Mythbusters

my last fm profile! · Postby **rocklobster** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:53 am

Any mythbusters fans? I love these guys! They make science so much fun.

Postby **Etoh*the*Greato** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:14 am

My wife and room mate have been on a Mythbusters marathon ever since they discovered you could stream it from Netflix.

Postby **SeraphicCharm** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:45 am

I love Mythbusters! I don't get to watch it a whole lot, but it's an awesome show!

My Writing.com Portfolio · Postby **EricTheFred** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:59 am

I and many of my fellow engineering types here at work love this show. One of my buddies once cracked everyone in the office up by describing it as "Pornography for Engineers."

I hope that's not a problem for me...

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:02 pm

Holy crap, you can stream it on Netflix?! Excellent!

Mythbusters is easily one of the best American shows to come from the past decade.

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:27 pm

I like the idea of Mythbusters, but for some reason I never enjoy watching the show as much as I would expect given the subject matter. That having been said, I'm glad they're around, especially since people like me have sites like this:
http://mythbustersresults.com/

Postby **ich1990** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:54 pm

As much as I enjoy the show, I find it to be less than scientifically rigorous. To keep things entertaining, they don't always sufficiently isolate variables.

Still great fun, though: building things, blowing them up, rappelling down the sides of buildings with ropes made of toilet paper...

My Writing.com Portfolio · Postby **EricTheFred** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:05 pm

ich1990 (post: 1366256) wrote:As much as I enjoy the show, I find it to be less than scientifically rigorous. To keep things entertaining, they don't always sufficiently isolate variables.

Still great fun, though: building things, blowing them up, rappelling down the sides of buildings with ropes made of toilet paper...

While that's true, it actually makes them more appealing, since whenever they gloss something that could have made a real difference, they get flooded with emails, which leads them to revisit the problem on a subsequent show.

In earlier seasons, especially season 1, they spent more time on research, including sometimes chasing down the origin of the myth. I miss that, but it probably wasn't as popular with other viewers.

Anyway, they definitely do a much better job than a lot of the half-baked attempts I've seen on other shows to 'debunk' stuff.

Postby **ashfire** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:15 pm

I watch the show and like to see what they can do with a myth or something that movie maker will make you think is possible which at times the Mythbusters have proved to be impossible or could be possible.

MAL · Postby **Mr. Hat'n'Clogs** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:19 pm

I love Mythbusters, but it's been forever since I've seen it. I can't even remember what channel it was on, or know if we still have the channel in question.

Postby **Blitzkrieg1701** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:23 pm

It's on Discovery, for the record.

And while I don't get to watch it on regularity (lots of Church stuff goes on Wednesday night), I still love Mythbusters!

my last fm profile! · Postby **rocklobster** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:36 am

They've currently moved it Mondays now Blitzkrieg. You no longer have an excuse.

Postby **KhakiBlueSocks** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:19 pm

EricTheFred (post: 1366259) wrote:In earlier seasons, especially season 1, they spent more time on research, including sometimes chasing down the origin of the myth. I miss that, but it probably wasn't as popular with other viewers.

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Yeah. I remember the old days of Mythbusters pre-build team]

Postby **Blitzkrieg1701** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:43 pm

Um, she just got another job. They brought her back to work on one of those "myths revisited" episodes, but I forget which one.

KhakiBlueSocks (post: 1366725) wrote:[color=RoyalBlue]
Yeah. I remember the old days of Mythbusters pre-build team]

I liked 'em when they were all in the same building and could interact with each other. Now that the build team is in a different location, I get kind of tired of 'em.

rocklobster (post: 1366471) wrote:They've currently moved it Mondays now Blitzkrieg. You no longer have an excuse.

Really? Sweet!

Postby **ST. Attidude** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:44 pm

ich1990 (post: 1366256) wrote:As much as I enjoy the show, I find it to be less than scientifically rigorous. To keep things entertaining, they don't always sufficiently isolate variables.

Still great fun, though: building things, blowing them up, rappelling down the sides of buildings with ropes made of toilet paper...

I agree with you, dude. For example I think "Buster" does not substitute well for the human test subject at all...considering that "he" is just a bunch of dead weight. X)

my last fm profile! · Postby **rocklobster** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:34 am

I agree, I like it better when they use ballistic gel instead. At least that's actually fleshy enough to be convincing

My Writing.com Portfolio · Postby **EricTheFred** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:47 am

Blitzkrieg1701 (post: 1366852) wrote:Um, she just got another job. They brought her back to work on one of those "myths revisited" episodes, but I forget which one.

Wikipedia says it was called "Supersized Myths" and that she was also brought in for 'The 2008 Young Scientists special'.

I liked 'em when they were all in the same building and could interact with each other. Now that the build team is in a different location, I get kind of tired of 'em.

I like them both ways. The build team has a very entertaining dynamic. But, I did enjoy when Jamie would show up in the middle of one of their experiments, scowling and declaring 'I'm not comfortable with safety on this one' or such.

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