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haveblue posted:Yeah, I also instantly called bullshit on Adam saying it had never been filmed. Although now I wonder how that other video was made since it was so much harder than they expected.
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If anyone has a GearVR/Oculus, there's a neat little Mythbusters 360 degree video on the Oculus Video app with Adam narrating an explosion.
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It was also kind of funny how they had a whole bit about how hard it was to get the first one and then all of a sudden they were able to get a second one in one day.
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muscles like this? posted:It was also kind of funny how they had a whole bit about how hard it was to get the first one and then all of a sudden they were able to get a second one in one day. Are all tankers made the same way? There's got to be thinner-walled tankers out there somewhere. Also: 
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The most interesting thing about that gif is how the tank easily pops away from the wheels like there's nothing holding them together except gravity. Is that normal for train cars or did they secretly disconnect something in preparation for the implosion?
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muscles like this? posted:It was also kind of funny how they had a whole bit about how hard it was to get the first one and then all of a sudden they were able to get a second one in one day. I'm sure they had them both lined up already.
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Didn't they do some kind of massive implosion myth with a gas tanker trailer? They never mentioned ever having done anything like this in the episode but I'm all but positive they've imploded a tanker trailer before. A train car tanker is a lot more impressive though I have to admit.
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muscles like this? posted:It was also kind of funny how they had a whole bit about how hard it was to get the first one and then all of a sudden they were able to get a second one in one day. I believe they specifically mentioned trying to get one that's been decommed, but still structurally sound. The second one was pretty beat up, probably sourced early on and they held on to it just in case they couldn't find something perfect. Even though it literally gave them the same results, but I assume they didn't expect that and wanted to use the "ideal" situation.
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haveblue posted:The most interesting thing about that gif is how the tank easily pops away from the wheels like there's nothing holding them together except gravity. Is that normal for train cars or did they secretly disconnect something in preparation for the implosion? There's nothing holding them together except gravity. When you've got that much tonnage, let it do the hard work for you.
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Looking at the classic train car implosion, it's pretty clear that it's a weaker or thinner tanker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Looking at the classic train car implosion, it's pretty clear that it's a weaker or thinner tanker. Great use of Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project. Maybe US Spec tanker cars are built with thicker steel, or something.
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I doubt anyone is still watching gold rush. But I don't believe fat mechanic for beard guy is the first to think up to not make a dredge dig up all the overburden and run it. It sounds like the best loving way to run a wash plant, make it move its own drat self. Its like a huge ugly pacman. I dont know why they try to make it a "big" deal every loving time they have to move the wash plant and everyone hates it for some reason. It should be like a matter of fact now that you have to move that fucker all the god drat time.
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Gotta make drama somewhere. Even Todd can't gently caress up anything anymore cause all he's doing is taking a walk once a day to show up in a camera shot. That and making a prayer circle thanking God for the mighty glory hole giving them gold. The Hoffman family is gross and they should be mocked off the network if they can't at least give us a whole season of them constantly loving things up they've been doing for years at this point. Invalid Validation fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Adam Savage was on @Midnight  Acquitted himself well considering he was up against Ron Funches.
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Pulping tomato innards with a blasting cap produced some amazing high speed footage,
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howe_sam posted:Pulping tomato innards with a blasting cap produced some amazing high speed footage, Nothing about that should have worked, but it did 
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Tonight: Two car-based myths: Adam - Can you lift a car with a single household vacuum cleaner? Yes Jamie - Can you pancake a car with high explosives? No.
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"hey go slow digging that hole, dont get stuck" "I got this, bro" 5 minutes later "hey im stuck"
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Jamie completely annihilating the car was goofy.
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I figured the car would get a little crumpled but not even close to flattened. Did not see complete annihilation coming.
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PostNouveau posted:I figured the car would get a little crumpled but not even close to flattened. Did not see complete annihilation coming. At least there's one less Yugo in the world.
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Did anyone else notice Adam's super gross fingernails? Ugh.
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Ross Angeles posted:Is this thread for the History channel too? I couldn't find a history channel thread. Dual Survival has also been rebooted with new people. I think the golden age of lovely reality TV is ending. I mean, Rick Dale seemed like an okay guy, but I don't know how long it's been since he's made a new episode. Pawn Stars hasn't used him as their restoration guy in more than a few years. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Lord a loo, that was some spectacular high speed footage on Mythbusters 
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I love when the high speed is good enough that you see the electrical charge moving through the detcord.
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muscles like this? posted:I love when the high speed is good enough that you see the electrical charge moving through the detcord. That's actually a tiny explosion moving through a tube, not electricity.
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Pretty sure in the vacuum car myth, after they swapped out the bonnet with a steel plate and it failed, Adam shouted "Arrrr! What the gently caress! What! What!" Also, I think the "octopus arm" rig they made was seriously flawed in that, if a single suction cup came off, the whole rig would fail as air rushed in. Given that each cup was held in place using a rigid steel rod fastened with a wing nut, each suction cup probably was lifting a different amount.
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The vacuum car is one where if you watched the behind the scenes episode you did get a little insight. Apparently they were going to give up on the whole thing after the octopus one failed but saw a video online of someone else doing it, which is why they tried again with the new method.
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spankmeister posted:That's actually a tiny explosion moving through a tube, not electricity. A tiny explosion traveling at 6000m/s, if my memory serves me right.
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muscles like this? posted:Jamie completely annihilating the car was goofy. I love how, at those pressures, things we think of as extremely solid start acting very much like liquids. You can see how the metal just splattered in the test models when the explosive power was upped. Too bad they didn't get to do it to a full-size car. Shaping explosives is tough. Takes a lot of know-how to do it right - so much engineering. I still wonder if the Implosion-type nuclear design is less a sphere and more some strange shape that we don't know because they both want to keep it a secret and the engineering is so much harder for a pure sphere.
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Is there a new Mythbusters tonight? My cable guide says Gold Rush is on at it's regular slot but after there's just a listing for "Discovery Channel Programming"
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It occurred to me that they should have experimentally verified Adam's estimate of 3/4 of a second for a chainsaw to open a skull, but on the other hand if they had used a real animal head for that it would have been by far the most disgusting (and  ) thing the show had ever aired.
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haveblue posted:It occurred to me that they should have experimentally verified Adam's estimate of 3/4 of a second for a chainsaw to open a skull, but on the other hand if they had used a real animal head for that it would have been by far the most disgusting (and They should have also tested how many dead pigs it takes before the chainsaw gets clogged by too many meaty chunks and bone fragments, but at the same time who gives a poo poo. CHAINSAW
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Deadliest catch coming back soon? I feel like this is when it back on. Aren't one of their fishing seasons from nov-dec or something? Edit: Nevermind. Looking at my TV app it appears the season comes back in April every year.
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I'm glad they redid the ax zombie thing because it was kind of bad that they were counting Adam tapping the zombies in the original myth as a kill.
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