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Originally Posted by mura_gadi
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...
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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?