I'm pretty sure I'm not the first to say this but I'll say it anyway, I think MythBusters will be what you're most remembered for because you and the others touched and changed so many lives whether it be those on the show or those who watched it from its beginning all the way to the end.

Dare you test Dr.Judy Wood and her book "Where did the towers go?"

Your chair sounds like a barking dog! 😂 Lub it up, eh?!

The bomb detecting device reminds me of our American government as a whole, with it's corporate masters. So man, what about a new internet media based Myth Busters? I think it would be a hit all over again!!!! ❤ (Btw, having lost The Amazing Randi not long ago, reminded me the world could sure use a few more to help expose charlatans OF ALL KINDS....)

@@DetroitMicroSound - Can I give you a mind blowing conspiracy theory? What if... that 'bomb detecting device' was just a 'prop' the company used? You know as a front when they laundered money or sold government secrets, to militaries over seas? 🤯 Enjoy you day! 🤗🇨🇦

Not enough...

@@KsanUwU I’m of the opinion he should be dropped into an active minefield with his own products, but apparently that’s not legal.

@@jocax188723 surely the onus of proof should be on regulatory bodies and not the inventor. buyer beware is codified in law and millions of products don't do what they claim.

@@dampdoily It was incredibly naive of the people who bought them, but buyer beware?! What a load of crap.

@@janzy58 Caveat emptor

I like this idea, it could also come from charlatans and people seeing them do it and trying to replicate it themselves and in doing so end up learning how to read the geography subconsciously

Yeah. My theory is that they did this subconsciously and they actually thought they were doing something

in MANY places if you drill deep enough you get water anyway

I had a similar theory, but that it also sorta worked for non-pros with the dowsing rods helping them to subconsciously draw conclusions. It's easier to come to an important conclusion either if you aren't completely sure or if you need to "blame" anything bad on the mystical device that pointed you there.

I gather that 96% of the Earth has water within drillable distance. The challenge to dowsers should be to find a dry spot.

In the same category is lie detector tests. Its effectiveness is practically within the margin of error.

eyyy only my favorite capitalism

Drug tests pretty much will never get you any criminal charges. You might lose your job but you’ll almost certainly never go to jail lmao

@@michaelc.4321if you’re on probation and fail one, yes, you will.

wasn´t that a problem whit that there you are supposed to do two tests. one is super sensitive and will trigger if you eat enouth poppy seeds. and one that requires a actual amount. I call them light (trigger on poppy seed) and heavy (only trigger on a serious amount) the ide been you do both tests. if the light test triggers but not the other.. ignore not enouth to be conclusive on). if the Heavy test triggers but not the light one... something went wrong do it again. if Both trigger (not you can be sure). that or cops would just read the light one that on the box state dont only read the light test as it can be triggered by room stuff. and its more to use for calibration of the test room and so on.

This might be the best "Nobody asked, but..." video I've ever seen on this site.

still fucking interesting though

@@davidcarter2368 so the bomb one has to be a moving bomb that makes sense why it didn’t work

@@davidcarter2368 Oh please, any magnetic field created by moving water even on the scale of the Mississippi river would be so monumentally tiny it would completely undetectable against the earth's own magnetic field and it's variations.

.. or bomb 💣

@@davidcarter2368 moving water doesn't create a magnetic field...

@@davidcarter2368 agreed the water or even electricity had to be flowing, something to do with the magnetic field created by following water/electrons. I found an old septic line (solid copper) and an old electrical line that was still live at a property I bought, neither me or the previous owner new it was there. I was dowsing to track a known well line when I find them

He's worse than Michael Stevens when it comes to tangents

If it was a simple myth, they knew how to build around that, and most of the time it was the trio that got those myths and did a fantastic job.

🤣🤣🤣

But it wasnt a SIMPLE myth. If someone says it works and "really" works for them it becomes problematic to prove wrong. It leaves so much to user: "you didnt hold the stick right" "you didnt have sun over your head" or whatever.

Well, the question was kind of two-fold. Morgan asked if there were any myths that were too simple, but they also asked if there were any myths that “broke the laws of physics” that they didn’t do. He answered both sides, the first being “not really” and the second being the rod story.

This deserves more likes, this explanantion is great

A lot of the people who buy into that suffer from an actual pathological inability to distinguish fact from fiction. That group of people has a much higher rate of schizotypal, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic people than the average population. They aren't unintelligent. Just sick.

Most video game myths and rumors came from magazines issued on April 1st. Something like that rarely happens anymore but it was fun talking about these dumb rumors in school.

"It's the day the internet gets on the internet to make fun of the internet" - Homestar Runner

We did get a great album from Alan Parsons.

Classic Savage honesty. That's what I am here for

He can walk 3 paces, pick up a hammer and beat on something until he feels better, that must be carthartic.

He is mad right... how do people go to sleep blah blah... um, what about those at the FOB, invaders in another country... killing people in their own country... Just picture russia having military bases in the USA... and making threats to kill and killing US civilians... LOL okay... well that is what the USA does all over the world... GOOD JOB to those guys getting millions and millions for a device that does not work... maybe the gov should oh idk... test shit first?

