Comment by tbrownaw 1 day ago Do potato cannons count? 4 comments tbrownaw Reply stefanfisk 1 day ago The could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule. Zak 12 hours ago That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass. stefanfisk 44 minutes ago Yep.I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard. wombatpm 1 day ago I had friends who would scour the produce isle to find potatoes they could cut down to fit their potato gun with a rifled barrel.
stefanfisk 1 day ago The could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule. Zak 12 hours ago That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass. stefanfisk 44 minutes ago Yep.I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.
Zak 12 hours ago That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass. stefanfisk 44 minutes ago Yep.I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.
stefanfisk 44 minutes ago Yep.I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.
wombatpm 1 day ago I had friends who would scour the produce isle to find potatoes they could cut down to fit their potato gun with a rifled barrel.
The could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule.
That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass.
Yep.
I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.
I had friends who would scour the produce isle to find potatoes they could cut down to fit their potato gun with a rifled barrel.