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@carlosrivas1629

2 жыл бұрын

Even if Hindenburg had Helium, it would have still blown up like that.

@Lethgar_Smith

2 жыл бұрын

I saw this episode when it aired. It seemed like you guys were about to prove it was struck by lightning but then you pulled back, like you were afraid of revealing something you weren't authorized to do. It was weird.

@keithtorgersen9664

Жыл бұрын

I could be wrong but the Xtopha name might be coded for Christopha or Christopher. 🤷‍♂️

I love how the Cave looks so chaotic, but Adam can, totally unprompted, go "just a minute, let me find the plan for this Hindenburg we made several years ago" and be back with it in *seconds.*

@tested

2 жыл бұрын

He does this ALL the TIME, too.

@MostlyPennyCat

2 жыл бұрын

@@tested I'm surprised he ever gets anything made. You probably have to keep him on his own down there so there's nobody to tell stories to.

@bibeau756

2 жыл бұрын

As he's saying, "highly functional hoarder". The Cave _does_ look chaotic but I'm pretty sure Adam knows 90% of the things he has in there, if not more. He has his own system in his head, no doubt.

@c1ph3rpunk

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought if one were to step inside Adam’s brain it’d look exactly like the shop.

@m.maclellan7147

2 жыл бұрын

@@bibeau756 he goes into a bit of detail in his book. (Highly recommend. I git the Audible version which he reads) He calls it "Visual Cacophony", he needs to SEE his items or they don't 'exist'. This is kind of how my brain works as well, so was delighted to have a name for it !

Classic Bomb Squad Jokes: If you see me running try to keep up. You only get one mistake in this job, you used that one when you joined.

@rtyuik7

4 ай бұрын

('how do you stay so Calm during a defusal?') thats easy-- either i get it Right, or its not My problem anymore

I didn’t expect it, but this one suddenly had me howling with laughter. About 15 years ago, my wife returned from a visit to a friend’s newly purchased house, and handed me ‘something they’d found while digging in the back garden’. I took a look and froze, as it was a dirt-encrusted hand grenade, in really poor condition. I looked at her for a second, and then strongly suggested she give 911 a call,, while I very carefully walked the grenade out of the apartment. The Sacramento FD was there quickly, evacuated the apartment complex, and we all waited at a distance for the arrival of the bomb squad., which was surprisingly quick. A long while later, after much careful examination, portable x-rays, etc. they drove away with the thing. We never found out if it was live or dead.

@jscotthatcher380

2 жыл бұрын

most likely they never found out either. they probably promptly destroyed it with explosives.

@Noone-jn3jp

2 жыл бұрын

If it was whole, specifically not having a 1/2’ hole in the bottom, there is a 99.9% chance it was "live" aka full of explosive.

@davidpacek605

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noone-jn3jp no hole, as far I could tell, but it was really dirt encrusted. I thought it better not to explore, as it might have been pretty unstable. The idea of her driving across town with it sitting on the back seat of the car still scares me.

@Noone-jn3jp

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidpacek605 You are a smart and wise man, highly dangerous.

@critterjon4061

2 жыл бұрын

I Remember you used to be able to buy demilitarized hand grenades at surpluses with the pins and spoons still attached so me and my friends would pull out the pins then throw them to random people before running away which would always scare them to death

"That was one of the only times, we had a fire, in M5 that we didn't intend." Almost hard to believe with the shenanigans mythbusters were up to each episode.

@FinalConsensus

2 жыл бұрын

True but they were also all situationally aware of safety risks and professionals

@bobdole4916

2 жыл бұрын

And that fire was the source of one of my favorite jokes from the show, "these things are always catching on fire!"

@michaeledmunds7056

Ай бұрын

​@@bobdole4916"It keeps catching on fire when we're trying to prepare it for catching on fire."

