Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoi had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls
Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoi had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls
Phineaz@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Thing is, the cannon ball IS the pressure valve. And since one of them will invariably go faster than the other one, the whole thing will be even less unpredictable with one half of the chain still in the barrel
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
then just make it so the canonball is NOT the pressure valve. tge way i see it is you just gotta let tge explosion build up for a bit so the pressure equalizes
qualia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or why not load them linearly into a single barrel. It’d shoot out straight but would likely develop asymmetries and build up a moment of inertia eventually resulting in the bolas motion they’re likely intending.
Phineaz@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s what you normally do with chain shot. Unless that was the joke, of course.
qualia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah TIL