How A Little Girl Busted The MythBusters
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Adam Savage recalls the time an 8-year-old girl schooled him on a myth he got wrong, and why he thinks it was great!
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People think it's crazy that an elephant could be afraid of something so small. People forget about spiders.
and wasps, and bees, and snakes, and scorpions...
Many small critters that can have a HUUUUUUGE impact on us.
If you ever think you're too small to make a difference in the world... Try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.
Mike Hunt and it's not just psychological... like how the African Driver Ant can actually take down even an elephant...
Valoro85 Since albino mice are uncommon, the elephants might assume that it could be something dangerous like the pile driver ant someone else mentioned and back away; it could be a fear of the unknown, not just a fear of mice.
Nicole Barajas the elephant didn't back away though. it kept on moving.
Reminds me of Hyperbole and a Half:
"When I was younger, my mom would say "Sweetie, don't be afraid. You are way bigger than a spider." Well guess what, mom? I'm bigger than a grenade too. Were you trying to raise me to be some sort of unconquerable war-machine that isn't even afraid of grenades? If you were trying to do that, you failed. I'm afraid of a lot of things that are smaller than me - like bees and wolverines and centipedes. I'm even kind of afraid of ants a little bit. "
Brilliant title. It's not technically misleading, but it's just misleading enough to make the video seem interesting.
The title "Mythbusters" you mean
/ I totally agree.
She didn't bust the myth, but she bustet the mythbusting done by the mythbusters, so therefore the title is spot on with what you get from the video.
It's called clickbait
Nicholas Musser That's just what the do. Deceive.
Adam Savage is a wonderful guy
You have low standards. He makes you laugh so you think he's wonderful.
Probably
dlwatib he is legitimately a great guy, check out some of his comicon stuff.
He is exactly like this in person and a pleasure to talk to. He doesnt perform for the camera, he is actually nerdy and loves to have a good laugh.
SuperStrong I agree completely. I hope he and Jamie can still be friends one day.
It is quite interesting that once Mythbusters stopped airing and the History channel and Discover channel started airing crap, that critical thinking took a nose dive in our culture
they have a new mythbusters. but its the most shittiest and stupidest shit I've seen.
Zerpderp0
Well to be fair they were airing crap before. Mythbusters was just the statistical anomaly in that it was actually good.
Zerpderp0 like ghost adventures and stuff too!!! 😢
I cannot stand History now. All I see is American Pickers or some crap! Two grown men who go junking. The Kardashians of actual junk. Lol.
WowLookItsAnAsian what's it called?
I think that elephants just don’t want to step on small creatures. They also avoid tortoises.
But the girl was right that the experiment should not have been done with white mice.
discovery probably wouldn't let them use anything besides lab mice
Yes
@@countbleck35 It also makes the mouse easier to track on the screen. A brown mouse would blend in more with the dirt.
Also is it just mice? What about echidnas or rabbits or other small animals?
so that's it huh, we're some kind of little girl busted mythbusters
TimRT Howard
The 2nd part of your sentence made zero sense. Guess the girl is smarter than you.
I fail to understand that.
TimRT Howard I
I get this reference but I don’t like that I get this reference
r/Woosh to all of you
What if the elephant just avoid the mice because it does not want to crush it?
That's what I was thinking when I watched this video, the Elephant did not look like it was "scared" but just wanted to avoid stepping on it.
Elephant: "oh no I got critter guts on my feet again! Ewwwww!" 🐘
Aw lmaoo
Za za lmao wdym? I'll step on a cockroach, they don't contribute to the world.
DanBoy same here
The elephants were afraid of the white mice because they might be carrying a concealed elephant gun.
I think that's a bit false, since I'm sure that elephant would've given that mouse such a pinch if they did.
Good guy Adam, publicly admits he could be wrong...