Adam, You always share little stories about your family. So I would like to share one with you. My grandfather grew up in northern New Jersey. That faithful day he visited with his aunt in Linden so he could get pictures of the Hindenburg as it landed. The first pictures he captured were of the craft flying over his aunts house on approach to the field. Next there are pictures of the approach and the handlers. He of coarse caught pictures of the fire. But finally he talked a friend into flying him over the aftermath of the accident so our family also has pictures of what was left of the Hindenburg. All of these pictures are in albums with hand written accounts by my grandfather.

@HickLif3

2 жыл бұрын

Dude. You need to get those published somehow. That would be amazing to see

@m.maclellan7147

2 жыл бұрын

@@HickLif3 I second this !

@himaro101

2 жыл бұрын

You need to get those back up somehow. If you have the negatives, get them properly scanned and store them very carefully. Maybe even donate them to a museum that will understand their significance. That's amazing to have!

Fire stations are the same way. While working as a tow driver I picked up a car on the freeway that had been burnt pretty badly in a car fire for the state patrol. It no longer had any glass, and I didn't think about what might happen with fifty miles an hour winds blowing through it but went up the freeway a couple of miles, then exited to drive to our storage lot. Went another couple of miles, saw a lot of smoke coming out of the car, so I pulled into the driveway of a fire station. They put the fire out again, this time pulling out a lot of the interior of the car to make sure. But they were not at all happy with me leaving them with that mess on their driveway to clean up. Happened again a few years later, picked up an accident car not far from the same fire station, car started smoking, pulled into their station driveway again, followed by the crew that had been out at the accident. Turned out to be a hybrid, which was a new thing at the time, the crew figured that out and cut the cables to the battery, and I got out of their before someone recognized me from the last time.

"Great question, one sec" *Sprints outta screen like an elf* Everytime. I love it.

@punkdigerati

2 жыл бұрын

Somebody should make a compilation, he's had so many good moments grabbing things.

I think one of the things that amaze me the most about Adam, is his ability for recollection and skillfully frame such data in endearing narrative. It's not easy

I used the Hindenburg episode in my Science classroom after mid-terms this winter, as a thing to keep my students somewhat entertained after everyone finished. Still love the work you and the rest of the team did to illustrate how the scientific method actually works. Question -> research -> collect data, possibly multiple times with scale models and whatnot -> draw conclusion. And it's was done in such a fun way!

Here in Portsmouth, UK, finding old UX is a Tuesday. I still remember where all the bad places are, where nobody is allowed to go because it's still riddled, we're _still_ taught this stuff growing up. In France it's just a nuisance now, standard practise is farmers did it up, dump it at a junction and the bomb squads just drive around and collect it all. _100 years later_

@moseszero3281

2 жыл бұрын

Between WWI and WWII I think France and Germany are probably the most heavily shelled places on the planet. Just think of the number of mines, artillery, bombs, etc used across that land.

8:06 Please do not take it anywhere. Keep the old live explosives where they are, call the police to judge the situation and call the bomb squad as needed to handle it. Most of the time it is safe to handle, but in those few times when it is dangerous, ordinary people should not be moving that stuff around.

@jaynestrange

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, don't take the danger outside, take yourself (& any other people/pets in the area) outside.

@mockier

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, by finding it you have disturbed it. Get yourself and everyone else at a safe distance. Then call the police to take care of it. Don't stop to take photos. Yes even if it looks really cool.

@nolanhunder1122

2 жыл бұрын

This

@rager1969

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I can't believe he said that. Don't touch potential explosives. Same thing with weapons unless you know what you're doing. Maybe his honorary life time membership should be revoked for giving some dumb advice.

@0vesty

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, good thing that I knew this a couple of years back when I was going though my late grand parents belongings with my mom. Found a WWI era artillery shell from a closet, I notified my mother, took a picture of the ammunition and sent it to my dad and called him for what to do. He called the police and after the police came to look at it they called the bomb squad who managed to carry the ammunition out and took it with them. No one else than the bomb squad at any point touched it.

Adam unconsciously had his hand in front of his face for a few moments while pondering, and it looked exactly like his impression of Jamie. And then I remembered that his impression of Jamie is based on the impression that Grant Imahara used to do. Bittersweet.

Adam, I cannot tell you enough what a thrill it is that you find my questions interesting enough to answer. I laugh & gasp throughout that episode every single time I watch it. Thanks for the wonderful memories. Thanks for your entertainment. Thanks for your education. Thanks for being here. 💖

@tested

2 жыл бұрын

You ask great questions, Vickie!

One of the shows I miss the most from cable TV long ago was Mythbusters. Thanks Adam for being you ✌👽

"These thing's are always starting on fire " I believe you also said when it caught fire when I believe someone was doing a little spot welding

I have a question for Adam: Catching up on this channel inspired me to rewatch Mythbusters, and I had a new thought about the episode about burying bodies in concrete. How did you get permission to bury pig carcasses in concrete on the sidewalk, or did you even need to? Was that sidewalk part of Jamie’s property, or city property? Also, did you just leave those dead pigs there, and are they still there to this day (at least whatever remains of them)? Thanks Adam for taking the time to answer our questions! Keep up the good work Tested folks!

Thanks for this, Adam. And thank you for everything you've done and are doing! I can't tell you how often I have binged Mythbusters, and it really helped me through a dark period in my life when it was coming out. It's fantastic finding you on KZread and still doing what you love. You're a real inspiration, man.

7:45 years ago, a group of Navel Academy cadets was in a navel base as part of their practical training. all crew members were busy doing maintenance work inside the ship so no one was available to notice what was going on on the deck. one of the cadets had a minor level of training before getting inducted and wanted to show off his knowledge about grenades to his fellow cadets. so he pulled out a grenade case (anti-personnel depth charges), pulled one out, and started explaining how the grenade and mechanism works -including the twist and pull technique necessary for removing the pin... when he discovered that the pin was a split pin and wasn't capable of being put back into its place. he at least had enough wits about him to keep the lever pressed. so what does he do? climb down into the mess hall (that's feet away from very large tanks of diesel), grenade still pressed in hand, where the entire crew is sitting and says 'I was an idiot. can I have help?' crew member carefully took the grenade away, put masking tape on it, and put it back in it's case (so that the foam will act as a backup for the masking tape holding down the lever. later that day after the event was investigated they tossed the grenade out to sea...

@The_Keeper

2 жыл бұрын

I sincerely hope that someone said to him "Now, what did we learn today..?" :D

@MikrySoft

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Keeper at navEl academy they probably learned most about belly dancing or something. Not sure how explosives play into that.

"If you find something you think might be live, take it outside of your house and call the police" I'm gonna go a step further and say take *yourself* and anyone else outside the house instead, then call the police. Don't even touch what might be an old explosive

@Pete856

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny how some people feel the need to examine things closer, even when they know it's explosive. I say this as many years ago a friend invited me to tag along with him and a couple of guys he knew who explored caves and old mines, this day they were going into an old mine. Deep inside were many old explosive boxes, most were broken or had been used for something else like tables etc. Then one of these guys found an unopened box under an old wheelbarrow, and he wanted to open the box and was trying to find something to break it with....I don't know a lot about explosives but I'm pretty sure they become unstable over time. It took a lot of convincing to stop this guy from breaking open that box, in the end he agreed to leave it alone. I've always wondered if he went back on his own and opened it?

@The_Keeper

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pete856 The thing that usually blows up in people's face, quite literally, is old Dynamite. Dynamite has a tendency to "sweat", even when fairly fresh. Problem is, that "sweat" is nitroglycerine. If you mess around with old dynamite, you might be lucky and just get what demo-techs call "bang-head", which is a wicked headache caused by the nitroglycerine being absorbed into your bloodstream. If you're not lucky, well, the whole thing might just go boom. That is why if you find explosives, or and unopened explosives crate as you mentioned, in an old mine, you steer WAY clear of it.

