MythBusters Episode 84: “Viewers’ Choice Special “
Air Date: August 15, 2007
This episode featured some of the most popular myths requested by viewers.
If you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes will fly out from the force.
busted
It was hard for Adam and Jamie to sneeze with their eyes open, but Adam eventually did the trick by forcing his eyelids open with his fingers. His eyes were fully intact. It would be impossible for your eyes to pop out because of the number of natural attachments that keep the eye inside the socket.
You can stop a runaway car by shifting the gears into reverse.
busted
Using both an automatic and a manual car, both cars were given the full force of the brake and stopped after 60 and 80 feet, respectively. Shifting into reverse did just about nothing, and both cars stopped after over 1000 feet. It was noted that the automatic car had a failsafe to prevent going into reverse while going forward. Additionally, shifting into reverse at high speeds can damage the transmission of the car.
Firing cigarette butts out of a gun can hit with lethal force.
confirmed
The Mythbusters first fired cut-off cigarette ends, but none of them penetrated the ballistics gel mold, let alone into the heart. It was only after they fired at point-blank range and fired cigarette butts from used cigarettes, full of cigarette waste material, thus adding mass, that the heart was damaged.
By cutting a hole in a tennis ball, one can squeeze the ball and the resulting air pressure can unlock a car door.
busted
The Build Team replicated an online viral video with two different tennis balls with two sized holes, but the car door didn’t unlock. They blasted the lock with full air pressure, but it still didn’t do anything. They finally recreated the events in video by having Tory unlocking the door remotely in the background, and were quick to point out that clever editing can make things look real.
In the Civil War, you could have prevented an opponent’s sword from piercing your chest with a hardcover book.
confirmed
A hardcover book was able to prevent a sword being thrust at human strength and speed from piercing the pig’s flesh.
In the Civil War, you could have prevented an opponent’s sword from piercing your chest with a bunch of coins.
busted
The coins merely deflected the blow to another part of the body.
Newer: Episode 85: “Red Rag to a Bull”
Older: Episode 83: “Baseball Myths”
I think that the tennis ball myth could work as some older cars – 1995 vw golfs central locking system works using an air pump rather than electric motors…
August 18, 2007 at 5:43 AMYour myth about hitting two hammers together Will cause damage I know because I did it working on a car in 1978, and one of the hammers chipped and the piece of the hammer went into my wrist and broke an artery and lodge into my bone and I was bleeding really bad and had to rushed to the Hospital. Two weeks later I had to go in for surgery and have the peice of hammer removed from my wrist bone. And in 2003 I found out that I had Hep C and had to have a liver transplant. I think I got the Hep C from the Hospital that operated in 1978 because it was dirty. If you would like to know more about this story like what kind of hammers I used (and I still have one of them) then feel free to contact me either by E-mail of call me at Home (954)429-0105 or Cell (954)695-4714
August 21, 2007 at 12:10 AMYou can stop a car by shifting into reverse. I did it for an entire summer with my 68 OPontiac. Using a 2 speed powergliude transmission and a liberal dose of the accelerator you can quickly stop a car travelling at speeds up to 30 – 40 miles an hour.
The transmission did eventually fail, and there was the oppertunity for the engine to stall when first put into reverse, but overall it was an effective stopping mechanism.
August 21, 2007 at 12:29 PMOn your latest busted myth about stopping a runaway vehical by throwing it into reverse. I beg to differ and can prove it.
August 24, 2007 at 7:25 PMabout six or eaight months ago I had brake failure on my picup when a leak had drained my fluid. going 55 mph befor an intersection with cars stopped. from years of experiance cutting up with crappy cars and pure instinct I flored the gas shifted into reverse doing a backwards burnout. aside from scareing the crap out of the people infront of and behind me I stopped in a cloud of smoak. then drove slowly to autozone and purchaced brake fluid. Aside from loss of ruber and havind to blead my brakes in the parking lot my truck was fine. i had done this many times in my teenage years in my old mustang but that was the first time on pavement. It did work. for the sake of sience id do it again. maybe it might save a life one day . I know it saved me a lawsuit.
