Sep 10 2008Mythbuster Inhales Sulfur Hexafluoride
Helium is 6x less dense than air and makes your voice sound like you just got kicked in the pickle. But sulfur hexafluoride is 5x denser than air and makes you sound like a badass supervillian. You've got to hear it to believe it. And while Adam made me promise at the beginning of the video I wouldn't try it at home, I had my fingers crossed. I hope I die!
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Reader Comments
1. erica - September 10, 2008 12:49 PM
Why hasn't this become a party trick like inhaling helium has? Its every bit as awesome.
2. monkeymuscle - September 10, 2008 12:50 PM
Way better than helium. A balloon of that and a laser gun...Presto! Supervillain!
3. Ryan - September 10, 2008 12:51 PM
F1RST THIS RULEZ!!
4. Not That Guy - September 10, 2008 12:53 PM
When that episode played last week I jumped off the couch and yelled "We need to get some of that super hexafexide shit!"
Unfortunately I live alone, and so the plan didn't really grow legs.
Damn, I need to get laid.
5. jeramey - September 10, 2008 12:53 PM
freon has this same affect, along with a few other affects
6. monkeymuscle - September 10, 2008 12:55 PM
...Ry4n F41l5...
7. jerome - September 10, 2008 1:02 PM
About six years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by five girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn't submerge, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen Winstead's body, with her neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell... They believed them.
FACT: About two months later, 16-year-old David Gregory read this post and didn't repost it. When he went to take a shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his computer to repost it. He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was gone. A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with a broken neck and the skin on his face peeled off.
Even Google her name - you'll find this to be true.
If you don't repost this saying "They hurt her," then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep, you'll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and kill you.
8. Dr_Freak - September 10, 2008 1:05 PM
Nitrous oxide will do that as well, i'll bet you get a better hit off it too!
9. Dr_Freak - September 10, 2008 1:11 PM
p.s. jerome, you're a dick for so many reasons... there's just not enough time in a day to list them all. Kindly fall down a sewer & break your neck... PLEASE!
10. Rod - September 10, 2008 1:12 PM
I once took Carmen Winstead out to a nice seafood dinner, then never called her again.
11. Thumperchica - September 10, 2008 1:14 PM
@7 - If you are trying to avoid harm - posting irritating chain letters is not helping your cause you douche.
It seems like it would be funny to have a few people inhale helium and at least one person inhale sulfur hexafluoride and take a stab at singing "Making Christmas" from the Nightmare Before Christmas...
12. ali - September 10, 2008 1:15 PM
@ 7. Carmen sounds like a total babe, tell her to call me...i'm lonely.
13. The Mighty Musnud - September 10, 2008 1:18 PM
This was on Leno recently too. Can't find a clip on Youtube anymore, though. Those dorkwads at NBC must have had it removed...
14. Carmen Winstead - September 10, 2008 1:21 PM
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
15. Jazzman - September 10, 2008 1:24 PM
wicked... who's posting the first mod!!!
16. commentzor - September 10, 2008 1:30 PM
I thought this "repost this cr*p or blah blah blah will blah blah within blah" sh*t finally went the way of the Pog.
Now, if only Homeland Security devoted a wing of their cybercrime division to the FIRSTYYs of the world and the jeromes, the world would be a better place. Maybe they could have some kind of crack secret forces team that rappelled down from the roof and pulled their underpants over their heads. "Wedgie Force Delta" perhaps.
17. Carmen Winstead - September 10, 2008 1:44 PM
COMMENTZOR, TO THE SEWERS I BANISH YE
18. Leeam - September 10, 2008 1:51 PM
That was smashing. Proper good.
I want some.
GET ME SOME OR I PWN YOU
19. Superevil - September 10, 2008 1:55 PM
isn't this episode like 3 or 4 years old?
20. commentzor - September 10, 2008 1:58 PM
Aw heck, it is true! I'm in the sewers and it feels like my face is peeling off!
No, wait, sorry, I'm just at work.
