"Remember, do not try anything you are about to see at home." "Ohh!" "♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ this is a good one, picture two bullets, each exactly the same distance from the ground, each released at the exact same second, except one bullet is drop to the grounp ground," "the other is fired from the gun." "The classic *** states that both bullets will hit the ground at the same time." "Based on what theory." "Based on the theory that the bullet fired from the gun has no ** on it no ** that's the gravity has the same effect on it as it does dropped bullet, and thus, they hit the ground simultaneously." "It's an age old physics fables, that bullet dropped and the bullet fired simultaneously from the same height hit the ground at the same time." "It's so hard difficult to test that no one has tried, until now." "What's the plan?" "Well, I've been thinking this one for so long" "I've seen this experiment elucidated in textbooks the world over" "I don't think anyone anywhere has ever tried it with full size, full scale, with real bullets coming out of real guns." "That's what we should do." "It sounds like can be tricky actually." "I think we should use shop experiments before we use live rounds." "Fair enough." "Let's start." "So before going ballistic with the ballistics," "Adam comes up with a simple way to put that textbook theory to the test." "Well, this test is going to be comprised of two separate parts." "I'm using a bullet of sorts, you may recognize** it's ammunition from a machine gun." "Part *** I'll be dropping it from exactly table high from this green line right here." "I'll be filming the drop on the high-speed camera and counting how long it takes to get to the ground." "Part the second I'll be shooting this ball bearing from my pinball shooter here which I marked out to be accurate every time I shoot it." "I'm going to fire it across the same breadth and measure how long it takes to reach the floor on the same high-speed camera." "If this myth is true, those two times should be identical." "Okay, here we go." "Okay, the drop from table high, three, two, one " "pretty simple." "Couldn't be simpler." "But there's a lot more test than meets it eye." "Counting *** to get from my hand to the ground we're filming at 500 frames per second, each is 200 milliseconds which means ***" "♪♪♪♪♪ who doesn't, 4.02 of a second." "4.02 is the benchmark." "How will the fireball stack up?" "Time for pinball wizardry." "Pinball, three, two, one." "And the results are flipping fabulous." "What do you got?" "It's pretty cool." "When I drop t ball from table height, it takes 402 milliseconds to reach the ground." "When I ****to reach the ground." "**** diffenrent *** pretty much identical." "It hs wes ihan 1% drefeifnce, that's pretty powerful results, a thumbs up for the myth." "But Jamie is not impressed." "Okay, but I thought the story was about guns." "You really want to get the shooting guns?" "Well, yeah." "This sock it to you saga comes from the world of boxing when a pugilist was said to be so strong he could knock someone clean out of their socks." "But is it possible?" "Knobbing their socks off, it's a real one, what's the plan?" "It has the root in boxing we should start with a heavy impact punch." "That rules any of us out." "Let's get the nitrogen Cannon from the superhero special, but instead of firing a grappling hook, we recon figure to fire a fist." "Give **** his life." "You know what it sounds like to me, it's time for the main event." "In a long line of lethal inventions, Grant says this is one of the most dangerous he's ever built." "But will it do the job on Buster?" "So, to deliver the kind of punch that might not bust your socks off, I've taken this out of retirement." "This is a nitrogen Cannon from the superhero special, fire add grappling hook to try to turn the bat-mobile around a" "90-degree corner." "Grant is firing a cap nop to blast a bust at Buster's job." "While he's turning out the all-important fist." "So what I have here is a solid steel rod into the Cannon." "On the end of it, I'm going to attach a rubber wrist." "High density, high impact resistant rubber." "*** weld it to the Cannon, fire it to Buster's jaw and see if we can knock his socks off." "The scene is set for round one of this myth." "Now, here's your big chance." "Don't blow it." "Previous research shows that a heavyweight boxer can pack a punch of 4,000 Newtons." "Pressurizing." "So to match thoo kind of power," "Grant gets his pride and joy for your knock your socks off rubble." "Okay." "Knock him out of his socks?" "Okay, I think it's actually just powerful