"Please do not try what you are about to see at home." "We're what you call experts." "Can't you tell?" "On this episode of "Mythbusters"..." "Cars, guns, what can go wrong." "Adam and Jamie are on "Burn Notice", testing the myth that gives the bad guy the slip." "Close, but no cigar." "You can bounce a bullet" "Awesome, I told you you can call that." "through the bottom of their car." "Firing." "That was a perfect shot." "Meanwhile, Kari and Tory and Grant take on some action hero heroes." "Somebody want the explosion." "Finding out if the force of shock wave," "He flies into the air without a care of the world." "could push the power of ordinary jumpers into a super human leap." "I can't tell you what happened." "Who are the mythbusters?" "Adam Savage.." "70% chance of science." "And Jamie Hyneman." "Is that hot enough for you?" "Between them, more than 30 years of special-effects experience." "Together with Tory Belleci," "That was insane." "Grant Imahara, and Kari Byron." "Let's do it." "They don't tell the myths." "They put them to the test." "Jamie, in your travels, have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're being chased by someone and you're shooting at them to try to stop them from chasing you?" "I don't want to talk about it." "In the show, our hero is being chased in the car by another car." "And he says, if you don't have armor piercing, you can forget about shooting through the engine or the radiator of your pursuer, but it says you can skip bullets off the ground, into the floor of the car that's chasing you." "I'm not so sure about that." "And that is exactly why I think it is something we should test." "To delay a pursuer, but leave them unharmed, the tactic is literally under fire." "Ricochet bullets off the ground and up through the undercarriage." "But can you really bounce a bullet up into the underside of a car, or is this myth on the rebound?" "So what kind of gun were they using in that clip, do we know?" "It looks to be a 9 millimeter semi-auto." "Seems to me first thing we ought to do is to see whether that kind of gun would penetrate the bottom of a car." "Excellent." "Let's get out to the shooting range, and shoot the bottom of a car." "Why not?" "So with Yolo County bomb range, the "Mythbusters" prepared to take on this myth point blank." "I love the anticipation of shooting at cars." "Cars, guns, what can go wrong?" "These are our cars." "Blue car, good guy; red car, bad guy." "This is the orientation they're in in the clip," "Slightly offset, and 15 feet apart." "Now in the clip, the guy says without a high powered ram, you're not getting past the radiator or the fire wall." "Yep, supposedly, the underside of the car is a better target." "So first, they'll test that." "We lift the car up and shoot at point blank range into the floor of the car, see if the bullets make it through." "I know they're supposed to have skipped off the ground, but a direct bullet won't make it through the floor, then a skipped bullet never would." "And to find out if those point blank rounds penetrate," "They are very expensive balloons, clearly." "Adam fills the bottom of the car with balloons, and then gives the underside of the car a whitewash." "Oh, yeah!" "Yeah, that's the clean experimental space." "And the whiteout makes it clear that this bounce round is quite the trick shot." "I am looking at the whole wad of stuff I have to get past to get into the cab." "Really, the only hope that I have is a spot right about there which may trim the guy's toe nails or something, but that's my only hope." "Shooting the underside of the car when Jamie is ready." "That looked like an almost perfect hit." "Jamie shot sends bullets right into the sweet spot." "And although the rounds are hitting the mark, have they made it through the wheel well?" "I see a hit here." "I have gone through the floorboard here, but not through the carpet it looks like." "Underneath the car, it looks like most bullets were deflected." "Wait." "There's a popped balloon in here." "But one burst balloon reveals one bullet did make it through." "What does that look like?" "That's a bullet." "And it made it through the floor and into the cabin of the car." "If it made it inthrough the floor, it could make it into the guy's foot." "Nice shooting test." "So it was able to get bullets to penetrate the cab of the car with this nine millimeter pistol." "And it went in here, a couple down there, one over there." "But keep in mind this was a direct hit 122 00:05:19,157 -- 00:05:21,578 under optimal static conditions." "That means it is now time to find out whether or not a ricocheted bullet keeps enough energy to still