Ice Cannonball Challenge - Mythbusters

Ice Cannonball Challenge - Mythbusters - Science Documentary

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Ай бұрын

Mythbusters - S08 E20
In this thrilling Mythbusters episode, Adam and Jamie explore the lethal potential of supersonic ping pong balls while Carrie, Grant, and Tory test the effectiveness of ice cannons. Watch as they push the limits of physics and ingenuity!
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@treepotato9273 Ай бұрын

"we don't have enough myths left for this series, lets just weaponise a ping pong ball" I love this show so much.

@H2Oredfirefox 26 күн бұрын

I know exactly how you feel I really miss this show they certainly did do a lot of crazy stuff🤔🤔😍😍

@josephkarl2061 Ай бұрын

39:18 Even after all these years and watching this episode dozens of times, making a ping pong ball do that still blows my mind 😂

@arcanei Ай бұрын

The cannon would never be as strong as it could like that. Filled with cracks and air bubbles. They should have made clear ice for the best strength.

@joefries365 Ай бұрын

yeah i was wondering the same thing, saw a big crack in it

@JarickBr Ай бұрын

Same here. If ever KZfaq cocktail videos were as prevelant back when they shot this..

@jeremymcadam7400 29 күн бұрын

It doesn't even need to be cannon shaped. Just a big block with one or multiple holes in it as barrels

@gavinrichardson3918 20 күн бұрын

Yea more than likely a genuine improvised ice cannon would be a block of ice cut from a lake with a hole drilled in it. So the ice would have been slow frozen and much thicker! If they had made it in a mold like the mythbusters did, they would use some filler to strengthen it

@glennwahlberg8780 15 күн бұрын

@@gavinrichardson3918 like pykrete. it is extremely durrable. almost unmeltable and somewhat flexable. and its just wood pulp and ice. even hay as filler would probably work. Pykrete is made of 14% sawdust and 86% water by mass so its mostly ice

@houseofsaudisthebeast Ай бұрын

3:16 "As the mythbusters know, speed kills." RIP Mythbuster Jessi Combs

@TheBenNZ Ай бұрын

❤

@mellchiril Ай бұрын

I like how even after all these seasons the Mythbusters were not scared of doing ice myths in sweaty t-shirt weather. Really makes one trust every single result they came up with when their cannons and their cannon balls were half melted by the time they were ready to fire. On the note of the lethal ping pong ball... that was gorgeous to watch. I could probably watch footage of it being pushed back by a cushion of air over and over and not get bored of it.

@Viel_Glueck Ай бұрын

This is one of the rare episodes where they didn't try enough in my opinion. How about reenforcing the cannon with the materials used for the cannonballs. The pig could've been placed at a wall to eliminate a lot of lost force from falling over and a human dummy would've been interesting, too.

@muchluck7981 Ай бұрын

or fire the cannon....in alaska

@voornaam3191 20 күн бұрын

May the force be with you. Imagine losing an air force. Keep an eye on your supply of gluons, those keep a force together, right?

@MostlyPennyCat Ай бұрын

If anybody ever meets Jamie, ask him if he's still finding ping pong balls.

@swilleh_ Ай бұрын

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

@MGlBlaze 9 күн бұрын

Or the reverse, being stationary and suddenly moving very fast. Or *pieces* of you suddenly moving very fast.

@d4slaimless 25 күн бұрын

You can tell Adam and Jamie enjoyed this one. Quite the show!

@Znegil Ай бұрын

Yeah, the cannonballs would be okay with straw or sawdust in it, but of course these people would only try to create a perfectly clear cannon without any additive 🤔😅

@martinp1054 Ай бұрын

well.... they didn't use the aditives in the balls anyway..... so they probably wanted to make the myth "pure"..... as well as not having to make two or even three cannons.....

@kailebcooke3193 Ай бұрын

Yeah that's the myth. A cannon,ade purely of ice. They already know that pykrete would work.. that's why they made cannon balls with it🤡

@wowzanpakutou Ай бұрын

they made the other balls as backup in case the pure ice one didn't work, as they wanted the myth test to be pure, the ice balls worked, so why test the other ones? the ice cannon "worked" so why test other stuff, i can sort of see their logic. where i see them failing is trying to use water frozen in a freezer filled with cracks and bubbles rather than ice from a -40c stream in russia or whatever, not all ice is the same. notice how the ice cannon ball was perfectly clear with no bubbles or cracks and it held up? that's what they needed for the cannon. Edit: also thinking about it, they could have just used an auger to make a hole in an ice lake, angled to whatever direction they want and that'd probably make a great cannon or mortar. iuno there's ways of doing this that people from california wouldn't understand to do with ice lol

@gagaape Ай бұрын

They could also make the barrel longer, but can't test everything right?

