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  • ummm, ooops ?

  • Had the Americans removed their embargo on Nazi Germany, the Hindenburg would have used Helium, and Helium would not have burned, how tragic that many deaths could have been prevented

  • @MrWLangers nope, the hindenburg would have burned anyway, because it was not the hydrogen that burned first, but the outer layer painted with the thermit like paint. And since thermite burns with several thousand degrees celsius it would surely have caused enough damage that also a helium lifted blimp would have crashed.

  • @MTTT1234 Yes, but without hydrogen catching light due to static sparks how would the thermite have caught light?

  • @MrWLangers Sorry didn't you read my response properly? First the paint caught fire because of the static, which was estimated with several thousand volts, the paint caught fire like tinder and because of this fire the hydrogen cells inside the Hindenburg started burning

  • SCRAP METAL MADE IN CHINA

  • MADE IN CHINA

  • How do you know it didn't have the coating? what the heck...

  • I have a question, does anyone know the name of the organ music they used in this episode, the part where they show the real Hindenburg burning?

  • Oha xD

  • They got it wrong again.

    The Hindenburg, Skin did not cause the ship to burn, But was what started the fire in combination with a spark from static electricity jumping from the frame to one of the panels. Panels that were coated with a new dope,(then), and had shrunk leaving gaps between them and the frame. This dope today is used in soled rocket fuel.

  • Man, you just gotta love thermite :D

  • you can never have too much thermite

  • shure works bether than a Led Zepeline

  • A hydrogen filled airship coated with thermite--what could possibly go wrong?

  • its never enough thermite...hahahaha...

  • I didn't know those insects could burn.

  • The Hindenburg was an inside job, Dude!!!!!

    Military grade Nano thermite.

  • the other one had 1000 pounds..way more dangerous than 15 pounds

  • I don't know why they needed a heat sensor. I could tell it was on fire.

  • There is an episode of Secrets of the Dead that went through the entire deals with the Hindenburg crash. They even whent back to the Zepplin facility and found the exact compound that they used. I am wondering if the Mythbusters looked at that??

  • You're right, i saw that episode. Pretty believable, if you ask me.

  • @Lonewolfmike yes but they ONLY listened to Addison Bain's side of the argument. He cheated by using a continuous electric current to ignite the fabric, which was very dry and old (not a remade skin, but an original Hindenburg skin). He destroyed an artifact!

  • The way they tested the second zeppelin, which was "filled" with hydrogen sucked. What was the point in lighting the zeppelin when it only had air inside and afterwards just turning on the hydrogen valve? It would definately not have been able to lift off in the first place. The Hindenburg zeppelin was completely filled with hydrogen when it caught fire. Nevertheless, I believe the Hindenburg zeppelin would have been blown to pieces in a split second if it had been filled with pure hydrogen.

  • This show is fucking awsome!!!

  • UK?

  • uk narrator sounds gay

  • the spokesguy sounds weird. i never heard him in any other episodes.

  • the UK has its own narrator

  • It was somehow hilarious.

  • the US narrator isn't the same as the other ones.

  • Oh the humanity!!!

  • nice... wonder who else caught why you said that...

  • you saw what I did there.........thanks!

  • Yeah the journalist who shot the video of the ship burning said that as the nose came down...

  • Oh the huge manatee!

  • No!

  • they said they wont go near 9/11 unless they can test it properly and accurately.

  • They should have used helium in one of their tests to see how it would have burned or not.

    How many people died from the fall versus died from burns or smoke inhalation and if the ship had helium in it would there have been people who died from asphyxiation?

  • well helium doesn't burn, but it is about 4 times as heavy as hydrogen, so it would have sunk faster if there had have been a leak

  • nirvanafan is right, helium doesnt burn, because its got a full ring of valence electrons, ie, its really stable for yall who didnt take/cant remember chem.

  • can we just say you fail?

  • burn beibi burn

  • hmm the announcer sounds like the announcer off braniacs

  • to bad hes not an American announcer dumbass

  • I'm Canadian, moron!

  • Oh, the IRONy!

    ... Get it... Iron. Like in thermite?

    Okay, that joke was almost as bad as most of the Mythbusters narrator's puns.

  • Bad Pun.

  • lol i like the american announcer bettr

  • Huh?

