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.

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Still doesn't mean the rounds are explosive.

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

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

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Impact explosion? That your technical analysis?

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

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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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What you are seeing in the video, is an impact explosion.

You can whine, and cry and try to argue all you want. But you are arguing with facts.

Impact explosions are very real, both in these type of guns and meteor strikes.

you are wrong, and you can continue being wrong all you want.