MythBusters

How many, this is a fun game.

How many pages do you think a .50 caliber bullet can, like Mythbusters, right? Pretend like a Mythbusters episode.

How far do you think a .50 caliber bullet can travel through paper? How many pieces of paper? They laid 130,000 on its side.

How many did it make it through? Halfway? No, it can't.

Okay.

Did anybody watch the Mythbusters episode where they actually tested that out? I missed the Mythbusters.

Well, the laser blasters.

First off, lasers don't shoot in little things that travel, right? They would shoot a laser, which is like...

You should watch the episode if you haven't.

It's excellent.

There's a lot of Mythbusters I should watch, but I never do.

And I'm probably never going to.

Yeah, they're all over the place.

Esther saw a Mythbusters episode the other day, and she was so eager to see it once she realized what they were going to talk about, because these are questions that she has had for a very long time.

So it was traffic studies, and they had a four-way stop one where they had a lot of cars who were stopping and going and stopping and going and stopping and going in a 15-minute period of time.

they counted them and then they had the same cars stopping and going and stopping and going but this time instead of stop signs there was one man who was directing them and Esther has thought before that if someone is directing that it would be faster that more cars would go through but it was not faster it was significantly faster for every individual to make their own decision about when they were going many more cars went through when individuals were making their decision and then they took the same intersection and they made it a roundabout so that there was no stopping but they've just allowed for 15 minutes cars to go through the roundabout and this time even more got through that was the most significant when there was no stopping there was no directing from anyone else and there was every individual making their decisions Esther loved knowing that.

How many, this is a fun game.

How many pages do you think a .50 caliber bullet can, like Mythbusters, right? Pretend like a Mythbusters episode.

How far do you think a .50 caliber bullet can travel through paper? How many pieces of paper? They laid 130,000 on its side.

How many did it make it through? Halfway? No, it can't.

Yeah.

I'm drawn back to an episode of Mythbusters where, like, didn't they test if you could use, like, a silk robe covered in piss to, like, break through bars or something? Because Jackie Chan did that in a movie.

Oh, man, yeah.

What movie was that? That was great.

I think the adjective she was searching for was maybe self-entitled, but not mad when referring to New Zealand drivers.

Now, when it comes to cell phones and petrol stations, Shane says Mythbusters busted the cell phone petrol station thing.

But this texter says cell phones and petrol stations harks back to the days with, is it Nikad or Nikad batteries like the old Nokias? If a phone back in the day was dropped, releasing the battery could have caused a spark within the forecourt and fumes.

Ah,

To where the government has actually been testing it as a non-lethal way to break up riots.

I have seen that, and if I remember right, one step further, the Mythbusters investigated the notorious theoretical brown note.

Do you know about that one?

No.