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Such a great show. They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case
by pstuart 4y ago
Such a great show.
They also censored themselves when they discovered a recipe for an incredibly easy and powerful explosive. I throw that out there as a case of self-regulation in the marketplace of ideas.
Edit: Adam Savage talking about it -- https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-evidence-of-an-easy-to-make-explosive/ https://nerdist.com/article/mythbusters-destroyed-all-eviden...
Apparently it was not well known, so not an original discovery but still a legitimate use of the word.
My comment was a point about censorship in that it can be the right thing to do. I'm curious AF about what the recipe is but am ok with not knowing and and knowing that effectively no one else does.
- dtx1 4y agomeh, they also censored how to make thermite (iron oxide powder and aluminium powder ignited by magnesium) and you can get explosive material easily almost everywhere gunpowder is available. They censored how to make Nitrocellulose as well which requires strong acids that are arguably more dangerous than Nitrocellulose itself. Anyway that recipee is available on wikipedia anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Guncotton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Guncotton
- vore 4y agoI don't think that's so much self-regulation as it is the producers would probably not let them publicize something like that on TV and avoid some 3-letter agency knocking on their doors.
- louwrentius 4y agoSome people have a basic sense of morality, doing what's right.
- mlindner 4y agoThey didn't "discover a recipe". Anyone who was a kid at that time could look up on the internet the recipes for these things, and even pre-internet in things like "The Anarchist Cookbook" and other such literature.
- anon_cow1111 4y agoI had to look this up, it seems it was related to the myth of a LOX tanker truck spilling/crashing and turning the road asphalt itself into an explosive. Seems kinda weird to omit this though as it's not really arcane knowledge (Pretty sure "The Martian" had a scene where they blow open an airlock with something similar). Other mythbusters censors include dropping an entire episode about credit card hacks/fakes because Visa and friends threatened to pull ads from the network, and another episode where they accidentally caused their test mice to cannibalize each other.