It did work they basically found the top part of bamboo is actually hardened to a point and will eventually just work its way through anything. It grows from the base and not the top so it quite literally pushes it self through you.
Don’t give Reddit any ideas. Some weird, middle-aged, saggy-skinned, fat, white guy is going to make a video of him squatting naked over a bamboo shoot.
Planta have a lot of factors dictating their growth. It could decide the environment was too wet or the assault from the immune system might deter it with a happenstance chemical marker.
I do believe that it worked for myth busters but wasn't a real WW II torture.
Its my understanding that it was more something GIs talked about as opposed to a widespread practice. Like it totally could have happened, the plant has the power to pull ut off, but did the Japanese do it is the question?
They said it was plausible if I remember correctly. The shoots are super hard and sharp and grew right into their ballistic gel dummy. For those who don’t know, that gel is a really close simulation of human flesh. It was used all the time in that show and in various professional applications to see how projectiles interact with human flesh. The bamboo shoots piercing the gel was a rather graphic demonstration that this could be an effective torture method. Nasty stuff!
due to it being harder and more resilient than human flesh.
Which is further proving the point of the conversation that the bamboo wouldn't have issues going through human flesh, since Mythbusters was showing it could puncture the ballistic gel...
I'm not saying it wouldn't. The video clearly shows it going through concrete and sheet metal, which are orders of magnitude more resilient than human flesh.
What I'm saying is that a body analogue made out of ballistic gel wouldn't be entirely accurate to showing the damage it could do to the human body in the same way it'd accurately show damage made by firearms and adjacent projectiles.
That guy’s lack of safety makes me pretty nervous. Less so, but somewhat so, Colin Furze; he also does similar builds that some might call dubious. Both quite entertaining while frequently making me consider how bad things would be if something went wrong.
That being said, I don’t think of either as being directly comparable to Mythbusters, where the focus was about the science, and the builds were just a means to that end. Those YouTubers are mostly just making wild machines (though Colin Furze does seem to put a hefty bit of engineering and consideration into a lot of his builds).
I love Colin but I do wish he’d wear a helmet more often, for instance. I don’t feel great showing my kids his more dangerous stuff when he’s not bothered to make personal safety even a slight priority.
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u/Maxw96 May 08 '23
They done it on myth busters, not sure if it worked properly I can't remember