Comments on: Episode 41: Compact Compact, Vodka Myths

By: craig

craig — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:40:43 +0000

have you thought that with a fair length of rail and semi trucks with motors running for a few hours might give off the right amount of heat to kind of produce a weld as with the myth compact compact the trucks were involved in a head on collision were they not???

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:50:12 +0000

The only problem I have with the compact compact is there was no fuel in any of the vehicles – wouldn’t the heat from the resultant fire fuse everything together???

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:03:59 +0000

Seen compact on compact show, and being a safety co-ordinator in Canada saw 2 semis rearend eachother on Hwy 401, car in middle. The vehicles did weld together, with car in between. Torches were needed to seperate them.

By: Henk

Henk — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:43:51 +0000

See this minivan is sqaushed between two trucks here in the netherlans on the 2-25-08.
This you could try out in your program.
Minivan is hit at the back end by a semitruck and moved to another semitruck in front of the minivan that was stationerie on the hyway because there was traffic jam

My regards

By: andy

andy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:55:39 +0000

ha ha ha we like vodka!! So does our teachwer that is why she is makeing us do this stupid project!!!

By: Raelene

Raelene — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:10:30 +0000

I would like to say that I do not feel fully convinced that tha Compact and Compact myth was busted. 35 miles is not much, what are the possibilities of 2 semi’s going so slow on the same road? Be more likely that 2 semi’s could make contact on a freeway going at a much higher speed. Also just another thought, what if the heat of the engine contributed to the fusing or welding of the two semi’s? still so many possibilities I think. But again im no scientist, I hope what I have said makes sense and is taken into consideration. Thank you!!! :)

By: Alain

Alain — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:00:53 +0000

My grand-father told me a story once about vodka. A good myth that is… When you drink it… You’lle get drunk hahaha.

By: Franky

Franky — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:33:34 +0000

note- do not do the dvd thing at home(in a secure environment maybe, but still…

By: Franky

Franky — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:32:30 +0000

Just an idea unrelated to the myths, stick a ten pack of dvd’s in a microwave for a minute or so on high.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:18:37 +0000

i don’t think that the vodka mouth wash myth worked like you wanted it to be cause mouth wash only works in you mouth you dont swallow it. you inhale cigarettes so maybe thats why it didn’t work?