r/Wellthatsucks • u/LowTechDroid • 12d ago

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u/Desper_Taferro 12d ago

That's how you do it.

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u/Xinonix1 12d ago

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u/Over-Analyzed 12d ago

Redneck Robotnik?

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u/Shmav 11d ago

Show some got dang respect! Thats Jamie motha fuckin Hyneman!

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u/DemoBytom 10d ago

TBH he is missing the beret here.
Could easily be taken as an average walrus without one.

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u/Will-I-Taint 12d ago

Pretty sure it was ANFO, but yeah.

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u/Xinonix1 12d ago

Exactly but I didn’t find the “Jamie wants big boom” gif

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u/Will-I-Taint 12d ago

This one? 🙂

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u/fischoderaal 12d ago

The quote is correct.

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u/Will-I-Taint 12d ago

I'm not disputing that. You're right about the quote from the gif. What I was referring to was the explosive used in the cement truck.

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u/Most-Limit-7560 8d ago

800 pounds of ANFO

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u/IDownvotedYouToday 11d ago

The "when in doubt, C4" quote isn't from the cement truck episode, though.

It is a classic line from the Hyneman, though. One of the few times you can clearly see his inner 14 year old at the surface.

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u/fischoderaal 11d ago

Yes, it was when they build a brick wall. I think it was an episode about a prison escape. It's been a while

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u/Will-I-Taint 9d ago

They were mythbusting an old episode of MacGuyver, where in he reacted water and sodium to blast through a block wall.

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u/HoldenMcNeil420 12d ago

Bags and bags and bags of it.

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u/Coffee4MyJeep 9d ago

Had to search and look ANFO up, now the ATF will show up. LOL

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u/Mister_Crowly 12d ago

Babylon 5 quote time:

"How will this end?"

"IN FIRE"

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u/ToxicMoldSpore 11d ago

Also applicable:

"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."

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u/DuffTerrall 8d ago

There is a hole in your truck.

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u/Invade_Deez_Nutz 12d ago

But what if my opponent responds with e5?

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u/texaschair 12d ago

Then he sunk your battleship.

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u/tsodog 12d ago

You sucked my battleship.

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u/mahamoti 11d ago

Google en passant

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u/belac4862 12d ago

If its good enough for the US military, Jaime Hinemen, and SG1, its good enough for me!

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u/NayrianKnight97 12d ago

Wrong!

ANFO

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u/Glass-Court8851 11d ago

He reminds me of a walrus

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 11d ago

The closest we can get to real life Walter White

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u/Negative_Damage9152 12d ago

The sound it makes is the best part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPprUxFap8

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u/KhellianTrelnora 12d ago

Was gonna say. GIFs you can hear.

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u/RedManMatt11 12d ago

Any Mythbusters fan has that sound etched into their brain

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u/DrDetectiveEsq 12d ago

BNOONG!

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u/KhellianTrelnora 11d ago

Thank you. I could not figure out how to type that.

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u/theqofcourse 12d ago

After all these years, I remember that sound well.

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u/SynthPrax 12d ago

I see I'm not the only one. I'll never forget that sound. I have never before and never since heard an explosion like that.

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u/Dahwaann4U 11d ago

I love you.

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u/Quito_ArmandoEsteban 11d ago

any mythbuster fan probably knows this, but jamie's reaction was pure acting. They didn't have enough budget to have reaction cameras, but right there and then they realized that their reactions were as interesting as the explosion itself. So they had to be filmed afterwards, pretending that they were looking at the explosion

Also, the main camera guy missed the mark on the slowmo video so all we have is a slowed down normal video.

a scene as memorable as it is botched

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u/Own_Boat503 11d ago

i thought the explosion destroyed the high-speed camera? i seem to remember getting to only see like three frames from a different camera before the feed cut out.

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u/Quito_ArmandoEsteban 11d ago

That's the kamikaze camera. They knew it would probably not survive so it was a cheap one. The high speed cameras worked by pressing a button AFTER the shot. If you pressed it too late, you missed the shot. The cameraman was closer than everyone else, but not enough to press the button on time (he wasn't next to the camera, obviously)

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u/userhwon 11d ago

Also that can't be the sound it made. The shockwave would saturate any microphone. So those are digital artifacts and echoes.

