what pressure can do

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http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=25273


looks real to me. dunno why they'd do that tho...
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Great find! That is truly amazing.
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I saw it a few weeks ago, its really cool, its legit.
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Yea I've seen that, it's pretty cool. And trae, I love the Marvin quotes.
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man that is a great use of resources, lol. must of had a lack of recent fires to tale care of.
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paaiyan wrote:Yea I've seen that, it's pretty cool. And trae, I love the Marvin quotes.
haha thanks
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That's nothing.

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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But Jack.. Take all the power in all those fire hoses and put them into that one Hydraulic cylinder on that fork lift and imagine what you could lift....
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Imagine a forklift has a 5 inch diameter piston. The piston has a surface area of 19.63 cubic inches. This means that with just 100 psi, it can lift just under 2000 lbs. That's the power of pressure ;)

What they made in the video is basically and extreme water rocket with a constant flow. Not sure what country that was in but as a taxpayer, I would rather see firefighters fight fires.
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Then I wonder what you could do with this... :D

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*punches some numbers into a calculator*

you can shift 1,005,310 lbs :D
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Awesome the power of pressure vs the power of combustion, Pressure all the way!!
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Um... combustion produces pressure too y'know.
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Hotwired wrote:Um... combustion produces pressure too y'know.
yeah but not more then high pressured air
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LikimysCrotchus5 wrote:Awesome the power of pressure vs the power of combustion, Pressure all the way!!
Well, there's combustion and there's COMBUSTION ;)
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