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Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth
redwoodtree writes "An article on the site for the Tri-City Herald sums it up perfectly: 'Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.' To test the old saw about 'the cockroaches being the only survivors of a nuclear war' Discovery Channel's Mythbusters are going out to Hanford Site, where plutonium was manufactured for the first nuclear bomb. It's the single most polluted nuclear waste site in the U.S. The Mythbusters are going to take cockroaches and other insects and apply successively higher doses of radiation in a controlled setting."
I for one welcome our new irradiated cockroach overlords.
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I wonder how they will handle the nuclear safety of their own and their crew.
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Lets hope they don't get besieged by PETA, who seem to want to protect the rights cockroaches now
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Yeah, but how will they do stuff to Kari that won't cause permanent damage to her DNA?
Strange how little cats and dogs are protected on TV, but our little six-legged friends, well 200 can merrily risk their little lives in the name of pseudoscience television.
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Oh, and please, show more Kari in that episode and my life will be good.
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The Mythbusters are going to take cockroaches and other insects and apply successively higher doses of radiation in a controlled setting.
So, what precautions do they have on hand in the event one of them grows to enormous size and goes on a rampage?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
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They should bring turtles. I'd like to see some mutant ninja turtles.
...from the PETA... I would not help with this experiment either.
the whole point is that there are trillions or quadrillions of cockroaches around the world. most will die from exposure to radiation, but maybe some will contain a gene to help them combat radiation. doing a test on a few cockroaches with radiation won't do anything, that's not how darwinism works.
What exactly is Mythbusters going to contribute here than "LULZ BUGZ DYED ROLOFFLE" and Adam has a mustache that would be the envy of Freddie Mercury.
All life is sacred and it is not the place of the Mythbusters to test the limits of a living being's survivability because of an urban legend or the popular beliefs of laypeople.
Consider the shitstorm that Mythbusters would arouse if they were seeing if they used mice, kittens or puppies. Also kdawson and Zonk are idiots.
I, for one, welcome our giant super-intelligent mutant cockroach overlords.
Part of me wonders if some special interest group will lash out and/or try to intervene. After all, there are many people who believe that ALL life -- even cockroaches and other insects -- is sacred. But the other part of me thinks this is BITCHIN'!
Sheesh, this is obviously an attempt to create giant monsters to ravage America. Why do Mythbusters hate America?
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Cockroaches are spread out and hidden in walls so they're in places that less radiation will hit. After nuclear winter, they can eat all the carcasses of higher life forms and just plain survive. I never thought,"Hey, cockroaches can withstand more heat than other living organisms." We all know the bacteria that lives in deep sea vents will last because it doesn't get it's energy from the sun, and its shielded from the radiation above ground. Life will continue after nuclear winter, that is certain, but will human life continue is the question.
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Funny, it seems that a lot of scientists have done just that.
For a pretty decent explanation: the mysterious Dr. Karl!
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What is it with animals that make make people go yuck that they then think it OK to do horrid things to them?
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According to "The World Without Us", by Alan Weisman - most of the roaches in the industrialized world will be Dead within 3 years of humanity disappearing! Thats without even the radiation. So don't worry... when we go, the roaches will go with us.
lockers of explosives, Mentos and Diet Coke, magic flame-throwing geegaws of various types are all on the shelves in their little hideaway.
the Mythbusters can handle themselves against radioactive roaches.
but Lordy, help them if a fly gets in that test chamber......
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&in_page_id=1965
...otherwise his mustache will become huge and go on a rampage!
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As a proud resident of cochroach-ridden New York City, I can report that the little devils are immune to everything but Boric Acid which--apparently--causes them to become constipated.
Haven't they learned ANYTHING from science fiction?? Geez. Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
Where exactly did you go to high school? :)
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Don't get bitten by any of those radioactive cockroaches. Lord knows the superpowers you'd acquire.
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I wish Mythbusters could do the same thing for quantum computing but unfortunately, the superposition of quantum states only occurs when nobody is looking. Kind of convenient, don't you think? So much for empiricism. ahahaha... At any rate, Mythbusters is not about uncovering myths, but about making sure their own chosen myths remain beyond public scrutiny. The same is true for Slashdot and their chosen censors, uh... moderators, BTW. Thanks for the laughs, anyway. ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...
Now, moderators, do your solemn duty. ahahaha...
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Still waiting for the episode on Catholicism.
Strange how little cockroaches are protected in your view, but our asexually reproducing little unicellular friends, well 2,000 can merrily risk their little lives in the name of you breathing.
