Comments on: Episode 127: Dirty vs. Clean Car

By: michael

michael — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:07:55 +0000

on the achol myth
they said they they left “enought time to recover” I asume that means at least a couple of days and I seam to have gotten the thought (I will have to rewatch) that it was a week but I think there sample size was to small it might just have been chance that there hangovers where worse and they defently need to to the “don’t mix grape and grain” myth

By: Logak

Logak — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:04:29 +0000

Could someone make an entire dimpled car body? That is, not having to add clay or panels, but have it actually come out of the shop with the metal on the body already incorporating dimples? It seems to me that theoretically it should be possible to do this. That alone could get car manufacturers partway towards their mileage standards.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:15:05 +0000

I think you should apply the dimpled car test to a NASCAR race car and see if the fuel economy improves and if the top speed increases over 10 high speed laps at a long track, like a 2 mile or longer. Body parts on a race car are easily replaceable, so making custom dimpled panels to fit the car should not be to difficult.

By: Bill M., Penfield, NY

Bill M., Penfield, NY — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:16:14 +0000

Could you perform a myth busters episode where you compare, for the same force, which ball drives further: either (A) a standard golf ball with dimples going in, or (B) a golf ball with dimples that go out? I did a quick google search and couldn’t find a case where someone has already done this test. I would suggest that you use a machine to drive the balls so that you can be sure that the exact same force was being used for each swing of the golf club. My guess is that both balls would drive the same distance (assuming that the dimples that go in are the same size as the dimples that go out)…but I’m not sure. If a ball with “dimples going out” drives further than “dimples going in,” maybe your show could change the game of golf…and how cool would that be!

By: Glenn Beard

Glenn Beard — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:24:15 +0000

The type of alcohol you drink does affect the severity of your hangover. Soomething like vodka, which mostly pure alcohol, produces less severe hangovers than bourbon. The results of a recent study of vodka versus bourbon stated “No effect of beverage congeners was found except on hangover severity, with people feeling worse after bourbon” I read the same thing more than 20 years ago, where my pyschology professor ran a similar test. The study I cited was from 2009, and can be found below.

“Intoxication With Bourbon Versus Vodka: Effects on Hangover, Sleep, and Next-Day Neurocognitive Performance in Young Adults” Damaris J. Rohsenow, Jonathan Howland, J. Todd Arnedt

By: jim

jim — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:32:07 +0000

there is a company that makes a dimple wall paper that goes on trucks and trailers and hi speed trains and improves fuel milage cars could be next

By: Glenn A

Glenn A — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:40:04 +0000

I think you did it backwards. Hate to put the boys through it again but I think you need 5 tests:
A control
Beer only
Whisky only
Beer before whisky and
Whisky before beer.

The saying I have always lived by and confirmed personally by multiple experiment is “BEER on Whisky, Mighty Risky. Whisky on beer, never fear.”

Carbonation speeds the absorption of alcohol, so drinking beer then liquor would cause the more concentrated alcohol to be absorbed at a faster rate than it would normally.

Also people tend to drink liquor faster than beer so switching to liquor from beer is likely to speed the rate of liquor consumption. Also alcohol is metabolized faster when the body is active. If the more concentrated alcohol is consumed later in the evening you have less time to burn it off before going to bed.

OTOH, starting with hard liquor slows the rate of consumption. The alcohol in beer is less concentrated so the actual rate alcohol is consumed reduces as the evening progresses and the body has more time to metabolize it while you are still burning calories. Also By increasing the water intake from the beer after consuming the more concentrated liquor you assist in re hydrating the body.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:58:20 +0000

Sadly, i think the alcohol myth was miss-interpreted in this challange… The statement i always heard was “Liquor before beer your in the clear, beer before liquor never been sicker”. That is, its a warning as to how to drink the alcohol and not being sick from drinking too much.

Mainly being that you have a lot of carbs from drinking beer and there is more substance to it, so you will not be able to consume as much as you would of the hard liquor counterpart in that same amount of time. The thought is that beer takes longer to get into your blood stream, much like if you eat something while drinking a hard liquor.

And if that is true, you have one even curve towards being drunk with beer, as you need more time after consuming the beer to “feel” it affecting you than you do in say whiskey.

So if you are consuming whiskey you can feel how drunk each drink is making you, and then if you stop drinking that, and start drinking beer, you are not only adding something with substance to your stomach, but also alot of water. So you will still be on an even curve of knowing your tolerance before you become sick.

On the other hand, if you drink beer, where you might consume more alcohol than you can yet feel as your stomach is still digesting and absorbing it, then you follow that with hard liqour, till you “feel” you have reached your limit and your body then continues to process the remaining beer and at that point you have started urinating alot of the water out… making it far easier to get more drunk than you plan to get, and very very sick because of it….

You would need to test to find the approximate ingested alcohol percentage of tolerance of each person, then divide that up between beer and whiskey, and drink them one way first, beer then whiskey, then the other way, whiskey then beer, and see how they drunk they feel as the night continues…

Just my 2 Cents…

Keep up the myth-busting…

By: Paul Malley

Paul Malley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:57:27 +0000

Mixing Beer and Whisky is known as a whisky chaser.

The English and various other effete Continental
types( I wouldn’t know about the Yanks) will dilute their scotch with a fizzy sweet carbonated
cordial in order to make a “long” drink out of it.

A Scot on the other hand will drink his beer and
taste it then drink his whisky and taste it, then
drink his beer and taste it and so on.
Are you starting to get the Idea?

If you wish to mix your alcohols mix grain alcohol
with grape alcohol.

Now there’s a headache

By: Royeddie

Royeddie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:39:00 +0000

My only criticism is with the timing method. Judging when to switch on and off could be quite inaccurate, even though the inaccuracy would be ironed out over the five runs, it could still make a significant difference. It would be more accurate to use an infrared beam to switch the fuel flow on and off.