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- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -3/+108Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but we don't bury your comments because you're a Jew(unconfirmed). We bury them because you're an ASS.
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60Here goes another buried post by anicejew
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56I'd also like to propose "busting a myth" as a new phrase for farting.
- danieldrehmer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I wish they had tested the 'poodle in the microwave' myth using a balistic gel dog.
- bbhh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31"Ping-pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship.
busted
Even though it took an impractically large number of ping-pong balls (27,000), when enough of them were piped into the Mythtanic II, the boat rose to the surface."
uhh what?? how's that busted? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30@ adamsucks
My roommate just busted that myth. - TPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28There's a series of entries on Wikipedia listing all the episodes and their results, divided up by seasons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_1%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_2%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_3%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_4%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_5%29
On further examination, what's on the linked site appears to be copying and pasting what's on Wikipedia... - rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18anicejew?
Yeah i blocked that dude weeks ago, best move I ever made - orangemarmalade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@anicejew:
could you POSSIBLY have been thinking of kari at all? - TPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11As funny as this sounds, watch your urine stream when you pee... or more effective, look at a long stream of water falling. Over a certain distance, the surface tension of the liquid breaks, and the liquid turns into a stream of droplets instead of a "solid" stream. No solid stream, no path for electricity to go from rail to penis.
Only way the teen could have been shocked was if he was peeing with an abnormal amount of vigor and pressure. Heh. Peeing with vigor. I laugh. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12wow is anicejew always like that? thats super funny! hes like the token digg down guy
- nox327, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I watch for the entertainment and goofy personalty.
"CDs can shatter if placed in a high-speed (i.e. 40X or faster) CD-ROM drive."
Even though it said that it was busted, I say it is true (confirmetd) because that is what happened to me. The CD just exploded in the drive, I almost got a heart attack. - PueSi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"While overstuffing his washing machine with laundry, a man accidentally wedged himself into the machine and tripped the spin cycle, flailing him around, spilling laundry detergent and bleach as he was bludgeoned to death against the shelves. Afterwards, the man's dog urinated on the detergent and bleach, causing an explosion that set the room on fire"
busted
Who would had thought? - Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11~If a glass of water is microwaved, and then removed, it will explode due to superheating.
confirmed
If the water had no impurities in it at the time of superheating - if one used distilled water - then any sort of additive placed within will make the water explode.~
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i really want to try this... :) - thejuicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/superheating.html
maybe it's better if you just take adam and jamie's word for it. - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Sounds more like one of those "forward this to 100 people or get 7 years bad luck" chain email stories...
- MonkeyjoeBla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"It's not true, I microwave glasses of water for my oatmeal all the time, nothing ever happens except 3 packs of brown sugar oatmeal is enjoyed..."
Even the slightest impurity in the water will prevent superheating and the water has to be hotter than 100°C in order to create an unstable mix and eventually lead to an explosion, so you're probably missing out on one of those factors. - secondimpact, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@anicejew
So..you know Tory is a guy right..?
Oh, okay. Just making sure. - Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@anicejew
The negative diggs had just enough antisemitism to be acceptable. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Depending on the voltage, electricity doesn't need a stream, however an electric fence is made to be pretty safe. If you start pissing into box transformers you will get your dick blown off eventually.
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6An assassin can use a poison capsule fired from an umbrella to kill someone without leaving a trace.
CONFIRMED
It was found to have been the cause of death for a notable Bulgarian dignitary, Georgi Markov. The catch is that the umbrella must be fired from point-blank range for it to work.
Well... surely if it was found to have killed someone, it must have left a trace? - crashingechelon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This contributes nothing to the article/site/whatever. I've seen anicejew comment on like everything I've looked at in the past few weeks and they've all been dugg down. I know I state the obvious and expect to be dugg down for this.
- scratched, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@sicc
The conditions for superheating do not exist then. I forget the exact conditions needed, but it has to do with the purity of the water, and how flawed the glass you use to heat your water is. - TPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Have you _watched_ the show?
- putnam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This site is a direct copy of what is on Wikipedia. Buried.
To his credit, he did at least cite Wikipedia and the proper license: http://mythbustersresults.com/copyright/ - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Disclaimer: don't try this at home.
The thing that happens with "exploding" things from the microwave is this:
As the water in the cup boils, the air bubbles are forced out of it. You can continue to heat it, and more bubbles will come out of the tiny crevices in the cup. After some time, there will be no more bubbles, though the liquid may still undulate as the hotter/cooler parts of it flow up and down.
If you then remove the cup, and drop in, say, some instant coffee, the newly aerated liquid will burst forth out of the cup, spilling all over, burning you, and making a giant mess.
