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Author Topic: I proved MythBusters wrong. + Guns, I guess.  (Read 22366 times)

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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2009, 06:06:17 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on March 16, 2009, 01:06:57 pm

The Tesla Earthquake machine is another matter.  It didn't work, because it can't work, and it never did work.  The only person who can vouch for most of Tesla's claims was himself, and he was an egomaniacal nutcase.


Blasphemy! Tesla>anyone anytime.
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« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2009, 06:13:17 pm »
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #47 on: March 23, 2009, 12:22:52 am »
Quote from: Footkerchief on March 22, 2009, 05:22:18 am
Quote from: Emperor_Jonathan on March 22, 2009, 05:09:09 am
Elephant guns require three guys to shoot them, two to hold them and one to aim and fire. I've heard that more people died firing them than elephants killed by the guns.

Would you mind linking to an example of such a gun?  "Elephant gun" is a pretty imprecise term, but most rifles given that label were certainly meant to be fired by a single person

I forgot to clarify, the elephant guns I'm talking about were used when the exploration of Africa only just started happening, not WWI, WWII or onwards. I don't have any pictures of the gun I'm talking about, quick image search found nothing of what I'm talking about, but it was about 8ft long.

E: And to clarify some more, this information about 'three guys' didn't come from some museum worker or whatever, it came from 2nd-3rd hand source, (from any scientific source).

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Closest thing I've found.


It was about 2ft longer than this.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #48 on: March 23, 2009, 11:06:42 am »
Pfft. We Desert Eagles now. Who needs elephant guns?
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #49 on: March 23, 2009, 03:40:50 pm »
I went to a thing in Chicago a while ago and watched Adam and Jamie.
They showed a clip that will never air on TV. You CAN light your farts on fire.

They also said something about wanting to do an entire episode on the cool things you can 'supposedly' do with duct tape, but their producers "didn't get what would be so interesting" about that and turned the idea down.
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« Reply #50 on: March 23, 2009, 03:51:33 pm »
Quote from: Peewee on March 23, 2009, 03:40:50 pm
They also said something about wanting to do an entire episode on the cool things you can 'supposedly' do with duct tape, but their producers "didn't get what would be so interesting" about that and turned the idea down.

A show already did that, it's called The Red Green show.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #51 on: March 23, 2009, 04:08:05 pm »
Quote from: Yanlin on March 23, 2009, 11:06:42 am
Pfft. We Desert Eagles now. Who needs elephant guns?

Pretty much.

But Elephant Guns were and still are pretty cool.
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« Reply #52 on: March 24, 2009, 01:59:33 am »
Pfft. If you want cool, go .50 cal Beretta.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #53 on: March 24, 2009, 02:11:42 am »
Quote from: Yanlin on March 24, 2009, 01:59:33 am
Pfft. If you want cool, go .50 cal Beretta.

That would get points for uniqueness at least.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #54 on: March 24, 2009, 04:14:13 am »
Hey, you want unique? Wanna meet the guy who carries a 150 kilogram minigun and kills everything in sight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0
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« Reply #55 on: March 24, 2009, 05:53:02 am »
Quote from: Yanlin on March 24, 2009, 01:59:33 am
Pfft. If you want cool, go .50 cal Beretta.
According to wikipedia, technically an 'Elephant Gun.' According to its caliber.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #56 on: March 24, 2009, 06:43:26 am »
Desert Eagles. How cute. Talk to me when you have a weapon that can break your wrist every time you fire it and makes a good club without any ammo in it.

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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #57 on: March 24, 2009, 07:10:37 am »
Not as practical as the Desert Eagle.
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #58 on: March 25, 2009, 09:06:03 pm »
MB actually try to use scientific method in testing, in stead of just talking about it.
Their experiments tend to be well thought out generally (albeit some insane myths cannot be tested by logic)
They also scale their tests (to destruction usually) which is a good approach when desingning tests.

Compared to most 'scientific' shows (in particular brittish ones such as Brainiac and MadLabs) which design their experiments to be most spectacular, not usefull.
Reproduction is never attempted and false values are ignored or even interpreted as being positive.
(personally I suspect failed 'tests' are deleted and add more gunpowder for take2)

For a popular program, MB are doing fine. They cannot spend years running tests on falling elevators. ...OK that last example was more show than scientific experimentation, which would have called for a repeatable test-rig.

anyhow. :P
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Re: I proved MythBusters wrong.
« Reply #59 on: March 26, 2009, 07:53:36 am »
Since you mentioned the elevator drop myth, they did confirm the one that happened in the Empire State building. The elevator was slowed down by air pressure since the lift was such a snug fit. In fact, it slowed down enough for the person jumping to be traveling at a low enough speed (About 15KM/h) when she hit the ground.

Cite: The actual episode.
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