Te vagy a Blade, Blade Driver
April 27, 2012 1:56 PM Subscribe
yeah I was gonna say, this is a great weapon that's also horribly inaccurate. a tiny spinning steel blade that goes somewhere other than where you aim it? fantastic idea that won't ever lead to terrible injury.
posted by ninjew at 2:02 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by ninjew at 2:02 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
I like the bit where he switches the crossbow for a tiny one that fires miniature saw blades.
posted by pipeski at 2:02 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by pipeski at 2:02 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
VERY tough carboard !
posted by nathancaswell at 2:03 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by nathancaswell at 2:03 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm picturing a squad of soldiers armored in Amazon boxes making them invulnerable to this weapon.
posted by nathancaswell at 2:05 PM on April 27, 2012 [20 favorites]
posted by nathancaswell at 2:05 PM on April 27, 2012 [20 favorites]
I enjoyed the "where the douche is it?" eggcorn when he lost the blade in the watermelon.
posted by jedicus at 2:06 PM on April 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by jedicus at 2:06 PM on April 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
Could I destroy the entire Amazon-box-outfitted Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU armed with buzzsaw crossbows?
posted by griphus at 2:07 PM on April 27, 2012 [21 favorites]
posted by griphus at 2:07 PM on April 27, 2012 [21 favorites]
Not as awesome as a rivebow should be.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:07 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:07 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm picturing a squad of soldiers armored in Amazon boxes making them invulnerable to this weapon.
you mean like this?
posted by ninjew at 2:13 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
you mean like this?
posted by ninjew at 2:13 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Yeah, this video kind of demonstrates why a spinning circular saw blade doesn't make a good projectile weapon -- ultimately it's looks like it's just the forward momentum of the blade driving it into the subject. I don't see any cutting going on.
I suspect that the angular momentum would probably provide a little bit of cutting or tearing, but far and away the majority of kinetic energy has got to be coming from the tension on the string, rather than the spinning of the blade.
posted by gauche at 2:26 PM on April 27, 2012
I suspect that the angular momentum would probably provide a little bit of cutting or tearing, but far and away the majority of kinetic energy has got to be coming from the tension on the string, rather than the spinning of the blade.
posted by gauche at 2:26 PM on April 27, 2012
I enjoyed the "where the douche is it?" eggcorn when he lost the blade in the watermelon.
That's not an eggcorn. That's just a clearly intentional use of a different word instead of the standard "where the hell" or "where the fuck".
posted by chomarui at 2:33 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
That's not an eggcorn. That's just a clearly intentional use of a different word instead of the standard "where the hell" or "where the fuck".
posted by chomarui at 2:33 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I suspect that the angular momentum would probably provide a little bit of cutting or tearing, but far and away the majority of kinetic energy has got to be coming from the tension on the string, rather than the spinning of the blade.
Solution: Magnets!
posted by TwelveTwo at 2:35 PM on April 27, 2012
Solution: Magnets!
posted by TwelveTwo at 2:35 PM on April 27, 2012
I need to pick one of these up before my vacation to Ravenholm.
posted by metl_lord at 2:38 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by metl_lord at 2:38 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Even at short distances, he was barely able to hit the wall. I wonder how much drift the spin would induce over longer distances.
And also, if you're going to build a weapon to shoot circular saw blades, they better have goddam fearsome teeth that look like they could rip your head off, not little teeny teeth that look like they might nibble through your skin eventually.
far and away the majority of kinetic energy has got to be coming from the tension on the string, rather than the spinning of the blade.
Needz moar RPMz.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:39 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
And also, if you're going to build a weapon to shoot circular saw blades, they better have goddam fearsome teeth that look like they could rip your head off, not little teeny teeth that look like they might nibble through your skin eventually.
far and away the majority of kinetic energy has got to be coming from the tension on the string, rather than the spinning of the blade.
Needz moar RPMz.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:39 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
That's just a clearly intentional use of a different word
I thought it was a corruption of "what the deuce."
posted by zippy at 2:49 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
I thought it was a corruption of "what the deuce."
posted by zippy at 2:49 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
I prefer my saw blades fired from slingshots instead. SLYT
posted by The Violet Cypher at 2:51 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by The Violet Cypher at 2:51 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I have this sudden, uncontrollable to sawblade my way through Ravenholm for the millionth time.
posted by JimmyJames at 2:53 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by JimmyJames at 2:53 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I am glad everyone on Metafilter learned the term 'eggcorn' though because it's awesome.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:54 PM on April 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 2:54 PM on April 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
The traditional bolt is much better. This adds complexity and decreases efficacy. Meh
posted by humanfont at 2:55 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by humanfont at 2:55 PM on April 27, 2012
ZZING
posted by obscurator at 2:56 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by obscurator at 2:56 PM on April 27, 2012
This is why Eldar are underpowered.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 2:58 PM on April 27, 2012 [7 favorites]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 2:58 PM on April 27, 2012 [7 favorites]
I agree that the spinning probably doesn't make it cut better. However, it probably is necessary for it to fly without tumbling. Which would make it less likely to hit edge in, and also even less predictable how far from the laser it would hit.
posted by aubilenon at 3:07 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by aubilenon at 3:07 PM on April 27, 2012
I need to pick one of these up before my vacation to Ravenholm.
