"Please, don't try anything you're about to see us do at home." "Ever!" "NARRATOR:" "On this invigorating episode of "Mythbusters,"" "we're turning the heat on three frosty Alaskan fables." "This is perfect for an Alaska adventure." "NARRATOR:" "Adam and Jamie prove this is no country for cold men..." "Oh, great." "We got a yeti outside." "NARRATOR:... as cabin fever takes its toll." "I've just had the worst night of sleep I've ever had in my life." "NARRATOR:" "Tory, Grant, and Kari see if hitting the gas might lessen the damage caused by Alaska's scariest roadkill." "And we'll see if a dynamite-toting dog really could devastate a drunken duck hunter's brand-new S. U.V." "Bye-bye." "NARRATOR:" "Who are the Mythbusters?" "Did you know what was lurking in your basement?" "NARRATOR:" "Adam Savage..." "I am the fire ninja!" "NARRATOR:" "...and Jamie Hyneman." "Is that beautiful, or what?" "[ Grunts ]" "NARRATOR:" "Between them, more than 30 years of special-effects experience." "Wow!" "[ Elevator dings ]" "NARRATOR:" "Joining them -- Tory Belleci..." "I've been a bad pirate." "NARRATOR:" "...Grant Imahara..." "[ Laughter ] -...and Kari Byron." "Let's do it." "NARRATOR:" "They don't just tell the myths." "They put them to the test." "That is an iceberg." "It's really cold here, but it's also really beautiful." "This place has a mythology all its own." "So we've got a full hour of Alaska myths." "NARRATOR:" "Tourism types up here market the 49th state as the land of intensity." "It's twice the size of Texas, so we figure it's big and intense enough to handle some high-impact mythbusting." "[ Dog barks ]" "Like most of our favorite myths, this one involves some drunken friends and explosives." "You got a group of drunken friends, one of whom's just bought a brand-new S. U.V., and they all decide that they want to go duck hunting with their dog, except there's nothing around them but a frozen lake," "and no duck is gonna land on a frozen lake." "So they need to make a hole." "One of them offers up a stick of dynamite with a 20-second fuse to make a big hole and throws that stick of dynamite as hard as he can." "I can see what's coming." "The dog, following its natural impulses, chases after that stick of dynamite, catches it, starts ferrying it back to the guy, under the brand-new S. U.V." "Uh-oh!" "The dog, the dynamite, and the S. U.V. go boom!" "The S. U.V. goes down to the bottom of the lake, and the guy who owned it is still making payments." "NARRATOR:" "This not-so-urban myth surely stretches the bounds of human stupidity." "My sympathies are all with the dog, though you must admit it's as funny as hell." "But maybe it's too funny to be true." "As Jamie and Adam set off to find their frozen lake, it's worth noting that this folktale is almost as old as dynamite itself." "ADAM:" "The first thing we obviously needed was a frozen lake." "And the researchers found us one here in Alaska." "Behind me, this snowfield you see is, in fact, Fischer Pond, a man-made lake, which means there are no fish for us to kill, with a nice coating of rock-hard ice on top." "NARRATOR:" "The ice on the pond is too thick to dig through, and that supports the myth." "But can it support a 2-ton truck?" "Okay, here we go." "NARRATOR:" "Orson Smith and his fancy ice drill should give us a quick answer." "Fans of slapstick should appreciate the [Laughs] breakthrough moment." "ADAM:" "Whoa!" "SMITH:" "That's a hell of a thing." "NARRATOR:" "The ice core cracks up as it's bashed loose." "SMITH:" "Look at that!" "NARRATOR:" "Put back together, it's a foot and a half thick." "So, it's got vertical crystals that make it really stronger than average." "So it's safe for us to drive our S. U.V. out here?" "Yes." "ADAM:" "Look, this story has a ton of components to it, and the first part of it is, how far can you throw a stick of dynamite?" "Remember, kids, this isn't real dynamite." "We would never throw real dynamite, and neither should you." "All right, Jamie." "I want you to put your chi into this thing." "That's it!" "Go!" "Nice!" "NARRATOR:" "Jamie's toss is up over the 1 00-foot mark." "Now it's Adam's chance to prove he's got the mojo of the throw, Joe." "[ Laughter ]" "Those look to be about the same." "NARRATOR:" "Two hefty, manly throws