Memory is a fickle mistress

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• digital_man@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me, they signify a time when Television/streaming companies produced content promoting science , rational thought, and blowing crap up.

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their show was running alongside all the Discovery and History crap about ancient aliens, mermaids, and Bigfoot, so I’m not sure about those first two things.

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    • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In its first years it actually ran alongside a lot of interesting and significantly more scholarly shows on those two networks. The early 2000s actually had some solid programming on the history channel. Pretty quickly devolved into pawn stars and ancient aliens after that, though. So, yeah, half to most of its run was alongside utter garbage.

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now it’s still all WW2 revisited with “never before seen” enhanced footage, usually centred around Hitler. Clone, clone, clone.

      I’d like to see them challenge themselves to have to actually dig up some info for once.

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• far_university190@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More critical thinking in world would good right now.

  At least adam still doing his thing on youtube.

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  • BruceAlrighty@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still see Jamie at the beach sometimes, he’s usually sunbathing.

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Savage

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I grew up thinking that. As I got older, I realized they’re actors like Bill Nye. That style of edu- tainment helped me internalize the scientific method. I loved the explosions growing up, but now I just love the humility, educational content, and entertainment.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why are they not scientists? Sure their profession was in special effects, but you don’t need a degree or a lab to carry out scientific research.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand anyone starting from the premise they’re scientists. Nobody made that claim about the hosts? They’re very much entertainers who have an educational angle (sort of). I follow Adam and one thing he discusses often enough about the Mythbusters is that they were storytellers first, the scientific process was part of the story, and teaching was never really the intent even though we all feel like we learned from the show.

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    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t need a degree to be a scientist, all you need is to apply the scientific method to your quest for knowledge.

      Micheal Faraday never attended schools after about the age of 8. Look around and see the world he gave you.

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  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aren’t they introduced as special effects artists in the intro of every episode?

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Adam is pretty well recognised as a craftsman

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  • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you can see his model work in Attack of the Clones

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    • far_university190@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And grant imahara made r2d2 in prequel trilogy.

      RIP grant imahara.

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  • zeezee@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Adam is also an alleged r*pist of his sister Miranda Pacchiana

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That whole article basically sums to they settled out of court, which proves nothing.

      Innocent until proven guilty.

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    • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Adam would have been 9 through 12 at the time. Awful and fucked up, sure.

      I find it hard to hold over him. Over the past decades he has been nothing but the opposite of his childhood self.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me, it was: you need to think critically, but you also need to employ proper experts. They did a lot of cringe ‘science’ early.

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  • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate the trombone episode they did For context I play the trombone

    So the myth was that there was this performer who put a firework in his trombone mute and it ended up launching the slide off

    They used a crappy pawn shop trombone with no oil to test it

    The slide should be so smooth that if you simply hold it upside down and let go of the slide it should fall with near zero resistance

    But if your trombone isn’t properly maintained All it takes is one tiny dent to mess that up and significantly increasing the drag

    Hell all it would of took is one of the producers to drop it or bump into it to dent it ruining the whole experiment

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    • MrNobody@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      would of took

      would have taken. Even without took/taken. would have, could have. never of.

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• wulrus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wulrus likes the left guy

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jamie Hyneman is a legend

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