MythBusters Season 2, Ep. 6 "Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing"

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Join Jamie and Adam as they test the limits of a homemade tree cannon to decipher whether or not a small town in Hungry could actually build a working cannon out of a tree. Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?
  • Runtime: 50 minutes
  • Original air date: September 23, 2003
  • Network: Discovery Channel
 
  
 
 

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6. Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
  September 23, 2003
Join Jamie and Adam as they test the limits of a homemade tree cannon to decipher whether or not a small town in Hungry could actually build a working cannon out of a tree. Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?
 
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8. Alcatraz Escape
  September 23, 2003
Jamie and Adam retrace the steps of the infamous prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz without a trace in 1962. Although presumed drowned, they'll find out if it was possible to survive the tides of the San Francisco Bay in a homemade raft.
 
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9. Explosive Decompression
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Episode 6, "Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing"
Synopsis: Join Jamie and Adam as they test the limits of a homemade tree cannon to decipher whether or not a small town in Hungry could actually build a working cannon out of a tree. Can Adam's tongue piercing withstand the electric force of a lightning bolt?
Original air date: September 23, 2003
Runtime: 50 minutes
ASIN: B000IT6DZE
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,718 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
MythBusters Season 2
Synopsis: Each episode, the MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special effects experts whith over 30 years experience between them, methodically set out to bust three urban legends. And they don't just explain if something's true or false: through trial and error, they demonstrate it. Sometimes they crash things; sometimes they blow things up--all in the name of science.
Season year: 2003
Network: Discovery Channel
ASIN: B003A00BBU
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