1337m4n
Alphanumeric Anonymous Stick Man
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You know, I've been wondering: why haven't the Mythbusters crew tackled any of the 9/11 conspiracy topics? Surely they must be aware of these CTs? They know just about every urban legend out there.
I suppose it's due to the sensitive nature of the topic. Still, don't you think it'd be neat to see them take on a few of the Truth Movement's claims? It might be more effective than simply arguing with them. I mean, you can spend all day and night discussing theories about what might happen, but it's quite another thing to actually see things with your own eyes. That's precisely what the Mythbusters do. They don't debunk urban legends with theory and talk. They debunk them with action. With spectacular experimentation, sometimes at risk to themselves. If a TM claim were debunked by an actual experiment, the truthers would have to deny their own eyes to evade it.
Obviously Mythbusters couldn't address every single claim with their limited resources, methods, and episode time. But, there's a few things they might be able to put to the test:
--High-altitude cell phone use / voice modification
--Pulverized concrete (test by smashing concrete blocks in a variety of ways and see if the consistency of the concrete "dust" can be achieved)
--Thermite (see how it actually behaves against steel)
--Demo charges (test the effectiveness of various types of explosives against steel columns similar to those in the WTC)
--Squibs (using a small WTC scale model, attempt to reproduce the squibs first using explosives, then using some kind of air pump or piston)
--Strength of steel with increasing temperature
--There's probably a couple other things they could test that I can't think of right now.
It'd make for a pretty good episode, I think.
I suppose it's due to the sensitive nature of the topic. Still, don't you think it'd be neat to see them take on a few of the Truth Movement's claims? It might be more effective than simply arguing with them. I mean, you can spend all day and night discussing theories about what might happen, but it's quite another thing to actually see things with your own eyes. That's precisely what the Mythbusters do. They don't debunk urban legends with theory and talk. They debunk them with action. With spectacular experimentation, sometimes at risk to themselves. If a TM claim were debunked by an actual experiment, the truthers would have to deny their own eyes to evade it.
Obviously Mythbusters couldn't address every single claim with their limited resources, methods, and episode time. But, there's a few things they might be able to put to the test:
--High-altitude cell phone use / voice modification
--Pulverized concrete (test by smashing concrete blocks in a variety of ways and see if the consistency of the concrete "dust" can be achieved)
--Thermite (see how it actually behaves against steel)
--Demo charges (test the effectiveness of various types of explosives against steel columns similar to those in the WTC)
--Squibs (using a small WTC scale model, attempt to reproduce the squibs first using explosives, then using some kind of air pump or piston)
--Strength of steel with increasing temperature
--There's probably a couple other things they could test that I can't think of right now.
It'd make for a pretty good episode, I think.
