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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/anvil-shooting-using.html

12 comments:

  1. I feel a new hobby coming on.

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  2. If you look at some of the other videos, there's one of a double launch going wrong.
    The guy very nearly headed one.

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  3. Seems like it's all getting a bit "Classic WB" ...

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  4. :)
    Ah, Wiley, the ULTIMATE Engineer.

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  5. The very acme of his profession.

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  6. Hey, that's awesome. I think I'd detonate it remotely though. I'd paint the thing in a checkerboard scheme and put streamers on it too, just to make sure I could see it coming down.

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  7. Not sure what the rules are - these guys seem to get more altitude, but the launcher is an artillery breech-block

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