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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on May 19, 2006, 02:18:03 AM

Title: DARPA plots emergency man-cannon
Post by: Foxy Brown on May 19, 2006, 02:18:03 AM

You'd think that with global terrorist threats and fighting two wars, the US Defense Department would have little time on its hands to start a circus troupe.

However, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has filed a patent application for a contraption designed to hurl SWAT teams and other emergency workers onto the roofs of inaccessible tall buildings human cannonball style, New Scientist reports. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/man_slinger/)
They said "man-cannon."

Title: DARPA plots emergency man-cannon
Post by: ctz on May 19, 2006, 07:59:46 AM

Why can't they just use helicopters?

Or develop a jetpack instead... It'd way cooler than man-cannon :P