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Aparantly not so much. I missed the clip from the movie but did they blow a mannaquin up or a styofoam body? I seem to recall lots of styrofoam debris but I can't be sure.
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Yeah, I guess I missed them explaining what that was because it sure as hell didn't look like any ballistics material they've used before and kind of looked like foam/cotton stuffing or something. It also seemed like it proved the myth well enough to me.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:12
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Feb 7, 2008 03:15
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IRQ posted:Yeah, I guess I missed them explaining what that was because it sure as hell didn't look like any ballistics material they've used before and kind of looked like foam/cotton stuffing or something. Yeah, I was kind of confused by the result too. "It didn't blow the top half of the dummy away. It just blew a huge hole in the chest." Yes, and detached the upper half of the dummy from the body, which I would call blowing the top half away.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:20
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Jamie's jaw/mouth is insane. I'm thinking his is going to do the job.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:29
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Hot drat, he's recreated Death Machine!
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Feb 7, 2008 03:29
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Ok, that stuff definitely doesn't look like normal styrofoam, but I still can't tell what it is.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:43
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IRQ posted:Ok, that stuff definitely doesn't look like normal styrofoam, but I still can't tell what it is. It's the stuff they make like foam mannequins and such with.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:45
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Hah, is that a pen in your pocket or do you carry your enormous penis on your chest? Also, I was dying during Grant's Tim Gunn impersonation.
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Feb 7, 2008 03:49
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Smashlab is so loving retarded. Why would you put a bunch of ball bearings under a loving house? If they'd thought about this for more than 2 seconds, they'd go with mounting it on springs instead like, oh, you know, the Cheyenne Mountain complex designed to survive anything short of a direct nuclear hit. But what do actual engineers designing a military facility meant to survive nuclear war know? Why do I keep watching this show? 
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Feb 7, 2008 04:47
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IRQ posted:Smashlab is so loving retarded. Why would you put a bunch of ball bearings under a loving house? I saw it for the first time tonight and was pretty disappointed. I first thought it was going to be a cool show but the previews kept making it seem worse and worse. So when I finally saw it tonight it just seemed stupid. They don't build their rigs and it looks totally scripted because there is no "organic" flow to the show. It is just "oh well next lets try this test! yeah that works!". This show wont last long and it wont be missed.
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Feb 7, 2008 05:50
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IRQ posted:If you're watching tonight's Bond myths episode, he trots out his all purpose Not-Adam voice again. I'm surprised I never noticed that before. Also why the gently caress are they testing Bond myths, of course Jaws could never do any of the poo poo from the movie. Jamie's Cable Cutter costume, however, was awesome. edit: during one part, was Adam holding Hellboy's Samaritan from the movie?
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Feb 7, 2008 07:42
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IRQ posted:Ok, that stuff definitely doesn't look like normal styrofoam, but I still can't tell what it is. It wasn't anything that looked hardy enough to withstand an explosion and it certainly didn't look like anything you'd use to draw any serious conclusions about the ballistic properties of a given device.
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Feb 7, 2008 23:36
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Free Market Gravy posted:It wasn't anything that looked hardy enough to withstand an explosion and it certainly didn't look like anything you'd use to draw any serious conclusions about the ballistic properties of a given device.
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Feb 7, 2008 23:54
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Filthy Assistant posted:I'm surprised I never noticed that before. I think Jamie's business outside of mythbusters is a prop shop, so it could have been one of the movie props. Fun Bond fact: For the movie, the actor playing Jaws actually did bite through the cable. The cable, however, was made of licorice. I think next week is the MacGyver special. They could probably get a few shows out of MacGyver myths.
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Feb 8, 2008 03:04
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IRQ posted:That's Adam's voice for pretty much everything not Adam. Don't forget his "man's inhumanity to man" art-fag voice.
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Feb 8, 2008 03:32
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LordOfThePants posted:They could probably get a few shows out of MacGyver myths. I think they're starting to confuse "exaggeration" with "mythical".