21. SmokingGirl - September 10, 2008 2:05 PM
The guys from 'Mythbusters' are so cool...and chain letters are gay. Tricked-out Prius gay, which is one degree below superhero gay. Not to be confused with seven degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon. Now if it was seven degrees of seperation from Tom Cruise, then that would be uber gay.
That's it. No more pots of coffee for me. Wheeeeeeeeee...
22. Not That Guy - September 10, 2008 2:11 PM
#7 - "When she didn't submerge, the police were called."
So....when she didn't go under water they called the cops? WTF? Did they pump her full of lead until she finally sank (AKA submerged?)
You dumb f***. Take your bullshit elsewhere, we're here to talk about gadgets and boobs and chicks and chicks with gadgets on their boobs.
Useless pube.
23. commentzor - September 10, 2008 2:15 PM
@22: Maybe she was a witch?
Also, amen. Mammotechnology is an under-developed field, imo.
24. monkeymuscle - September 10, 2008 2:16 PM
22: Don't forget gadgets with boobs!
25. GEOFF LEPPARD - September 10, 2008 2:30 PM
Someone's trying to get a little attention for their meme.
Top tip: civilised society has contempt for 4chan. Y'simpleton.
26. Momboelitist - September 10, 2008 2:34 PM
"When she didn't submerge, the police were called"
Submerge? Do you know what submerge means? Maybe you were trying to say emerge.
Anyway, other than pointing out #7's obvious shortcomings I've got nothing.
27. Enflamed - September 10, 2008 2:34 PM
I wonder what would happen if Penn from Penn & Teller inhaled this...He could sound ever DEEPER!?!?!?!?
28. Jessica Chobot - September 10, 2008 3:09 PM
That is SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
But does it taste like rotten eggs mixed w/ farts?
29. Jayfournines - September 10, 2008 3:12 PM
Mammotechnology is the greatest word ever created EVER
30. jerome rides again - September 10, 2008 3:21 PM
About sixty-ten years ago in Indiana, TWITCH! was pushed down a Large Hadron Collider opening by five girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a test of the Large Hadron Collider. When she didn't Never Back Down, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen "1337" Winstead's body, with gadgets on her boobs, and her neck broken from hitting the crack-bong, then sulfur hexafluoride, then the crack-bong again, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell... They believed them.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
FACT: About two WTFWJD later, 16-year-old David "Totally Legit" Gregory read this PEWPEWPEW and didn't repost it. When he went to take a shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his Cave of Solitude to soil himself. He said goodnight to his his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was F1RST. A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with a "large hadron" and the skin on his insert witty body-part reference peeled off.
Even Google her name - you'll find this to be a giant waste of time.
If you don't repost this saying "I'm sorry for being such an enormous f***ing DOUCHENOZZLE," then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep, you'll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and make sweet sweet whoopie with you. WWJDTFBBQZOMG are you still doing reading this?
31. DigitalT - September 10, 2008 3:23 PM
SO AWESOME!!!
32. apeman - September 10, 2008 3:28 PM
im gonna inhale a tank of that before i go into my next job interview. i'll be sure to get the job!
33. Elmo - September 10, 2008 3:51 PM
OMFG I read the headline and I thought he died or something D:
you shithead! that show is why I own a tv
well since no one's dead- that's really awsome
34. Fight Racism - September 10, 2008 4:40 PM
#1
Why it hasn't become a cool party trick:
people don't fill their balloons with sulfur hexafluoride.
35. Thumperchica - September 10, 2008 4:56 PM
@30 - YOUR COMPLETELY AWESOME. And my new fav word is "douchenozzle"
36. Thumperchica - September 10, 2008 4:58 PM
and by "your" I meant "you're" or even "you are"... God I'm going home...
37. Evoltsol - September 10, 2008 5:10 PM
Badass.
38. Hunter - September 10, 2008 5:37 PM
Jerome - You are a penis.
Thumperchica - I was going to blast you for your improper grammar, but you fixed it yourself so it's not as bad.
I saw this when it aired last week and I was cracking up, it almost sounds dubbed, but I'll have to try it for myself :)
39. Antonio - September 10, 2008 6:49 PM
I agreee. #30 must be jesus's little sibling. That was GODLY!!!!!
