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That was a really weird and complicated opening for this episode of Mythbusters.
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I'm actually surprised that the 180 degree barrel actually worked.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:22
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Missed the opening but I'm kinda digging the Heavy Metal-style animations.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:23
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So you can fire a gun in space. I'll be damned
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Feb 23, 2014 02:43
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Both NASA and the Soviet space agency issued guns to astro/cosmonauts. Also I've heard of the other myths from this episode but not this fryer gun one.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:54
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muscles like this? posted:Also I've heard of the other myths from this episode but not this fryer gun one. I don't see why it wouldn't fire. E: I misheard the myth.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:56
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DarklyDreaming posted:So you can fire a gun in space. I'll be damned Why couldn't you? Or is it just another profoundly stupid fan myth ala airplane/treadmill?
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Feb 23, 2014 03:29
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muscles like this? posted:Both NASA and the Soviet space agency issued guns to astro/cosmonauts. The Soviets only issued guns because their capsules were designed to land on solid ground and not the ocean. A couple missions ended with the capsule landing off course and the cosmonauts having to hold up inside with wolves prowling around.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:51
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I've been rewatching Deadliest Catch on Amazon Prime, and I would love for Discovery to release an uncensored version. I usually don't mind bleep-outs because I can fill in the details, but sometimes it feels like I'm watching The Best of Martin Scorcese on ABC Family. Also is the series still going (stopped watching shortly after Phil died), or did Sig and John finally get sick of the cameramen or something?
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Party Plane Jones posted:The Soviets only issued guns because their capsules were designed to land on solid ground and not the ocean. A couple missions ended with the capsule landing off course and the cosmonauts having to hold up inside with wolves prowling around. Yeah but actual space-based weaponry was far from unheard of. The soviets mounted an autocannon to at least 1 successful space station. Not sure it's ever been confirmed but it wouldn't shock me if the US did something similar, considering the Shuttle was such a massive tire fire (in part) because it had to be capable of kidnapping satellites to get military funding. Not to mention Reagan's retarded sci-fi fever dream of
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Mar 1, 2014 18:11
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IRQ posted:Why couldn't you? Or is it just another profoundly stupid fan myth ala airplane/treadmill? The theory was that since gunpowder requires oxygen to burn, in an airless environment there wouldn't be a reaction so striking the primer would do nothing. Clearly that isn't true- Adam tweeted that bullets contain their own oxygen.
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Mar 1, 2014 18:27
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SirPhoebos posted:I've been rewatching Deadliest Catch on Amazon Prime, and I would love for Discovery to release an uncensored version. I usually don't mind bleep-outs because I can fill in the details, but sometimes it feels like I'm watching The Best of Martin Scorcese on ABC Family. Still going, with Jake Harris spiraling into addiction and barely being on the show. He was not on the show at all last season. Josh was barely shown last season as well, which was weird since they were building him up in the previous seasons. Sig and the Northwestern are basically the face of the show.
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Mar 1, 2014 19:58
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ToastyPotato posted:Still going, with Jake Harris spiraling into addiction and barely being on the show. He was not on the show at all last season. Josh was barely shown last season as well, which was weird since they were building him up in the previous seasons. Sig and the Northwestern are basically the face of the show. Sad to hear that about Jake, though I can't say I'm surprised.
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IRQ posted:Yeah but actual space-based weaponry was far from unheard of. The It was brought up in the one of the "Old Tech" threads in PYF that the Soviets actually had a primitive laser pistol that was supposed to be used in space. Not sure how effective it was though. Anyway, the season finale of Mythbusters was kind of fun with the whole Ping Pong ball thing. I was really shocked that they got it that fast. Also kind of confused that they declared it busted instead of plausible because while that didn't look instantly lethal it certainly looked like it would kill you fairly quickly if you didn't get immediate medical attention.
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Well, I mean, a *proton* accelerated to a sufficiently high fraction of the speed of light could kill you. A gamma ray at an incredibly high energy could kill you. So of course a ping-pong ball could, if you accelerate it fast enough. I think the question is, is it even plausible that such a thing would happen? And I mean, even at 1100mph a ping pong ball (and the accompanying air with it) could only go an inch or so into flesh, and that would be directly up against the barrel of a huge ping-pong accelerator. There's no *reasonable* way to do it, and even in a completely unreasonable situation, it's not working. If they got it to 10% the speed of light I'm sure it would burst right through, but that's not going to happen with anything we have on Earth. So busted feels right.
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They've used "plausible" before to mean something that could happen under specific rare or unlikely circumstances. If the ping-pong ball had hit somewhere vital like the throat or a major artery it could easily have done enough damage to kill. Funnily enough, there is actually a Russian scientist who was shot in the head with a particle accelerator, resulting in some scary but temporary physical trauma and permanent brain and nerve damage.