@@mattlane2282 huh

@@ThePhrog714 this happens in youtube comments way too often

Every home in the subdiv where I live has a well. Lots are all an acre or more, up to as much as 20 acres, but 2 acres is about the mean and 1.1 acres is modal - but _every_ house in the subdiv has water. The depth of the well varies, but not the fact that across the entire subdiv you can drill a well and in little as 70ft, and I doubt more than 300ft, find enough water to supply a home.

So therefore he had a lower than average success rate of finding water.

Honestly after growing up in swamp land where that water would regularly flood out into the street, I believe it 100%

It's no wonder dowsing culture exists only in places, where it's easy to find water. There's practically no dowsing culture in arid and dry places like middle east.

I mean, ground water is were most of the earth's fresh water is, something like 99% of freshwater is ground water. Dig deep enough, pretty much anywhere, probably even in a desert and you'll hit water.

Jamie and very glad do not appear in any sentences. That is not something that happens. He does not fear talking he just doesn't do it.

​@@reklezzz9038Was this guy's name Heisenberg?

@@reklezzz9038Waltah stop telling people about your meth empire on KZfaq

@@reklezzz9038 Eyo do drugs if you need to but dont sell em. That's kinda evil of you homie.

@@reklezzz9038silent bobs a good guy man

It’s an explanation I had never considered. I’m in school for land management and I can tell you with a certain degree of certainty where to find water underground based on the terrain and vegetation. I don’t know why I never stopped to think that’s probably what these dowsers do too, wether they know it or not.

yeah all the "dowsing rod" does is increase your sensory exposure. that's no small tool to have, but it's not detecting water, it's helping you feel the incline shifts of the terrain

@@jamescheddar4896 the dowsing rod does NOT increase your sensory exposure whatsoever. you can feel shifts in the terrain with your feet, and see it with your eyes.... explain to me exactly how waving a rod around in the AIR is helping you feel the TERRAIN? would holding out it is at best, providing the ILLUSION that it is helping you navigate the terrain, because you'd have to be impossibly sensitive to weight imbalances, almost like a high precision electric weight scale in order to actually detect whether the terrain was changing from a wand you're swinging around. you'd also have to swing the rod up and down in an EXACTLY precise frequency, otherwise, your own extra arm or body movements are causing the wand to move, which is then not at all the result of the terrain changing. in order for rod dowsing to be even a remotely accurate tool to measure differences in terrain, you would need all 3 of these things: 1. the ability to detect impossibly small imbalances just as a highly precise electric scale does, 2. the ability to impossibly precisely bounce a rod up and down at a perfectly even frequency, as to establish your "zero" for your rod sensing scale. 3. the ability to actually sense these the delta difference in the rods bouncing weight relative to the scale "zero"d weight of your consistent rod swinging. you can google to find out that nobody has ever been demonstrated the ability to even remotely accurately guess the weights of things, and trust me, MANY people have claimed they could do so, and have failed trying. even if someone did have the ability to accurately judge weight by waving around a wand (which is an organic impossibility as far as i am concerned), it'd STILL be uncertain whether the swinging is actually detecting the terrain changing, or if it is being caused by small movements from the wrist, or from bouncing from walking, which would cause uneven shifts in weight regardless of the "terrain" you walk on. i think we can say that there's absolutely nothing scientific to support the idea that this rod assists in any way in finding water.

@@ImHeadshotSniper I think you're attributing more to the ability of dowsing rods than James here is claiming. Like you're judging it on the scale of accuracy as a piece of scientific equipment, which quite rightly it isn't, but is that what is meant by "increase sensory exposure"? I don't think so The dowsing rod works on the same principles as a spirit in a bottle does. For those who don't know, a spirit in a bottle is a bottle with a small pendulum inside of it that you place in the middle of a table, where the participants will place their hands on top. You can then ask the group of participants yes and no questions, and the pendulum inside the bottle will change the way it is swinging to give you either a yes or a no, based on what the participants feel like the answer should be. Same principle as the ouija board. Obviously that's just a magic parlor trick, but it is based on an actual scientific effect called the ideomotor response. Without consciously making the exact movements in your hands that allows the pendulum to swing one way or the other, your mind will make your hands move in tiny imperceptible ways that travel through the table and the bottle and into the pendulum, giving you the answer that was already in your mind. Same with the dowsing rods. they can't make you feel or sense or give you an answer to anything that doesn't already exist in your mind, but it can help express those tiny things you're not even conscious of.

