MythBusters returns with a new Bond special

Part two was pretty interesting as well. They covered Bond's grenade pen from GE, Oddjob's lethal bowler, and Jaws' teeth.

Starting with the grenade, they duplicated it by stuffing as much explosive as possible into a comparable pen and put it in the chest pocket of a foam rubber dummy just like Q, and triggered it. As predicted, it didn't neatly blow the torso off from the waist up (so, BUSTED), but did blow a hole in the chest big enough to destroy the heart and effectively kill a person. So, now that they duplicated the method, now they decided to duplicate the result. :tup:

They tried a bigger "pen" (looked like a fat kindergarten pencil), and it blew off the torso from the armpits up. Then an even bigger one, and it destroyed the dummy from the ribs up. Then, finally, an absolutely cartoonish huge "pen", with a whole, whole lot of explosive, left two foam rubber legs standing. :tup:

Next, Oddjob. First, they measured how fast Tory could throw a slightly weighted bowler, and Grant pulled out his robot (previously used for swinging a samurai sword) to throw the hat-- calibrated just a little stronger to attempt to match a guy as strong as Harold Sakata. Kari made two steel rims, one blunted and one razor sharp, and fit them to bowlers. They got statues made of plaster, concrete, and (hollow, they found out) marble. The blunted hat took off the marble and plaster statue heads easily, but not the concrete. Barely chipped the thing. Then the razor sharp blade...turned the statue into a Van Gogh, but no dice on beheading it. So, again, BUSTED.

The last was testing Jaws' teeth against the steel cable in MR. While we here know it was licorice, they really wanted to see if it could be done with real steel. Adam built a set of steel dentures (blunted and made for crushing), near-identical to Kiel's, and fit them to a duplicate of a human skull. He put the steel cable between the dentures and applied the equivalent of human biting pressure with weights (170 lbs. per sq. inch...yeah), but nope. Just to see if it could be broken, he doubled the weight, but nope, not a dent. He then just smashed over the skull with a sledgehammer and (surprise!) shattered the skull, and left the dentures and cable totally unscathed.

Then Jamie took a whack at it, and made a whole hardened steel jaw, and made the teeth razor sharp (for cutting this time). Nope. He then put them in his pneumatic press (applying thousands of lbs. of pressure), and bent the press.

Nothing. It just couldn't be done. BUSTED.

So all these three Bond myths turned out to be just that...myths. At least the boat stunt was confirmed again!

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