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Old 28-08-2022, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mura_gadi View Post
A high tech water bottle counter weight would be cheap enough for single use, if the arm can survive a 1/2 rotation, the counter weight could be ejected within milliseconds of the payload.

Interesting ballistics testing for the trial and a heck of a kinetic blast if the timing is out...
Rough calculation indicates that the counterweight will be carrying an kinetic energy of around 21 GigaJoules at release.

That's equivalent to the detonation of around 5 tons of TNT, or enough energy to power 17 DeLoreans back to the future.

How do you handle that safely?
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