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Originally Posted by nssheepster
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That skid-marking shooter might change to a ripping shooter if match or use stress changes it. You should probably be careful.
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I was thinking that the more cuts in the thin skin of the ball, the more likely that a reaction wheel will connect a few of them to make longer and longer ones as it tries to accelerate the balls into the 50 or 60 ft/sec range. Surface cuts will make a spinning ball hop around in its flight path as it is. I'm in favor of a catapult myself, but the spinning wheels are too cool to be ignored, I guess. Physics be damned, we're making it do cool stuff.