Lazyant

The Mythbusters guys could use a science guy. 

I’m all for practice instead of theory and I love this show but there are some instances where a scientist on the show with some back-of-the-envelope calculations could have predicted some of the experiments’ outcome (heck, I did).

Let’s see:

• Checking if a coin (a dime or quarter, can’t remember) dropped from the Empire State can kill someone
• Testing if you can kill or hurt someone by throwing a playing card
• Checking if you get more wet if you run in the rain, instead of walking
• Replicating a story about a Chinese king and a chair loaded with powder rockets

The first two can easily be calculated to be mostly harmless due to the low mass of the objects (coin and card). I mean Chris Ferguson can cut carrots throwing cards but that’s it.

The fact that you get more more if you run under the rain instead of walking, that can be proven with some math, a freshman in Physics should be able to do that.

For the rocket chair, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that the thing had no control at all; all the rockets cannot be positioned exactly a the same angle, with the same power and be ignited exactly at the same time, so any variation and the thing will go like when you let go a party balloon and that’s what happened.