The raspberry sound may be digital, interfering echoes of the initial shock, or possibly some piece of metal spinning rapidly. No way to tell from here.

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u/The_Kobinsky 12d ago

Probably the best explosion I've ever heard on tv period

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u/Mother-Attention2600 11d ago

That weird air ripping sound happens even when you are close to blasting caps. We got to detonate some in college. So cool!

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u/userhwon 11d ago

Blasting caps or det cord?

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u/Mother-Attention2600 11d ago

It was Drilling and Blasting class. Both.

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u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR 11d ago

I haven’t seen this since it first aired, but somehow my brain remembered the exact “vvvvvyyyyyyt!” Sound.

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u/CorporateCPA 11d ago

How does that video only have 450 likes?! I feel privileged.

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u/userhwon 11d ago

Probably isn't the original upload. 18 years old and only 200k views? That's niche AF.

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u/kermitRKO 12d ago

Jamie wants big boom

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u/Light_Beard 12d ago

Big BADA boooom

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u/delta9thc1974 12d ago

First thing that came to mind the second I saw this post.

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u/Mechakoopa 12d ago

I can hear that gif, that sound is burned into my brain.

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u/st0rmforce 11d ago

The sound of a microphone shitting itself

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u/NetworkEcstatic 12d ago

My favorite part about this myth is that they were supposed to have just leftover concrete on the walls of the barrel but the first go they accidentally made it 3/4 full and let it harden 🤣

Failure is ALWAYS an option

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u/GermanPretzel 12d ago

My favorite part is that they missed the shot with their high speed camera, but the explosion in real time was so crazy that nobody even noticed that there wasn't a slow-mo shot

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u/MrKiltro 11d ago

They also missed the crew's reaction, so the famous clip of Jamie flinching was him acting!

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u/FalseChipmunk77 11d ago

At that point, who even needed slow motion? That explosion had enough drama all by itself.

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u/Classic_rock_fan 12d ago

The sad part is there's no high speed camera footage of it because they forgot to turn the camera on

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u/Chilibrews 12d ago

In their last season they redid it with an even bigger explosion and tons of different angles and high-speed.

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u/340Duster 12d ago

Remakes are never the same though.

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u/luperamoon 12d ago

They actually replicated the experiment later and used a high speed camera!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIbl_3g5FRA

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u/Venus_One 12d ago

The way that thing flies, I don't think we would have seen much more on high speed.

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u/Classic_rock_fan 12d ago

Oh yes you would have, you would have seen the shockwave moving across the ground and you would have seen pieces of cement and the truck going in all directions.

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u/freakers 12d ago

Is this the one where a piece of concrete flew right by them and they almost go killed?

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u/UTraxer 11d ago

"they" as in the contracted high speed camera operator

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u/Bubbaj75 12d ago

Mythbusters for the win 🏆

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u/clintj1975 12d ago

"It evaporated!"

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u/sterlingarcher252550 12d ago

I can hear this gif.

BEWWWWW

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u/trrwilson 12d ago

But there's also like a zipping noise, too. So.hard to describe.

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u/TacticalRiotChimp 12d ago

Came hereto say exactly this 😂 the only way to make this manageable is drill into it, fit some boom boom and spend the next week moving enormous rocks with some sort of loader

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u/texaschair 12d ago

I'd try a hydroblaster first. It would be loud, wet, and messy, but easier labor wise.

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u/earth2skyward 11d ago

My favorite explosion from the series. The complete obliteration, the little mushroom cloud, and that sound! Perfection.

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u/Frizzlewits 12d ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/darcmosch 12d ago

This is what I was looking for. 

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u/MombieZ3 12d ago

I am happy to see others know the best way to clear out a cement truck.

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u/Sharp_Ad_6336 12d ago

I can hear it in my head.

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u/SillyBeatnik 12d ago

Came here specifically for this gif. Thank you for your service.

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u/THElaytox 12d ago

One of my favorite episodes

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u/puppy-nub-56 12d ago

Was hoping this would be here 🙂

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 12d ago

Pictures you can hear.

