President Obama to appear on Mythbusters.

[TZ]

Oct 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will appear next month on "Mythbusters," a television series that uses science to investigate popular myths.

Obama's Dec. 8 appearance on the Discovery Channel show is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education. It is one of several non-traditional media appearances by the president, who appeared at an MTV town hall last week and was interviewed on the daytime television talk show "The View" in July.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1720549420101018
Yay! I know alot of people around here have issues with Obama but to me, his stance on the importance of science and math is very very IMPORTANT and welcome (especially with Christine "mice with human brains" O'Donnell and her ilk getting a lot of media attention).
Also, the White House is sponsoring a science and engineering fair on the National Mall going on right now.....
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101018006176/en/Today-Kicks-Largest-National-Science-Expo--
Too bad I have family stuff this weekend or I would go...

[realisticphish]

1. this is pretty cool

I'm curious about how they're going to do it

[LeftishBrit]

2. Good news!

Someone needs to do this here. The mostly-Tory government is threatening all sorts of cuts in research funding and higher education. Fortunately, some people are fighting back:

www.scienceisvital.org.uk

[Codeine]

3. I'm sick of that myth. It's gotten an episode and a revisit episode

and it wasn't very entertaining in the first place.

[laconicsax]

4. Maybe they'll try to build a real death ray this time through.

It's what's been missing from the other two attempts--trying to see what it would take to actually fry a boat.

[Codeine]

5. Aha!

The old "We've busted the myth, now let's replicate it" gambit. You may be on to something.

[laconicsax]

6. While I doubt it would happen, the President could bring along a piece of hardware...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_high_energy_laser

[PVnRT]

7. Maybe they'll get access to some expensive Pentagon weaponry...