Compared to heart disease and cancer, aneurysms are a drop in the bucket. Not that they should be ignored, but if you&#x27;re choosing where to put funding it&#x27;s not going to be high on the list.

Yeah it seems like an area that needs massively more research, the information available on what causes these seems filled with gaps.

Anyone know if this could have been caused by Covid-19?  There have been reports of strokes due to it.

Brain aneurism. The thought has always kept me up at night, and this only serves to make the fear worse. Poor guy, I really looked up to him. This really puts a damper on my mood which had been on an upswing recently

What can you do about a weakened blood vessel?

I think the weakened blood vessels show up on MRI and CT scans. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s usually done unless you have specific risk factors. Probably best to let your doctor know about your family history.

Make sure your blood pressure is under control, as hypertension can be a risk factor and also tends to run in families.

Is there effective screening for aneurism potential? It runs the male side of my family and I&#x27;m approaching due time.

I remember when they were testing the aerodynamics of something in Mythbusters and needed a quick way to create laminar flow. Grant&#x27;s solution was to cut both ends of a pack of drinking straws and put it inline with the airflow. Such an elegantly brilliant idea.

Fuck. Grant has always been a shining example of engineering spirit. I have looked up to him for a long time.

As a younger person who hasn&#x27;t seen many of the celebrities I grew up with pass away, this is probably one of the first celebrity deaths that really affected me. I grew up watching Grant and the whole MythBusters crew. The show was hugely influential and definitely guided me towards an interest in science and engineering.Whenever I think about the science of the MythBusters, I always bring up this xkcd comic.[1]I think science tends to have an ivory tower issue, and those who don&#x27;t get the resources growing up to be included in standard academic science may feel left out. People like Grant and shows like the MythBusters made the viewers feel included, and instead of just talking down to the viewer about a bunch of facts, the show included them into the process of discovery. I think that&#x27;s really cool and important.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;397&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;397&#x2F;</a>

Damn. I watched pretty much every episode of mythbusters, so this one hits hard.

This is such awful news. I looked up to him growing up

Grant was why I decided to go into STEM. :(

Guess they&#x27;d better sit inside all the time then, can&#x27;t risk dying. They clearly meant that they wanted to live life more fully.Thank you for pointing out that people can die on a post about a person dying.

&gt; This makes me want to take more risk in lifeDepends on what type of risk. Some risks make you die earlier.

&gt; Live every day like it could be your last.I&#x27;ve apparently been doing this, and you know? I&#x27;m thinking it&#x27;s not going to work out.If I followed those words to the letter, literally believing that I was going to die of a heart attack at any moment, I would go insane.Maybe I am going insane, then.There are a lot of things we take for granted. Sure. I&#x27;m incredibly grateful to have both my hands, because if I lost even one of them then I would be severely impacted in my work. I could end up having to take a pay cut or lose my job outright. And I might never be able to draw at the level I could accomplish by still having hands.But I believe there&#x27;s a reason we take these things for granted, with the side effect in a lot of people of never understanding their importance until it&#x27;s too late. We do so because if we didn&#x27;t take anything for granted, we would spend all of the time thinking about what would happen if we suddenly lost body part X or Y, and become constantly aware of every single tendon and muscle in our body and how they were still functional as opposed to dead, and never get anything done. Or at least greatly reduce our mental capacity to think about the important things we want to accomplish with those limbs instead of spending it on fruitless worry.So I have to both understand that yes, it would be horrible if I lost my hands or ability to walk or my sight or my hearing or my life, and then I have to put it out of my mind and do what I want to do while there&#x27;s still time instead of worrying about it every single day.And even thinking like that becomes counterproductive.I&#x27;m 24 and have had this bizzarre chest pain. I went to the doctor and the ER several times for it. Dozens of times. Nothing came of it. Not even a diagnosis of pleurisy, or a diagnosis of anything at all. It was just unresolved and I have to assume it&#x27;s something in the realm of anxiety or hypochondria. And it still hurts in the most inconvenient moments and is a constant hovering reminder of my own mortality.So now it&#x27;s 3 in the morning and I need to write this thing. I know I&#x27;m only killing myself by failing to fall asleep at 3 in the morning but I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m going to be alive tomorrow and I need to get this out there. Need someone to know that before I died that yes, I had thought enough to think of this thing, this concept that nobody else I&#x27;ve ever met has thought of, that nobody else will ever think and if I&#x27;m going to die tomorrow there will never be anyone else that will think of it again. So I need to do this, to write this down and move my still functioning fingers and joints over the keys to just get it out, need to finish this before I die because I don&#x27;t take my own impending death for granted and I was smart enough to realize that fact, so use it. And oh, there&#x27;s that other thing, that programming project I&#x27;ve spent years on committing to master alone and intend to spend several more years on. If I die that project will never be finished because nobody else cares enough. Sure, someone else realizing I died somehow and telling the community that I intended to finish it but never could because instead I happened to die, out of my control, could motivate someone else to take up the flag. Or not, and as a result the planet overheats 100 years from now without that one thing I wanted to accomplish with my life ever becoming reality. What could possibly be worse for the psyche of human accomplishment, of redefining the status quo, when you&#x27;re trapped in this box of failing hearts and endless anxiety and just couldn&#x27;t do it so that&#x27;s just the end of it all? That&#x27;s the end of the dream? What else is there to lose?No.Not going to happen.So now it&#x27;s seven in the morning.And I&#x27;ve failed to get any sleep and failed to eat anything so I&#x27;m starving and physically exhausted and my heart is racing and it feels like it&#x27;s being shoved against my lungs and ribcage and I feel that much closer to dying than before.Then I try and fail to go to sleep since apparently I&#x27;m not mentally exhausted yet and go on HN and discover this person formerly a part of Mythbusters is dead of a brain aneurysm at 49, and then I remember that wowaka, the world famous Vocaloid artist, probably one of if not the single most popular Vocaloid artist of all time, died of heart failure at the age of 31, 31 years old for fuck&#x27;s sake and that means I only have 7 years left if it really comes to the worst possible scenario with my health that me never getting any sleep and worrying about dying all of the time every single day of the past year is not doing any favors. And now it feels like my heart is going to explode inside my chest from remembering this, remembering wowaka and Rolling Girl and dying of heart failure in 7 years at the worst possible time because this important person died tragically and everyone considers 49 to be young, 49 is young, right, and my heart hurts so much it feels like it&#x27;s being squeezed with a belt, andYou get the idea.

