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According to the October 28, 2012, episode of MythBusters, he suffers from acrophobia. During the "Hollywood Hang" sequence, of the 2010 episode "Soda Cup Killer", Belleci fell off a roof, and despite being strapped into a safety harness system, landed in an open window frame below the drop point, and injured his leg, causing substantial bleeding.
Grant Masaru Imahara (October 23, 1970 – July 13, 2020) [1] was an American electrical engineer, roboticist and television host. He was best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed, built and operated numerous robots and machines to test myths over the course of the show.
Three such members, artist Kari Byron, builder Tory Belleci, and metal-worker Scottie Chapman, were organized as a second team of MythBusters during the second season, dubbed the "Build Team". After Chapman left the show during the third season, Grant Imahara, a colleague of Hyneman's, was hired to provide the team with his electrical and ...
From left, Grant Imahara, Adam Savage, Kari Byron, Jamie Hyneman and Tory Belleci starred on "MythBusters." (Photo: Everett Collection) (©Discovery Channel/Courtesy Everett Collection)
The team made a full-size human analog from pork and a model skeleton (dubbed Meat Man by Tory, who made him), filled its chest with simulated internal organs, dressed it in a suit and Mark V dive helmet, and lowered it to a depth of 300 feet (90 m) in the ocean. After the suit was properly pressurized to 135 pounds per square inch (930 kPa) to ...
Grant and Kari lost 1 pound (0.45 kg) each, while Tory lost 2 pounds (0.91 kg). Next, Tory spent three hours driving a race car around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but only lost 3 pounds (1.4 kg). As a final test, the Build Team drove laps for three hours around Thunderhill Raceway Park. Kari lost 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg), Tory lost 5 pounds (2. ...
Kari Elizabeth Byron [1] (born December 18, 1974) is an American television host, best known for her role on the MythBusters and White Rabbit Project series.. Byron was born in the Bay Area, California and graduated from San Francisco State University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in film and sculpture.
The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like.This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed).