Hello everyone!

Youre my last hope, I just can't find this episode! (maybe I remember it wrong?)

I don't know the actual myth anymore, but I remember Jamie lying on a forklift or something and trying to hold as much weight as possible with only his fingers, before it drops. Does anyone know if that actually happened? I'm working on a video and that tidbit would be perfect for the story.

Thanks for your help!!

SOLVED! It Was the car cling myth! Thank you for all for the replies, you guys are amazing!

I did make my own pykrete out of blue shop towels. I can confirm it was was very durable.

Exactly what the title says. If they did a round 3 of testing myths of men vs women, what would you nominate as a myth to test?

That was so much fun. It must have been absolutely terrifying to watch that thing spin around with all that steam pressure. And the weird noise that it made in the shop was just crazy

This mage me smile

In your daily life, what myth do you think about most often?

I just found out that S1E6 was essentially the Pilot Episode or basically the very first episode of Mythbusters, cause I got confused as to why it had a different opening compared to the other ones. Are all of them mislabeled or is it just season 1?

I'm currently binge watching Mythbusters on YouTube ever since I found out about last month that they're slowly uploading the entire seasons and episode on their YouTube channel and I was kinda surprised that they used "True" instead of Confirmed when confirming a myth

Was it the only episode that used words to confirm or bust myths aside from Confirmed and Busted etc?

Been watching this show for years and want to hear other opinions!

I'm a fan of the show but this is my first time posting here.

I just watched Adam's latest (I think) video and he mentioned how hard they found it to aim the reflection of the sun with a mirror.

I've always wanted to tell him that there is a way to aim the reflection where you want without seeing the reflection, itself at all. You can even use a mirror to signal an airplane in the sky where there is no possible way you can see the reflection. I learned this trick in Boy Scouts over 50 years ago. Here's how it works.

We were issued a flat piece of stainless steel about the size of a playing card, polished to a mirror finish on both sides and a hole in the middle big enough to see your target.

Hold it up and look at your target through the hole. You may need to close one eye.

Look at the reflection of your shadow on the ground in the mirror facing you and turn the mirror until the reflection you see lines up with the shadow of the mirror on the ground.

If you can see your target through the hole and at the same time the reflection of the shadow lines up with the shadow of the mirror on the ground the sun's reflection will be on the target.

It takes a few minutes of practice to get the hang of it.

What they could have done is put holes in the main mirror and a smaller mirror mounted flat to the backside. The mirror on the backside only has to be big enough to see the reflection of the shadow on the ground.

What do you think?

I am rewatching Mythbusters, and some things catch in my brain and I cannot let them go. In ep 12.3, “square wheels”, the build team tests the myth that two unmodified conjoined cars à la “date night” could do the stunts that were seen in the movie. They attached the two cars using a solid frame that attached to both frames, making them an immobile unit. But then they could not drive it on to a flat bed or even pick it up without risking damage to the cars because it doesn’t flex. My first thought was that they should hinge the linkage vertically to handle bumps or curbs or other not flat surfaces, as well as being able to drive onto a flat bed but would not bend horizontally, adding the stiffness that the frame requires for the myth which is mostly about taking turns and doing spins.

Is there a reason besides complexity that would preclude the team from doing this? Is there a flaw in that design that I do not see? I mean, with enough steel you can make anything strong enough. Check out the hinge they had in the see-saw girl myth.

I get it's the first season, every interaction between every person is extremely awkward and the mythology person kinda breaks the pacing. Also using Kari's butt to model the butt in episode 2 is fine but it was so awkward the way they interacted with her lmao. I am so glad that later seasons turned out the way they did.

The Right handside arm(RHS) is getting more than 180 degree with momentum after i drop the ball and counter weight is working against gravitational pull back by balancing the mass of lower tube then why it shouldn't work?

(1) I cannot drop the ball once the arm rotate towards left side.IF BALL DROPS FROM THE LEFT HAND SIDE ARM (LHS) THEN THE ARM WILL GET BACK MORE HEIGHT TOWARDS RHS THAN ITS INITIAL POSITION AND VICE-VERSA

BOTH TUBES HAVING EQUAL MASS (230 GRAM)

(2) anyone can try it as it will work even with dead material.

(3) INTERESTING point is arm is getting more height once I increased the counterweight.

(4)Hand power or force is nothing in this design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0PwRZBELQ&pp=ygUfZXhwZXJpbWVudCBwaHlzaWNzIHZpa3JhbSBndXB0YQ%3D%3D180

What a magnificent episode this was, I laughed out loud seeing the last launch, I had totally forgotten about this one.

IMHO it also shows the technical superiority of Jamie and Grant. The first seesaw that Adam builds is pretty much a total failure, the way that Jamie designs and builds it after that is on a total other level and the only input from Adam is the fluorescent paint (not on camera but I guess we can all be sure Adam did that and not Jamie). Grant makes most of the energy delivery system to the seesaw, and comes up with the inner tube filled with sand as a payload (later on stuffed in a bag to keep it together). The skydiver that Kari makes is useless as well, and I guess the skydiving by Grant and Tori (and the bungee jumping) could have been skipped by a simple google query (but I guess it makes good TV).

Anyway, don't want to sound all that negative. It's still a great team, it all makes fantastic TV and I miss it so much these days.

Do you know about the right to repair movement? Adam talks about it a lot!

He's discussed it on the Adam Savage Project, talked with consumer advocacy groups about it, and said on Tested that one of his favorite tools is iFixit's Repair Toolkit. He joined us for EFF's podcast, How to Fix the Internet, to talk about it.

If you wanna learn more about fixing the stuff you own, join us for a free livestream next month, July 23 9AM Pacific, about the right to repair movement, with a Q&A portion. If you're like me, you might want to RSVP at the link so you'll get a reminder if you want to see it live.

It would be great to get some fans on! You can view the livestream on most social platforms, like Instagram and YouTube, but the interactive portion works best if you're on Twitch.

Please limit yourself to one ask hilarious, entirely off topic, in the weeds, or in-joke question. But more than zero!