Episode 178: Toilet Bomb
Air Date: November 30, 2011
If a pressure-triggered bomb is cooled with liquid nitrogen, its detonation will be delayed long enough for a person to dive into a bathtub and cover himself with a bomb blanket, surviving the explosion. (Based on a scene in the film Lethal Weapon 2.)
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Adam and Jamie decided to test three facets of the myth: time to get off the toilet and into the tub, effectiveness of the liquid nitrogen in delaying the trigger, and ability of the blanket and tub to shield its occupants. After building a replica of the movie bathroom and incorporating all details of the scene, including a prolonged time spent sitting on the toilet, Adam was able to pull Jamie into the tub and under the blanket in 1.95 seconds.
On the bomb range, they set up a charge of C-4 and a high-speed camera to measure the delay between triggering and detonation. A control run with an ambient-temperature bomb gave a delay of 3.3 milliseconds, while pouring the liquid nitrogen directly onto the charge increased it to 15 milliseconds. When the liquid nitrogen was poured over both the charge and the battery powering the trigger, the bomb would not detonate at all until the entire rig had warmed up to ambient temperature, 15 minutes later. Adam and Jamie commented that the technique was actually more effective in real life than in the film; the characters could have simply stood up and walked out of the bathroom.
To test the third part of the myth, they built a bathroom set with a heavy cast-iron tub as seen in the film, put Buster in the tub under a blanket, and fitted the tub with sensors to measure the pressure inside and outside. When a 1 kg charge of C-4 was set off under the toilet, the entire set was destroyed except for the tub. The peak pressure outside the tub was a lethal 180 psi (1.2 MPa), while the inside sensor recorded 8 psi (55 kPa), meaning that a person would survive but have some chance of suffering hearing damage. Adam and Jamie declared the myth confirmed.
Airplanes can save fuel and money by flying in V-formation, similar to a flock of birds.
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While visiting a bird sanctuary, Kari and Tory learned the reason for the birds’ V-formation: air vortices from the leading birds’ wings allow the trailing ones to flap less often and less vigorously. Kari then built some model airplanes, which she and Grant took for testing in a NASA water chamber. With three planes in a V, they saw vortices at the lead plane’s wingtips that persisted for a large distance behind it.
At Tracy Municipal Airport, the Build Team met with a 9-member acrobatic flight club to test out different flying formation: V, wingtip to wingtip, single file, and a control run with no formation. A tight V reduced fuel consumption by 3-5% compared to the control, while the other two formations either gave no reduction or increased the fuel usage. The team declared the myth confirmed at this point, but noted that the close formation could pose a danger to the pilots. A second run, with the planes spaced farther apart, gave a fuel savings for only Tory due to the difficulty of staying in the lead planes’ vortices. Nevertheless, the team commented that even a small fuel savings could lead to a sizable financial advantage at a large scale.
Please do a myth with a TANK it would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi guys im from austraila i have a really good myth for you.
In cental austraila a young lady had 4lighter in her black ford 1998 moddlecar on really hot day prantly they exploided and the car blew up 2 cars parked on each side of the car. This happen during summer in 2001.
Thats all i know about it
They already did that one.
can you make a myth with a car cannon ??????? please im youre bieggest fan in the world
I’m sure many other fans would disagree with that last part :P
We would love to see if shaving cream would hurt a car’s paint job. When we got married our friends put shaving cream on our truck and my husband freaked out. He washed it right away, he was afraid that it would ruin his paint job. Please test this to see if he is right. Thanks, we love your show
If you do not have a parachute and you just a big black trash bag and then jumps from a plane that is going to tear the bag. S.V.P demystifies. Thank you in advance
Though it was confirmed that liquid nitrogen(LN) can in fact render C4 temporarily inert, there was a discrepancy between the movie and the tests. In the testing, the C4 was in a container, allowing it to freeze the C4, whereas in the movie it was not. I belive it would not have delayed the explosion due to the LN merely flowing over the C4 rather than the C4 being immersed in LN.
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it would be best to send it down the drain. a floor drain would work better than the tub, bauecse they generally have 3 or 4 inch drain pipes rather than 1.5 or 2 inch from a tub. and no, the chemicals in a spa or hot tub are not near corrosive enough to hurt modern plumbing. toilet bowl cleaner and clog remover are substantially more corrosive. I would not recommend draining it in the grass unless you have a french drain in your yard, otherwise you are headed strait for a swamp in your yard. the water will take a long time to seep into the yard unless you are situated on a hill that will help to spread the surface area with out making a pond. if you do have a french drain, then it will most likely end up in the same place as if you were to discharge it on the road. roads are built to avoid pooling so if there is a curb, the water will just travel down hill until it reaches a storm sewer.
NERD TROLLS! TAKE AN ARROW TO THE KNEE!
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HI
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Skeeter Bug, Yes, It musy suck believing everything you are told and finding out that it’s B.S. MB is one of the best show’s on cable. I’m so glad it back on the air!
I love this show actually a little more then boyz btw imma girly xD
A lot depends on how old it is and who atcufanmured it. My neighbor has a 1999 Hot Springs Spa for sale right now listed at $ 800 and has had it on the market for two weeks. He has only received one call since he started advertising it. Most of the spas listed in the classified section of our local paper that are newer than his (2003-2005) are between $ 1000-1200.