The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
ADAM SAVAGEFrom earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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Failure is always an option.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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