MythBusters - Pie-crete

[RCuriousPilot]

yeh... I know a Russian dude up in the arctic who happens to be building an armada out of newspaper and water... After watching this, I figure he's invincible...

[Moronics916]

he looks like freddie roach



[mongoose8316]

note to self: do not watch this if you have to go to the bathroom

[DeaDGoyO]

and whats pie-crete for or what was it used for?

[CJSchulz14]

@DeaDGoyO Go to wikipedia and lock up Pykrete and read the first paragraph

[DeaDGoyO]

@CJSchulz14 holy shit i never thought they used it for that D: amazing

[Clint945]

@DeaDGoyO

Its a type of material designed to make ships from.

As they said on the video, its made from wood pulp and water then frozen into sheets (which could be screwed together)

The whole construction would then be put into the water, this would seal any holes as water flowed into them and froze.

The idea was to make Cost effective ships from this stuff.

Sea-water is always cold around Britain, so the ship would never melt.

[truejim1023]

Pretty sure its Pykrete...

[gamling1111]

i'd make a dildo out of picrete

[DJFriction]

Umm, two things. It's 'Pykrete', and it's supposed to be about 14% sawdust, not 70% woodchip...

[darkshadow851]

Sawdust, or some other form of wood pulp. News flash: Woodchips are a form of wood pulp.

14% by weight. Another fascinating fact: Most wood is less dense than water so it's going to be quite a bit of wood to water.

As for the title, shouldn't be hard to tell that it's a play on words.

[DJFriction]

Wow! Thanks for enlightening me. I used to be a complete pillock who didn't realise woodchip was wood pulp! Jesus... I think you'll find that the whole idea of having a fine saw_dust_ is because it is in fact the lumber that strengthens the ice. Fun fact: timber absorbs water. Frozen timber is brittle.

And derp. 70%, obvious exaggeration is obvious.

As for the title matter, do you take me as some kind of idiot? I'm just stressing how unfunny it is. Pie has literally zero relevance to pykrete.

[Stompy1]

@darkshadow851 It's only a play on words if it's some sort of joke. It's more than likely a typo in this case.

[bmwfanz]

wat episode ?

[Badavlin]

@bmwfanz episode 115

[TheSupergabi9]

''Man i am so impressed with this pie-crete i think we can have some fun with it''

Giggity Giggity

[MrLeatch]

millitary pie-crete was made from saw dust (powder) not wood chips. The millitary did use this in WW2.

[lurzax]

wow ! for just a time i think that pykrete look delecious !

[I8PeeMehrdad79]

wtf is pie crete?!

[winston0024]

@I8PeeMehrdad79 lol read a book much?

[lurzax]

@I8PeeMehrdad79 pie crete is composite material made by 14% sawdust and 86% of water .. a very strong material when its freezing ..

[RoberTastic]

GOOGLE ADS SUCK

[HoboOfSixthGrade]

Wow, the company that broadcasts the show spelled Pycrete wrong

[hitachi088]

the is the goal of these thing ?

[SunsetSurfer888]

@hitachi088 jamie has to always be right and adam and tory have to hurt themselves and grant has to create robots...NO MATTER WHAT!!! :)

[SunsetSurfer888]

If Jamie is always right... what happens if he and his wife have an argument?

[hitachi088]

@SunsetSurfer888

the dog win .

[SunsetSurfer888]

@hitachi088 OMG it's so true :)

[BMLAHK]

It's spelled: Pykrete!!!!

[TheInquisitiveGuard]

@BMLAHK Very true, after British military mastermind Pyke

[DSJeffers]

Of course it wont break.. pie-crete was made out of wood shavings.. the "super" pie-crete was made out of whole sheets of newspaper.

[SamuelRiv]

@DSJeffers yes, in that case it's like concrete reinforced for tensile strength along a single plane. It should be just as brittle, if not more so, cross-sectionally, and this might also have consequences for melting and bullet impact. Of course, in actual engineering, one can and should reinforce in whatever direction one needs.

[ki4hou]

It's spelled Pykrete after the inventor, Geoffrey Pyke.

[katcatification]

Confirming the Myth that Jamie IS ALWAYS RIGHT. HAHAHA!

