Explosive Prison Break! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 3 | Full Episode
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- The team tested whether a prisoner could use antacid tablets as explosives to make a break out of jail!
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Mad respect for officially posting these episodes on CZcams 👍
I watch it years back in TV:):)
@@joe125ful yeah we all did
Anyone else think the water flowing into a sealed room (also possibly carrying some air) would cause the pressure to go up?
@@triple7988 Yes, it will. Until the pressure is equal to that in the tube and it will equiblirate and stop flowing. Why? That pressure by itself won't break any walls.
@@mawns Not sure I followed that. Adding any volume to a sealed room will increase the pressure, the hose is very high pressure by comparison to anything else in that environment. Water and most stable liquids in general are semi non-compressible below pressures probably equivalent to an atomic bomb at the very least. Meaning the gas in the room is pressurized by both its own generation and the water.
They were the crazy CZcamsrs before CZcams was a thing
The youtubers just copied them...
So sad i didnt grow up with this show. Such a good show for a kid to watch ngl.
@@w_ldan I watched this as a kid with my parents all the time. It got me really interested in science and robotics but unfortunately I never took part lol-- Only in a sect of science.
I am glad the full episodes of this series are available publicly on CZcams. This show helped me and my brothers get interested in math and engineering.
This show is why my cousin is in jail for messing with explosives.
Awesome. Did breaking bad inspire you to do meth under the overpass?
@@digi3218 he didn't follow the instructions . There was a clear disclaimer
This a a trip back to my childhood
Me too I realized I am now the age Jamie and Adam were when filming these
R.I.P. Jesse and Grant.
Huh? What happened?
@@xmine08 Jesse died in a successful attempt at being the fastest woman alive on four wheels a few years ago.
And Grant died if I'm not mistaken during a surgery because of a medical emergency.
May they rest In peace ❤
@@donnysabel23no, Grant died from a brain aneurysm, not during a surgery, it just randomly happened. He was dead within seconds.
Damn, did not know about jesse. That sucks
Oh wow I knew about Grant but not Jessie. She was wonderful! That's sad.
Just when I needed some familiar comfort, I can now watch old episodes whenever I want. Thank you to whoever did this.
Zero was like.... " oh snap these two together cant be good" 😂
Thank you all the Mythbusters for the wonderful memories sitting with my dad and brothers watching and learning from you guys!
One problem with the driving in the dark mith. Is the fact a smuggler would memorize the route. They would probably travel the same route multiple times before teying to smuggle somthing over the boarder.
I frequently drive on long stretches of highway 17 (Trans-Canada highway) in the middle of the night for work and even though I know the route I would never attempt it without headlights. Moose can be nearly invisible even with high beams on and I've had more than a few close encounters with one suddenly lumbering out of a ditch onto the road.
@@falseshadow1220I don't even have moose here but deer would be enough to deter me from trying it. Plus it's impossible to gauge distance
@@falseshadow1220 The issue isn’t would people want to do it or would it be easy. The issue is smugglers memorize the route to make it easier for them. Moonshiners in the US would talk about how they would memorize all the routes they could take to make it easier to drive with no lights. Again not stating it makes it easy, just what smugglers actually do to make it easier
Or they can just spend 4000$ on NVGs....
Edit : wow, they do get NVGs
@pepebeezon772 Back during prohibition, there was no such thing as night vision goggles.
RIP Grant Imahara and RIP Jessi Combs…
😢😢😢😢😢
Oh, she's the one that died.
I was thinking it was the one with the tattoos from the earlier seasons.
So sad, too young.
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst That would be Scottie… As far as I know she’s still alive..
I totally agree sir.
Not only to what you have said: So sad, too young....
But i also agree with your nickname.
German Sausages are the Wurst indeed. And i love em for it.
I think they taste much better than any Klobasa.
