Adam Savage From Mythbusters Interviewed by reddit.com - Part 2 of 3

[ThatPenguinFarted]

I don't particularly like Science, but I could listen to him speak for hours. The fact that I'm actually learning something is just an added bonus.

[shadowknowsjo]

Honestly, it freaked me out when he said "when I'm done with Mythbusters."

[mrjacksepticeye]

"I love seeing how things work" Exactly like me

[musicSLOP]

)))ayfm

[Alimaria]

Krazy Kat! YES!

[Goerno]

2:18 "I'll stand behind those results absolutely..."

But... but you *JUST* said...

ಠ_ಠ

[MrMikeVenom]

s2s2s2s2s2s2... I think I got that right XD

[ritsfata]

WOW, Imagine having a class with him. I'd LOVE IT!!!!!!

[gtm1260]

In the last episode he said that they never stand by their results, but then he just said that he stands by the cable whipping result?? WTF?

[ThatAdelaideGuy]

Going out with a teacher out of school? Thats would be illegal and considered pedophilia now.

[jaylias]

i'd love to see that indiana jones diary. it has hitler's signature in it aswell lol

[TheCrypticPie]

He said that he stands by the methodology rather than the results. Then later he said he stands by the results of the cable experiment. Either that's hypocrisy or I just got a demonstration of the Multiverse.

[dbuschhorn]

Adam!!! Chemistry *is* Physics!!! Only smaller.

[mistermuu]

@dbuschhorn Except it's not smaller... :P

[AlanCanon2222]

"If you're a theater person...backstage a much better show than on stage..." I agree so much: I'm a community theater technician, mostly as a hobby, and it's exactly this "How is it done?" aspect that I love most about it.

[digdugdiggy]

Adam, if you EVER become a teacher, you better let me know. I will move wherever to be a student of you

[MrLulzmaker]

I know someone who was cut in half by a a snapped cable, working in forestry when one of the cables holding a log snapped and cut him in two.

[iluvjulianbarratt]

I so wanna see that book! Seriously the guy is a GENIUS!! I think he should put all the things he's made in a big warehouse and charge addmission...I would pay LOADS to see that! Failing that can I please come round your house Adam? :-D

[Cassavius]

0:33 I once assisted a stress test with a cable pulled by a forklift. And the testing guy also said that if it would snap, it could cut you in half.

[William1V1Eklund]

"I was absolute shit in chemistry."

First unbleeped curse I hear from Adam

2:26

[spicyfart101]

@William1V1Eklund lol me too

[BlackLegion104]

He's sö cül!!

[screwknob]

@these two fags below... find a room

[UnderDog988]

Rofl yeah... Youtube is not a gay dating site....

[petitwallaby]

Aw, I'm just like him! I like seeing behind the scene. I've been to a couple of shoots of different shows and I'm never bored even when they shoot the same thing over and over for hours. Because I like the behind the scene so much!

[jayaldexter]

why do you suppose it cut at 4:18 ?

[shasha1873]

If these guys have balls, they will do 9/11

[bobpantsspongesqaure]

watch the first video, he tells you reason they wont

[shasha1873]

OK let me see.

[Halick]

Brains > Balls.

[PizzaguylolXD]

How? Are they gonna get full size towers and crash full size planes into them? Come on now.

[shasha1873]

Well, you have a good point.

[Doomgath]

No, they won't. They don't have 2 giant towers to destroy, and consider the ethical consequences. What sick fuck up wants to re live that day?

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath Sunshine, you really believe that 9/11 was done by Arabs? Have you heard of Mossad? Do you know the history of their operations?

[Doomgath]

I never said it was done by Arabs.. But think about it, when someone says "World Trade Center" unless they've studied far into 9/11 they think Muslim or Middle-East. And no, I don't know the history of their operations.

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath You seem to be a patriotic American just like me. I like you.

[Doomgath]

Wait, what?

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath Well, you are an American? Yes?

[Doomgath]

Yarr. That I be.

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath you are my countryman.

[Doomgath]

I see. Why did you call me "Sunshine"?

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath OK I am sorry. No more Sunshine.

[Doomgath]

No I don't care, it's just that people call me Sunshine and I thought you knew who I was. I guess it was just a coincidence.

[shasha1873]

@Doomgath Oh yes. very correct. I am sorry about that. That is what I call my girlfriend all the time. My mistake.

[Doomgath]

Super cool story, bro.

[KonshinBaka]

Lol Adam said he was shit in chemisty XD, I expected a beep XD

[DanJoeProductions97]

Adam is a genius.

No doubt.

Extremely fun too.

[joseva33]

Slicing through the pig = bacon.

[korihines12]

There was a camera that u were talking about in one of your videos what was it

[sirukinx]

Can we have an example of this with several hundred kilometres of cable and doing it in space?

[dlix]

I don't like how they use a pig analog as a human representation. I bet the formaldehyde makes the skin extra strong.

[Yamazuya]

Well, that bet you'd lose.

[crashanddie]

First of all, you don't put full pigs in formaldehyde. You put them in a freezer / fridge. Second, formaldehyde makes everything mushy.

[sirukinx]

it's strange how I asked that and was thinking of super fluidity.

[NUKLRSOLDR]

he said 90 percent of rated tension then cut.

in an actual situation your probably well over 100 percent sence it was tested to hold at 100 percent therefore there would be much more force in an actual situation. i for one think they should retest this by stressing it untill it breaks (not cutting it)

[guitarmanxtreme]

LOL 13th comment!!!!!!

[nezpercenathan]

I wonder if methodology on testing the cable was flawed, in that if it was only tensioned be the winch, range of movement would be limited to the stretch in the cable. Now, compare that to a cable or line tensioned by a sail (foresail) or a big marlin, now you have something which might have 10s or even 100s of feet of travel before tension is relieved. Also, was there not a well documented case of children losing fingers when a nylon rope snapped during a tug of war a few years ago?

[sirukinx]

mentally jerking off here, but wouldn't a cable passing through sea water move in a single direction at a much faster speed than through air?

[SquishyTHDM]

ummm.. Water Resistance?

[sirukinx]

so, water resistance is greater than air resistance at high speed?

[SquishyTHDM]

i would think so. No matter the speed there is going to be more resistance from water then air.

[CleverDjembe]

Water has greater resistance than air at any speed, because its density is MUCH MUCH greater.

[klerthnu101]

its more of density than water resistance. Higher density in water than air.

[protoss2984]

density & viscosity (molecular interactions), along with speed and size roughly determine the resistance.

Look up Reynold's number in the context of drag for more mind-numbing info

[soopertrooper001]

kop could be referring to the liverpool football club

[CD7]

came here if some1 answered what it ment

[xtlhogciao]

i can't picture adam savage sitting there with a bowl of popcorn watching ghost ship. ironically, that is the only scene that i can remember of that "film"

[SquishyTHDM]

i can remember that and the chick in red getting a hook through her throat.

[scottywattydodaday]

adam is the man

MYTHBUSTERS RULE!!!

[manageo01]

WOW third comment, im so important

[SquishyTHDM]

In ghost ship , i thought the wire was under constant force.