I wonder if Jules Verne got his ideas from the Wiz. Jules used the same cannon technique when he wrote “From The Earth To the Moon”, published in 1874.
You do know there was an upper atmosphere research cannon, Project HARP don’t you? used two 16" naval rifle barrels welded together and fired from Barbados. Early 1960s. Big Boom, small payload.
At the 10th Gun Dynamics Symposium (2002) we had a Gun Launch to Orbit session. It is a very cheap way to get stuff to orbit, if you can deal with the g loads.
Also Gerald Bull ran the High Altitude Research Program (HARP) that was about seeing how high you can get with gun launch. He welded two 16” cannons together for it
Aussie65 over 2 years ago
where’s the surprised looking whale?
jasonsnakelover over 2 years ago
And you have plenty of space?
C over 2 years ago
Must be affiliated with Spinlaunch
DaveG1960 over 2 years ago
Firing up everything including the kitchen sing….
Qiset over 2 years ago
I recently watched a video where they are throwing stuff up almost into space with a spinning device. Very clever.
nosirrom over 2 years ago
That’s a lot of Bull.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/project-harp-space-gun-barbados
Doug K over 2 years ago
Creating space down here by putting stuff (“garbage”) up there?
Cornelius Noodleman over 2 years ago
And now Rodney, you will be the first man in orbit.
Imagine over 2 years ago
And so we have the origins of the story of the cow jumping over the moon.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 2 years ago
I wonder if Jules Verne got his ideas from the Wiz. Jules used the same cannon technique when he wrote “From The Earth To the Moon”, published in 1874.
Jayalexander over 2 years ago
It’s a start. But can I tune in Raider Football?
MayCauseBurns over 2 years ago
Is this how that teapot orbiting the sun got there?
preacherman over 2 years ago
I’m surprised the Wiz didn’t just use teleportation. A spell, a spell there, and, voila, we have interplanetary space travel without ships.
Gent over 2 years ago
Now you knows why them ancient aliens never visited after the medieval ages.
jagedlo over 2 years ago
The Id version of NASA?
Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago
Hey, look! Isn’t that William Shatner?
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
Noooo, NOT the kitchen sink……
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
As evil as he is, he still didn’t send a live dog on a one-way trip into space and let it slowly die alone.
jkebxjunke over 2 years ago
you have shot up everything but the kitchen sink… BOOM… uh… nevermind
dadlivonia over 2 years ago
wow, he caught up with Al Gore
tcayer over 2 years ago
That petunia’s thinking “Oh no. Not again!”
xSigoff Premium Member over 2 years ago
You do know there was an upper atmosphere research cannon, Project HARP don’t you? used two 16" naval rifle barrels welded together and fired from Barbados. Early 1960s. Big Boom, small payload.
Calvinist1966 over 2 years ago
The Wizard’s latest amazing feat has included turning a beach ball into a cannon ball and into a space ball.
michael3114 over 2 years ago
Nah, you invented Punkin’ Chunkin’.
weirdme Premium Member over 2 years ago
Well, it is a beginning! NIce try!
blakerl over 2 years ago
This explains all the space junk.
Goat from PBS over 2 years ago
AKA a straight-up cannon. Call it what it is, Wiz.
paranormal over 2 years ago
The first space junk orbiting the Earth…
James Gifford Premium Member over 2 years ago
He could call it HARP.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Up there in the crowd of Starlight satellites that will eventually form into Skynet.
Gordo4ever over 2 years ago
Cue Ralph Kramden, dragging Alice over the hill…..
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 2 years ago
It’s no surprise there is so much space junk.
slbolfing over 2 years ago
even the kitchen sink!
Billy Yank over 2 years ago
The Wizard is going to need a lot bigger and longer cannon to get anything even into orbit, let alone reaching escape velocity.
Geophyzz over 2 years ago
Where’s the Tesla?
BlueKnight1966 over 2 years ago
Should have done some pumpkin chunkin’.
Crash55 over 2 years ago
At the 10th Gun Dynamics Symposium (2002) we had a Gun Launch to Orbit session. It is a very cheap way to get stuff to orbit, if you can deal with the g loads.
Also Gerald Bull ran the High Altitude Research Program (HARP) that was about seeing how high you can get with gun launch. He welded two 16” cannons together for it
spaced man spliff over 2 years ago
I think we need a bigger cannon
bobgreenwade over 2 years ago
Did anybody else notice that Panel 3 shows a kitchen sink?
Martin Booda over 2 years ago
…Alice Kramden?
wjones over 2 years ago
No Aliens will ever visit earth surrounded by space junk.