enough to make that old boxing adage true." "But Grant ain't convinced." "I think no matter how high we go with this Cannon, no matter if we go through the head or punch a hole in the ceiling, none of that is going to be capable of knocking his socks off." "I just think there's too much body." "You know, we're talking about a bunch to the chin." "To get that to translate to *** shoes and kick out and blow his socks off?" "No way." "Let's not pull any more punches and get this show on the road." "Here we go." "Three, two, one!" "**** it was really tough." "We took out the light." "Wahat tos some punch." "But it's clear that amidst the carnage, Buster's socks stayed put." "But only just." "Whoa." "Take a look at this." "The sock slightly got dragged off." "Now that's what I call taking it on the chin." "The punch not only sent Buster barreling backwards, it ripped off one of his shoes, partially dragging a sock with it." "But it's not enough to call the myth a winner." "So according to the high-speed footage, the nitropunch accelerated the fist to a final speed of 22.2 meters per second, giving us an overall force of over 6,000 Newtons." "Which, is 50% more than your heavyweight prize fighter's best punch." "And even at superhuman punching strength, it still wasn't enough to knock Buster's socks off." "But you know what?" "The Cannon's reputation is still intact." "Now, I'm not saying that this is busted." "All I'm saying is right now it's not looking good for the myth." "But let's say it wasn't a boxer that knocked a person's socks off." "Something bigger with more power." "Buster, we have to wake you up." "We have more experimenting to do." "Get up buddy." "Coming up, have Adam and Jamie drawn a blank on this one." "This is a conundrum." "Our experiments contradict each other." "And later, Kari, torii, and Grant rev up theha power." "*** knocked my socks off." "Bullet baloney or physics fact." "This test is so hard, no one's ever dared try it." "Does a bullet fired and a bullet dropped simultaneously from the same height hit the ground at the same time?" "Before breaking out the real bullets," "Adam's letting loose with a little more manageable." "A paint balogun." "Perfect- ****** ball gun." "**** perfect*****." "They'll hit the ground before they hit the end of the shot." "This should allow us to do some perfect comparison between the fired projectile and a dropped projectile." "Which brings the myth busters neatly to their next challenge." "If I fire a paintball gun ****************** and hit the ground, how do I know exactly when it left the gun." "I tell you how." "I have a switch hooked up here to the trigger of the gun when I pull it, this battery powers an l.E.D. Hooked up to our high-speed camera." "Here we go." "Without further ado, Adam does the fire test." "Oh." "The high speed records the moment the light comes on." "And the paint ball hitting the ground." "Look at how beautiful that is." "Making it possible to precisely time how long the journey from gun to ground takes." "Which, for this test, is exactly. 550 millily seconds." "That is science." "Adam gets ready for part two of the experiment." "I'm about to hold this paintball up at the level of the barrel, use a laser level to help me know it." "It's how long it takes to get from my fingers to the ground." "I will compare that to the fired paintball." "Paintb tl s drop test, three, two, one, this time the difference between the fired and the dropped paintball is 59 milliseconds" "a lot more than 8milliseconds gap between the fired and dropped ball bearing" "which has the Mythbusters scratching their heads." "Well this, is a conundrum, our first two experiments seem to contradict each other." "However, I think the culprit lies in the paintballs themselves." "Watch this." "See those trajectories, each one is different." "They're curving." "That tells me the irregular surfaces of the paintballs, manufacturing vagaries, is causing these things to have aerodynamic effects **** that renders the paint ball test invalid." "I don't see anywhere to go with this except to use real bullets, and soon." "Kari, Tory, and Grant are literally trying to knock someone's socks off." "A k." "O. In the kisser put Buster down for the count." "And just about totalled the workshop." "We knocked Buster out!" "So now the team is ramping up outdoors with more power." "Look at the size of this thing." "Buster is going to be hating it." "More power means more force." "And possibly a greater chance of knocking off Buster's socks." "This is a gravitational potential energy pendulum." "Normally, it's used for testing highway safety barriers." "But