Can You Skip A Car Across Water Like A Stone? | MythBusters

The idea comes from the same physics that lets a flat stone skip across a pond — if you hit the surface at the right angle with enough speed and the right geometry, the water pushes back hard enough to bounce you into a second skip, and Tory, Grant and Jessi wanted to know whether a car moving fast enough off a ramp at the right angle could do the same thing, digging a 100-foot water trench at a test track, rigging a car for remote control, sending it down the ramp at 50 miles per hour, and finding out whether the shape of a car's undercarriage and the physics of surface tension at high speed have anything like the same relationship that a flat stone and a calm pond do. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments