Now That Shark Week is Over…

Just when I thought that I was going to have to watch re-runs of Living Lohan and The Denise Richards Show now that Shark Week has ended… all three equally as terrifying!

The kind folks over at the Discovery Channel sent me over some information this morning about MythBusters which starts this Wednesday the 6th and will be airing new episodes up until September 10th.

Most likely since they are still hard at work discovering they didn’t have September’s episode information yet to give me — but I will for sure keep you posted when I get the MythBusting facts!

I must admit I really had not planned on DVR’ing the program, however after reading the line-up here (*see below) while eating breakfast I felt compelled to capture all the MythBusting episodes.

Long story short, before sitting down to write this I started to think about modern and not so modern myths such as, the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot, both still not proven…

Anyway, according to the dictionary these are just some of the definitions of the word myth.
-a widely held but false belief.
-a misrepresentation of the a fictitious.
-an imaginary person or thing.
-an exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing.

All this being stated, if we really think about it, myths have been around for a long time and have been told, whispered about, written about, talked about, and spread through communities — no matter how big or large.

I remember hearing about this one!

MythBusters:Moon Hoax

I’m especially looking forward to the show’s on the 13th and 27th… but they all look captivating and informative and well… MythBusting!

MythBusters:Exploding Steak Myth

*Wednesday, August 6 at 9PM – Can you tenderize steak with explosives? Adam and Jamie see if tough steak can be made melt-in-your-mouth tender using high explosives. The myth starts with a blast – and ends with a better one, as the team hones their technique. Then, Kari, Grant and Tory take a test drive to see if driving angry changes your car’s fuel emission.
* Wednesday, August 13 at 9PM – They’re exciting, funny and we can’t wait to pass them on to our friends, but can we truly believe every viral video we see? Adam and Jamie try to replicate a popular video where a car is blasted 15 feet into the air with the water pressure from ten fire hoses. Then, they take on a video that shows a tinfoil boat floating inside what looks like an empty fish tank. And Tory, Kari and Grant find out if you can create a cannon using just sawdust and a road flare, and investigate the internet phenomenon of fainting goats.
* Wednesday, August 20 at 9PM – Ninjas and MythBusters go together like matches and gunpowder – a match made in heaven. In this special, Jamie and Adam return to a familiar test: in their first ninja episode, the guys thought they’d demonstrated that an arrow could not be caught mid-air, but fans disagreed. Soto answer the question once and for all, they enlist the world’s foremost arrow-catching ninja, Anthony Kelly. Other ninja myths include whether there’s really a punching technique that can floor an opponent with only a one-inch lead in, and if an underwater blow pipe could really be utilized to stealthily fell an opponent.
* Wednesday, August 27 at 9PM – The MythBusters take on one of their biggest, most controversial myths ever: Could the July 1969 moon landing have been an elaborate hoax? First, Adam and Jamie focus on photos, testing the theory that twoof NASA’s most famous images were shot in a studio. Then, they investigate the myth that to get the classic “low lunar gravity look” the government shot the footage in a studio and then simply slowed it down. And Grant, Tory and Kari take on the claims that the footage of footprints and flags flapping had to have been faked.

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