today, it's going to be our battery ram." "We're going to use it to try to knock Buster's socks off." "But before Buster gets put in the firing line." "You can get off of the brakes now." "No brakes." "The team wants to see how powerful the pendulum of destruction is." "Can't wait." "Here we go." "In three, two, one." "Oh!" "Tgatmi ht knock Buster's socks off." "Come on, let's see." "Although the pendulum's impact is slower than a flying fist, because its mass is so much greater, it's able to deliver over 20 times the force of the nitrocannon." "That's one hell of a punch." "Look at that." "I mean, this was enough to lift this van and shift it back about four or five feet." "Which, in a cracked nutshell is not good news for Buster." "I think we're ready." "Coming up " "Adam and Jamie blaze a trail towards physics glory." "That looks like we might have hit it." "And Kari, Tory, and Grant, make another bruising bid to knock Buster's socks off." "The shoes are still there." "Yeah, butet'smi s t authebo socks." "So far, testing whether a slug fired and a slug dropped simultaneously hit the ground at the same time - oh, a little too powerful." "Has been a mixed bag for Adam and Jamie." "Perfect." "In two small-scale tests, the myth was falling towards confirmed in one - pretty much ealidicnt." "Busted in the other." "So, what now?" "We got to go with full scale with bullets." "But, dude, how difficult is that going to be." "For starters, I don't know how far a bullet fired level from a gun even goes." "Why don't we try a. 45 caliber pistol." "That has a large slow-moving ground." "And head out to the range and see what hits the ground." "Exactly." "Perfect, let's do it." "And the shooting range is the perfect place to get the low-down on launching bullets." "We're looking for a couple of different things here." "The first is we need to have all of the bullets coming out of the gun consistently." "So we know we're collecting accurate data." "That's perfect." "The second is we're wanting to find out how far they're dropping, how far away from the gun they travel before they hit the ground." "And before the boys blaze away, they're rigging the gun rigid and level, exactly 36 inches off of the ground." "Nice, I think we're ready." "The reason we've gone level is I'm only interested on gravity's effect on the bullet witness it leaves it gun." "If I have it higher, it's going further, it will go further because of the trajectory." "If I shoot it level, it starts dropping, gravity has an effect the moment it hits the barrel." "That's what I'm interested in, how fast does it drop, how far does it go?" "Right now, the guys have no idea where the bullet will land." "So Adam and Jamie test to see how far the bullet falls over 100," "200, and b300 feet." "That one was half an inch above the other one." "Let's go take a look." "Okay." "We got so far, the data is actually pretty freaking cool." "The orange line represents it bullet at 100 feet." "The laser site was aimed an inch higher than that, which is what we expect to see, little amount of dropoff." "200 feet, a little more dropoff." "300 feet, a lot more drop off." "Armed with that info, Adam and Jamie can now zero in on the drop zone, which they calculated to be between 350 and 370 feet away." "Well, this right here is a runway." "This is a runway for our little bullets to land on." "I expect their landing to be rocky." "I expect them to bounce." "But most of all, I expect to be able to see where they land by the marks they make on this white paper." "And hopefully, where they land is a reasonably discrete place." "Firing, three, two, one." "Oh!" "That looks like we might hit it." "And after letting loose one more time " "Adam and Jamie discover that bullets are biting the dust roughly 360 feet from the gun." "I think we've got what we came for." "We've been able to predict fairly consistently where the bullets are hitting the ground." "But the problem is, we're outside, we could get a breeze that might kind of skew the results." "And also, and this is the most important thing, the ground here is really uneven." "So, to go forward from here, we need a perfectly flat surface to work off of." "Well, all we need now is 400 feet of flat floor." "I think I might be able to handle that." "Kari, Tory, and Grant are busting Buster's chops, trying to knock him out of his socks." "Yeah, we took out the lights." "Now they're winding the carnage up a notch at a car-clobbering crash test station." "These guys know how to wreck stuff." "They smashed our moose." "They smashed our trailer." "And they smashed our fruit stand." "Now, they're going to smash