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June 20, 2007 by Tim


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MidnightDStroyer
MidnightDStroyer
6 years ago

You don’t need a gun big enough to shoot a person, Lucas. Just shoot Ethan with a regular-sized gun.

Oh wait!. That’s not practical, because that would mean you’d have to go to the trouble to find a replacement to help pay the rent.

Random guy
Random guy
6 years ago

Ethan doesn’t pay rent too often.

Poe-Etic
Poe-Etic
4 years ago

Everything needs hats.

Wumbo
Wumbo
4 years ago

There are a lot of guns that could fire human sized rounds. Most of which are mortars and battleship cannons.

Miffy92
Miffy92
3 years ago
Reply to  Wumbo

So a “human” sized round would be, at best, 182.8 metres ( or roughly 6 feet) long.

The largest usable mortar “shell” is 240millimetres (or 9.4 inches).
Hell, even a your average battleship cannon fires 45 caliber (40centimetres/15.9 inches).
The amount of force necessary to fire a human-sized round would likely shatter the planet.

Miffy92
Miffy92
3 years ago
Reply to  Miffy92

Further to that – the Mallet’s Mortar and the Little David (of UK and US origin respectively) only fired a 914mm caliber round, covered in a 3-foot shell. Supposedly, the Little David only had a theoretically effective range of six miles, and that was an artillery cannon that was never actually used in WW2.

Stacts
Stacts
1 year ago
Reply to  Miffy92

“182.8 metres ( or roughly 6 feet)”

“cannon fires 45 caliber (40centimetres/15.9 inches).”

What did I just read? The misplaced decimal I can forgive, but “45 caliber” equating to 16 inches?

Even if you meant 45.0 caliber, that still wouldn’t equate to sixteen inches since caliber is measured in inches and 45.0 caliber would be 45.0 inches, like .45 caliber is 0.45 inches.

Also… bullets are NOT measured by length, but by diameter. You wouldn’t need to fit a human into the barrel lengthwise. Furthermore, human cannons actually exist.

(Yeah yeah, downvote me for being pedantic…)

BWR
BWR
2 years ago

The Tick- Human Bullet ‘Fire me, boy!’