Sneezing with your eyes open wont pop out your eyes, but I want to know if you can vacuum out your eyeball with a vacuum cleaner.
August 27, 2007 at 2:11 PMUmmm. Wayne? That was a different episode, and besides, they said that hammers could chip, they just wouldn’t explode(according to the definition of an explosion)
August 31, 2007 at 11:40 PMCome on somebody say something about vacuuming out your eyeball
September 3, 2007 at 11:01 PMI think you should make a show about the items used in today’s military
Like the bullet proof vest. Will it really stop a 7.62 mm bullet? How about that new military cavlar helmet they have will it deflect a bullet also.
I’m in the Army and have to use this stuff every day. I would just fill better knowing
September 5, 2007 at 1:27 AMThat this stuff really works.
Seasickness myth. When I was in the Navy I was stationed on a ship that only departed port about 2 to 3 times a year. All personnel on ship where just fine until they said we where departing port about 30 to 40 people would line up at ships med deck
September 5, 2007 at 1:41 AMWith seasickness about 1 hour after getting the information. I would have to say that 95% of people with this problem is all in there head.
Um, why do you people keep insisting on saying ‘your myth’? This site (while wonderfully done.) has absolutely no affiliation with discovery.
If you want to request a myth, praise or criticize their work, go to discovery.com/mythbusters/mythbusters.html and do it from there.
Please!
September 5, 2007 at 5:28 PMOn your latest busted myth about stopping a runaway vehical by throwing it into reverse. I have completed the Drive to Reverse (Automatic) several times as a teen (I’m a little older now). As teens, all the guys tried to do moonshine turns. A 180 or U turn at the speed limit or higher. Some guys would use the Parking Brake to slide the rearend around. Those of us that had older cars where the parking brake was a foot pedal instead of a hand brake used reverse. I first tried a 63 Nova @ 35mph it killed the motor and did the same thing as the auto in your show. I then tried an 80 Trans Am @ 35mph, when I shifted into reverse I hit the gas. The car quickly slowed and with a small turn of the wheel the car spin around. Note: An open (standard) or locker rearend makes a big differance. All the older cars that where used for 180 turns had limited-slip / posi-track / locker rear ends. I had the 80 Trans Am for 3 years and went through 5 transmissions.
September 10, 2007 at 8:42 AMI would like to see this retested with an older car 1967-1981 with a big motor (350ci or more), a locking differential and a HD transmission (GM TH400). I have completed the 55mph to reverse a few times. As the car slows to about 25 mph the wheel is turned and the rear of the car spins around and the car is then put back in Drive. It makes some killer black marks. It also helps to have a good floor mounted shifter.
I can only say, that a VW Rabbit (Golf) befor 1990 had a pneumatic central lock and so did Mercedes 190. Both worked with negative pressure.
September 12, 2007 at 2:28 PMA tennis ball could have worked here.
Please get a different car and try again!
I do not know about putting a car in reverse but you CAN put an automatic car in park to stop it. I have done this. When I was a teen I was driving home from school while drinking a snapple. I was new to driving and not paying much attention. While holding the drink I used the wrong hand to put on my turn signal and instead threw the car into park while traveling around 30-40mph. My car screeched to a halt in the middle of a street. I was driving a 1994 Oldsmobile cutlass ciera S. The show states that there is a safety switch preventing automatics from entering park/reverse while moving forward but it does not state in what year those were implemented, if they were required on all cars, or if they can fail. All I know is that it worked in my car and this myth is far from busted.
October 10, 2007 at 2:11 AMI saw my friend stop a early 1990s Ford Crown Vic going 65 mph by going into reverse. The smoke show was incredible and there was molten rubber all over the fender. It was a rental and he often did what he called a transmission check on his rentals. He said teh Crown Vic was the best. best
October 22, 2007 at 10:32 PMI used to drive my uncles 79 chevette. for 2 weeks I had no brakes. If I had to stop severely I would shift into reverse. I also had to replace the transmission 6 months later.
October 23, 2007 at 6:26 PMthat someone got killed by an icicle.
October 29, 2007 at 7:27 PMCan an icicle can be lethal.
October 29, 2007 at 7:32 PMI was curious. When they tested the myth about being buried alive,they used a steel (or some other metal) coffin. It was busted, as it probably should have been, but the metal buckled. When I have seen shows (like autopsy with Michael Baden) when there is a case that is re-investigated, when they open the coffin (PLEASE forgive me, but the word for that escapes me right now. Embarassing)I have never seen a wooden coffin buckled. Could it be possible to test steel versus wooden coffins and see what the damage is to each after being buried (without anyone inside)for a certain length of time. Thanks for your time and patience.
November 18, 2007 at 4:27 AMI caught a mechanic grinding a brass drift punch on a stone grinding wheel the other day.The myth is that grinding bras or any other soft metal on a stone wheel other than steel would close up the pores of the stone and cause it to blow up.I thought this might make a good show.
November 20, 2007 at 5:57 AMFor Adam and Jamie,I saw you at the show.In that show,you have blown up a child car.What was that for,was it related to any myth that you tested before or just having fun?I suggest you to don’t test a miyth if it is not really necessary.
November 22, 2007 at 8:25 AMOn your episode of chili cures you didn’t try eating something. tortilla chips, bread this works better than milk.
November 24, 2007 at 1:16 PMin regards to your myth on selecting park or reverse in a vehicle moving forward at speed, im a mechanic for bmw in australia and i have selected reverse and park on automatics while driving forward and found that park would engage and lock the rear end and reverse would not engage, but on a manual i could select reverse if the vehicle had a syncro ring on reverse (dogleg reverse selection) aslong as the clutch was disengaged no damage was caused
December 3, 2007 at 6:06 AMHey guys. I work for Australia Post in Sydney Australia. We had Ford early 1994 to 96 transits vans,with the auto box, twin sliding doors with the straight 4 cylinder petrol engine not the diesels we run now.
December 6, 2007 at 10:18 AMI on more than one occasion used reverse as a brake and was told by the cop that shoved her head in the door when i stopped “reverse is NOT a brake”. i guess its down to the vehicle used. keep up the good works guys..
Glad i didn’t tell you what depot i worked from lol. Eddie i know what your saying regarding park, the fords did go in but made a lot of rattle noises but didn’t lock the rear wheels.all i can say is amazing what a “company” car can do…
ok was wrong with the year mod.. looks like pre 1988 but used up till 1996
December 6, 2007 at 10:41 AMCan you make a bomb out of a coke bottle
December 8, 2007 at 1:35 PMby filling it with gun powder,putting a firecracker in it,making a small hole in the top,and lighting the fuse.
P.S.Run away as fast as you can.
It almost seems the guys are not really car guys when they research myths about cars,on more than one occasion they have been wrong about something,but this one ,like others before me said,it can be proven to stop a car with reverse,I discovered it by accident having someone move the shifter in my 1980 camaro into reverse while doing 45 mph,scared the daylights outa me when I saw the shifter move but the result cost me a few transmisions and a lot more tires after the fact,gm’s th350’s are a dime a dozen and swap in a snap so when you’re young it seemed to be great fun,I’m not sure how the newer electronicly controled tranys would react but if the boys at MB wanna have some fun and prove someone right,get yourselves a good ol car from the late 70’s or early 80’s,they don’t make them like that anymore,
December 20, 2007 at 12:41 AMHY CAN SOMEONE JUMP A FOOTBALLFILD ON A MOTERCYCLE?ALSO JUST PUT REFLECKTOGLASS.
January 1, 2008 at 1:54 AMON THE BAKE OF THE CAR..
January 1, 2008 at 1:56 AMCAN YOU MAKE A GLASS SORD AND SLICE THINGS IN 3,4 PEACES?
January 1, 2008 at 2:05 AMHY CAN EGGS EXPLOD IF YOU LEAV THEM IN THE CAR WHEN IT IS OVER 80f?
January 1, 2008 at 2:18 AMI am 74 years old and have always heard water can be boiled in a piece of tree bark over an open flame and not set the bark on fire. true or false? Please respond.
January 1, 2008 at 2:30 PMI am 74 years old and have always heard water can be boiled in a piece of tree bark over an open flame and not set the bark on fire.True or false? Please respond.
January 1, 2008 at 2:36 PMWill a1970s american car run effinctly on moonshine like on The Dukes of HAZZARDS. ALSO can it be done with a car in the 2000s.
January 1, 2008 at 9:38 PMwhat is the maximum hight you can drop from water without ding . but able to get injured.
January 3, 2008 at 12:08 PMI am told by a friend that you can put on a pair of rubber hip boots, fill them up to the top with water and get in 10 feet of water and should be able to swim with little effort the length on a olympic size swimming pool. I find that very hard to believe. I fell overboard once approx.45 years ago and had my boots on while I was on a duck hunting trip and I almost drowned trying to get to shore. My friend claims that it is simple physics and the waters weight will equilize and have “0″ weight except for the weight of the boot. It has been a long time ago and maybe my memory isn’t as good as it use to be but I am “almost” positive I had major problems and thought I was a goner. He actually laughed when I told him of my experience,I don’t remember laughing the day it happened. Please give me some type of reply even if I am wrong, but If I am right please embelish on it. Thanks in advance. C.J.Daigle
January 3, 2008 at 6:24 PMThe Myth you busted “You can stop a runaway car by shifting the gears into reverse” is correct. And yes you can do it with an automatic transmission I used to have a 83 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a 350 turbo transmission and yes it would go in reverse and park if you were manually shifting it when driving down the road. I built the car for the track it had a 454 with a 350 turbo transmission with a shift kit. One day driving down the road I was manually shifting the transmission was not paying attention and accidentally hit reverse. I blew the transaxle and put the ring and pinion gears through the rear end cover. Was not too happy and learned a lesson. As far as the manual transmission I do not think the synchronizers in the transmission will let you shift it into reverse. Maybe this is a possibility if the synchronizers were totally gone but highly doubtful. P.S. the Newer automatic transmissions have safety features that will not let you shift them into park or reverse. Also did your test transmission shift using solenoids or shift on hydraulics? So please don’t say you can not do it if you have not examined all possibilities.
January 5, 2008 at 11:55 PMumm dave. i think that a 7.62mm bullet can penetrate a bullet proof vest but factors such as distance, type of bullet and what gun can affect it. I think you may be lucky with one shot but maybe not more than one.
January 7, 2008 at 10:03 PMThe cigarette butt can kill. I had a hunting partner and she didn’t have any ammo and I had a 22 and she had a shotgun and she got out her cigarettes lit a couple and put them in the barrel and she killed a turkey. I was quite shocked to tell you the truth.
January 8, 2008 at 6:22 PMSo if you cook that turkey will there be any smell of cigarette in it?
January 10, 2008 at 10:17 AMI enjoy the mythbusters. The wind trying to blow the feather off a chicken on the Jan 12. show. I wonder if the myth was busted because you can hardly pull the feathers off a cold dead chicken. But when the chicken is first killed, and still hot, you can pull the feathers with no effert by the handfuls. Just wondering.
