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The MythBusters test one version of this story. According to the explosives expert used for the episode, this was the largest explosion executed for MythBusters up to that time with 500 lb (227 kg) of dynamite and detcord and was ignited with 2 blasting caps as Adam mentions in the dialog: one for the detcord, and the other for the balloons.
The book MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time (ISBN 1-4169-0929-X) gives a list of a dozen myths that are unlikely to be explored, although four were eventually tested. Savage commented that testing myths that require them to disprove general claims is difficult because of the inherent ...
The MythBusters take on a myth from antiquity, where it is claimed that Archimedes constructed a solar-powered weapon by reflecting sunlight onto Roman ships. The result of the test sparked so much controversy, especially in engineering circles, that an entire episode (" Archimedes Death Ray ") was dedicated to a 2006 retest.
Finally, the MythBusters let the gasoline catch up to the tank, and it did not explode. Finally, trying to cause an explosion, the MythBusters filled the tank with enough gasoline to get the fuel/air mixture into the "butter zone", where the right mix of air and gasoline vapor will cause an explosion.
The MythBusters enlisted the aid of FBI explosive experts (in particular Frank Doyle, making the first of many appearances on the show) to load the truck and barrel with 850 lb (386 kg) of ANFO. The resulting explosion reduced the truck to numerous very small fragments and a few larger pieces; the observers had to stand a mile away from the ...
However, the impact did not achieve the fusion they were looking for. In order to see what it would take to fuse two pieces of metal together, the MythBusters demonstrated explosion welding, where metal could be fused by using high explosives. Since trucks cannot travel faster than sound, nor can high explosives be easily found on a highway ...
The MythBusters then used 500 grams of more-reactive potassium placed inside a cannon-like contraption to direct all the force onto the wall, but they still failed to cause any damage. The MythBusters finally resorted to using C4 high explosive to demolish the wall.
For their full-scale test, the MythBusters hung rupture discs 5 ft (1.5 m) above water, 5 feet (1.5 m) below water, and 10 ft (3.0 m) below water at 5-foot, 10-foot (3.0 m), 20-foot (6.1 m), and 50-foot (15 m) intervals away from the explosive. The MythBusters also detonated 50 pounds (23 kg) of three different types of explosives above the ...