Cell Phone Myths - Mythbusters - S01 EP102 - Science Documentary 

A decade later with the Samsung Galaxy 7S, it turns out you don't even need a gas station for a phone to make you explode.

Adam Savage: Am I missing, an eyebrow? And Jamie Hyneman: Jamie wants big boom.

I love the bluntness of early mythbusters lol

Funny how Jamie calls Adam a bull in a china shop, as they tested in later seasons, that scenario isn't actually that dangerous

I love how the guy from the optical storage association predicts future storage will still be optical.

After loosing his eyebrow, Adam remembered he had a date with his future wife. As he would explain in a Tested Q &A video. 😅

Ah, the one that took Adam's eyebrow away. Classic. I also like when Jamie says, "I don't know how fast it is, but it's awful fast"

Finally, a Mythbusters first season episode in HD and good audio quality on RU-vid. Thank you!

So we’re into the “episodes with legendary quotes” territory now? Great, love it, keep them coming!!

I have a funny little story regarding the CD part of this episode. Back in college, CD burning was just taking off and due to a lack of internet access back then, I was able to burn a CD to take work home in some classes. On one particular day, I'd just set some projects to copy to a CD when the PC crashed. When rebooting, the disc drive spun up before loading Windows, and it just kept going faster and faster. Much faster than it normally would at max read speed, so much so it started sounding like a powerful gym fan. CD-Rs were not cheap at that point in time, so I passed my disc to a classmate to check to see if it was still usable and assuming the crash broke something about the drive of the PC I was on, but then his drive spun up to a ridiculous speed too. It then got passed along the desk again and the third PC did the same thing. So somehow I'd created a blank disc that caused drives to go as fast as they could go, beyond what they were supposed to. Curious, I put the CD in a little portable CD player I had. It also revved up to go much faster than it should, although it was much slower than the PC drives. Catching wind of this, a friend wanted to try it in his big Hi-Fi system. I took it to his house and he put it in the system, which could hold five discs at once. It took, began going faster than it ever should. Unlike me, who would fairly quickly stop the disc and take it out of the drive, he didn't. He just left it in. It must have only been about a minute, but the disc finally did shatter, jamming up the Hi-Fi's drive resulting in an over priced repair job to extract all the bits of disc. I've since tried to replicate the disc again, but cancelling a burn right as it starts or just shutting the PC off doesn't seem to have worked. I've always ended up with an unusable disc. Would love to know what exactly happened to cause it to be cursed like that, and why seemingly any drive would freak out trying to read it.

Really glad you guys finally upload the early episodes. Really wish we get to specials one day. And obviously to the end of the show

why do i remember jamie being soo grumpy looking when i was little but now he just seems like fun?

6:20 absolutely bonkers to me that people get back in their cars while refueling. I don't know *anyone* who does that, so seeing the people on the stakeout was pretty surprising!

"It will stop a bullet, i just love this stuff".. didnt they find out later on it wasnt bulletproof? 😂

I have already watched this on youtube but this one is in HD. I will watch this again. And I miss Adam and Jaime's young faces.

The early episodes are so good. I don't hate the side-kicks, but this pacing was much better imo.

Interesting video. The cell phone thingie is truly one of the sillier myths to have made it across the pond from the U.S. (alongside the infamous "pets in microwaves"). Nowadays, even here in Europe, we are warned about cell phones at gas pumps because of it. However, the reason for this ban comes with a little twist here: We are told that the risk is actually not the cell phone but the lithium-ion battery built into it. They say that - in theory - if the phone would accidentally be dropped, chances are that it could crash near some gas fumes on the ground. It is allegedly feared that the heat from the combustion of a broken lithium-ion battery (which is surprisingly high) could ignite these fumes. However, I have no idea whether THIS myth has been busted yet. And I'm not as daring as you guys to find it out the fiery way. 😅

Now kids, if you're wondering what burning a CD is--pls don't, I feel old enough already lmao

15:52 : "Am im missing an Eyebrow?"😂

"At this point, it's just a sea of rubbing and wet vinyl. It's like high school." 😂💀

the early seasons are a gem :V

26:44 Adam's re-creation of the famous "anything more than a handful is a waste" scene from "Weird Science". :P :D

9:57 I wish they used “Jamie Wants Big Boom!” as a callback more often 🙂

Yes, we’re getting the early seasons!

i like when they actually show them going to the store and buying the parts they need.

As a IT technician I've seen and have had both CD's and DVD's explode in drives. It's typically the cheap no brand disks that fail and not the branded ones as they are made from cheaper low quality materials.

