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S1 • E1
Designers and engineers face an almost impossible challenge -- to use truck bed liner paint, normally used to protect vehicles from scratches and knocks, to protect an entire building from a massive explosion.
S1 • E2
Crash absorbing concrete, cement injected with air, is used to stop jet liners that overshoot their runway. Can it be used to stop an out of control car? The Smash Lab team has a few ideas they want to try and they have plenty of test cars to crash.
S1 • E3
The Smash Lab teams tests a special type of carbon fiber used to reinforce tunnels to see if it can protect a home from destructive hurricanes.
S1 • E4
Can an airbag on the front of a train protect the occupants of a car it collides with? The Smash Lab team intends to find out and will also find out if a train crash can get any worse.
S1 • E5
The Smash Lab team thinks carbon fiber fabric can be used to hurricane proof a house. That includes damage from wind and flying debris. Their control tests don't fair well because they're looking to handle a category 5.
S1 • E6
The Smash Lab team tries to devise a fire escape for skyscrapers using nothing more than magnetism.
S1 • E7
In Smash Lab episode #6, "Forest Fire," Smash Lab sets out to see if Nanogel, a cutting edge insulating material, can protect a house from forest fires. The result is a fireproof blanket, but they have to come up with a way to throw the blanket over a building.
S1 • E8
People travel towing boats, mobile homes, motocross trailers; but unlike a semi, there's no backup system to stop in an emergency. The Smash Lab crew has an idea; can retro firing rockets bring a safe, controlled stop? Watch firing rockets ignite!
S1 • E9
Smash Lab evaluates a high tech bubble wrap filled with fire retardant to see if it can protect a plane in flight from an on-board bomb. Successful or not it takes a lot of explosions to test the theory.
S1 • E10
In Smash Lab episode 10, the crew takes fluidized sand from a parts cleaner and experiments with other uses. The technology incorporates blowing air through a bed of sand at a specific pressure and speed, which turns a solid bed of sand into liquid-like instant quicksand. The idea is to use it as a crime deterrent, with a final test proving it can be used as a defensive road barrier. In a dramatic finale, the cast successfully stops a runaway robber and his getaway van in two hidden beds of quicksand.
S1 • E11
Stranded at sea, sailors wait for a passing ship to be rescued. Top secret torpedo technology is used to develop mid ocean rescue. The idea is to design a coast guard life-boat that can be dropped out of a long range plane to help in a matter of hours.
S1 • E12
The team uses CO2 fire extinguishers to stop the bad guy in a high-speed car chase. The system has to work fast, but car engines are hard to kill. They must find a way of targeting the cool gas each and every time, and then find ways of deploying it.
S1 • E13
The team takes to the water in this episode -- with parachutes! They will try to engineer a system that not only deploys fast enough to eject someone from an out of control boat - but also slows them down enough to safely hit the water.
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Jerry Irvine