11/10/2023 0 Comments Mythbusters nasa hat![]() Study the Moon to learn more about the origin and history Earth, the Moon, and our solar system.Demonstrate new technologies, capabilities, and business approaches needed for future exploration including Mars.We will collaborate with our commercial and international partners to establish the first long-term human-robotic presence on and around the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and at the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars. Like in previous years I'm guessing the show will be back in mid-Summer.With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. I'm not sure how they consider their seasons when it comes to the "beginning" and the "end" but, yeah, there were other snippets in the promos for this batch of episodes we've not see yet. Interesting take on the improvised cannon genre of myths. The cannon though, my hat is off to Jamie and Adam for that thing. I'd say it could be a "plausible" considering the "right" set of circumstances could allow it to happen. I wonder what the results would have been if they had gone with ballistics gel/medium as opposed to that pork shoulder. That may change the lethality of it somewhat. Now imagine getting shot in the gut with that thing or, hell, in the eye. Yeah it'd wreck your day but it wouldn't kill you. A pork shoulder is a pretty heavy, dense, chunk of meat with nothing to vulnerable in it. What it did to the pork shoulder was pretty damn impressive and we could argue that it may be "potentially" lethal if the ball happened to hit you in the right spot. I too wondered about a sabot with the initial problems as well but I kind of wonder if the resistence/friction between the sabot and the inside of the barrel would've slowed down the ping-pong ball? Anyway the choke Adam devised was brilliant. I mean, launching a ping-pong ball at over Mach-1 was incredible!Ĭhristopher. ![]() I am at awe of that thing, one of the bigger aw-inspiring things I've seen them do on this show. The air-cannon devised by Jamie and Adam to launch the ping-pong balls was utterly amazing, simple and complex all at once. ![]() I wonder if the reality is that the Cossacks made just cannonballs out of ice, which seems feasible, and the story got exaggerated into the myth that they made the whole cannons out of ice. Then the cannon might not have shattered and might have withstood a larger powder load. We've all seen how much longer those big snowplowed piles of snow and ice take to melt even after all the rest of the snow and ice is gone.īut as far as the cannons went, I wonder why they didn't try building one of them with hemp or sawdust reinforcement like they tried with the cannonballs. Ice cannon: I'm not too surprised that the ice cannonballs held up better than the ice bullets, because size matters. But the ball shattered on impact and seemed to come out worse than the pork shoulder. ![]() A hole that big punched in a living being's flesh could result in serious blood loss if not treated promptly. World record! And it's amazing what it did to the ping-pong paddle - like something out of a cartoon.Īnd the verdict - enough to cause a serious flesh wound, but not lethal. No, turned out they used that "choke" thing instead. I guess the longer it is, the more time there is for the air to leak past the ping-pong ball. The vacuum cannon is a fascinating bit of physics - both the way it works and the way it failed to work when they made it longer. There's also the fact that ping-pong balls are more flexible and would deform or shatter on impact, absorbing the force - in which case it might not be possible for them to inflict lethal effect unless they're really going enormously fast. It wouldn't quite compare to a bullet since those are sharp and can penetrate a target more easily. Although I'm not sure quite what the variables are. Lethal ping-pong ball: Hmm, it should be possible to calculate how fast a ping-pong ball would need to be lethal given the mass. Unlikely-projectiles week, for what they're calling the "season finale" (though it must be half-season, since I recall seeing shots of a few myths in the pre-season promo that we haven't seen yet).
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