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Potato shots

Yesterday morning I had the chance to fire a potato into a forest using a rocket launcher.

A first for me and found it to be a strangely gratifying experience.

The spud gun is capable of shooting a potato 200+ yards. Courtesy of Make Magazine's Bre Pettis who was at Seattle Mind Camp 3.0.

Below is Bre preparing the gun with hair spray.

Google's Peter Wilson is to his left, an engeering director at their Kirkland office, who appears to be considering how he might search for his foot after he's blown it off with a potato cannon.

 

Comments

Kevin OKeefe said:

While we were considering move to Bozeman, Montana I saw a spud gun about 6 or 8 feet long - I'm told for greater distance. ;)

# November 12, 2006 5:20 PM