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Re: Most Powerful FIRST Team created T-Shirt Cannon

Doing the *quick* numbers shows that it holds on the order of 24,000joules of potential energy. That would be roughly equivalent to a 9lb weight going 170mph, think of a sledge hammer swinging many times faster than you could possibly hope to swing it, that's the sort of energy you're playing with here. Do a little Energy=Mass*(speed)^2 math and figure out what would happen if one of your end-caps blew off. Bad news.
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