Is Your Phone a Lightning Rod?

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Is Your Phone a Lightning Rod? - Mythbusters

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Watch as MythBusters tackle myths on lightning safety, phone dangers in thunderstorms, Civil War myths, and more. From boating mistakes to ballistic tests, this episode is packed with shocking revelations and thrilling experiments!
Mythbusters S02 E17
0:00 - Introduction & Myth Teasers
4:39 - Building the Stunt House
8:01 - Civil War Baby Boom Myth
14:39 - Homemade Lightning Setup
19:39 - Testing Phone in Thunderstorm
23:13 - Shower Shock Myth
27:12 - Ballistic Tests on Bullet Path
32:35 - Boating Mistakes Experiment
41:25 - Son of a Gun Analysis
46:31 - Final Ballistic Test Results
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@jazzdirt Ай бұрын

A long long long long time ago, I used to do technical maintenance in 5 office buildings... Someone stole the copper from the lightning protection, and exactly that night lightning struck... All the PCB's of the entire alarm system where completely burned... And they were connected mainly to the phone line and some 12 volt battery lines... After I saw this I was sure that you don't want to be on a landline during a lightning storm..

@kyuofcosmic Ай бұрын

Well, I guess he wasn’t shooting blanks

@phucletran2860 Ай бұрын

Nice pun

@AlergicToSnow Ай бұрын

Hahaha

@delmaneboshoff5610 4 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Clearly not….

@Netbug Ай бұрын

I wish Christine had stuck around, she seemed like a sweetheart.

@jakubpluhar4914 Ай бұрын

She was pretty good, but Kari is the absolute G and she gets along very well with the others, it's honestly adorable sometimes.

@christopherdean1326 Ай бұрын

My vote is, was, and always will be for Scottie, she was an absolute goddess!

@Netbug 26 күн бұрын

@@jakubpluhar4914 Kari was better for TV personality-wise, sure... but she poses too much, very conscious of her presentation in every shot. She looks like a meteorologist all the time.

@IgorDefranchi Ай бұрын

The face of the sound lady 43:13 😂

@salvadorsempere1701 Ай бұрын

Ockham Razor. the lady get pregnant in the classical two-backs-monster way and after being hit by the bullet, and being single she make a fairy tale to explain her pregnancy.

@jayrock4ya 24 күн бұрын

John Nevins says all about that myth & Belachiea's face @ 41:55 confirms it LOL

@rockid7970 Ай бұрын

8:36 First appearance of the Spongebob meme

@Wanton110 Ай бұрын

My house was hit by lightning and my computer burst in to flames.. total loss.. I had 3 complete books and 4 others I was part way through writing on it..

@gerryhouska2859 Ай бұрын

One thing I know for certain, in my 23 years at present address in rural Queensland I lost two telephones to storms. After that I invested in a phone lightning arrester (looks like a capacitor to me) and stopped unplugging my phone during thunderstorms. So far so good.

@christophermarshall5765 Ай бұрын

I live in South Australia. One guy bought a boat and trailer. He launched it at St. Kilda boat ramp, trailer still attached. He tried motoring along the St. Kilda channel and wondered why his boat had no go.

@bobmann3379 29 күн бұрын

The grounded plumbing electrical test would be interesting to test on new homes with plastic pipes and water lines

@mocko69 Ай бұрын

I got shocked by a lightning passing through water. Thankfully I was only washing my feet but I felt it passing from one foot in the sink through the other on the ground. And the electricity went out in the entire house. So yeah, not touching water during a storm enymore haha😅

@MichaelK_ Ай бұрын

that look at 45:49 is golden and peak tory

@magnemoe1 Ай бұрын

Regarding lightning strikes, +30 years ago I worked with computer repair. Got an computer in who was hit by lighting. This was the old type an 386 or 486 with the thick round keyboard plug instead of the back panels we have today and an physical power switch. The lighting was not able to bridge the power switch but an home stereo system was connected to the sound card. Stereo was burned out I was told but pc looked pretty fine even if did not start, then I noticed the output transistors on the soundcard was blown up. It and motherboard was destroyed, cpu grapic card, ram and other was fine, they was lucky :) As an modern computer is also always on it would be burned to.

@nottsork Күн бұрын

THE MYTH OF not using a computer during a lightning storm came from 1980 when chips that powered the ZX Spectrum were susceptible to the EMP of a lightning strike several miles away, the electrically charged atmosphere was enough to throw off the carefully balanced calculations in side the memory or CPU , and the result that i have witnessed myself, was specifically Blue Screen of Death, before a Blue screen was such a thing, the effect was a screen of garbage but no electrocution fortunately

@kosh6612 27 күн бұрын

I was at a house in Canberra Australia in the 90's. Just the night before they reported to have been on the phone during a lightning storm. They claimed a bolt came out of the mouthpiece (not touching the person holding it), across the kitchen and fried their refrigerator. Sure enough the fridge was indeed dead

@karintippett753 Ай бұрын

This is timely as it is time to dump my tank into a tote and drive it the 3km down the highway to the dump station. Friends had been using my trailer a couple weeks ago and did a dump and the tank still showed 2/3 full after so I am assuming it is mostly solids and toilet paper as it is not special paper. I have a 40 gallon black tank and 42 gallon tote so likely will need to make two trips which is a hassle as the tank will need to be on my boat trailer to move it. I will also be using a macerator to move the contents to the tote. This will be interesting as it will be the first time doing this procedure. Thank you for the video.