with an average distance of... 125 feet." "NARRATOR:" "Okay, time to bring out the dog." "The myth is about a black lab that retrieves a stick of dynamite." "That's what Rudy is." "As you can see, he's raring to go." "He really wants to retrieve that stick of dynamite." "NARRATOR:" "And has no idea what he's signed up for." "Now we've got to get another myth started." "[ Moose bellows ]" "KARI:" "Okay, so, we're in Alaska in the snow." "What myth did we get?" "Okay, well, this is a fairly gory myth that affects a lot of Alaskans, but not so many in California." "What's that?" "It's about the moose and what happens when you hit one with your car." "NARRATOR:" "This is what happens when moose meets motorcar, and it's all too common here in Alaska." "A low-speed collision most often ends with something bigger and heavier than a fridge coming right through your windshield." "The myth says that speeding up instead of slowing down might push the unlucky beast over the car, meaning you might live to tell the tale." "Well, obviously we're not gonna kill a real moose" "to test this myth, right?" "Right." "Yeah." "We're gonna have to make our own moose analogue." "NARRATOR:" "They'll also have to wrangle a bunch of stunt cars and a safe test venue." "But those are problems for tomorrow." "Right now, they need to design a moose that can bounce back from something like this." "Oh [bleep]" "Have either of you ever seen a real moose?" "No." "I don't think so." "Maybe we should try to find a real moose." "That way, we can make our crash-test moose as close to a real one as we can." "NARRATOR:" "These California kids have never seen a wild moose, but they've had a tip-off from Alaska Fish  Game to search no further than downtown Anchorage." "GRANT:" "Whoa." "TORY:" "That's a big one." "NARRATOR:" "This 1 ,200-pound bull named Buzzwinkle is loitering by a two-story bar called Ernie's Bungalow." "I'm not sure what's weirder -- that the moose is in the middle of downtown at a bar or that it's only like 1 :30." "KARI:" "The legs end right about where the hood is, like right where you'd hit." "[ Laughs ]" "No way." "Look." "He's going to the mall." "NARRATOR:" "This mature bull looks about 6 foot tall at the shoulder, but they'll need to get much closer to take accurate measurements for a crash-test moose simulator." "Cue the Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center." "Out here, moose are accustomed to the ways of men." "Ah!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "[ Laughs ] He's stabbing me!" "NARRATOR:" "Well, most men." "Let's say we make this moose dummy out of ballistics gel." "If we hit that with a car, it's just gonna explode." "Yeah." "So we need to get a feeling for, you know, what it feels like." "KARI:" "Well, this is definitely not a ballistics gel." "TORY:" "No." "GRANT:" "Is he firm or squishy?" "TORY:" "He's pretty solid." "I mean, it's like there's hardly any fat on him at all." "He's got sort of like the durometer of, like, rubber." "Really dense rubber." "GRANT:" "Really?" "TORY:" "Yeah." "NARRATOR:" "Seems we need to make a very dense rubber replica." "And that's something the team can't do here in Anchorage." "KARI:" "We don't even know remotely how we're gonna get all of that weight up onto such spindly, little legs, so it's gonna take some planning, a lot of effort, and we need the tools back in San Francisco." "NARRATOR:" "Alaska really is a land of intensity -- the wilderness, the wildlife, and the winters." "It's those short, cold days that make this state home to an all-time classic myth." "What do we got?" "Well, you know, winters in Alaska are pretty harsh." "The days are short." "The nights are real long." "People get snowed in with nothing to do, and supposedly, they succumb to a condition known as cabin fever." "You mean they get, like, all loopy?" "Exactly, and, well, we're gonna put it to the test." "Well, you're already a little nuts." "How are we gonna tell the difference?" "Actually, it turns out that there are a distinct set of symptoms to cabin fever." "All we got to do is put ourselves in the right conditions and see if we exhibit those symptoms." "NARRATOR:" "Kari delayed her flight back to sunny San Fran to act as the moderator of mental health." "KARI:" "I