{"id":3591,"date":"2011-05-09T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2011-05-09T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T21:11:59","slug":"slingshot-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/slingshot-of-mass-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slingshot Of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2011\/05\/09\/die-melon-die.jpg\" alt=\"die-melon-die.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slinghshots are powerful weapons. But there is a limit to their  destructional capabilities, as the speed of rubber is limited &#8211; and so  is the speed of the ammo.<br \/>\nA big steel ball like the 20 mm (.79&#8243;)  ones used in this video will crash though wooden boards, watermelons,  even coconuts. But imagine what a simultaneous impact of six of them can  cause!<\/p>\n<p>The Slingshot Channel presents &#8220;The Avalaunche&#8221; &#8211; the first slingshot crossbow that shoots six rounds at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The  weapon is big and has an enormous draw length. This means the six balls  hit with about 60 Joules each. Enough power to demolish several  objects! As always the video contains slow motions recorded at 40x  realtime (1200 fps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mfFAjaymQM0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mfFAjaymQM0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slinghshots are powerful weapons. But there is a limit to their destructional capabilities, as the speed of rubber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}