Champagne Cork Explosion - Mythbusters - S07 EP04 - Science Documentary

on this episode of Mythbusters Adam and Jamie launch a  prolonged assault that was awesome on a devilishly difficult Weaponry myth that is  amazing that's what I'm talking about finding out if 13th century syrians she's hungry for  some boat aren't you girl created the world's first rocket powered torpedo I don't know maybe  that was a little too powerful what do you think meanwhile Carrie Grant and Tori are feeling the  pressure it's really strange having a job doing things that your parents to

ld you never to do as  they pop the cork on a Venom myth can a blaze in a wine bottle truck really turn into a cork firing  machine gun this is why we can never have anything nice who are The MythBusters Adam Savage  here we go that's 100% wacky right there and Jamie Hinman relax this one hurt a bit  between them more than 30 years of special effects experience joining them Tori bichi  this is real science Carrie Byron let's do it and Grant Imahara he's alive they don't  just tell them it's they

put them to the test [Music] dude we have got a historical Weaponry  myth that is actually older than you okay check it out it turns out that the torpedo might  have been invented in Syria in the 13th century really well okay so today we think of a torpedo  that's something that launches from underwater and reaches its Target underwater this in fact  was a rocket power device that skimmed across the top of the water delivering an incendiary  to its Target did it work we have no actual record of

them actually using it we have modern  speculations as to its shape and its function our job is to figure out just how viable a weapon of  War it might have been while modern speculation abounds the historical record is a little sketchy  supposedly this torpedo would travel over the water and explode on impact but did it actually  work the MythBusters are going to find out so I have scoured every historical reference I can  and while there's not a ton of information I think I know where we shou

ld start go on all the  accounts generally agree on the overall shape of this torpedo that it is pearshaped with a narrow  end and a fat end and it had two fins extending from the rear and that it's powered by a black  powder rocket of about 20 lbs of black powder the question is what does the underside look like  how it met the water nobody has a speculation about that that's kind of up to us well why don't  we go down the shop and each take a stab at it and see what we get exactly what I was t

hinking if  you're thinking Torpedoes you're probably thinking about World War II versions that move along just  under the surface of the water where this one was specified to Skip Along top of the water like  a small motorboat so if you're thinking about motorboats on the one hand you could pick a deep V  sort of a hole which has the advantage of tracking straight and being able to handle choppy water but  on the other hand it actually requires a lot of power to do that you could pick a flat bo

ttom  sort of a hole which moves along very quickly on the surface of the water but if it goes too  fast it can get air under it and actually flip and lose control which would be a bad thing right  there are two possible Hull choices the Deep V or the flat bottom so to test which style works  best the guys Begin by designing two torpedo prototypes out of pliable copper and that means  it's Hammer [Music] Time my tools of production I'm using every sheet metal Production Tool I have  ever purchas

ed from synthetic hammers planishing hammers motorized planishing hammers anvils beater  bags everything and I've got a cannon ball jamy is forging a flatter bottom torpedo while Adam is  hammering out the Deep V two different hulls and two different prototypes are soon ready to take  to the water in a head-to-head accuracy launch we'll see what happens well that thing's looking  pretty Snappy I'm pretty psyched about it can't wait to try it how's yours well it's not quite as  pretty as yours is

but it ought to work let's get them out there and try them yeah all right and  for that the MythBusters have found the ideal location a lovely day to fire Torpedoes let's  get to it I'm standing at one of our favorite MythBusters locations on the island of Treasure  Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay at a fire training facility now we've filmed exploding  stun gun and dumpster diving out here but we have never used this pool behind me we're going to  use it today for testing some ancient

Torpedoes and they'll be aiming those Torpedoes at a Target  100 ft away but to get them there first they'll need some thrust our rocket power today will  be supplied by this which provides 5.9 lb of thrust for 2.8 seconds will that Translate to  my torpedo making it from one end of our 100ft pool to the Target honestly I don't think so but  that's okay cuz this is a relative test we're just trying to figure out the best Hull shape at  this point and first to launch is Adam's deep V [Laughter]

design it's just sinking into me what  we're doing crazy in three 2 one there it [Music] goes look at that that was lovely that was pretty neat  aside from curving a path straight into the wall Adam's torpedo did make it 30 ft across the  pool well I think my torpedo did pretty well I think it still was showing a lot of resistance  in the water didn't quite get up on a plane so I think I can actually take out a bunch of  the weight in these fins and I might get an improved performance the torped

o was plowing  through the the water rather than hydroplaning meaning it's slow and crooked but will an attitude  adjustment make the difference all right here we go it loves that spot in this pool sadly  taking the extra weight out didn't help Adam's lethargic torpedo seems to be holding up  pretty well any suggestions you could strap two rockets on that rocket Mount cuz I think you're  just not getting up on top of the water it may be that you just don't have enough power I'll  give it a shot

