These MythBusters Stories Got Scrapped Due to Danger

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Emergency-Mud6558@reddit

It be nice if you wore still doing the show but syrups fosting or syrup on cake cupcakes or a fish skin roof but I'll guess I'll never know thanks

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tdasnowman@reddit

Betting it was bleach and hydrogen peroxide.

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Re: silencers, there is a threaded adapter you can buy with a gun barrel thread on one side and the thread for a standard car oil filter on the other. Turns a $5 oil filter from Walmart into a suppressor.

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yerg99@reddit

i do remember some episode where they did test crappy silencers, or maybe it was some other show? basically according to the ones they tried it didn't help a ton and it's uses were for kickback issues as well as moderate volume control. Perhaps im thinking of some different show.

Mythbusters was a great show that i would quote some of the tests as almost scientific fact. "They proved it didn't work!" i would say

Although ultimately there were a lot of factors limiting their scientific honesty/purity. Besides this video i can think of several times where they wouldn't want to debunk/prove things because of outside influences. Many cause they were unethical life hacks. Perhaps a few that were dangerous or disrupted someone bomb squad or law enforement. Basically, we knew they are going to debunk tricks to pass a DUI, pass a lie detector, pass a police radar or blow up the neighbors house. Some of which are ethically grey area, like whether lie detectors work ( IMO).

Sometimes they were just not entertaining enough to warrant a bigger and proper sample size. So yeah of course legendary show, but it had it's limitations.

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AvatarOfMomus@reddit

That was some other show that did silencers.

Mythbusters was never supposed to be completely scientifically rigorous. They've talked about this repeatedly.

They were very scientifically honest though. They show and describe their methodology and discuss some of its limitations, which is the most important thing is being honest in science.

Ultimately 'science' is about coming up with a hypothesis and then testing it, and documenting the process and results. It's a way of thinking, more than anything else.

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yerg99@reddit

I agree with you. Just pointing out the limitations and biases. I think it is debateable how "scientifically honest" you can inherently be when it's self reported for entertainment. Don't get me wrong they did a great job, maybe beyond what they needed to sometimes, but i think it still needs to be kept in mind it's limitations.

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AvatarOfMomus@reddit

Regarding the explosive they didn't even discuss, it's been brought up before in various places and folks are pretty sure they know what it is. I'm not going to say it for the same reason they didn't, and don't, it's super stupidly dangerous!!!

The reason they chose not to talk about it on air isn't because it's some super secret thing, if it was it wouldn't have been brought up as something for them to test.

The compound in question is very easy to get ingredients for and incredibly likely to blow up in the face of anyone trying to make it without professional training!!! (and to be clear, professional training mostly increases the safety through not being dumb enough to make it, and then secondarily through safety equipment and not just dumping incredients together)

The Mythbusters then, or Adam now, would indirectly be responsible for a lot of maimings or deaths if they'd talked about it. Just because so many more people would then know about it and some small fraction would experiment, no matter how many warnings they put up. The substance in question is likely to explode if looked at funny, and is easy enough to get ingredients for a teenager could kill themselves 'experimenting' with it.

My personal thought is that the community should follow Adam's lead and not discuss this in specific terms.

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JimCripe@reddit (OP)

Agreed.

I don't know what it is, and don't want to know, unless I could accidentally mix it in the normal course of life, like when cleaning things, like releasing chlorine gas mixing cleaning products, (which I accidentally did when trying to sanitize a garbage can when I worked at a restaurant when I was a teenager.)

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AvatarOfMomus@reddit

You would need to be doing something that would already be Darwin Award level stupid by the common sense of anyone, even someone with zero chemistry education, to accidentally make this stuff.

Accudentally mixing Amonia and Bleach is relatively understandable. Accidentally making this stuff would require some next level stupid.

Btw, on that same note, don't pee into a toilet with bleach cleaner in it, or put bleach cleaner into a toiler with unflushed urine. It can make Chloramine. Way less dangerous than mixing cleaning products, but your lungs will thank you for avoiding it.

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zestykat@reddit

I’m guessing it was something to do with the sawdust or coffee creamer.

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tdasnowman@reddit

Both of those they showed on screen and are more then well known outside of the explosives community. You learn about dust and particle explosions in middle school/ high school chemistry. My teacher did the demo with flour, creamer, saw dust, there was a fourth one. But it was all about keep the vent hood on. Wood shop teacher did a demo as well to make sure we used our saw dust bags on the sander and swept down every once in awhile when hand sanding.

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AvatarOfMomus@reddit

Also any cooking or woodworking class that knows what they're doing.

Carelessly pouring flour only for it to dump and make a cloud around an open flame is a great way to end up in the hospital and burn your home down.

Same for dealing with sawdust. Someone on Reddit a while back posted about what happened when an idiot overrode the smoke detection on the sawdust vac in their professional shop. The tldr is the central collection bag blew up, thankfully no one was seriously hurt.

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