The Mythbuster That Won’t Be Aired

By Miss Cellania in Animals & Pets, Video Clips on May 30, 2010 at 3:03 am


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Adam Savage of the TV show Mythbusters explains an experiment that the Discovery Channel rejected. Did your mother ever say “The box is more nutritious!” when you asked for sugary cereal? Adam and Jamie set up a test to find out if that’s true, which turned out completely different from anything they expected. This is an excerpt from Savage’s speech at Maker Faire. Subject matter may be disturbing to some viewers. You can watch the entire speech at FORA.tv. Link -via Digg


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  1. hpavc
    May 30th, 2010 at 4:11 am

    but it was aired.

  2. K!P
    May 30th, 2010 at 4:12 am

    they did do the myth of cardboard being more engergie dense, bij burning it and measuring the amount of energy released.

    no mice tho.

  3. K!P
    May 30th, 2010 at 4:13 am

    omg, i never made so much typo’s, it seems my brain did not switch to english for a full 100%. Sorry about that.

  4. Kathryn
    May 30th, 2010 at 4:38 am

    Starving a mouse until it cannibalizes another is not ‘hilarious’, it’s animal cruelty. Are we meant to think this is funny, Neatorama?

  5. Miss Cellania
    May 30th, 2010 at 5:16 am

    No, but I thought you might find it interesting.

  6. raf
    May 30th, 2010 at 5:30 am

    oy…pita scolds…mice eat each other sometimes starving or not…extend some compassion for all the millions that are snuffed to placate squeamish apartment dwellers…

  7. Manticore
    May 30th, 2010 at 7:05 am

    They banned the episode about RFID chips too. I don’t think they ever actually made the episode, but yea.

    Here’s the vid:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-St_ltH90Oc

  8. GailW
    May 30th, 2010 at 7:16 am

    That is hilarious. Sick and twisted, but hilarious none the less.

  9. Gauldar
    May 30th, 2010 at 8:18 am

    My rabbit would eat cardboard quite a bit, but of course getting other nutrients from timothy hay and a seed mix we gave her which she loved.

  10. blahblah
    May 30th, 2010 at 10:00 am

    So myth busted on that one.
    Makes you wonder though, are the chemicals used to make cereal boxes safe?
    Were the mice twitchy from malnutrition, or something else they were picking up in the cardboard. hmmm.

  11. Padraig
    May 30th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    Last Summer, I found a mouse peering in through the window of the basement light chute. I put on some working gloves and got a hold of the wee one, dropping him in a box with cheese, salami, crackers, and some damp paper towels. It wasn’t until I started closing the window that I saw the gnawed-to-the-bone carcass of a second mouse. It didn’t take long to understand why the mouse I had just saved seemed so well fed.

    Everyone thought the FB pictures were cute (of the mouse, when we released it). No one said anything after I mentioned it was a canibal.

  12. Nikki
    May 30th, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    Aww dammit, I’d have loved to have seen that!

  13. marcusbacus
    May 30th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Remember that plane crash in Chile some good 40 years ago? Humans ate humans then. And Discovery even made a documentary about it. Go figure.

  14. marcusbacus
    May 30th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    Interesting, my previous comment was not approved for some reason.
    I just said that there was a plane crash in the Andes about 40 years ago, and the survivors had to eat the available dead bodies (they ate the pilot!) to survive. And Discovery even made a very graphic documentary about it. How controversial.

  15. megmeg
    May 31st, 2010 at 9:02 am

    Mice will often eat each other in displays of dominance if you are not careful in grouping them. I worked in a research lab where it was not uncommon to find only tails left after a less dominant mouse was eaten by a more dominant one. I doubt the mythbusters intentionally set out to make the mice eat each other.

  16. SenorMysterioso
    Jun 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    The episode aired just without that experiment.

  17. Splint Chesthair
    Jun 3rd, 2010 at 8:09 am

    Sometimes in the animal kingdom, animals aren’t all cute and fluffy and they do things which, if we are ignorant to attache human personas to them, we could describe as cruel. I resent Neatorama for clearing the fog that is my own preferred reality.


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