Adam's Hall design is a little deeper and more rounded that inherently  requires more power to push it through the water it may go just fine if we give  it that power the idea is that more thrust will not only give more power but also get the  torpedo up on top of the water allowing it to skim fast and true to its Target Adam torpedo  tests two rockets in 321 and we are [Music] lit that was [Music] awesome two rockets did push  the torpedo over 60 ft but it seems the v-shaped hull is still plowi

ng through  the water slowing it down and pulling it off course yeah that Hull shape doesn't seem  like it's working very well the fact that it's spraying so much water around says that it's  wasting a lot of energy yeah with the Deep V design sheld it's Sinker swim time for Jam's  flat bottomed Hull all right here we go 3 two [Music] 1 oh and sink is not the option Jamie  was looking for the only problem I saw on this one was that it submarined so I figure all  I have to do is Bend these Tail F

ins with a slight downward pull to them and uh that 'll  hold the front end up okay now to see if this minute modification makes all the [Music]  difference yeah where did it go it's just sitting right there about the halfway mark  a little bit [Laughter] more amazingly the torpedo skim the water water hydroplaning  70 ft straight along the pool proving that a flat bottom is faster and more effective the  slight adjustment to the rear fin seemed to do the trick and I got to say the flat bottom 

and long narrow design allowed it to track pretty well over a great distance right on top  of the water I think we're looking pretty good looking pretty good but just to be sure it's  double or nothing this one's for the gold there you go come on [Music] baby despite veering slightly off  course it's clear that the flat bottom is straight up the best design and that's  good news for the myth I think we have our design it goes pretty quick doesn't  it it's head and shoulders above the shaped desi

gn I think uh that's what  we should go with okay let's get out of [Music] here so our next myth combines two things  that don't normally go together projectiles and wine oh you're talking about the exploding wine  truck myth correct supposedly a semi filled with wine crashed on the freeway and caught fire oh  yeah and the Fire gets so hot that it causes the wine bottles to violently fire out their  corks how violently like were they lethal well we don't know because no one was ever hit but  her

e's the mythical part supposedly the corks flew 100 ft and when the bottles went off they  sounded just like machine gun fire there's no doubt this blazing bottle Inferno actually  happened but were the reports of its demise greatly exaggerated did it really launch corks  over 100 ft with a machine gun like rattle okay the way I see it is we've got two directions we  can go here either we just set a wine truck on fire and see what happens or we can go to the  shop and do some bottle testing yeah

I mean personally I'm a little hesitant to set a whole  truck full of wine on fire unless we know what going to happen so why don't we start out with  learning more about wine and the bottles and the corks and then move on to our small scale  ooh research since this myth is about corks firing out of wine bottles like machine guns we  thought what better place to go than domain carys Winery to see what kind of circumstances might  have caused this to happen was it the bottles was it the liquids

inside the bottles or was it  the heat applied to the bottles and to find the answers car's encountered an expert you've been  making wine for 30 years what do you think of the idea that if a wine truck caught on fire that  wine corks could start shooting out of it like a machine gun I believe it is conceivable I know  that when wine bottles get too warm that sometimes the cork will push out a little time tiny bit  I think that still wine bottles under extreme pressure of intense fire could shoo

t quirks  or could explode and pressure is the name of this game as heat is applied the wine starts  to evaporate which increases the pressure in the bottle [Music] [Applause] until but what else  could affect the power of the projectile is there a possibility that the shape of the bottle might  have any sort of effect on the pressure I don't think so the shapes of the bottles are determined  by tradition and custom but I think under extreme temperature all bets could be off so bottle shape  mig

ht be a factor and on the champagne assembly line grants found something that definitely  is carbonation sorry it's my first day sorry everybody with an internal pressure of 80 psi  adding heat to a champagne bottle may make it more likely to shoot for the moon so this machine  is the Corker now from this moment on this bottle becomes a pressure vessel potentially housing the  kind of force that could cause a wine bottle to turn into a machine gun and that is what this  myth is all about so afte

