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Plus how do you get the red head into an equation.?
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Me + redhead + bed + circus midget + trampoline + steam locomotive = pure awesome?
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
(emphasis added)
So they’ll eat the dynamite? And then you’ll have a giant flying bug waiting to explode when it lands…
I wanna see that!
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Hah. The one with the alluminium and the metal oxide. You know, the one with the “h” between the “t” and the “e” that I didn’t include. :smack:
At the risk of turning this into a Mythbusters nit pick thread, I’d like to pick a nit.
On the airplane episode, when they were going to have the one skydiver in normal skydive spread eagle mode, and the other in bullet mode jumping from the plane 15 seconds later. Did we really need a mock up demonstrating that the physics are sound for this to maybe work? Such a colossal waste of time. Then we did see the bullet skydiver pass the spread eagle skydiver in mid free fall. That was pretty cool. But here is a pretty obvious follow up question for the Bullet man: As a professional, or at the very least bad-freakin-ass, skydiver is there any way you could have gained enough control once you got near spread eagle man to slow down, grab him, and pull his chute without killing either of you? I know there is likely no way their insurance and what-not people would let them actually try that in mid air.
Being that we are already familiar, at least fundamentally, with air resistance the myth isn’t about having one body fall past another. It’s about having one body catch another in free fall. At least address it!
I absolutely love this show. But they are ruining it in a few ways:
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Stop with the scripted banter. We know you all know what myths you will be testing today. Don’t pretend that Adam just happened to mention it to Jamey right there on camera.
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Adam needs to stop with his idiotic accents. They are funny in small doses. The pirate episode? I nearly couldn’t finish because of him. Other than the accents, I think he is fantastic.
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There is no need to have the narrator repeat the myth each time we get back to a segment. We aren’t that ADD. At best, “On the stuffing shit in cannons myth Adam and Jamey are now going to…” We can use our memories to put the past together.
I will now shut up and stop jacking threads. I just really needed to get this off my chest. Please Discovery: Leave Mythbusters to us geeks. Don’t dumb it down to the lowest common denominator. Let the A&E do that.
Jeff
ETA: This is a poorly written post. I accept that. And I am going home, so it shall remain poorly worded. Thank you 
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=]
At the risk of starting the whole thing up again, my impression was that the big hoorah over Plane on a Treadmill is due to the question being imprecise. Whatever they end up testing, it won’t actually resolve anything.
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Yeah, but… A plane! on a treadmill!
I don’t really care about testing the answer to the question, since the way I interpret the question it’s damn obvious what the answer is. I just want to see a plane on a treadmill. 
I hope that one day this question will make it to congress, and they will have to add a constitutional amendment stating what will happen if you put on plane on a treadmill.
And for once, I don’t have to apologize for that thread. Something good finally came from it! 
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Bull + ChinaShop = GiantFuckingMess.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Bull + ChinaShop = AnticlimacticBovineBallet wasn’t nearly as punchy.
[QUOTE=Sapo]
The Mythbusters’s version of the plane on a treadmill:
If you have an airplane on a treadmill that matches its speed, will it explode in the air or on the ground?
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Regardless - you KNOW Adam won’t be REALLY happy until he’s seen a fuel explosion with debris scattered over the whole test area.
[QUOTE=GildedLily]
At the risk of turning this into a Mythbusters nit pick thread, I’d like to pick a nit.
On the airplane episode, when they were going to have the one skydiver in normal skydive spread eagle mode, and the other in bullet mode jumping from the plane 15 seconds later. Did we really need a mock up demonstrating that the physics are sound for this to maybe work? Such a colossal waste of time. Then we did see the bullet skydiver pass the spread eagle skydiver in mid free fall. That was pretty cool. But here is a pretty obvious follow up question for the Bullet man: As a professional, or at the very least bad-freakin-ass, skydiver is there any way you could have gained enough control once you got near spread eagle man to slow down, grab him, and pull his chute without killing either of you? I know there is likely no way their insurance and what-not people would let them actually try that in mid air.
Being that we are already familiar, at least fundamentally, with air resistance the myth isn’t about having one body fall past another. It’s about having one body catch another in free fall. At least address it!
I absolutely love this show. But they are ruining it in a few ways:
-
Stop with the scripted banter. We know you all know what myths you will be testing today. Don’t pretend that Adam just happened to mention it to Jamey right there on camera.
-
Adam needs to stop with his idiotic accents. They are funny in small doses. The pirate episode? I nearly couldn’t finish because of him. Other than the accents, I think he is fantastic.
-
There is no need to have the narrator repeat the myth each time we get back to a segment. We aren’t that ADD. At best, “On the stuffing shit in cannons myth Adam and Jamey are now going to…” We can use our memories to put the past together.
I will now shut up and stop jacking threads. I just really needed to get this off my chest. Please Discovery: Leave Mythbusters to us geeks. Don’t dumb it down to the lowest common denominator. Let the A&E do that.
Jeff
ETA: This is a poorly written post. I accept that. And I am going home, so it shall remain poorly worded. Thank you 
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Isn’t the point of having it on TV not to keep the subject matter confined to one particular segment of the population (i.e. geeks)? Really, if that’s your objection to the show, maybe you’re not the one the show is for.
I’m not trying to be snarky either, by the way. I apologize in advance if it sounds like it
The banter is scripted?! Next you’ll be telling me that wrestling isn’t real!
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I love the scripted banter. They are all such bad actors that the scripted banter just makes the show that much cheesier.[/sub]
I completely agree that it’s ridiculous how much recapping goes on. I usually fast forward through it. I figure it’s their way of adding filler.
[QUOTE=Lemur866]
“The plane on the treadmill didn’t explode. But what happens when we ramp it up, Mythbusters style? Adam and Jamie decide to pour gasoline all over the plane, the treadmill and the camera team. Now watch what happens when they fire a surplus WWII 81 millimeter mortar at the plane…”
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Which week was this supposed to air again? Because I seriously need to set the ol’ VCR 
January 30 in the US.
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
I completely agree that it’s ridiculous how much recapping goes on. I usually fast forward through it. I figure it’s their way of adding filler.
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Why don’t they just have Adam “accidentally” bang his knee on something, fall down, and roll back forth moaning in pain? That would kill some time.