Mythbusters

[Methanolandbrats]

****ers just cut up a 928 for their pseudo science ********. They should all be water boarded and then dropped in a vat of acid. :mad:

[racer2c]

I thought I was the only one who liked the 928. You mean there's another!!!???:eek:

[Methanolandbrats]

I thought I was the only one who liked the 928. You mean there's another!!!???:eek:

Hell ya, that thing handled like a dumptruck up to about 100 mph, then it started to settle down. At 130 it was nailed and it felt like you were going 65 mph. I hate Mythdouchers, the token asian, the fake redhead, the bald prick and his butt buddy, everything they do it ********, but this one was beyond stupid.

[G.]

I had an AMC Pacer that got a bit squished and looked like a 928.

Looked a little too frootycup foreign so I blew it.









http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FoXyvaPSnVk/SVqUqXwnbPI/AAAAAAABdLo/oaTOfglBYMU/s1600/ChePorsche-928-0.JPG

:tony:

And I like the fake redhead (the lumpy one).

[chop456]

^ Amen to that. :)

[WickerBill]

Awww come on, it's a fun show -- why were you watching if you hate it so much?

I bet you really hate Overhaulin'

[extramundane]

I understand the real challenge in that conversion was cutting around all the leftover blow in the door panels.

[cameraman]

I thought it was hilarious how they danced around the name of the car. Every badge was removed, they were killing themselves to call it a sports car. Given the times that car produced before they cut it up it was bound for the scrap heap anyway.

I was less than thrilled a year ago when they pitched a Subaru Outback that was considerably newer than mine off a cliff. The resulting 100% occupant-lethal splat was also rather cringe worthy.:eek:

Note to self, keep it on the road in the Cottonwood Canyons:saywhat:

[racer2c]

I understand the real challenge in that conversion was cutting around all the leftover blow in the door panels.

:rofl:

[Indy]

I understand the real challenge in that conversion was cutting around all the leftover blow in the door panels.

Damn, that's where I left it. :tony:

[Gnam]

Last night they accidentally shot a 6" cannonball through a residential neighborhood. :eek:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1508/bacannonball07050469232.jpg


[T]he television crew was incredibly unlucky that the cannonball flew through Dublin, but "tremendously lucky that it didn't seriously injure or kill somebody."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/BA1D1M99V5.DTL#ixzz1fs2Lfpap

[TKGAngel]

Last night they accidentally shot a 6" cannonball through a residential neighborhood.

I had no idea that the bomb range they use is that close to a residential neighborhood. Every time they show it on the show, it looks like it's pretty well out in the middle of nowhere.

[cameraman]

They use several different ranges. I'm amazed that they were using a shot of that diameter. A naval 24 lb shot from the early 1800's was about 5.9" and but they weigh a couple of tons and where would you find one? Plus, fired at a high angle they have a range of several miles and you would have to be insane to expect some water barrels to even slow down the shot. I wonder if it was some kind of home made steam powered contraption they was way more powerful than they expected.

The house was 700 yards away. Easy cannon range. It missed the water barrels went through the cinderblock wall, skipped off the hillside and landed in the neighborhood.

It was the steel cannon that they built in the shop and have used in the past.

[Andrew Longman]

Compared to the sea of reality crap on the TeeVee, Mythbusters at least tries to get people interested in reality -- like science and the scientific method -- even if it has an overly high entertainment component.

TLC and the Discovery franchise has not been something to take too seriously since about 1995.

And I like 928s. :D

Risky Business did it for me -- "Porsche, There is No Substitute"/"Zo voo ist da U-Boat capitan?"

[Gnam]

I wonder if they dimpled the cannonball, like a golf ball, so it would fly straight? I learned that watching 'Master & Commander: Far Side of the World'. ;)

I believe the range was uphill from the neighborhood, which would allow the ball to fall further and help explain why it kept smashing through things like in a cartoon.

[cameraman]

Hmmm, the updated story has the houses 700 feet from the cannon.

[WickerBill]

The rumor that I was involved because I'm in Alameda County this week.... is totally unfounded. If I were involved, there would have been casualties.

[Gnam]

Follow the bouncing cannonball.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/214/bacannonball120sfcg1323.jpg

Article says it was a 30 pound stone ball. That thing must have been flying.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/07/BAN31M9Q81.DTL

[SteveH]

:rofl:

That thing flew better than a crapwagon. Didn't know that was possible.

[G.]

Not sure where all of the inaccurate info is coming from (and it might be from me), but there have been some pics pulled from twitter in the last day or so that show a more reasonable cannon.

[cameraman]

The one behind Tory is his home built cannon. There is no way that can fire a 30 lb shot unless they commissioned some DU rounds.

[G.]

The one behind Tory is his home built cannon. There is no way that can fire a 30 lb shot unless they commissioned some DU rounds.

That's my point. Lots of errors in the reports (apparently).

The pics are from 2 days ago. The one from Tory Belleci was still on yfrog up to about an hour ago, Kari's was from the same timeframe, but removed sometime earlier.

The cannon shot is apparently the correct size, the cannon shown with Kari is the culprit one. All the reports appear to be full of errors.

There was no 10 in dia. shot (reported yesterday), no 30 lb. anything, and they were going to try a stone shot.

I have no idea why I care about this, so I'll just post another pic of Kari.

[datachicane]

:rofl:

That thing flew better than a crapwagon. Didn't know that was possible.

Those mirrors will never work.

[Gnam]

The entry hole in the front door is much smaller than the exit hole by the window.

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5071/bacannonball08050469746.jpg

The cannonballs look about the size of baseball, about 3" in diameter. If they were made from steel, they would weigh about 4 lbs each.

[cameraman]

Just cuz naval cannons are generally cool, the 24 lb long guns on the upper deck of USS Constitution fire a 5.55" diameter iron ball weighing in at 24 lbs (amazingly how that works...) The cast iron gun barrel is 9' 4" long and weighs in at 6350 lbs. It had a useful range of about 1700 yards when fired with its maximum 10° elevation. The current guns are replicas cast in the 1920s, trying to use them would be a really bad idea.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/24pounder.jpg

And a ship like the HMS Victory has long pattern 32 lb guns on the lower deck firing a 6.10" ball 2600 yards. Her two 68 lb carronades fired an 8.1" ball 1200 yards.

When fired in a flat trajectory broadside all the carriage guns had a range of about 400 yards.

The ones used in the Mythbusters experiments are toys in comparison.

[Napoleon]

. . . so I'll just post another pic of Kari.

I really have to start watching that show.

[G.]

I really have to start watching that show.

There's something about her, I can't put my finger on it.





At least, that's what the judge says. ;)