Discovery Channel’s SMASH LAB returns for its second season beginning Tuesday, August 5th. The episodes will air on Tuesday nights at 10PM ET/PT.
For those of you that are SMASH LAB virgins, its kinda similar to Mythbusters in that the each week the crew members spend alot of time testing and breaking things. But the real deal about the show is that they try to come up with better solutions to issues by tackling engineering problems that could have everyday applications.
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This seems like a pretty cool show. Discovery’s Some Assembly Required premiered back in January but may not have gotten the press that it needed.
The premise of the show it that it teaches you how things are made, hence the name. The host Brain Unger and Louis Bloomfield visit the factory and showrooms where various products are made and take you to the in’s and out’s of this process.
This far only the premier episode has aired, but I will keep you posted when additional episodes air. In the premier episode the showed how electric guitars were made, Burts Bees Lip Balm …read more

In this episode of Mythbusters the team tests out the myth that if the trail of gas from the leaking gas tank of a moving vehicle is lit, the fire can catch up to the tank and blow up the car.
What do you guys think? We’ve seen this so many times on television. It has to be true, right?
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So back in the late 1800’s early 1900’s Charles Kellogg claimed that he could use the sound waves from his voice to extinguish fire and he was known all over as the bird whisperer.
In the episode Voice Flame Extinguisher, the MythBusters put Charles Kellogg to the test to see: 
1. Can an unamplified voice can put out a flame and;
2. Can sound alone can put out a fire.
1. They tried this myth in several ways and found that a high frequency bird voice demonstration does make the flame dance but it does not extinguish the flame. They tested multiple vocal ranges including …read more

So the MythBusters currently has a poll on their MythBusters Fan page about the recent “Plane on a Conveyor Belt” episode. 63.7% of MythBusters fans believe that they should revisit the Plane on a Conveyor Belt myth.
Here’s the original question: “A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of brand conveyor). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyor moves in the opposite direction. The conveyor has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyor to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?”
What …read more