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There is no way that fire hose would lift that beam. The fire hose used is called an "occupant use fire hose" and is intended for civilian occupants to fight very early stage fires. That type of hose is single jacket cotton hose that most likely has far less than 100 psi. Also I saw that MacGyver bumped the fire extinguisher (water pump can) as he was pulling the hose, and the extinguisher rocked back and forth and you can clearly tell that it is empty.
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I don't even think hose off of a fire truck would lift that load. You can bet on at least 130 psi for most firefighting operations, and of course that pressure can be increased. With hose at 1 3/4 inch up to 3 inches in diameter you are only looking at a few hundred pounds of lift. It looked good though! I'm sure if I was stuck in a situation similiar to that I would try anything.
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Maybe he was wearing long johns? Being from Minnasota I would think that would be something he would were spring, fall, summer,and winter. But what do I know about Minnasota winters. I live in humid, Virginia.
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Hot, humid and full of bugs. Incidentally, was it the pilot or the first episode where he mentions being from Colorado instead of Minnesota?
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In the opening of the pilot episode you see Mac shooting a gun at the enemies but we later learn he hates using guns
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All valid points. But this is a TV show. Not real life. Production was done as best as it could back in 1985 for a series. Were there mistakes / contradictions? Of course! Lee Zlotoff created the show. Not Sherlock Holmes. And for what it's worth, he did a sterling job. I think MacGyver was supposed to be about expressing that a hero could do all these miracluous things without having to pick up a gun a shoot his enemies. I think that it also tries to show that in life, answers are always there. You just ned to know where to look. It represented a positive look on any scenario and always left room for optimism. This is why a show like Mac was so cool. We watch it now and it is a little cheesy. But it also is an almost 30 year old show. Still there are some amazing episodes that i recall to this day. As for watching them, some still holp up! Things to blame on Lee & Mac: Thanks to them, I now always use a Swiss Army Knife for things i need to fix. Thanks to them, I try to live a alcohol free & smoke free life, just like Mac. Thanks to them, I love jeeps! And thanks to them, I love the great outdoors! So I blame MacGyver! PS! I still love the pilot! My favorite episode, next to The Human Factor & The Wish Child.

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During the scene in the office/control room of the lab, Colson (Dana) describes the laser to Mac after Mac asks the question "infrared or gas discharge" as "Gas, CO2, 10,000 watts". Colson is referring to a carbon dioxide laser, which can indeed set fire to things or cause very serious burns. Mac takes Colsons packet of smokes with the intention (unknown to the viewer at this time) of exposing said laser using cigarette smoke particles. CO2 lasers are in fact, deep infrared. No amount of smoke would expose the location of an ir laser  In the scene in the elevator shaft, Mac kicks the grate down the shaft into the deadly laser, producing a nice fireworks display. The resultant smoke from the grate exploding exposes the location of the laser, a pretty blue beam. Looks suspiciously like an argon gas laser. Its output power is probably a watt at most - just enough to light a cigarette (and then turned down to keep our Mac from being blinded by any reflections when he is "toying with it"). The laser would be visible almost as soon as Mac lights the first cigarette, yet he has to take 3 or 4 puffs on 4 cigarettes before the beams become visible. In fact I'd bet that elevator shaft isn't a clean room and the laser would be slightly visible all the time due to dust particles, not just when someone throws something into it, or fills the room with cigarette smoke. A 10kW laser would burn through a cigarette in less than a second (and a small mirror like what Mac used later in the scene) in at most a few seconds. The strongest argon laser is a few 10's of watts. Even that power would do the same to the cigarette (but not the mirror). Macs vision would have been ruined when he lit the cigarette if it was a 10kW laser, and I hope the crew gave him laser glasses for that stunt, along with the initial catching of the beam with the binocular part, as any laser strong enough to light a cigarette is a serious eye hazard. In fact even a half watt laser can set fire to paper, light cigarettes, burn holes in clothes, burst balloons and make you blind in less than an instant.  You cannot disable a gas laser by sending the beam back to its source. In some cases it will make the laser even stronger if the mirror is perfectly aligned with the HR mirror at the other end of the laser tube. I still love this episode, its the thing that got me into lasers in the first place.
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