can you survive being shot at while hiding behind a plaster,concrete,metal,brick,and wood wall or behind furniture like sofas and tables.My 8yo wants to know he likes mythbusters, even wants to become one, when he gets older. My boys name is Devin.

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Sorry it is the first time that I post> I wanted to post this a new forum. I'll try again.
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In honor of the "over the air" going to digital, I have a few antenna myths that I have heard over the years and would like to see you put to the test. I think Grant would have an easy time testing these. Here they are:

Railroad Track Antenna Extender - Prior to the days of Internet, I heard that someone could connect a wire from the antenna screw of an older style children's channel 14 walkie-talkie, and another person do the same miles away (I had heard anywhere from 1 mile to 1000s of miles) and they small milliwatt signal would travel the rail and allow them to talk as if they were feet away from each other.

Old Phone Line Antenna Extender - Same as the one above, but this involves connecting a no longer active phone wire to the antenna screw of a basic walkie-talkie, extending its range to miles.

** I doubt that any of these above would extend more than a few hundred feet, but I did try this myself and it was interesting. I had a pair of toy transistor Walkie-Talkies. They were old Radio Shack - Archer walkie talkies, the kind with a bright orange morse code key on it. I connected an old rotary TV antenna lead to the antenna screw of the walkie talkie (NOTE: I tried first using an alligator clip attached to the antenna lead and clamped to the telescoping aluminum antenna itself and this did not work). I set a tape recorder down next to the walkie talkie and set out walking through my neighborhood and beyond. About 1/8th of a mile beyond. Ever so often I would talk into my walkie talkie and would say (for example) I am at 123 Maple Street, 234 Walnut Street, etc... The results of my experiment were that it did indeed extend the range. **

Chain Link Fence UHF TV Extender - (you will have to test this one before the switch over to digital TV in Feb 2009) - Connect the UHF connector on older styles TVs to a chain link fence. See if does or does not improve a distant UHF signal. ** I actually used to do this as a kid. We had 3 local stations and 2 not so local UHF stations. I got tired of the UHF stations only coming in when the atmospheric conditions were favorable (even with a rotary antenna), so I tried this and to my amazement, it worked. We had a chain link fence with 3 sides that went from the back corner of our house, around a pool and to the other back corner of our house.

Pringles Can WiFi extender - Just go here to get all the info: http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

Tin Foil crumpled onto rabbit ears - Does it really improve reception?

"Fox Viewing Positions from Married With Children" (you will have to test this one before the switch over to digital TV in Feb 2009) - Can people's positions in a room affect UHF signal strength?

Final Antenna Challenge - I was in the Air Force for 8 years as a Satellite Communications technician. I have heard about people in remote areas of Alaska making their own Satellite dishes (everything except the low noise amplifiers) in the days when analog satellite TV was more prevalent. Some of these homemade dishes reported used a soup can as the signal collectors. Using information available on the web, can the Mythbusters team build a working satellite receiver? Maybe even finding schematics and building your own LNA?

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Can you come up with a way that would "super-extend (Mythbusters Style)" the range of toy walkie-talkies.

In "Railroad Track Antenna Extender" above - I meant to say that the other end of the wire is connected to a railroad track.

I've heard that some Native American cultures used wet rawhide straps as a means of torture/execution. The condemned would be bound in it and left in the sun. As the warming rawhide shrank in the heat, the condemned would be crushed or strangled. My question is: How much Damage would it really do and would it really kill some one?

Some people say Orbes in pictures are super-natural... Others say they are scientific. Come on Mythbusters!! this would be a fun one to test!

Prehistoric sea dragon myth has been busted. The true prehistoric sea dragon remains have been discovered just below an ancient sea shore in northern Utah and are called Hallettestoneion Seazoria Dragons. Discovered by Mike Hallett November 2003. Seazoria Dragons range in size from 130 to 300 feet in overall length. Teeth average more than 27 inches. The prehistoric Hallettestoneion Seazoria Dragons are the oldest, largest, and most advanced forms of life ever discovered. The dragon era of advanced prehistoric marine biology predates the land dinosaur era by 320 million years. Photographs of a Hallettestoneion Seazoria Dragon skull matrix excavation (skull and teeth) can be viewed on the Seazoria website. Only 8 intact Hallettestoneion Seazoria skulls with full and complete sets of teeth remain at the Hallettestoneion Heights graveyards located in northern Utah 60 miles north of Salt Lake City Utah. The Hallettestoneion Seazoria Dragons are a thousand times more spectacular than the vertebra land dinosaurs. Mythbusters where are you? Come to Utah and take a tour of the eight remaining Hallettestoneion Seazoria Dragons.