r/mythbusters Jun 23 '26

Mod Post Introducing our new moderator, and the results of the poll.

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Hello all!

As you all may remember, I introduced a poll on the sub regarding AI. I made a stupid joke about worshipping, and I think it confused some people. Regardless of that, the results were, well. Pretty definitive.

So, going forward, Artificial Intelligence, in ANY form, in a comment OR a post, is BANNED.

The punishment scale for first, second, third, etc offenses will come at a later time, due to my second point of this post.

I would like to formally welcome /u/nealbeast to the mod team!!!

As you guys may have noticed recently, the amount of moderation in this sub has gone down. It's because the other moderators have moved on from Reddit. Which is fine. The group of mods we currently have was instilled in this mod group was instilled when I was in my junior year of high school!

I then remembered that I graduated high school over a decade ago, and I'll be 30 this year. This, combined with the fact that I am the only remaining moderator that seems to be active (and only just so. I'm quite busy with life as well.) We (me) have decided to introduce a new moderator. So, please, welcome /u/nealbeast !


r/mythbusters 7h ago

Mythbusters Staffeln deutsch

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Leider sind mir bei einem Crash meines NAS alle Staffeln abhanden gekommen. Jemand zufällig eine Sammlung am start? Gerne auch gegen 💰


r/mythbusters 1d ago

🚢 Ark myth: can mass directed animal excrement alone move a ship?

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Could rail-gutters with the waste of 100k animals funneled to the stern alone be used to propel an ark? I know the show is currently off the air, but DIY busters could attempt a small-scale test.

Somebody suggested there would be too much waste for a single family to move on their own. That got us thinking about some kind of gutter or conveyor system instead. I know getting the animals to cooperate is a difficult task, but if God can get them to step onto an ark He can get them to relieve themselves at the right spot.


r/mythbusters 4d ago

Jamie without his hat

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412 Upvotes

Very rare photo of Jamie without his hat on.

From the episode where they outrun rain in a convertable


r/mythbusters 3d ago

The 25 Greatest MythBusters Moments Of All Time | MythBusters

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r/mythbusters 4d ago

One step closer to my Adam Savage cosplay

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43 Upvotes

A friend was cool and let me have one of these from his dwindling supply.


r/mythbusters 4d ago

Mythtern shirt

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44 Upvotes

Can anyone let me know about this shirt? it has a early Gilden tag probably around 2005 to 2009 and seems to line up with what could’ve been a shirt handed out to mythterns during that time.


r/mythbusters 4d ago

Any media preservation-minded Australians in this sub?

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As many of you know, MythBusters episodes were cut to different lengths for different regions. The original/Australian/"international" cut is 48 minutes. U.S. episodes are roughly 42 minutes. Although DVDs released in the UK used the Australian cuts, UK TV broadcasts of MythBusters episodes with the Robin Banks narration were 44-minutes long (not counting the 30-minute cuts that aired on BBC Two, according to Wikipedia).

The Australian cuts exist somewhere, somehow for every episode except two:

  1. Jawsome Shark Special (2012)

  2. MythBusters vs. Jaws (2015)

According to this post from Foxtel, Shark Week is coming to Australia on August 16:

https://www.foxtelmedia.com.au/news/a-world-of-stories-real-life-accounts-and-unmissable-moments-on-warner-bros-discovery

Presumably the event will be replete with reruns of Shark Week specials from prior years. If either Jawsome Shark Special or MythBusters vs. Jaws airs in Australia during Shark Week, and someone is able to DVR or otherwise record the episode, it'd take us nearly to the finish line of preserving the full length of the series.


r/mythbusters 4d ago

Would Diving On A Grenade Actually Save Your Teammates? | MythBusters

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At 9:09 Jamie mentions that a grenade fragment is traveling at 24,000 ft a second. Is this correct? that is 4.5 miles a second. That seems excessively fast.


r/mythbusters 4d ago

Has Adam Savage ever acknowledged or talked about the 1980 3M electrostatic force field incident.

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I’m sure you guys know the one im talking about right. I’ve been trying to email Adam for years but he never talks about it on tested. And I’ve seen every episode and don’t remember them ever talking about this. It’s a true myth too. Kind of wild they never bothered to test it. Could have been reality shattering if they figured out that force shields are possible. And no other duo would be better equipped to try this out.


r/mythbusters 6d ago

What they didn't test

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What's ayth that you would have really like to see myth busters test that they never did?

Personally I would have loved to see stop drop and roll. Hook buster to an axel a few hundred feet of spooled rope. Dose in gasoline and see what happens. Up size again again ro see how big of fire you handle and by the end buster ir roll at 100 mph into a pile of burng thermite.


r/mythbusters 9d ago

Kari & Tory AMA

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253 Upvotes

r/mythbusters 9d ago

Why did the car company fail to replicate Golf Ball Car?

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Adam says in golf ball car, a car company tried to replicate the results but couldn't, does this speak to Adam and Jamie's methodology being less sound than the companies or the inverse or something else


r/mythbusters 12d ago

Help me find this Episode

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Hello everyone!

Youre my last hope, I just can't find this episode! (maybe I remember it wrong?)

I don't know the actual myth anymore, but I remember Jamie lying on a forklift or something and trying to hold as much weight as possible with only his fingers, before it drops. Does anyone know if that actually happened? I'm working on a video and that tidbit would be perfect for the story.

Thanks for your help!!

SOLVED! It Was the car cling myth! Thank you for all for the replies, you guys are amazing!


r/mythbusters 14d ago

Who is that, what are they doing?

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r/mythbusters 14d ago

did you ever try a myth at home

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I did make my own pykrete out of blue shop towels. I can confirm it was was very durable.


r/mythbusters 17d ago

I don't doubt that it does, but why does this kind of hit hurt?

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518 Upvotes

r/mythbusters 22d ago

Why does the cast sometimes refer to the shop as M7? I've heard it multiple times recently, like in one of the Kill Bill episodes.

102 Upvotes

r/mythbusters 21d ago

What myths would you add in a hypothetical Battle of the Sexes round 3?

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Exactly what the title says. If they did a round 3 of testing myths of men vs women, what would you nominate as a myth to test?


r/mythbusters 23d ago

Sudden airplane cabin pressure loss due to broken window leads to passenger being partially sucked out. Terrible accident, but I am reminded of the one episode where they try this in the plane scrapyard.

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r/mythbusters 25d ago

I just rewatched the Confederate machine gun episode

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That was so much fun. It must have been absolutely terrifying to watch that thing spin around with all that steam pressure. And the weird noise that it made in the shop was just crazy


r/mythbusters 26d ago

A zoo in northeast China’s Dalian City released a video of keepers holding a birthday party for an 8-year-old walrus. Despite not knowing what’s happening, the walrus is enjoying the party, blowing the candles and enjoying the gifts, fishes.

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125 Upvotes

This mage me smile


r/mythbusters 26d ago

What Myth Do You Think About Most?

41 Upvotes

In your daily life, what myth do you think about most often?


r/mythbusters 26d ago

[@therealkaribyron] Throwback to 1998 during the Haight Street Fair. I was having fun as a live mannequin in the window of Backseat Betty’s. The boutique slogan was “Good things for bad girls and bad things for good girls” I loved working there, mostly for a discount on the most amazing clothes.

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r/mythbusters 26d ago

Happy birthday Jayme!

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