Comments on: Episode 69: 22,000 Foot Fall

By: Darko

Darko — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:14:08 +0000

to James L.

Its also stated that it might be false and she did land only 100 m. I personaly dont belive that unless she had quiness personel with her when she jumped

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:44:06 +0000

i agree with the first one i say its inconclusive and that a re-test is in order and buster has to fall on the bomb
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By: James L.

James L. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:59:51 +0000

I’ve heard about that. The woman was pinned to the back of the aircraft with a food cart. It acted as a seatbelt. The aircraft broke in two. The commercial jet fell and landed at an angle on a hill covered in trees. The hill and the trees let the plane slide down while the trees slowed the aircraft. Then the airline worker was pinned to the back of the aircraft by a food tray as the only survivor suffering injuries but luck was at play there as well. If the plane did not land where it did, no one could have survived.

Ray:

There is an article in the Guinness Book of Records of a Vesna Vulovic falling 10.16 km (6 miles 551 yd), after the plane blew up over Srbska Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, on 26 January 1972. I don’t know the other circumstances, but that is a lot of time to get your breath back after a few “AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH”’s, eh.

By: mike shaver

mike shaver — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:05:14 +0000

(on your light survey) i have a fluorescent tube that i constantly leave on. whats the breakdown on that? my dad, before he passed away, said something to the effect, that fluorescent tubes would never blow out if you never turn them off.is this true?

By: Gareth Leyshon

Gareth Leyshon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:37:51 +0000

Light Bulb: Oh Mythbusters! How could you?
Publishing your results as “W/hr”! Watts per hour?
Arrrgh!
Use Joules per hour, or Watt-hours per hour, or Watt-seconds per hour – fine! Or simply measure the Joules (or US Calories!) used in start up.
Or divide the power in the start-up and switch-off cycles by the time taken, and express the “steady-state equivalent power” in watts.

But to express the steady-state consumption of bulb in Watts-per-hour? Busted! Totally busted!

By: AndyB

AndyB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:04:38 +0000

Falling airman: I wonder if the mention of a shockwave is misleading… a shockwave if it were to be able to break the fall would ‘break’ the airman too as if hitting the ground. The effect of the updraught MAY be the answer… being a more gradual effect slowing the airman slightly more gradually… but again there’s the problem of all the shrapnell coming up to meet him… back to the drawing board…

By: Ty and Susan

Ty and Susan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:21:19 +0000

How can the myth be busted when Ted didn’t land in the middle of the target? It seems like the experiment was flawed.

By: Quinton Smith

Quinton Smith — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:51:03 +0000

Hey:
Any thoughts on where I can get the math formula that was used to bust the lightbulb myth?

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:21:30 +0000

does any one know the exactly what the name for the led bulb was called

By: Olive Farmer

Olive Farmer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:30:42 +0000

A bomb’s shockwave just couldnt be the truth. If a person falling at 120 mph encounters a shock wave strong enough to stop them, it would be the same as hitting the ground!
They would be torn apart.
(This is what happens when academic postulation is applied without considering reality and it’s limitations.)