MythBusters Q&A: Explosion Sweet Spots and Pesticide Pants

The MythBusters did a live event to benefit Encinal High in Alameda. More info at: http://kwc.org/mythbusters/App... transcript:Adam: "Probably 30% of what we shoot comes right off the Discovery fan site and right out of e-mails submissions that we get. I actually just got one the other day which I'm sure I'm gonna be doing soon enough. Apparently, in the community of people who deal with high explosives, there's a certain distance from the epicenter of an explosion that is called the sweet spot, and it's apparently ... a place you can stand where the explosion will blow your clothes off but leave you unscatched. I heard that and i know we'll be testing that..."Jamie: "The last one I got was kinda along the same lines and it came from someone in australia that e-mailed me. It was talking about a farmer that had gotten some sort of pesticide or chemical on his pants from the farm, and somebody smacked him on the rear and his pants blew up. And so we recently did that -- "Adam: "We'll that was -- Jamie got the e-mail on like a Friday and by Monday we were cutting up samples of cloth and testing explosives. That was an idea so good idea we just have to put something aside and start shooting.Jamie: "yeah, Buster's got big chunks missing from his thighs.""Once you're looking at topical explosives you can apply to cloth, and regarding the FBI again, you try ... different explosives based on pesticides and farm chemicals you might find. And then of course, this is MythBusters, we don't just test the myth itself, but we see if its busted, what would achieve what the myths says would happen, so the FBI brought this chemical."Jamie: "We don't know what it is"Adam: "We don't know what it is and we asked and they were like, 'No.' And this is the way it goes: 'You know I'm curious what this chemical is,' and they go, 'Yes you are.'"But yeah, we thought Buster is relatively indestructible...the silicone that makes his body is now totally fireproof, and the exploding pants episode required much recasting of Buster's parts."The moderator asked about Greek Myths like IcarausAdam: "We figured that Jamie would build a flying machine that worked and I'd go too close to the sun"

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Uploaded: March 28, 2006 at 7:09 pm
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