Launching A Man With Only Fireworks! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 15

Launching A Man With Only Fireworks! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 15 | Full Episode

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The three rocketeers are back this time trying to launch a man into the air with an impressive battery of off-the-shelf skyrockets!
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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@enderyu Ай бұрын

16:54 Kari chose the wrong person to hide behind. Tory stood there like a wall

@gabrielv.4358 28 күн бұрын

Yep

@otonashijorge8162 15 күн бұрын

She did learn from her mistake, at 17:33 she decided to hide behind Tory lol

@Pasixable Ай бұрын

14:41 - 14:48 Jamie what is that T Posing there LOL

@user-gw5zs1qh2z Ай бұрын

Maybe they are pressured and he pulled the arms out so they stand be them self. In similar but heavier suits I wearer you had to exhale inside the suits and you have to push the air out by your self or you end as a ballon.

@jocax188723 Ай бұрын

I think Jamie has just slid his arms out of the sleeves and put his hands in his pockets lol

@AnonRee Ай бұрын

12:46 this was his pose that got me giggling

@Pasixable Ай бұрын

@@AnonRee Hahaha yeah and that awkward grinning XD

@Legion563 Ай бұрын

Jamie always T-poses to assert dominance.

@gugasalsa Ай бұрын

16:56 tory absolute giga chad moment

@JackMacLupus Ай бұрын

Heh, yeah. Reminds me of Tackleberry from Police Academy who was the only one at the shooting range that didnt duck as Barber turns around with the shotgun. XD

@wendighoul Ай бұрын

It is totally on-brand for Jamie to eat all the pigs after Mythbusters is finished with them.

@draco84oz Ай бұрын

Well, after this ep, the pork had been prepared with some spices and some initial sealing...

@michaelrixon2082 Ай бұрын

Hopefully not after the stinky car myth 🤢

@MrBushman123 Ай бұрын

Yo pig like mama on-brand.

@MODGAMINYT Ай бұрын

@@michaelrixon2082 or the breaking bad special yeesh those pigs were looking gruesome

@idkcba 27 күн бұрын

I mean, what else are you gonna do? So much free bacon it's uncanny and yet people would actually say it's odd that he takes them home and eats them after😂😂. Personally, I would eat them too because, well, free bacon😂😂

@vast634 Ай бұрын

The rocket had enough power, but lacking Kerbal knowledge to make it stable.

@Wolf-ln1ml 13 күн бұрын

Exactly :D

@jimjam7830 10 күн бұрын

Jeb and Buster have a lot in common.

@shinrailp1416 Ай бұрын

Not sure if Jamey rolling up with a flamethrower in slow motion is one of the most awesome or one of the most terrifying things i have ever seen.

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

yes

@gabrielv.4358 28 күн бұрын

Its awesome

@fuzzyprosl Ай бұрын

I hate how they never acknowledge the surfboard as the reason for the rocket sled failure. 47:54

@AnonRee Ай бұрын

Ye the aerodynamics of it seemed to be why it kicked up in the front and then once that started all it was ever gonna do was flip out

@leucome Ай бұрын

@@AnonRee It is also too short. There is a reason why rocket are long and the fireworks have a long stick in the back. It is hard to spin something long so it go straight.

@timclark6439 Ай бұрын

RIP Grant. You were taken from us far too early.

@charleediaven6278 Ай бұрын

Buster slid back changing any good flight characteristics it might have had. In the video we cans he is wants to stay back as it goes off the ramp. Weight moving back and the thrust made it perfect for the loop de loops. Kudos for the blast off.

@bungalo50 19 күн бұрын

I'm convinced Jamie is actually real-life Ron Swanson

@nicks4802 Ай бұрын

Shouldve consulted that rocket expert about counterweight to account for lift. Downforce is common aerodynamics. They should've known.

@WarhawkTalon Ай бұрын

God I miss this show. The opening introduction brought me back to my teen years.

@DarkGodSeti Ай бұрын

I think it was mostly the surf board that made it tumble, since has a upward curve to the tip. Watching this makes me want to play kerbal space program!