Many self serve gas stations have removed the coils and holding clips off of the pump nozzles, reqiuiring the customer to stand and hold the nozzle while fueling.

Interestingly, my dad had a cd "explode" in his computer while he was installing (I think Windows 95) at the time. Being very young at the time, I don't remember much. There was suddenly a loud bang, and the cd-drive didn't open anymore. Not even when trying to force it open. I went with my dad to the computer repair shop, and I remember them shaking the drive and cd particles coming out. Never had anything like that happen ever again after

Ah yes, my childhood episode

Good episode. Many thanks for uploading.

THE OG SEASONS! THANK YOU 🤩

What still bugs me to this day about the implant myth is that it dates back to the 70s, around the time when a different kind of implant was introduced that had silicone with a biodegradeable polyurethane foam coating. Considering the timing, it isn't a stretch to think the foam coated implants is what caused the kind of effect from the myth. Not a pure silicone implant.

I've gotten some hard shocks getting in and out of my vehicle, especially during winter when it's cold and dry.

This is my favourite of all mythbuster episodes.

"Women live longer than men" Mythbusters doing a fuel pump myth: I DONT THINK SO!

47:48 Jamie goes for Adam as a human shield 😂

Back when America was still grating before Winchester disks, hard disk platters were exposed to air and disk heads popped out over the platters. You could, when screwing in a removable disk pack, see it was enclosed in armor. A head crash could throw heads out like bullets.

I miss this show. I know in hind sight, James and Adam weren't exactly friends but the dynamics they give on the show makes it so re-watchable.

The red headed guy looks like he's seriously sick in this episode

What i learned from my recent mythbusters binge.. Adam is quite the 😺

4:49 Lolz random guy at the gas pump pulling his shirt up. Like wtf?! 🤣

46:48 ah yes, the glories future of CDs XD

Nah, you can't detonate anything with a NOKIA phone. Those are foolproof.

The best of mythbusters: the early, raw episodes.

Years later returning to season 1 and I had no idea that they had a folklorist to explain the myth to the audience. I wonder how long she was a part of the show

I'd really like to understand the reason behind the numbering of the episodes on this channel. I mean it is indeed season 1, but the episode is 2nd, not 102nd. But I have no complaints, it is so fun to watch this. I was almost twice younger when it aired first time. P.S. Is Adam missing an eyebrow?

Memories Thank you..

For the gas/petrol phone thing, in the UK it is part of the Petroleum Regulations that govern filling stations - while not illegal, it is generally forbidden to use a phone while filling your car, on the forecourt area in general, and while tankers are discharging fuel. This is mainly because while there have not been any proven cases here, mobile phones and other such devices (such as taxi radios/ham radios, CB's, etc.) are not classified as 'intrinsically safe' and the potential hazard exists - mobiles are NOT allowed on site at refineries for the same reason. The static electricity part does not really apply here, as UK nozzles do NOT 'lock on' so you cannot let go while filling your car and leave it to get back in.

The videos showing the static electricity igniting the gas appear to be older vehicles that probably don't have on-board vapor recovery systems (or earliest versions at best) and the nozzles don't seem to be the latest in vapor recovery technology either. Wonder if that would make a difference.

The NEW "high speed disc drives" ! Lol

I forgot how lewd many jokes are in the earlier seasons xD that got polished away mostly later

I remember bags of crisps rising like footballs when I went skiing at Big Bear Lake

Talk about a blast from the past 😅

"And even if we fail, do we get to blow something up?" "Oh yea."

15:53 legendary quote

Thanks for this new episode. I love watching the crap out of them. 👍 👍

Jaime: "Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day!" Damn straight! 👍😎

47:53 A CD exploded on me many years ago. At drive speeds, it happened to me when I was cleaning the machine without the cover. CD explosion was rare but possible more if you work in electronics and computers as is my case.

I love this show! 😂😂

Ooh. A truly early one.

Oh man early Jamie and adam are kinda funny. "Do you wanna go all the way?"

My precious antique cans!

17:20 Gas used to be $1.36 a gallon 😂

I worked on thousands of desktops during 1992-current. I have seen at least half a dozen cd-roms explode in drives.

Lol can't believe that guy didn't predict discs are extinct. Everyone should've guessed that.

Super surprised to find out Adam was married to a lovely woman with kids. Was super expecting a bear to be his mate.

