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.
ADAM SAVAGEThey are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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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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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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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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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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