They're like a magnet to flying things. But it's not just Bellici's reproductive organs that have taken the brunt of the long "MythBusters" comedy of errors. There's been plenty of instances of Savage falling and getting shocked, and of course Bellici falling off bicycles and buildings.
Yet they just keep on doing their thing. As for whether the MythBusters were actually able to knock the socks off that mannequin? Stephens sounded like she didn't care. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read.
Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. The MythBusters' long history of accidents and mishaps The now-famous cannonball incident is just the latest in a long string of experiments gone wrong on the hit Discovery Channel show. Daniel Terdiman. On Tuesday, the misfiring of a cannon at a MythBusters shoot sent a ball of metal flying into a neighborhood in Dublin, Calif. And it certainly paid off, as a number of students asking Belleci questions afterwards admitted how much they like to see things blow up when watching Mythbusters.
Keep them away from the pipe bombs. Normally, the Mythbusters team are known as paragons of safety. Not only do they give that firm "do not try this at home" warning to their viewers, but they operate in conjunction with local law enforcement and emergency services, to make sure their mythbusting doesn't do any real damage. Remarkably, in 14 seasons of the show, they screwed up very few times, but one of those occasions was a doozy, involving the team nearly destroying somebody's home!
For one experiment in the San Francisco area, the team were testing myths related to homemade cannons. For safety's sake, the team had set up water vats that were supposed to safely catch the cannons, so nothing dangerous happened. Unfortunately, they experienced what Discovery later hilariously dubbed "an unforeseen bounce," when a cannonball blew through the cinder-block wall on the set of the show.
It ended up going on a rather amazing journey, in which it flew through somebody's front door, up their stairs, through their bedroom while they were in there , and out of their house before jumping a thoroughfare, hitting the top of another home, and coming to a final rest by slamming into a minivan.
Fortunately, nobody was hurt, just the minivan. And nothing of value was lost. While much of the Mythbusters crew ended up doing work that might be considered artistic, like model-making for major Hollywood films, Kari Byron is the only one of the main cast with formal training in this area.
She was a student of film and culture at San Francisco State University who was eager to join the special FX industry, which is what eventually led her to Jamie Hyneman's M5. She was actually an unpaid intern for a while, which eventually blossomed into a job offer to join Mythbusters. She never really lost her artistic streak, though — if anything, she learned to marry the more explosive elements of the show into her own artistic expression.
One great example is her creation of explosive paintings. It's not exactly what it sounds like — she lights gunpowder on fire and then scrapes burnt clay away from her page, creating spooky images like the outline of a burnt and screaming face think Munch meets Mythbusters.
She described the experience as "controlled chaos" and said that "It's a little bit of controlling the wildness of the explosion.
And I've grown to like explosions over the years. It's good to know that, when not on the clock, Byron doesn't blow things up in the name of science — instead, she blows things up in the name of art.
Of the hundreds of myths the group has tried to bust over the years, are there any they wish they had simply walked away from? Interestingly, Adam Savage identified only one such myth, and not because it was dangerous or hard to film.
Instead, it's because it involved magic. At least, that's how Savage saw it. The experiment itself involved determining whether keeping a shaving razor beneath a pyramid would actually keep it sharper, due to so-called "pyramid power. He believed that they were tasked with "trying to prove a negative" that had no control against which they could measure success or failure.
That and lifting up the Pyramids of Giza to stick a razor blade underneath was such a pain. Entertainingly, Savage compared the experiment to scientific endeavors to find Bigfoot, which too could only prove that the researchers can't find Bigfoot — this absence isn't proof of his existence anymore than a razor's sharpness can prove or disprove the existence of magic.
No matter what Gillette wants you to believe. Due to the special role they hold in the public eye, most of the Mythbusters team have shied away from any kind of corporate involvement or sponsorship. Because their show is supposed to be based around rigorous scientific testing, the public is likely to assign a certain weight to endorsements they make, and these endorsements, in all likelihood, don't receive the kind of rigor their experiments receive.
All of this serves to partially explain why Grant Imahara received a lot of online criticism for his appearance in commercials involving McDonald's products. It was an interesting case of McDonald's overreacting to certain criticisms of their products. For instance, many people are wary of the machine-separated-meat they use, not-so-affectionately referring to it as "pink slime.
