which brings to question what animals he had in his pet shop pre-mythbusting days

​@Adj72 how did mythbusters start

​@@TheVindicitive An Australian producer had the original idea. But their production company didn't think it would work. So they sold the idea to the Discovery Channel who had connections to Jamie & Adam. & the rest as they say is history or Myth Busting.

lolololololololol

I love how casually he emptied that gun. He's an absolute machine of a man. Impressive in every way.

A "significant emotional event"

A "mild inconvenience" one might even say.

That makes no sense.

​@@pistonburner6448 Clearly you've never been in a battle.

@viirrvill shut up nerd

"Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way..."

"Digging around on a piece of ground in your hometown...."

"Waiting for someone or something to show you the way"

There is actually footage of this, Tirpitz for example was hit by several tallboys and many eye witnesses saw the ship literally being lifted and tossed to the side, from the bomber footage, it does support this somewhat although its hard to see if the ship is really being lifted. There several footage of merchant ships being torpedoed and splitting in half literally being lifted in the middle and both sides tossed to their sides, but thats hardly the entire ship.

We dont need to, we can do it on the street (at home you cant)

This deserves more than one like folks...

@@toddbob644 Fishing for likes of your own joke.. how low can you get?

Glad to know you're not the only one irritated by that.

they stopped eight ys ago...

It also seemed to be missing a lot of detail, I mean... there was no thought given (or at least, none shown in the final cut of the show which we see) to the relative sizes of the explosive as compared to the boats/ships (a whole torpedo's worth of ANFO compared to that tiny boat is just... _so_ far removed from being in any way comparable to a submarine torpedoing even the smallest of military vessels, it's _wildly_ overpowered), or how heavy vessels being fired at by submarines would be (which would affect the dynamics of how the explosion affects the ship _enormously_ ), or even to like... practical realities of testing like the pressure wave reflection from the huge explosion in the tiny little small-scale tank, and it's honestly a little disappointing for that reason. As you say, it feels much more like a race to see a boat pop out of the water at any cost, rather than an actual thoughtful test of the supposed myth at hand. I think it compares especially poorly to the level of detailed thought which was shown going into the other story in the show; we see a lot of the practical nitty-gritty of like... what are the physical and engineering concerns, what are the potential edge-cases, what's realistic in the context of the myth, etc., which is wonderful to see! It's sadly absent in what we see of the boat story though, and having the two of them in such sharp contrast side by side make the difference seem very stark. Even Jamie's comment at the end is odd and feels out of character, like... "unless your boat is very strong"? I mean... if it really came from submariners torpedoing vessels, then a decent chunk of their targets would be fully loaded with fuel, supplies, weapons, etc. and armoured specifically to try and withstand (or at least mitigate the damage of) things like torpedo strikes? Somehow I doubt the lightly constructed and as far as we see entirely empty little boat they had was designed with "withstanding 1000lbs of ANFO going off 10m below the water's surface" in mind. There are just so many variables which we don't even see being considered or discussed which really feel like they would have had a huge impact on the myth. Potential alternate explanations also never figured into the episode; one which occurred to me (admittedly an actual idiot) came from the small scale test... the explosion seemed to displace a lot of water downwards, so maybe it just _looked_ like ships were blown out of the water, as water was blown away from the ship's hull, temporarily revealing more of the hull below the waterline?

Agreed -- pretty sure I have seen footage of boats getting hit and lifting up in the middle and cracking in half?

My thoughts on this one is they didn't investigate the size of the explosion without the boat on top. The small scale tests showed a bubble of a particular size. They should of done a full scale test with the anfo near the top and measured the resulting bubble that pushed below the water to get an estimated size. Then drop the anfo to a depth that would mean just the top of the bubble, or maybe the top one 5th is all that reaches the boat. Just to replicate the myth. But I do agree, a torpedo only explodes once it hits a target, unless it is remote detonated.

@@crazyphrog6289 To be fair, I think some torpedoes (even as far back as in WW2) are/were equipped with like... magnetic detonators? Using the magnetic susceptibility of steel ship hulls and how they affected the magnetic fields they sailed through to trigger detonation. I went through a bit of a naval architecture hyperfixation/special interest phase a couple of years ago, and though I was less interested in military stuff I seem to remember hearing or reading that magnetic detonators were a huge problem for... I think the US(?) navy? Because they were tested in one particular area of the world, so their sensitivity was calibrated for that particular area, but the differing strengths of the earth's magnetic field around the world kept meaning that they weren't detonating properly when they were fired at ships in other places that they weren't calibrated properly for. (and if I recall the story correctly, the body responsible for designing/testing them outright refused to consider the possibility that their torpedoes and/or procedures didn't work as intended or had any flaws, and so blamed submarine captains/crews for "just being rubbish" (paraphrased) for ages?) So with potential non-contact detonations, it's possible that torpedoes which may or may not have given rise to the myth might have detonated with some distance between them and the ship's hull

an additional thing I've thought of now is like... what if a torpedo managed to rupture a ship's hull, breaking into an ammunition or fuel or some other kind of explosive/flammable material storage, setting off an explosion which then had a convenient breach in the hull (presumably pointing downwards) to direct the force, which could help to push the ship upwards? Another aspect which wasn't considered in the story a shown on screen

Iconic, my cocaine line lol

Artillery is used as a colloquialism as a comparator. "get out the heavy artillery"

You mean the BB gun?

@@bradendouglas6980 i mean its just safe practice

Since the bomb was made using a septic tank, you could say they used a shitload of explosives there.

i like to think that off-screen, walter would have done a test firing before the big event. he's not the kind of guy to leave something like that to chance.

I believe they said it was a metal boat when they were hauling it in and it still got disintegrated

@@TheTrueBatBrain I wonder how much of the metal hull was destroyed. Maybe the hull instantly sank and the upper wooden parts are what was thrown up high in the air.

WWII PT boats were made from various species of tropical timbers and plywood. There are several documentaries on KZfaq which show some of the steps during construction of PT boats.

This is wehraboo nonsense. The one feature that modern belt-fed machine guns copy from the MG42 is its cammed track belt-feed system. Otherwise they are all gas-operated instead of short-recoil operated and thus mechanically vastly different guns. While it's true that the M60 specifically has a lot of german parentage as a kludge of a FG42 action with a MG42 belt system, the vastly more popular (and better) FN MAG pairs the belt feed mechanism with an upside-down and beefed-up BAR action instead. Further, WWII era German firearms have actually had very little influence overall. Modern handguns owe basically everything to John Browning and Dieudonné Saive, German WWII rifles are notoriously *bad* outside of the StG 44 (and aside from proving the viability of intermediate cartridges in select fire rifles, modern rifles take no technical elements from it), their optics were trash, I could go on. The technological story in WWII is actually Germany getting distanced by everyone outside of a select few areas that idiots exploit to create a nonsensical mystique around it.

Yeah, I wondered about that, too. Why would the boat leave the water? The water will be displaced by the explosion and push upward and the boat will ride on the water. Since the displacement will be spherical, the force is not evenly distributed along the hull and it will always push harder in the middle than on stern and bow. No ship is made to withstand this kind of force. It will break under its own weight and crack in the middle. And that is what people saw. The boat was riding on a water sphere up out of the water, breaking apart. Nobody ever said "blowing it out of the water" meant it was literally hovering above any water. It was just above the surrounding water level, but well within (or atop) the water sphere/geyser. The only reason they declared the Myth busted was due to them not having the funds and time to try again, after their half-cooked plan fell apart. Whatever they said, I do not believe the story that the results of their plastic boat with black powder in a tank can be scaled in any way to a metal hull boat in a flooded quarry with ANFO. That are just too many variables and a lot of them unknown or too hard to calculate. Not even considering that the explosive was probably the correct size, but the boat was not a war ship, its hull too thin. As others suggested, a Patrol Ship or a small Frigate would be the right size. In my opinion, this myth is NOT busted.

Hood I think after the ships magazine blew up

@@RobertHarrison-oe3qg yep that was it only like 5 or 7 survivors out of hundreds ….. poor buggers

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Not so vital considering it still tore through the building, the side of that car might as well have been a sheet of paper.