Many people have questions about simple things that typically don’t deserve being tested. Pop rocks and coke, umbrella parachuting, etc. Most of the time, these questions just go unanswered. There’s no real need to actually find out if you can actually detonate a gas station with your cell phone, just don’t pull out the cell phone. But for Adam and Jamie of the Mythbusters, that’s not good enough. On their Discovery channel television show, the pair of veteran special effects engineers will put any interesting sounding question to the test. Common fair for the show is legends and myths as the title would suggest, and have led to investigations into such topics as rocket powered Buicks, toilet paper ropes, chopping bullets in half, and even one episode that dealt with homemade personal aircraft. Other topics are more esoteric and stem from simple speculation to scientific scrutiny of common phrases, such as “Hit the ground running.” However, each task is approached intelligently and scientifically, with plenty of humor thrown in to keep you laughing when the experiments aren’t doing so on their own.

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