Well...i hope this is the place to post about this
I really like this TV-show and i think you can learn many good things about life and how are movies made...
this TV-show is the best and i am currently downloading 2 seasons with torrents!
another tv-show i like is Brainiac:Science abuse and it's similar to Mythbusters ..
tell me what you think about those tv-shows!

I watch a decent amount of Mythbusters. If I was not involved in everything else, I would think it is a top rate show. You can't help but get pulled into what they are involved in... and it doesn't matter how big or small of myth, or their experiments. I liked it when it was only the two at the beginning. But I am getting more and more used to new people involved.... it just adds for more and more interesting ideas... You know how they say that two heads are better than one, well in this case it's like five.

I have to admit, that fact that their 'look' kinda had me entertained, also... and that is important, too when there are SOOO many shows that are about the same these days. I think they are humorous and very trendy and that also keeps me involved... can't watch it if it's not catchy!

well....you surely can learn something from them and get preety much entertained from them...i cant get enough of them and i wish i were them...going water skiing behind a cruise ship, being in a cage next to the sharks,shooting from all kinds of weapons and even inventing them....they rock for sure

Yeah, I watch Mythbusters whenever I get to see them on TV, I remember I used to start watching them on Discovery channel, later they were shown on other of my country channels with translation, but I rather watched them with the original English language..

The show is really great and I agree that you can learn many things from them, I remember when I was in school and if somebody asked a question or something and I remember that in mythbusters, that question was busted, I could tell "No, because mythbusters proved that it can't be" and it gave me a laugh, in fact, those guys in mythbusters are funny too and can give you a laugh I sometimes didn't get one thing.. are they really so smart and good physics, mechanics or they get a lot of help before the show and from other people which we don't see in the camera..???

I also saw Brainiac, but I am not a fan of that show, seems that they aren't serious, they show something, you get interested and they start to blow things, where those half nude babes come and blow something up or similar or they show some fact like why some bananas flows on water an other drowns, they show it so fast, that I can't understand even why and they don't repeat, but they repeat those half naked babes a lot of times whats the point? And usually in Brainiac, they prove different facts not so seriously, I mean they do it very fast, and may be even wrong.. But I guess it's that kind of a show, mythbusters are more serious..

Agreed on the Brainiac front. From a science perspective they don't really offer much by way of explanation for why what happens actually happens. A large number of their "experiments" don't really offer an overly scientific view on...well, pretty much anything. They just do some vaguely humorous experiment, and base their entire conclusion on that. Most of their experiments are rarely even the sorts of things you'd want to know, whereas Mythbusters often has the sorts of things in it which you've actually heard to be either true or false, but no real evidence has been given for either case (hence the fact that they bust the myth).

As for how much science the presenters actually know, does it really matter? While I'm certain they have an interest in the physics, chemistry and so on of their subject matter, the point is that someone in the show (behind the scenes or otherwise) actually understands a reasonable amount of the science involved, making the experiments fairly accurate. If I had to say which of Mythbusters and Brainiac that I preferred, Mythbusters would win hands down. It's just a shame we don't get to see it all that much on UK television.

c'on how can you not like mythbusters? they blow stuff up!!! They do also provide some explanation behind what they are doing. I can see times where due to the limitations of producing an hour long tv show that certain amounts of detail are omitted, but hey, they blow stuff up.

My all time favorite would have to be the confederate rocket. That was a most impressive display of how a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing .

We get a little bit of brainiac here, but it just seems to be a couple of guys doing dangerous stuff for no apparent reason. I'll admit the difference is only minor from what I just described (i.e. mythbusters blowing stuff up), but the mythbusters just seem to present far better than the brainiac crew.

What do others rate as their favorite mythbusters experiment?

Cheers,
Hoopa

Agreed, although Richard Hammond is a generally awesome presenter. He's possibly the only exception, however.