r a long days research what's to take home so after touring the winery  and the bottling production facilities We've Come Away with few pieces of information we know that  heating the bottle could be a factor in building the internal pressure and the same thing goes  for agitating the bottle but what we don't know is the magical combination of bottle shape  and type of wine that will cause our corks to go the fastest and the furthest but that is  what we're going to move on to next okay and back

at the shop Carrie Begins by sizing up her  opponent now wine makers actually use different shaped bottles for different wine you can tell  that you have a reing because it has slender shoulders a burgundy is a little bit fatter at  the bottom you have shoulders on a Bordeaux so it's possible that the size of the bottle the type  of wine or even the shape of the bottle might make a more explosive Cork and to find out the team is  going to fire up a wine flambay I'm making my zen garden to see i

f any bottle can shoot its cork  the mythical 100 ft and here's how so for our bottle Olympics we're going to have a flameoff  we're going to put each different type of wine in this holder right here turn up the flame and  compare the results now there are three pieces of data that we're after number one how long does  it take to pop the cork that's why we've got this timer right here number two how fast is a cork  flying when it exits the bottle that's why we've got this scale and our high-spee

d camera and  finally how far does a cork fly once it pops that's why we've got this scale that goes all  the way down to the end and first up is a room temperature Bordeaux here we go with the team  safely behind the blast Shields now the waiting begins you know this could be my favorite way to  open up a bottle of wine remember the corks in the myth supposedly flew 100 ft right now I call we  are at 50 seconds but how far will the Bordeaux blow oh oh that was it I was either expecting  glass g

o or cork go but pip is right after 2 minutes with the temperature at 160° F the  cork erupted at a feeble 3 mph and barely made it to the sand after hearing this story  we got prepared with blast Shields and eye protection and ear protection and we got 2 feet  of distance but being glass half full optimists the guys reset with a Twist so this bottle looks  the same as the other one and it is but there's one big difference it's been chilling for a  while since we don't don't know whether the win

e was being refrigerated when it was being  transported going to throw this in try it again but will the chill give a greater thrill I think  I see it swelling oh yeah yeah it's starting to push out woo nice although still way short of  the myth 3' 4 in the cold Bordeaux did fly 50% further than its warm counterpart now there are  a few reasons why a cold bottle might actually be better for this Smith than a warm one to start  out with a cold bottle and a warm bottle both have the same pressure

but the more drastic change in  temperature that a cold bottle experiences might mean a more drastic change in pressure so from  here on in they're sticking with cold bottles on high heat next up burgundy chill but neither the  burgundies Y hey 5' 10 in nor the soeno blocks oh it got caught nor even the Fortified quartz  that was pathetic that was adorable come anywhere near the mythical 100 ft looks like Size Doesn't  Matter and that just leaves the final line long slender bottle high heat the

reasing 30  seconds on the clock all is quiet until till the temperature hits 200° when suddenly here  we go w wow oh my gosh it went off the end of the scale that is incredible incredible is right  maybe because of its pointed shape the reasing shoots its cork over 30 ft at 32 mph still  not far enough for the myth but all is not lost what we have here here is a wine bottle  graveyard now we have basically tested every different type still wine we've tested a  variety of shapes of bottles and w

e have tested a variety of size of bottles still we  have not been able to get our corks to fly farther than 30 ft so now it is time to address  the elephant in the room that is the champagne bottle supposedly the ancient syrians created the  world's first rocket powered torpedo but did it work in the small scale launch Jam's flat bottom  prototype one on speed and accuracy so now what I can't think of anything to do now but go full  scale yep so about that 20 lb black powder rocket you think we

need to build one nah those things  are scary I think we should use a modern rocket equivalent all right well then I guess what's  ahead is to build a few full-size Torpedoes and find a body of water to test them on sounds  good and that means the guys are ramping up the scale for a full-blown torpedo attack the steel  structure is my mold I'm going to weld the sheet metal to it and that'll hold it stable while  I beat on it with a cannonball welded onto the end of a jackhammer I I have no idea

