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All episodes Season 2 S02E02 2003-10-03 47 min 2000s Discovery

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Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs

TV Flash files “Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs” as hour 5 of 273 in the TV Flash guide — MythBusters (2003–2016) on Discovery, season 2, episode 2, aired 2003-10-03, 47 min.

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This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 5 of 273 in the MythBusters guide, hour 2 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2003-10-03 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Exploding Toilet, Is It Worth Running in the Rain?, Ice Bullet” (S02E01). Next is “Barrel of Bricks, Peeing on the Third Rail, EEL Skin Wallet” (S02E03).

MythBusters — Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs (S02E02)

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Episode #5 – "Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station" Myths tested: Will using a cell phone near a gas pump cause an explosion? Will silicone breast implants explode or expand in low pressure? Can a standard CD-ROM drive shatter a CD? Cell phones are tested to see if they can destroy a gas station. Then, breast implants are tested to see if high altitudes will make them explode. Finally, CD's are tested to see if computer drives can make them break.

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Where does Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs sit in the MythBusters guide?

S02E02 is listed hour 5 of 273 — hour 2 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.

When did MythBusters S02E02 air?

Cell Phone+Gas Station=Explosion??, Exploding Implants, Exploding CDs aired 2003-10-03 and is listed at 47 minutes.

Is MythBusters just explosions?

Explosions for the cheap seats after the hypothesis. Special-effects experts treating urban legends as lab assignments — confirmed or busted as the ritual.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage treat urban legends like lab assignments, then detonate the hypothesis for the cheap seats. MythBusters made STEM mass entertainment: goggles, build-team chaos, and the confirmed-or-busted verdict ritual that turned method into a good time.

Someone on that lot said blow something up for the cheap seats, and then they did it with a hypothesis. Peter Rees's MythBusters (2003–2016) put Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage on Discovery as a global science-popularization hit: special-effects experts testing urban legends and movie physics, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara on the build team, goggles as the carpet look, confirmed-or-busted as the verdict ritual. Education as entertainment. STEM as mass-market catchphrase culture. Twenty seasons in this…

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