Mythbustin’ - Adam Savage Answers [Reddit Users’] Questions
At 6:36 in the third segment, Someone off-camera asks Adam about Snopes and he replies “Snopes is great, we use Snopes a resource a ton; same with the Straight Dope,” and then goes on to mention a column from Unca Cecil that I am too dumb to find and link to right now.
He also says he’s never met Cecil.
Oh hey, whaddaya know, I’ve been to M5!
Sweet!
This seems as good of a time as any to plug the shows airing on April 8 and 22, which I first mentioned in November. In short, I used to work at an explosives testing range on a rocket sled track, which will be featured on the show. I spent a lot of time in the bunker they’ll show “Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage in a bunker at the EMRTC test range reacting with amazement to a test.” I thought the first dozen or so were pretty spectacular myself. After that, they tend to be pretty common, unless a rocket motor flies off the sled and slams into the instrumentation trailer. When the projectile misses the catch tank and takes out high voltage power lines, kills a cow, and is found two miles from where we expected it to be, that’s pretty interesting, too.
Wow, Adam Savage has to be one of the coolest people ever. So genuine and down-to-earth, and really sharp.
If it is, it’s all Santo Rugger’s fault.
Is mythbusters availed anywhere over the air? Especially in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I’ve been all over their site and google and all that, but no luck. I hate Comcast.
Peace,
mangeorge
Cool. I wondered if they did after seeing the plane on a treadmill episode.
You can buy it on iTunes if nothing else. Though they seem to be taking their sweet time on releasing the 6th set.
Adam, if you’re reading this, thank you for all the ground-breaking work you’re doing in urban legend research.
I am so going to milk this with my MB-addicted 11-year-old son!
way cool!!!
This explains the never aired “ladle” episode.
As a special effects artist, I use Mythbusters as a resource quite a bit- they have really useful slow-mo explosions on their website.
New episode on tonight!! 
In the group shots with Adam & Jamie & the gang, you can see in the background a metal sign that has Greek(?) letters welded into it.
Any idea what that’s about? I’m assuming it’s just “Mythbusters” in Greek, but what’s the rest of the story?
I hope whoever was in charge of range control was reprimanded.
That one was all over the Internet; they could have gotten it from anywhere.
If they read this I’d just like to say:
Adam and Jamie, I call bullshit on your ‘do sinking ships pull swimmers under’ experiment. That redo you had on a few years back about 2 groups of college kids making their own Archimedes mirror weapon was also bunk, the guys ‘found’ their big ass mirror while the girls made theirs from scratch.
ok, carry on.
Adam, is that you?
It probably bears repeating that Straight Dope != Straight Dope Message Board.
Who let the wet blanket into the room?