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Great find. Thanks.

Gee willikers. Thank you for posting that Mythbusters video.

Data. I love data.

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"We really should deal with 'Throws like a girl as an insult.' "

@EMPIRE!!!!! The Mythbusters ACTUALLY SAID IT.

Highly related:
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Interestingly, in this video at least, he was firing a .22lr Ruger MkII, about as low powered a pistol as you can get. .22lr has a hard time going through inch thick plywood (when fired from a pistol). This is different than the alleged .357 magnum, .38 special, and .380 ACP the random lady was calling out.

The gun range guy is incorrect. Some people always get on target with static shooting. Those destroyed walls in his range will (in my experience) be from beginners. Even then, there are degrees of off target. You can miss significantly to the sides of most targets and still safely hit the backstop. You have to be shooting incredibly wide or high to miss the backstop.

Noise is a big issue here. Suppressors are legal in Florida with the right permit - he should get them for all his firearms.

Safety is an issue as well, if the entire wall area he firing into is not thick enough to stop his strongest firearm then there is serious risk of injuring someone else. He should build a mini steel and concrete reinforced range.

Fuel tanks don't automatically explode. MythBusters did this in two episodes, and you need a tracer round fired from a long distance to ignite a tank's fuel.

Regardless of the legalities or not, if his neighbours are scared and annoyed, (and regardless of whether or not it is a rational fear), he should be considerate of his neighbours and their concerns and do more to alleviate their concerns.

Uhm, isn't that the whole point of Mythbusters? To share the slightly odd and inappropriate excitement by proxy? LOL

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If these guys hosted Mythbusters, every single myth would be "plausible".

I think a good test would be to build 2 identical boards, with riders the same gross weight, go down side by side, not doing any tricks.
The natural speed of the snow can vary throughout the day, so the side-by-side race would be better than consecutive on/off runs.

most of the Red Bull Flugtag gliders, which have no engine and are built to crash into the water 1 time only, have flown further than this thing ever will.

MythBusters built a safer plane (which didn't fly) from bamboo, garbage bags, and duct-tape (MacGyver episode)

Were you not paying attention in physics class the day they explained the difference between mass and weight? As @Payback pointed out the energy required to overcome inertia is the same no matter what the gravity, low gravity simply allows you to "spread the duration" of the force like a fulcrum.

I.e. it would be easier than on earth but you still have to apply enough force to move 2-300kg of mass, you just have the option of doing so less rapidly (making it easier but not easy).

Even if this were not the case your argument still makes no sense. If it was indeed faked then surely they were on wires anyway? How else are you proposing they replicated the effects of low gravity?

The fact your comment got 3 likes is rather depressing. As someone who makes researching conspiracy theories a borderline obsessive hobby I can say with some confidence that the whole faked moon landing thing is about the most debunk-able one ever conceived. It is an insult to the very term "conspiracy theory" and helps give the rest of us a bad name .

Radiation belt? = 7 mins of expertly calculated exposure, there is a 1000ish page NASA manual on how they did this.

Cameras? = they had about 20 DIFFERENT cameras & much like anyone else would the crappy poorly framed or exposed shots weren't used for publicity

Multiple light sources? = The surface of the moon is both highly reflective and uneven. (mythbusters did the shit out of that one)

Most complicated machine ever built? = Actually launched, several times, to the freaking moon and back!

Waving flag? = Funny how every single shot of the flag waving is when someone is holding/touching it eh? (& what kind of retard leaves evidence of wind in the most expensive coverup of all time?)

The Russian space programme? = They just turned a blind eye to their arch rivals lauding it over them? They were in on it? You have to get really paranoid before that one starts to make any sense whatsoever.

etc. etc. etc.

I have a lot of time for conspiracy theories and I'm happy to speculate with the best of them but I've yet to find a single good argument for the landing not happening. I can maybe work with the possibility that some things were omitted/covered up (Monoliths etc.) because this could not be conclusively refuted by empirical facts. Suggesting that it never happened however is so easy to disprove it blows my mind that people still have time for the idea.

For your own sake try looking into the opposing arguments. There are plenty people with PHD's and direct experience who are happy to take you through the counters to all this stuff. And they back it up with actual evidence and experiments rather than conjecture and selective information. Your mind will thank you for it

MythBusters did that sneeze one. It was interesting. I didn't realize how much of that get expel from our bodies! Dang. I am going to avoid everyone.

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Holy cow the sift has turned into the most "deconstruct this video to prove the point it's making is self-defeating" site I've seen since YouTube.

On a personal note: I banned all princess movies. If my 2 girls want to watch a movie, I have to first approve of it, and watch it with them the first time. And I make it a constant point to let them know they don't have to be some sissy princess girly girl. I take them out, let them play with sticks and mud, and we do crafts at home, make food together, make ice cream, play with fire, and watch MythBusters and occasionally forget the "do no try at home part".

But, I also let them paint their nails and wear pretty clothes. But "princesses" they will not be.