Mythbusters 7x07 "Seesaw Saga" - Discuss and Grade

[dru]

I can't believe they wasted a whole entire show on this one thing.

 

[Lonemagpie]

For the purposes of these ratings threads, I'll stick to opening them on Wednesdays and use the US air order as the show is an American one.

I'd suggest bumping up the Alaska Special 2 one alongside the 7x08 one next week though

 

[Hermiod]

^Poll for that is closed, though I'll dig it up if you want.

I thought this was surprisingly entertaining. They obviously really tried with this one.

For the record.

Seesaw Saga - Busted. A skydiver whose parachute has failed hits a seesaw in a children's playground causing a little girl on the other side to fly on to a seven story roof and survive uninjured. They constructed a super-strong seesaw, so that the impact of their skydiver substitute would not destroy it upon impact and found a way using bungee cords to accelerate their skydiver to 122mph so that they could drop him from a lower height. The test worked perfectly the final time they attempted, and their "little girl" was catapulted 40 metres in to the air, well above the necessary height to prove the myth. However, a combination of the severity of the injuries the girl would have received (she would most likely be killed by the 42gs she was subjected to on the way up) and the unrealistically strong seesaw caused this myth to be busted.

 

[Lonemagpie]

^Poll for that is closed, though I'll dig it up if you want.

Now that we know the UK is mostly getting the new episodes in the same timeframe, it'd be fair so that us UK viewers can vote on it

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Where to hell do some of these 'Myths" come from??

 

[Hermiod]

Where to hell do some of these 'Myths" come from??

Quite often e-mails and posters on the Mythbusters forums on the Discovery website.

Now that we know the UK is mostly getting the new episodes in the same timeframe, it'd be fair so that us UK viewers can vote on it

I will leave them open for two months from now on.