Jamie took some time to experiment with building a surfboard from tape, As Jamie built a small-scale flamethrower, Adam tested a standard CO, By driving in circles on a dusty road, a group of cars can kick up enough dust to blind a surveillance drone flying overhead. Previous Episode Next Episode The Latest Remembering Mythbusters' Grant Imahara Is it good to start with a bang? Magnets proved effective at repelling baby sharks, but not full-grown ones. The Build Team set up a circular practice course to simulate poor visibility in a dust storm and outfitted the cars with various guidance and safety systems. They put Buster in the same position as that used on the show (buttocks first) and dropped him into the pool. However, the truck climbed the same distance up the hill with either round or square wheels, leading them to judge this myth as busted. You yourself won't know for sure unless you try them. Although the tank failed to explode, the air pressure caused it to rocket around the test chamber in a way that could injure a shark or drive it away. (Myth only shown online and in versions of the episode aired outside the US. Next, they investigated the feasibility of Jack and Rose's ability to withstand. Playing Rock, Pop, R & B and Disco, the dance floor stays full with many genres of music from current pop hits to songs you never thought a band would play! A van loaded with leaking containers of flammable gases can explode when it receives a signal from its keyless remote. That approach puts it in league with another one of the giants of television edu-tainment, one that puts a similar emphasis on the process over the result: Alton Browns Peabody-winning Food Network show Good Eats, which has been using techniques similar to those of Mythbustersalthough generally lower-budget versionsto dig into the science of food for even longer, since way back in 1999. When Buster was wrapped up and dropped from the full 35ft (11m), he experienced forces of 29 g (torso) and 48 g (head), indicating that he would survive with some degree of injury. The sharp-angled trench test showed pressure differentials of 60,19,12 and 7psi (414,131,83 and 48kPa). You think everything tastes like possum chicken! At their destination, they tasted the dishes, agreeing that if the turkey was not satisfactory, then the myth was busted. Jamie built a heavy steel breech section to contain the heater and debris, while Adam put together a 40ft (12m) barrel to guide the ball. The 150ft (46m) flight claimed in 2010's ", Reviewing the earlier test footage, the Build Team decided to redesign their flight vehicle to increase its stability and reduce the effect of Buster's center of gravity. He tried stewing it, grilling it, sauting it, and even made a lovely magic mushroom sauce to go with it, but it still tasted like chicken, if that chicken had been eaten by a snake that is. His verdict? They set up a test course, using a heavy-duty pickup equipped with vibration sensors, and drove a control run (using round wheels) at speeds up to 60mph (97km/h). However, the volume of water in a typical pool would dilute the blood billions of times and make it even harder to detect. Unripe jackfruits have been known to taste like chicken, and are sometimes used as a meat substitute by vegetarians. It holds especially true if the animals in question are relatively young and haven't picked up a lot of environmental flavors; alligator tastes fishier if the animal's been swimming around eating seafood for a few years, and most market chickens are about 6-8 months old when they're shipped. This sentence is often muttered by people when trying to explain foods they've tried, so much so that Wikipedia have a section called Tastes Like Chicken - a list of all the foods that people most often describe as tasting like chicken. When they turned their steering wheels in opposite directions, the cars went through a 180-degree spin, suffering some damage to their wheels and tires. They then built a mockup of a typical hotel room and gave themselves a 6-hour time limit to secure all the furniture to the ceiling, with sheets, cushions, and other items glued in their proper places. Photo courtesy 1300 on Fillmore. When they glued the plates together, he stayed in his seat through impact. They rigged one end of the bridge to collapse and fired the piston after a set delay, measuring the jump height. This is supposed to convey the message that the taste is, if not good, at least blandly inoffensive. With data in hand, Alton plans the menu hes going to stuff into the various nooks and crannies of this old Caddy. C o m e o n i n! Meanwhile, Grant built a nitrogen cannon to propel Buster and adjusted it to match the range and hang time of world-record jumpers (25ft (7.6m) and 1.0 s). Based on a scene in the film. Crew member Eric Haven inherited the job from the team, drawing on his experience as a comic book artist. Take a look at the menu here. The dinner starts at 6pm and costs $95 per person, including food, wine, tax, and tip. Comment by 93141 I haven't see this posted previously, but each rank of conjure food (r1, r2, r3, etc.) No one was injured, but the cannonball did considerable property damage, crashing through the walls of a family's house and landing in a car.