nerdeblog.blogspot.com— With season 4 of Mythbusters, the popular debunking show on Discovery, NerdEBlog has compiled a list of the top 5 Mythbuster's segments including Kari's famous silver bikini clip!
Oct 17, 2006View in Crawl 4
What about the one where they test the "swimming underwater to escape bullets" myth? Firing high powered rifles in a swimming pool was my favorite show.
I don't remember paying much attention to their quicksand argument, but i can recall many episodes that made me sit back and go "Well, why the hell didn't they try _______!" I'm also not a fan of how much they use their ballistics gel dummy as a replacement for real humans. Sure the physical structure may be the same but the reaction isn't going to be the same. As an example: Remember the one where they drop the dummy through the awnings? A real human would not just have their limbs flailing around like that. They would bring their limbs close in to their bodies and inside the perimeter of the awning, or at least try. And i know someone, one of the infinite number of people on Digg who consider themselves a genius, is going to bring up the fact that they did drop a human through the awnings. True, but they also cut the awnings and taped them back together beforehand. I'm not completely knocking the show, it is entertaining, but two former special effects guys are not really qualified to consider anything impossible.
Hard to compete with Kari, but you've gotta include the remote control car episode - as in, a *real car*. They tested what it would take to rip the rear axle off a police car. How can you not like that?
lumirasOct 17, 2006
Ahh.....the clip of Kari was worth it alone.....but I suppose the other clips were pretty interesting too :)But, the bikini was kinda ugly
tomisinaOct 17, 2006
man if that silver bikini shot is famous wait till geeks get a hold of porn!
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
What about the one where they test the "swimming underwater to escape bullets" myth? Firing high powered rifles in a swimming pool was my favorite show.
bigatbOct 17, 2006
"d00d our robot worked"
scallonOct 17, 2006
I don't remember paying much attention to their quicksand argument, but i can recall many episodes that made me sit back and go "Well, why the hell didn't they try _______!" I'm also not a fan of how much they use their ballistics gel dummy as a replacement for real humans. Sure the physical structure may be the same but the reaction isn't going to be the same. As an example: Remember the one where they drop the dummy through the awnings? A real human would not just have their limbs flailing around like that. They would bring their limbs close in to their bodies and inside the perimeter of the awning, or at least try. And i know someone, one of the infinite number of people on Digg who consider themselves a genius, is going to bring up the fact that they did drop a human through the awnings. True, but they also cut the awnings and taped them back together beforehand. I'm not completely knocking the show, it is entertaining, but two former special effects guys are not really qualified to consider anything impossible.
daffyduckOct 18, 2006
Well, I'm guessing it's not all that easy to find silver bikinis so they just bought what they could find.
mipmapOct 18, 2006
Hard to compete with Kari, but you've gotta include the remote control car episode - as in, a *real car*. They tested what it would take to rip the rear axle off a police car. How can you not like that?
hoshnasiOct 18, 2006
Exactly the wooden cannon is one of my top ten. The Cd one should have been number one in that list.
adolfojpOct 18, 2006
It was an excuse to get Kari semi naked! Mmmmm.... Kari....