+theMike97_ Adam is like "Wooow - it's the president himself --- I-gotta-find-some-formal-looking-clothes", and Jamie is like "I don't care actually, Adam".
the thing is you can melt metal surprisingly fast with only a lens that is about the same size as maybe 2-4 of those hand held mirrors. the problem is not the mirrors it needs to be focused. if the mirrors were slightly concave to create a focused beam it would work better.
***** First: Assuming that people would be so accurate(as you could see in the video, they were shinning all over the sail and ship). Second: Because let's grab 500 soldiers, have them drop what they're doing, drop their gear and shine mirrors at the enemy(which, let me remind you, the mirrors they'd have had at the time weren't all that shiny). Third: From how far away can you start, and how long is it going to take? Because...you know...the Romans are coming, and they're coming with swords.
GamingwithLogan I said they weren't "all that shiny", meaning they weren't as shiny as modern mirrors. Also, no, modern mirrors are clearer - better production methods and such.
If anyone has played Fallout: New Vegas, there’s a weapon in the game called Euclid’s C-Finder. It’s a targeting gun that focuses a solar energy array to a satellite that you can signal towards wherever you want (virtually a giant laser). I Wonder if Obama ever had a similar plan in the works and contracted the myth busters to build it.
What if they used some sort of focus contraption using large glass lenses? It could narrow the beam down to a smaller condensed focal point increasing it's energy.
If the mirrors raise the temperature at all, which it seems like they did, then the weapon IS possible. It's just a matter of how much will it take? Did Archimedes have lenses or curved mirrors? Could he have gathered sunlight from a much larger area and have it focused through lenses and secondary mirrors? Is there a more modern solution to the solar cannon?
+British Hound Wow than US would finaly use their Power to destroy an Terrorist Group and not supporting them or creating them... because right now they just damaged some Presidents of some country and those countrys turn to War... really helpfull Mr. Freedom "Keeper" :D
Shalom Ephesians 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,/Inspiration+ This is not an easy commandment to live up to for any man. Any comparison to Jesus is one that we can never live up to, but should always be our goal. Love your wives as Jesus loved the church. She will certainly be a lucky woman!/Prayer+ Lord in Heaven, Jesus Christ, I am so lucky to be a member of Your holy family. My only wish in this prayer is that I can create a family in Your image, and love each member as You have loved me. Amen.
+Jon Campo You just had to bring political controversy in, huh? +Goku Uzumaki +Theo N That being said, you two are assuming that Trump's presidency is more childish.
Heinreich Himmler MOAB was launched in fucking desert and hear me out it was in a ISIS camp, plus it only killed 94 ISIS militants so trump killed very few people and none of them were innocent. Ofcourse it was useless to waste so much money on 94 ISIS militants but thats beside the point. We are discussing who is the bigger mass murder like (cough cough Obama's help in starting the genocide that is going on in Yemen cough cough). Not sure what Trump is trying to do to stop it either though, so I guess he inst any better.
Shalom Ephesians 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,/Inspiration+ This is not an easy commandment to live up to for any man. Any comparison to Jesus is one that we can never live up to, but should always be our goal. Love your wives as Jesus loved the church. She will certainly be a lucky woman!/Prayer+ Lord in Heaven, Jesus Christ, I am so lucky to be a member of Your holy family. My only wish in this prayer is that I can create a family in Your image, and love each member as You have loved me. Amen.
Diwakar 365 Bruh it had candles and lamps on all over the room, plus the studio lights they probably had. The White House don't have to worry about no electricity bill xD
Sulfur-based thermite charges were detonated from the top-downward after a drone hit the building. The second building was detonated without a drone, but rather with a C4 charge on the side. This was all after 2 trillion dollars went "missing" and millions of dollars worth of gold disappeared from the WTC.
The thing is, jet feul doesn't have to *melt* steel bars in order to take down a building that size. Melting a steel bar would be completely turning it into a liquid, but you don't need to do that to compromise structural integrity. Heating steel bars to the point that they would bend would *definitely* destroy the structural integrity of a building that size. Jet feul burns hot enough to *soften* steel bars which is quite enough to take down a building. With that out of the way: Please don't drag idiotic conspiracies into Mythbusters.
