# Mythbusters "uses the Straight Dope as a resource a ton" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913 "2009-04-03T21:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/1 "2009-04-03T21:03:29Z")
[Mythbustin’ - Adam Savage Answers [Reddit Users’] Questions](http://blog.reddit.com/2009/04/mythbustin-adam-savage-answers-your.html) 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](http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/sets/72157594347749887/)! ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/2 "2009-04-03T21:29:28Z")
Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/3 "2009-04-03T22:06:18Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493913&highlight=mythbusters). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/4 "2009-04-04T02:37:30Z")
Wow, Adam Savage has to be one of the coolest people ever. So genuine and down-to-earth, and really sharp. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/5 "2009-04-04T03:30:06Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Omgalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@Omgalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omgalion)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/6 "2009-04-04T03:32:43Z")
Cool. I wondered if they did after seeing the plane on a treadmill episode. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/7 "2009-04-04T03:38:37Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > 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 You can buy it on iTunes if nothing else. Though they seem to be taking their sweet time on releasing the 6th set. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/8 "2009-04-04T04:17:49Z")
Adam, if you’re reading this, thank you for all the ground-breaking work you’re doing in urban legend research. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/9 "2009-04-04T06:25:59Z")
I am _so_ going to milk this with my MB-addicted 11-year-old son! ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/10 "2009-04-04T06:47:44Z")
**way cool!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/11 "2009-04-04T06:50:34Z")
This explains the never aired “ladle” episode. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/12 "2009-04-04T11:05:01Z")
As a special effects artist, I use Mythbusters as a resource quite a bit- they have really useful slow-mo explosions on their website. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/13 "2009-04-08T12:12:13Z")
New episode on tonight!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/14 "2009-04-08T12:35:32Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/15 "2009-04-08T17:59:16Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > 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. I hope whoever was in charge of range control was reprimanded. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/16 "2009-04-08T19:02:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Cool. I wondered if they did after seeing the plane on a treadmill episode. That one was all over the Internet; they could have gotten it from anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/17 "2009-04-08T19:16:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/18 "2009-04-08T19:44:30Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Wow, Adam Savage has to be one of the coolest people ever. So genuine and down-to-earth, and really sharp. Adam, is that you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/19 "2009-04-08T19:53:16Z")
It probably bears repeating that Straight Dope != Straight Dope Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-uses-the-straight-dope-as-a-resource-a-ton/491913/20 "2009-04-08T21:11:10Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > It probably bears repeating that Straight Dope != Straight Dope Message Board. Who let the wet blanket into the room?