Comments on: Pilot 1: Jet Assisted Chevy, Pop Rocks and Soda

By: christine

christine — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:50:02 +0000

Hi there, what if you tried another experiment with the doll house myth,wind blowing instead of wind blowing one direction try positioning another wind blower coming in to the side window, as a hurricane would?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:01:43 +0000

Why? I’m drinking diet coke and eating mentos right now, and their’s no unusual….

*Coke foam begins to shoot out of Mike’s ears, nose and mouth*

By: ranger1100ky

ranger1100ky — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:09:55 +0000

Roundhouse kick, propelling a billiard ball fast enough to kill your adversary?

Marginally Plausible…

A pool ball has some pretty good mass… not unlike throwing a piece of brick at someone’s head.

Your problem, is this… when you KICK that sucker… you’re just as likely to break the instep of your foot! The bones on top of your foot, REALLY would NOT enjoy the initial impact with the ball, and that would substantially reduce the velocity of the ball coming off your foot when those bones gave.

If you got beyond that, unscathed and got the ball moving with some average speed… YEAH… if it hits the adversary “RIGHT”, it MIGHT have a snowball’s chance in hell of killing the guy… but that’s about it…

Most likely, the guy kicking the pool ball is going to hurt his foot… the ball’s going to MISS entirely… and now the kicking fighter’s going to be dealing with a busted foot, while his enemy’s going to be kicking the hell out of him.

A knockout is possible… but not especially likely, if the ball connects with the opponent.

To say that death is ‘not likely’ is an understatement.

Hope you enjoyed the movie… but speaking as a martial arts instructor, I’ll tell you that Jet Li himself would probably shake his head ‘no’ to the kicked billiard ball kill being even remotely practical.

The amount of luck it’d take to pull that stunt off in a live confrontation, is incalculable. Nobody’s that lucky.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:40:12 +0000

I just saw the eppisode where you did the banana slip …. now can you please test the addige “slippery than a wet noodle”?

By: damien

damien — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:16:20 +0000

You should do a test, if you use the same hand soap and see if it really spread germs.

By: kensi

kensi — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:24:16 +0000

Hi Mythbusters!How did you measure the dirtiness of everything on episode”Nastier than a toilet seat”? THank you! YOu are awesome

By: andrey

andrey — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:37:57 +0000

In Russian there is a tradition at Easter knocking chicken boiled eggs but have a little trick he who strikes from that of the egg is broken and hence need to have your eggs during the impact speed was less than the opponent is this true?

By: Steven Bellmer

Steven Bellmer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:49:16 +0000

I wish that I had a cool job working with intelligent and good people like ‘THE MYTH BUSTERS’. And one more thing,”Buster” wants you guys to hire his sister so he will not be lonely.She likes to be called busters sister blister.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:06:48 +0000

I stumbled on this post today. I know the answer! The song we used for the Mythbusters Pilot is a SKA take on a straight up blues progression. Its based on a song from Bob’s 1990 SKA release, Slide A Go Go, SkyRanch Virgin. The original title was “Screaming Ska Blues≥” This album is now out of print but I have seen them used on Amazon now and again.

By: mhmsentinelsnoob

mhmsentinelsnoob — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:43:35 +0000

can you guys test if you can make a gun out of magnets,because of its repulsion