Mythbusters Deadly Straw Worksheet Season 4

Description

Jamie and Adam test the myth that during a hurricane, a straw can have enough kinetic energy to go through a palm tree. The rest of the Mythbuster team attempts to prove the myth that plants and animals are interconnected through unseen psychic forces. Concepts discussed are wind speed, Fujita scale, velocity and mass relationships, kinetic energy, air pressure, barrel length and impulse time, tree trunk density, polygraph results, using baseline data, interpreting data, controlled variables, voltage measurements, false positives, and the repeatability of results.

The episode is roughly 41 minutes in length.

straw can have enough kinetic energy to go through a palm tree, plants and animals are interconnected through psychic forces, wind speed, Fujita scale, velocity and mass relationships, kinetic energy, air pressure, barrel length and impulse time, polygraph results, using baseline data, false positives, pseudoscience