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Gay robot makes Craig Ferguson cry
Geoff was built by Grant Imahara from Mythbusters while he was still working at MB and doing other robot projects on the side.
Apparently he nearly died in the middle of all that, he had so many projects he worked late into the nights and worked tired a lot. A 500kg walking bot he working on fell on top of him and nearly pinned him while he was working late one night with nobody else around to help.
It was a sort of bet/challenge. Grant agreed to take it on if Craig could get him 100k twitter followers (it took less than 24 hours).
How can a PASSENGER land an AIRCRAFT?!
Didn't MythBusters do this?
6.8 Earthquake Simulated by Underground Nuclear Explosion!
mythbusters have upped their game!
Best pirate I've ever seen
I guess they saw that episode of Mythbusters...
Alan McSmith's Fearless Elephant Encounter.
Every time I see a charging elephant, I'm reminded of the elephant/mouse Mythbusters episode.
Is It Dangerous To Talk To A Camera While Driving?
Was just watching the old Mythbusters where they took an actual driving road test while intoxicated or talking on a cell phone. But, being actual driving, they legally had to stay under the .08 BAC limit even though it was on a closed course.
Really cool to see this place, where they can test things at mild/moderate/high levels of impairment, other types of intoxication, etc.
However, I did have one minor complaint, sort of the same as in the Mythbusters episode: it would be nice to see additional tests where the driver isn't ever expected to look at a video camera and/or respond correctly to questions. Ie., what if you're talking to somebody on the phone hands free, or talking to a passenger in the car, but you're not expected to devote a lot of attention to that ALL the time. In a real scenario, you can keep your eyes on the road and pay attention to driving while also listening to someone or even talking to them a little bit. If you see something in the road that requires your full attention, it seems like your brain should be able to do a reasonable job of prioritizing the driving (more important) over paying attention to the conversation (less important).
I'd wager that on average, people in that sort of scenario are slightly impaired compared to drivers putting 100% of their attention on driving, but not by a big margin. Probably lower than a lot of other distractions, some of which we deem acceptable (hard to legislate things like "driving while preoccupied" angry/sad/whatever).
150 mph Rocket Knife
I'm so glad he ignored the "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME" warning on every Mythbusters episode.
Indestructible Coating?
Not sure which brand, but Mythbusters used spray-on bedliner to make a "house" bomb proof.
Splitting wood the old fashioned way.
"Splitting wood the
old fashionedMythbusters way."Dude uses smoke screen and spikes to try and avoid police
The spikes needed to be like the ones they made on Mythbusters. Those were bent, sharpened hollow tubes and as soon as tires hit those they got shredded, whereas the non-hollow ones just stuck into the tires and self-plugged the holes they created, as what happened here.
Apparently The Greatest Airbag Crisis In History Is Upon Us
http://videosift.com/video/1959-Bel-Air-vs-2009-Malibu-crash-test
Crumple-zones (and other safety engineering) can be the difference between life and death.
And most crash tests (and star ratings) aren't for highway speeds.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/ratings-info/frontal-crash-tests
so 40 mph and 35 mph. If you go up to 55,65,75 mph the difference in kinetic energy is exponentially higher (K=0.5mv^2)
there might have been a mythbusters episode about this...can't remember the result though.
TBH, neither of my cars have airbags, they are from the 70's, and I feel like they are both more safe in an accident than newer cars because they are made of metal. ;-)
Artist makes perfect shiny balls of mud (Hikaru Dorodango)
You can't Polish a Turd? Mythbusters say otherwise... has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.
Artist makes perfect shiny balls of mud (Hikaru Dorodango)
*related=http://videosift.com/video/You-can-t-Polishing-a-Turd-Mythbusters-say-otherwise
Adam and Jamie used this technique to test whether or not it was possible to 'polish a turd', and indeed it was.
They are beautiful objects.
Hydraulic Press Folds Paper 7 Times
Well, saying "a piece of paper" in the mythbusters' case might be bit misleading, but yeah, it's possible to fold an acre of paper more than 7 times =)
Hydraulic Press Folds Paper 7 Times
It's actually possible to fold paper more than 7 times - the Mythbusters did it several years ago: http://videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Folding-a-Piece-of-Paper-7-Times