mythbusters

This week watching mythbusters, I watched them test disposable lighters, they tested several different myths about how they may explode. The first was in the dryer it didnt work the lighter didnt explode. Then they tried to put it in a hot car and the lighter did not ignite. They also try to ignite it using the sparks from a guy welding and that worked it ignited in a matter of seconds. The final and coolest myth they tested was they had the lighter ignited sitting on the floor and built a rig to hit the lighter with a golf club and upon impact all the gas was realead and a burst of flames ignited. I thought that was really sweet. The next myth they tested was about the old west and the guns they used. The first myth was can someone shoot off five bullets with a pistol before a silver dollar hit the ground and if you want an idea of how fast that was it was about .333 seconds which is ridicolously fast. Then they tried to put a whole through a solid dollar with a old west gun and were not successful. They did use a newer gone and it worked. Finally can someone being hung be set free by someone shooting the rope and cutting it. That actually was successful but it took 5 shots so it was more of plausible than confirmed. Before they left they put 500 disposable lighters in a car and but a heater in the car that heated the car up to 800 degrees. Finally they added an ignition source and the whole car was up in flames. This show is pretty sweet they prove whether a myth is true or not and sometimes its useful. Though this show has crazy explosions and ridicolous things happening i believe this show is very intellectual compared to reality TV a subject we spoke of all week. It uses science to dissprove everyday myths or some just outrageous myths. To some extent they even help clear falsely based fears that people may have because of myths.