Mythbusters Debacle: An Update

Note: The original post that I had up no longer has a working video, I've embedded a new one in this post.

If you haven't already heard, the show Mythbusters had themselves a wee accident involving a cannonball. Now underwire has charted the path of the cannonball and dot physics blog has run the calculations.

Full disclosure I think that Mythbusters is, at best, pseudo-science. So this whole cannonball story just makes me wanna sing.

Mythbusters Experiment Gone Horribly Awry

Apparently a cannonball experim...er, uh, stunt for the Television show Mythbusters went wrong. Really wrong. Like, firing-a-cannonball-700-yards-out-of-test-range-through-a-front-door-up-some-stairs-through-a-wall-and-across-four-lanes-of-traffic-and-off-the-roof-of-another-house wrong.





I'm no physicist, but what happened here? Someone forget a decimal? Presumably these scientists -- and I use that term lightly --  do multiple calculations and possibly simulations before running these stunts, right? I think this could have some pretty big implications for the show's future. Imagine if that thing picked someone off.