The Second Alaskan Special | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 20 | Full Episode 

For those of you who are intrigued by the Pykrete idea, it was a WWII project that got some serious consideration early in the war. The problem was that, due to aircraft range and lack of aircraft carriers, there was a gap in air cover for the Atlantic convoys. The idea was to use Pykrete to create a floating airfield in the Arctic circle near Greenland that could be used to launch larger patrol aircraft to plug this gap. The project was called Habakkuk, and I'm not mistaken when I say airfield - the "ship" would have been more than twice as long as an Essex-Class Aircraft carrier, and mass over 2 million tons (Yamato only massed ~70,000 tons). The idea even got to a scale model test in Canada, taking over two years to melt enough to be unseaworthy. Ultimately, though, the project was cancelled as Escort carriers such as the Casablanca-class were being rapidly deployed, and the amount of steel needed for the Habakkuk was deemed better used elsewhere. If you want to know more, the Naval History Channel by Drachinifel did a vid on it a couple of years ago. But be warned, the story is very...British...

7:25, rare moments of Jamie being surprised and confused af on the show, lol.

7:21 Jamie's face right there, cant remember seing that face a lot during the show xD

My left ear thanks you.

"All I need to do is fill her up. (realization) With air." Just one of the many jokes I missed as a kid.

When the narrator said "it's destination Alaska" all I could think of was Ozzy man reviews. 😂😂😂

15:20 would not be surprised if the actual conversation they had went exactly like that hahaha.

Jamie casually mentioning he was on many boats before is pretty cool

That ba dumm tss after Grant's banana split pun 34:53 had me laughing

jamie being a former boat captain just makes so much sense

How the hell do Banijay manage to upload episodes normally on Science channel, yet on official (? Is it actually, not sure) Mythbusters channel the balance is more messed up than my life?

Pykrete idea carrier, would basically have a double hull, with a refrigerate system keeping the hull cold, and the hull would also be very thick, thick enough for it almost repair itself due to how cold the hull would be (sea water and rain would freeze) and repairs would be easy, just add a box over the area you want to freeze on new material

I mean, judging by the idea that they _(the military during ww2)_ were thinking of using freezers in the ship to keep it intact, realizing it wasn't going to work so they scrapped the whole idea, kind of proves that it wasn't going to work in the first place :P

Tory is hilarious 😂 ❤

Pykrete is mentioned in a small article on page 195 of "The Reader's Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts", published in 1975. The material was tested on one of the two lakes just up the mountain from the town of Jasper, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It's either Pyramid lake or Patricia lake, I don't remember which. But when I went there in the mid 80's, the park wardens did tell the story.

The pykrete carrier was conceived by a Brit and it was intended to stay in the Atlantic to protect ships crossing it that were being sunk by German U-boats.

It wasn't the engine block on the "rear engine vehicle" that stopped the plow, it was the axle.

what truck did they use for the snowplow?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 adum is funy witt dals

mono! nooo! D:

Turn on mono audio if you're using headphones 🤣

Im still sad about those two amc eagles that died🥺

so if its 14% by weight sawdust and 8 or 6% water whats the rest made of

4:35 whos dog is that?

An ice boat would work well on Titans oceans of methane

What plane do they keep talking about?

hello audio my old friend

Need to ask you'll a question... If antman in his time/space suit was sitting in a hot tub time/space machine with the time/space Travelers wife and the time/space bandits on the seat of H.G. Wells time/space machine within the glove box of a time/space delorean whilst Speeding around the T.a.r.d.i.s while she's materialised within the ear of the T-800 just before it enters the Cyberdyne time/space machine. Need to know, at what time do we order the Chinese

Probably just me but it seems oddly disrespectful to paint a flag on something you're going to try split in half? Besides that thanks for another fun episode & keep 'em coming! 👍

Stupid that they change the recipe for pykrete and then say how it melts too fast

To be honest I hated Adam’s childish behaviour