pierce the cab of our car." "Well, round one is over." "Time for ricochet." "Next, the "Mythbusters" get the jump on Hollywood." "What are you looking so excited about?" "We are testing a Hollywood movie myth, dealing with the explosions." "Great." "What is it?" "This comes from a classic action movie where the hero is running for an explosive." "And just before it detonates, he jumps with all his might." "All you probably know what happens." "I know just as he's in the mid air, the blast goes off and a resulting shock wave actually pushes him through the air giving him a super human jump." "Exactly." "But is that true?" "Can a shock wave from explosion actually push you further than you can jump on your own?" "Cool." "It is a bombastic scene straight from the blockbusters, escaping an imminent explosion, the hero leaps into the air, and the force of the flash gives him a super human boost." "But are those film make physics bang on or is this a mission implausible?" "All right, obviously, we gonna need human standard" "I'm not exactlly comfortable with any of us get exposed to a shock wave." "Sounds like a job for busters," "I think the first order of our business is to rig him so he can jump." "Why don't you figure out a way to get him to jump." "While you working on that, you and I can find out how far he should jump." "So hit the track for a little data collection, maybe check out for some jump distances, hang times." "Exactlly little jump and fact-finding missions." "So to jump start the myth," "Kari and Tory need to find out the average distance and hang time of a regular long jumper." "Feeling stronger!" "Ready to jump?" "Absolutely." "We have come to the track at the college of San Mateo to test the myth that the shock wave from a bomb can actually extend your jump." "There's no way we're going to be jumping anywhere near an explosion." "But Buster needs to do it." "We need to get a benchmark that how far he needs to jump." "So we are here to get expert training from a champion longjumper, Joy." "She's good, really good." "All right, let's see how she's doing." "Joy demonstrates exactly how it's done." "And she makes it look easy." "Then it is over to the first contender." "Kari, this is your long jump." "You get three attempts, then we'll average all three." "Are you ready?" "Yes." "Here we go." "All right." "Get those legs up." "Kari gets a runup and then leaps for all her weight." "Oh, my god." "I think we have just seen a new world record." "I think I got nine feet with my new technique." "That looked painful." "Painful?" "I mean graceful." "Graceful?" "Well, with two more jumps," "Kari's form improved and so does her distance." "Kari, you went ten feet." "You increased your distance." "All right!" "Kari has just finished all three jumps, and she came away with 9.5 feet average." "That's incredible, considering the fact she is not that athletic, she is very uncoordinated and she has a bum knee." "It's my turn next." "It is not a competition, Tory, it is about data collection, and setting the average Joe leaping benchmark." "Time to get in the zone." "Is he putting on a headband?" "Yes, he is." "All right." "I'm in the zone." "Well, he takes a runup and he really goes the distance." "I got sand in my pants." "That was about 16 feet?" "Remind you of Michael Jordan, all that air?" "Two more jumps." "And data on distance is in." "All right, your average is 16 feet." "Mine is 9.5." "Good job, you guys." "Why don't we look the high speed and see how much hang time we're actually getting." "Yeah, just as important as the average distance is the average hang time of the jumps." "Look, you got in the air, got some height there." "That's form." "But the hang time isn't looking good." "Even with Tory airborne for five-tenths a second, getting the timing right in full scale is gonna be tough." "Yeah, we did come out here to find out what the average long jump would be from an average person." "Between Tory and I, our average is 12 feet." "When you look at that on high speed, that's not even a half second of hang time." "That's a very small window to actually trigger everything that needs to happen, the jump and the bomb." "So I think we might have to go with something that gives more hang time." "Maybe an Olympic world record or something like that, or something like, I don't know, double the hang time of what we can get." "Doubling the hang time is crucial." "After all, in this myth, the hero is leaping for their life, making this an extraordinary jump." "It's going to be soar tomorrow." "Coming up." "Ready for the naked avenger." "And later..." "We are literally on the highway to the danger zone." "It's a big bounce from the small screen." "For sheer panic, it's hard to beat bullets coming up from the floorboard." "But can a bullet on the rebound really shoot through?" "Having successfully pierced the postage stamp side target wheel well of the chasing car, it's now time to find out if we can get underneath there with a ricocheted bullet." "So we come out here to this runway and lovely Tracy California." "We're going to start to fire some bullets into the ground and see what kind of predictable behavior we can expect from those bullets after they bounce." "So using the cars to map out the trajectory of the clip," "Adam sets up a remote rig for the fire power, and gets an angle on the angle of the gun." "Pretty good." "So at what angle do we begin shooting into the ground." "The first shot is gonna to be, what I'm gonna call the intuition angle." "If I was this guy, this is the angle which I feel like I would have to hit the ground in order to bounce correctly into the wheel well of my assailant." "Turns out, it's about 16.5 degrees." "Am I right?" "I have no idea." "But it's as good place as any to begin." "It is the natural place to start their rebound analysis." "So Adam sets up a backboard to track the angle of the ricochet." "All right, for the first intuition shot," "I'm gonna load this copper jacketed cartridge into the gun and we're going to fire." "The gun is hot, and in 3, 2, 1." "That was a perfect shot." "A perfect shot and a perfect bounce." "The bullet hit perfectly in the center of our bullet box." "That's great." "And based on the bullet hole in the back board," "Adam can get the angle." "Bullet was aimed at the ground at a 16.2 degree angle, after it hit the ground, it left at 9.95 degree angle." "A little bit more than half of the angle." "A little bit more than half." "But the question is, did the bullet lose power after its rebound from the ground?" "One plus one equals two." "Bullet hits the ground at 1200 plus feet per second." "It left the ground at 962 feet per second." "That's a lot of energy still in that piece of metal." "Yeah, it's not a lot of loss." "Well, let's try a steeper angle." "Yep." "It's gonna take a few more tilts at bouncing bullets before the "Mythbusters" have the ins and outs of ricochet dynamics." "Test number two at 32 degrees." "Gun is hot, and 3, 2, 1." "Very interesting." "Shot right exactly where I wanted it to." "That's unexpected." "The ricocheted angle is pretty much exactly the angle that it hit the ground at, like a mirror." "Hit it 32 degrees, and bounced at 32 degrees." "I would not have called that." "That is weird." "Weird, and it is plain that sharper angle has had another important impact on the bullet." "Entry speed the same as its predecessor, exit speed 475 feet per second." "Lost almost two-thirds of its energy hitting the ground at that angle." "That puts it down, I think, around 300 miles an hour, which you wouldn't want to get hit by, but I don't know whether that will penetrate steel or not." "Yeah, it's a lot of lost energy." "At this point one thing is perfectly clear." "The skipper the bullet hits the ground at, more energy it's gonna lose in that transaction." "Now we need to find a buttom zone where the angle is not so steep that it loses all of its energy, but it is steep enough to get where it needs to go underneath the car." "And to round out the angle of their automatic tango," "The gun is hot." "they're trying a much shallower 8 degrees." "3, 2, 1." "Hit a little bit forward of where I expected." "Bullet hit the asphalt 8 degrees, and ricocheted off it at 5.1 degrees." "Some data there." "This times angle was less acute, but interestingly, the bullet hit the board traveling at" "1130 feet per second, the fastest speed yet." "What does that mean for bouncing bullets?" "One." "Behind me I got two cars, a gun position and three shots in the ground, and a bunch of bullet angles to work out." "Now I could have the editors to do it graphically for me." "Hold on, hold on, that only helps you to understand what's going on." "I want to understand what's going on here and now." "So, I am going to draw those angles in a brightly colored string." "Like something out of CSI, our pink plotyy spider is tracking all the angles of the bullets to work out where they should hit the car." "And it is clear from the outset that one angle is not going to work." "I think right off the bat, this extreme angle and amount of power it lose, we should chuck the 32 degree angle." "I agree." "All right, keep going." "But the 16 degree angle hits the target." "Jamie, that looks really good." "I've got to say, coming into this," "I didn't think we could