&gt; I still don&#x27;t have a great way to digest lossI&#x27;m about double your age and don&#x27;t either. And I would be surprised if someone double my age claimed to.Live every day like it could be your last. Don&#x27;t hold grudges, and tell people you love them.That&#x27;s the best we can do. And it is apparently what Grant did, as his colleagues all have fond memories of him.RIP, Grant. You were cool.

Life really is short.  Plan for tomorrow or live for today.  There is a balance, but I think many engineer types skew much too far into the planning, not enough into the living.  I&#x27;ve gone to a lot of funerals and it is always a constant reminder.

Not a lot of genuine people in the entertainment business for sure.  Its tragic that such a great thinker is lost, especially for our generation 50 feels so young, who knows what he could have done with more years.

you aren&#x27;t the only one who feels this way :(

Wow, this cuts really deep.This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money.Even at 26 I still don&#x27;t have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn&#x27;t belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant, since he was one of my childhood &quot;heroes&quot; who never lost his luster or genuine character.

A brilliant man who elevated Asian representation on mainstream American TV. Rest in peace.

It is, she was on life support for about a week, the doctors had said that there was no chance she would ever wake up, so her parents decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. I can&#x27;t even begin to understand what they must&#x27;ve gone through, such a terrible thing to happen to anyone.I went to see her the night before (as did many of her friends), it&#x27;s very unsettling knowing this is the very last time you&#x27;ll ever get to see that person. And especially given her age, it&#x27;s very upsetting how unforgiving life can be.

It&#x27;s just, such a terrible thing to think about. Nothing you can do either.

4% seems to be a scary high number.Glad your SO made it fine.

Being dismissed from the ER while having serious conditions that they overlooked is an awful experience. I wanted to let you know that my wife and I can sympathize with you and your SO.

&gt;Since it didn&#x27;t stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they&#x27;ve dismissed her with &quot;menstrual problems&quot;.Infuriating.

My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn&#x27;t stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they&#x27;ve dismissed her with &quot;menstrual problems&quot;.A day after that the pain didn&#x27;t stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up with no apparent long-term damage.Definitely a terrible situation to be in. About 4% of people have it, and a small percentage of those only find out when it bursts.

It is something terrible, and really scary. My best friend at the time suffered one at 23 years old. He eventually recovered but he suffered a huge loss of concentration capabilities and had to drop from college eventually. He also fought with speech impairment for many years but with a lot of training he was able to recover 99% of it.

Looks like the shift from 3T to 7T will really open up what they can see inside the brain:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auntminnie.com&#x2F;index.aspx?sec=rca&amp;sub=ecr_2019&amp;pag=dis&amp;ItemID=124686" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auntminnie.com&#x2F;index.aspx?sec=rca&amp;sub=ecr_2019&amp;p...</a>

About 1 per 100,000 people have a ruptured brain aneurysm each year. You have to screen a whole lot of people to detect one person who will suffer from this.Worse, you&#x27;ll get a whole lot of &quot;positives&quot; &#x2F; questionable imagery in people who would never have had a problem, and may end up giving some not insignificant number of people unnecessary brain surgery.

