Mythbusters sends cannonball thru house / minivan - by mistake

[jro6803]

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage were trying to figure out how fast a cannonball would travel, when it misfired and shot hundreds of feet in the air.

Make sure you watch the video!!

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/tv-experiment-goes-awry-sends-cannonball-rocketing-through-homes/

 

[LongGoneDays]

Jamie like big boom


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[pntbllr228]

I bet lawyers are lining up for that one.

 

[Leadfoot]

Ban cannonballs! They're killers!

An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a CANNONBALL will get angry and kill you.

Ordinary people in the presence of CANNONBALLS turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.

Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against CANNONBALLS, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.

 

[lsu fan]

"Mythbusters said they would make it right... but have they made you right? I'm Robert Diliberto...."

 

[Hitman]

A lot of that doesn't makes much sense to me without seeing the path of the cannonball.

It flew straight though the front door of a home on Cassata Place, and bounced around like a pinball, flying up to the second floor before blasting through a back bedroom wall

The wayward cannonball then blasted across a busy road and through a second home some 50 yards away, demolishing roof tiles.

The out of control cannonball finally came to a stop inside Jasper Gill’s minivan.
“It hit the dash, through the passenger window,”

I'd love to see that path b/c that seems like a lot of different directions and to maintain the velocity to do so just seems a little confusing.

 

[lsu fan]

A lot of that doesn't makes much sense to me without seeing the path of the cannonball.





I'd love to see that path b/c that seems like a lot of different directions and to maintain the velocity to do so just seems a little confusing.

Maybe it was a giant bouncy ball...

 

[Specularius]

That sounds alot like the stunt my father-in-law pulled as a teenager! He shot a homemade cannon ball through his parents house!

 

[LongGoneDays]

A lot of that doesn't makes much sense to me without seeing the path of the cannonball.





I'd love to see that path b/c that seems like a lot of different directions and to maintain the velocity to do so just seems a little confusing.

Artist rendering:

 

[themcfarland]

not only a publicity stunt, but they also have been doing some interviews on radio, and I dont think the cast iron balls bounce..

 

[baboonie]

To call their methods scientific takes a huge stretch of the imagination to begin with...

 

[Gus McCrae]

I don't understand all the hate. It's a fun show.

 

[mickey]

 

[eagle359]

Another "magic bullet"-where is LHO?

 

[JWG223]

A lot of that doesn't makes much sense to me without seeing the path of the cannonball.





I'd love to see that path b/c that seems like a lot of different directions and to maintain the velocity to do so just seems a little confusing.

Obviously it was guided by the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

[JWG223]

Another "magic bullet"-where is LHO?

Quicker on the draw than I

 

[JWG223]

On another note, who wrote the script for that report!? It reads like some of stephen king's less inspired work.

 

[JWG223]

not only a publicity stunt, but they also have been doing some interviews on radio, and I dont think the cast iron balls bounce..

From what I understand about them (not a lot), they actually do, not by virtue of the cannon-ball, but by virtue of angles and objects hit. On the battlefield a bouncing cannon-ball into some troops was hell.

 

[Speedlace]

not only a publicity stunt, but they also have been doing some interviews on radio, and I dont think the cast iron balls bounce..

They were seeing how destructive different materials were. They had fired two previous projectiles that didn't go wayward as this one did.

A lot of that doesn't makes much sense to me without seeing the path of the cannonball.





I'd love to see that path b/c that seems like a lot of different directions and to maintain the velocity to do so just seems a little confusing.

The "bounced around" like a pinball and "demolished" sounds a bit exaggerated.

The projectile was the size of a baseball.

Here is how I mapped it out ...
...



When the cannonball was fired, it missed it's intended target, blasted through a concrete wall, and bounced off the top of the hill that was to be a backstop.

It bounced off the street upward through the front door and continued upward through an interior wall,

Exited through the second story bedroom wall and bounced across the street,

Bounced off this house's angled roof.

Landed through this same mini-van.

 

[lsu fan]

They were seeing how destructive different materials were. They had fired two previous projectiles that didn't go wayward as this one did.

The "bounced around" like a pinball and "demolished" sounds a bit exaggerated.

The projectile was the size of a baseball.

Here is how I mapped it out ...
...



When the cannonball was fired, it missed it's intended target, blasted through a concrete wall, and bounced off the top of the hill that was to be a backstop.

It bounced off the street upward through the front door and continued upward through an interior wall,

Exited through the second story bedroom wall and bounced across the street,

Bounced off this house's angled roof.

Landed through this same mini-van.

Excellent job!