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" Adam, every year you do Adam Incognito, where you dress up in costume, walk the Comic-Con floor and ask fans to find you. What was your costume this year? Adam Savage: Two days ago, when I first arrived, I walked the floor as a Ringwraith from The Lord of the Rings. It was a costume that I had made a couple months ago and its gorgeous. Today, just before our panel, Im going to walk the line a couple more times in a couple of different costumes, but Im not going to reveal that its me. Thats my little tip of the hat to the costumers here at Comic-Con. Sometimes you make the costumes yourself and sometimes you have them made. What dictates that decision? AS: It depends whether or not theres a version that I can make better than I can get. For my Spirited Away No-Face costume, nobody makes those, and its one of my favorite things Ive ever made.   Jamie Hyneman: At this point you must have over a dozen high-end costumes.  AS: Oh, yeah. One of the things Im planning on doing with my shop is to display some of my finer costumes.  JH: Youve got to have mannequins if youre going to display them like that. We saw a bunch of them in a dumpster recently and it was like, ding!  AS: I picked up three of those, and someone came over with the chuck truck and picked up all the rest, becausewhen else are you going to find a dumpster with, like, 40 mannequins in it? Im still dumpster-diving after all these years.  JH: When I saw that truck I got d\u00E9j\u00E0 vu. When I was a teenager, I got a semitrailer truckload of mannequins from Woolworths when it went out of business. I used those things for target practice and art projects and everything that you could imagine. There are still some in a crawlspace in a cabin in Indiana somewhere. A lot of times you see mannequins and you get a lot of various partsyou dont get the whole thingbut these were complete sets. We used them like candygetting shot up or exploded, or melted into something else, or whatever. Youve just wrapped shooting your next season. What can you tell me about it? AS: We have a few wonderful things on this new season. We test a World War I myth about trenches. Apparently, Germans dug their trenches in very sharp, precise, right-angled arrangements because that prohibited the propagation of blast-pressure waves. And we did my favorite small-scale experiments weve ever done, and then we did it full-scale up in gold country.  JH: We got an extend-reach forklift, a big one, and had the high-speed camera above the trenches looking down, so you actually see the explosion start from one end of the trench and the fireball travel down the trench and start to make it around the corner. Its a shot that weve never seen before. The explosion makes it further in one case than another and kind of dissipates. Its wonderful footage.  AS: We also do a public-service story on airplane boardingwhat is the most and least efficient way to board an airplane. This, I hope, will really change some things for the better. The results we came up with are absolutely surprising.   What else? Oh! The internet went nuts a few weeks ago with the idea that Rose maybe could have let Jack on her piece of wood at the end of Titanic. I got tweeted that picture 15,000 timespeople saying you have to test this! So Jamie and I did some scale testing, then we put on Mustang cold water survival suits and got into San Francisco Bay with a scaled piece of wood and crawled all over it. We also did some of the most advanced hypothermia testing weve ever tried on the show with a totally new kind of testing dummy and came up with some absolutely surprising results that are totally confirmed by the scientific literature we had read up on. That was really thrilling.  JH: We built a dummy with a circulatory system that we calibrated to a humans, and as far as I know, thats never been done before. Its pretty advanced, and we were able to bring something that had the same metabolism and heat as a human all the way to death from exposure. Thats something you cant do any other way. You can extrapolate it or take historical data, but you can only get some data points and assume that its going to go there. We actually took it there. We can make thermo-boy die as many times as we want.  Well, how do you build something like that?  Obviously, re-creating something thats identical to a human is not practical in terms of all the capillaries in the human body, but what we could do was do something that approximated it as closely as was practical. We found a surprisingly elaborate but efficient way of doing it, and then we calibrated it to the data points they actually do have, so the science in this was actually pretty good. And it speaks toward the difference between the difference in being submerged in cold water and being in wet clothing above water, which is also very surprising.  Who came up with the idea of testing airplane boarding? Is that something that frustrates you guys personally? AS: Its been on our list for a long time. We also have security-line speed on our list, although we havent gotten around to that.   JH: And what we did with it was hilariouswe built the equivalent of a full-size airliner in, like, an hour.   AS: We made it really modular, and it went together in an unbelievably short period of time. It was gorgeous. We had 200 volunteers, overhead compartments, a full team of flight attendants assisting us; it was great. So you guys have been doing this now for 10 years? We celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first shooting day about a month ago.  Whats the most important thing youve learned? JH: How to run fast!  AS: To have no preconceptions about whats going to happen. Were still wrong every day about what we think is going to occur.   JH: Theres a certain kind of flexibility thats required for the kind of investigation that we do. Were pliable when we go into some situationsits easy to go in and start to mess with things, but to be able to be fluid enough to pursue what youre after and wherever it takes you . . . that kind of flexibility is something that any good scientist would have to embrace. And whether we liked it or intended to or not, thats what we have learned. Its amazingweve become celebrities and weve had a whole bunch of fun. We blow stuff up, but what weve actually learned and the amount weve advanced as a direct result of this show has been really surprising. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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