be able to get a steep enough angle to get up and into the car, but looks like I was wrong." "Their angle of aim is determined." "But there's still one more test for the bouncing bullet." "This right here, is actually cut from the wheel well of the car that's chasing us." "We're going to ricochet a bullet into it, see if 75% of its original energy is enough to pierce the steel plate and all the padding behind it." "Ricochet shot into fire wall." "I'm excited about this round ." "3, 2, 1." "Fire." "Perfect hit." "Firing at 16 degrees, the bullet bounced and hit the board at 10 degrees," "But did it have the power to penetrate?" "Oh, it went through." "Oh, yeah." "Dude, look at that." "Even the ricocheted shot went through all the padding and hit shielding and the fire wall." "That would hurt." "That's awesome." "I totally can call that." "Yep." "The 16 degree bullet not only bounced in the right trajectory, but it also retained enough power to penetrate." "It is time for this myth to hit the road." "Later, the surf is up for buster." "Good luck, Buddy, think action hero." "But can he catch a shock wave?" "That was a healthy shock wave." "In this explosive surf-up myth, the hero leaps at the last second and supposedly by catching that shock wave his jump is end up to the super human." "After athletics 101," "How do you do it?" "It seems the hang time duration of an ordinary jump is not long enough for a blast." "So they're turning to the extraordinary." "Now for this test, we're going for world record territory." "The long jump that's approximately 25 feet for women and 29 feet for men, that should give us about a second of hang time." "That makes it a little bit easier for Buster to still be in mid air after we launch him for us to set off the bomb." "That means we have a benchmark for at least 25 feet for Buster." "But Buster isn't an elite long jumper, so he is going to need a boost." "Buster can't jump on his own, we need to help him by giving him upward and forward momentum." "And to do that, we're gonna use this," "Nitrogen cannons." "Since the cannon will ultimately be just a hop, skip and jump from an explosion," "And that's so heavy." "for its own protection, it gets a full metal jacket." "There it is." "It's beautiful." "Hello" "Cannon in a box." "Then Tory turns his attention to Buster, fitting him with a strategically placed rod that will launch him at the perfect angle from the cannon." "Landed." "With the rig set," "Sometimes you just need a cape." "will jump and flesh match the professional jump distance and hang time they need?" "Grant charges nitro to 1500 PSI." "All right, ready for the naked avenger." "And Buster is ready for jump off." "3, 2, 1." "He flies through the air without a care in the world." "Let's see how far he went." "That's 32 feet, Buster rear boost was a little too energetic." "He actually smashed into the top of the shelving." "So they dial nitro back for launch No.2." "All right, here we go." "1,000 PSI." "3, 2, 1." "I think that's it." "Cool." "This time, at around 60% of psi, buster flew 25 feet, within the professional range they were looking for." "And the high speed confirms a one second hang time." "That was a near perfect flight." "But for due diligence, they try multiple jumps." "Each time the nitro cannon gets them a perfect combination of distance and hang time." "So, setting the air cannon at 1,000 PSI is giving us a consistent jump, sending buster 25 feet." "That's good enough for an elite jumper, that's good enough for an action hero." "And it's good enough to bring on the booms." "Usually in a car chase shoot-them-up, the shooters aim at each other." "But this myth is all about taking them out with a sneaky undershot." "Fire." "So far, the "Mythbusters" have gotten the mythical bullet bounce." "It went through." "But will that change when they start to ricochet in motion?" "We'll find that out," "Adam and Jamie have to track the trajectory of the bouncing bullet at 40 miles an hour." "So they puzzled out an ingenius solution." "This is the rig we have designed to find this out." "It is effectively a trailer, except it is an open frame." "Mounted to one rail, a high speed camera, mounted to the other a measurement gauge." "To make sure the bullet hits the ground precisely where we want to and at the angle we need, we're going to have our gun hard mounted to a mast in the bed of the pickup truck." "All we need to do is to get this to 40 miles a hour, fire the gun, catch it on high speed." "And we will learn whether or not 40 miles a hour makes a difference to the exit trajectory." "It's got to do a complicated job, but it's a simple bill." "And in no time