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The 10 Coolest Things We Saw at the MythBusters Studio

Posted 07/08/2009 at 5:55:13pm | by Leslie Ayers

10. The Savage Toolbox.

We know Adam Savage is a smart dude, but we had to give him mad props for his custom toolbox, which makes it possible for his tools to go to him rather than the other way around, thanks to its wheels and scissor-lift mount.

Adam Savage toolbox
Suck it, Bob the Builder!

And, finally, for good measure, here are our favorite relics from MythBusters episodes past:

1. Door of the donated snow plow they used to disprove the myth that a snow plow can turn over a car. After a variety of mechanical problems with the plow, they decided in the end just to enjoy themselves crashing a car into the plow.

Adam Savage Flatulence Diary
2. Adam's flatulence diary from "Facts about Flatulence."

mythBusters Penny Shooter
3. The penny-shooting rifle attachment built for the fourth episode of MythBusters, in which Savage and Hyneman aimed to find out if it's possible to kill someone by dropping a penny on them from the lookout deck of the Empire State Building.

Be sure to check out our forthcoming profile of Adam Savage in the September 2009 issue of Mac|Life and on MacLife.com. We'll also post exclusive excerpts and extras from our interview with Savage online, as well as outtakes from our shoot at M5.

COMMENTS: 25

TAGS: mac geek, mythbusters, Geek heroes Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman

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Number 11: Kari
Submitted by mrcrumley on Fri, 2009-07-10 08:01

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One big thing they seem to be missing:
Submitted by imajoebob on Fri, 2009-07-10 15:56

Someone familiar with The Scientific Method.

Their science really sucks. It's often very entertaining, but it's facile at best, dangerous at worst. Two quick examples:
They tested gas mileage with AC vs open windows. By using two vehicles. Not one truck with the windows open, then closed with the AC on, but one truck with the windows open, and a completely different truck with the windows closed. Maybe the two vehicles had different mileage to begin with?

Shooting bullets into water - they should be arrested for this one. The biggest fault was using a monstrously high-powered rifle about 6 feet from the water. When the molten slug hit the water at about 3,000 mph it disintegrated. Duh! If they backed up about 30 feet and did it again, the bullet would have cooled and entered the water, skicing through it and the ballistic gel like a Ginsu through a tomato. But their verdict was that a pistol was more dangerous to someone in the water than a huge rifle.

If they want to say, "Watch this, It's cool!" I'm all for it. But to present this as anything other than superficial trash science is just a lie.

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So go to their discovery.com
Submitted by mld1979 on Mon, 2009-07-13 14:53

So go to their discovery.com forums, and post this. They may revisit the myth. Though iirc, just about every calier bullet stopped within six inches of the surface. It's entirely possible that this slug would to.

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It's just a TV show
Submitted by malber on Tue, 2009-07-14 08:01

imajoebob: It's just a TV show. Sometimes it's just cool to watch them blow stuff up and stop worrying about the science.

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I understand
Submitted by ASevening on Mon, 2009-07-20 08:12

It is nice and funny to see the things they do, but there are some instances when they don't necessarily seem to try everything. For example: The episode where some gangster or mob boss had a gun go off in his car because of a loud stereo. The system they put together was very poorly built, and I was a little upset by how excited they were to see 130dbs because they had already done a car audio myth where they did 164 and got to experience professional competitors and their setups. Not to mention, they borrowed the MTX escalade and just set the guns down inside of it with no protection what-so-ever for the vehicle in the event the guns did go off, it was like K T G didn't care about the myth they were testing. There are two guys out there who have done 180-181 db inside of their car, and many who can do 155-170. The MTX truck they used didn't do more that mid 140db it seemed. I was disappointed with all of the flaws in that myth. None of the subwoofers they used for the testing were even remotely near a top level subwoofer. It didn't seem like they cared when they did that myth.

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windows-down-vs.-air-conditioning
Submitted by riccardo on Fri, 2009-07-24 14:49

Car and Driver did the windows-down-vs.-air-conditioning test too (Dec. 2008), with one car driven at at a steady 35, 55, and 75 mph. Windows down lowered mpg by 1.5%, 3.3%, and 2.0% respectively, while the A/C reduced mpg by 15.3%, 9.3%, and 6.8% respectively. Higher engine revs at highway speeds increased the engine's ability to run the A/C compressor efficiently, accounting for the better A/C-on mileage at high speeds vs. low speed. They were surpised by the results too.

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Things We Saw at the MythBusters Studio
Submitted by Natalie Foley on Sat, 2010-01-30 04:11

Driven by there a few times. It looks like just another warehouse/office building amongst other warehouses and office buildings. It doesn't really stand out, but you can pretty much see that on their shows.

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