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Umm...Indy? That's 120% right there. Are you running on Adam Math again?

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I just hope they keep that gigantically folded piece of paper as a trophy. In my mind, it will be their BEST trophy. XD

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*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

yeah i saw that,that was pretty amazing..did you guys see the pirate special? the results to the cannon test were amazing..totaly opposite of what i was thinking..

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And it can be used to hit Adam with too!

I seriously think they keep all that stuff around so Adam can play with it all.

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lol i wouldnt doubt that...buut alot of it is in that room where the explain and wrap up the myths. i personally would love to go on a tour of M5

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Me too! I wonder if they still have movie posters up everywhere. You saw them all over the place in the first season, but not anymore. Legal issues?

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

lol probably..i bet Adam has them in his room. did you ever notice everybody uses the laidies room? male or female.

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120%? Okay, well...umm...uhh, this is what too much work at college does to you. I hope they buy that. It's not far from the truth. Yeah, that's it. College. College is...umm...putting a lot of...uhh...stress on me. You know, homework. Lots and lots of homework. And essays. I have a big essay this semester. Bugger, I hate college. Freakin' essays. Yeah, is all. Just stress from college.

Also, running on Adam Math again? I don't remember messing up a math problem before. I don't really even remember doing any math here. Please help me jog my memory. If you could, just quote where I did mess up before. Thanks.

Anyways, yeah, I wouldn't mind a tour of M5 myself. I'd have a field day walking around and exploring the studio. If anything, I'd like to be the proverbial 'fly on the wall' and watch them bust a myth first hand. Other than watching it on television. I think it would be pretty fun and interesting. Learn more that way.

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I meant it as more of a joke, rather than saying that you messed up more than once. I don't you've messed up here, other than that one little thing a few posts up.

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yeah, but it takes them week(s) to bust a single myth,but i agree

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Oh, alright, sorry, man.

Stress upon the fact that I write most of these posts in the middle of the night, it's hard for me to think exactly straight.

I need coffee. Thing is, we only get decaf. Which doesn't help any.

I need liquid caffine. Coffee beans that haven't been tampered with by the means of man. Except to grind them.

Anywho-dun-it?, I'm hoping that they show the weekly marathon of Mythbusters this weekend. In my area, not much of anything comes on.

Yeah, I got 500 channels. But no, nothing comes on any of them.

Discovery, Animal Planet, National Geographic, BBC, that's about the only channels I do watch. And that's about the only channels that have anything on.

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I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but Tori Belleci and Grant Imahara both have a Myspace profile:

http://www.myspace.com/tory_belleci
http://www.myspace.com/grantimahara

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My music
My LJ

...And all the men are saying, "What? Only THOSE nerds?"

But that doesn't matter, because their awesomeness just went up tenfold.

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*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

*sits in corner, sulks*

I'M THE ONLY PERSON IN THE FREAKIN' WORLD WITHOUT A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!

I feel so alone.

I would get one. But it's not exactly secure enough for me. I'm not the one to go spilling out my personal information to just anyone in the world.

*pouts*

Anyways, I think my little blog on Yahoo 360 is good enough for now. I'm hoping one day (as soon as I can get Flash Studio 8 and a Tablet, with a combind cost of approx. $1,500) to make my own flash site and maybe make some flash movies. Or not. It's if I feel like it or not. So don't go bugging me into doing so.

Oh, well. I can still dream. I know I haven't the moolah at the moment to make that dream come true.

Is it wrong for someone to have big dreams that they want to chase after and hope to catch one day?

One of my biggest dreams is to own a custom surfboard shop in Maui. Custom made and airbrushed. Whatever shape, size, and design you want.

Not a bad dream, is it?

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Don't pout. MySpace sucks.

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I don't actually see the point in Myspace really.

I mean, what is it for anyways?

Oh, well.

I watched the 'Cable cutting a person in half' episode today. I forgot just how horrible the wounds would be if you did get hit by a snapping high tension cable. I mean, it was just a dent in the pig's side. But man, you got to think. Broken ribs, bad bruising, internal bruising, internal bleeding maybe. If you wheren't dead from just the impact, you'd be in some incredable pain.

I also saw the 'raising a boat with ping pong balls' episode. Now I got to admit to you all. I knew that myth would work. I mean, it's unreasonable. But think about it. If you have enough ping pong balls, you can pretty much lift a lot of things out of the water.

And WeirdAlFan, I know it would take weeks, even months, to bust some myths. But trust me, man, the vacation would help. I've not had a decent vacation in...well...I don't think I have ever had a really good vacation. I've always had someone in my family ruin a vacation for me by chewing me out over something stupid or griping about something trival the entire time.

Speaking of vacations. There's a place I'd like to see. I'd have to go to Paris to see it, though. No, it's not Paris itself. And it's not the Effel Tower (if I spelled that wrong, just tell me).

It's the Catacombs.