@MrInsaint Ай бұрын

I find it odd that Jamie covers up with full protective gear, but no gloves on his hands when he fires the flamethrower... 43:06

@SanPoMoJi Ай бұрын

Maybe the gloves will make it's harder to hold tight on the flamethrower thus make it more dangerous.

@fruityhedgehog2794 3 күн бұрын

45:06 "Exactly around what we need". Most famous engineer sentence

@segachildstarspawn2624 6 күн бұрын

Kari's reaction to when Grant explains the guy strapped sky rockets to himself, 😂. Also, my dad said that something like that, (strapping fireworks on yourself), that's something Wile E Coyote would actually do.

@MrMarinus18 Ай бұрын

7:08 That's actually illegal as that's considered a modification and you need a licence to modify sky rockets. After all if you attach a figure to it, it unbalances the rocket and it will likely go sideways and hit something. That's also why the mythbusters used roughly circular weights attached to the tip as that wouldn't unbalance it too much.

@McLolzable 3 күн бұрын

Kerbal was in early access for a lot longer than we thought.

@eyupylmaz9813 Ай бұрын

43:42 “Very post apocalyptic of you” 👌

@memberwhen22 Ай бұрын

and here I was thinking fleece to be fabric made from sheep's wool....

@allangibson8494 Ай бұрын

The “Fleece” is a fluffy polyester (most drink bottles are polyethylene terephthalate (as are plastic bank notes) - these are frequently recycled into clothing).

@GrimHellscream 13 күн бұрын

The pepper spray thing reminds me of the guy who was having a mental break in a police station. Dude poured hand sanitizer all over himself because he was "overheating" or something and the cops didn't know and shot a taser at the dude and he went up immediately with an almost invisible flame and died shortly after. Terrible situation all around

@hanselgretel8563 25 күн бұрын

Kari is the main reason I watch this show.

@DinobotTM2 Ай бұрын

38:17 When TORY, of all people, tell you to be careful...

@JackMacLupus Ай бұрын

Heh, well he's totally speaking of experience after his "crash landing" with the bike. XD

@JackMacLupus Ай бұрын

15:07 I hate to break your illusion Kari, but here in Europe, and germany as well, we have probably even more weak fireworks since we have a HUGE lot of rules and laws about them. And without a license that qualifies you for using professional fireworks its even forbidden to simply BUY fireworks except around New Year. So the change to get the needed fireworks in the US is a lot higher than in Europe, trust me.

@mountbuckekreative4044 Ай бұрын

...and that is why we use giant water rockets to shoot us into the lake.

@michaelmayhem350 Ай бұрын

Not sure who is uploading these episodes but I hope they eventually upload all the seasons

@cuanmcgovern-bray7497 Ай бұрын

this is the official mythbusters page, after they were all on hbo they started releasing them elsewhere. there also uploaded on a channel called banijay science which mainly do the earlier seasons (theyre an engineering page that mainly does science tv shows of this era)

@michaelmayhem350 Ай бұрын

@@cuanmcgovern-bray7497 I know this is being uploaded by them but I also know it's region locked so people in the usa can't watch it & the show is from the USA

@DeadAndAliveCat Ай бұрын

I hope so too. But why is there at least one person in the comment section of every single video saying "I'm not sure who's uploading these"? Like, it's the official page, you can see it right there, so what are you actually asking about? The name, rank, and serial number of the intern at whatever production company owns the rights that clicked the actual upload button?

@michaelmayhem350 Ай бұрын

@@DeadAndAliveCat it's not hard to steal a logo and make a page. The audio quality in like half of them is shotty oh and as others pointed out this videos are behind pay walls of other apps so it seems odd to put them here for free too.

@HappyBeezerStudios Ай бұрын

@@cuanmcgovern-bray7497 benijay is a french media conglomerate who owns the rights to the show. So in a way, the uploads on that channel are as official as it gets.

