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A MythBusters experiment involving a cannon went horribly awry yesterday when a misfire sent a cannonball into a residential area. Nobody was injured when the cannonball, which was fired at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range, went off-course. It was supposed to crash through a few water-filled barrels...
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This video shows a huge explosion on the Sun, estimated in size at be over a million km across. The light from the explosion was ultraviolet – invisible to the naked eye – but thanks to the miracles of modern technology it has been colored orange for our viewing...
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A would-be Russian suicide bomber is reported to have been detonated when an ill-timed message arrived on her phone to wish her a happy new year. The woman and two suspected accomplices (who are believed to be part of the same group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo...
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A couple of older gentlemen demonstrate how a 3-barreled pole cannon (so called because it would have been attached to a pole) might have been fired. It proves a formidable weapon, in spite of it having last seen action circa 1500. ...
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A whale that is stranded and sick is set to leave this world a bang… of explosives that is. The Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation have decided that the unusual step is necessary because the 9.5m aquatic mammal is too big to shoot. When the time comes,...
A couple of older gentlemen demonstrate how a 3-barreled pole cannon (so called because it would have been attached to a pole) might have been fired. It proves a formidable weapon, in spite of it having last seen action circa 1500. ...