Mythbusters Ooooops
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2...
"One of the zany experiments staged by the "Mythbusters" television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin when the crew fired a homemade cannon toward huge containers of water at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb disposal range."
You can read about the end result in the link
"One of the zany experiments staged by the "Mythbusters" television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin when the crew fired a homemade cannon toward huge containers of water at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb disposal range."
You can read about the end result in the link
TheGroover said:
700 Yards? And then managed to go through a front door, up some stairs and out through the wall? Really??!!
It was a cannon. I'm guessing but they were trying to replicate a real, Napoleonic style cannon?If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
Mikeyboy said:
It was a cannon. I'm guessing but they were trying to replicate a real, Napoleonic style cannon?
If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
Until Henry Shrapnel came along anyway.If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
Bloody hell!! That outcome actually sounds like a Myth they might test!!
Jamie: "Here Adam, look at this news report!"
Adam: "What's up man?"
Jamie: "It says here that a home made cannon fired a ball which went through a house... " .. yadda yadda... "...and ended up in someone's mini van."
Adam: "No way man, that sounds like totally implausible."
Jamie: "I know, lets check it out."
Jamie: "Here Adam, look at this news report!"
Adam: "What's up man?"
Jamie: "It says here that a home made cannon fired a ball which went through a house... " .. yadda yadda... "...and ended up in someone's mini van."
Adam: "No way man, that sounds like totally implausible."
Jamie: "I know, lets check it out."
Mikeyboy said:
It was a cannon. I'm guessing but they were trying to replicate a real, Napoleonic style cannon?
If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
Fair enough then! I have learned something new :-)If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
mrmr96 said:
Bloody hell!! That outcome actually sounds like a Myth they might test!!
Jamie: "Here Adam, look at this news report!"
Adam: "What's up man?"
Jamie: "It says here that a home made cannon fired a ball which went through a house... " .. yadda yadda... "...and ended up in someone's mini van."
Adam: "No way man, that sounds like totally implausible."
Jamie: "I know, lets check it out."
Jamie: "Here Adam, look at this news report!"
Adam: "What's up man?"
Jamie: "It says here that a home made cannon fired a ball which went through a house... " .. yadda yadda... "...and ended up in someone's mini van."
Adam: "No way man, that sounds like totally implausible."
Jamie: "I know, lets check it out."
I find the circular hole surprising - unless the cannonball was travelling at about 6 times the speed of sound I would have expected it to knock whole blocks out leaving a jagged hole.
The picture looks more like they were testing a myth about what happens if you interrupt someone half way through installing a bathroom.
The picture looks more like they were testing a myth about what happens if you interrupt someone half way through installing a bathroom.
Mikeyboy said:
It was a cannon. I'm guessing but they were trying to replicate a real, Napoleonic style cannon?
If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
Too right, something that heavy and round, once it's flying and spinning in the direction of it's travel it will keep going and going. Furthermore, it was bouncing through American homes, they don't quite build them like they do over here for one thing!If so, 700 metres and keep going sounds about right. A bit short in some ways.
Cannons used to kill by knocking bits off, not the method you see in films of exploding, Like ten pin bowling with people as the pins.
Now imagine that they did this to cannons, carriages and houses that got in their way, after they had hit the infantry. Nasty things.
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