The Steel Toecap Amputation Horror Story! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 3 | Full Episode

In this

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of Mythbusters, the Steel Toad boots will cut off your toes. Adam and Jamie will take a shoe shearing high tail, oh man, and Carrie Take Wing. I'm a piñata while a Japanese myth takes off in a bottle rocket. Who are the MythBusters? Adam Savage responds all over my head man Jamie Heinan makes me nervous just looking at him Tori blei whoa Carrie Byron that was crazy and Grant Imahara go get him boy between them over 50 years of experience in special effects, they don't just say it. the parts that put them to the test, well, this one actually comes from our own industry.

Jamie and I have some friends who I really wish were more skeptical than they are because they cling to this idea: You mean the myth that Steel Toad boots are actually more dangerous than regular boots for decades, safety activists have order protective foot equipment at work, suddenly the worst happens, but some workers do not believe the hype, they have the idea that if there is an industrial accident in which a huge weight falls on the foot. that a

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toe boot will actually curl, crush and cut your toes, whereas if you weren't wearing

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toe boots you would still have your toes, which is why Steel Boot Tops Angels toe cutters or serial toe cutters to test the myth of Adam and Jamie is going to try to turn a steel foot into a guillotine, so what's the plan?

Well, as we always do, the plan has two parts: the first part is to double the testing equipment they use to give these shoes their rating, the second is to amplify. upload that weighted test equipment or whatever we have to do to duplicate the toe

amputation

circumstance what they need is a mobile safety shoe truck hey here's one inside the Florida industrial roof Elda maros Footwear Closet of shoes Style MythBusters this is cool it's actually a steel cap which is a steel toe that's exactly what it is now I also have a titanium one and Karen also has fiberglass toe caps and tennis shoes with steel toe toe sneakers sneakers, yes, everything here has some kind of protective toe, but Karen confesses that some clients live in fear of the steel toe cutter.

If they were wearing a steel toe, if something heavy enough fell on it to completely sever their toes, as opposed to if they weren't wearing it, their toes would be protected, which of course sounds absurd. Me, I apologize in advance for the smell of my feet and Karen asks me how fast she can fumigate the truck. Adam shakes his butt back to base. Can someone open the door for me? Jamie gets to work doing what he does best, building things that break things, basically what I'm going to build a big guillotine, except we're not going to have an ax on the end that cuts something, it's going to crush something.

The shock loading platform is almost complete. Adam trusts his steel caps and tries it out. There you have it, are you sure? I'm not sure how much further I want to go, even with a minimum 25lb platform, that's cool dude, it's a GU team, come on big baby, no Adam, we can't see inside these shoes when they're on being tested, how are we to know what the results are? I mean I'm not going to put my feet in there I don't know about you no I definitely won't uh well I actually have an idea about that and it comes from a technology used to test the effects of landmines.

Mine is a little different. It's called frangible foot and it mainly uses our old friend ballistic gel to get a smooth mold. Adam shaves once again for the show. This is a two stage process. In the first stage, I will spread what is called dental alginate on my leg and it is what dentists use to mold the teeth for support. The alanate mold is covered with several layers of plaster bandages, which, after hardening, can be cut and removed. courtship, very well done then fill the mold with a silicone-based gum. Is it leaking over the side? Oh, despite the spills, he's delighted with the results.

Happy stage two. Adam makes a plaster mother mold and takes a silicone mold of his foot. He looks good. look at that foot there, look at the but so far he's only gone Skin Deep to get to the bone Adam tests chicken legs and bamboo for their similarity to human bones, suddenly I'm not sure I like bamboo his tests show that Neither are compatible so opt for a fiberglass alternative, these are real human feet and our ultimate goal is to make casts of these in a material that exactly matches the bone. Stage three Adam casts a mold of the skeletal feet that one has already made and mixes a cocktail of hard resin when it is ready it is a perfect substitute for the real bone oh yes hot glue for the tendons and the substitute skeleton is complete stage four puts flesh on the bones Adam uses a new ballistic material that he pours over the skeleton in his leg plaster cast.

I'm actually very pleased with this. I think it's the ultimate in MythBusters and flesh limb analogues for testing damage. We've done a lot of experiments where we needed bodies and skeletons. different kinds of stuff, how's it going buddy, how's it going, yeah, you're doing so well, let's shoot you, this is the best we've gotten in terms of something that's going to really show us what happens when this accident happens. It happens while Jamie has applied the finishing touches to his finger tormentor and they are ready to start testing. All of the shoes we are testing are the highest rated safety boots you can get and that is called nc75 rating.

