747 Jet Vs. Taxi - Mythbusters - S04 EP31 - Science Documentary 

24:05 I love how Tory gives the dummy change cash. Its little moments like these that made this show great.

I just wanna say thanks for uploading these. I can finally catch up to all myth busters I've missed from 2013 to 2017

Imagine going on a cruise and then the day you set off, finding out that the Mythbusters are doing a live myth off the back of the ship. Those guys certainly got their money’s worth buying that particular cruise trip! 😄

Carrie's laugh with the captain was so cute wow!

FINALLY THE HD VERSION OF THIS EPISODE

Its pretty shocking how little strength the roof of that school bus has.

19:38 whose foot is that?! 🤣

Poor chevy impala. Whatta classic

What people seem to forget: Dolphins are predators! Sure, they usually hunt smaller prey than sharks, but they hunt fish, crustaceans and squid. Sometimes even smaller birds. They also have 100 to 200 teeth and live in groups. So a dolphin is not a harmless animal, it is only harmless to humans, at least under normal conditions. But this also applies to sharks, which don't normally attack humans; if they do, it's more likely to be by accident (in a bloodlust or because they've mistaken a human for something else or because they were almost starving and there really is no better prey, so it's either that or starve to death). Divers who swim around sharks and pose no threat to them, nor get between them and their food, are rarely attacked by sharks unless they are bleeding. And A shark does not want to start a fight with a dolphin, as a dolphin can seriously injure a shark, and if a shark attacks a single dolphin, its entire group will come to its defense, as an attack on one individual is an attack on the group, but the shark has no backup, as other sharks couldn't care less, they will not come to its aid. Sharks are not afraid of dolphins but they do respect them and if there is a dolphin between them and their prey, they will not go for a fight unless they think they have to. It's like between a bear and a wolf. Sure, a bear can easily win against a wolf, but unless it feels it has to, it will avoid any fight. Mainly because attacking a single wolf means attacking its whole pack, and even a big bear has no chance against a whole pack of wolves. And a bear cannot know if that is a lonely wolf or a member of a pack. And since a wolf is no threat to a bear and also not a typical prey, why would the bear attack the wolf? Why would it take this risk? It would only do so if the bear had nothing to eat for a very long time and this wolf may be the only chance to survive the next couple of days or if the bear feels very threatened and thinks it must defend itself. In all other cases the bear will just leave the wolf alone and keep a reasonable distance in between them. And this also means not going for something that the wolf seems interested in, as that would also be an unnecessary aggression. The shark doesn't know why the dolphin hangs around with another animal, maybe it's prey, maybe it's a friend, but going after that animal surely is seen as an aggression by the dolphin and that's what the shark tries to avoid, it doesn't want to steer up an unnecessary conflict. Certainly not in a place full of other prey the shark can go after instead.

13:57 Thats the same opening question I use when meeting people for the first time

Dolphin thing is pretty easy to explain. Sharks are predators but they're not territorial. They're looking for a meal, not a fight. Presence of a dolphin, which can be quite vicious, means it's just not worth its time, especially since dolphins usually travel in groups.

This is one of my all time favorite episodes. Its great the Jet myths can be testet, they first try was canceld.

Adam Savage commenting what the Hyneman does like it's nat geo wild is the best part of this show

"A little inch closer, Jamie would have his mustache trimmed" got me😅

Love Jamie with that Dolphin 😂 "yeah i think we can build it"

The four stages of Sea sickness: 1. You feeling unwell 2. You think you die 3. You are sure you die 4. You realise, you will not die

This is amazing, we all see jet plane fly over soo calmly, But its rarely we realize how powerful those jet engines really are.

I think for the show long term the failure of Jato 2 was a massive benefit. It created a real story since it was also the very first myth.

Diving must be exhausting for Jamie, with those gigantic brass balls weighing him down... Man didn't even flinch with that shark.

Man they always cut Grant's conversations off and they're the part im most interested to hear lol

Imagine you're in a taxi driving down the airport and the driver just announces: "we're going to experience a little turbulence up ahead"

Im sure there was a ton of blowback on the dolphin decoy bit, they should have put just a foam covered box with the same electronic and mechanical noises alongside the seal decoy because as a South African who swims in those waters I am almost convinced the noise and frequency of the mechanical tail has more to do with the deterence than the shape of the dolphin, or they should not have had any mechanisms on the dolphin to be more accurate

1:10:32, this is definitely 100% Jamie Moment, lmao.

10:30 Jamie is going to continue busting myths in the afterlife ... in the search for Jimmy Hoffa xD

Wachted all the Mythbusters atleast twice. But thanks for the uploads in good quali

21:48 rare moment where the Hyneman shows emotion

"Holdying on like a resolute barnacle " 😂

All I have to say is, the most dangerous things on this clip are the Evinrude outboard engines, lucky you survived them.🤣🤣🤣🤣

fun fact: This is the only episode where Adam did not laugh after big ka-boom

The biggest question is did the towel over the head help? LOL worked in trawlers many times been green once or twice but never threw up I feel so bad for Adan I have seen this first hand and know I have never felt that level of sick on the sea. I really feel bad seeing sea sickness, mostly because I didn't understand if it is as bad as it looks.

I bust a gut laughing at the exploding chevy.

Love seeing Scotty!

"Rocket scientists"

The shark cages look kinda flimsy. In some other clips you see some nice aluminum or stainless steel welded ones.

Grant Imahara lives on

the dog we had when i was a little kid was named jato, i never knew what it meant until i saw the original jato car episode

I wonder if sharks are just afraid of dolphins big brother, the orca, or they can't differentiate between them.