  • Nevermind. I noticed it... sorry :)

  • im going to do that at home! lol

  • Why does the announcer sound British?

  • This was recorded from UK television, for some reason we have a different narrator here.

  • Wierd

  • In the second which was the most realistic they should have had some fuel and oil there as well for the "engines". Also they could have used hydrogen filled balloons to simulate the hydrogen tanks.

  • Thermite hits 4,000 F.

    So what exactly did they use to hang the blimp off the wall?

  • ok people who dont know how to make thermite....its a mixture of rust powder and aluminum powder lit by a magnesium strip and a blow torch. look it up on wiki for more info. 2500 degrees celcius!

  • im gonna buy like a tone of thermite

    an1 no were i can get a tone of it ???

    i can onli find 1kg bags.

    lol

  • um that's quuite a bit. make it yourself or buy more bags

  • try ur moms house

  • I dunno where you can find that much thermite, but stay the fuck away from me dude...

  • Blimp? Zeppelins are NOT blimps.

  • Thanks for the correction! We know that zeppelins and dirigibles have rigid frames...

  • Oh!! The Humanity!!!

  • why is it a british narriator

  • British version.

  • no way that was thermite. the metal bars would melt. thermite burns at 4532 degrees farenheit. or 2500 celcius

  • yes, but there is nothing holding the thermite to the metal bars so it just falls away onto the floor not giving it enough contact time to melt the bars.

  • look up a thermite reaction it makes the same sparks and what not

  • Their experiment was misleading. I liked the episode but they should have ignited it with an electrical spark not an open flame, in order to know whether the skin could even be ignited with a spark! Although the conditions of the day of the disaster cannot be simulated exactly, experiments suggest that the skin could not be ignited by a spark. Hydrogen can definitely be ignited with even the smallest spark.

    Time for a revisit!

  • well tell em that and maybe theyll revisit it

  • lol

  • Hey, does anyone know what the "blur" ingredients were? I'd like to try them out lol.

  • I'm guessing acetone, or something with acetone in it

  • Ah yes, find out what it is they warned against and blurred out purposefully. Veeery clever. >.>

  • the real reason why the hindenburg buned to smitherenes was pausibly the skin but what caused it was because a cable in the zepplin snapped and ricoched and created a spark

  • Was this like the Brit version of Mythbusters? The narrator was different than what I get.

  • Clips from Mythbusters are often spotlighted on an Australian programme called Beyond Tomorrow.

  • yes, it could be. there are relevant points in which it could be thermite. the buildings melt in minutes, mmmmh too strange, could only be thermite. there is nothing hotter than thermite, and nothing could melt down the towers so easily and fast.

  • plus the fact that once thermite is lit it become liquid steel about 4000 deg kelvin (probably the hottest thing man made that can get close to the heat of a sun) I wonder if idle burn =/

  • its 4000 degrees Fahrenheit... not Kelvin. ass.

  • celcius?

  • Dream on. If that was so why did they have to crash plane into it and why did the tower fell apart where the plane crashed. Stop listening to pseudo science from Steven who no true expert would perr review his findings and no structural engineer would agree with his half baked theory.

  • 30 seconds, the same amount of the time the first one went down... intresting

  • i love myth busters

  • me too, it can be funny,a like th jawbreaker one

  • Hindenburg was painted with shining silver colour paint that was really inflammable, the engineers did not realise that before accident. It was just that paint that caused the fire after electric erruption when Hindenburg connected to landing tower. I have seen the document where Zeppelin familys menbers confirms that. Their engineers knew the real reason immediadely after accident but did not want to tell it publicly becouse feared NSDAP governments sanctions.

  • on mythbusters, they try to REPLICATE the RL circumstances. the test they did for this particular myth was as close as possible to what really happened as they could possibly get without buying a zepplin just like the hindenburg and burning that! also, they based the test on the work done on the real hindenburg, not modern airships, so the results aren't going to be completely accurate by completely current airship standards..

  • I like the American narrator alot more than the UK one. One of my favorire eppisodes

  • this is my favorite Mythbuster Episode

    it the best

  • This actually looks a lot like how the Hinderburg really went down.

  • Mythbusters ftw!

