A selection of the most interesting "Mythbusters"

Back in 2002 producer Peter Rees suggested Discovery Channel to release a program that would have been inspected various stories, rumors, urban legends and myths. Since then, two charming special effects specialist Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage tirelessly to refute or confirm these same myths in the program "MythBusters».

A selection of the most interesting of the 20 investigations via adme.ru





1. spilled fuel can ignite a cigarette.

TRUTH: The cigarette is able to burn fuel (gasoline ignition temperature - 260-280 ° C, and the cigarette during puffing gives 260-300 ° C).



2. The metal body piercings increases the chance of being struck by lightning.

MYTH: In order to "attract" lightning piercing needed size of the door handle.



3. If swallowed while swimming octopus fertilized egg can mature in the stomach.

MYTH: Delivered experiment showed that the octopus eggs due to adverse conditions in the human stomach die long before ripening.



4. sinking ship creates a strong funnel that can captivate a man under water.

MYTH: It can not. Although the use of small vessel "Miftanik" or Adam or Jamie sucked under the water does not, despite the fact that they were directly above the sinking ship.



5. If you eat a poppy seed cake, the test will show that you are under the influence of drugs.

TRUTH: In the poppy seeds may contain a certain amount of opium alkaloids. Therefore, if a device for determining drug sensitive enough, it will work. Leading confirmed this by eating a bun with poppy seeds and failing a test for drugs.



6. If you eat a lot of sweets and fizzy drink a lot of cola, the stomach will burst.

MYTH: The carbon dioxide released during this reaction, enough to blow up the stomach. Although it certainly hurt the person has done that.



7. A bunch of balloons can lift into the air four year old child.

TRUTH: Maybe. This will require 3,500 balloons.



8. thunderstorm person can be struck by a blow of electricity through the phone during a call.

TRUTH: Destroyers put a mannequin of ballistic gel on a chair and put the phone to his ear. Then they turned on artificial lightning - discharge 200 V 000 V, who hit in the layout of the house in which was placed a mannequin. The discharge from the handset microphone hit in the mouth of the dummy and detonated gunpowder placed in him as a trigger signal. In the voltmeter to measure the voltage in the dummy fuse is blown.



9. Sandwich is more likely to fall butter side down than up.

MYTH: A comprehensive and unbiased test did not show any statistically significant deviations in the fall of sandwiches up or down with oil. Ratio falls butter side down, and oil was up 50 to 50. Although pitting sandwich from the table, he usually makes only one revolution and falls just butter side down.



10. The wreck can be lifted using a ping-pong table.

TRUTH: You can! Balls raised from the bottom "Miftanik-2", although they had to be pumped into the vessel with water to about 27 thousand that maloprimenimo in practice.



11. The coin dropped from a skyscraper can develop enough speed to kill a pedestrian below.

MYTH: The coin is not able to kill. Because of air resistance coin can not always accelerate. After 100 meters fall it practically does not change its speed. And this small mass velocity sufficient coins to penetrate human skin. If she fired a gun, a coin can cause some damage, but not to kill.



12. lounger can fly tying him weather balloons, and then land safely by shooting balls from a pneumatic gun.

TRUTH: You can fly, and then fall. Adam Savage took off on his device consisting of chairs and 16 balls from weather balloons, and safely reached an altitude of 22, 5 meters. Then he knocked one of the balls and safely descended from heaven to earth. The myth has also been documented Air Service Agency.



13. If you're buried alive, it is possible to stay alive.

Myth: To test this myth Jamie risked his life. Although he spent in the tomb nezasypannom 50 minutes, but after the coffin was covered with earth, he sustained only 30 minutes. Suffocation from lack of oxygen will kill buried alive when the coffin still will not be crushed by the ground. That is the risk of possible damage coffin destroyers forced to interrupt the experiment after 30 minutes.



14. Urinating on energized metal fence leads to electric shock.

Partially true: Strike will. But that's assuming that the person is close to the fence. At the same big distance urine stream breaks into droplets, which makes it impossible to current flow will not because pin.



15. Falling household appliance in a bath full of water is deadly to occupant.

TRUTH: The current flowing through the "heart" of the dummy ballistic gel, proved fatal for the majority of tested appliances (toaster, hair dryer, radio, and so on). It has been proven that the use of differential devices (RCD) excludes electric shock, as is the case in the electrical installation of the RCD, and in the case of the RCD in the appliance (hairdryer, equipped with RCD, almost instantly switched off in the water).

16. "Rule 5 seconds" is true for food that had fallen on the floor.

MYTH: For those who do not know, "typically 5 seconds," asserts the possibility of safe use of products that have fallen to the floor and raised for five seconds. In fact, between the number of bacteria collected in 2 seconds and 5 seconds, there is practically no difference.



17. Glass for wine can be broken by a voice.

TRUTH: With the help of the amplifier and speakers destroyers broke a crystal glass. A rock singer Jamie Vender managed to break the glass with her voice only, without using any tools - is finally confirmed myth.



18. In the sunroom you can fry anything.

MYTH: No, of course! Wave ultraviolet tanning can cause sunburn only.



19. lumbago lock pistol, you can open it.

MYTH: No 9-millimeter pistol or 357 Magnum did not open the lock or hanging or plunge.



20. If a falling elevator at the last moment to jump, you can soften the blow and survive.

MYTH: Speed ​​jump man is too small compared with the speed of the falling elevator, and a blow is softened too small. In addition to guess the time of the fall is very difficult. The best advice in this situation - do not jump, and lie on the floor of the cabin.