Favorite Mythbusters and what would you like to see on it?

[scaeagles]

I love this show.

It's hard to pick a favorite, as they are pretty much all fun. Mutilating Buster is always great, but if I had to pick three.....

Dynamite and the cement truck. The explosion was beyond cool.

Plants have feelings? When Torey is slapping the plant and thinking mean thoughts it's just hilarious.

Mind control. Again, Torey trying to control minds with the bike helmet and crystal slayed me.

I seem to like the ones that make me laugh, but there there are others where you really learn. Like the Chinese subterranean tunneling alert system. Cool.

I'd like to see a myth from Flagstaff AZ tested. Huge hang gliding place up there near the San Francisco peaks with masive thermal air flows. The myth is that a hnag glider caught one went up above 18000 feet, passed out from the thin air, glided 300 miles into New Mexico, and woke up after he dropped below a certain altitude. Sounds completely ridiculous, but it is a widely believed story in the community.

[flippyshark]

Naturally, I treasured the special Shark Week episode in which they tested the plausibility of events in the movie JAWS. I had long wanted to know what would really happen if you shot a tank of compressed air, and now I know.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I'd like to see a myth from Flagstaff AZ tested. Huge hang gliding place up there near the San Francisco peaks with masive thermal air flows. The myth is that a hnag glider caught one went up above 18000 feet, passed out from the thin air, glided 300 miles into New Mexico, and woke up after he dropped below a certain altitude. Sounds completely ridiculous, but it is a widely believed story in the community.

If it was a hang glider, the glide ratio is about 15:1 (i.e. 15 feet forward for 1 foot of altitude loss), so from 18000 feet, it could glide about 50 miles (18000*15/5280).

If he flew due west from flagstaff, it's about 137 miles to the New Mexico border.

If it were a high performance glider, the glide ration would be between 40:1 or 60:1 which would give a glide range between 136 to 204 miles.

All of these calculations are for dead air, if the hang glider found any lift during that 50 miles, he might be able to extend his range, but 300 miles would mean he found an awful lot of good lift.

I'd say the 300 mile range is doubtful.

If the hang glider pilot got sucked into a thunderstorm, he could get up to 18000 feet, and he could pass out if he didn't have any oxygen, so that is possible, but there's also a good possibility of freezing to death without proper protection. If he survived that, I would imagine his first thoughts would be to head for terra firma, not to go for a distance record in New Mexico.

I think this story could be possible for a regular glider, but not a hanglider.

[Gemini Cricket]

I want to see if HeadOn really works. I don't think it does.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I want to see if HeadOn really works. I don't think it does.

It does not. Homeopathy is one of the biggest (or minutest, depending on your perspective) forms of büllshït.

Even though Penn & Teller did a great exposé of Bunk Sway (what some people refer to as Feng Shui), it'd be nice to see Mythbusters tackle that because it would likely hit a broader audience. And while we're at it, let's do Astrology and Numerology too! It blows my mind that people actually put credence in that crap.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

It does not. Homeopathy is one of the biggest (or minutest, depending on your perspective) forms of büllshït.

Even though Penn & Teller did a great exposé of Bunk Sway (what some people refer to as Feng Shui), it'd be nice to see Mythbusters tackle that because it would likely hit a broader audience. And while we're at it, let's do Astrology and Numerology too! It blows my mind that people actually put credence in that crap.

I don't know, normally I'd accept what you say but today Aquarius is in the 7th house and Jupiter is aligned with mars, so I think I'm going to pray to the spirit in the sky to guide me on a horse with no name up that stairway to heaven where I shall find truth.

Hey you have to believe in something. I choose classic rock.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

...and Numerology too! It blows my mind that people actually put credence in that crap.

hey now, lets not tempt the fates here. numbers dont lie...however the interpretation of said numbers often does.


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[Stan4dSteph]

I would like them to determine how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

I would like them to determine how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.

Three

[Ghoulish Delight]

My favorite would definitely have to be the elevetor of death. That was wicked awesome. Exploding cement mixer was damned cool too.