Can Mud ACTUALLY hide you from Predator??? 

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Insane that that Corridor is trying all sort of cool stuff and not just VFX but now sort of myth busters

Something to also consider. When Arnold first hides from the predator he has just climbed out of a raging river which most definitely cooled his resting body temperature. Making his thermal signature even more faint. I feel most people don't mention that when talking about this scene.

That's actually nuts that almost a dozen people, and 4 thermals could not find him immediately, and the dog needed to find him

I LOVE that someone used the ACTUAL name for the Predators, the Yautja is ever rarely said unless it's deep analysis of the franchises. This made my night!

It's bizarre seeing Donut and Brandon collabing with people I never thought in a million years they would collab with.

I never expect anything but the highest level of scientific accuracy from an Arnold movie

To be truly accurate that mud needed to be on the bank of a shaded jungle stream. The water was likely very cool and therefore so was the mud. And the mud in the movie was thicker. Lastly the predator didn’t stand there and scan over and over for a long time. It took one quick pass where there was a lot more debris to break up the outline of Arnold. So hell yeah this would work.

That's freaking awesome! I love that it works both under thermal, as well as regular vision. The Apache used to use mud to camouflage themselves as well as mask their scent from the animals they hunted. They used to legit sneak up on deer with mud on.

7:37 "He looks like the I like Turtles kid" The BEST possible description one could make

As long as mud is wet, it will draw heat from the substrate to dry. So your body heat will actually get wasted on drying the mud, instead of actually heating it. That is why I believe it works so well. That is also why you would constantly feel cold while covered in it.

This makes me wonder if they tested this with thermals in the movie or if it was a lucky guess.... especially considering that modern thermal optics was in it's infancy. The effectiveness of a simple layer of mud to defeat high end modern thermals is mind blowing.

Bunch of RU-vidrs I've been watching for YEARS but NEVER thought they'd colab. This is awesome

I love that you got a bunch of guys who knew what they were doing and Jake totally hid from them anyways. So entertaining 😂

This must have been so much fun for Jake. Hiding in plain sight is his thing. Even Drax couldn’t detect him.

That is amazing and great work guys! Awesome having the other guys like Brandon and Crispy and other military guys here help with that

The Corridor/Brandon special was something I didnt realize I wanted more of

It's so cute how the animals greet Jake all excitedly.

I think these experiment/Mythbusters style videos are some of my favorites that you guys make. I love all the VFX stuff but testing these seeming ridiculous ideas from movies is so interesting to watch!

Wow I literally never would've expected to see Herrera, Donut, Crispy and Harley on this channel. The most unexpected crossover of the year.

I love that there was this collab that I wouldn't have guessed to happen. Watching two different style channels come together for a mutual thing is awesome

Brandon Herrera?! DONUT?! A Predator thermal experiment that actually worked?? I thought this episode was gonna be OK, but it's the best thing on the internet today. 👏 👏 👏

Also when they were filming the mud scene, it gets REALLY cold from swamp cooling in the jungle area. Arnold was borderline hypothermic doing the mud

That was really cool guys!!! Thanks for doing this and sharing!!! Now if I can just bust out of this joint!!!

I always kept on reminding this particular scene and wondered why the Predator could not see his EYES,....one of the most glowing items in a human body, but not covered with mud and directly looking at the Predator.

This is such an unexpected yet very appreciated crossover

Corridor in just one episode managed to destroy years of criticism from all movie reaction channels on youtube! Great work 👏👏

That was awesome!!! Well done guys give us more cool stuff like that!

Great video and the Collab was perfect for this myth busters episode.

Also, another thing to take into account when recreating tests like these, Predator take place in a Central American (heavily implied to be Guatemalan) Jungle, where the temps average 80-90F(26-32.22 Celsius) during the warm months, which would also make it harder for the ambient heat to be filtered out and pinpoint the body heat of a human. Add to that the Yautja code of honor that caused Savage/The Jungle Hunter to discard his mask made it even harder for him to differentiate the temps (Considering the mask works like a kind of night vision enhancement would for us, essentially he's fighting in like, dim light at best), it would have been even harder for the predator to see Dutch.

Hell yeah. Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, Crispy, and Eli DoubleTap! We need more videos of Jake doing crazy stuff in Texas with these guys. And more videos with Dale please 🐖

I thought that over time the mud would warm up from the body temperature and start emitting infrared as well. It´s baffling that this works so well.

I want to see part 2 to this, but in night time. This is so interesting to see.

Dude, I honestly cannot believe how well that worked. If he would have ditched the clothes in a different area and then covered up I wonder if the dog would have found him?

Seeing people outside the gun community collab with brandon without shitting on him behind his back in the final product is nice.

These are my favorite videos from you guys! Love it!

What needed to be done next was to try this at night. This was very eye opening and super interesting! Good video guys!

I'm surprised people didn't think it would work. Mud is a fantastic thermal insulator; it is used in jewellery and smithing to mask off parts of your work in tempering and annealing processes where a piece is often under direct flames.

it's actually nuts how no matter how much money goes into camouflage development and body armor; nothing beats state-of-the-art warfighting equipment better than good ol' dirt and water.

