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4 Minutes of science, 10 minutes of injuries

Many people think that mythbusters has the most awesome job around. Doesn't take much to guess why when they get to blow stuff up, smash things and shoot guns for their job. Their job is more like what someone will do to release stress or have fun. ModCloth blog has even interviewed one of the mythbusters Kari Byron about her awesome job and if it is her dream job and her interview pretty much sums it all up that she has one seriously fun day job.

But personally i think that most people are overlooking the stuff they have to do to prepare for the show.
Mostly the other mythbusters Tori Bellici and Adam Savage are always taking the not so fun part of the job where they put their bodies on the line. Getting injured is pretty much part of the job in my opinion.

Quotes from the two most frequently injured mythbusters.
"If I had a nickel for every time I got hit in the [testicles] on this show, I could retire," Bellici said.

Savage had some hair burned off during an explosion test in the "Cell Phone Destruction" myth, which invoked one of his more famous quotes: "Am I missing... an eyebrow?"

Shattering Windows

Knock Your Socks off

The explosion

To test at which point does socks stop getting knocked off and the survivability rate

While filming the myth of attempting to test the validity of being able to knock someone's socks off by using an explosion as they claimed that people had their clothes torn off by an explosion and still survived but instead they successfully shattered windows in a nearby town of Yolo county while setting off a 500 pound explosive to test that.
(side fact: their test showed that although the socks was blown off, nobody could have survived that)


Although there were some damages, one particular resident was actually found it fun and that resident also had her windows shattered, quite rare to actually find people so sporting even though they were affected by the incident and was not informed beforehand. In fact the explosion was so strong, residents thought an airplane crashed nearby while some though that a house exploded. The rest of the report can be seen here.

Personally i feel that the resident is extremely forgiving or sporting as i doubt i myself will be able to maintain a smile when i find out that my windows has been smashed due to some explosion that i was not informed about beforehand.

So how fast can a cannonball fly?

Via: PerceptionBuilder.com
 

Apparently to test that myth out, they intended to fire a cannonball into several barrels of water and then a cinder block to slow it down and then finally landing into a hill as part of their safety measures but it missed and the path of destruction the cannonball took as shown above.

The cannonball accident was met with many negative and unhappy response from the nearby neighborhood. Residents complained that this accident was supposedly foreseeable and that it was only a matter of time before something happens. Some think that perhaps they should move their dangerous experiments elsewhere where it is less populated. The rest of the report can be seen here.

Personally it would be fun to have so much exciting things happening in my neighborhood but perhaps the resident's fears are not truly unfounded when you have explosions and gunfire going off nearby. Could be fun and interesting at first but perhaps an annoyance and disturbance over time?