found the perfect location to test cabin fever on Jamie and Adam " "Hatcher's Pass Lodge in Alaska, far from anything." "NARRATOR:" "Adam and Jamie are just minutes away from a stint in solitary and a possible descent into madness." "It's tiny, it's in the middle of nowhere, and you can barely see out the windows, it's so white." "NARRATOR:" "They'll spend their time just hanging out in adjacent huts." "A sudden flurry of snow sets the scene." "This is perfect for an Alaska adventure." "Hi, Kari." "Hi, guys." "How are you?" "You can barely see anything." "Hey." "It's about to get dark." "There's a snowstorm." "Are you ready to get cabin fever?" "I'm ready." "You ready?" "Yeah, let's go." "Wait till I show you to your room." "NARRATOR:" "The rooms aren't bad." "[ Laughs ]" "But they've both been stripped back to bare essentials -- as are the boys." "They're well-searched for anything that might divert or entertain." "So, hope you have no other contraband, no electronics." "I need your watch as well." "Oh, okay." "I have no electronics, no reading material." "Uh, that's my watch." "NARRATOR:" "Both of our detainees think this will be a walk in the park." "And let's remember that Jamie's already spent quality time inside a coffin." "And he's still alive." "NARRATOR:" "But they're not so sure about each other." "Um... whether Adam is gonna deal with this real well," "I don't know." "Adam's a little, um, impulsive." "Ah!" "NARRATOR:" "Only a friend could put it so gently." "Aaah!" "He could just, like, get a bug up his butt and go nuts for all I know." "I don't really know." "NARRATOR:" "And right back at you from cellblock one, good buddy." "Oh, I think Jamie will be painting on the walls in his own blood inside of 46 hours." "[ Laughs ]" "NARRATOR:" "Well, that should add some color." "But let's spare a thought for Kari." "She has to watch these two slowly unravel." "This is my Big-Sister surveillance system." "I've got four cameras -- one in the front and back of each cabin." "I can switch between the cameras with a touch of a button and watch their every move." "NARRATOR:" "Surveillance aside," "Kari's running cognitive and stress tests to get some hard data." "But our volunteer voyeur has her own troubles." "I think I'm gonna go crazy before they are." "Did I mention we're in the same circumstance that they are, except for I have to watch them be bored?" "NARRATOR:" "Jamie at least has a simple plan to preserve his sanity." "JAMIE:" "I'll tell you what I'm gonna do." "Every day's gonna be working out until I'm exhausted, and then I'm gonna sleep." "NARRATOR:" "The man with the mustache kicks off in style, but the short days and long nights might soon sap his spirit." "So, who's going to crack first?" "Adam?" "Jamie?" "Or Kari?" "Sweet dreams all 'round." "Good night." "NARRATOR:" "Kari, Tory, and Grant are testing a myth that says speeding up your car might prevent this potential Alaskan roadkill from killing you." "Back in San Francisco," "Kari's been on the Net looking for inspiration." "And believe it or not, she's found a thesis by a Swedish man on how to build a giant rubber moose." "KARI:" "That's cool." "NARRATOR:" "With his permission, they modify the multislice design and source a small mountain of rubber." "Cool!" "Those are the jet cutters right there." "NARRATOR:" "With an OMAX waterjet cutter," "H2O Precision can carve our moose slices in next to no time." "Tory's already had the details of our design punched into H2O's computer." "All right, here's our moose." "I know it doesn't look like much of a moose, but it will." "Now, what I have here are half-inch sheets of rubber." "Now, we have the design of our moose in the computer in slices." "Once we stack those together, we'll have the shape of a moose in rubber." "This is one layer out of over 150 layers of rubber that's gonna make up our moose." "Now, once we stack these together in the right order and fasten it, we'll have roughly the same size, weight, and density as a real moose." "NARRATOR:" "But a real fake moose needs more than sheer mass." "Back at M7, Kari adds the bones and the sinew." "This is the cable we're gonna use to keep the moose together." "This is gonna run the length of the moose twice, and that way, when the car actually hits