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    Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches

    Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies

    This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    Holy crap! None of these people screamed Lawsuit. That's cause for celebration right there..
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    Is the more correct title, Frank Doyle, retired FBI explosives expert, cool old dude, blew woman off couch? I would truly be scared if either Jamie or Adam ever handled REAL explosives.
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    Image of TheHeartless TheHeartless
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    I never liked the MythBusters, in part because having worked in TV production, it is blatantly obvious to me how staged all of their supposedly candid experiments and such are. But more than that, I think it's sad how few ideas they seem to have left, and would like to see them just stop. Blowing someone's socks off is not, and has never been a myth. It is a cliché. If they are going to start busting common phrases, American entertainment has really hit a new low.
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    Image of Thud Thud
    03/26/09

    @TheHeartless: A new low? Holy smokes man, you need to watch more TV...


    Blowing someone's socks off is downright highbrow intellectual fare compared to some of the stuff I've flipped past... e.g., anything involving Paris Hilton; Real Housewives of Whatever County; religious programming of all kinds, anything involving theoretically-hidden-camera, shows involving dating, QVC...

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    Image of drewdrawscriticism drewdrawscriticism
    03/26/09

    @Thud: Yeah, I'm thinking Keeping up with the Kardashians or Make me a Supermodel might still be quite a bit lower than having some fun busting clichés and blowing stuff up with good humor.


    But that's just me.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    MB: "give me 500 lbs of ammonium nitrate."
    dude: "are you a farmer?"
    MB: "no."
    dude: /wrinkles brow "what's that on your head?"
    MB: "beret. it's french."
    dude: $20 bucks please."
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    Image of Sora57 Sora57
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    Looks like a promotional photo from the Indiana Jones Live Show at 6 Flags.
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    Image of Sora57 Sora57
    03/26/09

    @Sora57: Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
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    Image of mergedwarrior mergedwarrior
    03/26/09

    In reply to Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
    It must be Micheal Bay AWESOME!
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    Image of mergedwarrior mergedwarrior
    03/26/09

    @mergedninja!:


    Just in case:

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    Image of gman2093 gman2093
    03/26/09

    @mergedninja!: lollerskates! Never seen that one before.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    03/26/09

    @gman2093: If you ever type the world lollerskates again and I read it, I will plague you to the ends of the earth with harassing reply comments.


    just a friendly warning. don't pollute my gizmodo.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/24/09

    In reply to Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies
    There's fun quizzes and even a Goofus & Gallant:


    Goofus tries to bombard U-238 to create plutonium. Gallant instead uses a uranium/graphite pile to make U-235 using slow-moving neutrons to break the nucleus


    There's also a test to see if your friend is selling secrets to the Jerries and a way to have your parents put in internment camps for the duration of the war.


    It's fun for the whole family!

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    Image of Spideyrex Spideyrex
    03/24/09

    In reply to Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies
    I had an electronics "education" kit when I was a kid and I accidentally electrocuted my self. Granted I strayed a bit from the instructions to hop up the amps. Funny how those went away too. It was built into a wooden suitcase and consisted of a bunch of coils that you connect wires to to do different things. No plutonium though.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/25/09

    @Spideyrex: accidentally electrocuted yourself? I don't believe you.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/24/09

    In reply to Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies
    My next door neighbor and friend had old chemistry kits.

    We used to do the experiments and it was awesome.


    Old electronics kits too, with the wacky old components with a colored dot code on them.


    Classic stuff, all good. :)

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/24/09

    In reply to Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies
    If I had one of these, I'd put it in my pants. Condoms suck.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/25/09

    @badhatharry:


    Why are you wearing a condom around town in the first place?

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    Image of Michael Fisher Michael Fisher
    03/24/09

    In reply to Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Lets You Play Dr. Manhattan for Radioactive Funsies
    PEW PEW!
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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    03/24/09

    @Michael Fisher: Ow!
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    I've seen tests with these containers dropped from great heights from a crane. They really are immensely tough and reliable. Good thing too, since the ones I saw tested would contain a slurry of liquid waste, not just boxes of old fuel rods and the like!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    There seems to be some weird alien language all over that video screen.
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    Image of FThorn FThorn
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    I think it's not a Russian test. The Russian in the caption is the cyrillic phonetic translation of the English "Crash Test". Russians would use native Russian language words.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/04/09

    @FThorn: correct it's a British test.
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    Image of mac_kix_windoze mac_kix_windoze
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    Actually you're all wrong. There may be Russian text associated with this video but the test itself is 100% British, my friends. The loco is, I believe a Pacific-class diesel, workhorse of the British railway system for many years. When you see the loco in the side view, the white, double-arrowed logo on the side is the logo of British Rail, until recently the state-owned operator of all train services in the UK.


    This was probably test carried out by BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) using a retired BR engine for propaganda purposes in the 80s ie look how safe our spent nuclear fuel is even when hit by a train.

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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    03/04/09

    @mac_kix_windoze: Yeah, it is brit.
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