Ice Bullet ???

One thing I have noticed about the MYTHBUSTERS is how well they set up their experiments to "lead down the primrose path" and on to their (MYTHBUSTER's) conclusion.

On at least one occasion, they have publicly acknowledged they "didn't take everything into consideration", and downgraded their "BUSTED" conclusion. IMHO, they need at least a handfull more of those public "mea culpa's" for other experiments where they took a left turn right off the start, (one occasion), and others that were possibly only 90% correct.
In my younger readings about magicians, I discovered one very real truth:
"Just because you cannot do something, doesn't mean no one can do it!"

Obvious example: Put a man in a suitcase.
A six-foot tall man won't be able to fit in a suitcase, but one of the little people could do it, (or a child, throwing out the technicality that a child is not a man).
MYTHBUSTERS' methods would have the two guys (competitively) try to squeeze into a suitcase, then have the (smaller) redhead girl try, and also fail. The "distraction" is a magician's trick to cut off other lines of thinking, eliminating the possibility of using a little person, or a child.
What about other unlisted assumptions?
Sure they got a big suitcase, but was it the largest suitcase made, or ever made? Must the suitcase have rigid or hard sides, or can it have stretchy soft sides? See how that "obvious example" goes?


There are sometimes other ways to do things that could be considered "out of the box".
Since the merger/buyout involving COMCAST and TIME WARNER cable companies is in the news, I'll tell you about how TIME WARNER shed its "monopoly status" that required city council approval for rate and program changes, (in at least one growing city).
The law required 30% effective competition to remove the monopoly status, which would then allow them to make changes in rates any way they wanted, and at any time they chose, ("monopoly" limited to once per year). Evidently several satellite companies combined to just a few thousand subscribers less than the 30%, so someone at TIME WARNER decided on another means. They de-staffed their customer service offices, (probably by not hiring replacements at a rate needed to fill vacancies when staffers quit), and contracted/(hired) installers they had not used before. The latter caused more complaints to the lighter staffed service offices. Customer dis-satisfaction rose, and that caused less people to sign up, and more customers to leave out of frustration, (and I won't even start into the issues they started having with billings and collections). Within several months, the threshold of the legal 30% effective competition was crossed, and their monopoly status was permanently removed, as the law was written.
Next came their hiring of more customer service people, and a BIG marketing campaign to both get former customers back, and attract new customers.
See both the logic and the ethics involved?
BTW, does anyone (congress and regulators excluded that is) think their latest proposal to sell off some customers (to what will become a 67% controlled seperate company!!) to become less than 30% of the cable service provider in the USA is a coincidental percentage number?




As far as the conspiracy theories go, without proof, there are a LOT of possible tales that can be strung together, some of them perfectly possible, in addition to **the** real story.

One simple "conspiracy theory" that makes too much sense is how MYTHBUSTERS would not show something that would be an untraceable and/or undetectable weapon because the criminal elements (at least the normally less capable elements) would start using it/them.



BTW, the TV series BONES used a "blood bullet" in one of their episodes, breaking the assumption of an "ice bullet" as an undetectable/untraceable weapon...
Still an iffy proposition, but just sayin'