the moose, the moose will stay flexible, bending as if it's a real moose." "NARRATOR:" "Kari sleeves the cable in rubber tubing, and Grant's done likewise with the legs." "The deal is we want the legs -- This is our moose leg." "We want them to be floppy." "But we also want them to be reusable once it gets hit." "So the hip joint's gonna be made out of steel, and that's gonna connect to the cable that's inside of the moose leg, and when it gets hit, it'll go flying, and then we can set it right back up again." "NARRATOR:" "Meantime, Tory's going gangbusters with his half-inch fillets." "It looks good, though." "Looks like a moose." "I know, kind of." "What do you think?" "Lucy?" "Lucy the moosey?" "Yeah." "I love it." "NARRATOR:" "Congratulations, Tory." "It's a girl." "But does she have enough junk in the trunk?" "All right, so, the moose is done, and it looks like it's weighing about 620 pounds, which is a good average for the type of moose that would likely get hit by a car." "Now that the moose is done, we're gonna see if we can make him stand up." "So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build a pair of 2x4 legs that the moose will sit on." "It'll cradle in." "So, that way, when the car comes crashing through, it'll knock the legs away, and then the moose will behave the way the moose will behave." "NARRATOR:" "Building the frame is no big deal, but will it support the massive load we call Lucy?" "TORY:" "Good moose." "Stay." "NARRATOR:" "It does." "Nice." "I love it." "NARRATOR:" "And it's at just the right height for her -- ahem -- ample proportions." "And like any cow to the slaughter, it's best she doesn't know her destiny." "Shh." "I'm the moose whisperer." "All right, let's bring those cars in." "So, the myth states that the guys used a 20-second fuse on their stick of dynamite." "Now, the question is, can a dog, from a cold start, run to 125 feet, fetch a stick of dynamite, and come on back in under 20 seconds?" "And that's what we're about to answer with Rudy." "NARRATOR:" "Of course, for this test, they swap the dynamite for a rubber ball, but you get the idea." "We got our starting line." "We got the target pylon over there." "Let's just throw the ball a few times, and I'll time it." "I'll bet you can throw it to where he gets it right about at that pylon and comes on back, and we'll just see how long that takes." "NARRATOR:" "It sounds simple, but remember that Rudy is not only skidding around on slippery ice, but it's 20 degrees below zero." "Good boy!" "NARRATOR:" "You'd think he'd get slower and slower, but each successive fetch and return reads the same on Adam's stopwatch -- 16 seconds." "JAMIE:" "So far, the idea that the dog could actually get the stick of dynamite and bring it back is looking really good." "It's totally doable as far as the myth is concerned." "NARRATOR:" "This whole myth is falling nicely into place." "Perhaps a little too nicely." "Here comes the bit where we try blasting a hole through the ice..." "Thanks, guys." "NARRATOR:... sinking this car with one stick of dynamite." "ADAM:" "So far, the Alaska myth is looking pretty good." "The dog did his job real well, but now it all comes down to this." "If one stick of dynamite can't sink the car, it's busted." "NARRATOR:" "And now back to the myth designed to separate Adam and Jamie from their fragile faculties." "Day two dawns on our cabin-fever test, though it should be noted that a midwinter Alaskan sunup kicks in around 10:00 a. m." "Good morning." "It is the morning of day two." "I have had a reasonably fitful night of sleep." "I had some really weird dreams." "I, uh..." "I dream I'm in a plane and slowly crashing and slowly crashing down on a street in San Francisco, and I'm way up at the cockpit, and I turn to everyone and I say," ""Listen, I don't think this is a real plane crash, 'cause I happened to notice that I'm not wearing any pants."" "[ Laughs ]" ""And whenever I'm not wearing any pants, it's probably a dream."" "[ Laughs ]" "NARRATOR:" "Kari's up already, bright-eyed, keen-eared, and she's wearing pants." "KARI:" "It's early morning, and this is actually the first surprise, is that Jamie is still sleeping." "He's an early riser." "Usually, he's up doing exercise and probably into the shop