[2][3]. Finally, Tory built a steel frame and attached a blanket, sprayed with truck bedliner resin, to serve as a shock wave catcher and strapped Buster to it. Using 0.125in (3.2mm) glass, they got no result at 140mph (225km/h), chipped the glass at 160mph (257km/h), and finally punched a clean hole at 180mph (290km/h). They debated the effectiveness of the "potty dance": distracting attention from the full bladder versus putting more pressure on it. In the straight trench test, the same sensors registered 397,65,38 and 21psi (2,737,448,262 and 145kPa). Nelson's contributions to the show, and his full-time work with the bomb squad in the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, Appliances and entire kitchen sets destroyed in the course of myth testing, Hearing protection used by the team and technical issues in broadcasting explosions, illustrated by measuring decibel levels of a running lawnmower and a C-4 blast, The dangers that bomb technicians face in repairing/rewiring a device when it fails to explode, Comments on this company's rupture discs, used to evaluate pressures created by an explosion, Explosions caused by buildup of internal pressure in a container, illustrated by heating a can of shaving cream with a blowtorch until it bursts, Complications in tests caused by heavy rain turning the bomb range into a muddy swamp, Mishaps that have caused rockets and rocket-propelled projectiles to explode during flight or on the launch pad. Thank God Alton recently lost all that weight, or he never would have fit into that A.B. bin Jamie keeps him in. A diving shark tethered to flotation barrels can pull them underwater and keep them submerged. Based on a firefighting viral video. This episode was also called "Cliffhanger Bridge Boom" in Australia. The first chicken slipped out of the net, but Adam was able to catch and hold the next one. At the very least, Alton should have been given the opportunity to pontificate once more on his favorite cause de cuisine as he brines the turkey hes about to shove under the catalytic converter, but alas, hes mostly stuck in the role of TV chef-presenter as he lays out the meal, a classic Thanksgiving spread with a couple of surprises. For a final test, they attached one steel plate to Buster's back and a second to a specially built seat frame, to act as "ideal" surfaces for adhesion. Since they were unable to replicate the video results, they declared the myth busted. In a sword fight, the first person to attack will lose. Subscribe to Discovery! A look back at myths involving grenades, especially the ", Reflections on the intricate detail revealed by high-speed camera footage of explosions, illustrated by blowing up a television set with C-4, The testing Adam and Jamie carried out for the ", Explosives expert J.D. Ogden Nash wrote, in the short poem "Experiment Degustatory", about being told that rattlesnake meat tastes like chicken so now he can't stand to eat chicken, because he knows it tastes like rattlesnake. Eleven of the 12 chose correctly, prompting Adam and Jamie to investigate the ease of identifying other body partsnamely, palms and teeth. Just don't do it before you face the judge Human flesh has often been called the "long pork," so perhaps we didn't need a robot to tell us. Come on in! Their top throwing speed was 47mph (76km/h), but all of their needles only bounced off. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, Adam and Jamie counted down their 25 favorite shark-related myths, including some that had not previously aired. Tastes like chicken but that's just a guess We'll swallow anything I must confess I'm not complaining, we're not that kinda guests Just slap a plate. Torys meal was 2,420 calories and Grants was 2,200 calories. Everything tastes like chicken to Daniel. Slow-twitch muscles are implicated; mice, though small, run rather differently than their cousins, the rabbits and hares. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The Dinosaur Megamorphs from Animorphs has Jake eating T-rex. Then they got the idea to remove Jamie's life vest and strap it to the underside of the board, which increased its buoyancy enough to support the two, leading them to declare the myth plausible. The team hoisted a sixpack of cans of each beer type up on a construction crane and dropped them at the same time from 100ft (30m). Adam and Jamie determined that Jamie could run 24ft (7.3m) before Adam could draw, cock, and fire his pistol. In every trial, the man who drew first was also first to fire, but most of them were nearly simultaneous. A repeat of this test, using a thermal imaging camera such as those used on drones, allowed him to find her easily. [1] The season aired in a Sunday time slot, instead of its previous Wednesday time slot. Although the two explosions appeared very similar and destroyed one