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you've got a myth for us to test,
we would love to hear about it.
Xxxx
we have a very rare opportunity
to be able to view
a very elusive television host
in his natural habitat.
Xxxx Latin name hoosier-ous televisionous,
and he seems to be communicating with
his television viewers asking them for ideas.
And who knew?
Not only did you respond to the call,
you opened the floodgates
and sent us a gazillion myths.
We selected a few of the best
to test.
What's up first?
Bam boo torture.
You had enough yet, because
I can keep singing all day long.
I can take whatever you throw at me.
Sfroo all right then.
Well, how about that, wise guy?
A tiny bamboo plant?
What are you going to do with that?
I'm going to plant it and grow it right through you.
Really? Does that really work?
I don't know.
That's a myth,
and I have always wanted to try it.
It's afar-fetched fable
strafahtstrom the fan sit
during world war ii
captured p.O.W.S were supposedly
stretched above and then
penetrated by fast growing bamboo chutes.
What's your plant for this one?
That's pretty straight forward, I think.
and we plant the bamboo under the analog
and see if it grows through it.
Why? Normally I would say we use pig,
but given the fact that
this is going to take a few days,
it's going to get way too smelly.
I tell you what,
why don't we measure how much force
it takes to penetrate pig flesh,
and then we create a synthetic simulant
that won't robbing rot.
And then put the bamboo underneath that?
Exactly.
And so crouching savage,
hidden heineman began their long
and adviser with us search for
the legendary torture technique
in the mystical bamboo groves of Santa Cruz.
Luckily enough we live in California
where bamboo grows beautifully.
It was there these potentially penetrating plants
that's the thing right there.
Xxxx
is Larry xxxx.
Is a bamboo chute
physically capable of pushing its way through
human flesh?
Bamboo chutes in the ground
have to push through the dirt
around rocks, through rotten logs.
I have seem them push up walkway pavers.
So. Yes, they push very hard
when they're in the ground.
Let's say somebody owed you money,
what kind of bamboo would you use?
I think you should use this xxxx
xxxx right now.
It's about an inch in diameter and very sharp.
Perfect
with their potentially penetrating plants purchased,
there's only one thing left to do.
Xxxx it's time to go back to the shop
and torture some dummies.
Now Carrie, Grant, and Tori
take the myth out of xxxx
xxxx
we're doing a myth about metal.
Not just any metal,
but my favorite favorite metal,
alkaline metal.
Xxxx we did some of that.
Xxxx
why are we doing it again?
Because fans want to see more.
They can't get enough.
Three, two, one.
When the team took on mcgooifr,
xxxx a few grams of sodium
and water can blast a hole through a wall.
That was an explosion,
but this is not a high explosive.
But you -- yes, you -- want more.
What exactly did the fans want to see?
They want to see more reactive metal.
Xxxx
exactly there's this Internet video
floating around where these guys
throw it into a bathtub,
and they liken the explosion to a hand grenade.
Fans want to fn that's actually true.
That company only mean a trip
to the team's dream location.
The Alameda county bomb disposal range.
Xxxx
toilet, bathtubs.
Xxxx
the reason the bathroom
furniture is on death row is the
fan furor over a video clip that
looks a little bit like this?
Xxxx
after demonstrating that the
reaction between water and the
alkaline metals becomes more
violent as you move down the
periodic table, they getto to robidium.
With what looks to be two grams
they get a hand grenade sized explosion.
To find out if this is film
fakery or fact,
we're going to need a control.
Now, on the Internet video,
they said that the reaction was
equal to a hand grenade explosion.
This out to clean out the pipe.
So we need to see what that
looks like in order to have
something to compare with.
How great is this?
We get to start off with a bang.
We're going to blow the crap out of that toilet.
Get it?
Narrator: Ah, sure, but Grant
and not Tori will explain how
the team are going to safely
explode the commode.
Snoo this is a grenade, but it's
not a live grenade.
In a live grenade you would have tnt in here.
You pull the pin, and the clip
pops off, and this is what would
set off the explosion, but what
we're going to do today is fill
this with enough c4 to have the
equivalent blasting power of tmt.
Then we're going to set it off
with a blasting cap.
That way we can control exactly
when it goes off and it will be
much, much safer.
All right.
Fire in the bowl.
Three, two, one!
Whoa!
The toilet is gone.
Narrator: Yep. Now you see it.
Now you don't.
Oh, we blowed it up real good.
That's nice.
All that's left is the water table.
The bowl just shattered.
Yeah.
We destroyed this toilet, and
now I know what a real grenade
looks like when it blows off.
Now we've got a great
reference for what it should
look like when we put our
alkaline metals in the toilet.
Narrator: Coming up on the
viewer special three-quel.
Jamie and Adam become one
with a torture tale.
Xxxxx
xxxx
used in water wheels and weapons,
construction and the culinary arts
as a raw material,
bamboo's versatility is virtually limitless.
In the Philippines they call
xxxx
narrator: But fans want to
know if this flexible,
fast-growing grass could have
been used as an instrument of torture.
The whole point of this test
is to come up with a human analog.
Yep to make xxxx
xxxxx
this ahas got to be the most
gruesome thing I have ever made.
Narrator: The guys need to
know exactly what that resistance is.
Xxx push through the meat very slowly.
Jamie is imaging himself to be a plant.
What's our peak?
Eight Max.
Photo synthesizing, yearning
xxxxx
all these things from passing through his mind
narrator: Several tests later
the guys have a xxx 9.5 total.
Narrator: And decide to round
up for simplicity sake.
Ten pounds seems to be the
magic number, so all we have to
do is find mixed materials
around here that makes flesh
that doesn't rot and stink.
There's some good stuff up here, Jamie.
Because rotting and stinking upsets Jamie.
-It's kind of collapsing in on itself. -Yeah I know.
Narrator: Xxx after spending an hour
looking for a synthetic flesh analog
it's getting too tough.
Narrator: Jamie has a light
bulb moment and they return to square one.
Our blesic material.
I think it's perfect.
Let's see what the needle says.
Ten pounds.
That is close enough for my money.
I love that.
And it's reusable.
Narrator: So clear ballistics
material is the raw material of choice.
He is armless.
Get it?
Narrator: Adam gets to work
casting a torso to torture.
This is where wha a back rub
looks like from the inside of your body.
Narrator: Next --
hello.
Narrator: -- The guys whip up
a greenhouse and then assemble it,
unsurprisingly --
rise, my son.
Narrator: -- On the roof top.
Stoo xxxxxx
this might look nice and sunny,
and it is, but it's also
a torture chamber, or it will be soon.
Narrator: That's the greenhouse
and bamboo in position,
which leaves just one component.
Oh, you're mine now.
Narrator: And the torso is
carefully positioned above
several chutes that have yet to
fully break through the soil's surface.
This version is the final
stage of testing in the bamboo.
Will it grow through a person,
and after experimenting with a
bunch of different flesh
analogs, those are the two growth points.
They're beautiful.
This blastics material is
nonwater-based, and it won't rot.
Xxxxxx pressure
it takes to push through.
If the bamboo grows through this
chest, we can state that it
would grow through you as well.
Xxxx
xxxx
xxxx we'll come back in a couple
of days and xxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx three implz into the back of the dummy,
then it's an effective means of torture.
All we have to do is wait.
Narrator: While we wait,
let's take time out to find out
where this torturous tale came from.
This is normally the portion
of the show where we give
scientific background to the
myth we're tackle.
What do we have as bamboo as a
torture device?
Absolutely nothing.
Nothing? No official reports?
No firsthand accounts?
Nothing. Cnuna.
Wow.
All right.
Narrator: Which is surprising,
considering it's such an often repeated myth,
so xxx to answer this fan fable,
there's only one thing left to do.
Let the gruesome growing commence.
Next --
normally Grant the better shot in the toilet.
Narrator: Carrie Grant and Tori
find out for the fans if
their toilet tale is tall or true.
Then there are surprising
results from the rture test.
Kari, Grant, and Tory are
taking on an alkaline metal myth.
A video on the Internet claims
that if you add tworams of am rubidium
or si sfwl ium to water,
it will blow up your
bathroom furniture with a hand
grenade sized explosion.
Can you clean out the peeps.
Reporter: To find out if it's
actually true, we're doing a
direct comparison.
This is the hand grenade.
Bring on the alkaline metal,
but, first, here's the sciency bit.
Xxxx this is rubidium.
They're part of a special class
of elements called alkaline metals.
What makes them special
is they have one electron.
Normally what they want to do is
react under things and give up that elecon.
Now, what happens when the
alkaline metals react with
water, they releas a lot of
heat and the other byproduct is
hydrogen gas, and the heat tends to
ignite the hydrogen gas.
It's a perfect storm of
something that causes an explosion.
Narrator: And to put these
highly reactive metals in
contact with water safely,
the team has a couple of safety
precallings lined up.
Pretty simple.
It's a xxx weight that drops down on
to small glass vials which are
holding the metals release it
into the toilet, and we'll see what happens.
Normally Grant is a better shot
when he is using the toilet,
but what he is doing now
is wetting down the ground,
in case there's excess alkaline
metals, xxx they'll hit the water on
the ground and react so we're
not leaving any of the metals behind.
Narrator: And the first metal
to be flushed is rubidium.
Fun fact, this stuff,
rubidium compound are put in
fireworks to make the color purple.
In the video they said they
used two grams, and they got an
explosion the size of a hand grenade.
We're going it use 25 grams.
More than ten times the amount.
If it's true what they're saying,
we're going to have a huge explosion.
Xxxx rubidium cam.
Xxxx
three, two, one.
That was quick.
Look at that cloud.
Narrator: Well, it all went
according to plan.
The string was cut, and it fell.
The rubidium was released into
the water and cue the chemistry.
The sudden release of hydrogen
gas and heat combines to give us
a satisfying toilet bowl geyser.
But -- and here's the key --
it was nothing like the Internet
video hand grede sized explosion.
We may not have had hand grenade,
but at least we saw good chemistry.
Narrator: But we haven't given up yet.
Next up in an attempt to blow up
the bowl is cezium.
Xxxx this is the most reactive
alkaline megts that we can get
our hands on that's not radioactive.
We're going to put this in the
toilet bowl and see if it
behaves when exposed to water e a grenade.
Okay.
In three, two, one.
Cool.
There was bit more reaction,
more popping, but it was just a
big cloud of gas.
Narrator: More energy, more
flame, but definitely no explosion.
Now, I feel like I have been
lied to, because what I saw on
that Internet video was an explosion.
What I saw here was a cloud of smoke.
Now, a cloud of smoke is not
going to destroy a toilet
like a hand grenade will.
Narrator: So, Kari, what does that mean?
Xxxx this is busted.
Narrator: The myth busters
no strangers to tall tales of torture.
Xxxx they've already confirmed that
Chinese water torture can send
you round the bend.
Xxxxx
now at your behest,
they're testing the power of botony to
bring you to the brink.
Xxxxx
xxxxx
the clock is ticking.
I would imagine that torture
is a pretty results-driven business,
and so we're looking for
a couple of things here.
We're looking as to whether the
chute can actually grow through
this flesh simulant, and, also,
how much time it takes for it to do that.
They're both really important
because if it takes months to do it,
it's not really an effective
means of torture.
If it does it in a couple of
hours or a couple of days,
though, that starts to put it in
the realm of possibility.
Narrator: And Jamie's
prediction is spot on, because
after just three days, our
tortured torso is surely ready to talk.
The poor dude.
The experiment could not be going better.
We have already gotten exactly
what we came looking for,
which is at the point in which bamboo
meets flesh, does it make a
left-hand turn or does it just
keep on going, and it's pretty
clear that it just keeps on going.
Well, you know, I said
earlier that if there was any
penetration at all, then that's
torture, so I say this myth is --
let's not call it just yet.
