I'm Mark.
Hey Vsauce, I'm Jake!
And today we are in a replica of the Home Alone house
that Jake built with his very own hands.
So, as thorough men of science, we have set up a
few experiments to test some questionable scenes
from a few Christmas classics. First, from A Christmas
Story, if you can really shoot your eye out with the
Red Rider BB gun? And then from Elf, what happens when
you actually get hit with a snowball at 95 miles an hour?
And finally from Home Alone, what happens if you get
a blow torch on your head for 7 seconds?
Not yet, Jake!
And these will be the first time we're running these tests,
so we truly don't know what's going to happen,
but as firm believers in the scientific method, we're going
to test our hypotheses and then see who is closer to
the final result. And the winner gets to keep the leg
lamp behind us.
What happens to the loser?
The loser has to wear Ralphie's pink bunny suit.
Are you ready to do this?
Yes!
Let's do it. Let's go.
So in the movie A Christmas Story, all Ralphie wants for
Christmas is a Red Rider BB gun, but all the
adults in his life keep saying "No" because they say
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid." What do you
think Jake? I do think that they're not talking about his eye
actually coming out, because you have the optic nerve in there which is
about as thick as your pinky. I think they really mean that
the BB is going to penetrate the eye and then it'll go blind
which, nobody wants.
Nobody wants that!
And that seems quite a legitimate concern, right?
And because they say that he'll shoot his own
eye out, essentially that means that he shoots, the BB
goes out, bounces off something, and hits his own eye.
So to test this out, we have an authentic Red Rider
BB gun, and since Jake wouldn't volunteer,
Sorry about that.
I had to find some cow eyes that they use for like
biology classes and dissections. And so, as a control,
we're going to make sure the BB will penetrate the
eye first without even bouncing off anything.
Alright, so that went straight through. There was like no
issues.
The real question though is the ricochet, right? That
is true to the movie. So ,on this next one, we're going to have the BB
come straight, it'll hit this steel plate, and then bounce into the eye.
So, will it make it through the eye?
I think, yes. I mean, as you said, it had so much energy, it went
all the way into the eye. I think it will hit the plate,
ricochet off, and go right into the eye. No problem.
I think it's going to hit the plate, it's going to like put a
dent in it, it will lose a bunch of energy and it will hit
the eye but it won't penetrate it. So, take a moment to
guess in the comments below. Who's right?
Me or Jay. Probably me. And, uhh, let's check it out.
Yeah, let's do it.
Totally didn't go through. It is interesting though, you
can see the dent in the plate. And I think that was the
culprit. Oh totally, and what's also interesting is how much
energy the eye absorbed. It was, yeah, I don't know
, I think it was really great.
It's a fair point though, a cow's eye is definitely thicker
than a human's eye. So, if that were Ralphie, that's bad
news. Like a half of a million people a year lose their
eyesight due to like eye injuries. So, eye protection is
definitely important. But, most importantly, I won
this challenge.
Ok, so I'm up 1-0, heading into round
2. The movie Elf, Buddy is sort of screwing up a bunch
of things in the big city, and nobody likes him.
But then, his brother gets attacked by a bunch of thugs
in Central Park, and he shows off his mad Elf skills.
So, I did some investigating, and I found the spot in
Central Park where this actually occurred. Then I
measured the distance, and then I also watched the video
back and with how many frames it took and then calculated
the velocity of the snowball. Turns out, they're going to
throw it at 95 miles per hour.
Oh my gosh.
And yeah, the punks don't even move at all. So the
question for round 2, is would you fall backwards if you
got hit by a snowball at 95 miles an hour?
I would say...no. I think you might stumble backwards
a little bit, but it's not going to knock you flat on
the ground. And I disagree, 95 miles an hour is very
fast. And that something hit your chest, you're
going to move, and stumble back, unlike your
hypothesis. Umm. but how are we going to get a
a snowball going 95 miles per hour?
That's a great question, and I don't know the answer
to it. I originally wanted to use my snowball machine gun.