+lizzy the owl I've heard that argument before, it doesn't hold up, for a number of reasons. First of all the temperature at which steal starts to significantly weaken is hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the burning temperature of jet fuel. Secondly, it doesn't explain why all of them would weaken at the exact same time enough to go down in perfect synchronicity, from the point where it would be weakened it would bend, in a certain direction, it didn't it went straight down. Thirdly, and most damning of all, is the fact that the structural beams at all four corners of the building would've stayed intact, it didn't, it collapsed within itself until it hit the ground, there is no logical, reasonable, or even respectable opposition to that, PERIOD, that is if you know what you're talking about. Also, skyscrapers don't collapse when there's a fire, no matter how big, there's no explanation for how the third building, World Trade Center 7, fell as well, the media barely reported it, few people know about it to this day, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't up til now.
You know that there were massive planes that crashed into them, right? That would weaken any skyscraper considerably because planes crashing into buildings tend to do a ton of structural damage. Combine that with the jet feul and that the structure would now have to support the weight of the airplane lodged into it, which wasn't a variable that the builders would ever consider, and it makes perfect sense that they would collapse like they did.
I was about to point out that magnifying lenses didn't exist during the time of the Ancient Greeks, but it turns out that there is explicit written evidence of magnifying lenses in Greece from 424 BC.
According to google Obama is 185, Adam is 180 and Jame is 177. Looks to be a lot more than a 5cm (2 inch) height difference though, maybe he just has better posture and shoes with a big heel
+Scott Freeman In the sword to sword combat days if your army came in at night they were at a huge disadvantage. You won't be able to see traps, ambushes, the terrain, etc.
+ZettaFan Actually on the contrary it could be an enormous advantage depending on your skill at night battles. A good general who is attacking could lead the ambush at night and attack in the silence or sneak into the city. There are a lot more benefits, which is why it is a recurring tactic in the ancient world
michaeldog123ful I'm thinking more along the terms of amphibious warfare as in arriving via boat and attacking. It's much harder to be stealthy across a flat sea of water
Thomas Jefferson got rid of security and housekeepers and would often answer the white house door in his robe and slippers if you simply knocked. I don't know about you, but that seems pretty chill
Ross Gambino because of retarded *insert random political party here* trying to sabotage every decision he ever tried to make. Just like so many presidents before him. Why? It's a flawed system. Unless you have a real dictatorship, nothing gets done because you'll never fucking agree on anything.
No, really? I totally believed that they were just wandering around in the white house for no reason, bumped into Obama and had a casual chat - and there just so happened to be a massive camera crew filming everything.
Kamala LSB When you invite someone for an interview or a podcast, you don’t give them a script, despite having cameras and other equipment. It’s supposed to be a natural conversation between them, but instead they made it scripted, which is weird and unusual. Just because the person they’re talking to is important does not have to mean the conversation is scripted.
+Evildeathmonkey You are a very sick person. You would want to kill innocent people just for the sake of starting a nuclear war with North AND South Korea (Research the volume of a nuclear bomb, then Google what Earth looks like, because I'm pretty sure you failed geography if you can't pinpoint where North and South Korea are. Launching a nuclear weapon on North Korea would only destroy South Korea, and thus start a war with those who were allied with South Korea). Isn't it bad enough that North Korea's government is already killing their own people, now you want to join them too? Clearly you haven't heard about what happened with Hiroshima. America still hasn't gained forgiveness over its cruelty and dehumanized practice of nuclear warfare against Hiroshima.
***** Actually, it did not. It murdered thousands of innocent lives within Hiroshima. Go back to history class and learn. Hiroshima was the biggest mistake America ever made, and they will never live it down because of it.
***** So America is free to bomb whoever they want just because they're afraid of losing their own lives? This is why America is the most disgusting country in the world. It kills innocent people just because its own military can't do their job right. Not even ISIS can manage to surpass them in cruelty.
Yeah, I do think it is hard to aim your mirror, especially when there are so many other beams to watch out for. You have to aim precisely at the line bisecting the angle of "black spot - you - the sun".
@@LittleRainGames they dont have to be. mirror power stations use lots of flat mirrors to focus light. as long as you have enough of them, you can focus light precisely enough
They can't be concaved. they're testing a myth, not trying to acomplish something. Cheating with concave mirrors would be like testing a myth that shooting rice could kill a person, but using real bullets instead.
ralphyetmore Back To 2010 i used to believe that usa was a great country and that its unfair i wasnt born there. Now i know how bad and pathetic their goverment and trump made it clear and i thank god i wasnt born there.
err no. He is the president and he's fine with blowing shit up. Kinda not the best soundbyte when he makes decisions on bombing runs taking place overseas.
