... and I have visual proof.
(A good friend of this blog is in this video.)
Update: This looks like a terrific Lean Six Sigma effort! By developing teleportation, we can cut down on the number of gun crews we hire! Great idea, no? The process improvement team has done it's work, now all we need is for our technical staff to develop teleportation.
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Amazing!
You missed the efficiencies gained by having the cannons load themselves too :-)
Hmm. Sounds like we need a LSS team to investigate how efficient we could be if we never forgot anything!
Why is there no recoil?
Good quesiton, Jim. I'll see if I can drag my friend over here to answer it.
Watch closely.. the guns ARE going back, but not moving forward. By the end of the day (three firings), the rear gun was pretty much at the back edge of the platform. The guns are on shipboard mounts, not artillery (large wheels). A block and tackle (or backhoe) is needed to pull the guns back into position over time.
The Saker (front gun) moves about half an inch each shot, and the larger Demi-Culverin (rear gun) goes two or three inches. There's a certain art to packing the powder to get a big boom, and the guy on the ram in this video is a master.
I've been doing this for close to a year, standing right at the gun, and it took this video to really highlight the power of what's happening in front of us. And yes, the forward positions take a big shockwave. There's a reason we're taught to open our mouths while covering our ears.
Thanks, Anon!
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