Can A Pig Belly Flop Prove Water Is Pavement? | MythBusters

MythBusters — S9 E8 “Dodge a Bullet” — Aired June 1, 2011 They say if you fall from high enough, water stops being soft and turns into pavement, and the Build Team is here to find out whether that is physics or just a really wet legend. Kari, Tory and Grant haul Buster up on a crane at the South San Francisco Water Treatment Center, strap a 500 G accelerometer into his chest like a tiny black box, and start dropping him feet first and belly first onto both pavement and water from ever-increasing heights. They dig into incompressible fluids with a pair of syringes, argue about surface area, and keep climbing until the meter simply cannot keep up. When the electronics tap out, the team goes bigger: a helicopter, 600 feet of altitude, terminal velocity, stabilizing parachutes, military-grade sealed bags, a portable X-ray machine and an orthopedic surgeon who has never been asked to read scans like these. It is loud, it is splashy, someone is promised a ruined weekend shirt, and Buster takes more abuse than any dummy should. Watch every drop, every number and every questionable life choice, then decide for yourself whether water has a hard side. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChUAaNhjdc1aN5f_29BPrhw?sub_confirmation=1 Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments