The team built woodframe and cinder block walls, one treated and one untreated of each type, and placed buster behind each before setting off a c4 charge 5 ft 1. Mythbusters march 5 final episode promises to be explosive cnet. Capturing an rv explosion using the fastest highspeed camera they have ever used, driving a giant truck wedge through a collection of the various props used from over 14 years of experiments, sending. There would be no way to get this much detail by slowing down a normal framerate cameras footage. This episode saw the return of some old tricks dead pigs and remote controls. However, the mythbusters noted that the gforces varied widely depending on how hard the head was struck. A solid slab of concrete is too hard to remove practically, and is tougher than the barrel itself.
The mythbusters tested over 1,000 distinct myths in 271 hourlong episodes spanning 14 years, resulting in a vast amount of information about common myths and interesting phenomena. The grand finale included the explosion of a cement truck which was loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of anfo. Jun 27, 2014 so, in a 2005 episode of the discovery channel show mythbusters, the team wanted to know if a stick of dynamite is powerful enough to scrape the barrel of a concrete truck clean. However, as expected, adam and jamie went out with a bang. Our mulletwearing hero discovers a mail truck full of tnt. Although the duo always had an affinity for explosions, they saved the best for last. Behold that infamous scene from 2005s salsa escape in which the mythbusters blow up that poor, defenseless cement truck.
Adam and jamie investigate whether or not its possible to bust out of jail using only salsa will mild or hot be the best choice. In no pain, no gain, they test a myth that touches us all. Ten years after their very first episode, the mythbusters revisit. The mythbusters first started by striking a fake human head with both full and empty bottles. Jet wash from an airliner can overturn a taxi if the vehicle passes behind the jet as it goes to full throttle. It wasnt one of their best episodes, though stinky pigs and remote control cars always make good tv. During the mythbusters reunion, adam tells a story about a colorful mythbusters extra who helped out during the jimmy hoffa episode and who just may have a darker past.
Salsa was used by a mexican prisoner to corrode the window bars of his cell and escape. Mythbusters is a science entertainment tv program created and produced by australias beyond television productions for the discovery channel there is no consistent system for organizing mythbusters episodes into seasons. According to the explosives expert used for the episode, this was the largest explosion executed for mythbusters up to that time with 500 lb 227 kg of dynamite and detcord and was ignited with 2 blasting caps as adam mentions in the dialog, one for the detcord, and other for the balloons. Ive never heard another mythbusters explosion with such a unique and unforgettable sound. This was the largest explosion to date on mythbusters, producing over twelve times the energy produced by the explosion that previously held the title cement mixup.
Two more seasons were released on netflix very recently, so continue reading mythbusters on headon collisions. Nov 09, 2011 the quarries used by the mythbusters were examined. The fans are ready to go up in flames but adam and jamie might have a secret weapon. But, in 2016, the series ended with the original mythbusting duo confirming that they do not want to continue with the show. The marshall space flight center hosted the mythbusters television show. In addition discovery also sells collections which divide up the episodes in a different way each collection has about 10 or 12 episodes from various seasons. Oct 11, 2017 spread the loveim sure you all have cable andor satellite setups and thus see the mythbusters, which is clearly one of the best things on tv, as they produce them. The build team also details the damage control after the pressure wave from a quarry explosion caused collateral damage in nearby esparto, california and why they have not been at that quarry since. January 9, 2016 if a mail truck containing a bomb is filled with wet cement, the explosion will not injure bystanders or completely destroy the truck.
Mythbusters videos cement truck explosion highspeed. This list follows the calendar year, as per the official episode guide. So, in a 2005 episode of the discovery channel show mythbusters, the team wanted to know if a stick of dynamite is powerful enough to scrape the barrel of a concrete truck. Footage from the final mythbusters episode of the epic cement truck explosion is included in the video. Macgyver has a nearby cement truck dump its load onto the truck to smother the bomb. Dealerships do this likely to protect the floor, but does it actually. Buried in concrete hoffa the main myth for this episode was the story of hoffas body being buried near the tenyard line of giants stadium.
