Anyone know how I can contact the production company that makes [i]MythBusters[/i]?

[GargoyleWB]

@Broomstick

And I don’t find it at all reassuring that NASA staffers are now doing research on this message board. I mean, it’s all very flattering to us, but you’d think NASA would have this in hand already. You can put a man on the moon yadda-yadda-yadda but you don’t have transparent, portable blast-bunkers? Yeah, yeah - probably different department, right?

I’m looking for the next news story when an independent investigation council determines that the true resaon for the Mars Rover software trouble was the line “Hi Opal!” embedded in the code.

[Poetgrrl]

‘Goes Berserk’?! :eek:

Please tell me we’re not headed toward a ‘Maximum Overdrive’ scenario thanks to NASA in the near future…Somehow the thought of having pilotless planes developing homicidal urges and flinging themselves at hapless people on the ground just rubs me the wrong way

[VunderBob]

@Poetgrrl

‘Goes Berserk’?! :eek:

Please tell me we’re not headed toward a ‘Maximum Overdrive’ scenario thanks to NASA in the near future…Somehow the thought of having pilotless planes developing homicidal urges and flinging themselves at hapless people on the ground just rubs me the wrong way

That won’t be coming from my part of the agency. The model planes are used to research algorithms to recover from unusual attitudes and aerodynamic related system faults such as stuck or floating control surfaces. It’s better to crash a $200k model 757 in a failed experiment, than do the same thing with the real one we have that has a crew of 20…

[Broomstick]

@Munch

Did he just yadda-yadda Neil Armstrong?

Actually, I “yadda-yadda’d” a dozen people.

Geez, it’s true - know one remembers number two

For the record, these are the men on the moon:

Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Charles Conrad
Alan Bean
Alan Shepard
Edgar Mitchell
David Scott
James Irwin
John Young
Charles Duke
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt

[commasense]

So vunderbob, we’re all waiting to hear the secret of the Mythbusters blast boxes. To me they look like welded angle-iron with Lexan sheets attached. Am I warm?

[VunderBob]

@commasense

So vunderbob, we’re all waiting to hear the secret of the Mythbusters blast boxes. To me they look like welded angle-iron with Lexan sheets attached. Am I warm?

Inch and a quarter Lexan, mounted in aluminum frames, held together with pin joints. Each panel weighs about 150 lbs. Panels built in-house by M5 Industries, which is Jamie’s special effects company.