Mythbusters Results

One of the shows I often watch on the Discovery Channel is Mythbusters. The headliners of the show are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman who with their team attempt to test various myths from around the world. Basically they take a myth, explain its premise and scientific idea and then attempt to test the myth to prove its possibility or to bust it.

The Mythbusters site has a list of all of the myths that have been tested and the results that the team has found during their experimentation. Here is the link to the results

The following is taken from the Mythbusters web site.

Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed?
By the end of each episode, each myth is rated "Busted", "Plausible", or "Confirmed."

Confirmed:
The MythBusters are able to recreate the myth's purported outcome with the described circumstances. A myth can also be confirmed with documented evidence that it actually occurred.

Plausible:
The myth's results can only be produced by expanding the parameters within a reasonable margin (that is, if the circumstances needed to make the myth work are impractical, but still possible), or by the practical necessity of setting additional parameters that may or may not have been part of the myth described. This judgment is used if a myth is possible but unlikely, or if documented accounts of the myth exist that the MythBusters were unable to duplicate (for safety or cost reasons).

Busted:
The myth's results cannot be replicated via either the described parameters nor reasonably exaggerated ones. The myth's results could not be reproduced or could only be reproduced with parameters so unusual that the validity of the myth is unlikely.