@apelsin19 21 күн бұрын

Feet, miles, grams, pounds, hours and seconds in the same calculation. I am impressed 😊

@apelsin19 21 күн бұрын

We need 400 rockets let's calculate how much trust one rocket need build our own and call it European rocket and act surprised at launch 😂

@Fernando-ek8jp Ай бұрын

"Freeze!" Proceeds to set on fire

@janbaxa3282 27 күн бұрын

Freeze, freeze!!! I said freeze, not burn!!!

@peterprokop Ай бұрын

I don't think the rocket myth was busted by what they did. There was enough thrust, so a better design would go the distance. Their reasoning was that "some guy" could not have built something better than they did, but I disagree. He just might have known what he was doing. The MythBusters definitely did not.

@WarhawkTalon Ай бұрын

Full agree. I was actually thinking they had a chance when I saw the idea for the full sled and the guide to launch it. But when Kari brought out that surf board I knew what was going to happen. The air got caught under the front of the curved board, and it sent Buster into a loop. I was also wondering why they chose such a steep launch angle of 45*. I would have figured 25-30 degrees would be sufficient. After all, the goal was to see how far the rockets could launch someone, not how high.

@mmmdawe Ай бұрын

And they did not even balance the thing. It was very back heavy

@HappyBeezerStudios Ай бұрын

@@WarhawkTalon 45° is the optimal angle for a ballistic trajectory. But then, rockets aren't ballistic.

@Fernando-ek8jp Ай бұрын

Some guy that totally did launch himself effectively but with next to no records as to how he accomplished the feat other than the amount of rockets and the presence of a ramp. We have a recording of the first guy who tried to parachute jump and died, and that was over 100 years ago. Yet not even a diagram as to what this supposed daredevil savant did? I'd say it's busted. It's theoretically possible for such a thing to happen, just as it is for you to win 5 multi million dollar lotteries in a row. I don't think it's in the realm of reason to take those odds.

@borntoclimb7116 Ай бұрын

I Love myths with fireworks

@robmckennie4203 Ай бұрын

that detonator with what looks like a battery drill battery sticking out the bottom is wicked

@JackMacLupus Ай бұрын

Surely one of Grant's Genius ideas. XD

@h.cedric8157 Ай бұрын

Imagine going home with a whole load of pork for you to cook and enjoy from work!

@Wesguus Ай бұрын

The slaughterhouse

@PJxpanterx Ай бұрын

Surfing is very popular in Germany

@BOREDGAMINGPH Ай бұрын

wait the narrator's name is Robert?

@caio3568 3 күн бұрын

I hate how the US still have the guts to count weight in grams and yet the bigger unit in pounds.

@delta9047 Ай бұрын

As a german I can confirm the fireworks-"myth"... it's still an usual way to cross a river/lake/road🇩🇪

@bethaapple2102 Ай бұрын

Did not expect Grant build worst design of them all. Lol

@HappyBeezerStudios Ай бұрын

pendulum rocket fallacy + spending part of the available thrust on rotation instead of forward motion. A better way for spin stabilization would be angled wings to produce roll. Tory on the other hand has center of thrust and center of mass not in line, so the thing will naturally want to pitch.

@robertlamantin5088 Ай бұрын

If you want thrust, you need the Komodo 3000.

@mersmithy1269 Ай бұрын

Peter Pans at their very best. Glad i grew up... hopefully?

@demonicravergaming.4766 Ай бұрын

Oooft that number 5 can of pepper spray with a WD40 nozle and the hose thing would make for a brutal bug remover ;-) If you know you know.

@colonthree Ай бұрын

0:30 Adam and Jamie were IN CSI??? OwO

@asdads3948 Ай бұрын

Yeah, a short cameo.

@asdads3948 Ай бұрын

btw, there is also a simpsons episode where they appear as "the mythcrackers", i think they actually voiced those characters.

@sebbelp Ай бұрын

Why is it that Americans use both metric and imperialsystem in a mix.

@HappyBeezerStudios Ай бұрын

Without the sparkling package the rocket is obviously lighter and has a higher TTW

@yotu9670 Ай бұрын

lol a young Adam and a young jamie^^

@cejannuzi Ай бұрын

Why they constructed such a half-assed 'rocket man' is beyond me. The whole design was stupid from the start.

