(S03E15) We're coming up on another season finale of MythBusters next week. This week the MythBusters tackle a couple of ... odd myths.Painting with Explosives: The myth is, if you blow up a can of paint in a room, will it coat the room fully with the paint? And can the room withstand the explosion? A Mr. Bean episode mocked being able to do this, even showing a silhouette where someone was standing in the way of the paint blast. The MythBusters set up a small room on a bombing range, complete with a Buster for simulating the silhouette. First go, the explosion covers the room about 40% with paint, no silhouette, and destroys part of it in the process. So, myth busted.
However, in keeping with the spirit of things, Adam and Jamie do a few tests back at the warehouse using scale models. Jamie males mortar-style designs, where Adam makes a sort-of hanging tube design for covering the room top to bottom. Adam's coverage wasn't very good, and Jamie's is worse, looking more like a Pollack painting.
Mind Control: Using kits purchased from the internet, are there any that work to control someone's mind, remotely, without their knowledge? In first tests they find that outside interference may affect their results, they make an isolation room for their tests. First they try the Psionic Helmet (busted), then pulsed air (busted), then rotating magnet (plausible, as it did show a change in the EEG readings), hyptnosis (plausible again, as the EEG showed a change again).
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5-06-2006 @ 10:29AM
forzaq8 said...
explotions ! evreything is good with explotions !! :P
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5-07-2006 @ 6:22PM
davidm said...
Did anyone else notice that Grant got his teeth fixed? He looked really awkward talking if you paid attention, but it is a great improvement.
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5-12-2006 @ 5:50PM
RuDee said...
Hollywood, the world's biggest liars, they've done it AGAIN!
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7-13-2006 @ 10:26PM
Suz LeBoeuf said...
You may have mind control kits, but they are into pharmaceuticals in order that more of us will die from their "mind control" games they are doing to us already! Massive brain entrainment technology already being used my DoD, or whoever they sell their military secrets to so that we are kept sicker and sicker to kill us all off, reliant upon their pharmaceutical drugs they research themsevles - the pharmas - so their labs churn out more and more needed prescriptions to heal us from their high tech microwaving technology with radio waves to harm us permanently - they are already doing this to assassinate good people who may not know what killed them. GET SERIOUS!!!!
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7-17-2006 @ 11:28AM
lillie said...
There is more to mind control than sending messages to a persons mind.It is about being harrassed an being told things 24/7.The tec. that is used in gov. mind control is so advanced that people dont understand it but it is for real.I think that the mythbusters should look more into what mind control really is before they try to prove a myth.
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