Keith wrote: Reverend, you'd never make it in television.
Yeah, probably not, hahaha 
Keith wrote: Reverend, you'd never make it in television.
Yeah, probably not, hahaha
neon4891 wrote: Kari, hmmmm. I like redheads.
She got pregnant, so we'll have to see how much carnage that caused.
Hot, brainy, semi-nerdy chicks FTW
shes not a real rehead, but it is worth googling the pics that were in "stuff" magazine or whatever a while back, when the show was first getting started. Her in underwear or something IIRC.
I'm so in love with her its not funny.
The show used to be very informative but it started being lots of filler and lots of "character" and lots of suspense building moments al la OCC.
And then along came a new breed of "science" show where they blew stuff up, and mythbusters had to keep pace.
It was never really about the science, as the guys are stunt guys, not science guys. They find ways to "test" theories that make anyone with scientific mind cringe.
The resonant frequency bridge myth (where troops break step crossing bridges) was tested with fully size army boots on a scale bridge. I'm no acoustic engineer but even I can tell you that you can't scale down one half of an acoustic experiement and not scale the other and expect it to be an accurate representation of what the full model would do (and beyond that, you can't scale acoustic things down accurately anyway, and beyond that, even if you could, their "test" with pnumatic actuators and weights was such a horseE36 M3 version of the acoustic effects of marching soldiers that it was a crock either way).
I wanna know where they get these "myths" from? I've never heard of the majority of them. and a good portion of them you know will fail as soon as you hear the myth. But it is fun to watch once in a while, better than most of what's on the tube and Kari is hot no matter what color her hair is. 
What ever happened to the other girl on the show, the one with the tats. She was kinda cute and could weld.
wlkelley3 wrote: I wanna know where they get these "myths" from? I've never heard of the majority of them. and a good portion of them you know will fail as soon as you hear the myth. But it is fun to watch once in a while, better than most of what's on the tube and Kari is hot no matter what color her hair is.
Check out the mythbusters forums if you want to be depressed about the intelligence of the average internet user.
Mythbusters dispelled the myth that you can get injured hitting two hammers together. I've been warned against doing this since I was a kid, but when I was 18, I decided the best tools for a particular job were two hammers. I still have a bit of hammer lodged in my thigh. Two inches closer to the left, and I'd be half the man I am now.
I can't believe the "airplane on a treadmill" myth was ever even brought to air. Still, it's an entertaining show. The exploding pants myth was fun.
Partial hijack - what does weight distribution have to do with how a BMW falls from the sky? Wouldn't it be all about aerodynamics?
Doesn't everything fall at 32 ft/sec. squared, regardless of weight? Or has that changed since I went to grammar school?
The manner in which a BMW falls from the sky will depend on where the center of pressure is relative to the center of gravity.
Does a feather drop at the same rate as a coin? When you account for areodynamic drag, the weight and shape of a falling object affects its terminal velocity.
the fbody mullet machine doing burn outs was testing the theory of doing a burn out to the point that the tires catch fire...
i like the show... especially with DVR... i'm looking forward to the new season... even the old ones i'll turn on if nothing else is on... not the most amazing show... but it's fun :)
gamby wrote: She got pregnant, so we'll have to see how much carnage that caused.
Did they think to test the "Determine the baby's sex" tests/myths?
I like the show for the trainwreck it is. Their science and applications thereof are shaky, their conclusions are often not supported, and they're all just plain goofy.
Their "experts" often really aren't expert in the specific sub-field involved, either.
Suggestions:
Just because you can't do it in a couple of tries doesn't mean can't be done.
Let's not always go for the extreme in a myth's wording. Fast burning pants are close enough to "exploding" if they're on your body at the time.
There's usually more than one way to skin a cat. (No, I'm not calling for testing THAT one ...)
There was a marathon this weekend. The one about wheter or not rain would enter the cabin of a moving convertible bugged me. Two words... Early Miata. More rain got in my '91 with the top up than with it down. And it was not absolutely necessary to stop or slow down much to raise the top.
Above a certain speed, you start getting rain on the inside of the windshield. That's a problem 
I forget what it is now - too many years of Miatas with hardtops and a desert climate. But if you're on the highway, don't slow down!
as long as I was going over like 45 mph the seats stayed dry in my 93 240sx convertible.
I've seen tires catch on fire from a burn out (old bias plies, but still tires)
I've marched across bridges in band and felt the structure start to sway more and more until we broke step and felt it stop (even though the same weight was on it)
I can't remember the rest, but over the years, I've busted mythbusters more than a few times.
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