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Adam and Jamie investigate whether a human voice could shatter glass, as perpetuated in stories of opera singers and demonstrated by Ella Fitzgerald in a commercial for Memorex and Jim Gillette in the music video for Nitro's "Freight Train".
A supersonic bullet can (and will) break any kind of glass just by the sonic boom it generates. Busted The MythBusters got their hands on an Armalite AR-50.50 caliber sniper rifle, one of the most powerful rifles available. They then lined up two rows of glass objects, such as windows, wine glasses, cups, and lightbulbs, and fired the rifle so ...
Can a bullet travel through a sniper's scope and kill him? (Revisit of: Firearms Folklore) Can sticking one's finger in a gun barrel stop a bullet? (Revisit of: Finger in a Barrel) If two metal hammers are struck together, or a hammer strikes an anvil, can they shatter with lethal force? (Revisit of: Hammer vs. Hammer)
The compounds in the pigments of most tattoos simply do not react to magnetic fields. Old pigments of the color black, which had iron in the composition, could cause some discomfort at most. Tattoos can explode when exposed to a transmitter. Not in this episode This chapter of the myth was not shown in this episode. See "MythBusters Outtakes".
Can sticking one's finger in a gun barrel stop a bullet? (Revisit of: Finger in a Barrel) If two metal hammers are struck together, or a hammer strikes an anvil, can they shatter with lethal force? (Revisit of: Hammer vs. Hammer) Can a rifle fired with a boresight in the barrel backfire and explode, creating a cartoon-like banana peel effect?
The action-movie hero is shot in the stomach; he limps to a safe house; he takes off his shirt, removes the bullet with a tweezer, and now he is better. This is not trauma surgery. Trauma surgery is about fixing the damage the bullet causes as it rips through muscle and vessel and organ and bone. The bullet can stay in the body just fine.
A 4-year-old accidentally knocked over and shattered a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar during a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel on Friday.. The museum said the ...
Using the measurements of a man with 3-inch (7.6 cm) pectorals and 11-inch (28 cm) biceps, Adam and Jamie placed 14 inches (36 cm) of cow muscle in front of the dummy (assuming the man placed his bicep over his pectoral and the bullet passed through them both).