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The cast/crew of the television series MythBusters performs experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). MythBusters Adam Savage (left) and Jamie Hyneman MythBusters is an American science television program on Discovery Channel starring Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special-effects experts who set out to test the validity of timeless myths and urban legends of popular culture. ...
Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ...
An old wives tale is a wisdom much like an urban legend, supposedly passed down by old wives to a younger generation. ...
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Specials | Episode | Myth statement | Status | Notes | Special 1
Jan. 23, 2003
"Jet Assisted Chevy, Pop Rocks and Soda" | Could a car with a JATO rocket attached speed up to 300 mph (480 km/h), become airborne, and impact with the side of a cliff? | Busted | Adam and Jamie could not acquire real JATO rockets from the air force. As such, they used 3 amateur rocket motors of equivalent power to one JATO rocket. The rockets increased the speed of the car considerably. Although no speed measurement was made, the speed was clearly nowhere near the 300 mph suggested in the myth. The car also did not become airborne. | | Eating and drinking large quantities of Pop Rocks and cola will cause one's stomach to explode. | Busted | There was not enough carbon dioxide produced by the reaction to make a stomach explode. The subject would, however, experience considerable pain. | Special 2
Jan. 23, 2003
"Airplane Toilet, Biscuit Bazooka, Leaping Lawyer" | An obese person can get stuck on an airline toilet. | Busted | It is impossible to get a perfect seal on a modern airplane toilet, and even if it is possible a properly working toilet only provides suction for a few seconds. | | A can of biscuit (scone) dough can explode in a hot car. | Confirmed | The dough can blow out of many types of biscuit cans at a car's internal temperature of 145°F (60ºC). | | It is possible to get up enough force from running to go through a plate glass window. | Confirmed | At a run speed of 4.7 mph (7.5 km/h), a 160 lb (72.6 kg) subject was able to smash through pressurized plate glass window. | 'Special 3
Mar. 7, 2003
"Lawn Chair Balloon, Poppy Seed Drug Test, Goldfinger" | Covering your body in gold paint can kill you by skin asphyxiation like in the James Bond movie Goldfinger? | Busted | Jamie was covered in gold paint from head to toe and lasted over an hour without reporting any major ill effects. The myth stated that the actress portraying the gold plated woman in Goldfinger, Shirley Eaton, died as well. Ms. Eaton did survive the filming of Goldfinger and went on to appear in many more feature films and a segment for the show in which she confirmed she was still alive. | | It is possible to fly a lawn chair by means of weather balloons, and descend safely by means of an airgun. | Confirmed | Adam Savage went up in the MythBuster's rig, which was a lawnchair with 16 plastic weather balloons attached, and went up to the maximum length of the safety ropes. He safely descended by shooting out the balloons after flying for 75 feet (22.5m). | | Eating poppy seed bagels can cause one to test positive for heroin on a drug test. | Confirmed | Unripe poppy seeds are used to create opium, which is an ingredient in heroin. If a test is sensitive enough it can generate a false positive simply by detecting the poppy seeds. | Special 4
Dec. 22, 2004
"Viewers Choice Christmas Special" | A thawed turkey can explode if it is dropped into deep fryer pot too fast. | Plausible | While it will not explode, the turkey can cause the boiling oil to ignite if it is dropped into the deep fryer improperly. | | Placing a silver spoon in a bottle of champagne can keep it bubblier for longer. | Busted | The spoon actually reduces the fizziness of champagne. In a blind taste test when compared to several controls (opened champagne, re-corked champagne and unopened champagne) both Adam and Jamie ranked the spooned champagne the lowest in terms of fizziness. | | A falling icicle can kill a person. | Confirmed | A reasonably sized icicle (Over 1.5' in length) falling from the eaves of a house can kill a person. | | A clothed snowman melts slower than a naked one. | Confirmed | In the 80° San Francisco summer heat the naked snowman representing Jamie melted considerably faster than the clothed snowman representing Adam. The clothes on the Adam snowman protected it from the heat and acted like a refrigerator and helped keep the temperature inside from rising. | | A urine stream can freeze in the cold of winter. | Busted | When tested in a freezer at -70° the fake urine stream the MythBusters used did not freeze in midair. | | In the chambers around a fire it is colder. | Plausible | In the chambers around a fire was it colder. 1½ degrees centigrade or 3 degrees Fahrenheit. | Special 5
Feb. 2, 2005
"Buster Special" | No new myths were tested in this episode. | | In this episode, Adam and Jamie re-lived Buster's finest moments, his ultimate demise, and showed the construction of "Buster 2.0" | Special 6
Feb. 9, 2005
"Ultimate MythBuster" | No new myths were tested in this episode. | | In this episode, Adam and Jamie competed in a series of arguably ludicrous tests and competitions just to see which of the two was the "Ultimate MythBuster". These competitions tested their ingenuity, constitution, and courage to see just how far they were willing to go to claim the title of “Ultimate MythBuster”. One example involved Adam sticking his hand in a tube with possibly hundreds of Daddy Long Legs spiders. | Special 7
16-Mar-2005
"MythBusters Outtakes" | No new myths were tested in this episode. | | In this episode, outtakes were shown. In one memorable bit, Adam smeared grease in the bathroom and made Jamie very angry because it was difficult to clean up. Other outtakes included some failed Myth experiments or extra experiments that had to be trimmed out of the show for time and relevancy reasons. | Special 8
04-Apr-2005
"Shop Till You Drop" | No new myths were tested in this episode. | | This episode explored some of the MythBusters' favorite stores and vendors that they use when buying supplies for the show. | Special 9
27-Apr-2005
"MythBusters Revealed" | No new myths were tested in this episode. | | This episode took a behind-the-scenes look at the show. It featured insights from and interviews with Adam, Jamie, Kari, Tory and producer Peter Rees. | Special 10
May 5, 2005
"Hollywood on Trial" | A person will be propelled violently backwards if hit by a bullet . | Busted | A bullet fired by a gun cannot hold enough kinetic energy. | | Bullets will spark when ricocheting off other objects. | Busted | The sparks produced by ricocheting bullets are simply Hollywood effects (real bullets do not spark). | Special 11
July 17, 2005
"JAWS Special" | If a pressurized scuba tank is shot, it will explode. | Busted | When the tank was punctured by a bullet it simply decompressed catastrophically. | | A Great White shark can pull barrels underwater. | Plausible | A shark's maximum striking force is great enough to pull the barrels under. | | A Great White shark can pull barrels underwater and hold them there. | Busted | The force a shark can generate in a static pull is insufficient to keep the barrels under water. | | A Great White shark can ram a dive cage with enough force to damage or destroy it. | Confirmed | The cage in question was almost completely destroyed. | | A Great White shark can ram a boat with enough force to punch a hole in it. | Plausible | A Great White has enough power to punch a hole in the side of a wooden boat under the right circumstances. This has never happened in real life though. | | A Great White shark can pull a boat backwards with great enough speed that waves break over the rear end. | Busted | The same reason why the shark cannot hold the barrels underwater continuously. | | Punching a shark in the nose, eyes, or gills will cause it flee or at least back off briefly. | Plausible | The sharks punched by both a specially modified Buster and Jamie were driven off briefly and were hesitant about making repeated approaches. | JATO is an acronym for Jet Assisted Take Off. ...
