Suggest a Myth (or Item to Blow Up) for the MythBusters: The Reddit Special!

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You read that right: I'm happy to announce that we're doing MythBusters: The Reddit Special! Yup, we're handing over the editorial of an episode to YOU. So if you've got a TESTABLE myth you want us to tackle, post it below. If you've got a myth you think we messed up and should do again, then put it here in this thread. We are also interested in novel methodologies if you guy have something interesting in that regard too! If you want us to blow something up, here's where you can tell us! Or if you've just got a burning desire to send something weird and wonderful to its doom courtesy of the rocket sled, then you know what to do. (Post it below!)

Basically, we'll tackle the myths you guys have suggested with one obvious caveat - the myths have to be PG-13! We’re definitely up for some fun with stuff like farting, but anything more R-rated than that (and we know how Reddit works) is not going to fly! In two weeks' time, the MythBusters R&D team will trawl through this entire thread and select the myths / stunts / questions / requests that are the best fit for the show, and then we’ll fast-track the episode to a screen near you in early 2016. Happy posting!

The Small Print: As always, there's small print that a pair of (admittedly nice) lawyers are insisting I put in and it's this: By submitting to MythBusters any information (such as your story idea) you understand that you are giving MythBusters (Beyond Productions and its related entities, licensees and assigns) the right to use the information in all media for any purpose whatsoever and you will not be entitled to notice of use or compensation of any kind if the idea is used. So, there it is.

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Wise_Engineering_785@reddit

On my first trip to roserito Mexico many years ago 40 sum. I saw a large farm truck full of steel,way over weight. it had broke in half,Just behind the cab. On the other side of the dirt road a man in tall rubber boots and gloves to his arm pits,carrying a large hook on a cable.he launched it by hand, hooked it to the power line. They jacked up the truck and welded it back together .I can't remember exactly how but I remember the 2 foot arc from the strike of the electrode. And the truck drove off,slightly dog legged.i tell the story people ask how did they get the cable down? Whip the line release when it jumped. The ground cable I'm un sure of. I think 2 lines from the power line. I still get excited when I tell the story, it is one of the greatest side of the road/ingenering feet's. People are awesome. Please help I'd like to see it again.. genuinely Billy howd.

Complete-Escape-5797@reddit

will an i flatable boat really save you in a plane crash like in insianna jones and the tempe of doon?

Extension-Leek7466@reddit

Did anyone suggest to test the mith about people fighting on top of a speeding train?

mistersavage@reddit (OP)

You guys are submitting great ideas. We should have done this a long time ago! Keep your ideas of things to blow up coming too!

F150Bricklayer@reddit

Jumping off a roof onto a bouncy castle like in s3 e19 of the office. Would Michael really have gotten seriously hurt?

mr-highvoltage@reddit

my dear friend "addam savich".. .. Your experiment (filming flatulence) was wrong..! Stomach gas consists of methane, which has a very high ability to store heat And it is known as greenhouse gas.. And.. it keeps the heat in the earth.. And it is not at all comparable to normal air (nitrogen + oxygen). also: Stomach gas comes out from a place that is surrounded by layers of muscle and fat. Your enclosure must be completely insulated And Has a small protected outlet and a thermometer at the outlet which shows the temperature of the gas during exit, 37. According to the colors that can be seen in the original film, the temperature of the environment should not be more than 7-5 degrees. also; Using new cameras, which have a cooling element And they are very sensitive

Bartender1958@reddit

I would like to see a private drone strike to a airplane to test on how much damage the drone will do to the plane or if it will actually crash the airplane.

SpecialistSwitch9278@reddit

Science disbelievers typically contest the issue of how the structure of life could ever get so intricate. (The whole “perfect human eye” issue.) They seem unable to comprehend how and on the most fundamental level, organic compounds basically behave like jigsaw-puzzle (or Lego) pieces—fitting together, at every conceivable opportunity and in every possible way—“organically.” One imagines (say) a hundred-thousand and variously-shaped Lego pieces tumbling in a giant mixer for … months … thus, to witness at least some having self-assembled into (whatever) shapes.

Given your typial Lego brick/s design, any resultant shapes are destined to be… “Legoey.” And thus, given other basic shapes, the outcomes would vary accordigly.

But has anyone ever done this?

Would Mythbusters like to try?