Mythbusters!

iceman (Mike) · #1 05-04-2005, 08:13 AM

Who else watches this great show?

It's on at 7:30pm Monday nights on SBS (ie: last night).

For those that don't know of it, it's 2 guys who set out to debunk popular urban myths by conducting experiments to prove or disprove the myth.

It's a funny show, and they have a great load of fun usually blowing stuff up

Astronomers are usually a pretty geeky bunch and it's a show I think most of us would enjoy.

Last night they disproved that a sinking ship would pull people down, they disproved that fish only have a memory of 3 seconds, and they disproved some urban myth about a trombone player who supposedly stuffed firecrackers in his trombone and had a mute fire out and hit the conductor.

It's a great fun show, they make some great experiments and build some cool stuff.

Highly recommended viewing

Brendan · #2 05-04-2005, 08:15 AM

definately on my weekly watch list, I also belive it is on the Discovery Channel for those of us that have pay TV

Saturn%5 (Graeme) · #3 05-04-2005, 08:27 AM

Never miss this show, It's great

Rohan · #4 05-04-2005, 08:28 AM

best show around, glued to the TV every monday night. For those that miss the show, its repeated the following monday 5-6pm.

Last night was the first time i did not believe them. I reckon if you were going down with the titanic you would be struggling to stay on the surface. The pool tests i believe proved that for a large enuf body sinking fast will have enuf force to pull you down. The tug boat was to small and sank very slowly and spread its force out over a wide area.

acropolite (Phil) · #5 05-04-2005, 08:29 AM

My favourite show, I've seen it mentioned in Iceinspace before. My favourite was the Lawn Chair baloonist story. What a gutsy effort 14000 ft high in a chair supported by only weather balloons.

Mombat · #6 05-04-2005, 08:36 AM

I love that show there was one on the other night where they tested what would happen when a window of a plane was blown out at cruising altitude.

Very coool

I also saw the weather balloon one. The amounnt of helium that they used was huge!!

Must have been very expensive!

iceman (Mike) · #7 05-04-2005, 08:38 AM

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love that show there was one on the other night where they tested what would happen when a window of a plane was blown out at cruising altitude

haha yeh that was a cool one, chickens going splat all over the place

Mombat · #8 05-04-2005, 08:47 AM

Hey whats better than seeing chickens going splat.

Has anyone seen the episode where they put the dead pigs in a car and locked it in a container for a month? Apparently it was really really digusting!

atalas · #9 05-04-2005, 11:05 AM

Man keep those guy's away from your dob's !

Louie

rumples riot · #10 05-04-2005, 11:05 AM

yeah cool show, don't believe the titanic theory either. That was a little boat they used, a big ship might be another story.

The chicken one was good, and the one where the red headed guy got his eye brows burnt off.

Very cool show, beside there is nothing else descent to watch at that time.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #11 05-04-2005, 12:23 PM

I loved it when they made the tree trunk cannon. Impressive results.

Rohan · #12 05-04-2005, 12:47 PM

The dead pigs in cars was gross, yet entertaining at the same time.

Howzat (Phil) · #13 05-04-2005, 01:14 PM

Great show
I like the one with the Jet-Assisted Chevy

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haha yeh that was a cool one, chickens going splat all over the place

And this episode explains the unidentified chooks they found on roofs in Sydney

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It's raining chickens!

And you thought it could only rain cats and dogs! On January 2 2005 the first chicken fell with a loud thud on to the roof of Stephen Leung's house. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority thought it may have fallen out of a plane, as experts calculated that from the impact evidence that it would have fallen at least 500 metres. But a few weeks later a second chook crashed through the roof of a house about 800 metres down the road. It was only discovered because of a foul smell, the chook had smashed through the rooftiles and its remains were decaying inside the roof frame.
Several experts were consulted, including a professor from the University of Newcastle, who concluded that the likelyhood of frozen chickens being fired from a big slingshot was greater than two chickens in a month within a kilometre radius falling from a plane

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #14 05-04-2005, 05:59 PM

I try not to miss it, but if I do I watch it the following week at 5pm. So you get double the mythbusting for free.

I love it when they try and blow things up, if the myth is busted, why not recreate the results

I am wondering if they are going to do the myth of man walking on the moon.

I think it's time to duck.

P.S. We did ...........

acropolite (Phil) · #15 05-04-2005, 07:23 PM

Yeah Paul the tree trunk Canon was a beauty especially the final shot when they overpacked it.

Nortilus (Josh) · #16 05-04-2005, 08:35 PM

yes...i have seen most of these and it is a very enjoyable show...