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Tonight was Mythbusters season opener-- Wow!

A whole two hours of debunking or confirming car myths! I'm not sure what was cooler: the re-creation of the car-beating-falling-car-commercial, the two semi's pancaking a compact car or...oh, let's face it: it was the rocket-propelled steel sled pancaking a compact car (the two stages of rockets got the sled-- with a front-sheet of one-inch steel-- up to seven-hundred miles per hour! I would SO love to have one of those high speed video cameras! Still a few decimal points off from being affordable, though.

Bob Edwards interviewed Jamie and Adam on his XM-Sirius show today in honor of their premier: two of my favorite things together-- Mythbusters and Bob Edwards! I think you need to subscribe to listen to episodes online, but they don't ask for much (about $12/month). Edwards is such a good interviewer and he brings out the best in his guests.

Date: 2009-04-09 08:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skorzy.livejournal.com
650MPH rocket sleds are hard to beat. Though.. the 50lbs of explosive was neat in slo mo. They SHOULD'VE put the cart of tomatoes in the MIDDLE!

Date: 2009-04-09 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furtech.livejournal.com
Why didn't THEY think of that?!? The 50lbs of explosive makes a good argument for itself as being coolest...the new digital slo-mo cams are SO AMAZING! Want! Seeing the shock wave was just amazing.

The actual effect of explosive fusing I can understand: it's just sword-making on a grand scale. You can do the same thing with a big hammer and some iron (but, granted, it doesn't look nearly as good!).

Date: 2009-04-09 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com
the shock wave ROCKED.

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