For those of you who are intrigued by the Pykrete idea, it was a WWII project that got some serious consideration early in the war. The problem was that, due to aircraft range and lack of aircraft carriers, there was a gap in air cover for the Atlantic convoys. The idea was to use Pykrete to create a floating airfield in the Arctic circle near Greenland that could be used to launch larger patrol aircraft to plug this gap. The project was called Habakkuk, and I'm not mistaken when I say airfield - the "ship" would have been more than twice as long as an Essex-Class Aircraft carrier, and mass over 2 million tons (Yamato only massed ~70,000 tons). The idea even got to a scale model test in Canada, taking over two years to melt enough to be unseaworthy. Ultimately, though, the project was cancelled as Escort carriers such as the Casablanca-class were being rapidly deployed, and the amount of steel needed for the Habakkuk was deemed better used elsewhere. If you want to know more, the Naval History Channel by Drachinifel did a vid on it a couple of years ago. But be warned, the story is very...British...

@MrMarinus18

Ай бұрын

Though another reason was that Iceland joined the allies. While Iceland didn't have an military of their own (and they still don't) being able to use airplanes from Iceland massively shortened the gap and made the value of Habakkuk a lot more questionable. Submarines couldn't go very far so just having Iceland to station planes at almost covered the whole thing. Without Iceland the escort carriers would have not been as useful as they would have need to go a lot further which meant you need more of them. With Iceland the carriers only needed to escort the convoy to Iceland's air cover and then they could turn back to escort the next one.

@Orphioux

24 күн бұрын

Thank you for the warning at the end I almost looked into it and would have had immeasurable disappointment and a ruined day.

7:25, rare moments of Jamie being surprised and confused af on the show, lol.

7:21 Jamie's face right there, cant remember seing that face a lot during the show xD

"All I need to do is fill her up. (realization) With air." Just one of the many jokes I missed as a kid.

My left ear thanks you.

It wasn't the engine block on the "rear engine vehicle" that stopped the plow, it was the axle.

The ones that say Adam and Jamie had beef should watch this episode. They may not be best friends and have their problems but its obvious they enjoyed filming together.

Jamie casually mentioning he was on many boats before is pretty cool

15:20 would not be surprised if the actual conversation they had went exactly like that hahaha.

How the hell do Banijay manage to upload episodes normally on Science channel, yet on official (? Is it actually, not sure) Mythbusters channel the balance is more messed up than my life?

@mutaherazhar

3 ай бұрын

I think he owns the rights

@Orange_Tree_

3 ай бұрын

@@mutaherazhar Doesn't explain audio issues, but thanks for affirmation, I guess?

@MAROWA_

3 ай бұрын

Lol banijay is the plug

@Orphioux

24 күн бұрын

​@@MAROWA_Has this Myth been confirmed or busted yet?

@zoe9190

24 күн бұрын

From what i remember , they bought beyond productions, so they own the rights for mythbusters now

jamie being a former boat captain just makes so much sense

Pykrete is mentioned in a small article on page 195 of "The Reader's Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts", published in 1975. The material was tested on one of the two lakes just up the mountain from the town of Jasper, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It's either Pyramid lake or Patricia lake, I don't remember which. But when I went there in the mid 80's, the park wardens did tell the story.

The pykrete carrier was conceived by a Brit and it was intended to stay in the Atlantic to protect ships crossing it that were being sunk by German U-boats.

When the narrator said "it's destination Alaska" all I could think of was Ozzy man reviews. 😂😂😂

Tory is hilarious 😂 ❤

That ba dumm tss after Grant's banana split pun 34:53 had me laughing

I mean, judging by the idea that they _(the military during ww2)_ were thinking of using freezers in the ship to keep it intact, realizing it wasn't going to work so they scrapped the whole idea, kind of proves that it wasn't going to work in the first place :P

Why is the voiceover always only on the left channel?

Pykrete idea carrier, would basically have a double hull, with a refrigerate system keeping the hull cold, and the hull would also be very thick, thick enough for it almost repair itself due to how cold the hull would be (sea water and rain would freeze) and repairs would be easy, just add a box over the area you want to freeze on new material

4:35 whos dog is that?

what truck did they use for the snowplow?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 adum is funy witt dals

mono! nooo! D:

@monoO733

3 ай бұрын

WHAAAT?!

Im still sad about those two amc eagles that died🥺

Turn on mono audio if you're using headphones 🤣

so if its 14% by weight sawdust and 8 or 6% water whats the rest made of

@canadiangamer5462

2 ай бұрын

The 8 or 6 is supposed to be 86

An ice boat would work well on Titans oceans of methane

Need to ask you'll a question... If antman in his time/space suit was sitting in a hot tub time/space machine with the time/space Travelers wife and the time/space bandits on the seat of H.G. Wells time/space machine within the glove box of a time/space delorean whilst Speeding around the T.a.r.d.i.s while she's materialised within the ear of the T-800 just before it enters the Cyberdyne time/space machine. Need to know, at what time do we order the Chinese

@joshuaentwistle960

3 ай бұрын

Ten past

@Orange_Tree_

3 ай бұрын

Right after bus drives in

@cha0sniper

2 ай бұрын

"Half past three." "AM or PM?" "Yes."

What plane do they keep talking about?

@matt47110815

Ай бұрын

The surface of the water. It is a plane to float on. That is why flying things are called Airplane - they float too, but in the air.

hello audio my old friend

Probably just me but it seems oddly disrespectful to paint a flag on something you're going to try split in half? Besides that thanks for another fun episode & keep 'em coming! 👍

Stupid that they change the recipe for pykrete and then say how it melts too fast

@Valfaun

Ай бұрын

the original recipe melted even faster, though. they did test it

To be honest I hated Adam’s childish behaviour

@quantumrobingaming6667

Ай бұрын

Hi Jamie.... 😂

@ronch182

Ай бұрын

To be honest...no one asked.

@CanonTogger717

Ай бұрын

@@ronch182 to be honest i couldn’t give two craps about what you think

@2siQc

Ай бұрын

Somebody’s dead inside….💀💩

@CanonTogger717

Ай бұрын

@@2siQc you aren’t wrong !