The elephants and mice episode is also my favorite non-explosion myth. I can't believe it's actually true.
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Oil platforms and other heavy machinery is interesting?
This is true, but it still feels Faustian as hell. She did a whole season about "deep water energy" without once mentioning the fact that this shit is gonna kill us all
The comments on that video are something else lmao, Kari doused her reputation in that "deep water energy" and burned it
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Mythbusters really was the best TV has ever had to offer in its heyday.
"Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"
This is the essence of science. Being wrong is exciting because it means that you're on to something. The way scientific theories are made is by challenging what you believe -- trying to prove your idea wrong. If you repeatedly can't prove it wrong then you're probably approaching something that is true which continually adds to the certainty that you're onto something. That's what the sigma certainty means in scientific discoveries. It refers to the possible margin of error in a discovery.
The sigma certainty is essentially, 1 sigma is about 85% certain - or a 1 in 7 chance you're wrong, 2 sigma is about 97.75% certainty - or a 1 in 45 chance you're wrong, 3 sigma is about 99.98% certain - or about 1 in 5000 chance of being wrong, etc. It depends on which scientific field you're in as to which level of sigma is considered enough for something to officially become an accepted theory, in Astronomy a 6 sigma is where the line is drawn which is about 1 in 500 million chance of being wrong (~99.9999998% certain).
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a bull moves very gingerly
I imagined a bull in a red wig with purse in hand holding up plates and wondering where he'd store those in the kitchen if he bought a set
Didn't they stop because they ran out of myths that wouldn't give people explicitly dangerous information like their bomb recipe
Been rewatching mythbusters and man its a great show. Entertaining, educational and great hosts. RIP Grant. 😭
Watched the one about hot water tanks either being a bomb/or being a rocket last night. Was a super good one.
I'd like Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars or Monster Garage back. I liked the "just get it running" attitude over the muscle car and motorcycle shows.