@martinkuliza Ай бұрын

3:10 When you say it like that...... 700kV and 500,000 Watts it sounds massive, and i guess it is. it's just disappointing that with all that gear, it equates to approx 714mA I mean.. Not even 1 Amp Generated A REAL LIGHTNING BOLT has TENS OF THOUSANDS of Amps

@user-fl2wn5zr5z 22 күн бұрын

that is where blowing a fuse came from

@dogwalker666 Ай бұрын

The wall socket contains a Gmov and an Arc gap lightning arrestor.

@user-fl2wn5zr5z 22 күн бұрын

you need to deliver a trailer you do what you can

@ichiroutakashima4503 Ай бұрын

Jamie dragging Adam like a horse was hilarious. It really makes you wonder whether they despise each other to the bone or just the producer tactic media. I mean, they don't get along but they can fool around with each other.

@bethaapple2102 Ай бұрын

They were fooling around, they were quite often in arguing each other. After seeing all the episodes I don’t believe they aren’t friends even Adam keep repeating that they just coworkers not close friends.

@A_N1ne Ай бұрын

They may not be friends but they don't hate each other, they respect each other as professionals and "like" working with each other, both Adam and Jamie have confirmed this on multiple occasions. Best example other then this show is Jamie asked Adam to help build Blendo their robot for Robot Wars/Battle Bots. You wouldn't ask someone you hate or dislike working with to help build something like that

@Fruitcupper Ай бұрын

All jobs have love, hate and apathy 😉

@atvheads Ай бұрын

@@bethaapple2102 Like my work, (pun intended) One hour, we almost scream at each other, the other hour, we sit down and eat in the lunch room talking. Now Adam has been working for Jamie several years before the Mythbusters series, so they knew each other very well. And Jamie was the one that hired Adam for the Mythbusters series, because of his skill and personality. Good tv so to speak.

@LarsPallesen Ай бұрын

Why is it so hard for people to grasp the concept that you can be colleges without being friends? Doesn't mean that you hate or even dislike each other.

@arjovenzia Ай бұрын

I spent a couple of months during my apprenticeship in the transformer shop, repairing and reconfigureing line transformers. We didn't have our own generator, but we did have a pretty direct drop from the local coal power plant. And when anything blew up, it was these bloke's job to fix it anyway. Somewhat of a caveleir attitude. And they could chalk alot up to "oh, we're just testing/training" to the big wigs. Which is fair, they'd blow one up for you to fix as a real simulation (obviously known bad hardware, nothing of value lost). An excellent education. But they weren't against showing off. Strapping a 1" crowbar on the highest amps and exploding it. Because... Well, they could. Great guys to work with. If you were smart, electocution pranks were common. They knew what would kill ya and what just really hurt.

@andyhutley2857 Ай бұрын

The more likely reason for not showering in a lightning storm is some bathrooms don't have windows so a power cut could leave you in the dark with no means of seeing what's happening and where you are, wet bath tub/shower floor is a massive risk to slip and crack your head

@jomorken4853 7 күн бұрын

ground wires were not used in the timje the myth is from, sp the phone would havebeen the shortest way to at least some potential and current

@Fruitcupper Ай бұрын

9:15 Really think about that quote... She was telling porkies. "None of the other children looked like the first" cheating wife right there.

@rollingmetal949 Ай бұрын

Kari and Scottie were cute duo

@renandavidsoriaahumada6093 Ай бұрын

20:45 i can say it because a microphone its an LIVE line of power that is controled by the microphone BUt in the wire just near your mouth its an active current flowing BUt the speaker even being a line too it dowsnt carry an active voltage line

@christianmirto1597 Ай бұрын

Well here in Italy back in the early 2010s a youtuber known as giampytek that still makes videos by the way had a lightning hit the telephone line end it burned the modem the telephone end all the computer about every component I think also the screen so lightning is cuite dangerous for electric stuff

@uriituw Ай бұрын

🤘

@pentatron3127 26 күн бұрын

Should you be on the phone, in your shower, of your house, standing on a field with big metalpolr

@cr0cket01 Ай бұрын

i had a phone line hit and it took out router phone and pc as it was before i used a cicuit breaker

@petercrinnion9043 Ай бұрын

Who's spunk was it?

@nicksmith1415 Ай бұрын

Logan???

@user-fl2wn5zr5z 22 күн бұрын

the amps kill you

@lchadwick88 Ай бұрын

Enfield….

@jomorken4853 7 күн бұрын

Son of a gun, was an expression used for women who got pregnant by sailors, leaving them to raise the child alone. This was frowned upon in society at the time. So they would say Son of a gun, instead of saying the long version

@customink1576 23 күн бұрын

"Genetic Legacy? It's SPERM. Any kid in grade school knows that; helps make babies, you know?" - Jamie Hyneman Oh Jamie, how the times have changed.

@Theis2003 Ай бұрын

700kv at 500.000w Only few people will understand how much that is Let's say it was powering a tesla this would travel with the speed of light😂

@martinkuliza Ай бұрын

19:48 is he seriously using a $10 CATII Multimeter in a facility like this

@92xsaabaru- Ай бұрын

They probably knew it was going to get fried, and they had a pretty limited budget. A high end meter would be toast too at those levels. Any wise technician in any field leaves the nice tools behind if they probably won't come back.

@martinkuliza Ай бұрын

@@92xsaabaru- Fair call i would have expected them to spend at least $100 on the DMM or if price is not a factor, At least get a CATIII