Having a controlled blood pressure really helps. Other than that... good luck I guess.

Taking your vitamins is the first step. People seem healthy until it turns out they had chronic low levels of vitamin D and K.

(I&#x27;m not really here to discuss the pros and cons, false positives and what not here as it&#x27;s a complex topic, but..) I have a medical every three years that involves a full body MRI and ultrasounding which monitors for both brain and aortic aneurysms. There are people who have caught aneurysms in early stages through such monitoring, but there are enough downsides to such screening that it&#x27;s not something that would usually be recommended for everyone. My next is next week and I&#x27;m going to try and tweet as much of the process as I can since enough people have asked about it in the past.

So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm?Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

Damn, I loved watching Myth Busters and Grant. I&#x27;m very sad to see he has died so young.

It&#x27;s possible Hulu&#x27;s recommendations have a &quot;what&#x27;s suddenly popular&quot; component, so it could be recommended in response to a number of people choosing to watch it in response to the news.  Or it could be a total coincidence; it&#x27;s a great show, it should be recommended!

was just watching mythbusters a few hours ago for the first time in years.. RIP GrantNot sure about the timing but I wonder if Hulu was recommending the show because of his death or it was just random

At first glance what you say seems insensitive but after thinking about it it’s rather endearing. Dying doing what you love, like Steve Irwin.

Absolutely brutal. When I saw the headline I was almost hoping he died in some kind of bizarre robotics accident.

Oh man, I forgot about battle bots. Loved that show - haven’t thought about it in years but wow, must be loads of fun building those things...RIP to an all around positive addition to our world.

Yeah, Grant Imahara&#x27;s did such great work on Robot Wars!

I&#x27;d recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbusters team surely inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers with a can-do mentality.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo</a>

The Mythbusters were incredibly influential in my desire to pursue engineering. I also liked watching Battlebots, seeing all the crazy things they would come up with...I wish the best for his friends and family.

That&#x27;s really sad.Grant seemed like such a genuine, kind-hearted intelligent dude.My condolences to his family.

So very sad to lose a hero, I was lucky to be crammed right next to him at Pershing Square in a very crowded group at the March for Science in Downtown Los Angeles a couple years ago. He was very friendly, I was starstruck. I wish I could have chatted with him more.

Honestly this hit me harder than any announced passing in the last few years. What a brilliant and pleasant human being.

Agreed. He&#x27;s inspired many &quot;hackers&quot; over the last 15+ years. Many are still early in their careers, but Grant&#x27;s inspiration shouldn&#x27;t be underestimated.

My guess is that the age demographic of the moderators may be more tuned to earlier CS community contributors. I often recognise the names from references in university lectures, but don&#x27;t have much of a connection to them. Grant on the other hand is someone who I grew up with on my TV, inspiring me to make things.

&quot;When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect&quot;I agree. That follows.He may not have been a founding member of a computer based community, software, or protocol, but he certainly inspired many of us.

Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions.  Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life.  He was a good man and I&#x27;m really sorry to hear of his passing.

I&#x27;m in my 40s, and he both influenced me, and has affected me, more than I can ever state...

This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you&#x27;re from and where I&#x27;m from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be &quot;he strikes me as someone you&#x27;d be friends with&quot;. I wonder why &quot;hang out at work&quot; was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don&#x27;t tend to think in terms of &quot;people we hang out with after work&quot;, we generally have &quot;friends we first met at work&quot; and &quot;coworkers with no other social relationship&quot;.I know it&#x27;s a small thing, but that&#x27;s where cultural differences usually manifest, and I find them very interesting.

It&#x27;s hard to think of him as a celebrity, even. He felt just like a guy you&#x27;d hang out with at work or after work.

I disagree. Celebrities are often highly gifted people, like Grant. But they’re usually entertainers, not technical.

I saw him as an engineer before being a celebrity. I&#x27;m like you deaths of celebrities although sad tend to be of vapid people. But Grant was a scientist who inspired many. Just reading the comments here it&#x27;s amazing the impact he had in such a short time.

We care about celebrity deaths because our instinctive brain sees them as someone familiar. Someone that you knew, a member of your tribe. Even if that person doesn&#x27;t even know you exist. It is also a reminder of our own death. Specially when it is someone young that looks fit and all.

I normally don&#x27;t care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn&#x27;t as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and the biggest explosions were a small circuit fuse burning off.

He was one of my heroes. Amazing person overall. RIP.

Had to do a double take on this one. He always seemed like a genuine and kind person, it&#x27;s weird to see &quot;Grant Imahara&quot; and &quot;Dies&quot; in the same sentence.

