Comments on: Ping-pong launcher your wife can’t know about

By: Black Soap

Black Soap — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:08 +0000

If I had a husband, I doubt he would disapprove of homemade cannons.

By: Black Soap

Black Soap — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:41 +0000

By definition, if it is full of lead shot, it is no longer a pillow. It is a sack of shot.

I am pretty sure that once you fill it with water, it is no longer a ping pong ball.

By: Martainn

Martainn — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:42:32 +0000

Your thoughtfulness shows in everything you do.

By: Schilcote

Schilcote — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:09:56 +0000

@Riley

Yeah, anything attatched to a car that can move off of the car is illegal. Google McMissile, where a woman was charged with firing a missile from her vehicle (said missile was a McDonalds cup).

Apparently, no one around here knows how to make a tennis ball incendiary grenade. Fire one of those babies out of that thing and you’ve got artillery!

By: Riley

Riley — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:15:54 +0000

It may no longer be just a ping pong ball, but I think the point is that the gun IS “just a ping pong ball launcher”. IE, your light cannon is going to be found technically legal, unless loaded and used in a less than legal manner. Great for all those high-powered weaponry nuts. ^_^

I somehow think a vehicle mount would get you pulled over though.

By: srilyk

srilyk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:54:58 +0000

Like a few others – filling a ping pong ball with water to make it lethal means it’s no longer just a ping pong ball.

If you can fire a regular ping pong ball through OSB then I’ll be interested. Shooting something with the approximate mass of a golf ball through OSB is not so impressive.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:13:40 +0000

@ Mike Szczys, my wife would cheerfully help me build something like this – or more likely build a ‘rival’ one of her own to compete in destroying things.

Geek wives FTW!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:09 +0000

I don’t see why everyone is so stunned that ~30g of water moving at a few hundred FPS will go through common building materials…..

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:41:21 +0000

Ooh, that was meant to be a raised hand but the script seems to have stripped out anything between my > and <'s :)

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:40:17 +0000

(Though I’m not sure I quite follow the innuendos here, so may have missed the joke!)

By: Mike Szczys

Mike Szczys — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:45:52 +0000

OK, everyone whose ‘significant other’ would be fine with you bringing this home please raise your hand.

I thought so.

By: canbot

canbot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:26:59 +0000

Maybe his wife helped him build it; you don’t know.

By: some faggot

some faggot — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:46:26 +0000

you guys are belittling homosexuals here, please change ‘wife’ to ‘spouse’.This is very offensive.

By: smilr

smilr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:03:01 +0000

Hell – fire a pillow fast enough, no lead shot needed, and you’d have enough energy to kill something. (whether you can achieve such velocity outside of a vacuum is another matter entirely)

Calling this a “water gun” is like calling the Columbia River a “slight trickle”

By: joben

joben — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:12:46 +0000

HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK CAWKS.