Issues with building a giant slingshot

[Pengwuino]

oh my god Jamie just said "Amperage" on mythbusters :O :O :O

 

[FredGarvin]

Uh, well, yes. I mean secondary to that.
I'll modify the ? to say: how do they rationalize what they're doing?

Coming from someone who has to endure the countless of idiotic e-mails my mother insists on forwarding me...I would hope there is a core belief in that show's producers to hopefully educate part of the populace out there enough to realize that 99% of the stuff they see out there is BS.