I want to see how far we can take it.
Let's let it keep on growing.
Okay.
Narrator: But over two weeks
later the news isn't good.
Despite several other chutes
making their way into the dummy,
Adam's wish to see complete
penetration comes to not.
Look at that.
They haven't grown an inch in two weeks.
Those things are dead.
Yeah. Look at that.
The ballistic gel has melted.
It must have got so hot in here
that's what killed him.
We did prove that you could
torture somebody with bamboo
if youere determined.
We didn't see the bamboo grow
all theay through the guy.
That was supposed to be the grand finale.
You know, we have one more dummy.
Let's check it up there and see what happens.
Okay.
Narrator: So a second
ballistics material torso,
this time with attractive wig and
facial features, is taken to the
roof, where the team has set up
a second growing area, one
that's open to the elements.
Our dude is set up, and this
is our last chance to see bamboo
grow through a person.
Xxxx it's our last viable bamboo
chute, and it's pretty much the
end of the growing season.
If it's going to happen,
it's got to happen here.
Narrator: And what do you know?
Adam's desperation is well rewarded.
Fast forward a couple of weeks,
and this time the results are
nothing short of astounding.
That's what I would call a
through and through.
You wanted to fn the bamboo
would grow all the way through you.
It turns out not only will it,
but it thrives.
This is 12 feet of bamboo,
and it's growing right through this guy's chest.
It doesn't get any more
definitive than that.
I feel like it was almost an
April fool's joke.
It's so perfect.
Bamboo can grow right through you,
like it did over here, but
for this to be a reasonable
method of torture, if you can
consider torture reasonable in
any sense, it needs to do it
fairly quickly, and our time
lapse shows that this penetrated
that body in a matter of a
couple of days or so.
It's possible, as gruesome as it is.
That awesome.
Plausible, and awesome.
Plausible.
Next on Mythbusters extreme.
Narrator: And jamieand Adam --
I need a radio for science.
Narrator: Prepare for the blch
imagine yourself on the
frozen arctic tundra.
Your sled dogs have abandoned you,
and you have run out of all
your equipment and food, and
slowly you are dying.
Your life ebbing away minute by minute.
Yeah, okay, I remember that.
Then xxxx you see relief,
salvation on the horizon in the
form of a St. Bernard traveling
with you with xxxxx a barrel of Brandy.
Xxxx it warms you up just enough to
keep you alive until the rescue team arrives.
Or this is like the pair of
teeth before I eat the dog.
You can't say that.
This brave lifesaver say one
man or, rather, a one dog rescue squad.
In fact, that cask around his
neck is full of Brandy that he
is taking to some lost traveller.
I have heard that alcohol has
the opposite effect and it cools
you down, not warms you up.
That's strange because I
swear it has a warming effect
when I drink it.
Should be pretty straight forward to try.
I think so.
I think all we need to do is
find ourselves a nice big
freedzer, a way of monitoring
our body temperature, xxxx and see
what kind of change occurs.
Works for me.
My ears are starting to sting.
But before the guys get to test
this frosty fable in the freezer --
xxxx I'm delirious thinking about
what I'll do when I'm warm.
Adam is insuring accurate
info by ingesting a thermometer?
Since this whole test is
about whether or not there's any
change in our body temperature
from the drinking of the alcohol,
we need to know exactly
what our body temperature is,
and this isn't a thermometer
under the tongue or under the
ear or many other skin .
Xxxx
we've done this on the show
before when I got painted with
gold paint, and I had a rectal thermometer.
Oh.
Xxxx will you respect me tomorrow?
Oh.
Neither of us want to do that
this time, so we're bringing in
a brand new piece of technology,
called a core body temperature capsule.
Here we go.
It's basically a passive radio.
It goes into our stomach, keeps
track of our core body
temperature, and we check in on
it with this.
We hold this up to our bodies
and, boop, it teltz us what our
core body temperature is, and a
couple of days later, we pass it.
They're disposable.
I ate a radio for science.
