In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Failure is always an option.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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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 aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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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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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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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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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’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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