January 12, 2008 at 10:14 PMadam rocks but jamie not so much mythbusters are awsome
January 14, 2008 at 6:20 PMcan a rock really explode in a fire if its in there for long enough? o and joe shorten up your paragraphs a little bit
January 14, 2008 at 6:25 PMI have stopped a auto car by shifting into reverse (makes lots of smoke and may kill the transmission), but you must keep the power down, if you shift into reverse with no throttle, the engine simply stalls, which stops the auto trans fluid pump and disengages all the clutches and bands (effectively neutral), this is not a fail safe feature it is simply the engine cannot continue running at idle with a significant torque applied in the opposite direction by the auto. which is what I suspect happened during the test! Shifting to park may or may not work depending on how the park pawl engages, some transmissions may be able to engage at speed, but most won’t.
Would be also interesting to test the ‘auto – reverse to stop’ in a front wheel drive car, since the traction will be much greater on the front wheels, I suspect the transmission will disintegrate.
January 14, 2008 at 6:42 PMHello all ,especially Kari & Scottie,
January 17, 2008 at 8:45 PMThanks for making a very fun and entertaining show it is one of the best!one question in the Bond propane explosion
when finally ignited did Buster get burned or not Kari ,grant and Tory walked off in the sunset but did’nt show or say if 20′ away was safe from FIRE!!!
Thanks to all
Rick
I have a 95 Jeep Cherokee(automatic), and I was rinding home, and I was doing about 50-60mph, I hit a bump in the road and my bookbag went off the passengers seat and knocked my car into reverse. My wheels started spinning causing my to slam into the stering wheel and to stop. I took it to a shop and my transmission is still working properly.
January 17, 2008 at 9:42 PMI have a 1993 Audi and it has air actuated locks, I am going to try it and I will let you know.
January 17, 2008 at 9:54 PMIt is snowing and raining right now , I will try tomorrow.
By the way , how do I get a job like yours?
Try the car stopping on anything before 1972 when they started putting in safety features.
January 17, 2008 at 9:58 PMI have personally seen a trans gear blow out of the housing from this.
The cars you used were 1990’s vehicles, right.
Regarding stopping a vehicle by using reverse. I have seen this done with two vehicles. The first was a modified car, the engine size had been increased to a 327ci V8, and the transmission was a turbo 350. You need considerable power on just as you shift. No damage resulted. The second car was a Japanese sedan, again a big rev just as reverse is engaged. This one slowed while spinning the tires and then before coming to a stop, the transmission exploded massively, leaving a trail of broken bits down the road. No one was injured, but the car was a write off.
January 18, 2008 at 9:08 PMModern Japanese cars have many interlocks, I believe if you used a much older japper it might work, and if you used an American V8 with a powerful engine and a turbo 350 or 400 auto trans it will work spectacularily. Please excuse my spelling.
I’d really like to see if you can distroy
January 19, 2008 at 10:10 PMa full size house a room full of dinemite.
down in australia we have just seen the viewers episode where the myth buster tried to stop a car by selecting revese. well i can tell u that our early model car JUST LIKE YOURS can select reverse in the automatic version and IT WILL SLOW THE CAR DOWN TAKE A TRIP TO TASMANIA IF YOU BUY THE CORRECT CAR THIS CAN BE DONE!! MYTH CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 26, 2008 at 5:47 AMShifting into Reverse at speed is VERY possible. Had a late 70’s chev Impala fitted with a 327ci and a 2speed powerglide, the conversion of the vehicle to suit Austraila had the shifter work upside down(P at the bottom of the column shift) At 55mph/80km/h on a rough road the shifter jumped out of drive and into reverse, the result; mountains of tyre smoke. as a mechanic, i figured the transmission would be damaged. put it back in drive and drove home, that same transmission did another 50,000km before it was replace for a 4speed overdrive th700 for the overdrive to improve economy. CONFIRMED!!!
January 26, 2008 at 5:23 PMStopping a car in reverse gear.
Putting a car in reverse whilst travelling
foreward would have to be almost impossible, so why bother?
Put it in first.
With a manual gearbox you will have to
double declutch, and really rev the motor up to get the gears spinning at a similar speed.