Pop Rocks are a carbonated sugar candy available since 1975. ...
Several different brands of cola. ...
Official sites James Bond Official Homepage Official Danjaq 007 website Ian Fleming Publications official website Miss Moneypennys Rolodex Mr. ...
2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Goldfinger, published in 1959, is the seventh James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ...
Shirley Eaton Shirley Eaton (born January 12, 1937) was a glamorous blonde actress who appeared in many British black and white comedies in the 1950s and onwards. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Papaveraceae. ...
SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
Opium is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). ...
Champagne is often drunk as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the secondary fermentation of wine. ...
Blind tasting of wine involves tasting and evaluating wines without any knowledge of their identities. ...
Icicles A natural ice block in Iceland Ice is the solid form of water. ...
Slightly balding 6 2 snowman A snowman is a man-like figure constructed from compacted snow. ...
Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and is produced by the process of filtration. ...
Kinetic energy is energy that a body has as a result of its speed. ...
Season One | Episode | Myth statement | Status | Notes | Episode 1
Sept. 23, 2003
"Ice Bullet, Exploding Toilet, Who Gets Wetter?" | An assassin can fire an ice bullet to kill someone without leaving a trace. | Busted | The bullet simply vaporizes when the gun is fired. | | It's better to run, than walk in the rain. | Busted/Confirmed | When originally tested, the faster you run the wetter you get. When this was revisited, an artificial rain bias was discovered. | Episode 2
Oct. 03, 2003
"Cell Phone Destruction, Silicone Breasts, CD-ROM Shattering" | Using one's cell phone while pumping gas/petrol can cause an explosion. | Busted | The actual risk comes from an electrostatic discharge between a charged driver and the car. | | Silicone breast implants may explode at high altitudes or low air pressure. | Busted | The implants are extremely flexible. | | CDs can shatter if placed in a high-speed (i.e. 40X or faster) CD-Rom drive. | Plausible | It was proven that a high rotation could shatter the CDs, but the Mythbusters could not achieve this using an average CD-Rom drive. Possible physical damage to the CD made shattering more likely. | Episode 3
Oct. 10, 2003
"Barrel of Bricks, Pissing on the Third Rail, Eel Skin Wallet" | A bricklayer could be injured repeatedly while hoisting a barrel full of bricks from the top of a building. | Busted | Only by deliberately weakening the barrel and dropping it on a sharp edge were they able to get the barrel to drop its bricks. | | Urinating on the electric third rail of a train track or an electric fence can cause electrocution. | Busted/Confirmed | Rail: busted. Fence: confirmed. This is because urinating on an electric fence would require you to be much closer to it than urinating on the third rail would, preventing the urine stream from breaking up enough to prevent a solid lead for the electricity to flow through. However, most electric fences are designed to be non-lethal, only giving the victim a unpleasant electric shock -not an electrocution per se. | | Using an electric eel skin wallet will cause a static charge that will cause the magnetic strip on your credit cards to fail. | Busted | Most eel-skin wallets are not made from electric eels, but rather from a fish called a hag fish which does not produce an electric charge. | Episode 4
Oct. 17, 2003
"Penny Drop, Deadly Microwaves, Radio Tooth Fillings" | A penny dropped from a skyscraper lands with enough force to kill a pedestrian on the sidewalk below. | Busted | A penny's total mass is not sufficient to perforate human skin, even when fired by a rifle. | | It is possible to pick up radio signals through a tooth filling. | Busted | The tooth filling did not act as an antenna. | Episode 5
Oct. 24, 2003
"Hammer Bridge Drop, Buried Alive, Cola" | A high fall over water can be survived by throwing a hammer ahead of oneself and breaking the surface tension. | Busted | Dropping a hammer in front of you cannot break the surface tension of the water enough to save your life if you fall from high up. | | Is cola really able to... | | | | ...remove bloodstains? | Confirmed | The cola was able to emulsify bloodstains. | | ...clean rust? | Busted | The cola was unable to break down rust deposits. | | ...clean chrome? | Confirmed | It surprisingly cleaned the chrome better than the commercial chrome polish used for comparison. | | ...dissolve a tooth overnight? | Busted | The tooth did start to dissolve, indicating that with enough time it could be completely dissolved. However, it dissolved the tooth much less than the acidic solution used for comparison. | | ...dissolve a steak? | Busted | The cola just gave the steak a soft, pasty consistency. | | ...clean a penny? | Confirmed | Results were surprisingly good. | | ...clean battery terminals? | Plausible | It works, but it was hard to tell if plain water did not perform just as well. The cola did not do anything spectacular. | | ...remove greasy stains in your laundry? | Busted | No effect al all. | | ...use as an engine degreaser? | Busted | The cola didn't remove any of the grease. | | ...use as an effective spermicide? | Busted | The Mythbusters added cola to some slides and saline solution to others. They counted the number of live sperm they could see through a microscope camera in one minute, and found that the number of live sperm in both saline and cola was relatively the same. With the help of Dr. Turek they determine that cola doesn't do much more than dilute the sperm. | Episode 6
Nov. 7, 2003
