• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    31·
    2 days ago

    No joke Mythbusters made me think more critically when I was a lad. The amount of myths I believed as hard fact they shattered for me was instrumental to me being a grumpy fuck about every rumour I’ve heard since.

      • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
        34·
        2 days ago

        They’re probably thinking of Grant Imahara and/or Jessi Combs who died in 2020 and 2019 respectively. They were both on the show for periods of time but not quite as well known as Jamie and Adam

          • Jesusaurus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            19·
            2 days ago

            From Wikipedia: Combs died on August 27, 2019, after crashing a jet-powered car while setting a land-speed record as part of the North American Eagle Project on a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert, Oregon.[2][3][7][8] The crash was caused by a failure of a front wheel, likely caused by hitting an object in the desert, which caused the front wheel assembly to collapse at a speed nearing 523 mph (842 km/h).[25]

            Imahara died on July 13, 2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured, previously undiagnosed, intracranial aneurysm.[37][3]

            • Zron@lemmy.world
              1·
              21 hours ago

              Man, aneurysms are terrifying.

              They’re often undiagnosed because they can develop over time and regular MRIs and CTs without a reason aren’t really a thing because they’re expensive.

              One day you could just bump your head, go for a jog, or even sneeze and then boom, dead.