Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mythbusters


Mythbusters is just one of the shows I watch on Discovery Channel. The hosts of the show are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman they are special effects experts and they use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, internet videos and news stories. They have currently have 8 seasons that date back to 2003. They approach a myth by getting a scale model then after the scale model works(if it works) they got do it in real size. By the end of an episode the myth is classified as Busted, Plausible, and Confirmed. Busted means that the myth's results cannot be replicated via either the described parameters nor reasonably exaggerated ones. Plausible means that the myth's results can only be replicated by expanding some parameters of the myth by a realistic and reasonable margin. Confirmed means that the Mythbusters are able to recreate or closely recreate the Myth's outcome with the described circumstances. There is also a second mythbusters team with Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tori Belleci. They perform small myths that happen in the show and then there is the crash dummy Buster. He is always the one to be tested on like being shot at or being in the house while it's getting blown up.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Formula 1 Season is Underway :D


The 2010 Formula 1 season is underway with the first race in Bahrain in the Sakhir circuit.
Ferrari have shown their competitiveness by finishing the race 1-2 with Fernando(Alonso) first and Felippe(Massa) second. Both of them started well maintaining their pace and overtaking Sebastien(Vettel) in the dying moments of the race. 3rd place is Lewis(Hamilton) for Mclaren after a though qualifying session on saturday they were impressed with the win. 4th is Sebastien(Vettel) for Redbull racing who lead the pack for most of the race until a mechanical problem occured and he lost some power resulting in the 2 Ferrari's and Hamilton to get past him. He did well to maintain 4th place.

The rest of the grid is as follows:

5.Nico Rosberg
6.Michael Schumacher
7.Jenson Button
8.Mark Webber
9.Vitantonio Liuzzi
10.Rubens Barichello
11.Robert Kubica
12.Adrian Sutil
13.Jaime Alguersuari
14.Nico Hulkenburg +1 lap
15.Heikki Kovalainen +2 laps
16.Sebastien Buemi +3 laps
17.Jarno Trulli +3 laps
18.Pedro de la Rosa RET
19.Bruno Senna RET
20.Timo Glock RET
21.Vitaly Petrov RET
22.Kamui Kobayashi RET
23.Lucas Di Grassi RET
24. Karun Chandhok RET


RET= Retired from the race