If you've ever wanted to propose an experiment for the Mythbusters boys to test out—or just suggest something for them to blow up—you're about to get your chance.
Mythbusters host Adam Savage braved Internet armageddon to stop by Reddit’s r/mythbusters community with an idea: Mythbusters wants to do an episode featuring experiments suggested by Reddit.
No, really.
This could easily be a disaster in the making, but Savage sounds like he knows what he’s doing.“Yup, we're handing over the editorial of an episode to YOU,” Savage wrote. “So if you've got a TESTABLE myth you want us to tackle, post it below. If you've got a myth you think we messed up and should do again, then put it here in this thread.
Savage said the team was "also interested in novel methodologies if you guy have something interesting in that regard too!"
"If you want us to blow something up, here's where you can tell us!" he wrote. "Or if you've just got a burning desire to send something weird and wonderful to its doom courtesy of the rocket sled, then you know what to do.”
Fans will have approximately two weeks to submit their ideas before the Mythbusters R&D team picks the best ones. The episode itself will likely air sometime in early 2016.
The only real restriction is that the experiments have to be PG-13 in nature. Fart-related myths, however, are completely on the table. (Fans will also lose the rights to the idea by posting it and will not be compensated if their idea is used in the episode.)
Savage and his team will have more than enough myths to choose from—some doable, others not so much—so we've gathered our favorites from the suggestions listed so far. When people finally have the chance to propose things they've waited years to explore, they get pretty creative.