Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You mean it would be killed more instantaneously?

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• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls

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  • Phineaz@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thing is, the cannon ball IS the pressure valve. And since one of them will invariably go faster than the other one, the whole thing will be even less unpredictable with one half of the chain still in the barrel

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      then just make it so the canonball is NOT the pressure valve. tge way i see it is you just gotta let tge explosion build up for a bit so the pressure equalizes

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    • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or why not load them linearly into a single barrel. It’d shoot out straight but would likely develop asymmetries and build up a moment of inertia eventually resulting in the bolas motion they’re likely intending.

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      • Phineaz@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s what you normally do with chain shot. Unless that was the joke, of course.

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• EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Test fired in Georgia, cow remains raining clear up in Maine.

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