if it's  going to work or not I don't either but it is cool now that may seem kind of elaborate  but um it's not really unlike what would happen in the olden days with syrians and  muscular slaves and so on nicely rounded Rock difference is that they would have  taken days and I'm going to do it in a couple of hours that looks great that may  be the plan but the Cannonball has other ideas with Jam's Jackhammer beaten it's clear they'll have to find another way  to hammer out this myth [Music] t

hat was it so far the MythBusters  have popped the cork on still wine but now it's time to unleash the big guns  it's time to bring out the bubbly already at a pressure of 80 psi even without any heat  all right so this is the control test for the champagne the champagne's cork can fly 25 ft  that's no Heating no agitation just straight up so will an inferno beat that Benchmark bottle  Temps at 200 this could be disastrous could be pretty bad or it could be awesome and will the  pressure be enou

gh to pop the Cork and the wire cage clamping it in or will the bottle give way  first all that pressure is building and if that cage hold that cork in place the bottle's going  to explode before the cork shoots out raining down boiling sparkling wine on all of us it's  a sobering thought so Tori gets an elaborate safety solution that'll keep us safe it looks  like it's gassing out that's not good no it's dripping I can see it dripping down the side I  wonder if the cork caught on fire which cou

ld be really dangerous I I thought I see Ste it's  a shattering result now that's a party as the glass bursts first meaning the cork hardly flew  any distance at all so for champagne test two the guys are dialing down the size of the flame  really strange having a job where you spend all day just doing the things that your parents told  you never to do cork looks like it's pushing out here it goes oh my God it's happening it's about  to pop it's happening I could not even see where it went talk

about a champagne moment after 5  minutes of flame the cork flies from the bottle at an astonishing 60 mph but gets lodged in the  ceiling finally we are getting some results and this is looking very good for the myth with  the champagne bottles our qus are actually going so far we not able to measure them on our  scale they keep hitting the roof having hit the champan ceiling they head outside where there's no  limit to how far they can pop their corks lighten it up but will they get the 100 ft

thereafter I  see some dripping I see dripping well not with t one all right what is that like 40 ft  40t and not with test two 6 minutes the bottle exploded test three with some extra  agitation does better oh where'd it go out there 50 ft but still not good enough so  what does this mean for the myth so far we've tested dozens of bottles and gotten  results that vary from bordeau 2 ft to champagne's 50 ft but what all the results  have in common is that none of them is even close to the mythi

cal 100 ft that we need but  the Smith Busters we're not just going to stop here turning torpedo full scale The  MythBusters struck a problem but it's okay cuz Jamie heinan has been on the case dude that is amazing I've heard about this technique  called hydroforming where you use water pressure to form sheet metal shells and  I decided to give it a try all you do is you take a couple of pieces of sheet metal and  you weld them together and then you pump High Press water in between them and it i

nflates  like a balloon at least in Theory that's go what this first attempt actually buckled  severely so it wasn't usable but I figured if I weld it to a heavy steel frame that it  might restrict the buckles and it kind of did but well it buckled the frame at this point I was  getting really invested in this and determined to see it work you want to see how I pulled it off  okay yep with his extracurricular determination Jamie has come up with an ingenious Plan B  we take our piece of sheet me

tal and clamp it between two massive plates of Steel we've  cut out an almond shaped hole in the top plate and attached our pressure washer pump to a small  hole in the bottom plate now here's the fun part all we do is start the pump and the water pressure  pushes the sheet metal out the almond shaped hole inflating it just like a balloon H it's perfect  it's a long way from medieval blacksmithing but I can make a torpedo shell in about a half an  hour it's like magic beats beating on it with a

hammer with the shell production line in full  swing Jamie assembles them into Torpedoes each set of shells is given a rocket casing and some  foam flotation to ensure they don't sink to the bottom of the lake while testing and finally a  set of laser Precision control fins to keep them in line that was a lot of work man they look  fantastic I think our torpedo Army is ready for deployment time for a road trip it is and  I own Quarry where the MythBusters have slid slipped and blasted myths befo

re oh yeah is  the perfect location for deployment shall we get started yeah why not does it drift first up  to create a familiar Target do you want to save your own [Applause] City at 800 ft from Shore  the boat is positioned well Out Of Reach of an ancient Archer but will it be within reach of  their torpedo well there we go was nice and pretty now it's really ugly you may remember earlier that  we do best with a flat bottom Hall on our torpedo and this is actually kind of rounded but I figure

