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overlord
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theyre nice... but braniacs are way better.
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epoch
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Nov 29, 2006, 12:11 PM
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Mythbusters is good for entertainment...
But I agree with overlord, Brainiacs is much better.
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carabiner96
Nov 29, 2006, 12:22 PM
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What's brainiacs?
Dorks.
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wideguy
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brainiacs is OK but they fake some of their stuff for TV. The whole bit about certain elements in water for example, the expolsions were "supplemented" with TNT. On Mythbusters f an experient fails they let it fail in good faith.
THEN they bring in the C4 and blow the snot out of it.
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shakylegs
Nov 29, 2006, 2:51 PM
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Can never remember their names, but I do know that the "younger" one, the one who doesn't wear the beret, was the stockboy in the "Don't Squeeze the Charmin" commercials of old.
No joke.
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chanceboarder
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epoch wrote: wideguy wrote: brainiacs is OK but they fake some of their stuff for TV. The whole bit about certain elements in water for example, the expolsions were "supplemented" with TNT. On Mythbusters f an experient fails they let it fail in good faith. THEN they bring in the C4 and blow the snot out of it. That is so true. I like them, but they need to stop playing re-runs...
Jason
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arrettinator
Nov 29, 2006, 5:57 PM
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I've seen a bunch of them.
Not all, but most.
Check out the episode guide.
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kachoong
Nov 29, 2006, 7:07 PM
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The chicken gun is the BEST episode! ...and the episode where they test plant growth on music, noise and yelling and stuff. They found that "any" attention, whether cursing or Mozart will help plant growth.
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wideguy
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The cemite truck/ dynamite myth was the best... can you get dried cement off the walls of a cement mixer with a 1/2 stick of Dynamite (No.)
With two sticks of dynamite (Sorta, if the layer isn't too thick.)
With 200 pounds of C4, Noone knows because there will be no truck left.
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blazesod
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Re: [devilstower10] Anyone here ever seen that T.V. show on Discovery Channel called MythBusters?
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devilstower10 wrote: I was just wondering, I think that show RULES! also, is anyone here on the forums for MythBusters?
That show is pretty cool. I was thinking about submitting some climbing myths/ urban legends to be re-examined and see if they come up with similar data to the climbing communities general consensus.
Any ideas come to mind?
-Dave
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tattooed_climber
Nov 30, 2006, 3:05 AM
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pfffft
discovery has turned into retarded TV....
good programing in between the cumstain-fuckwad shows
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jakedatc
Nov 30, 2006, 4:47 AM
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kachoong wrote: The chicken gun is the BEST episode! ...and the episode where they test plant growth on music, noise and yelling and stuff. They found that "any" attention, whether cursing or Mozart will help plant growth.
yea.. but you can't hurt a plants feelings by flipping out on it.. although it looked very therapeutic for Tory and Kari.
tv.yahoo.com used to be the best place to keep track of new shows since it told you the original air date.. but today it looks like they changed around the page and it wont load the listing for me :(
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zozo
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A woman I work with is that beret wearing mustache sporting guys niece - she has ALL the dirt!
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ctardi
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I have discussed it with the powers that be of the show, and have come up with a not enough potential situation for most of the myths I could come up with. I've got an inside line if you have any good ideas, I would be willing to pass them on. 
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brent_e
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blazesod wrote: devilstower10 wrote: I was just wondering, I think that show RULES! also, is anyone here on the forums for MythBusters? That show is pretty cool. I was thinking about submitting some climbing myths/ urban legends to be re-examined and see if they come up with similar data to the climbing communities general consensus. Any ideas come to mind? -Dave
MICROFRACTURES
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overlord
Nov 30, 2006, 2:26 PM
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and aging of nylon webbing.
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kachoong
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Would love to see Buster the crash-test-dummy in a fall simulation.
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arrettinator
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kachoong wrote: Would love to see Buster the crash-test-dummy in a fall simulation.
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bill413
Nov 30, 2006, 7:34 PM
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wideguy wrote: brainiacs is OK but they fake some of their stuff for TV. The whole bit about certain elements in water for example, the expolsions were "supplemented" with TNT. On Mythbusters f an experient fails they let it fail in good faith. THEN they bring in the C4 and blow the snot out of it.
I really like the show, but there have been several myths that they have "busted" because they were not able to confirm it with their materials & methodology. An example is last night's "shooting a sniper thru the telescopic sight" segment.
But, overall, it does have moments of genius.
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zip_ty
Nov 30, 2006, 7:38 PM
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In reply to: An example is last night's "shooting a sniper thru the telescopic sight" segment.
I watched that one last night. Even though they couldn't confirm the myth it was crazy to watch. Not sure I'd want to be looking down the gun sight when a bullet is coming in. I'm sure the force from having a bullet shove the scope into your eye is pretty painful.
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arrettinator
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zip_ty wrote: In reply to: An example is last night's "shooting a sniper thru the telescopic sight" segment. I watched that one last night. Even though they couldn't confirm the myth it was crazy to watch. Not sure I'd want to be looking down the gun sight when a bullet is coming in. I'm sure the force from having a bullet shove the scope into your eye is pretty painful.
Check out the discussion on their message boards about this one.
http://community.discovery.com/...1967776/m/7111995558
Edit to add: The guy that was shooting on the show posted some good info.
And the Civil War bullet fusion was frickin sweet.
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col
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I like it, although i think that the earlier episodes were better, it seems to get gradually harder for me to really get into.
climbing related mythbusters idea -
I want to see them replicate that massive jump with the swinging ice axes from the movie vertical limit. or the incredibly long fall with one hand to stop it by tom cruse in one of those mission impossible movies. or pretty much any scene from a hollywood movie where peoples arms should come off.....
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wyrdrocks
Dec 1, 2006, 3:36 AM
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The show is fun to watch.
I really enjoyed the ones where they were trying to shoot a person underwater, who would have thought that wasn't fatal.
And that methane tower was amazing!
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philbox
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Mythbusters rools. I am reliably told that it was an Australian idea and the production team is all Australian. Could be a myth though, heh.
Those fused bullets by the way is totally true. I have seen a display case full of fused bullets that have become lodged together in flight. They are in the museum at Gallipoli in Turkey. Can you imagine how many bullets had been fired during that particular part of WW1 for that to happen.
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sickbird
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is it just me, or does anyone else think that the moustache guy probably has some serious halitosis
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devilstower10
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for some of you here is some information I know on the show.
Times: Wednesdays at 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM central time. I don't know the Saturday and Sunday times
People:
Adam John Savage: The childish redheaded guy. age: 39.
Jamie Hyneman: The logical one with the beret and HUGE moustache. age: 49 or 50.
Tory Bellechi: The one with dark hair that isn't the total braniac. age: unknown.
Kari Byron: The redheaded woman most guys think is hot. age: unknown.
Grant Imahara: The black-haired computer whiz/braniac. age: unknown.
Jess: The new blonde woman. age: unknown.
Scottie Chapman: left the show. age: unknown.
Christine: left the show. age: unknown.
I hope this helps some of you. The cement truck explosion: AWESOME!
The chicken gun: HILARIOUS!
Methane bubble tower: HILARIOUS!
Adam: HOT!  
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