I think what made the Mythbusters special was this: of course they would always ask, and test, ācould the circumstances of the myth produce the described result?ā but they ALSO always took the extra step to āunder what circumstances, no matter how extreme, could the described result be achieved? ā and it was fucking spectacular every time
Remember the time they vaporized a cement truck just because they could
Yeah and they werenāt allowed to use that quarry anymore after that episode because the shockwave from the blast shattered windows like 10 miles away. The Mythbusters were batshit insane and 12 yo me absolutely loved it
Reminder, the circumstances were: ācan explosives be used to blast hardened concrete out of a cement truckā.
They accidentally over shot it.
more specifically, they tested the myth as described (a single stick of dynamite used to break up dried cement to ease removal) and when it didnāt work they moved on to āhow powerful an explosion would we need to break up the hardened cementā and thatās when they overshot and disintegrated the truck