Narrator: But that super
accurate body temperature
thermometer is not all they'll be using.
The guys are going for data overload.
We're going to be doing some
standardized tests at regular
intervals throughout the day.
The one is the core body temperature.
Xxxxx swallow that puppy.
Hmm.
I know.
The second one is we're going
to check in on how we actually feel.
On a coldness scale, one
being the coldest and ten not
being cold at all, where are we at?
Eight.
Eight. You're just a little bit cold.
The third one is we're going
to be using a thermal imageing
camera to check our heat
signatures on the exterior of our bodies.
Wow. You look funny.
I can see you breathing.
There's the temperature of your left hand.
94.1.
So armed with their battery
of data gathering equipment and
a warm weather baseline.
Tip of the nose.
96 degrees.
Narrator: The boys are ready
for the big freeze.
All right. Let's go tore it.
Let's get cold.
Narrator: Kari, Grant, and Tory
have busted the myth that a
few grams of cezium or rubidium
can cause a grenade-type explosion.
The Internet is lying again.
Narrator: Now it's time for
xxxx the ramping up.
Xxxx to blow up the bathtub we're
stretching the budget and moving
into the realm of ridiculous by
using a massive 2.5 kilograms of sodium.
You ready to do this?
I'm ready to do it.
Narrator: And to accommodate
the 2.5 kilograms of sodium --
let's run.
Narrator: -- Kari has adapted her guillotine.
She's added a sledgehammer,
which means there's only one
thing left to do.
Find out the fans
if super-sizing the sodium
will blast the bathtub.
This is sodium.
In three, two, one.
Wait, wait, wait.
Oh, my God.
Poisonous gas.
Oh.
Narrator: Well, the team
holds its breath,
and let's check out the replay.
That was crazy.
We dropped the sodium into the water,
and we got a huge explosion.
It actually cracked the bathtub.
The best part about it is
two of the blocks didn't even react with the water.
They were thrown out.
That was incredible.
Narrator: Yep, spectacular,
but it only caused a crack.
The tub didn't disintegrate.
How about taking it up a notch?
Christmas.
That was amazing.
Up next is potassium,
which is even more reactive and, yep,
same amount.
Narrator: Uh-huh.
2.5 kilograms of potassium.
Take it away.
Narrator: School lab
chemistry like you have never
seen it before.
Okay. We're good.
Let's go.
Narrator: But will it provide
the big boom you and we
have been waiting for?
Two, one.
Whoa!
That was awesome.
That was like fireworks.
Wow.
That was the fourth of July in there.
You know what, it didn't
explode like -- it was like a
bunch of little pops.
It wasn't one big boom.
Narrator: It's an exciting
chemical reaction, but it's
still not high explosives.
In conclusion, you can use
ridiculous amounts of sodium and potassium.
You can use the more reactive
elements in the alkaline metal family,
but you won't get a hand
grenade-sized explosion and blow
up a bathtub unless you use c4,
like this.
Fire in the hole!
All right, j.D.
In three, two, one.
Nice.
Yeah.
Did you see how high it shot that water?
Narrator: Yes. The shock wave
eminating from a
c4 detonation is approximately
8,000 meters per second, which
is in a different league to
alkaline metals in water.
Proving that that Internet video
is nothing but science fiction.
Narrator: Coming up,
our explosive virtuosos find out
especially for you
if a burning piano explodes.
Light it on fire!
Adam and Jamie are about to
chill out to find out if a shot of Brandy --
good boy.
Narrator: -- Will actually
staif off hypothermia.
Or is it simply a furry fable.
Since we always want to be
authentic on Mythbusters, Bob
here is going to be delivering
the Brandy to us.
Isn't that right, Bob?
We are at the very perfect
place to test this myth.
At a company called dean
services, and they've got
125,000 square feet of freezer
cold rooms at zero degrees fahrenheit.
It's a temperature we're going
to be working at.
Oh, what's your core body temperature?
Let's get a baseline before we
get into the cold.
98.29.
I'm 98.24.
Are you ready?
Ready as I'll ever be.
