Let’s just say that hypothetically I and a few other friends were discussing the possibility of becoming a set of amateur mythbusters. So what myths or plain cool ideas would you suggest for a team of engineer students with too much time on their hands and a camera… all hypothetical of course.
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Ideas so far:
All hypothetical of course…
Wow. Not the most readable of posts I’ve made… My apologies.
How about basing it on the internet, tSDMB being one of them but also including most/all of those wacky sites you find with trebuchet instructions and how-to-build-a-soda-bottle-rocket stuff?
Even including urban legends and other e-mail related stuff.
Find out by actually going to a bottling plant whether or not eleventy bajillion aluminum pop-top tabs can buy little Timmy a new kidney.
Release 100 helium balloons with notes, and do follow-up stories if and when they come back.
Build the various trebuchets and fling stuff. For bonus points, fling internet-related stuff. For extra bonus points, fling stuff AT internet-related stuff.
Send the same e-mail back and forth between your friends 10,000,000 times and wait for the tickets to Disneyland/check for $25 from Bill Gates/Guiness bar towel to arrive.
Is transportation available? Maybe do the occasional travel show, where you visit some semi-famous internet site. Roadsigns or whatever, you know the ones.
I dunno. Sounds fun tho.
Build a really big treadmill, put an airplane on it…
I have no creativity to add here, but I must caution you to first define the line between mythbusters and jackass.
Yeah brainstorming ideas have come dangerously close to jackass unfortunately. The biggest concern is making it interesting without making it illegal.
We have this old canoe that previous tenants left behind so we were trying to come up with an idea for it. This quickly spiraled out of control into ideas involving explosives and dragging it down the road… In any cause, I squashed that quickly.
Thanks for the ideas! Keep more coming.
First - Build a really, really big trebuchet.
Second - Fling a piano.
I’d vote for a Volkswagon.
Fling a Volkswagon at a piano.
Film a monkey with a typewriter, if you can’t find a monkey improvise with a cat or something.
Buy a normal treadmill, put a stewardess on it…
I wonder if a Volkswagen dealership might sponsor us simply for the promotion of having one of his cars flung with a giant friggin trebuchet…
Cite? Please oh please oh please cite!
Ahhh… www.trebuchet.com and www.backyardartilery.com
Guys, come on. Pianos? Volkswagens? I have two words for you:
Smart Car.
Until last week I’d have said something about my favorite old UL, the “woman impregnated by a bullet” story, but Mythbusters actually tackled that one this week.
I like ghost stories, like The Face in the Window in Carrollton, Alabama. Could a lightning flash really make a photographic negative as the legend states? Or will a camera/recorder left overnight really pick up music from this bizarre Alabama planter’s mansion?
How about testing the theory that assholes always get the chicks?
How many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop? Better yet, have this tested by a group of high school girls.
Test the destructability of various types of luggage? Filled with fruit?
Have a yard sale and put all the prices in binary, see how many people can actually interpret it?
Or a film version of Steve, Don’t Eat It!?