What Actually Happens When "The Poop" Hits The Fan? | MythBusters

Adam and Jamie approached this one with complete seriousness, with Jamie developing a synthetic faux poop formula engineered to precisely match the density, compressibility, and stickiness of the real thing — complete with blue food coloring for maximum visibility — and then building a slingshot to throw it at progressively more powerful fans inside a white-walled test chamber, starting with a 12-inch household fan, finding it underwhelming, upgrading to a 20-inch metal-bladed fan, still not satisfied, and finally bringing in a 30-inch fan with a quarter-horsepower motor to find out whether the popular saying about what happens when things go catastrophically wrong actually holds up to the physics of rotating blades and projectile fecal matter. 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