Comment on Mythbusters

• candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I hate that debunking flat earth is now seen as serious rather than a 5th grade science experiment.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    True enough.

    I mostly watch that one guy on YT for his dog…

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it wasn’t like they were debunking flat earth or something

  Though you could do that. And with equipment and a type of experiment that would make sense on their show. The experiment conducted at the very end of the documentary Behind the Curve is perfect. Great big lasers, a simple and easy-to-visualise pass condition. If they had wanted to, they absolutely could have done it.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Could’ve had an episode where they tried as many experiments as they could fit into a two-week production.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, yes.

    but their myths generally didn’t piss surprisingly large segments of the population off. it was more… the urban legends that gave them an excuse to blow stuff up, shoot stuff, or otherwise crash stuff; all in slow motion.

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