Rumor around here is that some drunk plumbers came up with the idea. We'll never know for sure. It's like asking who invented the wheel. You might be able to find out who did the first hybrid, etc... though.
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Pete Zaria.
Don't laugh here, who invented potato guns?
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OK being that I can't guage your facial expression or the tone of your voice, I can't tell whether you're trying to insult me, or whether you're just being an idiot. Either way, you're not gaining any ground.
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Well you have pissed off 1 person so far....and countingpaaiyan wrote:Yea I will later. I posted this cause I didn't have much time on my hands at that time and wanted to see if anyone knew. Plus it gave me the chance to see how many people I could piss off by arrogantly claiming that the Americans did it.
@Pete Zaria
DR did.It's like asking who invented the wheel. You might be able to find out who did the first hybrid, etc... though.
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Huzzah for pissing people off! But if anyone really does know I'd like to hear it. I don't care who it is.
You guys have to keep in mind that sarcasm flows from the tip of my tongue like an ever-flowing stream of flowing stuff.
You guys have to keep in mind that sarcasm flows from the tip of my tongue like an ever-flowing stream of flowing stuff.
"Vov35", or should I say "abcdefg", shape up or I'll have you banned. Nobody likes you. Prove some worth or you're out.
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http://www.LaunchPotatoes.com
http://www.LaunchPotatoes.com
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Key words in my post "I think" , even if it wasn't that big, it was still a meteor!Recruit wrote:umm if it was hit by a meteor that big from what I know it would have been smashed to pieces.jrrdw wrote:How does the moon have sides, it's round.pimpmann22 wrote:You guys so blantly believe it was a American that constructed a 'potato gun'. While if the question could be answered correctly it would be a interesting tid bit of information, but beyond that I don't really care.
There is a lake on the back side of the moon.
How about some supporting details?
Far as that lake goes --
The moon was hit by a meteor, i think the size of Texas.
Who made the first cannon ever? No matter what kind it was.
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Gunpowder (and the basis of modern explosives) was invented in China during the Han era, roughly around AD142 (thats when the first written records of gunpowder were made, as far as we know). I'd assume it was shortly after they made gunpowder that they figured out to put it in one end of a tube with a projectile in front of it.jrrdw wrote:Who made the first cannon ever? No matter what kind it was.
Reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon#History
Peace,
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There is actually an answer to this.
There was a scientist (I can't remember/find the name) that created a cannon that used methane gas in a cannon to fire various stuff, using a spark to ignite the gas.
Although it wasn't actually firing potatos, it follows the basic principle that spudgunners use and was done in some hundreds of years back.
So we could consider this the first spudgun if we wanted.
I'll search to try and find the name, but I don't hold much hope.
There was a scientist (I can't remember/find the name) that created a cannon that used methane gas in a cannon to fire various stuff, using a spark to ignite the gas.
Although it wasn't actually firing potatos, it follows the basic principle that spudgunners use and was done in some hundreds of years back.
So we could consider this the first spudgun if we wanted.
I'll search to try and find the name, but I don't hold much hope.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
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The moon has a dark side and a light side, one side faces us all the time while the other side is always in darkness.How does the moon have sides, it's round.
I highly doubt that there was any single inventor of the potato cannon. My guess is that different people everywhere came up with it themselves and it just got spread around, finally gaining popularity, I mean lets face it a potato cannon is not a very sophisticated device (I am referring to the basic ones that were the source for the common cannons today.)
btw, Americans don't invent everything, and its quite arrogant to seriously believe that.
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