Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the Mythbusters, were at Comic Con last week. They did a panel discussion of the show (moderated by Bill Prady, one of the producers of The Big Bang Theory), and were great (as usual).
They started off their panel with a bang — a fantastic trailer for their upcoming episode on the Moon Hoax!
Coooooooollllll. Love the music. The show airs August 27.
I got to hang out with Adam and some of the Discovery Channel crew at Comic Con, and they were as nice, funny, warm, and charming as you’d imagine. And I’m not just sucking up; they really were a fun group.
[More pix are here in my Flickr Comic Con set. ARealGirl has many pix too!]
Adam made sure my friend A and I got front row seats for their panel, which was totally cool. And if that weren’t enough… during the panel, Adam and Jamie were asked what myths they’ve wanted to investigate but haven’t had the time too. Adam, bless his heart, didn’t even hesitate: he said it was trying to see stars in the daytime, and then said (on stage and everything) that it came from "his good friend, Phil Plait, who is sitting right over here."
Yes, I totally got a shout-out from Adam freakin’ Savage. Comic Con was like that. Awesome from start to finish.
And I have at least one more story to tell… but it’s best for a Friday. Stay tuned. 
July 31st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
When I retire from the USAF, my daughter informed me that I would be NOTHING to her unless I got a job as an assistant on Mythbusters. Think you and your friend Adam could at least arrange an interview?
That said, I am really, really looking forward to that episode!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I find it nice that they gave the show a serious treatment instead of their usual funny approach.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
The episode will do nothing to stop true Hoax Believers, but should help convince those sitting on the fence as whether it was a hoax or not.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
You rock Phil
July 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Finally, the kind of Moon Hoax show we like!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Working at the Mythbusters has to be the coolest job ever. I can’t wait for that show. Hopefully it will open the eyes of anybody who thinks there is the slightest chance that NASA faked the whole thing.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Moon hoax believers who do not know the contents of the show are going to see this trailer and think to themselves, “Finally, Mythbusters is going to expose NASA!” I can not wait. Phil, you better get a credit.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I hope it goes online eventually for those of us with basic cable.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
The trailer looks awesome. I want to see the episode NOW.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Nasa fake a moon landing?
Seeing how the historical record of the shuttle safety and money management programs have progressed over the years, I seriously doubt that this government agency could pull the wool over the eyes of so many people for so long. it would take what, thousands of people to pull it off and make sure nothing screws up the secret kept for what, 40 years now.
I believe that the human race has been to the moon, I mean, how cool is that, we did something that you just have to stop and stand in awe and feel proud of having been there for this and say we did that. This one thing for the first time ever in the human race.
For those who don’t chose to belive, close your windows, drapes, blinds whatever and stay in the dark.
My future is bright and full of hope to the next great leap we chose to take on and again I can say, I was there.
btw. to those who said we couldn’t have done it without computers, every heard of a slipstick.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Oh, btw. Phil - when you hung out with the Mythbusters, did you notice that Jamie is a reptilian shapeshifter?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dkiq_jamie-hyneman-shapeshifter_blog
And people always thought he was a robot. That man (?) sure is full of surprises!
*snickers*
July 31st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I also love the music, its from the Planet Earth soundtrack
July 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The explosion at the end represents the quantity of moon hoax claims that are about to be obliterated.
The conspiracy theorist will have the task of picking up the pieces of their trashed theories.
I can’t wait.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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July 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Something I’d like to know.
In the Mythbusters trailer there is a brief clip of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module in orbit above the lunar surface, shot just after separation from the Command Module. The same footage has appeared in many documentaries and was used in opening credits for Star Trek Enterprise. This footage has ALWAYS been BACKWARDS! Can someone tell me why? Please? It drives me nuts every time I see it. I know it’s petty but please, somebody, anybody, whenever this is next duped from the original 16mm film FLIP IT RIGHT WAY AROUND!
It’s almost as bad as the movie Apollo 13 using the paint scheme from the non-flight engineering test article Saturn V used to test facilities integration at the Kennedy Space Centre instead of the actual Apollo 13 Saturn V. Details are important.
End of space-geek rant.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
You know… I think every time you link a video, it comes up “This video is no longer available.”
July 31st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
…Until I’m viewing the entry page, rather than the front page, whereupon it magically begins to work! :O
July 31st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
That’s an awesome trailer! I can’t wait for the show!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
My goodness. That was quite the trailer.