at all, they're back out at the range with a lime rig ready for the limelight." "Awesome." "Look at that." "It's like it was designed for us." "So to find out if the bullet will still bounce at speed, that's the plan." "This is how our traveling bullet rig is gonna work." "While Jamie gets the truck up to 40 to 45 miles per hour," "I will be sitting in the back, protected by this bulletproof shield." "When we get to the right spot," "I will pull this string, firing the gun." "And when the bullet hits right around here, we're gonna be recording it on the high speed camera." "Then we're gonna crunch the numbers." "And at that point, we will know whether the gun moving 40 miles per hour over the ground effects either exit trajectory or speed." "Yep, this is where the lead hits the road at the best case scenario angle of 16 degrees." "Rolling gun test." "3, 2, 1 go." "But will the road ricochet change its trajectory and speed?" "Jamie guns the truck to the speed from the clip and gives Adam his cue." "You're at 45." "Here we go." "Firing!" "All right." "The gun is fired." "The bullet fired." "But how did it bounce?" "I think that worked perfectly." "We'll see where it hit." "There it is." "Pretty much exactly where we expected it to hit." "Let's review the high speed and see what the data says." "And it turns out that everything worked like clock work." "Excellent." "We caught it." "That's beautiful." "Even with the rig traveling at 45 miles per hour, amazingly they captured the split second skip." "And crucially for the myth, the bullet rebounded at 950 feet per second, and at a 10 degree angle, exactly matching the static results." "This one is cool, dude." "I mean having tested all the constituent parts," "I wouldn't called this, but I'm starting to think that this thing might actually be plausible." "Well, let's put everything together and go full scale." "Absolutely." "Do not try what you're about to see at home." "We're what you call experts." "Ok, so now we've got buster rigged so he can jump with the distance and hang time of an olympic athlete." "What's next?" "I think maybe we should set buster about 50 feet away from the blast just like you would see in any typical action movie." "Sounds like solid distance." "And then when he's halfway through his jump, we set off the explosion and see if the shock wave will pushes him any further then he can jump on his own power." "Cool, but I've got one addition." "You know the movies have used all different types of explosives, different sizes of blasts, why don't we do multiple blasts, and increase the explosive each time depending on result." " I am not gonna argue with that." " Me neither." "That's the plan." "And to begin the blockbuster blitz, where better than Angel's Camp quarry." "This is the best location." "The home of some of the biggest bangs in "Mythbusters" history." "So curious to see if this actually works." "Leaping dummies and explosions." "I can't think of anything better." "It's a bombastic combo." "But before buster gets a leaping," "Tory needs to make the earth move." "Have one more dig then we're there." "Since the nitro-cannon will be boosting buster from ground level, it needs to get down and dirty." "Perfect." "Perfect, and protected from explosive action." "But to time the jump and blast just right, nitro is gonna need a very tricky trigger." "This right here is the trigger for the cannon." "Frank initiates the blast, it's gonna come down the line of shock tube and split in two directions." "The first's gonna come over here, it hits this switch, and fires the cannon." "The other side of that goes over to the explosive, through delay cap that's gonna delay a half second to let buster get to the top of his arch before it fires off the explosion." "Once the trigger is taken care of, enter the stand in action hero." "He's on and he stand." "Proud." "Wait, why are we dressing him like a commando?" "And with buster in position, the first order of business, is to check the timing on Grant's trigger," "Okey, we are at 1,000 PSI." "and find out how far buster jumps without explosives." "In 3, 2, 1." "That was great." "Hilarious." "So far, so good." "Just like the shop test, the cannon sent buster flying." "Measure from the hips like a long jump." "But how far?" "How far did he go?" "27 feet." "At altitudes, that cannon gives buster a little more boost, setting the control at 27 feet." "But what about the timing?" "So our timing system worked out, which is great news." "Because this experiment is all about timing." "You can see from the higher speed, he goes up, and the explosive goes off right at the top of his arc." "So now it's time for