The plan is to systematically increase the height and weight of the things that fall on the shoe, probably until the shoe starts to creak. Beyond that, we have our MythBusters frangible legs, which should tell us the extent and severity of any injuries that occur. I still do not believe it. that they are going to cut off our toes now that we officially have something dangerous, so let's be careful with that wow, that feels very strange. How come you don't wear Steel Toad boots? I generally try not to drop things on it. my feet see it's out first on the cutting board steel lid boot 75 lb from 3 feet three 2 1 well, there you go, well, there it is.

I see a little bit of leather distension here, but there doesn't seem to be any. any deformation could be some variations, it looks like you've crushed it just a hair, but not enough to hurt, it could just be the leather flattening out, that's an ancy 75 r on the official test, height and weight, big deal, come on to rap up 50 so far the impending trailer mageddon has Adam excited oh yeah oh yeah oh that's cool stand there the drop deck is now a trailer shaking 400 lbs in 3 2 1 oh man these are sturdy shoes even with the maximum deck weight The steel lid doesn't look like it's been crushed, it's like stealing a dead man's shoes, you haven't done that since the war, have you, Jimmy, what a war?

I have a broken metatarsal here, yes, but it looks like it might still be. attached to your body oh yes they would but that's 400lbs of 3T what do you think we should get to? Let's go to 6 feet now. I want to see some toes cut off or crushed beyond all recognition 3 2 1 well, it's kind of like uh He retired there flat as a pancake. Wow, Dr. Heinan performs a boot autopsy and the toe is in bad shape, but it's still in a hole. We have a break in the Met's first metatarsal. We had a break in the second metat Taral, so there's your steel. toe is a pretty serious deformation, but still it is not cutting deoration, there is no

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, there is no celebration, the myth of the steel toe, the toe cutter seems unstable, the myth we are about to do arose as a result of an email someone sent me a clip from a Japanese game show oh oh yeah, in which he has the soda bottle strapped to his back

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of water and like a bicycle pump

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of air and it takes off like I don't know 30 40 feet or something like that, well who will be stupid enough to tie this to their butt?

I think that would be Carrie, not because she's stupid, which we know she isn't, but because she's lighter than you or me. I've seen that clip. I've seen it, I think one is fake, there has to be a wire involved somewhere, well you'll find out, can The MythBusters launch someone 40 yards into a ballistic trajectory with a bottle rocket using only water as fuel first what do you need? To build a prototype and Grants found a recipe on the Internet, our Rocket bottle will be made up of a plastic soda bottle, a bicycle pump to provide air pressure, a rubber stopper, and some plumbing parts from the hardware store, all hands-on. to the bomb and when Tori adds a little pointy, they have some kind of rocket that looks really cool, like a two second job, let's get it right outside, they add the power system, water and pressurized air, starting to get some pressure, excellent, it won't be like that. a long time now I don't think I can hold it for much longer actually, it's starting to get up okay, leave it, leave it on the floor, where did it go?

I guess it works well I guess we know it works, turns out being a rocket scientist isn't that hard after all, hey, I got that right, pay attention to the back. Bottle rockets are a perfect illustration of Newton's third law. The air inside is pressurized when the rubber plug is released. Air and water flow downward through the nozzle. By pushing the bottle up with equal and opposite Force, the guys have their proof of concept, so now fine tuning could do this all day. Science is fun, so knowing that bottle rockets are actually very popular. What is the current world altitude record?

The current world record is 517 M, set by American water rockets and was set by a device called x10 that is shrouded in secrecy. All the specifications we have are based on estimates from looking at photos and videos, but it appears to be not a soda bottle, but actually an 8 foot tube of fluorescent light that covers a protective polycarbonate cover wrapped in a high composite and, uh, powered solely by tap water and air pressure. May 2005, Gallway, New York State, the US Water Rockets team sets a new world record when their X10 rocket reaches 1,696 feet before parachuting back to Earth at headquarters Grant is causing feel perfecting flow The MythBusters bottle rocket are looking for the water-to-air ratio that provides maximum excellent thrust look at it several trials later they conclude that 1/3 water 2/3 air is right on the money.

