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A slab of pykrete Pykrete is made of 14% sawdust and 86% water by mass.. Pykrete (/ ˈ p aɪ k r iː t /, PIE-creet) [1] is a frozen ice composite, [2] originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight).
Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway. Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
The MythBusters demonstrated that pykrete is bulletproof by subjecting a wastebasket-sized chunk of ice and another of pykrete to a close range impact (approximately 10 ft or 3.0 m) by a .45 caliber round. The ice shattered upon impact, and the bullet easily penetrated it.
A flame can follow a trail of powder from a leaking barrel and travel up into the barrel, much like in a cartoon. Confirmed Adam and Jamie set up a trail of black powder, which burned down the line as predicted. They set up another trail from a funnel and kept the leaking funnel at the end, and the ignited trail carried up into the funnel.
MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. There is no consistent system for organizing MythBusters episodes into seasons. The show did not follow a consistent calendar of on- and off-air periods for its first-aired episodes.
Bulletproof premiered in the US on The CW in August 2019. [21] The series returned to the network for the second season in June 2020, and then the following year for the third season in March 2021. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The series was pulled from the network's streaming and on-demand platforms on 30 April 2021 after the allegations against Clarke were ...
Up to 500 people with mirrors can focus the sun's light enough to set a wooden ship ablaze. Re-busted Recalling their experience with previous experiments, Adam and Jamie knew that it would be extremely difficult to coordinate all 500 people into focusing their mirrors into a single spot, so they set about trying to construct aiming systems to ...
A black car heats up faster than an identical white car. (Spinoff of Biscuit Bazooka) Confirmed A fan wrote in and asked a follow-up question: "Does the color of a car affect the way it heats up?" The MythBusters used two identical cars, one black and the other white, and left them both out in the summer heat with thermometers in both.