Sort-of beaten to the inevitable WHARR HALF LIFE 3 WHARR WHARRRRRRR comment.
posted by Halloween Jack at 3:07 PM on April 27, 2012
Sort-of beaten to the inevitable WHARR HALF LIFE 3 WHARR WHARRRRRRR comment.
posted by Halloween Jack at 3:07 PM on April 27, 2012
Okay, obviously that one's never going to happen. But this is a terrifying vision of the future megasport (they'll be called megasports in the future): Death Frisbee.
posted by Drexen at 3:14 PM on April 27, 2012
Please, you can take this out with the Mega Buster.
posted by The Whelk at 3:17 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 3:17 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
There should be a market for crazy-ass office weapons. Something more intense than Nerf and less obviously gun-like than Airsoft pistols.
What I want is something that will shoot Nerf bullets at 100 times their current velocity. I know about these. But I want something more.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:20 PM on April 27, 2012
What I want is something that will shoot Nerf bullets at 100 times their current velocity. I know about these. But I want something more.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:20 PM on April 27, 2012
Kids these days. This guy wouldn't last 30 seconds against the flying guillotine!
Well, not unless he hid in a maze of bamboo posts, but you get my drift.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:30 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Well, not unless he hid in a maze of bamboo posts, but you get my drift.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:30 PM on April 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Nobody tell Joffrey.
posted by trunk muffins at 3:38 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by trunk muffins at 3:38 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I thought it was a corruption of "what the deuce."
Ah, my apologies then. I wasn't familiar with that variant.
posted by chomarui at 3:52 PM on April 27, 2012
Ah, my apologies then. I wasn't familiar with that variant.
posted by chomarui at 3:52 PM on April 27, 2012
The problem is, as soon as the teeth begin to cut, that flings the blade away from the cut that it started.
It should shoot tiny little bandsaw blades (i.e. hollow cylinders), with teeth slanted like turbine blades to pull the projectile into the target.
posted by jamjam at 4:22 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
It should shoot tiny little bandsaw blades (i.e. hollow cylinders), with teeth slanted like turbine blades to pull the projectile into the target.
posted by jamjam at 4:22 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Or like the point is a dagger where it could be all stabby kind of like the blade on a spear....
posted by humanfont at 4:25 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by humanfont at 4:25 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by ninjew
Someone needs to make a razor sharp Star of David version stat...
posted by nathancaswell at 4:27 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Someone needs to make a razor sharp Star of David version stat...
posted by nathancaswell at 4:27 PM on April 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I love how he was shooting at the soft boxes in front of a hard wall. What do you think the odds are that the blade wouldn't ricochet off of that if he missed and dig in to his soft flesh instead?
posted by Blasdelb at 6:28 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by Blasdelb at 6:28 PM on April 27, 2012
This weapon has no deficiencies that could not be corrected by modifying it to shoot, say, half-a-dozen saw blades simultaneously.
posted by Ritchie at 7:13 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Ritchie at 7:13 PM on April 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
What I want is something that will shoot Nerf bullets at 100 times their current velocity.
I have an old pump-action paintball gun that I used as a Nerf sniper rifle. Take off the hopper, muzzleload a single Nerf dart with a couple turns of electrical tape around the nose end... It's pretty wicked.
posted by xedrik at 7:37 PM on April 27, 2012
I have an old pump-action paintball gun that I used as a Nerf sniper rifle. Take off the hopper, muzzleload a single Nerf dart with a couple turns of electrical tape around the nose end... It's pretty wicked.
posted by xedrik at 7:37 PM on April 27, 2012
Reminds me of my childhood when I modified the internals of my plastic disc gun to shoot pennies. It was wildly inaccurate but murder to cork board. It self destructed itself in the end.
posted by the_artificer at 8:14 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by the_artificer at 8:14 PM on April 27, 2012
The laser pointer totally kills it.
That and its nowhere close to penetrating 12 inches of ballistic gel.
Even against zombies, it's weak. Would not penetrate skull to scramble cortex.
Shuriken would be more effective; traditional long arms could be loaded with poisons and toxins and deliver them deeper into tissue than miniature saw blades.
If the crossbow was strong enough to make the saw blades fly/rotate fast enough to cut off heads? Sure, ok.
posted by porpoise at 8:39 PM on April 27, 2012
That and its nowhere close to penetrating 12 inches of ballistic gel.