@@AliceHearthrow i personally believe that when someone spells out a specific name on a Ouija board for example, that somebody is fully consciously directing the result. i'm not even convinced that less specific choices like the "yes, no, maybe" would be even remotely unconscious, since someone MUST consciously intend to move their hand in some direction, otherwise they wouldn't move anywhere and the Ouija would be boring, especially when asking a question suggests to the players that there should be an answer. i believe the same goes for essentially every ideomotor function actually. the wikipedia page says that ideomotor is a concept in hypnosis research which i think is bullshit, and honest hypnotist performers like SpideyHypnosis on youtube admit that you have to play along/act/role play for hypnosis to convince the audience that it "worked". if you're going to mention "medical" hypnosis like "memory regression" i would like to point out that what someone claims to suddenly remember might not necessarily be accurate, and could potentially even have been newly made up, possibly even caused by a suggestion from the hypnotizer. basically, i think the power of suggestion exists vaguely in the sense that if i suggest you to drink water and you're thirsty that you'll (likely) do it, but i don't think that it can help recover lost memories, or convince someone to instantly sleep. when i ride my bike, i can just "think" about turning left, and i go left. while i can pretend that was unconscious, it required my fully conscious intention to turn left. just because i didn't catch myself making the incredibly small imperceptible motions i had to in order to make to turn me left on my bike, doesn't mean that i didn't consciously choose to do them. edit: i think it's important to clarify that i don't mean to imply that the unconscious mind doesn't exist, though i do realise it might seem like i'm saying that. i just don't believe that dowsing (the entertainer consciously going where they choose), and ouija moving are actually unconscious. ----- ------ i think unconscious things would be for example, the causal determination of a conscious decision to want to choose to turn left, or to choose to tell people that you can detect water with a special rod when you consciously know that you're not entirely sure yourself that the rod does anything. now when it comes to dowsing, i don't think it is even remotely plausible for someone to actually judge imperceptive differences (like the ones i make when i "unconsciously" turn my bike left) in the ground level effecting a rod, while they move around to deduce the location of water based on these effects on the rod they definitely can't feel whatsoever. we must be careful not to conclude that just because a person who found water has a dowsing rod in their hand, does not necessarily mean the rod was any help whatsoever in finding it. to me, a functioning dowsing rod would lead any trainable person directly to water without the need of ideomotor b.s. to help them.

You’re totally right, it’s lovely to have a good side. But I think the flip side, Penn & Teller Bullshit is probably the best example as other commenters have mentioned is equally beneficial. Charlatans deserve no respect.

Agree!

@@sondosoft4603 You would be surprised to know, there are people who _honestly_ think they are dowsers - because they _do_ find water. Nothing magic here, it's a simple ideomotor response (TL;DR: the dowser moves the wands involuntarily). It's people who have a good subconscious idea of where water _ought_ to be, and involuntarily move the wands to mark that place - and chalk it to "magical dowsing" instead to their own knowledge. It's surprisingly well documented, actually. (Hey, even James Randi himself adknowledges those are not charlatans but simply are wrong, and that's truly saying something.) My educated guess is that is THOSE dowsers are the ones Adam and Jamie had no wish to demean.

We need a myth busters like show devoted to exposing all the scammers and conspiracy theories, live streamed flights showing the earth isn't flat.

@@notfeedynotlazy I think this is an excellent point Ive worked in irrigation so I've witnessed people do this successfully multiple times, I've never met a guy who thought it was supernatural ability they possessed it was always done with the acknowledgement of "this is dumb, but for whatever reason it's probably gonna work"

I’m never going to feel as old as I did hearing that

I'm actually 14 and I felt old

Yeah my age is becoming an issue

How about "way way back in the day"' describing 2008?

They knew that it didn't work, and they chose it because they didn't want to find any

huh surprise grumps

@@TheMetroidblade xP I just finished watching a couple comps from them too

Adam and everyone deserves a grump rant for something this evil. I'm glad he got that off his chest, not that it helps much but hey "the more you know about corporate greed and scams!"

@@cookiesyruplover The more you know... Doesn't matter because capitalism has proven time and again there's barely any consequences for this kind of evil. Blood diamonds and sweat shops and scams like this are a thing and the people behind that are still getting rich while poor people go to prison for shoplifting and weed. The world is shitty and unjust and yet no one is going to do shit to stop it.

The grumps influence has far reaching arms

It's a ton of fun to watch

I think it's an excellent way to make a video. If someone only cares about the answer, they get it quickly and can move on, and the rest of us can enjoy his story.

I was entertained and enthralled by this video. I also learned an awful lot. So ... wow!

Annoying

It's nice not to be strung along for a garbage answer, but instead earn us staying around because of an interesting rant.

The Khufu Pyramid is a sound chamber that was used to enhance people's intelligence, but the shape might have just been for efficiency of materials. Archimedes and Socrates were part of a secret society that did a pilgrimage to egypt where they were put in this sound chamber. Modern medicine has discovered that extended periods of time in darkness and silence heals the brain, if it heals it it can make it more efficient.

I guess you could say he’s... not the sharpest tool 🥁

Confirmation bias is powerful and unavoidable.

Yet still they vote.

Sounds like the same thing as the COVID vaccine effectiveness. Lots of people just want to believe.

Holy shit it’s the Lisan al Gaib

I absolutely adore the show, and all its presenters, but my only criticism of Mythbusters is that occasionally they'd take the Myth being tested too literally. The best trajectory from which to catch the bullet back in the barrel, should not be assumed to be initially vertical. There still might be some trajectory where it's possible, albeit a 'million to one' shot, and an even less likely catch, especially if bullets tumble at terminal velocity. A vertical barrel might even still work at the poles if the winds were unprecedentedly calm. The sadly missed Grant would've been in heaven building a robot to test this, but looking at what Mark Rober and Stuff Made Here can do, well it's infeasible, hugely challenging and incredibly expensive. But it's a big claim to say it can't be done at all, with the benefit of luck and technology.

@@bigutubefan2738 yes, often times the outcome was dubious because of this. One that stood out to me was "throw like a girl". In the test, the girls flailed the ball, and the boys had better form. Then they had them use their non-dominant arm, and they all flailed. The verdict? Busted. The phrase isn't suggesting women are incapable of throwing the ball. Women play baseball and softball ffs. The phrase simply means to throw with bad form, or weak. All of the girls brought on had poor form and threw slow. Even with coaching they would still be weaker than avg. I get it's not pc to say anymore, but cmon.

@@jamesbyrd3740 This is such a weird disconnect from the sports world and the rest of society. In the sports world, there isn't anything even vaguely controversial about this, it's sorta kinda already been born out through human history lol. So much so that most female athletes understand this(just like my scrawny 5'5 135lb ass always understood that I never had a chance at a basketball career, even against a lot of women LOL). I mean, the Williams sisters, as incredible as they've always been, said they could be any male ranked lower than #200, not #20 or #2(and they still lost when the #203 ranked male volunteered, beating Serena 5-0 and Venus 6-1 back to back). But, the moment you step outside of the sports world, everyone else is playing dumb like they just have no idea how there could be differences between male and female athletes - it's surreal, like some 'Twilight Zone' crap, people just pretending like they don't understand basic reality.

@@jamesbyrd3740you’re misremembering. he myth was the idea that poor-er throwing was due to being a girl. I.e. women tend to throw worse due to being women. This is obviously not true. Women tend to throw worse on average because they don’t have the same amount of training or life experience with sports as men do on average. They busted it by showing that at the highest level of pitching, both the man and the woman pitcher had virtually identical stats. This shows that the biological differences between men and women don’t matter nearly as much as we think when it comes to a skill like throwing.

Hear HEAR!

Very well said!

i remember seeing that ep along with the mind reading cannon..[chuckles] yes a very silly myth but some things are just MENT and HAS to be busted to have people think in a more reasonable direction

This comment will never have enough likes. I came here to say exactly this. There is nothing to apologize for Adam - that is one memorable episode.

Same. I grew up in the 1970s when the ESP boon was seemingly at an all-time high: pyramid power, ESP, brain waves piloting toy race cars, biorhythms, and such. I loved this episode.

He really do be spitting facts doe

I'm here for it

The dowsers are mad😂

I recent did this on a new video, but I feel confident that if America had a "Knighting" system, such as Britain does, that Adam would've been knighted long ago! He's is indeed an amazing human, in so, so many ways, but his kindness foremost! _(which is also why I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize!)_

For us Europeans, it is hard to believe he really is American... 😂

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Surely tho they’d need to show it working to sell so many? I’ve seen a documentary on this but I don’t recall them explaining how they did that It’s pretty f*cked up

@@daemonork6052 What a legend that guy is.

Basically. If someones selling a product, especially one that's meant to save lives, and they claim it works; they should be willing to test it themselves to prove it. Guys who made the first bullet proof vests; literally tested and displayed it? by wearing it and shooting each other. Thats someone who's made a product, believes in it, and will stake their own life on it before putting yours in it.

Falls by the old situation of: "Oh it's perfectly safe, go ahead!" "You do it first then and show me" "Oh I can't do that." "Then clearly it's not 'perfectly safe'"

Well, you're not in a billion pieces right now, so OBVIOUSLY they worked exactly as intended! Pretty sure this is how science works. ( :

It would not surprise me in the slightest if that company was a deliberate front designed to simultaneously leech money out of a target while also undermining that target's security via exploiting their superstitions.

@@GreyAcumen I hate that that makes sense 😬

@@GreyAcumen The only problem with conspiracy is that it requires people to be good enough to predict multiple future events consistently and accurately. In reality, fiasco is usually a better explanation than conspiracy.

The Movenpick Hotel in Bahrain used to use one during the Gulf War that was actually a "golf ball finder". A little black box with a telescopic car radio aerial on it that the gate security guard made a great show of waving all over your car before he would let you into the carpark. I talked to the manager about it and he was convinced it was the real deal. I believe some Brit guy was eventually prosecuted for fraud on that one.

They definitely could have found somebody that knows how to do it, but isn't committed to it being some sort of metaphysical thing. I learned how to do it back in the '90s from an old time miner, and it still doesn't sit right with me that something seemed to be happening. It would be a lot easier for me to dismiss as a crock if I wasn't able to do it. Where it does break down is that I have a great degree of skepticism that rods crossing really is in response to something external to the person doing it.

Come on now, Adam´s not *that* old...

He's too Savage to go be in a nursing home. Maybe if he builds one from scrap in another episode of daily builds, but it should have his garage inside.

@@Diortelon But Covid and glboal warming permitting he will be.

@@57thorns What's glbowl warming

Just shows how good the show was.

I dont know if id call 10 years enough to be justice but at least he got something

He was only convicted of fraud. They should have sent his to a country where his device got someone killed and put him on trial there. I'm sure the sentencing would be fatal in at least one of the countries.

