January 11th, 2003, 04:50 AM
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Re: physicist call
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Originally posted by rdouglass:
I'll have to see if I can dig up the photo of the 'potato cannon' I built about 20 years ago. Made out of 3" PVC pipe 6 feet long. Would launch a potato 200+ yards! Awesome! Woke up everyone for blocks!!!!  Talk about a 'spinal mount' potato gun....
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How does it work? It is like a catapult? Or maybe a big slingshot? It would really hurt to be hit by a high-velocity potato from such a cannon! |