Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Problems Solved By MacGyver

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:39:34 +0000

If you do a bit more MacGyver digging, you’ll find the name of the gentleman who actually developed all of those little MacGyver-ish things for the show. For the life of me I do not remember the guy’s name, but it was really interesting to read about (a very long time ago…).

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Joe L, my dad was in law enforcement back in the old country and he said you can use the webbing between your thumb and index finger to stop the hammer. It’ll probably hurt like hell, but better than getting shot.

This is all assuming, that the gun pointed at you has an exposed hammer, unlike many modern automatics and some revolvers.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:24:38 +0000

That egg in the radiator trick actually works, they did it on Myth Busters. Of course that doesn’t cover the long term effects but for a quick fix when bad guys are after you, it does work.

By: Gunther

Gunther — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:58:13 +0000

Easily winning the prize for “getting the most from the least”, MacGyver added a bit more tree sap to a pine cone and then lit it on fire, turning it into a full-fledged grenade

By: Mark H.

Mark H. — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:31:09 +0000

Heehee… MacGyver went to my high school!

Well, the actor who played him (Richard Dean Anderson) did.

Of course, he graduated ~40 years before I came, but it’s still pretty cool.

By: Joe L.

Joe L. — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:28:28 +0000

here’s one of my favorites – have you ever found yourself held captive at gunpoint? A pistol pointing straight at you 5 feet away?

Don’t duck out of the way, or try to kick the gun away or anything silly like that. Just grab a nearby ruler, lunge straight at the gun, then jam the edge of the ruler between the hammer and the chamber, stopping the hammer right as the trigger is pulled!!

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:30:03 +0000

…or 5 hours by their clock…

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:27:23 +0000

Beat me by 6 hours Ed.

Yep, #10 was indeed proven true on Mythbusters.

By: ACute Angle

ACute Angle — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:03 +0000

Actually, 8 is more or less one of three methods used by forensic professionals (anthropologists, mostly)to do facial reconstructions. It’s an amazingly eerie art.

Other than clay and pencil tips (rubber markers)? Sketches and computer software are used, but all use the same principles: determining tissue depth and looking for particular bone markers for muscle attachments along with other data determined by bone structure and characteristics to determine what the person would potentially have looked like.

The link I’ve added is the Wikipedia take on it.

I’d forgotten ol’ Mac tried his hand at that….

I used to love that show.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:26:46 +0000

I never watched MacGyver much, but I did see #10 proven on MythBusters.