After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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 Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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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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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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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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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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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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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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