Can’t wait to see how the Mythbusters gang handles this.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I love mythbusters!!! great american TV
July 31st, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I have read about the reasons these people give for conspiracy. You don’t even have to “know” about physics. Any semi-experienced photographer will notice those about photography are silly claims. Very silly. These people have never used a manual camera, it seems, or taken a picture with a sufficiently wide-angle lens.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
[…] found out about this from over at the Bad Astronomy blog. August 27th on the Discovery Channel the Mythbuster are taking on the those strange folks out […]
July 31st, 2008 at 8:59 pm
@Your Name’s Not Bruce?:
Well you see the film is backwards because it’s a clue from the filmmaker that it was all faked just like the C on the prop rock and the disappearing graticule *joke*
July 31st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Phil, you and your Skeptologist friends need to take notes. That is how to do a promo. It’s dramatic, it’s catchy, it has good sound and music, it draws the viewer in.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:01 pm
w00000000t!!!!!11!!!!!eleventyhundredeleven!! Just marked my calendar for Aug. 27. If I die before then, my best buddy is under orders to make sure I’ve got the cable hooked up to a mini-TV in my coffin.
But in the mean time, all Enquiring Minds want to know:
IS THE MOON READY TO BE INVADED BY ADAM SAVAGE?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:20 am
I always thought those guys had the coolest jobs in the world. I mean they get to blow stuff up and get paid for it!! I blow stuff up and I get fined.
And you get to hang out with them!
Dang! You have a pretty cool job too!
August 1st, 2008 at 1:17 am
Oh, poo, now I’m even more desperate for the new MythBusters season than I was before I saw this trailer …
August 1st, 2008 at 3:58 am
Friday’s nearly over here in Oz, so what’s the story?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:24 am
The problem with this episode is–obviously, guys–the Mythbusters are in on the conspiracy.
(Just kidding. But if I were a conspiracy nut, that’s what I’d say.)
August 1st, 2008 at 6:13 am
Any idea when this will air on British television?
August 1st, 2008 at 7:09 am
Another UKer here, currently hooked on Season 5. I want want want to see this!
August 1st, 2008 at 7:52 am
Your Name’s Not Bruce?: what do you mean by “backwards”? Flopped left-to-right? Run backwards? How can you tell?
August 1st, 2008 at 10:57 am
Flopped left to right. Look at the Ascent Stage of the LM. Its design is asymmetrical. The propellant tanks are different sizes, so one side extends farther from the spacecraft centreline than the other. If you’re looking at from the front, face on as we see it in the clip, the larger tank should be on the right side. In this clip it’s on the left. You can also see that one of the antennae is also on the “wrong” side. Occasionally you’ll see the same reversal in reprints of the photo of the Apollo 11 ascent stage taken from Columbia just before docking. But the Apollo 12 clip I have never seen the right way around.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Cannot wait until this airs!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I keep getting this one confused with this:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/moonhoax.html
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 was a real hoax. Much more interesting than some alleged hoax that wasn’t.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
AWESOME
CANT WAIT
August 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Phbbbbt! Front row seats! Blech. I got on line 1.5 hours before the panel, and didn’t get in — along with, by my estimate, 4000 other people! I hope they come back to Comic Con next year — and get the biggest room there. They deserved Hall H, or room 6CDEF at least! 6B was just too small for them!
Any chance that someone taped the whole presentation? So those 4000 of can see what we missed?
August 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hey, Phil. Try as I wanted, I was unable to see either your panel or the Mythbusters. I was even checking the Con floor for Wil Wheaton, knowing that if I could find him, you wouldn’t be far behind! >;)~
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
My DVR is set for the new season. Can’t waaaaaaiiiiit!
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I love the Mythbusters and I’m soooo jealous that you got to meet them! Oh well, I’ll live. :). But I’m also so tired of people religiously denying we landed on the moon. I will most definitely be watching this episode!
August 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Link Test
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September 27th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Recently, a series of pictures were taken from approximately 31 million miles away shows the moon between the camera and the Earth. The Earth appears to be many times larger than the moon. So why when we we allegedly were on the moon does the pic of the Earth shows it to be no larger than the moon appears to be from the Earth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEcqWuYqrSo&eurl=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/17/holy-frak-moon-transits-earth/
See the image at about 16 seconds into the video. These are actual pics taken…they were shown on the national news.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Joe, why does the sun look moon sized when seen from the earth? Are you suggesting that the sun is the same size as the moon?
Having said that I thought the earth looked about 3 or 4 times the apparent size of the moon when viewed from the moon? I wouldn’t be surprised that the lens used on the camera and the aperture helped make the earth look smaller that it was too.