MythBusters S2: Nuts & Bolts in Their Heads

[Bystander]

"Splitting arrows" bothered me a bit in the failure to find some of the tricks used by arrowsmiths for straightening arrow shafts, that is, forming shafts with continuous grain parallel to the axis; they depended instead on milled dowels.

 

[Cyrus]

Thats true. But I still say until someone can do it, I am going to have to say BUSTED.

 

[ShawnD]

I can't believe they've never been injured with so many flaws in experiments

Jamie and Adam are relatively ok with safety.
In the episode about the rocket vacuum cleaner, Tory's rig for supplying propane to an experiment was just insane. He put the propane tank on the other side of experiment, so if something went wrong he would be unable to turn off the propane (which was in a fairly large tank).

 

[Integral]

http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Mirrors/Tzetzes.html" of the burning mirror story.

 

[moose]

Just yesterday I was watching something on the history channel and they had the mirror story thing. It worked... (not hard to believe really, if you have so many mirrors, even half decent)EDIT: During the test to see if a person could be sucked out of a window in an airplane. They only payed attention to difference in pressures, but they didn't even care about how fast the plane was flying (air flying past it...quickly)...

EDIT2: The guy who tested the myth about the mirrors, I forgot who he was, but he even went to essentially the original spot and burned down a small fake ship...

 

[Mk]

Was the ship moving?

 

[Galileo]

http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Mirrors/Tzetzes.html" of the burning mirror story.

And http://www.solardeathray.com/" is one of those Solar Death Ray's. Which is awesomely cool by the way
I got to get me one of those. Read the one about the honey bear

 

[zoobyshoe]

http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Mirrors/Tzetzes.html" of the burning mirror story.

Thanks for finding that, Integral.

It sounds like the beams from many small mirrors were aimed at the large mirror which was then aimed at a ship.