Narrator: Remember, Adam and Jamie
with their core body
temperature capsules already
in their stomachs --
it's cold.
I know.
Narrator: -- Are literally
walking thermometers, but
they'll also be monitoring their
mood as well as the surface
temperature of their extremities.
It's weird having a job with
our only task today is to get
cold and then drunk.
Narrator: Yep, stage one of
the test is to simulate a
situation in which the guys will
need rescuing by a
Brandy-carrying St. Bernard.
I'm starting to get uncomfortable.
Narrator: And that means
getting very cold, very fast.
Right now I don't feel so bad,
but it's changing rapidly.
Narrator: Stage two,
once they've completely chilled out --
Cal Marie.
Get some Brandy.
Narrator: The drinking commences.
But just ten minutes you the
test and the guys get the first
piece of relevant information,
and it's not what you would expect.
My temperature has been
steadily going up.
It's now at 98.56.
What does yours say?
I'm going up too.
I'm at 98.9.
I haven't read up on this,
but the fact that my internal
body temperature is rising while
I'm feeling like I'm getting
colder says to me something like
my vascular system is clamping
down on my extremities and
keeping the heat inside.
Check out the big brain on Jamie.
Because he has nailed one of the
key responses of all endo
thermic animals to the cold.
The superficial blood vessels
constrict, preventing heat loss
through the skin and directing
blood to critical internal organs.
Narrator: With such amazing
evolutionary adaptations, it
could take a while before the
guys need rescuing.
So to hurry things along,
they decide on some drastic action.
I don't think we're getting
cold enough fast enough.
I think we should take off our
hats and unzip our coats.
Really? I have to take my hat off?
Narrator: Yes, you do, and
with significant heat loss
taking place through the head,
xxxx
it's just what you don't want to
do when caught out in the cold.
I feel like I just dunked my
head in a bucket of ice water.
I was happy before then.
Narrator: As they approach
the hour mark --
my hand is starting to hurt.
Narrator: The guys reach a
point where they knees rescuing.
They've reached the limits of
their endurance.
At least for a voluntary, safely
monitored situation like this.
So it's time for the crucial
round of pre-Brandy data collection.
I'm 98.49.
Narrator: Their ingested
thermometers are showing stable temperatures.
Xxxx
coldness scale one to ten.
Hmm.
I'm saying I'm at least about a two.
Yeah. I agree with that assessment.
Narrator: And the thermal
camera, as well as providing
Adam with entertainment --
wow, man.
I got to tell you, with your hat
off, you look like a bond
villain in this shot.
Narrator: Seems to confirm
Jamie's earlier theory.
Despite their stable core body
temperature, their extremities
have plummeted by over 20 degrees.
My fingers hurt.
Okay. Your face is 65 degrees.
Narrator: With the numbers noted,
there's just one thing left to do.
My ears are starting to sting.
Yeah.
Help me, Bob.
I'm freezing.
Narrator: Bring on the Brandy.
I'm in a rare position of
hoping the myth is true.
We've got a really weird myth.
Xxxx have you heard that a piano can
explode in a fire?
No, I have not, but it does
make sense, because the strings
are under a lot of tension.
Who cares if it makes sense?
We might get to see a piano explode.
Xxxx before you do that,
we need to find out how much tension the
strings are under.
I know the perfect people for that.
Narrator: And that perfect piano place --
ready to get your tune on?
Narrator: Is owned by John Callahan,
the piano man.
So the myth that we're working on
is if you put a piano in a fire,
it will explode.
Wow.
I've actually heard people
talk about that before.
I have never burned a piano myself.
I don't know if that's true, but
I'm not sure exactly
what's going to happen.
To me it sounds relatively
plausible because, you know,
I understand there's a lot of tension
on the strings.
Well, there sure is a lot of
tension on the strings.
In a piano the steel wire
is stretched across the cast iron plate,
and there's about 200 pounds
of tension on each wire on average.
We have about 230 wires
in the piano, so there's a total of
over 20 tons of force trying to
collapse the piano.
