Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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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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Failure is always an option.
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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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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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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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