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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 24, 2014 16:26:21 GMT
{Will air 1st March 2014}
The title tells you what myths will be tested.
This will be the last in the current run of new episodes, but before you ask no, I have no idea when new episodes will air in the US. The only thing I do known, and have had confirmed by a reliable source, is that those people in the UK will get the 'New' episodes - meaning those that have aired since January in the US - in the summer.
I will keep you informed if I get more information. But keep in mind that it is Discovery Channel who decides the airdates not Mythbusters (or rather Beyond Productions who produce the show). Since my sources are connected to Mythbusters rather than Discovery Channel they often don't have a much better idea as to when we can expect new episodes than the rest of us.
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Post by watcher56 on Feb 25, 2014 0:31:46 GMT
Was very disappointed to hear them say that next weeks episode will be the season finale. How many episodes were there in the latest season-ette? At this rate it won't be long until one episode is considered a 'season'. Sheesh.
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Post by the light works on Feb 25, 2014 5:38:49 GMT
have to free up airspace for copycat "reality" shows...
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 25, 2014 7:48:56 GMT
There were eight episodes in the current run (1st January-1st March 2014). This is a decent number by Mythbusters standards, since I think the most number of consecutive episodes has been ten and the minimum was one.
Working out seasons for the show is, as has been mentioned before, difficult because they don't follow the standard pattern most TV shows do. A TV season usually starts in September and runs continually until April or May, with a gap around Christmas and the New Year, and contains 20-24 episodes.
Mythbusters have never done this, they have started blocks of shows anywhere between August and November or as was the case this year they started airing in January. They've had second blocks in March, or sometimes not at all and a few years back episodes were being aired one or two at a time every month or three throughout the year. (A practice they tried once because everyone was complaining about it VERY loudly. Not least because Discovery failed to advertise the episodes very well and a lot of people only realised a new episode had aired after the fact).
I'm guessing, and this is just pure conjecture that might well be wrong (as anyone who remembers when I predicted this block of shows would turn up will realise) that we *might* get another block of episodes in late spring, and then in the fall - so roughly three blocks of eight episodes this year. Or two eight block episodes and a shorter six block run (which is the block I'd expect to see around the middle of the year).
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Post by the light works on Feb 25, 2014 14:16:36 GMT
there were certainly things shown in the teasers which we haven't seen yet...
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Post by the light works on Mar 2, 2014 2:48:27 GMT
ping pong - they certainly took the long way 'round - but I suspect that was more to show the process than for them to learn it. beyond that, I would have liked to see a simulated headshot, but otherwise, I liked it a lot.
Ice cannon: I found myself left with two thoughts.
first, depending on the location, there is a chance that the cannon was actually "built" in place - which would reduce their ability to aim - but significantly increase their potential chamber pressure.
second - if they wanted to do a creative revisit - wrap it in leather. then they have the tensile strength and resilience of the leather cannon with the more rigid bore of the ice cannon.
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Post by ironhold on Mar 2, 2014 3:05:05 GMT
Alternatively, include things like the hemp twine or the wood chips into the ice cannon itself.
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Post by the light works on Mar 2, 2014 3:14:08 GMT
freeze a wood cannon in water, and then wrap it in leather for the back-to-the-wall trifecta.
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Post by watcher56 on Mar 2, 2014 3:22:32 GMT
Pykrete!
I assume everyone noticed that the ice cannon had a large radial crack even before it was fired. Typical of the way that large amount of water would freeze. Would have had to use special techniques to get 'solid' ice.
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Post by the light works on Mar 2, 2014 3:28:09 GMT
Pykrete! I assume everyone noticed that the ice cannon had a large radial crack even before it was fired. Typical of the way that large amount of water would freeze. Would have had to use special techniques to get 'solid' ice. yes, and it ultimately split on those cracks. |
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Post by Antigone68104 on Mar 2, 2014 21:14:06 GMT
Considering how well the ice cannonballs worked, I'm wondering if that's how the story started out and multiple retellings turned "ice cannonball" into "ice cannon". Presumably, if that fort had enough gunpowder to fire cannons, they had cannons -- so why build something harder to work with?
I thought it was interesting that on the final tests, J&A immediately went straight to the super-long barrel and had to cut it down to something that would work. On the other hand, it's easier to cut something shorter than make it longer, especially when it needs to hold a vacuum.
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Post by Cybermortis on Mar 2, 2014 21:24:26 GMT
{Threads merged -CM}
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Post by OziRiS on Mar 2, 2014 22:47:10 GMT
Just watched this episode and I can't believe we never considered the possibility of a pykrete cannon! It's technically ice, but it's more duarable and I think it might have done the job. However, since the myth was about an ice cannon, I think it was cool that they kept to the concept. What I'm a little disappointed in though is the fact that they've worked with ice sculptures before and know the technique to make clear ice without cracks. Seeing them just pour water into a cardboard pipe and freezing it without using that technique to ensure that the barrel wasn't pre-cracked is just something I don't get. I will say this though: As far as doing the ground work and the research, Tory, Grant and Kari did a lot better with this myth than they have for a long time! I was just as surprised as they were that the pure ice cannon balls fared as well in the regular cannon and did as much damage as they did. That was truly cool!  As for Jamie and Adam calling the supersonic ping pong ball non-lethal, I'm inclined to disagree. It may not kill someone on impact, but with a wound like that it wouldn't take long for someone to bleed out if they weren't treated right away. I'd call it plausible. Loved the concept though! Loved the testing. Loved the fact that we got to see so much more of the learning curve than we've seen in any other episode in the past year. The show is finally getting back to some of the stuff that made it really fun to watch in the first place. The failed attempts, the lessons learned and the gratifying feeling the team has when they finally succeed has always been part of what - for me at least - made this show so great to watch. Best episode in a long time! |
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Post by breesfan on Mar 3, 2014 2:05:59 GMT
Didn't care for the ping-pong myth just because it was too drawn out.
Liked the ice cannon though.
But it's hard for me to see how they built an ice cannon without the tools we have now.
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Post by OziRiS on Mar 3, 2014 11:03:39 GMT
If it was indeed built (and we don't know that it was - I suspect Antigone is right that the myth just evolved) I'd suspect they carved it out of solid ice instead of freezing water in a mold.
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Post by Antigone68104 on Mar 3, 2014 12:15:34 GMT
Alternatively, include things like the hemp twine or the wood chips into the ice cannon itself. Check the aftershow -- they did at least one ice-plus-extras test that didn't make the final cut, and there's a clip of it going boom. |
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Post by tom1b on Mar 9, 2014 23:22:50 GMT
Anybody have a link to this alleged historic event? It sounds an awful like the Austrian army accidentally attacking the Austrian army and killing 10,000 (an event that is listed only once and 59 years after the fact).
Supersonic ping pong: It looked like most of the damage was caused by the column of air coming out after the ball. But it doesn't really matter since the paper wadding from a blank cartridge was enough to kill Jon-Erik Hexum (at point blank range).
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