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Why thanks - an extraordinary and unexpected compliment!
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Mythbusters is dead. Long live Mythbusters!
Quote: The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively that the Discovery-owned cable network has greenlighted a reality competition series titled Search for the Next MythBusters, which comes on the heels of the series finale for the original show in early March. MythBusters, which ran for 14 seasons, featured Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman using science to put various myths and rumors to the test.
Search will focus on finding an “all-new generation of myth-busting science superstars with mind-blowing build skills and nerves of steel.” It will involve both social media and stunts as it tests a cast of hopefuls on their skills as they compete in various challenges.
“When I got to the network, and we clearly identified MythBustersas a franchise and something that was important to Science Channel and Discovery, and it was such a beloved show, I didn’t want to let it go,” says Marc Etkind, who became general manager of Science Channel in September after having served in the same role at sibling network Destination America. “So we looked really closely at what would be the best way to keep it going and invigorate it and thought, ‘Let’s host a worldwide search for the next MythBusters.
So, if you're looking for a job and you've got a really big shed ...
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Dang!, looking for a Job, wrong country (mind you Mythbusters was run by an Ozzie!) & no shed  . Mind you I found out how to correctly use some tools from the show and interview (and also what happens when you use them incorrectly!). If you are a fan check out www.tested.com for a similar vein and Adam Savage... Also who knew they use barge glue for making sneakers.
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9082365 wrote: using science
Not really. Several of their tests sort of ignored problems.
Examples
- cell phone gas explosion - did not even try to be realistic vapor concentration (although I do not believe a cell phone would be an ignition source)
- marching to bring down bridge - full size boots on miniature bridge (they indicated busted, however engineering says otherwise)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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One of the great strengths was the willingness to listen to and act upon the comments of fans post broadcast. When fans smelled a rat myths were often revisited using new and improved methods. Both of those you mention were in fact revisited. The bridge collapse verdict was changed to plausible, the cellphone verdict was validated.
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Cellphone-caused explosions are ridiculous.
You've got a machine sitting there that purposely creates 4, 6, 8 sparks on a regular basis, and it doesn't result in an explosion. I'm to believe a sealed cellphone with little-to-no intermittent electrical contacts will do it?
On the other hand, I'm willing to believe some of the older gas pumps could be reset by unfortunate overlap of radio frequencies between their communicating with inside the station and the cell phone making a connection.
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Translation: "I tried to make them do stoopider, more dangerous, and less meaningful stuff, but they told me to ^^^^ off, so now I need to find a bunch of idiots who'll do *Jackass* stuff with a veneer of science!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's a roundabout at the top of Hayling Island, the usual one you get under the flyover part of a motorway in the UK which has a little wooded area underneath the bypass bit. Last week the Council trimmed this wooded part back a bit and you can now see a collection of 5-6 tents in the middle. Sometimes at night, you can see their campfires. According to the local Facebook page they've been there a couple of years and the assumption is that they are immigrants. Apparently there are some other tents on the verge of the motorway leading to Chichester as well.
My question is, is this happening around the rest of the Country too? Have you seen Roundabout people? Are they there and you don't know? I'm just amazed there's a small community living on a busy roundabout i've used at least twice a day for the last two years and I didn't have a scooby.
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PompeyThree wrote: Have you seen Roundabout people?
No, but I've seen the Railway Children.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This guy did it for 40 years![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I read this and shed a tear for Chris Squire of Yes. There something wrong with people living on a roundabout I for one have a very odd relationship with them. If it's painted I tend to go around it, if not I go over it (well the muppet driving an Astra behind me had something to do wwith it!).
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PompeyThree wrote: Are they there and you don't know?
Um. How would I know?
PompeyThree wrote: My question is, is this happening around the rest of the Country too?
Not necessarily on roundabouts but there are ad hoc 'settlements' all over the place. With thousands of people officially homeless, it's kinda inevitable. When I was living in Glastonbury a few years back there were four of which I was aware and rumours of more. I know of at least one on the East Devon coast and there's a site near the bypass here that would be perfect but apparently hasn't been discovered yet. If there's a wi-fi signal I might commandeer it myself - much healthier for the dog that my tiny, squalid first floor garret!
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Down and out in a roundabout, future's in doubt.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Down and out in a roundabout, future's in doubt.
Careful, many developers believe that they have to like hard rock, so Country & western pisses them off
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They don't really have roundabouts in Nashville or anywhere else in USA! USA!! USA!!! They prefer junctions. And if they need temporary accommodation they prefer boxcars to tents. So this could never be a C&W!
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Walking through Cambridge today I noticed that there are more people wrapped in blankets/sleeping bags begging than I have seen for a few years.
Around 10 years ago the police in Cambridge cracked down on people begging and pretty much drove them all out of town. Hardly ever seeing a policeman/policewoman on patrol I am guessing is the reason for seeing more people begging.
One thing that strikes me is that all the people I see begging appear to have mental health issues and it is quite sad to see them out in the open with nothing but their sleeping bags as possessions talking to themselves - I do however occasionally see someone talking to them and I passed one man who had a pasty and cup of coffee, that I take someone had bought for him, so it is good that they are not completely invisible.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Time for bed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Evolution can't have a sense of humour. God can! It requires a sense of humour to make one of these[^]. Q. E. D. 
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But do you need an engineer to make a Giraffe steak?
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Nope - but a chainsaw might help!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And some dynamite to cut it up after cooked...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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