Biotron Mocs Yeah just ask Michael Bay, that dude has a collection of explosion porn, gives a new meaning to the word "blow job" literally blowing shit up
@@TomGibson. i like how that guy listed numerous reasons why obama was bad and all you can muster up is "trump". that's how it's been for four years now
Exactly! I drew up a parabolic mirror system that would focus a ton of light into a tiny, uniform beam......it turns out, the Germans had one exactly like mine, and we're going to put it into space during WW2
It's a classic, and Pres Obama was such a nice figure. Could you imagine current president to talk about science and education like that? (It's a bit of a pity that it was a repeated experiment)
Hey, he told the head of the cdc to "look at" drinking bleach to cure covid. Not only is that proactive, but also cutting edge! Nobody thought about drinking bleach to cure covid before trump!
thegreatcanadiangamer I'm not doubting you, I'm just surprised, that's all. I bet not too many other politicians out there would be as bold about what they like and don't like, and the hell with whether other people like it or not. Did he ever say which anime/manga he liked?
Romis bro........let me tell you somethink.....Greece may have a little more sun but that doesn't mean anything and it is more possible in some parts of america to do experiments like that
None of the mirrors were concave. Additionally, if they did have "mirror guards" at arms way back when, they would be trained and extremely proficient at aiming those things at their targets. Add these 2 factors together and you have the solution. Please try this again, use Concave mirrors, focused on a fixed location, all aimed using good math. It will make fire. I promise. If you get a group of people practiced at aiming, you could even make it work on moving targets. I would love to see you guys make it happen!
Horny Fruit Flies Saint of what... lies? false hope? Tear down greater than other past presidents of what it long long used to be made and hold the structure and freedom of America firm?
Good point. In order to shot the entire video they would have need 4 cameras but i think they only had two, one on the three of them and one pointed on obama only. The frame with only the two mythbusters were shot separately.
Long time ago, like 20 years ago, there was the same exact experiment on a Korean TV show. The most difficult part of it was to align the beams, because there were so many of them around and none of the participants could identify which was his/hers at all. They could ignite the the ship after aligning the beam one by one. I don't remember how long it took though.
“I want you guys to investigate the myth, that insane amounts of government deficit spending doesn’t lead to inflation and higher prices” Myth: *BUSTED*
Imagine this with Trump instead. "Welcome to the White House. We're in the room, this room, it has books. Lots of books. Some people, some say that this is a library, we call it the Book Room but OK. My books aren't here, like The Art of The Deal, they're great books very excellent big books. We're trying to get them on the shelves here, the Dems are trying to stop that but watch this space, we're going to win at books and make the Book Room great again... "
It actually doesn't - it's an urban myth. It's been proven for quite a while but people still believed in it, so MythBusters put it to the test(a few years ago). And guess what? It was busted(again). And even today there are still people who believe in it. What a stubborn myth.
Well, I guess those pesky scientists just got it all wrong then didn't they? scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1464 Go out in the summer heat with black clothes and tell me if you aren't getting hotter Explain how this works if you know so much about this "urban myth" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer This blind following of singular experiments as facts is the reason why people fall for pseudo-scientific scams like global warming.
What they should've done is individually aimed each mirror, it would take forever, but they could then get each person to calculate the adjustments needed to focus on one exact target, their aim was all over the place there. Secondly, the use of lenses to tighten the area they were setting alight would've helped.
there are actually earlier translations of descriptions of the battle that mention the ray more like a projectile with a trail, after looking into this multiple people concluded it was most likely some sort of modified type of ballista that was doused in oil, set a blaze and shot into the ships, setting them on fire. because of the speed that the massive flaming arrow like projectile was fired at, it had a trail or "ray" behind it
Certainly 300 people with bronze shields would not have lit any of those ships on fire, but I sure as shit wouldn't want to be onboard one of those ships with all of that blinding scalding light hitting me in the face as I slowly approach the shoreline, let alone have the Greek soldiers approaching me fast while I'm being blinded.
theredscourge Hmmm that got me thinking. I guesd that if you blind people and just throw them molotov cocktails or the greek equivalents it might work out.
ScandinavianHeretic Previous Presidents of the US have had quite a triggerfinger when it came to military and explosives. So Obama saying he likes blowing things up does not help their reputation of a warcrazed nation.
Mauricio Singh Martinez You do realize we're talking vastly different kinds of explosions right? Everyone likes an explosion that sends glitter, flour and custard everywhere..or explosions at a bomb range that destroys a car...everyone..so why can't Obama like these things? We know what he means and I'm saying this as a non-American. You're being really unfair and mean.