"Lightning Strikes Tongue Piercing, Tree Cannon, Beat the Breath Test" | Metal piercings increase one's chances of being hit by lightning. | Busted | The lightning does seem to strike a pierced body more, but not the piercings directly. | | Under siege from a neighboring clan, a Medieval Hungarian town built a cannon out of a tree overnight, but wiped out a great deal of itself when the cannon exploded during a test-fire. | Busted/Plausible/Plausible | It is impossible to bore a barrel out of a log in a single night using the technology available at that time. The cannon made of a log, loaded with 6 ounces of powder, successfully fired a 1-pound granite cannonball a significant distance (exact measurement unavailable since the cannonball was not found). Loaded with 2.5 pounds of powder, and with its barrel plugged, the tree cannon exploded violently. | | Using various substances & tricks when drunk can beat the breathalyzer test. | Busted | None of the tested methods worked and a blood sample can always be requested by the police. | Episode 7
Dec. 5, 2003
"Stinky Car, Raccoon Rocket" | A Corvette which has been fouled by a decomposing body... | | | | ...cannot be cleaned up enough to remove the smell completely. | Confirmed | Even with the aid of a professional cleaning company, the smell still lingered in the ventilation system. It could conceivably be done at the cost of completely replacing the ventilation system. | | ...cannot be cleaned up enough to be sold. | Busted | The Mythbusters did find a buyer who was willing to purchase the car for spare parts. | | A hillbilly was blasted 200 feet out of a culvert when he tried to light a raccoon which had wandered down the pipe on fire with gasoline. | Busted | The hillbilly (Buster) was simply lit on fire when the gasoline was ignited. The only way the myth was replicated was by encasing Buster in a foam sabot and propelling him out of the culvert using gun powder. | Episode 8
Dec. 12, 2003
"Escape From Alcatraz, Duck Quack, Stud Finder" | Prisoners successfully escaped Alcatraz prison using an inflatable raft made from rain ponchos. | Plausible | The makeshift raft crafted by the MythBusters team did indeed reach the shore. Listed as "Plausible" because no evidence has ever been found suggesting the prisoners survived the actual incident, and personal effects washed up later on shore, indicating that the men failed to navigate correctly and drowned in San Francisco Bay. | | A duck's quack does not echo. | Busted | When examined by an audio-expert, it was found that the echo was swallowed by the original quack. | | When you go to get blood drawn at the Red Cross, you are actually secretly having mind-controlling computer chips implanted into your bloodstream that can be detected with a stud finder. | Busted | While a stud finder can find microchips (like those used to track pets) embedded in flesh, none were found after a trip to the Red Cross. | Episode 9
Jan. 18, 2004
"Chicken Gun, Octopus Egg Pregnancy, Killer Washing Machine" | A frozen chicken will penetrate aircraft or train windshields better than a thawed chicken. | Busted/Confirmed | Originally, impact time or force transferred was the same for both frozen and thawed chickens. When re-visited, frozen chickens could penetrate sets of layered glass panes better. | | While overstuffing his washing machine with laundry, a man accidentally wedged himself into the machine and tripped the spin cycle, flailing him around, spilling laundry detergent and bleach as he's bludgeoned to death against the shelves. Afterwards, the man's dog urinated on the detergent and bleach, causing an explosion that set the room on fire. | Busted | Not one part of this myth was confirmed to be even plausible, as a normal washing machine drum can be halted in its spin cycle simply by grabbing on to it, and dog urine does not react with bleach or detergent in a way that would cause an explosion. | | A woman, while swimming, accidentally swallows a fertilized octopus egg, which gestates in her stomach and caused symptoms similar to that of pregnancy. | Busted | The human stomach is too inhospitible an environment to sustain an octopus egg through its full gestation. | Episode 10
Feb. 22, 2004
"Explosive Decompression, Frog Giggin', Rear Axle" | Explosive decompression can occur when a bullet is fired through the fuselage of a pressurized airplane | Busted | The pressure is not high enough and the hole is too small. Even when a sizable hole was blown in the fuselage with explosives, the rush of air was nowhere near powerful enough to suck Buster out of the hole. | | A group of hillbillies uses a live rifle cartridge as a makeshift replacement for a burned-out fuse in their truck, but when its started, the bullet is fired, hitting the hillbilly in the passenger seat in the groin. | Busted | The bullet and shell casing both were able to ricochet and penetrate into the passenger compartment but only after the electrical wiring in the car was replaced with some of higher capacity, replicating the conditions where there would have been some other electrical problem (such as a short circuit). | | A steel cable, attached to both a streetlight post and the rear axle of a police car, will be able to yank the rear axle clear out from under the car when it tries to drive off, as seen in American Graffiti. | Busted | The rear axle was able to be pulled loose, but was caught along the underside of the police car and could not clear the trunk. Adam and Jamie theorized that a ramp was used to give the car and axle enough of a boost to wrench the axle completely free. | Episode 11
Jan. 25, 2004
"Sinking Titanic, Goldfish Memory, Trombone Explosion" | A goldfish's memory lasts only three seconds. | Busted | Jamie trained his goldfish to recognize color patterns and complete an obstacle course under water. They remembered what Jamie had taught them over a month later and easily completed the same course without Jamie's prompting. Adam's fish learned to eat their own feces. | | A trombonist had put a firecracker into his mute, and at the final note of the 1812 Overture, launched the mute, striking the conductor and knocking him back into the audience. In addition, the bell of the trombone was blown wide open and the slide was launched. | Busted | Using a firecracker, the mute hit the conductor (Buster), but did not knock him over. When the equivalent of six model rocket engines were used, he fell forwards after being hit. When even more was used, the trombone was practically destroyed, but the bell still did not peel back, nor did the slide launch. | | A sinking ship creates enough suction to pull you under, if you're too close. | Busted | Though using a smaller ship, neither Adam nor Jamie were sucked under when it sank, even when they were riding directly on top of it. | Episode 12
