Could Timing A Jump Save You From An Explosion's Blast Wave? | MythBusters

MythBusters — S10 E8 "Bouncing Bullet" — Aired May 13, 2012

Action movies love showing a hero running from an explosion who times a jump at exactly the right moment to be carried forward and cushioned by the blast wave rather than thrown and injured by it, and Kari, Tory and Grant decided to find out whether timing actually matters that much, setting up controlled explosive charges with pressure sensors and high-speed cameras to measure the shockwave's arrival and intensity at different distances, then testing whether a well-timed jump genuinely changes the outcome for someone caught in the blast radius compared to simply running or standing still, because the Build Team never assumes a movie stunt is pure fantasy without measuring the actual physics first.

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