President Obama: Mythbusters' Newest Guest Star!

Barack Obama will take part of a special episode of Mythbusters!

Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman tested the Archimedes death ray legend, where Archimedes apparently started a fire using only mirrors and the sun.

The President “explained that he wasn’t quite satisfied with our earlier experiments,” Jamie told CBS News, “and so we need[ed] to take things full scale.”

The special episode of Mythbusters will air on December 8 on the Discovery Channel.