us to load up 10 pounds of C4, see if our commando buddy can beat 27 feet." "Yep, that's the plan." "So it's over to explosives expert Frank to wire up the C4," "Let's keep the this end pointed away from you." "while Grant primes the trigger and cannon." "Nitrogen is loaded." "This is it." "The moment of truth for the myth." "Special delivery." "Will the shock wave from 10 pounds of C4 extend buster's jump?" "Comes the firing line." "Well there's only one way to find out." "Safely back in the bunker, 1,000 feet away from launch," "I never get tired of this." "All right, arming." "it is time to count backwards, three." "In 3 2 1, fire." "Wow, that happened so fast." "We're gonna have to look at the high speed to see exactly what happened." "But I don't know." "Well it's clear from the high speed that buster's jump peaked as the shock wave reached him." "But did he fly further than 27 feet?" "All right, what you got?" "27 feet." "So that's a negative on C4." "That's a negative on the C4." "But when it comes to myth busting, well, one boom is never enough." "You can definitely feel that thud." "For those of you playing at home, we've been testing the myth that if someone is chasing you in a car and you don't want to kill them firing bullets through their windshield, you instead can skip bullets off the ground," "that would supposably pierce the under side of the car, distract the driver, make him stop chasing." "So far we've discovered that bullets bounce off the ground at reasonable angles for this to be possible." "They in fact actually can, even after bouncing, pierce the underside of the car." "Now we're about to put all of the knowledge we gathered together into one large, full scale, full speed experiment, and we're gonna be shooting at this very car." "Are you ready?" "Definitely." "But first, the "Mythbusters" have to rejig their rig." "As this time, it is towing a car, not a trailer." "And they need to leave room for the bullet to hit its target." "This arrow right here describes our target sweet spot." "This is the bulkhead, this is the wheel well." "This little area right here is how much it is visible to our bullet." "That's where we've got to hit." "That's our postage stamp." "With the gun loaded, Adam's feeling optimistic." "Gun is hot." "Every step of this story, I have been wrong about my intuition." "At the beginning, I thought from physics stand point it is quite a stretch," "I didn't think bullets would skip off the ground at any significant angle or significant speed." "But it turns out both are plausible." "Now that we've got all this set up," "I have to admit the feelings of true optimism." "I feel like we're gonna get a successful hit on this one." "We are literally on the highway to the danger zone." "Ok." "Taking off in 3, 2, 1." "As they ride into the danger zone," "Jamie guns the car to car chase speed." "45." "And then it is over to Adam for a barrage of bouncing bullets." "All right." "Firing." "One, two, three, four, five." "Ok, stop." "That seemed to work beautifully, dude." "Five bullets bounced." "But did any make that mythical target?" "Interior inspection." "Interior is clean." "No penetration." "No, not that I can see." "Inside the cab, there's no sign of penetration." "And to look underneath reveals why." "I can see four of the bullets." "They just bounced into the swing arm on the way to find the fire wall," " It's in the way." " Close but no cigar." "Exactly." "A close shot." "But although the bullets bounced, there was just too much car in the line of fire." "But the "Mythbusters" have come too far to give up after only one run." "So they reset," "Excellent." "3, 2, 1." "Go." "and unleash another five bullets." "Firing one, two, three, four, five." "But once again, they're floored by the floor." "They definitely didn't come through this piece of cardboard." "I have to admit," "I'm a little disappointed after everything we learned so far, it seemed so within our grasp, so plausible-like, but it just turns out there's too much crap underneath this car that is in the bullet's way" "on its trajectory towards the fire wall." "This is the exact make and model of car that's in the clip we're testing." "Yep, the gun, the car, it all matches." "But even though firing point blank at the bottom of the car might work." "Looks like an almost perfect hit." "In reality, a bouncing bullet just doesn't have a clear path through to the wheel well." "Coming up." "Got to say I'm disappointed in this one." "I was really hoping it worked." "Yeah, but you know what, if you want a nonlethal way of getting a guy to stop following you, you should just shoot the darn tire." "We should totally