If the Mythbusters could test your myth?

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hotacidbath

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My ichthyology professor suggested we send a bunch of carp related myths in as a class. Nerdy? Very, but I thought it was pretty funny.
 

mobsterlobster

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The Brian J said:
Testing the various deaths from the Final Destination movie series to see if they hold up in real life.

Oh, and also
mobsterlobster said:
I want them to test spider repellants. I have arachnaphobia, and I heard that they don't like conker.]
I think it's common knowledge that spiders don't get along with drunk squirrels
Brilliant. I'd love to have drunken squirrels running round my bedroom anyway, whether they scare away spiders or not.

And that Final Destination idea is great.
 

theonecookie

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-Orgasmatron- said:
If you glue some buttered toast, butter side up, onto a cats back and then drop said cat out of a window, would the world end?
no you just get an anti-gravity engine

how about if you had a 10 meter cable and it was affected by a solar flare would it bust into flames
 

Treblaine

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9/11 conspiracy theories.

Adam Savage has actually gone on the record as saying he'd really like to test this but the cost would be enormous and not to mention controversial. You know other academics have received death threats from conspiracy theorists as they investigate into these events without considering the whacked out theories of these nutjobs.

In the physics course I'm taking we have actually already busted several myths, particularly how much metals are weakened even under relatively moderate heat like found in a Pizza oven (400 degrees Celsius), aluminium had lost 80% of it's strength even AFTER it had cooled back down to room temperature (heating then cooling removes work hardening).

In fact you could almost teach an entire physics course based around the fundamental misunderstandings of physics these conspiracy theories demonstrate.
 

General Vagueness

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coxafloppin said:
jedstopher said:
coxafloppin said:
Probley if cockroaches can survive a nuke. That'd be nifty.
They already did that (the radiation part anyway).
did it survive?
Yes, but not as well as flour beetles.

hotacidbath said:
My ichthyology professor suggested we send a bunch of carp related myths in as a class. Nerdy? Very, but I thought it was pretty funny.
What is this carp you sent me, I can't test this carp!
 

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hotacidbath said:
My ichthyology professor suggested we send a bunch of carp related myths in as a class. Nerdy? Very, but I thought it was pretty funny.

omg your avatar scared the crap out of me! ugh i hate clowns and that movie wasn't scary though...cept the clowns
 

Smagmuck_

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Can a super-human spartan, take out a missle with his bare hands? LOL, halo referance.