Isn’t television glamourous?
ADAM SAVAGEThe ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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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 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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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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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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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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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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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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