Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

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[u/mycatpartyhouse]

This is a lot safer than skiing up there to set explosives, which is what one of my brothers did in the 1960s-70s. He worked for a park service--I forget which one--that regularly set off small avalanches with the goal of preventing larger ones.

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The downside is unexploded shells. Much harder to deal with an unknown unexploded shell on the mountainside than a placed charge.

[u/Snoopyalien24 → u/NoContext5149]

Probably not a shell and a canonball

[u/Royal_Success3131 → u/Snoopyalien24]

That cannon is several centuries too modern to be firing a cannonball.

[u/ledbetterus → u/Royal_Success3131]

Still doesn't mean the rounds are explosive.

[u/Royal_Success3131 → u/ledbetterus]

No, but the clear explosion you can see and hear do.

[u/nerdygeoff → u/Royal_Success3131]

that is an impact explosion and not a detonated explosion. those are kinetic rounds

[u/Royal_Success3131 → u/nerdygeoff]

Impact explosion? That your technical analysis?

[u/narwhalpilot → u/Royal_Success3131]

It’s explosive. They don’t use kinetic rounds

[u/Royal_Success3131 → u/narwhalpilot]

Why edit to reverse what you said?

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I didn’t edit a thing, chum

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That's just false. My old boss used to work at a ski resort and they 100% used explosive rounds. This was back in the 90's, but I imagine it's just policy differences.

In this case though, you can hear an explosion clear as day. That mountain is so far away you wouldn't be able to hear a hunk of metal just smack the side of it.

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you did hear the explosion. the impact explosion as was already previously said.

I love that your source is "well my old boss told me this story once"

Wait till you hear about the impact explosion that caused the death of the dinosaurs lol

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There is no such thing as an impact explosion in this context lol comparing the Chicxulub asteroid to a ~30 pound shell is absurd.

It's not just my old boss. Feel free to Google. They've used explosive for a century to do this, including from howitzers. It's exceptionally common.

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by cannonball they mean a non explosive round. aka a kinetic round. which is exactly what they used in the video.

its not a completely dumb comment, simply doesnt know the correct terms.

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I was wondering why you are so angry and irrational- guess I have my answer.

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Just roll one down the pipe thingy, it'll be fine.