Comments on: Episode 117: YouTube Special

By: terry

terry — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:58:24 +0000

plus glue may have also helped keep the blocks together along with what u have stated

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:09:14 +0000

you right in that … I been working at LEGO Denmark for someyears and the made this ball all wrong …

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:55:42 +0000

You guys don’t have any imagination which is at least the reason the lego ball just fell apart. Not only does interlocking make a lego structure stronger, but when you’re talking about big lego structures you can build it to look solid outside but inside contain a semi-hollow skeleton like interlocked structure. This would eliminate a lot of pieces (4/5 of them easily) while still being strong and sturdy. Also, since the inside is mostly air perhaps it wouldn’t do major damage to a car, although I can’t imagine the car coming out of it unscathed… But yeah I digress, the lego ball doesn’t have to be solid even if it’s made only of legos, I’ve made some incredibly sturdy things out of legos and I’m sure those principles would apply macroscopically as well.

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:16:21 +0000

Seems to be confirmed here.. (spinning tire on fire)

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_17393309?source=bb

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:51:17 +0000

A few years ago one of my friends had the front bumper of his car against the front bumper of a truck,pushing each other back and forth, resulting in the back tire of the car catching on fire. There was no back fire. I believe the tire was a racing slick.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:20:01 +0000

I have seen the tyre fire a couple of times had have photos to prove it. The two I know of were caused by a backfire out the exhust system.

By: Roo

Roo — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:51:12 +0000

Spinning tire fire = confirmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YDvSFIv1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDhh_nLqzog

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:22:33 +0000

Tyre fires are a common occurrence at Australian burnout competitions. Seen it many times. Get Gary Myers over there in his mustang I’m sure he will do a demo. You need a lot more power than a stock LS1 can put out though.

By: brett boline

brett boline — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:12:45 +0000

Hi I’m brett and I’m 11 I watch your show all the time. I love it but the lego ball always gets to me you should have either put glue in each lego or enterlock the pieces and not put them on top of each other. The same thing happens when you build a building. If you set them on top of each other the walls fall down but if you interlock them the walls will stay strong. I would love to see you do this myth again

By: dora

dora — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:33:00 +0000

I’m wondering, in the episode about a spinning tire ignighting into flames. Busted. To begin with, isn’t there a safety feature built into tires now days that keeps the tires from running hot enough to ignight, even with an added accelerant such as gasoline or sparks? So, would this be a “confirmed” if you used older tires, if you could find some prior to when the safety features were added? Also, isn’t using gasoline, the flamant being the vapors rather than the liquid portion of the fuel? So, then if the vapors were to be introduced, rather than the liquid, would that make a difference?

And, in the second try, when Jamie doned a SCBA, it was refered to as “Oxygen mask” Well, it’s realy not Oxygen, think about it, would you take an oxygen tank, straped to your back into a burning building? I think not, as oxygen, although it’s not flamable, is an accelerant. Thus, SCBA tanks hold “breathable air.” The general public is smart enough to know what you are talking about when you refer to an SCBA tank as an SCBA tank with face mask.

Wich brings me to a quest. Have you done an experiment with an Oxygen tank? If the regulator were to be broken off, or the tank fall striking the regulator, how much of a crator would a D tank make vs a K tank for example. And is the PSI to make a crator just as effective filled with oxygen vs empty. And how much force of a hit would the regulator need to blow? And will it make a crator, or will the oxygen tank become a projectile? If it becomes a projectile, will the direction be predictable, going in staight line in position of how the tank is aimed, or will it be helterskelter in the blow pattern? And if it becomes a projectile vs making a crator, how deep of a trail would it make as it’s projecting? And how far will it project?