Best and Worst of the Mythbusters
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It was cool when they did the one about whether or not a penny dropped from the top of a building could kill a person. And the one about if an exploding waterheater could destroy a building (it can!). The iron balloon one was interesting.
I love all the ones where they blow stuff up.
But I don't like those three kids. I know they have them to do all the silly ones that they don't want to waste time on--but man, those kids annoy me.
I love all the ones where they blow stuff up.
But I don't like those three kids. I know they have them to do all the silly ones that they don't want to waste time on--but man, those kids annoy me.
Not exactly sure about which myths, but there has been a few myths where the Mythbusters just got the plain wrong result. And there has been a few where you could hear the myth and instantly disprove it, yet they used half an episode to do so. (And not in a particularly exiting fashion, mind you.)
But they also have some myths that were pretty interesting and entertaining to watch. Like mentioned, the Rocket Car Pancake [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh835unue5w] was pretty freakin' awesome.
But they also have some myths that were pretty interesting and entertaining to watch. Like mentioned, the Rocket Car Pancake [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh835unue5w] was pretty freakin' awesome.
Rednog said:
I haven't seen that episode but i think is completely possible to curve a bullet's trajectory probably not noticeable in a short distance and definetly not by flicking ones wrist but is basic physics that an object will tend to keep its movement state. I repeat, i didn't watch the episode but it sounds like they didn't built a mechanism that swinged the gun when it's shot. About gravity being a amazingly huge force, any mechanism that they can build would surpass gravity's ~9.1 square meters per second acceleration, at least in the first second.Calobi said:
on topic, episodes i liked
when they scaped from jail using hair and toilet paper ropes
water drop in forhead torture episode
when they used hypnosis to remember more details of the scene they put up
on a related subject. did you seen kari's FHM photos? *meeeaw*
I liked the episode where they tested security gears.
Like lasers, fingerprint codes and climbing in a vent with like Magnetic boots or using suction cups.
That episode was awesome.
"Oh, Thor, God of thunder is entering the building" XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVR5lp5kePw
Check those.
Like lasers, fingerprint codes and climbing in a vent with like Magnetic boots or using suction cups.
That episode was awesome.
"Oh, Thor, God of thunder is entering the building" XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVR5lp5kePw
Check those.
Like I said, the myth was whether or not a human could curve a bullet like in Wanted. They did have a swinging mechanism preformed by a robot, and they cranked it up to several times human strength. I doubt any human could surpass gravity's strength.esperandote said:
I don't know anymore. It was fun to watch stuff get blown up for the first few seasons... but lately it's become bland to me. I don't blame the added attention to the build team; they're okay. I blame the writers for trying to make it funny. They're so corny it makes me want to vomit blood into other people's mouths.
Y'know. Like a normal person. Or Tyler Durden.
Y'know. Like a normal person. Or Tyler Durden.
Sword breaking sword, Catching an Arrow, pretty much anything that involves something blowing up, and using a photocopied fingerprint to bust a fingerprint reader.
Some of there earlier stuff when it was less mainstream were very good, like the hovercrafts or The pesticide Bomb
Best: The one where they stuffed Buster into an overloaded washing machine and had to modify it to be able spin him around. The circumstances for that myth were such total crap that it busted itself they tried it anyway and the result was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.
Worst: I'd have to agree with the people saying the Wanted bullet crap, and I know they knew when they started that it was bullshit but they had to do their best anyway because when they don't the 'fans' scream about it and they end up revisiting so many times it's not funny. They end up doing that with a lot of myths these days just to keep the people on their forums happy. Just take a look at how many times they went over the "free energy" myths before they got sick of it and said stop emailing them stuff about it.
Worst: I'd have to agree with the people saying the Wanted bullet crap, and I know they knew when they started that it was bullshit but they had to do their best anyway because when they don't the 'fans' scream about it and they end up revisiting so many times it's not funny. They end up doing that with a lot of myths these days just to keep the people on their forums happy. Just take a look at how many times they went over the "free energy" myths before they got sick of it and said stop emailing them stuff about it.
I liked the sobering up myths, because the slo-motion slap was freaking hilarious!
and the one where they sent a rocket cart right through a car at super sonic speeds, that too was the coolest bit of slo motion I have ever seen.
and the one where they sent a rocket cart right through a car at super sonic speeds, that too was the coolest bit of slo motion I have ever seen.
Gravity is actually an incredibly weak force, but that's not the point. I actually got into an argument this afternoon about this very subject.Rednog said:
The short of it is, while one can affect bullet trajectory by "whipping their arm" like in the movie wanted, unless someone was both firing an incredibly slow moving round AND was freakishly fast they wouldn't actually make much of an impact on the flight path. Because the arm motion is essentially circular, the instantaneous velocity would be applied roughly perpendicular to the forward velocity of the round. Unfortunately, because major league baseball pitchers (for example) rarely break 150 FPS at the fingertip and bullets easily exceed 750 FPS (unless one buys subsonic rounds) the actual effect would not be much different than simply pointing the weapon a few degrees left or right. What's more, the resultant flight path of the round would still essentially be straight as the only way to achieve a curved path is via the continual application of force. While one may be able to impart a tiny amount of additional spin on the proper axis if fantastically (I.E. impossibly) skillful, it would not be sufficient to actually result in a significant alternation of the flight path. This is simply the result of bullet design - while a spinning object does indeed create high and low pressure zones in a fluid, in order for a bullet to significantly overcome it's own mass requires a tremendous amount of spin. An m-16 for example twists a round 2.5 times before it leaves the barrel, and when it does the round is traveling in excess of 2500 FPS. Even though the angular velocity of the round is in the thousands of rad/s, said round only generates enough lift to alter the trajectory of the round 1.5 feet above the vertical axis.
In short, while it may be physically possible (in that there is indeed a way to make a bullet respond as it did in the movie), the assertion that a creature of mere meat and bone could make it happen is laughable.
I liked the one where they did the bike flip from an Indiana Jones movie. That wasn't the part I liked though, they also did jail breaks using hair, bed sheets and toilet paper. All of which worked to scale down the side of the building.