Note that this is British nerdism. This is how we gained an empire.
BTW, for the youngsters out there, those black plastic things at about 3 minutes are called floppy disks. You will need to ask someone really old if you want to know why they are described as floppy.
Surely this is a Trans-Atlantic homage to the Editors of the New-York Times, who in the Good Old Days (1864), deployed a pair of Gatling guns in their offices to defend their First Amendment rights against mobs of draft-dodgers egged on by the editorials of Horace Greeley.
Filming right into the barrels of your weapon from straight ahead while it is spinning does not prove that it is deadly. Neat when it was shooting, but I agree there was too much spinning.
alliumsays
Perfect for whenever they get around to remaking “A Christmas Story”*:
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”
“Yeah, but I”ll take the resta dem sumbitches wit me.”
*Not that I’m advocating such a thing.
BaldApesays
“You will need to ask someone really old if you want to know why they are described as floppy.”
Hey, now!
Don't Panicsays
“You will need to ask someone really old if you want to know why they are described as floppy.”
Actually, being old enough to have a familiarity with real floppy disks (both 8″ and those new-fangled 5-1/4″ versions) I always referred to those things as “stiffies”
My son as a few rubber band guns with those same trigger/sprocket mechanisms — they always seemed to want for more than one band at a time but I never investigated too closely. Now that I know that they can be loaded up with multiple shots I’ll have to look into it further — won’t he be surprised when I hit him again and again.
They’d need it. It must take about an hour and a half to reload.
SteveyDsays
When I was younger there was a booth at the state fair selling rubber band guns. I ended up getting Mom to buy me a pistol-like one that could hold about 16 rubber bands on wheel. They also had a 144 band gatling gun that was powered by turning a crank. Now they have motorized, double barrel guns. When will the madness end?! Someday we’ll make a rubber band gun so big we will destroy ourselves!
JRSsays
Wow. I bet they never show anything that cool on Weaponology. Now we can defeat the invading floppy disk horde.
RamblinDudesays
A motorized automatic reloader, hmmm…
Jim Thomersonsays
A rubber band gun is one of the standard ways of collecting small lizards. Actually with practice you don’t need a gun. Just loop the rubber band over the tip of your left thumb and pull it back with your right thumb and forefinger.
Montysays
EPIC WANT
Michael Xsays
I’m not sure I can agree with the fact that this is better than a PVC potato gun. BUT, nothing like a rubberband mini gun to impress the really nerdy ladies with. Or so I’m told…
Who Caressays
Next piece of equipment. An automated rubber band loader. First to just reload when empty. Later to do it while the thing is spinning.
Nice use of counter rotation though :)
Russellsays
Unless the Manaus Convention replaces the Montreal protocol strategic rubber demand for Inter Continental Band Missiles will soon extirpate the rain forest.
To save polar bear habitats from being overrun by displaced tree sloths as climate warms,insist your arsenal of Democracy stockpile only Green black rubber bands made from virgin coal tar.
A rubber band gatling gun? Holy shit, that’s cool!
OMFG, That is even better than the PVC potato gun my Pappy made. I am SO sending him a link to this.
Feh. Too much spinning, not enough shooting. (And too much indie rock.)
Truly a great, forward-into-the-past invention. I would need a lab slave, er, grad student to reload, however.
needs an autoloader.
Nerdism run amuck!
that’s about the size of it.
Somebody has too much time on their hands.
*wipes the drool from his chin*
I WANT IT! heheheheheh
At least I’ll know what to buy to keep my household secure from raptor and/or ninja attacks.
It’s so…. So BEAUTIFUL!!!
The physics teacher in me loved the gun.
The math teacher in me loved the integral symbol hidden in the “DISINTEGRATOR” logo.
My physics side is a lot more fun.
I wasnt sure what I was looking at at first. That’s awesome!
Haha-the girlish giggles said it all. I was waiting for the overhead light to get it!
How much? I’ll give them whatever monetary compensation they ask for…
Note that this is British nerdism. This is how we gained an empire.
BTW, for the youngsters out there, those black plastic things at about 3 minutes are called floppy disks. You will need to ask someone really old if you want to know why they are described as floppy.
Bob
A perfect closer to a long day… thanks, PZ!
Do we need to be able to put out that many eyes in under a minute?
I did enjoy the display of floppy disc destruction, though. Take that, King’s Quest VI!
[* dreams of never having to wash the dishes again *]
Props for quoting Oppenheimer.
Surely this is a Trans-Atlantic homage to the Editors of the New-York Times, who in the Good Old Days (1864), deployed a pair of Gatling guns in their offices to defend their First Amendment rights against mobs of draft-dodgers egged on by the editorials of Horace Greeley.
Neither side used rubber bands as ammunition.
http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/04/punchy_editoria.html
Let me just repeat comments 7, 9 and 10. I want one.
Let me just repeat comments 7, 9 and 10. I want one.
Aw, bullsh*t! That’s not a disintigrator! It’s just a double barrelled rubber band gatling gun.
Phooey!
I thought it would be a REAL death ray!
*pouts*
It’s beautiful…
Filming right into the barrels of your weapon from straight ahead while it is spinning does not prove that it is deadly. Neat when it was shooting, but I agree there was too much spinning.
Perfect for whenever they get around to remaking “A Christmas Story”*:
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”
“Yeah, but I”ll take the resta dem sumbitches wit me.”
*Not that I’m advocating such a thing.
“You will need to ask someone really old if you want to know why they are described as floppy.”
Hey, now!
Actually, being old enough to have a familiarity with real floppy disks (both 8″ and those new-fangled 5-1/4″ versions) I always referred to those things as “stiffies”
My son as a few rubber band guns with those same trigger/sprocket mechanisms — they always seemed to want for more than one band at a time but I never investigated too closely. Now that I know that they can be loaded up with multiple shots I’ll have to look into it further — won’t he be surprised when I hit him again and again.
They’d need it. It must take about an hour and a half to reload.
When I was younger there was a booth at the state fair selling rubber band guns. I ended up getting Mom to buy me a pistol-like one that could hold about 16 rubber bands on wheel. They also had a 144 band gatling gun that was powered by turning a crank. Now they have motorized, double barrel guns. When will the madness end?! Someday we’ll make a rubber band gun so big we will destroy ourselves!
Wow. I bet they never show anything that cool on Weaponology. Now we can defeat the invading floppy disk horde.
A motorized automatic reloader, hmmm…
A rubber band gun is one of the standard ways of collecting small lizards. Actually with practice you don’t need a gun. Just loop the rubber band over the tip of your left thumb and pull it back with your right thumb and forefinger.
EPIC WANT
I’m not sure I can agree with the fact that this is better than a PVC potato gun. BUT, nothing like a rubberband mini gun to impress the really nerdy ladies with. Or so I’m told…
Next piece of equipment. An automated rubber band loader. First to just reload when empty. Later to do it while the thing is spinning.
Nice use of counter rotation though :)
Unless the Manaus Convention replaces the Montreal protocol strategic rubber demand for Inter Continental Band Missiles will soon extirpate the rain forest.
To save polar bear habitats from being overrun by displaced tree sloths as climate warms,insist your arsenal of Democracy stockpile only Green black rubber bands made from virgin coal tar.
Wonderful! No classroom should go without one ;-).
Way cool.I’m getting this one for Winter Solstice!
My husband passes the nerd test: after only 15 seconds, he said, “Oooh, is that one of those rubber band gatling guns?! I’ve read about those!”