@FakeSchrodingersCat Ай бұрын

@@gagaape That probably would not make much of a difference with black powder and the reduced load they used.

@Auxius. 25 күн бұрын

If that pingpong could crack a pingpong bat, surely also a cranial.

@KanuckStreams Ай бұрын

The look on Adam's face at 26:35 is so perfect.

@mishkamcivor409 Ай бұрын

I think it is unfair to say that the ping pong ball myth is busted, if the myth is as described "a fast enough ping pong ball can kill you" then yeah, it can, we can make them go arbitrarily fast (it just gets harder and more complicated the faster you get) but besides that, even at the speed they managed to reach that absolutely could kill you if it hit you in the wrong place, with ease

@Mr.-V.C- Ай бұрын

Pykrete cannon.. Basically ice..

@jessh5310 27 күн бұрын

There was also aircraft carrier called Habbakuk made of pykecrete

@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 26 күн бұрын

altho there's the question of: did pykrete exist in some form whan this myth was supposed to take place ?, that's quite a big if . . .

@jessh5310 26 күн бұрын

@@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 . Ice with straw in it did exist at least in the 7th century in Scotland.

@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 26 күн бұрын

another thing that concerns me is: mythbuster's ice molds had some big cracks in them and in a place as cold as russia it's relatively easy to get ice with no bubbles or cracks to speak of I guess someone would have to analize how much do those cracks weaken the cannon

@jessh5310 26 күн бұрын

@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 . If you put water into a container a bit at a time it is possible without cracks.

@cejannuzi Ай бұрын

I would bet they mixed the water with straw and froze it. And they didn't test it in a hot desert. LOL.

@KanuckStreams Ай бұрын

Yeah. They tested the *ball* as just ice and it survived, but they didn't test the cannon using reinforcing material like straw or sawdust, and it has to hold up against a lot more forces.

@MrMarinus18 Ай бұрын

We already know that pykrete is very tough and that's essentially what that is.

@p24hrsmith Ай бұрын

There was so many flaws in the ice cannon not just the clearly visible big crack in it

@andromededp5316 Сағат бұрын

Just add fibrous material to the ice for the canon like you initially did with the canonballs

@mustif1 Ай бұрын

im starting to think they dont just tell the myths they put them to the test.

@ravencanis8998 Ай бұрын

Coming from the emotional last season of a show I’ve been watching for the last 7 years, to this being the very next video, with good old Grant, it’s exactly what I needed tonight

@notapplicable531 Ай бұрын

Never mind a pork shoulder, what wouild the ping pond ball do to a rib cage? How far into the chest cavity's organs ( heart and lungs) would the shock wave travel?

@DrBarbequeSauce Ай бұрын

Or your skull? Could it blind you if it hit you in the eye? So many unanswered questions

@ericl2152 16 күн бұрын

Northern Russia in the middle of winter is -25C to -50C.

@cleanycloth Ай бұрын

13:50 hahaha, that was genius writing

@young3nsinglej Ай бұрын

This was one of those shows that they didn't fulfill their usual "replicate the results" mantra. I really hoped they'd have made something like a carbonfiber ping-pong ball and put something in the ice, like grass or wood cuttings. Both of which would have made it more likely they'd have achieved the results of the myths. Gotta admit, 1100mph ping-pong ball is impressive though!

@NorwayT Ай бұрын

I do wish they had mixed the ice in the cannon with paper or fabric. Having grown up in the Arctic, when we construct something out of ice that need to take an extra amount of load, such as a cross river Ice Bridge, we always mix in fabric, paper or at the very least wood powder/chips. I believe if they had made a Pykrete Cannon, it would have worked beautifully. More so than the Duct Tape Cannon they made, which lost a lot of its Energy due to Duct Tape's flexible nature. The great thing about cracks forming in the ice from the shockwave, is that if it's cold enough, the melted water in th cracks refreeze and seals it up again, almost instantly. Great Episode! Thank you very much, Banijay Science! 👍

@waynewu8267 Ай бұрын

Honestly if the ping pong ball catches the throat,,,, that surely is deadly.

@elwyn5150 Ай бұрын

41:55 Kudos to background male vocalist's "oh".

@Flynnmaster Ай бұрын

I also shoot like Old Moses when I eat a burrito grande

@crazysupernovagaming3638 Ай бұрын

Imagine getting shot with a ping pong ball and going to the ER. Definitely wouldn't be fun.

