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Crystal myth? ‘Mythbusters’ tested the science of Breaking Bad

Mythbusters did a special episode testing out some of the science used on the AMC masterpiece Breaking Bad to see if it holds up in the real world. If you’re a Breaking Bad fan it’s hard to forget two key scenes from Season 1: when Walt melts a body with hydrofluoric acid and it ends up dissolving the tub and the floor, and when Walt uses mercury fulminate to walk away unscathed while he dramatically blows up everything in drug dealer Tuco’s office. The windows even blew out! This is the kind of stuff that makes you feel awestruck with the power of science, but is any of it really possible?

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VIDEO MythBusters accidentally fire cannonball through neighborhood

Even experts like MythBusters’ Jamie Hydeman and Adam Savage make mistakes from time to time. The only difference for these dudes is that their accident sent a cannonball hurtling at 1,000ft/s through a concrete wall, over a hill, into and out of a house, across a street, off of a roof, and eventually ending up in a minivan that was parked only minutes previously! See a great local news report about what will have to be the most watched episode in MythBusters’ storied history.