Anyone else completely grossed out by the poo myth? I cringed and had to look away more than once. There are a ton of idioms out there that would have been more interesting. I love the show, but this was just...icky.

Loved the no bang with the thermite cutting into the SUV. The bangs are cool but that was just amazing watching that 1000lbs of thermite burn through.

Does anyone remember what the name of the art of polishing those mud balls was called? it looked interesting.

I also had a slight problem with the episode "Hit the ground running". In my opinion, they should have had somebody try it, who is actually used to "hitting the ground running" like a parachutist! They know how to do it and could possibly prove that it is possible.

Just like getting a real Ninja to try and catch an arrow ;-))

Depends the cement-truck bang was the most awesome one ive seen except for an IED explosion i saw on another site, was around the same amount or abit more but not as fun since people died.

For those of you that were intrigued by the Japanese art of mud polishing, try searching for hikaru dorodango, or just dorodango. Awesome stuff, Mythbusters. Thanks!

Hit the ground running is plausible at the least!The myth is Hit the ground RUNNING.Not hit the ground biking or hit the ground driving.


Im going to try mud poishing,too.That looked so cool!

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Originally posted by caitekins:
Anyone else completely grossed out by the poo myth? I cringed and had to look away more than once. There are a ton of idioms out there that would have been more interesting. I love the show, but this was just...icky.

I made tbe mistake of sitting down to a late dinner just as the opening credits started.

Can we call this the "Mythbusters" diet?

Hit the ground running is an old railroad term. They said that, but then showed Our Gang running on an old movie set. Some research! Any F>R>O>G> can tell you that if you don't hit the ground running when you get off of a moving train, you will fall down and probably get injured!. The myth is not busted, just the research team!

I thought that hitting the ground running meant it like landing after a jump. like in hurdles or just jumping over something. in which case I think it would be better, rather than going around the hurdle or what have you.

Re: Hit the ground running

One big problem I have with their approaches is they forgot one important thing. Momentum is imparted at an angle In all their experiments, the angle of their momentum was pretty heavily into the ground, so they had to fight that before they could move forward quickly. Either by bending their knees or by squealing or stopping the tires.

Their zip line should have had a shallower angle, maybe accelerated by a motor. Or better yet, maybe have them running off the end of a flat platform that is moving in the opposite direction (kinda like the plane taking off on a treadmill).

For the bike, simply drop it from a much lower height, same with the car. Maybe put the car on rollers, like a dynomometer (sp?) and stop the rollers having the car take off...

All in all, I think that the science was pretty bad for this myth overall...

Not to mention, did anyone notice exactly how funny Grant was when he ran? Hilarious. Kari however, still attractive!!

Sorry,I disagree with your findings for Hit the ground running too. You used a front wheel drive vehicle! I have an eletronic race track w/ rear wheel drive cars. When I hold the back of them above the track at full throttle and drop them,they travel a set distance faster than from a standing start. Further more, that car had street tires, you might have better luck with slicks.

I believe that hit the ground running comes from a war time situation. When parachuting into a combat zone, airborne soldiers were taught to flare at landing and hit the ground running, instead of landing flat and collapsing, so they would be a moving target instead of a stationary target. The meaning to many idioms is in the context and I think this one was lost. Maybe it's just me though.

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Originally posted by expert1:
I was Really disappointed with the landing while running thing...for several reasons:
1- they could have used some lubricant on the bike.
2-they should have simi-jumped before reaching the ground in the first trial.
3- the biggest disappontment at all....they used a FRONT WHEEL DRIVE CAR...the engine weight is concentrated on that part...imagine a 3 tons of metal pushing on rubber wheels!
they should have used a rear wheel drive car because the back is lighter and it gives a lot more torque to the process....
I demand a retry for at least the car part...i am sur the mith will proove right then

Agreed on the car.. They should have also done a rear-wheel drive car.

Lubricant on the bike would not have done squat, the reason that hit the ground running with bike did not work was that the friction from the ground was to great for Tory to overcome..

I think it'll be interesting to test a 4WD
It might be the slowest among the 3 types if the front wheels are lifted,but it may have a different result when lifting the rear wheels

A great episode.....is there somewhere i can learn to make the dirt ball thingy? BTW, the moped was way better than the thermite.

The idiom is not about getting a faster start, as the episode might suggest. It's about not falling on your face.

The idiom is suggesting that you are being hurled or placed into a high speed situation and that you need to be ready to move as soon as you hit the ground or fall flat and fail.

In their tests, only the zip line had any sort of connection to the idiom and Grant demonstrated what happens if you don't hit the ground running (and hit the ground flailing instead). You either fall flat and fail or keep moving and succeed.

As far as ending on thermite or a bang, the thermite is cool, but Brainiac ended on thermite quite a lot, but ending on a bang is usually cooler. Depending on the bang. Firecracker, not so much, unstable metals like sodium or californium in a bathtub... VERY cool.

better to end with a bang-

plz pass the thermite. i prefer the thermite on the car vs. the basic moped NOped bang. when do you ever get to see 1,000lbs. of thermite put in/on a car a set fire?

the veridict-i want thermite, not bang (myth busted)

For end with a bang, I'd say Jamie's thermite cutting through a car was way better. If Adam had a bigger explosion, then maybe I woud vote for that, but just the moped isn't enough (even though the explosive cord was interesting). I also thought this idiom episode was less than satisfactory; I haven't even heard of the you can't polish poo idiom. The Japanese mud polishing stuff is awesome, and I did some research and found this: http://www.dorodango.com
If you look at the gallery you can see that you coud make all sorts of colors if you had the right dirt (or you could dye the dirt). I'm totally trying this!

took me a while to find it too. its called Hikaru Dorodango. Im looking it up my self and thats what i have but work soon and felt I should reply before I forget lol

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Originally posted by Dtotheon:
Does anyone know what the way they shined the poo was called? I would like to look it up and make my own dirt ball.