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Foam Shot Causes Damage to Shuttle Mockup

Posted by michael on from the deploy-foam-cannons-for-homeland-security dept.

DoraLives writes "The New York Times is running a story describing the effects caused by a piece of foam fired at a fiberglass mock up of the Space Shuttle's wing. Although fiberglass is stronger than the RCC material on Columbia's wing, "The impact produced a 22-inch-long gap." Not good."

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  1. Terrorists next tool: by qqtortqq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nerf guns

  2. Now that's quite a nerf gun by SnowDog_2112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean, I've seen some cool nerf guns, but check this out (from the article):

    "Researchers shot a 1.67-pound chunk of foam from a gas cannon ... at about 530 miles per hour"

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