{"id":3813,"date":"2011-05-31T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2011-05-31T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:42:29","slug":"sawblade-slingshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sawblade-slingshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawblade Slingshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2011\/05\/31\/sawblade-pandamonium.jpg\" alt=\"sawblade-pandamonium.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Circular sawblades are about as dangerous to be shot from a slingshot as it gets. Heavy. Sharp. Unpredictable in flight.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like the perfect challenge for The Slingshot Channel!<\/p>\n<p>It  turned out quickly that rotational speed is needed in order to  stabilize the flight of the blade. Otherwise it will tumble and loose  speed quickly, as shown in two slow motion scenes. So a special weapon  was devised that adds this rotation to the saw blade, and the effect is  quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>A shot of the blade into a watermelon demonstrates the destructional potential of this slingshot invention.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JrHFxscunOA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JrHFxscunOA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Circular sawblades are about as dangerous to be shot from a slingshot as it gets. Heavy. Sharp.<\/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-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","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=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}