This particular episode made me angry.
I love watching the mythbusters do incredible things especially in slow motion.
I am also an accomplished sailor, who understands the basic premise behind sailing upwind - you have the wind pushing the whole system generally backward - you have a keel reacting to that force by providing an equal and opposite reaction force.
It's one thing to investigate stupid claims like they did with the perpetual motion machine episodes... It's quite another to entertain freaking retarded claims and devote an entire episode to them.
All they needed to do was show a vector on screen to explain how sail power, upwind, ends up in a net forward force.
Instead they spend the whole episode making dumb people dumber.
This episode - to me - was right on par with ancient aliens.
What a waste of time to watch.
I love watching the mythbusters do incredible things especially in slow motion.
I am also an accomplished sailor, who understands the basic premise behind sailing upwind - you have the wind pushing the whole system generally backward - you have a keel reacting to that force by providing an equal and opposite reaction force.
It's one thing to investigate stupid claims like they did with the perpetual motion machine episodes... It's quite another to entertain freaking retarded claims and devote an entire episode to them.
All they needed to do was show a vector on screen to explain how sail power, upwind, ends up in a net forward force.
Instead they spend the whole episode making dumb people dumber.
This episode - to me - was right on par with ancient aliens.
What a waste of time to watch.