I am very excited. I think these tests went extremely well. I mean, we found that the butter zone about 1/3 full is exactly what we need. Now they want some payload data, so what we want to know. now it's how high a 3L bottle can launch this 2kg payload 20 psi 40 PSI Carrie pumps out as much air as she dares without bursting the bottle okay, we're at 60 PSI okay, wait 3 2 1 flow, that's very rigid this could be a two seater in three two one W that's amazing that means we have 2kg 20ft it's a nice easy round calculation at 60 PSI they'll need 28 3L bottles just to get off the ground let alone a 40 yard helix for super size, okay, this jug is 18.9 3 l.

I'm going to fill it 1/3 full with water if the soda bottles don't make it airborne, this could be Plan B, okay, okay, 2kg load. I have to say I'm a little bit scared be scared be really scared oh it's getting crazy we're going to have to throw it well back off we're going to have to do it 3 2 1 holy shit run run run now that's what I call coolest moment of water that was a good launch that rose approximately uh. I would have to guess how about 50 60 feet had to be about 50 60 feet in the air there was a lot of thrust, but for our would-be astronaut it's not exactly reassuring, I have to say it was extremely scary because this thing is very pointy, very heavy, it is rose very high in the air and for some reason he headed right before the cameraman and the sound woman ran, he started running in one direction and she started running in the other direction and everyone follows the myth of the steel toe.

The cutters, the guys gave Adam's frangible foot a 400-pound blow. The steel toe was badly dented but not completely crushed. Now they're going to leave the toe out of the equation because The myth implies that Steel Toad boots cause you more damage than they could actually protect you in an accident. We would like to show what would happen if you weren't wearing Steel Toad boots at all. Boots that are not Steel Toad 75 lb 3 feet, but the results suggest that the guys tripped over their own foot, okay, I think we have a problem here, our new ballistic material, unlike gelatin, does not break down or It breaks under that kind of load, it tends to bounce, I mean, it matcheswith the flesh density, but perhaps not the behavior as much as we would like, the elastic consistency prevents a realistic recording of impact damage, boots on the wrong foot, so we decide to start from scratch with the old plan B, which is to remove the toe of the boot. place a cylinder of clay there and see how much tension there is from the weight falling on the boot.

It's like the sequel to a samurai movie shot. His new method was borrowed from Anie, the American National Standards Institute for decades. Men with beards and white coats have been crushing toes for science, it's easy to see what this impact would do to the unprotected foot, as represented by this foam wax. A place subjected to such a blow without protection literally explodes, so this is 75 pounds of 3 feet a test with the Steel Toad boot in three 2 1 it's funny when you read the literature about the tests, they say that for the boot to be rated of total compression can't be less than half an inch, which is what it is, so the steel caps passed the anti-shock load criteria now for the most important control test without toe 2 one oh yeah oh yeah let's see oh buddy, I think the compression of the clay is what we would call Total seems a little different than what we were seeing from the ballistic Shel oh man, it's instant Damning evidence and the steel layer conspiracy could soon get the boot, you know?

But we haven't yet seen the phenomenon in the steel cap that duplicates that mythical tip-cutting action. Well, there is another type of platform that just hydraulically crushes and we can also measure. the pressures involved when that happens Jamie starts with a store-bought Arbor vise while dealing with assembly Adam imagines Christmas Eve at the Hinman house I can see your wife up all night, you know, with the thing in the basement don Don't come down darling, look darling, I bought you a log splitter, oh darling, I'm touched, thank you darling. Jamie adds a pressure gauge and a car jack and soon has a compression testing kit, causing Adam to think of Jamie only as a point of comparison, so we can know what a pain threshold versus a burst threshold is. of bones.

Would you put your own foot on the team if I do? You have to make twice that weight with your steel caps. How about this? If you can, if you can. Hold on until it starts to register on the needle I'll give you 20 bucks okay pain threshold test number one okay are we ready okay oh wow he already weighs 100 pounds that's because I was pushing him towards down, you were getting your reading by pushing down the gauge, you cheating bastard, but Adam has the last laugh. I'm going to look for the metatarsal protection strapped on like Frankenstein's monster, oh yeah, Adam steps forward with sure footing 12200, he's seriously squeezing my foot 15 God, okay, that's it.

