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Majin Syeekoh


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Feb
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So it turns out that I'm not the first idiot that thought of this... · 12:27am Feb 5th, 2015

In this xkcd article, someone brings up a very important question...

Would you look at that?:rainbowderp:

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The latest product from Acme. Wile E. Coyote just ordered a hundred of them.

2770554 :rainbowlaugh: I love ya babe despite your idiocy. Also damn you are nearly at 600.

Well, if you have a proximity sensor that can 'detect' the enemy, and another sensor that recognizes it's distance from you, then you would be able to set it to not explode while near you, and missing will give you a second chance to use it. Also you will be able to attack around corners at range.

Best idea ever.

It's still your fault.

Bangarang!





...I have no regrets.

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2770562

That's... actually a rather well thought out solution.


2770574

Nor should you.

BANGARANG!


2770565
I know.:raritydespair:

Actually, war boomerangs don't return. The main problem would be that you'd be limited to thrown-weapon ranges. It would make more sense to put the C4 in the boomerang than to strap it to the boomerang, though ... you might ruin the flight characteristics of the boomerang by having the C4 on the outside.

I had a thought: what if you made the boomerang out of C4?
Also...
...
BANGARANG!!!

Well considering that C4 is remotely detonated, it's all in the timing. Aerodynamics aside, the boomerang would be ideal for curving around enemy cover, and then the explosion would do the rest. Now if it were a proximity mine, it would be a different story, Either way it doesn't matter because
BANGARANG!!!!!

Some tropes never die.

2770562 Proximity sensors are a good idea. Only one problem. They don't like being spun in circles. At all.

2770724 I wouldn't have known that, but even then, I imagine that I could find a way to deal with it such as making it work differently or by adding some sort of lightweight gyroscope that could yaw and pitch the sensor to counter the movement.

2770730 Are you seriously trying to apply science to this? I did it out of sarcasm but it sounds like you want to make this a thing. Kudos if you do, but, it's a joke.

2770774 I never even read your comment. In any case it's just a thing that I like to do. It's just the kind of person I am and the kind of mind I have. I get a kick out of this.

2770780 Besides, The pic came from XKCD. As a result, Science was already applied.

And anyway, we analyze it static.fjcdn.com/pictures/For+science_3cf7fb_4751731.jpg

an arm of the US government has, in some official capacity, issued an opinion on the subject of firing nuclear missiles into hurricanes.

I was part of an Modern day Tabletop game, where someone came up with such an idea.

Naturally it was the PC that was "good with tools".

He actually got around the issue of aerodynamics, by making the boomerangs themselves out of a sort of hardened explosive plastic. You would throw them, and the impact would cause a small glass tube of catalyst to break, and then react with the explosives. Then things go boom.

When they worked, they were amazingly destructive. When they didn't work, they were amazingly destructive.

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2771110 That part was so epic.:rainbowlaugh:


2771151 I always hear the weirdest stories about tabletop games.

2771682 I find it cute, that you think that qualifies as weird, by Tabletop standards. :twilightsmile:

If you want weird, I could always tell you about how my group once defeated a being of pure evil, by creating a tree that spawned newborn babies, and then tossing the babies at it. Or there was always that time with the half-clown, half-snake golem.

why not make the boomerang, actually out of the c4, put the device internally into the boomerang itself? Just a thought, then the aerodynamics might not be the issue any more, though you might not wanna catch it as it comes back to you. :pinkiehappy:

EDIT: just went and read the comments, someones already put this idea forward, good on yah hehe

An idiot throws a grenade. What do you do?

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