流言终结者（2003）

MythBusters S13E02

Part 3 Dec. 17, 2020, 12:54 p.m.

can handle the hard stuff.
能够扛得住这壶烈酒
So, this one's confirmed.
所以流言被证实了
You can run a car on moonshine.
你的确可以用私酿烈酒发动一辆汽车
That is so bizarre.
真是太奇妙了
Later...
接下来...
You're going down, sucker.
小样你输定了
but first...
但首先
Aren't we inadvertently testing "a watched pot never boils"?
我们是在顺便验证"心急水不开"吗
You know, I was gonna say the same thing.
我刚刚也想这么说
Because they spend their lives
因为他们一生都在
on the wrong side of the law,
与法律作对
moonshiners are always on the lookout for trouble.
私酒贩子总是给自己招来麻烦
And when it comes to trouble,
谈到麻烦
a boiler full of flammable vapor is top of the list.
排在首位的就是一个充满易燃蒸汽的锅炉
But could a still really explode
但是一个蒸馏器真的能够爆♥炸♥
and take a shack down with it?
并且毁掉整个小棚屋吗
Feel like making some alcohol?
要不要酿点酒
And blowing some stuff up.
再顺便把什么东西炸飞
Yeah, let's fire up the boiler.
好我们来点燃这个锅炉吧
Well, first they've got to build their still house.
首先他们要建造自己的蒸馏棚屋
That's the floor. Let's screw it down.
这是地板咱们来把它固定好
Yeah.
好
It's a quick and dirty shack,
这是个快速搭建的简陋小棚
that's got three walls in no time...
三面墙瞬间就搭完了...
There it is.
就是这样
and a clear fourth wall
第四面墙是透明的
to ensure they get their boom with a view.
为了方便观察爆♥炸♥情景
Everything's really clear.
一览无余
So, now to bring in the still.
现在置入蒸馏器
If this is a story about an exploding still,
假如蒸馏器能爆♥炸♥的话
what is it exactly
到底是什么原因
that is supposed to make the still explode?
导致蒸馏器发生爆♥炸♥呢
Well, as the mash burns and alcohol is produced,
加热浆料蒸馏酒精的过程中
particulate matter can actually build up inside this thing,
颗粒物质会在冷凝管内壁积累
and cause a clog.
最终导致阻塞
Now, when that clog happens,
阻塞一旦出现
all of a sudden you end up with alcohol with no outlet,
蒸出的酒精无法排出
and that makes it become a pressure vessel.
整个装置就成为一个高压容器
And we all know what happens on "Mythbusters"
大家一定清楚在本节目中
when a pressure vessel fails.
高压容器故障会发生什么
How am I going to induce that "clog" in the still?
要怎样制♥造♥蒸馏器里的阻塞呢
With this -- a simple, half-inch copper cap
把这个1.5厘米的铜帽
soldered to the only outlet for the alcohol.
焊接到唯一的酒精出口上
That is perfect.
很完美
Now, once we've eliminated its outlet
当我们把排气口堵死
and start to heat it up, it will find its own way out.
进行加热酒精会自己找地方出来的
The question we're going to answer
我们通过实验想要知道的是
with that experiment is, how bad will it be?
最坏的情况是什么样的
So, for their worst-case scenario still failure,
为了呈现最糟糕的蒸馏器故障
they've deliberately blocked the outlet.
他们故意堵住了出口
Because we're looking for the worst-case scenario,
因为我们想测试最坏情况
I'm using 200-proof alcohol.
我用的是100%酒精
That is pure alcohol.
即纯酒精
We are ready to go.
可以开始了
Distilling from pure alcohol means more vapors
蒸馏纯酒精意味着更多的蒸汽
and should mean more pressure for the still.
从而应该能进一步增加蒸馏器中压强
Everything looks good, temperature's rising steadily.
一切正常温度逐渐升高
It's at 100.
已经38度了
Excellent.
非常好
Let the pressure begin.
压力测试开始
With no outlet,
由于没有出口
the pressure inside the still builds,
蒸馏器内的压力
and so does the heat.
与温度都在升高
The temperature's climbing like a rocket.
温度直线上升
And, as the temperature within the still
当蒸馏器内温度达到260摄氏度时
skyrockets to 500 degrees, the room starts to cook.
房♥间仿佛要被烤熟了
That's enough heat to autoignite
要是有空气这温度已经足够
all the wood in there if it had air.
引燃里面所有的木头了
So my question is, is it enough to make the vessel fail?
我想知道这温度能使容器故障吗
That's what I'm hoping.
这是我希望看到的
Smoke coming out the top.
顶部有烟冒出来了
Smoke out the top. No signal.
顶部冒烟了信♥号♥♥丢失
Oh, we just lost signal on the camera.
摄像头刚刚失去信♥号♥♥了
That means it got crazy, crazy, crazy hot in there.
这说明里面的温度已经高得变♥态♥了
Yeah.
没错
After 30 minutes of their worst-case scenario,
最坏情况持续了三十分钟后
still no room boom.
爆♥炸♥仍然没有发生
But there is fire in the hole.
但是里面已经着火了
I see flame coming out all over the place now.
火苗蹿得到处都是
I'm starting to suspect that,
我怀疑
somewhere in the piping leading out of my still,
蒸馏器的管道
there's a failure.
有个地方漏了
We might not get a failure of the actual vessel
我们估计看不到容器爆♥炸♥事故了
because it's just leaking consistently in that space
因为蒸汽不断泄露到外部
and feeding this fire.
然后燃烧掉了
Should we think about putting it out?
我们该灭火了吧
I think so.
我也觉得
I don't think there are any big build ups of fumes in there.
我不认为有爆♥炸♥的危险
No, I'm gonna put on the fire suit. Okay.
我去穿防火衣好
Adam is quick to hose down the wreckage.
亚当迅速把余火扑灭
Might as well let it burn.
其实让它继续烧也行
There's nothing salvageable in there.
反正没什么可以回收的
The still is totally destroyed.
蒸馏器完全毁了
Okay.
好吧
But it's the lack of an explosion
因为没有爆♥炸♥
that really put the damper on this myth.
这着实阻碍了流言的证实
Nothing that we predicted or expected to happen
我们预期的状况
happened as we thought it might.
都没有发生
Open flames started working beautifully.
明火开始时工作正常
We were getting some nice high temperatures on my still.
蒸馏器内的温度也升上去了
But instead of acting
但是并没有发生
like a pressure vessel that fails catastrophically,
高压容器故障后的灾难性爆♥炸♥
once it got up to heat, it seemed to fail...
温度升上去后装置的故障怎么说呢
What's the opposite of catastrophic?
灾难的反义词是什么
Laconically, lackadaisically.
简洁的拖沓的
Don't get me wrong, if you came upon this
别误会要是你遇到这种事
and this was your shack
假如这是你的棚屋
and you came upon it the next morning,
当第二天早上你看到它的时候
you'd be like, "hey, my shack blew up."
你估计会说我的窝棚炸飞了
But I'm here to tell you there's no explosion there.
但我想告诉你并没有发生爆♥炸♥
No explosion.
没有爆♥炸♥
No, so sad, but that was just one scenario,
真遗憾不过那只是其中一种情况
and there are others.
还有别的可能
It's true, there are.
确实如此
Shall we set one up? Let's do it.
我们要不要验证一下当然
There's no doubt that moonshine can be very strong stuff.
私酿烈酒毫无疑问非常刺♥激♥
All right, here we go. We got some moonshine a-going.
好了我们的私酒酿好了
And it even looks like you can run a car on it.
你甚至可以拿它当汽车燃料
So, we put moonshine in a car, and it ran.
我们往车里灌私酿烈酒后车能开动
That's myth confirmed, right?
那条流言被证实了是吧
Not as far as I'm concerned.
我觉的还不够
I've always heard the myth that a car running on moonshine
我听说燃烧私酿烈酒的车跑得
will outrun a car running on gas,
比烧汽油的要快
that the moonshine will outperform the gasoline.
也就是说私酿烈酒比汽油还给力
I mean, that's how they portray it in the movies, right?
电影里不都是这么演的吗
All right, well, why don't we continue our tests
我们为什么不用表现最佳的汽车
with our best-performing car.
继续实验呢
Let's also mess with the formulations for the moonshine,
我们还可以试试不同的私酿烈酒
find the best proof to run in the car,
找出最适合车的酒精度数
put it head-to-head against a gas-fueled vehicle,
然后跟烧汽油的车比试一下