Hmm, there's a new main title theme this season. I don't like it. It has no melody.
Bike vs. car pollution: This didn't really seem to be a myth worth devoting half an episode to. They proved within the first 20 minutes that motorcycles produce far more pollutants than cars despite having better fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. And the rest of the episode, trying to make the bike more fuel-efficient, was obviously a waste of time, since the bikes were more fuel-efficient to begin with and still had horrifically bad smog emissions. So clearly fuel efficiency is not the source of the problem. For some reason, motorcycles just aren't designed to burn fuel as cleanly as cars. Maybe there's not as much pressure on motorcycle designers to improve that because motorcycles aren't as widely used as cars.
Still, it was kind of a cool rig.
Bullet vs. RPG: Another myth that was pretty much busted right off the bat, but I guess due diligence required seeing through all the steps. I agree with their busted verdict, that the scene in the movie Red was impossible, but I would quibble about the assumption in the final test that the bullet and the RPG would be fired at the same instant. Wouldn't there be a question of reaction time? Given how incredibly fast those RPGs travelled, Malkovich's character would've probably been killed before he even realized the weapon had been fired, let alone before he was able to fire back.
Bike vs. car pollution: This didn't really seem to be a myth worth devoting half an episode to. They proved within the first 20 minutes that motorcycles produce far more pollutants than cars despite having better fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. And the rest of the episode, trying to make the bike more fuel-efficient, was obviously a waste of time, since the bikes were more fuel-efficient to begin with and still had horrifically bad smog emissions. So clearly fuel efficiency is not the source of the problem. For some reason, motorcycles just aren't designed to burn fuel as cleanly as cars. Maybe there's not as much pressure on motorcycle designers to improve that because motorcycles aren't as widely used as cars.
Still, it was kind of a cool rig.
Bullet vs. RPG: Another myth that was pretty much busted right off the bat, but I guess due diligence required seeing through all the steps. I agree with their busted verdict, that the scene in the movie Red was impossible, but I would quibble about the assumption in the final test that the bullet and the RPG would be fired at the same instant. Wouldn't there be a question of reaction time? Given how incredibly fast those RPGs travelled, Malkovich's character would've probably been killed before he even realized the weapon had been fired, let alone before he was able to fire back.
