Mythbuster Experiment

On today’s Mythbusters episode they were testing if a bug were to hit you at high speeds on a motorcycle could it kill you before you even hit the ground. The cast members that were on this experiment were Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara, and Jessi Combs. They first started by going to see a physician Dr. Billy Trolan to ask if there was any way or pressure points on the body where an insect could hit and actually killed you before you hit the ground. They were then shown a chart and it showed them how much pressure it takes for something to kill a person instantly.
They first started with the skull and it takes nearly two thousand pounds of pressure to crush and or break your skull; that was surely out of the question. They then moved to the torso and that only takes about four …show more content…
They first took off its head and placed the pressure pad their and set up for the experiment with a fly. They constructed just a simple but sturdy board and hooked a single uncooked spaghetti noodle and glued the fly to it. Then Tory jumped on his bike and got in position. In order for this to work they wanted the bike to be at eighty five mph. He hit that and the pressure pad recorded to Grants computer and he got that fly at ten pounds of pressure. Next they used a Cicada with the same set up. That got them to thirty seven pounds of pressure. The last insect they used is one of the world’s largest insects, the Goliath beetle. It’s about four inches long and weighs about a hundred grams. That got them to a little over one hundred pounds of pressure and they were amazed.
The independent variable in this episode the team thought that bugs wouldn’t even come close to killing a person instantly because of how small they are. They assumed that no matter what size of an insect they put up and hit at eighty five mph it would be far from their mark at seventy six pounds of pressure on the