@Pete856

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Keeper Now that you mention it, I have heard nitroglycerine causes headaches...not that it was my concern at the time. I assume those old wooden "Du Pont" crates contained Dynamite and not some other type of explosive? It's crazy how many old crates were in that mine, not that I have been in any other.

Fabulous recollections. I recall a senior computer engineer telling me when scanning the resumes of new grads after a job he likes it when he sees an interest in music. Sure, you need the bread and butter IT stuff but he’s noticed overtime musicians make extra good tech problem solvers. Go figure. Now I’m off to find that H-burg show. 😎

@jackiemowery5243

2 жыл бұрын

Always found geometry was helpful. Doing proofs taught kids to think step by step.

Great advice from Adam to viewers about potentially live ammunitions. If Adam ever remembers why the plywood would have helped the fire control I bet a lot of us viewers would love to here about it.

Is Mythbuster the BEST science show? Did it teach people HOW TO THINK? YES, the SHOW TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO THINK WHILE BEING ENTERTAINED

@brendanberry7403

2 жыл бұрын

What it taught me was that even the experts can be really wrong and not know what they are doing or be blind to what they are doing wrong. Even though today people pretend like that is no longer possible and all experts are right no matter what.

@The_Keeper

2 жыл бұрын

And, it taught Critical Thinking.

@Jeremy252

Жыл бұрын

@@brendanberry7403 I don't know anything about you but this comment reaaaaally reads like an anti-vaxxer wrote it

"It turns out bomb squads are among my favorites groups of people, and I know that sounds strange..." I mean, I can't say I find it SHOCKING that Adam has a lot in common with people who like to mess with explosives.

@bob_the_bomb4508

2 жыл бұрын

As a bomb disposal specialist I think the Mythbusters were one of my favourite groups of people… The sense of humour description is spot on… However people might be surprised that we’re actually a very risk-averse bunch…

Adam I am always impressed with these. You get a question and you instantly know where you keep some random part of a prop or drawing from your Mythbusters days. I take at least 4 hours trying to find that spare power cable I put away 2 days ago.

Adam, I love this channel and Mythbusters was such a great part of my teen/young adult years. I did a lot of practical theatrical construction in college, and while I can scarcely call myself "skilled" your work as a Mythbuster, a fabricator & prop-maker has absolutely been an inspiration, even though my craft is not up to your level.

Thanks Adam for sharing these stories with us. I never missed an episode of Mythbusters and most I have seen multiple times. They were always educational, entertaining and really hilariously funny. Some episodes can still make cry from laughing so hard. 😂

I wish I had the money to become a member cause I have so many questions to ask. Like do you think the bomb squad liked working with Mythbusters, not just for the fun aspect but for the professional reasons. Like the experience gained doing something entirely new. Some of the experiments seemed to really test their skills, and answered questions they never knew they had.

The Hindenburg episode was always one of, if not my all-time favorites. "Mega-dope." Bomb techs are awesome and frequently under-appreciated. I have immense respect for anyone willing to walk _toward_ a live explosive so innocent people can go on their merry way.

I think some of my favorite parts for Mythbusters was when you could tell they were having fun, and the miniature scale models they made for mock up test. Also..the more I see blimps the more I'd like to ride in one..like..I'm a fan of Steampunk and that is a common form of air travel, and I've heard that it's trying to make a comeback as a form of air travel due to how much more environmentally friendly it can be...I think that would be kinda cool.

