Vortex Cannon Versus Houses Of Straw, Sticks and Bricks
Submitted by C. S. Magor on Thursday, 30 July 200927 Comments | Google Buzz |
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In this video, the BBC’s Jem Stansfield test fires a vortex cannon that uses an acetylene and oxygen fueled explosion to fire an extremely powerful blast of air across a lake. Stansfield attacks three targets: houses of straw, sticks and bricks, with some spectacular results.
Since you stupidly used Flash, instead of Theora, your video is unviewable. Perhaps hiring *competent* people would have been the better option.
Just because it didn’t work for you doesn’t mean the rest of the people who use a real computer with a real browser can’t see the video. Perhaps having less people like yourself who leave troll comments is a better option.
Theora? Is that a joke.
Ask a major website to require its users to download a codec and you’re either going to be gawked at or told to return to your mum’s basement from where you came.
Competent? I’d think the moron that can’t get Flash to work is the one with the problem. Go back to school, this isn’t rocket-science.
Wow, things are getting heated in here.
AC: This is a YouTube video. YouTube, in case you do not know, is the most popular Flash player in use on the Internets. If you can’t make that work then you are, unfortunately, less competent than literally hundreds of millions of people – it must really suck to be you.
The fact that of the thousands of people that have viewed this video from our site do not seem to have had a problem with it while you found it unviewable suggests to me that the problem might be with you and not them or us.
The only reason behind your “Theora” suggestion that I can think of is that this is some weird Chewley’s Gum-esque sales pitch. But then Theora is open source, so there isn’t any money to be made… maybe you are just looking for attention and trying to piss a few people off; sound about right?
Lighten up, not all commercial software is evil, some of it is really useful and the Flash player (in case you didn’t know) is free.
Actually, all commercial software Is evil. Allowing creativity to be patented and thus outlawed is extremely harmful to society. Thats why there is a global difference between copyright and patents. Credit is not the same as ownership.
Imagine a company having the right to tell you that you can’t paint bowls of flowers, how hard would you laugh? Now how silly would the people who say “go paint a REAL picture” look?
By patenting software, we totally prevent innovation. It’s like patenting brush strokes. The ultimate result no new paintings. Or perhaps more importantly no new painting styles.
What’s really funny is the vast majority of servers in the world are run on open source software. Why? Because the same companies, like adobe, who put a stranglehold on innovation, balk at the commercial solution’s absurd licensing cost and sub par product.
Theora or something like it will replace flash. Demanding an open standard is quite fair.
The only reason people are bitching is because they don’t know what Theora even is and they are too egotistical to Wiki it, instead preferring to humiliate and insult.
You have no clue as to what copyright vs. patent means. You can patent an idea, but you can’t copyright an idea. You can only copyright your expression of an idea. Patents are to reward true innovation. The fact that you haven’t had a novel approach to anything in your life is not the rest of the world’s problem. The world you envision is simply everyone expressing the same “open” view of an idea, with no incentive to actually innovate.
Holy crappers! That was Effing Kewl!!
Like something out of Sci-fi or a Japanese anime… Wow…
Now to see what we as humans do with this in terms of destruction or productivity… :O
AC, works fine for me…
Time to google vortex cannon and find some plans. Looks like a fun project.
Fake. The brick house was not a square and the bricks were simply stacked, not actually attached together. Set up to have the desired effect rather than a real experiment.
Okay, the bricks weren’t mortered. So if it is all a fake, I suggest you offer to stand exactly where the bricks were and let the guy fire that thing at you. When the hospital releases you please return and gives us your expert evaluation.
g’luk
i agree, even tho this was a cool video. the first 2 houses were 4 walls and the brick was only one, kinda cheap way to make your experiment succeed.
even still very cool video.
Louis CK was so on the button with all this great technology wasted on the worst generation, people like AC.
Must make vortex cannon. I need the schematics!!
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Came for cool, left disappointed.
LOL! “I can’t play the video” & “Well, the brick house was just a brick wall”… You folks are idiots…
Vortex Cannon… You’re cool. Any time you want to come hang out at my house you’re welcome.
We could hang out, have a few beers, swig some acetylene & try to knock kids off their bikes! 10 points per kid.
You shouldn’t have started that post off declaring people to be idiots and then finished it off being a complete idiot.
And the ‘cannon’ is gay. 150 litres of highly flammable gas and it can nudge over some straw. Watch out Taliban!
looked more like a wall of brick than a house. nothing behind to support the structure at all.
fail.
Finally we can go after Terrorists who hide in hay fields and outhouses. Additionally, if any hide anywhere near where my brother-in-law does home projects, similar to the brick work here, they are as good as dead.
It’s cool. May not have a ton of practical uses (yet), but let’s see CSI try to determine that the murder weapon was a vortex cannon…
Ken shot it at me. I was only dead for 9 days. weak.
Nine days is only mostly dead, not completely dead…
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I would not call that last one a success. The way you stacked those bricks, if I had a glove on to protect my hand, i could have PUNCHED that wall over. Had the bricks gone flying, I’d be inclined to call it a success, but it only nudged them off balance.
It’s not fake, it’s just played up like its a much bigger deal than it is. You can buy a small one of those and they really work. But the barely balanced stack of bricks he knocked over could have been knocked over by throwing a basket ball at it. That’s about how much force it appeared to be delivering, the force of a lobbed basketball.