That was 1,600 lbs, which proves absolutely nothing. Guys want to compare the failure point of steel toe and non-steel toe boots first in the mangle, the Steel Toad 5,000 6,000 variety come on, let's move on, have we lost our toes? let it go and you'll see, sorry, that doesn't look very comfortable, no, no, it looks like we've lost our toes, so 6,000 pounds of pressure on your toes and you'll change shoe size forever. a normal boot, can you say flat as a pancake without a steel cap? It crushes so fast that Adam can barely get a reading, but total failure occurs around 12,200 lbs.

Oh, it's like clay. M Extrusion. I don't know about you, but it seems that way. For me, it squishes my toes, so steel toe caps provide five times more protection than regular boots, so this myth seems as flat as a pancake. You know, a lot of crepe on the bottle rocket myth. Tor Grant and Carrie have been conducting rigorous scientific experiments. Holy shit, run, run, run to see if soda bottles, air and water could throw a human 40 yards. The translation in Ground Control Grants received a translation of the Japanese game show that featured the supposed bottle rocket.

That's a little scary. It seems they only use 15. bottles for Blast Off much less than the 28 to 60 PSI their own testing showed they would need. I guess that's what we're going to try, the only solution is to try to force the pressure in each bottle to be over 60 PSI. It's the only thing they don't specify in the video which means one more test we need to know how much pressure a 3L soda bottle can handle faster Grant faster I'm pumping as fast as I can the myth specifies using a bicycle pump and between them they manage to increase the pressure inside the bottle to 95 PSI, but if the car is going to strap 15 of these to its back, she is interested in knowing when they will become plastic bombs, but we need to know when that is.

It's going to explode, so I have this equipment that I took from my combat robot and I can provide air at a higher pressure than we can get here in the workshop. Grant spent years perfecting the design of Deadlow, his title fighting robot in 2000. His creation beat all comers to reach the finals of the hit TV show BattleBots, these homemade robots would fight Gladiator style. It is designed to pierce the armor of its opponents with a pneumatically powered titanium arm. He simply attacks the other robots and beats them mercilessly. until they show up. Now Grant plans to use that pneumatic power to test the limits of his soda bottles safely behind the explosion.

Shield Grant applies pressure 140 14550 I guess around 150 is the limit. 150 psi is definitely not safe. I think let's go. to stick with the 95 we got with the bike pump while carrying and Grant are limited to the myth bike pump prepared with 15 bottles. Tor is looking for Plan B for that, he's thinking big nine water coolers, big, so the first thing I have to do is figure out how much air pressure one of these bad boys will hold oo eight more I have to go to the bathroom this is a game called guess what I had for lunch you know that's very mature on a serious note safety concerns mean they need to repeat the failure pressure test on a water cooler bottle and that way no one gets hurt 75 80 85 90 wow wow the fire in the hole just goes to show that size isn't everything large bottles fail at 90 PSI 60 PSI less than soda bottles Oh sorry, we should have warned our neighbors.

Sorry, plan B won't include water coolers unless Carri's shrapnel insurance is updated, so let's go back to plan A. 15 bottles of soda and a bike pump. We know there are 15 bottles on the rig that they used in the movie because we have a translation, so let's take the 115 of my weight, strap it to a 3 liter bottle, take it to 90 PSI and see how high we can go with a single bottle. can lift 115 of Carry's weight they're in business three two 1 wow that hit exactly the top of the scale that means we have exactly 16 feet and that's not metric so let me do some conversions real quick and It's really PR High, we'll come back to this 3 liter bottle at 90 PSI lifted 3 and 1/2 kg 490 CM that's amazing because it's 1/5 of my weight. 15 bottles could possibly take me to the top of this scale and I can't. wait to tell the kids because it's probably all fake, maybe not encouraged by the evidence.

Carrie and Grant get to work, their job, the 15 bottle rig as specified in the game show clip, oh yeah, are you ready to fly? It's going to be amazing and Grants comes up with a new way to blow up the car's core. He places the bottle like this. The cable ties click around this lip and you slide the ring up to secure it. Is blocked. Now the cable tires hold it whenever you want. launch, pull the ring down and that will release the bottle upwards simply, so with the design stage approved, mass production can begin in Massa.

The Aeronautical and Space Administration MythBusters bottles will be filled with air through bicycle chamber valves that are glued in place. in rubber plugs so air enters but doesn't exit, they carefully assemble 15 cable tie quick release systems that secure in a plywood casing. The PVC collars are attached to a trigger plate and placed onto the quick release platform to complete the ring. It looks great, but can it follow the path? Oh yeah, that's going to rock except for the gluing part, if it comes off that part would probably suck, but the rest is going to totally rock then our rocket scientists have to come up with. a remote mechanism to retract the trigger plate and launch the rocket.

