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    Image of lifeblack lifeblack
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    The problem with an atlatl is that the spear construction is absolutely critical to power transmission. The spear will bend to store energy, and then rebound off the atlatl. Because different people have different strengths, and different arm lengths, etc, it's impossible to make a standard spear. That's why it was replaced in most cases by the bow and arrow, where the arrow is standardized, and the bow stores the energy.
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    Image of strideo strideo
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I think I heard that ancient Roman infantry carried these with them at one point. #atlatl
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    Image of IceMax IceMax
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    that thing must be terribly inaccurate #atlatl
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment IceMax was starred IceMax was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/27/09

    @IceMax: Once you get the hang of it, it's incredibly accurate. Every culture in the world has made a variation of it in their history. #atlatl
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    10/27/09

    @Barry99705: OH SNAP! #atlatl
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    Image of N1k0s N1k0s
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I made a similar device that that has a boot on one end. It has enough leverage to toss my mother-in-law out of the house when she yaps too much.

    I call it the getthefuckoutl #atlatl
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I actually made one of these for my 8th grade history project. Pretty sweet. #atlatl
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House

    Wait till your kids get ahold of it. #atlatl
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    Having a deadly spear chucker around will draw kids like flies, not keep them away. #atlatl
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    Now I've got something for those darn ding-dong-ditchers #atlatl
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    Image of Crashnburn01 Crashnburn01
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!
    To be truly effective, these need to be launched out of a tube...
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    dirtybacon promoted this comment Crashnburn01 was starred Crashnburn01 was unstarred
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    08/07/09

    @Crashnburn01: true, but those landings in the tube is another story...
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    Image of AlphaPepper AlphaPepper
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!
    I bought a bunch of Estes kits to build and launch with my 5 year old son. He wasn't that into it, but I was. Big Bertha, Baby Bertha, and Der Red Max. May Baby Bertha RIP after poor wind tracking on my part caused her to land in a tree.
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    SigmundTheSeaMonster promoted this comment AlphaPepper was starred AlphaPepper was unstarred
    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    08/07/09

    @AlphaPepper: Memories...!
    I loved the smell of the Dope. And D CELLs! (D-0)
    Alas, my rockets were lost to the wind or woods...
    I remember putting a bee in the clear payloader model...and it survived the launch and return!!
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    Image of theimmc theimmc
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!

    Not my launch, but my photo.
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    Image of geekpi geekpi
    07/19/09

    In reply to Sun-Powered DIY Project List to Geek Out the Rest of Your Summer
    Actually, they would be useful in Boston, which has an annual average solar insolation of 3.84 kWh a day.
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    FurySamurai72 promoted this comment geekpi was starred geekpi was unstarred
    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/20/09

    @geekpi: except for the fact that its hard to use a solar powerd gadget if its dark and raining and thundering and scary outside for weeks at a time! *I too am a boston resident*
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    Image of AlexSea AlexSea
    07/19/09

    In reply to Sun-Powered DIY Project List to Geek Out the Rest of Your Summer
    Okay so since the new comment system has come in, I've been trying to make more insightful comments that actually get displayed. This time, I got nothing except 'HOLY CRAP lifehacker is awesome'. Seriously, everything they post is freaking useful, even the 19th post about some expose clone for windows, or whatever.
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment AlexSea was starred AlexSea was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    07/01/09

    In reply to USB Cigar Puts Your Laptop One Martini Away From Benderhood
    Is it Cuban? Is it legal? Do I have to cross to Canada to get one legally? Would I really want one? No, definately not.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    07/01/09

    @Curves: Cuban cigars are overrated. They are good but not noticeably better than other good cigars. They are only sought after because of the forbiddenness.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/01/09

    @Xeno: Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, or so I hear from certain southern governors. ;)
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    Image of Aces_Over_Kings Aces_Over_Kings
    06/23/09

    In reply to Apple's Internal Secrecy Protocol Is Ridiculous
    A lot of these practices are directly gleaned from how the government handles and secures classified information.


    In a previous life as an Army intelligence analyst, I worked in a secure, compartmented information facility (SCIF). We had the red siren lights, electromagnetically sealed door, MP sitting outside, periodic "sanitizations" where everything had to be identified and filed, even if you were just going to pull the same file again once the area was sanitized, etc.


    It makes sense, but it's still funny to think of the cell phone market in such a serious, cut-throat, high-stakes manner.

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