← Back to context Comment by tbrownaw 1 day ago Do potato cannons count? 3 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 9 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. 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 9 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.
Zak 9 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.
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.
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.