On: Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide

[nehal3m]

That is amazing. Can you tell us if the potato referred to in this comment [0] could have done serious damage?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798939#40812811

[wepple → nehal3m]

That’s really interesting, I haven’t spent much time looking at the data from the landing impact.

I’m also not confident in my skills to translate G-forces into velocities or such. I guess it depends largely on what type of surface it lands on?

You’ve definitely got me thinking now. There’s a bunch of ways I could roughly come up with a model for this.