Cannon Battle

Known Universe: Escaping Earth : THU JUN 16 9p et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/known-universe/5355/Overview

Which rocket fuel is the most powerful? These scientists are about to find out.

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• Known Universe: Escaping Earth
• cannon video
• rocket lancher
• space exploration
• rocket
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• cannon
• battle
• outer space
• space

[jonleu]

dramatic 4th grade math lol

[Gilgamesh417]

Somehow, this doesn't seem safe. At all.

[BrickMuffin]

@jonleu ugh...look, that might be true ONLY due to the technology the have set up. the actual process does involve physics, how else would you give meaning to the arithmetic your using? its like trying to model a shock absorber while saying all you need is differential equations. Sure its partially true, but then again your throwing all history away of how people developed an understanding that they needed that kind of math for that task.

[jonleu]

@BrickMuffin I don't know where you went to school, but arithmetic is all you need to calculate what they're doing. Not even Newtonian physics are needed.

[Venaloid]

Cool, but why are they shooting glass? Just 'cause it's TV?

[BrickMuffin]

@lolboy101 ohh dude i hear yea, i was just commenting on the gibberish he was writing down on that clear board.

[lolboy101]

@BrickMuffin it actually isnt even kimematics. all he has to do, really, is count how many frames it takes for each cannonball to reach the glass after leaving the cannon.

[Oriente7]

@jonleu more like 8th grade

[GoreTorn16]

"I don't think this is going to work"

Of course its going to work its a f*cking cannon!!

[ArgentDawn55]

Its more or less the same

[link5261]

Video paused for buffering at 2:37. Hmm, I guess some buffer issues are okay...

[yrrah8]

at least they don't talk about what they are about to do for half the show, then repeat it each time they come back from 10 different commercial breaks