by 5:00 a. m." "Adam, on the other hand, is just a beehive." "NARRATOR:" "Jamie does eventually rouse himself and starts the first of his two tests." "The cognitive test aims to see if their mental faculties decrease over time." "The saliva test is a stress indicator, but to get a fair reading, you can't eat or drink beforehand." "KARI:" "Oh, you know what, though?" "I think he just took a drink of water right before he took this test." "NARRATOR:" "So, this and, trust me, many spit tests to come count for nothing." "Spit reading of 35." "This is the morning of the second day, so apparently I'm pretty relaxed." "NARRATOR:" "Shame we can't say the same for Kari, but biometrics aren't the only indication of who is or isn't stressed and bewildered." "Hap Wurlitzer owns these cabins, and he's come real close to misplacing his own marbles through many a long winter." "It happens to everybody in Alaska, including me." "What would you consider the symptoms?" "Well, it's probably being on edge, irritability angry-looking eyes, forgetfulness..." "What's going on?" "...and sleeping extra time in the cabins." "NARRATOR:" "So, now we know what to look for." "Jamie's already a pinup boy for symptom number four." "Next door, Adam can't stop fidgeting." "KARI:" "Adam's body language at the moment shows that he's sort of antsy." "Oh, he's going for the coat hanger." "I knew he would make something with the hanger." "I would totally make something with the coat hanger." "NARRATOR:" "Desperate times call for desperate diversions." "Adam's building a fancy desktop toy from his one potential plaything, a wire coat hanger." "I've spent some time making a little whirligig here out of one of the two coat hangers I found on the rack." "NARRATOR:" "Meantime, the big news from cabin two is that Jamie's sitting up." "KARI:" "I think Jamie has reached full Buddha." "He has not moved in an hour." "NARRATOR:" "Before day's end, both boys find time to write in their journals, then repeat their cognitive and spit tests." "123?" "What, are you crazy?" "Look at this." "NARRATOR:" "Okay, just forget the stress test." "What we all need here is a time out and a nice nap." "As the sun sets, it's hard to say if either one technically has cabin fever." "The boys say no, but Kari's unconvinced." "She knows that every picture tells a story." "Now they've arrived at a specialized test track for what should be a shattering debut." "KARI:" "Okay, this myth is really about hitting a moose, 'cause obviously, if you can stop in time, that's gonna be the best choice." "Right." "This is the point of no return." "You're gonna hit the moose." "The question is, is it better to speed up or slow down?" "All right, what do you think, like 45 miles an hour?" "It's a good average between highway and regular roads." "That sounds good." "NARRATOR:" "Crashing cars is more or less what the folks at E-TECH Testing Services do for a living." "And parent company Energy Absorption Systems make crash cushions, which could be useful if this moose mayhem runs off the rails." "But that's highly unlikely." "A guide bar fitted to one wheel keeps the car on track, and through a system of chains and pulleys, a truck tows it" "from a safe distance in the opposite direction." "The reason why we came to E-TECH is 'cause they are set up to test crashes." "That's what they do." "They have a towing system." "It's a 2-to-1 ratio, so their towing vehicle only has to go half as fast as the actual vehicle that's gonna crash." "Plus, they have a steering hub, and he's attaching that right now, so that way, our car won't veer off course and we hit the moose right where we want." "NARRATOR:" "But crash-test cars still need crash-test dummies." "TORY:" "I think this is the first time we've ever used Buster for what he was intended to be used for." "GRANT:" "It's a historic moment." "NARRATOR:" "With Buster buckled up, we're ready for test number one." "Moose meets machine at 45 per." "Am I excited?" "You better believe I'm excited." "We just made a giant rubber moose, and now we're gonna crash cars into it." "It doesn't get much better than this." "GRANT:" "Ohh!" "Here comes the car!" "That's 20 miles an hour." "40. 45." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh [bleep]" "I mean, the car came careening at the moose, hit the moose, the moose flies in the air." "The head kind of just falls to the ground." "We got exactly the results we need and a lot of comedy out of this high-speed, I'm sure." "NARRATOR:" "Will speeding up or slowing down reduce the carnage?" "And just how many cars can we afford to wreck in the cause of sensible driving?" "I've just had the worst night of sleep I've ever had in my life." "KARI:" "Jamie has gotten up and straightaway started eating." "He's not done his spit-swab test, which is a problem for me, 'cause it's gonna mess up my data." "Either he's forgetting, or he's just lost the plot completely." "NARRATOR:" "But don't underestimate" "Adam's cold-weather quirks." "These long-life military rations are called MREs, or meals ready to eat." "Some soldiers call them meals ready to expel." "For breakfast today, I'm gonna have a little jambalaya." "NARRATOR:" "It's not exactly toast and grapefruit, but he might get a chance to test his chemical toilet." "[ Burps ] Oh!" "I forgot to try the Tabasco in there." "NARRATOR:" "Yes, charming." "The morning wears on, and self-sufficient Jamie finds there's one thing he can't live without." "I don't have any coffee, which bugs me, because I'd be a lot more active and less inclined to just nap, which I'm sure is scintillating TV, to watch me nap, but it's not my decision." "Oh, great." "We got a yeti outside." "KARI:" "I've decided to play a little prank on Jamie and Adam with help with the ultimate urban legend." "[ Growls ]" "NARRATOR:" "Jamie's cold stare shows he's not amused." "But Kari gets a better response from Adam." "[ Thumping, growling ]" "[ Laughs loudly ]" "He's hiding in the bathroom from the snow yeti." "[ Giggling ]" "NARRATOR:" "Sounds like Kari's the one who's ready to crack." "I have to get out of here." "NARRATOR:" "But she has a remedy." "For one crazy hour," "Kari does everything worth doing on fresh, white snow." "And I mean everything." "It's my best work yet." "Well, guys, it's the moment of truth." "It's time to put a stick of dynamite under this S. U.V." "and see what happens." "Oh, yeah, man." "All of our facts so far have stacked up pretty plausible." "This is the last link in the chain." "Frank, do you have the stick of dynamite for us?" "Right here it is -- the real thing." "That is red and everything." "That's perfect." "NARRATOR:" "Now cover your ears, and thank goodness you're not here on Fischer Pond." "This is what happens when Mythbusters play with dynamite." "ADAM:" "Fire in the hole!" "NARRATOR:" "Almost nothing." "JAMIE:" "I see a little dent there, and that's about it." "DOYLE:" "Yeah, other than that, no damage." "The dog would have been gone." "But the truck's still here." "Look, the ice that we're on right now is a good average thickness for a frozen lake that you'd feel safe driving an automobile out onto." "So, based on what we've seen, we have to call it busted." "NARRATOR:" "Busted, but not beaten." "We've all come a long way in the freezing cold to see a good, old-fashioned truck sinking, and 2 dozen pounds of dynamite packed inside these high-tech directional cones should do the trick." "Well, it's clear from the hole pattern I see around the car that we've got a nasty case of ice gophers." "These little varmints will bore their way around any vehicle they find on the ice to chew on it underwater." "There's only one way to take care of them, and that's high explosives." "Fire in the hole!" "Fire in the hole!" "Fire in the hole!" "3, 2, 1." "Bye-bye!" "Oh!" "Criminy!" "NARRATOR:" "The ice ripples out like a liquid earthquake." "Surface snow fills the air and blurs the view." "By the time it clears, the car has disappeared." "I don't see no S. U.V." "No more S. U.V." "It went bye-bye." "So, what do you think?" "Did it just blow the truck up, or did it sink it?" "Well, I see a couple pieces of debris from the truck, but nothing major." "I think it sank it." "99 % of that truck's under the water." "Let's yank on the chain and see what happens." "[ Laughs ] Okay." "NARRATOR:" "Incredibly, this fresh-blasted duck pond is already freezing over." "Adam and Jamie really don't know for sure where the car went, but a few tugs on the chain confirm they've got a 2-ton catch." "ADAM: [ Sighs ]" "I think we're gonna need more explosives to get this truck out." "I think we are." "If they worked putting it in, they're gonna work getting it back out again." "That's true." "[ Both laugh ]" "NARRATOR:" "No, we're not yanking your chain." "To get the car back, they have to blast the ice one more time." "Filming stops as the light fades, but the car was retrieved." "We've left this pristine pond pretty much the way we found it, busting a myth and saving a puppy in the process." "[ Barking ]" "Um, well, the sun is out, and it's made it unfathomably beautiful out here." "I don't know whether the sun is just about to set over the mountain there or has just risen over the mountain there." "I've already lost all my concept of time." "NARRATOR:" "And here's what's happened so far." "They've been bored." "They've slept." "They've exercised." "They've gone back to sleep." "I napped the first day because I could." "It was great." "Get up when you want." "Go to sleep when you want." "NARRATOR:" "And by drinking just before the saliva tests, they've both ruined any chance of accurate stress data." "Having just woken up from a nap, it's saying that my stress reading is 94." "Here, look." "NARRATOR:" "Okay, that's just scary." "Meantime, Jamie's decided to hold a one-man convention and draft a new U.S. Constitution -- seriously." "You know, it started because we started seeing T-shirts that says, "Savage-Hyneman '08."" "The first thing that we'll do is relocate all politicians to employment on pork farms." "And then we'll pretty much start from the ground up and try to come up with a system that actually works." "You know, get people that run the country that are actually literate, things like that." "NARRATOR:" "This test has run its course, and Kari's ready to pull the plug." "KARI:" "Adam's been both irritable and really restless." "He's been pacing around the room." "Both of them have been forgetful." "Either they're not doing their tests -- they're forgetting to do them -- or they're making a lot of mistakes." "And finally, they are sleeping a whole lot." "It's practically hibernation." "These could be the symptoms of cabin fever." "I've seen enough." "I'm gonna bust them out." "You had enough?" "[ Laughs ] I've definitely had enough." "This was far from the, like, relaxing respite that I thought it would be." "NARRATOR:" "Now, let's see how Jamie coped with just Jamie for company." "JAMIE:" "The worst part was the beginning -- [bleep] off at being here because you're in a closed-up room." "Chances are you're not gonna like it as much as if you had all the normal stimulants." "Have you had enough?" "I'm just starting to get into it." "I'm not sure what that proves, and I was a little [bleep] off about it, but that being said, then I started to get into it." "I craved the sound of the human voice." "I missed my wife." "Um, l-l haven't been bored, but I have been really lonely." "NARRATOR:" "But the real question remains." "Did either one ever lose his fragile grip on sanity?" "The cognitive-test results were too consistent to prove anything, and they both blew the spit tests." "But Kari's kept a lookout for Hap's four sure signs..." "What's going on with me?" "NARRATOR:" "...irritability..." "The mattress was [Sniffs] terrible." "NARRATOR:" "...forgetfulness, angry eyes..." "Oh, yeah." "NARRATOR:" "...and excessive sleeping." "Napping in the afternoon, napping in the morning." "I love napping." "All right, guys, how do you want to call this one?" "Well, based on the surveillance, you exhibited four out of four of the cabin-fever symptoms, and you one." "Yeah, but he's a robot." "And I just got in." "It was a long trip." "I was tired." "I think we could call this plausible." "Plausible it is." "Okay, plausible." "Can I go back to the room now?" "[ Laughs ]" "NARRATOR:" "There's no doubt about it." "Go." "NARRATOR:" "Hitting an average-size moose in an average-size car can only end in tears." "You know, it's like you're driving down the road, you're eating your baked Alaska, and all of a sudden, a moose is in front of you, and you're like -- You don't have time to swerve." "You're gonna hit the moose, but now the question is, is it better to accelerate into the moose or hit the brakes?" "NARRATOR:" "Some say it's