• Harriet_Porber@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I absolutely loved mythbusters, but honestly I think it ran it’s course. They were kind of running out of things to test towards the end.

    Also search for Streamlined Mythbusters - they’re fan-edits that remove fluff (lots of fluff in the later seasons) and rearranges the shows so each myth is played straight through before going to the next myth in the episode; instead of showing pieces of 3 different myths at a time bouncing between them.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve tried to rewatch the shows but the TV format mostly just kills it for me now. Thanks that sounds perfect for modern audiences tastes.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like there were tons of movie related options had they gone back that direction. Easily a whole season’s worth of action hero stunts they could break down.

      Just one episode could be on Commando. Schwarzenegger ripping the seat out of a car, or killing a guy with a thrown saw blade, or impaling another guy with a thrown pipe. Would be interesting to have seen them figure out the actual force requirements.

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    1 year ago

    My favorite episode is the one where they tried to turn a city bus at 50 mph to test a scene from a movie called “Speed”.

    It didn’t matter how the passengers were arranged in the bus, the bus just wouldn’t turn over. In fact, the bus was more stable in a corner when ghe weight was evenly distrubuted, to the surprise of nobody with a mechanical engineering degree.

    The most instructive part for me was what they did have to do to make the bus barely tip over. They had to fasten a big piece of steel plate to the roof, disable the air shocks on one side, and put all the “passengers” (barrels of water) on one side.

    Thus reminding everyone that engineers know more about how to build a bus than movie writers do. Which shouldn’t be a surprise.