Strong with the Force is the MythBusters on Discovery Channel, young padawans. Watch you must on Sunday in Star Wars Myth Special.

Look, and learn, young padawans. Strong the Force is with MythBusters on Discovery Channel (DStv 121) which has an amazing Star Wars : Revenge of the Myth special episode this Sunday, 9 February at 18:35.

You don't want to watch this Solo: Grab a bag of bantha fodder and watch this Sunday as Adam and Jamie will attempt to separate physics from fictions in a hilarious episode visiting that galaxy far, far away.

These are not the droids, but the answers you've always been looking for about that fascinating world George Lucas created a long, long time ago.

Slave girl actress Sophia Bush helps the intrepid duo (no, not the golden one and the short beeping one) to try and find all the answers all real Wookies need to know.

Like: could Luke really have swung across a huge chasm on the end of a rope while holding Princess Leia and trying to escape Stormtroopers?

Could Han Solo's ingenuity of stuffing Luke Skywalker inside a Tauntaun really have saved him from the bitterly cold and deadly elements of the ice planet Hoth?

And could the primitive weapons of the Ewoks realistically take down some of Darth Vader's most sophisticated weapons?

Star Wars: Revenge of the Myth on Discovery Channel this Sunday evening is a must-see holocron programme. Or television. If you only have one of those.

Discovery Channel's MythBusters: Could both Jack and Rose have survived in Titanic? They find the surprising answer ...

One of popular culture's most enduring mysteries has finally been answered: Could both Rose and Jack in the epic film Titanic have survived? The Discovery Channel (DStv 121) MythBusters show did the research and experiments to finally find the surprising answer.

It's exactly 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic and the MythBusters' presenters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman finally decided to recreate the circumstances in the icy cold Atlantic Ocean from the blockbuster movie in which Rose is on a wooden board (and barely survives) with Jack clinging on the side until he dies from hypothermia and sinks into the deep.

The question of whether both Jack and Rose could have survived if they did something differently - like both stayed on the wooden board and tied her life jacket underneath the board - is the most requested myth the Discovery Channel show has ever received. Titanic's director James Cameron appeared in the episode to explain that even he is uncertain and wanted to find out if his blockbuster film got it right or wrong, and whether both Jack and Rose could have lived.

The surprising answer is ... yes.

MythBusters built what they called ThermoMan, a dummy with gelatin flesh and a water-heated cardiovascular system which was dropped into freezing water. They determined taht Jack would have died after 51 minutes in the frigid Atlantic. He would not have been able to hold on to the board and would have sunk exactly as in the movie.

Doing a full-scale test on an exact board size from the movie in water with one person wearing a customised life jacket from the period, the board would have sunk too deep into the water and both would have frozen if two people tried to get on it. However, if the life jacket was fastened underneath the board, it would still have sunk with two people on top, although 80% of their bodies would have been out of the water.

It would however have taken multiple attempts for two people to get and remain on the board and not topple over and slide off. That would have given both 63 minutes before they die of hypothermia. "It's plausible that both Jack and Rose could have survived on the board if they'd MacGyvered her life jacket," said Jamie Hyneman.

James Cameron said the MythBusters missed the point a bit. "Jack died. He has to die. So maybe we screwed up and the board should have been a little tiny bit smaller, but the dude's going down."