what they do is they take urban myths and internet legends, and experiment with them, thus giving us knowledge

science is derived from the latin scienta, which means knowledge

therefore by doing this crazy things, they are giving us more knowledge about things, they are doing real science

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they are still filming. you can read realtime updates via adam’s twitter account @donttrythis in which he talks about what they are doing and pictures etc

They DO do real science. When you blow something up, you’tr participating in science. When you bake bread, you are participating in science! Science requires no white coats or fancy labs, only that you feel the need to question the world, and hold it up to experiment.

Or to put it another way: http://xkcd.com/397/

Example:
Remember when they tried the “cable pulls the rear end out of a police car” myth? The original movie pulled the live axle rear end out of an early 60′s Ford, which was held in place to 4 spring hangers and 2 shocks. Weaken the spring hangers and it’ll pop right off, just like it did in the movie.

SO—- Pete and Re-Pete here get a modern Ford police cruiser and try to do the same trick. When the (predictably) fail at it, (First try with a skinny li’l cable – Huh?) they say “MYTH -, B.S., can’t be done”… Well,,, wrong fellers. The modern car has an independent rear suspension with the differential housing fastened in with a LOT more than 4 little spring hangers. You might as well try to jerk the engine out with a piece of dental floss.

So in that case they didn’t “Bust” a “Myth”,,, they just proved that they can’t do 10th grade physics and know nothing about cars.

Entertaining though. It would be even funnier if the one with the Walrus ‘stache would occasionally hit the other one with his hat.

Ok, rant over. Sorry, yeah, they’re great, whatever.

Have never met Jaimie, but Adam & Grant are both really nice guys. I don’t care that the science isn’t perfect. I think they do a good job with limited time and budget.

Sorry, but don’t knock it ’till ya try it.

I work in a lab. Mad science is a lot more fun when you don’t have to both proceed it and follow it up with four hours of prep logs and NELAC paperwork.

Ok, we’re gonna do this mythbusters thing,,, who we gonna get? Let’s look at some resumes.

Hmmmm,,, Here’s an engineering professor from MIT,,, “BORING!”

Here’s a technician from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,,, “BORING!”

Here’s those 2 special effects idiots that set themselves on fire when we were shooting “Deadly ice road lumberjacks,,,”. The short one makes a mean queso dip. “SOLD!!!”

My quarrel with them is that they absolutely do not do real science, or engineering, or even decent fabrication. They take a myth, make a stab at recreating it – much like a monkey poking at a TV set with a stick, fail miserably, then declare it a myth.

No nimrods, you did not prove that it cannot happen – you proved that a Walrus and a D-bag and the cast and crew of MTV’s real world can’t replicate it in an afternoon.

I’m a real engineer, and I can’t watch them. I work with a bunch of real engineers and scientists, and none of us can stand them. Mostly we wind up fighting the urge to smash the TV.

And blowing up stuff is how they have fun. Wouldn’t you like to use inordinate amounts of explosive to destroy things?

I guess what I am trying to say is, as annoying as they are, I would watch Mythbusters instead.

Besides, who wouldn’t want to work with these guys? I DO!!!! XD