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[3] [4] On October 21, 2015, it was announced that MythBusters would air its 14th and final season in 2016. The show aired its final episode with the original cast on March 6, 2016. Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara, former MythBusters stars, led the Netflix show White Rabbit Project, which premiered on December 9, 2016. Through ...
MythBusters Tory Belleci, Byron, Jamie Hyneman, Grant Imahara, and Adam Savage in 2012. Byron was a cast member on MythBusters from 2004 to 2014. Along with fellow cast members Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara she was part of what is commonly referred to as "The Build Team" or B Team.
Tory and Grant each built a small-scale version of one of the rockets. Tory's small-scale multi-engine rocket was relatively stable, while Grant's small-scale single-engine, half-cage design flew erratically and almost crashed into the crew. For the full-scale test, they decided to use Tory's rocket shape but with only one engine for safety ...
Tory, Grant, and Kari went to the Alameda County bomb range to test the myth, which is featured in an episode of the British TV show Brainiac: Science Abuse. The Brainiac experiment purported to show two grams of rubidium and caesium dropped into a bathtub filled with water causing an explosion as large as could be caused by a hand grenade .
In October 2007, the fan site also uploaded a video spoof of Buster's life [31] narrated by Jim Forbes of Behind the Music and starring Tory, Grant, Kari and Adam. As Grant once noted, there are very few times when Buster is actually used for his original purpose (a crash test dummy) on MythBusters.
Grant explained that this is most likely due to the fact that when humans feel fear, the outer blood vessels in the hands and feet constrict, drawing blood and warmth away from the extremities and towards the muscles needed to either fight or run. The myth was only deemed plausible due to Tory's test results and the small sample size.
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 MythBusters tested the validity of some Hollywood heist scenes, using a purpose-built "assault course" with Grant operating the security system as mission controller, while two "crack teams" (Adam and Jamie, plus Tory and Kari) attempted alternate myths.