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
Krainerwurst is better than Kranjska Klobasa. (eventhough they are basically the same)
@@matthewlo7868
Sadly:
Death
Combs died on August 27, 2019, after crashing a jet-powered car while setting a land-speed record as part of the North American Eagle Project on a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert, Oregon.[2][3][7][8] The crash was caused by a failure of a front wheel, likely caused by hitting an object in the desert, which caused the front wheel assembly to collapse at a speed nearing 523 mph (842 km/h).[25] The official cause of death was determined to be "blunt-force trauma to the head" occurring prior to the fire that engulfed the race vehicle after the crash.[25]
They forgot to account for the vessel volume in the displacement against water. For an air-air displacement it wouldn't have been a problem but for two gases/liquids with different densities it does.
Also, in the pressure cooker, the amount of water is the limiting factor preventing calcium bicarbonate from turning into CO2
Yeah, I was thinking too, that they had no control over how much water they could release in the pressure cooker...
There would be a small compensation required, at 0psi the vessel displacement would not effect the results. No water in the exit pipe will, but the test starts at atmosphere and ends at atmosphere so all gas produced will be displaced.
That isn't true. They showed in their volume test that a tiny amount of water can activate a lot of pills. The water activates the chemical reaction but it's not a part of it. With the pressure cooker it's just that at 20-25 psi the external pressure prevent it gassing off. Since it has to expand to do that.
Also with the water displacement idea they already showed that antacid can get up to 25psi on it's own and the pressure in the building was nowhere near that so it's kind of a moot point.
Very sloppy test.
Pv = nrt
They are not chemists
There was an incident that made the news in Atlanta a few years ago. A police department set up a speed check on the interstate. They picked up a few moderately over the limit, but they picked up one going something like 160 MpH that they couldnt see. So the did the same thing for s couple more nights snd pocked up the same speed with no lights. So they did it sgain and set up a roadblock a couple miles fown the road. Turns out it was a drug runner droving a sports car (don't remember which one) ehere the driver eas using night vision goggles.
With that speed I would almost think a plane. 140 knots is no problem for a small plane. As in, going that slow without staling. V2 on a lightly loaded 737 is like 130 kn, and if you put it full it's closer to 1760.
so glad you guys are posting these episodes, im on a binge now.....hits me right in my childhood lol
When I was a child, I thought that they were actually talking about maple syrup smuggling due to wanting to dodge import taxes or something
There are actual maple syrup smugglers
Now it sounds reasonable with the cost of everything I'd bet people do smuggle maple syrup now
RIP Jessi and Grant. You will be missed.
It made me sad when I remembered that both of them have died :(
@@Quake120 yeah me too.
I am happy they did something with MythBusters after they abandoned the IP , I did not think they would do anything with it after they did force Allen Pan to give up the name when he did own it 100% legally. It seems it not who's right but how much money you have, But they did something good out of something bad, so i will give them that.
Well Alan doesn't have the charisma to carry such a grand title of Mythbuster.. guy is too whiny
The obvious attempt must be completely different. Some hole in the wall. Feed in a plastic bag. Add the pills. Add the water.
This is what I was thinking. If the inmate had spent 10 years in the same cell, it is very likely that he had managed to chisel a hole in a block and hide his tablets there... then he only needed to bust out a few wall blocks to make his escape. This myth is NOT busted, just tested under the wrong conditions.
@@ubergeek1968 Unfortunately that's a pretty common occurrence with the show, and it's one big flaw. They rarely tested things as they'd realistically happen, and instead tended to just go for the "exactly as stated" route, or the "biggest" route for the sake of tv.
The smuggler myth in this episode is another example, where they kind of went against the spirit of the myth the whole time. The idea of the myth was that smugglers would go down a road with a border checkpoint, (that they were probably pretty familiar with), and in the stretch leading up to the check point they'd cut their lights and drive past without the border patrol noticing them. So, of course, they tested by using a curving track in the complete dark, after their eyes had adjusted, making sure they weren't familiar with it, and had the cops notice and chase them during the night vision test which defeats the whole purpose.
Don't get me wrong, the show was still very entertaining, and it has some great science in general. It's just that their methodology tended to lean more towards entertainment than proper testing.