They should make him 'dowse' for weapons until he misses the one that kills him.

@@douglascampbell9809 On trial in Iraq sure would have been justice!

@Neil Peters @Douglas Campbell Once he is near or after release there is no reason other countries or persons could not go after him legally for other crimes & request extradition ( except that would cost them with little chance of getting a return ). BTW this ( www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-43900624 ) suggests he was due release in Summer of 2020

Almost literally what this is. The original inventor was originally selling them as "golf ball detectors" - and then decided to sell them the the cops for detecting drugs in the USA. After that got shut down they moved around the world and started selling them for military purposes (sometimes even the identical model used for "finding" golf balls, but with a different sticker)

@@Artyomthewalrus Most police departments test out the equipment they are looking into buying to see if it works and if it actually helps them do their job. Too bad the military didn't try as hard.

@@benyspensierijr.5973 it wasn't the us military. it was arab militiaries whose ideology makes them hate dogs.

@@toomanyaccounts lmao

Have any dowser debunker tests you've heard of map an area hydrologically and then set dowsers loose upon it? I haven't looked much, but the tests I see the folk practice subjected to just deal with bringing water to the rods or taking dowsers to still water out of the ground. Willow dowsing looks like BS to me but copper dowsing kinda makes sense in a moving water and electrical field kinda way, like the person or rods are reacting to the ground condition rather than just the presence of water. Not to say there aren't hacks, charlatans, and idiots and not to say I think dowsing has merit, but to try and find the positive case for scientists to use to debunk or enrich dowsing.

@@PatrickKniesler a fair point of intrigue. Plenty of superstitions and hoaxes were at one point semi-valid. For instance, modern medicine and cleaning techniques has made kosher laws practically pointless, yet at the time it makes sense. Some incenses were used to "purify the air" and do have some anti-bacterial properties (i mean its smoke its anathema to life) and adds a pleasing smell... which was another one, miasma. On average things that smell bad aren't clean, and so considering bad smells a sign of health hazards isn't crazy.

Where I am in the midwest, you can drive wells with a sledge hammer, fencepost driver, or similar manually operated implement. My dad and uncle drove a well in their mom's garage and only used about twenty feet of piping above the three foot wellpoint to get to enough water to run a 5-bedroom house. The biggest problem around here is sand contamination of the well point, which is why they had to drive a new well for the house. It's like the quote about WW2 bombs being 100% accurate in that they hit the ground every time :) Now, when I moved to the west coast, the rumor was that water wells were almost a mile deep. Since they are apt to get less rain in a whole year than my current hometown got in about 90 minutes earlier this summer, that's not too far fetched.

@@PatrickKniesler James Randi did some tests like this. He had several pipes buried and had water running through some, still water, and empty pipes. They didn't even have to get it right every time. They just had to do better than the average person guessing by a small margin. They couldn't do it.

I feel your pain. I work in the IT field, I get asked for advice extremely rarely.

Feels too simple for them, too.

I remember someone making an episode about it, but if it wasn't Penn & Teller then I have no idea who. I remember clearly some of the blind experiments with buckets filled with something.

Is according to some linked to magnetoreception.

@Stefan Work: Of the few people who responded to and were actually tested in the Million Dollar Challenge that Randi had available for years, two who actually went through the preliminary tests were dowsers. Seems that their confidence in the efficacy of the ability surpasses that of charlatans like Sylvia Browne and such who are just grifters.

Adam brought up the pyramid power episode and may have not been clear. As I recall after that one and maybe another they banned all ogie bogie (I think that was the term used) myths.

Five Minute Crafts

@@stupidthefish4981 All hail Ann Reardon.

Think you forgot the T in Ann's last name

@@davidmoutray2644 I guess after years of making the show they learned certain things such as what things they *shouldn't* do. I guess the pyramid myth might have made good TV but looking back maybe they thought it cheapened the show by giving some pseudoscience airtime?

Jimmy Hoffa buried at the Meadowlands, 12,000 votes missing in Georgia....

And being completely amoral sleaze.

You wipe your sweaty brow with a disposable $100 bill before shooting it into your golden garbage can, from way out in three-point territory... SWISH! Ah... Good times. Night kids! Babe, I'm going to the strip club. I'll bring one home for us.

@@dennisthemenace3695 Good gravy, now I'm visualizing Smaug on his pile of loot.

I would also say that even though these guys are assholes, how in the fuck did the Iraqi government spend 60k on each without doing any research on their actual effectiveness? It's one thing to scam an innocent person, it's another thing to scam a government or organization too stupid to verify your claims. I'd say the lives lost are on the government as they bought these devices. They may have even known they were garbage but knew they would boost morale among superstitious troups.

@@namAehT Bingo. He didnt sell them directly to the roops or try to convince them they worked, the gov. Bought them and conveniently didnt test them kr warn their troops, so it's the gov. Fault

YES

I suspect every myth, had a C4 rating😁

@@gallimead Well you know Jamie's moto "When in doubt C4!" 💣💥

Why did this make me laugh, im a sullen person?