You can get this same effect by microwaving a cup of water, forgetting about it in the microwave, then reheating it. That's how you get the boilover, burn, mess thing usually.
Is that an explosion? Perhaps in the strictest sense of the term. Not a chemical or atomic one, but it's really impressive. - TPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sorry beotch, gotta say it... To keep it from electrocution, don't put your dick in a box. Sorry ladies.
- RomyNo1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've actually had a glass of water explode on me after I heated it too long and put a tea bad in it.
- jstem1994, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"but then ahh well oil company and auto industry got to the "mythbusters" and pretty much made them retract the initial test outcomes"
Prove it. - ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ adamsucks, check the list, its on there. it was actually the first place i heard of them doing the myth.
- spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've HAD this happen, it's not an explosion, its more of an instant boil. The water looks cool, but when you grab the glass it boils over. Always heat water in the microwave with a chop stick or other device to help the bubbles gather.
- GrantTheGr8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@adamsucks: It's in there. The first page only shows season 1. You have to click the links at the bottom to go to the other seasons. The one you're referring to is about 3/4 of the way down on the season 3 page.
- M1THR4ND1R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's an awesome idea to list them like that :D Mythbusters is by far one of the most entertaining tv series' I know.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3nice.
mythbusters is one of the greatest shows ever. - Spr0k3t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've done this twice, but it wasn't by choice. After the superheated water was pulled out of the microwavable glass container and a small amount of cold coffee creamer was added, the glass popped and shards were all over the place (radius of roughly 4 feet). I got hit, but there was not enough velocity to cause any kind of abrasion. In a similar situation, I cooked a roast in the oven with one of the glass type roasting pots. About five minutes after I pulled it out of the oven and set it on the stove top, the glass pot shattered sending bits everywhere. A small amount of tap water and corn starch mixture is what caused the "explosion".
- BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yay! Thank you for the best list ever. *dugg
- fizzup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have this image in my mind of a "Rainman"-like guy writing in his notebook at the end of every episode. "Peeing on the third rail - Busted".
- Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is great thanks. I was just literally looking for the myths that they busted that is so funny. The first digg I saw.rotfl thanks
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@everyone saying "Oh I put this in microwaved water/food"
It doesn't matter so much *what* you put in, more *that* you put something in. Everything you add will bring air into the hot liquid, which will initiate boilover. I suspect that if the boilover is fast enough, the force could spread out to the sides and crack a cup.
I also know that the incident with the roast and the tap water was probably not one of air being introduced but of the quick temperature change. Once I was letting my deliver truck warm up in the morning in the dead of winter. I had forgotten to turn the heater on, though. This particular truck, I left the thing on defrost, and the temp up high, but I forgot to turn the heater fan on from being off the day before. So I flipped it to high. When the hot air hit the cold windshield, it sounded like a shotgun blast, and there was suddenly a crack all the way across the bottom. I had another incident with a disposable lighter in the covered top dash pocket in my 1987 CRX. Hot day, hot in the car. I get in, open the pocket door, light my smoke with the lighter, put in back in the pocket (not closed). About ten seconds later, the lighter exploded all over the car. I'm not sure what temperature change made that happen, but I guarantee it was temp related. - p_o_b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Alton Brown "confirmed" that myth on his "Myth-Smashers" episode of Good Eats.
- crazyboy1121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2YES!!! Awesome list!
- fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can confirm they are wrong about the electric fence, I pissed on one once, the shock won't kill, but it will make you dance.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love Mythbusters, but you SHOULD NOT TAKE WHAT THE SAY FOR GRANTED WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR FINAL ANALYSIS!!!
Just because they say "Confirmed" or "Busted", doesn't mean it is Confirmed or Busted. Use common sense when it comes to some articles...like their latest "hollywood heists". Adam wasn't strong enough to use just two suction cups, so he needed a stronger vacuum to compensate for four -- even though he scaled the vent shaft using a cheaply made suction cup rig, the myth was anaylized as "busted", where any super spy would obviously be able to do pullups, and have more expensive, refined equipment.
Great show though. Best clip : do bullets kill people in water. - SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wikipedia has results from every test as well. Scroll down and click on a season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters - apurvsqc, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1Amazing.. You gotta getover it!
http://BuildHydrogenCar.com - AgentX24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Or the site has the same contributors to it as those who contributed to Wikipedia for that article. Not necessarily a need to call plagiarism.
- wolfpack52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hahahah wow i was looking for a list on here the other day..and surprise someone put it on here..haha thanks bro..nice work
- racer108, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does urinating on an electric fence cause electrocution?
Let's ask Stimpy to take out his "Don't Wizz on The Electric Fence" board game to find out.
Btw, I loved that song. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@babemgnt101
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