Monday, June 27, 2005

They just like blowing things up


There’s a show in Canada called Mythbusters, I don’t know if it is in America. It’s basically these two guys who work in special effects who debunk myths like "Can you be decapitated by a fan?". The one about the fan I can understand, but they also did one about an ancient Chinese Astrologer who strapped a bunch of rockets to a chair to launch himself into space and got himself. So basically these two decided to see if that was true.
IF YOU STRAP GUNPOWDER ROCKETS TO A CHAIR, IT WILL BLOW UP!!!!! ANYONE CAN SEE THAT!!!!!
And yes, the chair blew up, but they didn’t stop there. They strapped even better rockets onto another chair and sent that off. They did something like that with the fan thing, but they made a lawnmower blade into a fan. It was ridiculous. These guys are just the product of parents giving their kids a chemistry sets. You have to see these guys.
Still, it’s a great show if you like things blowing without all the usual shooting and saying the f-word every other !#%@ minute, which for some reason I do. Makes you want to go out and buy a chemistry set.
The picture above is off these nuts. If you have seen them please tell me.
Look at them, don’t they look like the kinds of nuts who enjoy making big explosion.

1 comment:

Steph said...

*laughs* Yeah, we have that show here. It rocks! I haven't watched it too many times though because I don't know when it's on. The last one I saw, they tried to prove the "escape from Alcatraz". I forget what they found out though (this was at least a year ago). I think their experiment didn't go exactly as the legendary escape from Alcatraz, because of the weather conditions and water currents and stuff, but they concluded that it wasn't impossible for it to have been done the way the story says.