That would shed some light onto what actually happened there, indeed.

„Slow ahead, I Can Go Slow ahead ...You re gonna Need a Faster Camera“

Or beyond the press’s chronos setup!

He does have a TMX lying around, and quite possibly a robot arm if the lack of shoutout/'thanks to company for letting me use robo arm' in his latest video is anything to go by

watch the video the high-speed camera footage is shown in slow-mo.

its not about age but temperature

If it’s a real mine…… it’s time… there so constant it’s crazy (other than standing water)

From when westerns were based none of it was ancient it was new technology

You watched lost didn't you

A retired mining engineer was a docent at the Colorado Nining Museum. He told a story of how blasters working with nitro dynamite in winter would put the sticks they would us the next morning in their sleeping bags to keep it from freezing overnight.

Wouldn't be the first time anything involving explosions and Adam resulted in a redefinition of 'safe distance'.

@@tanall5959 well it went way over them, so it was a safe distance… vertically.

I think we need a "Safe position" with a thick steel roof. 😂

@@CloudHindlen i would go for a depleted uranium roof

Yeah, watching Adam work shows me how so many accidents happen on sets, even with “experts”. Adam is definitely a guy who gets blinded to the reality of some situations by his focus on the work.

I bet Adam was missing the old Mythbusters bunker when that piece of oversized shrapnel went overhead.

Physics is awesome!

I think some of the liquid got in-between the plates as it was dripping down the side

@@HaroldKuilman straight pressure reflection down the plates to the ground and back up.

And from just a few grams of explosive too. Nuts!

Yes! I instantly thought that too. i think it was the double hand slap with the silent LOOK he gave. and the castle wall also.

"We are the knight who say NI!"

"Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!"

@@jerrygrimes8813 "We want! A shrubbery!"

Great minds think alike.

delays! delays!

The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator was defective.

@@smokeystriper or from "super kami guru"

😍😆

Literally

I'm pretty amazed. I had no clue that stuff was that powerful!

I have to believe some of the NG leaked in between the plates so when it detonated, the expansion blasted the top two plates into the air. Impressive power. Messing around with the full bottle of nitro on that flimsy drop contraption was dangerous, I think.

@@dragonmeddler2152 I wonder if they poured more under the plates, but didn't show us

That was way more energetic than I dreamt possible. Wow!

The nitro is a liquid... it flows down... clearly some spilled under the plates.

Light bulb moment! ;)

Sounds probable. But I guess we would need the SloMoGuys to really see what happens...

I think the wooden blocks that were placed below the 4 steel plates compressed a little bit. The nitro exploding above the plate, forced the plate into the wood. The wood rebounding probably caused the plates to be sent into orbit.

@@TheCrazyInventor That's possible, but steel is also quite springy, so it could have merely either flexed or compressed and it's own rebound would be sufficient.

@@TheCrazyInventor the wood breaking to smithereens would also absorb a lot of impact as well.

Only 1 plate went flying and got stuck in the dirt. Adam makes a mistake and says that it is 2 plates. at 5:55 you can see that something goes flying up very fast ( maybe one or two plates , who knows ). Then you see a single plate flying to the right. Then you see that there are two more plates remaining. The initial plate construction was a total of 4 plates ( at 4:25 ) , so we can deduce that 4 - 2 - 1 = 1, so therefore it was only 1 plate that got was flying overhead.

You should see what my wife can do with an hammer!!

@@Nicolasdu5 …ex-wife?

... and the last.

@@Nicolasdu5 dont worry, i've seen that.

*Hottest

From what I've heard from folks who explore old silver mines 'round here is that old nitroglycerin that's been exposed to the elements starts to crystalize, and crystalline nitroglycerin is more volatile.

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its not acetone anymore, its nitrotone :)

So thats how we make nitroglycerine its simple just get glycerine from medical store and concentrated HNO3 after that mix it up and youre done

Ya gotta buy the cheap sun glasses. 🤣🤣🤣

Must be nitro coated lenses!

I’d hate to see what your sunglasses do when hit with a hammer on 2” of welded steel plate

You forgot to say, "My $150 sunglasses."

Those are some horribly cheap sunglasses then

Thank you. Acetone ≠ nitrogen gas. It's a pretty big oversight.

The nitrogen atoms are blown out of existence apparently.

@@jameswatkins7763 fusion/fission reaction lol, though all the neat isotopes are disappointingly not shown

Check out itrogen triiodide which can explode spontaneous.

@@CBlarghvery big thanks for telling me the shown molecule is acetone. i was going crazy of thinking "wait...thats defininetely not nitrogen, but what then?!" web searching for "H3C CO Ch3" did not help either

Yo hate to rain on your parade but he stopped doing that show like 8 years ago or something

yeah but from what we saw that wasnt an effective means to make it explode. so id be willing to be that guy i just wouldnt carry a hammer on my side.

My thoughts exactly.

I'd imagine that he knew the specific danger and that it would be unlikely to detonate. As the explosives expert, that's what his training and experience are all about. Still, though..... It wouldn't be me!! LOL

In retrospect, me either.

"... one of the scariest explosives ever known to man." Rig: a thin rod supported by nothing but gravity and friction.

I thought it was some kind of dinosaur costume too

He's getting ready for a casting call on a new Mel Brooks movie.

Definitely made me laugh…..😅

....😆😆.

he kinda messed up by letting a giant steel plate go flying in the air tho

I'll go away. I do not wish to taunted a second time.

I explode in your general direction.

Oh yeah. Thank you for that mental image. There is clearly some unpredictable humor lurking around any corner out there.

I told them we already have one!