Even against zombies, it's weak. Would not penetrate skull to scramble cortex.
Shuriken would be more effective; traditional long arms could be loaded with poisons and toxins and deliver them deeper into tissue than miniature saw blades.
If the crossbow was strong enough to make the saw blades fly/rotate fast enough to cut off heads? Sure, ok.
posted by porpoise at 8:39 PM on April 27, 2012
When I armed a character in a story with something like this, it was a specialized weapon for dealing with an evil sorcerer's army of reanimated corpses. It was electromagnetically driven rather than a crossbow, but the configuration was similar.
It fired shuriken from a square, spring-loaded magazine, with a considerably higher rate of fire than this. Since the shuriken were thin, the magazine could hold a stack of 50 and the weapon would quite rapidly fan the top one off the stack, like cards coming out of a shoe.
The reason they were specifically effective against reanimated corpses was because the points of the shuriken were painted with chinese characters which, when read in the direction of their spin, spelled out Buddhist prayers to bring peace to the dead.
All much cooler than this. But then I didn't really build mine...
posted by Naberius at 9:02 PM on April 27, 2012
It fired shuriken from a square, spring-loaded magazine, with a considerably higher rate of fire than this. Since the shuriken were thin, the magazine could hold a stack of 50 and the weapon would quite rapidly fan the top one off the stack, like cards coming out of a shoe.
The reason they were specifically effective against reanimated corpses was because the points of the shuriken were painted with chinese characters which, when read in the direction of their spin, spelled out Buddhist prayers to bring peace to the dead.
All much cooler than this. But then I didn't really build mine...
posted by Naberius at 9:02 PM on April 27, 2012
The buzzsaw crossbow was kind of lame, but I did like his wristbow.
posted by tdismukes at 10:37 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by tdismukes at 10:37 PM on April 27, 2012
In the grim darkness of the future there are only misfiting shuriken catapults.
Glad to see robocop is bleeding already got there. :)
posted by blackfly at 11:57 PM on April 27, 2012
Glad to see robocop is bleeding already got there. :)
posted by blackfly at 11:57 PM on April 27, 2012
er..... misfiring!
yeah. fix that laser site, ulthuan.
posted by blackfly at 11:58 PM on April 27, 2012
yeah. fix that laser site, ulthuan.
posted by blackfly at 11:58 PM on April 27, 2012
he sure has a different definition than me of the word buzzsaw. I was thinking along the lines of something that would threaten to heroine of a silent movie tied to a big log. Or at least a seven and a quarter inch circular saw blade. Wristbow totally redeemed the maker for me though (thanks tdismukes). much better sighting in of the laser, too
posted by Redhush at 11:13 AM on April 28, 2012
posted by Redhush at 11:13 AM on April 28, 2012
The reason they were specifically effective against reanimated corpses was because the points of the shuriken were painted with chinese characters which, when read in the direction of their spin, spelled out Buddhist prayers to bring peace to the dead.
This makes me think it would probably be pretty easy (well, remotely possible anyway) to reconfigure a standard beanbag gun to deliver a round which would produce a permanent tattoo on any naked skin it happened to hit.
posted by jamjam at 11:49 AM on April 28, 2012
This makes me think it would probably be pretty easy (well, remotely possible anyway) to reconfigure a standard beanbag gun to deliver a round which would produce a permanent tattoo on any naked skin it happened to hit.
posted by jamjam at 11:49 AM on April 28, 2012
But this is a terrifying vision of the future megasport (they'll be called megasports in the future): Death Frisbee.
Oh we used to play that back in the 70s. You get two teams, line them up side by side, on two lines about 20 feet apart. Everyone stands about half arms-length apart. You throw the frisbee hard at the other team, it must go no higher than their heads, it has to go through the team. If it gets past their line, that's 1 point. The winning strategy is usually a head shot. I had a particularly heavy frisbee that was difficult to handle and hard to catch, but that wasn't a winning strategy because both teams use the same frisbee.
This weapon has no deficiencies that could not be corrected by modifying it to shoot, say, half-a-dozen saw blades simultaneously.
Preferably, in a 360 degree spread.
posted by charlie don't surf at 7:40 AM on April 29, 2012
Oh we used to play that back in the 70s. You get two teams, line them up side by side, on two lines about 20 feet apart. Everyone stands about half arms-length apart. You throw the frisbee hard at the other team, it must go no higher than their heads, it has to go through the team. If it gets past their line, that's 1 point. The winning strategy is usually a head shot. I had a particularly heavy frisbee that was difficult to handle and hard to catch, but that wasn't a winning strategy because both teams use the same frisbee.
This weapon has no deficiencies that could not be corrected by modifying it to shoot, say, half-a-dozen saw blades simultaneously.
Preferably, in a 360 degree spread.
posted by charlie don't surf at 7:40 AM on April 29, 2012
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