The A-Team episode was pretty interesting. I'm impressed by how effective the manhole-cover approach was at disabling a car nonlethally, though of course it didn't succeed in flipping the car like it did in the clip. I think this is the second time they've built a fake sewer out in the boonies somewhere so they could set off explosives in it, although I think it was the junior team that did it last time.
It was neat what Adam said about how perfectly attuned he and Jamie are when working on something like laying the trench plates. People wonder about whether they're really friends or not, but that's really incidental to their relationship; it's as coworkers that they mesh well, despite their differences in other ways.
On the tree cannon thing, I guess the problem was the use of propane as the explosive, because they have done successful wooden cannons before. I wonder why they didn't try for more of a sabot rather than just that little disk, which didn't seem to seal the barrel all that well.
But the "pitching machine" rig that they slapped together in an hour was really effective and kind of scary. They have the advantage over the A-Team of being actual engineers, and they really scored impressive results. It might have been an exaggeration to say they improvised it, since Jamie had time beforehand to think about the problem and come up with a plan, but the specific design and construction work was evidently done in an hour, and they got effective results with a far simpler rig than the A-Team used. Let us be grateful that the Mythbusters would never use their powers for evil.
Nice touch, too, that they licensed the theme music and used it so much. I was never a huge fan of the show (although I enjoyed it more once I realized it was a parody of ultraviolent action shows and basically a live-action cartoon), but I've always liked the theme.
It was neat what Adam said about how perfectly attuned he and Jamie are when working on something like laying the trench plates. People wonder about whether they're really friends or not, but that's really incidental to their relationship; it's as coworkers that they mesh well, despite their differences in other ways.
On the tree cannon thing, I guess the problem was the use of propane as the explosive, because they have done successful wooden cannons before. I wonder why they didn't try for more of a sabot rather than just that little disk, which didn't seem to seal the barrel all that well.
But the "pitching machine" rig that they slapped together in an hour was really effective and kind of scary. They have the advantage over the A-Team of being actual engineers, and they really scored impressive results. It might have been an exaggeration to say they improvised it, since Jamie had time beforehand to think about the problem and come up with a plan, but the specific design and construction work was evidently done in an hour, and they got effective results with a far simpler rig than the A-Team used. Let us be grateful that the Mythbusters would never use their powers for evil.
Nice touch, too, that they licensed the theme music and used it so much. I was never a huge fan of the show (although I enjoyed it more once I realized it was a parody of ultraviolent action shows and basically a live-action cartoon), but I've always liked the theme.
