Comments on: Episode 118: Swimming in Syrup

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:33:27 +0000

Swimming in syrup- what is the episode name???

By: Kalle

Kalle — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:13:45 +0000

Swimming in syrup: 1)The start kick from the wall of the pools taints the results -if the idea is that the counter force to the added resistance is the added force from the swimming strokes -the kick from the wall creates the same force forward in both water and syrup, but the resistance is greater in syrup, 2)using a machine would have eliminated the placebo effect of how person thinks they are going to do in syrup.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:53:57 +0000

I don’t think using any human was at all acurate. They should have used a boat or something. So many things can vary the results with any living thing. They would have had better results if they didn’t use adam.

By: brittany

brittany — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:43:29 +0000

I think you should swim in jello to but it should be purple jello that would be awsome

By: Dragonfyre

Dragonfyre — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:43:32 +0000

Swimming in syrup…they started off by saying it was a physics conundrum, and, like they also said, that could mean something twice as viscous as water, or something fifty times more viscous. That was the point of the myth. I know that real syrup is much more sticky than what they had, but they didn’t look at it from the average person’s point of view…they regarded this myth as from the perspective of physicists.

By: Benj

Benj — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:16:19 +0000

I’d love to see more MacGyver myths tested. There are so many!

By: Matthew Plunkett

Matthew Plunkett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:58 +0000

I want to see if you can swim in jello instead of syrup and I want you to use real jello and use green jello.

By: Matthew Plunkett

Matthew Plunkett — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:07:52 +0000

I want you to split a bullet from four diferent guns, a handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, and a b.b. gun on a ax blade. Then I want you to shoot a grenade launcher with the grenade not ready to denodate and one ready to denodate on a ax blade and see if they explode.
P.S. I do not want to see any “dummy” grenade coming out the grenade launcher.

By: Aerowind

Aerowind — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:58:27 +0000

Erm…did you miss the part where they used an olympic gold medalist to swim through the syrup?

Also, for the record real maple syrup is a lot less thick than the stuff you put on pancakes.

They also stated in the show that they were going with a purely scientific explanation of syrup, i.e. any fluid more viscous than water.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:44:31 +0000

Being a swimmer myself, I have several complaints. First, one or two seconds in swimming is a LOT of time to add. Your lucky if you drop half a second in a race. Second, they should have used an actual swimmer because with someone with a bad stroke, the time would have varied too much anyway because of a swimmers lung capacity, ability to swim long distances, et cetera… Third, they should have used more than one actual swimmer and averaged each of their times, not just one swimmer.