This One Might Blow Your Socks Off | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 24 | Full Episode
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Does a bullet fired from a gun drop at the same time as a bullet just dropped in the air and how possible is it to knock someone's socks off?
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Actually 1 percent of 402 milliseconds is roughly 4 milliseconds. So 402 and 410 is not a tenth of a percent accurate, it's actually 2 percent. Which is pretty bad for such a simple experiment. That's why you should repeat the experiment 10 times for both cases and then take an average.
According to a BBC interview with one of the passengers sat right next to the door blank which blew out of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 in Jan '24, he was saved by his seatbelt, but his shoes and socks were blown off. So thanks to Boeing's complacency missing the bolts out, the 'blow your socks off' myth would be worth revisiting in 2024 - if Mythbusters were still going.
cant really remember the verdict of mythbusters plane blowup and the socks testing but i recall it was more about impact and pressure. the plane is move at about 800-900 km/h and the wind passing by the plane will create suction from the hole (similar to a horrible vaccum cleaner) which if i recall was not considered in any of their tests. (impact and pressure difference)
More sucked off than blow off
@@Nickerian91 : there are some air between socks and the skin wich expanded when the enviromental air pressure decreased rapidly. This expansion is the most powerful element in this case. When a people get lightning strike, clothes can blow away due to the air expansion.
@@CsibeBiGa then it would affect all passanger since the pressure affects the whole cabin where the vaccum affect the area closest to the hole. a pressure difference would also not cause your socks to fall off just the air gap to expand but as anyone would assume the air would just leakout in the openings having no affect on your socks and shoes (we are talking about a 10 psi difference with minimum air in that area)
10psi differential can make a big difference.
i used to waych this show every Thursday after school with my friend at his place. his parents had a candle business and they had a small woodworking shop for decorations and stuff. We would try to do a bunch of cool stuff, recreate some things from the show lol. we eventually went on to different high schools and lost touch. 13 years later, a few days after Grant died, he tracked me down on Instagram to tell me about it, we both cried so much and remembered our little projects. really cool that you're uploading all these episodes, judging from the comments, it was special to a lot of people
well don't know how this knocking socks off myth is but i use to have socks made by my great grandma that were made with goats wool only no elastic bands or elastics at all that might have done it i think your using the wrong socks so i would say its not that you didnt have enough power its the fact that your using the wrong socks i remember wearing those goat woolen socks and just walking made them slip of so a punch making your feet fly up in the air might actually knock them off wrong sock i say wrong sock
I saw an old homeless lady get hit by a car and not only did it knock her shoes off, it knocked one sock completely off and the other one was hanging off her toes. For anyone worried about the old lady, I sat with her until the ambulance came and she kept going on about how a broken hip meant the hospital couldn't kick her out.
Only in the USA does an injured old lady need to worry about whether she will be treated. In every other advanced economy - and and in many much poorer countries too - health care is a human right. It's bad enough being ill or injured without having to worry about money and fighting your insurance company...
I love how they will tackle stuff that no one else will .
Could have helped Mythbusters with this "knock the socks off" myth. I mean they tried to hit buster, they didn't try a live person. But I involuntarily did some mythbusting when I got hit by a car (doing 60 kmh but probably breaking, so no idea what the exact speed was). It knocked my shoes off, but the socks remained on! As for other myth: in the name of science they should have fired some more bullets. It wasn't that hard to reset.
no wonder the show became more expensive, they just pretty much went trigger happy with explosives and every myth, its pretty weird
In one of Adam savages tested videos he talks about how the bomb squad would actually provide the explosives free of charge.
@@sashacw4798 yes but people had to be paid to be there, im sure the deal was - you get free explosion but you gotta hire 5 of our men for each of the explosions to make sure its safe
I love the bullet myth
I think the difference can be accounted for by the 'kick' of the gun. It is an infinitesimally small amount but might account for the fired bullet taking longer. The reaction of the gun to pushing the bullet was absorbed by allowing the gun to pivot back. For the very small amount of time the bullet is in the barrel, the barrel is re-aiming, very slightly up. I was going to try and calculate this but haven't got the information. I don't know how long it takes for the gun to pivot back so would have to estimate various things such as the mass of the gun and bullet, the position of the pivot, the friction in the pivot mechanism etc. The only clue that helps to confirm my hypothesis is the test shot at short range to confirm the level of the gun. This seemed to be smack on level when in reality, the bullet should have dropped very slightly. Fantastic experiment and the result confirms physics to within a small fraction of uncertainty. If they'd absorbed the kick on a horizontal slider, they could have got it even closer I feel. Love Mythbusters, still watching them now as I did when they first aired.
There are also going to be lags in the release mechanisms, however they try to synchronise them. There are simply too many moving parts if you use a real gun.
the human eye absolutely can absolutely distinquish those timeframes though, but i suppose this was filmed way befor a time this would be relevant to the average consumer.
This is a really good episode
Would love to see the full episode of the Demolition Derby episode
whatever the myth, busted or not always end in a big bang.🤣🤣🤣
34:05 They edited the footage lol xD The first one wasnt centered enough so they swapped out the shot with another shot where it was better centered. Look the black border on teh first target/paper and the red tape going around the edge. On the next target the white paper is covering the blackborder and the red tape is ripped :D and the hole also shifted position physically xD
Well yes, it was a TV show when it aired.
@@Damaged7 Yes I know lol... But why "hide" it/lie about it? :D Thats nto in the spirit of mythbusting/fact finding. Also now, it literally makes teh earlier findings/tests/values non-valid. Bc we know it wasnt centered/aligned properly. So this proves (but so does their own espisodes) that Mythbusters are often wrong and inconclusive by default.
They do multiple takes of the same test to ensure reliability and for TV purposes. You'll also notice that some of these takes are for the high speed camera (the shots with a lot of extra light) and others for the regular cameras. There's no trickery there, and it's not being "hidden" from the viewer - after all, it's really obvious that the target paper was swapped. That's just how television works.
@@AJD09FB Point taken, but I can see both sides. Because MB presented a certain methodological meticulosification, the show should have included some "after-a-few-more-trials" verbiage in their episodes, where appropriate. It wouldn't have taken up more than a few seconds extra narration.
@@-danR I'm not sure that such verbiage would even be needed, given that it is obvious enough from the video itself - and from the well-established format of repeated testing on the show - that additional trials were performed. I agree that really spelling it out would have solved the issue for people like the OP, but 99.9% of viewers already understood this to be the case. It was also true that a lot of commentary had to be cut from episodes in order to make room for ad breaks. Adam has even stated that jokes were regularly cut mid-punchline because the episode running times were so tight. So I'm not sure that such verbiage would have made it into the final cut anyway. Of course people are always going to want more, or to see the entire testing phase, and a modern version of the show would probably just post that as exclusive content, or as an extended version. However, that was not feasible when Mythbusters first aired. It is also important to remember that Mythbusters wasn't a "science documentary", it was an entertainment show aspiring to make use of the scientific method - and regularly failing in that regard (as was always an option). That entails a different standard and editorial approach than for something which presents itself as purely "scientific" in nature.
4:57 The difference between 402 and 410 milliseconds is 2%, not "less than 1%".
Adam says “its 8 tenths of 1% difference”, which implies that he is comparing it to the full second (1000ms). Both balls are separated by 0.8% of a second (or 8ms). Comparing both balls to each other is not wrong, and the result is indeed ≈1.99%, but this is not what Adam is after. He's not trying to find the PERCENTAGE difference between them touching the floor. (≈1.99%) Instead, he is trying to find if they touch the ground "at the exact same time". This is, the ABSOLUTE difference. (8ms) Why is the distintion important? Let me show you an example: --- In the video, the balls took 402ms and 410ms to fall. - That is a ≈1.99% difference when compared to each other. - And it is 0.8% of a second (8ms) difference between them. For clarity, lets imagine you drop an EXAGERATEDLY lighter item in the exact same way. Let’s say it takes 16080ms and 16400ms to fall. - That is STILL a ≈1.99% difference. - but 320ms is almost a third of a second, or specifically, 32% of a second. --- Even though in the example both items fell with a ≈1.99% difference between them, an 8ms gap is an acceptable margin of error to say that they hit the ground "at the exact same time". Meanwhile, a 320ms gap would probably not be enough to confidently say that the items touched the ground "at the exact same time”. The issue, and the reason you’ve been thrown off, is that Adam presented this absolute value (8ms) as a percentage (0.8% of a second). This was an overcomplication on his part, absolutely. I hope this helped!
@@ReDJstone Overcomplicated indeed. 8/10 of 1% difference still implies it is 0,8% of a value. Adam never said "of a second". Although before that he said 4,02/10th of a second. So he uses 1 second as 100%? This makes absolutely no sense. He probably mixed it all up in his head with all this "who doesn't love fractions". I agree that absolute value matters, but it wasn't what he was going for when eh said that.
Womp womp, everyone else who matched it managed to know he meant less than 1% of a second....
@@d4slaimless 'Adam never said "of a second" ' 4:16
Lets go MB :D
Nice one ..>>
Knock Your Socks off was one of my favorites as a kid. Always did wonder that was true before I saw this episode.
It depends on the socks. Tall and tight socks will not go off. Short or old loose socks will.
yep, got some worn, old, wool socks I could kick off myself if I wanted too
41:20 Nobody tell Adam that the heart of a solenoid is an electromagnet.
I'm sure he knows that. What Adam and Jamie are missing is that an electromagnet is an inductor, and with a metal core it's going to have significant inductance. Inductance resists rapid changes in current so that there will always be a latency before the solenoid's armature fully releases the bullet.
I wanna know if anyone actually sent socks in, or if it was all for TV 😂
Bless his cotton socks
They did retest knock your socks off and eventually they hit buster hard enough that his socks came off his feet and to put it simply the force required is way beyond more than enough to kill you and that was with the sock most likely to get knocked off hairless dry legs buster on his own weight and the mass and speed of the object hitting him ramped to the max and one of the feet was ripped apart once the sock was removed
With the pendulum thing and knocking busters socks off I feel that upwards motion is the key because that's what the nitrogen cannon was doing it was pointed straight up under his chin and socks naturally come off by sliding down the leg its not going to come off with sidewards momentum
Confirmed 👍 👍
Sweat would be a factor with the "Knocking Your Socks Off". But hey, they're done.
Do you think sweat would make it easier or harder? I always find that my socks come off easier if I let my feet dry for a while first
@@robmckennie4203 That's a very good point & totally agree. Perhaps the talcum powder used would have had a better go of it? I'm just speculating to flip here!
The redid it a few yes later, and yes sweat plays apart
Can't speak for socks, but one of the saddest things I ever saw was the almost-immediate aftermath of a ten-year-old kid being struck by a car and killed across the street from my house. Thankfully for me, the poor kid's body had been taken away by the time I saw the scene (I wasn't home when it happened), but all the other evidence had been left in place, including one of his shoes, laces still tied.
This was the first episode I ever watched Mythbusters on TV. I couldn't shut up about it at school.
Yeah, we probably had the same amount of friends.
I don't think the paintball inaccuracy has anything to fo with the discrepancy. Firstly there is a delay between pulling the trigger and the paintball leaving the barrel. Secondly, the hand dropped ball is not perfectly aligned with the height of the gun. It might seem superfluous but we are talking about tiny fractions of a second here. Thirdly, any random movement pattern left or right won't affect the physical truth that the ball experiences gravity. It would only be a concern if the trajectory were to be tilted upwards.
11:26 I wonder, what if the sock got stuck on something inside the shoe? Could that work?
I want to see when the car ran through a fruit stand and the diver gets crushed in a old diver suit. I wonder if it is available?
I think you have Confused a Few Episodes Together😅😅😅
What's up with the fart sound upon explosions?
Is the episode with the duck tape bridge available?
I’ve seen it on here somewhere for sure.
On yt on a another channel
It's on this Channel Brother- Just look for it!👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Why they didn’t simply fire the bullet,see how much it takes with the speed camera and then drop the bullet from the same height and see?
Because the myth typically incorporates some variation or other of "at the same time" language, which Adam says he wished to retain. And the setup graphically and dramatically illustrates the concept. A lot of what made Mythbusters great was the _presentation._
Because that would be lame af
They should test a higher velocity round... that goes faster and further
It would still be the same result, just a slight difference due to air resistance.
It doesn't matter how far it goes, it still accelerates toward the ground at the same rate. I guess unless the bullet goes so far that the curve of the earth comes into play
22:41 you can see one of the shoes going off but when they check buster has both shoes on. What gives?
You know that's something similar to what happened in the myth where they were dropping a pig body sealed in a bag from helicopter. In one high-speed video clip you can see spray of presumably meat particles from the ripped bag, in the other it just drops without any effects. Probably they did more than one take for some reason and edited different parts together. No idea what would be the reason in case of this myth though. With pigs it was probably so they won't have to show all the gory details. But here... Just a test dummy, so no idea.
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Im at 2:30 now. The bullet has a parabolic trajectory after firing. Eg a rifle I once shot with, the elevation of the bullet halfway (150m) the distance from the firingrange (300m) was 1.5m. You could literally put an obstacle halfway down. Aim at the target and the bullet flew over the obstacle and hit target. So since a fired bullet has a parabolic trajectory I think the dropped bullet is more likely to hit the ground.
That applies if you're aiming up, but the scenario in the myth is that the bullet is fired perfectly level. You might say "but I am firing level, I'm aiming right at the target" but your scope is sighted in to compensate for gravity, the barrel is aiming high and then gravity brings it back down. Although that might be a perfectly legit way to look at it, if you aim level with a properly sighted scope, the bullet will take longer to hit the ground because the barrel is aiming up
That is not true, guns are not sighted to aim above their crosshairs if your too close to the target. thats just some graphic figure thats shown in hunters saftey handbooks but is complete made up nonsense, a gun sighted at 100 yrds while level will not shoot over anything in between the two points. Its just wrong to think that
Just have the bullet being fired cutting a thread that holds the other bullet. 🤷
elegant, but it might be hard to keep the dropped bullet undisturbed by the muzzle-blast. There's also the same-height requirement. The hanging bullet will be lower than the fired one.
Boxers stand on toes sometimes, i bet that with a great uppercut would take a sock off.
Did I always misunderstand the bullet myth or did they? I always thought the bullet was supposed to be shot straight down. While one was dropped at the same time
You misunderstood the bullet myth. Bullets don't fall at supersonic speeds by gravity alone.
Comparing a bullet dropped with a bullet fired downward seems like a much less interesting conundrum lol
@@tomeidt7057 I've always heard about this myth from the military. Eg. Guy shoots downward and drops bullets out of a helicopter. The one shot then weighs less and has more friction through the air from being shot so fast. The ones dropped have a higher terminal velocity because they weigh more. I thought that's why this myth could never be tested. You would have to find the right gun/bullets and the exact height to shoot/drop from. It could take years to figure all of that out. It could probably be done but would be way harder to figure out than what they did. What they did was kinda the same but a much simpler version. Either way it's basically the same thing, they just found an easier way to test it. I don't understand who would ever question the myth their way. If you're shooting while standing there where did the loose bullet come from? Who would ever question if they hit the ground at the same time. If you're in a helicopter bullets could roll out. Someone on the ground might question how an unfired bullet killed someone at the same time as a fired bullet. The way they did it makes no sense.
@@timthompson7205 a fired and unfired bullet weigh the same unless they different bullets. falling bullet has a terminal velocity " the maximum speed at which gravity can pull the bullet through the air" it would reach that speed very quickly, a few seconds. A fired bullet even from a small pistol is going to travel hundreds of yards straight down before it even begins to slow down to the speed of the dropped bullet. The dropped bullet would never be able to catch up. There was another episode where they tested the terminal velocity of a dropped bullet. You'll be shocked at how slow it is.
@@tomeidt7057 they don't weigh the same. You should not ever speak, you're dumber than a deaf mute with down syndrome. The gun powder has weight you dumb fuck. There is such a thing as wind resistance, which is stronger at higher speeds. You're just like a woman, you don't have a brain but you're always arguing.
dang, it still hurts to see Grant after all these years!
42:35 glue a small piece of sewing thread in or over the guns output and glue the other end to the bullit. Fire the gun the thread breaks and the bullit falls 🤷🏻♂️
2:00 No it don't it a bullet drop depends on gun powder barely length and temperature. And as u fire a Bullet it get a twist to it fly longer range with more accuracy
I'm a huge fan of Mythbusters and have been since the first episode aired, but the fact that they included things like "blow/knock someone's socks off" which is a saying and not a myth annoyed me then and it still annoys me now. There are so many myths Mythbusters never tested that would be far more interesting than this nonsense.
Hurts my soul them just ramming that gorgeous van 😢 vanlifers today would have payed big money
Hell even classic guys like 3rd gen econolines, hurts my soul.
Anyone else see the difference between the bullets by eye alone? - it tripped me up hearing the "37ms is faster than the eye can see" bit, so i did a bare minimum of math, and if anyone has ever experienced the difference between 30, 45, 60, 75 and lets say, 120 fps gaming, here's a factoid: if 37 ms would be faster than the eye can see, That would mean you shouldn't be able to tell any difference past 27.027 fps. (1000 ms in a second, divide by 37 ms to get the total number of frames, you get 27.027) If you've ever noticed the differences in fps yourself, even if we go by 60 vs 75 fps, you'd be at sub-14 ms. Even worse if you go full 120, youd be anywhere between 13.3 and 8.3 ms of "eyespeed". I know this myth (ironic, aint it) used to be repeated by console players when those couldnt push past 30fps to dismiss higher fps gaming, but i figure almost anyone by now has seen that the difference is indeed detectable. Sure, you might not "see" an individual frame (you couldn't identify the contents of an image if it was shown only for 1/60th of a second on a 60hz monitor) you can still tell that something has occured/changed.
You are fucking stupid, you definitely cannot see the amount of frames difference in 30 fps and 120 fps Go count them rn in real time then, count to 120 in 1 sec i dare you
Yea i think this one is confirmed. 1st there is a difference. 2nd horizontal pistol? What would a 0.001º error do? My opinion, the standing still bullet arrives 1st. Reason: the rotating fired bullet will "have wings" because of the cone of the bullet tip.
... blows the socks off Better than blows the lungs out 😂😂 Lets go Brandon
grant passed away after the filming of this episode rip
I mean , the sheer stupidity of these guys... The dead one had a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from university of south california, (....) and still couldn't figure out why punching the dummy in the chest (while trying to knock it's socks off), was not the same -in terms of momentum - as hitting in in the jaw like he did it with the nitrocannon fist. The hit was in a completely differnet axis... so the dummy's feet were not accelerating the same way in these two tests.... But no. Why would they know anything from highschool physics? It not like they entered university....
Why the disrespect? You clearly know Grant's name 🤔🤔🤔
They are scripted, and need to make it easier for the average person to understand. Answer the question the average person would ask.
it's differnet highschool
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I love the bullet myth