better to speed up." "But let's first test this Alaskan roadkill myth by slowing down." "Grant's installed a remote-control braking system that's every bit as effective as a panicked human's right foot." "GRANT:" "So, the remote braking system is radio-controlled, and what that does is send a signal to the receiver inside the car, activates a pneumatic solenoid that fires a pneumatic cylinder, and that will pop the brake very, very quickly," "just as if you were to stamp hard on it." "NARRATOR:" "They know that at 45 miles per hour, the car takes 70 feet to stop." "So, to best simulate a real accident, they plan to hit the brake and, in a later test, the accelerator just 30 feet short of our makeshift moose." "Buster's had enough, so Cousin Ted is the designated driver." "GRANT:" "Yeah, there you go." "TORY:" "Attaboy." "We are ready to go." "TORY:" "All right." "Grant will hit the brakes 30 feet before we hit the moose." "Are we ready?" "Ready." "In 3, 2, 1." "We're going." "Here it comes." "All right, we're at 45." "[ Tires screeching ]" "[ Cheering ]" "Nice!" "Yeah, hit the moose." "Sweet." "TORY:" "Dude, look at that." "It stopped perfectly." "Wow." "NARRATOR:" "It's another windshield wipe-out." "But they all agree that this time there's less damage, and that could mean the difference between life and death." "But they've also noticed that the moose hit higher when the car went faster." "I'm starting to think that if you speed up, if you accelerate like in the myth, it might actually hit even higher." "Now, whether it's gonna clear the car," "I'm not entirely convinced of yet." "Snap out of it." "NARRATOR:" "This is the test that might confirm the myth." "Just 30 feet short of certain catastrophe, driver Brian's been told to hit the gas." "Okay." "All right, this is acceleration test." "Ready, Kari?" "We are ready." "TORY:" "On 3, 2, 1." "Go." "10 miles an hour." "20 miles an hour." "40 miles an hour." "45." "Accelerate!" "[ Cheering ]" "That was great." "Wow!" "Did you see how high the moose got on that hit?" "It looked like it got higher than any of the other hits." "Oh, my God, look." "It broke the back window out." "GRANT:" "Ohh." "KARI:" "Wow!" "MAN:" "Whoa!" "NARRATOR:" "But it didn't clear the car." "The side pillars are crushed, and the roof is peeled back like a sardine tin." "Look at this." "It totally bent the midsection of the car down." "KARI:" "Look at the backseat." "It went to the backseat." "It went whoosh!" "So, what do you think?" "Going faster doesn't look like it's a better tactic." "I mean, you are accelerating." "You're hitting with greater force." "More speed is more energy." "That's crazy." "Myth busted." "Myth busted." "Busted, just like all these cars." "NARRATOR:" "Okay, it's busted." "But all these cars are midsize sedans." "What if your car is a low-profile coupe?" "The roof is lower, so Lucy might sail right over the top." "But Kari's already made her mind up." "KARI:" "Personally, I think people are watching way too many cartoons and getting their physics from Wile E. Coyote." "I mean, when he goes off a cliff, he hangs there for a minute before he falls." "I think they're seeing that the moose gets hit, phoosh, and kind of hangs there and then drops." "It's just not possible." "NARRATOR:" "Well, let's see." "This time, Brian's simple brief is to put his foot down all the way." "This is full-speed test." "We're giving it everything we got." "That's right." "Low-profile car." "This is it." "All right, Brian." "Hit it." "There he goes." "KARI:" "Oh, my gosh." "Oh, dear." "Oh, my God, it's going so fast, there's sparks coming out." "Whoo!" "[ Cheering ]" "NARRATOR:" "The car hits 75 miles per hour." "Lucy's lost her legs, the car is caved in," "Ted's a sad statistic, and this myth is double busted." "This hit was hard enough to knock the ears off of our moose and the antlers." "That's kind of an impact." "That's pretty crazy." "The moose is coming down on the car." "No matter what you do, you're crashing." "TORY:" "You know what?" "I have a whole new respect for moose." "I hope I never run into one on the road." "If I do, I'm definitely not gonna speed up and try to take his legs out." "I mean, we've shown it." "NARRATOR:" "Unless the moose you hit is a world-class gymnast,"