Mythbusters does Star Wars

[Vympel]

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Including:

- surviving the cold by being shoved into an animal
- falling from the AT-AT and being just fine and dandy
- face melting from electricity
- electricity making your skeleton glow

and others.

[Elfdart]

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Including:

- surviving the cold by being shoved into an animal
- falling from the AT-AT and being just fine and dandy
- face melting from electricity
- electricity making your skeleton glow

and others.

Shoving someone into a dead animal is at best a temporary way to keep warm. At worst you have someone who is now cold and wet and will lose body heat even faster. Apparently Han knew this when he said it would keep Luke warm while he got the shelter built. Anything more than a few minutes would have made things worse.

One of my uncles told me years ago that in Korea, some soldiers pissed on themselves to keep warm while on sentry duty. 98 degree urine might feel nice and warm for about 60 seconds, then you're wet, even colder and smell like piss.

The other three are silly since they're performed by Force-users.

I wonder if this will be like Joe Queenan's "Don't Try This" articles in Movieline where he would try to re-enact scenes from movies to see how they'd play out in real life. For example, after watching Sliver he decided to ask a female co-worker he was eating lunch with in a restaurant to give him her panties under the table. He also had someone push him down a flight of stairs tied to a wheelchair to see if Julia Roberts would save him.

[Sonnenburg]

From the article, though, I think the Mythbusters have a respect for the mythology of it. This is gonna be frickin' sweet....

[Captain Cyran]

Considering that mythbusters always does the myth then what it would take to make the myth work. This should be interesting. Visual evidence of "Yeah, that's what they reinforce themselves like to be able to survive that." is always better than textual.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I'm just waiting for a Trekkie to come along saying: "Why not that 'Myth' about Turbolasers not being Lasers! hee hee!"

Annnnnnnnways... This IS going to toally rock, hard

[18-Till-I-Die]

Um...

I dont know this seems kind of retarded. Imean they might as well explore the 'myths' of some 80s action movies like Running man or something.

I mean i dont see how it'll be hard to disprove these 'myths' at all. First they arent myths i dont know anyone who thinks, "LOL! If i fall from a thirty story building i'll be cool, cuz Luke Skywalker did it!" i mean it seems stupid. Who thinks that? Even the most rabid Trekkies dont think you can literally pinch someone's back and knock them out like Spock, most people even the most rabid fans realize this stuff is impossible and much of it improbable.

Secondly, Mythbusters gets old fast when they arent blowing stuff up. I see few explosions forthcoming from this ep. Electrical skeleton might be cool though. Meh.

Anyway just my opinion.

[Noble Ire]

I mean i dont see how it'll be hard to disprove these 'myths' at all. First they arent myths i dont know anyone who thinks, "LOL! If i fall from a thirty story building i'll be cool, cuz Luke Skywalker did it!" i mean it seems stupid. Who thinks that? Even the most rabid Trekkies dont think you can literally pinch someone's back and knock them out like Spock, most people even the most rabid fans realize this stuff is impossible and much of it improbable.

Honestly 18, lighten up. Most people might not consider this stuff realistically feazible (although, the morons on STvsSW make me wonder sometimes), but it would still be interesting to see, I think.

[Sonnenburg]

Remember, Mythbusters once built a machine to test how hard it is finding a needle in a haystack. The show's always been about having fun, and hopefully people learning some things along the way... kind of like Fat Albert, I suppose.

"The word 'science' in science fiction is the key here," Hyneman explains. "Sci-fi enthusiasts like to think about the future and its implications to present society and culture. On the show we deal with a lot of these same elements. I think in general the show and science fiction is intended to be thought provoking. Much on television and in the popular media is mindless. But some people, like our viewers, actually enjoy using their minds."

"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show," Savage explains. "It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."

[Mark S]

This isn't the first movie they've gone to for show material. They did one on Jaws as well. I think they're just running out of myths and now they're exploring what it would take for these stunts to happen in real life and'or showing people what would really happen if certain thinks were done.

[DPDarkPrimus]

This isn't the first movie they've gone to for show material. They did one on Jaws as well. I think they're just running out of myths and now they're exploring what it would take for these stunts to happen in real life and'or showing people what would really happen if certain thinks were done.

Running out of myths? That's a good one.

[Balrog]

Well some myths you just can't experiment on, or would just be too boring to fill up an hour-long show...

*attempts to think of an example*

[Alyeska]

Some of their myths are borring. What makes it fun is the running comentary by the cast. Especialy Adam.

[000]

Is this gonna be an actual episode? I didn't see anything in the article to indicate it will be.

[Mark S]

Running out of myths? That's a good one.

The stuntman episode, the Jaws episode, now this. They do seem to be tapping the Hollywood keg more and more. Though that may be because they're FX guys and want to show what goes into what they do.