I worked at Blockbuster many years ago. One afternoon (around 2006) a mom came in and was looking for something fun and informational for her kids to watch. I asked her if she ever watched Mythbusters and she hadn’t. I described it and she ended up buying one of the seasons. Unfortunately I don’t remember seeing her again so I never got feedback. I’m really hoping those kids grew up to be huge fans like the rest of us.
It is a myth: elephants are not afraid of mice ( of any color ). Elephants are very intelligent and very caring creatures. They do their best to avoid injuring creatures they have reason to believe mean them no harm. Mice tend to scurry around and hide behind things. To a mouse: the feet/legs of elephants appear to be good things to hide behind. Thus, the problem of the elephant attempting to avoid injuring the mouse that is attempting to hide close to it's feet. It looks like the elephant is afraid, when in truth, the elephant is concerned for the safety of the mouse.
Sources?
rapid13 : the comment is an original work, based on all that I have learned and observed about elephants and mice over the last 60 years. The video is the first time I recall seeing a specific interaction ( or close interaction ) between an elephant and a mouse ( of any color ). As an imperfect being, I consider the imperfection of my observations and perspective. I concede the possibility that in the course of time there may have been one or more elephants that have been afraid of mice ( of any color ). I do not have significant reason to believe the fear of mice is a general elephant characteristic.
so this is just your opinion then, not ''an original work''... using a lot of words in a fancy manner doesnt make it any more or less of just your opinion haha get over yourself
Will Pitman ~ It's my opinion, but not an original work? K
I think you're a twat, is that original work? nope! the fact you need to make yourself feel special by calling your opinion ''original work'' is just sad. care to peer review this journal i just wrote just for you?
Wow I bet that little girl was stoked as shit. Adam is a real one for telling the girl she was right, instead of blowing off the critical thought that Myth Busters provoked!
tbf I'd run a mile if a mouse came out of my poop
sean mayers would that be a brown mouse or an albino mouse according to mythbusters
StormStrikesAgain not sure but it'd come out brown I'll tell you that much XD
my university said that scientific theories not 'true' but 'currently cannot be falsified'. there are many ways to question many theories, in theory anything can be considered flawed but so long as there's no proof, it's not falsified yet.
that's why evolution is a 'theory' in scientific terms
Same with the theory that Pluto revolves around the sun, the theory of gravity, and so on.
dude is your university the first time youve heard that? If so man school failed you.
+iamhuegraves Regarding this one in particular, evolution as history is a fact, as the means through which animals change or in other words, "why and how?" it is that they change is the thing that is debated, (but not the fact that they changed at all) so, it is a theory because it's an explanation and the details of said explanation can and have changed a little bit, at least the details, such as punctuate equilibrium, the relevance of virus and a transposons and the relevance of randomness.
This is actually a thing in philosophy, but not so much in science, there are two branches of tought, one that postulates that things that have been demonstrably shown to happen 100% of the time can and should be considered as "true" and the other that since the universe could always be something weird like a simulation or a dream or whatever we shouldn't consider anything at all to be true. I don't think we should take on the later one but rather understand the limitations of the first one, are we sure we are testing something in all of the possible ways it could be tested? Also, if you know a bit of logic (as in read books about logic) you should know that the later is an argument from ignorance. (an argument founded on the basis of lack of knowledge, this is not an insult.) "We don't know everything, therefore we can't claim to know anything at all." (An argument commonly used by religious people.)
That is completely true because if you saw a snake a different color than the surrounding area, you could see that from afar and avoid it. But if it were camouflaged, it would surprised you once you noticed it. I think the same would apply to the mouse because of that. It's just my thinking though.
Camouflage is actually a good point, but actually that would be a factor that throws off the experiment (can't think of the word).
An elephant likely would be afraid of a snake that it knew was there (and for good reason), but if it doesn't know then you aren't testing the elephant's emotions, but rather the success of the snake's camouflage.
Same here: a mouse that blended in too much with its environment might not be noticed at all by the elephant, making it difficult to test whether the elephant would be afraid of it provided awareness as a given.