Scottie? She built a lot of the early stuff

What the flying fuck, 2020. This was unexpected.Everybody knows that the only ones capable of getting shit done in Mythbusters were Jamie and Imahara, with Savage a distant third.

I also rewatched all of Mythbusters early in college as I was struggling to figure out what I wanted to be. They really showed the fun to be had building wacky projects!

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have a reported net worth of about $8 million. Grant and Tory have reported net worths of $2 million. And Kari is about $1.5 million.Not bad, but both Jamie and Adam were well respected visual effects artists, builders, and model makers before Mythbusters. Mythbusters primarily shot at Jamie&#x27;s shop.Grant and Tory both worked at ILM. Kari was an employee of M5, Jamie&#x27;s company, when she was put on the show.So, not terribly rich, but about what you would expect. $1 - $2 million &quot;net worth&quot; is more attainable than you might think. As net worth includes assets and what not. They have enough money to take substantial risks that might not pay off.

See with the Mythbusters (sidekicks), I can&#x27;t really see them as rich; I mean I&#x27;m sure they made some decent money off of it, but I doubt it set them up for life and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they got screwed over in that show in favor of Jamie &#x2F; Adam. I never heard why they were let go &#x2F; quit the show, although I&#x27;ve always suspected it was because the show just wasn&#x27;t as popular anymore.

I understand the gist of the message. Grant is an engineer, and we relate to him in more ways than we do to a singer or a movie star. So a singer or a movie star&#x27;s death might not have as big of an impact as someone who is &quot;our own&quot;.

I don&#x27;t understand this smug &quot;normally I don&#x27;t care about celeb deaths, except the ones I care about.&quot;

Normally I ignore the &quot;rich and famous&quot; obits, however Grant&#x27;s passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best.With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it&#x27;s been a hard year for Mythbusters.

Same here. You have my feels. I may not be an engineer, but I loved his attitude and work ethic. Gone too soon, far too soon.

Grant was a hero to a generation of future makers, engineers, artists, and creators.

I would love to see a documentary on this man, learn more about his life. I saw only his TV personality but the slim bio I just read suggests he had fascinating life and was kind as well.

Replying to myself again. OP now points to a different source which actually works.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;qp51G" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;qp51G</a>

&quot;Sorry, this content is not available in your region.&quot;

I can view it just fine here in Germany. Hm, wonder what&#x27;s up with that.

&quot;GDPR censorship page&quot;as inthe cookie consent?

outline.com appears to be located in the USA. The decision to not show the content to European IPs will have been made inside that server, not &quot;in Europe&quot;.(I acknowledge it isn&#x27;t doing that now, so please consider this a comment in a time-warp. The images are all failing with &quot;Sorry, this content is not available in your region.&quot; however.)

Thanks, it&#x27;s censored in Europe.Edit: Weird, now it doesn&#x27;t show the GDPR censorship page anymore.

For people who can not view the article, here&#x27;s an outline link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;uGmACW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;uGmACW</a>

(This comment was merged from a thread which originally pointed to a different article.)

A hollywood reporter article [1] says that he passed of a brain aneurysm. Tragic way to go and so early. He entertained the heck out of me as a kid.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;grant-imahara-dead-my...</a>

RIP. Thank you for all the great times I had watching MythBusters a kid! I remember I had to run from school to my house as a kid in order to catch the start of the show. It was awesome!

I&#x27;d kill for a bog standard, completely depressing, tall walled, beige colored cubicle taken out of an Enron office building.

We don&#x27;t even get cubicles these days

Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers in both tech and entertainment.  To this day Grant and his coworkers are my &#x27;what do i want to be when i grow up&#x27; answer.

Wow. When I was a kid Mythbusters was one of the only TV shows I watched, and Grant was my favorite on the B team. It was one of the few shows really encouraging kids to do science.What a tragedy.

I never comment here, but this one really hit me. I have so many great memories watching MythBusters and seeing now this headline makes me really sad.

Just when you think 2020 can’t get worse. What a tragedy. RIP Grant!

I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow.&quot;Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7199686&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7199686&#x2F;</a>

So, so sad. I absolutely loved Grant, in Mythbusters especially.This is hitting me hard.Fuck 2020.

I&#x27;ve seen multiple reports of severe blood clotting and strokes in COVID patients, including those who are otherwise asymptomatic, including people under 50.[1] Given that there is a pandemic going around with similar symptoms, I don&#x27;t think this is a huge leap (but again, I am not saying it&#x27;s anywhere near certain either). I probably should have used this source in my original comment, I just grabbed the first link I had handy.[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;covid-19-increases-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-stroke&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;covid-19-increases-risk-of-...</a>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.weill.cornell.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;what-is-known-about-covid-19-and-abnormal-blood-clotting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.weill.cornell.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;what-is-known-ab...</a>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;searching-for-ways-to-prevent-life-threatening-blood-clots-in-covid-19&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;searching-for-ways-...</a>

The OP did not say &quot;because a celeb died therefore ...&quot;. You said that.It may be insensitive or bad timing to be mentioning COVID as a speculation for Grant&#x27;s death right now, but it doesn&#x27;t rule out the possibility.

