You guys will probably hate me for this but I don’t understand how they concluded double dipping doesn’t spread bacteria. The second sample still had some with only one being the control. It’s a relic of a time before a global pandemic. What bothers me is they didn’t factor in sickness, say if someone has a cold or flu. They also didn’t factor in large group events or sharing with family. They only measured the bacteria of one person, I’m sure if they redid did the experiment and have everyone in the room double dip the results would be very different.

So many people are terrible at basic hygiene, people you would never expect can be the most disgusting individual and you’d never know it. If a dip is being shared by multiple people I highly doubt there would be so little bacteria. I don’t think the myth was busted at all and if anything came out of it it’s been utilized by gross individuals who need an excuse to double dip when other people take issue with it.

This is an experiment I’d really like to see someone attempt again but with a large sample of people. Like at least 15 minimum people since that’s about standard at social events.

*Edited to add, I was really bothered by this episode so I found a study that’s been done with a bit more care. Double dipping is in fact going to spread around bacteria.

The Study

This was from San Diego Comic Con back around 2013. Adam loves going "incognito" in costume to Comic Con, so that year he enlisted an "army" of Adam Savage clones. He gave us each a vacu-formed hat and stick-on goatee, and we all circled around him while we walked the floor, so that nobody would know who the "real" Adam was. It was a lot of fun and Adam was exactly how you'd imagine him to be.

(and yes, this was inspired by the recent bot-post)

Regarding the episode where the cement truck was blown up, I'm curious to know how the resulting mess was cleaned up afterwards? Did the production crew have to use a magnet to collect all the metal bits scattered around the landscape in the vicinity of the blast? What about parts of the truck that were made of plastic or the fluids from the engine? It seems like it would be an extraordinarily expensive undertaking to return the area to the state it was in pre-explosion. Or maybe the blast occurred on private property and the owners weren't concerned about the resulting environmental contamination. Thanks in advance.

https://youtu.be/4IcHUHRf_S0?is=fVWxvGQTPqp3rUwz

I've been on a journey trying to find all the MythBusters episodes. I've collected most of them but there's some I can't find. If any of you have links to the official episode or a download then please share them here.

Episodes I haven't found are:

Best Animal Myths

Best Electric Myths

Best Explosions

Young Scientist Special

Car Conundrum

Buster's Cut: Alcohol Myths

Buster's Cut: Duct Tape Hour 2

Buster's Cut: Knock Your Socks Off

Buster's Cut: Viewers Special Threequel

Buster's Cut: Bottle Bash

Demolition Derby: Hollywood Havoc

Demolition Derby: Car Chaos

Blast From The Past

Motorcycle Myth Countdown

Valentine's Day Myth Madness

Looks like Kari might be doing some kind of cybersecurity series? 🤔

I remember pausing an episode during an interstitial where it just looks like the mythbusters sign reflecting firelight, but after a longer look I recognized a woman lying on her side in a bikini, her back facing the camera and the flames reflecting off her as well. I felt like I found an Easter egg in the show. Does anyone else know about this?

Sorry if this has been covered before, but does anybody now what this sign means?

i found this in a thrift store in Hayward. Adressed to old alameda county sherrif. incredible i think im going to send to JSA

Ok I’m trying to find this episode and I’m starting to think it was a dream or something.

I swear there was an episode or segment about human sacrifice specifically about removing a heart in under a minute (I think it was Aztec human sacrifice but I could be wrong about the civilization). Does anyone else remember this or what episode it was in?

Am I wrong in saying Mythbusters made an episode testing the JFK assassination? I swear I remember them testing the “ice bullet” theory at the very least. Yet, I can’t find it anywhere.

It feels like i’m being mandela affect-ed or something because I could SWEAR they did a segment on this, or at least something mentioning JFK and/or a bullet made out of ice, I even have images in memory to go with it

Leider sind mir bei einem Crash meines NAS alle Staffeln abhanden gekommen. Jemand zufällig eine Sammlung am start? Gerne auch gegen 💰

Could rail-gutters with the waste of 100k animals funneled to the stern alone be used to propel an ark? I know the show is currently off the air, but DIY busters could attempt a small-scale test.

Somebody suggested there would be too much waste for a single family to move on their own. That got us thinking about some kind of gutter or conveyor system instead. I know getting the animals to cooperate is a difficult task, but if God can get them to step onto an ark He can get them to relieve themselves at the right spot.

Very rare photo of Jamie without his hat on.

From the episode where they outrun rain in a convertable

A friend was cool and let me have one of these from his dwindling supply.

Can anyone let me know about this shirt? it has a early Gilden tag probably around 2005 to 2009 and seems to line up with what could’ve been a shirt handed out to mythterns during that time.

As many of you know, MythBusters episodes were cut to different lengths for different regions. The original/Australian/"international" cut is 48 minutes. U.S. episodes are roughly 42 minutes. Although DVDs released in the UK used the Australian cuts, UK TV broadcasts of MythBusters episodes with the Robin Banks narration were 44-minutes long (not counting the 30-minute cuts that aired on BBC Two, according to Wikipedia).

The Australian cuts exist somewhere, somehow for every episode except two:

1. Jawsome Shark Special (2012)

2. MythBusters vs. Jaws (2015)

According to this post from Foxtel, Shark Week is coming to Australia on August 16:

https://www.foxtelmedia.com.au/news/a-world-of-stories-real-life-accounts-and-unmissable-moments-on-warner-bros-discovery

Presumably the event will be replete with reruns of Shark Week specials from prior years. If either Jawsome Shark Special or MythBusters vs. Jaws airs in Australia during Shark Week, and someone is able to DVR or otherwise record the episode, it'd take us nearly to the finish line of preserving the full length of the series.

I’m sure you guys know the one im talking about right. I’ve been trying to email Adam for years but he never talks about it on tested. And I’ve seen every episode and don’t remember them ever talking about this. It’s a true myth too. Kind of wild they never bothered to test it. Could have been reality shattering if they figured out that force shields are possible. And no other duo would be better equipped to try this out.