Comments on: Episode 25: Brown Note, Water Torture

By: soccerluuvv54

soccerluuvv54 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:23:18 +0000

Chinese water torture hurts!!!!!

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:42:10 +0000

No. It will not. The weight of a tin can is about 400 grams. BB’s are about 0.25 grams.

By comparison, if the target is the size of a 150-pound adult male, that’s approximately 68,000 grams. Even a .50 caliber bullet is only about 41 grams. That means that the bullet weighs about .000062 times as much as the target.

The ratio of kinetic energy transferred to the target is the same as the ratio of the masses AND IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE VELOCITY OF THE BULLET. Which means that there’s just NOT ENOUGH ENERGY to throw the target backwards.

Gunshot victims do frequently fall or collapse when shot; this is NOT a result of the momentum of the bullet pushing them over, but is primarily caused by physical damage or psychological effects, perhaps combined with being off-balance.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:33:53 +0000

It won’t. Because the mass of the bullet affects the amount of energy being imparted. There’s just not enough mass.

By: snlng

snlng — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:30:43 +0000

A person will be propelled violently backwards if hit by a bullet. Myth-busted. I was stuck by 2(M2) 50 cal bullits in my leg and propeled backwords while maintaining a tight grip on the steering wheel. see DAV websight archive magazine May 2009 Friendly Fire. Explain how one hits my left knee and femur then another hits the same leg in the calf. One bullet bounces off the transmission and comes up through the floor board between my legs, the other comes through the dash and passes through the drivers seat where my heart is, if seating in the drivers seat. I still have my leg or what is called a leg. But I almost broke my neck on the kevlar wall behind the passenger seat on the right side of the vehicle. Yes we had a gunner but due to the mission he was in the seat behind the driver (me). When we were engaded he reached for his weapon in the hatch I struck him while going over my seat, with my gear on, throwing him back into his seat. The bullet that passed through my calf passed through his seat in the same place. Myth busted confermed energy from a bullit can be tranfered if conditions are right. Pass on please or let me know how to chalange the myth I want to know what are the odds and can it be recreated. I remember everthing down to how the bullet felt when striking me and the sound of the bullets striking the vehicle, about 200 rounds fired at my compartment, about 19 penetrated the vehicle. He was gunning for me because he though I was a VBIED at 400 meters. OK, scared more like it. Help me chalage this myth

By: mangoldz

mangoldz — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:38:15 +0000

After the chinese water torture experiment whan he was sitting in the recliner, he did crap himself

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:59:48 +0000

I always thought the brown note was a very hi-pitched sound, not a low-frequency pitch. Something around 3000hz @ near pain threshold db levels. I kept waiting for them to try the whole pitch range instead of concentrating on just the low end. I hope the revisit this one.

By: nick perry

nick perry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:38:42 +0000

why want you use a kid instad of a adult i mean like a 16 year old kid

By: Mr. Acoustics

Mr. Acoustics — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:02:28 +0000

From Solid research in the sound field it was proven that at 14Hz with atleast 115 dB’s of sound pressure they’re be a loss of controle in the human bowels. I normal speaker cannot produce this, this experiment has nothing to do with what we here, its how our body’s resonate

By: Dragonfyre

Dragonfyre — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:17:18 +0000

For the bullets; yes, people would recoil when shot, but not fly through the air. If you shoot a can, it has a relatively low mass, so if it’s fired at, it will move a substantial amount…a human, however, is much heavier, meaning a larger bullet is required to apply a force on them to move them backwards.
It’s also a matter of kinetic energy. A car moving at 60 mph has a lot more kinetic energy than a bullet at 1500–2000 feet/second. If a person gets hit by a car, they will fly, or move a substantial amount. A bullet…recoil, yes…part from the ground, no…unless they jump backwards in surprise. Also, a bullet is not large enough to impart a lot of its energy into its target, only being exerted where the point of the bullet is.
Myth busted…it’s not going to happen.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:14:30 +0000

Mythbusters,
Please tie Buster to an airplane and fly 60 miles and drop him from an altitude of 115 feet. My brothers and I would like to see how damage Buster suffers. We hope that you will air the footage in an upcoming show.