The tub contents eventually began to bubble, smoke, and give off heat, but after 20 minutes, some of the pig remained and neither the tub nor the floor leaked. Acting on suggestions from Vince and Aaron, Adam and Jamie decided to increase the quantity of acid to 36 gallons L and to use a tub made from a more susceptible material, which ended up being fiberglass. After 5 minutes, Adam and Jamie found only black organic sludge where the pig used to be. Much of the liquid had boiled over the sides, but the tub and the floor remained intact, thoroughly busting this myth.
At a remote rock quarry, the Build Team enlisted the help of an explosives consultant to concoct a batch of the compound. To demonstrate the explosive power of the material, they obliterated a pumpkin with a 5 gram charge detonated by a squib. They placed mannequins in the scene and set rupture discs next to each, calibrated to burst at 13 psi 90 kPa to represent injury and 75 psi kPa to represent death.
A charge of 50 grams failed to explode when thrown down, even when thrown at super-human speed. To observe the effects of a gram charge, the team resorted to detonating it with a blasting cap. In an attempt to replicate the explosion in the scene, the team set off a gram batch with a blasting cap. The MythBusters first took on two myths from the first season of Breaking Bad back in The guys examined whether a concentrated level of hydrofluoric acid could eat through a human corpse and the bathtub that it's resting in.
In the show this happened by accident. The second myth that the MythBusters tackled was whether a small amount of mercury fulminate can explode when thrown on the ground and blow out the windows in a room, leaving the thrower unharmed by the blast.
This was another iconic scene in Walter White's evolution in Breaking Bad , as he was just beginning to climb his way closer to the top of the drug dealing food chain. The myths were both busted, explained away as pure special effects magic. One out of three isn't too bad, though, especially given the 'out there' nature of the Breaking Bad scenarios being examined here. The idea of the remote-control rotating machine gun may have seemed dangerous and unreliable, but the MythBusters have proven that it can definitely get the job done in a pinch!
Matt MacNabb is a pop culture historian, author and freelance writer that has spent the better part of the past 20 years studying movies, tv, comics, toys and their effects on our culture.
Matt is the mind behind a network of popular websites, including LegionsOfGotham. He has contributed freelance writing to several websites, including Snopes and Screen Rant. Matt resides in Omaha, NE with his wife and four children, he can be found online at his official website MattMacNabb.
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