Yeah, nice little paper houses they build over there, with crawl space and such. Recently saw a cops episode where a lady drove into a house, through a brick wall (really looked like bricks) and her car just had few scratches.
a .22 might be stopped by a brick or stone wall, maybe. 5.56 or 7.62 Nato will penetrate but probably deviate and slow down 12.7 will go through even concrete mythbusters coud have done an extra episode
Jamie is a robot and Adam didn't knew drywall has the strength of a paper bag. Lot's of walls, and none of them made of brick or concrete. Well, at least we know that a garden shed won't protect you.
Everybody who saw Shoot 'Em Up knows that it's an over the top action movie. I mean, the main hero of the movie is trying to teach a baby to shoot. Nothing in that movie is meant to be taken seriously.
True, but the same thing can be said about Wanted, and enough people requested to see if its iconic move could actually be done. Whether or not a movie should be taken seriously, let alone if it was what the director and the production team wanted, ultimately does not matter (see Verhoeven's _Starship Troopers_ if you want an example of such a massive disconnect between a rather sizable portion of its fans and the director's intentions).
I guess one of the reasons they are made from cardboard - much less the costs when leveled by tornado. Bricks outside and inside might still not be enough. So the homes are made semi-permanent. I might be wrong though.
@@d4slaimless You are indeed wrong, proper european style brick/stone buildings won't suffer at all from tornados, only thing that might be affected is the roofing but this heavily depends on the style of roofing Had a quite severe storm about a decade ago exceeding 180mph in my area and while it trashed windows and destroyed roofs and facades, the houses themselfs pretty much unharmed, way cheaper and faster to repair the damages then to rebuild a new wooden-shack-style house
theyd probably still get destroyed to some extent though? and you don't wanna lay down the bricks every time. i dunno though. @Oroberus there are no tornadoes in europe and the wind speeds aren't the same even though we sometimes can have some intense storms.
Lol I was sitting here watching them test bullets in a hand in the fire, and my scepticism was HIGH from the get-go. Remember the Hot Bullets myth? Guns and ammo in the oven? When it came to ammo outside a gun, there was more danger from the casing going flying than the bullet itself! Frankly I'm surprised the bullet went as deep as it did.
Without having watched to the end: A cartridge without a breech around it is a tiny bomb. Even if the bullets went flying, those cartridges would mince the fingers.
Tonally there's a massive shift. The music is all dramatic, the vibe is trying to be 'badass' whereas the previous format was much more light hearted. So weird!
I, a Pole: ... You realy don't read "three little pigs, do you?" Try that with 20 cm brick/~8in concrete inner walls and 42 cm (~16,5in )brick/concrete out walls. "My home is my castle"
@MidnightLostGaming As I understand it, they respected each other but with completely different outlooks/approaches/personalities, which was frustrating to both of them working so closely together for such a long time
@@richardh8082the producers probably goofed up the very beginning of the relationship. Apparently Mythbusters was Jamie’s idea, but the producers flat out said that he had no charisma or screen presence so they brought on Adam give Jamie somebody to play straight man to. If they’d introduced them in a different way it might have been easier to swallow.
Over the walls, it was pretty sketchy. Not even close to the "every technology used in the last 100 years" claim. a) What about brick walls? Mortar? b) Furthermore, the piping test was incomplete. Water inside the tube would possibly alter the result.
I somehow never watched this season of Mythbusters before, so first of all big thanks for uploading it! I guess they never brought it to my country? Or maybe I was just at that age where I had... other interests... That said, I am kinda glad I didn't, because Breaking Bad COMPLETELY flew under my Radar at the time and I only watched it fairly recently, and seeing "Mike" in this episode brought a smile to my face like I don't think it would have back when the season first aired. :D
Whoever thought this was a myth to begin with? American walls... In Europe however, most walls, even interior walls, are brick or concrete. When I was watching a program about tornadoes in the USA, I incidentally learned that most of all buildings in The Netherlands are actually tornado impact proof (flying beams won't penetrate the walls), just because most buildings here are constructed with bricks and concrete. Why? Because in the USA, wood is a cheap and plentiful available building material while in The Netherlands, we have few trees but loads of sand, clay, pebbles which are raw materials for bricks and concrete.
