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Posted: **Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:49 pm**

USSEnterprise wrote:
Lighthawk wrote:Test shot in action
err...that could be bad to be on the receiving end of

What, a mere 20lb object traveling 7x the speed of sound? How bad could that be?

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:42 am**

I think being "bad to be on the receiving end" is kind of the whole point...

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:23 pm**

They need to figure out how to get these to launch pies at 7x the speed of sound. Now that's comedy.

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:10 pm**

If you could get this thing to point upward, space flight may get a whole lot cheaper, right?

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:11 pm**

shran wrote:If you could get this thing to point upward, space flight may get a whole lot cheaper, right?

Well, one-way travel anyway.

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:14 pm**

Sattelites are going to like that.
And you could make it a two-way trip by adding in just enough fuel to slow it down enough to fall back down again.

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:21 pm**

shran wrote:And you could make it a two-way trip by adding in just enough fuel to slow it down enough to fall back down again.

Or just attach a huge rubber band between the ground & the back of the projectile

Posted: **Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:58 pm**

I don't think NASA has yet had its funding cut to the point where engineering solutions by Wil E Coyote are being seriously considered.

Posted: **Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:01 am**

But it'd be so awesome. 8)

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