# What experiments would you like to see tried on "Mythbusters"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503 "2009-10-04T00:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/41 "2009-10-06T01:21:59Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > I don’t care about the consequences, MAD is one of the theories that HAS to be tested. I don’t think the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range is going to be big enough for that one. I do kind of look forward to seeing Jamie’s meeting with Putin, though. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/42 "2009-10-06T01:26:35Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Thank you. I enjoy this show from time to time, but much much _much_ too often the thing they actually wind up proving or disproving has f&ck-all to do with whatever myth they came up with to justify the segment. They other day, I saw one where the “myth” they were working with was that the bus in _Speed_ would have tipped over if Keanu hadn’t told everyone to move to the one side to keep it from doing so. They (a) wasted time by replicating the scene as it was done in the movie (all the weight on one side), then (b) disproved the “myth” by distributing the weight evenly between the two sides of the bus, then (c) finally got around to what they really wanted to do in the first place, which was to crash the frakking bus.\* > > C’mon, guys. Just make a show called “Sh!t We Blew Up Real Good” and be done with it. > > \*Disclaimer: I either fell asleep or changed the channel before I actually saw the bus crash. I’m assuming they didn’t stop until they crashed it. It was, however, their expressed intent. I don’t understand what the problem is here. They tested the myth and then replicated the results, which is exactly what they’ve set out to do. It’s not like they loaded the bus with explosives and drove it off a cliff. > [@Kobal2](#): > > Didn’t they do that one already ? Dropping Buster from a great height into water they’d just blown up ? They tested the “drop a hammer before you to break the surface tension.” I think they ended up dropping heavier objects but they never really aerated the water. So this could easily be sent in as a re-visit. I want them to re-re-visit the rocket car. They tried to redo it by having the car go off a ramp, but it ended up exploding unexpectedly just before the ramp. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/43 "2009-10-06T01:52:34Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I don’t understand what the problem is here. They tested the myth and then replicated the results, which is exactly what they’ve set out to do. It’s not like they loaded the bus with explosives and drove it off a cliff. The “myth,” such as it was, was that the bus would turn over if they hadn’t moved everyone to one side. To bust that, all they had to do was do part (b) of what I outlined. Everything was gratuitous chest-thumping. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, I just wish they’d be more honest about it. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/44 "2009-10-06T03:39:37Z")
> [@](#): > > C’mon, guys. Just make a show called “Sh!t We Blew Up Real Good” and be done with it. You’re thinking of “Smash Lab”. It wasn’t very good. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/45 "2009-10-06T04:26:12Z")
I just want them to do more myths. I must be in the minority here but I rather them test things and show the results then jsut blow stuff up. It gets kinda old to me. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/46 "2009-10-06T05:08:03Z")
> [@jharvey963](#): > > Actually, I just started riding my bike again after a long hiatus. My BICYCLE trips the signal on every light I’ve tried so far, as long as I’m sitting in the middle of the lane right over the sensor wires. > > J. NB Snell, turning left onto Chenowyth in San Jose, CA. Will Not Trigger for my SV650, and I don’t care where I sit in the lane. Thankfully, I’ve found an alternate route. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/47 "2009-10-06T05:09:06Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > A few: > > 1. Those deer whistle thingies that you hook to your car to supposedly scare off deer. Consumer Reports has said that they don’t work, which I accept at face value, but I’d like to see the _Mythbusters_ team’s methodology. Having scored 1.5 points in the Bambi Club over the years, I’d like to see that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/48 "2009-10-06T05:40:49Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > They tested the “drop a hammer before you to break the surface tension.” I think they ended up dropping heavier objects but they never really aerated the water. So this could easily be sent in as a re-visit. I could have sworn they did a “cushion your fall with high explosives” number as well. Ah, well. [QUOTE=3trew] I don’t think the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range is going to be big enough for that one. I do kind of look forward to seeing Jamie’s meeting with Putin, though. [/QUOTE] “For this experiment, we covertly installed ICBM mock-up silos in Turkey to see if it would trigger an international nuclear incident. Failing to achieve any significant result, we decided to go the Mythbusters way : scaling up the myth until we do ! So here we are aboard a Ohio-class submarine lent to us by the Navy and…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/49 "2009-10-06T09:41:07Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I could have sworn they did a “cushion your fall with high explosives” number as well. Ah, well. They did, specifically addressing it via a myth of a bomber crewmember who fell out, then managed to end up just above a greenhouse as it was going kablooey, and the “cushion” of air broke the fall. I believe this one was busted. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/50 "2009-10-06T11:07:33Z")
> [@ChrisBooth12](#): > > I just want them to do more myths. I must be in the minority here but I rather them test things and show the results then jsut blow stuff up. It gets kinda old to me. The problem is that they’ve done most (if not all) of the vaguely plausible “Myths” and are now into “replicating things from Movies that everyone knows aren’t possible in real life but it’s fun to watch them try anyway”. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/51 "2009-10-06T15:26:23Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > Um, Hey, **HeyHomie** …can you give the links to those threads? I’d like to see what our people had to say. Sure. 1. Deer Whistles - No link: I never posted an SDMB thread about this topic; it’s just something I’ve mulled over in my head. 2. [Aerated water](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516998&highlight=mythbusters&page=2). My contribution begins at post #77. 3. [Wii remote](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=500971&highlight=mythbusters). I’m the OP. 4. [Limitless fuel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=242039&highlight=mythbusters). I’m the OP. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/52 "2009-10-06T17:46:18Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/53 "2009-10-06T19:14:08Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I’d love to see them test magnets and traffic lights. Too many times I’ve been stuck on my SV650 at a light that won’t turn green. People keep saying they don’t work, but for every one that say’s it doesn’t work, there’s someone that says it’s worked for a signal that’s caused them trouble. Cheap and easy to do, though there’s no excuse to blow something up or build a gadget, so I suppose they’ll never do it. Give it to Adam. He will find a way blow something up whether it needs it or not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503/54 "2009-10-07T00:03:11Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If you put a frog in a pan of water and bring the heat up very slowly … > > If you masturbate enough, will you grow hair on your palms? I did that test in my home laboratory. No hair. My life is science. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experiments-would-you-like-to-see-tried-on-mythbusters/512503.md?page=2)