For the rocket to explode like that, isn't the company that provided the rocket liable to provide replacements at minimum, if not for the car as well?

Goblin Engineering at its finest

What about the "live" worldwide broadcast at that time?

How did they not put air holes in the Dolphin box???

9:02 not him casually welding the chain to his bare finger

I’d hate to know how much this episode cost to film, I’m guessing at least $40k, maybe more

R I P squirrel.😢

Well done testing "myths" something actually happens, "Let's test this myth"

Must be sad for team to see scenes with Grant

1:23:28 ... 😀 HAHA!

regarding skiing behind boat T looks for the rope and falls should just feel for it using peripheral vision

In the Caribbean’s island of Saint Martin we use real people and real working cars with real drivers instead. The blood is also real. The difference is that they mostly end up in the sea 50 meters away.

They should have seen if a Cessna could fly in the exhaust of the 747.

They destroyed that Impala😮

This rocket expert. Wasnt that the same rocket guy from the 360 swing saying yhea i rigged it like this so if 1 fails the other also will not work for safety. He pressed the button and only 1 went of

19:56 Poor Adam xD

Wish they had pulled the plane toward the 747.. fitted it with remote control and flew it like a kite!

It's never a guarantee that a dolphin will help you or the shark will leave you alone ( a different shark would have ripped it apart ) , like with all animals there is always that one that bites for no reason or the one that is friendly for no reason. just like humans, ez as that

To make it more challenging tory used the exact same board...

Just a guess but purchase of the 67 chev the containers and crew i would have to guess they lost a lot more than 10k on the rocket car.

you should have brought the dolphin in the shark cage covering the dolphin with a blanket.when sharks show up then uncover the dolphin .

Awe, so sad the Rocket Car blew up! I hope they revist this again before the show ends.

31:30 the Ali G vibes are real

Is school bus safety for kids?!😮😮😮 Where is the bus roof after one rotation??!!😢😢😮😮

Plane test was already done by topgear in 2004. At that time they used ford mondeo and 2cv.

This is meant to be a 2 hour special but yet it's only 1 hour 34 mins. Just goes to show how bad the advertisements are in America. Nearly 30 mins of adverts in a 2 hour show

Sharks are brutal! Dolphings are gangstas!

I think with the rocket car they should of welded little wings to keep it stable to fa ly further.

60 mil for a 747???

Or you could just Have a fake dolphin tie to you that drag just behind you 😂

Love my premium membership! Totally worth EVERY coin!!!😎 Thx for Yet another great upload!!❤

Sharks have 3000 teeth? Isn't it more like 300?

Who’s Mr. Wizard?

what a shame the rockets exploded

Lol why did they need to travel to Bahamas and south africa?

The Kapom car is bc the pipe is weak for the power

Dolphins are natural caregivers 😂😂😂😂😂 not if you know anything about dolphin behaviour.

It does prove that when people wear wetsuits that are black, sharks will think they are seals and eat them.

Thank you UK Top Gear, without you what would other car shows around the world have to copy 😋

39:20 This show will never take off :)

Philosophical arguments over the possibility of one being able to perform a truely, "altruistic" act aside, I would like to think dolphins have an "altruistic" streak. For one reason, more than any other, I don't think this test of "altruism" is valid; and that is, the "dolphin". Did the shark see a dolphin or, did the shark see an object that was not neccesarily a dolphin, but an object that it didn't recognize, and therefore became unsettled by, its presence? No heart beat, no scent, it only floated, would have an unrecognizable sonar-type"return" (if sharks do that sort of thing, I'm not really sure), and had a mechanical "sound" that corresponded with a strange, flopping motion. That thing may have looked like a dolphin to a human, using the single sense of sight, but to a shark? And, dolphin are social mammals. Where are all his buddies, his family? Would the absence of a pod create an even more, unsettling environment? I am no shark expert by any stretch, but I would like to hear a shark expert weigh in. I mean, who wouldn't want to think those cute, seemingly grinning mammals would risk life, and fin to save a human? It's a great story that I, have also "seemingly" witnessed, in a whale that corralled a diver closer to her boat, as a shark wandered by without the diver knowing it was there until, it was seen while reviewing the video recordings of various, underwater cameras Regarding "altruism", and why I think the word deserves quotations; in humans it can be argued, true "altruism" is a philosophical impossibility, because there is always a benefit to an altruistic act even if, it is the feeling of pride over performing the act, itself. Therefore, I'm not sure how I would define the act of a dolphin threatening or, attacking a shark when a human is at risk of predation. We may be unaware of some benefit the dolphin or, his pod might recognize by seemingly, acting in a way that benefits a human.

Sharks get attracted to the smell of pee of mammals, so dont pee in the sea or in your wetsuit to keep you warm 😮😮

If you hit a bump with 300 miles. no matter how strong your car is. it brakes into pieces. They do even with only 50 miles lol

Why did it have to be non-replaceable cool classics 🤦‍♂️ Use a smartcar or a crown vic or whatever .. just not Impalas and camaros wth man

Sharks aren’t known for their eye site though are they..? Isn’t their sense of smell their best asset? That thing would smell like foam and paint.

Why are this sound like talking into a can???

Love this episode, too, but portraying the gentile great whites like Jaws is just mean. 👎🏻

What a let down !!!! A two door Impala as well 😮😢😩😡🤬 after all that..... A bit disappointed "To say the least " .

Thank god for the mute button.

Any1 see the severed foot on the bait tray 😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉

22:55 A 747 does NOT have SEVEN engines. It has FOUR (4).

Sharks aren’t known for their eye site though are they..? Isn’t their sense of smell their best asset? That thing would smell like foam and paint.