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Birds in a Truck

Season 5, Episode 8, Aired Apr 18, 2007

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The team takes on Newton and a bunch of Birds. Also the build team see if they can smash a speed boat into a channel marker.

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Jess Nelson

MythTern

Tory Belleci

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Robert Lee (XXVI)

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Kari Byron

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Jamie Hyneman

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Grant Imahara

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Adam Savage

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birds of a feather...

9.4

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By xblvr, Apr 22, 2007

So we are back to a myth that I have heard. The bird one. But I actually passed physics and remember them talking about that whole idea of Newton's law. The idea that for the bird to move up they must be putting an equal amount of air pressure down, therefore, no weight change. Glad to see the mythbusters set the record straight. Now, for all the random pictures that I get sent that go around the internet, I never saw the boat one. After first seeing it I thought what the busters thought. No way was that guy going 25 mph. Some idiot was pushing 150 or so and couldn't fess up without getting into too much trouble so suddenly he was going only 25 mph. Physics could have explained this one toomoreless
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Adam and Jamie do a little Newton's Laws thinking. And can you really crash a speed boat into a channel marker?

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By PsychoPerson, Apr 20, 2007

This was an informative episode, I wouldn't give it a 9 out of 10 though. There was some pretty uninterasting parts. But th overall was great! I liked this episode I want them to keep improving on there shows. This shows how the Newton's Law works and I like it for that. I mean, im no science teacher, but this is great for the others that don't know. I liked the speed boat, lots of crashing and smashing (But failure too). The only real part that was annoying about the episode was that the build team couldn't get the boat to hit it. I really wanted to see a torn boat, but I guess there just wasn't enough velocity. I was hopping around seeing if there gonna be a crash, but at my disappointment, there was none. I also though that the birds wil cause less weight, but I didn't, but this was a great episode!moreless
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- T-shirts worn by team members: Kari: "I Bust Myths" Adam: "You can teach an old dog new tricks."
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- Adam: Do you think this is going to somehow curve the debate on the fan site? Jamie: Of course not!
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- Jamie: Chris is well motivated not to crash the helicopter. It's a fairly expensive helicopter, so if he wrecks it, it'll come out of his pay, or I'll just fire him.
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- Grant: I will give you five dollars if you can crash this model into the marker, and break it. Tori: Ohhh! Five dollars! Grant: I'll give you ten dollars!
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- Tori: Ok we get a boat, get some insurance off it, and crash it to a channel marker. Kari: At 25 MPH.
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- Adam: (Laughing) The birds will be too fat to fly!
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- Grant: Escape plan same as last time; if the boat is coming toward you, run.
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- Narrator: Sst, Jamie is hunting pigeon. Reference to Elmer Fudd's catch phrase "Sst, I'm hunting wabbits".
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- One of Adam's t-shirts in this episode says "Old dogs can learn new tricks." This is a reference to the episode "Dog Myths," in which Adam and Jamie proved the old adage was wrong.
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- Narrator: Since Grant and Tory are both rejecting each others' reality and substituting their own... This is a reference to Adam's famous line from "Rear Axle", "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", during which he incorrectly remembered his own probability guess.
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