Jan. 25, 2004
"Break Step Bridge, Toothbrush Surprise, Rowing Water Skier" | Soldiers marching in unison can cause harmonic oscillation in a bridge and cause it to collapse. | Busted/Plausible | There were some difficulties in testing this myth conclusively. But when revisited it was shown to be plausible. | | A rowing eight can pull a water-skier. | Confirmed | Jamie was able to stay upright for over 30 seconds, with only a few hours experience in waterskiing. | Episode 13
Feb. 15, 2004
"Buried in Concrete, Daddy—Longlegs, Jet Taxi" | Jimmy Hoffa was buried in Giants Stadium. | Busted | Adam and Jamie tested several areas on the field held by rumor to be Hoffa's final resting place. No readings were found consistent with a cavity left by a body which had rotted away. | | A Daddy long-legs spider has the most potent venom of all spiders, but is unable to pierce human skin. | Busted | A Daddy long-legs was able to bite through the skin of Adam's arm. He reported nothing more than a very mild, short-lived burning sensation. | | Jet wash from an airliner can overturn a taxi if the vehicle passes behind the jet as it goes to full throttle. | Plausible | Adam and Jamie tried overturning a used taxi they had purchased, but were unable to get the car to turn over; they couldn't bust the myth because they were unable to acquire proper jet engines, and had to settle for smaller ones. However, they were able to confirm that a taxi in Brazil was blown off the road by an airliner which was taking off. | Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ...
A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Icicles Ice is frozen water (one of its three phases of matter), and thereby a transparent, crystal solid. ...
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Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ...
Gasoline is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ...
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) is an electric current driven by the excess electric charge stored on an insulating object. ...
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. ...
A weathered brick wall. ...
Third rail at the West Falls Church Metro stop in the Washington, D.C. area, electrified to 750 volts. ...
Binomial name Electrophorus electricus Linnaeus, 1766 The electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) is a most unusual species of fish. ...
Binomial name Electrophorus electricus The electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) is a most unusual species of fish. ...
Genera Eptatretus Myxine Nemamyxine Neomyxine Notomyxine A hagfish is any of several marine chordates of the class Myxini, also known as Hyperotreti. ...
A variety of coins considered to be lower-value, including an Irish 2p piece and many US pennies. ...
Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain. ...
In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes the layer to behave as an elastic sheet. ...
Lightning over Pentagon City in Arlington County, Virginia Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. ...
A breathalyser (or breathalyzer) is a device for estimating blood alcohol content from a breath sample. ...
A sabot (French: shoe) is a device used in a firearm or cannon to fire a projectile or bullet that is smaller than the bore diameter. ...
Alcatraz Island in 2005 Alcatraz Island is located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California. ...
San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae bird family. ...
The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Brainwashing. ...
A microchip is, properly, an integrated circuit (IC). ...
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Front-loading washing machine. ...
Families 14 in two suborders, see text. ...
Explosive decompression (ED) is a sudden drop in pressure that occurs in 0. ...
In an aircraft, the fuselage is the main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. ...
Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ...
American Graffiti is a 1973 film directed by George Lucas. ...
Trinomial name Carassius auratus auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated, and is still one of the most commonly-kept aquarium fish. ...
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A mute is a device which alters the timbre or reduces the volume of a musical instrument. ...
The 1812 overture complete with cannon fire was performed at the 2005 Classical Spectacular The 1812 Overture is an orchestral work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky commemorating the victory of Russia in the Napoleonic Wars in 1812. ...
A harmonic oscillator is a mechanical system in which there exists a returning force F directly proportionate to the displacement x, i. ...
A coxless pair, sweep-oar rowing to the left of the photo; the bowside rower (or the starboard one, although the British term applied on this occasion) is further towards the bow of the boat. ...
James Riddle Jimmy Hoffa (14 February 1913 - 30 July, 1975?) was a noted American labor leader who is also well-known in popular culture for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his still-unexplained disappearance and presumed death. ...
Giants Stadium Giants Stadium is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL football teams, and the MetroStars of Major League Soccer. ...
Genera Pholcus Smeringopus Spermaphora The Daddy long-legs spider, also called the Granddaddy long-legs spider, cellar spider, vibrating spider, or house spider, is a true spider and not a harvestman. ...
An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft (an aeroplane/airplane) initially designed for the transport of paying passengers, and usually operated by an airline company (which owns or leases the aircraft). ...
