MythBusters

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

Discovery Channel Hit Show, MythBusters Comes To Rockford

source: WIFR

However, stateline kids will soon be able to learn what's "Behind the Myth." Mark your calendars and save the date for October 3rd as Grant Imahara and Kari Byron from the Discovery Channel hit show "MythBusters" are coming to Rockford, thanks to the ...

Published Thu, May 21

Episode 120: “Exploding Bumper”

source: MythBusters Results

Adam and Jamie set fire to a car with gasoline and measured the temperature with a thermographic camera, eventually determining that the blaze reached 1,400 °C (2,600 °F), enough to melt the aluminum bumper but surprisingly unable to make the bumper shock explode. Suspecting that unfoc...

Published Wed, May 13

MythBusters, Mind Control

source: fr.truveo.com

Adam and Jamie attempt to blow open a home improvement myth with dynamite. The 3 Mythkateers tackle mind control by manipulating someone's mind ... fr.truveo.com

Published Sat, May 9

Nathan Adrian Appears on Discovery Channel's MythBusters

source: SwimmingWorldMagazine.com

 AZ OLYMPIC gold medalist Nathan Adrian was featured on an episode of MythBusters last night on the Discovery Channel. The myth being tested on the show was whether "Swimming in Syrup" would be faster than swimming in water. The thought process behind the ...

Published Thu, May 7

MythBusters, Border Slingshot

source: fr.truveo.com

Adam and Jamie test the myth that immigrants are becoming human projectiles, firing themselves two hundred yards across the border and into the ... fr.truveo.com

Published Tue, May 5