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NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
#76: Jun 3rd 2011 at 10:50:16 PM

Furthermore, the blue ice from airplanes isn't "water and a little dye". It has additives to consider even before the question of "has it been used to rinse out a toilet yet" is addressed.

KJMackley Since: Jan, 2001
#77: Jun 4th 2011 at 1:39:53 AM

A lot of the myths they do isn't so much testing the truthfulness of a myth, but gathering data on a subject. This goes all the way back to the first season and the weather balloon chair, they knew the myth was true because of the police reports but they wanted to verify all the claims and factors involved.

Everyone knows that the surface tension of water is not far off a solid surface, especially at certain speeds, but the question is about how close it really is. Their testing showed that the difference was far more significant than expected.

MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#79: Jun 30th 2011 at 8:32:23 PM

Do we have a trope for paper armor? (As in armor actually made of paper.) This week tested just that and found the concept actually works against period weaponry. (The test was thus ruled a Plausible.)

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#80: Jul 1st 2011 at 11:42:18 AM

That’s right, we hardly ever saw Buster this season!

Incidentally, anyone else find it frustrating that they keep making references to past episodes (like Rocket Car and Chicken Gun) that they never repeat? I have never seen either of those episodes.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#81: Jul 3rd 2011 at 11:05:56 AM

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That had to be one of my more favorite Myths they did. Caught me off guard, and I was rooting for paper too!

Hell it almost looked superior to Iron, with how maneuverable it was.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#82: Sep 28th 2011 at 10:29:30 PM

Suddenly my DVR recorded a new episode. I had no idea the new season started!

So they tested that scene in RED where Marvin killed the lady who fired a RPG at him by shooting it in midair. Wow, I just saw that movie a couple of weeks ago and literally one of the first things I thought was "I wonder if Mythbusters could test that?"

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#83: Sep 29th 2011 at 1:49:22 PM

Sigh... It's gotten to the point where testing movie stunts isn't something cool and different anymore, it's just a sign that they've run out of better material.

Did anyone see that scene and seriously wonder if it could work? You don't go to action movies for plausible stunts, you go for extraordinary feats.

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#84: Sep 29th 2011 at 5:22:55 PM

Actually the part of the RPG being shot and exploding was correct though.

But yeah, I think they are running out of ideas, sadly. sad

That water running episode was stupid as hell.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#85: Sep 29th 2011 at 5:29:42 PM

I don't doubt that if you could hit it, it'd explode. The implausible part of that (besides the aiming) was that it only exploded backward.

If they're doing myths like that, they'll eventually do the shot in Superman Returns where the bullet bounces off his eye.

"So the force plate says that a bullet at that range would impart this many Newtons of force in this area, meaning his eyes are ten times stronger than titanium, let alone steel. 'Man of Steel'? Myth busted."

edited 29th Sep '11 5:30:11 PM by TParadox

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#86: Sep 29th 2011 at 10:57:59 PM

Alot of people have no idea how an RPG works.

ViralLamb Since: Jun, 2010
#87: Sep 29th 2011 at 11:05:43 PM

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edited 7th Dec '11 10:12:24 PM by ViralLamb

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#88: Oct 1st 2011 at 9:02:49 AM

[up][up]Which is why I don't really see what's supposedly wrong with this.

I do agree that they're doing specific scenes from movies too often.

edited 1st Oct '11 9:25:23 AM by thatother1dude

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#89: Oct 2nd 2011 at 11:39:06 AM

Well its probably due to them being what people ask, and easier to think of.

I mean I can't think of any "normal" myths anymore.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#90: Oct 2nd 2011 at 11:50:44 AM

They ran out of urban legends years ago. "Myth" is an artifact title these days.

If they're not doing movie stunts, they're doing pop science hacks (fuel efficiency, beat the traffic cam, plane on a conveyor belt) or viral videos, which are related to movie stunts, only with a smaller budget and even more claimed veracity.

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Tyyrlym Jerk from Normandy SR-2 Since: Mar, 2011
Jerk
#91: Oct 2nd 2011 at 12:28:06 PM

I'm fine with what they do anymore. There are only so many testable urban legends and many of those were pretty obscure anyways. The show is still fun and entertaining so I'm happy with whatever they wind up doing.

"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit
TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#92: Oct 2nd 2011 at 1:17:37 PM

One of the best episodes was the one where they made a catapult out of a cherry picker. It's also one of the first episodes I saw.

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Tyyrlym Jerk from Normandy SR-2 Since: Mar, 2011
Jerk
#93: Oct 3rd 2011 at 11:09:58 AM

That was a good one. Even when they fail it's still impressive.

"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit
Jimmmyman10 cannot into space from polan Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
cannot into space
#94: Oct 7th 2011 at 8:42:09 PM

This weeks episode was actually testing the myth that the people who watch mythbusters are unable to keep themselves from making "balls" jokes during the entire episode. So, did you fail? I know I did.

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#95: Oct 16th 2011 at 8:47:33 PM

Adam Savage hosting Curiosity in a hypothetical future where he....invents cybernetics and regrowing limbs, survives the apocalypse, and old age.

Ultimate Badass.

GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#96: Oct 17th 2011 at 4:00:34 PM

And don’t forget he helped build a space elevator. So, yes, it was a very awesome if trippy episode. I’m half disappointed and half glad Jamie didn’t show up.

Looking forward to the duct-tape airplane.


The duct tape air plane was pretty cool, but was trumped by the excavators. I gotta wonder why they didn’t git make let commission grant to make a Giant Row-Bot.

edited 20th Oct '11 8:31:50 PM by GiantSpaceChinchilla

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#97: Nov 10th 2011 at 8:44:46 PM

Anybody know if the Locations special is worth watching? Another sign of the show's decay is that they're repackaging old material into "specials" two or three times a season.

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anathame I like tanks from Washington State Since: Mar, 2010
I like tanks
#98: Nov 10th 2011 at 10:30:50 PM

I hate to be late with a holler...

Laminated paper armor really doesn't seem like it would be much weaker than lamellar armor. That being said during that period Paper was about as valuable as gold.

Ok, Silver, but you get my point.

Also, your average foot soldier would be lucky to have much more than a leather tunic in any period, so thats another thing to consider.

edited 10th Nov '11 10:35:37 PM by anathame

SomeSortOfTroper Since: Jan, 2001
#99: Nov 11th 2011 at 12:29:40 PM

I've only recently gotten a chance to see the Literally Shattered Lives myth and I noticed something: when they make the mold for the head with Kari's face and the eyelashes get left behind they then just use the mold straight for the completely ice head.

The completely ice head not only ends up with the most normal looking face (it just looks like a scuplture), it also pulls off some of the eye lashes meaning that you have this completely white face with normal eyelashes that pushes it into Uncanny Valley.

PoochyEXE from 127.0.0.1 Since: Sep, 2010
#100: Nov 12th 2011 at 6:15:31 AM

[up][up][up] Based on what I heard, it seems the repackaged episodes are the result of Executive Meddling - Discovery executives said "we want more episodes this season", the MythBusters crew said "there's no way we can film that many episodes in time".

Extra 1: Poochy Ain't Stupid

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