do that." "Why not." "It is a myth ripped straight from the big screen." "Our hero runs from an explosion, and at the last second jumps, supposably surging the shock wave for super human strength." "And despite exploding ten pounds of C4, 50 feet from Buster," "There's been no shock wave surfing, well not yet." "For our first experiment we used ten pounds of C4." "We did see the wave propagate through Buster just as he hit the peak of his jump, exactly where it should have been, though it did not change the trajectory of the jump nor distance that he jumped." "So now we're moving to a low velocity explosive, ANFO." "This should be really interesting." "C4 is a high brisance explosive." "It delivers a rapid shock impulse and shatters objects in close proximity." "However, ANFO is a low brisance explosive meaning that it will heave and throw objects." "But does that mean that it can heave and throw our commando?" "Unfortunately for Buster, he's about to find out." "That's ten pounds of low velocity explosive, ANFO." "All right this is ten pounds of ANFO." "See if he rides that shock wave." "In three, two, one, fire." "Let's see what happened." "The ANFO definitely packed a punch, and the shock wave is clear to see." "But did Buster hitch a ride?" "All right what did we get?" "27 feet." "That's it?" "So he didn't go any farther." "It's the same result again." "Despite changing explosives," "Buster didn't surf the shock wave." "So far everything we tried has failed." "That's ten pounds of ANFO, ten pounds of C4." "Neither one has moved him any further than no explosive at all." "So next stop, we're gonna to more than double that to 25 pounds." "Personal feeling, it's not gonna make a difference." "Ok, here we go with 25 pounds of ANFO." "Arming?" "In 3, 2, 1." "Fire." "That was a healthy shock wave." "Do you think he jumped further?" "I don't know, let's check the high speed." "That felt good." "Doubling up on the ANFO certainly doubled the fun." "But did it pick up Buster along the way?" "Ok, and we have 27 again." "So he hasn't moved at all." "25 pounds of ANFO and still 27 feet." "But as the "Mythbusters"saying goes, if worth doing, it is worth overdoing with 100 pounds of ANFO." "Down at Tracy Airport, the "Mythbusters" are ready to make the rubber meet the round." "Have bullet bouncing into the wheel well is busted." "So they're taking aim at the actual wheels." "Now this is a fun way to get to the location." "On the movies, somebody shoots the tire, tire explodes and car spins out of control." "I don't know whether that's going to happen or not, but I know if you shoot a tire, you are gonna put a hole in it," "And it will deflate." "The real question here is how quickly is that gonna happen, because if it does happen quickly, that's gonna be a problem for the driver, and he is gonna have a hard time maintaining that pursuit." "That's gonna work perfectly." "The rig for this test is pretty straightforward." "I have welded a platform to the frame of the car right in front of the tire." "I'll attach a loaded pistol with a string goes from the trigger pull all the way to me in the driver's compartment." "When I gets the car to 45 miles an hour and I want to shoot out the tire," "I pull the string pulling the trigger, put a hole in the tire." "However Adam's safety is not gonna be quite so straightforward." "Basically because the gun is gonna be mounted in the front of the car facing back, which puts Adam in the line of fire." "And we thought to mitigate this in every way we can conceive of." "We line the inside and back of the wheel well with bulletproof vests." "And in addition, we've lined the engine compartment with several layered of bulletproof vests." "On top of that, we've lined the inside of the car and Adam's seat with bullet proof vests." "Finally, I'll be wearing one." "I think we're ready." "Let's do it." "All right everybody, here we go, shooting out the tire." "In 3, 2, 1." "Here we go." "Once again," "Adam gets the car to the 45 miles per hour car chase speed, and then it's over to the bullets." "Here we go, firing." "The bullets take out enough rubber to blackout the camera." "But when it comes to the car..." "I don't notice anything." "And this car is still totally within my control." "Look, I can actually steer like this and it's not a problem." "This is nothing." "It may be nothing now, but it's just a question of time." "My tire's been shot and nothing happened." "All right." "I'm stopping here." "Half a mile down the track, and Adam has no alternative but to stop." "I lived." "How does that tire look?" "It's flat." "That totally works." "It wasn't instantaneous, but that'd stop a