Mythbusters cannonball what was the myth

According to a statement released by the Discovery Channel to Wired. Prior to the incident, show co-hosts Tory Belleci and Kari Byron had apparently tweeted images of themselves with various cannons, but those images have since been taken down. However, the photos have been posted online. Check out more details in the video above. If you need us, we'll be over here trying to get that Breeders song unstuck from our heads. MythBusters airs Wednesdays at 9 p.

I was scared. I was lucky my kids weren't in the van. The cannon also left a inch hole in the bedroom wall of the home whose residents were sleeping. What woke them up was the settling of the sheet rock," Sgt. Nelson from the Alameda Co. Sheriff's Dept. Nelson told the station the "MythBusters" experiment was intended to "see if other materials could be fired out of a cannon and be as effective as a cannonball.

Currently, though, they don't seem to be commenting. Jasbir Gill, whose minivan was the cannonball's final resting place, offered this to the Contra Costa Times : "It's scary.

I was in the van five minutes before this happened. Who would now be the "Mythbusters" insurance company? The cannonball and the range had reportedly been used many times before for such experiments. This was the third time the cannon had been fired that day.

There is talk of the cannonball enjoying an "unfortunate" bounce. Yet how little fortune it must have been for the poor family whose house was penetrated by this uninvited bouncing guest.

The scientific myth that was apparently being tested here was whether other materials could be fired out of a cannon. I wonder what the results of the experiment might be. And what they might cost.