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maxerickson on Dec 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball...

I'm fairly sure they had a very good idea of the potential range of the cannon. I'm sure they were aware of the advantages of a larger facility. They chose to use a more convenient facility that they thought would be safe enough.

I guess we probably don't need to keep going back and forth on it though.

burgerbrain on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

Nearly every firing range in the world is smaller than the range of the things they fire there. That is simply how they are designed.

maxerickson on Dec 8, 2011 | [–]

Sure. That has little bearing on whether it was appropriate for a TV show to fire a cannon at this particular facility.

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