Can I just say how AWESOME Mythbusters is?
If you've been hiding under a rock and have no idea what that is.... find an episode and watch it. They rock.
I would love to somehow get a job like that, right up my alley and not because of the blowing up stuff part, but the hands-on approach to 'science' and technology to test and demonstrate/prove concepts and whatnot. The myth parts though is just a fun bonus more than anything else =P.
The one recently I saw is where they test idioms and they polish poop, try seeing if things are faster on a 'running' start, and going out with a bang. The polishing poop was quite fascinating actually, with them finally using a Japanese art technique called hikaru dorodango, which is actually a 'dirt ball' polishing technique that was developed from childrens playing in mud, so I read briefly from my google search. A small wiki entry has been created due to this mythbusters episode by the looks of it here LOL. Interesting, though I am too lazy to bother poishing dirt with my time XD
The other one that was fun was seeing over a thousand pounds of thermite. Oh My. I saw thermite in action many years ago in chemistry, and well, it's an insane reaction that generates a lot of heat and energy and it eats through a heck of a lot of things like you just wouldn't believe... Well, they mix a bathtub of it, and attempt to burn through a SUV. They don't get completely through it, but, it certainly does do a lot of damage....
In any case. Mythbusters rules.
If you've been hiding under a rock and have no idea what that is.... find an episode and watch it. They rock.
I would love to somehow get a job like that, right up my alley and not because of the blowing up stuff part, but the hands-on approach to 'science' and technology to test and demonstrate/prove concepts and whatnot. The myth parts though is just a fun bonus more than anything else =P.
The one recently I saw is where they test idioms and they polish poop, try seeing if things are faster on a 'running' start, and going out with a bang. The polishing poop was quite fascinating actually, with them finally using a Japanese art technique called hikaru dorodango, which is actually a 'dirt ball' polishing technique that was developed from childrens playing in mud, so I read briefly from my google search. A small wiki entry has been created due to this mythbusters episode by the looks of it here LOL. Interesting, though I am too lazy to bother poishing dirt with my time XD
The other one that was fun was seeing over a thousand pounds of thermite. Oh My. I saw thermite in action many years ago in chemistry, and well, it's an insane reaction that generates a lot of heat and energy and it eats through a heck of a lot of things like you just wouldn't believe... Well, they mix a bathtub of it, and attempt to burn through a SUV. They don't get completely through it, but, it certainly does do a lot of damage....
In any case. Mythbusters rules.
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