MythBusters

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Forget the plane myth, I want some of that foam

A 400lb airplane? Nah. World's biggest conveyor belt? Nah. Radioactive cobalt? Nah. Sexy redhead? Nah.

Oh look! FOAM!!!!!!!

 

[FoBoT]

real airplane, it took off!!

 

[Jawo]

And the full scale test works!!!

 

[Jeff7]

The smackdown hath been dealt.

 

[FoBoT]

all morans should now self ban

 

[Exterous]

ooooo, adam mentioned doing it with a jet!

 

[TraumaRN]

It took off. End of discussion.

Like Jaime said, the power does NOT goto the wheels.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: fisher
the plane was going faster than the treadmill. duh. if i'm not mistaken the treadmill and the plane are going the same speed in the "myth" no? i call foul!

of course. because of physics its not possible.


you can't keep the plane stationary without having something hold the body of the plane in one spot. the speed rotation of the wheels do not matter.

 

[purbeast0]

wow that is probably the coolest myth busted i've ever seen on this show.

even the damn pilot thought it would stay still haha.

the conveyor belt had absolutely 0 effect on the plane.

simple awesome!

 

[Electric Amish]

<Bill Paxton>GAME OVER MAN!! GAME OVER!!!</Bill Paxton>

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
all morans should now self ban

The real morans are the ones who dealt with 59 minutes of BS from a Mythbusters episode to watch the part everyone cared about.



<----Moran, apparently.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Where is your Myth nao??????????

 

[ultimatebob]

Wow... I feel so... what's the word?

Oh, right. 0wned!

The one time the Mythbusters get it right. Hmmph.

 

[BlackTigers]

They actually tested this one pretty decently, I was surprised.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
if the plane takes off, wouldn't the navy being using it on aircraft carriers?

What?

whoa..that would cost a hell of lot more and to ocmplicated. what they have now is great.

?????

It would serve no purpose. It's not going to make the plane take off any faster, and it's not going to prevent it from taking off. It would do nothing.

 

[PottedMeat]

*THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT DIRTPIPE MILKSHAKES*

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: FoBoT
all morans should now self ban

The real morans are the ones who dealt with 59 minutes of BS from a Mythbusters episode to watch the part everyone cared about.



<----Moran, apparently.

Dude, did you see that foam? FOAM man. FRIGGIN' FOAM! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
wow that is probably the coolest myth busted i've ever seen on this show.

even the damn pilot thought it would stay still haha.

the conveyor belt had absolutely 0 effect on the plane.

simple awesome!

It took a bit longer to take off... didn't it? You would think that the friction would slow it down at least a small amount.

 

[videogames101]

Uhhhh, I'll be the first to admit it, I was wrong, the plane took off.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

first this, then i get paid, then the patriots win the superbowl. oh yeah

 

[Bill Brasky]

Busted! Lets see the jet already.

 

[cubby1223]

I don't get it. Wasn't the debate about when the plane is the same speed as the conveyor belt? The plane was clearly moving faster than the conveyor belt before it took off. So of course it took off.

The rest of the myth, I really don't care about except I see everyone here argue it. But I mean, how did the mythbusters prove anything? Both the toy plane and the real plane were traveling faster than the conveyor belts.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: FoBoT
all morans should now self ban

The real morans are the ones who dealt with 59 minutes of BS from a Mythbusters episode to watch the part everyone cared about.



<----Moran, apparently.

Dude, did you see that foam? FOAM man. FRIGGIN' FOAM! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

i missed the foam! what happened?

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
first this, then i get paid, then the patriots win the superbowl. oh yeah

hell yeah

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: FoBoT
all morans should now self ban

The real morans are the ones who dealt with 59 minutes of BS from a Mythbusters episode to watch the part everyone cared about.



<----Moran, apparently.

Dude, did you see that foam? FOAM man. FRIGGIN' FOAM! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I could have told you that. Great Stuff is crazy enough. the industrial foams are just nuts.