  it's okay because of the way that I've placed the rocket motor back here and this forms kind of a  straight or flat line which is what I'm looking for because when this gets up and running this  is all that's going to be actually contacting the water and that's what's important that's what's  going to allow it to move real quick and real efficiently quick and efficiently because to test  its success as an ancient weapon they're zeroing in on two crucial CR criteria its accuracy and  its abilit

y to deliver its deadly payload and to test those they'll need some rocket power in the  sparse details we've been able to uncover about this story The torpedo is said to be powered  by a rocket composed of 20 lbs of black powder what does that equal in a modern-day repeatable  equivalent well it turns out to be this puppy this is an M motor it puts out 270 lbs of thrust  for approximately 14 seconds and it will be our y oldie rocket engine we walking It Forward  don't you feel like we should ma

ke some sound effects boom with the Y oldi rocket equivalent on  board test one is about accuracy getting their torpedo to hit its Mark all right that's  hot let's do it let's see what it does and even though there are not yet incendiaries on board  the guys take cover behind the blast Shields all right man count it down okay here we go  with the full power rocket in three 2 one go well I don't know maybe that was a little too powerful what do you think  it was fun though let's do it again okay

so the world's first launch of an  ancient torpedo didn't go quite as planned instead of hydroplaning it went off like a well  like a rocket everything started out okay and then everything seemed to go Haywire it spiraled  up into the sky and did this massive belly flop absolutely crushing the top of this wow that is  a lot of damage this is like a car accident's worth of damage it bent the entire Central  shaft of this thing on an arc it's fantastic fantastic but nowhere near accurate so for te

st  two they'll reduce the speed and cut its thrust now I know when you think of goldilux you don't  automatically go to an anodized aluminum tube filled with explosives but that's what's just  happened welcome to the Goldilocks rocket this nozzle has been drilled out to 58 of an inch  which should lower its pressure rating to between 150 and 180 lbs of thrust which should  be the butter Zone that'll get our torpedo all the way to the boat while staying in the water  now this is rocket science b

ut that's still the equivalent of the mythical 20 lb of black  powder just with a longer burn time let's get her down to the water she's hungry for  some boat aren't you girl I don't know why I personify the Rockets like that question is  will reducing its speed help their torpedo stay water-bound and stay on target this  is the Goldilocks torpedo in three two one fire despite its promising start  frustratingly the torpedo still took flight still a little too much power but really nice I think t

hat's fun by  itself why do we need to hit the boat damn that one just wouldn't quit it was like a porpose yeah kept going up  and then down underwater and up and although the Torpedoes aerobatics  are certainly entertaining annoyingly for our MythBusters it's a long long way  off the Direct Hit of the myth it's not working too well we're going to have to figure  something else out yeah well let's get on it okay it's no myth that this semi became a blazing  Veno Inferno but did its cargo really

explode as per the reports okay so there's two parts to this  myth the distance the corks flew and the machine gun firing effect well as far as the distance goes  it's looking a little dodgy I mean even our best performer the champagne chilled and agitated only  went 50 ft half the required distance all right well that just leaves the machine gun fire effect  I think it's time we take this myth full scale I totally agree let's fill a semi- TR full of wine  both our winning still which was the re

ing and a ton of champagne and see if we can get a machine  gun fire to the bomb range yep there's only one destination for this bottle barbecue and it's  boo semi-trailer it's actually in pretty good condition let's burn it and with the truck in  position prepped and the firewood stacked nice job MythBusters woohoo now to stock it with some  bottom of the line wine so we have our truck now we're going to fill it with almost 1,000 bottles  of champagne which is our obvious clear winner from our

bottle experiments we got 60 M hour  and 50 ft from those corks just for good measure we're going to throw in a few bottles of our still  winner as well which is the long skinny bottle and based on their shop tests they are making sure the  bottles stay cool so we brought in our champagne from a chilled truck and transferred it to this  one that we're going to burn this is going to keep it cold until we're ready to start the fire it's a  meticulous operation but not everyone's impressed on the r

ecord I'm just going to say on behalf  of me and all the other bomb techs around the United States and the world I'm totally against  this Burning of wine and champagne I'm with you on that one JD this is nothing but a travesty all  right here we go we're lightting up okay three 2 one let's go that's beautiful so we filled the  truck up with our wine we just lit it on fire this fire is burning hot but do I think we're  going to get the machine gun effect that we hear about in this myth I have a