of the cameras, the team chose the dryer as being slightly more impressive. Volunteers did not speak and wore special clothing to disguise their genders. After taking tryptophan in capsule form, Troy scored 49 and Grant scored 60, indicating that tryptophan can make you tired. This is supposed to convey the message that the taste is, if not good, at least blandly inoffensive. When he developed severe back pain overnight, though, he left the final attempt up to the stuntman, who jumped from the full 35ft (10.7m) and came safely to a stop in just over 4.5ft (1.4m) of water. After receiving some tips in defensive driving, Tory pushed Grant and Kari at 50mph (80km/h) toward a patch of wet pavement. After a 90 minute drive they measured temperatures of between 200 F (93 C) and 500 F (260 C). Building the Fire Dragon to an overall length of 6ft (1.8m), the Build Team took it into the desert to fine-tune the ignition timing. To find out if eating turkey makes you tired, a professor of nutrition helped Kari create 3 meals for Grant and Tory to eat on 3 consecutive days. They decided that a knife wielder at close quarters could have an advantage over a gunfighter, depending on the circumstances, and declared the myth busted. Kari and Grant coughed and spat out large clouds of powder, with Grant vomiting up a small amount as well. In their second crash test, with the car stuffed with, It is possible to jump to safety on a collapsing rope bridge. Their first attempt to match that speed with their own small-scale cannon led to the accident, and the testing was immediately called off to assess damage and start an investigation. But in a car crash test with the best-performing balloons (the large ones), the passenger suffered 115 Gs on the head and 130 Gs on the chest, both of which would still have been fatal impacts. The falseness of the axiom tastes like chicken should be readily apparent to any carnivore worth their salt, which is perhaps why vegetarian Kari seems to be the mastermind behind this one. Jamie, in response to this, came up with a vintage V8 Cadillac. I had figured it would taste like chicken, like all those other things that no one in his right mind would put in his stomach. Remembering various explosion myths involving food. Kari, Grant and Tory test tryptophan and what really tastes like chicken. Certain types of footwear can seriously impair a person's ability to drive. The team members commented that he occasionally shows excitement in his own subdued way. On the advice of a geologist, they chose sandstone, limestone, and granite for further testing and fashioned one ball from each material. (Seriously, Grant, oof.) Based on a scene in the TV series. Next, they dug three trenches with the same shapes as the tanks, and lined the walls with color-coded plywood to both distinguish the trenches from each other and compensate the shapes as much as possible. The sandstone penetrated 1 layer and destroyed 2 bricks; the limestone, 1 layer and 3 bricks; the granite, 2 layers and 4 bricks. For this supersizing of frying an egg on the hood of a car, Alton surmised that they would need a large car that was a V8 to V12 - and furthermore, an older one because a newer one, as he said, would be "too plasticky." When it exploded, the van was heavily damaged and knocked onto its side. They decided to do small-scale tests in order to determine the amount and/or type of wrap needed to make the landing safe (defined as 10 g or less), dropping a human analog onto the wrap instead of covering it. Oh Alton, you scamp.) It's outright inverted with emus and ostriches, which taste like beef. Mythbusters has been showing its age for a while now, having long since abandoned its original premise of testing the veracity of urban legends in favor of re-creating movie stunts and YouTube videos, building ambitious yet pointless contraptions, and/or just blowing stuff up. Tory got 17 of 20 right, Grant 11 of 20. dormouse): as found by Heston Blumenthal, they taste like pork. They then built one themselves which successfully flipped the car. However, one wheel fell off after only a few seconds when its bolts snapped. TLC is the plantbased chicken joint of the future. Their first attempts to drive the course ended in failure, but they discovered that the paper they had used to cover the windshields was too opaque. Adam found a pond, but Jamie warned against drinking the water because it was stagnant. Two tests with different drop heights failed to cause a discharge; Grant commented that the movie weapon may have been fitted with a hair trigger or other modifications to set it off. Adam and Jamie had the volunteers drive a police vehicle course, accompanied by a professional instructor who graded them on a 100-point scale. With the Rose surrogate placed alone on the board, she stayed afloat, exactly as per the scene. The first meal was a very large holiday meal with turkey and trimmings. Adam posted a time of 3:06; Jamie struggled at the window and finished in 4:33. 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