Comments on: Episode 24: Ming Dynasty Astronaut

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:30:24 +0000

Or maybe none of those devices worked either. There’s always more material that can’t be fit into the episode due to time, and ends up on the cutting room floor.

As for the Bendini Device… it wasn’t even demonstrated until 2008. This episode was made in 2004. So unless the Mythbusters have also secretly developed a working time travel machine, they COULDN’T have tested it.

By: Jorbs3210

Jorbs3210 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:55:01 +0000

The video of a man stopping a fan with his tongue is real. Ripley’s featured it. Catching a bullet in your teeth has always been a magic trick, but a very dangerous one at that.

By: Steve Muturi

Steve Muturi — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:24:18 +0000

I once had the misfortune of raising my arm in a club right into a spinning ceiling fan with metal blades, and was rewarded with several cuts on my hand and fingers. Fortunately, I was able to continue with the emcee job I was doing and no one noticed a thing!

By: Future7

Future7 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:09:32 +0000

Free Energy.
Might want to actually build from the instructions before building, not just make some crap that has nothing to do with the device and say oh no it doesn’t work! Go learn before building next time! The Bendini Device.
yeah try out Thomas Henry Moray’s device then. 50kw energy device.
Try Tesla’s energy Device then!
Alexander chernetski Vacuum energy device! :P
and many more proper working devices.

Try do something properly before putting a video on air, that makes you look silly to the well educated people.

People have been killed making free energy devices. maybe myth busters not allowed to tell the truth. or maybe they are such noobs.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:46:26 +0000

@Tod:

It’s called a Stirling engine, and it still requires a heat source. since heat is energy, it’snot “free”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

By: max

max — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:18:18 +0000

My cousin’s cousin (2 and 1/2 year old baby back then ) stuck her finger in the fan and it was sliced off (top 3rd )… it was an old style house fan with metal blades (and those metal grills) – not a ceiling fan…
(finger was successfully reattached).

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:50:59 +0000

Rocket chair.
I would like to see it redone with 2 modifications to make it fly straight.
A. use a guide pole similar to model rockets.
B. use some kind of ‘tail / fletch’ to keep it
straight. I was thinking about a weight on a
cable. Using a formula something like 1/10 the
weight of the chair on 10′ of cable or 1/20 the
weight of the chair on 20′ of cable. Idealy the
guide pole would be longer than the cable so that
the weight was engaged before leaving the guide pole.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:55:56 +0000

Tesla build a genator that produced free enery but it never got put into production. Take the time to look up facts before doing a show next time.

By: larry

larry — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:04:42 +0000

iam 6ft9, house fans hurt but not even enough to cause bloody nose, yea been there.

By: Tod Thompson

Tod Thompson — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:04:44 +0000

Also about “free power” the one thing that will always work is the one you cut for time. You can run regular #12 electrical wire paralell (and very close) to high tension lines and no more than about 50 ft.
would power your house by the process of induction-There is no way for them to detect a paralell line because you are simply catching the excess juice and harnessing it.BUT- one of 2 things will happen before you get your free power hooked up- 1.-YYOU WILL BE ARRESTED FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITIES for messing with the power grid or you will cook yourself messing with the high-tension wires. So -choose wisely, grasshopper.