40. lulu - September 10, 2008 7:48 PM
THAT FIRE THING WAS F***IN AWESOME!!
41. Zippy - September 10, 2008 8:06 PM
@ 22 Not That Guy - well said
@ 23 Mammotechnology, brilliant! I want to invest in that.
42. beastman AIDS - September 10, 2008 8:07 PM
Jerome - i'm going to bukake you.
#22 & 23 - "chicks with gadgets on their boobs" + "mammotechnology" made my day.
43. Dr. Fake - September 10, 2008 10:12 PM
@30 - That story is completely fake. The shadows are all wrong. If it were a real story, when they found him in the sewer, he would have been playing bomberman (or possibly Mega Man) on FireNes.
Excellent fan fiction though.
44. Scott - September 11, 2008 9:28 AM
@ 10 Carmen Winstead is a saint!!!!
45. Freddy K - September 11, 2008 9:32 AM
Okay, this comment stream is one of the funniest in a long while.
Jerome, you scared the living crap out of me with that story. I now must re-post all that bullshit over and over again to save my mother from a greusome faceless death. Thanks alot you douche.
Also, Mammotechnology = awesome
I'm so going back to school to study mammotechnology.
46. jerome - September 11, 2008 11:17 AM
@45 and everyone else
i didnt want to post that here but i was shitting myself and i needed somewhere to post it
47. toast - September 11, 2008 11:35 AM
i almost pmp laughing at all these comments! @30 im sending you my medical bill, after reading what you wrote i laughed so hard i forgot to foward the message. nw im stuck dwn sum sewer, landed on my hadron broke the dam this aswell as my neck and ripped my face off! ( 8(|)
48. Thumperchica - September 11, 2008 11:41 AM
@ Jerome - Still, You = Douchenozzle
49. commentzor - September 11, 2008 12:21 PM
Agreed, Thumperchica.
Although, Jerome, if you post on this site hereafter as "Douchenozzle," I'll definitely forgive you. ^.^
50. Elmo - September 11, 2008 1:38 PM
alright, that vid never gets old- I guess I should get back to...work?
51. Megan - September 11, 2008 2:19 PM
Haha, excellent comment thread. And also yay for Thumperchica for correcting the improper "your" because I hate when people do that. ^_^
52. Icon - September 11, 2008 2:20 PM
It's sad I spent half the day yesterday trying to find somewhere to buy this shit for a reasonable price. Hah, just kidding. I get paid to sit here and look pretty. Damn I'm sexy.
brb, having sex with myself.
53. Thumperchica - September 11, 2008 2:56 PM
Icon - Is your company hiring? I could totally live with that kind of work day!
54. Mr.Anderson - September 11, 2008 4:28 PM
@25 It's protip: -_-'
And my voice gets really low! Although somehow it's still funny!
IT'S SCIENTIFIC! HAHAHAHA!!
55. poop - September 11, 2008 5:43 PM
the Rubens Tube is pretty badass. This guy could get into the party business.
56. Elmo - September 11, 2008 6:14 PM
actually that tube thing was on mythbusters show way before that vid
57. Icon - September 11, 2008 6:16 PM
@56
It might have been on Mythbusters before that video, but it was in Never Back Down years before that.
58. Cocknugget - September 12, 2008 3:44 PM
One sunny day a old lady died of natural causes. if you don't repost this in 0.2 seconds, you will immediately void your bowels. GOOGLE IT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME 8D
59. bass - September 12, 2008 10:52 PM
BUAHAHAHA
i was having a bad day..............then i read this comment thread...and now i...think im betr....i need some of this stuff to
60. El Todd - September 13, 2008 4:51 AM
Ya know jerome, I wonder if you are smart enough to realize you shouldn't procreate. Nope. My daughter just dissected your offspring in junior high science class.
What a AFTERDOUCHE!
61. dang nabbit - September 13, 2008 11:29 AM
About six years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by five girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn't submerge, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen Winstead's body, with her neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell... They believed them.
