Because of the nature of the situations in which the MythBusters use him, Buster has been subjected to forces and situations that far exceed his original design parameters as an automobile crash test dummy. As a testament to the danger of the tests in which he is used—often resulting in his being broken into pieces, burnt, or otherwise mutilated—Buster has had to be extensively repaired and rebuilt over the course of the series to the point that an entire special was devoted to his being completely redesigned and rebuilt as "Buster 2.
Buster was designed with quick and simple repair in mind, and boasts improved joints, with a more realistic range of movement, and easily replaceable poplar wood "bones". Poplar was chosen because its shear strength was very similar to human bone, providing an accurate gauge of how bones would react in experiments. Buster's new flesh with the exception of his face, hands, and feet is made of a silicone marketed for use in animatronics called Dragon Skin.
Buster's original head was retained when he was rebuilt, but it had to be replaced after it was shattered during a mishap on the Escape Slide Parachute Myth.
His original face was retained to fit over his replacement head. They tested Buster 2. Buster 2. The MythBusters have at times adapted Buster to fit specialized equipment or give him new functionality. For myths involving holding onto things such as " Plywood Builder " , his hands are replaced with clamps or quick-release rigs. For myths involving falls like " Hammer Bridge Drop " , monitoring equipment, such as accelerometers or shock gauges, is installed on or within his body.
He was also attached to a pneumatic system at one time so he could punch sharks for the Shark Week special. Other than that, I can make the following assumptions:. Now I need two pieces of information. But what about the time? If I assume a couple of the shots of the sled are in "real time," then I can just count video frames to get an acceleration time of 1. To find the acceleration, I could just use the kinematic equationsbut that's boring. Instead, let's start with the definition of acceleration and average velocity in 1-dimension:.
Notice that there are actually two definitions for the average velocity. It is equal to the change in position divided by the change in timebut it is also the average of the starting and ending velocity. Now using the definitions of average velocity, I can get an expression for the final velocity. Using this expression for the final velocity, I get the following for the acceleration:. That's a pretty large acceleration. In fact, if Buster was a normal human he wouldn't have to worry about crashing into a wallhe would probably be dead just due to the rockets.
We never found the largest portions of him. We think he is pretty much vaporized. And that's right and proper. Buster deserved to go out that way. Obituaries are never easy to write, and Adam Savage's remarks to CNET seem somewhat cavalier at first considering all the hours that he and Buster put in together on MythBusters. Still, it's hard to imagine a Buster that could have endured a life without explosions and blasts and crashes after his time on MythBusters. He might not have been able to come home to a quiet life after all of the work he put in with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.
Going out in a literal and damn epic blaze of glory is no less than what he deserved. If you're in need of some closure, check out the clip of Buster's final rocket ride:. After watching Buster's vaporization, it's especially nice to know Adam Savage acknowledges that Buster deserves some kind of church dedicated to his memory.
He came back from grievous injuries so many times that there had to be something divine at work. If not for the chunks of Buster that blew through the brick wall, the more whimsical among us might have been able to believe that he'd fallen through a hole in time or into Narnia or a Pensieve.
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