Are you in the mood for some desk top destruction? Youtube 'Mini Canon'

[AllenVanAllen]

Office pranks could be taken to a whole new level of epicness...

[greyl]

1. Cool as shit!

Took 3 shots to get the monitor to flame.

[Duer 157099]

2. That could put someone's eye out

Seriously.

[onestepforward]

3. LOL! n/t

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

4. I want one...no, I want four

The ideas for mayhem are Legion.

[progressoid]

5. That made my day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Epic?

That looks dangerous to me!

Talk about loose cannons!

[AllenVanAllen]

7. Yeah, I know Peggy.

You'll shoot your eye out kid....

[AllenVanAllen]

11. You gotta admit,

setting the destruction to O Fortuna...brilliant. I giggled like a 12 year old.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Yes, that was brilliant!

You done good!

[denbot]

8. Oh my..

Wonderful potential for general assholery. Looks like it would be possible to manufacture one from a short piece of bronze round stock.. Would a gungeon denizen please pipe in and guess if this qualifies as a firearm?

[AllenVanAllen]

9. Hey denbot! I was only joking about the 'office prank' thing.

I would figure it's stronger than an air rifle but weaker than a 22. It took three tries to get through the old monitor.

[AllenVanAllen]

15. Video part 1 had more information about the canon.

youtube description

(Part #1) This is the original and first mini cannon with this design.
(NOT FOR SALE) I based the cannon design and operating principals on the full-size antique mortars that were in use from the 17th to mid 19th centuries.
The cannon is entirely handmade from brass.
The projectiles are tiny steel balls (3.2 mm/0.126 inch).
This mini cannon is one of the world's smallest firearms.
T. Shamir T.Shamir

[MicaelS]

17. Under Federal Law, muzzeloaders are "antique" firearms

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00000921----000-.html

18 USC 921(a)(16)(C)

(16) The term “antique firearm” means—

(A) any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898; or

(B) any replica of any firearm described in subparagraph (A) if such replica—

(i) is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition, or

(ii) uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade; or

(C) any muzzle loading rifle, muzzle loading shotgun, or muzzle loading pistol, which is designed to use black powder, or a black powder substitute, and which cannot use fixed ammunition. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “antique firearm” shall not include any weapon which incorporates a firearm frame or receiver, any firearm which is converted into a muzzle loading weapon, or any muzzle loading weapon which can be readily converted to fire fixed ammunition by replacing the barrel, bolt, breechblock, or any combination thereof.

The question of whether a felon can possess one varies depending on the state.

[rug]

10. I want one.

I'm tired of shooting paper clips through paper with rubberbands.

[csziggy]

13. I see your mini cannon and raise with an atomic table

[AllenVanAllen]

14. That reminds me of this video by artist Isao Hashimoto.

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 14.25 min.

It's surreal and chilling.

[csziggy]

20. "Surreal and chilling" is right - I never realized how many had been set off

Having lived through the Cuban missile crisis and the tensions that followed, as a teenager, I was sure I would not live to be an adult. The more I learn about the history of that decade, I am surprised that we did survive.

Thanks.

[AllenVanAllen]

27. Glad you made it! I was born in the late 60's so I missed living that bit of history.

Funny though, mostly because of pop culture and news of the day, being a teen in early 80's I lived under the same fear. I thought I was never gonna become an adult because of a possible nuclear war. Glad I made it too...

[csziggy]

30. Yeah, the 80s brought a lot of post apocalyptic stuff into the culture

Maybe because people my age were then out there writing and creating those visions they feared as kids and young adults.

I lived in Central Florida, so if the Cuban Missile Crisis had started a war, there would not have been a good chance of survival. With McDill in Tampa and the base that was in Orlando at the time, we would have been in the middle of the action. About that time, I read Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" about post atomic war survival in Central Florida not far from where we lived. That made me realize I would rather die than survive in the kind of world that would result from a nuclear war.

But that also makes me very unhappy when the powers that be try to use fear to control us these days. I'm now old and ornery and I don't see any reason to over react because a couple of dozen religious fanatics commit a very local and very limited action. I worried for much of my life about all out nuclear war and the horrendous after effects. Running into a couple of buildings is nothing compared to that fear.

We will all make it one way or another. Our lives may be very different than we envisioned, but we will make it. The fight is to make it with a clean conscience and happiness.

[Adsos Letter]

26. Quite sobering.

I was very surprised to see that Britain and France have conducted as many tests as they have.

[petronius]

28. I was surprised at France being so high on the list.

Gotta give credit to the UK for doing so many of their tests in the US - don't know how they talked us into that one!

I also had no idea there were so many tests in Africa and Australia (which raises the question: how come South America and Antarctica get to shirk their fair share... )

[AllenVanAllen]

16. And here's mini canon video #1

*not as good as #2

[graywarrior]

18. I could watch that all day!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. that little thing packs pure awesomeness

[greytdemocrat]

22. Love it!!

But they killed the vodka!!!!!

[AllenVanAllen]

29. It was a Smirnoff Ice....

So I'm thinkin' it's cool.

[bluedigger]

23. This ex-artilleryman is always up for destruction!

Good shootin'!

[Adsos Letter]

24. Same here!

155mm goes "boom."

[Adsos Letter]

25. WANT!!!