@11darklight11 Ай бұрын

Grant even foreshadowed how it will behave before the small scale test! And the only reason X wing design failed is because of failed material integrity. The really should have tried more on design smh

@TasteTheD Ай бұрын

I feel they should have built a funnel exhaust to channel all that energy in one direction then they could have utilised some wings/fins for stabilisation

@Xynic48 Ай бұрын

The points was to build it half-assed not like a professional as the myth was about an average guy creating the thing by himself

@11darklight11 Ай бұрын

@@Xynic48 Avreage guy doesnt mean an idiot though.

@StorymasterQ 20 күн бұрын

@@11darklight11 Have you seen the state of the world? Granted, we're way more stupid these days, but we weren't all Einsteins back then, either.

@rikbenonline630 Ай бұрын

What if they had used a lawinepijl, translated as avalanche sky-rocket.

@stellsy3496 Ай бұрын

the rocket guy is totally possible, the issue they had there was that the rocket itself had an aligned center of mass and thrust vector but the manakin was attached too offsetting the mass and upsetting it. also the manakin should've been oriented the other way so feet against the rockets which when strapped down and with a foot plate would stop it from shifting

@leucome Ай бұрын

It was also too short. Long design is what prevent rocket from spinning. Even the fireworks had a real long wooden stick in the back to keep them stable. They completely ignored one of the most essential thing that make rocket fly straight.

@stellsy3496 Ай бұрын

@@leucome the sick does the same job as a fin yes, by bringing center of pressure behind center of mass. tho i think the engine block of sorts bring blocky and having a large surface area combined with a person weighing a lot compared to the rest would already do that, based on eye measurement the center of pressure is just where the dummes head is, and the center of mass just about where is chest is. flipping the dummy would make said relation even better. but the more the better, aerodynamic stability can help offset poor thrust alignment

@leucome Ай бұрын

@@stellsy3496 Yes it help like a fin and also also affect the conservation of angular momentum. It take more energy to rotate a long object. You know it is like the ice skater that can control how fast they spin by moving there arm in and out.

@maltesefalcon85 Ай бұрын

any drunk guy would have made a plane or a rocket not a soap box cart

@DrBarbequeSauce Ай бұрын

The rockets could lift me, I'm only 52kg or 115lbs

@jakepalmer1986 Ай бұрын

They look a bit sus in those suits lol

@calumsanderson6741 Ай бұрын

bro, CSI was so fucking good

@dreamboards1056 Ай бұрын

WHAT? Europe has better fireworks than the USA ? Im flabbergasted

@vtcakavsmoace3410 Ай бұрын

Last New Year's in Germany confirms: yes, the Germans have much heavier fireworks. Poland even moreso (their rockets are banned in Germany and Germany is aggressively pro-fireworks).

@Wolf-ln1ml 13 күн бұрын

@@vtcakavsmoace3410 Yep, Polish fireworks are infamous in Germany - both for their "effect" as well as for being completely illegal and with far greater injury potential.

@gowdsake7103 Ай бұрын

Kari was just the sexiest ever

@mrroboshadow Ай бұрын

ya know with all the dead pigs they use i bet peta must have been royally pissed at them which just makes my love mythbusters even more

@11darklight11 Ай бұрын

Peta approves pet unaliving to liberate animals so they actually approve

@gabrielv.4358 28 күн бұрын

YEAH

@rayduck6300 21 күн бұрын

I can't believe that not one of them knows the basics of aerodynamics... centre of pressure needs to be behind the centre of gravity. It's a simple principle. It was clear that thing was going to do a loop de loop from the start. I love them all, but dang they annoy me when they get the science all wrong!

@kevinim300 Ай бұрын

clearly the surfboard shape caused the flip...terrible design. lol

@jojolafrite90 Ай бұрын

In so;e special conditions I know the taser thing can happen , I actually saw it happen in some raw video of an arrest.