@DrBarbequeSauce Ай бұрын

That supersonic ping pong ball carries more kinetic energy than a 22 long rifle bullet. The 22 has 138 Joules and the Ping Pong Ball has 326 Joules. But it can't quite match the 535 Joules from a 9mm

@terraincognita3749 19 күн бұрын

Fun fact: the younger Jamie Hyneman once played ping pong against Forrest Gump and won.

@karabenomar 11 күн бұрын

Plot twist: Original sources merely claimed the defenders had "a nice cannon" to defend themselves with...

@lord_matto8660 Ай бұрын

The air coming after the ball was probably more damaging than the ball itself when you look at the high-speed

@TyroKitsune Ай бұрын

We are not likely to see a show like this again for a long time. "Next on Discovery Channel, two randos that just so happen to be ex-Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect Techs working out of some independently owned industrial zone garage are now going to apply the scientific method to the most random sounding things imaginable, likely getting on watch lists for all the things they source while they blow things up or build strange contraptions that you can't help but want to see run. This week, they're trying to weaponise something harmless...again. And after that, some WWII Doc to calm you down."

@lastburning 27 күн бұрын

That pingpong ball hit looked pretty lethal to me.

@andrewmullen4003 27 күн бұрын

I'm pretty sure "Just have a think" Destin did this with the vacuum cannon

@robertarmstrong3478 25 күн бұрын

If you look at the footage of the strike on the pork, I suspect that a lot of the damage was caused by the air, which probably masses more than the ball.

@ToxaKaRp 3 күн бұрын

They can use "reinforced" ice just adding to water sawdust. It could make a cannon barrel a several times stronger.

@kitko33 2 күн бұрын

Folks in Russia worked in subzero temperatures. Not in California temperatures. The Cannon was outside for hours before the second shot took place.

@acmelka 3 күн бұрын

The cannon could have worked as a mortar, if the bore was drilled at a 45 degree angle in an frozen body of water. The barrel would be reinforced by many meters.

@ivanstepanovic1327 3 күн бұрын

Ping pong ball seem to have another effect on impact. It seems like the air squished out of it on impact does additional damage... As for the cannon... During the wars with Turks, Serbian forces didn't have enough cannons so we improvised with what we had. And it was - wood. Usually cherry tree. Either a tree trunk got a hole in the middle with metal rims around it or it was was similar to wooden drink barrels, but with thicker planks and once again - metal rims. It wasn't really accurate and didn't last long, but it gave a lot of bang for little buck. Especially if it was loaded with buckshot or flechettes for close encounters...

@maxmouse3 Ай бұрын

1550mph on a ice cannon ball HAHAHH what a great show

@tomedwards7382 25 күн бұрын

As an alternative to the choke, couldn't they have put some sort of venturi mechanism with a one way valve on the exit to the barrel? In other words; cut a piece of pipe of a larger diameter than the barrel, stick it to the end of the barrel so it protrudes just an inch or so further forward than the barrel muzzle (so the overpressure air can make a "U-turn"), the gap between the barrel and the wider diameter pipe will give the air being forced forwards by the ping pong ball somewhere to go. Whilst the tube is under vacuum this wider diameter pipe has a one-way valve closed, but as the pressure between the barrel and the wider pipe increases (as the ping pong ball travels down the barrel), the valve opens. Similar to an overpressure blast valve? OR just have a one-way flap valve on the end of the barrel...or am I missing something?

@TehPwnerer 25 күн бұрын

If that ping pong ball smacked you in the head it would be lethal

@isolance1 4 күн бұрын

Wouldn't it have worked with the long tube if there was a small needle on the exit side? When the pressure starts to build up, which eventually stops the ping-pong ball in the first long tube test, the insulating film begins to swell beforehand. Initially, it was always in a concave state. So, we could also experiment with the distance of the needle to see how far we allow the pressure to rebuild on the vacuum/exit side.

@TehPwnerer 25 күн бұрын

If you made your cannon out of frozen piecrete or frozen layered newspapers you could probably increase the pressure by orders of magnitude

@Akrub1979 26 күн бұрын

I don't get why they did think of reinforcing the cannonball with hemp or some other material, but did discuss the same when making the cannon itself. Hopefully such composite barrel could handle more gunpowder per shot.

@ced3098 6 күн бұрын

Ice mixed with wood fiber is very strong , some ship have been built during WWII bu using this technic .

