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Mzimzim
Profile Joined June 2011
United States221 Posts
December 07 2011 20:47 GMT
#121
did they expect a concrete wall to stop a cannon? aren't cannons made to destroy shit like that?
cjin
Profile Joined July 2011
181 Posts
December 07 2011 20:50 GMT
#122
On December 08 2011 05:29 driftme wrote:
this reminds me of when the three inadvertently launched a remote controlled car doing like 70 mph over the edge of a parking lot, not knowing what was down the hill on the other side. oops!


If you mean the episode where they tested cars going trough fruit stands and stuff like that, it was not really remote controlled but towed by a company (at the companys test site) that does that kind of crash tests for living. Im sure the company did knew whats behind the hill.
Norris_is_GODLY
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom46 Posts
December 07 2011 20:52 GMT
#123
Well they certainly proved a cannon ball can go straight through someones house, bounce off someones roof and go straight through a van window minutes after the guy got out. Oh....that wasn't the myth? .... kinda awkward....
Pyskee
Profile Joined April 2011
United States620 Posts
December 07 2011 20:56 GMT
#124
Someone is going to have a field day in court. Hope the show doesn't get cancelled over it; but I also hope this never happens again, because that could have gone from mildly amusing property damage to man slaughter really quick.
"If you really don't give a shit what brand you chew, chew Stride." - Liquid'Tyler. Gives shoutouts like a boss.
dicey
Profile Joined November 2010
142 Posts
December 07 2011 20:56 GMT
#125
"What was that sound, honey? A burglar?"
"No it's just the Mythbusters' playing with balls, go back to sleep."

Also, am I the only one who can't take the (2nd report) seriously because he's called "Wang"?

Soap
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Brazil1546 Posts
December 07 2011 20:56 GMT
#126
Made me remember this, California is quite a place to live in.

http://www.thexhunters.com/xpeditions/f6f-5k_accident.html

The afternoon calm was shattered as Mighty Mouse rockets fell on downtown Palmdale. Edna Carlson was at home with her six-year-old son William when a chunk of shrapnel burst through her front window, bounced off the ceiling, pierced a wall, and finally came to rest in a pantry cupboard. Another fragment passed through J. R. Hingle's garage and home, nearly hitting Mrs. Lilly Willingham as she sat on the couch. A Leona Valley teenager, Larry Kempton, was driving west on Palmdale Boulevard with his mother in the passenger seat when a rocket exploded on the street in front of him. Fragments blew out his left front tire, and put numerous holes in the radiator, hood, windshield, and even the firewall. Miraculously, no one was injured by any of the falling rockets. Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams later recovered 13 duds in the vicinity of Palmdale. It took 500 firefighters two days to bring the brushfires under control.
BroboCop
Profile Joined December 2010
United States373 Posts
December 07 2011 21:01 GMT
#127
good thing no one got hurt. I haven't really kept up with it but mythbusters is a very good timewaster tv show in that it is interesting. I would be interested if they made a whole episode solely about htis incident focusing on the failures / sources of error etc.

and because it is simply waiting to be said.
+ Show Spoiler +
I guess you could say.. that the mysthbusters... BUSTED A NUT. YEAHHHH!
TheLOLas
Profile Joined May 2011
United States646 Posts
December 07 2011 21:06 GMT
#128
Jesus that sounds terrifying. Glad nobody got hurt. I wonder how they could have messed up their safety precautions bad enough to let this happen.
dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
December 07 2011 21:14 GMT
#129
guess this is why they have so much insurance. great show; hope this doesnt cancel it.
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
December 07 2011 21:15 GMT
#130
Hope it airs... Really wanna see this now.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
Mr Showtime
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1353 Posts
December 07 2011 21:17 GMT
#131
Good thing nobody was hurt. Kinda hoping they show images on the show
Mr Showtime
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1353 Posts
December 07 2011 21:17 GMT
#132
On December 08 2011 06:14 dAPhREAk wrote:
guess this is why they have so much insurance. great show; hope this doesnt cancel it.


No chance. If someone was hurt that would be a different story, but there is no chance the property damage cancels the show.
Steel
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Japan2283 Posts
December 07 2011 21:21 GMT
#133
It was in the name of science, so it's fine.

Just kidding. They need to be more careful =/ If there's any chance of this happening, go in the desert or some other remote place...
Try another route paperboy.
caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 21:27:57
December 07 2011 21:26 GMT
#134

On December 08 2011 06:17 Mr Showtime wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 08 2011 06:14 dAPhREAk wrote:
guess this is why they have so much insurance. great show; hope this doesnt cancel it.


No chance. If someone was hurt that would be a different story, but there is no chance the property damage cancels the show.



Maybe, but I hope their insurance company doesn't pull out afterwards-- they had a really good record going into this, but now it might be harder for a company to justify covering them.
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea...
Playguuu
Profile Joined April 2010
United States926 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 21:50:52
December 07 2011 21:26 GMT
#135
Wait, didn't they do something like this with cheese? I think it's pretty obvious you can do this with other materials if it's dense enough, don't see why they needed to do this when something went this wrong.

~2 km Pretty impressive
http://tinypic.com/r/2w65a91/5
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liberal
Profile Joined November 2011
1116 Posts
December 07 2011 21:26 GMT
#136
On December 08 2011 05:47 Mzimzim wrote:
did they expect a concrete wall to stop a cannon? aren't cannons made to destroy shit like that?

lol so many people can't even read a story. Just jump to conclusions about negligence.

It wasn't just a wall, or just some trash cans. It was trash cans filled with water, with a concrete wall behind it, with a safety berm behind that. It missed the water cans, blasted through the wall, hit the safety berm, and took an incredibly unlikely bounce off of it to fly into the neighborhood that was 700 yards past the range.

"A Public Information Officer and bomb technician for the Alameda County Sheriff’s office, who is a regular safety explosives expert for MythBusters, was on site and all proper safety protocol was observed."

"Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy," said Sgt. J.D. Nelson, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department. "You wouldn't think it was possible."
Maxd11
Profile Joined July 2011
United States680 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 21:28:40
December 07 2011 21:26 GMT
#137
[image loading]

link
Not exactly sure why I can't get the image to show for me but this is a google earth image with measurement to nearest residential area from the most common mythbusters test site. I am not exactly sure if this is the location where the cannon was fired but it the [Probable] location based on the information given.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I can't believe this happened considering the usual safety precautions the mythbusters take. I am really glad that nobody got hurt and I pray that the show won't get canceled or slowed in any way.
I looked in the mirror and saw biupilm69t
DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 21:37:31
December 07 2011 21:36 GMT
#138
Funny dichotomy of statements in this thread. Some saying "LOL they thought a cannon ball would be stopped by a concrete wall!?" and others saying "LOL what's that house made of? paper!?"
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
December 07 2011 21:37 GMT
#139
hahahaha love this show :D I'm surprised this happened though.. usually they are really well planned..
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
hytonight
Profile Joined April 2011
303 Posts
December 07 2011 21:44 GMT
#140
so..........busted?
when in rome...eat the romans.
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