While many people enjoy the television show, MythBusters for its science, wonderment, and gambling opportunities (“$50 on Adam Savage singeing his eyebrow off”), the final outcome of proving or disproving a myth is never as valuable as the carnage of crashing things up to get there!
10. Chain Link Car Crash
Said the chain link fence to the blue POS sedan, “Red rover red rover, send that junk heap on over!”
9. ‘Tossed’ Salad, Hollywood Style
Hollywood is known for their dramatic car chases, and the infamous exploding fruit cart is a classic scene that made it into just about every 80’s cop flick ever churned out of the mill. In this Mythbusters episode, do you think the fruit going to fly everywhere in a spectacle of color and shadow, or just plop on the ground and roll away like Kirstie Alley leaving a Cheesecake Factory? Should we even have to ask…
8. If You Can’t Duck It…
The old saying goes, If you can’t duck it, fu** it (forget it), and according to MythBusters, a single strip of duct tape possesses somewhere around 70 pounds of breaking strength. Plenty of things have been held together with this mystical stuff, including everything from broken car windows to drunken rednecks at a shotgun wedding alter. The question we have before us today, is can it structurally hold together a partially torn apart car as it’s put through a twisty, bumpy obstacle course?
7. Trailer Trash Crash
A tornado can pluck a trailer from a trailer park faster than two spatulas can pop a pimple from the forehead of a fast food burger flipper. However, even though Hollywood says a vehicle can plummet through the thin, aluminum walls of a trailer with the same finesse as a football team cascading through a paper sign, would the same result occur in a real life situation?
6. Mini Gun Toting SUV
This is a shameful display of wasting perfectly good bullets on nothing more than a crummy barrel and a stupid fish, but we love it!
5. 50 mph + 50 mph = ???
There is a rumor going around that if you take two opposing forces and propel them towards each other at like speeds, the resulting damage would be equivalent to the combined velocity of the two forces. Long story short, Car A (50 mph) hurling towards Car B (50 mph) is the same as a either Car A or B hurling itself upon a stationary wall at 100 mph. As it turns out, it is not the velocity of the two oncoming cars that does the majority of the damage in this situation, but rather their deceleration. A car going 50 mph, hitting another similar vehicle going 50 mph, is still only decelerating from 50 to 0 mph. Okay, enough nerd talk, lets crunch some metal!
4. ‘Compact’ Cookie
They say what makes an oreo cookie enjoyable is its rich, creamy center. What makes a compact car even more enjoyable, is after being oreo’d between two semi trucks, you can fit the remains in a lunchbox and still have room for jello.
3. Rocket Sled Psycho Killer
If a very large and dull meat cleaver were hurled at a car with over 75,000 pounds of rocket thrust, do you think it would it have enough momentum to split the car in two? Perhaps a better question might be, Does a rabbit fornicate on Sunday?
2. 100 MPH Car Crash
This Mythbusters video begs two important questions. One, will the destruction of a car multiply in intensity as its velocity is doubled from 50 to 100 mph. Two, can you even tow a Daewoo across a straightaway at speeds up to 100 mph?
1. Vaporized Sub-Compact
Spoon boy: Do not try and vaporize the sub-compact.
That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no car.
Neo: There is no car? (dumbfounded, otherwise typical Keanu Reeves look upon his face)
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the car that needs vaporizing, but only yourself.
About Dr. Eric J. Leech
Eric has written for over a decade. Then one day he created Urbasm.com, a site for every guy.
About Dr. Eric J. Leech