  • omg the hindenberg skin was made of flammable materials not covered in it and the hyrdogen burns blue and up not yellow and out

  • You see a quick blue flash from the hyrdogen igniting 39 seconds into the video.

  • exactly a quick blue flash hydrogen doesnt burn than anything else than blue and archival documents some of the engineers later tested the materials themselves and the skin burned and look at what materials the skin is made of and what rocket fuels is made of then u guys give me hands down and hydrogen burns quickly and straigt up while the hindenburg skin burned out explain that people and if u wondering how could the skin catch on fire easy there was a electrical storm earlier that day bammmmm

  • you have no clue what you're talking about in regards to the flame color of burning hydrogen... they show it on an earlier section of this mythbusters episode and it was definitely red-orange, not blue

  • If you're going to leave inane ramblings, at least use punctuation so those of us that would like to refute your idiocy can read them.

  • if you know so much "rugbysk8er" you would know that hydrogen burns red-orange, that's on the opposite end of the color spectrum buddy. plus eye-witnesses who saw a blue glow just before the flames where seeing what is known as St. Elmo's Fire, a meterological pheomena often seen on ship masts during storms.

  • the british narrator makes this show seem more like brainiac

  • I think the british narrator sounds better.

  • I kinda liked better the old narrator. Anywayz, the show is still awesome!!!

  • They have a whole different nararator? Wtf, why would they spend the money to do that?

  • it's the narrator in the UK version of the show.

  • thats not the regular narraotor!

  • cause its the u.k version.

  • The guys englsih because it was made for BBC in england... so they needed to have a person that speeks english some where in britian...

  • It's actually because the show is few minutes longer in the UK (or shorter, don't remember). So it needs to be re-edited and dubbed.

  • Right.. no one understand the grunting, whiney whiney yanks! :)

  • its weird, is this the narrator for the England airings??? Cuz there is a different one for America

  • Yeah this is the UK one I think.

  • Thermite - highly flammable solid which can be easily made from two or three components and is usually used in underwater welding. Do not play around with - can go through metal easily.

  • lol yes. they're dangerous too. =D

  • I noticed how some of the Mithbusters videos have a different narriator, why?

  • I didn't know they used a different narrator for the Brittish version.

  • P.S. Joesmith is now blocked. He won't be replying anymore. I have half a mind to remove his comments, and half a mind to leave his idiocy for others to see. If you want them removed, just comment a reply.

    Cheers

  • If you can remove them, might as well. Mostly just the racist comments, otherwise it would seem like I'm attempting to educate no one haha

  • Right did a lil bit of pruning here and there and extinguished a lot of Joesmith's crap. Oh and don't forget to stop by his profile and leave a lovely comment too :)

  • haha will do

  • i say ban joesmith and his comments

  • since I can't post links, google "wtc civil airplane collision" and click on the first link. then scroll to the bottom and click the link that says 'view collisiom project'. then click on the first big picture, and you'll see irrefutable proof that you are retarded. And I'm just as WASPy as you, I just haven't failed at life.

  • alright let's make a much more accurate comparison. Let's say I have a peanut. Your skull is much stronger than a pencil, right?

    Ok if I accelerated the pencil up to mach 5 or so (very generous estimate considering the momentum of the airplane), what do you think would happen to your skull? You can fire pencils straight through 6" of plywood given enough speed.

  • pencil, not peanut

  • For the record, your hundred yard dash scenario has a ridiculous amount of variability. How much of the 2x4 is planted in the ground and how much sticks out? how high does the runner hit the beam (makes the most difference). What kind of wood? does he hit it on the 4" face or the 2"?

    I'm 180lb, and I could break that beam given the right conditions.

  • outatheblu:

    Where is the variability? Does not matter if the 2x4 is planted 1 ft, 2ft or 5ft in the ground. The result is the same. A stationary object is just that: stationary, and it will stop whatever it is hit by and it does not matter what kind of wood.

    This is proof.

    A 10 lb 2x4 will always stop a 180 lb runner just as a building will always stop a "massive airplane jet laden with fuel" speeding at "500 mph". The Laws of Physics can never, ever, be beaten.