hard time believing  that Tor is not convinced and after 5 minutes the simmering semi is still relatively quiet oh  here we go yeah I mean it's not like a machine gun you would imagine it's more not yet hold  your horses spam's not over yet Carrie's right because in their earlier tests it sometimes  took 8 minutes for the champagne to fire 8 and 1/2 minutes oh man and as the saying goes  good things come to those who [Applause] wait there's your machine oh my goodness it's like  firecrackers yea

h really expensive firecrackers oh this is better than the Fourth of July in  fact once the gunfire sounds start there's no stopping them wow you see shrapnel flying out  here yeah as hundreds and hundreds of bottles either pop their corks or explode in the fire I  can't believe how well this is working after we set the trailer on fire those bottles started  popping just like a machine gun it sounds like 4th of July I got to tell you one thing if I  were a fireman and I heard what sounded like a

utomatic machine gun fire coming out of that  thing I wouldn't be approaching it absolutely because with corks flying 50 ft and glass shrapnel  even further this is a wine tasting to steer clear off but with a semi-reduced to ashes is the myth  in any better shape look look there's one right there wow what distance is that that's easily 50  ft you know what it sounded like a machine gun yeah but the myth said 100 ft that's not even  near it so I'm thinking this is busted overall yeah I say buste

d all right busted but what if  we harness the power inside these bottles like what I don't know make it directional make some  kind of a gun a machine gun maybe are we going to mythbuster this up [Music] yeah is it a bird is  it a plane no that's an ancient torpedo and it's noted supposed to be airborne so our Rockets  turn out to be quite powerful and uh when they cause our Torpedoes we take off into the sky that  actually has a term in rocketry it's called Sky riding we don't want to be Sky r

iding so we are  going to add actually a tether a guide wire under the water that will hopefully guide our torpedo  right to the boat the sky riding is on the wall accurately hitting the solo boat is proving more  difficult than the more likely Target of a 13th century invading Armada so for test three accuracy  is out of the picture and they're jumping ship to test the payload delivery all right ladies  and gems we're ready to head across the lake oh crap uh-oh all right let's go with the taut 

tether ready to keep it in line that's a lot of tension that's pretty good good torpedo number  three is loaded with a rocket equivalent of 20 lb of black powder and it's deadly payload these  are my incendiary devices they're actually filled with gasoline and a couple of other things that  make it a secret recipe that right there 10 1 12 lbs of death and destruction to be delivered  as soon as possible to our enemies death and destruction as long as it explodes on impact for  this to be a succ

essful test we've got to be able to launch our torpedo from Shore have it skim  across the surface of the water and crash into our Target boat splashing incendiary liquid all  over it and creating a big Fireball that's what we've got to do yep accuracy is beside the point  this test is about whether the torpedo delivers its destructive payload tethered Goldilocks  let's hope this one works in three 2 one fire oh shoot we were doing better without it  tethered I'm sad Rockets don't like to be tet

hered nor Torpedoes they just want to  be free free range Torpedoes in contrast to yesterday's test the tether definitely kept  the torpedo water bound although a little too much so but that's a problem they think they  can fix in the interest of trying everything we can think of we have moved the boat from  its original position of 800 ft from Shore to 200 ft from Shore and we've moved the guide  wire from underwater to above waterer I really hope this works remember the historical record  isn'

t clear as to whether this was a long or short range weapon so they're closing in  to concentrate on payload delivery there we go it's now or never for their torpedo of  Doom okay incendiary torpedo in three 2 one Fire come on come on wow that didn't go all like I expected so  close but so far maybe we should just go home no we have to hurt this boat darn it everything  was going to plan but the tether snapped turning the torpedo into a surfac to air missile  and getting the MythBusters all bent

out of shape I'm a sad monkey right now that's our  enemy look how close he is to shore we've got Rockets we've got incendiary somehow we can't  stop him just bugging the hell out of me yep it seems the torpedo is less death in destruction  and more like a weapon of mass frustration and with only one remaining torpedo they've only  got one more shot at the myth Captain Kirk never said this to Scotty but I think we've got  too much power and that tether is not working for us I think we got to re