Loving these mythbusters videos!!! And likewise, mindblown how well it worked! Also, i loved seeing you guys collab with Brandon, Donut, Eli, Crispy, etc.

I love that they had fun with this, too lol. Definitely, a success. The only asterisk is that he had to apply a thicker coat of mud than what Arnold's character used but not that much more really. Other than that, the mud probably has to be fairly wet and not be on too long to get too dry.

I think what we’ve learned here today is that if you’re being hunted by the predator, you don’t want Arnie on your side. You want Harley.

I didn't expect Donut and Brandon to show up lmfao

You did this so well I couldn't tell the difference between your footage and the Predator footage. Also, incredible movie.

9:20 "Let's do exactly that". Grown men, using expensive, high-tech equipment to play hide-and-seek. Living the dream guys 😂

This is mythbusters level content. Well done boys!

You really can't beat the power of evaporation, which is what's going on here. You'd think he'd simply heat up the mud, but the water in the mud turning to water vapor cancels that all out. EDIT: Also what's funny is, they already did this experiment... in the film Predator. I looked it up; they used a real IR camera for many of the shots. It wasn't just some special effect. lol

Of course it works. Light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum of frequency ranges. Infrared light has a frequency range just like visible light, UV light, X-rays, gamma rays, and the various band of frequencies we use for radio. The low IR frequencies close to visible light (as seen in the color IR imagers) can be blocked by mud, military face paint, certain fabrics, and thermal blankets. When you go to higher IR frequencies which usually seen by the thermal images that producer black and white images (as seen by the black and white thermal images in the video) variances in IR not visible at lower frequencies becomes more visible at the higher frequencies. That same concept can be applied to finding someone using camouflage in visible and invisible light. Changing the light range from IR to Red to Yellow, to Green to Blue to Blue to Violet or to UV will sometimes provide more details. This is why some animals can still see some hunters in camouflage. The animals see a range of light that the hunter can’t detect to determine if their camouflage is working to hide them from that animal. This is what the Predator did when it felt something was off in the jungle and in the cold warehouses. In the cold warehouse in Predator 2, the Predator switched the ranges of frequencies being viewed and found the light beams even when it still couldn’t see what was moving the lights.

I did not expect my very different youtube and other IG and podcast indulgences would come together like this. Brandon Herrera, Epic Meal Time, Donut, Eli, Crispy holy crap!! A collab I did not expect at all, but insanely fangirling right now ahhahaha

Corridor Crew+Donut Operator+Brandon=the collaboration I never I knew I wanted, but the one we deserved

This was a great video. The results low key blew me away.

I love the commitment to the experiment details by editing in the predator for the thermal test lmao

12:34 - The mud is working too well and would-be Ahnuld appears dark because he's so cold.

I like Jake’s stuff. Always unique and usually outdoors. Glad he’s enjoying himself in Texas and not just selling us stuff anymore lol

This I think is the most impressive one to me. I thought the same as you guys, that you'd need WAY more mud, like just sloughing off of you amount of mud, and the fact that it only takes that much to completely fool a thermal camera is NUTS!

This channel is the cinematic MythBusters and I love it.

That's amazing. And even that thermal imaging that the police helicopters and military use could barely make you out. I think if you'd closed your eyes there, or just had a bit more mud and squinted a bit, there would barely be anything to spot. Wicked stuff. Predator and Predator 2 are both timeless gems!

Awesome. Now test the opposite. In Predators, the last surviving protagonist subverts the original movie by surrounding himself with a bunch of fires to overload the Predator's thermal vision instead. I doubt it'll work anywhere near as well, but I'd still like to see it tested.

Another thing to take into consideration; he'd just taken a dip in a pool and was sitting in cool mud, but for this kind of environment that's crazy how well it worked.

Every Jake video is amazing, he is the gem of Corridor, freaking love his energy

Vids like this make me feel like I'm watching Discovery Channel back in the days when it was worth watching

Maybe you can try the "urban camouflage" from sherlock holmes: a game of shadows (or maybe other films as well) You basically have a costume with the pattern of the wall behind you and you try to hide in plane sight

Harley showing up is the crossover I never knew I needed. Lemme find out Jake was epic meal time's camera man this whole time 😂

Wow, this was a really good job guys, and It was not even dark as it was in the actual movie 🔥

Wasn't expecting to see Brandon, Donut, and Epic Meal Time go looking for a mud man today. Great video!

Jake testing movie tricks, is a series we all need

I think they made a very important point when scanning for him in separating what they know and what they see. They already know where Jake is because they set the shot up to get a clear result, but they ignore that to see how the Predator would parse the visuals. Too many would work backwards and find signs instead of using them. The IR scope seeing his eyes being an example. He knows that's a sign because he knows Jake is there, but he also looks at the whole scene to know it wouldn't be enough to key in on. It's similar to knowing Clark Kent is Suoerman. You're seeing the dots to connect because you already know.

