Penn and Teller are the new Mythbusters?

Actually, that was pretty cool. Might consider a title change, gives the result away when the video itself is slightly more cagey about it.

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Mythbusters did this.

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Not that I think shooting into the air for minor reasons is a *good* idea, but the chances of it being dangerous to the point of killing (or even injuring) someone are really really low. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

First of all, even in a densely populated city, the ratio of square meters of human-occupied space to unoccupied space is really low. So, you gotta be quite unlucky to have a bullet fired up land on a human instead of house / dirt / concrete / whatever.

Second, when the bullet comes down it won't be traveling at its muzzle velocity, but at its terminal falling velocity. Mythbusters did a test on that, as have various other sources, and most find that a bullet falling at terminal velocity isn't fast enough to kill unless you're outstandingly unlucky. Deaths have been recorded, but at a lower rate than, say, Hippos, pulling a Carradine, or having an icicle fall on your head.


I guess it is sorta like hailstones, which could potentially have relatively comparable mass, aerodynamic properties, and terminal velocities as bullets in some cases. I've been caught in a hailstorm before, and while it was enough to sting and be rather painful, it wasn't near strong enough to break the skin.


So, given all of that, IF it came down to a situation where a policeman has to show a dangerous assailant that they mean business and are willing to fire their weapon to resolve it, firing straight up into the air might potentially be a good way to accomplish that without immediately shooting to kill / injure the assailant. In some scenarios, possibly. NOT that a stopped car trying to dump drugs (via balloon or whatever else) is an example of such a scenario.

I hope he will use them on MythBusters too.

*wtf

More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCCJ4esK50M

I watched this episode of Mythbusters on TV - man it's just not the same show without Tory, Grant, and Kari...

Awesome! Thanks for the link, I had missed that one.

About the only way to improve on that would be if Mythbusters or somebody did a large amount sliced thin to maximize surface area, built a cage sturdy enough to keep it submerged, and then filmed it (underwater) in ultra high-speed...

mythbusters did it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8xTqTUGCY

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I wonder if it's bulletproof?
call Mythbusters!

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ahahaha, it's like cooking using mythbusters mechanics