Jamie & Adam Preview Upcoming MythBusters Season

AS: We have a few wonderful things on this new season. We test a World War I myth about trenches. Apparently, Germans dug their trenches in very sharp, precise, right-angled arrangements because that prohibited the propagation of blast-pressure waves. And we did my favorite small-scale experiments we?ve ever done, and then we did it full-scale up in gold country.

JH: We got an extend-reach forklift, a big one, and had the high-speed camera above the trenches looking down, so you actually see the explosion start from one end of the trench and the fireball travel down the trench and start to make it around the corner. It?s a shot that we?ve never seen before. The explosion makes it further in one case than another and kind of dissipates. It?s wonderful footage.

AS: We also do a public-service story on airplane boarding?what is the most and least efficient way to board an airplane. This, I hope, will really change some things for the better. The results we came up with are absolutely surprising.

What else? Oh! The internet went nuts a few weeks ago with the idea that Rose maybe could have let Jack on her piece of wood at the end of Titanic. I got tweeted that picture 15,000 times?people saying you have to test this! So Jamie and I did some scale testing, then we put on Mustang cold water survival suits and got into San Francisco Bay with a scaled piece of wood and crawled all over it. We also did some of the most advanced hypothermia testing we?ve ever tried on the show with a totally new kind of testing dummy and came up with some absolutely surprising results that are totally confirmed by the scientific literature we had read up on. That was really thrilling.

JH: We built a dummy with a circulatory system that we calibrated to a human?s, and as far as I know, that?s never been done before. It?s pretty advanced, and we were able to bring something that had the same metabolism and heat as a human all the way to death from exposure. That?s something you can?t do any other way. You can extrapolate it or take historical data, but you can only get some data points and assume that it?s going to go there. We actually took it there. We can make thermo-boy die as many times as we want.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/mythbusters/tips/jamie-adam-preview-upcoming-mythbusters-season-10851856?src=rss

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