I specifically didn&#x27;t want to post my similar suspicions regarding blood clots and covid so that I didn&#x27;t have to defend myself from the &quot;everything I didn&#x27;t think of is fearmongering&quot; people.yes, the normal distribution of people dying every year will still happen, but now that there is a blood clot causing virus out there, its also worth considering any time someone dies from a blood clot. not a huge stretch. I would actually wonder if they explicitly ruled that out, I don&#x27;t trust that medical professionals have this in the modus operandi yet, and especially in the distributed US healthcare system.

This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19.Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.

Couldn&#x27;t a blood clot cause swelling or increase pressure around an un-ruptured aneurysm, causing it to rupture?

Aneurysms are not related to blood clots, strokes, etc.

Amazing. What a great engineer, and a great person. Rest in peace, Mr. Imahara.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-yoda-robot-will-cheer-up-sick-kids&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;former-mythbusters-adorable-baby-y...</a>

&quot;Imahara plans to take the Baby Yoda to children&#x27;s hospitals to cheer up young patients&quot;.Heartbreaking.

Didn&#x27;t know this ... what an awesome guy ... sadder now ...

One of his most recent creations was a Baby Yoda! So sad to hear of his passing, like many others here I was inspired by him and still aspire to be a creative coder and builder like he was.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;I7P4frD_GiE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;I7P4frD_GiE</a>

In fairness, if I remember correctly, the bullet myth was testing the narrow condition of &quot;shot straight up into the air&quot; such that the bullet would be returning at terminal velocity and no longer be on a ballistic trajectory.  Whereas, most people struck by bullets fired into the air are probably being hit by bullets that are still on a predominantly horizontal trajectory.

I haven&#x27;t found this video but I got this one about the terminal velocity of a penny: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PHxvMLoKRWg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PHxvMLoKRWg</a>Long story short, it&#x27;s not enough to kill you or even really hurt you (Adam Savage even shot his own hand to prove that).That being said a bullet&#x27;s terminal velocity is probably much higher thanks to it&#x27;s much more aerodynamic shape. I can&#x27;t be bothered to see if the math adds up because Mythbusters uses feet per second and miles per hour and I just refuse to touch this nonsense.

While I agree, I think XKCD had a great take on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;397&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;397&#x2F;</a>They weren&#x27;t rigorous, and the results weren&#x27;t always correct, but they were showing the core of science.

I just rewatched this out of curiosity and I think you’re seriously misremembering that episode (S4E11), the final conclusions wasn’t “busted”. They asked “busted, plausible or confirmed” and they concluded “all of the above”.Grant actually was part of the show already at this point, they did actually find 9mm bullets they fired up, but couldn’t find 30-06 rounds. They did conclude that “straight up and down” was safe but said multiple times that bullets on a trajectory are still lethal. They present the medical evidence at the 21 minute mark, and a simulation around the 25 minute mark.I don’t hold Mythbusters to be a scientific end-all to a discussion but I think they made that episode in good faith and portrayed it ok, even if they bulk of the testing footage was on the very narrow (and filmable) straight up and down terminal velocity aspect.

I remember them talking about this complaint on one of the episodes, or maybe in an interview.They explained that the episodes definitely don&#x27;t always show rigour in their tests, and that there probably wasn&#x27;t the rigour you would want for a paper in every test they did, but they would still do more than was shown to test different theories and add rigour. A lot of that would be left on the cutting floor.

Wow, just wow. Grant’s dead at a young age of a tragic event. He inspired a lot of people and probably didn’t push anyone out of a technical field in the process. I know how he was in the show was how he was personally, too. I just think this isn’t the time to over analyze. If anything your comment is the sort of comment that makes science and technical fields lose people.

&gt;Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way.Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren&#x27;t always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about cool hacks than scientific validity. They decided people being injured by bullets being shot into the sky was a myth mostly because they couldn&#x27;t locate the bullets they fired into the sky, in spite of talking to one of the leading experts on the phenomenon, talking to a doctor that performed surgery on people injured by bullets fired into the sky, and discovering there are people in prison for seriously insuring people miles away by, once again, shooting bullets into the sky.That was before Grant&#x27;s time though, he was awesome.

