Episode
MythBusters: Viral Hour
Overview
Can a car be blasted 15 feet in the air with the water pressure from 10 fire hoses? Can ordinary sawdust when airblasted through a flame explode into a catastrophic fireball? Do goats really faint?
Details
- Series
- MythBusters
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2008-09-03
Episode context
Viral Hour is Episode 11 in Season 6 of MythBusters. It aired on 2008-09-03.
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Episode 10: NASA Moon Landing
Adam and Jamie investigate if the U.S. government shot the footage of the astronauts in a studio. The build team takes on claims that footage of footprints and flags flapping have to be faked.
Episode 12: Phone Book Friction
If you interweave the pages of two phone books, are they impossible to pull apart? Can the build team dispell five mini-myths from the movie Deep Blue Sea?
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: Exploding Steak
We test two myths suggested by the fans: alternate steak tenderizing methods and road rage.
Episode 13: Water Stun Gun
Is an electronic stun gun mixed with water a possible weapon for crowd control? Can a fire extinguisher caught in a fire actually blow up? Is walking over hot coals just mind over matter?
Episode 8: Shark Week Special
Do dogs and injured "flapping" fish attract sharks? Will Robo-Shark eat Tory?
Episode 14: Blind Driving
Is it really possible to drive a car completely blind? Do metal cleats on golf shoes really attract lightning. Can a huge underground explosion really cause a ball to drop from the lip into the hole?
Episode 7: Alaska Special (1)
Adam and Jamie test the theory of cabin fever. Can a solitary stick of dynamite really sink a pickup parked on a frozen lake? The build team takes on the myth of car vs. moose.
Episode 15: Ninjas
Can an arrow be caught in midair? Is there really a punching technique that can floor an opponent with only a 1-inch lead in? Can an underwater blowpipe be stealthily used to fell an opponent?
Episode 6: MacGyver Myths
Jamie and Adam try to blow a hole in a wall using pure sodium metal dropped in a water bottle. The build team tries building an ultralight airplane with raw bamboo, a small stolen engine, and duct tape.
Episode 16: Alcohol Myths
Is there such thing as "beer goggles"? Can running on a treadmill or slapping someone's face help to sober up a drunk person? Can an ancient medieval weapon really fire 200 arrows over 500 yards?
Episode 5: Viewers' Special (2)
Why would ancient man go to all the trouble of making stone arrowheads when sharpening a stick would have done the same job? Could machine gunfire mow down a tree?
Episode 17: Motorcycle Flip
Can a flagpole in the front wheel of a motorcycle create a head-over-handlebars flip? Kari, Grant and Tory test whether or not it is possible to break out of jail using bed sheets, hair and toilet paper.