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Offline ipearse

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Mythbusters
« on: January 02, 2013, 01:06:58 PM »
I have finally managed to catch up with the Mythbusters episode looking at the Apollo Hoax claims... this should be good...
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2013, 02:08:11 PM »
I really enjoyed that one, although it does mean Jason now wants his own scale Moon landscape like they had.
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2013, 02:22:33 PM »
Me too, me too! And the Neil Armstrong figure..
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2013, 02:25:07 PM »
I really enjoyed that one, although it does mean Jason now wants his own scale Moon landscape like they had.

Ooo... me too! If I ever buy a home with an unfinished basement I'm turning it into my very own Moon studio. ;)
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2013, 02:30:48 PM »
Oh, please don't encourage him!  Anyway, it will have to wait until after I have a permanent setup space for my train set.
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2013, 02:33:04 PM »
Oh, please don't encourage him!  Anyway, it will have to wait until after I have a permanent setup space for my train set.

Combine them and have a trainset on the moon. Everyone's a winner.
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2013, 02:33:22 PM »
No, it's OK. I've already told you that when we have a house with a big garden I'm building a life size Lunar Module in it in place of a shed...  :P
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2013, 02:33:47 PM »
No, it's Ok, I've already told you that when we have a house with a big garden I'm building a life size Lunar Module in it in place of a shed... :p

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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2013, 02:48:50 PM »
My dream as a kid was to build a model CM in my back yard.  My father declined to buy the materials, thus ending the potential career path for me as a model maker.   :'(
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2013, 02:55:35 PM »
I want a life-sized TARDIS as my garden shed.... think of the amount of stuff you'd get in there!  ;D Actually, I want my railway in the gaden - OO outdoors, can't beat it!
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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2013, 04:24:42 PM »
No, it's OK. I've already told you that when we have a house with a big garden I'm building a life size Lunar Module in it in place of a shed...  :P

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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2013, 04:28:36 PM »
Reminds me of how much the HBs have tried to trash Mythbusters since that special came out.
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Mythbusters
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2013, 06:17:26 PM »
Oh, please don't encourage him!  Anyway, it will have to wait until after I have a permanent setup space for my train set.

I'm lucky. Not only do I get to teach people to fly, I get to play with one of the largest, if not the largest, 1:1 scale train sets in the world.

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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2013, 07:06:04 PM »
Reminds me of how much the HBs have tried to trash Mythbusters since that special came out.
And all they ever can think of is some sort of ad hom attack.
They never actually bother to even try to debunk the debunking.
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Offline Tedward

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Re: Mythbusters
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2013, 02:43:52 AM »
Unfortunately (for me) I have not seen this. Only terrestrial TV so we only get a few old episodes repeated ad nauseam (Quest TV in the UK). I would rather watch them on the TV than on line (if they are available on line, not looked). Give it time, they will pop up, sods law I missed them when I was working though.

To be fair, I have not watched them religiously. It starts off with a good run and then they start to repeat so you ignore and forget and then one evening clock an unseen episode and realise you have missed a few, start watching again, then they repeat, you turn off and miss when they start a new one.............