Skydiver vs Seesaw | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 19

Skydiver vs Seesaw | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 19 | Full Episode

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4 ай бұрын

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The Mythbusters team test whether it is possible for a skydiver's parachute to fail causing him to hit a seesaw and launch a little girl onto the roof of a 7 story building...
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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@Byvenic 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to hear what a passerby thought, seeing the shape of a little girl suddenly flung high up into the air and the distant sound of cheering.

@EritoKaio 3 ай бұрын

They almost knocked the dolls socks off!... Wait a second...

@MartoLun 3 ай бұрын

We must convince Adam and Jamie to come back from their half-retirement, Tori and Kari to stop having jobs, and we must transfer Grant's consciousness to Deadblow, all so they can re-test that myth with the seesaw.

@gabrielv.4358 5 күн бұрын

LMAo

@Number_055 2 ай бұрын

1:56 Exceedingly rare Jamie barely-contained-laughter

@anatoliileo6271 4 ай бұрын

That girl at 0:25:45 has a pretty good sense of humor 🤣 Mythbusters is my favorite tv show! 👍

@zsoltbartus169 3 ай бұрын

Totally. She instantly went into that story, not a single second of thinking. (Probably heard that question before, and gave that answer before) Also, she looks cute too.

@scramblerbricks7293 4 ай бұрын

As silly as this was, I do enjoy the mental image of a little girl being turned into a intercontinental ballistic missile and being sent flying off of aa seesaw

@Fernando-ek8jp 7 күн бұрын

What a bizarre and complex myth here. It is so cool to see it as an "all hands on deck" project.

@gabrielv.4358 5 күн бұрын

nice grey color

@o.x.x 4 ай бұрын

That's a sad little girl. Alone on a seesaw. 😐

@MadHax-wt5tl 4 ай бұрын

Very sad, and then a nice skydiver comes to cheer her up and Wheeeeeeeeeee! Oof, ribs guts splat.

@zsoltbartus169 3 ай бұрын

But for a split second she got company. That yeeted her up into the air, but still.😅

@charangohabsburg1 Ай бұрын

That's actually the point where the myth dies already. Nonetheless the planet's best seesaw ever emerged out of that myth! 👍

@MrMiguella 4 ай бұрын

The high speed of the shoes coming off the girl dummy is gold.

@jonkku 4 ай бұрын

They completely forgot the last part of the myth, about landing on the peak of the flight arc being safer than falling back down.

@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 4 ай бұрын

No, it was irrelevant. Due to the G forces, she would have to pull to accelerate to the speed required to make the arc in the first place.

@stephaniedesmond8329 3 ай бұрын

Don’t they revisit the myth later to do that? I though I remembered seeing them trying for hours to catch her at the top of the arc. Maybe that’s just my brain filling bits in? I could have sworn I’d seen it, though.

@tankdrivingmutt 3 ай бұрын

@@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 Why would it be irrelevant? The G force of her being launch abruptly would not necessarily be the same as when she dropped from a 7-story height, right? If they just wanted to measure the G-force from a 7-story drop, then they could've just dropped her from that height and check the shock patches. If they want to check if she would survive being launched onto a 7-story building, then the shock patches should be checked at the apex at the 7-story height.

@zsoltbartus169 3 ай бұрын

@@tankdrivingmutt story was that girl WAS LAUNCHED from the ground, and THEN landing on the 7th floor. The launch already would've killed her. That makes absolutely irrelevant how she lands up there.

@tankdrivingmutt 3 ай бұрын

@@zsoltbartus169 I didn't see anywhere mentioning the G force for the launch she sustained. I thought that's what Mythbusters were trying to test, to see what the launch G force would be. If they only wanted to test the G force sustained by landing from a drop from the 7th floor, they could've just dropped the dummy with the shock patches from the 7th floor without the complication of building a seesaw to sustain the impact, etc.

@eyecontactleadsto 2 ай бұрын

Getting hit in a Sonic game sounds like 5:21

@dgthe3 4 ай бұрын

My favourite Mythbusters build

@bokimalou Ай бұрын

That bungee instructor is cute, ngl

@quantumrobingaming6667 Ай бұрын

A straighter seesaw would have been nice but I'm not sure that something fully straight could have taken the forces at play. Would have also been interested in seeing how they fine tuned the pivot not to lose too much energy in the hinges friction.

@chanahasnomana Ай бұрын

Lmao, i was only using my right earpod. I was wondering why there was no narrator in this episode lol

@juankfuentesr 4 ай бұрын

Awesome chapter

@DrBarbequeSauce Ай бұрын

28:44- How exactly did Jamie get that FBI jacket?

