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A dirty car is more fuel efficient than a clean car because the dirt makes the car more aerodynamic like the dimples on a golf ball. Busted (concept plausible ) Adam and Jamie covered a car in dirt and mud and drove it down a track at highway speeds to measure its fuel efficiency, and they repeated the test after the car was cleaned.
MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. There is no consistent system for organizing MythBusters episodes into seasons. The show did not follow a consistent calendar of on- and off-air periods for its first-aired episodes.
In late March 2016, Variety revealed that Discovery's sister network Science Channel was planning to produce a revival of MythBusters with a new cast, and that its hosts would be determined by a reality competition spin-off, Search for the Next MythBusters (later renamed MythBusters: The Search), which was hosted by Nerdist's Kyle Hill.
This is a recut of previously tested car-related myths from various episodes. The myths are Underwater Car from the episode "Underwater Car", which originally aired January 24, 2007; Hollywood Crash Test from the episode "Demolition Derby Special", which originally aired April 8, 2009
A car with a JATO rocket attached can speed up to 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), become airborne, and impact with the side of a cliff. Busted MythBusters JATO rocket car mount. Adam and Jamie could not acquire real JATO rockets from the Air Force and instead used three amateur rocket motors of equivalent power to one JATO rocket. The rockets ...
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
Christine Chamberlain was a "MythTern" (portmanteau of MythBusters and intern) who joined the MythBusters team as a result of a Discovery Channel contest and was present for the second season of MythBusters. [19] She was mostly Jamie and Adam's assistant in myths [20] [21] and stayed on the show until season 3.
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