Mythbusters phonebook myth

[keldfc]

there is a special tecnique, in wich a human can do it, actually, nearly any-one!

[Menshendo]

is there anything the mythbusters can't get their hands on? uranium?

[TheProto22]

@Menshendo na they can probably get that too maby they got a dealer lol

[twint33]

isnt it ilegal to video a tv show and put it on the internet?

[JenniViZ]

@twint33 Are you new to Youtube? Because 98% of the stuff on here has illegal crap.

[corjoth]

@twint33 I do believe as long as it is at least 33 % altered from the original format its good or something like that

[rubioo93]

we just found two tanks laying around

[epistte]

@rubioo93 It would have been easier to use a few tracked Bobcats or even small dozers, but that isn't as much fun as retired military toys.

[JETZcorp]

My friend and I interleaved a couple of textbooks together like this at school once, and then hung them from the ceiling. Our 11th grade English teacher was cool with anything.

[sikfreak6969]

yay!!, lets all build our houses out of phonebooks....

[NaiveXIIIAixian]

@sikfreak6969 Yeah, and I'll pour gas on your house and set it on fire.

[sikfreak6969]

@NaiveXIIIAixian and you think if I didn't put gas on your normal brick veneer house and light it up it wouldn't burn down???, such a stupid fuck lol

[jokkevandessel]

lol... you kinda expect a big explosion or something ... they just fell down and that's it xD

[Selwyn95]

You need them to be pressed together, so at least 500 pages to keep them weighed enough to create actual friction.

[gammaworld]

That is so cool

[rickysmyth]

would have been better if they used tractors.. they are more a common vehicle than tanks

[OliveroG]

tanks are cooler, they dont need common things, they need atractive things to get more public.

[Neoomegasonic]

@OliveroG howd they get 2 tanks o_o

[KevinAZheng]

@Neoomegasonic they got connections. if they can get access to a bomb range and a machine gun i'm pretty sure they can get 2 tanks

[The4gamerzHelp]

I have jst done that and it's I amazin it's doesn't come apart it is amazin

[MissHarpoMarx]

I dont think ive ever seen the end of this episode...come to think of it i dont think ive ever seen this episode. lol

[spearworld6]

I was going to do this but I forgot to put gas in my tanks.

[budgiebreder]

friction is powerful, tanks are more powerfull.

[Gumbie2009]

LOL burn rubber they got metal tracks

[atsernov]

Actually, many (most) tank tracks are equipped with rubber pads so they don't damage allied roads.

I'm sure both of these have such rubberized tracks.

[helpoutk2]

it would be more interesting if 2 russian mammoths tanks came along

[yayMikester]

Yeah have this phonebook problem once... but didnt have two tanks to spare :(

[Jourei91]

Seems like the future's environmentalist's construction material.

[DEATHBYFLYINGCDS]

I wonder if the strength of those phonebooks is dependant on the number of pages, would those tanks be able to pull apart two phonebooks that were twice as big?

[sindude300]

good question hahas :)

[ginteardrops]

yes, it depends on surface area, coefficient of friction, and number of pages.

[35star57]

Wood fibers tie them selves together easily.

Think of taking a tree trunk and pulling it end wise.

I wasn't at the filming but I know those specific

tanks and buildings. I won't say the last name since it might be a security thing. Chuck was a fantastic guy - and nice to talk with as well.

[kidi1232]

friction is not affected from how big the surface is.

so its not about "the pages creating a huge surface that affect the friction"

static friction: Fn*u= Fs

u cant change unless the materials creating the friction changing so the only thing that can affect this phonebooks is the force one page putting on the pages above and under it.

so actually when you pulling the books away the force preventing you to seperet them is the force going on the Y axis (up & down)

[Rynnakokki]

two dutch students won the mythbusters contest with this video :D GO NETHERLANDS!!

[Ashuiegi]

yes because the force is divided between all the sheets so each sheet get only few newton

[evilcult23]

can the pages take the pressure? or tension

[LaronJ226]

i still cant fathom the idea of 8000 pounds of force.....

does any1 kno wat the end of what he was saying was????

[DrLex1]

You can hang both those two cars together from the interleaved phone books, and they still wouldn't separate.

[beyblayder]

thats the same as dropin a car from 30 ft

[leonelc29]

8000 pound of force?! god!

[TDR150]

Yes? What do you want?

[leonelc29]

lol! i wan to know the truth, and now i know, thank, god! lol!

[TDR150]

You're welcome!

[chairmanmao89]

you want to know the truth? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

[leonelc29]

ya, truth are just too cruel...

[neolucha347]

the dutch mythbusters couldnt prove this lol they couldnt seperate them

[pimpstenator]

they didnt have tanks ;)

[yourmojo]

8000 pounds of force? holy hell...

[gangstagoob]

Lol! ya...

[fephisto]

Material for the space elevator:

interleafed phonebooks.

[StaticFalconar]

You know the VCR can record stuff?

[ironcavemen]

he may not have one

[skatingtagger]

ghetto the actual tv is recorded lol