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11-22-2006, 12:48 PM
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UserID: 1 |  Homemade water gun class Found this link: http://consider.k-state.edu/majorslist/hightech.htm Scroll down to read this quoted paragraph. Quote:
A whole 49 feet? Wow. Those guys must be some real professionals or something. Wait. I beat them by 50% and I don't even consider what I did to be hitting the limit. That and my water gun only has about 90% of the performance of a fire hose. Still, this sounds like a real neat class. I'd love to take that, but it might just be that I'd like to take it because I'd be the master of water guns there. Too bad I don't live in Kansas and too bad I don't want to go to that college. I looked for an email address to tell them a thing or two about water gun design, but I couldn't find anything helpful. I'll be looking through, because 49 feet isn't by any means a fire hose!
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11-22-2006, 05:51 PM
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UserID: 576 | Wow...that's pretty sad. Wasn't there something once about a physics teacher using homemade water guns, in the mailbag or something? Plus the course name deals with chemical engineering! And they call them Nerf water guns! I presume that they just don't use good nozzles, along with other factors that you've pioneered like area and linear flow. Consider the fact that the best gun "sprayed" almost 49 feet (how close can they measure? And to the last drop?)...
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