How many myths have been confirmed on mythbusters

Basically, Tory and Grant ate spicy food, and then used stuff like toothpaste and petroleum jelly to try and alleviate the pain. Spoiler alert for those looking for an answer: milk is the only one that worked. Tory hid himself under a barrel with wheels, which was amusing, albeit unsuccessful. Kari went America Gladiators on us with a giant hamster ball that almost worked.

Then, of course, Grant built a robot. Specifically, it was a freaky-looking, but ultimately awesome robotic cat. This one seems so simple, and so small, but it was one of the best things to come out of the show. The trio tested the myth of whether or not you can fold a piece of paper more than seven times. The guys took a gigantic piece of paper, and with a huge crew and a steamroller and a forklift folded it 11 times.

You might not believe that seeing a piece of paper getting folded eight times makes for great television. Some of us would beg to differ. This was the final big, spectacle of awesome that The Build Team performed on the show. In this episode we bore witness to two people standing on airplane wings attached to a moving truck hitting a tennis ball back and forth. Tory and a pro tennis player were on a truck going 35 miles per hour, were able to complete over five hits standing 32 feet apart.

Being on an actual plane is the only thing that would have made this more impressive—but the myth as is was good enough. The team got to tackle three skydiving myths from the seminal surfing bank robber movie Point Break , which meant that Grant also got to play Keanu Reeves in some cheap dramatizations of the film.

Basically, it involved a bunch of people jumping out of a plane. But it was very entertaining, even if it robbed Point Break of some of the verisimilitude on which it thrives. The Build Team went back to the snowplow to see if a certain kind of plow could split a car in half. This one was more successful than their first snowplow test, and we got to see cars get almost split in half, though none ever went all the way.

That is, until they revisited things with the rocket sled, of course. At that point, they did split a car in half with a flying wedge that went miles per hour, and then disintegrated. This was the best build Grant, Kari, and Tory ever pulled off. They constructed a seven-foot ball out of Legos. They used millions of Lego bricks, and the ball, when finished, weighed 3, pounds. It was a sight to behold. Then they rolled it down hill towards a car, but the ball fell apart. It was too beautiful for this world.

Also, the test proved that a similar video on the internet was fake —a shocking revelation for us all. A single grocery line leading to multiple checkouts is slower but fairer than multiple lines. An MP3 player cannot be charged by simply plugging it into an onion.

A lock can be picked using filaments from a light bulb. A car door cannot be unlocked by transmitting the keyless entry signal through a cell phone call. A frozen can of shaving cream will not fill up a car if cut open and thawed. A working speaker cannot be improvised from a paper plate, a penny, a mini jack, and tin foil. Leaving on a light is not more efficient than turning it off and back on. To keep needles from falling out a Christmas tree , Viagra, bleach, and hairspray may work, but urethane, pain reliever medicine, soda, and fertilizer will not.

The heat from Christmas lights will not ignite a Christmas tree. A shop vacuum will not act like a jet engine if it sucks up gasoline. A clothed snowman melts slower than a naked one. A regular house fan cannot cause decapitation. Noise may help plants grow. An ordinary playing card cannot be thrown with enough power to be lethal. Dropping an electrical appliance into a bath can be deadly, but modern GFCI devices prevent this.

A household washing machine does not have the strength to spin a flailing man. Microwaving metal will not blow up the microwave. Superglue can be used to attach a furniture to a ceiling , creating the illusion of an upside-down room. It may be possible to liquefy the inside of a whole fruit with an explosion and drink from it with a straw.

It is possible to cook a meal using a car's engine compartment. The tryptophan in turkey is not what makes people tired. Not everything tastes like chicken ; it is easy to differentiate chicken from other meats. You cannot pop popcorn instantly with an explosion , and popping popcorn with a pressure vessel is not the fasted method due to the required preparation.

It is not possible to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon without drinking water. A beef steak can be tenderized using explosives, a cannon, or a laundry dryer. Swallowing both Mentos and Diet Coke will not make a person's stomach explode, nor will swallowing too much Pop Rocks and soda. A frozen turkey can crush your foot if dropped, and possibly your dog too. A turkey cannot be cooked using a microwave radio or a radar antenna. A cereal box does not have more nutritional value than the cereal within it.

Food cannot be launched in the air through ingredients and flames and land fully cooked. Toast is not inherently more likely to land buttered-side down , but it could be more likely to when pushed from the height of a standard table. Dropping a frozen turkey into a deep fryer is very dangerous, but the turkey will not explode.