What we have is that all the trigger rings are connected to a plate. The plate will be pulled by one of these. This is a pneumatic actuator. It works with air if I put air in. Here, pushing the diaphragm down, I'm just going to pull the plate and pop all 15 trigger valves at once, perfect, in the meantime we have a separate mission to transport the air by any means necessary. Here at MythBusters we have mandatory drug testing to ensure safety. of all our employees and I pass every time that T also goes with a quick release cable tie system, but that's where the similarity ends according to his calculations, he needs not 15 but 50 bottles to replicate the flight parameters of the game show already that I am I am not restricted by myth.

I'm not going to use a bicycle pump to fill this with air, so I'll go ahead and use PVC pipe. I'm going to use compressed air and then just plumb the whole thing together, so there will be a big pipe system under the platform while Tari builds her Behemoth in the parking lot. Carrie and Grant are preparing their official bottle rocket for a test launch. They then fill their 3-liter rockets with a liter of water. Lock and load, oh yes, yes, there is almost that much nerve, yes, and for good reason, since your plans suddenly generate a leak or, to be more precise, 15 leaks, it turns out that our valves, once they are screwed together, we don't think about The fact that that will just turn it into a little hose and all our water will drip like rain before they take the rig apart, do a quick test of the pneumatic trigger, at least something works, which is more than I thought.

Tori can tell. for his ring, I don't know if this is going to work, he's been delayed due to ill-fitting plugs, which has left him short on time and low morale. I know that, you know, on the show we always say that failure is always an option, but let's face it, who wants to fail while Tor goes off the rails? Grant and Carrie are back on the road. Here is the new solution for hose on each end of a ball valve. When we want to increase the pressure, we open it, inflate it and when we finish we close it.

No water leaks, no air leaks, sounds good. Grant gives each bottle a ball valve and launches just one step. Okay, that should do it. All that's left is for Carrie to rest her shoulder on the pump. ble three. I'm already getting tired. dozen later and she has enough strength left to open the valve for launch, ready to go in three two one, well at least we know it works the final test obviously a complete success, a little scary okay so lesson number one, tape the bottles together, better than the rocket. The maiden voyage was also the last, leaving our Maiden Rocketeer wondering about launch day.

This could be quite dangerous, so I think maybe I'll have GNA trigger the drill first and see how he reacts and make sure I'm not going to do it. break my neck despite her doubts Carrie is still the designated pilot and Grant needs to measure her not for a coffin but for a launch gantry according to the game show clip the launch angle for a bottle rocket is almost 60° perfect that's it just like in the video, then test various harness options for the bottle rocket backpack, wow the miracle of life, what the hell are you doing?

I'm a Piata in one way or another, the boys are determined to carry it. Tor in the air had a problem with the cap design on his 50-bottle kit, but he worked all night and believes he has it. There was another design we found online that basically involved taking a PVC coupler, cutting a slot in it, and sliding in an O-ring. on top and then the bottle slides over that and gives us a great seal. I mean, it's like a perfect seal after burning the midnight oil. It's a champagne moment for Tori. 3 2 1 I think it works.

Hey, that job, but on the eve of the launch. The day this rocket scientist has serious concerns: are we going to let ourselves be carried away in the air? I don't know if she'll really want to do this. I saw the 15 bottle release yesterday and it's pretty scary. uh, 50 bottles. Don't know. You could be injured. The myth that steel toe boots are more dangerous than regular boots is quickly being debunked. I don't know about you, but toes look pretty flattened to me, butYou guys won't be happy until some of your toes get cut off. so they turn to the pure attachment or as it is affectionately known, the blade oh there's a 500 oh there's a 5600 oh that's gross oh you've had enough yeah stop ok we're at 400 and we're practically cutting all as if the bar is flat against the bottom, so here's some useful information 750 lbs will break all your toe bones 1,400 lbs and you won't have any fingers left to break oh that's delicious meanwhile The department MythBusters research team has made a surprising discovery, well, you know it as often as the case.