This was such an awesome idea -can't believe no one did it before. Nice!

Great work! Couple this data with potential mud components (excessive thermally insulative plant matter) and you have na almost perfect cloak against IR.

Wow you just made the movies so much more believable! I always had a base level of doubt that there'd be heat showing through the eyes or something, I dunno.

Dude! Seeing Donut, Brandon and Eli show up in this video was EVERYTHING! Love it!

This was entertaining and satisfactory Can’t wait to see what you guys can do to top this one

I’m so glad somebody finally tried this. I’m shocked how good it worked. I didn’t think it would work.

Without watching the video, I can tell you that this works. My information is based on an experience Hog hunting near Brackettville and Spofford, Texas. I was hunting and tracking a hog on foot and my rifle at hand was a bolt action .257 Roberts. On the rifle was a thermal scope. I’ve used the scope numerous times, both day and night modes. Needless to say, I felt confident using the scope. The event occurred at night, for those who may want to know that detail. I stopped using the light for a while because I didn’t want to push the hog further than I wanted it. When I looked into the scope I could not see the pig. I knew what it looked like and the fact it was covered in mud was what let me know he came from the pond not far from the HQ. So I looked into the scope and could not see the heat signature of the hog. I did finally find it, but only because he was moving, and all I barely saw was his silhouette. I was not able to get the kill, as by the time I saw the pig, he was already in the thick of the brush. There was no trace of body heat whatsoever. The pig was obviously smart, but not for the “4th-wall” reason that would be a good joke, but because it was the heat of the summer and the mud was used to cool the pig down. It just happened to have worked for the thermal scope that was being used at the time.

One day Jake is gonna walk into the office disguised as Clark kent, get someone’s attention, disappear like Batman, then everyone looks for him with thermal cameras but can’t find him because he’s covered himself in mud. When they finally find him they chase him outside to the street, where he disappears like Jason Bourne.

You probably can't test this one, but I always wondered if you really could get an 1885 locomotive up to 88 miles per hour as in Back to the Future Part III.

I'm glad i found this. I wondered for along about this and now i know it works.

I thought it would work but with a time limit until the mud heated up. That worked way better than I thought it would.

Jake testing movie logic is my new favorite series

This is one of the most valuable videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid!

Didn’t expect this crossover with Brandon and Donut. That’s awesome lol.

I had the same reasoning as Brandon. I thought the body heat would eventually heat up the mud too much to be effective. Been wondering about this for a while. Great idea to test it.

2:30 Condolences to two or three kids that realized from this video that bacon comes from intelligent, friendly, dog-like animals

I think everyone watching was just as surprised that this worked as the OPs. Great video

My theory of why it works is because the mud is wet. When the wind blows across the mud it evaporates the water in the mud keeping the outside layer of the mud cool enough to be around the same temperature of the ambient air. If the mud were to dry completely I think you would be able to see him with the thermals.

That was amazing. I thought thick mud would work but that was movie-level testing and it worked so well!

As I remember from playing with one of the cheapest thermal cameras ($200 SeekThermal or something), it was only good at detecting living creatures on a cloudy days - on a sunny day, even if it's actually quite cold outside, the sun would heat a lot of surfaces and I wouldn't detect a dog on the road or a pigeon in front of a tree, because both the road and the tree would be quite warm. I didn't try it in tropical jungle, though, and nobody was covered in mud.

I didn't expect it to work, so fun. I'd imagine if the weather was cold this wouldn't be as effective, not to mention freezing to death... I'd watch the cold weather version for sure tho

Insurgents would use a heavy wool blanket to cover themselves to stay out of IR sight of our drones and other IR sight using equipment we had. Doesn’t work completely due to body head eventually building under the blanket and bleeding through while heating the blanket up making it glow as a big target after a while. The other thing I know that stop IR sights from seeing you is large thick panes of glass (I believe the bullet resistant multi layered kind) but who is going to trudge through the mountains carrying a five to eight hundred pound massive pane of glass to sit behind that will immediately show up with regular viewing and have the sun glare off it.

Points for the dog. It was entertaining. Thank you for the video. Predator is one of my all time favorites.

having literally just watched predator yesterday with a friend and us duscussing how the mud scene would never work IRL and how silly it was.... i am absolutley shocked.

Hearing Brandon say "Today it's going to be for hunting you" is sublime

7:52 sick Berserk tattoo bro lol

Brandon has reached a new high point by making it in a corridor video

I love it when Jake is involved in the videos! The diversity of personalities at CC is off the charts. Cool concept!

"And I would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for that stupid Mutt"

My boy Donut dropping his raycon code was wild ☠️☠️ lmao love the collab

Jake's videos are always so good. Really captures the feel of the old school corridor crew videos that I fell in love with.

This was so cool! If I had to guess I think it's the evaporative cooling of the water in the mud that massively helps.

I always thought this part of Predator is a bit stretched...but wow!! Thank you guys for setting my mind at peace! If such thing is even possible - Predator movie now rules even more!