No time to browse thru at the moment but is this a dupeof: http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird ?

Watching him speak, I keep thinking of what Adam Savage (MythBusters) calls, "Lazy Arrogance." I guess it's when you assume your side is so unassailable, so absolutely correct, that you can smile knowingly while calling the president things like "Abomination." If he were correcting a child who calls color of the sky 'pink' in the same tone, it would be irritating. But the claims he is making in this clip, and the way he delivers them, relegates him (and his ilk) to carnival freakshow.

At least pretend to not be such an arrogant asshole, Keyes. Then, perhaps, people will listen to what you're saying and just call your arguments bat-shit insane.

>> ^LordJimmy:
How kickass would be a full on Half-life 2 movie?


Starring Adam Savage as Gordan Freeman!!!!

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*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird

http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird

>> ^rougy:
That was pretty interesting. Wish it wouldn't have cut off at the fifteen-minute mark because I wasnted to hear the end.


Click the "Watch full program" link in the bottom right corner, then from that page click on "05: One problem" from the chapters list.

>> ^lucky760:
I'm calling bullshit. Where did he get these "facts?"
I was buying into it until he said "it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open" because Adam Savage busted that myth on Mythbusters (and his eyes didn't pop out).
My guess is just a bunch of interesting sounding stuff he's heard crammed into a metacafe video to make money.


Yes and no. Many things occur when you sneeze, a lot of face muscles come into play AND there is a reflex that will close your eyelids the moment you sneeze. Called the sternutatory reflex. A lot of pressure takes place the moment you sneeze, enough to make your eyes uncomfortable so as a reflex, they close. Because imagine what a bunch of pressurized oxygen will do to the eyes which are thin layers of tissue filled with fluid if we kept them open for every sneeze we had. My guess is if this were the case they would eventually deform or fall out of place.

The error here is to say 'impossible' it is possible to fight reflexes.

But here is the thing, we are talking about a reflex, meaning that yes, mythbusters proved we can fight the reflex but the very act of mythbusters trying to prove this affects the outcome, for Adam WAS EXPECTING a sneeze. When it becomes 'impossible' is those times where the sneeze occurs suddenly. I am pretty sure there are times where you know a sneeze is coming and others where it gets you and you were not expecting it.

As for the other facts, well those are generalized averages, etc. I found most of them acceptable enough. (for an internet video)
But then again these are the sort of facts that are half informative, half 'meh'
kind of like a cow can go up the stairs but not down

PS: I'm a pre-Optometry student =P

I'm calling bullshit. Where did he get these "facts?"

I was buying into it until he said "it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open" because Adam Savage busted that myth on Mythbusters (and his eyes didn't pop out).

My guess is just a bunch of interesting sounding stuff he's heard crammed into a metacafe video to make money.

>> ^oblio70:
Readi-Whip gas has a similar (but less dramatic) effect.
(btw: that is called Nitrous Oxide, aka 'laughing gassss')


Yeah but dude, when you inhale ready whip, you only sound like that to yourself.

>> ^Oblyvious:
he sounds like pen from pen and teller


YES!

Whoa, he does!

In reply to this comment by Oblyvious:
he sounds like pen from pen and teller

http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-on-Helium-and-Sulfur-Hexafluoride

*discard

Hey Zifnab. Re: the Mythbusters RFID vid...

Adam Savage backpedals on RFID kerfufle:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10031601-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Figures, right? I posted this comment on your sift but it's been a couple days and I wanted to make sure it was seen.