A tin of biscuit dough can explode in a hot car, but aerosol spray and cola cans will not. Cola can be used as a cleaning agent to remove bloodstains or clean chrome, battery terminals, or a penny. It will not dissolve a steak or a tooth overnight and it will not kill sperm. A six-pack of beer or soda will not be quickly cooled by burying it in sand and igniting gasoline on top of it; salty ice water is the most practical solution.

Pain from eating hot peppers can be relieved with milk , but not with water, beer, tequila, toothpaste, petroleum jelly, or wasabi. Alcohol Placing a silver spoon in a bottle of champagne will not keep it bubblier. Beating a breathalyzer test is not possible by eating an onion, eating breath mints, drinking mouthwash, or placing a penny in the mouth.

A moonshine still can malfunction and explode. A modern car can run on moonshine. Filtering vodka through a charcoal filter will not improve its quality.

Vodka will not cure poison oak or kill bees but it can help relieve the pain of a jellyfish sting , remove a bandage , clean a bathroom, remove odors from clothes and feet, and remedy bad breath. Rum is not better at cleaning clothes than detergent. Beer can instantly freeze solid after being removed from a freezer and given a shock. Drinking brandy may make a person trapped in the cold feel warmer , but it will actually make them die sooner.

Alcohol does make people look more attractive. A hangover caused by mixing beer and liquor is not worse than one caused by beer alone. Toilets and Bodily Functions A fart cannot be seen on an infrared camera. A cherry bomb flushed down a toilet will not send water shooting out of all the neighboring toilets. Pouring gasoline down a toilet and igniting it will not cause an explosion. Doing the " potty dance " may help alleviate the urge to urinate.

Flatulence can be induced by consuming beans or soft drinks, but not beef. Pretty girls do pass gas. It is not possible for a person to fart so much that they suffocate from the gases. A fart can be lit on fire.

A match can be lit to mask the smell of a fart, but it does not actually burn the odorous gases. Lighting a cigarette in a porta-potty will not cause an explosion. An inaudible " brown note " will not make a person lose control of their bowels. During winter, a stream of urine will not freeze midair. Urinating on an electric fence can cause electrocution, but urinating on the third rail of a train track will not. The " five second rule " is not valid when food is dropped on the floor.

Many objects that people touch every day are dirtier than a toilet seat , including cash, keyboards, and kitchen sponges. In fact, a toilet seat may be one of the cleanest surfaces in a house. Toothbrushes are generally contaminated with fecal coliform , but not to a dangerous degree. Hot-air hand dryers are less sanitary than paper towels. In public restrooms, the stall closest to the door is used the least and stays the cleanest.

Covering a sneeze with your inner elbow is more sanitary than using your hand or a handkerchief. A person's eyes will not fly out if they sneeze with their eyes open. Healthy people cannot easily avoid germs if a sick person makes no effort to contain them. The top of a soda can is not likely to be contaminated with rat urine, and dangerous viruses could not be transmitted that way.

A defibrillator may burn someone who is wearing an underwire bra or a nipple piercing, but it is not likely. A defibrillator will not make a nitroglycerin chest patch explode. Being hit on the head with an empty beer bottle will not cause more damage than being hit by a full bottle.

A person buried up to their neck in wet sand will not be able to escape without aid. It is possible, but difficult, to drift into a parallel parking space. It is possible to drive in reverse at high speeds. One car braking in traffic can cause a ripple effect that persists. Changing lanes frequently in traffic can save you time. Roundabouts are more efficient than four-way stops. It is not difficult to push one moving car off the road with another.

During a car chase , the fleeing car could escape by deploying a smokescreen or an oil slick. A hood-mounted machine gun is an effective weapon in a car chase. Hollow road spikes are effective at stopping a car, but solid spikes are not reliable because they can stick in the tires. It is quite difficult to drive a car balanced on two wheels. Driving in heels or snow boots does not significantly impair a driver. Driving with a full bladder is not as dangerous as driving drunk. A burst of flame can be used to re-seat a tire on its rim , but another method is still needed to inflate the tire.

An out-of-control car can be safely stopped by pulling in front of it with another car and slowing down. A car with a flat tire can temporarily be driven on the bare rim, or the wheel can be replaced by a manhole cover, stuffed with straw, or replaced with a carved log.

Older sports cars were not so badly designed that they are more aerodynamic if the body is turned backward. Driving while tired or driving while using a cell phone can be more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. Using a hands-free cell phone while driving is just as dangerous as holding the phone.

