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A hair weave can stop a .40 caliber bullet. Busted The Build Team replicated the conditions of the news story on which the myth was based, firing at a ballistic-gelatin head through a car's rear windshield from 8 feet (2.4 m) behind it. The bullet easily penetrated the head's hair weave and exited through the front, pulling some of the hair ...
A skydiver whose parachute fails to open can hit the high end of a playground seesaw, landing on his feet, and launch a child on the low end safely up to the roof of a 7-story building. Busted Adam and Jamie constructed a steel seesaw and placed a dummy on one end whose weight matched that of an average 6-year-old girl.
The bullet was unable to hit the dummy. It was either stopped or deflected by the multiple layers of lenses in the scope, leaving the dummy relatively unharmed. Without any clear evidence that a bullet can penetrate a sniper scope, the MythBusters decided to label the myth as busted.
Dropping a bowling ball on a tiled floor will shatter the tiles. Busted The ball did not shatter or even crack the tiles after Kari dropped it. After spotting Kari's failed test, however, Jamie took the ball and bowled it at some wall tiles on the other side of the hall, and the force of that impact did shatter the tiles that were hit.
The ball was a mere dot that bounced back and forth. And the game was unable to keep score for players.Today, there are estimated to be more than 3 billion gamers globally. ... there are real-life ...
Here are the most important items to put in your emergency kit. The use of a rubber bullet is one of the more controversial crowd-control measures, says Robert Glatter, MD, an emergency physician ...
To determine the efficiency of energy transfer from ball to ball, Adam pulled the ball at one end out to a certain distance and measured the length of the swing at the other end. Their first three models – an off-the-shelf desktop toy, and two built with 2.5 and 6 in (64 and 152 mm) solid steel bearings – gave 98%, 97%, and 94% efficiency ...
A Southwest Airlines plane was struck by a bullet moments before its scheduled takeoff from Dallas Love Field airport in Texas on Friday night, according to the airline.