Never heard of a “Crash” gear box huh! not
a box for the ladies methinks.
Paul Malley
January 28, 2008 at 1:56 AMwill now you should try it just the way you did it but don’t let go of the gas pedal and see wat happens
January 28, 2008 at 12:59 PMI have taken a nissen hardbody pickup 88′ 89′ gone in to reverse at speeds of 50mph and up
January 29, 2008 at 3:44 PMmyth comfimed
try it
There is a steam powered motorcycle in the Smithsonian Institute allegedly built in 1868 by a man named Roper. Would this machine have actually worked? You guys probably couldn’t build one anyway… Love your show N
January 31, 2008 at 12:43 AMcan two cellphones cook up a boiled egg
February 2, 2008 at 2:50 PMtake two cellphones get one to call the other
the radio waves should work like a microwave
is it really possible to blow up a guitar
amp by turning it up real loud and playing
a high pitch note ROCK ON!!!!!!!
p.s. the reason I want to know is because I
February 2, 2008 at 2:59 PMplay guitar
In the Mythbusters episode where you tried to find out whether or not you could blow up your stomach with mentos and soda, I found one thing wrong with it. First of all, you guys tried to just dump everything directly into the pigs stomach. Then you concluded the myth was busted as the co2 was released on impact. I know that for a fact that to prevent hard food or so from impact and peircing the stomach, THERE IS A MUSCLE THAT LEADS INTO THE STOMACH, which is there to gently lower stuff into the stomach. This means that pop that has been drank WILL RETAIN IT’S co2 for a minute. So prove it please on your next episode;is it possible to blow up your stomach in this way?!
February 3, 2008 at 6:54 PMI told a friend of mine about the time when you found out what it takes to knock the jacket off a baseball. He then told me something strange. Two people were playing ping pong. When one guy served it, the other guy pulled out a 9 mill. He shot at the ball coming his way and hit it. But when it hit, the ball kept on going as if nothing happened. The bullet kept on going too. Luckly it was not a fatal shot. Is this possible, or would the ball have shot backwards from the impact of the bullet?
February 3, 2008 at 7:08 PMIf you have holes in your trampoline and if you jump around the holes can the trampoline untwine and you fall through it.
February 4, 2008 at 9:21 PMHey guys and girl me and my bro LOVE the show keep up the work! :)
February 7, 2008 at 1:58 PMHey I want to know if you fall off a 2 story house if you could open an umbrella and land to safety or will it just snap and you’ll just slap to the ground.
February 8, 2008 at 11:42 AMWhat happens when two bullets are fired out of the same gun at the exact same time? Will they blow up, fire normally, or do nothing? MYTH BUSTED!! p.s. I LOVE the explosions.Can you do an all explosives episode?
February 8, 2008 at 9:41 PMReverse Gear Braking.. If you listen to grant he said that 2 red lights came on on the dash oil and alternator This means he just stalled the engine ( surprise surprise). If you want to stop this then while the tranmission is in neutral, red line the engine before you put it in reverse. With a manual car the gears are going in opposite directions which makes it imposssible, the only way to try this would be to put the car in reverse, then while the clutch is depressed get the car up to speed by some external force. then releasing the clutch while redlining the engine
February 9, 2008 at 7:31 PMWe was wondering if you filled a ski tube with helium would it float in the air after hitting a wake with 1 person on it while being pulled behind a boat, or maybe even an ATV in snow.
February 12, 2008 at 10:20 PMWould a truck, carrying tanks filled with helium, weigh less than the same truck carrying empty tanks?
February 14, 2008 at 1:01 PMDear Jamie and Adam,I want you to do a myth about dry ice. It’s about if you have lot’s of water bottles filled with dry ice it could blow up a car.YOUR GREATEST FAN CHRISTOPHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16, 2008 at 1:23 PMcan panckes explode if you make them with gasoline? please puts this on t.v! i saw it happen on the inter-web so it MUST be true!
