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That video of the world record-setting firework is impressive. I started to think, the amount of lifting charge needed to get a car's worth of mass up that hig
by supernova87a 6y ago
That video of the world record-setting firework is impressive. I started to think, the amount of lifting charge needed to get a car's worth of mass up that high must be big enough to start worrying about blowing the launch tube (and firework itself) into pieces?
- dmurray 6y agoYes for amateurs. But we have plenty of experience from military applications about how to launch a massive explosive really far. WWI artillery shells could weigh that much and travel much further, though they weren't launched straight up.
- supernova87a 6y agoThe caption says it was a 26 ft launch tube. I wonder, would you put the explosive at the very bottom, or in the middle? Packed right next to the firework, or some distance from it, for the gases to be able to act most effectively?