Armed with science, engineering, and curiosity, the Mythbusters crew inspired a generation. Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way.Still to this day, my friends and I consider the Mythbusters as the final word on so many &quot;myths&quot;.Grant&#x27;s clever use of robotics, sensors and code opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. I still remember the first time I read a temperature sensor on an arduino. Here I was, interacting with the real world, using just a few components and some code... solving no problems but feeling invincible nonetheless.Thanks Grant for inspiring me, and many more like me. There are so few that inspired so much.Rest in peace.

RIP. He was my favorite person and in my opinion, most talented on the show.

Aww man...i was just heading to bed and took a last look at hn and then this. That really sucks. :(

Normally when newsworthy deaths occur, I&#x27;m not affected. However, Grant&#x27;s death really hits home for some reason. I first saw him on Mythbusters. He seemed like such a nice and brilliant guy.

All I know about him is that he was the one who created Geoff the Robot in Craig Ferguson&#x27;s Late Late Show. That robot was AMAZING, it enabled a lot of good sketches!<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geoff_Peterson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geoff_Peterson</a>This is not a good year :(

A doctor basically told my mother &quot;The cure could be worse than the problem&quot;. So they just monitor.

This. The risk calculations can be quite scary and people&#x27;s responses to them can be poor given a powerful human dislike of uncertainty.Consider a totally fabricated and naive example of finding a minor aneurysm with a 0.1% annual risk of rupture versus a 10% risk of death during surgery.. there are many people who would take the surgery to remove the uncertainty. (And this is a highly contrived example, real life is far more complicated!)

The problem, just as in cancer, is not detection. It&#x27;s what to do once you find it. Many aneurysms&#x2F;cancers that could be found will turn out to be harmless, and the risk of harming someone physically and&#x2F;or psychologically from unnecessarily treating them is not negligible. There isn&#x27;t much we can do for aneurysms unless they are obviously immediately threatening.

I wished there was a way to detect aneurysm without the need of an MRI... maybe one day with AI and some blood pressure sensor. My condolences to his family.

Aww damn man.He was awesome to watch. I&#x27;ll miss him.
May he tinker and have fun forever wherever he is now.

I desperately want to put an actuated camera on that, and wear a VR helmet, so you can see the arms from your point of view.

For several years Grant had the only other master&#x2F;slave robot arm I could find on youtube. I was so excited when I found one and saw it was his...I felt a real connection with him, even though I didn&#x27;t know him personally. It&#x27;s been a long time dream of mine to be on battlebots, and I treasure the Deadblow T-shirt I got there about 20 years ago. This truly hurts.The 2 videos for the curious:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X7l4YE2K-HI</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-XChu20hTxU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-XChu20hTxU</a>

I’m 49. Already hit one funeral this week. 49 isn’t supposed to feel this old.  :(

Those are AMAZING. How did I not know about this?

You have got to love him as Sulu<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Star_Trek_Continues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Star_Trek_Continues</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt2732442&#x2F;mediaviewer&#x2F;rm1680690432" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt2732442&#x2F;mediaviewer&#x2F;rm1680690432</a>Edit. The episodes are free, at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startrekcontinues.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startrekcontinues.com</a>

Great man and an inspiration through Mythbusters. RIP Grant.

This is very sad, Mythbusters is just about my favourite tv series of all time.

Or maybe the person actually had an effect on many people here, and they are legitimately sad that he passed away?

HNers should also watch him as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek Continues. It&#x27;s a fan series that manages to perfectly recreate the original Star Trek, down to set lighting and acting style. It&#x27;s truly a work of love.

I would guess that around 90% of HN&#x27;s US users have watched Mythbusters, and probably 30-40% of users from elsewhere - which might be half the people reading this post. If you don&#x27;t know it, I&#x27;d totally recommend it - especially the ones with Grant in (S4-13?)Anyway, I&#x27;m really sorry to hear this - seemed like a great guy and, as others have said, a fantastic role model.

Of course that the majority of HN folks here know that Grant has had a major influence in their lives and engineering careers, so they will pay their respects here, which they should. My deepest condolences to Mr Imahara&#x27;s family.Unfortunately on HN, it now seems to depend on some other things to be able to pay your respects to here. We lost Kobe Bryant (NBA basketball player) and some (including me) wanted to pay their respects here, but it was repeatedly flagged and censored immediately.

I didn&#x27;t understand why people cried when John Lennon died; they didn&#x27;t even know him, right?Then when I heard Elliot Smith died and I had to pull over for a while and I got it.

I&#x27;m pretty sure that for most of these posts, this is how it goes for HN users:- no idea who this guy is, let&#x27;s spend 5-10 minutes of my life to find out- hmm yeah, he did good- upvoteBut maybe we keep doing this for post after post, wasting time and learning stuff that won&#x27;t help us achieves our actual objectives.

