The Ancient Greek Arrow Machine Gun! | MythBusters | Season 7 Episode 19 | Full Episode 

The Arrow machine's rate of fire also has another benefit. In a tightly packed group, It doesn't matter if you miss the target, You'll hit someone else. And if they had more than... like 5 days to make it, It would probably turn out pretty robust

Mythbusters might be the best long running "reality" show ever made. The mix of science and humor is so good. When Kari, Grant and Tori left it wasn't the same and the quality went down, but I still love watching this!

Adam: "I'm gonna go eat something that was living." One of the funniest things I've ever heard on this show 🤣🤣

Jörg had to see this and Adam has to watch the instant Legolas.

As a truck driver I don't feel like this was an accurate test. The problem with driving sleep deprived isn't just being tired. It's more so the fact that you're sitting still in the exact same place the entire time. It's as if you're laying in bed. These guys are getting in and out of the vehicle and doing this during the day time. They're getting fresh air and moving around. That's not the case for truck drivers. We can't just pull over anywhere we want to get out and stretch. That's why we end up sleep deprived in the first place, we have to get to the next truck stop which can be hours away.

I absolutely agree. I've made the mistake of driving while tired twice - the first time I was so tired I used a slip lane without checking and hit a ute, damaging the back of it a little (it was a low speed accident - no one was hurt, but I was very rattled). The second time was during highway driving and I scared the hell out of myself when I found myself in the middle of the road, covering both lanes, and the worst thing is that I didn't even know how long I was doing that for! Luckily there was no one sharing that stretch of road with me, but I could have killed someone else. It was horribly irresponsible for me to do it, and I never will drive tired again, under any circumstances. And yes, both times, driving in the city is relatively safe, but minute I got onto a long stretch of highway, where I had to do nothing but go straight - that was when my eyelids felt heavy and my I felt like sleeping. Driving while tired absolutely kills people. Do not do it.

jorg sprave has made a mashinegun crosbow that can do what they tried. all with old fashioned materials and crafts

I always drink before I drive, there's nothing worse than having an accident when you're stone cold sober.

Yee oldie bows are completely different... the olympic shooting is on precision, heavy bow.. not heavy load on the string. Completely different.

I remember this episode. I can remember trying to "design" a pump action crossbow based on plans I found for the polybolos on the internet and having ideas about water mill powered versions. There are so many issues with their design that I see now, as someone who was inspired by them to look into ancient siege engines, but *damn* it's such a good memory.

When you see that blank screen before the rolling credits at the end...you continue to hope that the show would go longer...and when the credits and song come up..ur heart sink to the floor in disappointment.

This is calling for Jorg Sprave, The Slingshot channel.

The greek machine gun works pretty well in the end, this remind me on the slingshot channel.

I remember this one, def my favourite, I love when they are building/engeneering something❤

Them: "Describe what its like to be an engineer in one sentence" Me: 0:27

The danger with driving tired is long straight stretches of road, if you're weaving in and out of cones you're gonna stay aware and awake. You'd have to do another test on a long straight to get the full picture

They shouldnt have used a rat in the driving test, a remote control traffic light would have been better. Choosing between hitting a rat and possibly losing control over your car to avoid it the choice is easily made, a stopping light doesnt have that.

Dionysious of Alexandria build. Adams wears an Imperial Roman Armour. About as accurate as if you wear an English civil war suit with an M-16

That tipsy driving test was flawed because the sensors for the lines were not within the cars body they stuck out loads

21:55 roads aren't this narrow and what they show would not be endangering peoples lives when they say crossing over the line, looks like most of it was the large sensor sticking out the side

adam's joke about slaves would cause an uproar online if this happened today lmao

bit overkill with the sprockets and chains o.O still awsome

From a design perspective, placing the eyes on the side of the lion's head is preferable. This is because the lion is typically viewed from the sides to avoid being in the line of fire. Additionally, it pays homage to medieval and Viking times (whether intentional or not), when the figureheads of boats often had considerable detail on the sides rather than the front. From a realism perspective, the eyes should be on the front, as the lion is a predator. Forward-facing eyes allow predators to use binocular vision, allowing them to focus on a target and determine how far away it is.

Centurion Bilko ready for service sir :)

Man .. if they could work out all the kinks in the repeater arrow firing device .. imagine what a couple hundred of them would do to an ancient battlefield.

With arrow machine gun there are few things guys didn't take account for: 1. Back then they used much heavier bows than nowadays. Bow that is concidered heavy today it around 80lb. Back in medieval times it was medium bow. Heavy bows had 120lb. And it was probably similar to ancient times. 2. During medieval times archers invented different type of shoting. They put 6 arrows into ground in line. Then when they shot arrow, they grabbed arrow with string right from ground and while was straight up they already draw bow, because there is different method to draw such heavy bow. You draw it with your backs, not your hands. 3. Lastly, archer formations never tried to shot a single soldier. They usually shot arrows into air, creating flurry of arrows rain on enemies heads. Of course I listed all medieval tactics, but in ancient times it probably was somehow similar to this.