I agree that would most likely be the method used. especially because prison doors are generally solid steel core even when it has a window in it. also they're about an inch and half thick to two inches thick. prior corrections officer chiming in.
It needs to be enclosed from all sides, otherwise bag just pops instead.
@@cyphi474they could use modified corks. There’s an explosive device called non-explosive demolitions which use pressure from chemical reactions to destroy stone. I think if there were a handful of holes, it would be possible.
Nice little detail having busters inmate number being pi
Noticed that too
If you had some current NV, you could drive way better than they did with those.
Also, it's going to be a lot brighter driving outside at night than it is in a blacked out building.
cloudy night up north it's pretty close to blackout conditions, however, running that border pre-2001 used to be easy, Then it got a lot stricter. But most of the smuggling along coastal regions like Maine and Quebec, smuggling wasn't happening over the land crossing very much, it was on fishing boats, milbridge Maine was up until at least 2015 a smugglers haven, a lot of jagged rocky coast, that was hard to navigate, they could and did move a lot of ganj into the states, and something loosely derived from morphine out to Canada. I don't know how true it holds these days, but when I was living in that area, it was not even a secret, everyone knew exactly what was going on, They would frequently seize shipments that were in "storage" waiting to go out of town, or had just arrived.
You're right though that with modern tech it would be significantly easier, and that it's not the same as a blacked out building but from the perspective of someone that lived near that border, it can be a lot darker than most people think, it's remote. But the crossings have overhead lighting now as well, so it's again, a myth that absolutely has some validity, however more common methods were to avoid the marked crossings altogether.
Lol no they were using gen 3 tubes
Yeah also something I thought of is they wanted the test to be with them no memorizing the course, but if a smuggler was running stuff through the border he's likely to take the same route every time and know it very well
@@loonyshots5879 Exactly what i was thinking, maybe they would have 2 or 3 different routes if they wanted to be safe.
@@jjbeast00 Yeah, I'm no smuggler but I know from experience running from cops in modified cars that if you know a road well enough all it takes is luck that you don't hit an object in the road, but going 100 plus you aren't reacting to a damn animal in the road regardless of if you can see it or not
Hell yeah brother. Thanks to whoever made this happen.
This show had such an impact, I will always carry these episodes in my heart
Thank you for these full episodes of a fantastic show.
Glad to know that im not the only one who has fond memories of this show
I can only imagine how much psi that firetruck pump was adding to the sealed bag compared to the antacid reaction .
I love this ACAB episode that teaches us how to break out of prison and smuggle across the U. S. border.
“The man voted most likely to burn rubber in a drive through” XD
I was looking on some "streaming" websites for the episodes recently. I'm so happy to be able to see them officially
Gosh I love this show
All i could keep keep thinking while watching this is where is the prisoner gonna be. He would get squished also. Glad they said that at the end
Problem is that prison cells are not built with cinder blocks
They reinforced the blocks with concrete and rebar and the blocks weren't the failure point. What's the problem?
I'm happy that I found this channel.
22:45 - 23:00 Was an interesting little side bit. Also, why does Grants robot "Blinky" make me think of Johnny Five?
20:23 - the camera is labelled Princess Leia
11:43
That maple syrup looks suspiciously green and the leaves look a bit too thin. 😁
Thanks!
Team B never handled their myths right. The whole idea was to: 1. Find a straight road. 2. Memorize the road. 3. turn the headlights of only when necessary.
Great videos thank you for sharing quality entertainment now that tv is shit
Adam's Prince Faquad hair, though...
"The man voted most likely to burn rubber in a drivethrough" 😂😂 wtf
wat een leuke aflevering! groetjes uit Nederland!
Massolos. Das de balle op z'n spaans, althans volgens de broertjes de Boer.
I want those 4in Mythbuster action figures 🤩
22:00 The fact that they did this with Glass and no PPE sets a bad example, other than that, love the show!!
Nostalgia!!!
Is the whole concept silly? sure. Is this still entertaining yess.