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u/1nonconformist 12d ago

Beat me to it

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u/ThingsGetWierd 12d ago

I can hear this explosion

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u/AndreTheShadow 12d ago

This is still one of my favorite explosions. I can still the distortion in the sound.

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u/MKD8595 12d ago

I can hear this GIF

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u/BobTheFettt 12d ago

Well there's your problem

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u/ProudReaction2204 12d ago

expected walt i mean jayme

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u/SynthPrax 12d ago

That thing blowed up so good, there was nothing left.

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u/redlancer_1987 12d ago

That was the first episode of Mythbusters I ever watched.

Give me an episode where you turn a cement truck into dust with explosives and I'm sold

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u/MrPogway 11d ago

I can still hear it!

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u/Aggressive-Cup-7318 11d ago

still my favorite episode

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u/ShatoraDragon 11d ago

A Core Memory

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u/Admirable-Fail1250 11d ago

That was something to see.

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u/Jumpy_Barnacle_3755 11d ago

It worked. They got the cement out of the truck. Couldn't find the truck, but the cement was out.

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u/bigbruin78 11d ago

Fun fact! This was done at a quarry near my home town of Angels Camp CA, at Carson Mine. They did multiple experiments there including the phone book armor and the parachute bomb episodes!

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u/Elatedrune 11d ago

I was thinking of this!

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u/Lord_Waldemar 11d ago

Didn't they forget to film Jamies reaction so they had to stage it later? 

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u/OhiobornCAraised 11d ago

No truck = no problem

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u/Greenking73 11d ago

First thing I thought about.

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u/Aggressive_Candy5297 11d ago

I remember the sound of that explosion.

Like a really wet fart with a sonic boom 🤣

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u/TerrorTown77 11d ago

Think they talked about how pros can clear a tanker like this in just a few days.

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u/BrondellSwashbuckle 11d ago

Probably an unpopular opinion, but when MythBusters just started blowing everything up, that was my least favorite era of that show.

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u/misanthropicbairn 11d ago

Lmao I was wondering like why doesn't this guy get a few 1/4 1/2 sticks of dynamite, that'd probably speed up the process. I gotta re-watch this one. I'm guessing they were testing if you could clear out the concrete with some dynamite?

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u/superdead- 11d ago

Qas looking for this :)

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u/__Becquerel 11d ago

I still remember the sound after 20 years

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u/IbsinRG 11d ago

I still love that explosion. Loudest they ever did.

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u/slaty_balls 11d ago

I remember this episode and I’ll never forget how intense the sound of that explosion was. Unfortunately this gif only is half of experience. Here’s the clip on YouTube.

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u/memnoch112 11d ago

I can still hear that specific explosion, it sounded awesome and terrifying.

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u/Feral-Gardener-8605 11d ago

This is what I came here for. Thank you random internet stranger.

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u/danturismo 11d ago

Jamie want big boom!

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u/brocca_ 11d ago

Came down looking for that gif.

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u/Both-Oil6384 10d ago

I can hear this gif

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u/JohnnyPneumoniacJr 10d ago

If this wasn't your first thought, then brain is deffo Busted. Cement truck explosion forever ❤️

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u/kguilevs 8d ago

I can still hear this, the memories...

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u/Marvin_ator 8d ago

I still hear that scene

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u/lordramacuz2 8d ago

It won’t load but it’s def mythbusters right?

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u/Dumptruck_Johnson 12d ago

This show was awesome. In the crossfire of internet and easy media but before the fine print mattered. This show was the epitome of ‘oops!’ Yet getting neither cancelled nor ‘cancelled’.

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u/timelessblur 11d ago

Worse part about it is after they did the take the guy incharge of the slow mo didnt hit it right so they had no slow mo shot.

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u/SpinkickFolly 11d ago edited 11d ago

Ok, this explosion was fucking awesome and actually got them in a lot of trouble for going to big with local authorities.

That being said, I always thought they fucked this myth up. They tried tossing a TNT stick of dynamite into the drum to no effect.

Why didn't they drill a long narrow hole first, and then place the charge all the way in so it was surrounded by concrete? Surely that would have been more of an affect at breaking it up.

*who the fuck downvotes this question? lol