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He uses a mostly American sounding accent for what he does for the show, but he pronounces most words the Australian instead of American way when there's a difference.

The reason for that is because he actually grew up in America before heading to Australia at some point (I don't know for sure if he is now a US or Australian citizen or possibly dual). Here is his autobiography:

http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/mb2/content/view /100/29/

The problem is that they designed and built Archimedes Death Ray.

*GASPS* But MYTHBUSTERS said that's impossible!

http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/mb2/content/view /160/27

any missed shot is quite capable of causing a massive and sudden cabin depressurisation.

none of those people would have been trained in using a firearm in an airplane, let alone likely to be carrying appropriate ammunition (got your armor piercing bullets right here, yes siree!), so you're probably looking at explosive decompression and loss of plane in such a case.

Incidentally, the "one shot explosive decompression" myth comes from the 1964 movie _Goldfinger_, and was busted in episode 10 of the Discovery show MythBusters.

http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/killer_tiss ue_box.html

Memorable Quotes:
Tory: "Any archer capable of completing this task shall be awarded a kiss from the fair M..." (looks at Kari) "Sorry, okay... ya... you're not going to get that. My mistake"
Kari: "Let's Make a robot"

Also aiding the crew for most of the second season was "Mythtern" Christine Chamberlain, joining the show after she won the "Mythtern" contest promoted by Discovery Channel.

Whatever? Whatever?!? I don't think you realize the peril you place yourself in! Now the wrath of the First Church of Buster shall verily rain down upon you! Repent! Repent before you are smitten! ;-)

Why take the elevator when you can just strap yourself to forty-seven fireworks?

Mythbusters!

They've already busted a myth regarding a "Static Cannon", which is described below at this page:

Although, the PVC pipe they tested, looked more like 8 feet, than 8 inch, it seems like no way you can build up a charge that might ignite your clothes like that, unless you've spilled flammable chemicals like acetone (nailpolish remover) or gasoline. A friend of me who attended a welding class, once told about a classmate who used oxygen to blow away some dust from his fleece jacket, and some time later ignited a smoke, which in order ignited his jacket which even many minutes later, contained high amounts of oxygen. It might be true, but I wouldn't believe it completely unless it was confirmed by Mythbusters, of course.

So unless there where flammable liquids spilled right besides where the static spark hit, I find it highly unlikely, that a static spark would ignite the carpet and those clothes. Think about it - how much larger is the possibility that someone sooner or later drops a burning cigarette on a similar carpet and/or clothes? We'd hear about it, if there were extremely flammable clothes or carpets like this, and those products/materials would very quickly be pulled off the market. It even counts against this story how elaborate it is. One spark and perhaps one little flame or a burn mark? Perhaps yes, but not a melting trail of plastic and/or fire on that carpet, and even in his car, without him detecting what was going on a little sooner!
Did those sparks btw jump all the way from his jacket, and into the floor, or via his pants (ouch), or what?

I say this myth is completely BUSTED!

Mythbusters!

They've already busted a myth regarding a "Static Cannon", which is described below at this page:

Although, the PVC pipe they tested, looked more like 8 feet, than 8 inch, it seems like no way you can build up a charge that might ignite your clothes like that, unless you've spilled flammable chemicals like acetone (nailpolish remover) or gasoline. A friend of me who attended a welding class, once told about a classmate who used oxygen to blow away some dust from his fleece jacket, and some time later ignited a smoke, which in order ignited his jacket which even many minutes later, contained high amounts of oxygen. It might be true, but I wouldn't believe it completely unless it was confirmed by Mythbusters, of course.

So unless there where flammable liquids spilled right besides where the static spark hit, I find it highly unlikely, that a static spark would ignite the carpet and those clothes. Think about it - how much larger is the possibility that someone sooner or later drops a burning cigarette on a similar carpet and/or clothes? We'd hear about it, if there were extremely flammable clothes or carpets like this, and those products/materials would very quickly be pulled off the market. It even counts against this story how elaborate it is. One spark and perhaps one little flame or a burn mark? Perhaps yes, but not a melting trail of plastic and/or fire on that carpet, and even in his car, without him detecting what was going on a little sooner!
Did those sparks btw jump all the way from his jacket, and into the floor, or via his pants (ouch), or what?

I say this myth is completely BUSTED!

Good job missing the point. When you can fit through a bullet hole, call me. When you can force enough air - at the pressures involved in the cabin and the atmopshere - through that hole to make a difference, call me. Until then, it's just FUD. Unless you're killed by the event that causes the damage, it's very unlikely that even damage on the scale of the Aloha flight would result in your death.

Indeed ... experiment here : http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/explosive_d ecompression.html

Here's a better link discussing the myth of explosion decompression in a 9mm bullet hole at 25K feet.