Mythbusters 7x01 "Demolition Derby Special" - Discuss and Grade
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Yeah that rocket sled was awesome. It's like it started moving than kicked in the warp-drive or something as it just went WOOF and was instnatly a blur.
I gave this an excellent.
For the record...
50mph Bus Flip - Busted. The bus didn't flip with the weight on the inside of the turn or evenly distributed, the idea that moving the weight to the inside of the turn would prevent a flip as in the movie Speed was on test here and proved to have no effect. It was, however, possible to flip the bus via remote control at a higher speed.
Fruit Stand Crash - Busted. The car was not drivable after the crash.
Chain Link Fence Crash - Plausible. The car was still in relatively drivable condition although the airbag did go off.
Pancaked Car/Fused Trucks - Re-Busted. Nothing realistic could reproduce either the car pancaked in between the two trucks nor were the cabs fused together. It took a rocket-propelled concrete slab at roughly 700mph smashing the car in to another concrete slab to pancake the car.
Trailer Crash - Busted. The trailer was completely destroyed and the car was in no way drivable.
Instant Convertible - Plausible. The roof of the car came clean off, Buster was still apparently safe and the car remained in a relatively drivable condition. However, the car also broke its safety line and ended up flying off the test track completely and in to the road outside, destroying it.
40,000ft Car Drop Race - Busted. The dropped car landed off-target two seconds before the land car reached the target at 105mph.
For the record...
50mph Bus Flip - Busted. The bus didn't flip with the weight on the inside of the turn or evenly distributed, the idea that moving the weight to the inside of the turn would prevent a flip as in the movie Speed was on test here and proved to have no effect. It was, however, possible to flip the bus via remote control at a higher speed.
Fruit Stand Crash - Busted. The car was not drivable after the crash.
Chain Link Fence Crash - Plausible. The car was still in relatively drivable condition although the airbag did go off.
Pancaked Car/Fused Trucks - Re-Busted. Nothing realistic could reproduce either the car pancaked in between the two trucks nor were the cabs fused together. It took a rocket-propelled concrete slab at roughly 700mph smashing the car in to another concrete slab to pancake the car.
Trailer Crash - Busted. The trailer was completely destroyed and the car was in no way drivable.
Instant Convertible - Plausible. The roof of the car came clean off, Buster was still apparently safe and the car remained in a relatively drivable condition. However, the car also broke its safety line and ended up flying off the test track completely and in to the road outside, destroying it.
40,000ft Car Drop Race - Busted. The dropped car landed off-target two seconds before the land car reached the target at 105mph.
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sorry about rehashingn this old thread but this episode was showen before i joined here and i want to give my opinion on it.....this is one of the best mythbusters ever....it's been 3 weeks and i'm still excited about it :-D it's easily in the top 10, even top 5
okay...thanks....i'd have voted 'best myth' if i could....
It was only "busted" in terms of why Keanu wanted to move the people to once side of the bus. Based on how the Mythbusters tested it, moving the people wouldn't have mattered. However it didn't hurt. If you wanted to give such a maneuver every possibility of working then that's one way to help it. (Also, it could be argued that in the movie the bus caught quite a bit of air during the turn so in the "reality of the movie" it helped.
Well, again, it wasn't "tested right" as in the movies, their own movie clip, and their own animation recap the car jumped and went through the living space of the trailer, not the frame of it.
Well, yes and no. They busted the myth because there's no realistic way a car would manage to loft itself into the air just before hitting a randomly passing trailer. What they failed to do was replicate the result, which used to be an obligatory second part of a Mythbusters experiment: demonstrate what would be required to achieve the depicted results.
Well, in the movie clip the chase appeared to be happening in a dirt-field or junk yard or something and the police car clearly goes up a dirty ramp before crashing through the trailer.
There's clearly got to be a difference in whether the car goes through the actual body of the trailer or just the wood paneling and interior. I think the car would have eben destroyed either way, but at least there would've been a chance it could pass through the trailer.
I'm not sure that panelling would've posed that much of a hazard to a car, but landing from a jump like that is bound to be rough on its suspension and body.
It was only "busted" in terms of why Keanu wanted to move the people to once side of the bus. Based on how the Mythbusters tested it, moving the people wouldn't have mattered. However it didn't hurt. If you wanted to give such a maneuver every possibility of working then that's one way to help it. (Also, it could be argued that in the movie the bus caught quite a bit of air during the turn so in the "reality of the movie" it helped.
The myth was that moving all of the weight of a group of people to the inside of the turn would assist in keeping the bus from tipping over. It did not, they tested it with the weight on the inside of the turn and with it distributed evenly and the bus reacted the same way. While moving the weight over didn't hurt, it didn't help either.
No, the bus didn't react the same way. It didn't tip over, but it was a lot closer to tipping over with the weight distributed on the outside of the curve.
Did they distribute the weight on the outside of the curve ? I thought they distributed it evenly ?
If I don't remember incorrectly they tried it three way - inside, evenly and outside, and the bus clearly reacted differently each time, although the suspension held even in the worst case (until they went over the top).
They tested it three times. First time with the weight on the inside (like in the movie) the weight even (to "bust" the "myth") and then with the weight on the outside of the turn, with the suspension rigged to fail and the COG of the bus unbalnced with the iron plate. The "OTT get the bus to flip" test.
They never did just a turn with the weight on the outside -that we were shown, at least.
Again, the myth was "busted" for how it was stated but doing something like that is still not exactly a bad thing to do. (It also appeared to me that the bus caught a bit more air with the weight not moved to the inside.)