MythBusters
Tanker Crush
Season 19, Episode 2 · Aired 2016-01-16
Synopsis
This season, Jamie and Adam try something they've never done before: an Implosion caused by a vacuum. The tall tale goes that a freight train tank car was being steam cleaned when a rainstorm let loose. The engineers made the mistake of sealing the container full of hot steam and headed home. The rain cooled the tank car, the steam condensed and contracted, and the resulting pressure differential caused the massive steel car to crumple like a soda can. Is it possible? The MythBusters devote an entire episode and embark on the biggest logistical operation in their history to find out.
In the series
This episode is part of MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery.
Science with explosions — hypothesis, test, blow something up.
Key cast
- Jamie Hyneman as Host
- Adam Savage as Host
- Kari Byron as Build Team
- Tory Belleci as Build Team
- Grant Imahara as Build Team