Show: Mythbusters

Episode Title: Water Stun Gun

Original Air Date: September 17, 2008

Question: Is the act of walking over hot coals is purely a mind-over-matter act and cannot be explained by science.

Results: busted

Testing: The Build Team theorized that feet don’t get burned when waling over coals because the ash on the coals forms an insulating layer and also because the foot does not stay in contact with the coals for a long period. When they tried coal walking themselves, they were able to easily crossed the coals. The team noted that they felt confident because of their faith in physics.

Show: Mythbusters

Network: Discovery Channel

Original Air Date: First Aired: Wednesday August 27, 2008

Announced by “This Week at NASA” on NASA TV on February 8, 2008. “The Marshall Space Flight Center hosted the Mythbusters television show.

The Mythbusters chose Marshall as one of several NASA locations for an episode to debunk the notion that NASA never landed on the moon. The cast conducted tests involving a feather, a weight, a lunar soil boot print, and a flag in a vacuum. A team of Marshall scientists helped with the tests.”

Myth #1: FAKED PHOTOS
One of the NASA photos is fake because the shadows of the rocks and lunar lander are not parallel.

BUSTED

NOTES: The Mythbusters built a small scale replica of the lunar landing site with a flat surface and a single distant spotlight to represent the Sun. They took a photo and all the shadows in the photo were parallel, as the myth proposed.
They then adjusted the topography of the model surface to include a slight hill around the location of the near rocks so the shadows fell on a slope instead of a flat surface. The resulting photograph had the same shadow directions as the original NASA photograph from Apollo 14.
Watch the video below as they bust the myth!!!

Myth busters (Discovery Channel)Motorcycle Flip? Episode Original Air Date: October 29^th

They myths on this episode which aired back in October were very interesting. The team wanted to find out if a motorcycle will flip if a pole is thrust into the front wheel?

They also tackled the good ole prison escape myth…can you break out of prison with a rope made of toilet paper, hair or bed sheets?

Watch below as Jamie and Adam take on Indiana Jones, testing whether a flagpole thrust into the spokes of a motorcycle really would send it flying.

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Show: Mythbusters

Network: Discovery Channel

Episode Title: Water Stun Gun

Original Air Date: September 17, 2008

On this episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie investigate a secret agent myth - that you can turn a conventional electric stun gun into a water-powered electric stun gun.

Question: Can you create a stun gun that effectively delivers a shock over distances via a stream of water?

RESULTS: busted
Testing: The Mythbusters tested various commercial water guns to see if they could create a steady, unbroken stream of water, which is essential for the conduction of electricity. None of them achieved this, so the MythBusters built their own custom water gun and attached a commercial stun gun to provide the electricity.

They tested the amount of electricity a stream of water could deliver to a target, and discovered that the voltage dropped significantly as distance to the target increased, making the gun impractical to use at long distances and busting the myth. In order to see what it would take to have a water stun gun work at a distance, the Mythbusters used a tesla coil to power the gun with up to a million volts.

The gun worked at a distance, and the lightning bolt could clearly be seen traveling down the stream of water. However,

Mythbusters (Discovery Channel) Episode 6.07 “Water Stun Gun”

It’s been reported that the CIA have been working on a crowd control method that combines water with an electric stun gun.
In this premiere episode of Discovery Channels Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie investigate if you can turn a conventional electric stun gun into a water-powered electric stun gun. Meanwhile, in the same episode, Kari, Tory and Grant will test whether a fire extinguisher caught in a fire could actually blow up, release its contents and put the fire out all by itself.

Show: Mythbusters
Network: Discovery Channel
Episode Title: Alcohol Myths
Original Air Date: First Aired: October 22nd

Myths: Does drinking alcohol make people look more attractive?
Do alleged ways of sobering up really work?
Could the ancient Korean Hwacha actually do what is claimed?
Watch below as The Mythbusters try to re-create an ancient Korean weapon

Show: Mythbusters

Network: Discovery Channel

Episode Title: Ninja Myths 2

Original Air Date: First Aired: October 15th

Topics: The Mythbusters put more ninja myths to the test. Could a ninja hide underwater, breathing through a bamboo reed, long enough to attack an enemy with a poison blow-dart?

Watch below as the Mythbusters put more ninja myths to the test including whether or not it’s possible to catch an arrow

Mythbusters (Discovery Channel)

Episode 7.06 ”Blind Driving”

Original Air Date: October 8th

On the October 8th episode of Mythbusters, the team discusses strnage and outrageous topics once again.

They try to find out:
1. Can a blind man drive a car if given instructions by his passenger?
2. In golf, is it better to play around a tree or through it?
3. Can an explosion in a gopher hole cause a golf ball near the edge of the hole to fall in?
4. Does wearing shoes with metal cleats make it more likely that you’ll be struck by lightning?

Blind driving have been done in the movies, as we all remember, Al Pacino did it in Scent of a Woman, but how does driving a car blind work in reality? Jamie and Adam give it a whirl.

Electronics and radio-control specialist Grant Imahara is a former animatronics engineer and model maker for George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, where he worked on such movies as The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and The Matrix Reloaded.

In addition to operating R2-D2 (one of only a handful of official operators), Grant has another claim to beloved-character fame: developing a custom circuit to cycle the Energizer Bunny’s arm beats and ears at a constant rate.

In fact, he’s responsible for all the electronics installation and radio programming on the current generation of bunnies, even serving as the bunny’s driver and crew supervisor on numerous commercials.

While he earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He’s also the author of the book, Kickin’ Bot: An Illustrated Guide to Building Combat Robots. His own machine, Deadblow, is a BattleBots champion that continues to strike terror into the hearts of fellow competitors.

Watch a video with Grant and Kari at Central Michigan University.

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The Mythbusters Shark Week 2008 episode aired on July 27th and the myths tackled in this Shark Week special: Do dogs attract sharks? Are magnets the new wave in shark repellent technology? Do flashlights really attract sharks? So in the previous recap we wanted to find out if magnets could actually repel the sharks. The first test with a small shark for a small scale test and it is confirmed that on the small scale you can repel the sharks using magnetic fields.

CONCLUSION
The guys got some science out of this. This myth has been confirmed that you can use magnets to repel sharks. 

Myth #4: Does the Dog and the Doggie Paddle Actually Attract More Sharks
They build a barking, urinating dog that can swim just like a real dog just to fool the shark to make it believes that its a real dog. They use Girdie to use as the test case to make the robotic dog.