Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A water heater turned on its side can act as a cannon if it explodes. Based on the "Exploding Water Heater" myths from 2007 and 2009. Confirmed To test the destructive power of a heater, Adam and Jamie set one up at the bomb range and aimed it directly at the side of a van. When it exploded, the van was heavily damaged and knocked onto its side.
Can a water heater explode like a rocket and shoot through the roof of a house? If a person is being dragged by a horse, can the friction caused by the movement make the jeans catch on fire? Can shrinking jeans by wearing them in a hot bath kill someone?
After taking hovercraft lessons for land and water maneuvering, Adam and Jamie built 20 pressure-sensitive landmines to deliver a blast of compressed air and debris when triggered. They then set up a minefield, 50 feet (15 m) by 80 feet (24 m), with the mines laid out in an S-curve to ensure that a straight run down its length would cross most ...
A water heater can explode like a rocket and shoot through the roof of a two-story house. Plausible The MythBusters set up a three-tier scaffold to simulate a two-story house. The lowest level housed the 52-US gallon water heater, the second level was a set simulating a living room, and on top was a roof built to standard California building codes.
To determine the efficiency of energy transfer from ball to ball, Adam pulled the ball at one end out to a certain distance and measured the length of the swing at the other end. Their first three models – an off-the-shelf desktop toy, and two built with 2.5 and 6 in (64 and 152 mm) solid steel bearings – gave 98%, 97%, and 94% efficiency ...
For more than two decades, Madison Vaughan has built a sweet relationship with her longtime mailman, Tim, highlighting the importance of community
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out using military or economic action to pursue acquisition of the Panama Canal and Greenland, part of a broader expansionist agenda he ...
A bubble ring, or toroidal bubble, is an underwater vortex ring where an air bubble occupies the core of the vortex, forming a ring shape. The ring of air as well as the nearby water spins poloidally as it travels through the water, much like a flexible bracelet might spin when it is rolled on to a person's arm.