However, the ads were arguably a case of denials sounding way too specific, as people who had never heard bizarre myths about eyeballs in their McRibs were now, well, eyeballing their food choices more carefully.
And social media had a field day, criticizing Imahara for selling out in the wake of being fired from Mythbusters. Fortunately, his new show on Netflix, The White Rabbit Project , should keep Imahara for busting anymore McDonald's myths, like the one about Mayor McCheese imprisoning children in playgrounds around the world, without ever charging them with anything.
Originally, Mythbusters was going to be quite literal, exploring things like well-known urban legends and actual myths. Over time, though, they dropped that idea, becoming more focused on what their viewers would like to see. After all, the customer is always right, and there are only so many real myths to bust, anyway. Hence, some of the fan-favorite episodes explore whether certain movie scenes could realistically happen, or whether MacGyver could realistically escape certain death time and time again.
While these are definitely sillier concepts than the original premise of the show, Savage seems happy focusing on any "misconception about the way the physical world works. And if they ever come back, they'll still have plenty to work with, because we're just as confused now as we were then. Mythbusters was all about science, which means it never let a little thing like corporate sponsorship get in the way of scientific truth.
As it turns out, even Mythbusters wasn't immune to advertiser pressure, or at least that's the impression they gave when they decided to ax an entire episode about RFID, that handy technology that lets you wave your credit card in front of a card reader so you don't have to bother with the arduous task of swiping it.
You've probably heard rumors that RFID isn't very secure. Well, Mythbusters got wind of that, too, and planned an entire episode about the hackability of the technology.
But according to the Register , lawyers for major credit card companies intervened, and plans had to be sacked. That seemed like the honest truth, but evidently advertisers can also gag hosts from talking about being gagged by advertisers at least it sort of looks that way because Savage later backtracked, saying, "The decision not to continue with the RFID story was made by our production company If you've ever thought that maybe Mythbusters danced a little too close to mad science stuff, don't worry, it's not like they ever received executive orders to build a death ray or anything.
Except for that one time, when President Obama literally gave them orders to build a death ray. Yes, in a Mythbusters episode, the president gently admonishes Savage and Hyneman for their failure to thoroughly test the Archimedes solar ray a myth they busted in , a death ray device that dates all the way back to the second century.
According to Gizmodo , the president's appearance on Mythbusters was actually part of a White House initiative to get kids more interested in science, and let's face it, death rays are super productive science experiments, especially in the hands of adolescent children. The Archimedes solar ray was an ancient, probably mythical device that was supposed to ignite the sails of enemy ships with highly focused mirrors.
To retest the myth, the team recruited people with mirrors, but failed to once again to prove the concept. Hyneman did say the reflections were really distracting , though, so it's possible the death ray did have some sort of functional purpose, just not, you know, a flammable one.
Mythbusters has always been billed as a "family show," which means there are certain things the Mythbusters just aren't allowed to do, like show a simulated body part while testing the " peeing on the third rail myth ," even though said body part was literally an artificial tube. According to TV Tropes , censors once prohibited the Mythbusters from airing an entire episode about farts, because, you know, farts. Undeterred, the team tried again, only this time they followed all sorts of oddball rules, like only using the word "flatus," instead of "fart," which supposedly made the whole endeavor more scientific or something.
To buy this, you have to be a member and pay a fee. For the MythBusters, inertia is like the fee to get in the store. Once you pay it overcome it , it doesn't matter. Really, the first problem is that they are comparing energy and inertia. You can't make a comparison between two things that are different. I guess that is really the biggest problem with this idea. Actually, force is an interaction between two objects.
It is similar to distance. What is the distance of New York City? Wait, that doesn't make sense, right? But that is essentially what the MythBusters are saying about force. Instead, distance is not an attribute of one location. You could say "what is the distance between New York and Chicago". But it isn't a property of one thing. Force is the same way. Oh, and since force isn't a property of an object, it wouldn't make sense to say it is transferred. Like I said before, this is an easy thing to fix.
Just don't formally try to explain things. In the early episodes of MythBusters, they just did cool stuff. There were no official "science" explanations. Oh sure, Adam and Jamie would say stuff and say it wrong. But in these cases, they were just being normal people. Why did they start adding in science explanations? Who knows. If they really want to keep these in the show, maybe they should just send me a note.
I would be happy to look over any of their stuff before hand. Honestly, I would be happy.
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