MythBusters

Episode 132: Myth Evolution

source: MythBusters Results

An exploding water heater can shoot up about 500 feet (150 m) in the air at around 300 miles per hour (480 km/h). confirmed The MythBusters did this test after some viewers doubted their estimates in the original exploding water heater myth. They set up a full sized 52 US gallon (200 L) water he...

Published Tue, Nov 17

Episode 131: Crash and Burn

source: MythBusters Results

To begin, Jamie and Adam brought a car to the top of a quarry. The car accidentally rolled off the cliff before the accelerator was pushed down with a weight. The car tumbled only part of the way down the quarry walls and did not explode. The MythBusters next brought in a fresh car and designed an i...

Published Wed, Nov 11

Episode 124: “Curving Bullets”

source: MythBusters Results

A shooter can curve a bullet around an obstacle by swinging or flicking his or her arm. (Based on scenes from the movie Wanted.) busted The Build Team first went to a shooting range and set up a target with a wooden obstacle halfway between themselves and the target. Grant, Tory, and Kari each at...

Published Wed, Jun 10

Mainstreet Los Gatos: No pickles, ice cream for Byron, she's ...

source: San Jose Mercury News

Byron is depicted with accompanying photos of herself dispelling myths about pregnancy such as the craving for pickles and ice cream. Since she is a mainstay on the TV show MythBusters on the Discovery Channel, the article nicely dovetails with her day ... Kari Byron pregnant Fried Post

Published Thu, May 28

Episode 122: "Thermite vs. Ice"

source: MythBusters Results

The shock wave caused by an exploding bomb is enough to trigger a misfire in an SKS rifle. The Build Team tested another, similar myth from the same source, involving an exploded bomb setting off guns placed around the blast zone. This time, one of the guns did fire from the shockwave of the exp...

Published Wed, May 27

Don´t do some of these really stupid things with truck tires

source: Tire Business

 OH Have you ever watched “Blow It Up” on cable TV? Are you into “MythBusters”? Are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman your heroes? If you said “Yes” to any of these questions, you're like 95 percent of all the people I know in the commercial tire industry. ...

Published Tue, May 26

Bits 'n' Pieces: Camas man hops a ride to "MythBusters"

source: The Columbian

 WA Top from left: “MythBusters” co-host Jamie Hyneman and Bobby Wood. Bottom from left: “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage, Daniel Wood and Jordan Thompson. It typically takes people 45 minutes to get the hang of the Self-Balancing Unicycle, ...

Published Mon, May 18

TV Junkie: 'Lost' Season Finale; Colber(t)'s Birthday; PBS Changes

source: LAist

 CA 9:00pm MythBusters Discovery - The teams test two myths of locomotion from the reliable horse to the sometimes unreliable motor car. 9:00pm World War II: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West PBS/KCET - On Aug. 12, 1942, Joseph Stalin and ...

Published Wed, May 13