough
buoyancy to support both of them the
model door sunk every single time that
the jack doll was added foregoing models
Adam and Jamie decided to test the myth
themselves with Jack savage struggling
to stabilize himself and the board the
myth looks destined for a watery grave
the initially had trouble staying afloat
on the board but later tied Jamie's life
jacket to the underside to allow for
greater buoyancy and with this they both
managed to stay afloat
the additional buoyancy has made a
massive difference
no longer floundering around but sitting
pretty in fact so pretty that Rose is
ready to nap her way to the 63-minute
rescue if Rose had thought to utilize
her lifejacket amidst the panic and
unbearably freezing temperatures it's
entirely possible that both she and Jack
could have survived number five
Point Break myths episode 94 concerned
various airplane myths specifically
skydiving related one stemming from the
movie Point Break three myths were
tested catching up with someone in the
air by streamlining your body holding a
conversation while skydiving and
free-falling for 90 seconds from 4,000
feet the former was confirmed true as
the streamlined approach provides less
surface area than the traditional
skydiving position allowing for a
greater terminal velocity at the moment
catch-up skydiver Nick bails Tory is
already 3,000 feet away but by assuming
the bullet position Nick it's an
incredible top speed of 250 miles per
hour however the latter two mitts were
busted
the sound of brushing air made
conversation impossible and a dummy
dropped at 4,000 feet hit the ground
after just thirty seconds you know it's
our first experiment we pretty much
busted the whole Point Break skydiving
scene I mean you wouldn't have much time
to do anything from 4,000 feet the
results weren't super surprising
especially the conversation one but it
was a blast watching the team sky dive
number four demolition derby to continue
the Hollywood theme let's take a look at
some car crashes Mythbusters loves
testing car related mints but one
episode in particular demolition derby
is a wonderful mix of Hollywood stunts
talk about a toss fruit salad most of
the episode involves crashing cars into
things like fruit stands locked
chain-link gates and a camper trailer
the test car was completely destroyed
after crashing into the fruit stand in
camper and those myths were undeniably
busted I think even if you did make it
through the fruit stand
ya can't really see so well out the
windshield however they found it
possible for a car to break through a
chain-link fence and successfully drive
underneath a big rig it's handy to know
if you ever need to drive through a
chain-link fence actually nope
don't do that number three laying on a
grenade you've seen it before in various
action movies a heroic character
sacrifices themselves by laying on a
live grenade ensuring their own demise
but the survival of their group it can
move us to tears but is there any actual
truth to it to test the myth the team
brought in a ballistics gel dummy
and detonated a grenade under its body
our leading man is laid on the grenade
his body and the myth on the line if his
three supporting actors survived this
tall tale will be confirmed the grenade
obliterated the gel dummy but the
surrounding dummies were unaffected save
for one that received non-lethal
injuries
turns out that this particular Hollywood
trope has some basis in reality this
looks like he might have really saved
his buddies here there's no doubt about
it this movie myth is looking confirmed
it's an interesting result and seeing
dummies blown up by grenades will never
not be enjoyable number two rocket car
the Mythbusters came literally flying
out the gate the first myth ever tested
saw Adam and Jamie strapping rockets to
a car in an attempt to make it fly
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they are certainly ambitious the myth
comes from a supposed Darwin Award
winner who strapped the jato rocket to
his Chevy Impala blew out the tires and
flew for 1.4 miles before striking a
cliff
Adam and Jamie created the equivalent of
one jato rocket and strapped it to an
Impala but the car never even came close
to 300 miles per hour they later
revisited the myth for the 10th
anniversary special and while they did
hit 200 miles per hour they weren't able
to get the car airborne that was insane
one second the car was there and the
next second it was gone before we
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truck explosion the myth was simple can
dynamite clear out white concrete from a
truck it started out easy enough with
the equivalent of 1.5 sticks of dynamite
dislodging the dry concrete
I feel like revising my former this myth
is busted statements mean the huge
amount of Creek we're bringing out of
here but then things got wild
just for fun the team brought in FBI
experts and loaded a concrete truck with
850 pounds of explosives the result was
the show's most iconic explosion as the
truck was completely vaporized
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this segment remains a fan-favorite and
for good reason it encapsulates
everything that makes Mythbusters such a
joy to experience there's legitimate
myth testing with interesting results
Adam and Jamie goofing off and a massive
boom that puts even the grandest
Hollywood blockbusters to shame do you
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