We at MythBusters have uncovered information that really lends some credence to this concern about amputation related to steel toe shoes. It was very difficult to find this information, but we found a case in 2002 in Australia of a man who had an accident with his Steel Toad boots. He was working near a forklift that was loading a pipe and one of the pipes fell off the forklift onto his Steel Toad boot and he lost the third toe on his right foot, so just when he looked out of place. The Count, this myth wobbles to his feet for a final round to deliver the final blow, returns to the guillotine and this time the guys are serious, they installed the cutting attachment to simulate the worst industrial scenario, so that now this is a danger zone with the equipment at maximum height and weight, this will be the ultimate test of a steel cap boot in 3 2 1 friend, oh, it slid off the steel because it landed right where I placed it, but It slipped off the steel toe and cut through the entire shoe. halfway through, that means that because of the steel toe you're actually going to lose a little bit more of your toes, but it's not the steel toe that's actually cutting into your foot, it's just providing a sort of ramp.

It's an intriguing result that suggests a second take on three 2 1 also did that and bounced off the steel tip which did exactly that and although we placed it much further away, yes we couldn't have placed it any other way, this is probably the most similar to what we have had. Considering the circumstances that, according to the myths, may well have been involved with the toe amputation, I'm very glad we took this this far, finally getting an amputation and proving it if you're wearing Steel Toad boots. There is a circumstance under which you can lose your toes, of course, it involves dropping large amounts of weights with a small blade on the end, yes, however, I mean, given the same set of circumstances, you will always have more damage to your feet if you don't wear steel toes than if you do.

It is absolutely evident that this myth is completely broken. It is the day of the launch of the bottle rocket myth and Granton Cary arrives at his own Cape Canaveral dock, 50 San Francisco. Launch day has finally arrived, I have to say I have some butterflies in my stomach, oh my god this is crazy, the launch profile involves a dip in the bay, which has our Rocketeer bottle asking the obvious question How much is it going to cost? There will be a boat and a jet ski to fish you out. I want to rescue you. I want to make you joke.

Additionally, the car's well-being is paramount and pretend Jane is available in case the doctors' security officers at the theater. vetoing the launch of a human harbor patrol, arriving with a splash, what an action movie this is, it may seem h hwood, but any injuries sustained will be real, so Carrie isn't taking any chances. She may have to launch the simulation a few times before I can commit to this. Because it seems somewhat dangerous, the simulated knees are giving in to the prospect, so they prop it up with an aluminum frame. Looking like a robot and with no time for swimming lessons, Carrie applies the finishing touches as the porch falls into place for her.

Yes, it's perfect. T comes straight in from the night shift and gets right into the spirit of the occasion. Okay, what can I get? Get tonic. What do you want? Engines on the launch pad, okay, that's it and secure them firmly, don't be shy, I have plenty of tape, reinforce the security measures and install the pilot. Mount the bottle rocket tightly on the launch pad and joke at the expense of the car, possibly another dummy. It's not going to go in there, I'm kidding, come on, come on, I'm kidding, the car is too nervous, no more jokes, let's get serious and finally prepare the engines.

Can you believe you have to do this one by one? How many more are missing? Yara four, I'm glad there are four more because I just didn't want this to end, but everything is ready for launch, so inevitably the rocket takes a jump. Well, I put pressure in the middle, now I put everything I can into it, this is the one. That's a hemorrhage. I know there's nothing else I can do while the ground crew makes frantic repairs. T play by the time you think there is a problem, there is no problem. Grant controls the leak and is a pump like mat to bring the last bottles to 90 PSI. the last one, okay everyone get ready, this is the last one, the distance markers are in place and if there's anything that can indicate, someone is expecting a long-haul flight, we're about to do the 15 bottle test.

I saw it released yesterday and it's pretty powerful. I think I'm just going to go straight, go out about 20 feet up and continue on the full path for about 40 feet, you could just swing it over your head and just turn it towards the water, it's not going to turn, I think I'm going to keep going, this It's probably more important to me than anyone else because this right here will tell me if I want to get into this or not, so I'm crossing my fingers. Grant sets the pneumatic release, it's zero hour for Jane, pretend, guys, ready, we have to get the blocks out, okay, high speed, ready, three two one, it's hard to tell who flew further, Grant or Jane, it was alright buddy that looks great, where did it land straight? apparently something is wrong and the high speed camera should hold the answer, it looked like it had just been shot from his back, yes, there was like a tether holding, I guess, those straps while the team analyzes the harness failure, the expert in safety catalogs pilot injuries, from abrasions, lacerations to sprains. strains uh possible dislocation uh bones possibly broken bones possibly concussions head neck back injuries are always the most serious well I don't want that to happen to me so I think we need another test with the dummy and get it right before I put the platform absolutely after testing, the jury is still out the bottle rocket has significant thrust, but can that force be harnessed safely?

