Comments on: Episode 6: Lightning Strikes Tongue, Tree Cannon, Beat the Breath Test

By: jay

jay — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:58:24 +0000

True that, im only in 7th grade and my class watched this video, and I think your exactly right. The wires would probable make another path for the lighting.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:03:36 +0000

As an underwater welder for 25 years, I can state absolutely, that any jewelry (rings bracelets, etc.) increases your chances of electric shock, but not necessarily at the site of the jewelry itself. Don’t really know why this is, but it’s true. I always hated this episode, because their initial “myth” is that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning if you have a piercing. In every on of their tests, the pierced head gets struck and the unpierced one doesn’t. Just because the lightning didn’t strike the piercing itself, they claimed the myth was busted when they actually proved it.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:27:03 +0000

i hate coke

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:31:05 +0000

There are a few factors In the lightening myth that I don’t believe were properly taken into account. First of all, ballistics gel may share similar properties to skin, but what about bone? Seems to me that lightening may travel around the skull, rather than straight through it like in the episode. Another factor to take into account is that most human heads aren’t directly above a metal wok. Perhaps that had a stronger attraction than the piercings, but the extra metal from the piercing still helped to pull the lightening in it’s direction. I would be very interested to see this myth revisited sometime.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:55:41 +0000

The cannon could have been sawed in half length wise and chiseled out then tied together with rope

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:39:26 +0000

On the other hand, burned ears are a small price to pay for a saved life. What happens is that the wires of the earbuds provides another path for lightning, which always follows the path of least resistance.

By: Grover Jones

Grover Jones — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:40:24 +0000

Absolutely right, mate.

By: Corky

Corky — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:56:50 +0000

The tree cannon could have bin done in one night if they used a hollow tree and that would explain why it blew up. I also think they would have used glass nails, glass etc. instead of a canon ball.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:44:07 +0000

First off we won’t drink and drive when bars offer free rides home (since you have to drive to them to drink!) and second, every time this show tries any myth to get around a law (breathalyzer, plate covers for cameras, etc.) I KNOW the show will NEVER confirm it otherwise they will probably be sued by the law enforcement community for encouraging viewers to break the law.

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:47:15 +0000

Did anyone ever find the granite cannonball from this episode? I realize it’s been (somewhere) 7 or 8 years by now, but I was just wondering if anyone did a methodical search after the filming was done.