Been laughing my butt off over this one;
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...ticle-1.988169
The fact it happened while supervised on the sheriff's own bomb disposal range is just hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Short of it
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Been laughing my butt off over this one;
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...ticle-1.988169
The fact it happened while supervised on the sheriff's own bomb disposal range is just hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Short of it
Hahaha, I saw pictures of this earlier. What great stuff...
Was it filmed? D=
They were saying that the bomb range is really made to contain a blast, not to shoot stuff out of it. Also the fact that developers have been building so close to the range.
I read that and loled really hard. Mythbusters dun goof.
You know that's gonna be in the blooper reel :f2:
Landing certainly wasn't... it hit a house ~1.5km from the test site, then did another hundred meters of bouncing off houses and stuff before it stopped. Don't imagine they planned for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corn
The aftermath certainly was though. Might not see the actual event, but you can certainly see the path it took :f2:
Yeah, saw this on YT. It's hilarious. Thank goodness no one got hurt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-CE...eature=g-trend
The ratings for that episode is going to soar....through a few houses.
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Originally Posted by XTOTHEL
LOL. This made me laugh harder than the video, but that is really ridiculous. God I love that show.Quote:
Originally Posted by XTOTHEL
/winning. +1 for the witty comment. :f2:Quote:
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Just glad Kari is ok.
"When it hit she didn't really know what the noise was, a falling tree, a meteor, didn't expect it to be a cannon ball."
Well somebody has some imagination in that neighborhood.
A meteor is far more probable than a cannonball.Quote:
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Truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fiel
inb4 cannons are banned at the bomb range. Mythbusters got banned from a quarry for supposedly leveling a town (that didn't really happen).
It was because the shock wave shook houses and set off car alarms, I don't recall if broken windows or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by KajitiSouls
MythBusters apologized.... if anyone cares:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...onball-mishap/
MythBusters apologized.... if anyone cares:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...onball-mishap/
Pretty much assumed that they would do that. It would be a colossal PR failure if they didn't.
"people are used to hearing explosions, since it's near where the mythbusters test most of their stuff"Quote:
Originally Posted by Fiel
i dunno, if i lived near the mythbuster's little playground, i'd think it's them before a meteor.
My question is, if it was able to pierce a concrete wall, a house 700 yards away, bounce across multiple streets and off a roof, et cetera, why did they think a barrel of water was going to stop it?
I think you underestimate the power of water barrels. The point of the water barrels isn't to stop the cannon ball in its tracks, but to remove so much momentum from the cannon ball that it only rolls down the path and not soars into the horizon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flonne
Hydrodynamics is a wonderful thing.Quote:
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Also, it's much easier to transport big hollow containers and fill them with water wherever you are exploding stuff than making huge blocks of concrete and going around with those.
There's your problem. It's not just one, it's many barrels of water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flonne
They also use many barrels of sand for highway crash barriers.
I wonder how far the cannonball could have gone unobstructed.
I presume the pressure of water at the point of contact takes into account the presence of all of the water in the container, whereas for a concrete wall (or anything solid), the only active material would be whatever's in that spot. Or maybe it has something to do with how fluids propagate energy.
Suddenly it makes sense. I thought it was just a single barrel or something, by the wording...lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by KajitiSouls
also skipped off the side of a hill, so i guess the hill acted like a ramp and launched it to the crazy distance xD
They took precautions and, in science, sometimes the precautions just aren't enough. Good thing no one was hurt. Still though- skipped off a hill, into town, smacking a house, skipped the road, through a mini van into another house. The range of the projectile is insane o_O Just think about wtp they were shooting it out of.
IIRC it was...THROUGH a house, bounce on road, hit roof of another house, stopped inside a van.Quote:
Originally Posted by Worthyness
Not that this isn't a serious issue and someone could have been hurt. But I think the media/people are coming down on Mythbusters too hard. Sure people could have been injured, but that happens on the road everyday, some idiot makes a dumb move and someone gets hurt. Accidents happen and just report it and move on, no need to ban them from the bomb range.
Maybe update how far downrange they look for target problems with the cannon. The range is north of town; if it had fired north it coulda gone a couple miles without hitting much of anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by XTOTHEL
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Originally Posted by Worthyness
A homemade compressed air cannon, I think. They've been using it forever.
Wasn't it the modern steel cannon though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanabira.Kage