@scrivener68 Ай бұрын

Since you have to have something that serves as the mold for the ice cannon, it strikes me that leaving it in place would be the smart and probably accurate thing to do. I mean, who would take it off? Why would you? So all we need is a 17th-century solution, and it's barrels. Beer or wine or whatever, whatever size you want. They're already reinforced against pressure thanks to the hoops. I think that would have made quite a difference, as well as not being cheating.

@touchm3 10 күн бұрын

The ice cannon only needs to work once since they can build multiple of them since it's just ice

@MostlyPennyCat Ай бұрын

Pycrete!

@violakrone8429 29 күн бұрын

Innovative like the Blyatmobil 😂

@Ropetupa 23 күн бұрын

"Tis but a scratch!"

@janrautenstrauch4729 19 күн бұрын

I would've been very much surprised if that plastic, hollow ball went through. I mean, these balls are meant to bounce off. They lack the mass to carry sufficient kinetic energy. Sure, the damage it did was impressive but let's not forget the ball hit on close range.

@The_Butler_Did_It Ай бұрын

The ice cannon might have been more successful if they had reinforced the cannon with hemp instead of the cannon ball

@daemonburns-waight2421 Ай бұрын

only two minutes in but here's my guess: a pingpong ball is so light that it'd have to be going hundreds of miles an hour to kill someone.. I'm betting the ball will just disintegrate from air friction before it could hit anything. Maybe some shards might stick in whatever they're shooting at, but I doubt it

@trippycat Ай бұрын

Makes me think if the ice bullet could work if they made it a little bigger

@xxstepsxx4227 Ай бұрын

Would think Adam and Jamie with their 30 years of experience would know a bullet dont fly through the air as the whole cartridge 😂😂😂

@renetr6771 6 күн бұрын

Maybe u are able to reduce the air what is floating around the ping pong ball....

@Nightwing01010 Ай бұрын

If all they had was ice, where did the gun powder come from.

@Thousandslakes 22 күн бұрын

Maybe the icecannon would work better in very cold arctic temperatures

@veryblocky Ай бұрын

Should’ve put straw in the cannon

@ardvark84 29 күн бұрын

In that last ping pong ball shot, the air did most of the damage. The ball just penetrated the skin. In a distance of 1 meter it would be a bruise.

@heathergarnham9555 14 күн бұрын

If you hit the neck in the right place the swelling could cause the airway to get cut off and that could be fatal.

@ardvark84 14 күн бұрын

@@heathergarnham9555 And if the subject would be allergic to ping pong balls it would be fatal too.

@speckledjim_ Ай бұрын

I noticed that the ice cannonballs were clear compared to the cannon, which was cloudy/opaque, which points to a difference in density............

@daemonburns-waight2421 Ай бұрын

Fun fact: chopped up pingpong balls make excellent smokebombs when mixed with match heads and wrapped in foil.. Just prob try to not breathe it in 😀👍

@parttimebaba123 2 күн бұрын

Mix sawdust for canon that's not busted until you try it

@bartle6168 Ай бұрын

Why try pyekrete cannon balls and not a fibre reinforced barrel? Surely the Cossacks would have reinforced the ice and maybe even with some banding or even leaving the barrel inside it's mold.

@adamsmith7940 Ай бұрын

I wonder if they signed the ping pong paddle w the hole in it, how much it would sell for on auction?

@asdads3948 Ай бұрын

Imagine they put a steel ball in that pingpong launcher. I mean it would still work right? Maybe not such high speeds, but still significant?

@philsmith6597 Ай бұрын

at the 9 min mark (or just after) did Carrie say Cliff Richard?

@StonedCherry1 Ай бұрын

They should have used hemp in the cannon to make it stronger

@stanislavczebinski994 Ай бұрын

I think instead of pure ice for the cannon, pykrete (sawdust+ice) and the likes would have been worth a shot - literally.... Furthermore, there is a difference between conventional ice from the freezer - and blue ice. The latter is strongly compacted ice without any impurities or air in it.

@6tgr Ай бұрын

I think if that hit me in the temple it would kill me.

@DrBarbequeSauce Ай бұрын

Just gonna leave this: 22. LR Bullet: 138 Joules Supersonic Ping Pong Ball: 326 Joules 9mm Bullet: 535 Joules

@DarkInos Ай бұрын

I will say that I do not agree with endings for either of the main myths. If you are in the danger of being killed, you will find out things you never thought before. Cannon could be made from water + sawdust or something, not just "pure water" as they stated. Also their cannon had major crack even before rolling it out along the whole length of the shaft. If pure ice cannon survived 1,5 basically of shots, while cracked from the start... having it frozen in some water barrel, that would be already prepped to be moved in the Siberia type of winter.. I can imagine that working. And ping pong ball that goes inside the ham? Hit neck, stomach area.. any vital area and you are heavily damaged in some moments even death + trauma if headshot? To be fair they shot at 0 point blank range ... still could kill quite sure if they hit weakpoint.

