Could A Prisoner Escape Jail Using Antacid Tablets? | MythBusters

The myth claims a prisoner could save antacid tablets from meals over several years, accumulate enough to fill a homemade bladder inside their cell, add water, and use the carbon dioxide pressure generated by the reaction to blow the door off and walk out, and Adam and Jamie took the whole thing completely seriously, building a full-scale mock prison cell with cinder block walls, concrete roof reinforced with steel rebar, and a bullet-resistant transparent door, calculating that ten years of antacid hoarding at two tablets per meal produces 22,000 tablets, filling the cell with exactly that many and a standard water faucet, and then finding out what happens when the numbers don't add up and MythBusters decides to go find the raw chemical equivalent of 100,000 tablets instead. 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