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In a former life, I worked as an NDT technician. One of our biggest jobs was industrial radiography. Which, long story short, involves radioisotope cameras and lots of safety training. With an radiation safety expert, radiation alarms, survey meters, and proper equipment they'll be plenty safe.
The biggest problem for them would be to properly dose the cockroaches. What kinds and levels of radiation will they be receiving? Any clown can x-ray a roach until it dies, but what would the fallout profile of a world-ending nuclear war look like? What's the long-term effect of radioisotopes in their bodies? How much ionizing radiation will they receive?
There's alpha, beta, gamma, neutron... What kind of radiation are they going to use? Safety, while incredibly important for an experiment like this, is relatively easy to accomplish if they get an expert. Attacking the correct problem may prove far more troublesome.
Ok so when does the "But all life is valuable" argument begin to sound idiotic. what about the Aids virus? what about that life? what about all other Virus "Life-Forms" that cause all kinds of horrible ailments and diseases? wont' somebody think of them too? is there life any less valuable then another?
...awww, fuggit.
... for Paul and Jamie to blast off and land on the moon to provide current affirmation that humanity has been there before. Although I'm sure that the hoax-sayers will just insist that they are part of the conspiracy also. Still... a condensed version of the trip would make an awesome extended episode (and they'd also get to bust some myths about zero-G during the flight).
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Second, sterilization via radiation is a standard method for dealing with bugs where the females only mate once. That is, you farm-raise a bunch of the males, irradiate them so they're sterile, then release them into the wild so the females will mate with infertile, farm-raised insects rather thant he fertile, wild ones. So it's well known that radiation can keep bugs from reproducing.
After giving up on LBNL, they were considering doing this at UC Davis. I don't know what the issues were that caused them to give up there.
o crap....don't want to have a mutant Super-PETA ppl.
besides, this is for scientific research....not solely for entertainment like that roach-eating contest.
(and for the record....roaches have been around for millions of years....they've survived the devastation that wiped out most other forms of life...they can surely survive if a few of their comrades get irradiated.)
You just shut the Hell Up. This is gonna be a cool episode.
that's it.
FTFA: "(Viewers) should learn that things don't glow if exposed to radiation," she said. "And they won't be radioactive after being exposed to radiation." They most certainly do! There is scintillation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_(physics)and there is Cherenkov effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation You can clearly see the glow in the attached picture to the Cherenkov radiation artcle. The radiation dose that and organism will survive strongly depends on the dna repair strategy that it uses. Rodents for example repair rapidly the actively used pieces of their genome and don't care so much for the parts that are not currently used. As a result they can survive higher doses compared to humans, but will pass more mutations to their progeny. High reproduction rate will help for a species to survive radiation exposure. Sure there will be lots of mutants in the progeny and most of them will probably not be very fit, but if you have big enough numbers this doesn't really matter.
I was always told that the cockroaches will survive a nuclear blast not because they are more resistant to radiation, but because of the sheer number and geographic ubiquitous.
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I belong to PETA...People Eating Tasty Animals.
The radical "oh noes protect teh animals" crowd on the far left are as embarrassing to the normal left-of-center types like myself, as the whack-job "I will kill to protect teh fetuses" crowd are (or ought to be) to the right-of-center types.
If you take a rational position (conservation/responsible procreation) and you drive it to the absolute extreme, you are a moron. If you attribute it to someone you disagree with, you are an asshole.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
It's not even a myth! It's just a common saying stemming from the fact that cockroaches are so prolific and notoriously hard to kill. What's next? they test the theory that there's more than one way to skin a cat?
"Those who think they know everything are of great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov
or may be, in Soviet Russia, the cockroaches nuke *YOU*.
This bothers me because they are essentially going to be killing living things to entertain us.
Sure it's just insects who i would happily squash if they crawled on me. But it feels evil to kill things for a TV show.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
"I have faith in nothing but this: when the universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors: Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt trying to save the cockroaches." -- Tyr Anasazi.
or may be, in Soviet Russia, the cockroaches nuke *YOU*.
In Soviet Russia, packs of rat-size cockroaches walk the streets of Tchernobyl.
I, for one, welcome our irradiated cockroach overlords.
Hell, I might do it for fun.
These kinds of "dilemma's" are nothing but intellectual masturbation. I'll tell you right now: in a real world situation, that man or that dog would be a greasy spot if it was only thought that their death would save 100,000 people.
