Mythbusters takes on the MXC "water rocket backpack"

[Acanthus]

Its on discovery now, but ive seen the episode before, and ive seen the MXC clip.

What do you guys think? i dont think they did enough experiments to say it was actually busted, and i dont see anything on the MXC video to show that its fake.

 

[Heisenberg]

Mythbusters != science

It's fun to watch (especially Kari) but I don't take them as definitive on anything.

 

[AmdEmAll]

omg Kari is god like

DROOL

 

[mwtgg]

Kari is an annoying vegetarian. The show would be better if you could actually trust its conclusions.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Kari is an annoying vegetarian. The show would be better if you could actually trust on its conclusions.

Well, you just can't trust the busted ones, but you can trust the plausible ones.

 

[AmdEmAll]

vegetarians taste good :evil:

 

[Acanthus]

after searching around i cant find the clip of the guy being flung into the water.

 

[Remy XO]

MXC? you mean the japanese game show?

and Rocketpack?

more info for the uninformed?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Kari = Hot

There's a myth that needs to be busted.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Kari = Hot

There's a myth that needs to be busted.

Kari is cute as geek chics go. I wouldn't call her hot on her own, she's hot when compared to other women who dig science.

I tend to believe that the MXC vid is real. The fact that Mythbusters was unable to duplicate it is meaningless. They proved that the bottles had enough lift to make it happen, it was their rig that failed. A better engineered backpack would likely have been successful.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Remy XO
MXC? you mean the japanese game show?

and Rocketpack?

more info for the uninformed?

They had a guy on MXC that was launched via pressurized water rockets, that were either 2L or 3L bottles pressurized with air and water. The guy flew like 40 feet.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

can we see of the clip you are talking about?


and mythbusters sucks as since...2 favorites when they disproved themselves on the walking vs. running in the rain
also when they sunk a boat and claimed people couldnt be sucked down with a sinking ship, even though it has happened to people

 

[iamwiz82]

I dunno what you people see in those girls.

Mythbusters is fun to watch, but a lot of their experiments are so strangely done. They spend months doing the rolling stone one, but just hours/days on the water rockets?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
can we see of the clip you are talking about?


and mythbusters sucks as since...2 favorites when they disproved themselves on the walking vs. running in the rain
also when they sunk a boat and claimed people couldnt be sucked down with a sinking ship, even though it has happened to people

i wish, i didnt find it on yahoo video search or google video.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I dunno what you people see in those girls.

Mythbusters is fun to watch, but a lot of their experiments are so strangely done. They spend months doing the rolling stone one, but just hours/days on the water rockets?

Well duh! Got a method for making moss grow overnight? They of course spend extra time on anything that requires plants to grow. They spent extra time on the one with the talking/yelling/music impacting plant growth. They spent extra time on the ones where the pig rotted underground and in the Corvette. They had to.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I dunno what you people see in those girls.

Mythbusters is fun to watch, but a lot of their experiments are so strangely done. They spend months doing the rolling stone one, but just hours/days on the water rockets?

The fact is that they often do their experiments in ways that "pwove" that something is a myth, yet clearly leave ways that the so called myth might actually be real.

 

[thescreensavers]

Here every ones goes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188 the video

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I dunno what you people see in those girls.

Mythbusters is fun to watch, but a lot of their experiments are so strangely done. They spend months doing the rolling stone one, but just hours/days on the water rockets?

Well duh! Got a method for making moss grow overnight? They of course spend extra time on anything that requires plants to grow. They spent extra time on the one with the talking/yelling/music impacting plant growth. They spent extra time on the ones where the pig rotted underground and in the Corvette. They had to.

You missed my point. Who gives a flying ****** if the moss grows? It just didn't fit the mold of blowing stuff up and causing destruction. It's like Kari decreed that they shall do moss growing on a rock :roll:

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Here every ones goes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188 the video

i dunno after watching the video again it doesnt look right, he hangs in the air for a second, so it looks like there might be a cable or some fancy editing.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
can we see of the clip you are talking about?


and mythbusters sucks as since...2 favorites when they disproved themselves on the walking vs. running in the rain
also when they sunk a boat and claimed people couldnt be sucked down with a sinking ship, even though it has happened to people

i wish, i didnt find it on yahoo video search or google video.

well normally its nice to put it in your post and not say something like

"lol did you guys see that video on the internet of the guy doing that thing with the thing?"

and not posting a link to it

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
can we see of the clip you are talking about?


and mythbusters sucks as since...2 favorites when they disproved themselves on the walking vs. running in the rain
also when they sunk a boat and claimed people couldnt be sucked down with a sinking ship, even though it has happened to people

i wish, i didnt find it on yahoo video search or google video.

well normally its nice to put it in your post and not say something like

"lol did you guys see that video on the internet of the guy doing that thing with the thing?"

and not posting a link to it

i said it was on mythbusters *RIGHT NOW* the episode is just ending now though.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
can we see of the clip you are talking about?


and mythbusters sucks as since...2 favorites when they disproved themselves on the walking vs. running in the rain
also when they sunk a boat and claimed people couldnt be sucked down with a sinking ship, even though it has happened to people

i wish, i didnt find it on yahoo video search or google video.

well normally its nice to put it in your post and not say something like

"lol did you guys see that video on the internet of the guy doing that thing with the thing?"

and not posting a link to it

i said it was on mythbusters *RIGHT NOW* the episode is just ending now though.

no i was talking about the water rocket backpack which someone posted...i understood that mythbusters was on right now*



*except in the west coast

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Kari is an annoying vegetarian. The show would be better if you could actually trust its conclusions.

I lived with a vegan once and she's one of the coolest people I know. The fact that she was a vegan was never a problem, even when we all went out to restaurants. She wasn't preachy at all. In fact, she was one of the best roommates I've ever had.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Kari is an annoying vegetarian. The show would be better if you could actually trust its conclusions.

I lived with a vegan once and she's one of the coolest people I know. The fact that she was a vegan was never a problem, even when we all went out to restaurants. She wasn't preachy at all. In fact, she was one of the best roommates I've ever had.

Kari bothers me. She is really whiny.

 

[Queasy]

The main problem that Mythbusters had with the rocket backpack wasn't so much the amount the thrust from the waterbottle backpack but from controlling the direction. Every test they did with a dummy looked dangerous. Throw in the fact that they had problems releasing the valves at the same time for every water bottle.