MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
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MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
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Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#2Such a great show.
They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case of self-regulation in the marketplace of ideas.
Edit: Adam Savage talking about it -- https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-eviden...
Apparently it was not well known, so not an original discovery but still a legitimate use of the word.
My comment was a point about censorship in that it can be the right thing to do. I'm curious AF about what the recipe is but am ok with not knowing and and knowing that effectively no one else does.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#3Such a great show. They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case of self-regulation in the marketplace of ideas. Edit: Adam Savage talking about it -- https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-eviden... Apparently it was not well known, so not an original discovery but still a legitimate use of the word. My comme…
meh, they also censored how to make thermite (iron oxide powder and aluminium powder ignited by magnesium) and you can get explosive material easily almost everywhere gunpowder is available. They censored how to make Nitrocellulose as well which requires strong acids that are arguably more dangerous than Nitrocellulose itself. Anyway that recipee is available on wikipedia anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Guncotton
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#4Such a great show. They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case of self-regulation in the marketplace of ideas. Edit: Adam Savage talking about it -- https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-eviden... Apparently it was not well known, so not an original discovery but still a legitimate use of the word. My comme…
I don't think that's so much self-regulation as it is the producers would probably not let them publicize something like that on TV and avoid some 3-letter agency knocking on their doors.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#5This reminds me of how people get angry at me whenever I poke holes in the science of movies. Movies affect people's ideas of what is possible and what is impossible.
This is why I'm also quite against, in the general case, post-apocalyptic movies that predict a future based on non-science impossible things happening. Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a false impression that the future will be worse than the past even that goes against direct evidence that throughout human history things have trended better, on average, every single year with a few moments of worsening.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#6Such a great show. They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case of self-regulation in the marketplace of ideas. Edit: Adam Savage talking about it -- https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-eviden... Apparently it was not well known, so not an original discovery but still a legitimate use of the word. My comme…
They didn't "discover a recipe". Anyone who was a kid at that time could look up on the internet the recipes for these things, and even pre-internet in things like "The Anarchist Cookbook" and other such literature.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#7This reminds me of how people get angry at me whenever I poke holes in the science of movies. Movies affect people's ideas of what is possible and what is impossible. This is why I'm also quite against, in the general case, post-apocalyptic movies that predict a future based on non-science impossible things happening. Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a…
> Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a false impression that the future will be worse than the past
I think The Expanse got it right, in that we're more likely in the near to medium term to get a bunch of oligarch type Jules-Pierre Maos (Hi Bezos!) running things behind the scenes. Not a utopia type technology + spaceflight + social inequity problems solved future.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#8This reminds me of how people get angry at me whenever I poke holes in the science of movies. Movies affect people's ideas of what is possible and what is impossible. This is why I'm also quite against, in the general case, post-apocalyptic movies that predict a future based on non-science impossible things happening. Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a…
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Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#9This reminds me of how people get angry at me whenever I poke holes in the science of movies. Movies affect people's ideas of what is possible and what is impossible. This is why I'm also quite against, in the general case, post-apocalyptic movies that predict a future based on non-science impossible things happening. Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a…
There's a 4chan post somewhere with a hypothesis about how people are subconsciously unable to discern between fiction and reality, even though they might be able to consciously, just as you describe.
Re: MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
#10This reminds me of how people get angry at me whenever I poke holes in the science of movies. Movies affect people's ideas of what is possible and what is impossible. This is why I'm also quite against, in the general case, post-apocalyptic movies that predict a future based on non-science impossible things happening. Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a…
> Many spaceflight movies and TV shows for example show very bad things in the future giving people a false impression that the future will be worse than the past I think The Expanse got it right, in that we're more likely in the near to medium term to get a bunch of oligarch type Jules-Pierre Maos (Hi Bezos!) running things behind the scenes. Not a utopia type technology + spaceflight + social inequity problems solv…
The Expanse is one of the TV series that I was thinking of actually when I wrote that comment. It'd be too long to write down here but I feel like while The Expanse got many things right it also portrayed all sorts of fundamental things that were completely off.
For example even in the first season things that are fundamentally off that result in very different futures:
* The idea that we would actively intentionally re-create the situation of MAD in another context. MAD was an accident of historical happenstance and now that we know about it, we wouldn't try to re-create it.
* The idea that a magical new engine would suddenly appear that made many of the things in the tv series possible.
* The idea that Earth will for some reason simultaneously become a massive welfare state, yet still somehow have solar-system spanning power.
* The idea that there would be a complete backtrack in labor rights and labor safety (the ice asteroid mining scene).