Could a projectile fired into an airplane’s fuselage trigger a catastrophic loss of pressure? Might a primed .22 caliber cartridge serve as a substitute for a vehicle’s ignition system? Is it conceivable that the force could shear a car com…

Would releasing a chicken into the path of an airplane send it tumbling from the sky, or simply scatter it on the wind? Might a woman ingest an octopus egg and subsequently bear a creature with eight legs? Is it conceivable that a man could…

Could a university rowing crew manage to hoist someone onto water skis? Might the synchronized cadence of marching soldiers bring down a bridge? And does the bacteria found in a toilet bowl ever find its way to a toothbrush?

Does a vessel plunging beneath the waves inevitably drag those aboard with it? Do goldfish experience boredom, or are they simply lacking in intelligence? Would the sound produced be enhanced by dropping a burning firework into the bell of …

Do Jamie and Adam hold the key to locating Jimmy Hoffa, rumored to be entombed within concrete? Could the sheer thrust of a Boeing 737 propel a taxi seventy-five feet into the sky? And is the daddy longlegs truly the world’s most venomous s…

Could someone receive a shock from urinating against a charged electric fence? Did Adam exert sufficient force to trigger the experimental implants’ failure? And do cell phones pose a hazard near gasoline pumps?

Could a scuba diver, caught unexpectedly beneath the surface, be lifted from the water by a firefighting helicopter’s downwash and deposited amidst the chaos of a raging wildfire? Or might a banana lodged within a car’s exhaust pipe bring t…

Are the stories true that the Greek inventor Archimedes once ignited a Roman fleet with nothing more than strategically arranged mirrors and concentrated sunlight? And could a shield, however robustly constructed, genuinely withstand a dire…

Should an elevator plummet unexpectedly, is there any chance of escaping injury by leaping away just as it nears the ground? And could the team behind *MythBusters* ever devise a working device capable of defying gravity?

Could a sheet of plywood offer protection to a construction worker caught in a fall from a great height? Might suspending a mirrored disco ball from one’s rearview mirror, or painting a vehicle matte black, somehow redirect the focused beam…

Are such deaths as dramatic as they appear – could someone truly be killed by plunging an electric device into a bath? Do tattoos pose a hazard during magnetic resonance imaging? And might legendary quicksand prove capable of overwhelming e…

Could a standard playing card be thrown with sufficient force to cause injury? Might a warmed candy disc shatter violently within the mouth? Is it conceivable that a PVC pipe, roughened by abrasive blasting, could function as a dangerous we…

Could a submerged vessel be raised from the seabed by harnessing the buoyancy of ping pong balls alone? And what quantity of these balls would be required to counteract the weight and raise a three-year-old child from the earth?

Can Buster possibly tame the brute force of a thirty-thousand-pound machine, or will the boom-lift become an unexpectedly devastating siege weapon? And what’s the cleverest method for keeping comfortable inside a vehicle while using as litt…

How difficult is it, truly, to locate a single needle within a vast haystack? Do the noxious vapors released by roach foggers and insect bombs create a potentially dangerous mixture? And can simply speaking to one’s houseplants genuinely en…

Can Buster withstand a fiery ascent to orbit? And will a stand-in performer meet a grim end at the hands of an obsessed admirer while the MythBusters investigate the possibility of limitless power?

Did audiences choose the Stinky Car experiment? Or will the classic combination of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola claim victory? Will a silver spoon nestled in a champagne bottle truly preserve its effervescence? And finally, does a snowman thaw m…