This IS season 9, for Banjai. Different TV Networks use different Seasons for their schedules. It might be a different season in the US but this is an Australian TV Network.
There has never been a consistent season count for Mythbusters, between year of first publication, official website, fan sites, all the different/international TV networks, DVD releases, streaming releases... there are at least half a dozen logical/official ways to count seasons.
@@JacobConkin They don't. They might air things in different orders or not air seasons. But the seasons and episode number are specified at the original airing, by the network. It is widely accepted practice to use the original series numbering scheme. And not some random one (as S9E04 would be the wrong season, and even the wrong episode in the order) Banijay is a french network, not Australian. And the original airing was always discovery, even in Australia, they've bought the rights to the show after the fact. So this is the 13th season and Episode 11.
To wondering, the build team (Kari, Tory, & Grant) got cut off by production because of their contracts. Neither Jamie nor Adam liked this change but they continued to host the show for two years without them before it all ended.
If I were American, and gladly I'm not, I might as well live in a tent seeing how completely unsafe your *not* walls are to even a fireaxe. What's next? Cardboard cars? Glass gunsafes? If only American houses were cheaper there would be room for argumentation... but they aren't 🤦🏼♂️
I came to the comments section to suggest that they should have also tested this on European walls...but then I saw that the comments section was already filled with this suggestion/complaint. So, I will add just one thing: Have you guys seen the meme of 2 images with the top image saying "USA" and you see a hole in a wall and the bottom image says "Europe" and you see an intact wall but there's someone next to the wall with a cast on their hand. I think it's hilarious!
also depends on where you are. for example in europe you have far less wooden homes and way more reinforced concrete walls. no hand gun is going to get through that.
A 9mm will indeed penetrate the thinner, inner walls of my house (single thickness of hollow brick). It will most definitely NOT penetrate if it hits one of the 30 cm thick, reinforced concrete, pillars that are part of these walls. It will actually be laughed at by the 80cm thick external walls, but that's not normal even in Europe (I live in an 1980's-built house)
@notfeedynotlazy enen older european houses made from bricks will stop the 9mm and reinforced concrete buildings are far nore common than 6ou think with all those old buildings being replaced after the war or due to fire, instabiliti etc. Even mij house is reinforced concrete (annoying faradey cage construction) and it was from thec1960s or a tad earlier
@@triumvir_hunt Dude, read again the "MY" house part. I'm not from Twig-House Land, what makes you think I'm not _extremely_ familiar with how frequent reinforced concrete buildings are here at the right side of the Pond? 🙂
The whole thing about Shoot 'Em Up is that it was meant to be like a cartoon. The guy kills people with carrots for Christ's sake. No one really believes it's possible to shove a hand loaded with bullets into a fire a kill someone.
Now if only in addition to testing Hollywood hitmen's tricks, they could have gone and tested the many shenanigans of Video Gaming's most iconic Hitman... Agent 47 has done some ridiculous things.
On bricks I'm pretty sure the bullet would have shattered into not much more than dust and only chipped a bit of the brick off. But proper drywall would be interesting.
Awesome episode. Bloody LOVED the whole triangulation thing, and the ending with the paintballs. Cool AF, and Jonathan Banks as mike Ehrmantraut was the icing on the cake 😃😊
I must say this: when I was 18, I was a sport pistol shooter (I'm 60 now) but back in a day we were doing stupid things in a range (indoor one) so with the ligths off I've been able to hit a silhouette size target 25 miters out 6 times out 9 rounds purely by the sound.
That's what happens if you only build scrappy shacks instead of actual stone/brick houses, you get shot, or it swims away or a light wind will not only unroof your 'house' but completely take it away *g*
All my internal walls are made of Brick or Breezeblock. My external walls are 2 foot thick. My parents house in France was all made of 1 foot thick stone.
Possibly they just focused on building techniques commonly used at the time and most houses these days don't really use bricks on a main floor for a dividing wall.
