Comments on: Special 12: Viewer Special the Threequel

By: D. Devil's Advocate, Esq.

D. Devil's Advocate, Esq. — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:05:08 +0000

A bamboo shoot growing through the intercostal muscles between you ribs would be just like a massage. Not to mention the delightful tickle on your lungs or, if you’re really lucky, your heart.

By: jamie 2.0

jamie 2.0 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:31:45 +0000

If you freeze the wires not the whole piana then they must break i mean around here in winter our electricity lines break due to freezing or snow build up all the time

By: Daniel Rex

Daniel Rex — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:22:13 +0000

This episode just aired on free-to-air in Australia (SBS channel) and I found the chemistry of Group 1 metals very interesting. The “Brainiac” feature looks faked when they do Rubidium and Caesium, with even wires running from the bathtub to suggest a remotely activated charge, and comically careless handling of the metals, as well as a cover story to say they are in a dissolving vial.
What amazes me is that the Mythbusters could get so much of the metals! AND they COULD have greatly amplified the Na and K explosions by shaving the metals into smaller pieces and using hot water (or adding a little vinegar!).

By: BrianiacLover

BrianiacLover — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:40:10 +0000

brainiac is forged. you need real explosives to do what they do (they actually blew up the tub with tnt, whereas mythbusters tried to do it with only metals).

and the bamboo grows around your rib bones, but you’d be dead a day or two before it got that high.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:25:25 +0000

In the explosion Piano everyone in thinking the wires would snap and explode. This is imposible due to how a piano is constructed. The tuning pins are embeded in wood. The wood would fail to hold the pins before the wires would fail. In every burned out piano I’ve seen, the wires was intact.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:09:32 +0000

Sort of silly, I think, Leidan. If there were a bone ‘plate’ in a human body to grow through… yeah, then a plausible question. but to put the bamboo below your rib cage for example… or even at your rib cage.. .the shoot could flex a little bit to go around a rib bone.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:45:37 +0000

the metals wher not creditable because the metal in the original show whas submerged and thers whas not

By: this.self.thing

this.self.thing — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:42:57 +0000

They mentioned that in the episode, they’re assuming that anyone interested in actually using this as a means of torture would know to position the person over the bamboo such that it would miss the ribs.

By: Faustine

Faustine — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:28:47 +0000

Bamboo is credible since it was a torture used in Asia.

By: leidan

leidan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:32:51 +0000

the bamboo experiment was not credible because they didnt account for the inner part of a human, such as the bones