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cronxeh
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Ok so I'm watching this online and I just keep thinking that those guys are.. missing a few nuts n bolts in their head
There was one where they build a replica of the arc of the covenant and the girl wired it up to an electric fence transformer to deliberately shock the other guy. He was kinda ticked.cronxeh said:Quality TV, very entertaining. I can't believe they've never been injured with so many flaws in experiments
zoobyshoe said:There was one where they build a replica of the arc of the covenant and the girl wired it up to an electric fence transformer to deliberately shock the other guy. He was kinda ticked.
HELL YEAH, she's HOT!TheStatutoryApe said:And that redhead assistent of their's is a hottie.:!)
She even has her own website of her artwork...Mk said:HELL YEAH, she's HOT!
cyrusabdollahi said:The recenlty made a rocket out of plumbing pipe and parts. The thing was a monster at 200lbs. They made it in 2 days, and if flew very nice. I was very impressed. There not so stupid as you make them out to be cronxeh. What myth have they done that has been wrong? Id say 99.9% of their conclusions are good. Do you really think they would just go on tv and say, based on this equation this won't work? Then the show would be stupid, that's kind of why they are out to bust the myth. The show isint called 'fact teller' well tell you what's a fact because its common sense.
Which they didn't do with the one about the guy sandblasting the PVC pipe. I thought right away, that myth was NOT busted. They didn't give it a proper test.cyrusabdollahi said:Well, if you can't provide an anwser, then you are not one to say what can and can't be done. I don't recall the myth saying anything about a glider on his back...You don't understand the point of the show, do you? YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MYTH AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE!
cyrusabdollahi said:Well, if you can't provide an anwser, then you are not one to say what can and can't be done. I don't recall the myth saying anything about a glider on his back...You don't understand the point of the show, do you? YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MYTH AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE!
cyrusabdollahi said:Umm, did you bother to pay attention why? They wanted to see if it was possible, after they said it would be impossible to do by a person. Thats what they do, they show it can't be done, and then try to do it by any means possible. You don't get the point still, do you? It would always split along the grain, no matter what. So the myth was busted, either way. How is this not a valid test to you?
cyrusabdollahi said:Ok, ill give you that much, maybe like .00000000000000000000000000001% chance. But I would still call that BUSTED. Common, be sensible.
I'm trying to find the original source of this myth with no luck. Some sites are saying he just built a huge mirror.cyrusabdollahi said:I agree with the solar beam test (sort of). They did do it at MIT, but the myth said an army of men holding mirrors,
That's why I want to find the original wording. Did he build a large mirror from many small mirrors, in which case it's quite possible to set a boat on fire from a distance? If he did it this way and had the focal point set to a distance he knew the boats would have to approach, then it's perfectly plausible.cyrusabdollahi said:Thats not likely zooby. making a large mirror is a veryyyyy hard thing to do. He would need a mirror that is almost perfectly parabolic to focus the light if he wanted one big one. It HAD to be small mirrors.
An authentic army of men holding shield sized mirrors might do some real damage.
That's why I'd like to find the original myth. Were the men on shore and the ships in a harbor? If so, the ships would have been anchoring and the men taking to small boats to get to shore and invade. Also, how many men is an "army"? If it's enough, there migh always be a large enough percentage of them hitting the side of the ship with their refections to heat it past combustion temperature.cyrusabdollahi said:Not unless its they are all trying to focus the energy in one spot, which is very hard to do on with a moving ship. If its so far away it seems to be still, then its too far. If its so close that the beams will work effectively, then the ship will be moving to fast. Your screwed either way.
Fixed arrays of flat reflecting mirrors can reach temperatures of 1000 degrees at a hundred feet.
Jamie and Adam are relatively ok with safety.cronxeh said:I can't believe they've never been injured with so many flaws in experiments