That's awesome. That's so awesome the show had that effect and Adam and Jamie were perfect for the show. Ordinarily a science show wouldn't last so long as it would become either boring or too science-y but not MB. Legendary guys, well done.
I know the girl, it's the legend 27.
Could it also be that the elephant doesn't want to squish the other living being?
Who else found this on their recommend list?
Probably because Mythbusters paid UA-cam to put it on everybody's recommended list. PBS is hyping the last Mythbusters show to be aired soon.
Who searched for it
they also had an uncontrollable aspect to the myth that if you closed a tanker after cleaning it collapses, we live in Alberta where it is chilly all the time and at my brothers work place this actually happened I'm thinking that the atmospheric temperature has an effect on whether the tanker collapses in on it self.
I grew up on mythbusters
Brando Boyer we all did...
CatSuyac I didn't
The irony is that they did they OPPOSITE of what Adam wanted to do. It stopped people from thinking critically, and started them spewing "I saw it on MythBusters so ur wrong" everywhere, taking everything they say as the Gospel truth.
I think those people existed long before Mythbusters was a thing.
... Right, though I never said they were the explicit cause of those types of people. What I said was they they achieved the opposite of Adam's goal. Not only did people *not* start thinking critically, they started to take something they saw on TV as indisputable. MythBusters exponentially raised the number of people that did it.
You know, except for the part where people constantly called them out on their screw ups, so much so that they went back and redid many of their tests. Many times they changed their conclusion because of different results but for the most part, they got a lot of it right. When they had so many good results, you can't fault people for referring to their shows. Other wise you might as well call out people for referring to the encyclopedia and telling them how they aren't real thinkers for referencing the same book all the time.
Brandon Francey Well I can see that I've found the apparently sensitive "critical thinkers" they are talking about. Well fanboys will be fanboys I suppose.
Ralin Maybe we just don't see this huge group of people who are apparently only assholes because they watched Mythbusters.
I thoroughly enjoy that Adam Savage owned up to not getting the experiment right, and loved that the legacy of Mythbusters is to encourage critical thinking
Perhaps the elephant wasn’t afraid, but had empathy and avoided the mouse to not hurt him?
That's imposing human qualities onto animals, which is generally a dangerous thing to do.
They also messed up the one on using dynamite to remove set up concrete. My dad drove a concrete truck, they do use dynamite. However, they drill into the concrete first, they don't just toss it on top.
I love mythbusters... they always have creative episodes that are always fun to watch. Meeting Adam or Jamie would be a dream to me.
MB popularity went down three years ago. Anti science movements, racist parties and general ignorance became popular about three years ago. Coincidence?
We need more science shows on TV!
morphman86 we have alot of science shows on UA-cam now or critical thinking channels like idea channel, Vsauce, Vertasium, etc just to name a few.
***** Yup, but the general masses don't watch those. When it's not served on TV in a linear, predetermined order, they go to what they want to see.
When enough videos tell them that GMO equates to eating yoga mats, they will ignore the actual science channels and go live in an echo chamber, being afraid of their own food.
It's not their fault, it's just an unfortunate set of circumstances that allowed for the anti-movements to rise.
On the Internet, the general masses rather watch Mach Against Monsanto and Food Babe than Vsauce and Miles Power.
And on the TV, rather than showing the science shows they used to, the History Channel is legitimizing the pseudoscience by showing non-stop alien conspiracy theories, masked as real science. Discovery Channel shows rigged auction shows, dramatized fishing shows and things like that, all masked as actual documentaries despite it being scripted all the way through.
Where we once saw history unfold, we now see preposterous ideas about aliens who built pyramids, by people who think rock can conduct electricity. Where we once saw shows that had us question everything we know, we now see shows that has us questioning the state of the human mind...
Who watches TV these days.... :/ I guess I am alone who doesn't watch anything on TV...
