Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel

the myth that I would like to see is if you can strike a match by shooting the tip of it.

I have heard that the smaller a fruit is the jucier and healthier it is and the bigger it is the more watery and not that healthy it is.

Here's a novel idea. maybe someone should set up a "forum" so people could submit myths for famous special effects, scientific minded professionals could have interns weed out the obvious garbage and test the interesting myths, video the tests, and show it on cable tv. I think it could work. I'd watch.

Can anyone steal the Declaration of Indepence?

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i have heard if a steam train locomotive runs out of water it will explode and the history of steam trains is filled with boiler explosions march 1844 a yard engine blows up december 1925 a locomotive hauling mine workers blows up killing 18 and injuring 50

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Thought you could few extra punctuation marks.

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And a few capital letters as well.

how about the story of Samson? Could the jawbone of an ass really be a deadly weapon?

IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT THE COCHROACH CAN SURVIVE A NUCLEAR BOMB BECAUSE OF ITS SHELL?

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Originally posted by fonz3:
Can anyone steal the Declaration of Indepence?

LOL only if you like the thought of Bubba... or getting shot. Though I think Bubba is more frightening.

My dad told me a story about an old lady who got biten be a rattle snake and, thought she was going to die. So she went into her kitchen to cook and, bake as much food as she could before she died so her children would have food for a while after she died. But, the wood stove mad the kitchen so hot and, she sweated so much that the poisen was sweated out of her body and she lived.

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Originally posted by xodus666:
Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel

Not a myth, been done a lot since the turn of the century..

Daredevils of Niagara Falls

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Originally posted by MythsBusted3:
IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT THE COCHROACH CAN SURVIVE A NUCLEAR BOMB BECAUSE OF ITS SHELL?

Yes, but the roach ain't the only insect that can survive a nuclear attack.. The Waterbear can that as well..

how about the myth of deadalus and icarus? how they are trapped in a tower and need to escap so deadalus makes wings out of feathers, wax and string.

i wonder if cheese makes ur dreams go weird, and if chocolate makes u have nightmares.

I heard from a very smart friend of mine that in ancient times merchant ships that were sunk when the hulls broke from the rice expanding is this possible?

Will a pair of Blue Jeans, made by Levi Strauss & Co. of San Francisco, hold fast against the snorting will of two opposing horses, as per the company's trade mark?

Could work well in an Old West, San Francisco,Truth in Advertising, clothes, or just Blue Jeans theme.

LO,Buster's of Myth! Heed My Call to Action!

All the best

They don't do commercial product testing.

Besides, I remember this being done on "Fight Back with David Horowitz" back in the 1970s. The jeans ripped.

If You turned the gas on to a bunson burner in a science class room let it sit a while and then lit it could you blow up a whole classroom?

According to the U.S. government, there are two official versions of the JFK assassination. The Warren Commission says that Oswald did it and did it alone. The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded, based mainly on acoustic evidence, that a fourth shot came from the grassy knoll area. The Zapruder film shows JFK's head and torso being thrown back and to the left when he received the head shot. This seems to strongly indicate a shot from the right front, but there are still those out there who think that it's possible for JFK's body and head to have had that reaction even if he was shot in the head from behind and from the School Book Depository. I believe that it's a myth that JFK was only shot from behind.

Since there are two U.S. government positions on the JFK assassination, I'd love to see the Mythbusters put a crash test dummy like Buster in the back seat of a limo and leaning forward like JFK was at the time of the headshot and then shoot the crash test dummy in the skull from those two different directions to see what direction the head goes after each shot. If the head and torso get thrown or pushed back and to the left when the shot from the front hits, we'll know that that shot from the grassy knoll actually hit JFK.

It seems like an easy test to do. Are the Mythbusters up to the task?

Does rubing two sticks together really create a spark and can that spark start a fire?