And as for the reverse, you can bet, in a quarantine situation, they would kill as many as it took (or as they could) to keep the sick separated from the well. It's the only thing that can be done in that situation, 1, 100, or 1,000,000. The reverse also holds: if you were stuck in a quarantine, and you believed yourself or your family to be in danger of being infected, you'd do whatever you could to break quarantine, even at the risk of infecting countless others...That's why they defend barricades with guns, not pamphlets on disease control.
The desire to protect yourself and your loved ones trumps it all, when it comes down to it. That's just human nature.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
does not mean coackroaches would inherit the earth. A good experiment would need to test radiation exposure over different generations... what if radiation makes them sterile? What if they have so much mutations due to radiation they start to drift and look the precious genetic information that allowed them to survive. We are constantly degenerating and are constantly evolving to preserve our fitness... would the coackroaches be able to do that if genetic drift was significantly increased? Maybe, maybe not.
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And in a parallel universe, a couple of giant roaches are transporting a box of humans to see if they can survive through 4 weeks of isolation on an island...
They skipped the three best!
Centrifuge
The maximun centrifuge capacity of the cockroach has not been determined. An estimate could be made from the shoe and floor result.
Fire with slingshot at a wall
This would be a test of the sudden deceleration trauma limit of the cockroach, which is expected to be significantly higher than the crush point. The experiment has not been performed.
Tensile strength
Not determined.
Though Explosion (A cockroach at ground zero of an M60 cherry bomb survived) is freakin tailor-made for the mythbusters.
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any idea of when this episode is set to air?
The nice contractor with the bowl of candy on her desk? She can live. The a-hole two cubes down who's always humming or clipping his nail or doing something that really shouldn't be done at work? He can go.
Did anyone see this movie?
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You just gave me flashbacks of that show. At least now what we know what the people that made that show were on now!
But isn't it the fate of most cockroaches in the wild to be eaten alive by something else?
Seriously though, Mythbusters just plain old has a policy of not testing any religious myths. Saw it mentioned in their forums.
QED... They'll wear suites made of live roaches!?
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Will they blend?
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Strange how little cats and dogs are protected on TV, but our little six-legged friends, well 200 can merrily risk their little lives in the name of pseudoscience television.
Every movie that reads "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" had 3 catered meals a day spread out on tables filled with the cooked remains of dead animals.
I love to eat such dead cooked animals myself, but such claims are just hypocrisy.
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I think they'd run into problems with the 'crucify a rabbi and see if he reanimates' part.
Neither of your linked articles applies here. Not even close.
"Sure there will be lots of mutants in the progeny and most of them will probably not be very fit, but if you have big enough numbers this doesn't really matter."
But the may be fir enough for the new environment. To say 'not be very fit' implies there is some ultimate 'higer' goal to evolution. There is not.
But seriously, read the articles you link and try to understand them If not for the children, then
FOR PONY!
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Or another religion such as Islam, the other religion Slashdot loves. Oh, wait....
They'll just expose it to some random amount of radiation, and if that doesn't kill it, they'll just blow it up with a stick of dynamite.
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Does PETA protect ants' rights too? :)
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Are they going to have the roaches ingest or inhale any radioisotopes? My understanding is that that is a significant part of the problem after a nuclear war.
...if your home was infested with cockroaches.
There's a point in that battle where you seriously consider setting of a small neutron bomb, if only you could find one... OH SHIT, BRB: FBI!
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Seems mythic enough to me.
You are mythtaken, it is actually a mythtery
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I use to radiate parts for Motorola back when I worked for the Military Electronics group. We use to use the Gamma cell over at ASU. We put in a cockroach one Friday and came back Monday to check on it. Can't remember if it was the new gamma cell or the old one. The new one was around 20KRads/Min the old one was around 1KR/min. Either way, it was in the chamber for about 3 days or about 4320 mins. Bounded it got between 86Mega Rads or 4.3Mega Rads. It lived. There is little or no water in a cockroach so there is nothing to absorb the radiation. To Gamma radiation, they are immune. To be a correct experiment they would need to expose across a broad range of particles and radiation and not just Gamma.
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Nuke 'Em High, it was documented in 1986. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090849/
Why does the first post is *ALWAYS* funny? :D
Doesn't meter the subject, the first one is always a joke or a sarcastic tag. Not complaining, just pointing my finger on it!
Now regarding the cockroach... WHY IN THIS F****** WORLD THEY WANT TO KNOW IT?
