Three shows on TV last night worthy of comment.

1. The last ever Mythbusters episode(s) was/were aired for the first ever time on Australian TV.

They talked about and showed excerpts from a hundred or so myths, but two of my favourites weren’t mentioned:

a) Grant’s antigravity device. It worked. Of it, Adam had said “That is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on Mythbusters”.
b) Jamie’s jawbreaker in the microwave. It’s unique in that it required more trial and error than any other myth. It was confirmed spectacularly, both Adam and Carrie were burnt by the flying fragments.

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2. Megafactories did the Carona brewery.

There’s only one Carona brewery in the whole of the world, in Mexico. Brilliant explanation of how a massive food factory ought to look and work.

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3. Stan Lee’s superhumans.

Two people worthy of note. One began by crawling down an incredibly narrow long pipe. He could crush objects between his shoulders.
From X-ray they found that he was a genuine mutation, born without scapulas (shoulder blades).

The other was a father-son pair from Vietnam who seemed to be immune to electrocution. They could take a hand to hand circuit from a 220 volt 30 amp power supply without feeling anything other than tingling. The father’s skin had an exceptionally high resistance, but that meant that the current was flowing through his heart. The current through his heart was way off the medical scale but his heart kept beating normally.

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>>Grant’s antigravity device. It worked.

Sounds terrific.
So to leave earth you just wind it up slowly and when a ship load of FIFO workers is coming back from mars you just slowly wind it back for a nice soft landing at the spaceport.

I didn’t watch those ones, I watched the London skulls thing. I thought it was overly dramatic in the script, but interesting, none the less. Also interesting just from the point of view of the different archaeologists all making up their own stories. I wondered why the ones with the flood hypothesis didn’t mention checking flood history for the area.

Was it Professor Ron Obvious who said the skulls were probably from the great plague?

Peak Warming Man said:

Was it Professor Ron Obvious who said the skulls were probably from the great plague?

No, no-one proposed a plague genesis.

What that chap said about the moon and earthquakes may have a small semblance of truth in it however I don’t know how accurate his rice price advice is.

Peak Warming Man said:

>>Grant’s antigravity device. It worked.

Sounds terrific.
So to leave earth you just wind it up slowly and when a ship load of FIFO workers is coming back from mars you just slowly wind it back for a nice soft landing at the spaceport.

This is nearly identical.

Here are two in flight. This is not trick photography.

Doesn’t work outside the atmosphere. But would it work on Mars?

• Megafactories did the Carona brewery.

I think you might find that it is Corona but as a nice little tie in, one of the pictures you showed above regarding the “anti-gravity” device has a Corona wire…

mollwollfumble said:

Peak Warming Man said:

>>Grant’s antigravity device. It worked.

Sounds terrific.
So to leave earth you just wind it up slowly and when a ship load of FIFO workers is coming back from mars you just slowly wind it back for a nice soft landing at the spaceport.

This is nearly identical.

Here are two in flight. This is not trick photography.

Doesn’t work outside the atmosphere. But would it work on Mars?

Don’t they ionise the air below them creating lift and don’t work outside of an atmosphere

Cymek said:

Don’t they ionise the air below them creating lift and don’t work outside of an atmosphere

Yeah, they are a thrust device.

My brother made one a few years ago, I had a bit of a play with it at the time. A couple of years before it was on Mythbusters.

furious said:

• Megafactories did the Carona brewery.

I think you might find that it is Corona but as a nice little tie in, one of the pictures you showed above regarding the “anti-gravity” device has a Corona wire…

Nice comment.

One thing about the brewery was the oodles of empty space, the envy of most organisations. I was looking for, and saw, the extreme cleanliness of the plant. The metal tanks, floor, handrails literally gleamed with cleanliness. Hospitals should be that clean.

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I like where this is going

And tonight I intend to watch Humans. I particularly liked a line they gave the Mia/Anita character last week when she was talking to a lady with dementia.

“I know how you feel. Like you’ve gone too deep inside. Like you are stuck between thoughts and words”

I think that is quite good as a description of some dementia people I know.

anything interesting on tv tonight?..

need to get back into nightshift mode

buffy said:

And tonight I intend to watch Humans. I particularly liked a line they gave the Mia/Anita character last week when she was talking to a lady with dementia.

“I know how you feel. Like you’ve gone too deep inside. Like you are stuck between thoughts and words”

I think that is quite good as a description of some dementia people I know.

It’s a good show, I find sentience android rights an interesting subject, would it be granted or would it be covered up as they are no longer property but other beings with rights (not that all humans have this now).

mollwollfumble said:

3. Stan Lee’s superhumans.

Two people worthy of note. One began by crawling down an incredibly narrow long pipe. He could crush objects between his shoulders.
From X-ray they found that he was a genuine mutation, born without scapulas (shoulder blades).

The other was a father-son pair from Vietnam who seemed to be immune to electrocution. They could take a hand to hand circuit from a 220 volt 30 amp power supply without feeling anything other than tingling. The father’s skin had an exceptionally high resistance, but that meant that the current was flowing through his heart. The current through his heart was way off the medical scale but his heart kept beating normally.

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Season 3 Episode 8.

“Genetic mutation produces incredible comic-book superheroes. But Stan wants Daniel to meet four real people who claim to have a difference in their physiology, that makes them superhuman! Mr. Duong claims that his entire family possess a genetic mutation that makes them completely immune to electrocution, and can hang from a live pylon and survive. Orlando Serrell claims he was turned into a real life genius after being hit on the head, and can remember the exact weather every day since the accident. Thanks to a unique genetic mutation, Joshua Carter is able to perform a staggering feat of contortion, that rewrites the limits of the human body. Kortney Olsen claims to have thighs even stronger than a python. Daniel tests her crush force, to see if she has turned her body into a human weapon.”

The website has videos of all episodes.
http://www.history.com/shows/stan-lees-superhumans