[mik106]

@katcatification 'Til the day he screw up the second law of motion in one episode.

[158391]

but it doesnt float like a Pykrete and ice.. it doesnt float at all.

[CardsOnFire2010]

the ice isnt brittle, its got the swa-swa-swa-swa-swagga of a cripple

[aznboymichael]

did they test which melt slower? newspaper or pin crete

[MyFriendsKeepMeSane]

yes, jamie is always right! XD

[UnderT3Hinfluance]

Im thinking just get a ice bolt for a crossbow... keep it in a container with dry ice, pull it out once you need it, and it won't melt too much. You also wouldn't have to worry about the ice bullet melting when you fire it because of all the gasses.

[ManintheArmor]

You can get similar results by simply freezing water in a container... without removing the ice from the container. Ever froze a water bottle with water still inside?

However, contained ice isn't as insulated as ice with wood pulp. But if the ice should break, the container will prevent the pieces from flying away.

I wonder what'll happen if we used kevlar, plus a steel container?

I'm thinking this could be used as body armor for cold weather.

[dizzy00d]

The Pie-crete was supposed to be used for amphibious assaults on the Axis, during the war. The transports, made of this, traveled through the Northern Atlantic and landed at a desired location (preferably warmer climate) and unloaded its troops. The craft would then melt and leaving little trace of itself, and much more questioning as to how the Allies managed to bring more troops in.

Unfortunately, it was never used.

[MysteryDirectors]

its pykrete

[parrotbob2]

lol newspaper bullet

[midgetwars1]

Yeah, but the ice bullet would have no trace, as pycrete would stay

[MrMichaelpclick]

I haven't tried it, but I think an ice bullet would shatter on being fired and you'd get a nice plume of steam out of the barrel. A pie-crete bullet would be better, but there is that toublesome wood pulp left behind. A CSI episode solved the problem by using a meat-bullet.

It melted, but meat is pretty much meat after a fatal shooting. Of course, the CSI guys were WAY too clever and solved the problem in less than a running hour of the TV show. Meatball ballistics? I don't know..

[hmsrenown]

These folks tried the same trick back in their first season of shows...meat bullet? doesn't hurt man.

[crowofdeath2]

@midgetwars1 no trace but a huge bullet hole haha

[MinerAmax]

@midgetwars1 ur right, there is some movie i watched, a guy takes ice cones/knives (razor sharp) throws it at people and it melts and gets diluted with the blood. And an ice bullet wont work because a bulled needs gunpowder and by the time its made and in room temp. , some power would already be inside the ice and then to the body. :P

[troy1002x]

@MinerAmax What if you use a Gauss gun for the ice bullet?

[MinerAmax]

@troy1002x i dunno know, but its a movie and the ice is sharp enough to kill the person. What is a gauss gun anyway? but a normal gun wont work cause the gun powder would leave some evidence.

[troy1002x]

@MinerAmax No wait, it wouldn't work too since the Gauss gun is a gun based on magnets.

[MinerAmax]

@troy1002x mmhhhmm i guess throwing it if the best. :D

[MrDavyCrocket]

Do a pykrete bullet it wont brake like the ice bullet or melt but it is stong so it wont snap on leaving barral will you do it?

[muninen]

LOL when i read the title i accidently thought it said pie-crate XD

[Whitehorze]

The strength and insulation quality comes from the wood fibers. Nothing new since Fiberglass lamination has even better strength and insulation qualities plus it doesn't melt. the issue was that during WW2 composite material were still in their infancy. I doubt they could have made a workable Aircraft carrier from it though. The North sea is an unholy terror during the winter months...

[bj00333]

I thought it was spelt Pycrete...

[gav161]

It is...

[jordanfstop]

Actually, it's "pykrete." Regardless, Good job Discovery.

[thelongdavid]

bring me the sledgehammer!!

[jokie987]

the reason why the newspaper diddnt break is becaus its solid. pycrite is frozen wood shavings.

[python08]

They were going to try to make a boat out of this...

[deslithering]

I saw that one, only stayed together for half an hour, though.

