MythBusters

Live-Tweet With Kari Byron During Tonight's MythBusters

source: Wired News

Yes, tonight, Kari Byron will be on the official MythBusters Twitter account, tweeting live about the episode and answering questions from other Twitter ...

Published Wed, Nov 25

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

Armed Pilots and Dead Terrorists - Human Events

source: Human Events

Armed Pilots and Dead Terrorists blog) Secondly, the exploding plane theory has been debunked, most recently on an episode from the show MythBusters on Discovery Channel in which the crew does a ...

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

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

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

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