@christianellegaard7120 Ай бұрын

They should have combined the vacuum barrel with the high pressure pop gun. Instead of just popping a vacuum, they could have opened the high pressure valve behind the ping pong with the vacuum in front of it. Oh. I should have watched the whole video before posting my comment.

@swedichboy1000 Ай бұрын

6:48 Is that episode available?

@N0D0hNuts 9 күн бұрын

yeah I watched it a couple of weeks ago.

@zauberwuerfel3x3 Ай бұрын

They schould change the clean Film and change with the Explosion Metal plattes they used for Explosion who Break at a exact psi. With that the maybe could increase the starting psi amount.

@stefanhoffmann8417 17 күн бұрын

What about adding a hydrogen explosion instead of pressured air? Have the ball in a tube section with air to cushion the explosion and then add a vacuum barrel in-front-of that? Like a tandem-effect. A ping-pong ball or actually any object should be able to reach the speed of light and meaby beyond, in a vacuum by theory. On earth however, there's gotta be more and faster than this but meaby not as fast as the speed of light..

@abcpea Ай бұрын

I don't know how they called that "non-lethal"

@DeetexSeraphine 12 күн бұрын

Question to the channel host. Are you allowed to upload these, given that the mythbusters have their own channel and are uploading the same videos?

@christianellegaard7120 Ай бұрын

They should have used a shake table to freeze the cannons on. Clear ice would probably have been stronger.

@elpachanga Ай бұрын

looks like the air did more damage than the ball

@musicbruv 8 күн бұрын

Ping pong ball should have tested against a skull, if it can smash through that bat then I think it might go through bone.

@ITCHYTEETHPRODUCTIONS Ай бұрын

They should have tested the ping pong ball on a skull, i think that much damage would cause serious brain injury and probably death, plus like your skin would get separated from your skull and would inflate

@MrAliquam 27 күн бұрын

That dance is called Hopak. And it's not russian, it originates from cossacks on territory of Ukraine in 15 century. Hopak is a Ukrainian national dance.

@quoniam426 Ай бұрын

Can't imagine a siege without guns. They might have had guns but just be out of ammo. Manufacturing an ice gun is not the most convenient thing. Balls on the other hand... If they ran out of ammo, they could have made balls quicly enough to have something to shoot at the enemy with their guns. Afterall, wether ice of pycrete, the ball shot by the real gunworked perfectly fine.

@justinpascoe4779 Ай бұрын

When the myth was said to be done it was in a very cold and ice covered area. The ice would have been old and possibly carved from solid ice. They also has a lot of weak points in their cannon. You could see the cracks from the beginning. Good attempt but wrong conditions.

@haydendegrow945 Ай бұрын

What I'd like to know, why didn't they reinforce the cannon with the same materials they proposed for the cannonballs? Wouldn't that have made it last longer? Just saying....

@bonovoxel7527 Ай бұрын

The pingpong ball isn't lethal? I bet it could sit down a horse. Maybe not instantly killing him, sure hasn't penetrated, but just imagine an inch ball volume of air trying to escape from 1,5 inches inside your skin. I bet even the horse would just sit down not be dead, but hardly he'll stand up ever again... Also the cannon, made of still water and not pykrete as the weapons... I got it they're not here to teach us or even inspire to weaponize stuff. And if so, they're doing bad at it. From the spectacular pov instead, yea, the mythbusters guys kickd ass like usual!

@adam-kx7du Ай бұрын

8:19 sawdust :D

@Thousandslakes 22 күн бұрын

Pinpong ball Is lethal depends where it hits

@bradyelich2745 24 күн бұрын

39ft/lb is need to be lethal. 1/2" plywood is the target.

@Nivola1953 Ай бұрын

Ice cannon break up? You were doing it right with composite material, why did you let it go? Ever heard of Pykrete? They wanted to make an aircraft carrier out of it! Didn’t happen, of course!

@tarnishedknight9909 10 күн бұрын

you thought ot make 'enhanced' cannonballs but not a enchanced cannon ?

@peterzerfass4609 Ай бұрын

Them talking about force/acceleration instead of speed is weird. Acceleration has nothing to do with how hard it hits. Only final speed (and mass) matters.