@banishedsojourner 2 ай бұрын

32:59 i laughed out loud lmao

@gabrielv.4358 5 күн бұрын

14:22 1am!

@zuanvanzyl6579 2 ай бұрын

Wow you can watch this 2 different versions of this episode!

@markusfeddersen4096 4 ай бұрын

In your phone settings, you can go to accessability and change to mono-sound, or just search "mono" in settings. Should solve the problem. Just change back if you ever need stereo sound. Rearly needed on a phone. And seems my speekers get somewhat louder in mono🤷🏼‍♂️

@Ripen3 2 ай бұрын

I also heard the skydiver didn't even spill his coffee

@gabrielv.4358 5 күн бұрын

18:14 what program is that?

@urafuknkunt 2 ай бұрын

They seem to be allowed very close to the edge of the bridge without any sort of fall arrest... Thank heaves those cones are there.

@soulsantos7525 12 күн бұрын

Is it just me, or the audio editors added fart noises to the impact and explosion sounds on several different episodes?😅

@user-cl2my7sw4v 4 ай бұрын

first for amazing audio

@fearlessjoebanzai 2 ай бұрын

5:57... where exactly did you get that doll from??? Somethin' ain't right.

@ThisFinalHandle Ай бұрын

How does one fill an inner tube with sand?

@adityakalyankar7809 2 ай бұрын

Why every season 6 video has audio imbalance

@Meyweder Ай бұрын

Not only season 6. There are in season 7 too. A screw up by whoever saved/formated them. Narrator on the left side and their voices/music on the right. Some of the videos that are bad here are working well on the other channel they are uploaded.

@ashegoulding4180 2 ай бұрын

29:08 "I select the cremation"

@DeetexSeraphine 2 ай бұрын

@26:00 Laughed my rear off, I like her.

@lu4414 Ай бұрын

For me its just painful all the imperial units. My god how americans deal with that?

@TheGreatThicc Ай бұрын

It's almost as if they're taught with imperial units from day one

@akhannar9368 Ай бұрын

oh god the sound... This is impossible to listen to

@ToTheGAMES 4 ай бұрын

My left ear thanks you.

@markusfeddersen4096 4 ай бұрын

@ToTheGAMES 4 ай бұрын

@@markusfeddersen4096 Yeah or they just fix the audio. I'm not gonna do some menial arbitrary thing to watch it. It's plain stupid. Also, I'm not watching on a phone, but that's besides the point. No need for "tech" advice btw.

@aimDiego 3 ай бұрын

It's free. Shut up

@ToTheGAMES 3 ай бұрын

@@aimDiego 🏴‍☠

@dylandickie2013 3 ай бұрын

@@ToTheGAMES Needlessly rude. Come on now.

@scrivener68 3 ай бұрын

If I remember my Newtonian physics correctly, the force the skydiver feels upon hitting the see-saw, which basically splits him in half, is directly transferred into the force of the see-saw pushing up on the girl, which basically cuts her in half.

@jantonner67 Ай бұрын

Would a seesaw made from a trunk of a tree work?

@DavidRichardson153 Ай бұрын

You still have to consider how thick the trunk is, if the bark is still on it, what kind of tree was used, if it was treated - and that is just scratching the surface. Really, going with wood, tree trunk or not, comes with too many variables to be particularly reliable for this one. This is one of those cases where even the smallest deviation could have major consequences.

@drewb427 4 ай бұрын

44:03 60-70% of his mass? Given the high speed it’s clear his thigh only grazes, and upper arm/outer edge of the torso makes slight contact. I’d say more like 15-30% at most

@peterbrazukas7771 2 ай бұрын

We're only getting the footage they show us, not all of the footage so I'm inclined to believe their estimations.

@Dan-bv8ne 4 ай бұрын

Sound

@xXturbo86Xx Ай бұрын

This weird seesaw they built prevented a good result. A traditional but heavy duty design would have performed very differently. It's things like this that i hated about the Mythbusters. They didn't pay much attention some times.

@Debilinside Ай бұрын

I disagree. First of all without going to extreme lengths I doubt you can make a traditional design heavy duty enough to withstand roughly ~3-4.5 tons of impact. There is no generic steam beam or pipe that can do that. Sure you can us a I beams or solid rods, buts even those I'm not sure would have hold up without deformation without getting them in ridiculous size. Secondly the only difference their design made was the arc the girl launched and they admitted at the very end if she went straight up they could have achieved even more height. But lets hear your reasoning why it was not a good result and how the seesaw design prevented a good result.