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Ask The Mythbusters
Posted by
Zonk
on Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:29 AM
from the she-blinded-me-with-science dept.
from the she-blinded-me-with-science dept.
Who are the Mythbusters? Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are the hosts of a unique and popular television show on the Discovery cable channel. Working from a background in the special effects industry and shooting on location at effects warehouse M5 Industries, Jamie and Adam attempt to shed light on hearsay, rumour, and myth. Along the way they usually run across a little bit of science, too. Today, you have a chance to put questions to them. We'll take the 15 best questions and pass them on to the gentlemen to be answered sometime soon after the Thanksgiving holiday. One question per comment, please, and keep things topical. We'll post their responses as soon as we get them back, so ask away.
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Favorites (Score:5, Interesting)
What is your favorite Busted Myth and your favorite Confirmed one?
Your show is great fun to watch and all, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Houston, we have a busted/confirmed myth (Score:5, Interesting)
Myths that didn't make it. (Score:5, Interesting)
Most Challenging Myth (Score:5, Interesting)
Injuries (Score:5, Interesting)
ultimate myth? (Score:5, Interesting)
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
I understand completely why you guys warn us to "not try this at home". But who warns you guys?
Ok all joking aside. You guys do some really dangerous stuff on the show. What has been the scariest/ most hair raising moment on the show so far, a time when you might have thought "this is really going to hurt"?
upside down car (Score:5, Interesting)
I heard that an F1 racing car has enough downdraft to drive upside down at speed. True or false?
Fact vs Fun (Score:5, Interesting)
For those of us not of TV-land.. how long does it take for you guys to produce an average episode.. how much of it is fun vs time spent working on getting it right?
Would you consider a contest to have a guest helper? (Not that I am plugging this potential guest helper at all.. no!).
Is it true? (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh this is an easy one... (Score:5, Funny)
Idea behind MythBusters. (Score:5, Interesting)
Budget (Score:5, Interesting)
q: (Score:5, Interesting)
Impact on the World (Score:5, Interesting)
Gilligan's Island (Score:5, Interesting)
Computer myths? (Score:5, Interesting)
Critique (Score:5, Interesting)
In particular I refer to a show where you were examining fuel mileage on SUVs with windows open vs. air conditioning. As an engineer, I believe that you failed to conduct adequate experimentation to demonstrate anything other than results at a single data point and you didn't make that clear to your viewers.
Source Material (Score:5, Interesting)
To the Mythbusters whom it may concern- (Score:5, Informative)
It seems like it must be tempting to definitively call a myth "busted", even though the reality is that you just couldn't duplicate the results. Whether something is fact or fiction, scientifically a myth probably shouldn't be considered "busted" unless you have empirically show it to be implausable.
You guys generally do a good job of this, though on occasion I've seen an episode where you seemed a little premature. What can you say about where you draw the line, and do you feel like you generally do a good job of following the scientific method to get your results?
Also, can you get me that redhead's phone number?
Kari and Grant (Score:5, Funny)
Strictly speaking ... (Score:5, Interesting)
My question is this: are you taking yourselves too seriously as "myth busters"? (And a suggestion: why not let a physics prof supervise some of your stunts?)
Blasting Zone Myth (Score:5, Interesting)
Budget restrictions? (Score:5, Interesting)
What sort of budget limits do you guys have for your show these days? I remember seeing some earlier episodes where money really seemed to be an issue (spending an extra $700 on helium for the weather baloon lawn chair seemed to cause some concern). Whereas these days you guys seem to have no problem blowing up cement trucks or catapulting a boom lift.
As a corollary: Which experiment(s) ran rediculously over budget, and which one was surpirisingly cheap to pull off?