Well the myth was that if all the safety features of a water heater were disabled the water heater would go 500 feet in the air. They used a smaller one and it just released a large amount of superheated smoke. Then they used a bigger one and it went up in the air and came down 40 seconds later. Then they put a roff over it and the roof changed to 1000000 small pieces of building (don't worry they built it themselves)
Mythbusters is on SBS at 7:30
Watching that water heater fly up in the air was astonishing. Still have to remember to check ours...
ReplyDeleteOooh, we watch Mythbusters at our house all the time. And I got to see Adam Savage at a convention in Atlanta, GA last year. One of the things he talked about was the 100 things he wanted to do before he got too old to do them. He wants to build his own house with his own hands. "I know", he said, "you probably wonder why I want to build a house when I take such delight in blowing them up." :)
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