The concept isn't silly at all. Finally someone is testing the bs you throw around you
brilliant
Funny now we have that on our phones
As someome on the border with Canada, if the moon is out and there is snow on the ground it may as well be daylight. That myth wasn't properly tested, sadly.
Wouldn't the pipes from the toilet & sink get rid of the pressure?
Crazy to think that out of the 3, Tory is the only one thats still alive :(((
Dresden Codak T-shirt, cool.
Adam acting like an Auction Caller is honestly hilarious
As a Canadian I can confirm our favorite pass time is syrup smuggling
Oh man that's a bad antacid trip.
Ya know whats interesting; this really doesn't look that dated. This is 15yrs old and looks like it could be on TV or streaming today. The resolution and editing look current to me. 15yrs before this??? Watch a show from 1994, crazy difference
In the prison escape part. Where would the inmate of been and survive the pressure
One explanation they didn't tell was that simoly adding a large valume of water without anything else would increase the psi in the room.
Pills and digestive systems
Where the hell would a convict store all those thousands of mentos??? 😂😂😂
I was expecting them busting a lock open, not an entire room 😂.
I think if the antacid was contained to one specific section of a wall , just enough to breach that section it would work.I don't think trying to pressurize the entire cell was the right approach. If the prisoner found a way to sandwich a container inside the layers of the wall then maybe it's plausible.
its never actually pitch black outside
you can definitely see enough to drive
Love the Mythbusters. A word to the wise. If one did decide to get in to the maple syrup smuggling buisness, the Mythbusters aren't the only ones that have infrared cameras. 😊
Tory going slow and safely. And quiet. Because what hood is rushing when you crash or get caught by the noise.
is it possible the inmate put the bag and all the fixin's inside the wall somehow, instead of the whole sell? This way he wouldnt squish or suffocate himself.
The night driving one is definitely possible with very little stars. Highly doubt they tried it on a pitch black night
I find it very interesting that Canada bans things like guns and nigh-tvision goggles but America bans Maple Syrup smuggling.
I love how Buster's inmate number is π... 🤣😁😎
I miss this show
2 Legends
How did they not immediately factor in the volume of water when the pressure from the tablets didn't stay consistent in the bigger container 😱
I hope they got all the glass cleaned up, don't want zero stepping in it.
The first couple seeming exponential makes sense. With 1 basically half the gas is still in the first chamber and line. With two tabs maybe 70% of the pressure will register, and it will slowly regulate until a number where the gas remaining in the drop flask is negligible and the graph goes linear. Idk if they're pretending this is news or they're ignorant for viewers.
41:31 OOOUUUUHHHHH
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The season when Adam's hair resembles Jamie's mustache
I had never noticed Adam receding hairline + long hair with no combover.
Is there anyone else with this style on TV in recent years ?
If I was going to use a plastic bag of antiacids to break out I wouldn't try to break open all the walls I'd try to break one wall.
god i missed this show
Ah yes the Drill. I saw that in the James Cann film Thief. And you can watch it if you want to know what he used the drill for. 😅
Great video, I would wish though, that they had tried with better nightvision. I don't think smugglers care about legal equipment...
The vast majority of smuggling is done via legal ports though. Smuggling goods always have a very high value density otherwise it's not worth it so hiding 100 grams among 100 tons of other goods is worth it.
@@MrMarinus18 sure, but in this case we are talking about them driving at night, without lights on, so if anything else is illegal from there, I'm sure they would care 😊
@@mBlackThunder (My post is gone so I'm doing this from memory)
My point was that cross border illegal smuggling is actually a fairly small portion of smuggling. The vast majority of smuggling is done via legal ports where enormous quantities of goods already flow in/out.
It's like hiding a tree in a forest.
@@MrMarinus18 I'm sure it is so. It's like I've always said. If you wanna tune your moped, at least make sure that you're wearing a helmet that your lights are working 😄.
1 crime at a time.
Plink plink fizz fizz, busted that's what this myth is.
practically if i was a prisoner id not try and pressure the whole cell id instead try just the door jam using my bed to hold it in place
Rip Adams hair
Lord fourquad loookkkiiinnnn
I don't think they could have found a better fill in for Karri than Jesse . She did an awesome job!! RIP Jesse!!