Chlorine trifluoride is not an explosive though, it is a highly toxic hypergolic agent. There are plenty of shock sensitive explosives that are much scarier than nitroglycerine but nitroglycerine is an explosive that is extremely well known via movies and books. Fun fact, Alfred Nobel (founder of the Nobel prizes) invented dynamite (basically nitroglycerine in a clay filler to make it more safe to handle), gelignite and various other explosives (e.g. ballistite, the precursor to modern smokeless powder and commonly still used today as rocket propellent) and founded the Nobel prize foundation as repentance for the horror he had inflicted on the world.

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@@YCbCr this is *honestly* the chemical I should have thought of. Alternatively, nitrogen triiodide would probably be eager to get in on this 😏

Octanitrocubane C8N8O16

@@21Walls I've got a feeling some of us may have read Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With :) Fascinating topic!

Came to make the same observation - the N2 was conspicuously absent from their graphic.

glad im not the only one that noticed that XD

same here but only managet to name it as propane'ish. Im rusty :/

Where’s the N2? There was supposed to be some Earth-shattering N2! Ok, I’ll show myself out …

weren't they contractually obliged to show the wrong formulas for safety reasons during MythBusters? Same rules apply I would say.

Well I mean. If a tornado launches a boulder at your house and you see it coming, do you have time to get out of the way?

There should be a award for those kind. of inventions. Like reverse darwin Or that was a close one but somehow we benefited from somones near miss award

I had that too couple of mgs of nitro/shot, whole bottle contained about 0.1gr dissolved in propylene glycol and ethanol, even if you spray out half the bottle and let the ethanol evaporate you can not get a kaboom;)

I was assuming that age/improper storage was the factor. I know all sorts of things become unstable with age and explosives are one of them. I assumed nitroglycerin was one of those things.

you wrong. Nitroglycerin exists in one "formula". It's stability depends on impurities and other factors.

@@ph08nyx I think he means two "formulas" as-in "recipe", like "add reagent A to reagent B, stir for 30 minutes, add reagent C and stir vigorously for 30 seconds. Distil, then add reagent D before it cools, allow to settle, then skim off the TNG that floats to the surface" Not "formulas" as-in "chemical formulas"

@@samuelmellars7855 preparations

@@ph08nyx By formula he means different way of making it resulting in more and different impurities and other factors making it more unstable...

In fact, there's no nitrogen in there.. oops

I noticed it too... Disappointed me lol

He is not a chemist so he prob doesnt know the the difference

The synthesis is verry easy. There is not much that you could do to ge different products. Nitroglycerin is shock sensitive but you need an decent impact to set is off. I tested it with steel on steel. You really have to put some force into it bevore it goes off.

Nah I've seen an old video of nitro being made, and I was amazed at how rough and careless they were being.

The thing is that people watched too many hollywood westerns where it's shown to be crazy sensitive. If it was really that bad, nobody would make it in 900 pound batches like they used to do in the past.

Lol explains why there was no nitrogen in the "nitrogen gas"

Yep, and also had all the things already prepared, as the "fast builded" hammer device ;)

Indeed it seems to be the case especially when you look at it frame by frame. It just doesn't add up.

Is the Tesla still in space? If its cameras are still running, they might have caught it passing by...

Serving a meal on the flight....

Legend has it, it is still up there.

Yeh I noticed that too, I thought my brain had broken.

Nitroglycerin in liquid form is sensitized by cavitation from shock waves moving through the liquid. As it is highly incompressible, very small bubbles are collapsed by passage of a shock wave. The air is rapidly heated, causing plasma ignition.

There was only 1oz of nitro in the bottle. It wasn’t full.

Stay out. Stay alive.

The one I've often seen is dynamite getting old and having the nitro start to weep out, and then it can go off if it is dropped or hit. No idea where to get old dynamite though!

@@mildpandemic3944 I think you'll have to make some, yourself, as they have eliminated that issue by refining the mixture.

yes it does

@@mildpandemic3944 kieselguhr clay is mixed in to prevent that happening.

No, Nitrogen is a element.

@@keithgibson568 5:40, he says nitrogen gas as the screen highlights a compound that contains no nitrogen.

Yeah, the video doesn't show all the frames up to the impact making it look like there was something between the plates. But it's just an editing error. There was nothing between the plates. (maybe a little nitro soaked in there from the broken bottle.)

6:59 is the last frame before the next has everything flying after detonation.

Well by their math, to compare, I have a tiny 45ml coffee syrup bottle. If that was half full, say, 20mls, the explosive expansion would result in 24 litres of gas expanding at 17,000 mph (27,358 Kph). If it was near full, say 40mls, that's 48 litres of gas. If those thermoses were only 1-2 litres worth, yeah, they would essentially become shrapnel going 20,000 kph or so. XD

Another way to consider it, there's very little compression possibility for that expansion of gas with that amount of force, so an AREA of 24 ish litres (in the example of the 20mls of liquid) would be shredded instantly. Someone falling on their back would have a laundry bucket sized portion of their body essentially turned into high speed shrapnel. Outside of that, the continuing force of that 17,000 mph shockwave would cause further damage. Pretty darn grim!

not to mention the nitro back then was often less pure. and impurities could effect the impact sensitivity

Impact from bottle drop simply isn't strong/concentrated enough to set it off. Hammer impacts on very small area in very short time, probably a few microseconds with a thin layer of NG in between, so the acceleration/impact force is a few magnitutes more than glass hitting steel, with NG far away inside the bottle.

Maybe if that person would fall down a cliff, the scenario would be plausible. But just tripping backwards? Not enough impact force.