When i used to work out in Northern France France we would find stuff all the time i Remember finding a Hand grenade we called the french bomb squad they had a very Laissez-faire attitude to what we should do with it. i wish to this day i had wedge it in some rocks attached a string and pulled the pin. the local farms used to plough up bombs, mines, stick grenades and rockets all the time and they where just left next to the power poles near the edge of there fields waiting to be picked up. the grenade i found is most likely still sitting at the end of friends drive way. lol

@kingboagart899

2 жыл бұрын

Was a teenager living in Central France in the 70's and used to explore the huge piles of twisted armaments and vehicles that the farmers had stacked every few hundred meters over the years as they plowed their fields. There was an amazing array of intact stuff, both axis and allied, and it gave me a great sense of the battles that went on under my feet. Haven't been back since and would imagine that the piles have all been removed by now or have simply rusted away.

There was another educational show that investigated the Hindenburg. Before your episode. They also brought up thermite. At the end of the episode, they actually found a letter from one of the 2 guys who covered the Hindenburg with the protective coating that should have prevented the disaster. The letter confirms that they made undocumented changes to the mixture before applying the coating while preparing for the final voyage. Therefore, between that finding and the Mythbusters episode, it's pretty clear that they accidentally mixed thermite and coated the entire Hindenburg with it.

Mat-Su is the valley. Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, one of the two major towns in the Mat-Su valley. She was also Governor of the whole state.

Some were in my place in some container. I own an Original patch (1" by 1") from the Hindenburg given to me when I visited the Hindenburg museum in NAS Lakehurst, NJ were it crashed and burned. I was there in the early 2000 for training. They also have a copy of the under carriage were it was driven and that copy is the screen used prop from the Movie.

I enjoyed the scene where you were trying to light samples of different compounds on fire. It looked like 2'x2' squares of material. None of them really took off --- UNTIL --- you turned your back on one and it TOOK OFF. You looked positively (deer in the headlights), and said, "Is everyone all right?"

Love all these videos...keep up the great work!!!

When I was studying Journalism in college a few years back, I read a reporting book advising foreign correspondents to carry a coat hanger. Not for your coat, but to _jam a landmine trigger_ in case you stepped on it. IIRC, the book was written by Tom Brokaw, who to the best of my knowledge was *NOT* an EOD technician but a reporter, so take that how you will.

6:09 They did not, in fact, mute while you honked, Adam

@austintillman8297

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda wish they added a fog horn just for effect

Out of all the episodes, the Hindenburg one is my favourite. I loved the methodology and the sense of discovery to it.

Adam when you fight fires you're not supposed to fight for them

In the summer of 1974, while working in summer theatre in Cohasset, MA, I stayed with a family which included an elderly, wonderful, gentleman named John Patrick Paterson. during the course of the summer, in conversations, he reveled two amazing events that he witnessed. (there were other very interesting things, for another time. btw, I have always said that if I could write a Readers Digest article for "My most interesting...." this is who I would write about). In 1974, he was 80 y/o. so to the point here, he was in the navy at the time and stationed at the naval air base at Lakehurst, NJ. in 1937 when he was 43 or 42, and witnessed the explosion. He told me that he could pick himself out running from the explosion in the newsreels. (Of course, at the time of this telling it was not practical to find the newsreels to verify his claim). Now, the other amazing air transportation event that he witnessed: Patterson was at a party in Paris on May 21, 1927 when someone ran in saying that an American pilot had just crossed the French coast and headed to Le Bourget airport. So he and everyone else got into cars and drove to the airport so Patterson saw Lindy landing.

There was a documentary on the Hindenberg that was shown not long before that episode of Mythbusters. In it they had a piece of the Hindenberg's skin which someone had picked up at the crash site. A descendant of that person allowed a strip to be cut from it and burned. It went up just like thermite, throwing off sparks. It only took a few seconds to burn completely. Apparently the people who applied the coatings to the material did not exactly follow the instructions and what / how it was applied made it extremely flammable. It would take careful deconstruction and chemical analysis of more of that surviving piece to see how reality was different from the plans. A similar thing was done for the Titanic in the mid 1990's. A descendant of a riveter who worked on the Titanic had a hole slug the riveter had saved. A charpy test of a piece from that slug and a piece of hull plating recovered from the ship showed that immersion all those years hadn't changed the composition of the metal. It also showed that the metal chilled to the 12C temperature of the water was extremely brittle. Both samples snapped with a PING and flew out of the test fixture. Steel used for modern ships will bend under those conditions. The part of the Titanic that hit the iceberg would've shattered. It would be interesting to do the same test with a piece of hull metal from the Britannic to see if it had the same cold water brittleness, and if that contributed to its fast sinking after hitting a mine, or being torpedoed, during WW1. It would be interesting to find if any piece of the Olympic's hull plating was saved when it was scrapped.

