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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Yeah, I never really believed number 14.
I mean...how could anyone go 7 seconds without thinking about sex? - lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39numbers 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 - Courtesy Mythbusters.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Did you know that if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer?
If you just put your hand up to your face, please have somebody smash your hand into your face, because I can't do it from here. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Good stuff. It's a great way to debunk those teachers trying to be clever, or 12 year old kids talking out of their ass to sound impressive.
- Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Guys, you just poop it out if your body's not making any progress with it.. You think your stomach gets all affronted and hangs onto anything you swallow until it's broken down?
Clearly you've never pulled tinsel out of a cat's ass around Christmas.
Oh, fun fact: it comes out clear because the silver gets dissolved from the plastic. That was a fun day when I learned that firsthand. :( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17The Moon is in space? Who knew...
- Anthem26, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12the chicken w/o the head died after 18 months because it choked on a seed, believe it or not... (source: Ripley's Believe or Not)
- titsmagee123, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17quote :"Good stuff. It's a great way to debunk those teachers trying to be clever, or 12 year old kids talking out of their ass to sound impressive."
- wasn't that like every kid when they were 12 including you, and if you deny it you are a lier... and lies cause cancer - Salmar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I yawned from you mentioning you yawned at #9
- shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If the gum myth was true, don't you think we'd end up with a lot of teenagers suffering from intestinal conditions? Where do you think the gum goes during those seven years? Your insides would get really ***** up if the gum really just sat there.
- jenel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hence the term "myths" and not "facts".
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/
- spyder91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Fun for the cat too I'm sure.
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Every day I thank the Lord that there are structural engineers out there like Groovemaster. Without them we'd have no conspiracy theories!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They did this experiment twice with different results each time.
Regardless, for all practical reasons, they didn't really study it well. When people talk about getting wet, they are going to be less concerned with their ankles and lower legs than they are with their hair, head, chest, and waist. When the Mythbusters ran, they got A LOT more splash on the lower part of their jumpsuit.
I was just waiting for them to do the test over but cutting the jumpsuits off at the knees just to see how much of that extra water was from splash - iman79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Who exactly experimented by dropping cats "upside-down from a height of one foot or less" ?
- RyanChappell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It says it is a list of myths, then lists some as true. WTH, if it is true it is not a myth!!!
- JoCliMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_headless_chicken
(as a follow up) - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Damn you both.
*yawned* - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation"
Of course it doesn't. It drains correctly in the southern hemisphere, and backwards when you go to the northern hemisphere. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Also, #16 - the five second rule, I usually go for the 20 second rule.. Who even does 5 seconds? That doesnt really leave you any time..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5#1 Headless chicken cant live with out head - UN-BUSTED straight away http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can considering there have been people elected president without a head.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Technically this is true. But for the Coriolis Effect to make a difference, the tub would have to be HUGE and it would have to be absolutely perfect in shape.
For all practical purposes, any imprefections (or simple design elements) determine the direction.
For example, you can find different sinks in the same house that have the water drain indifferent directions - hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The brain stem controls all the major bodily functions, so if the brain and stem are severed in just the right place the chicken can continue "living."
- haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next up on Mythbusters:
Jamie gets a full frontal lobotomy to find out if humans do really only use 10 percent of their brain - Gzero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There is no "speed of gravity", but there is "acceleration of gravity". The intention was probably to say the speed at which it'd fall if there were no objects in its way.
- Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Funny you mention the 12 year olds talking out of their ass thing, just the other day my friends little cousin was saying how the great wall is the only manmade structure viewable from space.
- GrantTheGr8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@anysublime123: They have descriptions for each one when you click on them that say whether or not they are true.
- csrster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's obviously true in the sense that if you stand still you will get hit by an infinite amount of rain before you reach your destination, whereas in the limit of very high speeds you just sweep out a you-shaped tube in the falling rain.
The only interesting question is under which set of circumstances the curve joining those two endpoints is monotonic. - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WTF? Some of the things on this list aren't "Myths" - they are true. For instance, the chicken living without their heads. There was a chicken who lived for a year or two without a head. It is well documented.
- weizilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4more on speed of gravity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
- Kazbaeden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"There is no "speed of gravity""
Gravity propagates at the speed of light. That is to say, if the sun were to disappear this instant, we would continue on our normal orbit for 8 minutes, and then drift off into space.
Just an FYI - Gzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It'd make sense to say "half of those are true", however. Although this is a myth list, lots of them on the list aren't.
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who actually lived for many years without a head... so I guess it isn't a myth, just extremely rare.
- goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why are these myths "scientific"?
- DeathBorn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I knew #10 was false already. Many skyscrapers have been hit by lightning thousands of times. There was a park ranger who was hit by lightning 7 times, it's in the Guinness Book.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just to make an example about what I said, if you have access to 5-10 story building, or so, try this. Take 10 pens that are gray in color and lay them out end to end on the sidewalk. Now take some other object that has a much smaller area than the 10 pens combined, but that is a better contrast to the ground, and is more square shaped. Go up one story and look out the window and see if you can see the items. Keep going up one stroy and doing the same ting. You will see the smaller square object at a much higher floor than you can the pens.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4And another one, i soudl have done all these in the same post...
#9 "Yawning is contagious" they are trying to say yawning isnt contagious? ok test it next time for yourself, very easy, when you are with a group of friends, have a yawn and see what happens... I just yawned twice while typing this - 10lbhammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2while I am not a structural engineer, I work with 40+ structural engineers, many of whom I have talked to about this very subject.
and every one that I've talked to comes to the same consensus: the official story on the wtc tower collapse is utter *****.
thejokell, maddog, shank et. al... how many structural engineers have you actually talked to? none? - Thalia42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting story Misleading Title. The myths, according to the information provided on this site, are often true. Myths are definitionally incorrect. Maybe this should be retitled "Nifty Stuff about Science."
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They aren't myths. Some have been determined to be true. Those are not myths. Inaccurate.
myth:
1. a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
2. stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth.
3. any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth.
4. an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.
5. an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. - LucidHawk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3# 17 is wrong everyone knows that many animals do have some sort of special sense to tell when a major storm or earthquake is coming. They are complete ***** to say there is 'no evidence' there may not be enough recorded definitive evidence for a mainstream scientific consensus but there is definitely some evidence.
The rest are correct.
But gotta admit the cat on feet thing is lame. Most housecats do land on their feet the large majority of the time; so how is it a myth?? Any idiot is going to have the reasoning skill to know that there is a low enough area to drop them in which they won't land on their feet. - fishpen0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Mythbusters proved yawning is semi contagious and poppy seeds do in fact make you fail an opium test,
The Mythbusters rock - wtweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Hmmm.... I think it ceases being myth at that point, and thus ineligible for this list?"
If that is the case then half the stuff on Mythbusters can't be on the show because they proved them wrong. - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/index.php?url=myths_chicken_head_03.jpg&cat=myths
Ok a headless chicken lived for 18 months? How did it eat? - jenhwang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its amazing how many people still follow the "5 second rule", if its on the ground, its not fair game. sheesh.
- battleroyalex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very intresting, finally got some answers
- wtweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you read the article (click on the myth name) it says the poppy seed myth is true. So they were not wrong about that.
- scrambled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1#21 Evolution is random
Fracking creationists -
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