I drove a lot of time drunk when teenager and never loose control but I awoke once rolling on the ground between the opposite lanes of an highway when I drove back home after a concert and had to sleep (badly) on a chair in a station... the highway is the worse scenario when you need some sleep. from own experiments, tipsy vs drunk conclusions totally confirmed : if tired and have to drive, drink some alcohol before to go to avoid having a crash stupidly sober 😂

one of my favorite episodes

I used to work in a factory with morning/night/afternoon shifts rotating weekly, getting poor quality sleep and existing in constant jet lag, for three years straight. I can confidently say one thing: microsleep is an insidious fucker. Fortunately it only happened twice, and at a red light. I pulled into a parking lot and slept until noon. When I told my doctor, she took me off work for two weeks with 100% pay (yay for actual healthcare laws) and basically told me to find another job before I unalived myself or someone else. I don't know about driving tipsy (yay for zero tolerance laws too), but I was definitely a danger when I was sleep-deprived.

12:43 That is the size of a real brown rat. They are a lot larger than many people think they are.

i remember this episode from being a kid ... as an adult i LOL'd at the blow-up soldiers ..... may have to see how many other gags went straight over my head

I guess the main reason the machine crossbow isn't a mainstay thing is cause you can just get the guys towing it to do the jobs the machine automates. Still, I wonder if it is possible to increase its "caliber" and make several cranks so that everyone can be taking part in it, so that you have the speed of an archer but a far larger bolt.

first problem was th

Five arrows a minute the English/Welsh longbowman could 10 + a minute but it was tiring

now if they used something like a 200 pound string and full size arrows.. this would be deadly for sure.

Best quote ever 46:53

Kinda makes me wanna have a go at making one for myself.

Do they seriously not realize that there's a difference between Greeks and Romans...? Why tf are they calling each other "centurion" 🤦🏻‍♂️

yep those alcohol limits are bs. got even better lap times on track after few beers 😂

One of my family members was tired and drunk while driving and he managed to parralel park his 2019 nissan between a minivan and a telsa without touching them. How is still a mystery

That flaming rat out of context made me laugh

After watching I have the slight feeling that they don’t just tell the myths…

They should have spent their time cleaning up the shop instead of playing ping pong.

This show is engineering quote central

Those chains and sprockets are a little overkill we use those in sawmills for hauling tons of logs across a deck

15:17 they are using an ancient invention, odometer !!

The real big thing of the repeater was not the firerate, it was that you can fire it the whole day without getting tired, and you can shoot larger arrows...

24:59 when people run a red light you generally hit or get hit by them weather your have been drinking or not

To be fair about the 3 point turn... it is a Ford.

This proved my point driving tired is worse than tipsy... But having a upper so you can do your driving job not as tired is wrong?

Did he say "Both are technically legal"? At least where I live both driving tipsy and driving whilst so tired it affects your driving are highly illegal.

It shoots regular arrows? What’s the advantage? Obviously it used for shooting spears like, because humans can shoot a lot faster, and don’t require six people to carry it.

There seems to be a general confusion between greek and roman in this

O.K who's going to make the 'keeping up Kari/Tory/both' all night line first?

And that is why Siege Engineer was a major necessity on an ancient battlefield

Not sure about the name "Arrow Machine Gun". I think "Machine Bow" would be more accurate.

Myth busters seems confused about the differences between Greeks and Romans.

35:40 that is not Ellisons arrow.

arrow machine gun: fires 5 arrows per minute. any experienced archer: amateur, I do a dozen. They managed to build a machine that needs multiple people to operate and carries the same amount of arrows while shooting slower than a single archer. Replace the three people it takes to operate the contraption with three archers and you get about 7 times the fire rate.

Jörg Sprave would be proud of it, as he made the automatic Legoals for archers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NTJnyQ-bZLU.html And then you have the real modern legolas. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BEG-ly9tQGk.html lots of discussion - some unnecessary things in the video but look at this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-liHlCRpS70k.html i would prefer the mongolian army as cavalry. He does not say this is how the comanche did it but what people wrote about what the comanche were capable of is possible. He uses mostly a 50 pounds bow what is not considered a war bow by old english standard but good enough for hunting and against unprotected enemies.

Instant legolas is getting smaller🙂

So, do you think Adam dressed up as a roman soldier to test a myth about Ancient Greece just because he knew it would draw lots of comments?

The "two wolves" in me are Adam and Jamie

In terms of Mythbusters a blow up doll is just there to blow up, right?