Love these kind of Tested videos!

Adam, you've definitely nailed that macabre sense of humour requirement. :)

I just saw the last episode of Eureka and Grant Imahara was in it !

Different times a HS friend's father was in bomb disposal in the Navy during WW2. He said he would take his box of unexploded ordenance into the base club and drop it on the bar. He very quickly had the place all to himself.

Imagine going to the local PD, saying "Hi, I found this in my granddad's army crate" and just casually plonk down a WWII grenade on the counter.. If you angled it right, it could easily be a Monty Python skit.

@jackiemowery5243

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, you'd need a British accent!

One of my favorite moments with J.D. was when Adam and Jamie showed up in tuxes, and J.D. comment about being "Decidedly under dressed'.

@The_Keeper

2 жыл бұрын

J.D.'s humor, at least what I remember from the show was, Dry, understated, a bit mischievous, and fairly dark... I miss J.D.

So i remember the hindenburg fire, as you said you got some plywood but the version we saw was you fanning at it before someone grabbed a co2 extinguisher and put it out. We never saw jamie hit if i remember correctly because he was blowing at it as it had just started at the tail section.

Grenades are/ can be relatively safe it depends if the casing is ruptured or not and what type the detonator is and it’s condition. Mortar rounds and literal bombs are really dangerous anything with an impact fuse is dangerous.

@HickLif3

2 жыл бұрын

40mm grenades are fairly safe as well. They have to go a certain distance/ rotate a certain number of times to arm. That safety literally saved my life once. Someone ND'd one while I was deployed and it landed a foot away from me but didn't go far enough to activate

@The_Keeper

2 жыл бұрын

@@HickLif3 Damn, thats a brown pants moment if I've ever heard of one.

I’m pleased you had so much fun re-enacting an historical disaster.

i just wateched that episode after seeing this video. THought the paint wasn't pure thermite, we can see that it form thermite in trace amounts when spread over an large are or because of the heat or something im not sure of. So scale it 50 times, one thermite burst every bunch (very big bunch) of square feet and i believe you can get a reaction that you achieve with the 3rd model.

you guys should have gone to Lakehurst, NJ where the Hindenburg was at. the hanger is so damn huge.

@kingboagart899

2 жыл бұрын

If you ever get a chance check out the deringable hangars from WW2 in Tillamook Oregon, pretty awesome.

I remember it was Jamie, doing some, "last minute welding," who set the cloth on fire.

She was mayor of Wasilla when I lived there. We don't talk about that period of Alaska history

Would love to hear Jamie's version of that plywood story. 🤣🤣 6:05 and thank you for the nose fart. 😂😂

"These things are always catching fire" my favorite quote.

Adam hit Jamie in the head in response to a fire accident. I feel for Jamie.

@Adam-ln4og

2 жыл бұрын

This is why Jamie doesn't work with Adam anymore. ;)

Reminds me of a story I've heard. A widow of a vet brings a box into a VSO office and said her husband had told her to just bring the box to the VSO when he died and the VSO would handle all the paperwork needed to get her survivor benefits. He'd also told her never to open the box, just take it straight to a VSO. We'll, she'd done just that. When the VSO opened the box, first thing he saw was an old WWII german stick grenade. He very gently closed the lid on the box, asked the lady to step out of the office with him, then walked down the hall to the sheriff's office which happened to be in the same county building, and reported what he'd found. IIRC, bomb squad removed grenade and left papers and box behind.

Ahhhh, the Hindenburg episode. That was such a good one!

A favorite episode of mine!

If you do find some unexploded munition, don't even take it outside your house. Leave it where it is, don't touch it, get everyone to leave (including yourself) and _then_ call the police.

@snaplash

2 жыл бұрын

Let the police into your home unwatched, and you'll find valuable items missing afterward.

@jhonbus

2 жыл бұрын

@@snaplash True, but it won't be the police who come to your house, it'll be the bomb techs. If you have their direct number, by all means call them direct! Not much point retaining all your valuables if they (and you) have been blown up by a rusty bomb.

3:03 *minecraft fall noise*

I just watched the Helium Raft episode last night and you folks mention the Hindenburg Disaster! Spooky!

We all need a bit of Adam Savage in ourselves

Great, one of the best vlogs. :-)

It's been a long time since I saw the Hindenburg episode. I don't remember seeing one of the models catch fire accidentally. Did that make it into the episode? Did it just spontaneously combust from a spark while you were welding or something? I really should rewatch old episodes of the show at some point but they're hard to find. I'd love for every episode of Mythbusters to be up on Curiosity Stream.

I love how myth busters was just basically two genius’ just messing around and having fun

@pakethdr

2 жыл бұрын

And writing it down. Don't forget that part.

@alexs6746

2 жыл бұрын

@@pakethdr that’s the difference between messing around and science

Plymouth, UK was heavily blitzed during WW2 and unexploded bombs are still sometimes discovered in the foundations of buildings when they're demolished. If you know what to look for, you can still find evidence on the streets (scorched pavements, chunks missing from granite gateposts, holes burnt in paving slabs from molten metal); my grandparents had a wardrobe that would glitter in the sunlight because it had tiny shards of plate glass window embedded in it. A couple of years ago roadworkers found a cache of grenades buried beside one of the main roads out of the city, it's thought that they were either to be used by resistance fighters in the event of an invasion or lost by GIs who where billeted nearby before D Day (the area where they were encamped is now a housing estate known informally as 'Little America')

>Makes Model of Hindenburg >Model of Hindenburg catches on fire >*shocked pikachu face*

Why am I laughing so hard at this bit of the story at 2:00? Adam hit Jamie in the head with plywood, but Adam's the one having trouble remembering what happened that day.

@jimhjortsberg2990

7 ай бұрын

Seeing the scene itself makes it even wierder. Jamie was trying to blow it out like a birthdaycandle and i have no idea what Adam was doing with the plywood either. Looks like he was fanning the flames more than anything!

The Hindenburg episode was one of my all time favorites.

NICE watch!!!

Concerning bomb squad stories - I was visiting the WW1 battlefields around Ypres, Belgium. We stopped by a farm; outside by road under a tarp were 8-12 artillery shells the farmer had uncovered during plowing - Belgian EOD periodically comes by to collect them. He was a potato farmer, & had a machine he would run the potatoes through to remove any rocks. Except they usually weren't rocks, they were hand grenades. He had several 5-gallon buckets of them. IDK how it works in Belgium, but if I had buckets of grenades in the garage the Federales would be paying me a visit. Kidding aside - current estimates are that it will be another 300-400 years before all the WW1 ordnance is recovered & rendered safe.

Adam Savage, an endless source of all kinds of stories about the wounderful weirdness of life. 😁😎👍

Loved mythbusters and love your content! I've got to know. That looks like CB I hate perfume In The library off to the side next to a bottle Demeter cologne. Which Demeter cologne is it? And do you wear it or spray it on stuff?

If you didnt know better you would say those footsteps noises off screen were faked. They were too perfectly comical 🤣

@FinalConsensus

2 жыл бұрын

Same, if it weren't for the end when he brings the diagram into frame I'd say those sound effects were added in post 😅

@HLR4th

2 жыл бұрын

True or False, those sounds made my morning!

