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[edit] Mythbusters (Trivia)
"The idea that a urine-soaked silk shirt is strong enough to bend the bars of a prison cell when wrapped around them and twisted was tested on episode 26, season 2 of MythBusters. It was determined that the shirt would break long before the bars would in real life."
It should be noted, that the experiment and the scene in the movie were not similar, in the sense that in the movie, the bars were long, and in the experiment, they were short. The point of this is, that the shorter the bars become, the harder they are to bend. It's like taking a stick and breaking it in half, and then in half, and then in half again. Even though the thickness of the stick (the diameter) remains the same, it gets harder to break, the smaller it becomes. Same principle with the bars. The movie used approx 2 meter high bars (I think it's about 6'8") where as Mythbusters used something closer to 15 cm bars (about 7"), meaning it would require much more force to bend the short bars than the long ones. So the experiment is not valid compared to the movie. --Hecko 20:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