Buster." "So, while the team dresses Buster in a pair of everyday shoes and socks." "By the way, thanks to Andrew parish of Houston, Texas for letting us use his socks." "And knocked out of Andrew's socks or not, it's clear that Buster is in for a torrid time." "Ó² this is knock your socks off experiment," "Buster in shoes and socks versus battery ram, in three, two, one." "Oh!" "Shoes didn't come off at all." "See if they loosened at all." "****a massive head." "Oh, that looks like it hurts." "A definite ouch." "Buster just got walloped of 17,000 pounds of body-breaking torque." "But, did his footwear fly?" "No, not this time." "Look at that." "Not even loose." "I bet the joints are looser than the shoes." "Looks like he's still in good shape." "Should we set him up and go for another test?" "Yep." "We dropped a pendulum that weighs almost a ton straight to Buster's chest and we're still unable to knock off his shoes or socks." "But we're not done yet." "On the last test, these shoes stayed on." "But what if he's just got the socks." "Maybe the shoes are holding the socks on." "Sounds like Buster is in for another bashing." "Socks back up." "So with Buster's feet supporting his own weight, the pendulum is once again lifted to full height, for full knock-your-socks-off power." "Okay, here we go." "Tshiis Buster with socks only versus the pendulum." "In three, two, one - oh!" "Yeah!" "Is yeah!" "His head came off." "Look, one of his socks is knocked almost completely off." "Yeah, but still technically on." "He didn't get knocked out of them necessarily." "Oh, you guys are so hard to satisfy." "Kari should take a look at the high-speed before she gets carried away." "Here comes the pendulum." "He goes straight back - his socks haven't come off yet." "Still on." "Oh, there it is." "Dragging along the ground." "Not knocking him out of his socks." "Okay, so that doesn't count." "No." "Confirming this myth is turning out to be as tough as Buster's stay-put socks." "I mean, we can't bust this now." "I don't think we tried hard enough to knock him out of his socks." "Yeah, I think we need a new technique, something a little bit more." "In other words, this ain't over till it's over." "Good work, buddy." "And the Mythbusters are going in search of more power." "Next - cool." "The team go all out on the explosives." "That ought to knock some socks off." "And later, Adam and Jamie get on target for a world first." "Dude, I say that's perfect." "Works for me." "Please do not try what we do on this show at home." "We're what you call experts." "It's safer that way." "Socks - sometimes they just seem to have a mind of their own." "But can they ever be knocked off your feet." "Okay, so far Buster has lost a shoe, but no socks." "Yeah, the impact doesn't seem to be working out." "It seems you're going to need a massive amount of force to get those socks off." "I think you're right." "I think I have just the thing." "What?" "Explosives." "Surprise?" "Didn't see that one coming." "Seriously." "There's cases where people get their clothes blown off from an explosion but they survived the blast." "Socks or clothes, we should test this one." "Let's go to the quarry and say take, I don't know, 500 pounds of explosives." "I like 500." "Mannequin legs, put socks on them, ***different distances from the center of the blast." "Round three, knock your socks off with an explosive shock wave, and you couldn't have picked a nicer day for it." "Wow." "Oh, my gosh." "This is awesome." "All right, are you guys ready to map out the grid for our experiment?" "Sounds great." "X marks the spot." "This is just like making crop circles." "I know, exactly." "The mannequin legs are going to be screwed on to thsee stas." "Osd pthneio onne a circular grid at various distances from the explosion." "This is the blast center." "This is where we're going to be setting off a 500-pound explosion." "Hopefully that blast will give us enough power to knock off the socks." "Now, we're going to put our first set of legs 15 feet away from the blast." "Then 25 feet, 35 feet, 45 feet, and finally, 55 feet away." "This way we have a variety of distances from the blast because the closer you are to the blast, probably the more likely that your socks are going to get knocked off." "Let's face it, if you're standing too close to the blast," "I'm sure you're going to lose more than just your socks." "Which is why the team are now adding, and living to tell the tale, to the knock your socks off myth." "So in addition to knocking your socks off, a big part of the myth is survivability." "We measure force of explosions of pounds per square inch or psi." "To give you an idea of what we're talking about, at 2.5 psi, you're likely to rupture your eardrum." "We calculated with 500 pounds of explosives at a rage of 20 feet, you're going to experience over 100 psi, which means a very high likelihood of death." "To measure exactly where that lethal pressure kicks in," "Grant is assembling some supersensitive equipment." "This is the thin metal *** *** membrane calculated to rupture at 100 psi." "♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ if it's less than 100 psi, it remains intact." "But if it exceeds 100 psi, it blows through here, leaving a hole." "If this is still intact at the end of the experiment and we've blown the socks off, there's a real chance of confirming this myth." "Meanwhile, Kari and Tory dole out the dummies." "We **** designed these legs to give us every opportunity for a successful sock blast removal." "We've got one foot on the ground, one foot in the air as if you're running or walking." "If the socks come off in either of the positions - the myth is confirmed." "Just to mark this explosive occasion, the official Mythbusters sneaker." "Blast-o-shoes." "I like them." "And one of our fans hand knit an entire box of socks for us." "Thanks big time to patience hill in summerville, Massachusetts." "On some occasion, some will have your socks and shoes." "******** man." "And others, just socks." "S-15, that means sock only at 15 feet." "That way when they get blown to Smith reen, we might be able to track where they came from." "All set for the final experiment of knock your socks off." "And I'm in the blast center where we're going to set off 500 pounds***." "When that goes off, these ****** will tell us the likelihood of survivability at 15, 25, and 45 feet." "Once we gathered our data from wherever it lands in the quarry, we'll be able to determine whether you can knock your socks off with an explosion." "But before they push the plunger, the team needs two more vital ingredients." "Cool." "First, the fire department." "You know what they say?" "Safe exploding is good exploding." "And the explosives." "Here comes our ampho." "Courtesy of retired FBI agent, Frank Doyle." "You guys have a package for us?" "I brought you a really nice package." "********¡¡that ought to do it." "That ought to knock some socks off." "You better believe it." "And if any socks are going to get knocked o soon, this is the stuff to do it." "This is 500 pounds of ampho." "To give you an idea, it took 800 pounds to vaporize a cement truck." "Explosives are in place, the legs are in place, the bursters are connected." "It's time for us to run away and let Frank and the bomb squad do their final preparations." "And then, it's boom time." "Next - the shock wave showdown comes to a grisly end." "Oh, my gosh, there's a foot inside." "Once upon a time in the wild west, a fired bullet could just about settle any dust-up." "All right - but is it true that a bullet dropped and a bullet fired simultaneously will hit the ground at the same time?" "Oh, that is funny.***** good to go." "Adam and Jamie found that a bullet from their. 45 automatic flew 360 feet before it hit the dust." "I love this myth." "Now, all they need is a location to suit one of the most sophisticated experiments that the Mythbusters have ever attempted." "And down by the shores of old San Francisco bay, they've got one." "Oh, look at that." "It's magnificent." "I love these old military buildings." "The historic 480 foot long **** ft." "Mason center ft." "Mason center is perfect for us for several reasons." "At over 480 feet long, there's plenty of room for a fired bullet to come to rest." "Becauseit's enclosed, there's no wind to worry about affecting our bullet." "And lastly, it's perfectly level." "And with the gun rested in place at one end of the room," "Adam's first job is to make sure it's exactly 36 inches off of the floor." "And firing level." "I'm going to fire a bullet to that target 20 feet away." "Within that 20 feet, the bullet is not going to drop at all." "Asong as the bullet hole in that target is the exact same height off of the ground as the barrel," "I know I've got a perfectly level bullet." "Feeding the gun rest." "Firing in three, two, one " "I would say that's perfect, right on our laser line." "That gun is firing level." "Works for me." "With the fired bullet rig sorted for now," "Jamie rolls out the other half of the experiment." "This is my bullet drop rate." "And the key component is this electromagnet right here." "Because it will hold on to my bullet and then, on cue, it will drop the bullet." "Okay, we've got all of the sensors we need and all