Narrator: Now, that sounds promising.
The strings stretched across the
cast iron plate holds 40,000
pounds of pressure, and if the
flames cause them to fail, hey,
protestero, exploding piano.
It's always a good day when
you start it at the bomb range.
Narrator: Callahan's have
kindly given the team a baby
grand to ignite.
Now all they have to do
is get it off the truck.
Moving pianos sucks.
Narrator: And into position.
I'm just going to do a little tension music.
Is the piano going to fall off the forklift?
Narrator: While Kari does some,
you know, actual work,
Tory and Grant serenade he the
only way they know how.
Badly.
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grinding organ all day and night
narrator: With the piano
standing on its own legs,
it's just one thing left to do.
Tune it.
All right.Xxx
I know that tuning a piano at a
bomb range is probably a pretty strange
working condition for you,
but we need to give this myth
the best possible chance of working,
so we need to get each
one of these strings at the proper tension.
I'll do my best.
Narrator: As John brings the piano
to perfect pitch,
the guys pitch in to build the bonfire.
To all the piano owe fish.
Os out there, we want to let you know
we love peen yoez.
Not enjoying this in the least.
Xxxx all there is left to do is
throw kerosene on the wood.
Xxxx let's light it.
Light it on fire.
Find out if we have a bonfire.
Well, if there's truth to this myth,
this thing could explode,
so we better get out of here
because it's going to be totally dangerous,
and I'm okay with that.
Narrator: It's this baby grand's finale,
but will the meltdown
be a letdown,
or will it be a musical mushroom cloud?
Wow.
That is a nice fire.
Narrator: Next on "mythbugsers"
it's Adam and Jamie's
frozen finale.
Xxxxx I'm thinking about what I'll
do when I'm warm.
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narrator: Will the Mythbusters bust
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the myth of the exploding apino?
Find out after these messages.
Narrator: Adam and Jamie are
chilling out, literally.
My ears are starting to sting.
Yeah.
Narrator: At the limit of
their cold weather endurance,
they need rescuing.
Get some Brandy.
Narrator: Is the mythical shot of
Brandy the right way to go?
There we go.
Xxxx into that's good Brandy.
Narrator: The immediate signs,
at least on a subjective level,
seem to back up the myth.
Brandy sort of helps a little bit.
There's definitely a feeling,
a distinct feeling of a warm
glow happening down here.
Narrator: But really it's
still painfully cold.
Honestly, gave me the choice,
I would pour it on my hands
and set it on fire.
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narrator: A few minutes after
downing the supposedly
life-saving shots, the guys
Russell up another set of date
and although their body
temperature remains stable --
99.15.
Mine is 98.6.
Narrator: The numbers for
skin temperature is very interesting.
Face is 74 degrees.
Narrator: Which is an increase
of nine degrees from their pre-Brandy temperatures.
Jamie, your face, 78 degrees.
Narrator: But, again, the science
backs up the numbers.
Alcohol does, in fact, dilate
your blood vessels,
leading to flushed cheeks
and more blood flow to your skin.
To see if this is really help
fight off the cold,
another shot is called for,
and dually drunk.
I got a hair.
Narrator: Once again,
the immediate signs are that the
alcohol has a positive subjective effect.
I'm picturing big steaming
pans of warm food
and dunking my hands into them.
I'm going into delirium
thinking about what I'll do once I'm warm.
Narrator: But assuming this is
a life or death situation,
maybe improving your mood
isn't a priority.
I can already tell that my
mental faculties are impaired.
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I'm getting them wrong, aren't I?
I don't think -- just from a
subjective point of view I don't want to
further impair them with alcohol,
although, you know,
caring less about the cold
certainly has its merits.
You might do better by trying
to, you know, light a small fire
or something like that,
get shelter.
Narrator: With that hurl of
wisdom, it's time to gather the
last set of data.
Okay, face.
72 degrees.
Narrator: Again, the thermal
camera shows the guys' skin
temperature to be higher than
or equal to pre-Brandy numbers.
