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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago

Quoth Adam Savage: "It's not 'my experiment failed', it's 'my experiment yielded data!'"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I loved their episode where they made a led balloon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Surprise origami!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Curiosity is the best trait nature ever gave us.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I would say escaping from quick sand and escaping from an alligator chasing me were two major concerns in my childhood. LoL, global climate change was maybe not even on the list, for which I will curse the petroleum industry.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Boom De Yada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0

(for some nostalgic Discovery vibes)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I just looked up the elephant vs mouse segment. The way the elephants reacted, I kinda feel like they're being cautious because they recognize a harmless lil animal and don't want to step on it. Like they behave pretty much exactly how I do when I see a little spider or frog or cricket or something. like "whoa there buddy, you dont wanna be under my feet"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still wanted them to see how much dynamite it would take to remove a dead whale.

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

How many whales are equivalent to a clogged cement mixer?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes there's a twitch stream of random mythbusters episodes. It's so fun.

I wish they came back :/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We need less entertainment that runs forever and more that has a plan for how long it should be.

In this case it ran as long as it was feasible, then a little longer and then they where done.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Being able to separate your ego and desire to be right from the learning process is such an important skill.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember being stubborn, being proved wrong, continuing to be stubborn, and being proved wrong even harder, in front of others.

It's such a pathetic and embarrassing feeling to be that wrong.

I don't want to be wrong a moment longer than I need to be.

There's no shame in being corrected, but there is in holding on to shit ideas.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is the right attitude more people should have. But all too often, when people are proven wrong, they genuinely believe that it must be the other person/group, because they cannot accept the emotional consequences of being wrong.

I know that I’ve had a hard time learning this because growing up I was never held to account for my actions on an emotional level. It was the 80s and 90s, and adults at that time would either shrug it off, or go straight to the nuclear punishment of corporal punishment. Never once would they sit down and talk to you about why what you did was wrong and how to do it better next time. I, anecdotally, believe that a lot of genx suffer this same way. They simply haven’t learned that there is a better way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well, talking to kids and explaining things to them takes time, and it's basically work. How inconvenient.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Plus being able to figure out a semilegitimate excuse to blow stuff up. "This could be very dangerous so we're going to do several things to make it safer. That's teaching safe lab techniques, so it's educational!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Or at least use classical conditioning to associate the I'm wrong feeling with the impending new cool facts feeling.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I miss Mythbusters so much.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 months ago (9 children)

It's amazing to me that Discovery hasn't tried to bring Mythbusters back. Instead they double down on Ancient Aliens and Pawnstars garbage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah its a real monkeys paw situation too. Will they be able to catch that same lightning in a jar again without the same cast?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

If they understood what made it great, maybe. They don't though, and definitely won't care to try.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago

They did try to bring it back, but it was really a show that needed its core cast to be what it was.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I'm pretty sure they did try to bring it back but it wasn't as popular because it wasn't Adam and Jamie

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Adam and Jamie were awesome, but I'm certain there are some passionate makers or something out there who could fill the role. It wouldn't be the same, but it could be it's own thing. Whoever the new hosts were must have just been the wrong casting, but also I don't know how much Discovery cared because I didn't know about it and I was a huge Mythbusters fan. I guess I just didn't pay attention because Discovery had already killed everything that was worth paying attention to them for by that point.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I watched them but I recall feeling like the new hosts weren't genuine. It felt more like a YouTube reaction video than an episode of Mythbusters.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Mythbusters fundamentally needs to capture the joy of engineering more than the joy of explosions. (Not that those aren’t fun too.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

William Osman and Michael Reeves + the other youtubers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

That would mean Failed Mythbuster Allen Pan™ could redeem himself

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

I remember during the run of Mythbusters either Discovery or History or one of those tried to launch another show to cash in on Mythbusters' success, it was called Smash Lab, and it's clear the creation of this show involved a pie chart titled "Elements of Mythbusters by screen time" and there was one pie wedge labelled "explosions." It didn't last long IIRC.

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