Skydiver vs Seesaw | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 19 | Full Episode
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2025
- #MythBusters #FactOrFiction
The Mythbusters team test whether it is possible for a skydiver's parachute to fail causing him to hit a seesaw and launch a little girl onto the roof of a 7 story building...
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
Subscribe to catch the latest clips and episodes: / @mythbusterstvshow
I'd love to hear what a passerby thought, seeing the shape of a little girl suddenly flung high up into the air and the distant sound of cheering.
They almost knocked the dolls socks off!... Wait a second...
We must convince Adam and Jamie to come back from their half-retirement, Tori and Kari to stop having jobs, and we must transfer Grant's consciousness to Deadblow, all so they can re-test that myth with the seesaw.
LMAo
1:56 Exceedingly rare Jamie barely-contained-laughter
The high speed of the shoes coming off the girl dummy is gold.
What a bizarre and complex myth here. It is so cool to see it as an "all hands on deck" project.
nice grey color
That girl at 0:25:45 has a pretty good sense of humor 🤣
Mythbusters is my favorite tv show! 👍
Totally. She instantly went into that story, not a single second of thinking. (Probably heard that question before, and gave that answer before)
Also, she looks cute too.
The narration is always great but describing that fulcrum as a high security birdhouse might be one of my favourite lines in the whole show.
I still remember the best seesaw of my childhood: a beam across a fallen tree.
Nice memory.
47:36 her shoes coming off 😂 they take their own beautiful trajectories
Getting hit in a Sonic game sounds like 5:21
20:28, Adam's laughing is priceless.
That's a sad little girl. Alone on a seesaw. 😐
Very sad, and then a nice skydiver comes to cheer her up and Wheeeeeeeeeee! Oof, ribs guts splat.
But for a split second she got company. That yeeted her up into the air, but still.😅
That's actually the point where the myth dies already.
Nonetheless the planet's best seesaw ever emerged out of that myth! 👍
i think she'd rather be alone than whats to come
They completely forgot the last part of the myth, about landing on the peak of the flight arc being safer than falling back down.
No, it was irrelevant. Due to the G forces, she would have to pull to accelerate to the speed required to make the arc in the first place.
Don’t they revisit the myth later to do that? I though I remembered seeing them trying for hours to catch her at the top of the arc. Maybe that’s just my brain filling bits in? I could have sworn I’d seen it, though.
@@BrandonYoung-Kemkes Why would it be irrelevant? The G force of her being launch abruptly would not necessarily be the same as when she dropped from a 7-story height, right? If they just wanted to measure the G-force from a 7-story drop, then they could've just dropped her from that height and check the shock patches. If they want to check if she would survive being launched onto a 7-story building, then the shock patches should be checked at the apex at the 7-story height.
@@tankdrivingmutt story was that girl WAS LAUNCHED from the ground, and THEN landing on the 7th floor.
The launch already would've killed her. That makes absolutely irrelevant how she lands up there.
@@zsoltbartus169 I didn't see anywhere mentioning the G force for the launch she sustained. I thought that's what Mythbusters were trying to test, to see what the launch G force would be. If they only wanted to test the G force sustained by landing from a drop from the 7th floor, they could've just dropped the dummy with the shock patches from the 7th floor without the complication of building a seesaw to sustain the impact, etc.
That's not a seesaw- that's a bloody catapult 46:12
I still remember the best seesaw of my childhood: a wooden beam across a fallen tree.
Great memory.
For me its just painful all the imperial units. My god how americans deal with that?
It's almost as if they're taught with imperial units from day one
Stubbornly and unnecessarily.
That's how they deal with it.
I do occasionally watching this show wonder what the hell an ounce or something similar is, and then I just move on because hell, life's too short to learn the American Customary System, and frankly, it'll just make me forget more important things.
For the feet, I try to divide them into 30 to get the meters
Inches multiply by 2.5 to get cm
For weight and temperature i've got no idea
@@Alvaroalpha9 How many football fields is that, though? 🤔
"It's because sometimes the bodies are horribly disfigured and it's to identify them." Dark.😏
My favourite Mythbusters build
It's technically possible for the girl to survive the landing. We're already assuming the skydiver can hit the end of a super-see-saw, so it isn't much more of a stretch to assume her arc through the air peaks a safe distance directly above a building.
Her surviving the launch is a different matter. The energy required to launch her to that height is at least equal to that landing from that height. She was dead before she even got a good view.
She wouldn't be alive to survive it though.
As silly as this was, I do enjoy the mental image of a little girl being turned into a intercontinental ballistic missile and being sent flying off of aa seesaw
Growing up our community had a big seesaw that was even more heavy duty than Jamies. Big slabs of steel with triangle shape reinforcing and a huge spring in the middle. It would only really move at all with adult or multiple people on each side. I wonder that kind of a result you would get for the poor dummy if you used that monstrosity!
Grant we miss you, hope youre looking down to the world from a beatiful Place
A straighter seesaw would have been nice but I'm not sure that something fully straight could have taken the forces at play.
Would have also been interested in seeing how they fine tuned the pivot not to lose too much energy in the hinges friction.
32:59 i laughed out loud lmao
Awesome chapter
Lmao, i was only using my right earpod. I was wondering why there was no narrator in this episode lol
If I remember my Newtonian physics correctly, the force the skydiver feels upon hitting the see-saw, which basically splits him in half, is directly transferred into the force of the see-saw pushing up on the girl, which basically cuts her in half.
Why every season 6 video has audio imbalance
Not only season 6. There are in season 7 too. A screw up by whoever saved/formated them. Narrator on the left side and their voices/music on the right. Some of the videos that are bad here are working well on the other channel they are uploaded.
17:07 The MOther of All SeeSaws - MOASS
Wow you can watch this 2 different versions of this episode!
I also heard the skydiver didn't even spill his coffee
My left ear thanks you.
In your phone settings, you can go to accessability and change to mono-sound, or just search "mono" in settings. Should solve the problem. Just change back if you ever need stereo sound. Rearly needed on a phone. And seems my speekers get somewhat louder in mono🤷🏼♂️
@@markusfeddersen Yeah or they just fix the audio. I'm not gonna do some menial arbitrary thing to watch it. It's plain stupid.
Also, I'm not watching on a phone, but that's besides the point. No need for "tech" advice btw.
It's free. Shut up
@@aimDiego 🏴☠
@@ToTheGAMES Needlessly rude. Come on now.
25:45 LOL!
I like Mackenzie's sense of humor. 🤣👌
@26:00
Laughed my rear off, I like her.
Adams accent at the openning when he is telling the seesaw story is pure gold 😅
They seem to be allowed very close to the edge of the bridge without any sort of fall arrest...
Thank heaves those cones are there.
5:57... where exactly did you get that doll from???
Somethin' ain't right.
14:22 1am!
28:44- How exactly did Jamie get that FBI jacket?
Jamie = DB Cooper.
18:14 what program is that?
Jamie mentions it @ 17:40. It's called Solidworks and is used by many people nowadays.
29:08 "I select the cremation"
If you laught at the gir flying you go to hell. Reserve me a seat😂😂😂
Is it just me, or the audio editors added fart noises to the impact and explosion sounds on several different episodes?😅
28:57 One fiddy
Why? Because I like accents. Accents are neat
44:03 60-70% of his mass? Given the high speed it’s clear his thigh only grazes, and upper arm/outer edge of the torso makes slight contact. I’d say more like 15-30% at most
We're only getting the footage they show us, not all of the footage so I'm inclined to believe their estimations.
In your phone settings, you can go to accessability and change to mono-sound, or just search "mono" in settings. Should solve the problem. Just change back if you ever need stereo sound. Rearly needed on a phone. And seems my speekers get somewhat louder in mono🤷🏼♂️
A phone only has one speaker inside it. Stereo is useful when two separate speakers play individual audio tracks, and surround setups have even more unique channels.
Why is the little girl doll the only doll with her mouth open?
Jamie built the rig differently to how every seesaw is, he put the fulcrum above the angle of pivot, making the trajectory have a different leaving point and aiming with a curve, like Adam's testing. They should have just used a steel beam, it would have been fine against a human. Their preliminary tests of barrels of water was completely off-scale to the inertia a human has. Pity they wasted so much effort to have such a simple mistake change the outcome and testing of every possible playground. BUSTED
Ah, so you're one of the fans that drove them insane enough to be done with this. Confirmed!
Now I dare you to remake THIS with a black Ariel.
first for amazing audio
Would a seesaw made from a trunk of a tree work?
You still have to consider how thick the trunk is, if the bark is still on it, what kind of tree was used, if it was treated - and that is just scratching the surface.
Really, going with wood, tree trunk or not, comes with too many variables to be particularly reliable for this one. This is one of those cases where even the smallest deviation could have major consequences.
@@DavidRichardson153 There is no original event, and as long as they use the same see-saw throughout, no deviation.
@jantonner67 However, the see-saw needs to be light. If you've ever tried pushing a playground roundabout (merry-go-round, or carousel), there is a lot of inertia to overcome. Even once its moving (static friction is overcome) it takes a lot of energy to increase it's speed (or slow it down). A see-saw is like a diameter of a fly-wheel. So, a tree-trunk would need to be lighter than Jamie's rig to be a significant improvement.
Wood is 'springy' which may alter (increase) the acceleration on the 'little girl'. I'm assuming some of the energy initially is 'stored' by bending the wood, later that is released into 'her', eg. when the parachutist's side hits the floor. I _think_ she'll still be in contact with the see-saw when that 'stored' energy is released. That probably increases 'her' peak acceleration. That is a "bad thing"™.
Best Wishes. ☮
oh god the sound... This is impossible to listen to
Working fine for me 😅
Sound
This weird seesaw they built prevented a good result. A traditional but heavy duty design would have performed very differently. It's things like this that i hated about the Mythbusters. They didn't pay much attention some times.
I disagree. First of all without going to extreme lengths I doubt you can make a traditional design heavy duty enough to withstand roughly ~3-4.5 tons of impact. There is no generic steam beam or pipe that can do that. Sure you can us a I beams or solid rods, buts even those I'm not sure would have hold up without deformation without getting them in ridiculous size.
Secondly the only difference their design made was the arc the girl launched and they admitted at the very end if she went straight up they could have achieved even more height.
But lets hear your reasoning why it was not a good result and how the seesaw design prevented a good result.
@@Debilinside everyone is an expert even in fields they have not studied but I am sure it sounds good to them.
mono :(
Grant is the only MythBuster who shows signs of intelligence. The others are clowns, stooges, or extras.
That's one of the dumbest things I have ever read in a comments section 🤦♂️
@@AscendantStoic Go back to your silly games and your wanking on superheroines, kid.