A good topic for Mythbusters

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today. Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have that!

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David Hardie
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Adam Law

Yeah!

Buster rocks!!!!!!

D.

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David Hardie

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"Most" fires but only "some" women.....sounds like a myth being made to match the result.

Ken

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Ken Taylor

Save the collander for the pasta, make one of these -

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HeadRush

Thats one issue with mythbusters though and that is that they cannot replicate all the possible sonarios to test the myth or not. Some yes, but a lot no. With the mobile phone issue the issue is the mobile generating a spark with enough grunt to ignite the fuel vapor. The chances of that happening would be so slim its not funny, so how would you acuratly re-create it to prove one way or the other.

For mine I think they are over reacting quite a bit with this one. As pointed out there are other causes of sparks that occour more often then a mobile phone, or CB radio. Even some of the things that happen under the bonnet have a potential too.

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AJ

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Highlandish

I believe they failed to test this myth by not having "auto-answer" turned on. so all the phone did is ring, but if it answered a different level of charge would have been emitted. I don't know if it still would have been enough to spark, but they didn't try.

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Highlandish

And hospital waiting rooms (not a myth) They worry about traces of medical oxygen.

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Sir Nigel Puke-Fuui

"most pump fires are started by women" is because most women use a purse to carry their money, and since they don't carry their purse with them all the time, so for convenience, it is left in the car until needed or they have a handy moment to get it, when the tank is filling up. The woman would typically sit back in the car, generating a static charge through clothes contact with the car seat, and when they exit they don't touch the car door since it is already open. The next object they touch is the pump handle .... boom! Since most men carry wallets, usually in their pocket, they have no need to go back to the car. This "theory" would seem to make sense from a socialiological viewpoint, and according to the statistics they quoted in the said episode, is backed up by those statistics.

- Chock.

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Chock

Once upon a time Highlandish decided to write:

Everyone knows religion is real. If it wasn't real, then why do they exist?

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Chriz

Once upon a time Highlandish decided to write:

...and I've been stocking up on magical remedies and junctioning them to my defensive stats.

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Chriz

Yeah but you aren't a woman. You're a drag queen!

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Unknown

What's worse is I'm a sad enough to know why that is funny.

D.

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David Hardie

I suggested on the Discovery channel Mythbusters forum the idea of testing out if a body "bounces" like in the film Terminal Velocity, although it didn't seem to attract the attention of anyone official. Last time I saw, the idea that a person can be sliced in half with a single samurai sword stroke was the hot topic.

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Diceman

Show me one?

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qwerty

No way to test this without killing someone. Buster doesn't count as he's not a real human, so testing him wouldn't be accurate. :)

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qwerty

There are lots of photos of them. Prove that they aren't alien spacecraft.

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Firefly

Hmmmm I know I just got told by a few people here, and I said I missed the episode in question hence why I asked.

OK another topic what about phones being a danger on aircraft?

And if so why then are the aircraft instruments properly shielded?

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I Caught Kate

Photos can't be verified. Show me a physical one.

Similarly, I could show you a photo of any given item and you'd be unable to prove, beyond doubt, that the item is what it seems.

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qwerty

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