The President Himself Challenges the Mythbusters Personally | Mythbusters

Adam and Jamie had already tested the Archimedes Death Ray twice and busted it both times, but President Barack Obama appeared on camera to personally challenge them to try again with one key variable that the previous tests had never included — real human manpower, specifically 500 people each holding a mirror and trying to focus the sun's reflection onto the sails of a boat simultaneously, the way ancient Greek soldiers allegedly did during the Siege of Syracuse, and Adam and Jamie spent weeks designing aiming systems to help 500 high school students coordinate their mirrors accurately enough to actually test the myth properly, because when the President of the United States issues a science challenge on national television, MythBusters doesn't send a polite decline. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments