Myths of the slaughter

Spilled fuel can ignite a cigarette.
Cigarette able to ignite petrol (gasoline ignition temperature - 260-280 ° C, and the cigarette during puffing gives 260-300 ° C).



Metal body piercings increases the chance of lightning damage.
To "pull" zipper needed piercing sized doorknob.



Swallowed while swimming octopus fertilized egg can mature in the stomach.
Delivered experiment showed that the octopus eggs due to unfavorable conditions in the human stomach die long before puberty.



Sinking ship creates a strong vortex that can captivate a man under water.
Can not. Although use small vessel "Miftanik" nor Adam nor Jamie is not sucked into the water, despite the fact that they were right over the sinking ship.





If you eat a lot of sweets and fizzy drink a lot of cola, the stomach will explode.
Carbon dioxide released during this reaction is not enough to blow up the stomach. Although it probably will hurt the person, do the like.



A bunch of balloons can lift into the air four year old child.
Maybe. This will require 3,500 balloons.



In thunderstorm person can be struck volley of electricity through the phone during a call.
Destroyers planted mannequin from ballistic gel on a chair and put the phone to his ear. Then they turned on the artificial lightning - discharge 200 V 000 V, who hit a home layout, which houses the mannequin. The discharge from the microphone of the handset hit in the mouth of the manikin and detonated gunpowder placed in him as a trigger signal. In the voltmeter to measure the voltage in the dummy fuse is blown.



The sandwich is more likely to fall butter side down than up.
Comprehensive and unbiased examination did not show any statistically significant deviations in the fall of sandwiches up or down with oil. The ratio falls butter side down and oil was up 50 to 50. Although pitting the sandwich from the table, he usually makes only one coup and just falls butter side down.



The wreck can be lifted using a ping-pong table.
You can! Beads raised from the bottom "Miftanik-2 ', although they had pumped into the vessel with water of about 27 million, maloprimenimo practice.



Coin dropped from a skyscraper can develop enough speed to kill a pedestrian below.
The coin is not able to kill. Due to air resistance coin can not constantly accelerating. After the fall of 100 meters, it almost does not change its speed. And at this speed mass small coin insufficient to penetrate human skin. If it a shot from a gun, the coin can cause some damage, but not kill.



You can take off on a sun lounger, tying him weather balloons, and then land safely by shooting balls from a pneumatic gun.
You can fly up and then down. Adam Savage took off on his device consisting of a sunbed and 16 balls from weather balloons, and safely reached a height of 22, 5 meters. Then he shot down one of the balls and safely descended from heaven to earth. The myth was also documented Air Service Agency.



If you buried alive, you stay alive.
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 survived only 30 minutes. Suffocation from lack of oxygen leads to the death of the buried alive, if not all of the coffin will be crushed underground. It is the risk of possible damage coffin forced destroyers interrupt experiment after 30 minutes.



Urinating on live metal fence leads to electric shock.
Strike will. But it is provided that the person is close to the fence. At a large distance as urine stream breaks into droplets, which makes it impossible for current to flow because pin will not.



Falling household appliance in the bath full of water deadly for occupant.
The current flowing through the "heart" of ballistic gel dummy, proved fatal to most tested appliances (toaster, hair dryer, radio, and so on). It has been proven that the use of differential devices (RCD) excludes electric shock, as in the case of installation of the RCD in the mains, and in the case of the RCD in the electrical appliances (hair dryer, equipped with RCD almost instantly shut down in the water).



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



Glass for wine can be broken by a vote.
With the amplifier and speakers destroyers broke a crystal glass. A rock singer Jamie Vender managed to break the glass with his voice alone, without the use of any devices - is finally confirmed myth.



In the solarium you can fry anything.
Of course not! Wave ultraviolet tanning can cause sunburn only.



Lumbago lock pistol, you can open it.
Neither 9-millimeter pistol or Magnum 357 not open the lock or hanging or flush.



If a falling elevator at the last moment to jump, you can soften the blow and survive.
Speed ​​jump man is too small compared with the speed of the falling elevator and kick too relaxed slightly. Besides guess the moment of falling so hard. The best advice in this situation - do not jump, and lie on the floor of the cabin.