  • It matters a lot. A ten pound beam is a certain length, given the density function. Have you ever heard of a moment arm? Or a lever? Let's assume the beam is 1lb/foot. if you buried 4ft and left 6ft in the air, and I applied a force 6' above the ground, the moment arm is 6x what it would be if I applied it 1' off the ground. Making my effective momentum 6x as much. Snapping that 2x4 would be very simple in that case

  • gd point

  • Isnt the narrator the host of Brainiac?

  • That does sound like him

  • hey man thats not an asutralian acsent! ist brittish, ass bags

  • great! now they should try experiment on 9/11

  • the narrator sounds like that because mythbusters is only shown on two shows, mythbusters (obviosly) and beyond tommorow and the narrator on this one is the host on beyond tommorow.

  • wow the narrator sounds like the host of the show "Brainiac" search it sometime. Sounds quite similar.

  • i totally agree!

  • what happened to the australian narrator?

  • Yeah... its sound weird having an english guy narrate.

  • British, my sir. BRITISH.

  • I've never understood the appropriate usage differences.

    plz2b explaining

  • It covers all of the british isles, if scotland had a narrator of their own, english would be used to refer to the narrator. Since it's the same narrator all accross the UK, it's british.

  • ahk thanks

  • Why do they dub over the american narrarator?

  • Because, americans use the word "gasoline" instead of petrol, used by the british, and other words are different in britain.

  • ha funny to hear a brit narrorator

  • What many people do not realize is termite can be made with nearly any type of metal oxide powder and aluminum powder.

  • "Oh the humanity!" Who gives a shit about the details; just watch the video.

  • woah lets all calm down for a minute guys lets all talk this out calmly and not crazy with the yelling and the swearing and the other stuff

  • The voice over dude on the British version has actually got a lot to his tone than most British voice overs. He's a lot like Richard Hammond with his expressions.

  • it's Robin Banks that dj off the bbc radio. It says so on wikipedia.

  • well if its on wiki it must be right

    it's Robin Banks that dj off the bbc radio. It says so on wikipedia.

    lol

    wiki is reliable to a certain point but dont trust everything it says

  • The British narrator on MythBusters is surprisingly flat toned in comparison to the American narrator.

  • Well, canaries weren't used to chack for methane, they detected other unsmellable gases. and Methane does have a smell, it is fairly bad.

  • Methane Gas does not have a smell. Farts smell because of the hydrogen sulfide given off. They also add it to propane and other natural gases so people can smell a gas leak. Pure CH4 does not smell.

  • zacharyworr-- canaries were used because they are very sensitive to flamable gas, they could die if they inhale methane. and dead canaries are the first and last warning for miners to get out and duck!!! please get your facts right, stupid bastard!

  • Stupid mythbusters. Now, nobody's going to want to ride in my hydrogen filled thermite blimp.

  • XD very nice. Oh well maybe ya could come up with a new blimp. like one filled with methane ^^

  • Nah, methane smells terrible and doesn't float as good. Nobody wants to ride in my "Blimp of Firey Doom", as I call it. This show ruined my life!

  • Lol sue them! heck if people are sueing mcyds for hot coffee.. then I guess you'd get away with it >.> lol

  • That is a very good idea. I'm not even joking.

  • "Nah, methane smells terrible and doesn't float as good."

    Methane doesn't smell anything. Coal miners used to use canary birds in cages to detect it(if the bird dies or faints, you get the hell out of there NOW!).

  • Oh. Well, like most people, I associated methane with the smell of farts.

  • Any methane you buy nowadays has additives to make it smell horrible in order to avoid that same predicament.

  • The birdies was there to detect if the air ran low in the mines. not to detect methane fumes. (or so my school teatcher tells me)

  • Then your school teacher is wrong.

  • No airship company would put heavy iron based doping onto something they are trying to get into the air. Thermite would serve no purpose on an airship envelope coating. :o§

  • There was no "thermite" in the dope. The Germans made the compound nearly non-flamable. There's a PDF available online that easily refutes the "incendiary paint" theory.

    How absurd, to even think that the Germans, masters of technical detail, and of vast (thirty+years of zeppelin developement) would coat a ship with a paint that would ignite if struck by, say, a lightning bolt.

    Baloney to the theory

  • im english i can tell the difference americans r too dramatic

  • british narrators rule

  • they also didnt light it in the same spot each time and there would have been wind when i blew down to which would of changed things