@batdude4339

2 жыл бұрын

@@HLR4th mine too

8:00 Somebody found a live hand granade from their attic here in Finland and put it in a box and carried to the local police station. Unsurprisingly, the police wasn't happy with the end result. I think the end result was that the building was evacuated and Finnish Defence Forces was called to take care of the thing. The official recommendation was exactly as Adam said here: leave the damn thing at the place you found it and call the local authority. They know how to deal with it the most safe way.

I can't remember where I heard it, it may have even been from Mythbusters? But there's a Bomb Tech quote about keeping their cool on the job that goes like "Either everything goes fine and it's a good day, or things go wrong and it's no longer my problem"

Is that a Bundaberg drink? The part of the logo I can see looks like it and Bundaberg drinks come in those stubby bottles. It seems working for an Australian production company maybe extended to real Aussie flavors. I lived and worked in Bundaberg for many years.

"Surprise Mo' Fo'!" (THWACK!) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi, what sizes are those machinist blocks? Specially the small ones

You explained the ISTP personality profile lol when you talked about what makes the best bomb squad guy.

One of, if not THE, greatest Mythbusters quotes has to be JD's "de-ass the area".

In a hundred years some of these props will end up on the show Antiques Roadshow

2:01 And here we have, up to 2:11, another bit of Adam and Jamie on the job that _DESPERATELY_ needs to be animated and cartoon'd

Good afternoon from New Zealand just watched your latest have a question regarding the bomb squad that you used in MythBusters do you think they learnt anything new as well as you guys did over the thanks very much look after

Go JD. Go JD. Fill this piano with some TNT. 😆 JD and Frank are definitely certified MythBusters.

I remember that fire, didn't your hoover craft ,that was hanging at M-5 get burned up too?

As retired EOD, that list seems about right.

I'm remembering being, oh, eight or ten and walking with my brother along a street near my grandparent's house. Along the way, on the side of the road, we found a piece of 2"-3" galvanized pipe that had caps on both ends. I picked it up and we joked that it was a pipe bomb and tossed it around like it was a grenade many times. Eventually we brought it back to my grandparents' where our parents were and we took it home. At some point it came to my dad's attention and he realized that it was 99% likely an unexploded pipe bomb. It even had a drilled hole in the side. We called the police and they took it away, and I never heard anything more about it. But I still think back on that and think "Huh... not that it was volatile, or likely to explode from being dropped and shaken, I was still playing with something meant to explode a heavy-walled pipe."

Bomb squads and nuclear sub sailors have the same level of chill. In jobs like that, you just CAN'T be worked up.

@Dreddy72

2 жыл бұрын

all you can do is try to keep everything under control, or it will just become someone else's problem.

Uh, I think the advice for finding a potentially/suspected live explosive would be the opposite. YOU leave the house, you do not touch/move the device. Abandon ship., then call for help

Sarah Palin was a small town Mayor and served a half term as Alaska Governor.

Holy shit I used to watch these guys so much

The plywood smash should definitely have stayed in the episode. Summed up Adam and Jamie's relationship perfectly!

Jaime probably was like this guy hates me so much he's gonna kill me IRL🤣

Regarding finding an unexploded munition in your late relative's belongings - when it comes to explosives, let the professionals move it. A lot of them become hypersensitive to jostling as they age and can explode just from moving them. I know some of the WWI era explosives and late 19th century explosives are particularly well known for that but it's better to let the bomb techs determine that rather than you set it off trying to take it outside.

Hindenburg episode remains my favorite episode in all of mythbusters!

When I was in highschool 45 years ago, during history lesson we talked about WWII. Next lesson, a kid brought a live german "Panzerfaust" he had found in the woods. Was a lot of fun to see the teacher turn white and the police evacuating the whole school.

@bikeny

2 жыл бұрын

You went to a better high school than I did. All we had for fun was watching the Watergate hearings in our social studies class. Live tv in class. Talk about high tech stuff.