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(S03E15) We're coming up on another season finale of MythBusters next week. This week the MythBusters tackle a couple of ... odd myths.Painting with Explosives: The myth is, if you blow up a can of paint in a room, will it coat the room fully with the paint? And can the room withstand the explosion? A Mr. Bean episode mocked being able to do this, even showing a silhouette where someone was standing in the way of the paint blast. The MythBusters set up a small room on a bombing range, complete with a Buster for simulating the silhouette. First go, the explosion covers the room about 40% with paint, no silhouette, and destroys part of it in the process. So, myth busted.
However, in keeping with the spirit of things, Adam and Jamie do a few tests back at the warehouse using scale models. Jamie males mortar-style designs, where Adam makes a sort-of hanging tube design for covering the room top to bottom. Adam's coverage wasn't very good, and Jamie's is worse, looking more like a Pollack painting.
Mind Control: Using kits purchased from the internet, are there any that work to control someone's mind, remotely, without their knowledge? In first tests they find that outside interference may affect their results, they make an isolation room for their tests. First they try the Psionic Helmet (busted), then pulsed air (busted), then rotating magnet (plausible, as it did show a change in the EEG readings), hyptnosis (plausible again, as the EEG showed a change again).
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