EPTMythBusters sends cannonball through neighborhood - Page 13
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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gruff
Sweden2276 Posts
 I guess this could potentially lead to people being less inclined to lend them big expensive objects for their experiements if they hear about this. I know they've had problems before lending jet planes and whatnot so it shouldn't get easier after this not matter what caused the accident. | ||
alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
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JuJuZerg
United States48 Posts
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Regime
Australia185 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On December 08 2011 19:07 Regime wrote: very hard to believe that sumthin like this could happen after all there safety regulations When dealing with firearms (and a cannon, like artillery, is really just a really really big gun), you can have a perfect design and still the odds dictate that someday, at somepoint, something crazy will happen. Like a hangfire. Or the "magic bullet" theory. Or a cannonball missing the target, plowing through a wall, and bouncing over the 700 foot earthen berm and then careening down a street, through a house, off the roof of another house, and then stopping on the floorboards of a toyota sienna. Having seen the google earth aerial imagery of the area, it could only get weirder if at some point it went through a basketball hoop so I could add "and nothing but net." Even experts (and if you doubt Jamie, Adam, Tori, Grant, and Kari are experts, be assured there are other experts involved (like JD Nelson or that FBI Frank guy) and others still that have been consulted) sometimes have accidents. As for this being somehow really dangerous... I used to live near one of the USAF's bombing ranges. They have had target drones fished out of the Gulf, people hiking suddenly finding a bomb that failed to detonate, and they close down some roads because they're about to launch a hellfire missile that will be passing overhead. There's "wtf were you thinking" and then there's "acceptable risk due to extremely small chances anything will go wrong". Of course, with the mythbusters, failure is always an option... which is why they take such pains to minimize those risks. (Risk, however, can never be eliminated.) Ahh... I miss the sound of AC-130 gunships firing off 105mm howitzers and 40mm cannons as I go to sleep... | ||
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
On December 08 2011 10:07 Myles wrote: They've done these types of things numerous times. There are definitely standard precautions. The government gave them permits to perform such an act, so they didn't feel there was a legitimate public threat. I'm not one to say the governments always right, but if they permitted it then the MythBusters certainly can't be held liable. I feel like I'm getting trolled here. I don't know much about american law, but I doubt they'd go unpunished if someone had lost a leg/died. Thus they should also be punished for the risk they made those people unwillingly incur. The goverment giving them the "go-ahead" doesn't exempt them from the consequence of their actions as far as I know (though they can/will share in the blame). If someone with an american law degree could enlighten us, that would be super. | ||
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thoradycus
Malaysia3262 Posts
busted. luckily no one got hurt though. | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On December 08 2011 19:55 Sbrubbles wrote: I don't know much about american law, but I doubt they'd go unpunished if someone had lost a leg/died. Thus they should also be punished for the risk they made those people unwillingly incur. The goverment giving them the "go-ahead" doesn't exempt them from the consequence of their actions as far as I know (though they can/will share in the blame). If someone with an american law degree could enlighten us, that would be super. They will certainly be investigated to ensure that all safety procedures were followed. If they weren't, then they will likely be charged with negligence. I don't see how it's even a question of liability if they did follow procedures. It'd be like prosecuting you for someone dying in a car wreck caused by ice when you weren't driving dangerously - it's no ones fault, just a tragic accident. | ||
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
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Astragoth
Netherlands89 Posts
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ThaZenith
Canada3116 Posts
On December 09 2011 05:59 Keitzer wrote: I really hope they don't cancel the show because of this... I think everyone's taking this much too seriously, no way it'll get canceled. This one episode might have to pick a different myth to test, but that's about it. They'll pay all the damages and whatever else, and might not be able to test at that specific location pointing in that specific direction. | ||
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