@@illmakeyoucryboysmallek8461 w h a t

My theory has always been that it detects where the ground has been disturbed. Some sort of interaction between the very weak magnetic field of the human body and the fact that water is dipolar and/or some ground could have magnetic minerals in it that would all be running in a single direction unless they were disturbed. So in some cases it would work, but really it's more of a party trick when you compare it to using something like ground penetrating radar that will work basically all the time, anyone can use, and is far more accurate.

@@markmcelroy1872 I agree that its terrible.. but does the military in these countries have no screening for what they buy?? do their guns work or is it airsoft?

@@djsalose I just presume corruption, just have to know the guy in change of procurement and get his beak wet.

@@djsalose probably because they make people feel safe even when they don't. Just like how our airport security checks work some of the time but not always, people feel safer and they scare off some of the people who don't have the nerve to risk it.

I think the officials who approve of the purchase should also go to jail

@@zym6687 plus a bit of "the others have & use it, if your country falls behind because you didn't buy it as well - it's your head on the line".

I think the proviso being that those he disagrees with aren't doing harm.

Ye and he has a point about dowsing being more just a way to read ones own intuition, one would probably need to spend decades being wrong 99% of the time until they saw results

So let's make the world worthy of that notion.

I still think some people should be called out and their awfulness exposed. We put up with far too much pseudoscience.

@@jameshenderson4094 Except unfortunately those who never did their own experiments make comments and yet never tried it. This was shown to me two nights ago. I was able to replicate it over and over on water lines in yards in my neighborhood. I literally could feel the magnetic pull. Why would I lie about that? I have no reason. to push an agenda of disbelief though, so many just try saying "he is lying" to protect their own "belief". As a scientist, it would be nice to see Adam explain the magnetic pull instead of disregarding what he has never tested.

read the last word you wrote. That answers why the money is worth it

@@1draigon Well yeah but a simple myth is a simple myth doesn't matter that explosives bring in the views.

ALSO I mean like a lovable goofball not a crazy deluded one.

And for that we thank him

@@KlintKaras We knew what you meant. But it's good to be clear so Adam knows we love him.

No, it was definitely the 'ninja' catching arrows. He talked about it in some Q&A

I wanted to like but its at 666 likes and I don't want to spoil it

He will be on his way regardless

You know Tim, you’re right. It is weird. But accurate.

I have no proofs but neither doubts (?

"Its hard to prove negatives..."

Oh I am so curious who he rly meant

I'm 100% sufre it was the ninja guy

Yeah, but if he believes he finds because of the stick, he wouldn't find it without it.

Dowsing involves a lot of different types of devices for a lot of different purposes. I cant imagine the forked stick doing anything at all. I have personally used metal divining rods and they definitely move on their own and quite suddenly. I would have been more than happy to go down just to finally have an explanation as to why and how they move on their own because the only thing I could come up with is polarizing the metal with the nervous system. Because they have to be held firmly enough that they don't wiggle when walking, and if you're holding them that tightly, then they only move to cross, they don't move parallel and they don't move away from each other. As somebody that's generally a believer in science, it bugs me that this seems to violate what I understand the rules to be. Hence, my suspicion that it's probably got to do with magneticism and probably the result of thoughts in the person dowsing rather than something metaphysical. Where I haven't found any sort of reliable proof of something happening would be the next stage of it actually predicting or locating anything. That's the part where I think that if we ever understand what's going on completely, we'll probably determine conclusively that it doesn't do anything.

I'm an electrician, and I know some older guys who swear by dousing, I even know a few older electricians who say they douse for buried conduit or electrical wiring by holding two lengths of bare copper wire. They were so adamant about it, I didn't feel like arguing, I didn't believe it, but it really wasn't worth getting into it.

@@SmallSpoonBrigadeI be used those sticks before. Half of the ability comes with how far your own personal aura extends.(don’t ask me how I know this, it’s personal) So, I was actually able to “train” others in how to use the divining rods. This was most evident in a steel yard, where the interference was so incredible, we couldn’t get a reliable read from any electronic monster we used. I handed a guy these rods, and we actually did find the underground pipe and the “missing” valve. We began to dig, and found the pipe that was leaking. Right after we found it, all of the “white helmets” and crew leads came out, and all their eyes were wide. “How did you find it?” We showed them the rods, and then they showed us the VERY old maps of the infrastructure. We had put cones where we figured the pipe went, and it turned out that were were right on the money! After that, we always trusted the rods when things were iffy, and whatever underground utilities couldn’t be found. One of the handiest uses was for underground clay drain tile that was never mapped. It was laid over 100 years ago to drain water from places, places I never did may research to find out about. The technique works, and most underground workers know of it, learn it, and trust it. We just don’t advertise it, or even brag about it. It’s just a fact we learned to accept and live with.

The real water were the friends we made along the way.

