Mythbusters and the Aquarium Hobby

[Fish Eat Fish]

I didnt say i new exactly how much water it would take. I said a few thousand pounds is enough and that an engineer could tell you. Whether it falls through the next floor or not is filled with a million variables. Is the tank glass or acrylic? How thick? What are its dimensions? Is there rocks or driftwood in it? Does it land dead flat, on an edge, on a corner, or a piece of furniture in the house below? What sort of wood are the floor boards? How old are they? Does the building include concrete? Are there metal pipes in the floor? Ect ect ect. Its a ridiculous "experiment" that can never be tested with any real accuracy especially if you want to compare it with real life situations. Mythbusters could test this 20 times and have every result different.

Really I do agree with you...but when was the last time Myth Busters tested something seriously? Its not like they are public saftey and have to figure out if this is an issue and do a study to release public inforamtion...ITS A FREAKIN TV SHOW! All they do is do some small scale tests and then see if under perfect circumstances they can recreate the myth. That is perfectly doable for this myth and would make GREAT TV! Why do people think the show is anything more than entertainment? They go to a coffee shop wearing a mind control helmet to try to control the cashier for goodness sake! stop acting like they are some governmental branch.

 

[chrisdef15]

Really I do agree with you...but when was the last time Myth Busters tested something seriously? Its not like they are public saftey and have to figure out if this is an issue and do a study to release public inforamtion...ITS A FREAKIN TV SHOW! All they do is do some small scale tests and then see if under perfect circumstances they can recreate the myth. That is perfectly doable for this myth and would make GREAT TV! Why do people think the show is anything more than entertainment? They go to a coffee shop wearing a mind control helmet to try to control the cashier for goodness sake! stop acting like they are some governmental branch.

Yes its a TV show and yes some of there experiments are abit silly. But they still have some scientific backing behind them. Take the mind control one you keep going on about. Yes it was very stupid but scientifically it was a good test. The claims where anyone could control anyone elses mind while using the device. They tested it and it didnt work. There are no variables in that. It simply didnt do what it was advertised to do.
Your idea is filled with a million variables that make it impossible to mean anything. Yes im sure if they go get a 20x20x6 tank made of 6" bullet proof acrylic type stuff filled with 300kg rocks it will fall as far as they wanna let it but how is that an experiment? I really think this is going know where. As is the whole idea by the looks of the mythbusters site itself.