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Title Mythbusters: The President's Special
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 min. 54 sec.) ; 301133930 bytes
Summary In this extra-special episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie tackle a request from the highest ranking viewer of all: the President of the United States, Barack Obama. President Obama challenges the team to revisit the Archimedes' Solar Ray (Ancient Death Ray) myth.This myth suggests that up to 500 people with mirrors can focus the sun's light enough to set a wooden ship ablaze. The myth has been busted before on the show, though not on the scale that the boys are going to attempt this time around. The President asks them to give it one more shot and report back to him.Also, a myth based on a scene from the film Hellboy is tested to see whether it is possible to make a moving SUV flip end-over-end by punching down on the hood. Tory, Grant and Kari take on this challenge and line up a number of SUVs and, using a giant fist built from a steel cylinder, subject their hoods to extreme amounts of force in an attempt to see if this scene was realistic. (From the US) (Entertainment Series) CC
Event Broadcast 2011-03-28 at 19:30:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Archimedes.
Mirrors -- Experiments.
Mythbusters (Television program)
Solar cosmic rays.
Television broadcasting -- Special effects.
Form Streaming video
Author Belleci, Tory, host
Bryon, Kari, host
Hyneman, Jamie, host
Imahara, Grant, host
Obama, Barack, contributor
Savage, Adam, host