pursuit." "That would totally put an end to a pursuit." "It might not spin the car out of control Hollywood style, but it is more effective than a bounced bullet at stopping a car." "So skipping bullets off the ground as a reliable technique for stopping a pursuit?" "Totally busted." "If you're gonna shoot at something, shoot at the tires." "Let's get out of here." "Yeah, well, we're not driving." "Next, the surf a shock wave finale goes out with a bang." "All right, 100 pounds of ANFO." "Let's send the action hero flying." "So far, we have thoroughly tested this myth." "We have an action hero jumping 50 feet from an explosion." "Our timing has been perfect." "We started off with ten pounds of C4." "We've gone to ten pounds of ANFO, then ramped it up to 25 pounds." "Still, the shock wave is not enough to push him forward." "Now we're gonna move on to 100 pounds." "Four times the explosive might sound like overkill, but this is the boom or bust test." "So far, we haven't actually seen any extra jump distance." "I'm not so sure we're going to see any with this either." "But I'm still crossing my fingers." "With a hefty pile of ANFO about to go boom, and the cannon primed, maybe this is what it will take for buster to hang ten." "Somebody order an explosion?" "Everybody ready?" "Ok, here we go." "Arming." "In 3, 2, 1." "Fire." "Bang." "That was a big blast." " Nice dust cloud." " Yeah." "I can't even see him." "All right, as soon as the dust cloud clears, maybe we can see if he went any further." "100 pounds of ANFO and the "Mythbusters" jumping out of their skin." "But did that impressive shock wave send buster surfing?" "The same, 27 feet." "100 pounds of ANFO, he didn't move at all." "27 feet again, I so wanted this to work." "I don't know, maybe it is just watching too many action films." "But I really wanted this one to happen." "Well I guess we've got no choice but to call this busted." "Can't surf a shock wave." "All right, so this myth is totally busted." "Yeah, but it has me wondering, do you think there's any way to surf a shock wave?" "I don't know, what if we're able to increase your surface area by a huge amount," "Maybe having that much more surface area, you might catch the shock wave, push you a little bit further." "So maybe we built something to attach to Buster to act as shock wave catcher?" "Exactly, I know just what to build it on." "For his shock wave enhancer," "Tory's turning to combination of the familiar and bizarre." "A steel frame and a blanket?" "You're probably asking yourself wait a minute, the blanket is not gonna withstand the blast, and you're right." "So what we're gonna do is we're gonna spray it with bed liner." "Cause as you remember, bed liner is blast proof." "After a quick spray of bed liner to harden it up, the team is back at the quarry" "Flying a giant kite, hum?" "We'll see, it's like a big sail." "to give Buster his bomb proof blanket" "That is gorgeous." "Let's see if he flies." "for a control test." "In 3, 2, 1, fire." "Perfect." "The heavier rig has Buster fly a slightly shorter 23 feet, but will the explosion fling him further?" "Ok, here's the thing." "The reason why I think Buster hasn't jumped much further so far, is because while the shock wave moves quickly, it only moves a relatively small amount of air, a layer, perhaps 12 inches thick." "And that's not enough force to push him any further." "Now this rig has the advantage of having a lot of surface area to catch a shock wave." "But unfortunately, it adds a lot of weight." "So the net result, I think is that he is not going to go much further." "Well with 100 pounds of ANFO set to detonate, will the extra surface area finally get buster surfing the shock wave?" "All right, this is the final experiment riding a shock wave, this time with the sail." "3, 2, 1." "Firing." "Well I never get tired of that." "I can't tell what happened." "The cannon triggered, the ANFO went off." "And it seems as though the shock wave did in fact give buster a boost." "But did he travel any further?" "Five feet." "I can't wait to see if it worked." "Ten feet." "Fifteen feet." "20 feet." "23 feet." "What?" "He didn't go any further at all." "That was the same as the control test." "Ok, we gave it everything we got." "And we still didn't get that Hollywood style jump and then just blow up." "All right, well, I guess it is busted." "I'm a little disappointed in Hollywood." "All right, that's busted." "Busted." "Again." "And that was so cool to watch him jump through the air and explosion going off." "And you know what, being an action hero is a tough job." "Want to know why we did what we did and didn't do what we didn't do?"