I just realized something. The getaway car would have police tailing them, and the driver wouldn't have that much darkness. You're also presenting a worst case scenario. I've never had game animals and fallen timber on the road in the same trip.
my issue with this myth is that for the tablets to work the inlets for the water had to be airtight right to the tanks of water so maybe the pressure they got in the last test was because they not only had a better seal but surely pumping a non compressible liquid into the bubble will cause pressure even without the tablets id say myth unconfirmed
Well, considering a standard air pressure at sea level is 14.7 psi, if the internal pressure shows 14.7 psi versus outside, that’s actually 2 atm. So for it to start leveling off at somewhere close to 20 psi, here’s a couple of additional things going on, including the fact that, as pressure increases, less gas is going to fall out of solution. You’re gonna need a more reactive substance. 10:01
They need to account for the water absorbing co2 as pressure increases more co2 will dissolve into water 😊
Trust me when I tell you....I can drive in the moonlight no problem. Hence the name MOONshine
There are just so many factors they did not consider when doing these shows. Such as, why would anyone choose a route to smuggle that they did NOT know?. They would know that route like their own hand, which would make it much easier to navigate. Ontop of that, any border patrols would not sit in total darkness. They would be in a lit up room most likely, and NOT have a dark vision, making it nearly impossible to see outside, making it less nessesary for absolute pitch darkness..
As for the exploding room, adding more tablets will still only have effect up to a certain amount, if the water is not increased as well. Not to add that they made the amount of acid and soda SUPER high in their second test... Why?.. Their first test failed because of the amount of tablets/water, but a faulty bubble that leaked. WIth a bubble that did NOT leak, it might still have happend. Could easily have changed the results, but going over the top like this proves, or disproves nothing at all.. "Can a hand grenade blow up a car?... I have no clue, but let us use 20 pounds of dynamite, cause our hand grenade did not go off."..... What?. lol.
I am not saying I am correct, but it should have been considered.. Still loved the shows, more then anything lol
OK send an email to Tested and ask Adam why.
They have stated that they only had so much time per myth and ran multiple myths together so they had to put limits on how far they could test.
Also in some cases (like these) they were testing the theory and science of a myth more than the reality of it.
@verynefarious waste of time?. I made a comment with my thoughts, not a request to redo the episode lol. Imagine reading a comment on youtube, and get upset about it 🤭
Bile green is my fave color
You should stay it with a flexible fuel tank, so then you can build enormous amounts of pressure before it explodes, instead 9f plastic with multiple weaknesses as in points where the pieces are joined with tape.
Great experiment as always.
One of my favourite all time shows, and without Adam and Jamie, the show just wouldn't work in my opinion, weird thing is though, it's like the two of them are like ⅔ of my whole.
We'd get on so well as I also love creating experiments although I have to watch the from within my imagination until I see Adam or Jamie do them or something similar.
Not the same without them, sorry but others can't even compare.
Science is so cool
39:00 i bet she was a happy woman!!
It really sucks that Jesse and Grant are no longer with us.
I want to hear how the conversation went for the person who placed an order for 100s of thousands of antacid tablets
I’m curious as to what was happening with the “exponential” growth of volume and pressure in the small scale test.
From PV=nRT (or specifically P=nRT/V) it makes sense that increasing the Volume means less growth of pressure from the same amount of gas. (Meaning different behaviour at small scale and large scale models).
But I don’t get where the “exponential” growth comes from… is it some chemical thing that causes more gas to be released? Is the reaction exothermic causing temperature to go up thus increasing pressure? Or did they add a lot more water causing more of the tablets to react? I wish I didn’t suck at chemistry…
It's a lot darker inside a building with no lighting than it is outside.
this one had me going from the start because the night driving myth is not herd of around here . mostly done by moon shiners an or just out right dip sticks looking to ditch the cops in the rule parts of oklahoma at night .an the antacid one was so funny when the door broke it sounded much like a massive burp