I just can't get over how
funny you look on the thermal camera.
Narrator: Critically,
the same can't be said for their
core body temperature.
97.387.
Narrator: Which is a sudden
and worrying drop of a whole degree.
Can we go now?
It turns out that St.
Bernards carrying Brandy is a myth.
Now, if these guys actually
saved anybody's lives,
it would be due to their body warmth
because, like Bob here,
they're big brutes are really furry,
and he is actually keepg me quite warm.
Narrator: Yep, a shaggy dog
cuddle is the solution to this
shaggy dog story.
In summary, alcohol dilates your
vascular system, which sends
blood to your extremities where
it loses its warmth, and as a result,
your core body temperature quickly cools.
You don't mind if I have a little nip, huh?
I got it tell you,
right after that second Brandy,
I thought I understand what this myth
is all about because I was feeling pretty fine.
It's probably because you just
didn't care about the cold so much
no, alcohol also has a dil e diluting effect.
My blood was moving more for my extremities.
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it after that your core body
temperature started to drop like a stone.
Which is precisely the
opposite of what you want to
happen in a freezing cold situation.
In the short-term, it might
make you feel good, but
ultimately it's the last thing
you want to do.
This one is busted.
Save the Brandy for when you
are curled up in front of the
fireplace back at the lodge.
Narrator: Kari, Grant, and Tory
love a good explosive bonfire.
In fact, any fiery fable ignites
their inner pyromania,
and Adam's feet.
When viewers suggested that
burning a baby grand might make
it explode,
they couldn't wait to fire up --
run.
Narrator: -- And find out if it was true.
Oh, my God.
That fire is awesome.
Fire department gave me a pyrometer
so I could find out how hot it is.
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ok careful.
Narrator: With it maxed out,
their instrument inferno is
burning at more than 1,000
degrees, which makes short work
of the wooden frame, lid, and legs.
Boing, boing, boing.
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narrator: Remember, if
there's any truth to this myth,
the 20 tons of tension in the strings
has to be suddenly
and explosively released.
I'm seeing a little caving in.
Stoo maybe it will collapse on I was.
Narrator: That's the theory,
but as the baby grand slowly but
surely burns down to the ground,
the myth of the exploding piano
goes up in smoke.
Well, no explosion.
In fact, all we've seen that's
left of the piano is a smoking
hole with a skeleton of the cast iron piece.
You can still see some of the strings,
which is not what I expected.
I thought in all the heat,
strings, which are very thin
compared to the cast iron would
go binge, bimg, bing.
We didn't hear anything.
There's no way it would ever explode,
and I'm so confident
that that's w I'm this close
to the piano.
No matter how much tension is
put on these wires,
they're never going to explode and pop
because auz the wires heat up,
the metal is going to expand and stretch.
You're mefr going to get the
snapping wires, and you're not
going to get the exploding piano.
It's just not physically possible.
Narrator: And that's the key.
Yes, the tension will be
released, but it happens slowly
as the metal strings expand in the fire.
And so --
definitively busted.
Busted.
Busted
narrator: Hold on.
Aren't they forgetting something?
The myth that a piano will
explode in a fire is completely busted.
Now we want to replicate the results.
We're going blow a piano up anyway.
The regular piano in the fire,
kind of sucked.
Didn't explode.
We do have a back-up piano
that we can explode.
What do you have for us?
What I think you need is the
Mythbusters concharitio in c4.
This one is for you.
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narrator: It's a catchy tune,
and j.D. Hums along as he tunes
the piano for the Mythbusters
conce on ic4.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
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this is it.
In three, two, one.
Now, that's what I call an
exploding piano.
Nice.
One second it was there.
The next second it was gone.
Look, it's all over the place.
Narrator: And because it's
the viewer special, especially
for you, here's the high speed
ncore of the Mythbusters
concerto in c4.
In pieces.
We wrecked that piano.
My 1980s rock band all had these.
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that was cool,
but the myth is still busted.
If your piano is on fire,
it's not going to explode.
If it's filled with c4,
well, that's another story.
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