of t equipment we need to time the exact amount of time it takes a bullet both to be dropped from 36 inches and to be fired from 36 inches off of the ground." "And we could simply compare those two times like we did with the paintball." "But that's not good enough for us." "For we have a bigger vision." "We want to see that dropped bullet hit the ground in the spot the fired bullet will be skipping off." "That's what we're about to set up." "That's right, folks, this time, both halves of the experiment will happen at the same time." "So instead of rolling the dropped rig 360 feet down the room, boys want to make sure their little synchronizing system is going to work." "Simultaneously firing and bullet drop test in three, two, one " "let's see how it looked on high speed." "Where the Mythbusters quickly discover, they have a problem." "Let's look back at the times of when the light goes off." "While the gun and the timing I.E.D. Goes off together, the dropped bullet decides to delay the journey south." "It sits on the electromagnet for a while." "*** is there residual magnetism or anything like that?" "♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ you'll notice it hangs out for 65 milliseconds." "That's a lot of residual magnetism in the electromagnet itself even though it's turned off and it's ngo od as a mechanism for our drop." "We've got to rebuild the mechanism and we've got to rebuild it fast." "Out at the quarry, the knock your socks off squad have wisely taken themselves to higher ground and way out of the blast zone." "Our blast zone is set up way, way, way over there." "But we've decided to come really, really far back to make sure all mistbuyth busters big tiny are safe." "To confirm this myth, we need a foot with no sock on it." "But it needs to be in the radius of survivability." "I think anything within 50 feet of this blast." "Bear in mind, it's 500 pounds of ampho, is this going to be completely obliterated." "Okay, guys, the explosives are ready, the legs are in place." "The bursts are set to go." "Are you ready?" "I'm ready." "Are you ready?" "Absolutely." "This is knock your socks off, using a 500-pound explosion." "Everybody look alive." "Here we go." "In three, two, one " "cool." "That was awesome!" "Wow!" "***** hitting you in the chest is incredible." "That was sick!" "All right, let's go check them out." "Whew!" "Remember, to confirm this myth, the team needs to find a sockless foot in a critical zone of human survivability." "Whoa!" "Look at the size of that crater." "Here's a sock." "Oh - oh, my gosh, there's a foot inside." "It's still in there." "At 'sth inisstgug." "I don't think this counts." "No, definitely not blowing your socks off." "Dude - but a closer look at the blast zone reveals some explosive results." "Check it out, no socks." "Oh." "What are the distances?" "25 foot and this is 15 feet." "Well, they managed to knock some socks off." "But would a human be walking away." "**** not going to survive this if your sock came off." "*************** see what it says." "25 feet." "That's blown." "And a double check of the disks confirms that with 35 feet away, this bang would have sent a mere mortal to kingdom come." "St atth's not survivable." "That doesn't count." "But at the minimum survivable radius of 45 feet, yep, they're still on." "Th got 45, 55, and the socks are still on." "So, we have no survivability at the front, but we lost a few socks." "And then as you get to the zone of survivability, we still have the socks on." "I think that gets both of our criteria for calling this one busted." "Totally busted." "If your socks do get blown off, you're pretty much dead." "Yeah, you wouldn't be walking away from that." "This is cool, though." "You might say it's a blast." "Oh!" "This has been a great experiment from the beginning to the end." "And we've come away with some solid evidence to bust this myth." "There's no way you can knock somebody's socks off and have them survive." "It's just not possible." "This one is busted." "Next - the roller coaster ride to physics fame has Adam and Jamie both dazzled" "I think this might be the shot we've been looking for." "And baffled." "We're not even seeing the pin start to move." "Here we go." "Myth busters and world first go together like ham and eggs." "There's the **** boat." "King of the world!" "Breaking glass." "Toes." "And the lead balloon." "*********** this is possible." "****** take it as challenge." "Now, the Mythbusters are testing a real doozy." "Everything's hot and ready to go." "Bullet shot versus bullet dropped." "But a malingering magnet is holding up the show." "As soon as it's