Season Two | Episode | Myth statement | Status | Notes | Episode 14
June 8, 2004
"Myths Revisited" | Soldiers marching in unison can cause harmonic oscillation in a bridge and cause it to collapse. | Plausible | The first myth-bridge seemingly busted the myth, but a second bridge was good enough to make this myth plausible. Go to the discovery site to see the video of the tests. | | A frozen chicken will penetrate aircraft or train windshields better than a thawed chicken. | Plausible | When re-visited, frozen chickens could penetrate sets of layered glass panes better. | | A meat bullet can also kill someone without leaving a trace. | Busted | Unlike the ice bullet, the meat bullet survived the heat of the gun but fragmented on contact with the skin causing only superficial damage. | | Using one's cell phone while pumping gas/petrol can cause an explosion. | Busted | The battery of retests the MythBusters performed reaffirmed their original Busted verdict. | | Urinating on the electric third rail of a train track or an electric fence can cause electrocution. | Busted/Confirmed | Upon retesting the myth on an electric fence it was found to be Confirmed, but the rail was still Busted. | | Covering your body in gold paint can kill you by skin asphyxiation like in the James Bond movie Goldfinger. | Busted | When Adam retested the myth he reported some discomfort but he nonetheless survived. | Episode 15
July 27, 2004
"Scuba Diver, Car Capers" | A SCUBA diver can be sucked up by a firefighting helicopter and dumped on a forest fire. | Busted | Once out of the water the firefighting apparatus cannot keep enough suction to hold the diver in place. | | If you plug the tailpipe of a car with objects, the engine will be destroyed. | Busted | All objects were shot out immediately after the engine started up. | | Will the engine be destroyed when different household products are put into the tank? | Busted | The engine was not destroyed. | | Will adding mothballs to the fuel tank increase the horsepower? | Plausible | The engine still started, and it sounded more powerful. However, long term damage could occur. | | If a car is shot through the fuel tank, it will explode, and a car door can protect you from bullets in a shoot out. | Busted | The gas tank did not explode. The car door did not stop the bullets shot at it. | | If your radiator is bone dry, can cola be used as a substitute for coolant? And if there is a leak in the radiator, will cracking an egg into the radiator cause the hole to be plugged? | Plausible | The car ran with cola in the radiator, but it may cause damage. The engine was started after the contents of an egg were poured in, and the leak stopped. | | A piece of metal can destroy an engine when it falls in the carburetor. | Busted | A penny dropped in could be heard rattling, but the engine still ran. | | Bleach in the oil can destroy the engine. | Confirmed | The engine started but it soon started smoking, and very quickly overheated. The engine was so hot, that the undercarriage started burning and Adam baked an egg on the tailpipe. The engine was ultimately ruined. | Episode 16
Sept. 29, 2004
"Ancient Death Ray, Skunk Cleaning, What Is Bulletproof?" | Archimedes constructed a death ray by reflecting sunlight onto, and thus igniting, Roman vessels. | Busted? | In order to have any effect, the mirror would have to be impractically large, and even then, the temperature of wood only raised a few degrees. On the Discovery website, however, a challenge was thrown out to the viewers to come up with an experiment to prove it plausible, and so far, a few of the entries seem to have done so. The definitive results will be aired at an as-of-now undetermined time. | | Skunk stink can be removed with... | | | | ...tomato juice. | Plausible | Tomato juice's strong odor masks the skunk smell until the human nose becomes desensitized to the smell of tomatoes, at which point the skunk musk is again noticeable. | | ...commercial cleaners. | Confirmed | Commercial cleaners tested had limited success at eliminating the aroma of skunk musk. | | ...a custom mixture. | Confirmed | A mixture of soap, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda proved to work best for actually eliminating the aroma of skunk musk. The precise formula may be found on the Skunk article. | Episode 17
Oct. 6, 2004
"Elevator of Death, Levitation Machine" | It is possible to survive by jumping up at the last moment before a freefalling elevator hits the ground. | Busted | The jumping power of a human being cannot cancel out the falling velocity of the elevator. The best speculative advice from an elevator expert would be to lie on the elevator floor instead of jumping. | | An average person can build a home-made makeshift hovercraft on a budget of under $1000.00. | Plausible | While they did cheat and go slightly over-budget both Adam and Jamie built two separate functional hovercraft. While Adam's "Lilypad Flyer" and Jamie's "Hyneman Hoverboard" were both rather impractical they worked nonetheless. | Episode 18
Oct. 13, 2004
"Beat the Radar Detector" | Holding a large sheet of plywood will slow a fall from a building enough to make it survivable. | Busted | The fall was almost completely uncontrollable and the impact was still deadly. Even under the best possible conditions the fall wasn't survivable. | | It is possible to legally beat the police speed radar by... | | | | ...jingling your keys. | Busted | The keys had no effect at all. | | ...dangling a Disco ball from the rear-view mirror. | Busted | The Disco ball had no effect at all; not only that, it is illegal to have anything large and obstructive hanging off the rear-view mirror. | | ...dangling CDs from your rear-view mirror. | Busted | The CDs had no effect at all; and it is also illegal. | | ...covering your hubcaps in tin foil. | Busted | The tin foil didn't have any noticeable effect. | | ...covering your entire car in tin foil. | Busted | The tin foil acted as a massive reflector and actually enhanced the radar's detection ability. | | ...jamming the radar by lining your license plate with LED lights. | Busted | The LEDs were not strong enough to interfere with the radar. | | ...jamming the radar by bouncing microwaves at it. | Busted | Kari's "Magnatron" failed. | | ...shooting scraps of tin foil behind your car as chaff. | Busted | There were just too many rogue variables to get the system to work properly, especially wind. The car was still detectable and the chaff did nothing to disrupt the radar. On top of that, it would probably result in a much stiffer penalty for littering. | | ...spinning a wheel of mirrors on top of your car slower than the actual speed of your car. | Busted | Tory's "Wheel of Death" actually tricked the radar into thinking the car was going a mile or two slower, but not enough to help. And that's saying nothing about the sheer impracticality of the device itself. Unlike the rear-view mirror attachments, the roof mounted device was actually not illegal. | | ...painting your car matte-black to absorb the radar and light beams. | Busted | The all black paint did nothing to reduce the car's detectability. | | ...painting your car with special radar absorbing paint, like a stealth aircraft. | Busted | The special paint is loaded with iron and goes on like frosting. It was so heavy that the toy car used in the preliminary tests could barely move. It was never properly tested on the full scale car, because it would be more expensive than just paying off any speeding tickets. | Episode 19