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Well yeah, I mean, plausible means just that - It could be somewhat unlikely or take an interesting confluence of events, but it could plausibly happen. The idea that someone would construct a ping pong accelerator like that and use it to try to kill something is completely implausible. I don't take "Busted" to mean "impossible" in this case. It's just so out of the realm of plausibility that on the scale - confirmed/plausible/busted - busted is the only one that makes sense.
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Mar 3, 2014 19:58
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drat IT WHALE WARS! Apparently whaling WILL end. Good for the whales but now that's just going to encourage the Sea Shepherds.
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haveblue posted:They've used "plausible" before to mean something that could happen under specific rare or unlikely circumstances. If the ping-pong ball had hit somewhere vital like the throat or a major artery it could easily have done enough damage to kill. That guy loving owns. Holy poo poo got shot in the face and his face peeled off and he still finished his PHD. What a testament to being a real man! Thanks for posting that.
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Fire Storm posted:drat IT WHALE WARS! Semi-related: River Monsters returns next weekend. Get hyped. 
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Hazo posted:This is going to be very interesting. I'm shocked the ICR is, for the moment, actually complying. Maybe they're finally realizing that nobody's buying their "research" bullshit any more. They're just delayed until they can modify their activities to fit the new boundaries. Absolutely nothing will change, sadly.
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Fire Storm posted:drat IT WHALE WARS! "Whaling will end" kind of overstates it. That's just for Japan in Antarctic waters. There will be plenty of things for the Shepherd crew to get outraged about.
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Apr 1, 2014 20:37
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Yeah there's still plenty of impoverished brown people for them to murder.
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Paradox Personified posted:They're just delayed until they can modify their activities to fit the new boundaries. Absolutely nothing will change, sadly.
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Deadliest Catch Stuff: So I'm hearing that the Cornelia Marie, now owned by Josh Harris, will NOT be featured this season during King season, but WILL be featured during Opies. I hope it goes well.
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Apr 2, 2014 13:37
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Tonight's new Survivorman involved Les searching for Bigfoot. The entire episode consisted of things like: "I'm a total skeptic, but here are some broken trees that I can't easily explain, must be Bigfoot!". Oh Discovery Channel, how far you have fallen.
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WhiteHowler posted:Tonight's new Survivorman involved Les searching for Bigfoot. Les is far from a skeptic, he believes in all that bullshit.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:45
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Yeah, Les is a legit kook, but that still sounds really dumb.
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It was, I watched about 15 minutes, and when they got to a still photograph clearly showing Big Foots face on camera, Les wonders if this is an elaborate hoax. Since we hadn't gotten any major news stories recently that a television adventurer discovered Big Foot, it felt like a waste of time to keep watching.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:58
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I wonder how Survivorman & Son will pan out?
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Apr 10, 2014 19:11
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Those two episodes already aired. They were decent, typical Survivorman fare.
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I know its "reality tv" and all that, but Keith on Naked and Afraid is the most reprehensible human being I have ever seen on tv. Dude was acting like a total puss for days, but the second his companion got worn out, he starts calling her a bitch. I just wanted to reach into my tv, slap him across the face and tell him to keep it loving together. Anyway, Kirsten Bell naked and afraid on Ellen, because Ellen is a better man the rest of us put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYPoHVQzDs&t=120s
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Apr 21, 2014 22:01
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Ellen is a terrible person who screamingly berates, mistreats and intimidates her own employees. Now that's a discovery
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Pobody's nerfect. 
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Irish Joe posted:I know its "reality tv" and all that, but Keith on Naked and Afraid is the most reprehensible human being I have ever seen on tv. Dude was acting like a total puss for days, but the second his companion got worn out, he starts calling her a bitch. I just wanted to reach into my tv, slap him across the face and tell him to keep it loving together. I had to look up to see which one that was, and yeah, dude was a puss-bag. But on what I think was the newest one (or second newest one?) I honestly couldn't believe that one guy actually ate mystery mushrooms from the jungle! Jesus Christ, he's lucky all he got was a (relatively) mild case of food poisoning and not, you know...death. loving moron.
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:Deadliest Catch premier tonight my wife thinks i'm the biggest man child for loving this show so much, but there are very few reality shows that still bring a sense of true reality and danger.
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It's the same thing every year but goddamnit I still love it
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Here's hoping it won't feature 30 minutes of Capt. Keith on Capitol Hill, followed by post-commercial recaps of Capt. Keith on Capitol Hill.
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Campbell posted:Here's hoping it won't feature 30 minutes of Capt. Keith on Capitol Hill, followed by post-commercial recaps of Capt. Keith on Capitol Hill. At the risk of making you relive something clearly traumatic, what did that shitbird do on the hill? Also stoked for this show to come back. ROSS MY SALAD posted:It's the same thing every year but goddamnit I still love it Time Bandit fuckery and waiting for Keith to inevitably kill someone.
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