The mythbusters fill up a truck with explosives and blow it into pieces. If a mail truck containing a bomb is filled with wet cement, the explosion will not injure bystanders or completely destroy the truck. In an homage to a favorite past episode, the mythbusters crew ramped up the truck wedge episode in a test of momentum versus history. Oct, 2009 the mythbusters fill up a truck with explosives and blow it into pieces. Episode 237 mythbusters revealed original air date. Mythbusters march 5 final episode promises to be explosive leave it to adam savage and jamie hyneman to send their science series out with a big bang. Truck wedge in an homage to a favorite past episode, the mythbusters crew ramped up the truck wedge episode in a test of momentum versus history. Mythbusters, which was created by peter rees, premiered in january 2003 on the discovery channel. Watch the mythbusters explode a cement truck with fbi explosives. The mythbusters chose marshall as one of several nasa locations for an episode to debunk the notion that nasa never landed on the moon. Hello myth busters team, i have no idea how to prove or disprove t. The build team also discussed the damage control after the pressure wave from a quarry explosion had caused collateral damage in nearby esparto, california, and why they have not been at that quarry since. I would love to see an explosion shot from one, but i expect the shrapnel and possible emp could cause problems with the radio gear. Thats exactly what did happen in the first test it just didnt happen the way macgyver thought.
Adam tells a story about a colorful mythbusters extra who helped out during the jimmy hoffa episode and who just may have a darker past. This episode created the singularly, most unique sound in television history. The episode showed macgyver pouring cement into a truck and preventing a large explosion. A look back at myths that generated a truck load of angry fan mail. Everybody seems to remember the cement truck as a favorite episode. After 14 years, 250 episodes, 1,000 myths and nearly 3,000 experiments, adam and jaime say goodbye to mythbusters with four farewell experiments. The cast conducted tests involving a feather, a weight, a lunar soil boot print, and a flag in a vacuum. Overall i have enjoyed the new shows with the indianan jones episode at the top of my. This shot is from the final season when they recreated the cement truck explosion with one more pound of explosives in order to finally get the slow motion shot they missed.
Mythbusters 2016 season the cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. Mar 06, 2016 mythbusters last episode aired on saturday night, to the dismay of millions of fans. While testing whether it was possible to escape a car that had driven into a lake, the mythbusters found that if you didnt open the car door immediately, then you had to equalize the pressure between the outside water, and the inside of the car, in other words, let water into the car through a window or otherwise, but discovering this wasnt the crowning moment of awesome. Ten years after their very first episode, the mythbusters revisit their tricky rocket car experiment. The mythbusters enlisted the aid of fbi explosive experts in particular frank doyle, making the first of many appearances on the show to load the truck and barrel with 850 lb 386 kg of anfo. They were trying to clean cement out that was left in the mixer and had set up. The craziest myths tackled by mythbusters, according to. Jul 02, 20 the perfect mythbusters explosion boom animated gif for your conversation. Jamie and adam take the plunge on a myth that originated in wwll and detonate the biggest explosion in mythbusters history. Cement truck explosion, season 3 everybody seems to remember the cement truck as a favorite episode. The cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like.
Adam and jamie detailed the lastminute addition of the concrete truck explosion. Including specials, and the revival series, a total of 296 episodes of mythbusters have aired so far. With jamie hyneman, adam savage, tory belleci, kari byron. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments the myth is either busted, plausible, or confirmed. On this episode of mythbusters, adam and jamie both become lab rats for science. Adam and jamie recreated the finale of a 2005 myth involving cleaning a cement truck with dynamite, a fan favorite.