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I have to admit that I was VERY surprised that the cable thing didn't work. I've heard that a lot and it seems very reasonable. I've seen someone get hurt pretty badly by a snapping tow rope (14 stitches on his leg) so I figured that a snapping cable would be able to easily slice through someone.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened if the pig would have been hit by the very end of the cable (instead of having the cable almost wrap around the pig). I'm not saying that it would make a big difference, but it might have caused some nice slicing.

On the "paper fold" myth, what kind of paper did they use in the final test?
Was it the normal, 20 Pound, copy paper type stuff or was it something thinner? I'd always heard the myth, but with the caveat that you could not fold a normal, 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of 20 pound copy paper.

I folded a piece of tissue paper (the kind that people use when they box gifts) 9 times last night. So the myth that "ALL PAPER" can't be folded more than 7 times is a crock of crap. I've still never seen ANYONE fold a normal 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of 20 pound stock more than 7 times. Even Grant used tracing paper (a lot thinner) when he did it.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

I was thinking the same thing too. I'm sure it would cause some nice slicing there.

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Yeah, you guys are talking about if the cable hit you more like a whip.

If it didn't cut you in half, it would really mess your insides up. That's what I think anyways.

Man, I'm hurting just thinking about that. Ow. Ow.

Anywhoever, who thinks Adam was a wee ticked off near the end of that myth? I mean, he wouldn't stop until he had the pig in two pieces.

And Jamie's "...pork salad..." just made a gross moment, well even more gross in a way, but kind of funny. I honestly think he's got some dark humor sometimes.

I guess you have to with the results they get on some of these myths.

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Ok, random semi-on-topic-but-not-quite thing.

When Mythbusters first hit the airwaves, I thought that Jamie was this guy


Dennis Gage, the classic car guy..
At any rate, I'm guessing that one of these guys dresses up as the other for Halloween.

And yes, Indigo, I am pretty sure Adam was a bit peeved. That "a snapping cable will slice you in half" warning is in every industrial/construction safety film ever made. It was in my training at Wal-Mart (well, it didn't say you'd be cut in half, but it DID warn that snapping cables could cause severe injury and/or loss of limbs.

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Not to throw us off of slicing pigs in half with cables. But Rad, you said you heard of someone successfully 'seeding' clouds and making them rain.

I wonder how that works exactly. I've heard the myth. But I never learned how exactly it would work.

What would the salt do to the clouds to make them give up their rain?

Sorry to ask such random question. I'm just curious.

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Cloud Seeding
I did some research for an applied meteorology class, and wrote a short (10-12 page) paper about it.

My interest in the topic slid to the back burner until grad school. In the course of my readings for background on my thesis research, I got on a tangent and found some papers relating to skyfire and stormfury, two projects aimed at altering hurricanes. The results were "inconclusive", but I have serious doubts as to whether or not the small amount of material that actually made it into the clouds would affect a storm the size of a hurricane. You're dealing with millions of watts of heat energy and, literally, tons of water vapor. You MIGHT be able to mess with the clouds in a hurricane, but you'd need a LOT of seeding material.

So, to answer your question: It's kind of questionable whether or not the process really works. Without a "control", it's pretty difficult to conclusively say.

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Okay, it all sounds a little more complicated that what I thought it would be.

Yeah, okay. I agree with you that without a control, the results could be unconclusive.

I think I'll stick with mths I kind of know about now. I kind of asked a question that was way out of my field. I notice that now.

Alright, how about myths that couldn't be on Mythbusters. What's your all's thoughts on oh, let's say, Sasquatch. Or Big Foot. Whatever you want to call the thing.

I don't really believe in it. There's no bodies being found. Or anything like that. So there's very little actual hard evidence that the thing exists.

But yeah, come on. Tell me what you think of the matter.

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Best moustache ever? Best moustache ever.

As for Bigfoot, I doubt that it he/she/it is real. It was probably just a joke that someone made up to trick a friend that caught on like wild fire.

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Here's a myth that couldn't be covered by the mythbusters, the myth that bannana peels, when smoked, can give you a high. Ever hear the song "Yellow Mellow"?

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Well, if you were to research the chemicals you get burning banana peels, I bet you could some up with something.

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I've never ever heard of that myth. Bananas, huh. Hmm, odd.

Then again, a stoner will smoke anything to get a buzz. I guess.

Oh, well.

Well, I haven't another myth to come up with at them moment. Just give me awhile. I want to hear more on everyone's thoughts on the obvious myths, though.

Big Foot, Loch Ness, Crop Circles, Chupracabra, etc.

You know, the kind of stuff you hear a great deal on the science channels and such.

I'm up for a good debate.

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Crop circles are fun. One of my physics profs (who STILL swears that soldiers marching across a bridge can destroy it, mainly because he was taught that in the Army) said that, when he was in college, his fraternity made circles in nearby wheat fields, corn fields, etc.. For an added degree of "realism" they would sometimes scorch the ground and/or sprinkle some uranium ore around (to give a VERY weak reading on a Geiger counter).

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Aww man, why do you get all the cool profs? All mine did was be on the FBI.

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Simple, you have to go to a school that hires crazy people.
I just got lucky picking 2 of those in a row.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.