Unity Alpha...the trouble with Google (UA-cam) is that it gives you results according to your preferences. If you watch critical thinking channels you will see them all over place.... if you explore some esotery/conspiracy channels, you will see those and those critical thinking ones will be hard to find.
For example when I look for creationist/christian videos now, 99% videos I see are evolutionist/atheist responses because of stuff I watched before. Pretty sure if someone was watching real creationist videos he would got videos about how evolution is fake... it is a huge issue imho, because people end up in being in information vacuum and see videos from only on perspecvtive and cannot grasp that someone else is seeing fundamentally different stuff all the time.
Incorrect or not, this story is just plain adorable.
Well, about 1/4 of the Mythbusters investigations had huge flaws in understanding or replicating myths, accounting for significant factors, setting up tests to get relevant data, or interpreting the data they got.
My kids got them and I'm looking forward to watching them. As for Adam Savage? YES... you DID make many of us think more about old wives tales and sloppy myths... and you made them FUN
I remember watching an episode with my brother about the myth where i believe it was a Vietnam sniper who killed another enemy sniper by shooting through his scope. My brother and me both freaked out cause they busted the myth but they had used a modern scope on the rifles and both of us wanted to write in but i don't believe we ever got around to doing it.
Rifle scopes during the Vietnam War era were made differently than modern rifle scopes..
If I remember right, they redid that myth and confirmed the story. It irks me they did so badly in the first place.
I remember an episode on ley lines where they went all out and found that ancient sites were close to lining up, but not enough so busted it. However, they never considered continental drift. In fact, if they did line up I'd consider it busted because they shouldn't. I've noticed a number of things like that since.
The mouse thing not so bad because it does confirm that elephants fear white mice, but they should have tested wild as well. Maybe i5 just feared it because it didn't know what it was.
The other great lesson is that people who *DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER* can still *respect* each other and create *genuisishness* together.
Also, that people disliking each other doesn't make either of them bad people, Jamie and Adam are just different sorts of guys, that is all.
May we all create geniusishness together.
I’m only 16, and Mythbusters has been a huge part of my childhood. It’s so sad that they’ve left the air...
Better than them busting a little girl! Wait, that was Sons of Guns.
lol, at least that monster is rotting in prison now.
5Rounds Rapid Damn that's messed up. A good one but........messed up.
5Rounds Rapid what's sons of guns?
TheMacocko Sons of guns was a television show, they built guns. The owner of the gun shop was arrested and jailed on charges of raping his 12 year old daughter.
77yogurt Most of their builds didn't work; they just looked cool for TV. They had a production line, but customers who bought weapons said they were garbage. He actually lost his firearms license before his arrest. The last season, he didn't even run the place.
started watching Mythbusters with my daughter when she was about 3 1/2yrs (about a year ago) she was playing one day and my wife asked her if she was playing princess again. she responded, "No. I'm a scientist." my wife looked at me and I'm pretty sure we both shared a look of pride. So, my wife asked her if she wanted to be a scientist when she grew up. My daughter replied, "Yup, just like Mythbusters. They build stuff and drop things." (we had just finished watching Adam getting wrapped in bubble wrap and dropped) The shocked look I got from my wife was priceless. All I could do was raise my first in triumph and pride. She still wants to be a scientist.
Elephant was like "oh shit, its a ball on a piece of string.. nope nope nope"
It's nice things like this can be publicly acknowledged. Unlike every fact and test in the past. Like the lifespan of animals etc. For example a housefly lives like three weeks not 24 hours. That was a test done on flies in a sealed jar in like 1897 that all died within 24 hours and was jotted as fact
I love savage. Hope I meet him one day
The best reason to use a white mouse is that it’s easier to see on camera than a brown or gray or black mouse. They are doing a TV show, so the mouse has to show up on the screen.
But it would be worthwhile to try the same test with several different colors of mice. It would be very interesting if elephants are afraid of white mice (or red mice or green mice), but not brown mice.