Actually it hurt me a lot when a CD had exploded in my drive. The CD which exploded was a CD2 of the iconic Silent Hill 2 and I have never played it since then

These old Mythbusters shows just had a raw honesty factor that was lost over the years, likely to make it more "family-friendly" and politically correct. Did Adam got sex on his date as Jamie indicates.? 15:59 I believe it was his wife-to-be, that he should be on a date with in that episode. In these early episodes they were way more transparent about the tools they were using and all the nerdy small things.. all that was lost over the years, were the viewers were met like they were irresponsible children that needed to be censored five ways to Sunday. Also worth noting is that you get way more personality from both Adam & Jamie in these older episodes. Thx for the upload.

The one problem i had with the cell phone/fire myth is that its an old myth going back to car phone days, back then it could have been a full 5 watt analog signal when the phone was answered completing a full duplex connection. An unanswered phone is not transmitting anything.. not that i think it would have made a big difference but they didn't execute it properly

4:20 failing LOL

I still never get back into my car even though I have leather seats but because I watched this episode years ago right around when I got my license and the static thing kinda worried me and now 20 years later I am still careful.

26:12 before Adam got into Planet Ocean chronographs, is he rocking a 2003 yachtmaster??

cartoon network and mythbusters were my childhood😂

It's only when they installed the chonky ancient computer that i realised how old this episode is. Everything else looks fresh as heck.

In some European countries, like the Netherlands, the little pin to let the flow from the nozzle continue, is disabled. You have to keep and squeeze the nozzle until you're finished. This prevents people from going back in the car and getting static. I never realized this was the actual reason until i saw this episode.

Its so cool to see one of the first seasons, I never watched any episode of that time

I like these old shows. Its like digital time travel

"I'm going to try to implant these in a fake woman" Sounds familiar in 2024 sadly

15:53 The all-time classic Mythbusters line

I can at least attest to the CD breaking. Had this happen to me once years ago. I only heard a loud bang and about 5 minutes later my game stopped and when i checked the disc was completely broken. Found a big chunk of it a few days later on my windowsill. This thing was pushed out of the still closed disc drive and flung through the entire room right past my leg.

It’s a real issue, CD and DVD can explode in a CD drives but the CD must be exposed to sunlight or some solvent fumes for a long time. It’s a issue mainly seen with old CD‘s, I’ve seen it happen on notebooks, PC‘s, game consoles, DVD and BlueRay Players the only exception seems to be audio CDs cause they generally don’t need high rpm’s to play music. I can tell it just by the damage in the drives. What all the disks seem to have in common in that they are old and got spun up to read data and instantly flew in to pieces. I had a old Dell Recovery disk explode inside a old server that thing was laying around on top of the slightly warm rack for over a decade bevor it was finally needed and failed.

@27:13 That must be Grant walking in the background!

"museum of petrol stuff" 😂

RIP my Seven Kingdoms AA CD. The game had to read audio from the CD during the game. Once it was so loud I thought the PC is trying to take up mid game, it was ridiculous, so I stopped it multiple times. One time I didn't, half the CD shattered to fragments.

He loves these cans!

Siri: Can I help Adam blow things up?

It say's It's Heavy Duty, Jamie is the man.

I still have an old windows xp computer with a 52x cdrom drive somewhere and I have never had a CD shatter like that

People are touching the nozzle while it's pumping fuel into the tank displacing air and shooting out vapor. that's where the spark needs to be

More Mythbusters please.

FWIW, it was discovered by hams and cbers in the early days of electronic fuel pumps, that keying the mic would stop the fuel counter - this rapidly led to the bans worldwide For obvious reasons, oil companies don't want to say WHY they're banned. In some circumstamces it's possible to draw a spark when keying a large ham transmitter (25W) but mobile phones are 300mW at most and even the old analog ones were 3W maximum (they'll dynamically dial the power down to "minimum required to do the job") In europe, the statistically most common cause of fuelling station fires is people pulling up to the pumps with their engine on fire, then running to the kiosk for assistance

5:45 your cancelled! 😆

Adam,s first homemade turkish haircut 😂😂😂😂😂❤

15:54 What we all came for…

17:31 Pyro airblast sound effect??

Perhaps you should not bring a Galaxy Note 7 to a gas station ...

Yes, the eyebrow episode! Also I wonder how much underwear they’ve bought over the years.

29:12 Maybe the air that Adam injected into the implant just leaked back out of the tiny hole made by the hypodermic needle.

They’ve said that Adam and Jaimie aren’t “friends”, but they do seem like older/younger brothers.

My CD exploded once - back in 2002 - it was NFS HP2 "backup" copy. It just knocked off the front lip of the drive with the text of the manufacturer logo and speed printed on it. The drive was cleaned and the lip glued back on and it kept working. Maybe still does if i found the drive somewere here.