I&#x27;m deeply sorry for the loss of Grant having lost an engineer friend the same way.An engineer friend of mine passed away due to brain aneurysm few years ago. Higor was in his twenties and had just achieved moving to Dublin after managing to acquire an Italian citizenship through his Italian ancestors being from Brazil.I fantasize I will build a machine to extract his consciouness before the brian aneurysm saving him (but also causing the brain aneurysm).Being an atheist I guess that&#x27;s my way to hope for a way to see him again.
I miss you Higor

Ugh. This one hits hard. I stopped watching MythBusters before he even left the show, but it was one of those shows we always watched in college and his robots were always the best. What a tragic and sad loss.

Grant Imahara’s curiosity, energy, and brilliance have taught millions of folks the unbridled joy of how to be bewildered by the world and overcome that with sober, rational, reason and scientific method. It gives me hope how the celebration of Grant front and center in my networks.

It&#x27;s a neurological condition. We go to college to get a diagnosis.

If the bench is clean, that means there isn&#x27;t any work happening. Sad he passed so soon, I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one he inspired a love of electronics for.

Gave me ideas . Man I thought I was the only one that made a huge mess with electrical stuff on the desk . I was trying to emulate my lab setup from school this whole time and what I really need is just the foldout desk from the attic.

It is eerie how much that looks like my workbench. I guess EEs are all the same.

The paper print of a pinout, on the left, is for a Teensy 3.6 MCU.  I imagine many here have played a bit with those.

I have the same hakko wire solder cleaner, same mess.. kind of cool to see the similarities.  Poor guy.

I see a nodemcu, some sparkfun and adafruit gear. I see the node sitting on some plug in headers over a breakout board.That looks like things I like to play with. I&#x27;m not an electrical engineer, but am an earth scientist , engineer, programmer, and electronics hobbyist. This man was inspiring. What a loss to the world his passing is.

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I know a fair number of people who knew him personally, and (long before passed) all said the same thing about him - a really great human being.They said he had one of those personalities where he made you feel special. Not through flattery; in a truly genuine way. We lost a truly good guy.

I think back to some of the working men in my life. Even at an early age, I was intimidated by their workbenches.Ingenious little tools they&#x27;d cobbled together with scrap material. Probably some insanely specific purpose... but the time it saved was immeasurable. Or perhaps some little design to test a theory out, kept as a memento. Even if it was disorganized, everything had a place. If you asked for something, they knew where it was.The hours of creative thought and domain knowledge, that spark of creativity, all gone. Just bits of scrap now. It&#x27;s tragic, but in a strangely bittersweet way.I think though... when you invest in people? That&#x27;s something that will last much longer. Both Grant (and your father) invested in people. That&#x27;s something that is much harder to forget.

This was a beautiful read, thanks for sharing

My father started his career as a software engineer in the 1970s. He worked at places like Raytheon and DEC and a few others. He started his career using punchcards, and ended his career building websites from a laptop. I am grateful that from a very young age he let me ask about and use anything he had in his home office, starting with a kit computer in the late 1970s which I learned BASIC on.My father died in 2011. I flew back home to be with my mother during that time. It was a really hard time, made much harder because my only son was one month old, and my father never got to meet him.In that week at home, my mother asked me to go through my father&#x27;s computers and help her figure out if there was anything she should know about or do anything with. Going through his computers was a profound experience. I got to see all the projects he was working on; the ones we all knew about because they were his professional projects, the ones I knew about because we always had technical conversations, and the ones no one knew about because they were just little side projects for fun and curiosity.I spent several days going through his computers, because it was like lingering in one last conversation with him. In the end, there wasn&#x27;t much to share with my mother, for the reasons the parent comment mentioned - most of the projects had too much personal context for anyone else to pick up. But that experience had a huge impact on me. I realized that if I died that day and someone went through my computer, they&#x27;d find all kinds of projects that would never see the light of day. I was a hobbyist programmer at that point, and going through my father&#x27;s computer motivated me to stop working on so many different hobby projects, and pick one or two to really build out. I realized I had developed meaningful programming skills, and I could probably build something that others would find useful.Since then I have done that with a number of projects. If I die today, you could still find many little projects that won&#x27;t ever see the light of day. But you&#x27;d also find some highly impactful projects, which I am really proud of. I miss my father every day, but I my life would also be on a very different trajectory if I hadn&#x27;t learned what I did from his passing.

