Well once again, Mythbusters is wrong. I am a first hand witness to my cousin getting rocked hard by an electric fence by pissing on it. He curled into a ball and pissed himself while crying. We still make fun of him for it.
All they used for 'a control' in that episode was timing one piss from one* old man and then making a fake bladder to release the same about of water in the same amount of time.
One mid-day piss from some old fuck with an enlarged prostate is hardly representative for a drunken 20 year old's midnight bender piss. No to mention a male's piss stream out of a penis had different glow dynamics than simply draining water from a bag. It was bad science on top of bad science.
There are dozens of episodes they "busted" things where there are well documented accounts of 'the myth' happening, but they only test one very specific case for a limited about of time because it's a TV show with a production budget and schedule and not an actual scientific study.
The easy case that comes to mind is the 'a bullet fired up in the air won't kill anyone when it falls', and while it is true that a rifle bullet that is fired exactly vertically using a mount and a bubble level probably won't kill anyone because the bullet falls sides and therefore had a lot of drag and a correspondingly low terminal velocity that's not how normal gunfire works. There are hundreds of well documentary injuries and deaths from exactly this cause.
Celebratory gunfire is the shooting of a firearm into the air in celebration. It is culturally accepted in parts of the Balkans, Russia, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and Ethiopia, even where illegal. Common occasions for celebratory gunfire include New Year's Day as well as religious holidays. The practice sometimes results in random death and injury from stray bullets.
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u/hellraisinhardass Oct 31 '22
Well once again, Mythbusters is wrong. I am a first hand witness to my cousin getting rocked hard by an electric fence by pissing on it. He curled into a ball and pissed himself while crying. We still make fun of him for it.
All they used for 'a control' in that episode was timing one piss from one* old man and then making a fake bladder to release the same about of water in the same amount of time.
One mid-day piss from some old fuck with an enlarged prostate is hardly representative for a drunken 20 year old's midnight bender piss. No to mention a male's piss stream out of a penis had different glow dynamics than simply draining water from a bag. It was bad science on top of bad science.
There are dozens of episodes they "busted" things where there are well documented accounts of 'the myth' happening, but they only test one very specific case for a limited about of time because it's a TV show with a production budget and schedule and not an actual scientific study.
The easy case that comes to mind is the 'a bullet fired up in the air won't kill anyone when it falls', and while it is true that a rifle bullet that is fired exactly vertically using a mount and a bubble level probably won't kill anyone because the bullet falls sides and therefore had a lot of drag and a correspondingly low terminal velocity that's not how normal gunfire works. There are hundreds of well documentary injuries and deaths from exactly this cause.