[SaoMir1]

a aircraft carrier i think

[Mythbusterzs]

this got some badass quaility!!

[RareAirSupply]

There was a huge documentary on Discovery, several years ago about this...

[margieam1]

@RareAirSupply hi, do you know where i can find it??

[RareAirSupply]

@margieam1 I am sure that if you google it, or just browse the discovery website, you'll find it. The project was called "Project Habakkuk".

[margieam1]

@RareAirSupply ok , thanks :)

[lollipopbrigade]

that pykcrete looks like a gaint grownola bar

[benjamminn20]

lol...adem got owned by frozen newspaper

[jerzkid87]

its spelled pykrete not pie-crete but thats good for getting views i guess

[quarkian4]

That's what hooked me! XD

[CoolCalmJames]

They tested this to in brainiac.

[RareAirSupply]

Brainiac is a show that uses exess amounts of explosives, EVERYWHERE... -.-

[WhiteWolfzRock]

This is different from the show

[EliteShroom6377557]

actully you were wrong about them

[tbernens002]

12 is false, i did realize that skipping 3 and 9 caused there to be only 10....

sorry

[lawlypooper]

lol its ok, i just liked it, so i passed it forward :D

[PokeNerdTropius]

the only right ones were 1 and 7, sorry!

[Biibwiog]

i am bastard and so are you

[EGCblackknight]

I saw a show about this stuff on history channel, apperantly in '43 a raft of this stuff was made in Jasper National Park. Supposedly Winston Churchil had plans to build aircraft carriers for mid atlantic plane refueling and patrols. Think the show was The Sea Hunters had Clive Cussler in it

[EGCblackknight]

Just did some checking and the raft was part of project Habakkuk and its called Pykrete after someone named Pyke

[XwhitmanX]

there was a video about Pie-crete on Brainiac though,quite long ago...

Some1 actually made a ship out of it i duno thats true or not

[jimmymccrim]

i can imagine it is true. somene probably said "it cant be done" and someone probably took the challenge, it looks plausable for sure

[darkgun98]

man i wanna see full vid

[steveboomhour]

what??.....no just add wood chips to water! You need to have same amount of wood chips to water. (by weight)

[toxic996]

is it wood and water and then melt it?

[hekk414]

pie-crete is a british invention

[TOMASASX]

i saw this episode on TV

[j3znz]

they have the full episode in "itunes" and it's FREE. they do built a boat on alaska.

[justin900]

how you get it?

[j3znz]

i just search "mythbusters" and wach for the cheapiest thing and it was a alaska special, it said free.

[MaxTv02]

supplies: newspaper/woodchips, water, cake pan.

[treeperson0]

Pfft, Jamie isn't ALWAYS right...just most of the time...

[AdmiralZhao007]

jealous much? jk

[theWudgeMeister]

they didnt do the first test with the paper

[dspspwii]

all of your spelling mistakes makes me laugh

ha ha ha

[redsayshi]

fag

[NYPD731]

Mythbusters rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foxracing506]

It does look like a big granola bar.

Hmmm yummy! lol.

Mythbusters rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ColinLP87]

Composites have been around since Mongolian times.

Still a totally viable theory to make things stronger, and it's the reasoning behind carbon-fibre and many other alloys, ect.

[locksmith456]

it was a shown to winston churchill during the second world war and it was shown before mythbusters on brainiac where they done more or less the same test

[Jojojojof]

lol prooving the myth that " Jamie is always right"

[xXsomthingXx]

Jamie is also chuck norris's long lost brother

[flobba123]

Mmmmm pie gahhh *drowling*

[Airaun]

drowling? lol

[catchmechoob]

lol mythbusters is awesome.

[cyq88]

what is the myth?

[Kingakella]

spoiler: they make a boat out of frozen news paper & water!! They acully put a motor on it and it works. they drove a paper boat.

[SoggyWeiner72]

FUCK YEA I SAW IT TOO!!!!

[STObon2ORZ]

Boat building substance?

What do you use it for?

[8614007]

On brainiac,they said Churchhill wanted to make a aircraft carrier out of it...brainiacs british...

[Uberubert99]

mmm... Pie...

