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watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
craziest Mythbusters moments before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we will be looking
at some of the most wild crazy and
sometimes scary things to happen on the
hit show from explosions to insane
stunts they’re all done in the name of
science
number ten rocket car jet-assisted Chevy
I’m Jamie Hyneman and I’m Adam Savage
we’re gonna find out what happens when
you strap a rocket to a 67 Chevy in
their very first season the team decided
to start off with a bang
the myth about a car hitting 300 miles
per hour and getting airborne came from
a supposed Darwin Award recipient who
died after equipping his car with a jet
engine so the Mythbusters souped up a
1965 Chevy Impala with rockets and gun
did take that Batmobile but it didn’t
catch air it was indescribable
just just seeing that car kind of go
they tried the whole deal again years
later with a ramp and that at least
helped them get up in the sky a little
bit number nine matchball youtube
special what if we actually made the
matches do work like say we put them in
a cannon and fired a cannonball with
them instead of just blowing something
up I love it let’s do it what do you get
when you take a million match heads and
light them on fire
a huge fire cloud of death and
destruction of course the team was
recreating a video they saw on YouTube
to see if the chemicals from match heads
could create an explosive reaction they
started with tens of thousands of match
heads but that just wasn’t good enough
in true Mythbusters fashion they upped
the ante with a whopping 1 million match
heads it sent a 50-foot fireball
straight into the air and even stirred a
giggle out of Jamie the bowling ball guy
I don’t know number 8 shocking shockwave
22,000 foot fall everybody say it with
me
Jamie wants big boo when falling 22,000
feet your only hope of survival maybe
the shock wave from an explosion that
was the theory anyway in practice not so
much to tackle this burning question the
team needed a sizeable explosion good
timing and poor old Ted the crash test
dummy an insane amount of carnage was
created so all was not lost in the
busting of this myth
the explosion that trees on fire and the
guidewire was found ominously wrapped
around a tree at 1,000 pound bomb will
do that it totally wrapped around it is
crazy oh my god number 7 jet taxi
special super sized myths all we need to
do is have the captain fire up these
engines have the tow truck pull the
taxicab through the jet blast and
hopefully we’ll fit this calf jet
engines are powerful beasts to put one
of these bad boys to the test the team
took a bus a taxi and a small plane to
see if they could withstand the blast of
a Boeing 747 as soon as the doomed
vehicles get in range of the engine
though they go flying and not in a good
way seeing a bus get blown away is hella
cool but the taxi doesn’t stand a chance
it actually gets some decent air before
getting slammed back down
it basically disintegrates as its
flipped around like a
ragdoll this kind of reckless driving is
going to do nothing to enhance the
reputation of cab drivers but it does
confirm the myth number six curse of the
snowplow myth evolution all goes
according to plan only the wedge part of
the super plow should cut right through
the car and the rocket sled should slide
right underneath longtime fans of the
show will know that snowplows and the
Mythbusters have a love-hate
relationship they either have a lot of
fun with them or everything goes awry
this time everything happened to go
right the stars aligned and made way for
glorious destruction they equipped a
steel wedge with rockets that gave at
75,000 pounds of thrust and sent it
speeding towards a car at hundreds of
miles per hour the car split in half
like a banana and the steel blade was
never seen again as it completely
disintegrated on impact with a concrete
barrier and with the dust and shrapnel
settle the team discovers a spectacular
result number 5 wheels on water
motorcycle water-ski babies getting
straight back on the horse power and
watch more this time he’s upping the
speed to 80 for this myth the goal was
to ride a motorcycle on water without
the aid of divine intervention their
approach to the myth took a few tries
but was eventually pretty simple but
also pretty crazy drive as fast as
possible straight at the water and see
what happens
water seems like it would provide a
cushy surface but when you’re doing some
80 miles per hour it might not feel so
great danger aspect aside
Jamie managed to pull it off he wrote
atop the water for a whopping 300 feet
yeehaw riding a motorcycle across the
water busted plausible or confirmed
confirmed not recommended but it’s
confirmed yes
number 4 cement removal salsa escape
Mythbusters plan to load this barrel
with just enough cement to coated
it up do you have stubborn dried on
cement maybe inside the barrel of a
cement truck
well worry no more just throw in some
dynamite and that pesky cement will be
gone in no time
well along with everything else in the
area the myth-busting started off pretty
innocently here with just a little
dynamite and some cement the team wanted
something with faster results though
enter 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate
it cleared the cement with no problem
and completely terminated the truck the
sound it made was deafening and the
shock wave a thing of beauty
finally three cement trucks one camera
and a barrel full of high explosive
later the Mythbusters have got what they
came for this is crazy number three
sinking automobile underwater car let
the car fill up let it settle on the
bottom then casually open the door and
swim to the surface we can all agree
that being trapped in a sinking car is
nightmare fuel right up there with being
buried alive or being chased by a clown
the Mythbusters team wanted to see if it
were possible to open a car door under
water when the car was lowered into the
pool we saw the water climb up Adams
body until there was no air left
then while Adam was holding his breath
he tried to open the door but it didn’t
budge and even though they had a diver
in the back seat with oxygen some panic
set in a later test proved it could work
but it’s a terrifying prospect number
two coffee creamer kaboom viral our
everything goes right and that stuff
goes up in the air and it actually
ignite we could set this whole hillside
on fire after this you’ll never look at
powdered coffee creamer the same way
again in this special episode the
Mythbusters tackled viral videos in this
case it was videos of creating infernos
out of sawdust they managed to get a
decent flame going but Tory Kari and
grant kicked it up with yes non-dairy
creamer as it turns out all it takes his
coffee creamer the right volume of air
and some heat to create a mushroom cloud
of fire it created a much bigger blast
than the team was expecting and sent
them running to the hills the only
casualty was a camera and our trust of
everyday household products I hope
I need to tell you this but don’t try
this at home number one cannon misfire a
popular Mythbusters TV show had an
accident shall we say the crew fired a
cannonball it smashed all the way
through and nearby house and then
through the window of a minivan outside
despite all the crazy things they do on
purpose over at Mythbusters our number 1
spot goes to a moment that’s crazy for
all the wrong reasons
in 2011 the team was testing out a
homemade cannon on a firing range
because of course they were when a
cannonball bounced a wall it headed 700
yards off course into a suburb of San
Francisco and went straight through the
door and bedroom of the house hit
another roof and then crashed through
the window of a minivan to finish off
its journey amazingly no one was hurt
but the team still considers it one of
their very worst moments well it
radically altered our entire safety
procedure and our approach and a mental
approach to safety from the ground up do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
craziest Mythbusters moments before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we will be looking
at some of the most wild crazy and
sometimes scary things to happen on the
hit show from explosions to insane
stunts they’re all done in the name of
science
number ten rocket car jet-assisted Chevy
I’m Jamie Hyneman and I’m Adam Savage
we’re gonna find out what happens when
you strap a rocket to a 67 Chevy in
their very first season the team decided
to start off with a bang
the myth about a car hitting 300 miles
per hour and getting airborne came from
a supposed Darwin Award recipient who
died after equipping his car with a jet
engine so the Mythbusters souped up a
1965 Chevy Impala with rockets and gun
did take that Batmobile but it didn’t
catch air it was indescribable
just just seeing that car kind of go
they tried the whole deal again years
later with a ramp and that at least
helped them get up in the sky a little
bit number nine matchball youtube
special what if we actually made the
matches do work like say we put them in
a cannon and fired a cannonball with
them instead of just blowing something
up I love it let’s do it what do you get
when you take a million match heads and
light them on fire
a huge fire cloud of death and
destruction of course the team was
recreating a video they saw on YouTube
to see if the chemicals from match heads
could create an explosive reaction they
started with tens of thousands of match
heads but that just wasn’t good enough
in true Mythbusters fashion they upped
the ante with a whopping 1 million match
heads it sent a 50-foot fireball
straight into the air and even stirred a
giggle out of Jamie the bowling ball guy
I don’t know number 8 shocking shockwave
22,000 foot fall everybody say it with
me
Jamie wants big boo when falling 22,000
feet your only hope of survival maybe
the shock wave from an explosion that
was the theory anyway in practice not so
much to tackle this burning question the
team needed a sizeable explosion good
timing and poor old Ted the crash test
dummy an insane amount of carnage was
created so all was not lost in the
busting of this myth
the explosion that trees on fire and the
guidewire was found ominously wrapped
around a tree at 1,000 pound bomb will
do that it totally wrapped around it is
crazy oh my god number 7 jet taxi
special super sized myths all we need to
do is have the captain fire up these
engines have the tow truck pull the
taxicab through the jet blast and
hopefully we’ll fit this calf jet
engines are powerful beasts to put one
of these bad boys to the test the team
took a bus a taxi and a small plane to
see if they could withstand the blast of
a Boeing 747 as soon as the doomed
vehicles get in range of the engine
though they go flying and not in a good
way seeing a bus get blown away is hella
cool but the taxi doesn’t stand a chance
it actually gets some decent air before
getting slammed back down
it basically disintegrates as its
flipped around like a
ragdoll this kind of reckless driving is
going to do nothing to enhance the
reputation of cab drivers but it does
confirm the myth number six curse of the
snowplow myth evolution all goes
according to plan only the wedge part of
the super plow should cut right through
the car and the rocket sled should slide
right underneath longtime fans of the
show will know that snowplows and the
Mythbusters have a love-hate
relationship they either have a lot of
fun with them or everything goes awry
this time everything happened to go
right the stars aligned and made way for
glorious destruction they equipped a
steel wedge with rockets that gave at
75,000 pounds of thrust and sent it
speeding towards a car at hundreds of
miles per hour the car split in half
like a banana and the steel blade was
never seen again as it completely
disintegrated on impact with a concrete
barrier and with the dust and shrapnel
settle the team discovers a spectacular
result number 5 wheels on water
motorcycle water-ski babies getting
straight back on the horse power and
watch more this time he’s upping the
speed to 80 for this myth the goal was
to ride a motorcycle on water without
the aid of divine intervention their
approach to the myth took a few tries
but was eventually pretty simple but
also pretty crazy drive as fast as
possible straight at the water and see
what happens
water seems like it would provide a
cushy surface but when you’re doing some
80 miles per hour it might not feel so
great danger aspect aside
Jamie managed to pull it off he wrote
atop the water for a whopping 300 feet
yeehaw riding a motorcycle across the
water busted plausible or confirmed
confirmed not recommended but it’s
confirmed yes
number 4 cement removal salsa escape
Mythbusters plan to load this barrel
with just enough cement to coated
it up do you have stubborn dried on
cement maybe inside the barrel of a
cement truck
well worry no more just throw in some
dynamite and that pesky cement will be
gone in no time
well along with everything else in the
area the myth-busting started off pretty
innocently here with just a little
dynamite and some cement the team wanted
something with faster results though
enter 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate
it cleared the cement with no problem
and completely terminated the truck the
sound it made was deafening and the
shock wave a thing of beauty
finally three cement trucks one camera
and a barrel full of high explosive
later the Mythbusters have got what they
came for this is crazy number three
sinking automobile underwater car let
the car fill up let it settle on the
bottom then casually open the door and
swim to the surface we can all agree
that being trapped in a sinking car is
nightmare fuel right up there with being
buried alive or being chased by a clown
the Mythbusters team wanted to see if it
were possible to open a car door under
water when the car was lowered into the
pool we saw the water climb up Adams
body until there was no air left
then while Adam was holding his breath
he tried to open the door but it didn’t
budge and even though they had a diver
in the back seat with oxygen some panic
set in a later test proved it could work
but it’s a terrifying prospect number
two coffee creamer kaboom viral our
everything goes right and that stuff
goes up in the air and it actually
ignite we could set this whole hillside
on fire after this you’ll never look at
powdered coffee creamer the same way
again in this special episode the
Mythbusters tackled viral videos in this
case it was videos of creating infernos
out of sawdust they managed to get a
decent flame going but Tory Kari and
grant kicked it up with yes non-dairy
creamer as it turns out all it takes his
coffee creamer the right volume of air
and some heat to create a mushroom cloud
of fire it created a much bigger blast
than the team was expecting and sent
them running to the hills the only
casualty was a camera and our trust of
everyday household products I hope
I need to tell you this but don’t try
this at home number one cannon misfire a
popular Mythbusters TV show had an
accident shall we say the crew fired a
cannonball it smashed all the way
through and nearby house and then
through the window of a minivan outside
despite all the crazy things they do on
purpose over at Mythbusters our number 1
spot goes to a moment that’s crazy for
all the wrong reasons
in 2011 the team was testing out a
homemade cannon on a firing range
because of course they were when a
cannonball bounced a wall it headed 700
yards off course into a suburb of San
Francisco and went straight through the
door and bedroom of the house hit
another roof and then crashed through
the window of a minivan to finish off
its journey amazingly no one was hurt
but the team still considers it one of
their very worst moments well it
radically altered our entire safety
procedure and our approach and a mental
approach to safety from the ground up do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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