Oct. 20, 2004
"Killer Quicksand" | "Killer Quicksand" like in the movies really exists. | Busted | Quicksand is denser than water; objects are more buoyant in denser liquids. | | One can be killed by dropping an electrical appliance into a bath full of water | Confirmed | The current in most electrical appliances is well above the levels the human body can withstand. | | Tattoos can explode when exposed to an MRI. | Busted | The compounds in the pigments of most tattoos simply do not react to magnetic fields. Old pigments of the color black, which had iron in the composition, could cause some discomfort at most. | Episode 20
Oct. 27, 2004
"Exploding Jawbreaker" | A Jawbreaker can explode when bitten after being heated in a microwave oven. | Confirmed | Microwave heating of a jawbreaker can cause the different layers inside to heat at different rates, yielding an explosive spray of very hot candy when compressed. During one test, a jawbreaker did indeed explode, catching Christine on part of her face, and Adam on part of an arm, as the "jaw rig" they had set up was not enclosed by safety screens. Both suffered light burns. In Florida, a young girl suffered severe burns to her face when one exploded[1]. | | A construction worker accidentally killed himself with static charge after sandblasting an 8" PVC pipe. | Busted | No static charge built on the on pipe in initial testing. Even after they were converted into a Van de Graaff generator and a Leyden jar, the amount of static electricity produced was too ridiculously small to actually kill a person. | | An ordinary playing card can actually kill you if thrown with enough power. | Busted | After shooting Jamie with rather powerful (155 mph, while Adam can throw only with 25 mph) card-throwing machine it drew a little bit of blood, but not much more. | Episode 21
Nov. 3, 2004
"Ping-Pong Rescue" | Ping-pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship. | Plausible | Even though it took a ridiculous number of ping-pong balls (27,000), when enough of them were piped into the Mythtanic II, neutral buoyancy was achieved and the boat rose to the surface. | | A 4 year old child can be lifted by a bunch of party balloons. | Busted | It would require such a ridiculously large number of balloons (3500) to lift an average 4 year old girl just a few feet off the ground that there is no way the myth could be feasible. | Episode 22
Nov. 10, 2004
"Boom-Lift Catapult, AC vs. Windows down" | A boom-lift can potentially catapult its operator 200 feet. | Busted | When a car engine was dropped from the boom lift it barely even wobbled, much less catapulted Buster. In an attempt to replicate the myth result, the boom lift was converted into a catapult, mounted on several shipping containers to give it clearance to rotate. On its first throw, it threw Buster at the ground, and promptly collapsed. | | Running a car with air conditioning on is more fuel efficient than running with the windows down. | Busted | Tests were performed under varying conditions (55 mph versus 45 mph). Also, the 55 mph test was using a computer to estimate fuel efficiency based on air intake, not actual fuel consumption, and showed A/C was more efficient. The 45 mph test was a simple run the tank until it's empty test, and showed open windows were more efficient. (Revisited in episode 38) | Episode 23
Nov. 16, 2004
"Exploding House" | Overusing bug bombs can explode a house. | Confirmed | A house actually exploded in San Diego, California because a family used too many bug bombs and an accidental spark ignited the chemicals in the air. | | Talking helps plants grow. | Partially plausible | Apparently any continuous sound helps. | | It is impossible to find a needle in a haystack. | Plausible | While it is possible to find a needle in a haystack, even using specialized machines to do so takes a considerable amount of time. | Episode 24
Dec. 5, 2004
"Ming Dynasty Astronaut" | A 15th Century Astrologer from China made it into space on a throne powered by 47 bamboo rockets. | Busted | The combined heat from all 47 rockets caused them to explode, completely obliterating the throne and doing significant damage to the stand-in astrologer (Buster) before it ever got off the ground. A throne powered by 47 modern rockets shot violently to one side, due to uneven firing, but wouldn't have had the thrust to lift the chair very far at all, let alone all the way into space. | | A free energy device can be made to harness enough energy to power a house. | Busted | Free energy itself is a scientific fantasy. All of the free energy devices the Mythbusters built consumed more energy than they produced and the only 'successful' device only produced enough electricity to power half a wrist watch. | | A regular house fan can cause decapitation. | Busted | Normal household fans don't have the power to chop a head off while spinning at top speed. An industrial fan is capable of inflicting a fatal injury, but is not powerful enough to take a head off either. Even a purpose-built stainless steel fan powered by a lawnmower engine could not completely sever a head from the neck. | Episode 25
Feb. 16, 2005
"Brown Note, Water Torture" | The infrasonic brown note can cause a human to lose control of their bowels. | Busted | Even after testing a wide range of sub-audible and not-so sub-audible noises on him, not once did Adam lose control of his bowels. Some discomfort was reported however, due to the effects of low-frequency sound on the lungs. | | Chinese water torture causes one to go crazy. | Partly Confirmed | The required torture equipment (and involuntary restrictions on movement) is highly efficient even without adding the discomfort of the water drip. The water drip itself, without the equipment, is almost negligible. | Episode 26
Feb. 23, 2005
"Salsa Escape, Cement Removal" | Salsa was used by a Mexican prisoner to dissolve his bars & escape. | Plausible | More plausible if used in conjunction with a direct current electrical source. | | A stick of dynamite can clean the leftover scraps of concrete from the inside of a cement truck. | Plausible | The dynamite worked surprisingly well and loosened or dislodged a lot of the dried excess concrete. | | A stick of dynamite can remove a slab of concrete from the inside of a cement truck. | Busted | A solid slab of concrete is too hard to remove practically, and is tougher than the truck itself; they "removed" it using so much explosive material that the truck was (for all intents and purposes) disintegrated, and the observers had to stand a mile away. Billed as the biggest-ever explosion on the show. | Episode 27
March 2, 2005