Most likely they just went to a petstore and that's what they got. I doubt there was more thought behind it than that.
They also got the Lucille Ball Japanese radio interception myth wrong. Back in the late 1970s I lived about 3 miles from a radio tower. I had metal fillings in my teeth. I had a microphone and amplifier I was using. When the mic was close to my mouth and I was facing the radio tower I was getting music from the radio station. The problem Mythbusters created was using the brass cage to block out signal. Lucille car was not encased in bras to block signal. Her AM radio needed an antenna which was assisted by the metal fillings in her mouth.
you could say she busted the busters
Not wanting to step on something and being afraid of it are two different things.
Awesome story Adam. Thank you.
Ah, but maybe the myth came from that very situation. Maybe, like at a zoo many years ago, a white mouse got into the elephant's containment area and reacted to seeing this creature it's never seen before.
My thought on that experiment was it seemed flawed from the outset by assuming the elephant was afraid. It might have just not wanted to harm the mouse given the size difference, so it backed away to give the mouse more room and it more time and space to react.
Dude can't even get the Indy bash right on his hat.
For some reason i have also seen that episode with the mouse, but i was wondering if the elephant was avoiding the actual mouse or the piece of poop that rolled away withou a reason. I think it got scared by that instead of the mouse
But the real question is.... Did it matter? Would a different colored mouse have changed the elephant's response?
yes it would have. because the albino mouse is rare, the elephants think of it has a new and unknown species. because they know nothing about it, natural instincts kick in and say that it's dangerous so you should stay away. for the unknown is dangerous
Bandit Leader
So elephants are xenophobic? Seems legit...
greg77389 i think it is less the fear of the unknown but rather being unsure as to whether the new creature is dangerous or not, and so more wary than nervous
John Zografakis
Don't mice also tend to exhibit that behavior?
John Zografakis " unsure as to whether the new creature is dangerous or not" is the same thing as fearing the unknown
It's like in the episode if there's a sinking ship will it suck you down with it
They used a small fishing boat like a small sailboat kinda like the one used in jaws but the myth specifically applies to large cargo and passenger ships
this show raised the bar for so many people, around the world, it has become the legendary science show for all times, even about bill nye the science guy, and the best well know episode was the cement truck episode, lol remember ?!?!?!????
Adam's way of thinking is correct. In fact the first two seasons of Mythbusters did promote critical thinking. But alas, as the show goes on, it's all about "blowing stuff up" with those three other jokers.
That and they ran out of myths to bust.
so... did they redo the myth
wait.. so she just called them out on their method but ACTUALLY wasn't debunked?
I also think that they would react the same way for any little moving thing (with an unnatuaral colour), not just mice.
'Failure is always an option'...
Adam Savage is bae. He is so cool and exactly like this in person.
Got me through so many years of teenage awkwardness, nights alone, and times of true boredom which was with every other television program besides law and order svu and a few others. Adam and Jamie are the shit without the smell!!
That is why in Mythbusters.. "Failure is Always an Option"
i just love myth buster, science is more accepted thanks to theses guys.
Afaik, the reason elephants are scared of mice, is because of their size, in the same way that we can be afraid of insects and mice. If the creature you're facing is much smaller than you, you can get scared that it hides on/in you.
If the mouse was harder to see, and all the elephants noticed was a movement at first, I'd expect the reaction to be much greater and more abrupt; since the mouse was white, they were much more able to observe it and navigate around it.
But indeed, had they tested with several different colours of mouse the information would be better.
my favorite show growing up
Wow! That girl is so smart! I had never considered that.
I wonder how Jamie would have reacted to being corrected.
Everyone is wary about new encounters
The experiment would have to be repeated multiple time for it to count as proof
They repeated almost all of their experiments, they just don't include that in the episodes because it would be boring as hell.
I always thought that myth failed due to the delivery method, I mean, who wouldn't be a little freaked out after the excrement in front of you suddenly moved.
Cameron Billquist didn't they test it again just with excrement?