FACT: About two months later, 16-year-old David Gregory read this post and didn't repost it. When he went to take a shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his computer to repost it. He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was gone. A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with a broken neck and the skin on his face peeled off.
Even Google her name - you'll find this to be true.
If you don't repost this saying "They hurt her," then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep, you'll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and kill you.
62. Beej - September 13, 2008 2:47 PM
Sodium Hexafluoride= Jeff Bridges?
63. FAG - September 14, 2008 5:21 PM
only
64. thedoctor - September 15, 2008 7:48 PM
hey Not That Guy u spelled it wrong its sulfur heafluoride
65. Me - September 23, 2008 9:42 PM
They Hurt Her
66. colonman(the_sidekick) - October 11, 2008 12:57 AM
so much for weed. i bet i could sell sulfur hexafluoride on the streets now thanks to MYTHBUSTERS (although its not as hard to get a hold of) but still i can see cops pulling me over and asking me if they can search my car. of course in this situation my only option is to inhale the stuff and use my deep voice to scare them away. only problem is if they are MYTHBUSTERS fans too.
67. sunbum - October 13, 2008 8:17 PM
oh please that would never work
68. sunbum - October 13, 2008 8:22 PM
i mean the thing about the cops not the sulfur hexafluoride trick
69. sorrymissjackson - October 13, 2008 8:30 PM
i wonder if this stuff could make someones farts sound deeper if they could some how administer it in thier rectum cavity (aka the blow hole)
70. sunbum - October 13, 2008 8:34 PM
why dont you try it and then post the results on here
71. sorrymissjackson - October 13, 2008 8:41 PM
ok i will i have always wanted to be a mythbuster i bet that it will work maybe i will win a nobel prize for it
72. sunbum - October 13, 2008 8:43 PM
i dont think you will win anything dude
73. sorrymissjackson - October 17, 2008 12:09 PM
IT WORKS!!!!
74. The Truth - October 26, 2008 6:43 PM
About sixty-ten years ago in Indiana, TWITCH! was pushed down a Large Hadron Collider opening by five girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a test of the Large Hadron Collider. When she didn't Never Back Down, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen "1337" Winstead's body, with gadgets on her boobs, and her neck broken from hitting the crack-bong, then sulfur hexafluoride, then the crack-bong again, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell... They believed them.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
FACT: About two WTFWJD later, 16-year-old David "Totally Legit" Gregory read this PEWPEWPEW and didn't repost it. When he went to take a shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his Cave of Solitude to soil himself. He said goodnight to his his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was F1RST. A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with a "large hadron" and the skin on his insert witty body-part reference peeled off.
Even Google her name - you'll find this to be a giant waste of time.
If you don't repost this saying "I'm sorry for being such an enormous f***ing DOUCHENOZZLE," then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep, you'll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and make sweet sweet whoopie with you. WWJDTFBBQZOMG are you still doing reading this?
75. Wow What A Doofus - November 30, 2008 1:53 AM
Someone should introduce this stuff to James Earl Jones. He would most likely be able to converse with whales and possibly even hypogriffs.
76. microwaveb - February 6, 2009 8:17 AM
About 20 years ago in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Dr Elsa Schneider was pushed down a mystical canyon opening by five evil spirits in an ancient temple, trying to embarrass her in front of Nazis during an attempt to obtain the holy grail . When she didn't submarine, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen' MODEROM - MODEROM SUDEROM' Winstead's body, with her neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell... They believed them.
FACT: About two months later, 16-year-old David 'THE POISON DR JONES' Gregory read this ancient heiroglyphic tablet and didn't repost it. When he went to take an shower, he heard laughter, started freaking out, and ran to his Tempe of Doom to moderom suderom. He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, but five hours later, his mom woke up in the middle of the night from a loud noise and David was 1NDY. A few hours later, the police found him in the sewer, with snakes I hate snakes..
Even Google her name - you'll find this to be true.
If you don't repost this saying "X marks the spot" the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?
77. JJtoob - March 22, 2009 11:11 PM
Cool post, but man, this comments got me cracking up. Thanks guys, you all made me laugh, now i can die faceless.