"Exploding Port-a-Potty, Car Pole-Vault" | Lighting a cigarette in a port-a-potty filled with methane gas will cause an explosion. | Busted | Not enough gas is produced by the decomposing waste in the port-a-potty for it to possibly be flammable. You would need to be in a tightly sealed off port-a-potty filled with thick methane gas in order for it to be flammable. By the time the gas was thick enough in the air to become flammable you would have long-since passed out from asphyxiation. Bigger amounts of decomposing waste can produce more gas, and sewer gas explosions are a known safety hazard. | | A broken driveshaft dragging on the ground can pole vault a car end-over-end if it strikes a pothole. | Busted/Partly Plausible | A car cannot be made to go end-over-end by striking a pothole with the driveshaft. The back end of the car can be lifted, but the likelihood of an event like this happening is so astronomically improbable it's just as good as Busted. | Episode 28
March 9, 2005
"Is Yawning Contagious?" | Over a 1/4 mile long down-hill course a toy car can beat a full size Dodge Viper powered only by gravity. | Busted | The toy car was able to beat the Viper over 20 feet but over the full length of the course the Viper won by a ridiculously wide margin. | | A person can be subconsciously influenced into yawning if another person near them yawns. | Confirmed | In a test pool of 50 people those who were influenced into yawning by the MythBusters yawned 29% of the time. However, those who were not influenced yawned only 25% of the time. | | Toast prefers to land buttered side-down when dropped. | Busted | In an extensive and highly objective test the toast showed no statistical preference for landing buttered side-down or up when dropped. It was an even 50-50 split when the final results were compared. However, when shoved off the side of a table, toast showed preference to flip once and land buttered side down. | Episode 29
March 23, 2005
"Cooling a Six-Pack" | A six-pack of beer can be rapidly cooled by burying it in sand, pouring gasoline on top of it, and lighting the gasoline. | Busted | The fire did not significantly alter the temperature of the beer. Furthermore, Adam and Jamie each tried to build devices which could rapidly cool a six-pack in under 30 seconds, but neither succeeded. A fire extinguisher, however, was able to cool a six-pack to a satisfactory temperature in approximately three minutes. | | The ancient people of Babylon created a crude battery for use in... | | | | ...electroplating? | Plausible | An overnight plating of zinc over copper seemed to work very well. | | ...acupuncture therapy? | Plausible | The electricity from the batteries was felt through the acupuncture needles, though the needles eventually grew hot, causing the Build Team to theorize this technique also being used as a form of torture. | | ...testing spiritual resolve? | Plausible | While the ancient batteries weren't used on the recreation Ark of the Covenant due to their weak charge (approximately a third of a volt each, or almost 4 volts for a set of ten), Adam theorized that, if any charge was felt with the batteries, the ancient people would believe it to be of divine origin due to their lack of knowledge about electricity. | Episode 30
March 30, 2005
"Son of a Gun" | An American Civil War soldier impregnated a woman after being shot in the groin and having the bullet continue on into the woman in question. | Busted | No spermatozoa could be found alive. In addition, it was well documented that an abdominal wound would have been fatal to the woman (or man) in that era. | | A person can be electrocuted by talking on the phone or using the shower during a lightning storm. | Confirmed | Plausible with the shower. | | A boat can be driven with its trailer still attached. | Confirmed | There is a huge loss in maximum speed. A trailer shop owner said on the show that he once had to deliver a boat and trailer to a customer in such a manner. | Episode 31
May 18, 2005
"Breaking Glass" | A wine glass shatters if a person sings at the right tone. | Confirmed | A vocal coach was able to break the glass using both a microphone and his unaided voice. Adam was also able to break the glass using a microphone. | | A rolling stone can truly gather no moss | Confirmed | While a rolling stone can pick up moss when rolled down a hill, that moss cannot grow onto the rock while it's rolling. | | A shop vacuum can transform into a jet engine if you use it to suck up gasoline. | Busted | Newer model vacuums have the air flow isolated from the engine, and even if it wasn't, all you would get is a small fire. | Episode 32
June 9, 2005
"Jet Pack" | A Jetpack can be built from plans purchased off the internet and limited funds. | Busted | The jetpack produced by the Mythbusters was not powerful enough to even lift itself off the ground, and they had to cheat to create it. The sum of its parts cost too much to be allow the average person to build it on a budget and the plans didn't have enough details to give builders a clear example of what to build. | | Pyramid power can be harnessed for a variety of purposes around the home. | Busted | The build team constructed a series of pyramid frames using the precise measurements and dimensions required to "harness" pyramid power. Four tests were performed: keeping razor blades sharp, preventing food from spoiling (one test for milk, another for an apple), and preventing the decay of a flower. The apple test at first seemed to be working, however it was later discovered that a contaminated saw blade (used to half the apple) may have given one half a higher microbial load than the other. A repeated test using sterile equipment yielded approximately the same decay rate for each half. Ironically, a similar test with 'cube power' showed the fruit rotting at a faster rate than the other two tests. | Episode 33
June 22, 2005
"Killer Brace Position" | The brace position was actually designed by the airline industry to kill you rather than save you during an airplane crash. | Busted | The brace position protected the test subject (Buster) from serious and possibly fatal injuries. When the test subject was not braced he suffered far more serious injuries. | | Driving while talking on a cell phone is just as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. | Confirmed | Both Adam and Kari failed a general-purpose road safety test while talking on a cell phone and while driving drunk. | Episode 34
July 13, 2005
"Bulletproof Water" | Hiding underwater can stop bullets from hitting you. | Confirmed | Higher velocity bullets disintegrate in less than 3 feet of water, but slower velocity bullets, like rounds from a pistol need up to 8 feet of water to slow to non-lethal speeds. | | It is possible to do a chain-straight 360° loop on a swingset. | Busted | Under your own power it is impossible to do a chain-straight 360° loop on a school yard swingset. You'd need a rocket strapped to you to do it. | | It is possible to do a 360° loop on a rigid-arm swingset. | Confirmed | A seventh generation circus performer confirmed the myth by doing a 360° loop while Tory, Kari and Grant observed. | Episode 35
July 27, 2005
"Border Slingshot" | Illegal immigrants are being launched over the United States border by the means of a giant slingshot. | Busted | In addition to being unable to achieve the distance and accuracy reported, the device could not be constructed in a way to allow quick assembly and disassembly required for the myth. In addition, the person being thrown would likely be killed on impact. | Episode 36
