Did Benjamin Franklin Discover Electricity Through A Kite? | Season 4 Episode 8 | Full Episode
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- Tory, Grant, and Kari investigate the myth that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity by flying a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm.
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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These old Mythbusters seasons are cozy.
Agree
Yep reminds me of better days love it🙏
Agreed. Literally the only way I can fall asleep atm. Not in a bad way in a way like they calm me down. And the old seasons always work best
As a tested viewer it's wild to see younger Adam
Was about to comment how I love the lack of explosions
"Voice of the Toothless One" - I'm so keeping that
Tory, Grant and Karey laugh as though they're close friends. Loved them in The Rabbit Project.
Ah the 2000s. When you can show on TV a cartoon of one of the presenters being shot right in the head, but you can’t say the word “fart”. Innocent days.
What I learned from this episode is that Benjamin Franklin wasn't US president, and that MythBusters never had vitamin C poisoning
This Narrator is Gold!
Please keep up the uploads, loving having these to watch
Sadly, some episodes will randomly and mysteriously go "hidden" after a while, or possibly be taken down... Most of the seasons on CZcams have lots of missing episodes.
@@gabrielswee585 oh man, that's so sad
They keep saying "Kari's kite" but its literally a different kite each time LOL
I thought that Franklin had the key up with the kite in the sky to see if the key would draw the lightning not weather it would conduct electricity or not. I mean, even in Franklins days they would know that a lightningstrike has a lot of power.
The difference between drawing lighting and conducting electricity is not as big as you seem to think. Infact maybe the exact same thing.
@@maasicas Yeah but the difference here would that Franklin wouldn't have been near the key and a metal key discharges the lightning traveling down the string easier than just a string would if the key was with the kite high up. Or maybe Franklin wasn't even holding the string, but tied it up to something instead.
Actually Ben invented electricity and he stood on a nylon carpet!
He experienced electricity most certainly did not discover it
This is like a lottery everytime... will mr Narrator be in Monospeaker this time or not?
These episodes are pure memberberries... I member why I had the biggest crush on Kari Byron when I was in high school 😍
Memberberries is surely someone else's name for their testicles.
Finally... some good food on masterchef.
bhahahhahhha
Sulfur and methane gas are noxious but sulfur dioxide is deadly
What a nice episode to watch during my lunch break.
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cant believe they didnt take protein shakes lol
I think this is the most expensive duct tape ad in history.
Benjamin Franklin may very well have drawn out sparks from a key hanging on a rope attached to a kite. If the kite was flying high on a day of lightning, it didn't need to discharge into the rope. The potential difference between the high flying kite and the ground would have been enough to discharge statics. Static electricity from such a storm passing overhead has extremely high voltage (electrical force) but very little current (number of electrons) compared to a lightning discharge - which has BOTH extremely high current (measured in Ampere) AND voltage (measured in Volts).
This is an error on the MythBusters Team. If they had a Van de Graaff machine, say on the size of a Thunder Storm, they would easily have produced high enough voltage to see sparks jump from the key to something connected to the ground. Sparks with phenomenal voltage but with very little current flowing through them.
The second source of error is that they tested this in a laboratory of an electrical company. Such a company deals in testing equipment for grounding faults from their grid. That means BOTH high voltage AND high currents, but not anything nearly as powerful as a lightning. And to test Static Discharges, this equipment is unsuitable, because it also delivers high currents.
The third source of errors is in the Ballistics Gel they used AND their interpretations of the Data. First of all, since they made sparks with high currents instead of extremely high voltage with hardly any current, such as in a Static Discharge, it's no wonder they saw the Lethal Shock in the simulant's heart. A Static Discharge on the other hand could in extreme cases be lethal, but hee they cranked up the current to produce the sparks, leaving an invalid test.