Would you want an offended/angry Jamie coming after you, with all the skills he has, the supplies he can access? Oh, and the inside knowledge he'd surely have on Adam:-)

I'm just imagining Jamie on the other side of the camera, arms crossed, his stone-faced walrus mustache and beret just staring at Adam the entire time which is why he sometimes acts nervous XD

Literally at the beginning he says "my old show mythbusters" (0:08) Not to argue that Adam Savage isnt awesome tho, he is lmao

@@Mythikal13 well it is his show, Jamie’s as well

@@bradlocken2621 Actually, it was Peter's show. He came up with the idea, sold it to Discovery well enough to get some camera and sound equipment and start up money, and found just the right pair of goof balls to do it, including one who just happened to own the exact type of place you would need to pull off a show like that. Adam and Jamie breathed life into the show, turned one-liner myths and legends into something interesting for an hour of TV, and created a television role models for how to take the familiar and question it, test it, learn by doing even if you don't know at the start how this story will end.

My dad did plumbing stuff and showed me how to bend two metal coat hangers and do this. He said it only worked with moving water and pipes relatively close to the surface of the ground. I was able to recreate it with a pipe he knew the location of, but I did not, in our lawn. He said anytime he was able to get the same 'positive' result after coming from multiple different directions, then he had 100% accuracy. The problem was that not finding something did not mean a pipe wasn't there.

My father-in-law dowses for things like pipes and cables underground before he digs anywhere. He says earth that's been disturbed, even if it's old enough you can't see it, is usually just off enough to make 2 bent coat hangers wiggle if you hold them right while you're walking.

@@jsomebody2289 That coat hanger deal will work, but I think that's quite a bid different than dowsing for groundwater. The coat hangers will work for buried wires too, and it will also do it if you walk under a power line. I think it has something to do with a faint magnetic field. Groundwater dowsers usually use a particular kind of stick (I've heard apple tree and willow tree) and the water they claim to find is often 100 or more feet down, I'm not buying that. The fact is, most places on earth have water under the ground, so I think that lends to the dowser's success rate.

None of them ever do the world a favour and find water in drought stricken areas, or you know try to alleviate famine. They just want your money.

@@bigutubefan2738 There are ways to find underground water, but drowsing isn't one of them. The reason nobody finds water in drought stricken areas is because there isn't any water there to be found.

James Randi did test it. He used underground pipes. The video is on KZfaq.

Didn't the bomb detecting alarm go off a moment later?

@@hariman7727 either way, I’m choosing to appreciate the writing and acting in Fifth Element. Very good Movie.

@@Mark_Goddin very good movie

@@Mark_Goddin Definitely a 'cult classic'.(which would then make me a 'cult member'...because I LOVE that movie!!!!!)

@@radioactive9861 I strongly suggest Leon: The Professional, another Luc Besson film.

lol how does a golf ball finder work

@@pvic6959 I think its a joke item you can pull out to make fun of someone who lost their golf ball

Employee 1: Ah crap! I just got fooled and bought a bogus goofball detector. Employee 2: When life gives you lemons you rebrand those lemons as yellow diamonds...

@@delciotto ohh lol that makes sense. i imagined those would work just as well as those detectors in the video

@@Murderbits Sadly this is an example of corruption winning contracts. The person that approved the deal clearly cared more about the money as well.

I LIKED the background noise here. I felt as if I were actually in the shop with Adam.

The "AskaNinja" Ninja was on the program, but I think that was just for the giggles.

Goofball or not that guy spent a while trying to catch an arrow and managed it with some caveats. I dunno if he was just a random guy in a gi, but that guy did look like a great sport. Though again, maybe he was absolute trash behind the scenes and "made them look great".

"Come, Silent Walrus! Let us storm the castle!"

Honestly that one makes sense. But i wonder if any others makes sense cause i cant think of any others....

from some previous research on Mythbusters i don't think it was him it was actually someone who presented themselves as an expert in a topic but i cant quite remember who it was now but it has been mentioned before on fan forums about one of the guests was basically a fraud / wackadoodle

The tangents are like 80% of the reason I watch these videos and this one REALLY threw me for a loop

War crimes? I don't think this guy was violating the Geneva Conventions.

No one said anything about war crimes, Wickham.

More like war profiteering.

@@stargazer7644 Maybe he was talking generally about the entire Iraq war.

However, it is notable that abscence of evidence where evidence is to be expected IS evidence of abscence. For example, that explosive dowsing rod. Set up a test with a car park, some cars contain bombs. The fact that the dowsing rod failed to find anything is absence of evidence. However, it's fairly conclusive evidence of absence since you would expect it to definitely find something.

@@kirotheavenger60 yes and no. You can’t really prove a negative, but you can become more confident that it does not in fact work though never 100%.

@@kirotheavenger60 Absence of expected evidence is evidence of absence to a degree, but I think Adam's point is its not conclusive evidence of absence. You can approach 100% certainty of absence, but you can never reach it with the scientific method.

@@OldWayArtisans This saying does get thrown around a lot but is not quite accurate from what I can tell. Absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence, but it is in no way proof of absence. And that evidence can be strong or weak depending on the situation. Evidence and proof are defined terms but that phrase seems to use them interchangeably. Absence of evidence is not proof of absence. One cannot prove a negative, but that lack of evidence can increase certainty one has in the effects one can expect to see given this scenario again.