August 3, 2005
"Killer Tissue Box" | A simple tissue box stored on the backboard of a car can move with sufficient force to kill a person during a crash. | Busted | Sharp objects or objects with masses over 3lbs. (1.3 kg), like a bowling ball, can be deadly if they fly forward during a crash. Lighter objects like tissue boxes may cause injury but cannot kill. | | It is possible to split an arrow perfectly down the middle with a second arrow like in the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood. | Busted | While it is certainly possible to rear-end an arrow with another, only a fiberglass arrow can be split down the middle (known as telescoping in archery circles). With a wooden arrow, even under the most ideal conditions, the best you can do is a partial split along the wood's grain. | Episode 37
August 10, 2005
"Escape Slide Parachute" | It is possible to jump from an airplane and use an inflatable life raft to safely return to earth (ala Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) | Busted | Any attempt to use the raft failed due to the instability of the raft in freefall. It was possible to rig the raft as a parachute and land with minimal injuries, but this would not be possible to perform while jumping from a disabled aircraft. | | ...Using an escape slide instead of the raft. | Busted | While it was shown that the slide could safely land Buster with no injuries, he had to be strapped in and there is no possible way to perform this from a disabled aircraft. | | A person strapped into the rear stewardess seat could survive the destruction of the aircraft in flight by having the surviving tail section slow her fall and absorb impact. | Plausible | While Adam and Jamie's attempt to recreate the incident resulted in Buster once again being busted, this did indeed happen. The stewardess was severely injured in the incident, but did survive. It was agreed that could happen if circumstances were just right. | | A number of Canadian Air Force pilots were explosively decapitated when their hair gel exploded in the cockpit's oxygen rich environment. | Busted | After recreating the environment in an F-104 Starfighter cockpit, it took some effort to ignite the hair product. Even with extreme amounts of product, the best result was a fire and/or small explosion, which came nowhere near decapitating the test head. It is confirmed that there have been a number of incidents in which small fires have occurred, but there are no recorded fatal injuries. It was noted that a fire in an oxygen rich environment killed the astronauts of Apollo 1. | [[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] {{{diversity}}} Binomial name Gallus gallus Trinomial name {{{trinomial}}} Type Species {{{type_species}}} {{{subdivision_ranks}}} [[Image:{{{range_map}}}|{{{range_map_width}}}|]] Synonyms {{{synonyms}}} A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ...
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Season Three | Episode | Myth statement | Status | Notes | Episode 38
October 12, 2005
"MythBusters Revisited" | A body struck by a bullet will be propelled violently backwards. | Re-Busted | Even a .50 Caliber bullet doesn't have the kinetic energy to knock a person backwards. If it was possible, the shooter would knock himself backwards too. | | Explosive decompression can occur when a bullet is fired through the fuselage of a pressurized airplane | Re-Busted | After testing more variables, primarily the speed of the wind rushing past the open bullet-hole and its effect on the plane's pressure, it was found that it would still not be enough to cause an explosive decompression. | | It's better to run, than walk in the rain. | Confirmed | When retrying the test in actual rain it was conclusively proven that the running test subject got less wet than the walking test subject. The use of artificial rain in the original test lead to a false negative. | | Holding a large sheet of plywood will slow a fall from a building enough to make it survivable. | Re-Busted | After testing the speed of updrafts with a special rig on Tory's truck it was proven that you could not hold on to the piece of plywood if you were in free fall. A mere 45mph gust knocked it out of Tory's hands; updrafts from skyscrapers reach upwards of 90mph. | | A black car heats up faster than an identical white car. | Confirmed | This myth was a spin off from the Biscuit Bazooka myth, which was already proven confirmed in two previous tests. A fan wrote in and asked a follow up question: "Does the color of a car affect the way it heats up?". The MythBusters used two identical cars, one black the other white and left them both out in the summer heat with thermometers in both. By mid-afternoon the black car had heated up to a temperature of 135ºF while the white car topped off at 126ºF, almost 10º cooler. | | Running a car with air conditioning on is more fuel efficient than running with the windows down. | Confirmed | The fundamental flaw in the MythBusters' test was that the point where the drag becomes powerful enough to inhibit a car's performance with windows down was inside their 45-55mph margin at 50mph. Going less than 50mph it is more efficient to leave your windows down, but going greater than 50mph it is more efficient to use your A/C. | | A gas tank will explode when shot by a bullet. | Busted | It has already been proven that when shot by a normal bullet a gasoline tank will not explode. However, if a gasoline tank is shot by a tracer round from a far-enough distance so that the round can ignite with air friction, it will cause the gasoline to catch fire. By the time this happened in the test the tank was so riddled with bullets that there was no contained pressure, but the MythBusters surmised that had the tank been properly enclosed it would have exploded. | Episode 39
October 19, 2005
"Chinese Invasion Alarm" | The ancient Chinese were able to detect an invading army tunneling beneath the ground by using a drum submerged in a shaft. | Plausible | Kari was able to hear Jamie and Tory's digging in an underground mine shaft in two of the three tests. She actually detected them by listening to the drum better than modern equipment used by Grant. | | The "Five Second Rule" is valid when it comes to food dropped on the floor. | Busted | This myth yielded a varied number of results, but in the definitive test where the only variable was time the myth was definitively busted. There was no real difference in the amount of bacteria collected from 2 seconds exposure as there was from 6 seconds exposure. | | The toilet seat is the cleanest place in your house. | Confirmed | Adam tested this myth just out of curiosity and when the results were compared to the bacteria samples from the "Five Second Rule" tests, the toilet seat actually proved cleaner than all other surfaces tested. | | A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's. | Confirmed | The sample collected from Adam's mouth had much more bacterial growth than the sample collected from Lulu the dog. | Episode 40
October 26, 2005
"Confederate Rocket" | During the American Civil War, the Confederacy built and launched a two stage rocket 200 miles from Virginia to | |