&gt; Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today.It’s pretty rare you can find celebrities who are balanced, genuine and avoid taking to outrage social media. I sadly had to unfollow Adam Savage years back because his negative tone and constant angry political outlook. That was not the content I was looking for when I originally followed him.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grantimahara&#x2F;status&#x2F;1243234010215530496" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grantimahara&#x2F;status&#x2F;1243234010215...</a>This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn&#x27;t look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can&#x27;t help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he finished. Projects that will never be completed, now that their creator has died.Grant, and Myth Busters were an inspiration to me as a young engineer. He was barely my age on the show, but influenced an entire generation of future engineers.I checked his Twitter feed. Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today. The world lost a decent person, and a brilliant engineer.Nobody knows their time. That what I leave unfinished would only be personal trivialities, and not angry tweets. That I would be able to have that impact on the next generation.

I hate this year. I am going to miss him even though I never met him he was kind of a friend.

Super sad! It was due to Grant, Adam, and Jamie that I fancied making things from an early age. I used to do LEGO versions of their builds as a kid that helped me a lot to become a designer and engineer today. The kind of multi-disciplinary notion of life they professed was a key for me to approach my education. 
I still remember dubbed versions of their show in Hindi on Discovery and my parents allowing to watch it beyond TV as &quot;Whatever is on discovery is good for kids&quot;I resonated a lot with Grant as he was very simple and introvert-ish among the whole lot.This year is like a nightmare.RIP Grant :&#x27;(

I&#x27;ve really liked Mythbusters. I grew up with their shows. I still think about their shows weekly. I&#x27;m really sad about what happened. Grant seemed (didn&#x27;t get to know him) like a very nice guy and he really inspired me (along with the whole Mythbusters team) and as it appears, a whole lot of other people. 
Thanks Grant for your work and dedication! You won&#x27;t be forgotten!

This was not an expected headline to read this morning.I, like so many others, was shaped by Grant as a kid. It’s a sad day :(

This will hit my kid hard, since he learned to work the TV his two favorite shows were Mythbusters and Popular Mechanics for Kids. When they dropped the B team and when they stopped producing the shows were probably his biggest introduction to the general impermanence of the world.

Damn. He was one of those people who you could just tell was a good dude. I grew up watching him.

Only appropriate that this has risen to the top of HN. RIP Grant.

Why can&#x27;t we? Sure he didn&#x27;t write fundamental software back in the 70s, but he was inspirational for many of the users here.

I wish we could get a black bar for this guy.

Grant&#x27;s intelligence and creativity was always inspiring.  This is very sad to hear.

Sad news.I remember fondly watching Myth Busters show. RIP.

My dad got us direct tv back in 2000. I watched a lot of MTV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel (where mithbusters was broadcasted for us, Brazil). I already had a taste for science and engineering, I use to love Beakman&#x27;s World (when I was even younger). Is great to see how many people, like me, were inspired by people like Grant. He will be missed, for sure. You should see some of his videos in robot fight.

Grant was my childhood hero, and one of a few people who inspired me to pursue robotics. RIP Grant. 2020 fucking sucks.

I also lost a friend who was very influential among us this year. The death was so sudden and guessing from his tweet before his death, it was probably cerebral apoplexy or similar sudden brain damage.If you have a friend not keep in touch of years, you should consider to have a little chat sometimes because you never knew he or you still alive tomorrow.

kerri said it best &quot;i wish i had a time machine some days&quot; :( it sucks getting old and seeing truly wonderful people pass.man i miss mythbusters. they all had such chemistry and it truly was a wholesome show. grant, kerri, adam, jaime and tory really became part of my life.rip grant... you have no idea how many people you inspired.

Grant was an inspiration.The whole crew were, are.Their efforts pushed me along the path I am on and made my life measurably better.Grant was core to that. Grant made my life better.I got to meet him one at a Maker Faire. They say, never meet your heroes. Grant was the exception to that rule. Shaking his hand was everything I expected. He was kind to some rando and seemed happy that he was able to make a better life for some stranger he&#x27;d never met.I&#x27;m so grateful for his efforts. I am so grateful for his humor. I am so grateful for his joy.Thank you Grant.

I&#x27;m grateful for Grant, an engineer who isn&#x27;t a billionaire-egomaniac and still stirred such a passion in so many. How often are engineers role models? At least in this part of history.

Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.

RIP! Another one of my childhood stars just gone like that...

very sad news. I loved Mythbusters, especially the ones with Grant, Tori and Kari. I still cringe when I think about that time Grant nearly disemboweled himself on camera.

I didn&#x27;t have cable so I rarely saw myth busters, but I was a fan of his for building the Geoff Peterson robot

Good question. IMHO the mods lean more heavily towards older more fundamental CS contributors. I think he def deserved the honor.

I met him at filming of one of the early seasons (maybe first?) in Vegas - he was warm and inviting even then before he became a household name.Why do the good people always seem to die young yet assholes live forever? Ugh.We are pretty much the same age so this also hits doubly close to home for me. Prayers for his friends and family.

Grant Imahara Has Died