February 18, 2008 at 6:50 PMCan a lighter blow up in you’re pocket and take off you’re “berries”. Thank you!
February 19, 2008 at 1:23 AMtn the mith when you tride to shote a propane tank to make it explode it did not. but if you tride it with a 44, mag would it
February 19, 2008 at 3:18 PMCan a person really survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Is it possible to make something you could survive in?
February 21, 2008 at 3:37 PMCan a fat guy break a fall of a smaller man on top of the fat guy. like in Bourne Identity.
February 21, 2008 at 7:19 PMCan a split rim tire full of air. When heat is aplide to the rim will it take busters head off.
I am 10 years old and i hope you do this myth. THANK YOU!!
February 21, 2008 at 7:35 PMCan you block a bullet with a sword ??
im 14 and have been wondering like forever.
February 27, 2008 at 11:40 PMIve been wondering if you can really fire a bullet from a plane will it by dumb luck will it hit a parachute 10,000 feet down and kill the shuter, or will it be knocked off course by the wind? Or do you have to be an expert marksman to do that? sounds like the Myth-3s (carry grant and tory) sky-diving myth! better use buster or ted!
March 18, 2008 at 11:43 AMAdam your such a kid,you love crazy cartoon action,i like to see you guys write your name on the side of a barn with a machine gun.
March 24, 2008 at 11:15 AMThank you
Donna
Can a cannon fired over a body of water bring a body up? I remember reading this in Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn. And i saw it in a movie cant remember the name,but they referred to it.
March 30, 2008 at 3:07 PMA prop gun with blanks that use paper wading to hold the gunpowder in can kill at contact distance (a few inches or less). Look up Jon-Erik Hexum, point blank range, and contact shot (and anything else you care to!) in Wikipedia. I hope this adds another dimension to the cigarette butt fired from a gun topic.
April 2, 2008 at 8:37 PMTheres a myth going around my town saying that if you shoot a propane bottle [full], [half full],and empty with different sized guns they will blow up in different ways.I hope you will blow up some propane bottles for me! Thank you so much!!
April 6, 2008 at 11:20 AMIn the rocket car myth you should use afod with a more downward angle to get a better glide.
April 19, 2008 at 10:23 PMcan a half smoked sigerat tosed into dead grass lit a house on fire?
May 4, 2008 at 2:15 PMI have also had a hammer slightly shatter and shoot a piece of shrapnel through my leg I had i surgicaly removed I was using a wood splitting maul as a wedge and hitting it with a sledge hammer two hardend steels oops. It happend to friend of mine as well.
May 25, 2008 at 11:30 AMMovie Myth:In the film,”The Goonies”during the prison break, the mother of the outlaws shoots a trail of gasoline surrounding the exit after the villan breaks out. Apparently, the sparks from the bullet hitting the ground ignites the gasoline, trapping the following policemen within the flames. Maybe you guys could use this during a movie myth or viewer speacial?
May 25, 2008 at 2:17 PMif you saw the movie transformers this will be easy for you.my request is that if you would be able to make a giant metal blackwidow spider that can transform to a giant robot
August 17, 2008 at 9:46 PMSaw your spot on man on the moon. I was taking a friend thru Palomar observatory near San Diego during one of the moon landings and commented on the boys and the price of their toys. The gift shop lady was bent as I called the telescope a toy. I commented tha al the galactic photos were cool but if you really want to impress me let’s see a photo of the moon landing site. The laser retroflective targets were good and I have used them in my work. Still a shot of the equipment left on the moon would be outrageous. You could even check the odometer to see if anyone has driven them since or if thy have a parking ticket by now!!!
August 28, 2008 at 10:13 AMForgot to comment on the boot print on the moon landing. I heard a comment on the surface was like a powder and if you have ever been on a construction site and walked in the dust where the trucks constantly run then you will see a very detailed print. Also try stepping in cement dust and the same results will appear. I noticed as the moon troops ran you could see puffs of dust from their boots.Why was there no dust on the lunar landers feet? Photos show them squeaky clean.
