The One Science Fact That Adam Savage of ‘MythBusters’ Says Still Completely Blows His MindAfter over 200 episodes of “MythBusters,” host Adam Savage says there’s one scientific fact that completely blows his mind. In a video published by Business Insider, Savage said architect Buckminster Fuller would travel around the world giving lectures about the world. “He had a really unique way of looking at it,” he explained. “He would hold up a 30-inch diameter metal sphere and he’d say, ‘Imagine this is the earth…We look out the window at the ocean and it looks like it’s really deep…but how much water is it if the earth was as big as this sphere?’” After allowing the audience time to think about the question, Savage said he would breath heavily on the sphere to create condensation. He would then say that the “condensation of his breath is equivalent of the depth of the deepest ocean on earth on this sphere.” “And that makes it clear how actually fragile our ecosystem really is,” Savage concluded.
Comments: Fragile? The Earth has withstood massive tectonic shifts, volcanoes, even meteor strikes that have decimated whole ecosystems full of life. Yet, it has always recovered all on it’s own, without the meager help of self-righteous humans. I believe we should be good stewards of our world, just not the A-retentive version the humanity haters wish us to be. *** *** That’s exactly what I thought. Fragile, my azz! Lots of humans would be dead, but the “fragile” earth
would be just fine! The truth is that one medium sized asteroid hitting us would decimate the human population. But the ecosystem would pick right up where it left off, and keep on truckin! Let’s worry about killing ourselves with the poisoning of
our own food supply. When we finally stop Monsanto, the
earth will cleanse our soil in only a few decades. All information © 2015 TheBlaze Inc
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This is another example of the truth dose not matter, it only matters if the story matches my message.
Facts:
Earth radius about 3959 miles
Max ocean depth about 6.8 miles
Sphere radius 15 inches
Equivalent depth of ocean on sphere about 0.026 inches
Average diameter of fog droplet about 5 microns (breath condensation most likely smaller)
Result:
The resulting depth of condensation on sphere would need to be more than 130 times deeper to match relative depth of ocean.
The reason this blows his mind is because its not correct, and it only took me 10 mins to find the data and do the math. Our biggest problem with society today is everyone argues their points but ignore facts. If something doesn’t seem accurate do the research yourself. It’s not hard.