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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 10:20 PM
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Vortex Cannon Outdoes Big Bad Wolf, Blows Down House of Bricks


An expensive, dangerous apparatus in a completely pointless exercise. What's not to like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAyd4WnvhU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehuffingtonpost%2Ecom%2F2009%2F08%2F02%2Fvortex%2Dcannon%2Dblows%2Da%2Dhou%5Fn%5F249566%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 10:33 PM
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1. Very cool.
Up here in the late fall people shoot pumpkins out of air cannons...
complete waste of energy and pumpkins buts it's fun anyway.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 05:23 AM
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2. I've seen that on Discovery Channel (or one of those) - looks fun...
...that and the trebuchet tosses. :thumbsup:
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:51 AM
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3. now all you have to do is make the weapon into a sentient android
and presto, you successfully re-created a real-life Red Tornado!
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:59 AM
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4. Looks like something they would have built and used on the A-team
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 09:12 AM
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5. Psh....
They were just bricks. No mortar, no 4-sided structure. Yeah, it was neat to watch, but hardly big-bad-wolf worthy.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 09:18 AM
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6. I think the structures were too far away.
I don't know if a blast of air follows the inverse-square law, but I'll bet if he set up 10 yards from the cannon he'd have knocked down a four-sided brick structure (no mortar).
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:20 PM
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13. My thoughts exactly.
Not like it was a great test on that basis. :hi:
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 10:56 AM
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7. fuck yeah
want.
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Moondog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 11:39 AM
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8. Hmmm. And here I was planning on putting together a trebuchet ....
:dilemma:
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 11:45 AM
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9. Very cool!
Love how excited the guy is there. ;)
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 11:56 AM
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10. cool cannon
Looks like they cannot seem to aim it just right.

And if the bricks were mortared, not sure they would fall as they did.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 01:37 PM
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11. I'll bet if the cannon was like 10' away it would do some damage, even if mortared
200 mph air blast - that's tornado territory.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 05:56 PM
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12. I bet you are right
They could sell the cannon to researchers that do all the hurricane studies and weather studies - the ones that develop the "storm proof" housing materials.

That blast is alot like the straight line winds some folks have been dealing with during bad storms.

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