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Sounds almost like trajectory the single bullet theory supposed before they proved that it was quite possible.
http://tvguide.ca/TVNews/Articles/111207_mythbusters_awry_GD
The San Francisco Gate reports that an accidental cannon firing in Dublin, Calif., on Tuesday could have turned tragic. It all happened during an experiment taking place at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range, when the Discovery show’s crew shot a homemade cannon at containers of water.
Instead of striking the water, the “cantaloupe-sized” projectile blasted through a cinderblock wall, skimmed a hillside and traveled 700 yards further, where it entered a Tassajara Creek street as kids were returning home from school.
Guess they may need to reassess the height of the backstop.
The cannonball shot through the front door of a home on Cassata Place, up the stairs in through a bedroom where a man, woman and child were sleeping.
Displaying just the kind of quirk spotlighted in Mythbusters, inertia carried the projectile through the bedroom wall, crossed a six-lane street, ripped tiles of the roof of a neighbouring house and thumped into a minivan.
http://tvguide.ca/TVNews/Articles/111207_mythbusters_awry_GD
The San Francisco Gate reports that an accidental cannon firing in Dublin, Calif., on Tuesday could have turned tragic. It all happened during an experiment taking place at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range, when the Discovery show’s crew shot a homemade cannon at containers of water.
Instead of striking the water, the “cantaloupe-sized” projectile blasted through a cinderblock wall, skimmed a hillside and traveled 700 yards further, where it entered a Tassajara Creek street as kids were returning home from school.
Guess they may need to reassess the height of the backstop.
The cannonball shot through the front door of a home on Cassata Place, up the stairs in through a bedroom where a man, woman and child were sleeping.
Displaying just the kind of quirk spotlighted in Mythbusters, inertia carried the projectile through the bedroom wall, crossed a six-lane street, ripped tiles of the roof of a neighbouring house and thumped into a minivan.