@marlynsina-on8434 Ай бұрын

Wing guide or fin is lacking

@merabiamkoladze5929 Ай бұрын

Wheres 6 before seasons

@adamloadsman2133 Ай бұрын

The professional man and woman pitchers had identical accuracy but the man threw 50% faster with that same perfect accuracy. Doesn't that mean, even with equal training, that men throw better than women when measured over both parameters? I think their conclusion on that one may have been influenced by their (or possibly the producers/directors/tv channels desire to be PC. Perhaps "throws like a girl" might just mean throws slower?

@niels1917 24 күн бұрын

did he saw in fireworks ...

@Gruoldfar Ай бұрын

He didn't freeze...

@scottymcdoodle6562 12 күн бұрын

12:49 Amogus

@jarydm87 24 күн бұрын

12:29 amogus

@Tactical_Hotdog Ай бұрын

TASER not a stungun...

@Valfaun Ай бұрын

european fireworks are more powerful than american ones? now that's surprising

@rianby64 Ай бұрын

They didn't play Kerbal Space Program if judging by the way they crafted the rockets

@ProgNoizesB 7 күн бұрын

9:01, what's so secret there under that tape on your shirt xD Gjeezzz, pretty lame

@RonaldVanZon Ай бұрын

@PJxpanterx Ай бұрын

Maybe Nasa will copy Karis design

@mountbuckekreative4044 Ай бұрын

I am from germany and the only guys that used a rocket to shoot them into a lake are on this vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMl0h5mim8vQiH0.html . Its still just a water pressure rocket, but fun anyways.

@jacobscheit4128 Ай бұрын

I am from Germany and to this day I find this myth very suspicious, first of all you can buy fireworks only for 1 or 2 weeks per year, as a normal person the amount of fireworks you can buy is very low. And the only way I can Imagine that myth could be true is when it came to be bevor the 1950 or 1960 because fireworks were not regulated back then. But still if some German guy came up with this idea, he would most likely not be just some naive random German guy, most likely how that came to be is that he studied something like engineering, aerodynamic or something similar and quickly ran the numbers bevor he came up with the plan. Most kind of myths like that originated from some students or from someone with background knowledge. BTW is not that hard to get a license for commercial fireworks in Germany.

@wijjit Ай бұрын

Danke :)

@nighthunter3039 Ай бұрын

Jap XD

@AkiSan0 Ай бұрын

nah. back even just like 5-10 years ago, you could literally buy bulk rockets, "D" crackers 100s packs and much more potent stuff. also back than, sales were 4-6 weeks. the limitations are much more recent, though it might depend on the region / state. NRW was quite open. AND as soon as you go east once, you have a country starting with P, that probably has rockets that can lift a full kilo. :D (thats why we call the dangerous stuff "polen böller" which roughly translates to 'pole crackers') and yes, i know what im talking about, ive seen enough blown out doors, cracked manhole covers, ripped car underbellies and vanished mailboxes in my life.

@AnonymAnonym-fv3uc Ай бұрын

I am not shure if jamie ate the pigs that stayed in the corvette

@draco84oz Ай бұрын

If he did, he drank them, because they had liquified after three months And then probably died from salmonella poisoning amongst other things. But he obviously got better,.

@n0bl3hunt3r Ай бұрын

The funny thing is that Jamie and Adam probably know exactly how they got the effect on CSI

@paulfrancis8836 Ай бұрын

Click Bait !

@sergioramses2615 Ай бұрын

Plausible

@Spockington Ай бұрын

lol, are they playing stereotypical Asian music during all of Grants segments?

@georgesos Ай бұрын

These peper spreys are poisonous as shown but police forces use them on innocent civilians and they demonstrators.

@DeadAndAliveCat Ай бұрын

I love finding comments written by actual retards

@Wolf-ln1ml 13 күн бұрын

Damn _water cannons_ are potentially quite dangerous as well. It's not so much the "weapon" and more the overally situation and potential misuse of _any_ weapon against assumed threats that may in fact be harmless and innocent. Though I guess the "non-lethal" label lowers the inhibition to use stuff like pepper sprays, water cannons, tasers, ... in questionable situations...

@JohnSmith-op7ls Ай бұрын

Skyrockets? It’s not the 1960s

@M9_BAYONET_SCRATCH Ай бұрын

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