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Feb 8, 2008 07:29
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LordOfThePants posted:I think Jamie's business outside of mythbusters is a prop shop, so it could have been one of the movie props. Nope, next week is the Viewers Special 2, the 20th is when the MacGyver special airs.
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Feb 8, 2008 09:54
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Ape Agitator posted:Also, I was dying during Grant's Tim Gunn impersonation. That scene raised a lot of questions about Grant that really need answering. 
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Feb 8, 2008 11:02
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Filthy Assistant posted:I think they're starting to confuse "exaggeration" with "mythical". They ran out of actual myths years ago, just roll with it. And besides, some of the poo poo MacGyver did was well beyond mere exaggeration.
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Feb 8, 2008 20:05
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IRQ posted:They ran out of actual myths years ago, just roll with it. Yeah, I know, but it's still getting kind of ridiculous now. "WAS A MOVIE WITH PATRICK SWAYZE AND KEANU REEVES SKYDIVING AND SURFING CORRECT? LET'S FIND OUT!!!!"
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Feb 8, 2008 23:58
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I really enjoy Fight Quest. Doug (skinny white Iraqi vet) and Jimmy (huge M Bison figure) have a good dynamic, they're open, forthcoming, and in every episode try their best and give it their all. Plus watching them learn new moves is pretty drat cool too with all of the sub-elements (footwork, motions as appropriate). Can't wait for season 2!
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Feb 9, 2008 09:58
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Coda A27 posted:I really enjoy Fight Quest. Doug (skinny white Iraqi vet) and Jimmy (huge M Bison figure) have a good dynamic, they're open, forthcoming, and in every episode try their best and give it their all. Plus watching them learn new moves is pretty drat cool too with all of the sub-elements (footwork, motions as appropriate). Huh, I had this pegged as Smash Lab to Human Weapon's Mythbusters, but I might have to give it a shot now. As long as they make the same distinctions between moves displayed purely for the sake of education and moves which are actually effective in a bout, I could get onboard.
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Feb 9, 2008 10:48
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I can't even make it through the opening credits of Smash Lab without cringing. The section where they are introducing each person has actually caused me to yell at my TV. "Who is Smash Lab? These four boring people. Guy with unshaved face. Guy with glasses. Guy who never talks. Sort of cute girl who is supposed to be smart but reads off cue cards." SLOOWWW MOTION WIND SCENE! gently caress it. The actual show is just horrible. None of the crap they do works, but they always have to end it with a positive "this could work one day" line to vindicate the time and money wasted on obviously stupid ideas. I think they should just combine the last 4 or 5 shows into one MEGA idea. An ariated cement block wrapped in carbon fiber with air bags on a bed of ball bearings designed to stop rampaging elephants in India would fail four times more spectacularly then any single element combined. I guess it just comes down to the fact that it is just too obvious that Discovery tried to recreate Mythbusters using the same formula that made Mythbusters watchable and entertaining, only to settle on four unlikable hosts with vague uninteresting "missions" and a crappy secret lair name.
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Feb 9, 2008 10:58
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Yeah, Smash Lab is one of the most transparently "fake" shows I've ever seen, in the sense that everything is a shameless second-rate knockoff of some more successful show. Less charming hosts, less interesting topics, less spectacular results... it's just less.
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Feb 9, 2008 11:07
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McSpanky posted:Huh, I had this pegged as Smash Lab to Human Weapon's Mythbusters, but I might have to give it a shot now. As long as they make the same distinctions between moves displayed purely for the sake of education and moves which are actually effective in a bout, I could get onboard. Fight Quest is absolutely terrible. They give the guy like a week (as if that's time to learn a martial art) and then during the end fight he basically says he's just going to wing it anyway.