August 28, 2008 at 10:44 AMcan a gun relly cut down a tree
August 30, 2008 at 1:30 PMif you drop into a pit of cement you will dry and if someone hit you with a hamer you will crack into small peices
August 30, 2008 at 1:36 PMDear Mythbusters,
September 1, 2008 at 1:52 PMI would like for you guys to test the electronic pest repellers. I had one years ago and it did not work at all. I heard of a farmer who had one and he loved it, he said it worked great on mice.
I would like to see the mythbusters test some of these to see if they work on anything.
Thank you,
Jeff Dubois
I have one myth that involve whales. If you make highly loud noises inside the water or outside. It can piss off a whale badly and maybe fatality.
September 5, 2008 at 8:06 PMAbout:
-You can stop a runaway car by shifting
-the gears into reverse.
This does work nicely .. with an old Peugeot 604 automatic transmission.
The breaking will be done by the tyres spinning in reverse direction. You have to push the accelerator shortly before shifting into reverse, and then apply enough throttle to keep them spinning. Its easiest to learn on a rainy “slippery road” day.
September 17, 2008 at 9:56 PMcan u strike a match with a bullet
September 26, 2008 at 9:15 PMIn the episode where the cigarette but was said to have killed a person after having been shot in the heart, not so. The Adam said confirmed because at close range there was blood from the dummy, little problem no bones to stop the but. After 16 years as a paramedic I can tell you that the bones would decrease and dissipate the force of the impact.Maybe they should try again this time with a rib cage to add a little realism and check it for real? What do you say guys up for a revisit??
October 20, 2008 at 7:43 PMI had a 1970 Chevy S10 pickup that lost it’s brakes at nearly 50 mph. Shifted into reverse, and it stopped. I think you need an old, old car.
November 29, 2008 at 6:25 PMmy friend almost recked when his x, joking around, put his 83 ford f150 into reverse while traveling 70 down the freeway. both back tires locked up and he skidded to a stop. i did the same in a 85 gmc s15. i was going 50
November 29, 2008 at 10:50 PMI have a myth for you to do. Does saltwater make you crazy? Proof it!
January 1, 2009 at 5:11 PMhay guy’s i was watching the episode on knife sail, and noticed that in the clip you showed the sail was bellowed out from the wind. when you tested it, the sail was hanging strait down. do you think that would make a diffrence in the outcome of the test. love the show keep them comming. kevin.
January 17, 2009 at 4:27 PMTo stop a car by shifting into reverse the wheels
March 26, 2009 at 4:51 PMmust be locked for a second to get the shift to work,
I’ve done it dozens of times in all many makes and models.
A quick lock of the breaks on the drive wheels ,
Breaks lock shift to rev punch gas break off and
floor it.
Going down the highway you have seen in places
where there are those strange skid marks that
look like there going two ways, well someone was
having fun.
It is definitely possible to shift into reverse with an older automatic. I used to do it all the time in my 1979 Chev Van. I did it up to 80km/h (50mph). The trick to do it without destroying the tranny is to release the throttle while shifting, and then stomp the pedal as it engages to avoid stalling the engine and seeing the “red lights on the dashboard”.
May 11, 2009 at 11:40 AMYou can stop a runaway car by shifting the gears into reverse.
i do accidentally when i near at traffic light..that car i drive is my brother-in-law,toyota altis 1.8 auto..
May 15, 2009 at 8:59 AMbecause i more comfort to manual driving..when traficc light change to red,i accidentally push to P mode.the car suddenly stop and engine is off..so scary to me because that must be gearbox is brokedown.i try to start back but fail..and suddenly everything is normal.i try to accelerete and perfectly fine.maybe gearbox is tested at factory to all condition..