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Why is it that the smaller an animal is, the more acceptable it is to kill it in a gruesome fashion? My guess is the more human-like the expression of agony is, the easier it is for us to empathize. Does this mean that we intrinsically care nothing about other species' suffering unless they draw parallels to our own? I try to rationalize that a roach slowly dying from radiation exposure probably hurts as much as it would most any other living creature, but that still does little to dissuade me from gleefully grinding one of the filthy buggers with the sole of my boot.
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Actually, I think that's morally indefensible.
Who are you saving? What are you actually doing? You're just torturing some slob for dated information that's not going to help anyone. And torture is a crappy way of getting accurate information anyhow...Witness all the people who "confessed" to witchcraft during the inquisition, and the witch trials.
Traditional intelligence gathering methods were sufficient to get the information that would have stopped 9/11, if the methods of analysis were good enough. Now, they're gathering so much more information, and I've seen no proof that their methods of analysis have improved by anything even resembling a similar amount...Basically, they're drowning themselves in un-analyzed crap information, while giving concrete examples to the people who think that we're corrupt torturers, that we are in fact, corrupt torturers, and screwing the people at home who're finding it hard to think we really are the good guys when we're torturing POWs, and yes, if we're "at war" with terror, then people we capture in the war, are POWs...That's what it means.
In short, it's stupid, it's pointless, and it's immoral. We may be forgiven for taking the moral low road for an end like saving a million people, but when you take the moral low road for a worthless end, you should expect to be strung up by your nuts for it. Make no mistake; you sacrifice a human life because of something you think is right, that's still murder...If enough other people think you were right to do so, society may forgive you. Otherwise, they may put your ass in the electric chair.
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pretend we're stupid. It's worked before (lol, like gasoline on a fire)...
Well, when you understand the term "A Tragedy of Comedies" give me a ring.
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GO reread what he Weisman wrote, he didn't say all roaches he said just the roaches in colder cities. Kinda makes sense since cockroaches like warmer temps.
Insightful.
Do deal with your anger issues and learn to debate politely... Not dismissing other people due to their backgrounds (such as "rednecks") would help you too.
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In Soviet Russia, if you leave sodium chloride under a red-orange lamp overnight, it'll emit gamma radiation for the next 24 hours.
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Generally, I won't kill (or assist in killing) anything smarter than a dog, unless necessary to protect my (or my wife's) life.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Well, try sipping one down in your morning coffee sometime.
Nuke 'em all, I say!
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Apparently people have these ideas in there head:
1.)Torturing people who are willing to suicide-bomb themselves is going to provide truthful info
2.)The US routinuely catches 1 terrorist from a cell while having no info on the other members
3.) The rest of the cell doesn't change their plans if one member is captured
And, 4.) Finding out 'where teh boom is hidin' will save 100 brazilian lives
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
i guess it is "real science" in that it's "really bad science". even slashdotters who've never published a thing in their lives can poke holes in the mythbusters's experiment formulation, execution, and conclusions. they trick plenty of people (those who don't understand the scientific process). the fact of the matter is that the mythbusters perform science at the elementary/middle school levels and i wouldn't trust their conclusions over that of a high school science student.
They won't go there themselves, they'll hire a cockroach crew to film the test.
That seems a little unscientific. I'm going to wait for the results of properly peer-reviewed experiment data before I make a judgement on that one.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
what the twinkies will mutate into.
Cockroachs can actually run.
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Whereas you, noble and virtuous, will refuse. You will tell your pregnant wife, and your three kids, "Okay, we're all going to die so that the people outside can go on living their corrupt and venal lives like we don't exist."
I haven't been in that situation, so I'm not quite sure what I'd do. It'll depend on a lot of things. How long do I stay in quarantine if there is no food? How long if no water? No vague attempt at medical aid from the outside? No idea.
But you apparently know...Unlike all the "trample your fellow man" sheep of the world, you'd never act in anything but a selfless manner.
Or you're talking out of your ass. I've seen a lot of people talk a big line, and the bigger the line, the faster they crack when the shit hits the fan.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Virus isn't life. Upgrade your argument to bacteria.
The preciousness of life is inversely proportional to genetical distance between you and the (possible) victim. Having common kids counts as very short genetic distance (although technically it's not short at all, unless..uhm, let's not talk about that)
As they say: "SC Johnson, a family company." There is no public market for the company's stock -- it is all privately held. I know you were making a joke, but I thought some might find this interesting given the size and success of the company.
Who dared call Mythbusters pseudo science? Do you really want them to be in the same level as Intelligent design and paranormal investigators? What's wrong with you people?!
I demand for this story to get a new tag: !pseudoscience
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It has been PROVEN that torture is not nearly as effected as befriending.
Waterboarding is very dangerous, even when done by experts, and torture is harmful to the US reputation which causes MORE terrorism.
"Purely mental?" No, it leaves no physical marks AFTER the toture, but it is physical.
I suggest you try it.
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Roaches, in fact all insects, are very resistant to short doses of radiation. The reason behind this is that radiation does the most damage to cells when they're dividing. It just so happens that roaches molt about once a week, which is a single cell division. If you aren't radiating the roach when this is happening, your radiation will mostly fall on deaf ears.
However, after a nuclear blast, the fallout would be a source of constant radiation and would probably kill any roaches that had to live in it for a week or two.
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Then you're watching the wrong show. You want Penn and Teller's "Bullshit!" for that.
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A bit offtopic, but I recently discovered that soapy water kills cock roaches faster than all commercial poisons I tried!
Try it, its pretty amazing.
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Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking roaches on this motherfucking plane!
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Anyone remember the name of a PBS ecology show during the 70's that taught by giant roaches. It shows the destruction of humans because of pollution and the rise of the roach
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raoches die rather easly they go squish. problem is there numbers 1 roach normaly means 10,000 more in your house. they also hide in walls in sewers or any dark cool place they can find. wile its true threre immune to short term radition at least all the forms that where tested on them i dont think they would servive long term. they can servive on very little food and water but what will they eat if its all radioactiv.
I happen to live about 14 miles from the southern border of the Hanford site and I can testify to the amount of radiation. I have lived here my entire life, and I now have a nice healthy glow from drinking the water which comes from the nearby Columbia River.
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They do not limit it to just religious myths, but any "oogie-boogie" myths (in Adam's own words).
They've done a few in the past (such as the "pyramids of power" myth [or something along that name]) and on that show, Adam specifically said that he hoped that they would not have to do any more "oogie-boogie" myths. It was later explained to be anything along the lines of bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, psychics, astrology, aliens, et cetra.
Really, they limit themselves to things that are truly testable; they avoid just about anything where there is no real ability to lay claims along one line or the other without getting into otherwise supernatural beliefs.
Calling a sword by a pretty name is no more than adding perfume to poison.
There are some rather interesting comments in TFA.
"People are just scared when they hear radiation," Byron said. "Too many zombie movies."Not necessarily the first thing I think of when I hear "radiation"...
"They're all laboratory-grade. Farm fresh," Imahara said.I realize why they need specially-farmed roaches, but honestly, that line cracks me up.
All the bugs will go back to San Francisco. But instead of flying, a Mythbusters employee is having to drive the bugs back.I wonder if the driver will have any difficulties getting a hotel, or if they intend to do it in one shot (~16-18 hours for a drive, I think).
Airlines, it seems, don't like cockroaches on a plane."Um, excuse me. My olives seem to be moving."
Worst news of all:
The episode should air in about four months.Oh deuteronomy... It's going to be one long wait. Oh well.
Calling a sword by a pretty name is no more than adding perfume to poison.
Sorry to break the bad news to you... This has been done in several forms... Richard Dawkins, The Movie Domga, and your want some serious reading try Christopher Hitchens
Do I believe in The Bible? Hell! I've seen one!
I'm sure that Catholics will not survive nuclear radiation. . . Assuming that they are not tucked away in the Pope-Mobile.
Well... There's your problem!
( about 10 yrs ago my local Chinese take away was done by environmental health for serving it)
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chinese.asp
You are an ignorant loser. Maybe you can have Pop Rocks and Pepsi for dessert.
So how about Scientology then?
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Some years ago virtually all Russian cities have been abandoned by cockroaches. The little critters are simply not here anymore. No one knows why they left. Some say that modern insecticides are way too powerful even for cockroaches to resist. Some say cockroaches do not tolerate cellular radiation. The most pessimistic believe that cockroaches feel some impending disaster and flee the doomed ship.
Then we get to watch cockroachman in IMAX 3D
Wouldn't evolution have something to do with this, too? I don't know anything about the reproductive duration of cockroaches, but I'm thinking that they do so at a pretty quick rate with a high yield.
If there were some sort of radioactivity, and if it were not immediately lethal, I'm thinking that the odds are that they'd produce an immune strain in relativly little time. In fact, I would guess that many quick-reproducing creatures would behave this way in much the same way that bacteria do.
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If I recall correctly, Cerenkov radiation is because the speed of the electron is quicker than photon speed in water. Thus the blue glow. In crystal this is due to gaps, and electron being quicker to higher orbitals and slowly decaying. Not the same reason/effect. PS: wanna freak out a nuclear physicist ? Put some bluish metal in a water with a blue light source, then leave it exposed somewhere....
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From the trivia section of The Shawshank Redemption:
"The American Humane Association monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks' crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the AHA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed."
I knew someone who's PhD involved irradiating cockroaches. It wasn't research on their survival as such - the "liquidize the irradiated cockroaches to extract the DNA for testing" stage took care of that - but it did involve "wind the source out of the lead tube by remote control from behind the shield because it isn't something you would want to expose yourself to".
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If Mythbusters covered the same sort of territory as Bullshit it would be a lot more watchable.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
1, I love this show, no really I do.
2, Fuck cockroaches, little bastards! Even if they are vunerable to radiation your common everyday products to kill them in the home are doing less and less, the ones in my apartment sometimes walk THROUGH THE INSIDE OF THE MICROWAVE while it's ON........ wtf?
I have a photo of them nesting INSIDE the damned 'ultrasonic bug repeller' (set to roach mode, no less*)
I hate them, I hope Jamie and Adam find something seriously toxic to kill the bastards
* yes, I know they are a 'sham' but when you're desperate you'll try anything, I've also tried sticky traps, bug 'bait', the powders, surface sprays and god knows what else what.
Hmmm, is this true?
*thinks hard for something profound to say about a TV comedy show irradiating cockroaches*
Got it!
'In Soviet Russia, Cockroaches irradiate YOU!, oh wait...
Mythbusters' idea of a controlled setting is making sure Kari gets enough screen-time to keep guys watching for a full-hour.
In Soviet Russia, cockroaches irradiate YOU!
If we had a nuclear free zone, then all we would have is a whole shitload of electrons floating around. My guess is that the voltage differential this caused would most certainly break through the insulation and result in one hell of a lightning bolt. If big enough, it would have the same effects of a nuclear explosion anyway.
Now, if they mean "Nuclear weapon free zone" or "nuclear modification technology free zone" they might make sense.
It's probably happened to others ..but It DID happen to me it is not an urban myth or any such bullsh*t it was in wallasey in merseyside and the chinese was in the local paper, we used to go in afterwards and order alsation curry and chips used to annoy the new owners no end
p.s you note I didn't post AC
Most science textbooks have a mythic chapter concerning the Origin of Life in the Primordial Soup. This does not mean the story is false - just that the telling has taken on the stylized reverent tones of myth: "Myths of Cosmic Origin". In the same way, the Cockroach Myth is important because of what it implies about our sense of vulnerability and cosmic justice in the event of nuclear war. It will live on even if shown to be false in a literal sense. Spiderman doesn't have to be a historical fact to inform our ethics and morals.
Equating myth with falsehood is a modern trend. Many are uncomfortable with myths that dare to intrude on the "real world" by turning out to be historically or literally true.
They could go down to a morgue and use time-lapse photography to see how many people come back to life after being dead for three days.
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Seriously though, Mythbusters just plain old has a policy of not testing any religious myths. Saw it mentioned in their forums.
And who can blame them. It's one thing to get shocked while peeing on an electric fence, shot with a penny, or buried alive. Having to listen to a bunch of people who believe they've slighted their particular brand of religion would simply be intolerable.
Naah. Penn and Teller don't have Kari!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Maybe they can spare Keef so we can see how he'd fare against newkewlar attack. I'm guessing it would take about ten times the radiation poisoning to do him in, and even then he'd probably consider it a new way to get high. I mean, he snorted his own dad for Chrissakes!
Who is this delectable creature with an insatiable love of the dead?
Nah I don't think cockies will survive a nuclear armageddon. Everybody knows that there's only one being that will survive a nuclear war: Lemmy from Motörhead! :)
And maybe some Lawyers of course...
Yeah, they use pseudo-scientific apparatus, mythbusters could test those.
"You superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons" - The Simpsons
It depends on who is being killed and who is being saved. My dog for 100M random people? Probably. My best friend for 100M random people? No way in hell. My best friend for 100M of the most talented, kindest people? Yes. Kill 1M people whom I've never met, or don't care about to save 100M? Absolutely.
There are 11 types of people, those who know unary and those who don't.