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Feb 9, 2008 12:47
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Filthy Assistant posted:Fight Quest is absolutely terrible. They give the guy like a week (as if that's time to learn a martial art) and then during the end fight he basically says he's just going to wing it anyway. That's what happened in half the episodes of Human Weapon anyway (usually with Bill).
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Feb 9, 2008 12:50
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McSpanky posted:That's what happened in half the episodes of Human Weapon anyway (usually with Bill). I never saw Human Weapon so v  v
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Feb 9, 2008 13:24
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McSpanky posted:Huh, I had this pegged as Smash Lab to Human Weapon's Mythbusters The are the exact same show.
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Feb 9, 2008 15:49
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Filthy Assistant posted:Fight Quest is absolutely terrible. They give the guy like a week (as if that's time to learn a martial art) and then during the end fight he basically says he's just going to wing it anyway. I watched one episode, which mostly consisted of him getting exhausted, and not really picking up on the subtulties of whatever form was being studied. I'd rather see a study of the form without fight at the end of the training bs.
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the-jam posted:The original scene they were trying to recreate involved Q blowing up a mannequin so they built themselves some mannequins out of mannequin foam to see if a pen would obliterate the dummy like in the movie. It took a giant pen to cause the same level of obliteration as seen in the movie. ... As a fan of Bond movies, I am extremely disappointed in myself for not putting 2 and 2 together, even if I haven't seen Goldeneye in years. 
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Vilthuril posted:I watched one episode, which mostly consisted of him getting exhausted, and not really picking up on the subtulties of whatever form was being studied. NO! They must run and do pushups only!
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Feb 9, 2008 19:39
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I was sitting on the couch watching tv today and noticed that at 3pm CST they had an episode of I shouldn't be Alive running. Looks like for at least this week they have been running reruns in this slot. Good deal!! I always liked the show.
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Feb 20, 2008 23:06
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Mythbusters MacGyver Special Tonight at 9pm EST! I'm hoping it's a good one - they'll probably have enough material that we'll see at least one more MacGyver themed episode, but this is the "season finale" for this run of shows. Like I mentioned in the original post, Discovery tends to air their shows in blocks, so after tonight's episode there won't be any new episodes for a while.
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Feb 21, 2008 00:27
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LordOfThePants posted:I'm hoping it's a good one It's Mythbusters, and MacGyver. How could it not be fantastic?
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Well, I watched tonight's Smash Lab to see if it had gotten any better since the first episode. It hasn't 
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Feb 21, 2008 05:52
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Hawkman posted:Well, I watched tonight's Smash Lab to see if it had gotten any better since the first episode. It hasn't Next week they try to stop an out of control vehicle by attaching rockets to it. 
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The Human Crouton posted:Next week they try to stop an out of control vehicle by attaching rockets to it. 1. Find problem 2. Attempt to solve problem in random impractically stupid fashion 3. Fail 4. Feign excitement, gesture wildly 5. Claim that humanity has learned something valuable from your failed experiment, do not elaborate on what that might be
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Hawkman posted:Smash Lab formula: Sometimes they also take a working system that someone already had in production and ruin it. Last week they got the idea of having fire escapes that drop down on a rail and stop using magnetic brakes. They got the idea from roller coasters. They then fail miserably at it and claim that the only reason it works for roller coasters is because the coaster comes in at a 30 degree angle, which is completely ignoring the numerous drop rides that drop straight down and use magnetic brakes. The reason their rig didn't work: Because they put the brakes at the very bottom of the rail so that the fire escape did not have time to stop because by the time it hit the brakes it had already hit the ground. I didn't even see this episode. A friend of mine saw it and was so annoyed that he had to call and bitch to someone about it.
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I think the worst part of Smash Lab is the yelling and flailing about when something explodes or gets hit. I'd find it much funnier if they just sort watched it, thought about it, nodded, then scribbled something on a piece of paper on a clipboard. That's essentially Jamie's reaction to almost everything in Mythbusters, and I always find it funnier than Adam or Kari's "OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG".
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