Does anybody think the Mythbusters got a myth wrong? If so, why?

Ya, I do.
The alagator myth.
You know, the one when they have to run in a zig zag line.
Scientists tested that one and got a totaly different answer.
If you ashk me, I trust a scientist more.

I think they got the Titanic myth wrong, the boat they had was puney compared to the titanic. the little boat may not have been big enough to suck down a human(wearing a boyant wetsuit) but it may have had a little suction. if you scale it up to the size of the titanic i'm shure you would get sucked down.

ok to the titanic i think they got it right you just have to look at the science behind it not what you think would happen because life is full of surprises and we dont know everything....ur not a scientist

ok to the titanic i think they got it right you just have to look at the science behind it not what you think would happen because life is full of surprises and we dont know everything....ur not a scientist

Okay, during 'Shark Week', Mythbusters tested the myth that playing dead in the water will not attract sharks, whereas thrashing around like a wounded sailor/fish will. These were the results that they got. However, later on that week, Survivorman did the same test, but got the opposite results. I think this discrepancy is due to the fact that Mythbusters actually had Grant and Tory in the water as bait, whereas on Survivorman they used dummies. Thoughts?

when it comes to wild animals i dont think its really possible to get perfect results the animals are wild and conditions are diffrent for them everyday and sharks behaviour is irratic and un predictable they could be hungry and ignore the thrashing and attack you anyway or not be hungry and ignore you or just attack you even though they arent hungry i think it is impossible to predict just stay clear of sharks stay safe stay alive

I'm don't think they got it wrong, persey, but I would have approached the Cabin Fever myth for the Alaskan special a little differently. Now, I had a chattering eight-year-old bugging me through both the one time I got to actually watch the whole special and the time I got to watch only the last 20 minutes or so. Being an Alaskan myself, (currently not living there, but intending to move back) I was really jazzed about the myth. Although, if they had just stopped to ask anybody on the streets of Anchorage while they were there about the speeding up to hit the moose myth, they could have saved themselves a lot of time and effort.

Does anyone know if they gave the general location of the cabins they stayed in? Like I said, I wasn't able to catch it. I think to really test this myth, they should have tried to find places in the far north of Alaska, preferably in the area of Barrow. It's about as far north as you can get on the continent of North America and it's a whole nother category of brutal.

The timing is another thing that you have to take into consideration. They said that they tested the myth in the middle of Winter. The winter days in Alaska are very, very short, but they get shorter the farther north you get. More darkness tends to have a more negative effect on people's sanity, especially as far as things like depression go.

I also wonered if they took the interior lighting of the cabin into question. The more light you have inside, and the broader spectrum of light you have, the better you cope. Some families, inculding mine while we were stationed there, choose to take the lampshades and coverings off our lights for this.

I mean, it's nothing big, but they were still questions that crossed my mind when I saw it. Overall, I was pretty happy with the special. I mean, a lot of hit had me shaking my head going, "Damn Lower 48ers," but most of it was pretty good.


The other myth I had a problem with that I can remember off the cuff was the question sent in by the archaeology professor who wondered if the Mythbusters had any thoughts on why primitive man used stone arrow heads. My first thought was because they were reusable and less likely to be dulled by impacts than sharpened sticks. I also think Adam was onto something with the theory that the bigger wound caused by the flint arrow was a benefit.

What I disagreed with was how they did their tests. I felt the accuracy was marred by the use of a compound bow as opposed to one which would have been closer to those used by primitive men.

i have one as well
during the episode where they are breaking into a room( first adam and jamie have to scale through the vents then kery grant and tory try to get past infer-red lasers then at the end adam had to scale a large building with the contraption he used in the vents) when breaking into the room, they tried to cut an outline in the glass then use a vaccum to pull the glass out but the hole was too small
now if they had put the vaccum on then cut around that then that would have worked( but i still like the glass "shattering")

Well this is kinda an old myth, but you know the Myth Blown off the Toilet when they put a mach in a toilet to Blow buster away. well didn't that one chick say that it was also said to done on a portapotty well doesn't decomposing feces create methane and wouldn't the shape of the portapotty make like a funnel and all the expanting methane have to shoot out somewhere?Causing the person to fly of the seet.
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