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MythBusters sends cannonball through neighborhood

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CrimsonLotus
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Colombia1123 Posts
December 07 2011 17:34 GMT
#1
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Mythbusters cannonball
A cannonball fired by the "Mythbusters" TV show plowed through a Northern California house, struck the roof of another house and smashed through a minivan's window in a science experiment gone wrong.

The mishap occurred Tuesday while the Discovery Channel show was testing out whether other materials are just as effective as a cannonball when fired from a cannon.

Instead, the mythbusters learned how effective a cannonball can be when it misses its intended target, according to KGO-TV San Francisco.

The cannonball was fired from a bomb range in Dublin, about 35 miles east of San Francisco in Alameda County. It was supposed to hit trash cans but instead soared 700 yards into the home of a sleeping couple, leaving a 10-inch hole in the bedroom wall.
The cannonball was traveling as fast as a bullet. It exited the house, bounced across four lanes of traffic, struck the roof of another house and then smashed through the window of a parked minivan.

No one was injured.

Neighbors said "MythBusters" often tries its experiments in the area, and they have grown used to hearing explosions.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/mythbusters-cannonball.html



Wow, that was really dangerous... I'm glad that noone got hurt.

But this might really hurt the show, I hope it doesn't gen canceled, but maybe they got too confident over time and forgot to take some extra precautions.
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ZeroCartin
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2390 Posts
December 07 2011 17:36 GMT
#2
WOW

THat is increidbly dangerous. But i hope it gets to air on TV!
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PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 17:39:02
December 07 2011 17:38 GMT
#3
Holy Crap! Im sure that that whoever is responsible is beating themselves up over this. I am so glad that no one was killed, because it easily could have happened.
What a tremendous mistake, pointing a loaded cannon towards a residential neighborhood.
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bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
December 07 2011 17:38 GMT
#4
I don't believe this is real.

Let's get Mythbusters to try it out!
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KillyKyll
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States267 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 17:39:35
December 07 2011 17:39 GMT
#5
On December 08 2011 02:36 ZeroCartin wrote:
WOW

THat is increidbly dangerous. But i hope it gets to air on TV!

I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad no one got hurt, and I'm sure Discovery or whomever will pay the damages, so assuming it airs, I'm looking forward to see behind the scenes of this incident.
Seriously?
Zzzapper
Profile Joined September 2011
1792 Posts
December 07 2011 17:39 GMT
#6
Quite crazy that it got so far without doing any real harm. Yeah, I know ruining people's houses isn't good, but I'm sure the show makes enough money to rebuild it...
aksfjh
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4853 Posts
December 07 2011 17:39 GMT
#7
How do you miss by that much?
DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
December 07 2011 17:42 GMT
#8
Well there's your problem...
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 17:44:00
December 07 2011 17:42 GMT
#9
On December 08 2011 02:39 aksfjh wrote:
How do you miss by that much?

IKR
like, did someone tilt it 30 degrees up right before launch or something?
o i get it, like a really old style cannon with no accuracy. nvm.
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ishboh
Profile Joined October 2010
United States954 Posts
December 07 2011 17:42 GMT
#10
wow thats crazy. hope it doesn't hurt the show too much...other than make them take extra precautions next time.
LlOoKkIi
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Korea (South)473 Posts
December 07 2011 17:42 GMT
#11
I cant believe this actually happened. Lucky no one go hurt.

When I used to watch the show it seemed like they always took the biggest safety precautions before doing tests.
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Boblhead
Profile Joined August 2010
United States2577 Posts
December 07 2011 17:42 GMT
#12
On December 08 2011 02:39 aksfjh wrote:
How do you miss by that much?


when dealing with old firearms like that, especially cannons..... ya.
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
December 07 2011 17:43 GMT
#13
LOLL awesomeeeee pretty awesome.
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
Skilledblob
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany3392 Posts
December 07 2011 17:43 GMT
#14
On December 08 2011 02:38 PassiveAce wrote:
Holy Crap! Im sure that that whoever is responsible is beating themselves up over this. I am so glad that no one was killed, because it easily could have happened.
What a tremendous mistake, pointing a loaded cannon towards a residential neighborhood.


it's more like how could they miss a row of trashcans filled with water hit through a concrete wall and through another house and the god damn canonball did still not stop.

Sounds like they used way too much blackpowder or american houses are made out of paper.
ADeZ
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada31 Posts
December 07 2011 17:43 GMT
#15
how old is that... I remember them doing a myth like that a long time ago ?????????
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 17:46:05
December 07 2011 17:44 GMT
#16
wow... but what did he say at the end?

"but that tweet was latered" -- later deleted?

Shit I was wondering for so long what the hell are they doing in Dublin and why are the accents so American.

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Keyboard Warrior
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1178 Posts
December 07 2011 17:44 GMT
#17
I never really like them. They are not even scientists, but special effect guys. They always see to have predetermined conclusions, and their methodology is often questionable, if not scientifically inaccurate: case in point, this cannon ball incident, the cowboy episode where a cowboy hits a moving target from a moving horse, where they decide that it is impossible to do so where in reality it is simply a matter of statistics, and the more you do it, say you are a cowboy gun slinger yourself, the more you are likely to achieve it. And there is also that ninja episode. Also, I really disliked how they treated the moon hoax episode. Too much Americanism while disregarding rigid scientific procedure.
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mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12704 Posts
December 07 2011 17:45 GMT
#18
The trash cans were supposed to stop it... ?
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DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 17:46:54
December 07 2011 17:45 GMT
#19
On December 08 2011 02:43 Skilledblob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 08 2011 02:38 PassiveAce wrote:
Holy Crap! Im sure that that whoever is responsible is beating themselves up over this. I am so glad that no one was killed, because it easily could have happened.
What a tremendous mistake, pointing a loaded cannon towards a residential neighborhood.


it's more like how could they miss a row of trashcans filled with water hit through a concrete wall and through another house and the god damn canonball did still not stop.

Sounds like they used way too much blackpowder or american houses are made out of paper.


Well cannon balls are kind of meant to go through things...
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
December 07 2011 17:47 GMT
#20
Been a huge Mythbusters fan since their early days, nothing like this has ever happened before. Lucky nobody got hurt :o
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