August 07, 2009

Vortex cannon

I'm not a big one for linking to YouTube, but this one really is a lot of fun. They created what amounts to a giant carbide cannon and use the shock wave from it to knock over structures from a great distance.

Actually, what they're doing is to charge it with oxy-acetylene mix, and then setting it off with a spark. The result is a high intensity vortex, which travels in a straight line. It's pretty neat.

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1 Sweet. I've got a hand-held/hand-powered version of that as a cubicle toy at work. Google "airzooka".  The oxy-acetylene version looks a lot more fun, though.

Posted by: Mikeski at August 08, 2009 12:56 PM (GbSQF)

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