But, that tops out at like 40 miles an hour.
Yeah that's not good enough.
Luckily, as it turns out that if you do the math,
that a softball travelling at 65 miles an hour
will push you back, just as much as a snowball travelling
at 95 miles an hour. And that's because they have the
same momentum, which is defined as the weight of
something multiplied by how fast it's going. So, since
the softball weights a bit more, it needs to be travelling a
little bit slower to have the same like push back, or
momentum transferred to you. And thankfully, I have
a way to make a softball go 65 miles an hour.
Awesome.
Ready to suit it up.
Wh..why?
Oh...so you lost the first round...so losers always
No, no. We don't have to this.That's fine.
You lost.
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It looks like the softball pushed Jay back slightly, but
not as much as I hypothesized. So that means that
we're all tied up, heading into the final round.
In the movie Home Alone, Kevin is defending his house
from the Wet Bandits with all these amazing homemade
booby traps, which we actually made a video of that
on Jake's channel Vsauce3, so you should go check that
out. One of these booby traps is in the kitchen, so
when Joe Pesc walked in, the blowtorch goes off
with like 4000 degrees of heat and he just sits there
and takes it for 7 seconds. After which, he runs with  his
head on fire for an additional 4 seconds and plunges
his head in the snow. And in the end, this is what the
damage looks like. I, you know,  don't think that it is, uhh,
realistic at all. I, uhh, agree that it seems like an
underrepresentation of the damage that would have
been done. So to test this out, the good news is, we
actually have a volunteer. Oh, that's lovely.
So, underneath this beanie is a layer of chicken skin
and then I drilled into the foam head
about 2 inches down and put a bead. And so, the
question is, do you think it will be hot enough to burn
through the beanie, through the skin, and then two
inches down into the head. I think yes, given the
duration of time and the amount of heat. It's gonna be
pretty severe. It's a bold.. it's a bold claim. I don't think
it will actually get all the way down. Alright, well, let's
uhh, check it out.
Now, it's time.
After filming this video, I was curious, so I talked
with a couple of expert surgeons from the Arizona Burn Center.
And they told me that if this actually happened to you,
in less than a second, you would have a 3rd degree
burn. They said that the chicken was a
good under-representation of the skin covering your skull, and
it would take between 10 milliseconds to burn through
the hat down to the bone. At that point, you still got 8
seconds left and your skull would protect your brain
so it wouldn't be fatal, but it would be so damaged that
you probably would need skull reconstruction to replace
the charred portion and that carries with the
complications that can be fatal. Our moment of truth...
let's see, it doesn't look like it's gonna...
Ohhh, yes it is. Oh man, ok, so the beanie exposed.
very exposed. Curse you.....
So, a disappointing hearty congratulations to Jake for
winning. You can keep the amazing light lamp.
We actually made a video in this exact spot on his channel.
Aren't you forgetting something?
Like I said, on Jake's channel, we went beyond
just blowtorches in Home Alone to to see if some of the other booby traps would actually kill you.
So go check that out, make sure you comment below.
Let us know if you did better than Jake or I in your guesses.
I want to give a shout-out to...I can't do it.
Better shout out to Audible for their support on this video.
So, I showcased my amazing BB gun shooting skiils today, but
I'm afraid I am no match for Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who
is actually the deadliest sniper in U.S History.
And he wrote a book called American Sniper, which I
recently just listened to on Audible. He was nicknamed The
Devil and actually had a bounty on his head. That's why
the guy is on the other side. But his fellow Navy Seals
called him the Legend. The book is a pretty broad view of what
war was like, and how it pretty much sucks for everyone.
It tells a lot of stories of what he went through and he
doesn't share his coat much, which I found refreshing.
And, as usual,the book is way better than the movie,
so if you want to listen to American Sniper or any other
book for free, all you have to do is use the link in the
description or go to audible.com/MarkRober.
If you neveer tried an audio book, the holidays are a
great time to check it out while you are traveling.
Plus, they also make a really great gift.
Thank you for watching.
