Comment on Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system?
solrize@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Peristaltic, in fact that’s where the term comes from. You can type “peristaltic pump” into a search engine to see lots of descriptions and diagrams.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Well, I kinda had the impression peristalsis loads the cannon, so to speak, while pneumatics fire it.