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The Myth

THIS MYTH WAS FEATURED IN...
Episode 48: Franklin's Kite, Bean Flatulence, Suffocating Flatulence

Original air date: 3/8/2006
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Best quotes by the MythBusters:

  • Grant - "It's the death kite, the kite of punishment"
  • Tory: We killed a dead president.
    Grant: He was never president.
    Tory: Wasn't he? Damn it.




Your Scientific Method

Did the MythBusters get it right? How would you have busted this myth differently? Share your experiment design for how you would prove/disprove this myth:

  • There was one possible problem with the science used when busting this myth. When wetting the string, they appeared to use tap water, which typically contains impurities (salts and other minerals) that make it conductive. Rain water, which is purified though evaporation lacks these minerals, making it non-conductive. This is probably not worth revisiting this myth over, but should be noted.


  • The string used back then wouldn't have had the same industrially "clean" process/material as modern string:
    try using string from some hand spun string factory, in India, for a material-match.

  • The water in rain may lack minerals, until it falls through dusty air, but it is quite contaminated.
    It's recently been discovered that the painting of London, showing little, because of smog, shows what was actually visible, in the day.
    Air contamination was, in the industrial era, sometimes stupendous.






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