Mythbusters Blow Up A Cement Truck

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Watch the mythbusters explode a cement truck with FBI explosives. The sound of the explosion is quite weird.

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Mythbusters Blow Up A Cement Truck

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  • Yeah ...

    the first part of the explosion sounded like a fart.

    By bentan 1157804639 Reply Spam [+4] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The sound

    I noted the strange sound the first time I saw that on Discovery. I believe it was the the initial pressure on the microphone, somewhat slowed by the limited speed of the sound processing equipment. You cannot normally hear it, because your ears and brain process the sound much faster than a microphone and a computer would. However, some people may have heard this strange initial hissing, but I don't think they'd lived to tell :))))))

    By LaSombra 1183635365 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • flying debris

    that sound was the flying debris flying throught the air at a very fast speed kinda like what a richoche would sound like.

    By caribe_attack 1168017531 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It started off with

    the myth of loosening up dried cement in a mixer to clean it with a variety of small sized charges. The mixer they destroyed had been given to them of course but when they filled it with cement they used to much, I think it filled roughly two thirds, so eventually even 1lb of explosive did not do a lot, just cracked off a little bit of dried cement. So in tradtional mythbusters fashion they had to go the whole 9 yards and so they took it to the quarry and loaded a shitload of explosives into the drum and ....there you go. Myth busted of course but they thought it was plausible that a mixer with just average dried on concrete would benefit from smaller charges. Hope that helps.

    By swedishtony 1156804299 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Great Show

    simply addicting

    By not me 1156986418 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • What was the myth that they wee testing?

    Great video, but I am not similiar with the myth that they are testing. If someone could post it, that wouldbe great.

    By Vball16 1156737305 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Concrete Truck Myth:

      The myth is that workers use a quarter stick of dynomite to blast loose the coating of dried concrete on the inside of the mixer. The myth busters had a problem while they were trying to coat the inside of the mixer and ended up with a mixer half full of solid concrete that a quarter stick of dynomite wasn't going to budge so they used a little more.

      By Lazy-eyed-sue 1156983149 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • i dont know if the explosion was that bi...

    because of the amount of explosives used or if it was becasue it was a cement truck

    By WannaBeHick 1156734058 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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