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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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