A motorcycle cannot yank the cloth off a banquet table without disturbing the place settings. Driving a convertible through rain at high speed may prevent the driver from getting wet. A long, fast burnout will not cause a tire to catch fire. Two semi trucks that collide head-on will not stay fused together and conceal another car crushed between them. A blind person can drive safely by following instructions from a passenger. Electric cars are not more sluggish than gasoline cars. A speed camera cannot be beaten by a reflective license plate cover, a magnified cover, a crystallized cover, a commercial spray, plastic wrap, or hair spray.

It could be beaten by an extraordinarily fast car. Shifting into reverse will not stop a runaway car. Driving backwards does not improve traction on an icy road.

Bracing a windshield with your hand will not keep it from shattering when struck. An engine cannot run on gunpowder alone. Used cooking oil can be used as fuel in a diesel engine. A toy car can beat a full-size car in a short, unpowered downhill race , but it will fall behind in a longer race. A broken drive shaft dragging on the ground will not cause a car to pole vault end-over-end if it strikes a pothole.

A car's engine will not be destroyed if sugar or drain cleaner are put in the fuel tank, if a coin falls in the carburetor, or if the tailpipe is plugged. It could be destroyed if bleach is put in the fuel tank or oil tank.

A cracked egg can plug a radiator leak and cola can be used as an emergency coolant. Adding mothballs to a car's fuel tank may increase its horsepower. A car can be destroyed by a decomposing body and the smell may never go away, but a buyer could still be found. Car Crashes Two cars crashing into each other will each experience the same force as a single car hitting a wall.

A car passenger seated between two heavyset people will not be protected in a crash. In a car crash, a large number of party balloons will not act similarly to an airbag. In a car fire, the bumper can explode and present a danger, but only at short range. Neither carburetor magnets nor acetone in the gas tank will improve a car's fuel efficiency.

A tissue box in the back seat of a car will not become a deadly projectile during a crash. A semi truck's tires can explode with lethal force. During a car crash, an airbag will not rip off the driver's thumbs. Spray-on truck bed liner resin can withstand a dog bite and even an explosion, but it will not significantly protect a car during a crash. A car could not be split in half with a snowplow while the occupants remain unharmed. Driving a route with only right-hand turns more efficient than driving a normal route.

Hypermiling techniques can significantly improve, but not double, fuel efficiency. Although they are more fuel-efficient, motorcycles emit more air pollution than cars. Higher-than-normal tire pressure improves fuel efficiency. A driver will use more fuel when angry. Although dangerous and often illegal, cars and bicyclists can draft a semi truck to improve efficiency. It is not more fuel-efficient to drive a pick-up truck with the tailgate down. A plastic mesh tailgate is the most efficient configuration.

A dirty car is not more fuel-efficient a clean one , but a car with dimples like a golf ball could be more fuel-efficient than a smooth one. Playing tennis on the wing of a slow-flying airplane is possible. Airplanes can save fuel by flying in a V-formation like birds. A person could improvise an aircraft powered by many fireworks , but it would be extremely unsafe.

If the contents of an airplane toilet leak , they can freeze and cause damage by falling to the ground. Getting stuck on an airline vacuum toilet is not possible.

The U-2 spy plane is challenging to operate , but fun to ride in. A large multirotor drone could cause serious injury with its propellers. The sonic boom from a fighter jet will only break glass if it occurs at a very low altitude.

An untrained person could be instructed to successfully land an airplane over the radio. The jet wash from a Boeing can flip a taxi, a school bus, and a small plane. Making a glider from concrete is possible but impractical. Placing a stamp on the rotor of a helicopter will not unbalance the rotors and cause a crash. A life raft filled with helium cannot be flown. Cell phones were not banned on planes to sell more in-flight phone calls.

For short journeys, driving can be faster than flying. The empennage of a plane can be shredded by another plane's propeller. If a bullet is fired through the fuselage of airplane, the plane will not explosively decompress. A person strapped into the rear stewardess seat may be able to survive the destruction of an airplane in flight. Building an inexpensive jet pack from online plans is not feasible.

Hair gel will not explode and decapitate a pilot in an oxygen-rich fighter jet cockpit. Jumping with an inflatable escape slide could make a fall from an airplane survivable, but it wouldn't be possible to inflate it and get strapped in while the plane is moving.

The airplane brace position is effective and was not deviously designed by the airline industry to kill passengers. Breast implants will not explode on an airplane , nor will an inflatable bra. Boats A huge number of ping pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship.

A boat will not be split in half if it hits a channel marker head-on. A ginger pill or a placebo can prevent seasickness , but cinnamon, magnets, and electroshock treatments will not. A large explosion cannot lift a boat out of the water without also destroying it. The wake from a sharply turning jet boat can put out a fire on another boat.

A fisherman could be pulled to the bottom of the sea if his leg is caught in a rope. Slowing a fall by sticking a knife into a boat's sail is not effective. A boat can be driven with its trailer still attached. A sinking boat will not create enough suction to pull someone underwater.

A baseball pitcher's fastball cannot lift itself higher into the air. In baseball, it is faster to slide into bases that can't be overrun. Practicing golf in a video game will not make you better at playing actual golf. Hitting golf balls through the foliage of a tree is not easier than going around it.

A racecar driver may lose 10 pounds of water weight over a 3-hour race. A fish cannot pull out a fishing line so fast that the reel catches on fire.

The black paint worn by baseball players could reduce glare from the sun. Escaping a ski lift by sliding down the cable using a pair of pants does not work.

One skydiver can catch up to another by streamlining their body. A baseball's stitches will not tear off , even if the ball is thrown and hit with super-human strength. An NFL football filled with helium will not fly farther than one filled with regular air. Jimmy Hoffa was not buried in the Giants Stadium.

Water Activities It is possible to ride a bike underwater. A bicycle can be modified to operate on the surface of water relatively easily. It is not feasible to bob for apples while bungee jumping. A fast-moving motorcycle can ride across the surface of a lake. Surfing on still water with rockets is only possible with a highly-modified surf board.

A harpoon gun is accurate from a distance of feet 30 m. Water skiing behind a cruise ship is possible, and so is skiing behind a rowing team. It is not feasible to stay underwater by breathing air from a car tire. Running across the surface of water is not possible. A person could not surf on a wave generated by explosives. Animals It is not possible to herd cats. Cats are not deterred by lion feces, aluminum foil, or water bottles.

Snakes are not deterred by cat litter, mothballs, hemp rope, or cayenne pepper. Bears are deterred by cayenne pepper, but not by ammonia.

Hanging bags of water from the ceiling will not repel flies. It is possible to catch a greased pig. One thousand honey bees cannot lift a laptop. Trained bloodhounds are amazingly effective and they will not be fooled by a wide array of deceptions and concealments.

Law-enforcement "sniffer dogs" will not be fooled by covering contraband with food or masking agents, nor will they or their handler be easily distracted. A person may be able to get past a guard dog by travelling inside a barrel or metal sphere or by distracting it with food, a robotic cat, or certain types of urine.

Goats can be startled into fainting. Cockroaches cannot survive a nuclear blast. Elephants may be afraid of mice ; they will avoid one, but not panic. The color red does not make a bull charge.

Crocodiles won't chase someone ; they are ambush predators. A dog's mouth has less bacteria than a human's.

The smell of skunk musk cannot be removed with beer or a douche, but tomato juice and commercial cleaners may help and a custom mixture with hydrogen peroxide is the most effective.

Daddy longlegs spiders do not have the most potent venom of all spiders, but their bite can pierce human skin. A goldfish's memory is not limited to three seconds. Dog urine does not react with bleach to cause an explosion.

A fertilized octopus egg could not gestate after being swallowed by a woman. A wallet made of electric eel skin will not ruin a credit card's magnetic strip. A duck's quack does echo. Sharks are repelled by the scent of a dead shark and by dolphins. Sharks are not repelled by the sound of orca whales or by chili peppers. Science Channel's MythBusters returns Nov. Has mythbusters been cancelled again? Mythbusters will return as " mythbuster's junior" fall It is unknown the state of the new team.

Since the finale, Hyneman has kept a fairly low profile. For a time, he was associated with Savage's web series Tested, but left the show in mid The two stars don't get along, and have no relationship outside of the show.

Well, part of them. Mythbusters , unfortunately, is not available to stream on Netflix at this time. The MythBusters ' long history of accidents and mishaps. The now-famous cannonball incident is just the latest in a long string of experiments gone wrong on the hit Discovery Channel show.

Of course, no one ever gets injured--except the show's hosts. A star collapses when the fuel is used up and the energy flow from the core of the star stops. Nuclear reactions outside the core cause the dying star to expand outward in the "red giant" phase before it begins its inevitable collapse. If the star is about the same mass as the Sun, it will turn into a white dwarf star.

Professional racer and former Mythbusters star Jessi Combs was killed on Tuesday in Oregon while attempting to break her own speed record. Adam Whitney Savage born July 15, is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer, known as the former co-host with Jamie Hyneman of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.

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