Comments on: Episode 12: Break Step Bridge, Toothbrush Surprise, Rowing Water Skier

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By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:19:12 +0000

Please explain to me how resonance is not physics? Sounds like basic high school physics to me.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:35:47 +0000

How about an explanation of how fecal coliform get to the toothbrushes? Could it have been whipped up into the air via the turbulence of flush toilets? You could test some toothbrushes that are not used in the bathroom… and others used in bathrooms with dry toilets. (Also “Fecal Coliforme Bacteria” are a functional group that can live under certain conditions in the lab. Maybe normal, healthy bacteria from the mouth could also.)

By: Other Tom

Other Tom — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:38:21 +0000

The Stanford University rowing team

By: KR

KR — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:55:52 +0000

I can’t believe they busted the bridge myth. I now understand it was ‘busted in the name of science’, not due to Adam’s poor bridge building.

By: KR

KR — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:51:40 +0000

I totally agree, and i puke everytime Adam Savage uses the word ‘science’ in this show.

By: AAK

AAK — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:05:29 +0000

The myth of the Toothbrush needs to be revisited, there are just too many ways that the controls could have been infected.. Like using them to brush teeth that may be infected, or touching the brush with the tube.. + it would be fun to make Adam and Jamie spend another month pooping in the same bathroom.. How do we get this message to them? how can we tell them to redo this myth..

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:44:33 +0000

I think I saw the toothbrush episode. If they used MacConkey agar for the cultures, it was all wrong! If you brush your teeth with the brushes, of course you will grow gram negative, lactose fermenting bacteria from it. There are lots of bacteria in your mouth! They should have mounted the brushes and left them alone, then tested them. The controls should have been in another room and untouched as well. Scientific theory..only change one variable at a time, so this time, don’t brush your teeth with them. this proves the bacteria is from the toilet, not your mouth. Negative controls from another room will prove the bacteria did come from the toilet. If the controls from the other room are positive, the bacteria is from some other source.

By: William P

William P — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:03:40 +0000

You’re quite wrong here, sir. As an engineer responsible for reviewing the cause of that walkway collapse, I can tell you with 100% certainty that it was an engineer’s poor physics calculations that caused that collapse. It had absolutely nothing to do with resonance.