Explosive Prison Break! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 3 | Full Episode 

I watch it years back in TV:):)

@@joe125ful yeah we all did

Anyone else think the water flowing into a sealed room (also possibly carrying some air) would cause the pressure to go up?

​@@triple7988 Yes, it will. Until the pressure is equal to that in the tube and it will equiblirate and stop flowing. Why? That pressure by itself won't break any walls.

@@mawns Not sure I followed that. Adding any volume to a sealed room will increase the pressure, the hose is very high pressure by comparison to anything else in that environment. Water and most stable liquids in general are semi non-compressible below pressures probably equivalent to an atomic bomb at the very least. Meaning the gas in the room is pressurized by both its own generation and the water.

The youtubers just copied them...

So sad i didnt grow up with this show. Such a good show for a kid to watch ngl.

@@w_ldan I watched this as a kid with my parents all the time. It got me really interested in science and robotics but unfortunately I never took part lol-- Only in a sect of science.

This show is why my cousin is in jail for messing with explosives.

Awesome. Did breaking bad inspire you to do meth under the overpass?

@@digi3218 he didn't follow the instructions . There was a clear disclaimer

Me too I realized I am now the age Jamie and Adam were when filming these

Huh? What happened?

​@@xmine08 Jesse died in a successful attempt at being the fastest woman alive on four wheels a few years ago. And Grant died if I'm not mistaken during a surgery because of a medical emergency. May they rest In peace ❤

@@donnysabel23no, Grant died from a brain aneurysm, not during a surgery, it just randomly happened. He was dead within seconds.

Damn, did not know about jesse. That sucks

Oh wow I knew about Grant but not Jessie. She was wonderful! That's sad.

I frequently drive on long stretches of highway 17 (Trans-Canada highway) in the middle of the night for work and even though I know the route I would never attempt it without headlights. Moose can be nearly invisible even with high beams on and I've had more than a few close encounters with one suddenly lumbering out of a ditch onto the road.

​@@falseshadow1220I don't even have moose here but deer would be enough to deter me from trying it. Plus it's impossible to gauge distance

@@falseshadow1220 The issue isn’t would people want to do it or would it be easy. The issue is smugglers memorize the route to make it easier for them. Moonshiners in the US would talk about how they would memorize all the routes they could take to make it easier to drive with no lights. Again not stating it makes it easy, just what smugglers actually do to make it easier

Or they can just spend 4000$ on NVGs.... Edit : wow, they do get NVGs

@pepebeezon772 Back during prohibition, there was no such thing as night vision goggles.

Oh, she's the one that died. I was thinking it was the one with the tattoos from the earlier seasons. So sad, too young.

@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst That would be Scottie… As far as I know she’s still alive..

I totally agree sir. Not only to what you have said: So sad, too young.... But i also agree with your nickname. German Sausages are the Wurst indeed. And i love em for it. I think they taste much better than any Klobasa. @@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst Krainerwurst is better than Kranjska Klobasa. (eventhough they are basically the same)

@@matthewlo7868 Sadly: Death Combs died on August 27, 2019, after crashing a jet-powered car while setting a land-speed record as part of the North American Eagle Project on a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert, Oregon.[2][3][7][8] The crash was caused by a failure of a front wheel, likely caused by hitting an object in the desert, which caused the front wheel assembly to collapse at a speed nearing 523 mph (842 km/h).[25] The official cause of death was determined to be "blunt-force trauma to the head" occurring prior to the fire that engulfed the race vehicle after the crash.[25]

There are actual maple syrup smugglers

Now it sounds reasonable with the cost of everything I'd bet people do smuggle maple syrup now

Yeah, I was thinking too, that they had no control over how much water they could release in the pressure cooker...

There would be a small compensation required, at 0psi the vessel displacement would not effect the results. No water in the exit pipe will, but the test starts at atmosphere and ends at atmosphere so all gas produced will be displaced.

That isn't true. They showed in their volume test that a tiny amount of water can activate a lot of pills. The water activates the chemical reaction but it's not a part of it. With the pressure cooker it's just that at 20-25 psi the external pressure prevent it gassing off. Since it has to expand to do that. Also with the water displacement idea they already showed that antacid can get up to 25psi on it's own and the pressure in the building was nowhere near that so it's kind of a moot point.

Very sloppy test.

Pv = nrt They are not chemists

It made me sad when I remembered that both of them have died :(

@@Quake120 yeah me too.

Well Alan doesn't have the charisma to carry such a grand title of Mythbuster.. guy is too whiny

This is what I was thinking. If the inmate had spent 10 years in the same cell, it is very likely that he had managed to chisel a hole in a block and hide his tablets there... then he only needed to bust out a few wall blocks to make his escape. This myth is NOT busted, just tested under the wrong conditions.

