Comments on: Episode 23: Exploding House

By: justin

justin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:26:07 +0000

I’m doing this for my school science fair!!!!! :)

By: Music for your plants pleasure? - 420 Magazine

Music for your plants pleasure? - 420 Magazine — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:43:37 +0000

[...] something else.. im sure if you youtube it or search around you could find the episode update MythBusters Episode 23: Exploding House you can read alittle about [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:35:38 +0000

Wasn´t the crew worried about breathing in all those bug bombs when they were doing the experiment? The stuff is basically nerve gas, isn´t it?

By: michael

michael — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:35:58 +0000

i thought the big explosion was cool wish i could do it but im just a kid. oh yeah the Appliances in the bath myth freak me out a little!

By: chico

chico — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:32:43 +0000

this is for a little myth buster episode-does weed or mary jane or cannabis what ever you want to call it but does weed ash make your hair grow if you applie it to your skin

By: Dragonfyre

Dragonfyre — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:24:16 +0000

With the plants growing to music, there are several varieties, it seems, to what plants like. The Mythbusters had plants that liked heavy metal, but they’ve also seemed to respond well to jazz, country and rock.
There may need to be a list of plants, and their musical preferences.

By: Rubylou

Rubylou — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:53:57 +0000

In Year 10,way back in the 70s, my friend and I conducted a science experiment in which we played music to bean plants. The choices were classical, soft rock (hey – we were only 15) and the control which heard nothing. We found they grew better – taller with bigger leaf areas – to soft rock. Both sets of musical beans grew better than the controls.

My mother was very disappointed at our findings (she hated my music) – but we won a small prize and got to display our work at a convention.

We decided the answer is that plants respond to vibrations from the music – rock music has more vibrations, death metal has the most I would assume.

So if you want a nice garden, try playing your plants some Yes or Zeppelin (I’m still in the 70s).

By: Science Year 7H: Fri 27/3/09-Period 4 (Week 9 Red) | Mr.K's GPCC Blogs

Science Year 7H: Fri 27/3/09-Period 4 (Week 9 Red) | Mr.K's GPCC Blogs — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:08:04 +0000

[...] Today we carefully went over the concept of Inference vs Observation. We read from P.25 of the text book and discussed in depth how inferences are a subjective conclusion and interpretation of an observation. Inferences can be wrong and individuals will often vary in their interpretation of an event. Inferences form the basis of an important scientific concept, ‘Hypothesis’. Scientists often make an ‘educated guess’ with respect to an observation. It is their job to then thoroughly test their hypothesis using a technique known as the Scientific Method (eg.music makes plants grow better; this Hypothesis was tested by the ‘Mythbusters’-http://mythbustersresults.com/episode23). [...]

By: angy

angy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:23:23 +0000

I’m doing the plant experiment now, and the plants that have music played to them are doing far better than the plants without regardless of whether it’s rock or classical

By: alahos

alahos — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:30:49 +0000

Maybe the plants grow more because vibrations help the adsorption/desorption of gases?