Exactly. Not everybody’s building card board boxes as houses, and since this was an international format it’s a bit disappointing. Yeah, this represents the world of 4% of this planet‘s population, but come on! Wouldn’t it be great to see others materials? Many movies are playing at places like europe, japan or the middle east, so use that techniques to (even if the results for handguns might be quite obvious for European houses)
@@erebostd In one episode they do talk about time constraints they deal with and at times they are working on multiple myths at once, a producer could have just decided they didn't have enough time to test every viable form of construction material and focused on common materials in there region. In one of the revisits they did they also mention they do look at more expanded elements of a myth but they just don't have the time to show them on air.
Am i the only one that sees the flaws in almost every one of their tests? Like when the metal stopped the bullet, they claimed a piece or metal. But it was two slices of metal seperater by a gap. Making that ⅕inch gap between the sheets of netal is actually what stopped the shell.
24:26 .. SO cool .. love the listen to / hearing protectors! ... This aired in 2015 .. I imagine the price has dropped an the quality is UP for any similar product! .. A GREAT investment to protect your hearing :)
I KNEW Jamie was a cyborg. Also that gun Adam is shooting at the range, that looks like the Beretta 92FS or some sub variant of that, more commonly known as the M9 in the military. Great classic firearm with lots of history. Also, the reason why the primer doesn't go off in the heat is because it's not designed to. It's designed to go off when the firing pin of a given firearm strikes it, and a spark is created by the anvil in the primer being hit. That spark ignites the priming compound, which ignites the smokeless powder, which creates the pressure necessary to send your bullet down range. Even if you could do it, and fire a bullet out of a casing by putting your hand in a fire, the bullets would neither be lethal nor accurate. The lethality of a projectile comes largely from speed. That speed is gained by pressure building up in the case, and having nowhere to go (as it would usually be sitting in the chamber of a firearm, and be pushed back against the bolt face of the firearm after firing) except straight forward, which is what propels the projectile down the barrel - which is what gives it its accuracy. With neither barrel nor chamber, nor a place for the pressure to build and provide the propellant needed to send the bullet down range, you'd have nothing more than a pop and maybe a superficial skin wound at best.
It´s definetly a Berreta 92FS and not a Beretta M9, which are not the same btw. U can clearly see the 2 dots at the rear sights which means 3-dot system. M9 got 2-dot system. The M9 also got aluminium frame while the 92FS got a steel frame. The 92FS also got an ambidextrous decocker. It´s the better gun imho^^
They could've had significantly higher chance of hitting the moving target behind the drywall if they got rid of the military headset and added a very good suppressor to the pistol and subsonic ammo so that they'd have superb triangulation ability without damaging their ears from the shots.
Funny how they couldnt get the bullets to ignite faster than 8sec. In S5E18 'red rag to a bull' they also threw a bunch of bullets on a campfire and they went of within 2 seconds easily. Probably different bullets but still I think they also put in 9mm in that test
When you throw cartridges into a campfire they are going to be embedded in superhot embers, thatheat will also get transferred very quickly to the entire shell casing of the cartridge, thus enabling the primer to get heated to ignition temperature much quicker than with heat being applied on one side only..
Maybe the wire and metal rod acted as a heatsink drawing the heat away from the bullet shell ...maybe a better test would be to use a piece of wood or a non heat conductive material holding the bullet
26:50 the footstep sound is too slow despite the speed of the target's movement 😅 When someone walks or runs or crouches his way I hear it constantly and instantly 😅 When I played gotcha (paintball) in an building, I heard the opponent constantly and prepared at the next opening of the wall, because I knew his position almost instantly. 😅 And with the techno-earphones you're using, you'll have hearing delay aside your own delay from brain progression... Making the whole test much more inaccurate than usually needed. 🎉
Looked around at apartment buildings with reinforced concrete outter walls mixed with concrete blocks and cinder block inner walls. Looked around cottages built from round timber or bricks with seismic belt of reinforced concrete... What kind of handgun I need to hit something behind that kind of walls?
15:10 .. At this point I guessed no way 2 seconds, at least SIX .. my son agreed with Adam it's be almost immediate. My son says "How did you know"? .. I relied simple I've done that before :)