@@DejectRS "Absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence" No it's not. A very simple explanation is that you weren't looking in the right place or were measuring incorrectly. This in no way provides any evidence for the absence of what you are trying to observe. People in the past had no way to measure radioactivity for example. Following your logic, they sure had an immense amount of evidence and increased certainty that radiation doesn't exist. I'm sorry, but that is absurd reasoning.

HA! Yes, I actually paused the video to check on the dog.

Maybe they were just trying to kill off an invading force...

@@mattlane2282 insightful 👌

Well, in fairness if you let enough of them go try they will, in fact, clear the minefield.

@@pramienjager2103 hahahhaa

should have told them that if they believed in the devices they should walk every inch of the minefield with a rake behind them so that their paths could be marked. after seeing a few of their fellows blow up they should then learn to listen to the americans

I think it was sold by the same guy. It was also promoted by Wolfgang Halbig for detecting drugs in a high school. But he's more well known for harassing Sandy Hook parents for Alex Jones.

The police didnt get swindled. Its pretty much just " This drug sniffing device gave me probable cause to search you car."

@@haroldbalzac6336 oh, that reminds me of that "hemet of truth" urban legend, where two cops pretend a COLANDER is a fancy lie-detector!

They didn't just sell this to one police department, they sold it to MANY police departments, enough that the FBI put out a national bulletin about it and was able to secure an injunction that banned their manufacture and sale in the US in 1996. Here's the kicker: this is the same device Adam is talking about in the video. One of the people who made the original device you're thinking of escaped justice, moved to the UK, started selling exactly the same thing there as a £10,000 bomb detector, and one of the people who bought one realized he'd then been ripped off and started the company Adam is talking about in the video!

Where can I find that episode?

Yeah, I've lost respect for Bill Nye over the years sadly.

Someone could die bc of this "healer".

That seems to be the structure of the entire show unfortunately Instead of letting people share their beliefs and experiences and politely refuting them, they just sit them in a chair and heckle them constantly

@@lucilaos Not really. Medical malpractice is like the 6th leading cause of death in United States, and that doesn't include alternative medicine (with the exception of chiropractor because for some reason the FDA thinks that is a real medicine even though it's not). The worst thing he's doing is scamming rich white women out of their husbands paycheck while he most likely fucks them after waving a crystal over them to cure their case of the Mondays.

I see a similar issue with temperature detecting cameras in the Security industry. Some fail to show accurate readings when people's foreheads are obscured by hats, scarves, or even sunglasses.

yeah, my brain turned off for a minute trying to figure out where i was when i was 18. getting high and drunk watching youtube and playing guitar hero 3 like a boss!

Last decade was the 90s. No one can tell me otherwise 🙉

KZfaq didn’t exist yet when I was 18...

Adam is immortal

@@BloodWolf2005 stop bring stuck in the past, it'll ruin you

I also like how he said that some of the people who peddle woo probably do deserve to be seen as silly, but that just wasn't what the show was about.

Spot on.

I assume being impressed by his dashing good looks goes without saying?

@@kg4wwn you shouldn't even need to ask.

I, like Adam, have super severe, ADHD. His delivery and methods hit me better than any teacher I ever had in my life. I wish I had Adam to teach me every single subject growing up, I probably would’ve turned out a lot better.

Wait, you mean the "I can catch arrows" guy?

I was thinking the same thing. He only managed to catch an arrow AFTER it hit his shoulder.

@@fredygump5578 lars andersen can really do that though :)

This guy? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbGmg6l3ks-pmmg.html

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKt3YM-qntq1d58.html

Almost certainly didn't change the opinion of anyone on either side, but it was pretty fun to watch, which in a way was the point.

Also the psychic bike helmet, that was great lol

At the very least, we got a demonstration of confounding variables (if I'm thinking of the right term) in the form of the apple half that got coated in something by the table saw that made it decay less than the control.

@@alphamone That’s a valid point. Just goes to show that you can learn just as much from a failed experiment as a successful one.

It's pretty simple to see how dowsing became popular-in ancient times, dowsers would either find water, or they would die of thirst. The ones that lived would be the only ones to tell the tale, thus giving the illusion that dowsing has a 100% success rate. It's called Survivorship Bias.

Something I heard once was that dowsing helped people make decisions back then. Instead of milling about trying to think of where to dig a well, they would turn to dowsing that made the decision for them. "It says stop and dig here so we'll dig and find water." Versus "We've been digging for 3 hours and still no water!! Maybe we should dig somewhere else..."

No even in fertile areas outside of the desert there's so many places with no water...at a reasonable depth.

But as Matt Dillahunty has pointed out, absence of evidence in a place where evidence would be expected to be found but is not, might be evidence of absence.

@@katyungodly That would be evidence of absence of evidence

I'll take Adam over Matt. Local absence, even if unexpected, does not prove universal absence or even likelihood. It only proves you didn't find the thing in that one spot you looked. "Might" is not a word one relies on in scientific conclusion, unless the conclusion is that your experiment came to no conclusion - and some do.

In the same vein, proving one douser is a fake wouldn't disprove all of them; only the one you showed.

@@katyungodly I think a better saying for Matt would be that which can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Although I agree with Matt from inductive reasoning that if you keep looking for something in the places it's supposed to be and it's never found, the probability of it's existence continues to diminish.