The mythbusters enlisted the aid of fbi explosive experts to load the truck and barrel with 850 pounds of commercial blasting agent. Mythbusters cement truck gif mythbusters explosion boom. The following overview attempts to summarize and categorize the results of the entire mythbusters series as succinctly as possible. See what happens when 5,001 pounds of anfo meets a cement truck. List of mythbusters episodes the cast of the television series mythbusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. Macgyvering a cement truck mythbusters wiki 4 weed. Due to a mishap when the truck was being collected, however, it was filled almost to the top with concrete, rather than just with the thin layer that. Supercut video kicks butt with 12 years of mythbusters. Fans get a chance to shine in a challenge with the mythbusters to retest the archimedes death ray, a giant mirror that harnessed the suns energy to start a fire on invading ships. Adam and jamie provide a behindthescenes look at the upcoming season, from brainstorming sessions for episode themes to test planning and execution. Setting off the biggest explosion in mythbusters history.
Jamie and adam take the plunge on a myth that originated in wwll and detonate the biggest explosion in mythbusters. If you remember the past episode, adam and jamie hitched a steel wedge to the front of a dump truck and ran it through a line of parked cars as a method of clearing through heavy traffic. Discovery channel is a great place to learn new and exciting things. Does this just keep the floor from getting tire marks. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments the myth is busted, plausible, or confirmed. They then performed a smaller scale blast and examined the results in the lab after a chemical bath. The official mythbusters website lists episodes by calendar year. Nov 02, 2011 sprayon truck bed liner resin can withstand an explosion. See every single episode during the mythbusters holiday mega marathon. One of their most popular shows was mythbusters, with hostsexperts adam savage and jamie hyneman as the faces of the show for almost 300 episodes. Mythbusters our most iconic explosion revisited and this time we got. We used 800 pounds of anfo, which is a fertilizerdiesel fuel mix.
Mythbusters cement truck explosion highspeed facebook. I just added two trucks that were used by the mythbusters in the pilot episode. At this point a second cement truck arrived, this one properly setup to not have a floor of concrete. A stick of dynamite can remove a slab of concrete from the inside of a cement truck. Mythbusters the mythbusters grand finale tv episode. Mythbusters s03e02 salsa escape cement truck explosives. Based on a scene from the television series macgyver. The mythbusters crew, for no apparent reasoon other than entertainment decide that in order to test the other myth getting the hardened floor of concrete out, they are going to simply blow the entire truck to smithereens in their biggest explosion to date. But i am always a couple of years behind because i watch them on netflix. What was great about this implosion episode was that it showed us something new.
The resulting explosion reduced the truck to numerous very small fragments, and a few larger pieces. They loaded a cement truck with 5,001 pounds 2,268 kg of anfo and set it off. The show does not follow a typical calendar of on and off air periods. For more than a decade, the lack of high speed for the mythbusters cement truck explosion has haunted us. In split arrow, the 3 mythkateers take another aim at robin hoods arrow. Ten years after their very first episode, the mythbusters revisit their tricky rocketcar experiment. You can play it in a hundred different explosion sounds, and it will immediately stand out as the cement truck explosion. Concrete truck vaporized when barrel full of dynamite. Adam and jamie detail the lastminute addition of the concrete truck explosion. So, in a 2005 episode of the discovery channel show mythbusters, the.
In the meantime, the light and shade to the biggest mythbusters explosion ever is provided by lights onoff. What if, in the episode, the cement did the exact same thing it did in reality, separating the dynamite from its firing pins or wires or whatever. After analyzing the scene, adam and jamie determined that 84 pounds 38 kg of dynamite had been placed in the mail truck in the macgyver episode. The craziest myths the mythbusters have tackled, according. Mythbusters march 5 final episode promises to be explosive. On this episode the guys ask, can a car stereo destroy a car with just sound.
Spread the loveim sure you all have cable andor satellite setups and thus see the mythbusters, which is clearly one of the best things on tv, as they produce them. The initial results showed that the full bottle struck with an average gforce of 28. Nov 22, 2018 our mulletwearing hero discovers a mail truck full of tnt. The craziest myths tackled by mythbusters, according to its cast. But its the ever more outlandish explosions for which mythbusters is best known the sight of savage chortling with glee as the. Besides, the best part of the cement mixer explosion was the sound. The quarries used by the mythbusters were examined. Given several years, it would be possible, due to the corrosive elements of the salsa. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments. Can a stick of dynamite remove a slab of concrete from the inside of a cement truck.
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