Episode
MythBusters: Cooling a Six-Pack
Overview
The MythBusters use ice, water, refrigerators, freezers and fire to test the fastest way to cool a six-pack. Then the team builds a new crash-test dummy ... and drops it 60 feet from a crane.
Details
- Series
- MythBusters
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2005-03-23
Episode context
Cooling a Six-Pack is Episode 5 in Season 3 of MythBusters. It aired on 2005-03-23.
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