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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 ...
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".
The Dutch scientist Constantijn Huygens asked Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle to investigate the properties of the drops; her opinion after carrying out experiments was that a small amount of volatile liquid was trapped inside. [11] Although Prince Rupert did not discover the drops, he was responsible for bringing them to Britain in 1660.
A small car can be lifted into the air by high-pressure fire hoses. Confirmed The MythBusters first created a small-scale experiment using a model car and a set of garden hoses connected to a single fire hose. The small-scale model worked perfectly, proving that the basic idea was at least possible.
The MythBusters started with small-scale tests and determined their old JATO configuration was not suitable for the myth, because the top-mounted rockets caused the car to veer off course. Instead, they opted to mount the rocket tubes inside the trunk of the car to achieve a more stable trajectory.
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 ...
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