[MzHellfyre]

it's "Pykrete" not "Pie-crete"! lol

[disfiguration]

nah theyve got it right

[MzHellfyre]

no, they don't. i watched the ep last night. it's how it's spelled.

[disfiguration]

yeah its spelled correctly in the title, funny shit this episode hahahah

[MzHellfyre]

the video title doesn't have it right. It's Pykrete (developed by Geoffrey Pyke).. but whatever. think what you want. Ignorance is bliss.

[disfiguration]

nah theyve got it right. Smart people, Great show, keep it up M.B!!

[poplolcool]

idiot

[amvking1316]

where do you get Pie-crete

[Aaronkills10]

its just wood pulp and water frozen

[urewifemykids]

also saw dust if thats how you spell it

[rebel4055]

just grab a trash can get a bunch of saw dust and fill the trash can with water and freeze for a few hours

[soldieroffortune1974]

take a chainsaw,cut up a lot of wood,put the saw dust in water,freeze the water,you have pykrete.

[fan518]

Proving the myth that jamies allways right lol

[badboypj1]

i watch this they, made a boat with an engine that rode for 30 minutes.

[JumpStop1]

what can you build with it?

[Skipper01234]

They made a boat out of the stuff in the alaska 2 special.

[SirReptitious]

Back in WW2, the idea was to be able to quickly build aircraft carriers from it, and locate them in the north pacific for raids on japan. But it never got further than the idea stage. Still a very clever idea though...

[QPwitCheese]

good old mythbusters

[cheemadreema]

wow pie-crete is cool i'l make some

[RKCrystalSoul]

i think ill make some pie-crete

[GoSuNiguy]

Jamie is always right!

[ashleyfromwi]

so now what can you do with it..its frozen newspapers..you cant use it for building anything..so?

[badboypj1]

yes u can they used it to build a boat that rode for 30 minutes with an engine

[wheelie4lj]

its basically saw dust

[bronan19]

WOODPECKER

[hypercam258]

lol im watching this episode now

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Pykrete melts in your mouth and not in your lower intestines.

[loserspalace]

wood pulp??

[AreonLee]

It's the pulp of wood :D

[pozzerbob]

You can make Plaster out of hemp

[agentbong138]

You can make plaster out of thousands of things. Unfortunatly buddy, this video has nothing to do with plaster, so what the fuck are you talking about?

[P0P357UR3]

I'm sorry, what is pie-crete?

[LucidDreamTricks]

It's frozen water and wood pulp

[P0P357UR3]

Oh, thank you.

[Shadow91x]

frozen wood pulp

[teegrinsays]

learn to Pykrete

[thejoser]

Jamie is scary-smart

[unlimitedspeeed]

am i the only one thinking for the FOOD Pie :D:D

[buddystar22]

Me too xD

[5frameskevin]

no,  I was too

[NotnaRed]

next time put some rocks between the layers of newspaper.

[SAsgarters]

I was going to point out that it's called "pykrete", but other people beat me to it.

But it bears repeating.

[Fuzzy192006]

mabye it's 3.14-crete

[MageOfLink]

or....3.1428571428571428571428­571428571-crete...

>.>

[outlawkelb]

hahahha

[Hindsite502]

a great demonstration of critical fiber length in composite materials

[SummerLoveLess]

CANADA SUCKS~!

[RobeonMew]

YEA! Canada sucks balls! because were so smart. we suck cause we make American's feel stupid

[duhastmesh94]

Plus you have hockey  :3

[SummerLoveLess]

YEA!

[duhastmesh94]

what does that have to do with anything?

[phoneboothplus1]

Old narrator (spelling?) was much better.

[VirtRampage]

its the same guy

[phoneboothplus1]

Oh, i mean the brittish narrator; Robin Banks, is much better. :-)

[Fuzzy192006]

Mabye. Still, Lee is the voice of mythbusters. He's almost as important as adam and jamie.

[icovada]

it's Pykrete, not pie-crete

[ZerqTM]

Mmmmmmm pie-crete :3 *rocks side to side*

[DeanoProductionsTM]

lol :P

[RobeonMew]

looking at these comments, some ppl are scared of science