Recommended Viewing
If you haven’t seen Mythbusters yet, you should watch it. These two guys have the coolest job in the world. The show works like this: two special effects experts take an alleged myth and try to duplicate it to see if it works. Some things they have done:
They had a sprayer that misted gasoline and tried to use a cell phone to light the gas (You have seen the warning signs telling you not to chat on your phone while pumping gas, haven’t you?). It didn’t work.
Or the myth that gold fish have such small brains that they only have a memory of three seconds. Myth was busted as they taught the fish to swim through mazes.
And everyone has heard the myth about the great deal on a sports car because the owner died in it and it smells. Good price, but the smell can’t be removed. So, they loaded a 1987 Corvette with two dead pigs and let it simmer for two months. They decided you could clean it but it wasn’t cost effective to do so.
Neat stuff.
Oh, and so it’s not boring, they’ll usually blow something up any way.
March 11th, 2004 at 10:41 am
My fav was the one about Mikey from the Life cereal commercial dying after drinking Pepsi and eating Pop Rocks. They got a pig stomach and filled it with Pepsi, Pop Rocks, and hydrochloric acid to see if it would explore. It did. But they used a lot Pepsi, Pop Rocks, and hydrochloric acid.
I liked the show about the JATO-powered car, too.