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Arc Attack = Astronomically Epic Win!

Not just because it's Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

Not just because it's Adam doing the Robot.

Not just because it's Adam doing the Robot while in a Faraday Cage.

Not just because it's Adam doing the Robot while in a Faraday Cage being struck by discharges from two Tesla coils.

No. It's because they are musical Tesla coils, playing the "Doctor Who" theme.

THAT is what pushes Arc Attack into Astronomically Epic Win!



The only other time I have seen such an astronomically epic win (probably NSFW).

Obama orders Mythbusters to create death ray!

Watch MythBusters Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 9 PM ET/PT

In this extra-special episode of MYTHBUSTERS, Adam and Jamie tackle a request from the President of the United States, Barack Obama. President Obama tells Adam and Jamie that he'd like them to re-test the myth of the Archimedes Solar Ray -- this time with more manpower. The myth, which says that Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to an invading fleet using only mirrors and the sun, has been tested by MYTHBUSTERS twice before (and busted). After developing a unique mirror aiming system, Adam and Jamie use the President's STEM connections and enlist 500 student volunteers ready to light a fire for science!

Math, Science and the Future of Our Nation

Discovery Channel’s MythBusters Join Global Online Town Hall on Student Attitudes Toward Math and Science

Former Vice President Al Gore to moderate live interactive discussion connecting students from the US with those in countries that outperform them

Release Date:11/08/2010

(New York, NY) – Hosts of the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, will join former Vice President Al Gore, astronaut Sally Ride and inventor Dean Kamen during Time Warner Cable’s Global Online Town Hall called “Math, Science and the Future of Our Nation” on November 17, 2010 at 12pm ET.

This unique, first-of-its-kind town hall event will connect young people from the US with students from around the world, including Australia, China and Finland, and with internationally known science and technology leaders, for a discussion that will focus on attitudes among American youth toward math and science, and how to inspire and motivate them so they will be successful in a competitive global marketplace.

“There is never, at any time, any issue more important to this country than the education of its youth. We are thrilled and humbled to be involved in some way with this crucial initiative, and it has our full support," said Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of MythBusters.

Members of the public can join the discussion at connectamillionminds.com, where – using a new online broadcasting platform from Vokle - they can submit live video questions and comments from anywhere in the world in real time. A facilitator’s guide is available for those teachers and principals who would like to bring the conversation into the classroom by hosting a town hall viewing of their own. To access the guide, and for more information about Time Warner Cable’s Connect a Million Minds program or the global online town hall event, please visit http://www.connectamillionminds.com/.

MythBusters Test VEX

MythBusters Test VEX

MythBusters Test the VEX Robotics Design System: In this full online article taken from the Winter 2005 issue of Robot Magazine, The Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, and Grant Imahara build a model of the military's PackBot using the VEX™ Robotics Design System.

BONUS REPORT: Grant Imahara discusses engineering details of the VEX "PackBot" project. This online exclusive Includes many extra photos that wouldn't fit in the magazine.

Mythbusting Star Trek - Need I Say More?

First, in June 2009, Barack Obama flashed the Vulcan salute on C-SPAN while talking to John "I'm a PC" Hodgman. Then, in November 2009, the Mythbusters came to the White House. Now, on Monday, December 28, 2009, the Mythbusters team puts the Gorn cannon "myth" to the test. "Arena" was an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, from the first season (episode, #18, production #19, first broadcast January 19, 1967 and repeated on July 6, 1967). Captain Kirk must fight the Gorn for the survival of all humanity! He discovers that there are plenty of natural resources lying about to craft a weapon. He finds elements needed to make some gunpowder. Then he finds a bamboolike plant and cuts a portion of the wood to form a makeshift gun barrel. He also finds diamondlike shards of crystal to use for the projectile.



"Arena" was based on a short story of the same name by Fredric Brown that was first published in the June 1944 issue of Astounding magazine. It was voted one of the best of its genre by the Science Fiction Writers of America and included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964 (see below).



Lastly, let's wrap up this Nerd Pride post with a little XKCD, may I?

UPDATE CAPTAIN'S LOG 2009-12-28
Oh my god!
You killed Buster! You Bastards!