Comments on: Episode 81: Grenades and Guts

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:46:40 +0000

Where’s the REAL grenade test? The one where you place a soldiers helmet over the grenade???

By: monkey_butt

monkey_butt — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:44:29 +0000

MYTHBUSTERS rock my socks!!!! why dont they do a lot of projects anymore?!?!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:59:54 +0000

asdf nailed it and highlights a basic failing of this silly show. The tests are created to achieve a desired result. That’s fine if you’re not pretending to be “science” but american education is so lacking in this respect, most viewers don’t have the critical thinking skills to see these so-called experiments are no such thing. Using the jargon of science doesn’t make it so.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:25:42 +0000

@Charis: The only chance that using hypnosis to change your eye color would even work is if you’re one of those people with color bands in your iris, such as someone with “green/brown” hazel eyes instead of “true” hazel eyes.

By changing your emotional status, they could affect the dilation of your eyes and/or the blood vessels of your eyes, thus causing a change in color. Even so, this change would NOT be permanent, and you could not change (for example) blue eyes to brown eyes by hypnosis… pigmentation just doesn’t work that way.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:20:27 +0000

Not true. This is why your rifle has this little thing called a RIFLE STRAP. You put the rifle down at your side and let the strap hold it, while you pull the pin.

Yes, it is *possible* to pull a grenade pin with your teeth, but I would NOT recommend it, unless you know a really good dentist.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:18:40 +0000

Yes, it would, IMO, though it would still be less deadly than just standing around twiddling your thumbs until the grenade explodes.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:17:29 +0000

Thank you, Sprucebranch! That’s exactly what I was saying earlier in this thread, about my friend with hazel eyes. As it turns out, there’s two different types of hazel eyes: There’s true hazel, and then there’s brown/green hazel, which is what my friend obviously had.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:15:59 +0000

As I said above, the order in which you put the mentos and soda into the stomach won’t matter; the chemical reaction is exactly the same.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:14:22 +0000

The order in which it was done wouldn’t matter. The chemical reaction is the same either way.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:13:41 +0000

Yes, BUT… they were testing to see if a cable snapping could CUT YOU IN HALF.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but unless you literally have “legs up to your neck”, the upper ankle is not “in half”, is it?