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MythBusters - Who Ya Gonna Call?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-good-show dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The currently-airing Discovery Channel show MythBusters has been profiled in a Newsweek article. Basically, the show takes two former Hollywood effects designers as they set out to prove or disprove various folklore myths that have come about over the years, such as the actual effect of a poppy-seed bagel on a drug test, or what effect a penny dropped from the Empire State Building observation deck will have on a human at ground level."

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  1. Maybe... by Asprin · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Maybe when they get done debunkning all of the ULs you can find on Snopes, they can turn their crosshairs on huckster quackery such as cell-phone radiation shield stickers, magnet therapy bracelets and all the other crap that shows up on late-night infomercials.

    THAT'S what I'd do to improve humanity.

    --
    "Lawyers are for sucks."
    - Doug McKenzie
  2. Exploding CD rom drives by BeatdownGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I didn't see the episode so I'm not sure exactly what this was explaining... If it was talking about CDs exploding in the drive I can vouch for that.

    I had a CD explode in the drive before. It apparently had a miniscule crack (in the CD), and I guess when it was spinning in the drive at full speed, the centrifugal force just made it blow apart. Sounded like a gunshot. Scared the crap out of me. I'll never use those crappy generic CD-Rs again.

    When I called up Dell support the guy scratched his head at first but then when he talked to other ppl he said a few others had gotten similar calls. His support advice:

    "Open the drive tray and shake the computer until all the bits of CD come out. It should be fine; they're pretty sturdy."