Yeah and the elephant wasnt phased at all
Scott Peace yes, I realize that now after rewatching the episode. apologies
No worries, love to help people out a bit, i apologize if i came off slightly condescending
Jean-Luc Walker I originally read this with the understanding that; they were testing to see if elephants were afraid of excrement. XD
Ive read a few articles on how elephants are afraid of small animals in general
Adam Savage really, really loves himself.
*I remember watching that episode and thinking the same thing, but I figured that was the only mice they could find at the pet shop.*
Wait, so you're telling me a 7-8 year old knows these different types of mice while I, an 11 year old, can't even tell a crocodile from an alligator yet?
It's okay you don't know the difference between a crocodile and alligator, both just do a heccin' snap and live in strange water that no-one can see through.
If I remember right you can distinguish them by looking at their teeth, however, I forgot what difference their teeth have. :/
ThePC007 *snout
Boohoo, I’m mad because a child knows more than me, a slightly older child!
Rip myth busters after a year has past
Well, when I was a little kid, I also remember making the point that it doesn't matter if the pressure from the block of C4 in Hitler's bunker didn't kill him the the resulting explosion would have torn him to shreds.
I'm not salty about that at all.
Thats not really how explosions work...
Its shrapnel that kills, not explosions.
depends on where you are, concussion from an explosion can literally turn your insides to soup. if you wanna see something scary look up thermobaric bomb
Stan Hilt Concussive force can kill you, but that is directly related to pressure. If the pressure doesn't kill you, that means the concussive force wont be great enough.
I liked some of the Mythbusters programs but some did not ring true. They tried one about being sucked down with a sinking ship....they failed miserably because they could only use a small boat. Not enough displacement.
I would love to see that Lego boulder disolve in slow motion.
Wonderful, see, you helped people to think critically!
I miss the old myth busters so much!!😭😭😭
Im trying to bust myths, but this little girl is kicking my ass
"What would you like the legacy to be?"
*LEGO ball rolls in the background*
Don't you mean LEGOcy?
Adam Savage is a saint...God I miss MythBusters
re-do the giant lego ball thing with superglue on each lego to hold them all together.
Omg I thought the same thing! Lol not really. It would be cool to see them do a tribute for the little girl though!
There is a difference between being afraid and just not wanting to hurt the mice.
I love his humbleness
Im supposed to be playing Game of War, but this one player keeps kicking my ass.
I thought they were testing if Elephants are afraid of ANY mice and that albino mice is more visible to people, so they can catch them back. :D
You've done your part. And thus, congratulations!
Little girl contradicts guru: "You're impudent and bad-mannered for disregarding the wisdom of those who know better than you!"
Little girl contradicts Mythbusters: "You're *AWESOME* for thinking of something we didn't think and should have!"
*Science ROCKS*
In my opinion the elephant could've also avoided the mouse because it didn't want to step on it. Elephants are rather intelligent and I wouldn't be surprised if it recognized that either the mouse was a living creature or at the very least something moving that it shouldn't step on.
Legends says that the little girl now joins the MythBuster team
1:03 random kid in the background is screaming 😂
Correct a fool, and he will hate you. Correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you!
Myth busters should just be with Adam busting the myths. And, be called myth busting
loved the m.b. i grew up watching there shows.
g.day from australia.
A child's mind is still quite flexible and have not yet got stuck in the famous box.
I'm also curious about if it is because it's a mouse or because it's small and the elephant doesn't want to do harm to it
Even a little girl can see THEY MANIPULATE VARIABLES TO GET THE DESIRED OUTCOME!
Watches video. Immediately searches for video of the giant lego ball.
I love myth busters! I liked the Titanic episode a lot.
How the HELL was _This_ show stopped, but one about a wrongdoings *still exists????*
as i was sitting there watching the clip i was thinking to myself "why are they using a white mouse?". guess as a 50 year old man i am finally smart enough for first grade.