Which mythbusters episode cement truck

This episode was the finale for the entire MythBusters series. They set off the charge and filmed the blast at 50, frames per second, five times the fastest rate previously used.

The RV was torn to shreds and Adam and Jamie marveled at the footage, which revealed the RV brightly lit from within just before exploding and showed a lensing effect at the boundary of the shock wave. Even after controlling for movement of the faux dung, the elephants were specifically scared of the mice, proving the skeptical MythBusters astonishingly wrong.

But more importantly, Tory fell shin-first onto a ledge, causing a deep wound and copious amounts of blood. The experimental setup: Having failed with propane, they decided to add some pure oxygen into their cannon. The experimental setup: After failing to recreate the scene faithfully using hydrofluoric acid, they decided to go balls to the walls and create a super-reactive mixture of an acid and a catalyst to make it happen.

They went too far, everything melted, and they ran away. And even then they still couldn't recreate the scene. The experimental setup: Drop a dummy and blow up its landing area before it hits the ground. They missed the target, but the fire department had to be called in to stop the raging fires created by the explosion, making it unlikely a human could have survived even if dropped in the right spot. The question: Can a Chevrolet Corvette become a ramp that a Ford Mustang uses to do a barrel roll without damaging either car?

The experimental setup: Modify the cars' suspension system just right and use a guide wire to drive them toward each other. The MythBusters crew managed to get a free cement truck that was on its last legs. They messed up during the setup and accidentally overloaded the truck and left it half full of cement aka "a floor" , but Adam didn't mind because it would allow them to try and bust both myths simultaneously.

More illegal fireworks : 'poof' the MythBusters crew is very bored at this point. At this point a second cement truck arrived, this one properly setup to not have a floor of concrete in it. They decide to use up the rest of their materials testing the myth and loaded it up with a stick and a half of dynamite's worth of material.

Stick and a half of dynamite : At first it appeared that the cement remained intact. Scottie went inside and discovered that a lot of it was broken and that the remainder was coming off fairly easily.

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.

They went out to a Calaveras County quarry, shut down a nearby highway, and with the help of retired FBI agent Frank Doyle loaded up the truck with lbs of commercial blasting agent. Doyle: "anticipate we will take this truck down to the frame rails. For the appearance of safety, they made a 1 mile exclusion zone around truck because of high velocity frag steel shooting off, though the photographer is stationed on a hill just above the truck, because he is apparently expendable.

As for the mythbusting, Jamie: "This has got nothing to do with the myth. According to the myth, in , Juan Lopez escaped from his Mexican cell by dissolving the bars using salsa from his jailhouse dinners.

It took six years to dissolve the bars, and he's never been seen since. Adam and Jamie studied six different types of salsa to identify the key ingredients in dissolving the bars.

They also test to see if a massive amount of high explosive can break up a cement truck filled with hardened cement. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Doyle would often appear to give advice in myths dealing with explosives. Quotes Adam : [Everybody's looking around for cement truck parts after giant explosion] I left it right here!

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