move it yeah I  think so I didn't know you watch start Tre sure we set a fullsize trailer filled  with sparkling wine and still wine on fire and we got a machine gun type effect there ma but we didn't get the mythical one 100 ft  so this one is busted but we're not going to stop there this is MythBusters so the next  step for us is to go with the spirit of the myth and replicate the results and that  means making our own wine bottle machine gun and back at the shop that's exactly what  the MythB

usters are gunning for so after all of our testing we've decided to try to replicate  the result and give that machine gun effect the myth talks about by harnessing the power of the  wine bottle we basically just cut up a bunch of pipes put it on some bearings made it look like  a Gatling gun and we're going to use propane as a heat Source this is it the ultimate mythbuster  wine machine gun we're using chilled champagne bottles shaken and set over an open flame now  it's time to fire this thing

it's certainly a redh hot piece of hardwood that only needs  a Target and that's where Grant comes in they'll be potentially shattering glass boiling  liquid so I have this it's a fire suit hopefully it's going to keep me safe let's do this with  Grant quite literally staring down the barrel here come the pain it's go time I forgot to  protect my nether regions as machine guns go it's a low-key start as the team has to wait 10  minutes for the to reach Optimum pressure but then got him in the l

eg the dinging I don't know about dangerous but it's hilarious they're actually hitting with some Force oh right in the gut it's a  sparkling MythBusters moment oh yeah but with reloading too  dangerous the conclusion is inevitable is that it all right I think  that's it we got the wine bottles to act like a machine gun and we got the corks to go in  the direction we wanted it now I feel a little bad for Grant oh yeah but I think he would  agree it was worth it at least for [Music] science The M

ythBusters are at the end of their  [Applause] tether frustratingly their ancient Torpedoes have missed the boat on accuracy and  payload delivery but they've had a Eureka moment perhaps it's all down to Too Much rocket power  well sometimes less is more and I think this is one of those times we're going to lose the  tether and we're going to go with a rocket motor that puts out about half the thrust of  the ones that we've been using here to for now hopefully that'll allow our torpedo to stay a

s  a boat and not a rocket and go crazy Yep this is their last torpedo and their last chance to  get accuracy and payload delivery Allin one if having the thrust doesn't get a direct hit  then this myth is totally and utterly sunk but in case it does Adam's given the boat an  ancient overhaul why the hell are you putting all that crap all over the boat it's just going  to catch on fire I don't want to burn this boat down I mean I know we need a finale but maybe we  could save it somehow it's an

important addition to make our boat just as flammable as its 13th  century equivalent now for those of you playing at home and complaining that the enemies of  13th century syrians were much more likely to be Mongols than Romans from 1300 years earlier  I say congratulations on knowing so much about history with the boat fully prepped and the  torpedo arm to the teeth it takes its slow walk to the shore don't drop it I will not  but will it have the bite of the myth this part when the explosives

are alive is not the  fun part of this job no the tension mounts as their final torpedo is ready for launch it's  live good then the guys Retreat behind the Shields and it's Sinker swim time it's now  or never incendiary torpedo in three two one fire and a miss fire it's a dangerous moment  with the explosives live our MythBusters carefully tweak the TR trigger and take cover  once again for the countdown to launch third times a charm I just wish it had worked on the  third time incendiary torp

edo in three two one fire this is starting to get me upset there it go come on baby come on hit it a just b boom yep that certainly was chest  bump [Music] worthy not only did the torpedo stay on the surface of the water but it  delivered its deadly payload that sent fire up over the bow of the boat that  was awesome holy Kola oh there's a fire luckily I've got a 13th century fire  [Music] extinguisher I have saved your boat yeah that was a perfect hit and uh you know  you could have used explos

ives you could have incendiaries anything you want if it hit that  hole like that I'd be telling my other boats to turn around if one of those hit me that's what  I'd be saying Turn Around get the hell out of here these people are crazy that last launch  was what we've been looking for all week the engine caught fire started to push the torpedo it  skipped beautifully on the surface maybe veering about a foot or two to the right and slammed  into the side of the boat embedding itself releasing i

ts incendiary and catching it all on  fire at the same moment and setting the boat on fire pretty much every last thing in one launch  I I still can't believe it I'm pinching [Music] myself well how do you want to call this  one was the series's mythical surface rocket powered incendiary delivering  torpedo been an effective weapon of War indeed it was based on this task  we have to call it plausible don't we absolutely baring a time machine  it's plausible let's get out of [Applause] here [Musi

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