@@ubergeek1968 Unfortunately that's a pretty common occurrence with the show, and it's one big flaw. They rarely tested things as they'd realistically happen, and instead tended to just go for the "exactly as stated" route, or the "biggest" route for the sake of tv. The smuggler myth in this episode is another example, where they kind of went against the spirit of the myth the whole time. The idea of the myth was that smugglers would go down a road with a border checkpoint, (that they were probably pretty familiar with), and in the stretch leading up to the check point they'd cut their lights and drive past without the border patrol noticing them. So, of course, they tested by using a curving track in the complete dark, after their eyes had adjusted, making sure they weren't familiar with it, and had the cops notice and chase them during the night vision test which defeats the whole purpose. Don't get me wrong, the show was still very entertaining, and it has some great science in general. It's just that their methodology tended to lean more towards entertainment than proper testing.

I agree that would most likely be the method used. especially because prison doors are generally solid steel core even when it has a window in it. also they're about an inch and half thick to two inches thick. prior corrections officer chiming in.

It needs to be enclosed from all sides, otherwise bag just pops instead.

@@cyphi474they could use modified corks. There’s an explosive device called non-explosive demolitions which use pressure from chemical reactions to destroy stone. I think if there were a handful of holes, it would be possible.

Noticed that too

Massolos. Das de balle op z'n spaans, althans volgens de broertjes de Boer.

cloudy night up north it's pretty close to blackout conditions, however, running that border pre-2001 used to be easy, Then it got a lot stricter. But most of the smuggling along coastal regions like Maine and Quebec, smuggling wasn't happening over the land crossing very much, it was on fishing boats, milbridge Maine was up until at least 2015 a smugglers haven, a lot of jagged rocky coast, that was hard to navigate, they could and did move a lot of ganj into the states, and something loosely derived from morphine out to Canada. I don't know how true it holds these days, but when I was living in that area, it was not even a secret, everyone knew exactly what was going on, They would frequently seize shipments that were in "storage" waiting to go out of town, or had just arrived. You're right though that with modern tech it would be significantly easier, and that it's not the same as a blacked out building but from the perspective of someone that lived near that border, it can be a lot darker than most people think, it's remote. But the crossings have overhead lighting now as well, so it's again, a myth that absolutely has some validity, however more common methods were to avoid the marked crossings altogether.

Lol no they were using gen 3 tubes

Yeah also something I thought of is they wanted the test to be with them no memorizing the course, but if a smuggler was running stuff through the border he's likely to take the same route every time and know it very well

@@loonyshots5879 Exactly what i was thinking, maybe they would have 2 or 3 different routes if they wanted to be safe.

@@jjbeast00 Yeah, I'm no smuggler but I know from experience running from cops in modified cars that if you know a road well enough all it takes is luck that you don't hit an object in the road, but going 100 plus you aren't reacting to a damn animal in the road regardless of if you can see it or not

They reinforced the blocks with concrete and rebar and the blocks weren't the failure point. What's the problem?

The concept isn't silly at all. Finally someone is testing the bs you throw around you

The vast majority of smuggling is done via legal ports though. Smuggling goods always have a very high value density otherwise it's not worth it so hiding 100 grams among 100 tons of other goods is worth it.

@@MrMarinus18 sure, but in this case we are talking about them driving at night, without lights on, so if anything else is illegal from there, I'm sure they would care 😊

@@mBlackThunder (My post is gone so I'm doing this from memory) My point was that cross border illegal smuggling is actually a fairly small portion of smuggling. The vast majority of smuggling is done via legal ports where enormous quantities of goods already flow in/out. It's like hiding a tree in a forest.

@@MrMarinus18 I'm sure it is so. It's like I've always said. If you wanna tune your moped, at least make sure that you're wearing a helmet that your lights are working 😄. 1 crime at a time.

Its quite eerie to watch Jessi drive under unsafe donditions😢

​@@rollingmetal949-- Yeah, the crash and burn line made my heart sink.

​@@OfficialOpinionexactly my thoughts 😢

@@rollingmetal949 this is how she wanted to live.

They specified a dark night. Full moon in winter would be simple.

@@jordancochran7979 just because they specified that doesnt mean smugglers would be oblivious to the patterns of the moon... Like they can specifically choose to go on a full or close to full moon. and even with a small part of the moon showing, it would still be more light than a closed building with no lights on. Theres a big difference in human perception from 10% light to 0 or 1% light like in that building. You"d be surprised how much moonlight helps

@alfredo42o They for sure would plan on a nearly no moon night, choosing to go on a full moon would make them easy to spot. In the winter, on a full moon, there's shadows on the snow in the middle of the night.

Hey, only 2/5. Scottie Chapman is still around, I think.