{"id":594,"date":"2009-03-30T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-03-30T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:41:03","slug":"mythbusters-mythbusters-adam-savage-talks-tech-obsessions-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/mythbusters-mythbusters-adam-savage-talks-tech-obsessions-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"MythBusters: MythBusters &#8216; Adam Savage Talks Tech, Obsessions, and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t hide it&#8230;  But Mythbusters (on Discovery Channel) is one of my television favorite shows&#8230;  Yes, there are the sometimes issues with the experiments, but considering the constraints of television, and budget, they do an excellent job.  <\/p>\n<p>Lifehacker, has edited transcript of a phone interview with Adam Savage, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5190354\/mythbusters-adam-savage-talks-tech-obsessions-and-science\">MythBusters: MythBusters &#8216; Adam Savage Talks Tech, Obsessions, and Science, Lifehacker: What can we look for in the new season?<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAdam Savage: The new season&#8217;s going to be phenomenal. We did a two-hour disaster special, where we actually took on the bus turn from the movie Speed, which involved me and Jamie getting to do some terrible things to a full-size bus. The one we were doing out at Fort Mason &#8230; One of my favorite (experiment) categories over the past couple of years has been thought experiments. Things like, if a plane is on a conveyor belt, will it take off? One of those we hadn&#8217;t tackled yet was, if you drop a bullet, and fire a bullet, from the exact same height, at the exact same time, they will both hit the ground at the exact same time.<\/p>\n<p>Lifehacker: That&#8217;s a classic of 11th-grade physics.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Savage: Yeah, except the fired bullet is however many thousands of feet away. This is something I&#8217;ve been wanting to do for years. Last year, during a story discussion, Jamie and I hammered out a way to do it in full scale, and, last week, we tried it out. I&#8217;m not going to tell you how it turns out, but I can guarantee you, nobody else has ever wasted their time trying to get the shot that we&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"\"><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t hide it&#8230; But Mythbusters (on Discovery Channel) is one of my television favorite shows&#8230; Yes, there are the sometimes issues with the experiments, but considering the constraints of television, and budget, they do an excellent job. Lifehacker, has edited transcript of a phone interview with Adam Savage, MythBusters: MythBusters &#8216; Adam Savage Talks <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/mythbusters-mythbusters-adam-savage-talks-tech-obsessions-and-science\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->