And then there is the ballistics gel. They didn't measure that for water and electrolyte content. So, in order to get a spark to jump to ground through - what I expect to have been a dummy with much, much higher resistivity than a human body - they needed a spark with much higher current than what Dr. Franklin drew off as Static Electriciy.
They did the kites wrong in the first.
You don't even need a kite. When I was a kid I discovered I could draw sparks off a long wire antenna I'd rigged up for my crystal radio. I had to be really careful not to give myself a shock with it just picking up atmospheric electricity. It was only about 15 ft off the ground.
no fucking way did they air this with those crazy strobe lights
S tier 2000s TV. LOL didn't Tori actually reuse the fart catcher in Jackass 4? pretty sure he did, it was a Steve-O bit
Franklin never made the experiment. And by lying about it, he killed a number of people who tried to replicate it.
I cant belueve people get offended over farts 😂
I thought the same, never met anyone offended over farts
@@jackarrossi9584 Public TV so I guess bored housewives with nothing better to do. But I will say it's funny watching them try not to say fart
22 videos hidden from the playlist unfortunetaly
Adam and Jaime is so enjoyable to watch but those trio make it more so special. KAri, Tori and Grant is much connected to each other its too bad why the producer could'nt grant their request to still continue on mythbuster. Watchng Grant have fun on debunking on the myths with Kari and Tori really made us viewer miss him. I wish they return the mythbuster again even without Grant just Adam Kari and Tori will suffice.
Can`t believe they can`t make a kite...
why does it say the rest of season 4 is "hidden" in the playlist? I need more!!
They have already uploaded them, but will publish them over time instead of instantly. Some CZcamsrs find this more convenient than just-in-time uploads.
Or maybe they want CZcams's algorithm to analyze it first, so they don't get an unjustified demonetization for copyright infringement.
Now the episodes of Archimedes 😊
The person holding the string should not be the one trying to draw the spark. They are all going to be at the same potential.
06:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe they were box kites 6:34
it's insane to me that they put adam in a cold bathtub. they couldn't have gotten warm water? throw an immersion heater in there?
I'm sorry, only 3 farts PER DAY?
39:58 Methane, ethane, propane doesn't smell. So usually it is ethyl mercaptan added to a kitchen gas. So if there is a leak it is possible to smell it. Since the odor is very strong even for small quantities of ethyl mercaptan it is very effective measure.
34:32 😂😂😂
lmfao 34:34
Got to be Heinz beans
24:56 - that's a lotta pee.
Wow. Love the guys, but they have zeroooo idea how to make a kite 😁
Legend has it Adam Savage was a farter long before he had children.
Why would he ad metal to a kite and a key if he did not know electricity existed in the first place to conduct from the rod to the key.
Voltage is charge not current. Amperage is current. Thousands of kilovolts wouldn’t kill you, but a few milliamperes would.
😂❤😂❤
3:35 That's what she said.
This episode is one of the ones that always stuck out to me as proof that tv ruins great things. Because they had to stick to the format, they said busted even though they proved the key was getting charged and shocked... the twine was probably on a wooden reel as was standard back then... so it would have been relatively insulated, allowing it to be shocked without killing the kite flier. There are also umpteenth examples of people struck by lightning who recovered relatively unharmed in the long term...
lol they couldn't say flatulence?? to quote adam about bubblewrap, fuck the world
They could say "flatulence." "Fart" was the banned word.
@@92xsaabaru- hahaha thats even worse. my point stands lol
@@92xsaabaru- for what reason is the word fart banned/a bad word?
@@krsspr1032 Yeah Discovery in those days was pretty ridiculous. Maybe because MythBusters was a science-centric programme aimed at children and adolescents, and some parents liked to make complaints.
48:40 in "Founding Fathers" from Trevor MOre he explained WHY he never got to be president, got Too Wasted to be President
LLOL
Kerry and grant (rip) seem like fun people to be around
Yes Lightning can kill you, but if you are lucky you can survive it too. So this was super stupid test as everyone already knew that
ok boomer