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Using lead foil, Adam and Jamie constructed a cube-shaped balloon with 10-foot (3 m) edges out of lead. Even without pure helium inside it (a mixture containing air was used to limit buoyancy and reduce the possibility of tearing), the balloon was buoyant enough to support a basket along with some ballast.
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.
The MythBusters theorized that the air being displaced by the birds' wings and the helicopter rotors was pressing down the box, which is why there was no change in the overall weight. All was in compliance with Newton's third law of motion .
He told Zep guitarist Jimmy Page that his new group would go over like the world's largest lead balloon, a lead zeppelin. The spelling was changed from “lead” to “led” specifically so ...
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It held the lead blocks and Adam's weight combined, even holding strong against repeated hammer strikes. A working boat can be completely constructed with pykrete. Plausible "but ludicrous" The MythBusters first tested how long ice, pykrete, and Jamie's special "super pykrete" could last in warm water before melting.
The MythBusters then tried to test the myth on a smaller vehicle-mounted microwave dish, but the only heating recorded was from sitting in the sun. ...a radar. Busted: The MythBusters attached the turkey to the spinning radar antenna on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, but when the turkey was measured, they found that it actually lost heat. Frustrated ...