Comment on Mythbusters

Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah… There are many pitfalls to doing a Skepticism based program, sadly one of the few Mythbusters DIDN’T avoid was “Well I can’t personally do it, so it’s impossible for everyone!”

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Could the DOOM marine actually carry all those weapons while running for ages?” - Adam and Jamie couldn’t manage it, but they brought in someone who could.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ha! That was fun.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I thought you were joking till I clicked the link.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Man i should rewatch the whole thing. I only watched few of the earlier seasons, totally missed this one.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Rooster Teeth’s “Immersion” did it five years earlier.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which was ridiculous considering they’re a couple of science nerds with no physical aptitude at all. LOL. They nailed the science stuff though.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I liked the one where they tested it you could stop a sword by slapping your palms together to stop the swing like in ninja movies They actually built a machine with rubber hands to simulate it. Long and short of it … No you can’t

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But maybe… JK. The strength required to do that would be inhuman.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, one that I always think of is the see-saw one where a sky diver’s parachute failed so he aimed for a see-saw with a girl sitting on one end which resulted in the girl launched shot upwards and then landing safely on top of a building.

  Their first test used basically a metal plank on a fulcrum and the forces did more to bend the plank than they did to launch the girl and she didn’t get high enough.

  Their second attempt used a see-saw that was built using suspension bridge tech to essentially make it instructable, resulting in fatal forces from the launch. At this point, they called it busted.

  But I see two unrealistic extremes where reality would exist somewhere in the middle where see-saws are designed to not break easily but not to the point of being indestructible and there might be a sweet spot where the forces are high enough to launch girl several stories up but not high enough that she dies from the forces.

  Also, for the bull in a china shop one, I’m guessing that saying resulted from a bull ending up inside a china shop during a running of the bulls event, where stress would be high and there wouldn’t be an easy and obvious path out on the other side, plus maybe a shopkeeper suddenly trying to get it out in a panic. I think that would get the expected result, especially after a few shelves have broken and each step makes more broken sounds.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you want to accelerate a person to “fly high into the air” speed over a distance of a see saw’s arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot

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