released, it's just staying there." "×ö but do you think Adam is going to let something like that stand in his way?" "Awesome." "That works." "Oh, no." "So, the electromagnetic is gone, it's on the scrap heap." "We've got a new one in there that will get out of the way and let the bullet drop." "All we've got to do is get our timing right, confirm them, and we should be ready to do this test." "So the new *** system is ready for a test fire." "All right, simultaneous release in three, two, one " "all right, let's see how it did on high speed." "But once again, there's a timing problem." "It's way too slow." "Yep." "It didn't go." "Most difficult thing about this whole experiment is getting the fired bullet and the dropped bullet to become airborne at exactly the same time." "And when you realize all of the stuff that's going on here, it's trickier than you might think." "I mean, the gun has to do its thing." "The release mechanism has to do its thing." "And we can't tolerate even a few milliseconds of variation in this mix to make the result that we want to see happen." "It's hard." "Now there's an understatement." "So, cue the brainstorm." "We're not even seeing the pin start to move." "Give us the problem that we currently have, which is it's late." "Make it again." "Having spent the past four hours trying to sort out the solinoid." "Let's do this twice." "The boys are now staring failure square in the fail." "All it is is about figuring out some way to push between these two." "Until Jamie snatches victory from the jaws of defeat." "You have a hinge that you pull on the middle." "Yeah, that's what I mean." "It needs to be some sort of a little bitty catch so that it's on its edge." "I could make it split like that." "He adds a small metal clip to the trigger to delay the gun the minuscule milliseconds needed to match***." "Everything's hot, let's do it." "And after a few test fires and a bit of fine tuning - it works." "Oh, good." "It's good." "It's 1/3 of a millisecond different." "Wow." "That's freaking perfect." "Let's go do this full scale." "Okay." "Which means rolling up the room 360 feet to stake out a drop zone." "Right about there." "That's where they were landing out at the shooting range." "So this is where I expect them to land here." "Okay." "Adam lays down a runway of white paper so the high-speed camera will clearly see and measure both bullets." "At the same time, in the same place." "And in the same shot." "All we need now in the drop zone is Jamie's dropped rig, so the boys can take a shot at physics history." "Are you ready to do this for real?" "I think we'll hit it on the first shot." "Really?" "Oh, yeah." "You never make predictions." "That's awesome." "Bullet dropped versus fired." "In three, two, one " "Adam is hoping that this time that the bullet is as well-placed as Jamie's optimism." "But, from 360 feet away, the boys can't see exactly where the fired bullet landed." "Let's go see where it hit." "So Adam takes a one-wheeled ride down the room to check out the drop zone." "Wow." "And the results are simply ripping." "Can't get much closer than that." "I can't wait to see the high-speed." "Dude, this bullet carved a streak right under the drop zone." "I think this might be the shot we've been looking for." "In realtime, it's impossible to tell what happened." "Until Adam analyzes the high speed and crunches the numbers." "36, 77 minus 275 equals 238 divided by six." "Dude - the difference is 39.6 milliseconds." "Which means it's less than the human eye can make out." "So after days of brain-teasing tests, the Mythbusters can claim a world first for themselves." "And a victory for physics." "Let me put 39.6 milliseconds into perspective for you." "If you go to the movies and watch a projected film on the screen, that's made up of individual images." "But it takes 25 per seconds **** you'er watching." "Each one is on the screen for 1/24th of a second but you don't notice it because it's on there faster than your eye can register." "That ********* is longer than 39.6 milliseconds." "That's how close the two bullets were." "Two bullets, one dropped, one fired." "Amazingly, they ended up at the same place at the same time." "This myth was every bit as much fun to test as I was hoping it would be." "Even though the physics textbooks had it right," "I love that we did it full sized with real unmodified bullets." "I bet no one has tried that before." "I think you're right." "Whether it's ball bearings or bullets, dropped or fired, they all hit the ground at the same time." "Yeah, gravity, man, it's not just a good idea, it's the law." "Confirmed." "Confirmed."