Mythbusters new season - Page 3

Ghoulish Delight · 04-24-2009, 09:44 AM

So far this season has been a marginal improvement in terms of painful canned banter. I don't find myself cringing quite as much.

Of course, watching is highly improved via use of TiVo so we can skip the redundancy and the "here's a clip of what we're going to show you in 2 minutes".

SzczerbiakManiac · 04-24-2009, 01:15 PM

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Wow, seems like Jamie's kind of an OCD Douchbag.

I wonder of that's related to why he and Adam are not friends....

Moonliner · 12-07-2011, 08:17 AM

Oops. The Mythbusters had a little boo-boo yesterday.
They were on the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb disposal range when a cannon shot went wide of the mark.

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The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.

There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust.

The ball wasn't done bouncing.

It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family's beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.

Alex · 12-07-2011, 08:32 AM

That happened about a mile from our apartment. Very exciting but the great city of Dublin, California, has successfully repelled the attacking hordes.

They have had their issues. They do a lot of their explosions here at the disposal range and we also have the Camp Parks Army Training Center here where they accidentally sent a bullet into a neighboring development a couple years ago.

alphabassettgrrl · 12-07-2011, 09:29 AM

Wow- oops!

Glad nobody got hurt. Most of the time they seem to be pretty careful, always see FD on scene while they do stupid stuff, etc. I guess once in a while it goes wrong... kind of a given, with what they do.

Kevy Baby · 12-07-2011, 10:30 AM

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...at 4:15 p.m....

...where a man, woman and child slept through it all...

What; was the whole family napping at 4:15 in the afternoon?!?

Stan4dSteph · 12-07-2011, 08:34 PM

Production has been suspended. I wonder if it will survive this incident.

Kevy Baby · 12-07-2011, 09:38 PM

Tweets within a matter of moments of each other this afternoon:

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Originally Posted by Kari Byron

Taking yesterday's accident very seriously. So happy everyone is all right. So sorry to all who have been affected.

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Originally Posted by Tory Belleci

My deepest apologies to Dublin. Fortunately no one was injured from our accident. We're doing everything we can to make things better.

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Originally Posted by Grant Imahara

Deepest apologies to the families in Dublin whose property was damaged as a result of this accident. I'm really glad no one was hurt.

Followed up three hours later by

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Originally Posted by Adam Savage

It's true, a cannonball got away from a Mythbusters experiment in Dublin, CA. Nobody hurt thank goodness. Jamie and I toured the damage.

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Originally Posted by Adam Savage

Now it's back to SF, to meet and discuss how to keep this from ever happening again. Very intense. We're SUPER relieved no one was hurt.

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Originally Posted by Jamie Hyneman

Loose cannon: glad no one was hurt. Won't happen again.

All nicely scripted for them.

Kevy Baby · 12-07-2011, 09:53 PM

Also, there had been a Tweet a couple of days ago by Tory where he showed picture of a cannonball that he made. Not surprisingly, that Tweet is no longer up.

BarTopDancer · 12-07-2011, 09:57 PM

It's a moot point since I'm sure you're right and those were scripted but do they control their Twitter accounts or does a publicity team do it?

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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	Wow- oops! Glad nobody got hurt. Most of the time they seem to be pretty careful, always see FD on scene while they do stupid stuff, etc. I guess once in a while it goes wrong... kind of a given, with what they do. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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