It's time for another launch, let's go to lunch. Jane, the simulated flight of the first bottle rocket was not a success without a safe test. launch Carrie will be punished and the myth destroyed. I have many doubts about the last test. I just don't know what's really going to happen and unless we can make this work in a way that's a little safer I just don't want to get on the team resets and to prevent backflips Jane is positioned higher up on the rocket the safety harness has been given special attention but the car is not very impressed with the Tor strap it's supposed to be me, we can't use this particular method Look, look why not, it seems to be working quite well for the passenger.

Comfort will be standard on a later model. It's three two two one. Oh, maybe I shouldn't stand behind him next time. That didn't look so bad. It was great. just a backflip just a backflip yeah a rocket assisted 20t high backflip oh that's not very ballistic that looks like a lot of fun oh my gosh look she's going for a dying nose that's a headshot right in The water, right there, seems wonderful, but what is it? the official word after the two experiments I've seen I wouldn't let you get on that no way see Dave's pull ring I'm not going to get you on that you're free you're off the hook I didn't want to I chickened out, but I didn't sleep last night.

I kept thinking I was going to break my neck with this thing. Well, I'm a little bummed because we're not actually going to cast a person. I mean look at the high speed. That seemed fun, it didn't seem that dangerous, but you know, I guess we're all worried about breaking our necks and people being paralyzed. I'm really relieved to not have to do it, so no aerial acrobatics or a trip to the chiropractor to go, but what's with the myth? This myth is about tying 15 soda bottles to a person's back and making them fly in a ballistic trajectory according to what we have seen here, it is totally busted and burst in two accounts first, neither the height nor the distance matches that of the myth and secondly, this platform is not even remotely safe for a human passenger.

This is Myth Busters. Now that the myth has been destroyed, we need to speed this up, so let's go to Tor's 50 bottle platform. I just finished it maybe a few hours ago. I stayed up until 2:00 in the morning last night trying to finish it, so I haven't tried it, so I don't know if it will work. I hope I can do it. I'm very hopeful with the car out of harm's way. Jane's safety is now in the sleep-deprived Tor's hands. I like to call this my safety buddy. This is what happens when I don't get enough sleep.

The 50 bottles are filled with one liter of water and then loaded. on the o-rings for a pressure test, all good, moment of truth, I don't hear any hiss, neither do I, that's a good sign, that's a very good sign, a word of warning, simultaneous activation, as shown on the 360 ​​swing. a very difficult task with 50 rockets to fire, there are many chances of failure, go ahead, what in this program is part of the course, it is 50 bottles, take off, guys, ready, set, open the valve, it's okay, they take out the security blocks, okay, three, two, one. What do we do well?

That was great. Well, something happened that didn't work exactly as I thought, but hey, that was perfect. Did you see my trigger mechanism? It was great, no backflips this time, just a crash test dummy. yoga, but what went wrong could just be the collective because look, yeah, these guys are tight, okay, how do you like my O-rings? Now the high-angle images show the rockets on the left releasing cleanly, but on the right the O-rings are holding firm. bring back the sticky o-rings it's time to put Jamie's workshop motto into practice when in doubt lubricate so we had two issues with our last release one didn't release cleanly we fixed that by lubing and filling the bottom two bottles . with water because of our angle, so what we are going to do now is have a flatter launch, we have our Loop and we are ready to get lucky at the end, the team has one more chance to take Jane Airborne, it seems more.

Soda bottles should mean more oomph, okay, I'm pressurizing to 100, you guys are ready in three, two, one, wait. I wouldn't have been afraid to do it. It wasn't impressive, but it sure was fun. I just don't see soda bottles. and water and air are any medium of a jetpack, yes it seems like we should have more soda bottles it would mean more thrust, more bottles means more complications and simultaneous release is one of our biggest problems in any experience we have you know that we didn't do it? set it too high, but I'm still happy. I could say we could say we could call this busted and call it a day, yeah busted, let's get out of here.

I want to go to bed. I'm tired.