The Myth So Insane It Took All Five MythBusters To Test It | MythBusters

The myth sounds like something a playground dare turned into an urban legend — a skydiver hits one end of a seesaw at terminal velocity and launches a child sitting on the other end high enough into the air to land in a swimming pool — and it was considered so structurally complex and physically demanding to test properly that for only the second time in MythBusters history all five cast members dropped their separate projects and worked together on a single myth, designing and building a steel seesaw capable of surviving the impact of a falling skydiver, calculating terminal velocity for every possible body position and suit configuration, building a bungee-assisted rig to deliver a dummy at the exact right speed, and finding out whether the physics of this playground nightmare actually add up. 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