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MythBusters Bust House
ewhac writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the MythBusters accidentally sent a cannon ball hurtling through Dublin this afternoon, punching through a home, bouncing across a six-lane road, and ultimately coming to a rest inside a now-demolished Toyota minivan. Amazingly, there were no injuries. The ball was fired from a home-made cannon at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range, and was intended to strike a water target. Instead the ball missed the water, punched through a cinder-block wall, and skipped off the hill behind. Prior to today, the MythBusters had been shooting episodes at the bomb range for over seven years without major incident. It is not clear whether Savage/Hyneman or Belleci/Imahara/Byron were conducting the experiment."
But this is posted on Wednesday morning, and the summary says "this afternoon". Has /. gone psychic?
Professionals my ass. I can do more damage than that by trying that at home, amateurs.
Jumping up and down, clapping his hands and giggling with glee.
One of the interns who are never visible on the mythbusters episodes probably did it. I think they just photoshop in Jamie and Adam on most episodes.
Don't try any of this at home. They're what you call "professionals".
s/[stupid comments]/[intelligent discourse]/gi
To shoot a cannon-ball from San Francisco to Dublin is quite a feat. Wait, not that Dublin?
Having run out of myths, those at MythBusters have to broaden their definition of "busting"...
They shot a cannonball all the way from Alameda to Ireland?!? Holy shit, those guys are good!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So... will we ever see the footage?
My bet is no... It was probably destroyed within 10 minutes of the incident.
On-site producer to camera-men: "Initiate liability protocol!"
I bet you say that to all the boys.
Since you've apparently never been explained the meaning of the word "nap", let me provide a link to the definition:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nap
At least until they "accidentally" create a singularity that destroys half a state, and permanently alters the rules of our relative space-time.
Misfortune my ass. They'll be telling that story for the rest of their lives. Top THAT at a bar.
"I once caught a huge bass."
"I once banged a really hot girl."
"Yeah, well I once had a cannonball shot through my house by the Mythbusters."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Probably not. They'll get fired, arrested, mysteriously disappear from prison, and coincidentally, the DoD will have a new "Mythical" or "Buster" kinetic/ballistic weapons research team!
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
Heh. Spoken by a true non-parent.
It's called: "baby asleep in the crib, Parents having nookie very quietly in the bed." Many many parents have done it.
Unless, of course, we have a night-shift worker parent and a very tired child care parent. Which also makes sense.
Sometimes you sleep when the baby does.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
Really? That's the part of the story that makes you say hmmm? The fact that reportedly a 6-inch cannonball fired from a homemade cannon busts through a cinder-block wall, then bounces off a hillside, then flies 700 yards and bounces again, then goes through a front door, bounces up a stairway and into a bedroom where it proceeds to bust through a stucco wall, and after all that, still had enough energy to fly over to a neighboring house hitting its roof and destroying a few roof tiles, crosses a six lane highway (still in the air, presumably) over into another neighborhood and crashes into a parked minivan shattering its windshield and destroying its dashboard is all copacetic with you, but taking a nap in the afternoon makes the story hard to believe?
Be careful.
First they'll build a scale model 6" high and do some "math". Then they'l knock up a 6-foot section of a life size wall and call it plausible. They'll they "upscale" things and end up building a wall around the equator and blowing it up.
The ball was fired from a home-made cannon at ... a water target
The nerds who couldn't shoot straight.
The ball was fired from a home-made cannon at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department...
All of a sudden a Bob Marley song is running through my head...
Free Martian Whores!
I'd like to see them try to replicate the "myth" that a cannonball that is initially fired at a bunch of water can wind up skipping off a hill, go through a house 700 yards away, go through 6 lanes of traffic and come to rest in a car.
They probably won't be able to do it again and declare it busted.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
I thought they conclusively demonstrated that it's plausible if not outright confirmed most of the time, it actually IS Lupus.
never mind.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Frankly, I would consider it an honor to have my minivan crushed by a Mythbusters experiment.
I thought this as well. I'd be tempted to turn down the insurance settlement and just keep the wreckage, especially if you can keep the cannonball, too. You could probably get a LOT of money for it at auction from a fan who wants the famous Mythbusters experiment that went horribly wrong!
I certainly didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...