we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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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 a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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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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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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