nuke@sh.itjust.worksM to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoAre rocket propelled chainsaws credible?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down13
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minus-squaredrspod@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 month agoYou would need an equal and opposite angular momentum at the back of the chainsaw otherwise it will just rotate upwards and loop around in circles.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·1 month agoSo a second chainsaw in the opposite direction?
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoNah, second chain pointing forward rotating the opposite direction, with the teeth facing forward.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoIf the chainsaw generates so much inertial that it challenges your trajectory, you’re doing something right.
minus-squaresawdustprophet@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month ago an equal and opposite angular momentum Idea: contra rotating chainsaws.
minus-squaregimsy@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYou can balance it adjusting the rocket nozzle
minus-squareCyrus Draegur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agojust enough rotational velocity to counter gravity trying to pull the nose of the missile down though. and also the centripetal momentum of the chain would act like a gyro stabilizer insuring that it remains nominally upright.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYou’ll need more mass in those teeth. Depleted uranium chain saw teeth.
minus-squareCaptnNMorgan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe real one deploys blades that cause the missile to spin at very high speeds before it slices through its targets like butter without an explosion
minus-squareatlas@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agonuh uh, make it laser guided
You would need an equal and opposite angular momentum at the back of the chainsaw otherwise it will just rotate upwards and loop around in circles.
So a second chainsaw in the opposite direction?
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Nah, second chain pointing forward rotating the opposite direction, with the teeth facing forward.
If the chainsaw generates so much inertial that it challenges your trajectory, you’re doing something right.
Idea: contra rotating chainsaws.
You can balance it adjusting the rocket nozzle
just enough rotational velocity to counter gravity trying to pull the nose of the missile down though. and also the centripetal momentum of the chain would act like a gyro stabilizer insuring that it remains nominally upright.
You’ll need more mass in those teeth.
Depleted uranium chain saw teeth.
The real one deploys blades that cause the missile to spin at very high speeds before it slices through its targets like butter without an explosion
nuh uh, make it laser guided