20 of the best investigations "Mythbusters"

• The top 20 investigations "Mythbusters"

Back in 2002 producer Peter Rice suggested Discovery Channel to release a program that would be subjected to verification of different stories, rumors, urban legends and myths. Since then, two charming special effects specialist Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage tirelessly to refute or confirm these same myths in the program "MythBusters."

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Spilled fuel can ignite a cigarette.

TRUTH: Cigarette able to burn fuel (gasoline ignition temperature - 260-280 ° C, and the cigarette during puffing yields 260-300 ° C).

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The metal body piercings increases the chance of being struck by lightning.

MYTH: In order to "attract" lightning piercing needed size of a doorknob.

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If swallowed while swimming octopus fertilized egg can mature in the stomach.

MYTH: Delivered experiment showed that the egg of octopus due to unfavorable conditions in the human stomach die long before ripening.

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sinking ship creates a strong vortex that can captivate a man under water.

MYTH: It can not. Although the use of small craft "Miftanik" or Adam or Jamie sucked under the water is not, despite the fact that they were directly above a sinking ship.

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If you eat a poppy seed cake, the drug test will show that you are under the influence of drugs.

TRUTH: In the poppy seeds may contain a certain amount of opium alkaloids. Therefore, if the device for determining the drug is sensitive enough, it will work. Leading confirmed this by eating a bun with poppy seeds and failing a drug test.

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If you eat a lot of sweets and fizzy drink a lot of cola, the explosion will occur in the stomach. MIF: The carbon dioxide evolved during this reaction is not sufficient to blow the stomach. Although it certainly hurt the person has done so.

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A bunch of balloons can lift into the air four year old child.

THE TRUTH: Maybe. This will require 3,500 balloons.

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In the storm a person may be struck by electricity via the phone during a call.

TRUTH: Destroyers put a mannequin of ballistic gel on a chair, and put the phone to his ear. Then they turned on the artificial lightning - discharge voltage of 200 000, which struck in the layout of the house where was placed the dummy. The discharge from the handset microphone hit in the mouth and detonated dummy powder placed in it as the response signal. The voltmeter for measuring the voltage in the dummy fuse is blown.

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Sandwich is more likely to fall butter side down than up.

MYTH: A comprehensive and unbiased inspection did not show any statistically significant deviations in the fall of sandwiches up or down with oil. The ratio of oil drops downward and upward oil was 50 to 50. Although pitting sandwich the table he usually makes only one revolution and falls down just oil.

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The wreck can be raised with the help of a ping-pong table.

TRUTH: You can! Balls lifted from the bottom "Miftanik-2", although they had to be pumped into the vessel with water to about 27 000, that not very applicable in practice.

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The coin dropped from a skyscraper, can develop enough speed to kill a pedestrian below.

MYTH: The coin is not able to kill. Due to the air resistance coin can not always accelerate. After 100 meters fall it almost does not change its speed. And at this rate is insufficient mass shallow coins to pierce human skin. If she fired a gun, the coin could cause some damage, but not to kill.

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On the deck chair you can fly, tying him weather balloons, and then land safely, shooting from an air rifle balls.

TRUTH: You can fly up and then down. Adam Savage took off on their device consisting of chairs and 16 balls from weather balloons, and safely reached a height of 22, 5 meters. Then he knocked one of the balls and descended safely to earth. Myth was also confirmed by the documents of the Agency of air communications.

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If you're buried alive you can stay alive.

MYTH: To test this myth Jamie risked his life. Although he spent in nezasypannom coffin 50 minutes, but after the coffin was covered with earth, he survived only 30 minutes. Suffocation from lack of oxygen lead to the death of the buried alive when the coffin still will not be crushed by the ground. That is the risk of possible destruction of the tomb destroyers forced to terminate the experiment after 30 minutes.

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Micturition on live metal fence leads to an electric shock.

Partly true: Strike will. But it is provided that a person is close to the fence. At a large distance the urine stream breaks up into droplets, which makes it impossible for a current to flow because the impact will be.

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The fall of the household appliance in the bath full of water is deadly to the human being in it.

TRUTH: The current flowing through the "heart" of the dummy ballistic gel, proved fatal for the majority of tested appliances (toaster, hair dryer, radio, and so on). It was proved that the application of differential devices (RCD) preclude electrical shock, as in the case of setting the RCD in the mains and in the case of the RCD in the appliance (hair dryer equipped RCD tripped almost instantaneously in water).

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"Rule 5 seconds" is true for food that had fallen on the floor.

MYTH: For those who do not know, "typically 5 seconds," asserts the possibility of a safe use of products that have fallen to the floor and raised for five seconds. In fact, between the number of bacteria collected in 2 seconds and 5 seconds, there is practically no difference.

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Glass for wine can be broken by a vote.

TRUTH: By using the amplifier and speakers destroyers broke a crystal goblet. A rock singer Jamie Vender managed to break the glass with her voice only, without using any tools - is finally confirmed myth.

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In the solarium can be something to fry.

MYTH: No, of course! UV tanning waves can only cause sunburn.

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lumbago lock pistol, it can be opened.

MYTH: No 9-millimeter pistol or Magnum 357 did not open the lock or padlock or plunge.

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If the falling elevator at the last moment to jump, you can soften the blow and survive.

MIF: Human hopping rate is too small compared with the velocity of the incident lift and blow too softened slightly. In addition to guess the time of the fall is very difficult. The best advice in this situation - do not jump, and lie down on the cabin floor.