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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 27, 2013 4:00:33 GMT
Show fact for this episode: The MBs have tested 850 myths so far.
Painting with Explosives: It was nice to see Adam & Jamie's enthusiasm as they were building their respective painting rigs. Jamie did, after all, admittedly create his own Death Star (Does that make him Darth Painter?!)In the end, Adam did get one over on Jamie with his rig, which was made for creating paintings with explosives (I would love to buy one of the canvasses...) It's time to put this one to rest, it is busted in several ways at this point.
Bifurcated Boat 2: The Build Team gave it the best possible try to replicate the circumstances of the myth while they were at the marina, but the only thing that bifurcated was the channel marker. Deep down, some of us were waiting for them to go to New Mexico Tech to match the boat against a rocket sled and they did not disappoint. Put it to bed, it's busted.
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Post by the light works on Jun 27, 2013 5:21:18 GMT
I have to say at this point - I've been saying to charge extra for art with explosives for 20 years, now. in fact I'd like to think Adam might have gotten a very tiny bit of inspiration from my comments on the official fansite. if he hadn't used so MANY colors, the paintings would have come out brilliant.
bifurcated boat. It is awesome that they listened to us about water and its effect on the equation. it is also awesome that the boat broke the channel marker - that was totally unexpected.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 27, 2013 15:22:12 GMT
I'm wondering about those vintage rockets.
Does NMT recharge / refuel them somehow between uses, or did they simply obtain a massive stockpile?
I mean, they've gone through how many just for the show alone?
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 27, 2013 15:40:22 GMT
I'm thinking MASSIVE stockpile. On the average sled ride, they use anywhere between 6 & 12...with the exception of "Compact Compact" in which they used a lot more due to the use of two sleds.
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jun 27, 2013 16:15:33 GMT
Painting with Explosives: I loved Jamie's build on this one. I wonder if a little candle wax in the nozzles would have kept the paint from leaking out? I think Adam might have gotten some clearer paintings had he cut back on the amount of paint -- as it was, he had lots of pretty colors on the highspeed, but they mixed into "mud" color on the canvases.
Bifurcated Boat: I wasn't expecting the channel marker to break -- wonder how the original boat managed to split. Are we certain the original marker was wood, and not metal?
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 27, 2013 16:20:54 GMT
To paraphrase Adam: 'It looks like a clown's head exploded' (or, was it: 'It looks like we blew up a clown's head'?)
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 27, 2013 18:59:56 GMT
Seems like Adam's rig would have worked very well in the room?
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 27, 2013 19:58:54 GMT
I was just pondering something...can't C4 be molded into virtually any shape and it will explode in a pattern consistant with the shape it is in?
If so, the mistake made was that the C4 was consistently rolled into a sphere, rather than a cube.
I could be wrong, but it seemed worth mentioning...
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Post by the light works on Jun 28, 2013 0:15:25 GMT
I always felt the error was trying to make an omnidirectional explosion more omnidirectional by directing it.
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Post by breesfan on Jun 28, 2013 1:23:06 GMT
I liked this episode and wondered if Jamie was in the shop while Adam was at the bombing range.
That was interesting about the boat but I don't know how many channel markers are metal. But thought it was interesting that marina didn't let them use one of theirs, they musta known something.
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Post by blazerrose on Jun 28, 2013 2:37:27 GMT
The marina might have had, er, "incidents" before.  I must say, though, when the boat took out the channel marker like that, my jaw dropped. I could not have imagined it would do that much damage. The Build Team must have found it so gratifying to see it annihilated by the super sled at NM Tech. As for the rockets there, considering Alamogordo and Sandia were major research centers in the immediate post WWII period, there are probably thousands of rockets that need to be used up. The University probably got them for uber cheap, as long as they were suuuuuper careful with them. The painting rigs were interesting. I loved the high speed of Adam's rig flinging the paint, but I was less than impressed with the final results. They looked so muddy, like Antigone said. The shrapnel in them was intriguing, though.  |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 28, 2013 12:41:31 GMT
I would have to say yes to this. Jamie's rig had a significantly greater amount of planning and assembly time than Adam's. Jamie's rig required preliminary testing & planning, plotting on a CAD program (Solid Works?), feeding the program into the CNC machine, allowing time for the CNC to cut the pieces, and (finally) assembly of the rig. Adam's process for creating his rig was much, much less complex. They're letting MBs play with the rockets now....there goes the theory about being careful with them! |
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Post by the light works on Jun 28, 2013 14:17:38 GMT
I would have to say yes to this. Jamie's rig had a significantly greater amount of planning and assembly time than Adam's. Jamie's rig required preliminary testing & planning, plotting on a CAD program (Solid Works?), feeding the program into the CNC machine, allowing time for the CNC to cut the pieces, and (finally) assembly of the rig. Adam's process for creating his rig was much, much less complex. They're letting MBs play with the rockets now....there goes the theory about being careful with them! under close adult supervision. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 28, 2013 19:24:01 GMT
I think Jamie's rig might actually have worked if he'd had more time to test it and work out the kinks. Some more nozzles to spread the paint out better might have been enough.
Wonder if the guys ever keep working on such 'almost there but not quite perfect rigs' on their own time...?
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I must say, though, when the boat took out the channel marker like that, my jaw dropped. I could not have imagined it would do that much damage. The Build Team must have found it so gratifying to see it annihilated by the super sled at NM Tech. 