😂a semi auto cross bow will be much lighter and much movable and much more accurate

I am actually shocked that this works. I thought it would be Hollywood stuff. Hallowed are the engineers.

5 arrows / minute - an archer can shoot faster

i can tell you its not the alcool that make this course harder ! 50 km/h with this speed and this space you need to brake or slow in corner she didnt tory did it easy thts why they didnt show it x)

nah, the new bow have faster reload, more strenght, easier to draw, and by pass the bow paradox ... So it the old bow x100

so, if you cut out the time the archer needs to reload (since they cut out the failing of the machine) and you take 3 archers instead of 1 (since they used the machine with 3 people) you would still be better of. But obviously not nearly as cool, so fair enough

victory is ours

3 dudes on the machine are NOT faster at kills than 3 dudes with bows. 😒

Speaking as someone whom has had a slee pdisorder for around 25 years at this point, I am, you might say, VERY familiiar with the effects of sleep deprivation. (my records: Longest Iv'e been awake is 40+ hours . I've slept for 30 hours straight twice (And for all that's holy, did that feel good both times), been up 24+ more times than I can count. Rules that have resulted from this: If Im' awake more than 17 hours, I treat myself as drunk as far as my judgement is concerned: spending money and indeed doing anything with consequences is strictly forbidden.Hallucinations, for me, tend to appear at the 30 hour mark. With my bona-fides defined: Staying active is great for your enbergy levels, and ability to resist dropping off. It is, as others have noted, sitting down/doing something relatively passive that is the death-knell, and theeffects on ability to concentrate or focus are immense. I don't have a driver's licence precisely because of that.

thank god is was the laid back sleep at lunchtime greeks that first came up with this type of thing and not the work hard and long and extremely accurate germans or we'd all be speaking german now, there's a german youtuber who creates things like this out of wood in his shed with no backing and just for fun, plus his was so good an archery company now makes his designs, think he also invented a fold away machete or something too, mans a menace (joerg sperve he's called for those interested)

That rat was kinda rat-arsed

I want to be friend with tipsy Kary

"I can't think of reason this wont work. So I am just going to build it." is my motto in life.

That is no rat, that's a sizeable HOUSECAT

Kerry is probably not a good driver regardless she's drunk or sober 😁

instant legolas!!

If you put a rock under one butt cheek while your driving , it helps a little with the alertness... you're always fidgety so slightly more aware. Us dudes have that fat wallet thing going on so that helps.

well are they talking about greeks or romans?

45ml is a normal shot? WTF xD a "shot" i 2cL

Lmao it's hilarious to rewatch as an adult and realize just how hard they overplayed their drunkenness every time they test a myth where they have to drink

why wear roman armor, when it is a greek myth? ... roman didn't like arrows

This is basicly the Instant Legolas from @JoergSprave aka the slingshot channel

Kari being sexy again… thats it

Ancient Greek myth. Look inside. All the graphics are Roman soldiers.

nice

Proving female drivers are more dangerous on the road

70lbs draw weight? Thats half as powerful as an English longbow at 150lbs draw weight. The Roman machine crossbow was about 740 lbs draw weight. medievil war crossbows could be 1300 lbs. The Chinese had man portable repeating crossbows with limited range but very rapid fire. Your machine is BUSTED. mainly because its not elegant. Use the chain to draw the string and use a small sproket onto a larger sprocket to increase the mechanical advantage and for pete's sake use larger bolt. You want to kill and impress your enemy not tickel t5hem to death!

25:37 excuse me, slaves???????

Seemed a little lopsided to perform the driving test Tipsy and Tired, but no test completely sober/awake. There's no baseline on whether or not they could complete it flawlessly to begin with.

so many "experts" in the comment section... xD clowns...

without a sober/baseline in the driving stuff.......

Yeah these are not in any way actually scientific tests they aren't tested their driving skills before drinking... and that automated arrow shooter was a ghetto one at best.... greeks had very fine machinery also the used roman buildings and helmets conutless times but this is american "science" to you.....

do you ever study history. why Itali is Roman but not Ancient, How it come Greece is ancient not even 192 years of existence Greece: (OTTO THE FIRST AND THE ONLY ONE KING OF GREECE. German Bavarian: Otto Fredrich Ludwig von Bayern, 1 June 1815 - 26 July 1867 AD) was a first Bavarian Prince as a King who Ruled Greece from the establishment of the monarchy on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed on 23 October 1862. Prove me if I'm wrong. The history is gone up to shit.

This show is like that is maked for retaded. Oh it is made for americans/

Well Kari's clearly a fun drunk!

I am teenager again...watching this on Discovery Channel with subtitles in parents living room. Good old times. Thank you Mythbusters for great memories.